Our last Bluegrass Cafe for March 2023 included lots of fine new Bluegrass music, songs from a couple of favorite LPs, and several songs in remembrance of a fine Bluegrass entertainer who died earlier this week.
During this day's broadcast, we included brand new music from several performers, including Special Consensus, Larry Sparks, Balsam Range, Pam Gadd, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, and Boone & Foster, as well as recent 2023 releases from Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Jason Barie, the Gibson Brothers, Greg Blake & Hometown, Starlett & Big John, and Rock Hearts.
The entertaining Ron Spears died earlier this week at the age of 69, and so, we remembered him by playing lots of fine songs that he wrote and performed over the years. This Utah native played with several bands, and also, made several recordings of his own. We included music Ron Spears recorded when he worked with Special Consensus, David Parmley & Continental Divide, and his last band, Fast Track, as well as covers of his material by the Bluegrass Cardinals, Lou Reid & Carolina, and the Bluegrass Patriots. Rest in peace, Ron Spears.
And a couple of times a year, I just have to play songs from a couple of beloved LPs that have never been released in compact disc in their entirety: the self-titled Rounder debut recording from the Johnson Mountain Boys, as well as their 1982 follow-up recording, "Walls Of Time." Still delightful after all these years... :)
Hope you enjoyed the show! Please consider joining me once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM for another Bluegrass Cafe.
Have a good week!
Amy O.
SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL
- Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
- Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
- Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity with Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
- You Didn't Say Goodbye / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
- Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
- Molly And Tenbrooks / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life
- Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
- Big Train From Memphis / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
- Dobro Chimes / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
- Sam's Place / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
- My, My, My / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / In Dreams I Go Back / Mountain Fever Records
- Orange Blossom Special / The Stonemans / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life
- I Wanna Be Where You Are / Junior Sisk / Lost & Alone / Mountain Fever Records
- Soldier's Joy/Black Mountain Blues / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Holland, 1973 / Self-Produced
- Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
- I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
- Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller with Lou Reid / Epilogue: A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
- Autumn Fell / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
- Sweetest Gift / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
- Dust / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
- Keep A Memory / Jason Barie with Doyle Lawson & Russell Moore / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
- Alberta Bound / Special Consensus / single / Compass Records
- Bring 'Em On Back / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
- That's What The Years Do / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
- Let Time Ride / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
- Inch By Inch / Pam Gadd / single / Self-Produced
- Long Journey Home / Boone & Foster / single / Mountain Fever Records
- Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
- The Nights Are So Long / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
- Sad Prisoners Song / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
- River Of Regret / Ron Spears / My Time Has Come / Copper Creek [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- Jenny Lynn / Lou Reid & Carolina / Lou Reid & Carolina / Rebel [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- I'd Like To Wander Back To The Old Home / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- Carolina Rain / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Three Silver Dollars / Pinecastle [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- Dreams About The Hills Of Home / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- The Only Promise / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- Blue And Lonesome Again / Fast Track / Fast Track / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- Say You Lied / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
- Date With An Angel / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
- The Ghost Of Eli Renfro / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
- Stoney Creek / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
- Quit Quittin' You / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
- The Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
- Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
- Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
- Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
- Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- Tell Me What You Think Of My Lord / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
- Jordan / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with Ricky Skaggs, Mo Pitney & Mark Fain / single / Billy Blue Records
- When The Angels Carry Me Home / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder
- Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- All Aboard / Del McCoury / By Request / McCoury Music
- Lord Show Me The Righteous Pathway / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
- Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder