"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/27/2025

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured three hours' worth of fine Bluegrass music, including a post-birthday tribute to one-half of possibly the greatest brother duet in the history of music; and if that wasn't enough, we also included LOTS of new music.  It was a fun show, so sure hope you were able to join us.

Ira Lonnie Loudermilk (April 20, 1924 - June 20, 1965) was considered as sort of the "hothead" of the Louvin Brothers, 

but there is no question whatsoever that he was an excellent mandolin player and songwriter.  Ira and his younger brother, Charlie, recorded so many fine songs together, and their harmonies are easily identifiable and wickedly enjoyable.  Though these singing brothers were not a Bluegrass act, their music has inspired many a Bluegrass performer, and their songs have been covered so many times in the world of Bluegrass.  We included several Louvin songs and a more Louvin covers during Sunday's show.

New music played a very large part in our programming on Sunday.  We featured a full half-hour of brand-new music from several performers, including Balsam Range, Alison Brown & Steve Martin (with Tim O'Brien), the ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band, Darren Nicholson, the Kody Norris Show, Missy Raines & Allegheny, Shelton & Williams, Junior Sisk, and the Special Consensus.  In addition, there was recent music from Becky Buller, Carter & Cleveland, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and the Seldom Scene.  

If you missed the show's April 27th airing, but would like to try to listen, please visit this link:  https://spinitron.com/WHUS/pl/20573197/Bluegrass-Cafe and click on the player at the top of the page.  You can listen to each show for two weeks after it airs.

Enjoy the rest of the week, and we'll look forward to joining you once again for three big hours of the Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday afternoon!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Separating Hearts / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel
• Why Baby Why / Cox Family / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Stealing Second / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Say I Do / Lonesome River Band / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill
• Bad Case Of Lovin' You / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco
• Prettier All The Time / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Me When I'm Gone / Mashville Brigade / Bluegrass Smash Hits / Rural Rhythm
• Green Mountain Hop / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Don't Tell Me Your Troubles / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Outrun The Rain / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / Carter & Cleveland / Fiddleman Records
• Come Walk With Me / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• The Story Of My Life / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Sweeter Than Tupelo Honey / Junior Sisk / single / Turnberry Records
• In The Circle / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• The Door Is Always Open / Shelton & Williams / A Time For Every Season / Turnberry Records
• Seesaw / ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band / single / Now And Then Records
• 5 Days Out, 2 Days Back / Alison Brown & Steve Martin with Tim O'Brien / single / Compass Records
• When It Comes To Loving You / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Any Highway / Darren Nicholson / single / Mountain Home
• Been All Around This World / Special Consensus / single / Compass Records
• When I Stop Dreaming / Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone, 1944-1964 / Raven [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• My Baby's Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• My Baby Came Back / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I Take The Chance / Jim & Jesse / Saluting The Louvin Brothers / Epic [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Seven Year Blues / Longview / Longivew / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I Can't Keep You In Love With Me / Malpass Brothers / Live At The Paramount Theatre / Minnow Media [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Cash On The Barrelhead / Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone, 1944-1964 / Raven [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Anywhere The Wind Blows / Missy Raines & Allegheny with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / single / Compass Records
• Wait A Minute / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill [Herb Pedersen birthday, 4/27/1944]
• Music Of The Mountains / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• I Got A Notion / Radio Flyer / Old Strings New Strings / Turquoise Records
• Reach / Becky Buller / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• You'll Be Rewarded Over There / Louvin Brothers / The Family Who Prays:  26 Classic Tracks / Country Stars [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• He Sees The Little Sparrow / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Thankful And Blessed / Billy Blue Records
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live / Upper Management Music
• My Lord Grows Sweeter Each Day / Paul Williams & Cliff Waldron / Higher Ground / Rebel
• Are You Afraid To Die? / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I'll Never Go Back (To The Ways Of Sin) / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I Have Found The Way / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• Make Him A Soldier / Whitstein Brothers / Sweet Harmony / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek Records [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/18/2021

If you are a fan of the music of the Louvin Brothers, today would have been a fine day to check our Bluegrass Cafe!  We played loads of Louvin tunes (covers and the Louvins, themselves) in honor of the birth anniversary of elder brother, Ira Louvin (April 21, 1924 - June 20, 1965).  We also celebrated the upcoming birthday of Bluegrass Hall of Famer Doyle Lawson (born April 20, 1944), and enjoyed lots more music, classic and new.  Hope you were able to join us!

Friendly reminder:  if you are a songwriter, the deadline for the 2021 Podunk Songwriters Contest is rapidly approaching.  Look for everything you need to know by clicking here.

While there wasn't quite as much brand-new music to showcase during this week's program, we still shared a few new (and new-to-us) tunes from the Industrial Strength Bluegrass compilation on Smithsonian Folkways, Nick Chandler & Delivered, Nu-Blu, Unspoken Tradition, Jason Davis (with Dan Tyminski), the Kody Norris Show, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, and Alan Bibey & Grasstowne.

Thanks so much for joining us for this session in our Bluegrass Cafe, and we will look forward to seeing you again next week, 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Come And Sit By The River / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Blue Tears Are Falling / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Second Wind / Claire Lynch / Moonlighter / Rounder
• Seen It All / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
• Pines Of Caroline / Boyd Timothy / demo / Self-Produced
• Houses On The Farm / Shady Creek / Back To The Roots / Self-Produced
• Polka On A Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• Borrowed Diamonds / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood
• Fourteen Carat Mind / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• Before The Sun Goes Down / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Hello / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Time (On Your Side) / Nu-Blu / Where You've Been / Self-Produced
• Back On The Crooked Road / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home
• Modern Day Jezebel / Jason Davis with Dan Tyminski / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Brand New Hit In Nashville / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• Larry Sparks Medley (Dark Hollow/A Face In The Crowd/These Old Blues) / Josh Williams-Bradley Walker-Russell Moore / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Shenandoah Breakdown / Rick Spinney / Off The Cuff / Self-Produced
• Cash On The Barrelhead / Louvin Brothers / Close Harmony / Bear Family [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• When I Stop Dreaming / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Songs Of The Louvin Brothers / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I Wish You Knew / Jim & Jesse / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• My Baby's Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• My Baby Came Back / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• If I Could Only Win Your Love / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• You're Running Wild / Gibson Brothers / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm Records [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I Can't Keep You In Love With Me / Expedition Show / The Expedition Show / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Seven Year Blues / Longview / Longview / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Tiny Broken Heart / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Love And Wealth / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Pitfall / Louvin Brothers / Close Harmony / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Thinking About You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Walkin' Down The Line / Country Gentlemen / The Award Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Happy Go Lucky / Doyle Lawson & Alan Bibey / single / Billy Blue Records [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Between The Lines / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / single / Billy Blue Records [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Blink Of An Eye / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Sweet Potato Rag / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• River Of Jordan / Ricky Skaggs & the Whites / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Are You Afraid To Die? / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Born Again / Larry Stephenson Band / Pull Your Savior In / Whysper Dream [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• The Angels Rejoiced / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Make Him A Soldier / Whitstein Brothers / Songs Of The Louvin Brothers / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Satan Is Real / Louvin Brothers / Close Harmony / Bear Family [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• There's A Higher Power / Eddie Sanders / Wait For The Light To Shine / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• The Family Who Prays / Red Allen / Keep On Going / Rebel [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1944 - 6/20/1965]
• Let Us Travel, Travel On / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I'll Wander Back Someday / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Weapon Of Prayer / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I'll Live With God (To Die No More) / Louvin Brothers / Close Harmony / Bear Family [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I'll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Family / MME
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• I Want To Know More About My Lord / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records
• When He Calls My Name / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Hitchhiking To California / Billy Blue Records
• Henry Clayton Parker / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Jesus I'll Never Forget / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder