"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/9/2026

A full week has passed since our August 9th Bluegrass Cafe!  This show contained lots of music from fine performers who'd appeared at the 29th Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen last weekend.  We also included a little bit of newer music, including a brand-new single from the revived Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, as well as newer music from Bronwyn, Bob Minner, the Kody Norris Show, and Red Camel Collective.

And we couldn't not celebrate the early August birthdays of both the King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin (August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005) and Country Music Hall of Famer, Buck Owens (August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006).  

Hope you enjoyed the show!  Be sure to join us for another Bluegrass Cafe on August 16th!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• There's A Song In There Somewhere / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• If The Kansas River Can / Rick Faris / Breaking In Lonesome / Dark Shadow Recording
• No. 444 / Wood Box Heroes / Wood Box Heroes / Self-Produced
• Road Back To You / Songs From The Road Band / Just Hanging On / Lucks Dumpy Toad Records
• Ride On By / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Are You Picking Flowers Now / Donna Ulisse / single / Turnberry Records
• Too Late To Say Goodbye / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Smokey Mountain Memories / Larry Sparks / The Time-Life Treasury Of Bluegrass:  High On A Mountain / Time Life
• I'd Rather Be A Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU!:  A 30-Year Retrospective Event / Down The Road Records
• Matterhorn / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• Puddle Jumper / Ray Legere & Roger Williams / River Of No Return / Strictly Country Records
• Walking Down The Line / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Down The Road Records
• Crying My Heart Out Over You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / SME
• Bill From Isonville / Southern Legacy / single / Pinecastle
• Rockwood Deer Chase / Izaak Atlas Schwartz / Black Oak Ridge / Patuxent Music
• Walk Out In The Rain / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• The Signs / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / single / Turnberry Records
• Dancin' Girl / The Grascals / Not That Gone / Billy Blue Records
• I Am Bluegrass / Bob Minner / I Am Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• Declaration Of Independence / The Kody Norris Show / Spirit Of America / Rebel
• Sticks And Stones / Bronwyn / Rattlin' Bones / Sugar Petunia Records
• Windy Mountain / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Sweet Rosie Jones / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill Records [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Together Again / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• I'll Love You Forever And Ever / Darren Beachley & the Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• It Takes People Like You / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• You're For Me / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Phoenix / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Sweethearts In Heaven / Reno & Smiley / On The Air / Copper Creek [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Sam's Place / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / Our Kind Of Country / Pinecastle [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Excuse Me (I Think I've Got A Heartache) / Buck Owens / The Capitol Singles & Albums, 1957-62 / Acrobat Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Come On Back / DownRiver Collective / Come On Back / Self-Produced
• Columbus Stockade Blues / Tony Trischka with Del McCoury / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Goodbye / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm 
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Little Eyes / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Born Again / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Hold Me Closer, Jesus / Big Country Bluegrass / Country Livin' / Rebel
• So High / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian 
• Eternal Vacation / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Daniel Prayed / Stanley Brothers / All Gospel, All Bluegrass / Federal 
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/10/2025

As Sunday was the 98th birth anniversary of the King of Bluegrass, we spent a whole lot of time during our Bluegrass Cafe sharing music performed by or written about the one-and-only Jimmy Martin (August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005).  

We couldn't skip a couple of other August birthdays, either, including the 80th birthday of Steve Martin (born August 14, 1945), as well as a couple of songs written by Bluegrass musician and songwriter, Jake Landers (August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018).  And we paid our annual tribute to Country Music Hall of Famer, Buck Owens (August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006) with several Bluegrass covers of Buck standards.  

A tiny bit of newer music made it onto the show, as well, including songs from brand-new supergroup, Southern Legacy, as well as Jason Hannan, Wyatt Ellis, and a newly-released single from the Del McCoury Band.  

On August 17th, I will be away from the radio once again, but we've got a show from the archives ready to go for your listening pleasure.  We'll join you once again with a fresh Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday, August 24th.  

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Don't Give Your Heart To A Rambler / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• White Dove / Ralph Stanley with Jimmy Martin / Live! At McClure / Rebel [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• On And On / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Gary Brewer & the Kentucky Ramblers / Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Self-Produced [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Yanceyville Jail / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Ode To Jimmy / Dan Tyminski / Live From The Ryman / 8 Track Entertainment [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hold Whatcha Got / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin, The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Sophronie / David Grisman with Tony Rice / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Tennessee / Kody Norris Show / Highfalutin' Hillbilly / Rebel [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin, The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Night / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock & Dale Ann Bradley / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• The Hills Of Carter County / Southern Legacy / single / Pinecastle
• So Black And White / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• When It's Time For The Whippoorwill To Sing / Jason Hannan / Duets Volume 1:  We'll Meet Again Someday / Waiting For Lester Records
• Country Boy Rock And Roll / Wyatt Ellis / single / Knee High Records
• Senses / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Remembering Jeannie Seely:  7/6/1940 - 8/1/2025]
• Leavin' And Sayin' Goodbye / Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent Music [Remembering Jeannie Seely:  7/6/1940 - 8/1/2025]
• Don't Touch Me / Jeannie Seely / Opry By The Decades - The 1960s / Opry Music [Remembering Jeannie Seely:  7/6/1940 - 8/1/2025]
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Tall Dark Stranger / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / JohnBoy & Billy [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• I Don't Care / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• The Ballad Of Buck And Don / Feller & Hill / Here Come Feller & Hill...Again! / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• (I'll Love You) Forever And Ever / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Roll Out The Red Carpet For Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Bluegrass Radio / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / single / Compass Records [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Pitkin County Turnaround / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Not Too Fast / ShoreGrass / Hummingbird (And Other Nearly True Stories) / Self-Produced
• Don't Tell Me Your Troubles / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records 
• Stoney Lonesome / Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter / Carter & Cleveland / Fiddleman Records
• I'll Never See You Anymore / Bill Harrell / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Your Heart Now Tells The Truth / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• I Beg To You / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Keep On The Sunny Side Of Life / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• Stormy Waters / Jimmy Martin / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / MME [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Crying Holy Unto The Lord / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Angels Rejoiced / Strictly Country Records
• See God's Ark A Movin' / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Kneel At The Cross / High Fidelity / High Fidelity / Self-Produced
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Drowning Sailor / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Goodbye / Jimmy Martin / This World Is Not My Home / MME [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/11/2024

What a fine weekend we had!  The Podunk Bluegrass Festival -- though a bit rainy at times -- ended in an outstanding way with a spot-on set of music from the Del McCoury Band.  At Podunk, we also enjoyed music from High Fidelity, Nick Chandler & Delivered, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, the Kevin Prater Band, Carley Arrowood, John McEuen & the Circle Band, and several others.  Outstanding!  Congratulations to the hard-working Podunk Board and volunteers on another top-notch festival!  We included music from some of the Podunk performers during our Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday afternoon.  Hope you were able to join us!

As befitting Bluegrass Royalty, we also belatedly celebrated the 97th birth anniversary of the self-appointed King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin (August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005).  To celebrate, we shared lots of his music performed both by him and others throughout the program.

We also celebrated three fine Bluegrass songwriters and performers who all happened to have been born within a few days of each other in 1938:  Paul Craft (August 12, 1938 - October 18, 2014), Jake Landers (August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018), and Aubrey Holt (August 15, 1938 - October 5, 2017).  August 1938 must have been a big month for Bluegrass legends, as we also remembered banjo great, Ben Eldridge (August 15, 1938 - April 14, 2024).  

New music was part of the show, too, as we got mail!  We shared music from brand-spanking-new CDs from the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Rebecca Frazier, and Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve.  There was also a new single from Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter, and selections from 2024 recordings by Junior Sisk, Daniel Grindstaff, and the Travelin' McCourys.

Hope you enjoyed the program, and we'll be sure to look for you on Sunday for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!

See you soon - 
Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Jimmy Martin's Life Story / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Night / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Tennessee / Gary Brewer / Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Stretchgrass [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• The Last Song / Bill Emerson with Jimmy Martin / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• If You Talk In Your Sleep / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Fly Trouble / John McEuen / The Newsman:  A Man Of Record / Compass Records
• The Hills And Home / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Old Devil's Dream / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / Pinecastle
• Ducks On The Millpond / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' On / Mountain Home
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Bury Me Beneath The Willow / Tony Trischka with Vince Gill / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Earl Scruggs:  Classic Bluegrass Live! / Vanguard
• You're Not A Drop In The Bucket / The Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Outrun The Rain / Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter / single / Fiddleman Records
• Smoky Mountain Home / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Saro Jane / Rebecca Frazier / Boarding Windows In Paradise / Amtoco Records
• A Little Home To Go To / Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve / Instant Lonesome And The Twinkle Brigade / Don Gionvanni Records
• Wanderers Like Me / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Looking At The World Through A Windshield / Daniel Grindstaff with Trey Hensley / Heroes And Friends / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Bluegrass Country / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Raised By The Railroad Line / The Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill [Remembering Paul Craft:  8/12/1938 - 10/18/2014]
• Teardrops Will Kiss The Morning Dew / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder [Remembering Paul Craft:  8/12/1938 - 10/18/2014]
• Fastest Grass Alive / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes 1 & 2 / Sugar Hill [Remembering Paul Craft:  8/12/1938 - 10/18/2014]
• You'll Never Find Another So True / Fast Track / Heartache And Trouble / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Aubrey Holt:  8/15/1938 - 10/5/2017]
• Atlanta Is Burning / The Boys From Indiana / Good Time Blues / Rebel [Remembering Aubrey Holt:  8/15/1938 - 10/5/2017]
• Sad Wind Sighs / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder [Remembering Aubrey Holt:  8/15/1938 - 10/5/2017]
• Mountain Girl / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• I Beg To You / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Old Train / The Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/15/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Runaway Train / Travelin' McCourys / single / McCoury Music
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol Nashville [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• The White Dove / Ralph Stanley with Jimmy Martin / Live! At McClure / Rebel [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Country Church / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• I've Changed My Mind / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/15/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Lead Me Down The Pathway / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Hymns From Wildwood Valley / Old Heritage Records
• Church Bells A-Ringin' / Danny Paisley / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Be No Stranger There / The Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/15/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virgina Squires / Rebel
• There Was Something Missing / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/13/2023

Hot on the heels of last Sunday's playlist posting for our Bluegrass Cafe, here comes the list for this day's edition!  

As you might imagine, we started the show with selections from several performers who appeared at this year's recently concluded Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen.  It was a wonderful festival with so many terrific performers, including Authentic Unlimited, Full Cord, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, East Nash Grass, Jerry Salley (who performed with Kristy Cox & Grasstime), Mike Mitchell, the Henhouse Prowlers, and Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass.  Hope you were able to attend, but if not this year, you'll have another chance in 2024!  Reserve these dates on your calendar:  August 10-13, 2024.  

We also celebrated the shared birth anniversary date of two Country Music Hall of Fame members:  Porter Wagoner (August 12, 1927 - October 28, 2007) and Buck Owens (August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006).  Both of these legends have had their music covered in a Bluegrass style over the years, so we shared a couple of tracks from each man's catalog.  We also continued the celebration of the birth anniversary of the King Of Bluegrass (Jimmy Martin) with several songs and covers from his vast catalog.

Hope you were able to join us for this broadcast, but if not, you'll have another chance next weekend to check out our Bluegrass Cafe.

Until then, enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Yardboss / Full Cord / Hindsight / Self-Produced
• Die Tryin' / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Love Slippin' Away / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Idaho / Patrice Webb / The Mountain, The Valley, The River, The Pine / Self-Produced [1st Place -- 2023 Podunk Songwriting Competition]
• What Kind Of Fool (Do You Think You're Foolin') / Jerry Salley / single / Very Jerry Records
• Making Hay / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• Uncle Ned / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Home Run Man / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Milwaukee, Here I Come / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Sophronie / David Grisman with Tony Rice / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Grand Ole Opry Song / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• How Could I Love Her So Much / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• On The Lonesome Wind / Andy Lowe / Nervous Energy / Mountain Fever Records
• Longfellow's Excelsior Hornpipe / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• Bad Moon Rising / Dave Adkins / single / Billy Blue Records
• Uncommon Man / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• I Go / The Grascals / single / Mountain Home
• Last Chance To Win / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Don't Hold Back / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'm Still Broken / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' On / Mountain Home
• A Satisfied Man / Porter Wagoner / The Essential Porter Wagoner / RCA [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Carroll County Accident / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Misery Loves Company / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper / Sugar Hill [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Ole Slew Foot / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Ruby & Other Bluegrass Specials / Jasmine [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Tall Dark Stranger / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Stony Mountain, West Virginia / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc. [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Old Memory / Gibson Brothers Bluegrass Band / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm Records
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• I Never Was Too Much / Gibson Brothers Bluegrass Band / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm Records
• I Never Was Too Much / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Dixie Breakdown / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• (Is This) My Destiny / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Live And Let Live / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Loggin' Man / Del McCoury Band / The Cold Hard Facts / Rounder
• Jordan / Darin & Brooke Aldridge feat. Ricky Skaggs, Mo Pitney, Mark Fain / single / Billy Blue Records
• Eternal Vacation / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Rocking On The Waves / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris / Bluegrass Spirit / Rounder
• God Told Nicodemus / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Awake My Soul / Chosen Road / It Never Gets Old / Thoroughbred Records
• Happy On My Way / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/6/2023

I'm just back from the 2023 edition of the fabulous Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT, and realized that I never posted a playlist from LAST week's Bluegrass Cafe!  Sheesh.  

Without a lot of fanfare, the list follows.  Highlights included new music from the Lonesome River Band and Darren Beachley & Caleb Bailey (among others), a lot of songs from Podunk performers, and birthday tributes to Country Music Hall of Famers, Webb Pierce and Mel Tillis, as well as to the King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin.

Please be sure to join us on the radio TODAY (Sunday, 8/13) for three big hours of Bluegrass music starting off at 4PM!

See you soon!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• One Dime At A Time / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Blue Baby Now / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Appalachian Blue / Kristy Cox / Shades Of Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Cabin On A Mountain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sings Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Where Is My Sailor Boy? / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Blue Skies And Teardrops / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• These Crazy Dreams / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Don't Throw Your Life Away / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Quit Quittin' You / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• Kissimmee Kid / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Your Light Leads Me On / Hot Rize / Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash / Ten In Hand Records
• Put It Off Until Tomorrow / Lost & Found / Final Chapter / Mountain Fever Records
• A Hundred Miles To Go / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Cold Virginia Night / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
• She Don't Know I'm Alive / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• Wayfaring Stranger / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Bristlecone
• Fiddler's Rock / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Be Good To My Little Baby Girl / Darren Beachley & Caleb Bailey / single / Turnberry Records
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• Rebecca / Herschel Sizemore / Back In Business / Hay Holler Records [Remembering Herschel Sizemore:  8/6/1935 - 9/9/2023]
• Pages Of Time / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats & Ties / Rebel [Tommy Sells birthday, 8/6/1956]
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Sophronie / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Sittin' On Top Of The World / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume II / Universal [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Why Baby Why / The Sideman / Almost Live At The Station Inn / Red Clay Records [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/21/1991]
• Wondering / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler Records [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/21/1991]
• Good Woman Blues / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Mel Tillis:  8/8/1932 - 11/19/2017]
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Remembering Mel Tillis:  8/8/1932 - 11/19/2017]
• The Room Over Mine / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Abilene / Full Cord / Hindsight / Self-Produced
• Hannah / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• I Gotta Go / Lindley Creek / Freedom, Love, And The O pen Road / Pinecastle
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Let Those Brown Eyes Smile At Me / Old & In The Gray / Old & In The Gray / Acoustic Disc
• She Thinks I Still Care / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Train 45 / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• There's A Highway To Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• God Has Been So Good To Me / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Yes, I See God / Larry Stephenson Band / Retrospective / Whysper Dream Music
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / single / Rebel
• Preachin', Prayin', Singin' / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• The Weary Pilgrim / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill Records
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/14/2022

There was some top-notch live Bluegrass to be heard in Connecticut last weekend at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, and we made sure to share selections from several Podunk performers during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  Hope you were able to get to Goshen to enjoy the 25th edition of Podunk.  It was a great one!  Big thank you to the Podunk organizing committee for putting together such a fabulous festival!  (If you weren't able to be in Goshen, we shared music from several Podunk performers, including Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, the Kody Norris Show, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Williamson Branch, the Alex Leach Band, and Dan Tyminski.

We had a lot of birthday celebrating to do on Sunday, as well.  To that end, we shared songs in celebration of four members of the Country Music Hall of Fame (Phil Balsley of the Statler Brothers, Webb Pierce, Connie Smith, and Mel Tillis).  Three of these folks had birthdays on August 8th.  

There was also nearly a half-hour's worth of music in celebration of the August 10th birth anniversary of the self-proclaimed King Of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin (August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005).

Have yourself a wonderful week, and we'll see you again on Sunday afternoon at 4PM for our Bluegrass Cafe!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Traveling Kind / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Traveling Kind / Self-Produced
• When I Get The Money Made / Kody Norris Show / When I Get The Money Made / Self-Produced
• Which Train / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• The Lonely Side Of Goodbye / Junior Sisk / Lost & Alone / Mountain Fever Records
• Readin', Rightin', Route 23 / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Take The Long Way Home / Alex Leach Band / I'm The Happiest When I'm Moving / Mountain Home
• Lonesome For You / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced
• 20/20 Vision / Dan Tyminski / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Crazy Blues / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Ready For The Times To Get Better / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle
• Rock Salt & Nails / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• Home Is Where The Heart Is / Connie & Babe / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah
• Whispering Waters / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Jim Eanes / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Jimmy Brown The Newsboy / Kathy Kallick with Jim Hurst / What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? / Live Oak Records
• These Crazy Dreams / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Good Woman Blues / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Mel Tillis:  8/8/1932 - 11/19/2017]
• Slowly / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• More And More / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• It's Been So Long / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Wondering / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Statler Brothers / Sons Of The Motherland / Mercury [Phil Balsley birthday, 8/8/1939]
• Talk To Me Lonesome Heart / Larry Stephenson with Connie Smith & Marty Stuart / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• Cincinnati, Ohio / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• Once A Day / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel [Connie Smith birthday:  8/14/1941]
• Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Gary Brewer / Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Self-Produced [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hold Whatcha Got / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Night / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• The White Dove / Ralph Stanley with Jimmy Martin / Live! At McClure / Rebel [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• I'm My Own Grandpa / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Lester's Loafin' Lounge / Self-Produced
• Take My Ashes To The River / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• Date With An Angel / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Silence Or Tears / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday 
• I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Sunny Mountain Chimes / Josiah Tyree / Smith County Five String / Self-Produced
• Barefoot Nellie / Jim Lauderdale with High Fidelity / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Heyday / Lonesome River Band / Heyday / Mountain Home
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Down In Caroline / Front Range / The New Frontier / Sugar Hill
• Walking In The Spirit / Williamson Branch with the Marshall Family / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• There's A Man Coming For Me / Kody Norris & the Watauga Mountain Boys / There's A Man Coming For Me / Self-Produced
• Crying Holy / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Travelling Kind / Self-Produced
• Take A Little Time For Jesus / Junior Sisk / Lost And Alone / Mountain Fever Records
• Hold On / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• God's Been Good / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home
• Lord Lift Me Up / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/8/2021

For this day's 67th recorded-at-home Bluegrass Cafe, we included music in celebration of a few different August birthdays.  The celebrants included two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, a wonderful Bluegrass songwriter, a "wild & crazy" banjo picker, and the King of Bluegrass.  

We also shared songs from a couple of performers who will be appearing at the upcoming Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, Connecticut on August 12th through 15th.  This early in the week, the weather forecast looks okay, so let's hope it stays that way.  If you'd like to check out the festival, please do!  More information can be found here.

Have a great week!  We'll be looking for you once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Lonesome Truck Driver's Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1958 / JSP Records
• Long Haul Trucking Man / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango Records
• Long Haul Truckin' / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Tennessee Truck Driving Man / Don Rigsby with Charlie Sizemore / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• Truck Drivin' Man / Jim & Jesse / Y'all Come:  The Essential Jim & Jesse / Epic Legacy
• You're In My Heart / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Eight More Miles / Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris & Rhonda Vincent / O Sister! / Rounder
• I'm Comin' Back But I Don't Know When / David Grisman with Del McCoury & Herb Pedersen / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Happy Go Lucky / Alan Bibey & Doyle Lawson / single / Billy Blue Records
• Jackson / Donna & Roni Stoneman with Tom Mindte / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Early Recordings / County Records
• The Cotton Farmer / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• It's Not Like Home / Jimmy Martin / [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Drink Up And Go Home / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Train Forty-Five / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Wondering / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• More And More / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Why Baby Why / The Sidemen / Almost Live At The Station Inn / Red Clay Records [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Slowly / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 3/25/2006]
• Carroll County Accident / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 3/25/2006]
• Misery Loves Company / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 3/25/2006]
• I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name / Porter Wagoner / The Essential Porter Wagoner / RCA [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 3/25/2006]
• Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Pitkin County Turnaround / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Missing Her Has Never Slowed Me Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Sound Biscuit
• Hope Valley / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced
• Wake Up And Smell The Coffee / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Transistor Radio / Daryl Mosley / single / Pinecastle
• 5-String Swing / Michael Cleveland / Tall Fiddler / Compass Records
• The Old Brown County Barn / Michael Cleveland / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder
• Dust On The Bible / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Is There Room For Me / Loafers' Glory / Loafers' Glory / Arhoolie Records
• My Lord's Been A Walkin' / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• There Will Be Singing / Southern Rail / Glory Train / Pinecastle
• How Can You Refuse Him Now / Rhonda Vincent / Bluegrass Legends--Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• Wings Of Faith / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Where We'll Never Say Farewell / Larry Sparks / Ministry In Song / Rebel
• A Little More Faith In Jesus / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Are You Washed In The Blood? / David Peterson / Simplicity / Self-Produced
• Going Up On The Mountain / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• God Loves His Children / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Go Spread The Gospel / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Never Go Back (To The Ways Of Sin) / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• Walkin', Runnin', Flyin' / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
• Calling From Heaven / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• God On The Mountain / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• Climb The Ladder / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/23/2020

As you know, we've been pre-recording our Bluegrass Cafe programs since mid-April.  Up until April, every one of the radio programs I have ever done since starting as a college broadcaster in late 1988 have been produced "live," so this recording thing is completely new to me.  My apologies for all of the background noise with cricket sounds and loud trucks you might hear in the background of our shows, but we are grateful to have the opportunity to still present a weekly radio program.  The show is put together in three separate parts on Monday, Tuesday, and/or Wednesday evenings on my porch.  I'm sharing that because the first two hours of today's show featured celebrations of four August birthday celebrants (Jimmy Martin, Steve Martin, Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner) and a good portion of new music released during 2020.  Those hours were recorded on Monday night.  By the time we got around to producing the Hour #3 on Wednesday night, the sad passing of Steve Gulley had taken place.  We intend to pay full tribute to this wonderfully gifted singer and songwriter during next week's show, but for today, we hope you enjoyed our brief tribute to Steve Gulley in the first segment of our Gospel Hour.  

Even though 2020 is a terrible year for performing live, many performers have been releasing new music this year.  We included a few of those in this show, with songs from Rhonda Vincent, Stephen Mougin, Carolina Blue, Wood & Wire, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, High Fidelity, J.B. & Jamie Dailey, Laurie Lewis, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, and Becky Buller.

Thanks for listening.  If you would like to get in touch, please do.  Send an email to bgcafe@gmail.com and/or please give our Facebook page a "like":  www.facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Sophronie / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Free Born Man / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Lost And Lonely / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• Carolina Moon / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Moon / Rebel
• Down In Caroline / Front Range / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Carolina In The Pines / Southbound / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• My Cabin In Caroline / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• The Ballad Of Mary Ann / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle
• The Barber's Fiddle / Becky Buller / Distance And Time / Dark Shadow Recording
• Old Friend / Laurie Lewis with Kathy Kallick / And Laurie Lewis / Spruce And Maple Music
• One Tear / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes One & Two / Sugar Hill
• Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Sugar Hill
• Remembering / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Speeding West / Eddie Adcock & Don Reno / The Sensational Twin Banjos Of Eddie Adcock & Don Reno / Rebel
• Pitkin County Turnaround / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• King Tut / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Rare Bird Alert / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Talk To Me Lonesome Heart / Larry Stephenson with Connie Smith & Marty Stuart / 20th Anniversary / Whysper Dream Music [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• I Never Once Stopped Loving You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• Once A Day / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Carroll County Accident / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• I Ain't Been Nowhere / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / single / Upper Management Music
• Summertime Rolls / Wood & Wire / North Of Despair / Blue Corn Music
• Last Train / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Sarah Jarosz / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Blind Man / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• New Beginnings / Stephen Mougin / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• Iron Curtain / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• The Yodelling Muleskinner Blues / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Shenandoah Breakdown / Rick Spinney / Off The Cuff / Self-Produced
• Calling To That Other Shore / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / There's A Light Guiding Me / Sugar Hill [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Patching It Up / Mountain Heart / Mountain Heart / Doobie Shea Records [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• I Never Shall Forget The Day / Steve Gulley with Joe Mullins / Family, Friends & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Angel On His Way / Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford / Dogwood Winter / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• You Better Wake Up / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Cast Aside / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel
• Get Down On Your Knees And Pray / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Shouting On The Hills Of Glory / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best / Federal
• That Home Above / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Traveling The Highway Home / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / Gloria Bell / Love Of The Mountains / Rebel
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Are You Lost In Sin / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Don't You Want To Go Home / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Rebel
• Will The Angels Play Their Harps For Me / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• I'm Getting Ready To Leave This World / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
  
  
  
  
  
  

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/16/2020

After our "repeat" broadcast last week due to Tropical Storm Isaias, this Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was a completely new presentation.  Hope you enjoyed it!

Mid-August seems to be a fine time to be born if you want to be a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.  This week, we celebrated the August birthdays of two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame -- Webb Pierce (born August 8, 1921) and Buck Owens (born August 12, 1929) -- as well as one member of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame -- Jimmy Martin (born August 10, 1927).  No better way to celebrate than by sharing the music of these fine performers, and in the case of Webb and Buck, many of their songs have been covered to the Bluegrass world, and continue to be recorded

We included a little bit of new music this week, too, featuring a couple of selections each from Stephen Mougin ("Ordinary Soul" on Dark Shadow Recording) and Carolina Blue, whose "Take Me Back" was recently released on their new label, Billy Blue Records.  Other newer releases for 2020 included selections from the Feinberg Brothers, Greg Booth (from "The New Reso Gathering"), Junior Sisk, and High Fidelity.

As the remainder of our programs for 2020 will be recorded at home, I'd like to encourage you to send any requests to me through email (bgcafe@gmail.com) or check out our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe).  

Have a great week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Cold Wind / Roy McMillan / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel 
• Wind To The West / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• Blow, Big Wind / Laurie Lewis / O Sister!  The Women's Bluegrass Collection / Rounder
• Galveston Flood / Tony Rice / Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• The Storms Are On The Ocean / Carter Family / Can The Circle Be Unbroken / RCA
• Borrowed Diamonds / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• Best Female Actress Of The Year / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Long Forgotten Dream / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• There Stands The Glass / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Webb Pierce:  August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991]
• More And More / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Webb Pierce:  August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991]
• In The Jailhouse Now / Louvin Brothers / Love And Wealth:  The Lost Recordings / Modern Harmonic [Remembering Webb Pierce:  August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991]
• Slowly / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up / Rounder [Remembering Webb Pierce:  August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991]
• Why Baby Why / The Sidemen / Almost Live At The Station Inn / Red Clay Records [Remembering Webb Pierce:  August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991]
• Wondering / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Remembering Webb Pierce:  August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991]
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005]
• Rock Hearts / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005]
• Bear Tracks / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005]
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• I Don't Care / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• Together Again / Feller & Hill / Feller & Hill & the Bluegrass Buckaroos / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• Tall Dark Stranger / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc. [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• Only You And You Alone / Stephen Mougin / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• Buckaroo / Greg Booth / The New Reso Gathering / Pinecastle [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• Streets Of Bakersfield / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Old Rusty Gate / Rebel [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• It Takes People Like You / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• (I'll Love You) Forever And Ever / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Roll Out The Red Carpet / Sundazed [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• Color Me Lonely / Stephen Mougin / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• Too Wet To Plow / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy Anymore / Alecia Nugent / The Old Side Of Town / Self-Produced
• Dim Lights, Thick Smoke / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Flame In My Heart / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Hooked On Bluegrass / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• Feudin' Banjos / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Electricity / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Dying A Sinner's Death / Appalachian Express / Walking The Blues / Rebel
• Row By Row / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Lead Me On And On / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Rebel
• The Automobile Of Life / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• When We Look On His Face / Bill Emerson with Cliff Waldron / Reunion / Webco
• Walking In Jerusalem (Just Like John) / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1958 / JSP Records
• I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics (1946-1950) / Cattle
• When God Dips His Pen Of Love In My Heart / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Eternal Vacation / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Buck Owens:  August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006]
• Get In Line Brother / Marty Stuart / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• No Hiding Place / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek
• Kneel At The Cross / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather Records [Remembering Webb Pierce:  August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991]
• The Future Remains / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Gusto
• God Moves In A Windstorm / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• A Beautiful Life / Jimmy Martin / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / MME [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder