"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/9/2022

This day's Bluegrass Cafe featured a whole lot of music in celebration of the late Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) -- not a Bluegrass singer by any stretch, but his songs have certainly been covered in the Bluegrass world many multiples of times over the years.  Limiting ourselves to just a dozen Merle Haggard selections and covers is a bit of a struggle, but since we had so many other great songs and performers to share, we did what we needed to do.

As far as newer music, there were selections from the Edgar Loudermilk Band, Rhonda Vincent, the Rick Lang project featuring a song by Stephen Mougin, and the Po' Ramblin' Boys.

Next Sunday's show may be an encore presentation of last year's Easter show, but the jury is still out on that.  We'll keep you posted.

Thanks for listening.  Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Past The Point Of Rescue / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Pinecastle
• Two Highways / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• I Beg To You / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• Home Run Man / Jimmy Martin / 1954-1974 / Bear Family Records
• I'm Really Leaving / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Pinecastle
• It's Amazing What Sunshine Can Do / Pete Goble / When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass / FireHeart Records
• Slowly / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• Will You Be Lonesome Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Classic Bluegrass Live / Vanguard
• Little Mountain Road / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Running Razorback / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Pinecastle
• Marianne / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Modern Times / Rebel
• Sad Prison Song / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / Starday Records
• Many A Mile / Eddie & Martha Adcock / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Hey Porter / Greg Blake / Songs Of Heart & Home / Self-Produced
• Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico / Bluegrass Etc. / Bluegrass Etc. / Sierra
• Poor Monroe / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Why You Been Gone So Long / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home
• Long Forgotten Dream / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Hit Parade Of Love / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Branded Man / Merle Haggard / Vintage Collections / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Old Man From The Mountain / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Big City / U.S. Navy Country Current / Country Current Live / DoD [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Movin' On / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Mama Tried / Merle Haggard & Mac Wiseman / Timeless / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Today I Started Loving You Again / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Swinging Doors / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Silver Wings / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Runaway Momma / Merle Haggard / The Bluegrass Sessions / McCoury Music [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• I'm Going Home / Edgar Loudermilk Band / The Dark Side Of Lonesome / Rural Rhythm
• Nine Pound Hammer / George Shuffler / Aged To Perfection / Copper Creek [Remembering George Shuffler:  4/11/1925 - 4/7/2014]
• Paint The Town / Fox Family / Follow My Lead / Sierra
• Toodleoo / Rick Lang with Stephen Mougin / A Tale To Tell / Dark Shadow Recording
• Don't You Know I Love You, Charlie Brown? / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Baby Blue Eyes / Vince Gill / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways [Vince Gill birthday, 4/12/1957]
• City That Drowned / Mile Twelve / City On A Hill / Delores The Taurus Records
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Forty Years Of Trouble / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Grand Ole Circle / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Dreaming / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Lonesome / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• The First Step To Heaven / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Are You Lost In Sin / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family Records
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 2 / Hay Holler
• What A Friend We Have In Jesus / George Shuffler / Aged To Perfection / Copper Creek [Remembering George Shuffler:  4/11/1925 - 4/7/2014]
• Lord Show Me The Righteous Pathway / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Will He Wait A Little Longer / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder