"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/7/2026

The first Sunday of June featured a lot of fine things at our Bluegrass Cafe:  birthday tributes to Tony Rice, Jamie Dailey, Rick Lang, Corrina Rose Logston Stephens, and Clarence White, and also, a first-time-in-a-long-time telephone conversation with Eric Gibson of the Gibson Brothers.  The Gibsons will appear at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT on Friday, August 7th.  Hope you were able to join us for this episode.

Thanks for listening!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Walking With Joanna / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Down In The Willow Garden / Tony Trischka with the Gibson Brothers / Earl Jam 2 / Down The Road Records
• Hessletine Hill / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• Ragged Man / Gibson Brothers / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• The Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Blue Kentucky Girl / Young Acoustic All Stars / Somewhere Down The Road / New Haven Records
• See Rock City / Bela Fleck / Son Of Rounder Banjo / Rounder
• One Step Ahead Of The Blues / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Don't Let My Love Get In The Way / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Give This Message To Your Heart / Larry Stephenson with Dailey & Vincent / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• Till The End Of The World Rolls 'Round / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• There Ain't No Easy Street / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Cross My Broken Heart / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• On Her Own / Laura Orshaw with Trey Hensley / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Wild Mountain Honey / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Telephone conversation with Eric Gibson of the Gibson Brothers
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Fool's Hill / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Another Long Sleepless Night / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Poor Boy Like Me / Henhouse Prowlers / Unravel / Dark Shadow Recording [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Honeycat Hornpipe / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music [Corrina Rose Logston Stephens, 6/7]
• Introvert Me / Rrinaco / Little Songs / Rebel [Corrina Rose Logston Stephens birthday, 6/7]
• Can't Let Go / Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time / Songs From The Workbench / Ripchord Records
• Memories I Ain't Missing / The Grascals / single / Billy Blue Records
• When It Comes To Loving You / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Nine Pound Hammer / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder [Remembering Clarence White:  6/7/1944 - 7/15/1973]
• Bitter Green / Tony Rice / Cold On The Shoulder / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Bright Lights And Country Music / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music
• By The Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• Angel At Your Side / Barry Scott / Look To The Light:  Songs Of Faith From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Rural Rhythm Christian [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album, Volume 2 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel [Corrina Rose Logston Stephens birthday, 6/7]
• The Truth, The Light, The Way / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Just Let Me Fly / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Winding Through Life / Sugar Hill [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/8/2025

Early June seems like a good time to celebrate a birthday, so we did quite a bit of that during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  Our show started with several selections featuring the great Tony Rice (June 8, 1951 - December 25, 2020), as even though the man is probably best known for the way he played his guitar, his vocals were always stellar, too.  

Other birthdays we celebrated on Sunday included those of a Bluegrass pioneer who deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, Gloria Belle (June 9, 1939 - May 5, 2023), as well as a current singer who may someday be inducted into the Hall of Fame, Jamie Dailey (born June 9, 1975).  And we belatedly celebrated the birthday of a fine New Hampshire songwriter who also happens to be a nice guy, Rick Lang (born June 8, 1947).  Happy Birthday to all!

We spent about 45 minutes of our three hour broadcast today celebrating trains. The romance of the train never seems to go out of style, and we could easily fill a couple of shows with songs about this mode of transportation.  Maybe someday we will do just that.

Next week's Bluegrass Cafe will be one from the archives, but I'll plan to join you once again live in the studio on June 21st.  Hope you have a fine week, and, as always, thanks for listening to our program!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cold On The Shoulder / Tony Rice / Hand-Picked:  Twenty-Five Years Of Rounder Records / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Ten Degrees And Getting Colder / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album Band / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Galveston Flood / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• It's All Right With Me / Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill
• Here Today And Gone Tomorrow / Hazel Dickens with the Johnson Mountain Boys / By The Sweat Of My Brow / Rounder 
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• I Gotta Get Back To You / Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill
• Pardon Me / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Nightwalk / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• I Once Believed In Love / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Anywhere The Wind Blows / Missy Raines & Allegheny with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Country Poor, Country Proud / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP&CD Records
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Proud Mary / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• I've Never Been So Lonesome / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• I'll Never See My Home Again / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Here Comes The Train / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• The Train Song / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Bluegrass Express / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• One Way Train / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I'll Wander Back Someday / Sugar Hill
• Pan American / The Seldom Scene / Old Train / Rebel
• Wreck Of The Old 97 / David Holt / Grandfather's Greatest Hits / High Windy Audio
• The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore / New Coon Creek Girls / The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore / Pinecastle
• Wabash Cannonball / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Old Train / Tony Rice Unit / Manzanita / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Orange Blossom Special / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Diesel Train / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Pinecastle
• I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• The Passing Of The Train / Special Consensus / Roads & Rails / Shy Town Records
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Remembering Gloria Belle:  6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
• Pain Of Loving You / Mark Newton with Gloria Belle / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel [Remembering Gloria Belle:  6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
• Love Of The Mountains / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Remembering Gloria Belle:  6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
• Poor Boy Workin' Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• Maybe This Time / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• They Sawed Up A Storm / Rick Lang with Becky Buller / A Tale To Tell / Dark Shadow Recording [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Another Long Sleepless Night / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Walking Down The Line / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• She's Heavenly / Del McCoury Band with Molly Tuttle / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Listen To The Word Of God / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Meet Me Over On The Other Side / Country Gentlemen / Sugar Hill Collection / Sugar Hill
• There's A Highway To Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• The Sons And Daughters Of God / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• Don't Tune Him Out / The Whites / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout--Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Beyond The Sunset For Me / Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore, Jamie Dailey, Josh Swift / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• A Place On Calvary / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder