"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/24/2026

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe came together nicely, as we had lots of songs with stories about soldiers who never came home to share in honor of Memorial Day.  Plus, we celebrated in song two important members of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame:  Mac Wiseman (May 23, 1925 - February 24, 2019) and Tom T. Hall (May 24, 1936 - August 20, 2021).  In addition, we shared a couple of songs from a Bluegrass-flavored CD I had forgotten existed that was released in 2021 by the Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter, Don Schlitz, who died on April 16, 2026.  And, if all of that wasn't enough, there was brand-new or recent music from several performers including East Nash Grass, Red Camel Collective, Nick Chandler & Delivered, Dale Ann Bradley with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick, Rick Lang with Dave Adkins, the Kody Norris Show, Jim Hurst, and the Tennessee Bluegrass Band.

It was a very full show, so hope you were able to join us for all -- or even part -- of it.  If you'd like to listen (or listen again) to the program, you can find it online in our WHUS archives for another two weeks.  Here's the link:  
https://spinitron.com/WHUS/pl/22477180/Bluegrass-Cafe

Hope you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another visit in our Bluegrass Cafe.  

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.





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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Washed My Face In The Morning Dew / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Don't Forget The Coffee, Billy Joe / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Year The Clayton Delaney Died / Tom T. Hall / The Essential Tom T. Hall:  The Story Songs / Mercury [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• One Of Those Days (When I Miss Lester Flatt) / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Leaving Baker County / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Guitar Picking President / Jimmy Martin / The Essential Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1963-1965 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Boys In Hats And Ties / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/24/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• I Won't Take Less Than Your Love / Don Schlitz with Del McCoury & Ricky Skaggs / Mountaintop / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Don Schlitz: 8/29/1952 - 4/16/2026]
• Bottom Of The Ninth / Jason Barie / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records 
• She'll Change / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• A Hundred Years From Now / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• All God's Children / East Nash Grass / All God's Children / Mountain Fever Records
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• The Gambler / Don Schlitz / Mountaintop / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Don Schlitz:  8/29/1952 - 4/16/2026]
• Walk Out In The Rain / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• Maria / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / Pinecastle
• Making Plans / Dale Ann Bradley with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / single / Pinecastle
• The Power And Glory / The Kody Norris Show / American Spirit / Rebel
• The Boys Who Left Prince Station / Jim Hurst / Travels & Time / Pinecastle
• Seeing The Best In You / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• At The End Of A Long Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• A Hero In Harlan / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lost Souls & Free Spirits / Rebel
• Searching For A Soldier's Grave / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Field Of Flags / Rick Lang with Dave Adkins / single / Self-Produced
• Traveling Soldier / Bear Tracks / Together Till The End / AMT Records
• A Purple Heart / Curly Seckler / Bluegrass, Don't You Know / Copper Creek
• Last Letter Home / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• More Than A Name On A Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Jimmie Brown The Newsboy / Mac Wiseman / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Are You Coming Back To Me / Bill Harrell with Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel [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]
• Everything I Used To Do / Livewire / Livewire / Rounder
• Forever By My Side / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• Memories Cover Everything I Own / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Georgia Girl / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Little White Church / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Where We'll Never Grow Old / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / Nolichucky / Flagpond Records
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• God Loves His Children / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Robe Of White / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road 
• You Can Be A Millionaire With Me / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Voice Of My Savior / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Reveille Time In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/17/2026

During our May 17th Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated the music and contributions of three important members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame who were all born on May 17th:  the great fiddler Paul Warren (May 17, 1918 - January 12, 1978), the smooth-singing Red Smiley (May 17, 1925 - January 2, 1972), and the delightful Dillards' guitar picker/lead singer, Rodney Dillard (born May 17, 1942).  With relative ease, we could have limited ourselves to ONLY sharing music from these these three on Sunday, but we definitely hit on some of their "hits" in the World of Bluegrass.  Fabulous music from all three -- and there is always more to enjoy.

There was a bit of new music to share from a couple of different performers, including the Kody Norris Show, Newfound Road, the Lonesome River Band, and Dalton Harper (featured on the new CD of songs written by Rick Lang).

And we took another look at some songs featured in the National Bluegrass Survey, this time from the chart of May 2016.  Ten years ago, Bluegrass radio was really loving Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Donna Ulisse, the Kathy Kallick Band, Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass, the Boxcars, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Big Country Bluegrass, and Sideline.  

Hope you can join us for tomorrow's Bluegrass Cafe, as we'll join you for three big hours starting at 4PM.

Until then, 
Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Request is RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• There Is A Time / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Rodney Dillard birthday, 5/17/1942]
• Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Fiddle And Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Never See My Home Again / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Rodney Dillard birthday, 5/17/1942]
• Old Train / The Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel
• Scraps From Your Table / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• I'm Better Off Now That You're Gone / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Tradition:  Tribute To A Bluegrass Legacy / Doobie Shea Records
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Mama's Hand:  Bluegrass And Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder
• The Guitar Song / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers with Del McCoury / For The Record / Billy Blue Records
• Thunderclouds Of Love / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Sweeter Than The Flowers / James King / Mama's Hand:  Bluegrass And Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder
• Nightwalk / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? / Special Consensus feat. Chris Jones & Dallas Wayne / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• Medals For Mothers / Rhonda Vincent / Mama's Hand:  Bluegrass And Mountain Songs About Mother / Rounder
• Me And The Juke Box / Buzz Busby / Second Generation Bluegrass / Blaricum 
• Hard, Hard Work / Dalton Harper / single / Billy Blue Records
• Declaration Of Independence / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• The World To You / Newfound Road / single / Billy Blue Records
• Back When / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• Yellow River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Goin' Like Wildfire / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams feat. Tony Rice / Down Home / Rounder
• I'm Leaving You And Fort Worth, Too / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Country Livin' / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• It Could Have Been The Mandolin / Donna Ulisse / Hard Cry Moon / Hadley Music Group
• Foxhounds / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• Sweetheart Of The Mountains / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Weary River / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Mountain Girl / Sideline / Session 2 / Mountain Fever Records
• When The Bluegrass Is Covered With Snow / The Boxcars / Familiar With The Ground / Mountain Home
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Stickleyville Stomp / Tim Martin / Bluegrass Fiddle / Patuxent Music
• Millworker / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• 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]
• Unwanted Love / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Rodney Dillard birthday, 5/17/1942]
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Angels Watching Me / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Send The Angels Down / Kristy Cox with Jerry Salley / Learning To Walk With Him / Billy Blue Records
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Paul Warren:  5/17/1918 - 1/12/1978]
• Calm The Storm / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• On The Wings Of Angels / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• God's Record Book Of Life / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Red Smiley:  5/17/1925 - 1/2/1972]
• So High / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/10/2026

On Sunday, we celebrated two wonderful events at our Bluegrass Cafe:  Commencement Day at UConn and, of course, Mother's Day!  While we could only wish all UConn graduates a heartfelt congratulations, we did a bit more celebrating of Mothers on Sunday afternoon.  Hope you were able to celebrate the day in a special way, either being honored by your children, celebrating your mother in person, or remembering her with many fond memories.  

As you likely know, there are MANY songs celebrating mothers in the World of Bluegrass.  We included many of those during our broadcast on Sunday from performers as varied as the Gibson Brothers, Reno & Smiley, Kathy Kallick, Lou Reid, the Louvin Brothers, High Fidelity, Lynn Morris, the Lonesome River Band, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, and many others.  

Appropriately, Mother's Day also happened to be the birth anniversary of Maybelle Carter (May 10, 1909 - November 23, 1978) -- who became known as "Mother Maybelle" for many years after the breakup of the original Carter Family.  

A tiny bit of new music also made it onto our playlist for this week, including another new single from the Kody Norris Show, as well as Bryan Sutton with Tommy Emmanuel, Darren Nicholson, and Jaelee Roberts.

Finally, we briefly remembered Evelyn Cox Hobbs - a Grammy Award-winning member of the Cox Family who died on May 6th at the age of 66.  

Hope you had a wonderful day!  Please consider joining me once again this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another Bluegrass Cafe, won't you?

See you then!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Know Whose Tears / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Every Day Is Mother's Day To Me / Allerton & Alton / Black, White, And Bluegrass / Bear Family Records
• Mother, The Queen Of My Heart / Lonesome Standard Time / Lonesome As It Gets / Sugar Hill
• God Bless Her ('Cause She Is My Mother) / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek
• Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom) / Kathy Kallick / Mother, Queen Of My Heart:  A Collection Of Songs Inspired By Mom / Sugar Hill
• Thank God For Mama / Lonesome River Band / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill
• Mama Tried / The Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Mama's Hand / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Memories Of Mother / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Hand That Rocks The Cradle / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Mama's Opry / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• Dear Old Mother / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• How I Miss My Darling Mother / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Listen To Me Mother / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Mom's Old Picture Book / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• Mother Knows Best / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• Good Ol' USA / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Bryan Sutton with Tommy Emmanuel / single / Mountain Home
• I'm Putting You Out Of My Misery / Jaelee Roberts / single / Mountain Home
• Get Me Down The Line / Darren Nicholson / single / Mountain Home
• Marbletown / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU! A 30-Year Retrospective Event / Down The Road Records
• Look Down That Lonesome Road / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / O California! / Spruce And Maple Music
• Red River Valley / Tony Trischka with Molly Tuttle / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Maybelle Carter / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Legacy [Remembering Maybelle Carter:  5/10/1909 - 10/23/1978]
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs feat. Mother Maybelle Carter / Songs Of The Famous Carter Family / Columbia [Remembering Maybelle Carter:  5/10/1909 - 10/23/1978]
• Wildwood Flower / Carter Family / Anchored In Love:  Their Complete Victor Recordings, 1927-1928 / Rounder [Remembering Maybelle Carter:  5/10/1909 - 10/23/1978]
• Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder [Remembering Evelyn Cox Hobbs:  6/20/1959 - 5/6/2026]
• Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven / Allison Krauss & the Cox Family / I Know Who Holds Tomorrow / Rounder [Remembering Evelyn Cox Hobbs:  6/20/1959 - 5/6/2026]
• I Can Read Between The Lines In Your Letters / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Mama's Rocking Chair / Southern Rail / Glory Train / Pinecastle
• Mama's Apron Strings / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Sweetest Gift / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• From The Hollow / Beartracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• My Mother's White Rose / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Dear Mom / Wayne Taylor / Dear Mom / Self-Produced
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Live At The Newburyport Firehouse / Rounder
• Don't You Want To Go There / BlueRidge / Gettin' Ready / Pinecastle
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• I'll Wear A White Robe / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Soul Condition / Billy Blue Records
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• My Mother Prays So Loud In Her Sleep / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• My Mother's Bible / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Mother Sweet Mother / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / 
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder