"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/29/2022

On this Memorial Day Sunday, we remembered in song the meaning of this somber holiday.  To that end, during this day's Bluegrass Cafe, we shared lots of songs that told the story of the soldier who didn't make it home.  

We also celebrated the birthdays of several Bluegrass folks born on May 29th, including the late Earl Pike, Stephen Mougin, and my brother, Dave "Tex" Orlomoski.  In addition, we remembered the May 23rd birth anniversary of Country and Bluegrass Hall of Fame member, Mac Wiseman.  And we shared just a couple of songs written by the late powerhouse couple of Tom T. Hall (May 25, 1936 - August 20, 2021) and Miss Dixie Hall (May 26, 1934 - January 16, 2015).  During next week's broadcast, we'll share more songs from the Halls.

And, of course, there was a bit of newer music, from brand-new recordings by Authentic Unlimited, Jim Hurst, Circus No. 9, Jesse Smathers, Laura Orshaw, and the Gibson Brothers.

Thank you for tuning in today, and we'll look forward to joining you once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• My Dying Day / Lou Reid & Carolina / Time / Lonesome Day Records
• Last Letter Home / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Blue-Eyed Boston Boy / Bluegrass Cardinals / Hand-Picked / Rounder
• Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / The Award Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel
• Rodger Young / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Annie's Boy / Larry Sparks / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Rebel
• Purple Heart / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Sally's Waltz / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Searching For A Soldier's Grave / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Me And John and Paul / The Grascals / The Grascals / Rounder
• A Folded Flag / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records
• Down Where The River Bends / Ralph Stanley with Dwight Yoakam / Saturday Night & Sunday Morning / CRF Records
• Traveling Soldier / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• With Love From Normandy / Mark "Brink" Brinkman / On The Brink Of A Dream / Self-Produced
• More Than A Name On A Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Oh Lonesome Me / Jim Hurst / From The Ground Up / Pinecastle
• Steampipe Coffee / Circus No. 9 / Circus No. 9 / Bonfire
• Hard Pressed / Jesse Smathers / Jesse Smathers / Self-Produced
• Hank / Laura Orshaw / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / single / 
• Heartache And Trouble / Fast Track / single / Engelhardt Music Group
• Rude And Rambling Man / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• New Beginnings / Stephen Mougin / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• A Hero In Harlan / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall (5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021) & Miss Dixie Hall (5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015)]
• Local Flowers / Brooke Aldridge [Daughters Of Bluegrass] / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall (5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021) & Miss Dixie Hall (5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015)]
• Leaving Baker County / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall (5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021) & Miss Dixie Hall (5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015)]
• 20/20 Vision / Dan Tyminski / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• How Long Has It Been / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• Where The City Ends / Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy Records
• Bowling Green / Laurie Lewis / Restless Rambling Heart / Flying Fish
• Houses On The Farm / Shady Creek / Back To The Roots / Self-Produced
• Country Boy Rock N' Roll / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King Records
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Robe Of White / Louvin Brothers / The Family Who Prays:  26 Classic Tracks / Country Stars
• Voice From On High / Bill Monroe / High Lonesome / CMH
• My Savior's Train / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• I Can Tell You The Time / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1947-1949 / JSP Records
• Brand New City / Jesse Smathers / Jesse Smathers / Self-Produced
• Over The Mountain Top / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume One / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Working On A Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Reveille Time In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/3/2022

It's a new month for our Bluegrass Cafe -- no fooling!  

The main focus for today's program was remembering the wonderful Roland White -- a Bluegrass Hall of Famer who has been an important part of many bands, from working with his brothers in the Kentucky Colonels to being a sideman with both Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt to spending 10+ years with both the Country Gazette and the Nashville Bluegrass Band to fronting his own band.  By all accounts, Roland White was a very kind man, and super-encouraging to many performers who would come after him.  He will be missed, but we will always have his legacy and 60+ years of music.  Coming up in June 2022, the University of Illinois Press is scheduled to release Mandolin Man:  The Bluegrass Life Of Roland White by Bob Black.  It should be a great read about a life well-lived.  

In addition, we shared a bit of newer music from a recording featuring a guitarist by the name of Bob Minner.  We also included new or recent music from the Del McCoury Band, Shannon Slaughter, Laura Orshaw, Volume Five, Authentic Unlimited, Special Consensus, and Rick Lang.

Next Sunday's show will start a bit later than 4PM, as there will be a UConn Baseball game until approximately 4:30PM.  Please join me then.

Thanks, and have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Trying To Get To You / Roland White / Trying To Get To You / Sugar Hill [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• I Ain't Goin' Down / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Time To Go / Sugar Hill [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• I Might Take You Back / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• Harvest Time / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• You've Been A Friend To Me / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• No More The Moon Shines On Lorena / Everett Lilly / Everett Lilly & Everybody And Their Brothers / Swift River Music
• Loving You Too Well / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Room Over Mine / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Steeped In Tradition / Brandywine
• I LIke To Hear 'Em Preach It / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• The Hills Of Roane County / J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• Steppin' Stones / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• Golden Hair / U.S. Navy Band Country Current / Live / Altissimo
• Love Don't Live Here Anymore / Del McCoury Band / Almost Proud / McCoury Music
• Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• Rough Edges / Traditional Grass / The Blues Are Still The Blues / Rebel
• Heart Of Caroline / U.S. Navy Band Country Current / Live / Altissimo
• Church Street Blues / Bob Minner with Vince Gill / From Sulphur Springs To Rising Fawn:  The Songs Of Norman Blake / Engelhardt Music Group
• On Her Own / Laura Orshaw with Trey Hensley / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Alberta Clipper / Shannon Slaughter / Ridin' Through The Country / Elite Circuit Music
• What I Didn't Say / Volume Five / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Before You Miss Me / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
• Blackbird / Special Consensus / single / Compass Records
• Early Morning Rain / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Cliff Waldron birthday, 4/4/1941]
• The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee / Bill Clifton / The Early Years, 1957-1958 / Rounder [Bill Clifton birthday, 4/5/1931]
• Faded Love / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• Walls Of Time / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• You Won't Be Satisfied That Way / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Sweden 1973 / Roland White Music [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• Doorstep Of Trouble / Roland White / I Wasn't Born To Rock 'n Roll / Tompkins Square [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• Travelin' Down This Lonesome Road / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• Hot Flash On The Highway / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Roland White Music [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• Little White Washed Chimney / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• I Don't Care Anymore / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Patches On My Heart / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• 20/20 Vision / Dan Tyminski / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• I'd Like To Be A Train / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• They Sawed Up A Storm / Rick Lang with Becky Buller / A Tale To Tell / Dark Shadow Recording
• No Depression / Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Cripple Creek / Cripple Creek
• Journey To My Savior's Side / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• Satan's Jeweled Crown / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country Records
• Come On, Dear Lord, And Get Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Story Of The Pharisees / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder [Remembering Roland White:  4/23/1938 - 4/1/2022]
• Give Me The Roses / Traver Hollow / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country Records
• Heaven / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• You Go To Your Church / Bill Clifton / The Early Years, 1957-1958 / Rounder [Bill Clifton birthday, 4/5/1931]
• When We Look On His Face / Bill Emerson with Cliff Waldron / Reunion / Webco [Cliff Waldron birthday, 4/4/1941]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/20/2022

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was two weeks in the making, as we took the battle plan for our March 13th show (in which we couldn't get into the Student Union to do any broadcasting) and added a couple of things.  The show included a couple of "Spring" songs, March birthday celebrating and a few new selections, too.  Hope you were able to join us.

As far as the birthdays go, we celebrated the mid-March birthdays of several Bluegrassers, including Bob Paisley, Kristin Scott Benson, Tim O'Brien, Ronnie McCoury, David Grisman, and John Starling.  In addition, there was a second short set of songs written by the wonderful Marshall Wilborn (born March 12, 1952).  

Two important members of the Country Music Hall of Fame were celebrated, too:  Carl Smith (March 15, 1927 - January 16, 2010) and Charley Pride (March 18, 1934 - December 12, 2020).  We heard from both of these legends, as well as several Bluegrass covers of some of their material.

And finally, there was some newer music, too.  This time around, we heard new selections from Laura Orshaw (with Trey Hensley), Donna Ulisse, and the Del McCoury Band.  

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• When Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Spring Will Bring Flowers / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Come Spring / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Leavin' Town / Rounder
• Ah Spring / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / When It's Springtime In The Rockies / Red Feather
• Sun's Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Give This Message To Your Heart / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1950-1951 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Losing You Blues / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle
• The Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• Tidwell Pike / Jimmy Gaudreau / Pieces And Bits / Goose Creek Music
• Whispering Waters / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• Tell Me How To Mend A Broken Heart / Lynn Morris Band / Mama's Hand / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Heartstrings / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Traveling Down The Blue Road / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Once And For Always/The News Is Out / Sugar Hill [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Wishing Well Blues / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• That Was Then And This Is Now / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• No Vacancy / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / No Vacancy / Brandywine [Remembering Bob Paisley:  3/14/1931 - 11/29/2004]
• The Hunt / Kristin Scott Benson / Straight Paths / Pinecastle [Kristin Scott Benson birthday, 3/14/1976]
• Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish Records [Tim O'Brien birthday, 3/16/1954]
• I'm My Own Grandpa / David Grisman / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder [David Grisman birthday, 3/23/1945]
• Quicksburg Rondezvous / Del McCoury Band / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder [Ronnie McCoury birthday, 3/16/1967]
• Muddy Waters / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [Remembering John Starling:  3/26/1940 - 5/2/2019]
• Gray Rock, Red Clay Land / Donna Ulisse / Livin' Large / Billy Blue Records 
• On Her Own / Laura Orshaw with Trey Hensley / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Almost Proud / Del McCoury Band / Almost Proud / McCoury Music
• You Are The One / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• Loose Talk / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• (When You Feel Like You're In Love) Don't Just Stand There / Carl Smith / The Essential Carl Smith / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / Jesse Brock with Greg Blake / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• I'd Rather Love You / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / GSM [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• Kiss An Angel Good Morning / Nothin' Fancy / It's A Good Feeling / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• All I Have To Offer You Is Me / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• I'm Just Me / Charley Pride / Legendary Country Singers / Time Life [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• Each Season Changes You / Rose Maddox / Sing A Little Song Of Heartache / Bear Family
• Me And The Jukebox / Buzz Busby / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Where The Old Red River Flows / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• There Is Power In The Blood / David Peterson / Old Time Power / Self-Produced
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Everybody's Gonna Have A Wonderful Time Up There / IIIrd Tyme Out / Livong On The Hallelujah Side / Rounder
• Let's All Go Down To The River / Rich In Tradition / Black Mountain Special / Mountain Roads Recordings
• My Savior's Train / High Fidelity / Hills Ahd Home / Rounder
• Going Up / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• If I Be Lifted Up / Dry Branch Fire Squad / The Gospel Way / Self-Produced
• I'll Be Rested / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Bluegrass Spirit / Rounder
• Springtime In Glory / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/30/2022

I'm very delinquent in getting this playlist posted for our last Bluegrass Cafe in January, but better late than never...

The first part of Sunday's show featured several songs in honor of four important members of the Bluegrass community who were all born on February 1st.  Chronologically, they are Del McCoury (1939), Tom Gray (1941), David Parmley (1959), and Jason Carter (1973).  In addition, we remembered the January 31st birthdays of Becky Buller (born 1979) and Lynwood Lunsford (1962).

We also included a little bit of brand-new music from the likes of the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Kenny & Amanda Smith, Magnolia Drive, and Junior Sisk.  

Hope you will be able to join us for this coming Sunday's live-in-the-studio Bluegrass Cafe.  

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Loneliness And Desperation / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• You Left Me Alone / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Mountain Laurel / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals / CMH [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Natural To Be Gone / Travelin' McCourys / The Travelin' McCourys / McCoury Music [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• East Bound And Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys with Jason Carter & Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Never Slow Down / Sound Biscuit [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• 32 Acres / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals / CMH [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Grandfather's Clock / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Don't Stop The Music / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 1/31/1979]
• Making Tracks / Lost & Found / Just Pickin' / Copper Creek [Lynwood Lunsford birthday, 1/31/1962]
• Southern Flavor / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 1/31/1979]
• My Little Georgia Rose / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [recorded 2/3/1953]
• Georgia Girl / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Bringing In The Georgia Mail / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Georgia Stomp / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Blues Are Close At Hand / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• Lost In The Shuffle / Linda Lay / Linda Lay / Mountain Fever Records
• Everything To Me / Kenny & Amanda Smith / single / Farmboy Records
• Patches On My Heart / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Unwanted Love / Barry Abernathy with Dan Tyminski / Barry Abernathy & Friends / Billy Blue Records
• The Turntable / Alex Leach Band / I'm The Happiest When I'm Moving / Mountain Home
• The Old Crooked Trail / Big Country Bluegrass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Rebel
• On Whiskey Mountain / Bill Emerson with Bill Harrell / Reunion / Webco
• 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Mac Wiseman / Eight Classic Albums / Real Gone
• If You've Ever Gonna Love Me / Appalachian Express / Walking The Blues / Rebel
• Slowly / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Scissor Jack / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I'll Never Do Better Than You / Charlie Sizemore with Ralph Stanley / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel
• Hello Sunshine / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• Hot Night In August / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Pinecastle
• Sunny Mountain Chimes / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Hot Sauce / Larry Sparks / John Deere Tractor / Rebel
• It's Me Again Lord / Magnolia Drive / Timeless / Mountain Fever Records
• The Hand Of The Higher Power / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• He'll Take You In / Billy & Terry Smith / Bill Monroe Tribute / K-Tel
• Little Community Church / Boys From Indiana / Good Times Blues / Rebel
• Goodnight, The Lord's Coming / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Carolyn Eyerly / The Sunny Side Of Life / Patuxent Music
• Listen To The Word Of God / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• I Ain't Got Time / High Fidelity / High Fidelity / Self-Produced
• Joy Of Revelation / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• I've Read The Book / Marty Raybon / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Are You Walkin' And A Talkin' For The Lord / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• God Sees Me / Flashback / Blues Around My Cabin / Pinecastle
• Clinging To A Saving Hand / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Paul And Silas / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Singing As We Rise / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• I'm Getting Ready To Leave This World / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/12/2021

For Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we shared birthday music, as well as tunes from 2021 recordings and lots of classic favorites.  As we get closer to the holiday, we also added more Christmas music into the mix, including a few new Christmas tunes introduced in 2021 from Jerry Salley & Family, Becky Buller, and Williamson Branch.  During next Sunday's program -- the last before December 25th -- we'll likely play all Christmas music.  Hope you can join us!

Enjoy your week, and thanks a bunch for listening!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Kentucky / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes 1 & 2 / Sugar Hill
• My Kentucky Dream / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• My Old Kentucky Home / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
• Is It Wrong (To Love Somebody New) / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Just When I Needed You / Five Mile Mountain Road / Swingbilly Swagger / Patuxent Music
• Foxhounds / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• Dickenson County Breakdown / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Can't You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder
• In Despair / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Can't You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder
• O Christmas Candle / Stony Point Quartet / Christmas Time Back Home / Cracker Barrel
• Kentucky Noel / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Blue Circle Records
• Here We Go A-Going / Frances Mooney & Fontana Sunset / single / Blue Circle Records
• An Old Christmas Card / Dale Ann Bradley & Tina Adair / A Very Acoustic Christmas / Pinecastle
• Fiddle For Christmas / Glen Duncan / A Very Merry Bluegrass Christmas / Engelhardt Music Group
• Christmas Time In The Country / Carson Peters & Iron Mountain / single / Self-Produced
• Christmas Is Near / Stony Point Quartet / Christmas Time Back Home / Cracker Barrel
• Last Train To Clarksville / The Grascals / The Famous Lefty Flynn's / Rounder
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Foggy Mountain Top / Carter Family / My Clinch Mountain Home / Rounder [Remembering A.P. Carter:  12/15/1891 - 11/7/1960]
• In My Dear Old Southern Home / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering "B" Lilly:  12/15/1921 - 9/18/2005]
• You Better Hold On To Your Heart / Shannon Slaughter / Hold On To Your Heart / Self-Produced [Shannon Slaughter birthday, 12/13/1968]
• Old Man Baker / The Whites / A Lifetime In The Making / Skaggs Family Records [Buck White birthday, 12/13/1930]
• My Clinch Mountain Home / Carter Family / My Clinch Mountain Home / Rounder [Remembering A.P. Carter:  12/15/1891 - 11/7/1960]
• Santa's Sleigh Is A Chevrolet / Jerry Salley & Family / A Very Jerry Family Christmas / Very Jerry Records
• Very Merry Christmas / Williamson Branch / single / Pinecastle
• The Box / Becky Buller / The Christmas 45, Volume 2 / Dark Shadow Recording
• Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury Band / Celebrating 50 Years Of Del McCoury / McCoury Music
• Steppin' Stones / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• The Drifter / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• The Bells Of St. Mary's / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• The Bluebirds Are Singing / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Hickory, Walnut & Pine / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• No End To This Road / Phil Leadbetter & the All-Stars Of Bluegrass / Swing For The Fences / Pinecastle
• Many Hills Of Time / Larry Stephenson Band / Retrospective (LSB Live) / Whysper Dream Music
• Hills Of My Home / Greg Blake with Laurie Lewis / Songs Of Heart & Home / Self-Produced
• Scraps From Your Table / Lynn Morris Band / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• How Will I Explain About You / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Music
• Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity with Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Don't Tune Him Out / The Whites / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records [Sharon White Skaggs birthday, 12/17/1953]
• Sing His Praises Forever / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• Get Right With God / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• Lord Lift Me Up / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem / Emmylou Harris / Christmas Time's A Comin' / Time Life
• Home On The River / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Hear Jerusalem Moan / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Press On O' Pilgrim / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• It Won't Be Long / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/5/2021

This past Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe began with music written by, performed by, and written about one of the most cherished voices in the history of Bluegrass music, the late Carter Stanley (August 27, 1925 - December 1, 1966).  While the elder guitar-playing Stanley brother has been gone for a greater number of years than he was alive, his music and his legacy continue to grow.  

Our show also included a few cover songs in tribute to the late Stonewall Jackson (the honky tonk singer and long-time Grand Ole Opry member, as opposed to the Civil War General) who passed on December 4th at the age of 89.

There were a couple of newer songs to share, too, including brand-new Christmas music from the pen of Rick Lang, as well as a new seasonal song from Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz.  In addition, there was newer non-Christmas music from Valerie Smith, Volume Five, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, and James Reams.

Hope you enjoyed something you heard during the program.  Please consider joining me once again this coming Sunday, 4-7PM.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Memories Of Mother / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Think Of What You've Done / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Going To The Races / James King / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• (Say) Won't You Be Mine / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1959-1953 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Carter / Ralph Stanley II / This One Is II / Lonesome Day [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• The Light In Carter Stanley's Eyes / Peter Rowan / Carter Stanley's Eyes / Rebel [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• I Wish That I Could Have Met Carter / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• You Broke Your Promise / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Six Pack To Go / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Sho Nuff Country / Patuxent Music
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• My Native Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / My Native Home / Rounder
• Feeling Blue / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Rockwood Deer Chase / Don Stover / Things In Life / Rounder
• Raised By The Railroad Line / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• When I'm Gone / Beartracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Life To Go / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Stanley Family Records [Remembering Stonewall Jackson:  11/6/1932 - 12/4/2021]
• A Wound Time Can't Erase / Ricky Skaggs / Favorite Country Songs / Epic [Remembering Stonewall Jackson:  11/6/1932 - 12/4/2021]
• Smoke Along The Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records [Remembering Stonewall Jackson:  11/6/1932 - 12/4/2021]
• Between The Lines / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• When Karma Comes Calling / Volume Five / single / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Fine Bein' Me / Valerie Smith / Renaissance / Bell Buckle Records
• Kentucky River / James Reams / Like A Flowing River / Self-Produced
• Carolina Line / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / single / Mountain Fever Records
• It's Christmas Everywhere / Rick Lang / Peace On Earth This Christmas / Self-Produced
• If We Make It Through December / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Winter's Grace / Signature Sounds
• When It's Snowin' In The Mountains / Wildwood Valley Boys / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
• Christmas Swing / Chesapeake / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• Dancing In The Snow / Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz / single / Mountain Fever Records
• The Night Flatt & Scruggs Played Carnegie Hall / Jerry Salley / Front Porch Philosophy / Very Jerry Records
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [Recorded 12/8/1962]
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [Recorded 12/8/1962]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [Recorded 12/8/1962]
• Love Bug / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• I Ain't Taking You Back No More / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder
• Get In Line Buddy / Junior Sisk / Paint The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Don't Tell Me Stories / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie / Pinecastle Records
• Don't Let Me Cross Over / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie / Pinecastle Records
• Morning Sky / Chris Hillman / Morning Sky / Sugar Hill [Chris Hillman birthday, 12/4/1944]
• Try A Little Kindness / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder [Bobby Osborne birthday, 12/7/1931]
• Flat Creek / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / GSM Records [Chris Jones birthday, 12/7/1959]
• Old Satan / Jim Eanes / Let Him Lead You / Rebel [Remembering Jim Eanes:  12/6/1923 - 11/21/1995]
• Everybody Will Be Happy Over There / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• Green Pastures / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder
• The Church Back Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Starday Records
• On The Sunny Side Of Life / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / What Will I Leave Behind / Rebel
• Listen To The Word Of God / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Got A Little Light / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• River Of Death / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/14/2021

Today's Bluegrass Cafe was one with no particular plan.  Still, we ended up sharing songs from mid-November birthday celebrants (including that of one very fine Kentucky songwriter and singer), as well as sharing a little bit of newer music from a fun local band and an award-winning country songwriter.  There were a few classic favorites thrown in, too.  Hope you heard something you enjoyed!

For the mid-November birthdays, we played several songs from the prolific pen of Larry Cordle.  In addition, there was music from other birthday celebrants, including Peter McLaughlin, Edgar Loudermilk, Tom Adams, and Josh Williams.  

New music came to us from local trio, Still Pickin' ("On With The Show!) and a noted country music songwriter who has produced a bona fide Bluegrass record, Don Schlitz ("Mountaintop" from the Engelhardt Music Group).  We also included a couple of songs from the newest Rhonda Vincent record, "Music Is What I See."

Thanksgiving Break is coming to the University of Connecticut during the week beginning November 21st, so that means our next Bluegrass Cafe will be one of the "homemade" variety.  The plan is to put together and submit a new show for your listening pleasure (I hope) that will air during our normal 4-7PM timeframe on Sunday, November 21st.  We'll keep you posted via our Facebook page, so be sure to give our page a like:  www.facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Lower On The Hog / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Larry Cordle birthday, 11/16/1949]
• Country In My Genes / New Coon Creek Girls / Ain't Love A Good Thing / Pinecastle [Larry Cordle birthday, 11/16/1949]
• Highway 40 Blues / Ricky Skaggs / Country Hits Bluegrass Style / Skaggs Family Records [Larry Cordle birthday, 11/16/1949]
• Bluegrass Junction / Larry Cordle / Tales From East Kentucky / Mighty Cord Records [Larry Cordle birthday, 11/16/1949]
• Daisey Mae / Jason Carter / On The Move / Rounder
• Cruel Love / Reno Brothers / Drawing From The Well / Pinecastle
• The Windowsill Song / The Daughters Of Bluegrass feat. Becky Buller / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records
• On The Move / Jason Carter / On The Move / Rounder
• Dim Lights, Thick Smoke / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• China Grove, My Hometown / Curly Seckler / Down In Caroline / Copper Creek
• Gonna Paint The Town / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• My Little Honeysuckle Rose / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Love, Please Come Home / Reno & Smiley / Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups, 1959-1963 / Gusto
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Earl Scruggs:  Classic Bluegrass Live, 1959-1966 / Vanguard
• Blink Of An Eye / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Highway Side / Balsam Range / Moxie & Mettle / Pinecastle
• On With The Show / Still Pickin' / On With The Show! / Self-Produced
• The Gambler / Don Schlitz / Mountaintop / Engelhardt Music Group
• Beholdin' / Still Pickin' / On With The Show! / Self-Produced
• I Won't Take Less Than Your Love / Don Schlitz with Del McCoury & Ricky Skaggs / Mountaintop / Engelhardt Music Group
• What Ain't To Be Just Might Happen / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• 20/20 Vision / Dan Tyminski / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• You'll Be Lonesome Too / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• I Ain't Been Nowhere / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• You Are My Sunshine / Tom Adams / Right Hand Man / Rounder [Tom Adams birthday, 11/17/1958]
• You Love Me Today / Josh Williams / Lonesome Highway / Pinecastle [Josh Williams birthday, 11/20/1980]
• The Hermit Miner / Perfect Strangers / Perfect Strangers / Rebel [Peter McLaughlin birthday, 11/14/1955]
• Loser's Hand / Edgar Loudermilk / Roads Travelled / Mountain Fever Records [Edgar Loudermilk birthday, 11/14/19xx]
• Murder On Music Row / Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time / Murder On Music Row / Shell Point Records [Larry Cordle birthday, 11/16/1949]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [originally recorded 11/16/1967]
• Fox On The Run / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Too Late To Say Goodbye / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• Mend This Heart Of Mine / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• You'll Find Her Name Written There / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Sailor's Regret / Johnny Williams / Going My Way / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Ice Covered Birches / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Hendersonville Hop / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Don't Hold Your Breath / White House / White House / Pinecastle
• I Won't Be Far From Here / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Sunday Morning Gospel Jubilee / Larry Cordle / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• The Touch Of God's Hand / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Yes, I See God / Larry Stephenson Band / Retrospective (LSB Live) / Whysper Dream Music
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH
• Let Us Travel On / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• I Saw The Light / Larry Sparks / Ministry In Song / Rebel
• Everybody Will Be Happy Over There / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• Traveling The Highway Home / The Grascals / Up All Night / Mountain Home
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/24/2021

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe started out as one with no particular agenda or direction, except that we planned to play a few songs from the catalog of Country Music Hall of Famer Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones, whose 108th birthday would have been celebrated on October 20th.  By the time the show was over, we'd played several songs in honor of Doyle Lawson, who had announced that his retirement from the road would happen one year earlier than originally announced (end of 2021 vs. end of 2022).  We'd also learned while playing birthday songs for this week that the great Sonny Osborne, who would have celebrated his 84th birthday on October 29th had possibly died on this day.  I say "possibly" as there were too many conflicting sources of Facebook information during the time the news originally came.  It was all very confusing, but in the end, it seems that Sonny did, indeed, pass earlier this afternoon.  We will work this week on a program to honor the legendary music of this incredible performer.  Rest in peace, Sonny.

Hope you were able to join us for all or some of today's show.  Please consider joining us once more next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• When Someone Wants To Leave / Seldom Scene / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I'll Take The Lonesome Every Time / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Please Search Your Heart / J.D. Crowe / Blackjack / Rebel
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Every Now And Then / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Happy Go Lucky / Alan Bibey & Doyle Lawson / single / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Stay Around / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Baby Blue Eyes / Vince Gill / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Leaves In The Wind / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• Deep River / Rick Faris / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'll Never Grow Tired Of You / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Prisoner's Song / David Peterson & 1946 / Cup Of Loneliness / Self-Produced
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy [song recorded 10/24/1951]
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Pikearoo / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel [Remembering Fred Pike:  10/27/1932 - 3/5/1997]
• Gold Watch And Chain / Eddie & Martha Adcock / TwoGrass / Pinecastle [Martha Adcock birthday, 10/29/1949]
• Where The Wild River Rolls / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone [Bob Amos birthday, 10/24/1957]
• O-hio / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records [Joe Mullins birthday, 10/27/1965]
• The Sound (That Set My Soul On Fire) / Larry Stephenson Band / Retrospective:  LSB Live / Whysper Dream Music [Larry Stephenson birthday, 10/24/1956]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Are You From Dixie / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Starday King [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• It's Raining Here This Morning / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Starday King [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Falling Leaves / Seldom Scene / John Duffey:  The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Roll Slow, Greyhound / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Hit Parade Of Love / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Bluegrass Legends:  Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Goodbye Marie / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Hickory Hollow / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage Records
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner with Tom Adams / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• L.A. International Airport / Dale Ann Bradley / Things She Couldn't Get Over / Pinecastle
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Milwaukee, Here I Come / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA
• Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill 
• Jesus Hold My Hand / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Rockin' On The Waves / Brown's Ferry Four / Rockin' On The Waves / King [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Won't That Be A Happy Time / Special Consensus / Chicago Barn Dance / Compass Records
• Do You Live What You Preach / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• Grit And Grace / Balsam Range / Mettle And Moxie / Mountain Home
• Eat At The Welcome Table / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Will There Be Any Stars? / Cox Family & Alison Krauss / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/3/2021

Robert Fraker at Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival
(Photo by MaryE Yeomans)

Our first Bluegrass Cafe of October 2021 featured music from some of the 2021 International Bluegrass Music Association award winners , as well as music from the three newly-minted members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and birthday tributes to several performers.  Most notably, we shared seven songs from the pen of a good friend gone too soon:  Robert Fraker (October 1, 1946 - May 2, 2017).  Hope you were able to join us for all or part of the broadcast.

The annual gathering known as WoB (World of Bluegrass) took place this past week in Raleigh, NC.  While I wasn't an in-person attendee of the festivities this year, I was able to follow along virtually at some events that were posted on either the IBMA Facebook page or the group's YouTube.  To that end, we played some music from quite a few IBMA Award winners for 2021, and we mentioned the others.  

We also shared music from some of the performers who will be in Vermont next weekend at the first-time-ever Jenny Brook Minifest.  This annual event normally takes place at the end of June, but COVID meeting restrictions cancelled the big festival this year.  This smaller festival is "mini" in name only, as there will be a load of top-notch performers there, including IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year Danny Paisley, as well as the Po' Ramblin' Boys, the Feinberg Brothers, and others.  For more info, visit this website.  

As I will be in Vermont next weekend, our Bluegrass Cafe will be recorded during this week, and will air for you on Sunday afternoon.  Hope you'll consider joining us, if you can.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Richest Man / Balsam Range / Moxie And Mettle / Mountain Home [IBMA Song of the Year, 2021]
• Living On The Edge / Dale Ann Bradley / Things She Couldn't Get Over / Pinecastle [IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year, 2021]
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle [IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year, 2021]
• Letters Have No Arms / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music [IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year, 2021]
• Hollow Heart / Billy Strings / Home / Rounder [IBMA Entertainer of the Year, 2021]
• Readin', Rightin', Route 23 / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways [IBMA Album of the Year, 2021]
• Losing You Blues / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle [IBMA Vocal Group of the Year, 2021]
• Fiddler's Pastime / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Laura Orshaw / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced [IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year, 2021]
• Are You Missing Me / Dailey & Vincent / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways [IBMA Album of the Year, 2021]
• No Other Man / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• I Got A Letter / Valerie Smith & Becky Buller / Here's A Little Song... / Bell Buckle Records [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Cross My Broken Heart / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Louisville Suite / Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy Records [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• The Cheshire Tragedy / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Like A Bird In A Cage / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Here Come The Teardrops / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / Fine Time To Get The Blues / Driving Duke Records [Terry Baucom birthday, 10/6/1952]
• Helping Hand / Johnny Williams / Last Day At Galax / Mountain Roads Recordings [Johnny Williams birthday, 10/6/1951]
• Ezekiel Saw The Wheel / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads [Remembering Ray Deaton:  10/6/1952 - 6/4/2019]
• Sparta Flash / The Expedition Show / The Expedition Show / Mountain Fever Records [Blake Williams birthday, 10/8/1962]
• Taking The Crooked Road Home / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / VA Foundation for the Humanties [Sammy Shelor birthday, 10/8/1962]
• Old Rip / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder [Lynn Morris birthday, 10/8/1948]
• Blue Skies And Teardrops / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Blue Grass Breakdown / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• Tupelo County Jail / The Stonemans / Family Tradition:  The Stoneman Legacy / CMH
• Two Highways / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Enough On My Mind / Rambler's Choice / Sounds Of The Mountains / Rounder
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• I'm Feeling For You (But I Can't Reach You) / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Honeycat Hornpipe / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Edgar Loudermilk Band with Jeff Autry / Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Rural Rhythm
• A Hundred Years From Now / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Teach Your Children / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Don't Weep For Me / Blue Highway / Original Traditional / Rounder
• Cannonball Yodel / Dede Wyland / Urge For Going / Patuxent Music
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Stagger Lee / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Whatcha Gonna Do / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• East Bound And Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys with Jason Carter & Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / single / Sound Biscuit
• Ice Covered Birches / Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / Rebel
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Proud Mary / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• After While / Dale Ann Bradley / Things She Couldn't Get Over / Pinecastle [Gospel Recording of the Year, 2021]
• Take Me In The Lifeboat / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• I'll Be Singing Up There / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute to the Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown / Alison Krauss & the Cox Family / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass with Lizzy Long / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle 
• In The Resurrection Morning / Sacred Reunion / single / Billy Blue Records [Gospel Recording of the Year, 2021]
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder