"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/25/2024

Our Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday was a day to celebrate two important banjo innovators who both happened to be born on February 25th -- Bluegrass Hall of Famer Ralph Stanley (February 25, 1927 - June 13, 2016) and Peter Wernick (born February 25, 1946).  To that end, we shared loads of music from both of these performers throughout the course of our three hour visit.  And, since it only happens once every four years, we couldn't forget to celebrate the birthday of mandolin master, Mike Compton (born February 29, 1956).

Veronica "Roni" Stoneman (May 5, 1938 - February 22, 2024) may have been primarily known as one of the amusing cast members of "Hee Haw" for 18 years, but she was much more than that.  In her big, musical family -- The Stonemans -- Roni was the star banjo picker.  In fact, in 1957, she was the first female banjo player to record a song playing Scruggs-style banjo, which earned her the nickname of "First Lady of the Banjo."  Along with her family, Roni was inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2021.  For more information on Roni Stoneman, consider reading her 2007 memoir (as told to Ellen Wright) published by the University of Illinois Press:  Pressing On:  The Roni Stoneman Story.

New music was part of the mix on Sunday, as well, with brand new selections from Becky Buller (with Aoife O'Donovan), Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road, Shelton & Williams, and Donna Ulisse.

Hope you enjoyed what you heard, and that you'll consider joining us once again this coming Sunday from 4-7PM for our next edition of Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Dickson County Breakdown / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Rose Conley / Ralph Stanley / Short Life Of Trouble / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Nobody's Love Is Like Mine / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Live! At McClure! / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• The Window Up Above / Ralph Stanley with George Jones / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Your Light Leads Me On / Hot Rize / Hot Rize In Concert / Flying Fish [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Wild Ride / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Just Like You / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• The Old Rounder / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• No Brakes / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• The Old Home / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• These Old Blues / Missy Raines with Danny Paisley / Highlander / Compass Records
• The Hills And Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• I Cried Again / Blackstone Valley Bluegrass / Debut / Appleland Records
• Duncan And Brady / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Traveling Kind / Self-Produced
• Soppin' The Gravy / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• I'll Never See My Home Again / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Homesick For Virginia / Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road / single / Pinecastle
• It's A Lovely, Lovely World / Donna Ulisse / Mountain Lily / Billy Blue Records
• Carolina Time / Shelton & Williams / single / Turnberry Records
• Jubilee / Becky Buller with Aoife O'Donovan / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Lonesome Road Blues / Eugene Cox & Roni Stoneman / American Banjo:  Three-Finger And Scruggs Style / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• Sweet Thang / Donna & Roni Stoneman with Tom Mindte / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• Lonesome Banjo / The Stonemans / The Stonemans! / Starday Records [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• Good, Good Girl / The Stonemans / The Stoneman Tradition / Patuxent Music [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• My Dirty, Lowdown, Rotten, Cotton Pickin', Little Darlin' / The Stonemans / Those Singin', Swingin', Sensational Stonemans / MGM [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• Blue Grass Breakdown / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Ice Covered Birches / Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Cliff Waldron / Rebel
• Wave Goodbye / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• At The End Of A Long, Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Rocky Island / Ralph Stanley / Old-Time Pickin':  A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/27/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Hard Times / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/27/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Sixteen Years / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Can't You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/27/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Pretty Polly / Ralph Stanley with Patty Loveless / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/27/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Old Time Pickin' / Ralph Stanley / Old-Time Pickin':  A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/27/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Ring The Bell / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Don't Hold Back / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury / My Dixie Home / Rebel
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Monroebilia / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder [Mike Compton birthday, 2/29/1956]
• I Can't Settle Down / Laura Orshaw with Brittany Haas & Jenee Fleenor / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Wild Mountain Honey / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Gospel Plow / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder [Mike Compton birthday, 2/29/1956]
• Over In The Gloryland / Carolyn Eyerly / The Sunny Side Of Life / Patuxent Music
• Camping In Canaan's Land / Dailey & Vincent / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS 
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• I'm So Happy / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• A Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Daniel Prayed / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/13/2022

So, it seems there was a little issue getting into the Student Union at UConn today ~ the building was locked up tight as the UConn students are enjoying their Spring Break this week.  Unfortunately, those of us who are not students didn't get the message, and so, we weren't able to get inside the building.  These things (unfortunately) seem to happen every now and then.  Fortunately, though, in the absence of a "live" show, today's broadcast was a COVID-era recording that originally aired on February 28, 2021.  Hope you enjoyed a revisit.  :)

Hope to be back inside the WHUS studios broadcasting next week.  Until then, have a fine week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Break My Heart / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel
• Back To Hancock County / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Skip, Hop & Wobble / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau [Tony Rice Unit] / In Good Company / CMH
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Ice Covered Birches / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Someone Play Dixie For Me / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Hobo Blues / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Thank God For The Highways / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Just Load The Wagon / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Mend This Heart Of Mine / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Johnson Mountain Chimes / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Grand Ole Opry Song / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Mother Maybelle Carter / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Tennessee Stud / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Doc Watson / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• My Dear Old Southern Home / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / A Long Time Ago / Vivid Sound [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Bob Wills Medley / Bluegrass Cardinals / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH [Remembering Bob Wills:  3/6/1905 - 5/13/1975]
• Idle Time / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder [Mike Compton birthday, 2/29/1956]
• Your Lone Journey / Doc Watson / Best of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Walk Through This World With Me / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Won't Be Crying Over You / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• Darby's Castle / Professor Dan Boner / West Of West Virginia / Self-Produced
• Swinging A Nine Pound Hammer / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Music
• Flint Hill Special / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Earl Scruggs / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Things In Life / Don Stover / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Satisfied / Sullivan Family / Live! At McClure / Rebel
• Leaning On The Everlasting Arms / The Grascals / Dance 'Til Your Stockings Are Hot And Ravelin' / Time Life
• Praying / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• The Church Back Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Starday
• Going Home / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler
• I've Just Seen The Rock Of Ages / Larry Sparks / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Dust On The Bible / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Jesus Made The Wine / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• My Lord Delivered Me / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Gospel Collection, Volume One / Sugar Hill
• Living On The Hallelujah Side / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• Jesus Is Standing At My Right Hand / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• On The Wings Of A Dove / Gopher Broke Bluegrass / The Wayworn Traveler / Self-Produced
• Get On That Road To Glory / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• It's So Hard To Stumble (When You're Down On Your Knees) / Lou Reid & Carolina / Sounds Like Heaven To Me / Rural Rhythm
• Something That The World Didn't Give Me / Marshall Family / Live! At McClure / Rebel
• When We All Get To Heaven / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Glory Bound Train / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
• I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder