"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/23/2025

Before the day changes to Sunday, again, it's time to share a recap from last Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe!  

One of our "features" for last week's radio show was that we answered several song requests -- requests that weren't phoned in or solicited during the program, but instead, were sought by a listener/announcer at a Grange Bluegrass show held the night before our February 23rd broadcast.  We did pretty well with all but one of the requests, and we'll answer that one tomorrow.  Tune in to hear it!

We also included a couple of selections each from three different new recordings.  The performers were Max Wareham, Casey Connors, and Jim Lloyd.

Please consider joining me once again tomorrow afternoon from 4-7PM for another fun edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!

See you soon - 
Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Hard Game Of Love / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Hard Game Of Love / Sugar Hill
• Leavin' / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I'm Comin' Back, But I Don't Know When / David Grisman / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• 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
• Ice Covered Birches / Cliff Waldron / Rebel Records:  35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• I Can, I Will, I Do Believe / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Fox On The Run / Tony Trischka with Tom Adams / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Lonesome With Heartaches / Larry Stephenson Band / Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Whysper Dream Music
• Anywhere Is Home Again / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• The Crow / Tony Trischka with Steve Martin / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Please Come Back Little Pal / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I Built A World / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Windy Mountain / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family Records
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Up For Losing Sleep / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Benfield Line / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Lonesome Blues, I'm Coming Home / Max Wareham / Daggomit! / Self-Produced
• She's Got The Money, Too / Jim Lloyd / The Ghost Of Virginia / Patuxent Music
• Mozey Mountain Mandolin / Casey Conners / The Boy From Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• That's Just Part Of It / Max Wareham / Daggomit! / Self-Produced
• Silver Bell / Jim Lloyd / The Ghost Of Virginia / Patuxent Music
• Another Day / Casey Conners / The Boy From Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Kentucky Borderline / Rhonda Vincent / Bluegrass Number One Hits / Rounder
• The Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Rock Hearts / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• The Old Home Town / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Mountain Dew / Grandpa Jones / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Wildwood Flower / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Wanderlust / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Fast Moving Train / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Highlander / Compass Records
• Some Old Day / John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall) / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• Heartaches Keep On Coming / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Bluegrass Country / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Tell Me The Story Of Jesus / Becky Buller / The Perfect Gift / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Have Found The Way / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Old Roman Soldier / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Born Again / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlst - 3/27/2022

"New" was the word for Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  Mind you, we didn't share only the newest Bluegrass music in existence, but it seems like this was the week for several performers to release music -- new bands, Grammy-nominated bands, older bands with new configurations -- no matter, as all of it was pretty top-notch, and gives us something to look forward to for the future Bluegrass in 2022.  This brand-new music came to us from the likes of a new group called Authentic Unlimited, the new configuration of Special Consensus, Woody Platt (minus his Steep Canyon Rangers bandmates), the Po' Ramblin' Boys, and more.   Hope you enjoyed it.

We also opened the phone lines for requests, and surprisingly, I was able to go 3/3, with requests for music from Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys, Ralph Stanley with Dwight Yoakam, and even a Bluegrass-sounding tune from Marty Robbins.  You just never know what folks are going to want to hear.  

Hope you were able to join us on Sunday.  If you couldn't tune in, there's always next week.  We'll be looking for you from 4-7PM on Sunday afternoon.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Rock Bottom Blues / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Blue Yodel #4 / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Doin' My Time / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Leavin' / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder
• Do You Remember? / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• The Happiness Of Having You / Linda Lay / Linda Lay / Mountain Fever Records
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / It's A Long, Long Road / Rebel
• You Are My Flower / Laurie Lewis with Molly Tuttle / And Laurie Lewis / Spruce & Maple Music
• Lefty's Old Guitar / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• That's Just Lonesome / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• I Heard The Bluebirds Sing / Marty Robbins / Good 'N Country / MCA
• How Many Times / Vern & Ray with Herb Pedersen / San Francisco--1968 / Arhoolie
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner with Tom Adams / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Blackbird / Special Consensus / single / Compass Records
• Leaving Cleveland / Tim Raybon Band / single / Pinecastle
• One Last Goodbye / Woody Platt / single / Melton & Miller Music
• Another Highway This Time / Amanda Cook / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Take My Ashes To The River / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• Money Can't Buy You / Breaking Grass / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Before You Miss Me / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
• Lazy Whippoorwill / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Had It Not Been For The Train / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String Productions
• Daffodil / Donna Ulisse / Livin' Large / Billy Blue Records
• I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• If That's The Way You Feel / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Hey Lonesome / Jimmy Martin / The Chronological Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1961-1962 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Prillaman's Switch / Tim Martin / Bluegrass Fiddle / Patuxent Music
• You'll Always Be The Only One / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Rainbow Of My Dreams / Del McCoury Band / Almost Proud / McCoury Music
• Calamity Jane / Becky Buller with Rhonda Vincent / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Early / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder / Larry Sparks / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Rebel
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / Ralph Stanley with Dwight Yoakam / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel [Jeremy Stephens birthday, 3/31/1984]
• Philibuster / Phil Leadbetter / Philibuster / Rounder [Remembering Phil Leadbetter:  3/31/1962 - 10/14/2021]
• There's Where Glory Can Be Found / Flashback / Foxhounds And Fiddles / Pinecastle
• Praying / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Rank Strangers To Me / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Journey To My Savior's Side / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• Dear God / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• That Home Above / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Light At The River / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Pray The Clouds Away / J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• My Lord's Been A Walkin' / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/28/2021

 I'm a few days late in posting the playlist from Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, but we'll still with the adage of better late than never...

During Sunday's show, we opened the request lines, and the requests poured in.  We played as many as we could, and those songs are noted in the playlist in red.

On the first Sunday after Thanksgiving, we added some Bluegrass Christmas music to our weekly mix.  As the season progresses, we will add more Christmas music each week -- some of it newly-released in 2021.

And we had a couple of Bluegrass folks to remember during this program, as well, as the Bluegrass community has recently lost two valued musicians.  Bill Holden, a one-time member of both the Country Gentlemen and Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, died on November 15th at the age of 71; and on November 21st, Jason Moore, a founding member of the group Sideline, among others, died suddenly at the age of just 47.  To remember these gentlemen, we shared music from their recordings.  May they rest in peace.

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and we'll be looking for you once again this coming Sunday in our Bluegrass Cafe.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Christmas Time Back Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• My Little Silver Bells / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• Mister Santa / Amy Gallatin / 'Tis The Season / Happy Appy Records
• Slowly Fall The Snowflakes / Bill Carroll / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
• What Ain't To Be Just Might Happen / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• Since Wedding Bells Have Rung / Jeremy Stephens with Ronnie Reno / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Thankful / The Grascals / Up All Night / Mountain Home
• Prisoner's Song / David Peterson & 1946 / Cup Of Loneliness / Necktie Records
• Rock Hearts / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• Deck The Halls / Raymond Fairchild / Smoky Mountain Christmas / Rural Rhythm
• Joy To The World / Various Artists / A Smoky Mountain Christmas / Brentwood Music
• An Old Log Cabin For Sale / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Flatt & Scruggs / Columbia Legacy
• Leaving You And Mobile, Too / Lost & Found / My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Love Me Or Leave Me Alone / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Restless Blue Eyed Lover / Larry Stephenson Band / Retrospective:  LSB Live / Whysper Dream Music
• Country Boy Rock 'N' Roll / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel [Remembering Bill Holden:  7/25/1950 - 11/15/2021]
• Texas Chili / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel [Remembering Bill Holden:  7/25/1950 - 11/15/2021]
• Thunder Dan / Sideline / Front And Center / Mountain Home [Remembering Jason Moore]
• Are You Waiting Just For Me / Sideline / Colors & Crossroads / Mountain Home [Remembering Jason Moore]
• Duncan And Brady (He's Been On The Job Too Long) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Lester & Mike Armistead / Jump Shout And Stomp / RME Records
• Think Of What You've Done / Still Pickin' / On With The Show! / Self-Produced
• Close By / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• White Lightning / The Grascals / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records
• Road To Columbus / Noam Pikelny / Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe / Compass Records
• Livin' Like A Fool / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
• Don't Wake Me / Bill Emerson with Red Allen / Reunion / Webco
• Walk The Way The Wind Blows / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Arleigh / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Jim Eanes / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• I Wanna Be Where You Are / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Kentucky Waltz / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Choking The Strings / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Date With An Angel / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• I Surely Will Be Singing / Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Mama Don't Allow / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Charlie Cotton / Osborne Brothers / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics:  The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel
• Don't Sell Daddy Anymore Whiskey / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Lazy Whippoorwill / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• To My Mansion In The Sky / Larry Sparks / Ministry In Song / Rebel
• My Heavenly Home / Bob Amos / Sunrise Blues / Bristlecone
• The Gospel Way / Dry Branch Fire Squad / The Gospel Way / Self-Produced
• By The Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Lord, I'm Just A Pilgrim / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel [Remembering Bill Holden:  7/25/1950 - 11/15/2021]
• My Mother's Bible / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder