Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2025

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/16/2025

This day's edition of our Bluegrass Cafe was all about March winds, St. Patrick's Day, new music, and the celebration of a couple of March 16th birthdays (those of both Tim O'Brien and Ronnie McCoury).  Hope you were able to join us!

There was new music to be shared today, with selections from two recordings released on March 14th ("Remains To Be Scene" by the Seldom Scene and Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland's "Carter & Cleveland") and one to be released in April ("Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass" from Big Country Bluegrass).  Though we have played music on the air from all of these recordings over the past few weeks, today was the first time we shared music from the full recordings.  You can probably guess it won't be the last time we hear from these selections, either.

And since St. Patrick's Day happens tomorrow, we couldn't forget to play a couple of Irish-themed songs.  Hope you enjoyed them.  

We'll look forward to visiting with you next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.  And don't forget that we'll have tickets to give away to the upcoming Noam Pikelny show at UConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts during next week's broadcast.  It should be a fun time!  

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
  • Matterhorn / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
  • Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
  • I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
  • Windy Mountain / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
  • Lonesome Wind Blues / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
  • The Winds Are Blowing In Maggie Valley / Crowe Brothers / Bridging The Gap / Rural Rhythm
  • If Lonely Was The Wind / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
  • Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
  • The Howling Blue Winds / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Zion 
  • Sun's Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
  • The LIghthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
  • Freight Train Blues / Tony Trischka with Dudley Connell / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
  • San Joaquin / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
  • Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
  • Copper Kettle / Country Gentlemen / Going Back To The Blue Ridge Mountains / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
  • The Last Old Shovel / Phyllis Boyens / O Sister! / Rounder
  • Memories That We Shared / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
  • Old Swingin' Bridge / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
  • The Story Of My Life / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
  • Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass / Big Country Bluegrass / Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass / Rebel
  • Stoney Lonesome / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / Carter & Cleveland / Fiddleman Records
  • Hard Travelin' / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
  • Dreams / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / Carter & Cleveland / Fiddleman Records
  • Back In The Country / Big Country Bluegrass / Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass / Rebel
  • Walking Down The Line / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
  • Coleen Malone / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
  • Irish Medley (The Traveler/Green Gates) / Special Consensus / Our Little Town / Pinecastle
  • My Wild Irish Rose / Larry Stephenson / On Fire / Pinecastle
  • Irish Spring / Country Gentlemen / Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
  • Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
  • Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish [Tim O'Brien birthday, 3/16/1954]
  • Runaway Train / Travelin' McCourys / single / McCoury Music [Ronnie McCoury birthday, 3/16/1967]
  • Walk The Way The Wind Blows / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill [Tim O'Brien birthday, 3/16/1954]
  • Quicksburg Rondezvous / Del McCoury / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder [Ronnie McCoury birthday, 3/16/1967]
  • Red Bandana / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
  • Big Sandy River / Noam Pikelny / Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe / Compass Records
  • Broke Down Engine / Woody Platt with Del McCoury / Far Away With You / Compass Records
  • Give Us Rain / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Ancient Tones / Skaggs Family Records
  • Walk Out In The Rain / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Rounder [Tim O'Brien birthday, 3/16/1967]
  • Walkin', Runnin', Flyin' / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
  • Even Better When You Listen / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / single / Billy Blue Records
  • The Gospel Ship / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
  • Rank Strangers / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
  • I Can't Say No / Whitstein Brothers / The Whitstein Brothers Sing Gospel Songs Of The Louvins / Rounder [Remembering Robert Whitstein:  3/16/1944 - 11/15/2001]
  • A Little Bit More Like Him / Donna Ulisse / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
  • Where No Cabins Fall / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live / Upper Management Music
  • Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hot Rize / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill [Tim O'Brien birthday, 3/16/1954]
  • Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Thursday, March 21, 2024

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/17/2024



Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included a three-hour mix of Bluegrass songs old and new.  We included two separate song sets celebrating both St. Patrick's Day and the First Day of Spring.  Around the midway point, we had a telephone visit with Michelle Canning, a Massachusetts-born musician/songwriter who now makes her home in Nashville, and this coming weekend, is hosting her 13th annual Night On The Edge benefit for the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.  If you would like to know more about this worthy cause, please click on this link.

Marti & Jim at WHUS - November 2006
We remembered the late Al Jones with some of his music, and we sent out a couple of songs in honor of Marti Harmon, the wife of our former "Bluegrass Cafe" show co-host, Jim Beaver, as Marti passed from this world on March 12th.  Jim and Marti also were the creators and hosts of the delightful "Red Rooster Party" on WHUS for several years.  Simply put, Marti was an amazing lady who did so many interesting things during her lifetime.  If you would like to read Marti's lovely obituary, please do.  Rest in peace, Marti.

Both UConn basketball teams are getting ready to play in the NCAA tournament beginning this weekend, and with tournament action, that always means there is a possibility of our radio show being preempted.  We'll keep you posted if that happens as soon as we find out.

Enjoy the rest of the week, and we'll hope to have you join us on Sunday afternoon.

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Coleen Malone / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
  • Irish Spring / Country Gentlemen / Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
  • My Wild Irish Rose / Larry Stephenson Band / On Fire / Pinecastle
  • Dublin Blues / Newtown / Time Machine / Pisgah Ridge Records
  • Irish Medley (The Traveler/Green Gates) / Special Consensus / Our Little Town / Pinecastle
  • Casey Jones / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood
  • Some Things I Want To Sing About / The Grascals with Bobby Osborne / The Grascals / Rounder
  • D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin) / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Norman Blake & Tony Rice 2 / Rounder
  • The Angry Wife / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood
  • Medicine / Michelle Canning / Outside The Lines / Self-Produced
  • I'm Head Over Heels In Love / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
  • Are You Coming Back To Me? / Bill Harrell with Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Webco
  • Shadows In My Room / Hot Rize / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Cruel Love / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
  • Too Late To Say Goodbye / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
  • King Of The Hill / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
  • Lazy Whippoorwill / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
  • The Blues Ain't Workin' On Me / Michelle Canning with Rhonda Vincent / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
  • Conversation with Michelle Canning
  • Stranger / Michelle Canning feat. A.P. Harbor / Outside The Lines / Self-Produced
  • Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / When It's Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
  • Spring Will Bring Flowers / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
  • Blue Ridge Mountains Turning Green / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
  • When Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
  • Ah Spring / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
  • Winter's Come And Gone / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
  • Cowboy Jubilee / Riders In The Sky / Live / Rounder [Remembering Martha Ann Harmon:  12/24/1956 - 3/12/2024]
  • Yodel Blues / Riders In The Sky / Live / Rounder [Remembering Martha Ann Harmon:  12/24/1956 - 3/12/2024]
  • What Do You Know About Heartaches / Frank Necessary, Al Jones & Buzz Busby / Frank Necessary, Al Jones & Buzz Busby / Old Homestead Records [Remembering Al Jones:  2/22/1932 - 3/3/2024]
  • How The Story Had To End / Al Jones, Frank Necessary & the Spruce Mountain Boys / Al Jones, Frank Necessary & the Spruce Mountain Boys / Rounder [Remembering Al Jones:  2/22/1932 - 3/3/2024]
  • Long Forgotten Dream / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
  • From The Hollow / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
  • Flat Creek / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / DSM Records
  • Another Highway This Time / Amanda Cook / Changes / Mountain Fever Records
  • Holiday Pickin' / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
  • Forty Years Of Trouble / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
  • I Call Her Sunshine / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
  • My Friend Clyde / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
  • Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
  • Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
  • The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
  • You Can't Buy Your Way / Northern Lights / Can't Buy Your Way / Flying Fish
  • A Beautiful Life / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
  • The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
  • Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
  • When I Reach That Home Up There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
  • Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder