"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/2/2025

I'm late again in formally sharing our playlist from the March 2nd edition of Bluegrass Cafe, but you can find it below.

The highlights for this show:  music from several LPs; belated birthday celebrating of lots of wonderful performers, including Ralph Stanley (February 25, 1927 - June 23, 2016), Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 - September 12, 2013), Doc Watson (March 3, 1923 - May 29, 2012), and John Duffey (March 4, 1932 - December 10, 1996); new music; and a mid-show chat with the Michelle Canning who is putting together her 14th annual fundraising benefit with all of the proceeds benefitting the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.  For more information on "A Night On The Edge" (to be held on March 22nd), click here.

We'll be looking for you tomorrow afternoon for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!  Don't forget to Spring ahead!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart) / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Man Of Constant Sorrow / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Dickenson County Breakdown / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Can't You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Nobody's Love Is Like Mine / Ralph Stanley with Ricky Skaggs / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Little Birdie / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Rocky Road Blues / Lonesome River Band / Looking For Yourself / Rebel
• Never Been So Lonesome / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Lonesome River / Lou Reid & Carolina with Russell Moore / Graves Mountain All-Star Jam / Rural Rhythm
• Looking For Yourself / Lonesome River Band / Looking For Yourself / Rebel
• The Flower And The Serpent / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• John Deere Tractor / Larry Sparks with Alison Krauss & Dan Tyminski / 40 / Rebel
• My Brown Eyed Darling / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• Tomorrow I'll Be Gone / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Once More / The Grascals / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Scotty's Hoedown / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records [Bronwyn Keith-Hynes birthday, 3/2/1992]
• Big Spike Hammer / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album, Volume 3:  California Connection / Rounder
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Telephone interview with Michelle Canning
• Which Train / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• Going Down The Road Feeling Bad / Doc & Merle Watson / Elementary Doctor Watson / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Black Mountain Rag / Doc & Merle Watson / Remembering Merle / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Nine Pound Hammer / Country Gentlemen / Live From The Stage Of The Roanoke Bluegrass Festival / Zap [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Make Me A Pallet On The Floor / Country Gentlemen / Live From The Stage Of The Roanoke Bluegrass Festival / Zap [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Granite Mills / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Arcadia / Down The Road Records
• Heading For The Mountains / Big Country Bluegrass / single / Rebel
• Annie Moved On / Full Cord / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Ralph's Banjo Special / Kristin Scott Benson, Gena Britt, Alison Brown / single / Compass Records
• Daughter Of The Stars / Red Camel Collective / Red Camel Collective / Pinecastle
• Reuben's Train / The Dillards / Back Porch Bluegrass / Collector's Choice Music
• Snowbird / Special Consensus / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Blue Blue Ridge Mountain Girl / Linda Lay / Linda Lay / Mountain Fever Records
• Devil Woman / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• Train 45 / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Big River / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• There You Go / Jimmy Gaudreau / Classic J.A.G. / Webco [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Papa Played The Dobro / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• The Wall / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Hey Porter / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Kneel At The Cross / Jim & Jesse / Y'all Come:  The Essential Jim & Jesse / Epic Legacy
• Rock And Roll / Lonesome River Band / Looking For Yourself / Rebel
• I Ain't Got Time / High Fidelity / High Fidelity / Self-Produced
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• I'm Bound For The Land Of Canaan / Del McCoury Band / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Starday [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Let Me Rest / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• 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]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"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 - 2/20/2022

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured birthday tributes to two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, two members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and one Dr. Banjo.  We also included newer music, and some songs recorded 50 years ago today that were the first recordings of one of the most celebrated bands in the history of Bluegrass Music.  

We had birthday tributes galore this show, with Bluegrass covers of songs originally performed by two Country Music Hall of Famers who were born one day apart:  Faron Young (February 25, 1932 - December 10, 1996) and Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 - September 12, 2003).  This week also happens to be the birthday week of two legendary musicians in the Bluegrass Hall of Fame:  Don Reno (February 21, 1927 - October 16, 1984) and Ralph Stanley (February 25, 1927 - June 23, 2016).  In addition, Pete Wernick celebrates a birthday this week (born February 25, 1946).

In addition, we shared two songs that were the very first recordings made by the Seldom Scene.  Both songs were featured on their 1972 Rebel album, "Act I" and were recorded on February 20, 1972.

If all of that wasn't enough, there was some new (or newish) music by Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive, Mike Compton, Shannon Slaughter, Linda Lay, Dale Ann Bradley & Danny Paisley, and Rick Lang.

Hope you were able to join us for all or part of today's Bluegrass Cafe, but if not, you've got another chance coming up next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  See you then.  😁

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• One Way / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Thinking Of Home / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Records
• Foxhounds / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• I'm Gonna Love You (Like There's No Tomorrow) / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Fiddler's Pastime / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Laura Orshaw / Fiddler's Pastime / Sugar Petunia Records
• Once Upon A Heartbeat / Rarely Herd / Pure Homemade Love / Pinecastle
• Wedding Bell Chimes / Bill & the Belles / DreamSongs, Etc. / Jalopy Records
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Blue Blue Ridge Mountain Girl / Linda Lay / Linda Lay / Mountain Fever Records
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• When I Can Forget / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Chicago Barn Dance / Special Consensus / Chicago Barn Dance / Compass Records
• City Of New Orleans / Seldom Scene / Act I / Rebel [recorded 2/20/1972]
• With Body And Soul / Seldom Scene / Act I / Rebel 
• Darling Corey / Seldom Scene / Act I / Rebel [recorded 2/20/1972]
• Common Ground / Shannon Slaughter / single / Elite Circuit Music
• Hello Blues / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / single / Driving Duke Records
• Orange Blossom Breakdown / Mike Compton / Rare & Fine:  Uncommon Tunes Of Bill Monroe / Self-Produced
• One By One / Dale Ann Bradley with Danny Paisley / single / Pinecastle
• They Sawed Up A Storm / Rick Lang with Becky Buller / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Alone With You / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / Self-Produced [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• A World So Full Of Love / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• Go Back You Fool / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• Goin' Steady / Faron Young / The Complete Capitol Hits Of Faron Young / Capitol [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]
• I Still Miss Someone / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• There You Go / Jimmy Gaudreau / Classic J.A.G. / Webco [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Hey Porter / Johnny Cash / The Essential Johnny Cash / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Reno Ride / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Hard Times / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Wild Ride / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Green Mountain Hop / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Fling Ding / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Just Like You / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Chattanooga Dog / Summer Wages / Summer Wages / Rebel
• The Cotton Farmer / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• I Know A Good Thing When I Feel It / David Parmley / I Know A Good Thing / Sugar Hill
• Love Grown Cold / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Come Back Home / Jimmy Gaudreau / Classic J.A.G. / Webco
• If I Don't Lose My Fire / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / single / Driving Duke Records
• God On The Mountain / Jesse Brock with Greg Blake / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• A Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave / Ralph Stanley / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Get Up In Jesus' Name / Gena Britt with Alecia Nugent / Chronicle:  Friends And Music / Pinecastle
• I Am Going To Heaven / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• When The Angels Sing / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder