"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/8/2026

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• All In My Love For You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• A Daisy A Day / Lost & Found / Love, Lost & Found / Rebel
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• You're For Me / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Phoenix / Happy Appy Records
• Rose Of My Heart / IIIrd Tyme Out / John & Mary / Rounder
• Kentucky Sweetheart / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel
• She's Heavenly / Del McCoury Band with Molly Tuttle / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• She Paints A Picture / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Marianne / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Modern Times / Rebel
• Ten Degrees And Getting Colder / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• Raw Hide / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• How Mountain Girls Can Love / Stanley Brothers / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life
• Bad Case Of Lovin' You / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco
• Scraps From Your Table / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Sweethearts In Heaven / Reno & Smiley / On The Air / Copper Creek
• Orange Blossom Special / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Rambler's Blues / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Rambler's Blues / Sugar Hill
• Maple On The Hill / Tony Trischka with Sister Sadie / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• Life's Highway / Whysper / single / Whysper Dream Music
• Rhythm Of The Ridge / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home 
• Tucson / Trey Hensley / single / Pinecastle
• Come On Back / DownRiver Collective / single / Self-Produced
• Red Dirt, White House, Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / Nolichucky / Flagpond Records
• The Devil Went Down To Deep Gap / Bryan Sutton with Billy Strings / single / Mountain Home
• That's How I Can Count On You / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue:  The Complete County Recordings / Rebel [Remembering Red Allen:  2/12/1930 - 4/3/1993]
• Dear Old Mother / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [Remembering Jim McReynolds:  2/13/1927 - 12/31/2002]
• Georgia Stomp / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder [David McLaughlin birthday, 2/13/1958]
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again--Gone But Not Forgotten / Wango [Remembering Charlie Moore:  2/13/1935 - 12/24/1979]
• Don't Wake Me / Bill Emerson with Red Allen / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Red Allen:  2/12/1930 - 4/3/1993]
• All I Have To Do Is Dream / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• A Brand New Heartache / Larry Stephenson & Dudley Connell / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• Northern Rail / Northern Lights / Take You To The Sky / Flying Fish Records
• That's Why I'm Lonesome / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• City That Drowned / Mile Twelve / City On A Hill / Delores The Taurus Records
• Streets Of Baltimore / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Calling Me / Eddie Sanders feat. Larry Cordle, John Cowan, Shawn Camp / I'm A Jesus Man / True Lonesome Records
• Waiting For The Boys To Come Home / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Will There Be Any Stars? / Alison Krauss & the Cox Family / I Know Who Holds Tomorrow / Rounder
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Let Me Be The Best Bible / Rock Hearts / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• God Told Nicodemus / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• There's A Higher Power / Kathy Kallick / Count Your Blessings:  A Bluegrass Gospel Collection / Live Oak Records
• I'll Shout And Shine / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• City On A Hill / Northern Lights / Can't Buy Your Way / Flying Fish
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/18/2024

February 18th -- a day to celebrate
Dudley & Don!

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was all about celebrating mid-February birthdays.  We included music from four members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame who happen to have been born in the middle of February (Howard Watts, Don Reno, Little Roy Lewis, Dudley Connell), as well as several other Bluegrass notables with mid-February birthdays (Don Rigsby, Claire Lynch, Mark Newton).  Happy Birthday to all of them!

There wasn't a whole lot in the way of brand-new music to share on Sunday, but we did include a new single from Darin & Brooke Aldridge, as well as recent music from the Larry Stephenson Band, Adam McIntosh, Bluegrass Express, and the Edgar Loudermilk Band.

Hope you were able to join us on Sunday.  We'll be looking forward to having you join us this coming Sunday for another Bluegrass Cafe.  See you at 4PM!

Amy O. 

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Second Wind / Claire Lynch / Moonlighter / Rounder [Claire Lynch birthday, 2/20/1954]
• Bootleg John / Don Rigsby / The Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea Records [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Let The Whole World Talk / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• I'll Be Lovin' You / Greg Blake / People, Places And Songs / Turnberry Records
• Baby Girl / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Don't Neglect The Rose / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Fourth And Goal / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / 4th & Goal / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc.
• Is The Grass Any Bluer (On The Other Side) / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / In Concert, Volume One -- All The Rage / Upper Management Music
• Carolina And Tennessee / Unlimited Tradition / Imaginary Lines / Mountain Home
• Six White Horses / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Help My Brother / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Keep A Memory / Jason Barie with Doyle Lawson & Russell Moore / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• We'll All Drink Money / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
• Baby, You Ain't Baby Anymore / Adam McIntosh / single / Billy Blue Records
• Mountain Sally Ann / Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys / Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys / Old Blue Records
• Flatland Girl / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway with Margo Price / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• Kentucky Borderline / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / In Concert, Volume One -- All The Rage / Upper Management Music
• Price I Pay / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with John Jorgensen / single / Billy Blue Records
• I Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Larry Stephenson Band / Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Whysper Dream Music
• Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me / Bluegrass Express / A Tribute To Jim & Jesse / Plum River Records
• My Picasso / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Pinecastle
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Songbird / Special Consensus / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Home In The Mountains / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders:  A Tribute To Ralph Stanley / Rebel [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Paradise / The Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Will You Fold My Flag For Me / Flashback / Blues Around My Cabin / Pinecastle [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Fox On The Run / Tony Trischka with Tom Adams / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Meet Me By The Moonlight / Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby / Meet Me By The Moonlight / Sugar Hill [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956; Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• Welcome To The Show / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home [Little Roy Lewis birthday, 2/24/1942]
• Choking The Strings / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Your Love Is Dying / Reno & Smiley / On Stage / Copper Creek [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Slowly Getting You Out Of The Way / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• Leslie County Blues / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Over The Hills To The Poorhouse / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Ridin' The L & N / Loafers' Glory / Loafers' Glory / Arhoolie Records
• Unwanted Love / Sideline with Dudley Connell / Colors & Crossroads / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Starday [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Honey In The Rock / Lewis Family / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music [Little Roy Lewis birthday, 2/24/1942]
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• Little Community Church / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe, 1945-1949 / Columbia Legacy
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/11/2024

For the Sunday before Valentine's Day, our Bluegrass Cafe was (mostly) filled with love songs -- and most of them were of the positive variety.   

In addition, we celebrated birthdays for three members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame -- Red Allen, David McLaughlin, and Jim McReynolds -- as well as the birthday of the late Charlie Moore.  We also remembered the great songwriter, Boudleaux Bryant (February 13, 1920 - June 25, 1987), who, while not a Bluegrass songwriter, has definitely had a good many of his songs recorded in the Bluegrass style over the years.

There was a tiny bit of new music to share, too, with newer recordings from the Larry Stephenson Band, Sister Sadie, Authentic Unlimited, Jerry Salley, and Bronwyn Keith-Hynes.

Thanks for tuning on Sunday.  We'll hope to have you join us next Sunday from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  

Happy Valentine's Day!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Out Behind The Barn / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• All I Have To Do Is Dream / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• A Brand New Heartache Comin' On / Larry Stephenson with Dudley Connell / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Smokey Greene:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Panhandle Country / Mark Newton / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome / CH
• Somewhere Forgotten / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Eating Out Of Your Hand / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• It's Grand To Have Someone To Love You / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Six Feet Of Snow / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Weathered Gray Stone / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• Let's Part The Best Of Friends / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco
• Please Come Back Little Pal / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I'll Love Nobody But You / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• Well / Sister Sadie / No Fear / Mountain Home
• Colorado Winter / Jerry Salley / single / Very Jerry Records
• Sonny Weather / Larry Stephenson Band / Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Whysper Dream Music
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
• If You're Ever Gonna Leave Me / Larry Stephenson Band / Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Whysper Dream Music
• Will You Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / single / Sugar Petunia Records
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• San Joaquin / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Golden West / Nonesuch Records
• Love Bug / Lost & Found / January Rain / Rebel
• All In My Love For You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• If I Needed You / Seldom Scene with Ricky Skaggs & Sharon White Skaggs / Scene 20 / Sugar HIll
• The Court Of Love / Rhonda Vincent / Taken / Upper Management Music
• Love At Last / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Jim Eanes / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• A Good Woman's Love / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Prettier All The Time / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Love Bug / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• Are You Waiting Just For Me / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel [Remembering Red Allen:  2/12/1930 - 4/3/1993]
• Georgia Stomp / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [David McLaughlin birthday, 2/13/1958]
• Old Love Letters / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango [Remembering Charlie Moore:  2/13/1935 - 12/31/2002]
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [Remembering Jim McReynolds:  2/13/1927 - 12/31/2002]
• You're That Certain Someone / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder [David Davis birthday, 2/16/1961]
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Rose Of My Heart / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Move To The Top Of The Mountain / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• I'll Never Go Back / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• God Knows / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• The River Of Death / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Light At The River / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• I'm Ready To Go Home / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• See God's Ark A Movin' / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/27/2024

The last Sunday of January was a dreary, chilly day featuring a wintry mix throughout Connecticut.  Therefore, we thought that a perfect "excuse" for making "W" (for Winter!) our Spotlight Letter of the Week during this day's Bluegrass Cafe.  Surprisingly, there were far more recordings from "W" performers than we had time to play, so it's always possible you may hear more "W" folks again very soon.  For today, we enjoyed music from Roland White to Mac Wiseman, the Warrior River Boys to White Mountain Bluegrass to Jeanette Williams, and more.  

While that wasn't really any new music to share this week, we couldn't forget the late January/early February birthdays of a whole bunch of Bluegrass performers, including Lynwood Lunsford, Becky Buller, Del McCoury, Tom Gray, David Parmley, and Jason Carter.  

Hope you enjoyed the program today.  There is a possibility that we might get a delayed start next Sunday due to a UConn sports broadcast, but we'll keep you posted on our Facebook page.  Have a wonderful week, and thanks for listening...as always.  :)

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• When I Get The Money Made / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• The Eighth Of January / Chubby Wise / An American Original / Pinecastle
• The Cowboy Lives Forever / The Whites / A Lifetime In The Making / Skaggs Family Records
• Trying To Get To You / Roland White / Trying To Get To You / Sugar Hill
• Leavin' / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder
• Chilly Winds / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Sawing On The Strings / Alison Krauss / A Hundred Miles Or More:  A Collection / Rounder
• I Want To Be Loved / Bill Harrell with Del McCoury / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Lonely River / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder
• Timber I'm Falling / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / Self-Produced
• This Old Town / Darrell Webb Band / Breaking Down The Barriers / Rural Rhythm
• Old Man Winter / Matt Wallace / For A Season / Pinecastle
• Blue Skies And Teardrops / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• New Camptown Races / Frank Wakefield / That Was Now...This Is Then / Rosewood Records
• Early / Joe Walsh with the Gibson Brothers / Sweet Loam / Skinny Elephant Music
• Midnight On The Highway / Wilson Banjo Co. / Six Degrees Of Separation / Pinecastle
• Enough Of You / Jeanette Williams / Thank You For Caring / Blue Circle Records
• A Man Like Me / Roger Miller / A Man Like Me:  The Early Years Of Roger Miller / Bear Family
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk with Dan Tyminski / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Do I Ever Cross Your Mind / Serene Green / If It Wasn't For Longing / Patuxent Music
• Will You Ever Be Mind / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / single / Sugar Petunia Records
• I Call Her Sunshine / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Looking At The World Through A Windshield / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• The Eddie Swing / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent [Lynwood Lunsford birthday, 1/31/1962]
• John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 1/31/1979]
• Grandfather's Clock / Seldom Scene / Recorded Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Wing And A Prayer / David Parmley, Scott Vestal & Continental Divide / David Parmley, Scott Vestal & Continental Divide / Pinecastle [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• The Likes Of Me / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Self-Produced [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Who Will Calm The Storm / Strictly Country Records [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• Evil Hearted Woman / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939; David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• A Little Ways Down The Road / Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / A Little Ways Down The Road / Rebel
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Black Mountain Rag / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder
• The Goldrush Is Over / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• She's Crazy For Leaving / Wildfire / Quiet Country Town / Pinecastle
• Medley For Dobro And Double Bass / Roger Williams / I Know This Road / Happy Appy Records
• I Can't Believe That That's Bluegrass / Wide Open Spaces / Fiddletown / Self-Produced
• Country Side Of Heaven (Where The Bluegrass Music Flows) / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• I Can't Say No / Whitstein Brothers / The Whitstein Brothers / Sing Gospel Songs Of The Louvins / Rounder
• Waiting For The King / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Walking In The Spirit / Williamson Branch with the Marshall Family / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• All Prayed Up / Jeff White / The White Album / Rounder
• Get In Line Brother / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• There's Always A Light (In The Church) / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / I'll Be No Stranger There / Rebel
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Bubbling In My Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• One Wide River To Cross / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/19/2023

For Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we included nearly 30 minutes' worth of music from five different records.  This looks to be a continuing occasional feature every few works in 2023.  Today's albums were from Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, the Stanley Brothers, Benny & Vallie Cain, the Osborne Brothers, and the Country Gentlemen.

There were lots of mid-February Bluegrass birthdays to celebrate on this day, as well, as we played songs from Mark Newton, Claire Lynch, and four important Bluegrass banjo pickers:  Little Roy Lewis, Don Reno, Ralph Stanley, and Pete Wernick.  

New music was highlighted from the likes of Michael Cleveland, Starlett & Big John, Daryl Mosley, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, and Audie Blaylock & Redline.

And we pulled out the "Spotlight Letter" occasional feature this week.  Letter F (for "February") was chosen, and to that end, we shared music from "F" performers including Front Range, Flatt Lonesome, Bela Fleck, Lester Flatt (of course!), Aaron Foster, Feller & Hill, Front Range, Rick Faris, the Forbes Family, the Feinberg Brothers, and several others.

Hope you were able to join us, but if not, we'll be looking for you next Sunday, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Goin' Like Wildfire / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Some Old Day / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• All I Want Is You / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder
• People, Places & Songs / Greg Blake / single / Turnberry Records
• Night / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Foggy Old London / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel
• Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff / Mary Rachel Nalley / Headed Back To Bowling Green / Self-Produced
• Slidin' Delta / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• No One To Love Me Now / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Honky Tonk Girl / Barry Berrier / I'll Have To Make Some Changes / Rebel
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Foolish Game Of Love / Bradford Lee Folk & the Bluegrass Playboys / Somewhere Far Away / Self-Produced
• I Can't Be Bothered / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home
• Dear Old Dixie / Bela Fleck / Crossing The Tracks / Rounder
• Waiting For The Real Thing / Front Range / The New Frontier / Sugar Hill
  
• Waitin' For The Train To Run / Billy Joe Foster & Special Edition / Before The Prairie Met The Plow / Hay Holler
• Blue Sunday / Five Mile Mountain Road / Swingbilly Swagger / Patuxent Music
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Lester Raymond Flatt / Flying Fish
• Sunny Days (Are Comin' Once Again) / Michael Cleveland feat. Jeff White & Dan Tyminski / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• Living In The South / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• The Price Of Falling / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Mountain Home
• A Life Well Lived / Daryl Mosley / single / Pinecastle
• Red Rover / Audie Blaylock & Redline / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• John Deere Tractor / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• The Wolf Is At The Door / Benny & Vallie Cain / Benny & Vallie Cain & the Country Clan / Rebel
• Mother No Longer Awaits Me At Home / Stanley Brothers / The Famous Hit Songs Of The Stanley Brothers / Nashville
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Osborne Brothers / Yesterday, Today, And The Osborne Brothers / Decca
• Darling Allalee / Country Gentlemen / Country Songs--Old And New / Folkways
• Gal, You've Got A Job To Do / Osborne Brothers / Yesterday, Today, And The Osborne Brothers / Decca
• Roving Gambler / Country Gentlemen / Country Songs--Old And New / Folkways
• If I Lose / Stanley Brothers / The Famous Hit Songs Of The Stanley Brothers / Nashville
• Johnny's Rock / Benny & Vallie Cain / Benny & Vallie Cain & the Country Clan / Rebel
• Old-Time Pickin' / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Voice of My Savior / Mark Newton with Claire Lynch / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel [Claire Lynch birthday, 2/20/1954; Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• Your Light Leads Me On / Hot Rize / Hot Rize In Concert / Flying Fish [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Banjo Signal / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Ten Miles From The Truth / Aaron "Frosty" Foster with the Gibson Brothers / Opening Doors / Self-Produced
• How Blue / Fox Family / Follow My Lead / Sierra Records
• With A Pain In My Heart / Tim Graves & the Farm Hands / Bluegrass DNA / Pinecastle
• Evil Hearted You / Rick Faris / The Next Mountain / Dark Shadow Recording
• Honey In The Rock / Lewis Family / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS Music [Little Roy Lewis birthday, 2/24/1942]
• It Won't Be Long / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• I'll Never Go Back (To The Ways Of Sin) / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• Echoes From The Burning Bush / Feller & Hill / I Firmly Promise You / Tommy Hillpicker Records
• Listen To The Word Of God / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• When I Safely Reach That Other Shore / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Softly And Tenderly / Forbes Family / A Forbes Family Treasury, Volume 2 / Rebel
• Daniel Prayed / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Free Salvation / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/12/2023

Our February 12th Bluegrass Cafe was filled with songs about love (mostly positive love stories, even), plus birthday tributes to lots of Bluegrass mid-February birthday celebrants, and a whole bunch of new music, too.  Hope you were able to join us.

In honor of Valentine's Day this week, we included several different sets of
mostly-love songs.  We didn't go completely "sunshine & roses" love songs, but most of them were pretty positive stories.  

There was newer music this week, as well, with selections from Mo Pitney, Donna Ulisse, the Larry Stephenson Band, Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz, Curtis Vestal, and Nedski & Mojo.  Also, we celebrated several February birthdays, including those of several Bluegrass Hall of Fame members (Jim McReynolds, Red Allen, Dudley Connell, David McLaughlin).  We remembered two Country Music Hall of Fame members born in February, as well (Ernest Tubb, Boudleaux Bryant).

Hope you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Requests are RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Love Bug / Lost & Found / January Rain / Rebel
• You're That Certain Someone / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• You Are My Flower / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Songs Of The Famous Carter Family / Columbia
• Love Bug / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Let's Be Sweethearts Again / Jeff Parker / Go Parker! / Lonesome Day Records
• I'll Be Lovin' You / Greg Blake / single / Turnberry Records
• The Sweetest Song I Sing / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
• The Court Of Love / Rhonda Vincent / Taken / Upper Management Music
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• There Is A Time / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• So Danged Lonesome / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• She'll Change / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• Sweethearts In Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Sweethearts In Heaven:  The Complete Dot Recordings, 1957-1964 / Bear Family Records
• 'Til The Day I Die / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Rose Of My Heart / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Shape Of A Tear / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• Old Home Place / Mo Pitney / Ain't Lookin' Back / Curb Records
• I'm Fallin' / Donna Ulisse / single / Billy Blue Records
• I'm A Ramblin' Man / Larry Stephenson Band / single / Whysper Dream Music
• Take That Shot / Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz / Lost Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• Time / Curtis Vestal / single / Self-Produced
• Keep A Memory / Jason Barie with Doyle Lawson & Russell Moore / single / Billy Blue Records
• A River To Cross / Nedski & Mojo / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• That's How I Can Count On You / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue:  The Complete County Recordings / Rebel [Remembering Red Allen:  2/12/1930 - 4/3/1993]
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [Remembering Jim McReynolds:  2/13/1927 - 12/31/2002]
• Georgia Stomp / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [David McLaughlin birthday, 2/13/1958]
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango Records [Remembering Charlie Moore:  2/13/1935 - 12/24/1979]
• Farewell To Long Hollow / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder [David Davis birthday, 2/16/1961]
• Meet Me By The Moonlight / Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby / Meet Me By The Moonlight / Sugar Hill [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956; Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1967]
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• All I Have To Do Is Dream / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Jim Eanes / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• I Know That You Know (That I Love You) / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Lost Highways & Treasured Memories / Old Heritage Records
• Love At Last / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• The Likes Of You / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• A Daisy A Day / Lost & Found / Love, Lost & Found / Rebel
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Walking The Floor Over You / Ernest Tubb / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/19/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Letters Have No Arms / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/19/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Are You Waiting Just For Me / Charlie Sizemore / In My View / Rebel [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/19/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Waltz Across Texas / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/19/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Lord, Show Me The Righteous Pathway / Special Consensus / Everything's Alright / Pinecastle
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH
• God Is Watching / Rhonda Vincent / Taken / Upper Management Music
• Old Ship Of Zion / Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby / Meet Me By The Moonlight / Sugar Hill
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• I'll Meet You In The Morning / Becky Isaacs Bowman with Del McCoury / Songs That Pulled Me Through The Hard Times / Self-Produced
• See God's Ark A Movin' / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• I Know What You're Talking About / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/29/2023

Before it's time for another Sunday edition of our Bluegrass Cafe, guess I need to post this playlist from our January 29th show!

The show featured music from a few of the SPBGMA Award winners for 2023.  The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America held their annual gathering over the weekend, and their fan-voted awards were given out on Saturday evening.  The big winners were the Kody Norris Show, but other award winners from whom we heard included Jaelee Roberts, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, and Balsam Range.  If you'd like to know more about all of the winners, click here.  

There was a good bit of new music to share this week.  We shared songs from the long-awaited new recording from the Gibson Brothers ("Darkest Hour" on their own label, Bull Run Records), as well as new selections from the Tim Raybon Band, the Farm Hands, Route 3, Darren Nicholson, and Billy Strings.  

And if all of that wasn't enough, we had a few Bluegrass birthdays to celebrate, including those of four elite members of the Bluegrass community who were all born on February 1st:  Del McCoury (1939), Tom Gray (1941), David Parmley (1959), and Jason Carter (1973).  Other birthday celebrants in this show were Becky Buller and Lynwood Lunsford.  

Hope you enjoyed the show, and please consider joining me once again this coming Sunday from 4-7PM.

Thanks for listening!

Amy O. 

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Georgia Girl / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Quicksilver Rides Again / Sugar Hill
• Galveston Flood / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays & Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Katy Daly / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Yellow River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Quicksilver Rides Again / Sugar Hill
• Something You Didn't Count On / Jaelee Roberts / Something You Didn't Count On / Mountain Home [SPBGMA Female Vocalist & Album of the Year, 2023]
• My, My, My / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / In Dreams I Go Back / Mountain Fever Records [SPBGMA Song of the Year, 2023]
• Where Grass Won't Grow / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways [SPBGMA Bluegrass Band of the Year, 2023]
• Richest Man / Balsam Range / Moxie And Mettle / Mountain Home [SPBGMA Gospel Group & Vocal Group of the Year, 2023]
• I Call Her Sunshine / Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel [SPBGMA Instrumental Group & Entertainer of the Year, 2023]
• Brand New Hit In Nashville / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel 
• Lonesome Old Home / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Lonesome Wind Blues / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Heartaches Keep On Coming / Patuxent Music / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• Mountain Girl / Sideline / Session 2 / Mountain Fever Records
• Winterhawk / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Thinking About You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Scraps From Your Table / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• So Long, Mama / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Can't Get Away From This Broken Heart / Tim Raybon Band / single / Pinecastle
• Another Day / Farm Hands / Bluegrass DNA / Pinecastle
• Arkansas Without You / Darren Nicholson / single / Self-Produced
• Wandering Boy / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Losing Time / Route 3 / Losing Time / Pinecastle
• Darkest Hour / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Stone Walls And Steel Bars / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Big Blue Raindrops / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• West Virginia / David Parmley / single / 615 Hideaway Records [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Bessie's Tune / Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Small Town Heroes / Self-Produced [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Self-Produced [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• Sweet Dixie / Lynwood Lunsford / Pick Along / Hay Holler [Lynwood Lunsford birthday, 1/31/1962]
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 1/31/1979]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Candle In The Wind / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel
• Muddy Waters / Seldom Scene / Recorded Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel
• Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / In Despair / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• You Left Me Alone / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• Washington County / Mary Rachel Nalley / Headed Back To Bowling Green / Self-Produced [SPBGMA Fiddle Performer Of The Year, 2023]
• I'm Dying A Sinner's Death / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Heartache And Trouble / Fast Track / Heartache And Trouble / Engelhardt Music Group
• These Crazy Dreams / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Take A Little Time For Jesus / Junior Sisk / Lost And Alone / Mountain Fever Records
• Shouting Time In Heaven / Kenny & Amanda Smith / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm 
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I'm A Stranger / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• My Savior's Train / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• I'm Bound For The Land Of Canaan / Del McCoury Band / The Promised Land / McCoury Music
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder