"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/1/2026

We returned for our first three-hour, live-in-the-studio Bluegrass Cafe this past Sunday, March 1st!  After what seems like weeks away due to snow and ice (and one missed Sunday for attendance at the fabulous Joe Val Bluegrass Festival), I was ready for radio.  Hope you were able to join us!

During our program, we celebrated many birthdays, some for Country Music legends whose material has been greatly covered in the world of Bluegrass (Johnny Cash, Faron Young), and other birthdays of gentlemen who are important members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame (Doug Dillard, John Duffey, Don Stover, Doc Watson, Pete Wernick).  Lots of fine music to be heard there!  

We also had our annual telephone visit with Michelle Canning -- a Nashville-based songwriter/performer who is a Massachusetts native, and who, several years ago, when she was a 16-year-old banjo player/band leader decided to hold a benefit for the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.  On March 21st, Michelle will host the 15th edition of this event -- called "A Night On The Edge" -- in Chelmsford, MA.  In her fifteen years of raising money to support research on this terrible disease, Michelle has raised nearly $100,000!  Her goal this year is to surpass that total, so please consider helping her reach that goal, if you can.  More info on the event or how to donate can be found here:  Michelle Canning - Alzheimer's Benefit

It was great to be back with our Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday, but since we have now entered tournament season for UConn Basketball, the means our show may be subject to preemptions here and there for the rest of the month.  To that end, the start of this coming Sunday's show (March 8th) will be delayed by about thirty minutes as the UConn Women play in the Big East Tournament game at 2:30PM.  We'll look for you around 4:30PM, and then, at 5PM we're planning to have a telephone chat with Jeff Horton of the Rhode Island Bluegrass Alliance about some of their upcoming events.  Should be a fun day.

Until then, enjoy the weekend, and we'll see you around 4:30PM on March 8th.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Hey Porter / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble & The Rose / Rounder [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• A World So Full Of Love / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• Give My Love To Rose / Sally Love Connell / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Alone With You / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / Self-Produced [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• Big River / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Go Back You Fool / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• If You Talk In Your Sleep / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Please Mr. Postman / Special Consensus feat. Rick Faris / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• Uncle Ned / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced [Remembering Neil Sadaka:  3/13/1939 - 2/27/2006]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass / Big Country Bluegrass / Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass / Rebel
• Scotland / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• I'll Love Nobody But You / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• It's All Fun And Games ('Til Someone Gets Hurt) / Junior Sisk / It's All Fun And Games / Turnberry Records
• Hill Country Highway / East Nash Grass / All God's Children / Mountain Fever Records
• Come On Sunshine / Williamson Branch / Southern Sunshine / Pinecastle
• Chat with Michelle Canning re: her 15th annual "Night On The Edge" benefit for the Alzheimer's Foundation of America - 3/21/2026
• High Above The Mountains / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Look Down That Lonesome Road / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / O California! / Spruce And Maple Music
• O California! / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / O California! / Spruce And Maple Music
• Going Down The Road Feeling Bad / Doc & Merle Watson / Elementary Doctor Watson / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Mercury [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Things In Life / Don Stover / Hand-Picked:  25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Black Mountain Rag / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Little Maggie / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• You Tried To Ruin My Name / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister! / Rounder
• Memories That We Shared / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Reason For Being / The Seldom Scene / Act Two / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Millworker / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Wild Ride / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Which Train / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• I'm Working On A Road / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• I Can't Sit Down / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel 
• You Must Come In At The Door / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder