"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/16/2026

The Bluegrass Cafe for August 16th included lots of fine music, including newer selections from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Butch Waller, and the Grascals, among others.  We also took a look back at nine of the songs which graced the National Bluegrass Survey (according to Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine) back in August 2013.  Some of those bands represented in 2013 no longer exist in 2026 (Flatt Lonesome, the Boxcars, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers), but some are still going strong (Volume Five, the Gibson Brothers, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass).  For the curious, the #1 song on the BU National Bluegrass Survey in August 2013 was Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice and the super clever, "The Story Of The Day That I Died."  

Hope you were able to join us for the August 16th Bluegrass Cafe, but if not, you still have another week to listen to the archived broadcast here.

Thanks for listening!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall) / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• Good Time Blues / Boys From Indiana / Good Time Blues / Rebel
• Just Like Rain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope Records
• New Pair Of Glasses / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• It's Goodbye And So Long To You / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Seeing The Best Of You / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Rockwood / Frank Wakefield, Taylor Baker & Friends / Frank Wakefield, Taylor Baker & Friends / Patuxent Music
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• I Can't Settle Down / Laura Orshaw / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• One Dime At A Time / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Diamond Joe / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• On The Old Kentucky Shore / Bluegrass Album Band / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• East Bound Freight Train / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Starday King Records
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Dede Wyland / Keep The Light On / Patuxent Music
• Red Dirt, White House, Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / Nolichucky / Self-Produced
• Say You'll Take Me Back / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Brown Sugar Hills / Butch Waller / The Ninth Of July / Big Chicken Records
• The Signs / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / single / Turnberry Records
• Good Ol' USA / Kody Norris Show / Spirit Of America / Rebel
• That Girl Made A Wreck Of Me / The Grascals / Not That Gone / Billy Blue Records
• The Ninth Of July / Butch Waller / The Ninth Of July / Big Chicken Records
• 1952 Vincent Black Lightning / Del McCoury Band / Del And The Boys / McCoury Music
• Road Into Town / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• It's Just A Road / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Rich Man's Daughter / Volume Five / Run / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Blue / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Pisgah Ridge Records
• Bottom Of A Mountain / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Time / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Mountain Fever Records
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• The Story Of The Day That I Died / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• Harvest Time / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Hill Country Highway / East Nash Grass / All God's Children / Moutain Fever Records
• Fist City / Donna Ulisse / Showin' My Roots / Hadley Music Group
• On And On / Bill Monroe & HIs Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• Some Old Day / John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Juxtaposed / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Almost / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Unleashed / Sugar Hill
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• I'll Be No Stranger There / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• It's A Grand And A Glorious Feeling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• Stormy Waters / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Press On O' Pilgrim / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• I Serve A God (Who Can Raise The Dead) / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself / Malpass Brothers / Satisfied:  Country Gospel Classics Live / Gaither Music
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder