"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/13/2022

So, it seems there was a little issue getting into the Student Union at UConn today ~ the building was locked up tight as the UConn students are enjoying their Spring Break this week.  Unfortunately, those of us who are not students didn't get the message, and so, we weren't able to get inside the building.  These things (unfortunately) seem to happen every now and then.  Fortunately, though, in the absence of a "live" show, today's broadcast was a COVID-era recording that originally aired on February 28, 2021.  Hope you enjoyed a revisit.  :)

Hope to be back inside the WHUS studios broadcasting next week.  Until then, have a fine week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Break My Heart / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel
• Back To Hancock County / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Skip, Hop & Wobble / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau [Tony Rice Unit] / In Good Company / CMH
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Ice Covered Birches / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Someone Play Dixie For Me / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Hobo Blues / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Thank God For The Highways / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Just Load The Wagon / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Mend This Heart Of Mine / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Johnson Mountain Chimes / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Grand Ole Opry Song / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Mother Maybelle Carter / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Tennessee Stud / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Doc Watson / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• My Dear Old Southern Home / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / A Long Time Ago / Vivid Sound [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Bob Wills Medley / Bluegrass Cardinals / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH [Remembering Bob Wills:  3/6/1905 - 5/13/1975]
• Idle Time / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder [Mike Compton birthday, 2/29/1956]
• Your Lone Journey / Doc Watson / Best of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Walk Through This World With Me / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Won't Be Crying Over You / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• Darby's Castle / Professor Dan Boner / West Of West Virginia / Self-Produced
• Swinging A Nine Pound Hammer / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Music
• Flint Hill Special / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Earl Scruggs / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Things In Life / Don Stover / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Satisfied / Sullivan Family / Live! At McClure / Rebel
• Leaning On The Everlasting Arms / The Grascals / Dance 'Til Your Stockings Are Hot And Ravelin' / Time Life
• Praying / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• The Church Back Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Starday
• Going Home / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler
• I've Just Seen The Rock Of Ages / Larry Sparks / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Dust On The Bible / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Jesus Made The Wine / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• My Lord Delivered Me / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Gospel Collection, Volume One / Sugar Hill
• Living On The Hallelujah Side / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• Jesus Is Standing At My Right Hand / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• On The Wings Of A Dove / Gopher Broke Bluegrass / The Wayworn Traveler / Self-Produced
• Get On That Road To Glory / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• It's So Hard To Stumble (When You're Down On Your Knees) / Lou Reid & Carolina / Sounds Like Heaven To Me / Rural Rhythm
• Something That The World Didn't Give Me / Marshall Family / Live! At McClure / Rebel
• When We All Get To Heaven / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Glory Bound Train / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
• I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/6/2022

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured something that I haven't done in over two years -- a bona fide, live-as-it's-happening telephone interview!  Our interviewee was the delightful Michelle Canning, who told us all about the things she's been doing (writing songs like crazy!) and also, about her upcoming virtual event to benefit the Alzheimer's Foundation of America:  A Night On The Edge.  For more information about the event and all of the other things Michelle is doing, visit Michelle's website (https://michellecanning.net).  

The songs we played also included birthday selections in honor of two Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo players who were both born on March 6th:  Don Stover (1928) and Doug Dillard (1937).  Other birthday music celebrated Norman Blake, Rickie Simpkins, Cia Cherryholmes, and the first part of a two-show selection of songs written by the great Marshall Wilborn.  

And we remembered Mac Martin, who died on February 28th at the age of 96.  Mr. Martin was a fine purveyor of traditional Bluegrass music in the Pittsburgh, PA area for over 70 years.  Amazing.

We'll look for you once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.  Hope you have a fine week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Things In Life / Don Stover / Hand-Picked / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• The Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Bob Wills Medley / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH [Remembering Bob Wills:  3/6/1905 - 5/13/1975]
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Hank / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Polka On A Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• New Curly Headed Baby / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• A Faded Rose, A Broken Heart / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• Blue Skies In Your Eyes / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• Are You Missing Me / Dailey & Vincent / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways
• Date With An Angel / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Cheek To Cheek With The Blues / Del McCoury / High Lonesome And Blue / Rounder
• Telephone chat with Michelle Canning
• The Blues Ain't Workin' On Me / Michelle Canning with Rhonda Vincent / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Which Train / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records [Norman Blake birthday, 3/10/1938]
• Dusty Miller / Rickie Simpkins / Dancing On The Fingerboard / Pinecastle [Rickie Simpkins birthday, 3/10/1955]
• How Long / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records [Cia Cherryholmes birthday, 3/11/1984]
• Workin' Man (Nowhere To Go) / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Black Pony / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Heart Of A Little Mountain Girl / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• If Lonely Was The Wind / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Goodbye To The Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• I Wanna Be Where You Are / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Don't Let Smokey Mountain Smoke Get In Your Eyes / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• You Are The One / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Dixie In My Eye / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
• The Sun Also Rises / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• 20/20 Vision / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• Down To The River To Pray / Alison Krauss / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• In The Cool Light Of Dawn / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• There's A Higher Power / Kathy Kallick Band / Between The Hollow & The High-Rise / Live Oak Records
• John In The Jordan / Jerry Salley with the Oak Ridge Boys / All God's Children Sing / Very Jerry Records
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• He Will Set Your Fields On Fire / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe / Columbia Legacy
• Bring Him Your Talents / Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/28/2021

Howdy!  Here we are, already -- the last Sunday of February!  Hope you're doing well, and that you were able to join us for the 45th "home-made" edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

During Sunday's show, as always, we shared a few songs from folks who would have celebrated (or, who still celebrate) birthdays during this week.  Four of these birthday celebrants are members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, including Doug Dillard, John Duffey, Don Stover, and Doc Watson.  We also remembered the King of Western Swing, Bob Wills, with a Bluegrass medley of his songs.

We also shared a few songs from two important albums in the history of Bluegrass music:  the Lonesome River Band's "Carrying The Tradition" (released 30 years ago this year), and the first "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" collection from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band who were joined by a whole bunch of their musical heroes (3-LP set released March 1, 1972).  

Hope you enjoyed something you heard during today's broadcast, but here's a program note for the next two Sundays:  due to UConn Baseball broadcasts, our Bluegrass Cafe will air from 6-9PM on both March 7th and March 14th.  Hope you can still join us...just a bit later than "normal."  

Stay healthy, and have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Break My Heart / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel
• Back To Hancock County / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Skip, Hop & Wobble / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss When I'm Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Ice Covered Birches / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Someone Play Dixie For Me / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Hobo Blues / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Thank God For The Highways / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Just Load The Wagon / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Mend This Heart Of Mine / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Johnson Mountain Chimes / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Grand Ole Opry Song / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Mother Maybelle Carter / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Tennessee Stud / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Doc Watson / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• My Dear Old Southern Home / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / A Long Time Ago / [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Bob Wills Medley / Bluegrass Cardinals / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH [Remembering Bob Wills:  3/6/1905 - 5/13/1975]
• Idle Time / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder [Mike Compton birthday, 2/29/1956]
• Your Lone Journey / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Walk Through This World With Me / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Won't Be Crying Over You / Tina Adair / single / Engelhardt Music Group
• Darby's Castle / Professor Dan Boner / West Of West Virginia / Self-Produced
• Swinging A Nine Pound Hammer / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Music
• Flint Hill Special / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Earl Scruggs / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Things In Life / Don Stover / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Satisfied / Sullivan Family / Live! At McClure / Rebel
• Leaning On The Everlasting Arms / The Grascals / Dance 'Til Your Stockings Are Hot And Ravelin' / Time Life
• Praying / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• The Church Back Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Starday
• Going Home / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler
• I've Just Seen The Rock Of Ages / Larry Sparks / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Dust On The Bible / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Jesus Made The Wine / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• My Lord Delivered Me / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Gospel Collection, Volume One / Sugar Hill
• Living On The Hallelujah Side / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• Jesus Is Standing At My Right Hand / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• On The Wings Of A Dove / Gopher Broke Bluegrass / The Wayworn Traveler / Self-Produced
• Get On That Road To Glory / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• It's So Hard To Stumble (When You're Down On Your Knees) / Lou Reid & Carolina / Sounds Like Heaven To Me / Rural Rhythm
• Something That The World Didn't Give Me / Marshall Family / Live! At McClure / Rebel
• When We All Get To Heaven / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Glory Bound Train / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
• I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder