"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/12/2021

For the first Sunday since March 8, 2020, our Bluegrass Cafe was presented live from the WHUS studio at the University of Connecticut.  Does this mean that everything is now completely back to "normal?"  Not really, as COVID regulations currently require us to broadcast while wearing a mask, but overall, it's a step in the right direction, for sure.  While our broadcast wasn't the smoothest ever, it was fun to present music in celebration of a few birthdays, plus there was new music and some classic tunes, too.  Hope you were able to join us!

September 13th is the birth anniversary of the Father of Bluegrass Music, William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 - September 9. 1996).  While you can be assured that you will hear a Bill Monroe tune (either performed or written by him) just about every Sunday, today, we added a few extras in celebration of what would have been Bill's birthday.  Other birthday celebrants for this week include Country Music Hall of Famer (and King of Country Music), Roy Acuff, Lou Reid, Bill Harrell, and Michael Cleveland. We also remembered the late Aaron Foster, who would have celebrated his 29th birthday on September 11th.

There was a smidge of new music, too, from the the likes of Marty Raybon, Starlett & Big John, and the Grascals.  We also included music we've received over the past 18 months from folks like Jesse Brock, Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition, Barry Abernathy, Laurie Lewis, High Fidelity, the Feinberg Brothers, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, the Kody Norris Show, Rock Hearts, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.  

And if all of that wasn't enough, we shared a few songs in honor of National Grandparents Day.

Hope you enjoyed something you heard somewhere along the way today, and that you'll consider joining me once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• My Rose Of Old Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe, 1945-1949 / Columbia [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Is The Grass Any Bluer / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Arleigh / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [National Grandparents Day]
• Grandma's Gift / Dale Ann Bradley / East Kentucky Morning / Pinecastle [National Grandparents Day]
• A Grandmother's Love / Bear Tracks / Rough Edges / AMT Records [National Grandparents Day]
• That Ain't The Grandpa That I Know / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records [National Grandparents Day]
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / Volume Five / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• Got No Reason Now For Goin' Home / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Unwanted Love / Barry Abernathy with Dan Tyminski / Barry Abernathy & Friends / Billy Blue Records
• Rooster Crow / Laurie Lewis with Craig Smith / And Laurie Lewis / Spruce And Maple Music
• Swinging A Nine Pound Hammer / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Music
• Take My Ring From Your Finger / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Don't You Know I Love You, Charlie Brown / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Great Speckle Bird / Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Branded Wherever I Go / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Wreck On The Highway / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Barnyard Frolic / RME Records [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Wabash Cannonball / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Drip Rock Kentucky / Marty Raybon / single / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Have You Back / Starlett & Big John / Till The End Of The Road / Turnberry Records
• Low Down Blues / The Grascals / Up All Night / Mountain Home
• East Bound And Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys with Jason Carter & Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / single / Sound Biscuit
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• The Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Toy Heart / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass:  Tribute To 1946 And 1947 / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Big Mon / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• I'm Blue And Lonesome / Reno & Smiley / Love Please Come Home / King [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways [Lou Reid birthday, 9/13/1954]
• Walking In The Early Morning Dew / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Remembering Bill Harrell:  9/14/1934 - 6/24/2009]
• Five-String Swing / Michael Cleveland / Tall Fiddler / Compass Records [Michael Cleveland birthday, 9/18/1980]
• I'm Going Back To The Mountains / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder / Larry Sparks / New Moon Over My Shoudler / Rebel
• Whispering Waters / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Is It True / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• Marianne / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Modern Times / Rebel
• When I Wake Up To Sleep No More / Aaron "Frosty" Foster / single / Beehive Records [Remembering Aaron Foster:  9/11/1992 - 2/10/2021]
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Walk In The Sunshine / Spinney Brothers / Living The Dream / Mountain Fever Records
• Lay Down Your Troubles / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Inside The Gate / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Get On The Main Highway / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Let The Light Shine Down / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Heartaches And Dreams / Rebel [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• A Little More Faith In Jesus / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder