"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/2/2025

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was our first for February 2025.  We had a few items on our agenda for the day, and we managed to include all of them.  First and foremost, we belatedly celebrated the birthdays of four prominent Bluegrassers born on February 1st:  Del McCoury (1939), Tom Gray (1941), David Parmley (1959), and Jason Carter (1973).  No better way to celebrate these gents than by sharing their music...and so, we did.

We pulled out our sometimes-feature wherein we occasionally put one letter of the alphabet in the spotlight.  Our featured letter for Sunday was "F" -- in honor of the month of February, of course.  To that end, we shared music from more than twenty acts whose band name or surname began with the letter "F."  Among the "F" performers:  Raymond Fairchild, Rick Faris, Fast Track, Gary Ferguson, the Feinberg Brothers, Flashback, Lester Flatt, Flatt Lonesome, Bela Fleck, Aaron "Frosty" Foster, Front Range, Full Cord, and several others.

And since Sunday was Grammy Awards Day, we also included music from 5 of the 6 nominated recordings in the category of Bluegrass Album of the Year.  Congratulations to all of the nominees (Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, the Del McCoury Band, Sister Sadie, Tony Trischka, and Dan Tyminski), as well as to the winner, Billy Strings.  

Hope you've had a fine week.  We hope to be back on the air with you this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.  Hope you'll join us for another Bluegrass Cafe!

Take care - 

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Ground Hog / The Dillards / Bluegrass Breakdown / Vanguard
• New Broom / Lue & Byron Berline / Bluegrass Breakdown / Vanguard
• How Mountain Girls Can Love / Stanley Brothers / Bluegrass Breakdown / Vanguard
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bluegrass Breakdown / Vanguard
• Ground Hog / Jim Mills with Alan O'Bryant / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill
• Dreams / Del McCoury / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• Grandfather's Clock / The Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Mountain Laurel / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals / CMH [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Outrun The Rain / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / single / Fiddleman Records [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• Kissimmee Kid / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• Country Poor, Country Proud / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP&CD Records [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Bessie's Tune / Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike / Small Town Heroes / Bell Buckle Records [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Big Blue Raindrops / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• No One Has To Tell Me (What Love Is) / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Listen To My Hammer Ring / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• I Ain't Goin' Down / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Sugar HIll
• Cabin Song / Billy Strings / Highway Prayers / Reprise
• Can't Live Without Love / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Can't Live Without Love / Self-Produced
• GOAT / Dan Tyminski / Dan Tyminski:  Live From The Ryman / 8 Track Entertainment
• Diane / Sister Sadie / No Fear / Mountain Home
• Bury Me Beneath The Willow / Tony Trischka with Vince Gill / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Jimmie Rodgers Rode A Train / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Caroline In Carolina / Freewheelin' / single / Self-Produced
• I Can't Go Home Anymore / Farm Hands / Memories Of Home / Pinecastle
• Pallet On The Floor / Five Mile Mountain Road / Swingbilly Swagger / Patuxent Music
• I Can't Be Bothered / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home
• Maybe This Time / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• Foolish Game Of Love / Bradford Lee Folk & the Bluegrass Playboys / Somewhere Far Away / Self-Produced
• Little Zane / Raymond Fairchild / Little Zane / Copper Creek
• Hammer Down / Feller & Hill / Brothers And Heroes / Rural Rhythm
• Cowboy Sweetheart / Fox Family / Follow My Lead / Sierra Records
• It Was Only The Wind / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Lester Raymond Flatt / Flying Fish
• 1500 Miles Away From Home / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Before The Prairie Met The Plow / Billy Joe Foster & Special Edition / Before The Prairie Met The Plow / Hay Holler
• Whitewater / Bela Fleck / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Where Dear Friends Will Never Part / Front Porch String Band / Hills Of Alabam / Rebel
• I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You / Full Cord / Cambium / Dark Shadow Recording
• Ten Miles From The Truth / Aaron "Frosty" Foster / Opening Doors / Self-Produced
• Don't Hold Back / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Born To Be With You / Flashback / Denver Snow / Pinecastle
• Lay Down Your Troubles / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Lord Lift Me Up / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• I Surrender All / Freeman & Williams / Freeman & Williams / Mountain Roads Recordings
• I'm Ready To Go / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Fill My Way Every Day With Love / Forbes Family / A Forbes Family Treasury - Volume 1 / Rebel
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/19/2023

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

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

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

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

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

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

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