Sunday, December 10, 2023

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/10/2023

Our Bluegrass Cafe on this rainy, warmish December Sunday afternoon featured some Christmas music, as well as selections from a couple of newer CDs, and a lengthy tribute to a great banjo stylist who died this week, Terry Baucom.

The new music came to us from two new recordings on the Patuxent Music label:  "If It Wasn't For Longing" from Pennsylvania band Serene Green, as well as "Yesterday And Tomorrow" by the Country Gentlemen Tribute Band.  We heard three selections from each CD on Sunday, and will hear more in future weeks.  There was even a new Christmas song to share from the Po' Ramblin' Boys.


We also shared a whole lot of fine music from the super-talented banjo picker and performer,
Terry Baucom.  Bauc died on December 7th at the age of 71.  Over the years, he was an original part of many influential bands in the world of Bluegrass, including Boone Creek, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and IIIrd Tyme Out.  He also released several solo recordings, and in his later years, Baucom fronted his own successful band, Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive.  We included music in our tribute set from all of these bands, plus Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina and Baucom, Bibey, & Blueridge.  He also received a
 Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association this past September.  Rest in peace, Terry Baucom.

Hope you all enjoyed the program today.  Please be sure to join us next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another Bluegrass Cafe.  

Have a great week.

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • I Feel The Christmas Spirit / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK
  • O Christmas Candle / Stony Point Quartet / Christmas Time Back Home / Cracker Barrel
  • Christmas Swing / Chesapeake / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
  • Two Step 'Round The Christmas Tree / Amy Gallatin / 'Tis The Season / Happy Appy Records
  • Santa Train / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass & White Snow / Epic
  • Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity with Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
  • The Cold Hard Facts / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced
  • Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
  • I'm Better Off Now That You're Gone / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea Records
  • Are You Missing Me? / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
  • One Way Track / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
  • Yellow River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
  • Lower On The Hog / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
  • A Lover Of The Lord / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Once And For Always/The News Is Out / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
  • Prisoner Of The Past / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
  • Gonna Travel On / Baucom, Bibey, & Blueridge / Come Along With Me / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
  • In A Groove / Terry Baucom / In A Groove / John Boy & Billy, Inc. [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/8/2023]
  • Charlie Cotton / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / 4th & Goal / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc. [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/8/2023]
  • When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper / Rounder [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/8/2023]
  • Back To Appalachia / Serene Green / If It Wasn't For Longing / Patuxent Music
  • If It Wasn't For Longing / Serene Green / If It Wasn't For Longing / Patuxent Music
  • Doin' My Time / Serene Green / If It Wasn't For Longing / Patuxent Music
  • Miner's Child / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
  • The Eddie Swing / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday and Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
  • Mountains And Memories / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
  • I'm Going Home, It's Christmas Time / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Sound Biscuit
  • Pretty Paper / Heather Berry / Have A Merry Berry Christmas / Mountain Fever Records
  • Because It's Christmas Time / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Because It's Christmas Time / Billy Blue Records
  • Call Collect On Christmas / James King Band / O Chrismtas Tree / Rounder
  • That's Christmas Time To Me / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Christmas Time's A Comin' / Time Life
  • The Beans Should Be Blossomed / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Gary Dalrymple birthday, 12/10/1969]
  • Butter In The Mustache / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
  • Gardens And Memories / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
  • I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You / Full Cord / Cambium / Dark Shadow Recording
  • Going Down To Charleston / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Gary Dalrymple birthday, 12/10/1969]
  • Sick, Sober, And Sorry / Audrey Mae / Bad Fret / Self-Produced
  • (Is This) My Destiny / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
  • It's Lonesome Everywhere I Go / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
  • Why Don't You Tell Me So / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
  • Ode To Jimmy Martin / Dan Tyminski Band / God Fearing Heathen / 8 Track Entertainment
  • She's Gone, Gone, Gone / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder
  • No Other Man / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
  • I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
  • Many A Mile / Audrey Mae / Bad Fret / Self-Produced
  • Calm The Storm / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
  • Home Of The Soul / Jimmy Gaudreau with Bill Clifton / In Good Company / CMH
  • Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts And Better Times / Open Road
  • There Is Power In The Blood / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
  • Little Community Church / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom, 10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
  • The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers with Erin Gibson Laclair / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
  • I'm Working On A Road / Country Gentlemen / John Duffey:  The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel
  • Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Monday, December 04, 2023

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/3/2023

It's December!  That means it was time to feature some of the Christmas tunes on our Bluegrass Cafe this week!  We did just that, sharing seasonal classics from the Country Gentlemen and Stanley Brothers, as well as brand-new Christmas music from the Kody Norris Show, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, and Crandall Creek.  We'll continue to share Christmas music during each broadcast leading up to Christmas, so look forward to hearing it.


The month of December also inspired me to dig out some music from "D" performers -- those whose last names or band names begin with the letter "D."  Those from the "D" list included
Dailey & Vincent, David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, Deeper Shade Of Blue, Detour, Diamond Creek, Bob Dick, Joe Diffie, the Dillards, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Matt Dudman, Stuart Duncan, and a few others.  

And if all of that wasn't enough, we also shared nine IBMA Songs of the Year from the very first one in 1991 ("Colleen Malone" by Hot Rize) to the most recent recipient (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway with "Crooked Tree").  Great music, all of it.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and also, please join me once more this coming Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM for another Bluegrass Cafe!  

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Making Plans / Tim O'Brien / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
  • My Silver Bells / Bill Grant & Delia Bell with the Johnson Mountain Boys / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
  • Christmas Is Near / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
  • If We Make It Through December / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Winter's Grace / Signature Sounds
  • Christmas Time Back Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
  • My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
  • I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / On The Radio, 1952-1953 / Rounder
  • Stranger In My Home / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
  • Sitting On Top Of The World / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
  • Chicago Barn Dance / Special Consensus / Chicago Barn Dance / Compass Records [IBMA Song of the Year, 2020]
  • They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records [IBMA Song of the Year, 2013]
  • Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder [IBMA Song of the Year, 2009]
  • Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Through The Window Of A Train / Rounder [IBMA Song of the Year, 2008]
  • Mama's Hand / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder [IBMA Song of the Year, 1996]
  • 1952 Vincent Black Lightning / Del McCoury / By Request / McCoury Music [IBMA Song of the Year, 2002]
  • A Far Cry From Lester And Earl / Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel [IBMA Song of the Year, 2012]
  • Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill [IBMA Song of the Year, 1991]
  • Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch [IBMA Song of the Year, 2023]
  • Mountain City Christmas / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
  • Run Run Rudolph / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Because It's Christmas Time / Billy Blue Records
  • No Place Like Home For The Holidays / Bob Dick / More Tidings Of Comfort And Joy / Appleland
  • Little Saint Nick / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Hometown Holiday / Billy Blue Records
  • Christmastime / Crandall Creek / single / Self-Produced
  • Oh What Love / Kentucky Just Us / single / Mountain Of Home Music
  • Two Lane Highway / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
  • Swinging A Nine Pound Hammer / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Records
  • Now We All Know / Diamond Creek / Where I Go From Here / New Time Records
  • Too Blue To Have The Blues / Detour / Going Nowhere Fast / Mountain Fever Records
  • Dooley / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70] / Vanguard
  • Put Some Bluegrass In My Ear / Deeper Shade Of Blue / Steam / Mountain Fever Records
  • Paddy On The Turnpike / Chad Darou / Raising The Bar / Bell Buckle Records
  • Blue Yodel #4 / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
  • Nobody's Darlin' But Mine / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
  • He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
  • Silver Bells / Bob Dick / More Tidings Of Comfort And Joy / Appleland
  • Somehow Tonight / Joe Diffie / Homecoming / Rounder
  • Poor Boy Workin' Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
  • Lee Highway Blues / Stuart Duncan / Stuart Duncan / Rounder
  • Carolyn At The Broken Wheel Inn / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
  • Small Exception Of Me / John Duffey [Seldom Scene] / John Duffey:  The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel
  • I'm Working On A Road / John Duffey [Country Gentlemen] / John Duffey:  The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel
  • A Beautiful Life / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
  • Old Satan / Jim Eanes / Let Him Lead You / Rebel
  • I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
  • God On A Mountain / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
  • So Happy I'll Be / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
  • I'll Be No Stranger There / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
  • Place On Calvary / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
  • Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
  • Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder