"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/31/2025

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was our first of this new semester to be shortened by a UConn Sports preemption.  Still, we crammed a whole lot of fine music into our two hours on the last Sunday of August.

As this is Labor Day weekend -- the unofficial ending of the Summer season -- we started the program with eight songs related to the working man and woman.   Hope you're having an enjoyable holiday weekend!

We also continued the 100th birthday celebration of the great Carter Glen Stanley (August 27, 1925 - December 1, 1966).  During his lifetime, Carter was credited with writing right around 100 songs -- many of which have become Bluegrass standards.  We shared several covers of Stanley material in our second and final hour on Sunday, including both secular and gospel material.  We also remembered the late August birthdays of Jeanette Williams (born August 28, 1965) and Shawn Camp (born August 29, 1966).  

With a shorter show, there wasn't much new music to share, but we did include songs from two new projects recently released by Mountain Fever Records from Volume Five, East Nash Grass, and the Gospel Plowboys.

Enjoy the week, and we hope to join you for another three-hour edition of our Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• I Ain't Goin' To Work Tomorrow / Carter Family / Anchored In Love:  Their Complete Victor Recordings, 1927-1928 / Rounder
• Working Girl Blues / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Hazel & Alice Sessions / Spruce And Maple Music
• Poor Boy Workin' Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Lower On The Hog / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Sugar Hill
• Working Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• Workin' Man (Nowhere To Go) / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Today's The Day I Get My Gold Watch And Chain / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Rebel
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Rebel
• Too Late To Say Goodbye / Jeanette Williams / Cherry Blossoms In The Springtime / Doobie Shea Records [Jeanette Williams birthday, 8/28/1965]
• Sam's Place / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• Banjo Boy Chimes / Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys / Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys / Old Blue Records
• You're The Reason / Flatt Lonesome / Silence In These Walls / Mountain Home
• I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder [Shawn Camp birthday, 8/29/1966]
• Wildwood Flower / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• The Water Lily / Amanda Cook / Restless Soul / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Gonna Love You Like There's No Tomorrow / Volume Five / Leave A Light On / Mountain Fever Records
• Jump Through The Window / East Nash Grass / All God's Children / Mountain Fever Records
• Baby Girl / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Lonesome Night / Ricky Skaggs / Ancient Tones / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Loving You Too Well / Ralph Stanley with Dolly Parton / Clinch Mountain Sweethearts / Rebel [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Late Last Night / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Back To The Mountains / Randm Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• I'm Better Off Now That You're Gone / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Tradition:  Tribute To A Bluegrass Legacy / Doobie Shea Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Darlin' Think Of What You've Done / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• We'll Be Sweethearts In Heaven / Ralph Stanley II / Stanley Blues / Rebel [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Going To The Races / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Gonna Paint The Town / James King / The Stanley Tradition:  Tribute To A Bluegrass Legacy / Doobie Shea Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• The Lonesome River / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Have You Someone In Heaven Awaiting / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• I Can Tell You The Time / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1947-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Let Me Walk Lord By Your Side / Gospel Plowboys / Something To Be Said / Morning Glory Music [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Will He Wait A Little Longer / Southern Rail / Roadwork / Turquoise Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• My Lord's Going To Set Me Free / Junior Sisk / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Harbor Of Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/14/2022

There was some top-notch live Bluegrass to be heard in Connecticut last weekend at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, and we made sure to share selections from several Podunk performers during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  Hope you were able to get to Goshen to enjoy the 25th edition of Podunk.  It was a great one!  Big thank you to the Podunk organizing committee for putting together such a fabulous festival!  (If you weren't able to be in Goshen, we shared music from several Podunk performers, including Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, the Kody Norris Show, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Williamson Branch, the Alex Leach Band, and Dan Tyminski.

We had a lot of birthday celebrating to do on Sunday, as well.  To that end, we shared songs in celebration of four members of the Country Music Hall of Fame (Phil Balsley of the Statler Brothers, Webb Pierce, Connie Smith, and Mel Tillis).  Three of these folks had birthdays on August 8th.  

There was also nearly a half-hour's worth of music in celebration of the August 10th birth anniversary of the self-proclaimed King Of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin (August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005).

Have yourself a wonderful week, and we'll see you again on Sunday afternoon at 4PM for our Bluegrass Cafe!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Traveling Kind / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Traveling Kind / Self-Produced
• When I Get The Money Made / Kody Norris Show / When I Get The Money Made / Self-Produced
• Which Train / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• The Lonely Side Of Goodbye / Junior Sisk / Lost & Alone / Mountain Fever Records
• Readin', Rightin', Route 23 / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Take The Long Way Home / Alex Leach Band / I'm The Happiest When I'm Moving / Mountain Home
• Lonesome For You / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced
• 20/20 Vision / Dan Tyminski / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Crazy Blues / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Ready For The Times To Get Better / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle
• Rock Salt & Nails / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• Home Is Where The Heart Is / Connie & Babe / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• Whispering Waters / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Jim Eanes / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Jimmy Brown The Newsboy / Kathy Kallick with Jim Hurst / What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? / Live Oak Records
• These Crazy Dreams / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Good Woman Blues / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Mel Tillis:  8/8/1932 - 11/19/2017]
• Slowly / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• More And More / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• It's Been So Long / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Wondering / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Statler Brothers / Sons Of The Motherland / Mercury [Phil Balsley birthday, 8/8/1939]
• Talk To Me Lonesome Heart / Larry Stephenson with Connie Smith & Marty Stuart / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• Cincinnati, Ohio / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• Once A Day / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel [Connie Smith birthday:  8/14/1941]
• Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Gary Brewer / Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Self-Produced [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hold Whatcha Got / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Night / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• The White Dove / Ralph Stanley with Jimmy Martin / Live! At McClure / Rebel [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• I'm My Own Grandpa / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Lester's Loafin' Lounge / Self-Produced
• Take My Ashes To The River / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• Date With An Angel / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Silence Or Tears / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday 
• I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Sunny Mountain Chimes / Josiah Tyree / Smith County Five String / Self-Produced
• Barefoot Nellie / Jim Lauderdale with High Fidelity / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Heyday / Lonesome River Band / Heyday / Mountain Home
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Down In Caroline / Front Range / The New Frontier / Sugar Hill
• Walking In The Spirit / Williamson Branch with the Marshall Family / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• There's A Man Coming For Me / Kody Norris & the Watauga Mountain Boys / There's A Man Coming For Me / Self-Produced
• Crying Holy / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Travelling Kind / Self-Produced
• Take A Little Time For Jesus / Junior Sisk / Lost And Alone / Mountain Fever Records
• Hold On / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• God's Been Good / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home
• Lord Lift Me Up / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/7/2022

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured a whole bunch of fine music, including some birthday celebrations, some new music, some classic favorites, and a remembrance of a Bluegrass veteran who passed in late July.

In the latter category, we remembered the late Dick Smith (October 4, 1943 - July 28, 2022).  We shared music from three different bands with whom Mr. Smith had worked over the years, including the Country Store, Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals, and the Country Gentlemen.  There is a Gents' video that was recently shared on YouTube which features the group's 1984 lineup of Waller/Yates/Gaudreau/Smith.  If you have time to watch it, here's the link:  https://youtu.be/XfocBkA9x7s

New and recent music was part of the mix on Sunday, and we included selections from Russ Carson, the Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band, Route 3, Darren Beachley, Corey Zink, Dave Adkins, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, Laura Orshaw, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and the Tennessee Bluegrass Band.

Hope you were able to tune in on Sunday.  Also, hope to see you this weekend at the 25th edition of the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT.  It should be a dandy!  

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Rhythm Of The Rain / Larry Stephenson / Every Time I Sing A Love Song / Pinecastle
• Colder And Colder / Lost & Found / My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Windy Mountain / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear FAmily
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
  
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• I Was Left On The Street / Peter Rowan / The First Whippoorwill / Sugar Hill
• Pickin' In The Wildwood / Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / Songs Of The Famous Carter Famiiy / Columbia
• I Still Carry You Around / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced
• Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash / Ten In Hand Records
• If I Were Your Brother / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced [Allan Spinney birthday, 8/5/1965; Rick Spinney birthday, 8/5/1966]
• Roll On Muddy River / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill [Remembering Vern Gosdin:  8/5/1935 - 4/28/2009]
• Rebecca / Herschel Sizemore / Back In Business / Hay Holler Records [Herschel Sizemore birthday, 8/6/1935]
• The Yodelling Muleskinner Blues / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced [Allan Spinney birthday, 8/5/1965; Rick Spinney birthday, 8/5/1966]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Felice Bryant:  8/7/1925 - 4/22/2003]
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder [Remembering Felice Bryant:  8/7/1925 - 4/22/2003]
• Bugle Call Rag / Russ Carson / single / Engelhardt Music Group
• I Can't Settle Down / Laura Orshaw with Brittany Haas & Jenee Fleenor / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• There Is A Time / Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band / A Miner's Life / Calv'ry Music
• Cartersville / Route 3 / single / Pinecastle
• New Ballard Branch / Darren Beachley / single / Turnberry Records
• 1940 Ford / Corey Zink / single / Sound Biscuit
• Cold Hearted Woman / Dave Adkins / We're All Crazy / Mountain Fever Records
• Silver City / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Make Each Second Last / Mountain Home
• Riding The Chief / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Make Each Second Last / Mountain Home
• Ground Speed / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Live In Japan / Copper Creek [Remembering Dick Smith:  10/4/1943 - 7/28/2022]
• Come Back Home / Country Store / Country Store / Rebel [Remembering Dick Smith:  10/4/1943 - 7/28/2022]
• Night Ridin' / Country Gentlemen / Good As Gold / Sugar Hill [Remembering Dick Smith:  10/4/1943 - 7/28/2022]
• Train 45 / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Live In Japan / Copper Creek [Remembering Dick Smith:  10/4/1943 - 7/28/2022]
• Life In The Country / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• Big City / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / single / Billy Blue Records
• Whatcha Gonna Do / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• Big Black Train / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Lovesick And Sorrow / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / Starday
• Roll Slow, Greyhound / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Peacock Rag / Larry Sparks / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Rebel
• Misery Loves Company / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Almost / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Unleashed / Sugar Hill
• Shall We Gather At The River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• When They Ring Those Golden Bells / Country Gentlemen / Good As Gold / Sugar Hill [Remembering Dick Smith:  10/4/1943 - 7/28/2022]
• Pray For The Boys / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• I Saw The Light / Tom Adams / Right Hand Man / Rounder
• Will A Light Be Shining Bright / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• I'm Going There / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless with Ricky Skaggs / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• Goin' Up / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill [Remembering Vern Gosdin:  8/5/1935 - 4/28/2009]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder