"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/26/2022

As we do on occasion, for this past Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we chose to spend a little bit of time spotlighting performers whose surname or band name begins with a certain letter of the alphabet.  For no particular reason, this week's spotlight letter was an "S."  To that end, we included 20+ songs from several "S" performers, including Larry Sparks, Shannon Slaughter, Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike, Special Consensus, Sister Sadie, the Larry Stephenson Band, Seldom Scene, the Spinney Brothers, and quite a few more.  

We also celebrated a couple of Bluegrass birthdays, including that of the late Hall of Fame fiddler Kenny Baker (June 26, 1926 - July 8, 2011).  We also belatedly celebrated the birthday of another super-innovative banjo picker and Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Eddie Adcock (born June 21, 1938).

And we remembered James Reams, a musician who was a wonderful ambassador for Bluegrass both in the northeast and the southwest.

Hope you were able to join us on Sunday, but if not, you've got another chance coming up this Sunday from 4-7PM.  See you then.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Didn't Ask / Southern Rail / Drive By Night / Turquoise
• Smith Ridge / Steve Sparkman / Smith Ridge / Copper Creek
• Six Pack To Go / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Sho Nuff Country! / Patuxent Music
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Country Side Of Heaven (Where The Bluegrass Music Flows) / Larry Stephenson Band / Retrospective (LSB Live) / Whysper Dream Music
• I Took Mama To The Opry / Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Small Town Heroes / Bell Buckle Records
• Ridin' Through The Country / Shannon Slaughter / Ridin' Through The Country / Self-Produced
• Blue And Lonesome Again / Ron Spears / My Time Has Come / Copper Creek
• Goin' Back To Old Kentucky / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass:  Tribute To 1946 And 1947 / Skaggs Family Records
• Whiskey Island / Tim Stafford / Just To Hear The Whistle Blow / Self-Produced
• Where Love Went Wrong / Kenny & Amanda Smith Band / House Down The Block / Rebel
• Thank God For The Highways / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Losing You Blues / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle
• There Ain't No Easy Street / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Blackbird / Special Consensus / single / Compass Records
• Riding The Boston And Maine / Nick Dumas / single / Skyline Records
• Mary Jane Won't You Be Mine / Fast Track / Heartache And Trouble / Engelhardt Music Group
• Midnight Highway / Ashby Frank / single / Mountain Home
• What I Didn't Say / Volume Five / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Torn Love / Larry Efaw & the Bluegrass Mountaineers / single / Bell Buckle Records
• Cincinnati Southern / James Reams / Like A River Flowing / Self-Produced [Remembering James Reams, d. 6/17/2022]
• Kentucky River / James Reams / Like A River Flowing / Self-Produced [Remembering James Reams, d. 6/17/2022]
• Dance With Me Kenny / The Masters / Saturday Night Fish Fry / CMH Records [Remembering Kenny Baker:  6/26/1926 - 7/8/2011]
• Lonesome Moonlight Waltz / Kenny Baker / Spider Bit The Baby! / OMS Records [Remembering Kenny Baker:  6/26/1926 - 7/8/2011]
• Walls Of Time / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Kenny Baker:  6/26/1926 - 7/8/2011]
• Won't Be Crying Over You / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group [Tina Adair birthday, 6/29/1979]
• Nightwalk / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Mercury [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Theme From Exodus / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Uncle Joe / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Blue Love (In My Heart) / The Hot Flashes / Eponymous / Self-Produced
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Happy Appy Records
• Where Grass Won't Grow / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• Home Is Where The Heart Is / Connie & Babe / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• No Other Man / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music 
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• No Letter In The Mail / James Alan Shelton & Friends / Blue In The Blue Ridge / Freeland 
• Get In Line Buddy / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Get In Line, Brother / Marty Stuart / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Jesus Hold My Hand / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• I Bowed On My Knees And Cried Holy / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin' Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Joy Bells / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Jesus On The Mainline / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Lord Help Me Find The Way / Stanley Family Records
• Bring Him Your Talents / Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Little Eyes / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume I / Billy Blue Records
• He's Gettin' Me Ready / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with the Oak Ridge Boys / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Let The Light Shine Down / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder