"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/20/2024

We sure had a fun Bluegrass Cafe today!  In addition to having a nice telephone visit with Mark Newton - learn more about his health journey here -- we also had a surprise in-studio guest in the form of our radio pal, Jim Beaver.  What a day!  Thanks to Mark for visiting with us, and thanks to Jim for popping by the studio (and putting away my CDs).  😁

There was a 4-song tribute to "Everybody's Grandpa" today, as well, as today is the 111th birth anniversary of the great Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones (10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998).

Thanks for listening!  Hope you'll consider joining me once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another Bluegrass Cafe!

Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Painted Lady / Knoxville Grass / Painted Lady / Newton Records
• Pain Of Loving You / Mark Newton feat. Gloria Belle / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel
• Down In The Cold Ground / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel
• I Built A World / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes feat. Jason Carter / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Just Because / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Too Lonely, Way Too Long / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Deep River Blues / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• Something You Didn't Count On / Jaelee Roberts / Something You Didn't Count On / Mountain Home
• Baby Blue Eyes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me / Bluegrass Express / A Tribute To Jim & Jesse / Plum River Records
• Barefoot Nellie / Jim Lauderdale & High Fidelity / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Redwood Hill / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Square One / Mark Newton / single / Self-Produced
• Telephone conversation with Mark Newton
• Late Night Cry Of The Whippoorwill / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Home Run Man / Bill Emerson & Mark Newton / A Foot In The Past, A Foot In The Future / Pinecastle
• Mountain Dew / Grandpa Jones / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• It's Raining Here This Morning / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Banjo Am The Instrument For Me / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Let The Whole World Talk / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Johnson Island Prison / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• The Convict And The Rose / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• The Year That Clayton Delaney Died / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel
• Cold Wind A-Blowin' / Ronnie Bowman & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Town Hall Clock / Rock Hearts / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records [Eric Gibson birthday, 10/23/1970]
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• A Beautiful Life / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• We'll Still Sing On / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Cry From The Cross / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/14/2021

 

It's February 14th, so I guess that means it's time to say Happy Valentine's Day!  Hope you've had a nice day surrounded by the things (or people!) you love.  

Our radio show for today included lots of songs concerning matters of the heart -- and so, there were songs both of broken hearts and songs filled with positive love stories.  We may share a few more from both categories in next week's show, so hope you can join us.

February may be a short month, but it is one filled with lots of birthdays to be celebrated.  This week, we shared songs from several birthday celebrants, including Dudley Connell, David Davis, Claire Lynch, Mark Newton, and Don Rigsby.

We also remembered another Country Music Hall of Famer whose birthday would have been celebrated on the day this show was recorded (February 9th) -- Ernest Tubb (February 9, 1914 - September 6, 1984).  E.T.'s songs have been covered by lots of Bluegrass performers over the years, and we shared a few of those in tribute to the Texas Troubadour.

This show was completed and submitted for airplay to WHUS before the sad news came on Thursday of the death of a fine Bluegrass guitar player, and all-around nice young man, Aaron Foster.  If you have ever attended a Bluegrass festival in the northeast over the past 10+ years, you have likely seen Aaron jamming, playing on a stage, or directing a Kids' Academy.  Read this fine remembrance of Aaron (also known as "Frosty") that was published in Bluegrass Today on Thursday, February 11th:  Aaron "Frosty" Foster, gone way too soon at 28 - Bluegrass Today  Sincere condolences to Aaron's family and many friends, and we'll be sure to share some of his music during our broadcast on February 21st.

Enjoy your week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Ace Of Hearts / Mile Twelve / Onwards / Delores The Taurus Records
• Blackmail Your Heart / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Blue Love (In My Heart) / Hot Flashes / Eponymous / Happy Appy Records
• Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• Crazy Heart / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• Brand New Heartache / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Cross My Broken Heart / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Heartaches / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Heartache Looking For A Home / Charlie Sizemore Band / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rounder
• Crying My Heart Out Over You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• Evil Hearted Woman / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC
• Drivin' Nails In My Coffin / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Driftwood On The River / Osborne Brothers / The Ernest Tubb Song Folio / Pinecastle [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Waltz Across Texas / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Sweet Thang / Donna & Roni Stoneman with Tom Mindte / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Letters Have No Arms / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Walkin' The Floor Over You / Ernest Tubb / The Definitive Collection / MCA [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Watermelon On The Vine / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories / McCoury Music
• Readin', Rightin' [sic], Route 23 / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Love Bug / Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• All In My Love For You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• You're That Certain Someone / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• The Sweetest Song I Sing / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
• Rose Of My Heart / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Love At Last / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• A Daisy A Day / Wilma Lee Cooper / A Daisy A Day / Rebel
• Prettier All The Time / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Just Lovin' You / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Love Bug / Lost & Found / January Rain / Rebel
• He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder [David Davis birthday, 2/16/1961]
• It Don't Bring You Back To Me / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Tennessee Truck Drivin' Man / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder [Claire Lynch birthday, 2/20/1954]
• Hard Times In Kentucky / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• Darling Nelly Bly / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• God Sees Me / Flashback / Blues Around My Corner / Pinecastle [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Claire Lynch / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Billy Blue Records [Claire Lynch birthday, 2/20/1954]
• In The Garden / Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  1984-2014 / Self-Produced [David Davis birthday, 2/16/1961]
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Going Up On The Mountain / Seldom Scene / DreamScene / Sugar Hill [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Way Down Deep In My Soul / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder [David Davis birthday, 2/16/1961]
• Voice Of My Savior / Mark Newton with Claire Lynch / Follow Me To The Fold / Rebel [Claire Lynch birthday, 2/20/1954; Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• Traveling The Highway Home / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• I'll Answer The Call / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• Calling The Prodigal / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Close Harmony / Bear Family
• Let My Life Be A Light / Balsam Range / Aeonic / Mountain Home
• Kneel At The Cross / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Feel Like My Time Ain't Long / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass:  World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• Pray The Clouds Away / Doyle Lawson, J.D. Crowe, Paul Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• When The Angels Sing / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• Won't It Be Wonderful There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• Shine, Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 10/13/2013 Jim Shumate, Mark Newton & Steve Thomas

Hi Folks.

Jim Shumate in 1980

This show revolved around two key events, one being the loss of pioneering first generation bluegrass fiddler Jim Shumate  (Oct. 21, 1921 - Oct. 10, 2013,) and the other being a live interview with Mark Newton and Steve Thomas -- veteran bluegrassers with very long resumes who have released a collaborative album titled "Reborn."

Flatt & Scruggs' first band
Jim Shumate is on fiddle

We played a couple of classic cuts from Flatt & Scruggs' first recording session that had Jim Shumate on fiddle, and throughout the show we played fiddle tunes from Jim's 1980 fiddle album "Bluegrass Fiddle Supreme."



We also played music from many of Mark Newton's past projects along with songs from his and Steve Thomas' album "Reborn."

Check out their video for "Old McDonald Sold The Farm":

Other newer music included selections from a new album from Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, Noam Pikelny's excellent new Kenny Baker tribute album, Alex Leach, Larry Efaw & The Bluegrass Mountaineers, James King's new album of country songs done bluegrass style (as well as an oldie from one of James' 1988 LPs), Del & Dawg (Del McCoury and David Grisman), Peter Rowan, Locust Ridge, Lou Reid and Carolina, Kim Robins, and Don Rigsby.

 Besides the Flatt & Scruggs and James King oldies, The Heritage Corner included old recordings from Charlie Moore, Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, and Doc Watson.

Don't miss James & Cathy Ward on Thursday afternoon with their program, "Bluegrass Rules," when they will bring you the rebroadcast of the 2013 IBMA Awards Show.

Amy will be with you next Sunday, so be sure to tune in.

Jim Beaver

Song / Artist / Album / Label

• Mean Old Ramblin' Blues / Jim Shumate / Bluegrass Fiddle Supreme / Self-released
• How Mountain Girls Can Love / Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby / Cluck 'Ol Hen / Skaggs Family
• Ain't Got Trouble Now / Alan Jackson / The Bluegrass Album / EMI
• Footprints In The Snow / Doc Watson / Doc's Prescription / Not Now
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Flatt & Scruggs / 1948-1959 / Bear Family
• My Cabin In Caroline / Flatt & Scruggs / 1948-1959 / Bear Family
• Brown County Breakdown / Noam Pikelny / Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe / Compass
• Cindy / Mark Newton Band / No Boundaries / Rebel
• One Morning In May / Jeff Scroggins & Colorado / Western Branches / Self-released
• Broken Heart And A Worried Mind / Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / She Left Me Standing On The Mountain / Blue Circle
• Lover's Quarrel / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day I Died / Rebel
• Lulu & Jack / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak
• Charlie Lawson's Still / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel
• Going Back / Jim Shumate / Bluegrass Fiddle Supreme / Self-released
• Mountain Heartache / Alex Leach / Mountain Heartache / Self-released
• We Can't Go Wrong / Mark Newton & Rhonda Vincent / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel
• Used To Be / Mark Newton & Dale Ann Bradley / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel

Interview with Mark Newton & Steve Thomas

• Old McDonald / Mark Newton & Steve Thomas / Reborn / Pinecastle
• Painted Lady / Mark Newton & Steve Thomas / Reborn / Pinecastle
• I Always Do / Missy Werner Band / Pre-release single / Self-released
• Cat And Mouse / Jeff Scroggins & Colorado / Western Branches / Self-released
• Martha White, Lester And Earl / Terry Baucom w.Marty Raybon / Never Thought Of Looking Back / John Boy & Billy
• The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee / Mark Newton & Steve Thomas / Reborn / Pinecastle
• It's A Cold Cold World / James King / Sings It's A Cold Cold World / Webco (LP)
• Chiseled In Stone / James King / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
• Lost Train (bed) / Jim Shumate / Bluegrass Fiddle Supreme / Self-released
• Bound For Sugar Hill (bed) / Jim Shumate / Bluegrass Fiddle Supreme / Self-released
• Lost Indian (bed) / Jim Shumate / Bluegrass Fiddle Supreme / Self-released
• Monroesine / Mark Newton & Bill Emerson / A Foot In The Past, A Foot In The Future / Pinecastle
• Unwanted Love / Del and Dawg / Hardcore Bluegrass In The Dawg House / Acoustic Disc
• Heartache And Regret / Kim Robins / 40 Years Late / Self-released
• Mountain Girl / Lou Reid & Carolina / Live At The Down Home / Kma
• Alcatraz Island Blues / Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent
• The Devil's Train / James King / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
• Blue Monday Morning / Charlie Moore / Charlie Bluegrass / Country Jubilee (LP)
• Will He Wait A Little Longer / Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers / She Left Me Standing On The Mountain / Blue Circle
• Sundown And Sorrow / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass
• Traveling The Highway Home / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• My Savior Is Callin' Me / Peter Rowan / The Old School / Compass
• See God's Ark A Movin' / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Kneel Down / Mickey Galyean and Cullen's Bridge / Rollin' With Tradition / Self-released
• Silver And Gold / Locust Ridge / Healed / Rural Rhythm
• Child Of The King / Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass / Reminiscing / Short Grass
• Open Window / Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis / Classic Bluegrass Gospel / B.A.C.M
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge, Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-released