"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/21/2024

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated the three newly-announced inductees into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame for 2024:  long-time Bluegrass broadcaster Katy Daley, as well as two top-notch musicians, Jerry Douglas and Alan Munde.  We will focus on some of the music of Jerry Douglas in a future program, but this past week, we enjoyed playing a whole lot of fine tunes from the banjo innovator and educator, Alan Munde.  To that end, we included selections from Alan's time with Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, and also included music from Alan guesting with the Country Store and New Kentucky Colonels, with the Country Gazette, with Joe Carr, and a song or two from Alan's 2023 solo release for Patuxent Music, "Excelsior."  Great music.  Congratulations to all of the IBMA 2024 Hall of Famers!

We also belatedly celebrated the 70th birthday of Ricky Skaggs (born July 18, 1954).  This Kentucky-born member of the Country and Bluegrass Music Halls of Fame has long been an important entertainer and musician, from his time working with Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys as a teenager to his multi award-winning country music career and back to his return to Bluegrass in the mid-1990s.  We celebrated all of it with several songs from the span of Ricky's career.  

There was a tiny bit of newer music shared, though none of it was really brand-new.  Instead, we heard from 2024 releases from Authentic Unlimited, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, the Del McCoury Band, Danny Paisley, Junior Sisk, the Price Sisters, a cut from the new Rick Lang-penned gospel recording, and the latest edition of the Cox Family.

Hope you were able to join us on Sunday afternoon.  Please consider tuning in this coming Sunday afternoon, won't you?  We'll have three hours of our Bluegrass Cafe starting off at 4PM.

See you then!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Possum Up A Holler / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• When Papa Played The Dobro / Jerry Douglas with Alan O'Bryant / Slide Rule / Sugar Hill [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Jerry Douglas]
• Banjo Boy Chimes / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Sweden, 1973 / Self-Produced [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Spanish Two Step/Steel Guitar Blues / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Jerry Douglas]
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Will You Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Bluegrass Radio / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / single / Compass Records
• I'm On My Way To The Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Cold Wind A Blowin' / Ronnie Bowman & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity feat. Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• (Say) Won't You Be Mine / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Singin' My Troubles Away / Laurie Lewis & Grant Street / Singin' My Troubles Away / Flying Fish
• Yellow River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Quicksilver Rides Again / Sugar HIll
• Brown's Ferry Blues / Tony Trischka feat. Billy Strings / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Son Of Hobert / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• One Way Track / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Will The Roses Bloom / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Sweet Temptation / Ricky Skaggs / Favorite Country Songs / CBS [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Uncle Pen / Ricky Skaggs / Live In London / Sony Music [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Rawhide / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Bluegrass Rules! / Rounder [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Lily Dale / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Homesick / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Hot Burrito Breakdown / Country Gazette / A Traitor In Our Midst! / United Artists [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Picking At Snuffy's / Alan Munde & Country Gazette / Keep On Pushing / Flying Fish [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Shuckin' The Corn / Country Store / Country Store Live! / Ridge Runner Records [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Yellow Rose / Alan Munde & Joe Carr / Welcome To West Texas / Flying Fish [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Blue Ridge Express / Alan Munde / Alan Munde's Banjo Sandwich / Ridge Runner Records [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Chattanooga Dog / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Lloyd's Of Lubbock / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Alan Munde]
• You And The World Outside / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Lost River / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Daniel Grindstaff feat. Jimmy Fortune / Heroes And Friends / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Till Lonesome Comes Around / Danny Paisley / single / Pinecastle
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk with Dan Tyminski / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel [Remembering Bill Holden:  7/25/1950 - 7/15/2021]
• Don't Tell Me Stories / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• I Can Read Between The Lines In Your Letters / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Wildwood Flower / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder [Remembering Sara Carter:  7/21/1898 - 1/8/1979]
• Blue Collar Gospel / Jerry Salley & the Oak Ridge Boys / Blue Collar Gospel / Billy Blue Records [Remembering Joe Bonsall:  5/18/1948 - 7/9/2024]
• Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
  
• The First Time I Heard About Heaven / Cox Family / single / Will House Records
• Lift Your Eyes To Jesus / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Goin' Up / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/17/2021

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included music celebrating a couple of mid-October birthdays, a bit of newer music, and tributes to two important members of the Bluegrass community.

The week just past was a rough one for friends and fans of the great Phil Leadbetter, who died at the age of 59 on October 14th.  "Uncle Phil" was a big personality who was a multi-time cancer survivor, as well as a bandleader and, by all accounts, a fine person.  He will be missed.  A day before the passing of Phil Leadbetter, Kerry Hay -- the founder of Hay Holler Records -- died at the age of 89.  In the 1990s, Mr. Hay's record label roster included lots of fine performers, including Big Country Bluegrass, the Gillis Brothers, the all-star-packed Bluegrass Band, and the Gibson Brothers.  

We shone a small spotlight on the co-recipient of the 2021 Steve Martin Banjo Prize, Alan Munde.  Congratulations to him!

New music featured on Sunday included selections from Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Amanda Cook, Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz, Colebrook Road, Sideline, Junior Sisk, Daryl Mosley, Balsam Range, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Jeremy Stephens, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and Merle Monroe, and a selection from the "Industrial Strength Bluegrass" collection.

Hope you're able to join us once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  We'll be looking for you!

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Forty Years Of Trouble / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Love Bug / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• When You Come Back Down / Amanda Cook / Narrowing The Gap / Mountain Fever Records
• One Day At A Time / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• November Rose / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Long Forgotten Dream / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler [Remembering Kerry Hay:  2/3/1932 - 10/13/2021]
• Love Of The Mountains / Big Country Bluegrass / Big Country Bluegrass / Hay Holler [Remembering Kerry Hay:  2/3/1932 - 10/13/2021]
• Room At The Top Of The Stairs /Gillis Brothers /  Ice Cold Stone / Hay Holler [Remembering Kerry Hay:  2/3/1932 - 10/13/2021]
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler [Remembering Kerry Hay:  2/3/1932 - 10/13/2021]
• Widow Mae / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• You've Been A Friend To Me / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Wild Mountain Honey / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Come Back Darling / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy
• Larry Sparks Medley:  Dark Hollow/A Face In The Crowd/These Old Blues / Josh Williams, Bradley Walker & Russell Moore / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Picking At Snuffy's / Alan Munde & Country Gazette / Keep On Pushing / Flying Fish
• Munde's Child / Alan Munde / Blue Ridge Express / Rounder
• Traditional Family Breakdown / Alan Munde Gazette / Made To Last / Munde's Child Records
• I Surely Will Be Singing / Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Carolina Side / Colebrook Road / Hindsight Is 2020 / Mountain Fever Records
• Marshallville / Sideline / Ups, Downs, And No Name Towns / Mountain Home
• I Wanna Be Where You Are / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Bringing Simple Back / Daryl Mosley / Small Town Dreamer / Pinecastle
• Highway Side / Balsam Range / Moxie & Mettle / Mountain Home
• The South Bound Train / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• I'll Wash Your Love From My Heart / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [Leigh Gibson birthday, 10/11/1971]
• I'll Have To Make Some Changes / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle [Barry Berrier birthday, 10/10/1960]
• Holdin' On When You've Let Go / Crowe Brothers / Brothers-n-Harmony / Rural Rhythm [Josh Crowe birthday, 10/11/1957]
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [recorded 10/15/1950]
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records [Eric Gibson birthday, 10/23/1970]
• Sledd Ridin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder [Remembering Phil Leadbetter:  3/31/1962 - 10/14/2021]
• California Cottonfields / Phil Leadbetter with Marty Raybon / Slide Effects / Pinecastle [Remembering Phil Leadbetter:  3/31/1962 - 10/14/2021]
• Swing For The Fences / Phil Leadbetter & the All-Stars Of Bluegrass / Swing For The Fences / Pinecastle [Remembering Phil Leadbetter:  3/31/1962 - 10/14/2021]
• Philibuster / Phil Leadbetter / Philibuster / Mid-Knight Records [Remembering Phil Leadbetter:  3/31/1962 - 10/14/2021]
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Wes Corbett / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Western Skies / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• Thinking Of Home / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Music
• Whispering Waters / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Going Up / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Working On A Building / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• S-A-V-E-D / South Carolina Broadcasters / Home To Stay / Patuxent Music
• Calling My Children / Hot Flashes / The Hot Flashes Live / Happy Appy Records
• Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blues / Billy Blue Records
• Sing His Praises Forever / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• That Glorious Day / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Touch Of God's Hand / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder