"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/6/2026

Today's broadcast of our Bluegrass Cafe was both abbreviated and expanded at the same time.  As UConn Men's Soccer action took over the WHUS airwaves starting at 5PM, we opted to start the show an hour earlier at 3PM.  We had a lot of ground to cover this week, so didn't want to try to squeeze it all into one hour.

It's a holiday weekend, so the show started with several songs centering on the theme of "working" or "labor."  Hope everyone is enjoying the last unofficial weekend of summer!  

I wasn't in the studio last week to do a live version of our program, so I wasn't able to pay tribute to the wonderful Dolly Parton (January 19, 1946 - August 25, 2026).  We've long celebrated Dolly during our Bluegrass Cafe, as she was many things, as we know.  If Dolly had never sung a note or written a song, we would still know her from her many charitable contributions to the world.  Fortunately for us, though, Dolly was an incredible songwriter who wrote many songs that have been covered by many Bluegrass performers over the years.  In her later years, Dolly successfully recorded several Bluegrass-themed records, and often appeared as a guest vocalist with various performers.  We will spotlight some of her guest vocalist recordings in a future Bluegrass Cafe.  Dolly will be missed forever, but what a legacy she left for all!

We hope to join you for a full three-hour Bluegrass Cafe next week.  Have a wonderful week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Working Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• Working Girl Blues / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Hazel And Alice Sessions / Spruce And Maple Music
• Workin' Man (Nowhere To Go) / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Poor Boy Workin' Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Factory Floor / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Today's The Day I Get My Gold Watch And Chain / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Rebel
• Lower On The Hog / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Sugar Hill
• Maria / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Look For Me / Pinecastle
• No Regrets / Kristy Cox / single / Billy Blue Records
• Working Man / Daryl Mosley / Little Moments / Pinecastle
• Walk On John / Daniel Grindstaff & the Uptown Troubadours / Daniel Grindstaff & the Uptown Troubadours / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Puppy Love / Dolly Parton / Dolly Box Set Sampler / RCA Legacy [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• My Tennessee Mountain Home / Dolly Parton / My Tennessee Mountain Home / RCA Legacy [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• The Grass Is Blue / Dolly Parton / The Grass Is Blue / Sugar Hill [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Dolly Parton / Heartsongs (Live From Home) / Columbia [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• I Wasted My Tears / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Celebration / Rebel [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• Gypsy, Joe And Me / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• AppleJack / Pam Gadd with Dolly Parton / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway Productions [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• Pain Of Loving You / Mark Newton with Gloria Belle / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• When Someone Wants To Leave / The Seldom Scene / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• Jolene / Monroe Crossing / Live From Silver Dollar City / Self-Produced [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble & The Rose / Rounder [Remembering Dolly Parton:  1/19/1946 - 8/25/2026]
• Living The Dream / Spinney Brothers / Living The Dream / Mountain Fever Records
• I'd Rather Be Alone / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Somehow Tonight / Joe Diffie / Homecoming:  The Bluegrass Album / Rounder
• Memories That We Shared / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Nobody's Love Is Like Mine / Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / Rebel
• Come On Down / Lost & Found / Hymn Time / Rebel
• Follow The Leader / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Follow The Leader / Pinecastle
• Goodnight, The Lord's Coming / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/26/2025

During part of Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we spent some time belatedly celebrating the January 19th birthdays of two very important figures in the world of Bluegrass:  both the late Bluegrass Hall of Famer Charlie Waller (January 19, 1935 - August 18, 2004), and the always-important Bluegrass influencer, Dolly Parton (born January 19, 1946).  No better way than to celebrate these folks than with lots of their music, and so, that is what we did.

We also remembered Buck White, who died on January 13th at the age of 94.  This patriarch of the Whites (a band formerly known as Buck White & the Down Home Folks) was a staple at the Grand Ole Opry for 40+ years, and carried on the tradition of great family bands in country music for many decades.  Buck will be missed, but his influence lives on through his daughters (and musical partners), Sharon White Skaggs and Cheryl White Jones.

The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) held their 50th annual convention and awards show this past weekend, and we shared music from some of the big fan-voted winners, including the Kody Norris Show, Rhonda Vincent, Junior Sisk, and Authentic Unlimited.  For a complete list of the 2025 winners, check out this link from Bluegrass Today.

We even had time for a bit of brand-new music during our show, too, this time coming from Laura Orshaw (with the Slocan Ramblers), Larry Cordle, Becky Buller, and Nick Chandler & Delivered.

Hope you're having a good week.  We'll look forward to visiting with you on the radio once again this coming Sunday when Bluegrass Cafe returns from 4-7PM.

See you then!

Amy O.

 

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Mercury [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• High Lonesome / Bill Emerson with Charlie Waller / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Lord, Protect My Soul / Bill Monroe with Charlie Waller / Bill Monroe & Stars Of The Bluegrass Hall Of Fame / MCA [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Copper Kettle / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Catfish John / Charlie Waller & the Country Gentlemen / 45 Years Of Memories / Pinecastle [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• I'm On My Way To The Old Home / Bill Monroe with Jim & Jesse / Bill Monroe & Stars Of The Bluegrass Hall Of Fame / MCA 
• Old Rusty Gate / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Old Rusty Gate / Rebel
• They Sleep Together Now At Rest / Jeremy Stephens & Tom Mindte / Old Time Duets / Patuxent Music
• I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky / Bill Monroe with Del McCoury / Bill Monroe & Stars Of The Bluegrass Hall Of Fame / MCA
• My Blue Tears / Dolly Parton / Coat Of Many Colors / Buddha Records [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Holding On To Nothing / Dale Ann Bradley with Marty Raybon / Catch Tomorrow / Compass Records [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Applejack / Pam Gadd with Dolly Parton / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway Productions [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Gypsy, Joe, And Me / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Red Bandana / Laura Orshaw with the Slocan Ramblers / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Old Richmond Road / Larry Cordle / single / Mighty Cord Records
• Reach / Becky Buller / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Never Did No Wanderin' / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / Pinecastle
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Not A Word From Home / Rounder
• Bright Lights & Country Music / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music
• Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Not A Word From Home / Rounder
• Big Tilda / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Buck's Run / Buck White & the Down Home Folks / Blow Wind Blow / County Records [Remembering Buck White:  12/13/1930 - 1/13/2025]
• Poor Folks' Pleasure / Buck White & Down Home Folks / Poor Folks' Pleasure / Sugar Hill [Remembering Buck White:  12/13/1930 - 1/13/2025]
• Close The Door Lightly When You Go / Buck White & the Down Home Folks / Live At The Old Time Picking Parlor / County Records [Remembering Buck White:  12/13/1930 - 1/13/2025]
• Forever You / The Whites / Forever You / MCA [Remembering Buck White:  12/13/1930 - 1/13/2025]
• Keep On The Sunny Side / The Whites / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury [Remembering Buck White:  12/13/1930 - 1/13/2025]
• Mountain Rosalie / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Endless Highway / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• These Ole Blues / Missy Raines with Danny Paisley / Highlander / Compass Records
• It'll Be Me / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / Dreaming / Rounder
• I'll Go Stepping Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Run Mountain / Tony Trischka with Noam Pikelny / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Roust-A-Bout / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• Lonesome Man In A Lonesome Town / Rock Hearts with Danny Paisley / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• Swing Down Sweet Chariot / Buck White & the Down Home Folks / That Down Home Feeling / Ridge Runner Records [Remembering Buck White:  12/13/1930 - 1/13/2025]
• The Sons And Daughters Of God / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• If There's A Will There's A Way / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler
• Little Eyes / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Remember The Cross / Bill Monroe with John Duffey & Mike Auldridge / Bill Monroe & Stars Of The Bluegrass Hall Of Fame / MCA
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live / Upper Management Music
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / Sugar Hill Collection / Sugar Hill
• River Of Jordan / Ricky Skaggs & the Whites / Stained Glass Bluegrass / Rounder [Remembering Buck White:  12/13/1930 - 1/13/2025]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Blues / Requests / Rounder
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/21/2023

Mid-January is prime time to celebrate some important Bluegrass birthdays, so that was our primary focus during this day's Bluegrass Cafe.  

We remembered the January 19th birthdays of several folks, most notably those of Bluegrass Hall of Famer Charlie Waller (January 19, 1935 - August 8, 2004) and Queen of the World Dolly Parton (born January 19, 1946).  Charlie's nearly 50 years as the lead singer/guitarist of the Country Gentlemen were filled with songs that have become Bluegrass standards.  And while Dolly has recorded a couple of what she marketed as "Bluegrass" albums, the fact remains that Dolly is a top-notch songwriter and many of her songs have been covered in the world of Bluegrass.  We also shared many songs in honor of Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo picker, Bill Emerson (January 22, 1938 - August 21, 2021), whose career included being a founding member of the Country Gentlemen, a stint with Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, partnerships with Cliff Waldron and Pete Goble, and as a bandleader with his own Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie.  Great music.

There were quite a few new songs to share today from performers like Authentic Unlimited, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Jerry Salley, Missy Raines, and a new band called Wood Box Heroes.  

Thanks for listening!  Hope you will be sure to join us next Sunday afternoon for our Bluegrass Cafe -- 4-7PM.  

Have a great week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Early Morning Rain / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• All I Have To Do Is Dream / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Pain Of Loving You / The Grascals with Dolly Parton / The Grascals & Friends / BluGrascal Records [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Come And Sit By The River / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Empty Pocket Blues / Michael Cleveland with Flamekeeper feat. Bryan Sutton / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Dixie In My Eye / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Pick Your Own / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Pinecastle [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Home Run Man / Bill Emerson & Mark Newton / A Foot In The Past, A Foot In The Future / Pinecastle [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / This World Is Not My Home / MME [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• State Line Ride / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Dancin' Annie / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Little White Washed Chimney / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Wasted Words / Feller & Hill / Feller & Hill & the Bluegrass Buckaroos / Self-Produced
• Maple Sugar / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
• Listen To The Lonesome Wind / Missy Raines / Highlander / Compass Records
• Will You Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / single / Self-Produced
• Colorado Winter / Jerry Salley / single / Very Jerry Records
• These Old Blues / Missy Raines with Danny Paisley / Highlander / Compass Records
• Cross The Line / Wood Box Heroes / single / Self-Produced
• The Sunny Side Of Life / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Slippers With Wings / Charlie Waller & Randall Hylton / The Singer & the Songster / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Fare Thee Well / Duffey, Waller, Adcock & Gray / Classic Country Gents Reunion / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• High Lonesome / Bill Emerson with Charlie Waller / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Honey Don't / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Fox On The Run / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Mighty Mississippi / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Jimmy Haley birthday, 1/19/1955]
• Viva Las Vegas / The Grascals with Dolly Parton / The Grascals / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Gypsy, Joe, And Me / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Orange Blossom Special / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• You're In My Heart / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/8/2004; Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Traditional Grass / I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• Kneel Down And Pray Up / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Moon / Rebel
• When We Look On His Face / Bill Emerson with Cliff Waldron / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• I Am The Road / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• Brighter Mansion Over There / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King Records
• Music In My Soul / HIgh Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• I'm Working On A Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Gone Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/8/2004]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/15/2023

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured music from two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame as well as a whole lot of music from a bona fide Bluegrass legend (and member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame).  Hope you were able to join us for lots of music from the song catalogs of Ray Price, Dolly Parton, and Charlie Waller.  

We also included a couple of brand-new songs from Casey Penn, Greg Blake & Hometown, and Jason Carter.  

We'll be looking for you next Sunday afternoon for another session in our Bluegrass Cafe.

Until then, have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Sky Is Weeping / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Summer When You First Loved Me / Lonesome River Band / Head On Into Heartache / Mountain Home
• 32 Acres / Special Consensus / 25th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• The Likes Of You / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• The Eighth Of January / Chubby Wise / An American Original / Pinecastle
• Leftover Biscuits / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity with Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Sad And Blue / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Battle Of New Orleans / Fritts Family / Home Grown Tomatoes / Atteiram Records
• The Train Song / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Singing Harmony / The Big Dogs with Tony Trischka / Live At The Birchmere / Strictly Country Records
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Dickson County Breakdown / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Never Say Never Again / Dwight McCall / Never Say Never Again / F5 Music
• Poor Old Cora / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Rebels Ye Rest / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• We Go Together Like A Guitar And A Fiddle / Casey Penn / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Kissimmee Kid / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• In The Wind / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Self-Produced
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• I'll Be There / Ray Price / The Essential Ray Price, 1951-1962 / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Move On In And Stay / Mickey Harris / Dog House Blues / MJH Records [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Falling, Falling, Falling / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Crazy Arms / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Jim & Jesse / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics -- The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• You Done Me Wrong / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• I Can't Go Home Like This / Ray Price / The Essential Ray Price, 1951-1962 / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• My Tennessee Mountain Home / Dolly Parton / My Tennessee Mountain Home / RCA [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• My Blue Tears / Rhonda Vincent / My Blue Tears / Rebel [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Gypsy, Joe, And Me / Rhonda Vincent / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• AppleJack / Pam Gadd with Dolly Parton / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway Productions [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Loving You Too Well / Ralph Stanley with Dolly Parton / Clinch Mountain Sweethearts / Rebel [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• That's Why I'm Lonesome / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Can't You Hear Me Calling / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Dark As A Dungeon / Seldom Scene with Charlie Waller / 15th Anniversary Celebration [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Bill Emerson with Charlie Waller & Doyle Lawson / Teach Your Children / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004; Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Shall We Gather At The River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• Walk On Faith / King James Boys / Walk On Faith / Pinecastle
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder 
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• Before The Fire Comes Down / Del McCoury Band / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• On The Sunny Side Of Life / Country Gentelmen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/16/2022

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included lots of birthday music, a Bluegrass farewell to a top-notch country music songwriter, and even a new duet from two of the finest voices in Bluegrass music.  Hope you were able to join us for all or part of the program.

We started and finished the show with songs from the prolific pen of an American original:  Dolly Parton (born January 19, 1946).  As Dolly has dabbled in Bluegrass music for years, we even included some of her singing, as well.

On Friday, January 14, 2022, the music world lost a wonderful member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame:  Dallas Frazier.  Originally, my plan was to play a couple of Mr. Frazier's tunes that had been covered in the Bluegrass world, but as I made a list of some of his songs, I realized there were far more than 2 or 3 really good ones to share.  Instead, we put together a set of a dozen songs either written or co-written by Dallas Frazier, and all of them were wonderful.  Rest in peace, Dallas Frazier.

We couldn't let the show pass without remembering a few January birthdays, two of which were of founding members of the Country Gentlemen (Bill Emerson born January 22nd and Charlie Waller born January 19th).  And there was a song in honor of Tony Trischka, who celebrates his birthday on January 16th.

And if that wasn't enough, there is a new duet record by Dale Ann Bradley and Danny Paisley.  Yay!

Hope you were able to tune in to the show, but if not, we sure hope you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• AppleJack / Pam Gadd with Dolly Parton / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway Productions [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• My Tennessee Mountain Home / Dolly Parton / The Essential Dolly Parton / Columbia Legacy [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Gypsy, Joe And Me / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Jolene / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury / My Dixie Home / Rebel
• Blue Eyed Darlin' / Jason Barie / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• Country Boy, Banjo And Flat Top Guitar / Big Country Bluegrass / Mountains, Mamas, And Memories / Rebel
• Timber I'm Falling / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / Self-Produced [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• I'm So Afraid Of Losing You Again / Chris Jones / Just A Drifter / Rebel [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Ain't Love A Good Thing / New Coon Creek Girls / Ain't Love A Good Thing / Pinecastle [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Baptism Of Jesse Taylor / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• California Cottonfields / J.D. Crowe & Rickey Wasson / Hats Off To Haggard! / TrueGrass Entertainment [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• All I Have To Offer You Is Me / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone) / Mark Newton with the Whites / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Fourteen Carat Mind / Lost & Found / It's About Time / Rebel [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Back In My Baby's Arms Again / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Shoulder To Shoulder / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder [Remembering  Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Beneath Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes 1 & 2 / Sugar Hill [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• One By One / Dale Ann Bradley with Danny Paisley / single / Pinecastle
• I Surely Will Be Singing / Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz / Surely Will Be Singing / Mountain Fever Records
• Larry Sparks Medley / Josh Williams, Bradley Walker, Russell Moore / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Once More / The Grascals / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Come And Sit By The River / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/8/2004]
• Ridin' The High Iron / Bill Emerson / Gold Plated Banjo / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• High Lonesome / Bill Emerson with Charlie Waller / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• New York Chimes / The Big Dogs with Tony Trischka / Live At The Birchmere / Strictly Country Records [Tony Trischka birthday, 1/16/1949]
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Hometown Blues / Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Let The Whole World Talk / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• People, Places, And Songs / Greg Blake / People, Places, And Songs / Turnberry Records
• Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Claire Lynch / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Shall We Gather At The River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Traveling On And On / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• The Shining Path / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949 / Columbia 
• Enter The Gates / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• When He Calls My Name / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Hitchhiking To California / Billy Blue Records
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/17/2021

Our Bluegrass Cafe on this day was mainly one to celebrate birthdays, and there were a passel of them!  Those celebrating birthdays included Bluegrass Hall of Famers Charlie Waller and Bill Emerson, as well as Country Music Hall of Famers Dolly Parton and Phil Everly, and West Virginia Hall of Famer Walter Bailes.  If you celebrate your birthday in mid-January, Happy Birthday wishes to you, too!

Last week, we received in the mail a big box of CDs that have been sent to to the WHUS studios since mid-March 2020.  We're working our way through some of those CDs now, and trying to play catch-up.  On this broadcast, we shared two songs each from four CDs that had been sent to WHUS last year, but that had received limited airplay during our "home-made" COVID shows:  "My Best Friend" by Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition (Patuxent Music); "Ronnie Bowman" by Ronnie Bowman (Engelhardt Music Group); "Fiddler's Pastime" by Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (Self-Produced); and "Bridges And Backroads" by Jerry Salley (Very Jerry Records).  We'll check out a few more 2020 CDs in future weeks of our continued home-produced program.  

This week's show also included three new recordings for 2021 from the likes of Williamson Branch, Carolyn Eyerly, and Chris Jones & the Night Drivers.

Thanks, as always, for listening, and be sure to check in with a request or comment, if you're so inclined.  Email can be sent to bgcafe@gmail.com and our Facebook page can be found at www.Facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe.

Have a good week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Mighty Mississippi / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sugar Hill [Jimmy Haley birthday, 1/19/1955]
• Sweet Dixie / Bill Emerson / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel [Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• John Hardy / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder [John Hardy hanged, 1/19/1894]
• The Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [#1 on Billboard country chart, 1/19/1963]
• Music Of The Mountains / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Let Me Be The Bridge / Jerry Salley / Bridges And Backroads / Very Jerry Records
• Fiddler's Pastime / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Laura Orshaw / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Lucille / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Pearl / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• How I Want To Be Remembered / Jerry Salley / Bridges And Backroads / Very Jerry Records
• Gonna Be Raining When I Die / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Quiet Click / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Mountain Home
• I'm Gonna Be The Wind / Laurie Lewis / Restless Rambling Heart / Flying Fish
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango
• Won't You Think Of Me / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Banjo Boy Chimes / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• When Someone Wants To Leave / Seldom Scene / Bluegrass The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• I Wasted My Tears / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Celebration / Rebel [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Jolene / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Pain Of Loving You / Ronnie Reno & the Reno Tradition / Portfolio / Shell Point Records [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Dolly Parton / Classic Country, 1970-1974 / Time Life [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail / Everly Brothers / Songs Our Daddy Taught Us / Ace [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Brand New Heartache / Larry Stephenson with Dudley Connell / Wash My Blues Away / Webco [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Rounder [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• High Lonesome / Bill Emerson with Charlie Waller / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004; Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Fox On The Run / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004; Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• The Double Eagle / Country Gentlemen / Country Songs Old And New / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• You Go To Your Church And I'll Go To Mine / Bailes Brothers / At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight / Bear Family [Remembering Walter Bailes:  1/17/1920 - 11/27/2000]
• Dust On The Bible / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel [Remembering Walter Bailes:  1/17/1920 - 11/27/2000]
• We're Living In The Last Days Now / Bailes Brothers / Remember Me / Bear Family [Remembering Walter Bailes:  1/17/1920 - 11/27/2000]
• Over In The Glory Land / Carolyn Eyerly / The Sunny Side Of Life / Patuxent Music
• I Want To Be A Christian Soldier / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Heaven's Green Fields / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• So Happy I'll Be / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• I'll Shout And Shine / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• You Must Come In At The Door / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Mount Zion's Lofty Heights / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Stained Glass Bluegrass / Rounder
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road 
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004; Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• He Knows My Name / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm [Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• Camping In Canaan's Land / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / The Cat Came Back / Rebel
• He'll Take You In / Billy & Terry Smith / Bill Monroe Tribute / KTel 
• Wait A Little Longer, Please Jesus / John Duffey, Charlie Waller, Eddie Adcock, Tom Gray / Classic Country Gents Reunion / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• God's Not Dead / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Walking In The Spirit / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• One Wide River / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder