"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/31/2026

During our last Bluegrass Cafe program on May 31st, we started off in a "blue" frame of mind, but as the show progressed, we also found time to share newer music AND celebrate the birth anniversaries of two female members of the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, songwriter and Bluegrass champion, Dixie Hall (May 26, 1934 - January 16, 2015) and songwriter and performer Hazel Dickens (June 1, 1925 - April 22, 2011).  It is always a pleasure to feature dynamic females in the World of Bluegrass Music.

While we didn't have any brand-new music to share during our program, we still included recent recordings from several performers, including Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Southern Legacy, Isaak Atlas Schwartz, Jaelee Roberts, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Dale Ann Bradley, Blue Highway, Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland, and Darin & Brooke Aldridge.  

Don't forget to join us for our first radio show of June, as we're planning to have a telephone chat with Eric Gibson of the Gibson Brothers.  As you've probably heard, the Gibsons will be returning to perform at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT in early August.  Our Bluegrass Cafe airs from 4-7PM, and we're planning to get Eric on the phone at 5PM, so don't miss it!

We'll chat with you again tomorrow!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Blue Night / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• Blue Virginia Blues / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• A Brand New Shade Of Blue / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Traveling Down The Blue Road / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Once And For Always / Sugar Hill
• Blue Blue Day / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Del McCoury / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder
• So Blue / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Blue Train / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Blue / Beth & April Stevens / Sisters / Rounder
• Dry Run Creek / The Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• O California / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / O California! / Spruce And Maple Music
• New Sweet Home / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• 20/20 Vision / Dan Tyminski / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• The Fields Of Gettysburg / Larry Sparks / Way Back When / Rebel
• The Boatman / The Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Bill From Isonville / Southern Legacy / single / Pinecastle
• Waiting For The Robert E. Lee / Izaak Atlas Schwartz / Black Oak Ridge / Patuxent Music
• I'm Putting You Out Of My Misery / Jaelee Roberts / single / Mountain Home
• Pardon Me / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Turnberry Records
• Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU!:  A 30-Year Retrospective / Down The Road Records
• Making Plans / Dale Ann Bradley with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / single / Pinecastle
• Let's Sing Our Song / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / single / Fiddleman Records
• Troublesome Waters / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• The Windowsill Song / Becky Buller / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Holdin' On When You've Let Go / Crowe Brothers / Brothers-n-Harmony / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Can You Hear Me Now / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• I Wish That I Could Have Met Carter / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• I'm Putting On My Leaving Shoes / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Forever And Ever / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• My Old Kentucky Home / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• I Wish You Knew / Jim & Jesse / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Long Way Around / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• Deep River / Livewire / Wired! / Rounder
• Hills Of Home / Hazel Dickens / It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Walls Of Time / Rounder
• I Am Just A Pilgrim / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
• I Found A Church Today / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• I'm Going Up When He Starts Down / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Soul Condition / Billy Blue Records
• Get In The Boat / Jeanette Williams / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Get On The Main Highway / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/1/2025

On the first day of June, we shared lots of songs in honor of a Bluegrass pioneer who would have turned 100 years old on June 1st -- Bluegrass Hall of Famer Hazel Dickens (June 1, 1925 - April 22, 2011).  In addition to being a raw, authentic, honest singer, Hazel was an amazingly wonderful songwriter.  We shared several of her songs on Sunday, including Hazel herself, Hazel with her long-time musical partner, Alice Gerrard, and several Hazel covers from lots of performers, including Flatt Lonesome, the Lynn Morris Band, Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick, Missy Raines & Allegheny, James King, and Hot Rize.

New music was a big part of the show, as well, as we included music from recently released- or soon-to-be-released recordings by Danny Paisley, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Missy Raines & Allegheny, Route 3, Shawn Lane & Richard Bennett, Ashley Graham, C.J. Lewandowski (with Del McCoury), Becky Buller, and Jason Burleson.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and are enjoying your June, so far!  We'll look forward to having you join us once again this coming Sunday afternoon for our next Bluegrass Cafe.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Goodbye Old Pal / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Are You Waiting Just For Me? / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Drifting With The Tide / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Flatt & Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Lonesome River / David Grisman/ Vince Gill/Herb Pedersen/Jim Buchanan/Emory Gordy, Jr. / Here Today / Rounder
• Windy Mountain / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Big Spike Hammer / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album, Volume 3:  California Connection / Rounder
• Look For Me / Angelica Grim / Look For Me / Patuxent Music
• The HIlls And Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Lonesome Standard Time / Lonesome Standard Time / Top Of The Hill Bluegrass / Sugar Hill
• If That's The Way You Feel / Amanda Smith / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Jim Eanes / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Wave Goodbye / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Red Feather 
• When The Grass Grows Over Me / Rhonda Vincent / Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• Can't You Hear That Whistle Blow / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder
• Free To Go / Jason Burleson feat. Courtney Burleson / single / Self-Produced
• 1,000 Miles / Shawn Lane & Richard Bennett / 1682 / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Choo Choo Coming / Wyatt Ellis / single / Knee High Records
• Fiddle And Bow / Ashleigh Graham / I'll Just Drive / Pinecastle
• Muddy Waters / Becky Buller / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Your Love Is A Miracle / Route 3 / The Best Of Route 3 (Live From The Station Inn) / Pinecastle
• She's No Angel / C.J. Lewandowski with Del McCoury / single / 
• Another Long Sleepless Night / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle
• T.B. Blues (They're At Rest Together) / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Cowboy Jim / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / The Hazel And Alice Sessions / Spruce And Maple Music [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Mountain Home [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• I Can't Find Your Love Anymore / Hazel Dickens / O Sister!  The Women's Bluegrass Collection / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Help Me Climb That Mountain / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Scraps From Your Table / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Hills Of Home / Hazel Dickens / It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• The Old Swinging Bridge / Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys / True Bluegrass / Rounder
• A Few Old Memories / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• When I Get The Money Made / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Missing Her Has Never Slowed Me Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Twilight Time / NorthernBound / Time Goes So Fast / Self-Produced
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• So Many Years, So Many Blessings / Lewis Family / Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / Spring House 
• I Need The Prayers / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Press On O' Pilgrim / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm Records
• Standing On The Banks / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute To The Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• He Set Me Free / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Thankful And Blessed / Billy Blue Records
• I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2021]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/2/2024

Our first Bluegrass Cafe for the month of June inspired us to pull out our occasional feature Spotlight Letter of the Week.  In this case, we chose a few "J" tunes from performers like Clay Jones, Carl Jackson, Chris Jones, Lorraine Jordan, Jim & Jesse, and, of course, the Johnson Mountain Boys.  

Newer music was on the bill for Sunday's show, as well, and we had some good stuff to share!  We included selections from forthcoming or recently-released recordings by Stephen & Jana Mougin, the Vestal Brothers, Kristy Cox, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Laurie Lewis, the Larry Stephenson Band, Tina Adair, and Junior Sisk.

We look forward to our next Bluegrass Cafe visit with you this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.  Consider joining us, if you're so inclined.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Who's That Knocking At My Door? / The Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Stormy Horizons / The Expedition Show / Stormy Horizons / Mountain Fever Records
• Cincinnati Rag / Gerald Evans & Joe Mullins / Just A Five-String And A Fiddle / Rebel
• I'll Go Steppin' Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Past The Point Of Rescue / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Hills Of Alabam / Front Porch String Band / Front Porch String Band / Rebel
• Crazy Heart / Remington Ryde / A Storyteller's Memory / Pinecastle
• I Can, I Will, I Do Believe / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• I'm Really Leaving / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle
• Mountains And Memories / Country Gentlemen / Souvenirs / Rebel
• Oh So Many Years / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / Self-Produced
• One Step Ahead Of The Blues / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Love Reunited / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Southern / Rural Rhythm
• The Eddie Swing / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Tony Ellis / Sounds Like Bluegrass To Me / Copper Creek
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• East Bound Freight Train / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• Old Swinging Bridge / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Let Those Fingers Fly / Vestal Brothers / single / True Lonesome Records
• Sally Flatt / Kristy Cox / Let It Burn / Billy Blue Records
• Scotty's Hoedown / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Just A Little Ways Down The Road / Laurie Lewis / Trees / Spruce And Maple Music
• Let It Fall / Tina Adair / single / Engelhardt Music Group
• Sonny Weather / Larry Stephenson Band / Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Whysper Dream Music
• Like I Used To Do / Stephen Mougin & Jana Mougin / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Making Up Stories / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Meet Me By The Moonlight, Alone / Carol Elizabeth Jones & Laurel Bliss / Girl From Jericho / Copper Creek
• Under The Double Eagle / Clay Jones / Mountain Tradition / Rural Rhythm
• Lonesome Dove / Carl Jackson, John Starling & the Nash Ramblers / Spring Training / Sugar Hill
• Final Farewell / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lost Souls & Free Spirits / Rebel
• Diesel Train / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / Radio Shows / Pinecastle
• Daybreak In Dixie / Jerusalem Ridge & Leroy Mack / Together / Self-Produced
• A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Pinecastle
• I Feel The Blues Movin' In / Del McCoury / By Request / McCoury Music
• My Smokey Mountain Rose / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• The Other Side Of Town / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• Just Lonesome Ol' Me And The Radio / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• A Few Old Memories / Hazel Dickens / It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• 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 Be A Millionaire With Me / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Story Of Pharisees / The Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• See God's Ark A Movin' / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Will A Light Be Shining Bright / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• When We Meet To Part No More / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Beyond The Shadows / Sugar Hill
• Lay Down Your Troubles / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/11/2021 -- All Aboard for a BGC Revisit!

As you likely know, we've been pre-recording our Bluegrass Cafe programs since COVID shut down WHUS in mid-March of 2020.  With the exception of one other week since then, we've made it a goal to produce a brand-new show every week since we started recording shows for broadcast beginning April 19, 2020.  This week, the best laid plans just didn't pan out, as I could not get my recording equipment to sound the way it needed to sound.  So, we pulled out a rerun show for you to (hopefully) enjoy once more.  This show was originally broadcast on May 31, 2020.  We hope to provide a "fresh" and current broadcast next Sunday afternoon -- July 18th.  Hope you'll consider joining us from 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

Bluegrass Cafe playlist -- originally broadcast May 31, 2020

All aboard!  Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe devoted one hour plus to songs about trains -- freight trains, diesel trains, the romance of the train, black trains, midnight trains, glory bound trains -- you name it!  We could easily devote several shows to just this one topic...and may spend another hour in a future program doing just that!  

We also paid birthday tribute to the late Hazel Dickens, who was born on June 1, 1925.  The songs of this Bluegrass Hall of Famer continue to be frequently recorded, but on this day's show, Hazel was the featured performer.

There was a bit of newer music to share, too, with a brand-spanking new song from Carolina Blue, as well as new music from the likes of songwriter Eric Brace, Professor Dan Boner, the Feinberg Brothers, High Fidelity, Dale Ann Bradley & Tina Adair, Stephen Mougin, J.B. & Jamie Dailey, and Junior Sisk.  

Hope you are enjoying our pre-recorded programs.  We'll continue to keep bringing them to you for as long as we can, but we sure do look forward to the day when the show can once again be broadcast live as it's happening.  In the meantime, be sure to email us at bgcafe@gmail.com and/or visit our Facebook page.

Have a great week, and, as always, stay healthy!

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Midnight Train / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Train That Never Slows Down / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lost Souls & Free Spirits / Rebel
• The Train That Carried My Girl From Town / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Through The Window Of A Train / Rounder
• I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• What A Ways We've Come / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Train Forty-Five / Jimmy Martin / Good & Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Diesel Train / Jim & Jesse / The Old Dominion Masters / Pinecastle
• Had It Not Been For The Train / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Big Train From Memphis / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• Big Black Train / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Flatt & Scruggs / Columbia Legacy
• Freight Train Boogie / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• Freight Train Blues / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Julie's Train / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• One Way Train / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I'll Wander Back Someday / Sugar Hill
• Ridin' That Midnight Train / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Here Comes The Train / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Orange Blossom Special / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Hickory, Walnut And Pine / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears And Trouble / Rounder
• Searching For A Soldier's Grave / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears And Trouble / Rounder
• Darby's Castle / Professor Dan Boner / West Of West Virginia / Self-Produced
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• Oh Darlin' / Dale Ann Bradley & Tina Adair / Oh Darlin' / Pinecastle
• One Way / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Grown Cold / Carolina Blue / single / Billy Blue Records
• Just A Moment / Eric Brace / single / no label
• Helen / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Have You Lost Your Love For Me / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• A Place For A Fool / Stephen Mougin with the Gibson Brothers / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• Mend This Heart Of Mine / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow / Hazel Dickens / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  June 1, 1925 - April 25, 2011]
• Hills Of Home / Hazel Dickens / A Few Old Memories / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  June 1, 1925 - April 25, 2011]
• True Life Blues / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / O Sister / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  June 1, 1925 - April 25, 2011]
• Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast / Norman Blake / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Message For Peace / James King / Bluegrass Spirit / Rounder
• Do You Live What You Preach / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• The Heavenly Light Is Shining / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• He Will Roll You Over The Tide / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• I'm Going To Heaven / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Boy Records
• Lay Down Your Troubles / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Heaven's Bright Shore / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Prayer Bells Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• Get A Transfer / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Long Black Train / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder
• My Savior's Train / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Little Black Train / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Gusto
• Fishers Of Men / Rhonda Vincent / One Step Ahead / Rounder
• On The Wings Of Angels / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• Waiting For The Boys To Come Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Reveille In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/6/2021

As this 59th pre-recorded edition of our Bluegrass Cafe was recorded on June 1st, we felt it was appropriate to share several songs in memory of a member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame who also happened to be a wonderful songwriter, and one of the first female performers to front her own band:  Hazel Dickens (June 1, 1924 - April 11, 2011).  We included eleven fine songs written and/or performed by her, and one Bill Monroe classic recorded by Hazel and her musical partner, Alice Gerrard.  Fabulous, heartfelt music -- hope you enjoyed it!

In addition to lots of Hazel Dickens songs, we also shared quite a few Bluegrass favorites, and just a few songs from recent (2021) projects, including two songs from a new solo recording by Tina Adair, as well as selections from the Goodwin Brothers, the Lonesome River Band, the Larry Stephenson Band, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Larry Sparks, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and two songs from the "Industrial Strength Bluegrass" recording.

Hope you're staying cool on this very warm Sunday, wherever you might be.  Please consider joining me once again one week from today from 4-7PM for another three hours full of fine Bluegrass music.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Hello Sunshine / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• Sunrise Blues / Bob Amos / Sunrise Blues / Bristlecone
• The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee / Larry Stephenson & Mark Newton / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records
• I Call Her Sunshine / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Modern Times / Rebel
• Keep On The Sunny Side / The Whites / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury
• Sunrise / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome:  The Complete Starday Recordings / Gusto
• Ten Miles From The Truth / Aaron "Frosty" Foster / Opening Doors / Self-Produced
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• When I'm Gone / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• The Lonely Years / Bear Bridge Band / Bear Essentials / Open Road
• Won't Be Crying Over You / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• Anywhere With You / Goodwin Brothers / The Goodwin Brothers / 615 Hideaway Records
• Cumberland River Shore / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• Country Side Of Heaven (Where The Bluegrass Music Flows) / Larry Stephenson Band / single / Whysper Dream Music
• Why You Been Gone So Long / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Open Road
• Rock Bottom / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• Cedar Grove / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• True Life Blues / Hazel & Alice / O Sister! / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Old River / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Scraps From Your Table / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• My Better Years / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Cowboy Jim / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Tried & True / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• West Virginia, My Home / Hazel Dickens / Hand-Picked / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Workin' Girl Blues / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/11/2011]
• Hills Of Home / Springfield Exit / Springfield Exit / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/11/2011]
• Beyond The River Bend / Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/11/2011]
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/11/2011]
• Mama's Hand / Hazel Dickens / The Rounder Records Story / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/11/2011]
• I'll Go To My Grave Loving You / Special Consensus / Signs / Pinecastle [Don Reid birthday, 6/5/1945]
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Each Season Changes You / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Barefoot Nellie / Jim Lauderdale with High Fidelity / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkway
• Casey Jones / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/11/2011]
• I Know My Lord's Gonna Lead Me Out / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Shouting On The Hills Of Glory / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best:  All Gospel, All Bluegrass / Federal
• Some Glad Morning / Southern Rail / Glory Train / Pinecastle
• Cry Out / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• When I've Traveled My Last Mile / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Let Me Walk, Lord, By Your Side / Dan Tyminski / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Shea
• Lord Protect My Soul / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Bound For Gloryland / Rhonda Vincent & the Sally Mountain Show / Bound For Gloryland / Rebel
• Holdin' On / Larry Sparks / Ministry In Song / Rebel
• He Took Your Place / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• It's Just Like Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• God Has Been So Good To Me / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Gonna Be Movin' / Balsam Range / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home
• Tree Of Life / Reno & Smiley / The Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• You Can Go To Heaven / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• You Gotta Get Down / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder