"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/21/2024

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated the three newly-announced inductees into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame for 2024:  long-time Bluegrass broadcaster Katy Daley, as well as two top-notch musicians, Jerry Douglas and Alan Munde.  We will focus on some of the music of Jerry Douglas in a future program, but this past week, we enjoyed playing a whole lot of fine tunes from the banjo innovator and educator, Alan Munde.  To that end, we included selections from Alan's time with Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, and also included music from Alan guesting with the Country Store and New Kentucky Colonels, with the Country Gazette, with Joe Carr, and a song or two from Alan's 2023 solo release for Patuxent Music, "Excelsior."  Great music.  Congratulations to all of the IBMA 2024 Hall of Famers!

We also belatedly celebrated the 70th birthday of Ricky Skaggs (born July 18, 1954).  This Kentucky-born member of the Country and Bluegrass Music Halls of Fame has long been an important entertainer and musician, from his time working with Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys as a teenager to his multi award-winning country music career and back to his return to Bluegrass in the mid-1990s.  We celebrated all of it with several songs from the span of Ricky's career.  

There was a tiny bit of newer music shared, though none of it was really brand-new.  Instead, we heard from 2024 releases from Authentic Unlimited, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, the Del McCoury Band, Danny Paisley, Junior Sisk, the Price Sisters, a cut from the new Rick Lang-penned gospel recording, and the latest edition of the Cox Family.

Hope you were able to join us on Sunday afternoon.  Please consider tuning in this coming Sunday afternoon, won't you?  We'll have three hours of our Bluegrass Cafe starting off at 4PM.

See you then!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Possum Up A Holler / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• When Papa Played The Dobro / Jerry Douglas with Alan O'Bryant / Slide Rule / Sugar Hill [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Jerry Douglas]
• Banjo Boy Chimes / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Sweden, 1973 / Self-Produced [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Spanish Two Step/Steel Guitar Blues / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Jerry Douglas]
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Will You Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Bluegrass Radio / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / single / Compass Records
• 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
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Cold Wind A Blowin' / Ronnie Bowman & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity feat. Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• (Say) Won't You Be Mine / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Singin' My Troubles Away / Laurie Lewis & Grant Street / Singin' My Troubles Away / Flying Fish
• Yellow River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Quicksilver Rides Again / Sugar HIll
• Brown's Ferry Blues / Tony Trischka feat. Billy Strings / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Son Of Hobert / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• One Way Track / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Will The Roses Bloom / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Sweet Temptation / Ricky Skaggs / Favorite Country Songs / CBS [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Uncle Pen / Ricky Skaggs / Live In London / Sony Music [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Rawhide / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Bluegrass Rules! / Rounder [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Lily Dale / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Homesick / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Hot Burrito Breakdown / Country Gazette / A Traitor In Our Midst! / United Artists [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Picking At Snuffy's / Alan Munde & Country Gazette / Keep On Pushing / Flying Fish [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Shuckin' The Corn / Country Store / Country Store Live! / Ridge Runner Records [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Yellow Rose / Alan Munde & Joe Carr / Welcome To West Texas / Flying Fish [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Blue Ridge Express / Alan Munde / Alan Munde's Banjo Sandwich / Ridge Runner Records [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Chattanooga Dog / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Lloyd's Of Lubbock / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Alan Munde]
• You And The World Outside / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Lost River / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Daniel Grindstaff feat. Jimmy Fortune / Heroes And Friends / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Till Lonesome Comes Around / Danny Paisley / single / Pinecastle
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk with Dan Tyminski / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel [Remembering Bill Holden:  7/25/1950 - 7/15/2021]
• Don't Tell Me Stories / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• I Can Read Between The Lines In Your Letters / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Wildwood Flower / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder [Remembering Sara Carter:  7/21/1898 - 1/8/1979]
• Blue Collar Gospel / Jerry Salley & the Oak Ridge Boys / Blue Collar Gospel / Billy Blue Records [Remembering Joe Bonsall:  5/18/1948 - 7/9/2024]
• Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
  
• The First Time I Heard About Heaven / Cox Family / single / Will House Records
• Lift Your Eyes To Jesus / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Goin' Up / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/23/2023

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated July birthdays of members of both the Bluegrass Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame (and in one notable case, the celebrant was a member of both Halls).  

Most notably, we belatedly celebrated the 90th birthday of a wonderful member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, Bobby Hicks.  We shared music from Bobby's earliest recordings with Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys, as well as from the Bluegrass Album Band, Ricky Skaggs's country band, Bobby's solo recording, and a tune or two from his most recent band, Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks, & Asheville Bluegrass.  There was a nice write-up about Mr. Hicks's 90th birthday party posted in Bluegrass Today.  If you'd like to read it, please click here.

We also remembered three other important figures in the world of Bluegrass and country music:  the late Charlie Louvin (July 17, 1927 - January 26, 2011);  Bluegrass and Country Music Hall of Famer, Ricky Skaggs (born July 18, 1954); and Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971).  We shared lots of songs from the Louvin Brothers Songbook performed in a Bluegrass style, several tunes from Ricky's lengthy career, and a gospel tune from a young Alison Krauss & Union Station.  

Can't forget to mention that there was new music, too, most notably from the brand-new recording by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway ("City Of Gold" on Nonesuch Records).  In addition, we heard recent selections from Alan Munde, Bob & Sarah Amos, Becky Buller with Jim Lauderdale, the Kody Norris Show, Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams, and Special Consensus.

It was a fun show, and we are planning to have another session in our Bluegrass Cafe this coming Sunday from 4-7PM.  Hope you're able to join us!

Amy O.

P.S.  Another reason to tune in on Sunday:  we've got a couple of one-day passes to give away for the upcoming Podunk Bluegrass Festival.  Don't miss it!

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Truck Driving Man / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / The Chronological Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1963-1965 / JSP Records
• Don't Go Out Tonight / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / 10 / Galyean Family Records
• Talk To Your Heart / Eddie Adcock Band / Talk To Your Heart / CMH Records
• Heartache And Trouble / Fast Track / Heartache And Trouble / Engelhardt Music Group
• La La Blues / Appalachian Road Show / Jubilation / Billy Blue Records
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Take My Ashes To The River / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• I Feel The Blues Moving In / Del McCoury / High, Lonesome And Blue / Rounder
• Roanoke / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Cheyenne / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Lily Dale / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Big Mon / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• They'll Never Take Her Love From Me / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Uncle Pen / Ricky Skaggs / Live In London / Sony Music [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Fiddle Patch / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Longfellow's Excelsior Hornpipe / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• Dream Of A Miner's Child / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Bristlecone
• Wall Around Your Heart / Becky Buller with Jim Lauderdale / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Evergreen, OK / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Highway 40 Blues / Ricky Skaggs / Live In London / Sony Music [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• I Had But 50 Cents / Ricky Skaggs / Ricky Skaggs Solo:  Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family Records [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Pitfall / Louvin Brothers / The Family Who Prays:  26 Classic Tracks / Country Stars [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Seven Year Blues / Longview / Longview / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Take My Ring From Your Finger / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Tiny Broken Heart / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• I Don't Love You Anymore / Charlie Louvin / The Essential Louvin Brothers:  My Baby's Gone (1955-1964) / Raven [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• I Wish You Knew / Jim & Jesse / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• If I Could Only Win Your Love / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Are You Missing Me / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP&CD Records [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• When I Stop Dreaming / Louvin Brothers / When I Stop Dreaming:  The Best Of The Louvin Brothers / Razor & Tie [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/27/2011]
• Fancy Gap Runaway / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• My Home In Virginia / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• I Take The Chance / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Leavin' And Sayin' Goodbye / Darren Beachley & the Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent MUsic
• Caney Fork River / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Two Little Boys / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Gusto
• Snowbird / Special Consensus with Claire Lynch / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• On Heaven's Bright Shore / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder [Alison Krauss birthday, 7/23/1971]
• There's A Higher Power / Kathy Kallick Band / Between The Hollow & The High-Rise / Live Oak Records [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• He Can Be Found / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• I Know What You're Talking About / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Make Him A Soldier / Whitstein Brothers / Songs Of The Louvin Brothers / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• The Old Crossroads / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At The New River Ranch / Copper Creek [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• The River Of Jordan / Louvin Brothers / Satan Is Real / Capitol [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 11/1/2009 - Ricky Skaggs

Sunday was a great day to be listening to Bluegrass Cafe because we brought you a 35 minute interview with one of the best known performers of bluegrass music today: Ricky Skaggs. Ricky and his band Kentucky Thunder will be performing in Hartford this coming Friday, Nov. 6.

We devoted most of the first hour of the show to various groups over the past forty years that have featured Ricky Skaggs as a performer. Besides Ricky's numerous projects, we also featured Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, David Grisman, and the group Boone Creek -- all of which featured Ricky either picking or singing, or both.

Ricky then joined us by phone for a delightful half-hour of a very candid discussion. Some of the interesting things discussed were the large quantity of home tapes that Ricky's dad Hobert made over the years (which still exist), the relationship between Ricky and his father, and the personal discussions Ricky had with his father about the direction of Ricky's career. He called his return to bluegrass in 1997 "the greatest decision I've ever made musically." It's not hard to see why Ricky's latest CD is titled "Songs My Dad Loved." Ricky also emphasized the importance of his Christian faith, and hoped he would be remembered for that before his music.

I hope to get an audio version of the interview posted in the near future.

We also had Deb Noble and Joe Mellet in the studio during the last hour promoting a concert this coming Saturday, Nov. 7, in Willimantic that features Sean Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers, and bluegrass band Pine Creek opening. All the members of Pine Creek (including me) live in the listening area of WHUS and Bluegrass Cafe. I even got to pick a tune with Joe during his visit.

While our discussions with our on-air guests reduced the size of the playlist, we did manage to play some newer music from Billy Boone Smith, Jeff & Vida, Canucky Bluegrass Boys, Darin Aldridge & Brooke Justice, The Del McCoury Band, and Dailey & Vincent.

Marti and I will be back next week, and looking at the calendar it might be time to feature some songs for Veterans Day, so I'll see what I can do.

Jim Beaver

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SONG TITLE / PERFORMER / ALBUM TITLE / LABEL

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent) / David Grisman with Ricky Skaggs / Hand Picked: 25 Years of Rounder Bluegrass / Rounder
• Country Boy / Ricky Skaggs / The High Notes / Cracker Barrel
• It's Mighty Dark To Travel / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass / Skaggs Family
• Cry, Cry Darlin' / Ricky Skaggs featuring Dolly Parton / Ricky Skaggs & Friends / Lyric Street
• I'll Go With You / Darin Aldridge and Brooke Justice / I'll Go With You / Pinecastle
• Cold Wind / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-released
• Keep My Love With You / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Echoes Of The Stanley Brothers / Varese Sarabande
• Almost Right / Billy Boone Smith / Live From The Moose Lodge / Muddy Sunshine
• One Way Track / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill
• Head Over Heels / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill
• My Little Georgia Rose / Ricky Skaggs featuring Travis Tritt / Ricky Skaggs & Friends Songs of Bill Monroe / Lyric Street
• Boxcar Blues (Hello Sunshine) / Jeff & Vida / Selma Chalk / Rosebank
• Standin' Up / Canucky Bluegrass Boys / North To Ontario 2009 / Self-released
• Roses In The Snow / Emmylou Harris / Roses In The Snow / Warner Bros
• Pig In A Pen / Ricky Skaggs / Ancient Tones / Skaggs Family
• Get Up John / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Live At The Charleston Music Hall / Skaggs Family

Ricky Skaggs Interview

• Sinners, You Better Get Ready / Ricky Skaggs / Solo - Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family
• City That Lies Foresquare / Ricky Skaggs / Solo - Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family
• Take This Train And Ride / The Gillis Brothers / Live / Self-released
• Days of Grey and Black / Various Artists / Born Into Bluegrass - The Songs of Cullen Galyean / Mountain Roads
• When The Sheriff Comes To Town / Sean Kershaw / Coney Island Cowboy / Self-released
• Orphan Girl / Pine Creek / Live 2008 recording / Private
• The Golden Streets Of Glory / Dolly Parton / Box Set Sampler / RCA Nashville/Legacy
• Hello Lonely / The Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• Prayer Bells Of Heaven / Frosty Mountain Boys / Get In Line Brother / Rural Rhythm
• God's Not Dead / J. D. Jarvis / Get In Line Brother / Rural Rhythm
• Man In The Middle / Tony Trischka and Skyline / Angels Rejoiced / Strictly Country
• I've Found A Hiding Place / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• This World Is Not My Home / Ricky Skaggs / Solo - Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family
• Who'll Sing For Me? / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Audie Blaylock and Redline / Rural Rhythm
• Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho / Dailey & Vincent / Singing From The Heart / Rounder
• Angels Rejoiced / Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys / Angels Rejoiced / Strictly Country
• Take Your Shoes Off, Moses / Dan Tyminski, Dwight McCall / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea
• The Promise / The Gillis Brothers / Sunshine In The Shadows / Hay Holler

Ricky Skaggs on Bluegrass Cafe, Sunday 11/1/2009

Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder will be performing at the Bushnell in Hartford on Friday, November 6th. We are taking this opportunity to have Ricky join us by telephone on Bluegrass Cafe this Sunday, November 1, at 5:00pm ET, when we will get to ask Ricky all kinds of questions about his music. Don't miss it. You can hear it on WHUS 91.7 FM in eastern Connecticut, or you can hear it simulcast over the Web at WHUS.ORG


Also, around 6:00pm we will have a visit from Deb Noble, promoter of what promises to be a fine evening of honky tonk and bluegrass music in Willimantic on Saturday, November 7th as part of the Windham Arts Collaborative. Performing will be Sean Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers from New York, and Pine Creek Bluegrass Band from Connecticut. (Full disclosure: Bluegrass Cafe host Jim Beaver is banjo picker with Pine Creek.) Perhaps Jim and Joe Mellet, Pine Creek mandolin player, will pick a little during Deb's visit. We may even have Sean Kershaw join us by phone. Don't miss it!