"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/21/2026

Never quite finished my write-up for our Father's Day edition of Bluegrass Cafe on June 21st!  Oops!  Here were a couple of highlights:  sharing lots of music from the great Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Eddie Adcock (June 21, 1938 - March 20, 2025), who would have celebrated his 88th birthday on June 21st; listening to lots of tunes performed by the Bluegrass fathers along with their musical children, including folks with last names like Amos, Armistead, Cox, Harrell, McCoury, McGee, Mullins, Paisley, Parmley, Pike, White, and, of course, Monroe; listening to a few songs with themes of fathers and children; and, we belatedly remembered the June 19th birth anniversary of the great Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 - May 11, 1979).

Hope you were able to join us for the show, and that if you were a celebrant for Father's Day, you sure enjoyed your day!

We'll look forward to joining you for another Bluegrass Cafe very soon!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Mrs. Robinson / Eddie Adcock / Renaissance Man / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Let's / Eddie & Martha Adcock / TwoGrass / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Bye Bye Blues / Eddie Adcock & Don Reno / Sensational Twin Banjos / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Rodger Young / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• (They Call The Wind) Maria / Country Gentlemen / single / Rome [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Darling Little Joe / Eddie & Martha Adcock / Many A Mile / Patuxent [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Draggin' The Cow / The Masters / Laid Back / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Roll On Buddy / Bill & James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• 32 Acres / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals:  The Definitive Collection / CMH
• Little Whitewashed Chimney / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Sunshine Special / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• On The Sunny Side Of Life / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Self-Produced
• It's Grand To Have Someone To Love You / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Keep On The Sunny Side / The Whites / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• I've Had A Time / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Nashville Cats / Del McCoury Band / The Family / McCoury Music
• My Deceitful Heart / Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• Forever And Ever / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Smoke Along The Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• The Hard Game Of Love / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Hard Game Of Love / Sugar Hill
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Who Showed Who / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder
• Crazy Creek / Sally Van Meter / All In Good Time / Sugar Hill
• Wrong Road Again / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• How Many Times / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder
• Auction At The Home Place / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Little John, I Am / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Devil On A Plow / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Proud To Be Your Dad / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Bill From Isonville / Southern Legacy / single / Pinecastle
• Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself / Malpass Brothers / Satisfied:  Country Gospel Classics Live / Gaither Music Group
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• My Father's Son / Ricky Skaggs / My Father's Son / Sony Epic
• He Will Roll You Over The Tide / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Let The Light Shine Down / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Tell Me What You Think Of My Lord / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• When We Meet To Part No More / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Beyond The Shadows / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/23/2024

During last Sunday's presentation of our Bluegrass Cafe, we belatedly celebrated the 110th birth anniversary of one Lester Raymond Flatt (June 18, 1914 - May 11, 1979).  The Bluegrass World just wouldn't be the same without the vocal stylings and songwriting contributions of this native of Sparta, Tennessee.  We enjoyed more than twenty songs either written or performed by Lester Flatt on Sunday afternoon.  Hope you enjoyed the music of this member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Bluegrass Hall of Fame.  

We couldn't forget the June birthdays of two more legendary members of the Bluegrass community, both of whom happen to be natives of New England.  To that end, we heard several songs from the Massachusetts-born Bluegrass Hall of Famer Joe Val (June 26, 1926 - June 11, 1985), and from a future Hall of Famer from the State of Vermont, Dan Tyminski (born June 20, 1967).   

Hope you enjoyed the program, and that you'll consider joining us once again on the last Sunday of June from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

See you soon!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'm In Love All Over / Larry Stephenson / Everytime I Sing A Love Song / Webco
• Snake Charmer / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
• Bottom Of The Ninth / Jason Barie / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• Too Late To Say Goodbye / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• Treasure Untold / Mike Auldridge / Treasures Untold / Sugar Hill
• Slowly / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records
• Poverty Row / Springfield Exit / Springfield Exit / Cracker Barrel Records
• Are You Waiting Just For Me / Mike Auldridge with Tony Rice / Treasures Untold / Sugar Hill
• Leavin' Tennessee / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Connie & Buster / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• (Say) Won't You Be Mine / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Second To None / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• I Will Survive / Jeanette Williams / Thank You For Caring / Blue Circle Records
• The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake / Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• Banjo Whiz / Bill Emerson / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Don't Know Why / Larry Sparks / Seasons Past / Rebel
• High Lonesome / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Money In The Bank / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel [Dan Tyminski birthday, 6/20/1967]
• Who Showed Who / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder [Dan Tyminski birthday, 6/20/1967]
• I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Are Thou? / Lost Highway Records [Dan Tyminski birthday, 6/20/1967]
• Poor Ellen Smith / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Joe Val:  6/26/1926 - 6/11/1985]
• Where The Old Red River Flows / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder [Remembering Joe Val:  6/26/1926 - 6/11/1985]
• Don't Sell Daddy Anymore Whiskey / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Joe Val:  6/26/1926 - 6/11/1985]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / How Many Roads / Rebel [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / Hot Rize / Hot Rize In Concert / Flying Fish [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Remarks/My Cabin In Caroline / Lester Flatt / Lester Raymond Flatt / Flying Fish [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Is It Too Late Now / Bluegrass Album Band / Songs Of Flatt & Scruggs / Easy Disc [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass:  A Tribute To 1946 And 1947 / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Once And For Always/The News Is Out / Sugar Hill [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• My Darling's Last Goodbye / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Ode To Jimmy Martin / Dan Tyminski Band / God Fearing Heathen / 8 Track Entertainment [Dan Tyminski birthday, 6/20/1967]
• Just Because / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• The Martha White Theme / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• A Hundred Years From Now / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Shine, Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Reunion In Heaven / The Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Get In Line Brother / Marty Stuart / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Legacy [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• I'm Working On A Road / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / The Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Little Community Church / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe (1945-1949) / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems / no label [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/18/1914 - 5/11/1979]

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/19/2022

We had ourselves an overstuffed Bluegrass Cafe on this Father's Day!  As you might expect, we included a few songs about fathers (not half as many as we could have possibly played!), plus songs performed by Bluegrass fathers and their sons and daughters.  In addition, there was a little bit of new music, and for good measure, we also celebrated the 108th birth anniversary of the one and only Lester Flatt (June 19, 1914 - May 11, 1979).  Phew!  

There are lots of Bluegrass families, and we heard from several of them, including those with the last names of Amos, Armistead, Cox, Dailey, Emerson, Feinberg, Harrell, McCoury, McGee, Monroe, Mullins, Paisley, Parmley, Pike, Reno, and Stanley.  

There was new or recent music, too, from Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge, Blue Highway, Kathy Kallick, Junior Sisk, Unspoken Tradition, and the Gibson Brothers.

And we remembered a wonderful lady who was a steady presence and wonderful supporter of Bluegrass promoters and performers, alike:  Etta Crawford (August 20, 1942 - June 11, 2022).  

Hope you dads enjoyed your Father's Day.  Please consider joining me once again one week from today from 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Roll On Buddy / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Ashes Of Love / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Feeling Blue / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Carolina Mountain Home / Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Side By Side / Rebel
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Lester & Mike Armistead / Jump Shout And Stomp / RME Records
• Cry Of The Catamount / Bob Amos / Sunrise Blues / Bristlecone
• Berggold's Farm / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• This Morning At Nine / Lester & Mike Armistead / Jump Shout And Stomp / RME Records
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• The One You Slip Around With / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Why Baby Why / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Sho Nuff Country! / Patuxent Music
• The Blues Are Still The Blues / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• Leaving California / Bill Emerson & Billy Emerson / Emerson 414 / Acoustigrass Records
• Love, O Love Please Come Home / Reno & Smiley / Legends Of Bluegrass 1963 / 615 Hideaway Records
• Little White Washed Chimney / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Travelin' This Lonesome Road / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Show Me The Way To Go Home / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / 10 / Self-Produced
• On The Roof Of The World / Blue Highway / single / Rounder
• Footprints In The Snow / Kathy Kallick Band / What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? / Live Oak Records
• Up There On The Hillside / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• The Old Swinging Bridge / Unspoken Tradition / Imaginary Lines / Mountain Home
• Songbird / Aaron "Frosty" Foster with the Gibson Brothers / Opening Doors / Self-Produced [In memory of Etta Crawford:  8/20/1942 - 6/11/2022]
• Little John, I Am / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Daddy And Me / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Hitchhiking To California / Billy Blue Records
• Devil On A Plow / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Papa Wants To Go Back / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• My Daddy's Shoes / Rick Lang with Troy Engle / single / Self-Produced
• That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949 / Columbia [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / single
• Old Home Place / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949 / Columbia [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Remarks/My Cabin In Caroline / Lester Flatt / Lester Raymond Flatt / Flying Fish [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• The Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• The Automobile Of Life / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Daddy Did His Best / Dale Ann Bradley / Send The Angels / Compass Records
• I'll Owe To My Mother And Dad / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / Living On The Hallelujah Side / Rebel
• Calling My Children Home / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Justified / Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Daddy Sang Bass / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder