"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/26/2024

On this last Sunday of May, our Bluegrass Cafe included several songs telling stories about soldiers who never came home - the true meaning of our somber Memorial Day holiday.  Over the years, some have come to consider Memorial Day as the unofficial start of the summer season or as a time for lots of BBQ and parties and store sales, but it is much more than that.  During Sunday's show, we honored the military service of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us.  

May 26th is also the birth anniversary of Iris Deen Hall, known to the world as
Miss Dixie Hall (May 26, 1934 - January 16, 2015).  Along with her songwriting husband, Tom T. Hall, Miss Dixie was elected to the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2018.  During the latter part of their lifetimes, the Halls were incredible supporters of the Bluegrass community -- sharing their home, their recording studio, their financial support, and their prodigious songwriting skills.  There was a period of time in the 1990s and into the early 21st century where you didn't find many new CDs without a song written or co-written by Tom T. or Dixie Hall.  Amazing.  Together and separately, Tom T. and Miss Dixie wrote several hundred songs, and their constant support of the Bluegrass community will never be forgotten.  To honor Miss Dixie, we shared seven of her compositions during Sunday's show, though we could have easily filled the whole three hours with no repeats.  Incredible.

While we didn't share any brand-new recordings on Sunday, we did include recent single releases from forthcoming projects, or tunes from recent recordings.  These included songs from Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Jerry Salley, the Tim Raybon Band, and Authentic Unlimited.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and I do hope you'll consider joining me once more next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• New Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Blue Yodel #4 / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Blue Yodel #3 / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• The Train Carryin' Jimmie Rodgers Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Jim & Jesse / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics--The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel
• Banjo Bounce / Allen Shelton / True Bluegrass / Rounder
• Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Stanley Brothers / Bluegrass Is Timeless--Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Starday
• Scraps From Your Table / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Moundsville Pen / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel
• Blue / Stevens Sisters / O Sister!  The Women's Bluegrass Collection / Rounder
• The Evening Train / Bob & Danny Paisley / Plum Pitiful / Time Life
• Texas Barbeque / Bela Fleck / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Tall Pines / Laurie Lewis / O Sister 2 / Rounder
• Something In The Wind / The Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• How Could I Love Her So Much / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• O-hio / Tom Ewing / Adventures Of A Blue Grass Boy / Patuxent Music
• Separating Hearts / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rounder
• Till Lonesome Comes Around / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / single / Pinecastle
• Blue, Blue Rain / Jerry Salley / The Songwriter / Very Jerry Records
• Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Purple Heart / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue:  The Complete County Recordings / Rebel
• Soldier's Last Letter / Osborne Brothers / The Ernest Tubb Song Folio / Pinecastle
• Traveling Soldier / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• From Mother's Arms To Korea / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• More Than A Name On A Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• A Hero In Harlan / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• I'm Putting On My Leaving Shoes / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Blow Out The Candle, Laura / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia Foundation For The Humanities [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• I Want My Dog Back / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• The Grave Robber / Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Walk Slow / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Sam's Place / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• Drink Up And Go Home / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Rodger Young / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Forgotten Men / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• Arlington / Tim Raybon Band / single / Pinecastle
• Bouquet In Heaven / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Get In The Boat / Jeanette Williams Band / Get In The Boat / Bell Buckle Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Rank Strangers / Hot Rize / Hot Rize In Concert / Flying Fish
• Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Robe Of White / Louvin Brothers / The Family Who Prays:  26 Classic Tracks / Country Stars
• Wings Of Love / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Traveling The Highway Home / Ernie Thacker / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea Records
• Reveille Time In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
• Place On Calvary / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/19/2024

 

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated four big-name Bluegrass birthdays.  All four of these gentlemen -- Tom T. Hall, Red Smiley, Paul Warren, and Mac Wiseman -- are members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.  Two of them further happen to be members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.  All four were important members of the Bluegrass community, and impacted the music with their outstanding talents...which we showcased during Sunday's show.  

In addition, we shared a little bit of newer music, including selections from the new Rick Lang-penned gospel recording called, "Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen of Rick Lang."  There was also recent music from Rock Hearts, Bob Minner with John Cowan, the Del McCoury Band, Authentic Unlimited, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and Jerry Salley.

Hope you had a fine week, and that you'll consider joining me for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe this Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.

See you soon!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Requests are RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Maybe You Will Change Your Mind / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Cruel Love / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Black Eyed Suzy / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• It's Lonesome Everywhere I Go / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Dirt Roads / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Raincoe Music
• Diamond Joe / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Long List Of Heartaches / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• High Country / Sally Van Meter / All In Good Time / Sugar Hill
• Gonna Paint The Town / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Going To The Races / James King / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Theme Time / Jim Mills / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch
• Roll Muddy River / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• Unfinished Bridges / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Castles In The Air / Bob Minner with John Cowan / single / Billy Blue Records
• Just Because / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk with Dan Tyminski / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Trip Around The Sun / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dierks Bentley / single / Sugar Petunia Records
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Me And Tom T. Hall / Jerry Salley / The Songwriter / Very Jerry Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• A Week In A Country Jail / Tom T. Hall / The Essential Tom T. Hall:  The Story Songs / Mercury [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Washed My Face In The Morning Dew / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Year That Clayton Delaney Died / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Ballad Of Forty Dollars / Tom T. Hall / 50 Greatest Hits / Hump Head Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Guitar / Sierra Hull & Justin Moses with Mac Wiseman / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Can't You Hear Me Calling / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Going Back To Bristol / Shawn Camp / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Mac Wiseman with Alison Krauss / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Biscuits And Gravy / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• What Am I Doing Hangin' Round / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Records
• The Truth, The Light, The Way / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I'm A Stranger / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts And Better Times / Open Road
• Me And Jesus / Charlie Sizemore with the Oak Ridge Boys / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Boat Of Love / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• Church Bells A-Ringin' / Danny Paisley with Barry Abernathy, Ben James & Bradley Walker / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Are You Lost In Sin? / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/12/2024

Hanging out with my mother at Roy Acuff's house

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we covered lots of musical ground.  As it was Mother's Day, we celebrated MOM in song with twenty-one wonderful songs about her -- whether she's still with us, or lives on only in memory.  Hope all of the mothers had a fabulous day.

We also remembered the May birthday of Country Music Hall of Famer, Hank Snow (May 9, 1914 - December 20, 1999).  Many songs originally performed and/or written by the Singing Ranger have been covered in the world of Bluegrass over the years, so we enjoyed a few of them on Sunday.

Two important members of the Bluegrass community recently passed, and we couldn't let the show go by without remembering them.  Frank Wakefield (June 26, 1934 - April 26, 2024) was an incredibly talented mandolinist with a super-unique personality.  Smiling Jim Mills (December 18, 1966 - May 3, 2024) was not only a top-notch banjo picker who worked for many years both with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver as well as Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, but he was also a noted expert on pre-war Gibson banjos.  We celebrated both of these gentlemen on Sunday afternoon.

New music was a big part of the program on Sunday, too, and we included brand-new (or recent) music from several performers, including Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland, Williamson Branch, Becky Buller, the Grascals, the Lonesome River Band, Adam McIntosh, Volume Five, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, and Junior Sisk.

Hope you enjoyed the show!  Please consider joining me once more this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• God Bless Her, 'Cause She Is My Mother / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Listen To Me Mother / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Thank God For A Mama / Lonesome River Band / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill
• From The Hollow / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• Mama's Opry / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• Mother Of A Miner's Child / Country Gentlemen / The Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• Mother's Voice Is In The Wind / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Mother Knows Best / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• I'm Movin' On / Hank Snow / The Essential Hank Snow / RCA Legacy [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• The Golden Rocket / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• A Fool Such As I / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• One More Ride / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Would You Mind / Hank Snow / The Essential Hank Snow / RCA Legacy [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• The Goldrush Is Over / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Down The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Hank Snow Medley / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Music Makin' Mama From Memphis / Hank Snow / The Essential Hank Snow / RCA Legacy [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Give It Away / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / single / Fiddleman Records
• Hang Around For The Heartache / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• Jubilee / Becky Buller with Aoife O'Donovan / Jubilee / Dark Shadow Recording
• Southern Nights / Williamson Branch with Carl Jackson / single / Pinecastle
• County Wishing Well / Volume Five / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Pull The Trigger / The Grascals / single / Mountain Home
• Johnny B. Goode / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / single / Rebel
• Peaceful Easy Feeling / Adam McIntosh / Restless / Billy Blue Records
• Tennessee Banjo Man / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Pressing On Regardless / Brentwood Music [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• The Hide Head Blues / Jim Mills / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• How Mountain Girls Can Love / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Live At The Charleston Music Hall / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• He Came From Carolina (A Tribute To Earl) / Jim Mills / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• Careless Love / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads Music [Remembering Jim Mills:  12/18/1966 - 5/3/2024]
• New Camptown Races / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / Bluegrass / Folkways [Remembering Frank Wakefield:  6/26/1934 - 4/26/2024]
• Are You Afraid To Die / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / Bluegrass / Folkways [Remembering Frank Wakefield:  6/26/1934 - 4/26/2024]
• Echo Blues / Frank Wakefield, Taylor Baker & Friends / Frank Wakefield, Taylor Baker & Friends / Patuxent Music [Remembering Frank Wakefield:  6/26/1934 - 4/26/2024]
• Dear Mom / Wayne Taylor / Dear Mom / Raincoe Music
• Hand That Rocks The Cradle / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Memories Of Mother / Junior Sisk with Ricky Skaggs / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Always Be Kind To Your Mother / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• When My Momma Sang To Me / Nancy Pate / When My Momma Sang To Me:  Songs Of Murphy Hicks Henry / Arrandem Records
• I Haven't Seen Mama In Years / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Mama Tried / The Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Medals For Mothers / IIIrd Tyme Out / Back To The MAC / Rounder
• Mama's Hand / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Little Mountain Church House / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads Music
• Give Mother My Crown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• My Mother's Bible / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Some Day / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rounder
• Come On In / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• Shake Hands With Mother Again / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Joy Of Revelation / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder