"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/3/2021

Robert Fraker at Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival
(Photo by MaryE Yeomans)

Our first Bluegrass Cafe of October 2021 featured music from some of the 2021 International Bluegrass Music Association award winners , as well as music from the three newly-minted members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and birthday tributes to several performers.  Most notably, we shared seven songs from the pen of a good friend gone too soon:  Robert Fraker (October 1, 1946 - May 2, 2017).  Hope you were able to join us for all or part of the broadcast.

The annual gathering known as WoB (World of Bluegrass) took place this past week in Raleigh, NC.  While I wasn't an in-person attendee of the festivities this year, I was able to follow along virtually at some events that were posted on either the IBMA Facebook page or the group's YouTube.  To that end, we played some music from quite a few IBMA Award winners for 2021, and we mentioned the others.  

We also shared music from some of the performers who will be in Vermont next weekend at the first-time-ever Jenny Brook Minifest.  This annual event normally takes place at the end of June, but COVID meeting restrictions cancelled the big festival this year.  This smaller festival is "mini" in name only, as there will be a load of top-notch performers there, including IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year Danny Paisley, as well as the Po' Ramblin' Boys, the Feinberg Brothers, and others.  For more info, visit this website.  

As I will be in Vermont next weekend, our Bluegrass Cafe will be recorded during this week, and will air for you on Sunday afternoon.  Hope you'll consider joining us, if you can.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Richest Man / Balsam Range / Moxie And Mettle / Mountain Home [IBMA Song of the Year, 2021]
• Living On The Edge / Dale Ann Bradley / Things She Couldn't Get Over / Pinecastle [IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year, 2021]
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle [IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year, 2021]
• Letters Have No Arms / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music [IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year, 2021]
• Hollow Heart / Billy Strings / Home / Rounder [IBMA Entertainer of the Year, 2021]
• Readin', Rightin', Route 23 / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways [IBMA Album of the Year, 2021]
• Losing You Blues / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle [IBMA Vocal Group of the Year, 2021]
• Fiddler's Pastime / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Laura Orshaw / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced [IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year, 2021]
• Are You Missing Me / Dailey & Vincent / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways [IBMA Album of the Year, 2021]
• No Other Man / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• I Got A Letter / Valerie Smith & Becky Buller / Here's A Little Song... / Bell Buckle Records [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Cross My Broken Heart / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Louisville Suite / Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy Records [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• The Cheshire Tragedy / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Like A Bird In A Cage / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Here Come The Teardrops / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / Fine Time To Get The Blues / Driving Duke Records [Terry Baucom birthday, 10/6/1952]
• Helping Hand / Johnny Williams / Last Day At Galax / Mountain Roads Recordings [Johnny Williams birthday, 10/6/1951]
• Ezekiel Saw The Wheel / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads [Remembering Ray Deaton:  10/6/1952 - 6/4/2019]
• Sparta Flash / The Expedition Show / The Expedition Show / Mountain Fever Records [Blake Williams birthday, 10/8/1962]
• Taking The Crooked Road Home / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / VA Foundation for the Humanties [Sammy Shelor birthday, 10/8/1962]
• Old Rip / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder [Lynn Morris birthday, 10/8/1948]
• Blue Skies And Teardrops / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Blue Grass Breakdown / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• Tupelo County Jail / The Stonemans / Family Tradition:  The Stoneman Legacy / CMH
• Two Highways / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Enough On My Mind / Rambler's Choice / Sounds Of The Mountains / Rounder
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• I'm Feeling For You (But I Can't Reach You) / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Honeycat Hornpipe / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Edgar Loudermilk Band with Jeff Autry / Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Rural Rhythm
• A Hundred Years From Now / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Teach Your Children / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Don't Weep For Me / Blue Highway / Original Traditional / Rounder
• Cannonball Yodel / Dede Wyland / Urge For Going / Patuxent Music
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Stagger Lee / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Whatcha Gonna Do / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• East Bound And Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys with Jason Carter & Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / single / Sound Biscuit
• Ice Covered Birches / Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / Rebel
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Proud Mary / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• After While / Dale Ann Bradley / Things She Couldn't Get Over / Pinecastle [Gospel Recording of the Year, 2021]
• Take Me In The Lifeboat / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• I'll Be Singing Up There / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute to the Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown / Alison Krauss & the Cox Family / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass with Lizzy Long / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle 
• In The Resurrection Morning / Sacred Reunion / single / Billy Blue Records [Gospel Recording of the Year, 2021]
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder