Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was our very last for 2023. Our spotlight for the show was -- naturally -- on songs from many of the wonderful recordings released during the year. We also paid tribute to some of the many Bluegrass performers who passed in 2023. And if all of that wasn't enough to squeeze into a show, we also remembered the late Hank Williams, who died in the back of a car enroute to playing a show in Canton, Ohio on New Year's Day 1953.
Nearly thirty of the fifty-one songs that were played during our broadcast were taken from 2023 recordings. We still had several more 2023 recordings from which to share music on Sunday, but we just ran out of time. That music will need to be shared when next we meet. For Sunday, though, we played music from performers ranging from 2023 award winners, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Greg Blake, and Special Consensus to perennial favorites like Larry Sparks, the Gibson Brothers, Dale Ann Bradley, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and Rhonda Vincent. In addition, there were newer (or, new-to-us) bands like the Henhouse Prowlers, Full Cord, Retro 78, and Starlett & Big John. And there was music from my personal favorite recording for 2023: "Music In My Soul" from High Fidelity. It was a fine year for Bluegrass music, and we were happy to share it!
Those we lost in 2023 will never be forgotten. We couldn't do a year-end show without remembering and honoring the great Jesse McReynolds and Bobby Osborne -- two first-generation members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and mandolin legends. We also remembered Terry Baucom, Gloria Belle, Bill Castle, Smokey Greene, Mark Kuykendall, John Miller, Ron Spears, and regional Bluegrass favorites Jack Jolie, Mark Wayne Kitchin, and Jim Sharpley. Rest in peace.
There would be no Bluegrass Cafe without the support of our wonderful listeners. Thanks very much to all of you for a fine 2023. May we all enjoy good health, happiness, and lots more fine Bluegrass in 2024!
Happy New Year!
Amy O.
SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Recordings from 2023 are in RED]
- Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
- Carolina Smokey Mountain Home / Special Consensus / Everything's Alright / Pinecastle [Remembering Ron Spears: 7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
- Just Wondering Why / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family Records [Remembering Jesse McReynolds: 7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
- Ruby (Are You Mad) / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Bobby Osborne: 12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
- Yellow River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom: 10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
- Auld Lang Syne / Tony Trischka / Glory Shone Around: A Christmas Collection / Rounder
- El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden HIghway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
- Mayberry State Of Mind / Daryl Mosley / A Life Well Lived / Pinecastle
- Calaveras County / Jason Barie with Michael Cleveland / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
- That's Why You Left Me So Blue / Jason Barie with Bobby Osborne & Doyle Lawson / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
- A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Pinecastle
- With A Pain In My Heart / Tim Graves & the Farmhands / Bluegrass DNA / Pinecastle
- Quit Quittin' You / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
- Making Hay / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
- The Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
- Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
- What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
- Dreamer's Hill / Lost & Found / Final Chapter / Mountain Fever Records
- A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk feat. Dan Tyminski / single / Mountain Fever Records
- Fall In Tennessee / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
- There's A Song In There Somewhere / Price Sisters / single / McCoury Music
- You'll Never Find Another Love So True / Fast Track / Heartache And Trouble / Engelhardt Music Group
- Cold Cold Heart / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams: 9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
- Hey Good Lookin' / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams: 9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
- I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Collection / MCA [Remembering Hank Williams: 9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
- Banjo Pickin' Girl / Gloria Belle / Sings Bluegrass In The Country / Rebel [Remembering Gloria Belle: 6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
- RV Blues / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle [Remembering Walter "Smokey" Greene: 3/10/1930 - 10/19/2023]
- I Don't Have The Want To Anymore / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel [Remembering Mark Kuykendall: 10/17/1962 - 6/19/2023]
- Hickory Hollow / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage [Remembering Mark Wayne Kitchin: died 9/29/2023]
- My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Bill Castle: 1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
- Something New / Grass Routes / Something New / Self-Produced [Remembering Jack Jolie: died 8/12/2023]
- Girl From West Virginia / Still Pickin' / Southbound / Self-Produced [Remembering Jim Sharpley: 4/15/1949 - 3/9/2023]
- Hillbilly Fever / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Remembering Bobby Osborne: 12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
- Airmail Special On The Fly / Jim & Jesse / RockyGrass / Blue Planet [Remembering Jesse McReynolds: 7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
- Alberta Bound / Special Consensus / Great Blue North / Compass Records
- Slowly / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records
- This Is The Girl I Love / Retro 78 / EP / Ram Cat Records
- One By One / Dale Ann Bradley with Danny Paisley / Kentucky For Me / Pinecastle
- I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You / Full Cord / Cambium / Dark Shadow Recording
- The City Of New Orleans / Rhonda Vincent / single / Upper Management Music
- Long And Lonesome Letting Go / Jim Lauderdale & the Po' Ramblin' Boys with Del McCoury / The Long And Lonesome Letting Go / Sky Crunch Records
- I'm Ready To Go / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
- God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
- A Beautiful Life / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
- It's A Grand And A Glorious Feeling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
- The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
- The Scarlet Red Lines / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
- Rocking On The Waves / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom: 10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
- Look To The Light / John Miller / Look To The Light; Songs Of Faith From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Rural Rhythm Christian [Remembering John Miller: 2/18/1974 - 6/22/2023]
- Are You Lost In Sin? / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
- Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
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