"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/19/2023

On this last full day of "Winter" (we really haven't had much winter weather in eastern Connecticut this season), we opened our Bluegrass Cafe with songs celebrating Spring!  Bring on the flowers!  Welcome back, baseball!  At this point, it will be nice to see some green outside instead of just drab old grays and browns.  

During our show, we celebrated the mid-March birthdays of two important members of the Country Music Hall of Fame:  Carl Smith (March 15, 1927 - January 16, 2010) and Charley Pride (March 18, 1934 - December 12, 2020).  These two even recorded some Bluegrass songs during their careers, though they didn't really record them in a "Bluegrass" style.  Still, their songs have often been recorded by Bluegrass performers, so we heard several songs from each legend's repertoire.  

Newer music on our show this week included selections from Carl Bentley, Jason Barie, Starlett & Big John, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Billy Strings, Michael Cleveland, Greg Blake & Hometown, and the Gibson Brothers.

Thanks for listening!  Hope you'll consider joining us for another visit to our Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Red Feather
• Spring Will Bring Flowers / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• When Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Ah Spring / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• Winter's Come And Gone / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Cherry Blossoms In The Springtime / Jeanette Williams / Cherry Blossoms In The Springtime / Doobie Shea
• Blue Ridge Mountains Turning Green / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Home Run Man / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Stealing Second / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• This Morning At Nine / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• They Call Me The Breeze / Eddie Adcock Band / Talk To Your Heart / CMH
• This Weary Heart You Stole Away / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• I'd Like To Be A Train / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• The Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / The Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH
• You Won't Be Satisfied That Way / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• My Walking Shoes / David Grisman, Vince Gill, Herb Pederson, Jim Buchanan, Emory Gordy, Jr. / Here Today / Rounder
• Nine Pound Hammer / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• These Old Blues / Carl Bentley / single / Self-Produced
• Good Love Gets Better With Time / Jason Barie with Jeff Parker / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Play The Wildwood Flower / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• The Ties That Bind / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• Thousand Dollar Holler / Michael Cleveland / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• A Hundred Miles To Go / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Yankee Cowboy / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced [Remembering Jim Sharpley:  4/15/1949 - 3/9/2023]
• Don't Just Stand There / Carl Smith / Let's Live A Little / Living Era [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• Are You Teasin' Me / Crowe Brothers / Brothers-n-Harmony / Rural Rhythm [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]
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music [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]
• A Good Woman's Love / Charley Pride / Pride Of Country Music / RCA [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / Jesse Brock / 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]
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Rose Maddox / Sing A Little Song Of Heartache / Bear Family Records [Recorded 3/19/1962]
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• My Darkest Hour / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Born To Be With You / Flashback / Denver Snow / Pinecastle
• Footprints In The Snow / Rose Maddox / Sing A Little Song Of Heartache / Bear Family Records [Recorded 3/19/1962]
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Take A Little Time For Jesus / Junior Sisk / Lost & Alone / Mountain Fever Records
• Do A Little More For Him / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Only God / SSK Recording
• When I Reach That Home Up There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Travelling The Highway Home / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• On The Sunny Side Of Life / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"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 - 3/21/2021

Songs of Spring -- that's how we started this Sunday's edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!  Hope you were able to tune in, as for the first time in two weeks, we could be heard during our "normal" time of 4-7PM on Sunday afternoon.  Yay!

In addition to songs about Spring, we also heard a whole bunch of newer Bluegrass during this Sunday's broadcast, with selections from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, the ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band, Missy Armstrong, Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford, and a band called Magnolia Drive.  

And there were a couple more birthdays to celebrate, as well, including those of

David Grisman and the late John Starling, as well as Country Music Hall of Famer, Carl Smith (who was celebrated by playing several Bluegrass versions of his 1950s hits).  We also remembered the late Peg Chase, who was a fixture on the New England Bluegrass festival scene for many years before relocating to Idaho several years ago.

Hope you were able to join us, but if not, please try to tune in next Sunday afternoon - 4-7PM.

Until then, have a great week -- and stay healthy!

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
• Blue Ridge Mountains Turning Green / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Virginia In The Springtime / Flashback / Blues Around My Cabin / Pinecastle
• When It's Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Winter's Come And Gone / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• You Broke Your Promise / Appalachian Express / Walking The Blues / Rebel
• Willow Creek Dam / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• Wonderbat / Nate Lee / Wings Of A Jetliner / Self-Produced
• Here Today And Gone Tomorrow / Professor Dan Boner with Rhonda Vincent / West Of West Virginia / Self-Produced
• The Barber's Fiddle / Becky Buller / Distance And Time / Dark Shadow Recording
• Spring Will Bring Flowers / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Straight Drive / Terry McGill / Straight Drive / Cabinwood Music
• Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• The Angry Wife / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Banjo Am The Instrument For Me / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• It Don't Bring You Back To Me / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• Hard Pressed / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Eddie To The Rescue / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• Lonely Violet / Peg & Ed / Lonely Violet / Self-Produced
• Women Of Sorrow / Bear Bridge Band / Bear Essentials / Open Road
• Between The Lines / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / single / Billy Blue Records
• When The Water Goes Down / ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band / single / Self-Produced
• Unwanted Love / Barry Abernathy with Dan Tyminski / Barry Abernathy & Friends / Billy Blue Records
• Creeping Round My Cabin / Missy Armstrong / My Remedy / Melton & Miller Music
• Living Shouldn't Be This Hard / Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford / Still Here / Mountain Home
• I Won't Call You / Magnolia Drive / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Home Is Where The Heart Is / David Grisman / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder [David Grisman birthday, 3/23/1945]
• Old Train / Seldom Scene / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Starling:  3/26/1940 - 5/2/2019]
• Grandpa Get Your Guitar / Seldom Scene / Like We Used To Be / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Starling:  3/26/1940 - 5/2/2019]
• I'm My Own Grandpa / David Grisman / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder [David Grisman birthday, 3/23/1945]
• Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• You Are The One / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [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]
• Loose Talk / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler [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 [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• Watermelon On The Vine / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / Patuxent Music
• Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / single / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Be Going To Heaven Sometime / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Open Up Your Heart (And Let Jesus In) / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• When I've Travelled My Last Mile / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Take Me Home, Lord / Carolyn Eyerly / Sunny Side Of Life / Patuxent Music
• (I'd Rather Live) By The Side Of The Road / Mac Wiseman / 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Bear Family
• Down The Road To Gloryland / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Sugar Hill
• Green Pastures In The Sky / Larry Sparks / Live! At McClure! / Rebel
• Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Broadminded / Louvin Brothers / Close Harmony / Bear Family
• You Don't Love God If You Don't Love Your Neighbor / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• Satan's Jeweled Crown / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• The Old Account / Mac Wiseman, Del McCoury, Doc Watson / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill
• Stacking Up The Rocks / Balsam Range / Five / Mountain Home
• Inside The Gate / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Springtime In Glory / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder