"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/29/2021

This past weekend was pretty rough for folks who love music, as it marked the passing of three music legends:  one who was a member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame (Bill Emerson), another was a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame (Don Everly), and the third is enshrined in both the Country Music and Bluegrass Halls of Fame (Tom T. Hall).  All three created thousands of hours of wonderful music, and we were honored to share a good portion of it during our Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday.

We let the music speak for itself during this broadcast, and you can bet that we will continue to share music from all three of these wonderful performers.

Thanks for listening, and enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'll Never Do Better Than You / Tom T. Hall / The Magnificent Music Machine / Mercury [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Grey Ghost / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Pinecastle [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1937 - 8/21/2021]
• That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / Everly Brothers / Songs Our Daddy Taught Us / Cadence [Remembering Don Everly:  2/1/1937 - 8/21/2021]
• Goin' To The Races / Country Gentlemen / single / Dixie [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1937 - 8/21/2021]
• Me And The Jukebox / Buzz Busby & the Bayou Boys / single / Starday [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1937 - 8/21/2021]
• Froggy Went A Courtin' / Red Allen / Keep On Going:  The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1937 - 8/21/2021]
• Theme Time / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / The Chronological Jimmy Martin & His Sunny Mountain Boys, 1965-1968 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Proud Mary / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics / Webco [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• My Smoky Mountain Home / Bill Emerson with Wayne Taylor / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Ophelia / Emerson / single / 615 Hideaway Records [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Sweet Dixie / Bill Emerson / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Thou Shalt Not Steal / Kitty Wells / The Collection / MCA [Remembering Don Everly:  2/1/1937 - 8/21/2021
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder [Remembering Don Everly:  2/1/1937 - 8/21/2021]
• Long Time Gone / Everly Brothers / Songs Our Daddy Taught Us / Cadence [Remembering Don Everly:  2/1/1937 - 8/21/2021]
• East Bound And Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys with Jason Carter & Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / single / Sound Biscuit 
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle
• Hogwash / Bill Emerson / Banjo Pickin & Hot Fiddlin' / Coronet [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits / Mercury [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Ballad Of Forty Dollars / Charlie Waller & Randall Hylton / The Singer And The Songster / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• That's How I Got To Memphis / Springfield Exit / Springfield Exit / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Year That Clayton Delaney Died / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• There Ain't No Country Music On This Jukebox / Tom T. Hall & Earl Scruggs / The Storyteller And The Banjo Man / Columbia [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Don't Forget The Coffee, Billy Joe / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• I'll Never Do Better Than You / Tom T. Hall / The Magnificent Music Machine / Mercury [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Old Dogs, Children, And Watermelon Wine / Tom T. Hall / Opry By The Decades:  The 1970s / Opry Music [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Bill Monroe For Breakfast / Tom T. Hall / Home Grown / Mercury [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Leaving Baker County / Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Bluefield West Virginia Blues / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Can You Hear Me Now / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Walk Slow / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Man On The Side Of The Road / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Just A Drifter / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• New Pair Of Glasses / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• One Of Those Days (When I Miss Lester Flatt) / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Free Salvation / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltirmore / McCoury Music
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Sing Praises To The King / Front Range / One Beautiful Day / Sugar Hill
• Through Earthly Life / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• You Better Wake Up / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Do Something For Jesus Today / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / When The Morning Comes / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• I Want You To Meet My Friend / Ralph Stanley with Tom T. Hall / 40 / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Me And Jesus / America's Bluegrss Band / America's Favorite Hymns / Ol' Blue Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Born Again / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• What A Day / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• When We Look On His Face / Bill Emerson with Cliff Waldron / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / This World Is Not My Home / MME [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• I Am Just A Pilgrim / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
• I Am Near The Gate / Blue Highway / Blue Highway / Skaggs Family Records
• That Glorious Day / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Let Me Rest / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• When The Sun Of Life Goes Down / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• He Will Set Your Fields On Fire / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/22/2021

This past Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe happened to air on a day that was highlighted by a visit from Tropical Storm Henri.  While the majority of the area fared well as far as power outages from Henri's visit, at my home in eastern CT, there was no power or Internet until Monday.  As a result, I didn't get a chance to post the radio playlist until later in the week (obviously).  Better late than never, I guess...

For our show on August 22nd, we shared a healthy portion of newer Bluegrass music, with selections from Merle Monroe, David Peterson & 1946, Unspoken Tradition, Jeremy Stephens, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Balsam Range, Fast Track, and a new gospel single from the one-and-only Dolly Parton (with a backing quartet of Larry Cordle, Carl Jackson, Jerry Salley, and Bradley Walker).  

We also had a lengthy birthday tribute to the late Carter Stanley (August 27, 1925 - December 1, 1966), and shared birthday songs in honor of Bluegrass Hall of Famer, J.D. Crowe (born August 27, 1937) and Country Music Hall of Famer, Connie Smith (born August 14, 1941).

Hope you had a great week, and we'll look forward to joining you again this Sunday, August 29th!

See you then!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Leavin's Heavy On My Mind / The Grascals / The Grascals / Rounder
• I Went Back Home Today / The Boxcars / The Boxcars / Mountain Home
• I Can't Be Bothered / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home
• Hickory, Walnut & Pine / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• City That Drowned / Mile Twelve / City On A Hill / Delores The Taurus Records
• Old Home Place / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Lost And Lonely / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• Goodbye Marie / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• Prisoner's Song / David Peterson & 1946 / Cup Of Loneliness / Necktie Records
• At The Bottom Again / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home
• I'm Lonesome / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• My Life's Living Me / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Highway Side / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Travelin' This Lonesome Road / David Peterson & 1946 / Cup Of Loneliness / Necktie Records
• Stagger Lee / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Sugar In The Gourd / Michael Cleveland / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• How Mountain Girls Can Love / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Lonesome Night / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Sweetest Love / Greg Blake / Songs Of Heart & Home / Self-Produced [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• If That's The Way You Feel / Amanda Smith / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Let Me Be Your Friend / Ralph Stanley II & John Rigsby / Clinch Mountain Echoes / Copper Creek [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Let's Part The Best Of Friends / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Country Gentlemen / Sing And Play Folk Songs And Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Nobody's Love Is Like Mine / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Sugar Coated Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1958 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• The Lonesome River / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Bear Tracks / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Good & Country And Country Music Time / Jasmine [J.D. Crowe birthday, 8/27/1937]
• Nashville Blues / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder [J.D. Crowe birthday, 8/27/1937]
• Big Spike Hammer / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder [J.D. Crowe birthday, 8/27/1937]
• Talk To Me Lonesome Heart / Larry Stephenson with Connie Smith & Marty Stuart / 20th Anniversary / Whysper Dream Music [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• I Never Once Stopped Loving You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• Once A Day / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem / Ralph Stanley with Connie Smith / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• Darling Nelly Bly / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• Build It Up With Jesus / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music
• Will There Be Any Stars? / Alison Krauss & the Cox Family / I Know Who Holds Tomorrow / Rounder
• When He Calls My Name / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Hitchhiking To California / Billy Blue Records
• My Lord Keeps Me Satisfied / Lonesome River Band / Saturday Night, Sunday Morning / Rebel
• You Can't Be A Beacon / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Lord In The Morning / Crossroads
• Cup Of Loneliness / David Peterson & 1946 / Cup Of Loneliness / Necktie Records
• They Can Only Fill One Grave / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Who Do You Know In Heaven? / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• In The Sweet By And By / Dolly Parton with Larry Cordle, Carl Jackson, Jerry Salley & Bradley Walker / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• Calling From Heaven / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Who Will Sing For Me / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Will He Wait A Little Longer / James King / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Harbor Of Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Angel Band / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• He's Gettin' Me Ready / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with the Oak Ridge Boys / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Wait For The Light To Shine / Eddie Sanders / Wait For The Light To Shine / Engelhardt Music Group
• I'm Ready To Go / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• I Never Shall Forget The Day / Steve Gulley / Family, Friends & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/15/2021

Michael Cleveland tore it up
on Friday night at Podunk.

What a great Bluegrass weekend!  Hope you were able to check out the Podunk Bluegrass Festival over the last few days.  Whether or not you were able to get there and enjoy the wide array of Bluegrass performers, we started Sunday's 68th home-made Bluegrass Cafe with selections from a few of the wonderful acts you could find on Podunk's Main Stage on Friday and Saturday, including the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Bill & the Belles, Rock Hearts, and Michael Cleveland.  

There's no doubt that the late Country Music Hall of Famer Buck Owens and his Bakersfield Sound have greatly influenced many Bluegrass performers over the years.  To belatedly celebrate what would have been Buck's 92nd birthday (born August 12, 1929), we played several Bluegrass covers of Buck tunes.  We also included a number from the late Don Rich -- Buck's right-hand man and the leader of the Buckaroos -- who was born on August 15, 1941, and died tragically in a motorcycle accident on July 7, 1974.

We had a bit of newer music to share, too, including the new gospel record from the Lonesome River Band, as well as 2021 releases from Deanie Richardson, Tina Adair, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Wildfire, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, two cuts from the "Industrial Strength Bluegrass" collection, the Plate Scrapers, Wildfire, the Larry Stephenson Band, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, Larry Sparks, and a Connecticut band known as Still Pickin'.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and please join me once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Taking Back My Yesterday / Bill & the Belles / Happy Again / Self-Produced
• Don't Let Smokey Mountain Smoke Get In Your Eyes / Rock Hearts / Starring Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Toil, Tears & Trouble / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• High Lonesome Sound / Michael Cleveland with the Travelin' McCourys / Tall Fiddler / Compass Records
• Lights On The Hill / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder
• Can't Live Life / Edgar Loudermilk with Rhonda Vincent / Roads Travelled / Mountain Fever Records
• Fisher's Hornpipe / Deanie Richardson / Circle Up / Engelhardt Music Group
• Won't Be Crying Over You / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• Streets Of Baltimore / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Redwood Hill / Redwood Hill / no label
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways 
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Remembering Mel Tillis:  8/8/1932 - 11/19/2017]
• Ride The Train / Wildfire / Quiet Country Town / Pinecastle
• I Never Was Too Much / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• I Still Carry You Around / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced
• Long Time Lonesome / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Barefoot Nellie / Jim Lauderdale with High Fidelity / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane / Don Reno & Eddie Adcock / Sensational Twin Banjos / Rebel
• I Don't Care / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• It Takes People Like You / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Together Again / Feller & Hill / Feller & Hill & the Bluegrass Buckaroos / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Buckaroo / Lost & Found / Just Pickin' / Copper Creek [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Sweet Rosie Jones / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Tall Dark Stranger / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / John Boy & Billy, Inc. [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Where Does The Good Times Go / Lost & Found / January Rain / Rebel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• There Goes My Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• I'm Layin' It On The Line / Don Rich & the Buckaroos / Country Pickin':  The Don Rich Anthology / Sundazed [Remembering Don Rich:  8/15/1941 - 7/7/1974]
• Gonna Roll Out The Red Carpet / Buck Owens & the Buckaroos / Roll Out The Red Carpet For Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Fly With Me / Plate Scrapers / Destination Horizon / Self-Produced
• Restless Blue Eyed Lover / Larry Stephenson Band / Live / Whysper Dream Music
• Riding The Chief / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Mountain Home
• New Beginnings / Stephen Mougin / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• Some Old Day / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Tally-Ho / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Milwaukee Here I Come / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA
  
• Rockwood Deer Chase / Jim Mills / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill
• I'll Be Singing Up There / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute To The Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• Preaching, Praying, Singing / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / True Grass Again / Pinecastle
• The First Step To Heaven / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• King Jesus / Larry Sparks / Ministry In Song / Rebel
• Lord Protect My Soul / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Open Up Your Heart (And Let Jesus In) / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• It Won't Be Long / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill
• Where The Roses Never Fade / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• Little At A Time / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute To The Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• Country Church / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Shouting On The Hills Of Glory / Ralph Stanley with Ricky Skaggs / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• You Must Come In At The Door / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• The Garden Tomb / The Isaacs with the Oak Ridge Boys / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Every Humble Knee Must Bow / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• I've Read The Book / Marty Raybon / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Billy Blue Records
• Stacking Up The Rocks / Balsam Range / Five / Mountain Home
• Eternal Vacation / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/8/2021

For this day's 67th recorded-at-home Bluegrass Cafe, we included music in celebration of a few different August birthdays.  The celebrants included two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, a wonderful Bluegrass songwriter, a "wild & crazy" banjo picker, and the King of Bluegrass.  

We also shared songs from a couple of performers who will be appearing at the upcoming Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, Connecticut on August 12th through 15th.  This early in the week, the weather forecast looks okay, so let's hope it stays that way.  If you'd like to check out the festival, please do!  More information can be found here.

Have a great week!  We'll be looking for you once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Lonesome Truck Driver's Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1958 / JSP Records
• Long Haul Trucking Man / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango Records
• Long Haul Truckin' / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Tennessee Truck Driving Man / Don Rigsby with Charlie Sizemore / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• Truck Drivin' Man / Jim & Jesse / Y'all Come:  The Essential Jim & Jesse / Epic Legacy
• You're In My Heart / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Eight More Miles / Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris & Rhonda Vincent / O Sister! / Rounder
• I'm Comin' Back But I Don't Know When / David Grisman with Del McCoury & Herb Pedersen / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Happy Go Lucky / Alan Bibey & Doyle Lawson / single / Billy Blue Records
• Jackson / Donna & Roni Stoneman with Tom Mindte / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Early Recordings / County Records
• The Cotton Farmer / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• It's Not Like Home / Jimmy Martin / [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Drink Up And Go Home / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Train Forty-Five / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Wondering / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• More And More / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Why Baby Why / The Sidemen / Almost Live At The Station Inn / Red Clay Records [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Slowly / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 3/25/2006]
• Carroll County Accident / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 3/25/2006]
• Misery Loves Company / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 3/25/2006]
• I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name / Porter Wagoner / The Essential Porter Wagoner / RCA [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 3/25/2006]
• Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Pitkin County Turnaround / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Missing Her Has Never Slowed Me Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Sound Biscuit
• Hope Valley / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced
• Wake Up And Smell The Coffee / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Transistor Radio / Daryl Mosley / single / Pinecastle
• 5-String Swing / Michael Cleveland / Tall Fiddler / Compass Records
• The Old Brown County Barn / Michael Cleveland / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Dust On The Bible / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Is There Room For Me / Loafers' Glory / Loafers' Glory / Arhoolie Records
• My Lord's Been A Walkin' / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• There Will Be Singing / Southern Rail / Glory Train / Pinecastle
• How Can You Refuse Him Now / Rhonda Vincent / Bluegrass Legends--Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• Wings Of Faith / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Where We'll Never Say Farewell / Larry Sparks / Ministry In Song / Rebel
• A Little More Faith In Jesus / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Are You Washed In The Blood? / David Peterson / Simplicity / Self-Produced
• Going Up On The Mountain / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• God Loves His Children / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Go Spread The Gospel / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Never Go Back (To The Ways Of Sin) / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• Walkin', Runnin', Flyin' / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
• Calling From Heaven / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• God On The Mountain / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• Climb The Ladder / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/1/2021

And just like that, it's August 1st!  Our 66th homemade Bluegrass Cafe on this first Sunday of August included lots of music from the Stonemans -- the third 2021 inductee into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame (along with Alison Krauss and Lynn Morris).  We also remembered quite a few August birthdays, so hope you were able to join us!

The birthdays we celebrated included performers as varied as smiling fiddler Mac Magaha, the two Spinney Brothers, and "The Voice" -- Vern Gosdin.  If you happen to celebrate your birthday in early August, Happy Birthday wishes go out to you!

Hope you enjoyed Sunday's show, and that you'll consider tuning in once more next week.  4PM is the start time for 3 big hours of the best in Bluegrass.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Hot Night In August / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Pinecastle
• Thunderclouds Of Love / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays & Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Rain Please Go Away / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Midnight Storm / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
• Blue Skies And Teardrops / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble & The Rose / Rounder
• Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• Think About Me / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'n' Live / Sugar Hill
• If That's The Way You Feel / Amanda Smith / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Last Old Shovel / Phyllis Boyens / O Sister! / Rounder
• Lay My Burden Down / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Paper Airplane / Rounder
• Tupelo County Jail / The Stonemans / Those Swingin', Singin', Stompin' Sensational Stonemans / MGM
• Lonesome Road Blues / The Stonemans / The First Family Of Country Music / CMH
• Lost Ball In the High Weeds / The Stonemans / Live / Sunset
• Fire On The Mountain / The Stonemans / Live / Sunset
• Ride Ride Ride / The Stonemans / Stonemans' Country / MGM
• Orange Blossom Special / The Stonemans / Family Tradition / CMH
• Sweet Thang / Roni Stoneman with Tom Mindte / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• Pikearoo / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Mac Magaha:  8/1/1929 - 8/15/2003]
• The Cold Hard Facts / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced [Jeff White birthday, 8/2/1957]
• Martha / Bluegrass Cardinals / My Kinda Grass / BGC Records [Herschel Sizemore birthday, 8/6/1935]
• If I Were Your Brother / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced [Allan Spinney birthday, 8/5/1965; Rick Spinney birthday, 8/6/1966]
• Richmond Ruckus / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Mac Magaha:  8/1/1929 - 8/15/2003]
• The Hillmen / Brown Mountain Light / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill [Remembering Vern Gosdin:  8/5/1935 - 4/28/2009]
• Way Down Deep / Ralph Stanley with Vern Gosdin / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Remembering Vern Gosdin:  8/5/1935 - 4/28/2009]
• Chiseled In Stone / Vern Gosdin / Super Hits / Columbia [Remembering Vern Gosdin:  8/5/1935 - 4/28/2009]
• Roll On Muddy River / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill [Remembering Vern Gosdin:  8/5/1935 - 4/29/2012]
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit Productions
• Goodbye Marie / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• These Days I Stand Alone / Don Rigsby / single / RBR Entertainment
• 20/20 Vision / Dan Tyminski / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Love Letters In The Sand / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1953-1955 / Kipepeo Publishing
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• You're Not A Drop In The Bucket / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Billy In The Lowground / Hunter Berry / Wow Baby / Upper Management Music
• That Home Above / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• The Old Account / Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Del McCoury / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill
• Enter The Gates / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Are You Walkin' And A Talkin' For The Lord / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Stormy Waters / Jimmy Martin / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / MME
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler
• Living Left To Do / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Got A Little Light / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Lay My Burdens Down / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• I'm Going There / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• God's Not Dead / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• You're Drifting Away / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder