Sunday, August 02, 2020

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/2/2020

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we remembered two wonderful performers who left this world too soon, shared some music from a third performer who has recently been diagnosed with cancer, and put together our third hour of songs all about trains.  Hope you were able to join us on this first Sunday of August.


Two very important Bluegrass and old-time country music performers died during the last couple of weeks in July.  Dan Kelly, a Grand Masters  champion fiddler who made a career playing with performers as varied as Roy Acuff, Clint Black, Pam Tillis, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, and most recently, the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, died on July 22nd at the age of 54 after a heart attack.  Less than a week later, banjo great Kenny Ingram had a massive stroke and died on July 27th at the age of 67.  Kenny Ingram played some wonderful Scruggs-style banjo with several bands, including Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass, Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, and most recently, the Larry Stephenson Band.  Both musicians left us far too soon ~ to honor them, we shared quite a bit of music from both performers during our first hour of program on Sunday.

Another portion of the first hour of Sunday's radio show was devoted to some music performed by guitar picker, singer, and songwriter, Steve Gulley.  This past week, Steve Gulley was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.  We shared music from some of Steve's bands, including his mid-1990s tenure with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Mountain Heart (of which Steve Gulley was a founding member), and from a new duet record he is working on with sometime-songwriting-partner, Tim Stafford.  A GoFundMe campaign has been established by Gulley's friend and former bandmate, Phil Leadbetter.  Best wishes to Steve Gulley.

Our second hour included even more train songs, and included just one repeat of a song we had heard in two previous train sets during our pre-recorded programs.  Will there be a fourth set of train songs in future?  Stay tuned...

Thanks for listening to our Bluegrass Cafe.  If you'd like to contact us during these COVID-19 broadcasts, please send an email to bgcafe@gmail.com.  You can also check out our Facebook page by clicking here.  

Have a wonderful week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Hot Night In August / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
  • Hot Foot / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
  • Seven Year Blues / Hot Mustard / Live At Mole Hill Theatre / Howling Cat Records
  • Goin' Across The Sea / Hot Rize / In Concert / Flying Fish
  • Grey Eagle / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Lester's Loafin' Lounge / Self-Produced [Remembering Dan Kelly]
  • Count Me Out / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Lester's Loafin' Lounge / Self-Produced [Remembering Dan Kelly]
  • Cumberland Gap / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Live / RCA [Remembering Kenny Ingram]
  • What A Way To Go / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / One Woman Man / Gusto [Remembering Kenny Ingram]
  • Ground Speed / Kenny Ingram / Foggy Mountain Special / Rounder [Remembering Kenny Ingram]
  • Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Larry Stephenson with Del McCoury / 20th Anniversary / Whysper Dream Music [Remembering Kenny Ingram]
  • Dixie Flyer / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Heaven's Bluegrass Band / CMH [Remembering Kenny Ingram]
  • Sweet Rosie Jones / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill
  • The Beautiful Altar Of Prayer / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / There's A Light Guiding Me / Sugar Hill
  • You Still Call Be Baby / Mountain Heart / Mountain Heart / Doobie Shea 
  • Still Here / Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford / single / Mountain Home
  • Trombone Rag / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Lester's Loafin' Lounge / Self-Produced [Remembering Dan Kelly]
  • Wabash Cannonball / Roy Acuff / The Best Of Roy Acuff:  The Prodigal Son / Country Stars
  • Train Without A Track / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Heartaches And Dreams / Rebel
  • Orphan Train / Ricochet / Carolina Memories / Rebel
  • Beat The Train / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
  • Sad Old Train / Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
  • Greenville Trestle High / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
  • Awful Lonesome Train / Pine Mountain Railroad / Alone With Forever / Self-Produced
  • Next Train Smokin' / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
  • Trains Make Me Lonesome / Mike Auldridge / Treasures Untold / Sugar Hill
  • Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
  • Take Me On The Midnight Train / The Boxcars / The Boxcars / Mountain Home
  • New Deal Train / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
  • Engineer Without A Train / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
  • Trainwreck Of Emotion / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder
  • Dixie Train / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
  • Train Keeps Riding / Ernie Thacker Junior Blankenship Band / Tennessee Blues / Copper Creek
  • I'm Ridin' This Train / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Leavin' Town / Rounder
  • Train 45 / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
  • The Last Steam Engine Train / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Rounder
  • The Devil's Train / James King / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
  • Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
  • Garden In The Sky / Ted Lundy, Bob Paisley & the Southern Mountain Boys / Ted Lundy, Bob Paisley & the Southern Mountain Boys / GHP Records
  • Where No Cabins Fall / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
  • Heaven / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia 
  • Is There Room For Me / Loafers' Glory / Loafers' Glory / Arhoolie Music
  • One Wide River / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
  • His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
  • Little Community Church / Boone Creek / Boone Creek / Sugar Hill
  • Weeds In The Wheat / Front Range / One Beautiful Day / Sugar Hill
  • Gospel Train / Larry Sparks / Let Him Lead You / Rebel
  • I'm A Weary Pilgrim / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / There's A Light Guiding Me / Sugar Hill
  • In His Love I'll Abide / Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz / Picture In A Tear / Rounder
  • Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
  • Sweet By And By / Grascals / The Grascals / Rounder
  • I've Found A Hiding Place / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
  • Beyond The Sunset For Me / Jason Barie with Paul Williams / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
  • He Will Set Your Fields On Fire / Reno & Smiley / On Stage / Copper Creek
  • (We're Going) Just Over In The Gloryland / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
  • Help Thy Brother / Jimmy Martin / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / MME
  • Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder


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