"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/31/2021

On this fifth Sunday of January, we had a whole lot of wonderful Bluegrass folks to celebrate as their birthdays happen either very late in January or early in February.  Among the celebrants:  Bluegrass Hall of Famers Del McCoury and Tom Gray, as well as David Parmley, Jason Carter, and Becky Buller.  Happy Birthday to all!

A few weeks ago, old friend and New England musician, Dave Shaw, suggested that I play a block of songs in honor of the February 4th birthday of the late Clarence "Tater" Tate.  Though Tater died in 2007, he still made his mark in the Bluegrass world by serving as a sideman for bands with Hylo Brown, Jimmy Martin, Carl Story, Bill Monroe, and even on his own.  In later years, Tater played bass on Patty Loveless's 2001 recording, "Mountain Soul."  We were happy to include several songs from Dave Shaw's vast music library, and we look forward to hearing whatever else he chooses to spotlight in future weeks.   

We shared a tiny bit of newer music this week, too, with a look back at a 2020 release by Professor Dan Boner, and newer 2021 music from Barry Abernathy, Dale Ann Bradley, and Linda Lay.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and don't hesitate to check in anytime:  bgcafe@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Request is RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Who Will Calm The Storm / Strictly Country [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• Grandfather's Clock / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Bob Wills Medley / Bluegrass Cardinals / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• The Barber's Fiddle / Becky Buller / Distance And Time / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 1/31/1979]
• Lights On The Hill / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• Little Glass Of Wine / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / David Parmley & the Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & the Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Smoke Along The Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine 
• Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• The Sweetest Gift / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Birmingham Jail / Barry Abernathy & Friends / single / Billy Blue Records
• Things She Couldn't Get Over / Dale Ann Bradley / Things She Couldn't Get Over / Pinecastle
• Watermelon On The Vine / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  Songs Of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music
• Darling Nellie Across The Sea / Hylo Brown / Hylo Brown / Stetson [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Love And Wealth / Hylo Brown / Hylo Brown / Stetson [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Flower Blooming In The Wildwood / Hylo Brown / Hylo Brown / Stetson [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• The Fiddling Cricket / Lester Flatt's Nashville Grass / Fantastic Pickin' / CMH [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Sing Widow Maker / Decca [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Lee Sutton Special / Tater Tate / Fiddling Favorites Of The U.S.A & Canada / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• The Boys Are Back In Town / Patty Loveless / Mountain Soul / Epic [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Liza Lynn Waltz / Tater Tate / Fiddling Favorites Of The U.S.A. & Canada / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Your Heart Now Tells The Truth / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Dave Shaw birthday, 1/29/1961]
• An Old Log Cabin For Sale / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road [Dave Shaw birthday, 1/29/1961]
• I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Dave Shaw birthday, 1/29/1961]
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / Professor Dan Boner / West Of West Virginia / Self-Produced
• Looking For A Reason / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Grown Cold / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• Jolly Blacksmith / Paul Warren / At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight / Bear Family Records
• Black Eyed Suzy / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder 
• Blue, Blue Ridge Mountain Girl / Linda Lay / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Is It Wrong (To Love Somebody New) / Paul Adkins & the Borderland Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• The Last Thing On My Mind / Professor Dan Boner with Sally Berry & Buck Trent / West Of West Virginia / Self-Produced
• Lone Star Rag / Tater Tate / Fiddling Favorites Of The U.S.A. & Canada / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• You're Drifting Away / Bill Monroe with Ricky Skaggs / Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord / MCA [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Let Him Lead You / Shenandoah Valley Quartet / Shenandoah Valley Quartet with Jim Eanes / County [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Will The Angels Play Their Harps For Me / Hylo Brown / In Concert / Copper Creek [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Light At The River / Carl Story / 16 Greatest Hits / Starday [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Mountain Soul / Epic [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Lay Down Your Troubles / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Get In Line Brother / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia
• Come On Down / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I'm Rollin' Through This Unfriendly World / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Place On Calvary / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Before The Fire Comes Down / Del McCoury / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• I Saw Mother With God Last Night / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• I'll Meet You In The Morning / Appalachian Express / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• They Were Fishermen / Kenny & Amanda Smith / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Billy Blue Records
• Row By Row / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Gone Home / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• Little White Church / Jim & Jesse with Mac Wiseman / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• Lay Your Burdens At His Feet / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Heavenly Treasures / Sugar Hill
• Bluegrass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/24/2021

Blue was the color for Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, but not for any particular melancholy reason.  There just so many "blues" songs in my "Bluegrass library" that we use to produce our "homemade shows" that it seems appropriate to pull them out and play them in clusters from time to time.  I expect that we will continue doing this for a while, yet.  

We also shared a few selections from a few more 2020 recordings that we weren't able to showcase much (if at all) during 2020.  To that end, we heard two songs each from the latest recordings by Donna & Roni Stoneman, Flashback, Appalachian Road Show, Gary Brewer & the Kentucky Ramblers, and a gospel CD from Eddie Sanders.  Hope you enjoyed these selections.  

Hope you enjoyed this week's broadcast -- warts and all.  :)  We'll be back again with you next Sunday from 4-7PM, so sure hope you'll consider tuning in once more.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Coldest Day Of Winter / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder
• Winter Of A Broken Heart / Alison Krauss / I've Got That Old Feeling / Rounder
• Song For A Winter's Night / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot / Rounder
• Shelley's Winter Love / Larry Stephenson with Ronnie Reno / 20th Anniversary / Whysper Dream Music
• Winterhawk / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Sweet Thang And Cisco / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel
• Lefty's Old Guitar / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• In My Next Life / Springfield Exit / Springfield Exit / Cracker Barrel
• Something In The Wind / Seldom Scene / Act Four / Sugar Hill
• Winterhawk / Northern Lights / Take You To The Sky / Flying Fish
• I Feel The Blues Moving In / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder
• Alcatraz Island Blues / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Across The Sea Blues / Goins Brothers / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• The Bluest Man In Town / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Clinch Mountain Blues / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Big City Blues / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Bluegrass Blues / Steep Canyon Rangers / Steep Canyon Rangers / Rebel
• Crazy Finger Blues / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Rock-A-Bye Boogie / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• The Appalachian Road / Appalachian Road Show / Tribulation / Billy Blue Records
• Daddy And The Old Oak Tree / Gary Brewer & the Kentucky Ramblers with Dale Ann Bradley / 40th Anniversary Celebration / Stretch Grass Music
• Virginia In The Springtime / Flashback / Blues Around My Cabin / Pinecastle
• Tater Valley Chimes / Flashback / Blues Around My Cabin / Pinecastle
• Big Train / Gary Brewer & the Kentucky Ramblers with Doug Phelps & the Kentucky Headhunters / 40th Anniversary Celebration / Stretch Grass Music
• Blue Grass Breakdown / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• My Baby's Gone / Justin Moses with Del McCoury / Fall Like Rain / Mountain Fever Records
• Blue Collar Blues / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / single / Billy Blue Records
• East Virginia Blues / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Hard Time Banjo Blues / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / 
• The Government Blues / Feller & Hill / Here Come Feller & Hill..Again! / 
• White House Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1958 / JSP Records
• Last Dollar Blues / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
• Crazy Blues / Mac Wiseman / 
• Roll On Blues / Connie & Babe / 
• Dixon County Blues / Curly Ray Cline / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Wait For The Light To Shine / Eddie Sanders / Wait For The Light To Shine / Engelhardt Music Group
• Voice Of My Savior / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Is There Room For Me / Loafers Glory / Loafers Glory / Arhoolie
• Fishers Of Men / Rhonda Vincent / One Step Ahead / Rounder
• You Go To Your Church / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & the Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Vision Of Jesus / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Beyond The Sunset For Me / Jason Barie with Paul Williams / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• Just As The Sun Went Down / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• John 3:16 / Stanley Brothers / All Gospel, All Bluegrass / 
• Talk About Sufferin' / Ricky Skaggs with the Whites / Stained Glass Bluegrass / Rounder
• I've Got A Friend (His Name Is Jesus) / Eddie Sanders / Wait For The Light To Shine / Engelhardt Music Group
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Do You Live What You Preach / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Band / One Morning In May / Rounder
• We Can Sing / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• They Can Only Fill One Grave / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road 
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Got A Little Light / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Calm The Storm / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/17/2021

Our Bluegrass Cafe on this day was mainly one to celebrate birthdays, and there were a passel of them!  Those celebrating birthdays included Bluegrass Hall of Famers Charlie Waller and Bill Emerson, as well as Country Music Hall of Famers Dolly Parton and Phil Everly, and West Virginia Hall of Famer Walter Bailes.  If you celebrate your birthday in mid-January, Happy Birthday wishes to you, too!

Last week, we received in the mail a big box of CDs that have been sent to to the WHUS studios since mid-March 2020.  We're working our way through some of those CDs now, and trying to play catch-up.  On this broadcast, we shared two songs each from four CDs that had been sent to WHUS last year, but that had received limited airplay during our "home-made" COVID shows:  "My Best Friend" by Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition (Patuxent Music); "Ronnie Bowman" by Ronnie Bowman (Engelhardt Music Group); "Fiddler's Pastime" by Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (Self-Produced); and "Bridges And Backroads" by Jerry Salley (Very Jerry Records).  We'll check out a few more 2020 CDs in future weeks of our continued home-produced program.  

This week's show also included three new recordings for 2021 from the likes of Williamson Branch, Carolyn Eyerly, and Chris Jones & the Night Drivers.

Thanks, as always, for listening, and be sure to check in with a request or comment, if you're so inclined.  Email can be sent to bgcafe@gmail.com and our Facebook page can be found at www.Facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe.

Have a good week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Mighty Mississippi / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sugar Hill [Jimmy Haley birthday, 1/19/1955]
• Sweet Dixie / Bill Emerson / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel [Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• John Hardy / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder [John Hardy hanged, 1/19/1894]
• The Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [#1 on Billboard country chart, 1/19/1963]
• Music Of The Mountains / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Let Me Be The Bridge / Jerry Salley / Bridges And Backroads / Very Jerry Records
• Fiddler's Pastime / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Laura Orshaw / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Lucille / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Pearl / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• How I Want To Be Remembered / Jerry Salley / Bridges And Backroads / Very Jerry Records
• Gonna Be Raining When I Die / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Quiet Click / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Mountain Home
• I'm Gonna Be The Wind / Laurie Lewis / Restless Rambling Heart / Flying Fish
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango
• Won't You Think Of Me / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Banjo Boy Chimes / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• When Someone Wants To Leave / Seldom Scene / Bluegrass The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• I Wasted My Tears / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Celebration / Rebel [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Jolene / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Pain Of Loving You / Ronnie Reno & the Reno Tradition / Portfolio / Shell Point Records [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Dolly Parton / Classic Country, 1970-1974 / Time Life [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail / Everly Brothers / Songs Our Daddy Taught Us / Ace [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Brand New Heartache / Larry Stephenson with Dudley Connell / Wash My Blues Away / Webco [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Rounder [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• High Lonesome / Bill Emerson with Charlie Waller / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004; Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Fox On The Run / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004; Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• The Double Eagle / Country Gentlemen / Country Songs Old And New / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• You Go To Your Church And I'll Go To Mine / Bailes Brothers / At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight / Bear Family [Remembering Walter Bailes:  1/17/1920 - 11/27/2000]
• Dust On The Bible / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel [Remembering Walter Bailes:  1/17/1920 - 11/27/2000]
• We're Living In The Last Days Now / Bailes Brothers / Remember Me / Bear Family [Remembering Walter Bailes:  1/17/1920 - 11/27/2000]
• Over In The Glory Land / Carolyn Eyerly / The Sunny Side Of Life / Patuxent Music
• I Want To Be A Christian Soldier / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Heaven's Green Fields / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• So Happy I'll Be / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• I'll Shout And Shine / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• You Must Come In At The Door / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Mount Zion's Lofty Heights / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Stained Glass Bluegrass / Rounder
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road 
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004; Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• He Knows My Name / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm [Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• Camping In Canaan's Land / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / The Cat Came Back / Rebel
• He'll Take You In / Billy & Terry Smith / Bill Monroe Tribute / KTel 
• Wait A Little Longer, Please Jesus / John Duffey, Charlie Waller, Eddie Adcock, Tom Gray / Classic Country Gents Reunion / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• God's Not Dead / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Walking In The Spirit / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• One Wide River / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/10/2021

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included lots of music in celebration of birthdays, as well as a couple of newer tunes, and a whole bunch of blue ones, too.  Hope you were able to join us.        

Birthday celebrating took up the main portion of our program this week, as we remembered prolific songwriter Randall Hylton (January 8, 1945 - March 19, 2001) by sharing lots of his songs.  We also remembered Country Music Hall of Famer Ray Price (January 12, 1926 - December 16, 2013) with music both performed by him and from his vast songbook.  And if that wasn't enough, we even remembered Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977) just a tiny bit, too.  

There was just a tiny bit of brand-new music to share this week, and it came to us from the likes of Sturgill Simpson, Billy Wise & Mountain Time, and Balsam Range.

We even played a bit of requested music this week, too.  If you have any requests, feel free to send me an email:  bgcafe@gmail.com.  I can't guarantee that I will be able to play whatever you request, as these "home-made" shows are limited by what music I have in my personal music library.  Still, there's always a possibility, and it's fun to hear from people.

Thanks for listening, stay healthy, and enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Requests are RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Country Side Of Heaven (Where The Bluegrass Music Flows) / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• Dirt Roads / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Raincoe Music
• Blue Railroad Train / Tony Rice / Manzanita / Rounder
• The Blues Are Still The Blues / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• Blue / Stevens Sisters / O Sister! / Rounder
• Baby Blue Eyes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Bad Case Of The Blues / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Blue Days, Black Nights / Tasty Licks / Hand-Picked / Rounder
• Blue And Lonesome Again / Fast Track / Fast Track / Engelhardt Music Group
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life
• Dixie / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records [Remembering Elvis Presley:  1/8/1935 - 8/16/1977]
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Elvis Presley / At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight... / Bear Family [Remembering Elvis Presley:  1/8/1935 - 8/16/1977]
• All Around You / Sturgill Simpson / Cuttin' Grass / High Top Mountain Records
• Lonesome / Billy Wise & Mountain Time / single / Self-Produced
• Rivers, Rains, And Runaway Trains / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• The Eighth Of January / Chubby Wise / An American Original / Pinecastle
• Coal Town Saturday Night / Randall Hylton / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Dream Softly, My Love / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• My Heart Is Yours / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Twenty One Miles / Adcock, Gaudreau, Waller & Gray / The Country Gentlemen Reunion Band / Radio Therapy Records [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Country Poor, Country Proud / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Rough Edges / Bear Tracks / Rough Edges / Self-Produced [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Room At The Top Of The Stairs / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Slippers With Wings / Charlie Waller & Randall Hylton / The Singer And The Songster / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) / Ray Price / I'll Be There:  The Legend Begins / Country Stars [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Weary Blues From Waitin' / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / David Grisman, Herb Pedersen, Vince Gill, Jim Buchanan, Emory Gordy, Jr. / Here Today / Rounder [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Wasted Words / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Falling, Falling, Falling / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Crazy Arms / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• I'll Sail My Ship Alone / Ray Price / At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight / Bear Family[Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Who Showed Who / Del McCoury / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Casey Jones / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Looking For The Stone / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Memories That Bless And Burn / Rounder
• He Will Roll You Over The Tide / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• Give The Devil An Inch / Lonesome River Band / Window Of Time / Doobie Shea
• I'm A Stranger / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Lord In The Morning / Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Lord In The Morning / Pisgah Ridge
• Talk It All Over With Him / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album, Volume 4 / Rounder
• The River Of Jordan / Jim & Jesse / Y'All Come:  The Essential Jim & Jesse / Legacy
• Who Will Sing For Me / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Drowning Sailor / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• The Future Remains / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• That Home Far Away / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Memories That Bless And Burn / Rounder
• Angel At Your Side / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Everything I Wanted Love To Be / Happy Appy Records
• Rank Strangers To Me / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Over On The Other Side / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / On Down The Line / Rounder
• My Shepherd Is God / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Oh What A Day / Barry Scott & Second Wind / In God's Time / Rebel
• On The Jericho Road / Bass Mountain Boys / A Beautiful Life / CMH
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / Good & Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/3/2021

Happy New Year!  Hope you're enjoying your 2021, so far.  

Our first show of the new year included a whole bunch of songs in tribute to the late Tony Rice, who died at the age of 69 on Christmas Day.  To say Tony Rice has influenced a generation of musicians would be a tremendous understatement.  Through his solo recordings to records made with occasional duet partners (Ricky Skaggs and Norman Blake), with J.D. Crowe & the New South, with his brothers, with the Bluegrass Album Band, and his appearances as a guest on other performers' records, Tony Rice left an indelible impression on Bluegrass and acoustic music that will be felt forever.  We listened to lots of music from the amazing songbook of this Bluegrass Hall of Famer on Sunday, and we will continue to do so in future editions of our Bluegrass Cafe.  Rest in peace, Tony Rice, and thanks for the music.

We also remembered the late Hank Williams with several Bluegrass renditions of his songs.  Hank famously died at the age or 29 on his way to performing a show on New Year's Day in 1953.  His incredible songs live on in many styles of music, including Bluegrass.

And we couldn't have a show without remembering the legendary Earl Scruggs, who was born on January 6, 1924.  Would there be Bluegrass without Earl?  

Hope you enjoyed the program, and that you're staying safe and healthy in this new year.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cold On The Shoulder / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Walk On Boy / Rice Brothers / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Bill Emerson with Tony Rice / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind / Claire Lynch / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Way / Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Move It On Over / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Cold, Cold Heart / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Singing Waterfall / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Settin' The Woods On Fire / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'n' Live / Sugar Hill  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Jim Mills with Alan O'Bryant / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Hey Good Lookin' / Hank Williams / Live At The Opry / Opry Music  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Wake Up And Smell The Coffee / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Last Train / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Sarah Jarosz / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Hitchhiking To California / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / single / Billy Blue Records
• Lonesome Leaving Train / Amanda Cook / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Auld Lang Syne / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Gusto
• San Antone / Bobby Atkins, Frank Poindexter, & Tony Rice / 1968 Session / Old Homestead Records [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Leaves That Are Green / J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys / single / Lemco [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Ten Degrees And Getting Colder / J.D. Crowe & the New South / The New South / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Blackberry Blossom / Tony Rice / Manzanita / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Church Street Blues / Tony Rice / Church Street Blues / Sugar Hill[Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Greenlight On The Southern / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• More Pretty Girls Than One / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams with Tony Rice / Down Home / Pinecastle [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Sawing On The Strings / Alison Krauss / A Hundred Miles Or More / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Dudley Connell with Tony Rice / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Heavy Traffic Ahead / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Pike County Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Farewell Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Come On Down / Fast Track / Fast Track / Engelhardt Music Group
• Father, Son, And The Holy Ghost / Ernie Thacker / The Chill Of Lonesome / Doobie Shea Records
• Prettiest Flower There / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• It's Just Like Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Collection
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• The Old Crossroads / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• I'll Answer The Call / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• Jesus Is Standing At My Right Hand / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / James King / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Shine, Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records
• From Jerusalem To Jericho / Hank Williams / The Unreleased Recordings / Time Life [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• So Many Years, So Many Blessings / Lewis Family / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• I Believe / Del McCoury Band / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• Get Up In Jesus' Name / Marty Raybon / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• Wonderful, Beautiful Place / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The News Is Out / Sugar Hill
• When The Sun Of Life Goes Down / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics (1946-1950) / Cattle [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder