"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/1/2026

We returned for our first three-hour, live-in-the-studio Bluegrass Cafe this past Sunday, March 1st!  After what seems like weeks away due to snow and ice (and one missed Sunday for attendance at the fabulous Joe Val Bluegrass Festival), I was ready for radio.  Hope you were able to join us!

During our program, we celebrated many birthdays, some for Country Music legends whose material has been greatly covered in the world of Bluegrass (Johnny Cash, Faron Young), and other birthdays of gentlemen who are important members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame (Doug Dillard, John Duffey, Don Stover, Doc Watson, Pete Wernick).  Lots of fine music to be heard there!  

We also had our annual telephone visit with Michelle Canning -- a Nashville-based songwriter/performer who is a Massachusetts native, and who, several years ago, when she was a 16-year-old banjo player/band leader decided to hold a benefit for the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.  On March 21st, Michelle will host the 15th edition of this event -- called "A Night On The Edge" -- in Chelmsford, MA.  In her fifteen years of raising money to support research on this terrible disease, Michelle has raised nearly $100,000!  Her goal this year is to surpass that total, so please consider helping her reach that goal, if you can.  More info on the event or how to donate can be found here:  Michelle Canning - Alzheimer's Benefit

It was great to be back with our Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday, but since we have now entered tournament season for UConn Basketball, the means our show may be subject to preemptions here and there for the rest of the month.  To that end, the start of this coming Sunday's show (March 8th) will be delayed by about thirty minutes as the UConn Women play in the Big East Tournament game at 2:30PM.  We'll look for you around 4:30PM, and then, at 5PM we're planning to have a telephone chat with Jeff Horton of the Rhode Island Bluegrass Alliance about some of their upcoming events.  Should be a fun day.

Until then, enjoy the weekend, and we'll see you around 4:30PM on March 8th.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Hey Porter / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble & The Rose / Rounder [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• A World So Full Of Love / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• Give My Love To Rose / Sally Love Connell / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Alone With You / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / Self-Produced [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• Big River / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Go Back You Fool / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• If You Talk In Your Sleep / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Please Mr. Postman / Special Consensus feat. Rick Faris / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• Uncle Ned / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced [Remembering Neil Sadaka:  3/13/1939 - 2/27/2006]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass / Big Country Bluegrass / Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass / Rebel
• Scotland / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• I'll Love Nobody But You / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• It's All Fun And Games ('Til Someone Gets Hurt) / Junior Sisk / It's All Fun And Games / Turnberry Records
• Hill Country Highway / East Nash Grass / All God's Children / Mountain Fever Records
• Come On Sunshine / Williamson Branch / Southern Sunshine / Pinecastle
• Chat with Michelle Canning re: her 15th annual "Night On The Edge" benefit for the Alzheimer's Foundation of America - 3/21/2026
• High Above The Mountains / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Look Down That Lonesome Road / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / O California! / Spruce And Maple Music
• O California! / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / O California! / Spruce And Maple Music
• Going Down The Road Feeling Bad / Doc & Merle Watson / Elementary Doctor Watson / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Mercury [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Things In Life / Don Stover / Hand-Picked:  25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Black Mountain Rag / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• Little Maggie / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• You Tried To Ruin My Name / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister! / Rounder
• Memories That We Shared / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Reason For Being / The Seldom Scene / Act Two / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Millworker / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Wild Ride / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Which Train / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• I'm Working On A Road / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• I Can't Sit Down / Special Consensus / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel 
• You Must Come In At The Door / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/9/2025

Our Bluegrass Cafe broadcast was shortened by about 40 minutes today, as there was a broadcast of the UConn Women's Basketball Big East Tournament game that didn't end until about 4:40PM.  Still, we managed to pack a whole lot of fine music into our remaining 140 minutes.  

We celebrated several March birthday performers, including two Bluegrass Hall of Fame members (Norman Blake and Marshall Wilborn), one Country Music Hall of Famer (Jimmy Fortune), and several other fine folks, including Kristin Scott Benson, Cia Cherryholmes, Raymond Fairchild, Bob Paisley, and Rickie Simpkins.

We also remembered bass playing entertainer, Ernie Sykes, as he died on March 5th at the age of 64.  Most recently, Ernie had been a member of the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, but he was a journeyman musician working with bands as varied as Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, Eddie & Martha Adcock, Livewire, and Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit.  In addition to being a fine musician, Ernie was an excellent singer, so we showcased him singing a couple of songs.  

There were three new songs this week from forthcoming recordings by Chris Davis, Rick Faris, and Matt Wallace.

Next Sunday, the Student Union building will be locked during our broadcast, as it will be the beginning of Spring Break at UConn.  That means there's a possibility we may not be able to host a live broadcast.  We will let you know as soon as we know, so be on the lookout for a post on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe).  

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Sunny Days (Are Comin' Once Again) / Michael Cleveland / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• The Eddie Swing / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Sea Of Heartbreak / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records
• Snake Charmer / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Nobody's Darlin' But Mine / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Maple Sugar / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / Jesse Brock with Greg Blake / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Gold Rush Town / Chris Davis / single / Pinecastle
• Bend, Don't Break / Rick Faris / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Back Away / Matt Wallace / single / Huckleberry Records
• Kansas City Star / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records [Remembering Ernie Sykes:  11/13/1960 - 3/5/2025]
• Kentucky Waltz / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Ernie Sykes:  11/13/1960 - 3/5/2025]
• D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin) / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder [Norman Blake birthday, 3/10/1938]
• Only A Memory Away / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Rickie Simpkins birthday, 3/10/1955]
• The Hunt / Kristin Scott Benson / Straight Paths / Pinecastle [Kristin Scott Benson birthday, 3/14/1976]
• How Long / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records [Cia Cherryholmes birthday, 3/11/1984]
• No Vacancy / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / No Vacancy / Brandywine [Remembering Bob Paisley:  3/14/1931 - 11/29/2004]
• Katy Hill / Raymond Fairchild / Plays The Classics / Copper Creek [Remembering Raymond Fairchild:  3/15/1939 - 10/13/2019]
• Heartstrings / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble & The Rose / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Wishing Well Blues / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Heart Of A Little Mountain Girl / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Goodbye To The Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Daniel Grindstaff with Jimmy Fortune / Heroes And Friends / Pinecastle [Jimmy Fortune birthday, 3/11/1955]
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Bob Paisley:  3/14/1931 - 11/29/2004]
• Listen To The Word Of God / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Angel Band / Stanley Brothers / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• Rocking On The Waves / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Along The Way / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Daddy Sang Bass / Dailey & Vincent with Jimmy Fortune / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel [Jimmy Fortune birthday, 3/11/1955]
• Gone Home / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/24/2024

We celebrated a few March birthdays during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, including those of Bluegrass Hall of Fame members John Starling, Dean Webb, and Paul Williams.  We also remembered a banjo playing Blue Grass Boy of the early 1950s, Rudy Lyle (March 17, 1936 - February 11, 1985), with several songs on which he played an active part.  This included music (of course!) from Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, as well as Uncle Joe Johnson and Jimmy Skinner, too.  If you would like to know more about Rudy Lyle, there was a biography published about him in 2022:  Rudy Lyle:  The Unsung Hero Of The Five-String Banjo by Max Wareham.  

There was some newer music to share during our broadcast, including brand-new selections from Junior Sisk, Adam McIntosh, the Tim Raybon Band, Crandall Creek with Greg Blake, the Edgar Loudermilk Band, Rock Hearts, and Lindley Creek.  There was also recent music from High Fidelity, the Price Sisters, the Kathy Kallick Band, the Country Gentlemen Tribute Band, and Barry Abernathy (from the new Rick Lang-penned gospel collection).

Our plan is to join you once again on Easter Sunday afternoon.  If you're able to tune in, please do!  We should be on the air from 4-7PM...as always.

Have a good week -
Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Howling Blue Winds / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• Lonesome Wind Blues / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Windy Mountain / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family Records
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Toy Heart / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Big Spike Hammer / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Here Today / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Sweet Thang And Cisco / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel
• Honeycat Hornpipe / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• Echo Canyon / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
• Don't You Know I Love You, Charlie Brown / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Dreamer's Hill / Lost & Found / Final Chapter / Mountain Fever Records
• If There's A Will, There's A Way / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Every Time A Train Goes By / Adam McIntosh / Restless / Billy Blue Records
• Headed Back To Tulsa / Tim Raybon Band / single / Pinecastle
• Lazy Sunday / Crandall Creek with Greg Blake / single / Self-Produced
• The Banks Of The River / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Pinecastle
• Unfinished Bridges / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Spring Is In The Air Again / Lindley Creek / single / Pinecastle
• Old Cold Shoulder / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Natural Bridge Blues / Uncle Joe Johnson / WPAQ:  The Voice Of The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rounder [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• I'm On My Way To The Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Too Hot To Handle / Jimmy Skinner / single / Decca [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Blue Grass Ramble / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Muddy Waters / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Starling:  3/26/1940 - 5/2/2019]
• The Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Dean Webb:  3/28/1937 - 6/30/2018]
• Steppin' Stones / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• Darling Please Come On Home / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• I Can Read Between The Lines In Your Letters / Price Sisters / Between The Lines/ McCoury Music
• Just Lonesome Ol' Me And The Radio / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall) / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• Bringing In The Georgia Mail / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Misty Mountain Rain / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland Strictly Country Records
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• The Touch Of God's Hand / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Hold On / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Are You Lost In Sin? / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Where No Cabins Fall / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Springtime In Glory / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• My Lord's Been A Walkin' / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Just Beyond / Barry Abernathy / Blue Collar Gospel / Billy Blue Records
• Goodbye / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/10/2024

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe got an unexpected (to me) delayed start due to the WHUS broadcast of a UConn Women's Basketball semifinal game in the 2024 Big East Tournament.  In the days before COVID, it was not at all unusual for our showtime to be preempted during basketball season at UConn, but that hasn't happened all that often in recent years...until yesterday.  We began the show around 4:30PM, so hope you were still able to enjoy 150 minutes of Bluegrass music on Sunday afternoon.

We began our delayed program with a belated birthday tribute to the great Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo picker of The Dillards, Doug Dillard (March 6, 1937 - May 16, 2012).  Somehow or other, Doug's birthday got overlooked during our broadcast on March 3rd.  For this week, we celebrated the birthdays of Norman Blake (born March 10, 1938), as well as those of Marshall Wilborn, Raymond Fairchild, Bob Paisley, Kristin Scott Benson, Ronnie McCoury, and Tim O'Brien.

International Women's Day was celebrated on March 8th, and while we could -- and should -- devote more airtime to the music of Bluegrass Women, we took a few minutes on Sunday to belatedly celebrate a few of the fine women in Bluegrass music.  To that end, we heard music from Becky Buller, Wilma Lee Cooper, Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, Alison Krauss, Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris, Laura Orshaw, and Rhonda Vincent.  

And there was some new music to share, too, this time from a new band named Red Camel Collective, as well as newer selections from the Price Sisters, Barry Abernathy (from the forthcoming Rick Lang-penned Gospel recording), Volume Five, Darren Nicholson, Michelle Canning, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, the Travelin' McCourys, Missy Raines & Allegheny, and Junior Sisk.

It was a busy, abbreviated show!  Sure hope you could join us, but if not this week, then I hope you'll seek out our next broadcast on Sunday, March 17th.  We should have three big hours of Bluegrass Cafe to share beginning at 4PM.

Until then, have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Dooley / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Somebody Touched Me / The Dillards / Back Porch Bluegrass / Elektra [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Are You Missing Me / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP&CD Records
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Mama & Daddy's Little Girl / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Select Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• You're Not A Drop In The Bucket / The Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Roll On Mississippi / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• There's A Song In There Somewhere / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• We Just Disagree / Volume Five / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Ain't No Sin / Darren Nicholson / single / Mountain Home
• Outside The Lines / Michelle Canning / Outside The Lines / Self-Produced
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk with Dan Tyminski / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Silence Or Tears / Norman & Nancy Blake / Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To / Shanachie [Norman Blake birthday, 3/10/1938]
• Black Pony / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Beer Barrel Polka / Raymond Fairchild / Little Zane / Copper Creek [Remembering Raymond Fairchild:  3/15/1939 - 10/13/2019]
• Margie / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Bob Paisley:  3/14/1931 - 11/29/2004]
• Quicksburg Rondezvous / Del McCoury Band / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder [Ronnie McCoury birthday, 3/16/1967]
• Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill [Tim O'Brien birthday, 3/16/1954]
• Great Waterton / Kristin Scott Benson / String works / Mountain Home [Kristin Scott Benson birthday, 3/14/1976]
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost HIghway Records [Norman Blake birthday, 3/10/1938]
• Runaway Train / The Travelin' McCourys / single / McCoury Music
• Fast Moving Train / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Highlander / Compass Records
• Foolish Heart / Alison Krauss / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Montana Cowboy / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / O Sister 2 / Rounder
• Eight More Miles / Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris & Rhonda Vincent / O Sister! / Rounder
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'll Be Hurtin' Either Way / Laura Orshaw / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Poor Ellen Smith / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister 2 / Rounder
• Just Beyond / Barry Abernathy with John Meador, Tim Raybon & Bradley Walker / Blue Collar Gospel / Billy Blue Records
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Count Your Blessings / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope Records
• Just Any Day Now / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I Love God's Way Of Living / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / rebel
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records
• I Know What You're Talking About / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/12/2023

It was good to be back on the air for this Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  After a fall  on February 28th left me with a pretty deep knee cut, it wasn't possible to do a live radio show on March 5th.  I'm working my way back to "normal" now, so I couldn't miss presenting today's live program.  Hope you enjoyed it.

We spent some time on Sunday remembering Jim Sharpley of Still Pickin', as Jim died suddenly at his winter home in Florida on Thursday.  I've had the pleasure of working with Jim for the last several years at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival.  He was a very nice guy with a wonderful sense of humor and a genuine love for Bluegrass music.  He will be greatly missed.

We also remembered the wonderful Bluegrass songwriter -- Bill Castle -- as he died at the age of 89 at the end of February.  Many performers have recorded Bill Castle-penned songs over the last several years, and we shared many of them on the air on Sunday.

And there was a bit of newer music to share, as well, with tunes from Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Sister Sadie, Jeff Parker & Company, Rock Hearts, the Churchmen, and Larry Sparks.

Hope you were able to join for this show, but if not, we'll hope to see you next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Time Changes Everything / Reno Brothers / Swing West / Pinecastle
• Dreaming / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Don't Let My Love Get In The Way / Joe Mullins & Junior Sisk / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• My Sweet Love Ain't Around / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel
• Better Times A-Coming / Jim & Jesse / Classic Bluegrass Collection / Time Life
• I Can't Go On Loving You / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel
• On Whiskey Mountain / Bill Emerson with Bill Harrell / Reunion / Webco
• I'm Singing Harmony / The Big Dogs with Tony Trischka / Live At The Birchmere / Strictly Country Records
• Wildwood Flower / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Dooley / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• My Dear Old Southern Home / Doc Watson / Americana Master Series:  Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Greenville Trestle High / Doc Watson / Americana Master Series:  Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Whiskey Before Breakfast / Doc Watson with Bryan Sutton / Americana Master Series:  Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Get Along Home Cindy / Still Pickin' Trio / Reuben's Train / Natchaug Music [Remembering Jim Sharpley]
• I Still Carry You Around / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced [Remembering Jim Sharpley]
• Reuben's Train / Still Pickin' Trio / Reuben's Train / Natchaug Music [Remembering Jim Sharpley]
• Still Pickin' Theme Song / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced [Remembering Jim Sharpley]
• Black And White / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• Well / Sister Sadie / single / Mountain Home
• You Don't Need To Be Improved / Jeff Parker & Company / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Sweetheart / Larry Sparks / single / Rebel
• The Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• In A Town This Size / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Remembrance Is A Golden Chain / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Honky-Tonked To Death / Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Don't Point Your Finger / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Stanley Family Records [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• It's In My Mind To Wander / Bluegrass Cardinals / My Kinda Grass / BGC Records [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Swing That Hammer / Lonesome River Band / Talkin' To Myself / Sugar Hill [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Here Today And Gone Tomorrow / James King / Thirty Years Of Farming / Rounder [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• If All Those Trains Were Still Around (I'd Be An Ol' Hobo) / Randy Kohrs / Old Photograph / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Careless Love / Marshall Wilborn / Root 5 / Pinecastle [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine [Remembering Bob Paisley:  3/14/1931 - 11/29/2014]
• Great Waterton / Kristin Scott Benson / Stringworks / Mountain Home [Kristin Scott Benson birthday, 3/14/1976]
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium [recorded 3/13/1964]
• Whoa Mule / Raymond Fairchild / Little Zane / Copper Creek [Remembering Raymond Fairchild:  3/15/1939 - 10/13/2019]
• Untold Stories / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Tim O'Brien birthday, 3/16/1954]
• Quicksburg Rondezvous / Del McCoury / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder [Ronnie McCoury birthday, 3/16/1967]
• Heartsongs / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• The Church At Hickory Grove / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Only God / Self-Produced [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Preachin', Prayin', Singin' / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Give The Devil An Inch / Billy Boone Smith / Five Flat Rocks / Muddy Sunshine
• They Can Only Fill One Grave / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Kneel Down And Pray Up / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Moon / Rebel [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Journey To My Savior's Side / The Churchmen / Shadow Of The Cross / Morning Glory Music
• Calling My Children Home / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Lord, Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/6/2022

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured something that I haven't done in over two years -- a bona fide, live-as-it's-happening telephone interview!  Our interviewee was the delightful Michelle Canning, who told us all about the things she's been doing (writing songs like crazy!) and also, about her upcoming virtual event to benefit the Alzheimer's Foundation of America:  A Night On The Edge.  For more information about the event and all of the other things Michelle is doing, visit Michelle's website (https://michellecanning.net).  

The songs we played also included birthday selections in honor of two Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo players who were both born on March 6th:  Don Stover (1928) and Doug Dillard (1937).  Other birthday music celebrated Norman Blake, Rickie Simpkins, Cia Cherryholmes, and the first part of a two-show selection of songs written by the great Marshall Wilborn.  

And we remembered Mac Martin, who died on February 28th at the age of 96.  Mr. Martin was a fine purveyor of traditional Bluegrass music in the Pittsburgh, PA area for over 70 years.  Amazing.

We'll look for you once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.  Hope you have a fine week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Things In Life / Don Stover / Hand-Picked / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• The Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Bob Wills Medley / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH [Remembering Bob Wills:  3/6/1905 - 5/13/1975]
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Hank / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Polka On A Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• New Curly Headed Baby / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• A Faded Rose, A Broken Heart / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• Blue Skies In Your Eyes / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• Are You Missing Me / Dailey & Vincent / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways
• Date With An Angel / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Cheek To Cheek With The Blues / Del McCoury / High Lonesome And Blue / Rounder
• Telephone chat with Michelle Canning
• The Blues Ain't Workin' On Me / Michelle Canning with Rhonda Vincent / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Which Train / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records [Norman Blake birthday, 3/10/1938]
• Dusty Miller / Rickie Simpkins / Dancing On The Fingerboard / Pinecastle [Rickie Simpkins birthday, 3/10/1955]
• How Long / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records [Cia Cherryholmes birthday, 3/11/1984]
• Workin' Man (Nowhere To Go) / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Black Pony / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Heart Of A Little Mountain Girl / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• If Lonely Was The Wind / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Goodbye To The Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• I Wanna Be Where You Are / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Don't Let Smokey Mountain Smoke Get In Your Eyes / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• You Are The One / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Dixie In My Eye / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
• The Sun Also Rises / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• 20/20 Vision / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• Down To The River To Pray / Alison Krauss / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• In The Cool Light Of Dawn / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• There's A Higher Power / Kathy Kallick Band / Between The Hollow & The High-Rise / Live Oak Records
• John In The Jordan / Jerry Salley with the Oak Ridge Boys / All God's Children Sing / Very Jerry Records
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• He Will Set Your Fields On Fire / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe / Columbia Legacy
• Bring Him Your Talents / Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder