"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/12/2026

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe began with two sets of cover songs in honor of the great Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) -- a man who is probably the favorite male country singer of many Bluegrass performers, as loads of his songs have been covered over the years.  Merle even recorded his own Bluegrass(ish) record, so how can we not celebrate his life and music during our Bluegrass show?  (Answer:  we can't).  

Several newer songs made their way onto our program on Sunday, as well, with selections from Dailey & Vincent, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Blue Highway, Anthony Howell, and the Grammy Award-winning duo of Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland.  

Hope you'll consider joining us once again this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  It'll be fun, so don't miss it, okay?

See you then - 

Amy O. 

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Working Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Silver Wings / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• The Fightin' Side Of Me / Merle Haggard / Vintage Collections / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Big City / U.S. Navy Band Country Current / Live / Altissimo [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Swinging Doors / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Hobo Blues / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Seven Year Blues / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Bright Lights & Country Music / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Pardon Me / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Handsome Molly / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Lonesome Pine Breakdown / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family Records
• Stone Cold Loneliness / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Moon Shines On The Still / Dailey & Vincent / A Beautiful Life / Pillar Stone Records
• Big Daddy Rabbit / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / single / Yeah Man Records
• I'd Rather Be A Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU!  A 30-Year Retrospective Event / Down The Road Records
• Ground Speed / Anthony Howell / single / Noxubee Hills Music Group
• Let's Sing Our Song / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland with John Cowan / single / Fiddleman Records
• Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Live At ETSU!  A 30-Year Retrospective Event / Down The Road Records
• Feeling Blue / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Follow The Leader / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH Records
• Cowboys Dig Them High-Heeled Shoes / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Heading Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• Just Wondering Why / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Pikearoo / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• That's All Right / Tony Trischka with Dudley Connell / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• Rock Hearts / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder
• Trouble Keeps Hanging 'Round My Door / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Pressing On Regardless / Brentwood Music
• Come On Back / DownRiver Collective / single / Self-Produced
• I Got Wise / Eddie & Martha Adcock / TwoGrass / Pinecastle
• How Could I Love Her So Much / The Travelers / Ridin' The Lines / Hay Holler
• Sweetest Love / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Bend, Don't Break / Rick Faris / Life's Parade / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Never Was Too Much / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Dreams About The Hills Of Home / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather Records
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• God Loves His Children / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Heaven's Bright Shore / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Live At The Newburyport Firehouse / Rounder
• Working On A Building / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• The Eastern Gate / Traditional Grass / I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• I Want To Be A Christian Soldier / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• He Will Roll You Over The Tide / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• Walkin', Runnin', Flyin' / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/7/2024

Our first Bluegrass Cafe for the month of April started with nearly an hour's worth of songs featuring "A" performers (requirement:  the performer's last name or band name began with the letter "A").  We also honored a New England Bluegrass pioneer who recently passed, shared a little bit of new music, remembered the great Merle Haggard's birth anniversary with lots of covers of his music, and included a telephone visit with Alex MacLeod of Rock Hearts.  It was a stuffed three hours -- hope you were able to join us!

A few weeks ago, old friend Dave Shaw asked me if I was aware that Herb Hooven (May 29, 1931 - February 22, 2024) had passed.  I recognized his name, but wasn't overly familiar with this multi-instrumentalist.  Turns out this Southern transplant to Massachusetts played music with some very influential Bluegrass musicians over the years, including Jimmy Martin, the Lilly Brothers & Don Stover, and Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys, among others.  Thanks to Dave for providing some of Herb's music for us to enjoy.  If you'd like to know more about Herb Hooven, here's a link to his obituary.

We checked in with Alex MacLeod from Rock Hearts around 5:30PM today.  This busy band is getting ready to release their second recording for 615 Hideaway Records later on this Spring.  If you would like to see this band perform, they have an upcoming show at the Suffield VFW in West Suffield, CT on April 13th.  For more information about Rock Hearts, their music, or their upcoming gigs, check out the band's website.

And we couldn't let the birth (and death) anniversary of the great Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) pass without acknowledgement, either.  Though the Hag was not a Bluegrass performer -- even though he released "The Bluegrass Sessions" in 2007 -- his music has greatly influenced many Bluegrass performers over the years.  We included three songs by Merle Haggard in our tribute set and six Bluegrass covers, though we could have played far more.

Hope you were able to join us for the show today.  We hope to be back on the air with you next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM with another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  Consider joining us, if you can.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Willow Creek Dam / American Drive / American Drive / Pinecastle
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Funky Mountain Special / Tom Adams / Adams County Banjo / Rounder
• Helen / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• The Hills That I Call Home / Bob & Sarah Amos / EverOnward / Bristlecone
• You'll Always Be My Blue Eyed Darling / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• La La Blues / Appalachian Road Show / Jubilation / Billy Blue Records
• Lucille / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Goin' Home Comin' On / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' Home / Mountain Home
• Thinking About You / Bobby Atkins & the Countrymen / Memories Of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Of The 1950s / Thunderbolt Records
• Grand Ole Circle / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Temperance Reel / Scott Anderson / Tales From The Swamp / Mato
• Silence Or Tears / Auldridge, Bennett & Gaudreau / This Old Town / Rebel
• I'm Going Back Home (Cabin Song #47) / ASH&W / ASH&W / Rebel
• Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / Apple & Setser / Apple & Setser / Bell Buckle Records
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Last Train / Howard Parker feat. Dave Bitler / single / Waiting For Lester Records
• Benfield Line / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Changing The Words To My Love Song / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Rounder [Remembering Herb Hooven:  5/29/1931 - 2/22/2024]
• 'Neath That Cold Gray Tomb Of Stone / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Herb Hooven:  5/29/1931 - 2/22/2024]
• Wanderlust / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Telephone conversation with Alex MacLeod of Rock Hearts
• Let Me Be The Best Bible / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Unfinished Bridges / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Wind To The West / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers / Merle Haggard / Down Every Road, 1962-1994 / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Working Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Big City / U.S. Navy Band Country Current / Live / Altissimo [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Mama Tried / Merle Haggard / Timeless / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Rainbow Stew / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Silver Wings / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• The Fightin' Side Of Me / Merle Haggard / Down Every Road, 1962-1994 / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Come On In / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures / Ralph Stanley with Larry Sparks / Saturday Night & Sunday Morning / Freeland Recording
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Mansion In The Grave / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road
• God Moves In A Windstorm / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• If There's A Will There's A Way / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Get In Line Brother / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Singing As We Rise / Gibson Brothers with Ricky Skaggs / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/2/2023

Before it's Sunday, again, it's time to share the playlist from our Bluegrass Cafe from last Sunday, April 2nd!

The Hag & Emmylou with Willie Nelson, too. 
 

Included in our lineup for last Sunday were a couple of tunes in celebration of the birthday of Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947), as well as a Bluegrass remembrance of the great Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016).  We also shared newer music from several folks, including Michael Cleveland, the Kody Norris Show, David Parmley, Greg Blake, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Mile Twelve, Lindley Creek, Danny Paisley with Sage Palser, Jason Barie, Larry Sparks, and Jason Carter.

Hope you've got plans to join us for a live Bluegrass Cafe on Easter Sunday, as we'll be there!  

Happy Easter!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Had It Not Been For The Train / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String
• The Passing Of The Train / Special Consensus / Roads & Rails / Shy Town Records
• The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore / New Coon Creek Girls / The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore / Pinecastle
• I Hear A Choo Choo Coming / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Live! At McClure! / Rebel
• With Body And Soul / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Big Black Train / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Greenlight On The Southern / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Blue Train / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Here Comes The Train / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Airmail Special / Jim & Jesse / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Fireball Mail / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Sunny Days (Are Comin' Once Again) / Michael Cleveland feat. Dan Tyminski & Jeff White / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Cabin On A Mountain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• New Moon Over My Shoulder / Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Del McCoury / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill
• Stone Cold Loneliness / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• I Call Her Sunshine / Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• Bluegrass Breakdown / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Poor Ellen Smith / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Goodbye To The Blues / David Parmley / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Cold, Wyoming Morning / Greg Blake / People, Places & Songs / Turnberry Records
• Just An Old Penny / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Pinecastle
• Johnny Oklahoma / Mile Twelve / single / Self-Produced
• Fare Thee Well / Lindley Creek / single / Pinecastle
• Walls Of Time / Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers / At The Ryman / Reprise Records [Emmylou Harris birthday, 4/2/1947]
• My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers / Merle Haggard / Down Every Road, 1962-1994 / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Silver Wings / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Today I Started Loving You Again / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• The Old Man From The Mountain / Bear Tracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Big City / Merle Haggard / The Bluegrass Sessions / McCoury Music [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• What Cross Your Mind / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass with Sage Palser / single / Pinecastle
• Fare Thee Well Cisco / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Bottom Of The Ninth / Jason Barie / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• Mom And Dad's Waltz / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• You'll Never Get A Better Chance / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddle Man Records
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Free Salvation / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Man On The Mule / The Isaacs / Bridges / Horizon Records
• Calling My Children Home / Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers / Live At The Ryman / Reprise Records [Emmylou Harris birthday, 4/2/1947]
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• God Told Nicodemus / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• They're Holding Up The Ladder / Virginia Ramblers / They're Holding Up The Ladder / Self-Produced
• The Old Account / Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Del McCoury / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill
• On The Wings Of Angels / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/9/2022

This day's Bluegrass Cafe featured a whole lot of music in celebration of the late Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) -- not a Bluegrass singer by any stretch, but his songs have certainly been covered in the Bluegrass world many multiples of times over the years.  Limiting ourselves to just a dozen Merle Haggard selections and covers is a bit of a struggle, but since we had so many other great songs and performers to share, we did what we needed to do.

As far as newer music, there were selections from the Edgar Loudermilk Band, Rhonda Vincent, the Rick Lang project featuring a song by Stephen Mougin, and the Po' Ramblin' Boys.

Next Sunday's show may be an encore presentation of last year's Easter show, but the jury is still out on that.  We'll keep you posted.

Thanks for listening.  Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Past The Point Of Rescue / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Pinecastle
• Two Highways / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• I Beg To You / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• Home Run Man / Jimmy Martin / 1954-1974 / Bear Family Records
• I'm Really Leaving / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Pinecastle
• It's Amazing What Sunshine Can Do / Pete Goble / When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass / FireHeart Records
• Slowly / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• Will You Be Lonesome Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Classic Bluegrass Live / Vanguard
• Little Mountain Road / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Running Razorback / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Pinecastle
• Marianne / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Modern Times / Rebel
• Sad Prison Song / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / Starday Records
• Many A Mile / Eddie & Martha Adcock / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Hey Porter / Greg Blake / Songs Of Heart & Home / Self-Produced
• Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico / Bluegrass Etc. / Bluegrass Etc. / Sierra
• Poor Monroe / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Why You Been Gone So Long / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home
• Long Forgotten Dream / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Hit Parade Of Love / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Branded Man / Merle Haggard / Vintage Collections / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Old Man From The Mountain / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Big City / U.S. Navy Country Current / Country Current Live / DoD [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Movin' On / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Mama Tried / Merle Haggard & Mac Wiseman / Timeless / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Today I Started Loving You Again / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Swinging Doors / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Silver Wings / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Runaway Momma / Merle Haggard / The Bluegrass Sessions / McCoury Music [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• I'm Going Home / Edgar Loudermilk Band / The Dark Side Of Lonesome / Rural Rhythm
• Nine Pound Hammer / George Shuffler / Aged To Perfection / Copper Creek [Remembering George Shuffler:  4/11/1925 - 4/7/2014]
• Paint The Town / Fox Family / Follow My Lead / Sierra
• Toodleoo / Rick Lang with Stephen Mougin / A Tale To Tell / Dark Shadow Recording
• Don't You Know I Love You, Charlie Brown? / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Baby Blue Eyes / Vince Gill / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways [Vince Gill birthday, 4/12/1957]
• City That Drowned / Mile Twelve / City On A Hill / Delores The Taurus Records
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Forty Years Of Trouble / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Grand Ole Circle / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Dreaming / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Lonesome / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• The First Step To Heaven / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Are You Lost In Sin / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family Records
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 2 / Hay Holler
• What A Friend We Have In Jesus / George Shuffler / Aged To Perfection / Copper Creek [Remembering George Shuffler:  4/11/1925 - 4/7/2014]
• Lord Show Me The Righteous Pathway / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Will He Wait A Little Longer / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/11/2021

During our 50th (!) "homemade" edition of our Bluegrass Cafe, we shared a whole bunch of brand-new music for 2021, as well as a few classic favorites, and a dozen-song tribute to the "Poet of the Common Man" - Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016).  Hope you were able to join us!

It seems that many Bluegrass performers have been recording while they haven't been able to play to live audiences, so that means we have a whole lot of new music to enjoy.  To that end, we shared selections from the brand new "Industrial Strength Bluegrass" collection from Smithsonian Folkways, as well as songs from forthcoming or recently-released recordings by the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Marty Raybon, Audie Blaylock & Redline, the Kody Norris Show, Merle Monroe, Lou Reid, Bobby Osborne, Rick Faris, Barry Abernathy, Carolyn Eyerly, and the Grascals.  Phew!  

We couldn't let the birth anniversary of the great Merle Haggard pass without remembering his wonderful music, so we did that, mostly in a Bluegrass style.  Many performers over the years have recorded music from the Hag Songbook, but we chose tunes from Lost & Found, Jim Mills, Linda Lay, the Gibson Brothers, Beartracks, the Spinney Brothers, the Big Dogs with Tony Trischka, Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams, Rickey Wasson & J.D. Crowe, and the Ernie Thacker-Junior Blankenship Band.

Hope you have wonderful week, and do consider joining me once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Take good care - 
Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Another Day / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Lonesome Road Blues / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Crazy Blues / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH
• Tomorrow I'll Be Gone / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Missing Her Has Never Slowed Me Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Self-Produced
• Blue Baby Now / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / single / Billy Blue Records
• Walking The Floor / Marty Raybon / single / Billy Blue Records
• Love's Fleeting Fire / Audie Blaylock & Redline / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• I'm Going Back To The Mountains / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• I'm Leaving Town Tonight / Merle Monroe / single / Pinecastle
• Smokey Mountain Rain / Lou Reid / single / Self-Produced
• White Line Fever / Bobby Osborne / single / Compass Records
• Deep River / Rick Faris / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• 20/20 Vision / Dan Tyminski / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Flame In My Heart / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• That's Why I'm Lonesome / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• Stanley Brothers / Hard Times / 
• Mama Tried / Merle Haggard / Timeless / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Swinging Doors / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Today I Started Loving You Again / Linda Lay / Linda's Mercantile / Cracker Barrell [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Old Man From The Mountain / Beartracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Silver Wings / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Always On A Mountain / The Big Dogs with Tony Trischka / Live At The Birchmere / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Big City / Rickey Wasson & J.D. Crowe / Hats Off To Haggard / Truegrass Entertainment [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Sing Me Back Home / Ernie Thacker-Junior Blankenship Band / Tennessee Blues / Copper Creek [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• The Fightin' Side Of Me / Merle Haggard / The Original Outlaw / Time Life [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Birmingham Jail / Barry Abernathy with Vince Gill / Barry Abernathy & Friends / Billy Blue Records
• Best Female Actress Of The Year / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Nobody's Darlin' But Mine / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Billy The Bluegrass Beagle / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• The Rapido Kid / Jason Barie / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• Traveling The Highway Home / The Grascals / single / Mountain Home
• Wings Of Angels / Don Rigsby / A Vision / Rebel
• If You Want To Live Forever / Larry Stephenson / Pull Your Savior In / Whysper Dream
• Lord Take Me Home / Wayne Taylor / Dear Mom / Raincoe Music
• Giving My Soul Back To Him / IIIrd Tyme Out / Living On The Other Side / Rounder
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Carolyn Eyerly / The Sunny Side Of Life / Patuxent Music
• Whither Thou Go / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
• Jesus Savior Pilot Me / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• Paul And Silas / Stony Point Quartet / Band Of Angels / Cracker Barrel
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• I'll Live Again / Baucom, Bibey, Graham, Haley / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Rebel
• We Shall Rise / Southern Rail / Glory Train / Pinecastle
• Because He Lives / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• Cry Out / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Model Church / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• I Can Hear The Angels Singing / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Born Again / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• You'll Be Rewarded Over There / Louvin Brothers / Close Harmony / Bear Family 
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder