"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/30/2023

We celebrated the original Carter Family during this day's Bluegrass Cafe.  A.P., his wife, Sara, and her cousin, Maybelle first recorded for Ralph Peer on August 1, 1927, so we celebrated that event with 60+ minutes' worth of Bluegrass covers from the Carter Family Songbook.  Where would we be without their music?

And, as promised, here are a couple of reading ideas for books if you would like to learn more about the Carter Family:

• Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?:  The Carter Family And Their Legacy In American Music by Mark Zwonitzer & Charles Hirschberg (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
• The Carter Family:  Don't Forget This Song by Frank M. Young & David Lasky (Abrams Comic Arts, 2012)

We included a bit of new or recent music from Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Alan Munde, and the Kody Norris Show.  In addition, we shared new music from a couple of performers who will soon be featured at the upcoming Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT:  Darin & Brooke Aldridge, the Henhouse Prowlers, and East Nash Grass.  

Hope you have a great week!  We'll look forward to having you join us once again next Sunday from 4-7PM for our Bluegrass Cafe.  

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Carter Family songs are BLUE]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• A Carter Family Song / Dennis Cash / Sing Me A Carter Family Song / Blue Circle Records
• Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• The Storms Are On The Ocean / Carter Family / Can The Circle Be Unbroken / RCA
• Little Log Cabin By The Sea / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• Foggy Mountain Top / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with Mother Maybelle Carter / Songs Of The Famous Carter Family / Columbia
• No Depression / Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• Little Darling Pal Of Mine / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records
• John Hardy / Tony Rice / Guitar / Rebel
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome / CMH
• Keep On The Sunny Side / The Whites / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway
• Worried Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Class Of '96 / Pinecastle
• Lula Wall / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Wildwood Flower / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Dixie Darling / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• The Wandering Boy / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• You've Been A Friend To Me / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Can The Circle Be Unbroken (Bye And Bye) / Carter Family / Can The Circle Be Unbroken:  Country Music's First Family / Columbia Legacy
• The City Of New Orleans / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / single / Upper Management Music
• Holler Up A Possum / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• Wildflower Too / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / single / Billy Blue Records
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Before You Miss Me / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• That's Why I'm Lonesome / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Mac Magaha:  8/1/1929 - 8/15/2003]
• The Cold Hard Facts / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced [Jeff White birthday, 8/2/1957]
• Fishers Hornpipe / O'Connor Family Band / Coming Home / Rounder [Mark O'Connor birthday, 8/5/1961]
• Way Down Deep / Ralph Stanley with Vern Gosdin / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Remembering Vern Gosdin:  8/5/1935 - 4/28/2009]
• Memories / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records [Allan Spinney birthday, 8/5/1965; Rick Spinney birthday, 8/5/1966]
• Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel
• Come And Sit By The River / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Love Of The Mountains / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Looking At The World Through A Windshield / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Wild Mountain Honey / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Hot Flash On The Highway / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• Lonesome Old Homesick Blues / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco
• Little Annie / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• You Better Wake Up / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Honey In The Rock / Chuck Wagon Gang / No Depression In Heaven:  The Gospel Songs Of The Carter Family / Mountain Home
• Lord Don't Leave Me Here / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel
• Power In The Blood / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Rank Stranger / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands with Linda Ronstadt / The Golden West / High Tone Records
• All Prayed Up / Jeff White / The White Album / Rounder
• River Of Jordan / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder