"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/21/2026

Never quite finished my write-up for our Father's Day edition of Bluegrass Cafe on June 21st!  Oops!  Here were a couple of highlights:  sharing lots of music from the great Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Eddie Adcock (June 21, 1938 - March 20, 2025), who would have celebrated his 88th birthday on June 21st; listening to lots of tunes performed by the Bluegrass fathers along with their musical children, including folks with last names like Amos, Armistead, Cox, Harrell, McCoury, McGee, Mullins, Paisley, Parmley, Pike, White, and, of course, Monroe; listening to a few songs with themes of fathers and children; and, we belatedly remembered the June 19th birth anniversary of the great Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 - May 11, 1979).

Hope you were able to join us for the show, and that if you were a celebrant for Father's Day, you sure enjoyed your day!

We'll look forward to joining you for another Bluegrass Cafe very soon!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Mrs. Robinson / Eddie Adcock / Renaissance Man / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Let's / Eddie & Martha Adcock / TwoGrass / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Bye Bye Blues / Eddie Adcock & Don Reno / Sensational Twin Banjos / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Rodger Young / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• (They Call The Wind) Maria / Country Gentlemen / single / Rome [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Darling Little Joe / Eddie & Martha Adcock / Many A Mile / Patuxent [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Draggin' The Cow / The Masters / Laid Back / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Roll On Buddy / Bill & James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• 32 Acres / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals:  The Definitive Collection / CMH
• Little Whitewashed Chimney / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Sunshine Special / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• On The Sunny Side Of Life / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Self-Produced
• It's Grand To Have Someone To Love You / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Keep On The Sunny Side / The Whites / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• I've Had A Time / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Nashville Cats / Del McCoury Band / The Family / McCoury Music
• My Deceitful Heart / Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• Forever And Ever / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Smoke Along The Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• The Hard Game Of Love / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Hard Game Of Love / Sugar Hill
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Who Showed Who / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder
• Crazy Creek / Sally Van Meter / All In Good Time / Sugar Hill
• Wrong Road Again / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• How Many Times / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder
• Auction At The Home Place / Becky Buller / Songs That Sing Me / Dark Shadow Recording
• Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Little John, I Am / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Devil On A Plow / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Proud To Be Your Dad / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Bill From Isonville / Southern Legacy / single / Pinecastle
• Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself / Malpass Brothers / Satisfied:  Country Gospel Classics Live / Gaither Music Group
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• My Father's Son / Ricky Skaggs / My Father's Son / Sony Epic
• He Will Roll You Over The Tide / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Let The Light Shine Down / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/20/2025]
• Tell Me What You Think Of My Lord / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• When We Meet To Part No More / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Beyond The Shadows / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/22/2025

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we belatedly celebrated Father's Day with several songs performed by Bluegrass fathers and their offspring.  We included songs by Bluegrass fathers and sons and daughters with last names of Feinberg, Harrell, Holt, McCoury, McGee, Monroe, Mullins, Paisley, Parmley, Stanley, Tuttle, and Watson.  

New music played a large part in our broadcast, as well, as we included songs from recent or soon-to-be released projects by Wyatt Ellis, Rrinaco (also known as Corrina Rose Logston Stephens), Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Don Rigsby, C.J. Lewandowski, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, the Kody Norris Show, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, Danny Paisley, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Missy Raines & Allegheny, the Seldom Scene, the Henhouse Prowlers, Laura Orshaw, Carson Peters & Iron Mountain, and Special Consensus.  Phew!  That's a whole lot of new!

Our next Bluegrass Cafe will be one from the archives, but we'll be back with another live broadcast on the first Sunday of July.  Sure hope you can join us!

Until then, take care and stay cool!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Margie / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Carolina Mountain Home / Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Side By Side / Rebel
• Where The Wild River Rolls / The Tuttles & A.J. Lee / The Tuttles & A.J. Lee / Self-Produced
• Board That Train And Ride / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Lost Highways And Treasured Memories / Old Heritage Records
• Roll On Buddy / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys with James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• I Had A Time / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Together In Our Hearts / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• Black Mountain Rag / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder
• Smoke, Smoke, Smoke / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• Bergold's Farm / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Knee Deep In Lovin' You / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals / CMH
• Jimmie Rodgers Rode A Train / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Stone Walls And Steel Bars / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Polly's Revenge / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / single / Stanley Family Records
• Choo Choo Coming / Wyatt Ellis / single / Knee High Records
• The Veil Has Been Lifted / Rrinaco / Little Songs / Rebel
• Big Train / Don Rigsby with Ronnie Reno / single / Rebel
• She's No Angel / C.J. Lewandowski with Del McCoury / single / Turnberry Records
• Coming On Strong / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Coming On String / Rebel
• Rockabye Boogie / Kody Norris Show / Highfalutin' Hillbilly / Rebel
• Nolichucky / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Flagpond Records
• Bluegrass State Of Mind / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle
• Yanceyville Jail / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Granite Mills / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Arcadia / Down The Road Records
• Red Bandana / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Space Man / Henhouse Prowlers / Unravel / Dark Shadow Recording
• Hard Travelin' / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Durham's Bull / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• What Am I Doing Hangin' Round / Special Consensus with Chris Jones & Dallas Wayne / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• Used To Be / Carson Peters & Iron Mountain / single / Billy Blue Records
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• That Bluegrass Music / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Heartaches Keep On Coming / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Homesick For Virginia / Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road / single / Pinecastle
• Making Up Stories / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• When I Reach That Home Up There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• He Took Your Place / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 2 / Hay Holler
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Stairway Of Gold / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Hymns From Wildwood Valley / Old Heritage Records
• I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Traditional Grass / I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• Way Up On The Mountain / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Hymns From Wildwood Valley / Old Heritage Records
• I Am A Pilgrim / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/16/2024

As you might have guessed, Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was all about dear old Dad.  Hope all of you fathers enjoyed a day filled with all of the things that make you happy.

The primary focus was sharing songs performed by lots of Bluegrass fathers and their offspring.  To that end, we included songs from folks named Amos, Armistead, Chapman, Cherryholmes, Cox, Dailey, Eldridge, Emerson, Feinberg, Harrell, Holt, McCoury, McGee, Monroe, Mullins, Paisley, Parmley, Pike, Stanley, Waller, Watson, White, Williams, and Williamson.  We also included a selection from Billy Strings's recording, "Me/And/Dad" - a collection on which he is joined by his stepfather, Terry Barber.  All of these bands just prove that Bluegrass music is definitely a family tradition.

There were also a few songs about fathers (and stepfathers).  And, of course, I had to play a few requests from my own father, Alton Orlomoski.

Bluegrass Hall of Famer Eddie Adcock celebrates birthday #86 this week (born June 21, 1938), so we couldn't NOT share several songs from him.  We included two tunes from Eddie's solo recording that was finally made public a few years ago, as well as from two of his best-known bands, the Country Gentlemen and the Eddie Adcock Band.  Happy Birthday to this legendary banjo picker!  

Hope you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Me And The Jukebox / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC
• Little White Washed Chimney / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Willie Roy The Crippled Boy / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Glastonbury Woodshed / Roger & J.D. Williams / Williams Squared / Happy Appy Records
• Roll On Buddy / Bill & James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Bergold's Farm / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Katy Cline / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• Truck Drivin' Jack / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Lost Highways & Treasured Memories / Old Heritage Records
• The Hills That I Call Home / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Bristlecone
• Nobody's Darlin' But Mine / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Aragon Mill / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Down In Union County / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Leaving California / Bill Emerson & Billy Emerson / Emerson 414 / Acoustigrass Records
• Big Train (From Memphis) / The Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Half Past You / Williamson Branch / Classy. Sassy. Bluegrassy.  / Pinecastle
• You Are The Rainbow Of My Dreams / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
• My Heart Is On The Mend / Charlie Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Songs Of The American Spirit / Pinecastle
• Are You Waiting Just For Me / Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Side By Side / Rebel
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Wildwood Flower / Carter Family / Anchored In Love, 1927-1928 / Rounder
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Charlie Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Songs Of The American Spirit / Pinecastle
• Eddie To The Rescue / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Let's / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Ed Scales In The Sunset / Eddie Adcock Band / Talk To Your Heart / CMH [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• Theme From "Exodus" / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music [Eddie Adcock birthday, 6/21/1938]
• My Father's Son / Ricky Skaggs / My Father's Son / Sony
• California Cotton Fields / Phil Leadbetter with Marty Raybon / Slide Effects / Pinecastle
• Me And Dad / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• Devil On A Plow / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Proud To Be Your Dad / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Forever And Ever / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Blackberry Blossom / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder
• Losing Again / The Chapmans / Follow Me / Pinecastle
• Stone Walls And Steel Bars / Billy Strings / Me / And / Dad / Rounder
• How Long? / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Don't Tune Him Out / The Whites / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Justified / Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals:  The Definitive Collection / CMH 
• The Touch Of God's Hand / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• The Scarlet Red Lines / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Let The Light Shine Down / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Sony
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/18/2023

Happy Father's Day!  During today's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated this special day with lots of Bluegrass songs about dear old Dad (naturally), and we also included a whole bunch of music performed by Bluegrass fathers with their sons and daughters.  In the latter category, we heard music from families named Amos, Armistead, Dailey, Emerson, Feinberg, Harrell, Holt, McCoury, McGee, Monroe, Osborne, Paisley, Parmley, Pike, Scruggs, Sparks, Watson, White, Williams, and Williamson.

And there were newer songs, too, from Unlimited Tradition, Balsam Range, Darren Nicholson, Rick Faris, Special Consensus, and Danny Roberts.  

Have a wonderful week, and we'll look forward to visiting you again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM. 

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Smoke Along The Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• I've Had A Time / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Roll On Buddy / Bill Monroe with James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Bergold's Farm / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Old Man Hoback's Farm / Williamson Branch / Free / Pinecastle
• Peking Fling / Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy
• Ashes Of Love / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Mom And Dad's Waltz / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Wabash Cannonball / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• The Road Home / Bob Amos with Sarah Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
• Are You Missing Me / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Bluegrass Cardinals / Copper Creek
• Leaving California / Emerson / Emerson 414 / AcoustiGrass Records
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• The Hard Times / Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder
• Glastonbury Woodshed / Roger & J.D. Williams / Williams Squared / Happy Appy Records
• Nashville Cats / Del McCoury Band / The Family / McCoury Music
• Snake Charmer / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Too Lonely, Way Too Long / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Second Wind / Darren Nicholson / Wanderer / Mountain Home
• Snowbird / Special Consensus with Claire Lynch / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Moments / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home
• Baltimore I'm Leaving / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• My Brown Eyed Darling / Danny Roberts / single / Mountain Home
• My Father's Son / Ricky Skaggs / My Father's Son / Sony
• Daddy Was A Railroad Man / Seldom Scene / Act Four / Sugar Hill
• Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Devil On A Plow / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• Proud To Be Your Dad / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy Anymore / Wildfire / Rented Room On Broadway / Pinecastle
• That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Blink Of An Eye / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• The Touch Of Your Hand / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway  
• Little John, I Am / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Papa Wants To Go Back / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Dad / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Rebel
• Nancy Rowland/Salt Creek / Doc & Merle Watson / Remembering Merle / Sugar Hill
• Father, I Stretch My Hand To Thee / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Time To Go / Sugar Hill
• I Will Not Fear / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Hymns From Wildwood Valley / Old Heritage Records
• House Of Gold / The Whites / I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Traditional Grass / I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• I Wanna Walk With Jesus / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• There Is A Fountain / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Bluegrass Cardinals / Copper Creek
• Williamson Branch with the Marshall Family / Walking In The Spirit / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• He Will Set Your Fields On Fire / Country Gentlemen / The Ealry Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Johnson Mountain Boys / Black Mountain Blues / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/19/2022

We had ourselves an overstuffed Bluegrass Cafe on this Father's Day!  As you might expect, we included a few songs about fathers (not half as many as we could have possibly played!), plus songs performed by Bluegrass fathers and their sons and daughters.  In addition, there was a little bit of new music, and for good measure, we also celebrated the 108th birth anniversary of the one and only Lester Flatt (June 19, 1914 - May 11, 1979).  Phew!  

There are lots of Bluegrass families, and we heard from several of them, including those with the last names of Amos, Armistead, Cox, Dailey, Emerson, Feinberg, Harrell, McCoury, McGee, Monroe, Mullins, Paisley, Parmley, Pike, Reno, and Stanley.  

There was new or recent music, too, from Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge, Blue Highway, Kathy Kallick, Junior Sisk, Unspoken Tradition, and the Gibson Brothers.

And we remembered a wonderful lady who was a steady presence and wonderful supporter of Bluegrass promoters and performers, alike:  Etta Crawford (August 20, 1942 - June 11, 2022).  

Hope you dads enjoyed your Father's Day.  Please consider joining me once again one week from today from 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Roll On Buddy / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Ashes Of Love / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Feeling Blue / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Carolina Mountain Home / Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Side By Side / Rebel
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Lester & Mike Armistead / Jump Shout And Stomp / RME Records
• Cry Of The Catamount / Bob Amos / Sunrise Blues / Bristlecone
• Berggold's Farm / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• This Morning At Nine / Lester & Mike Armistead / Jump Shout And Stomp / RME Records
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• The One You Slip Around With / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Why Baby Why / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Sho Nuff Country! / Patuxent Music
• The Blues Are Still The Blues / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• Leaving California / Bill Emerson & Billy Emerson / Emerson 414 / Acoustigrass Records
• Love, O Love Please Come Home / Reno & Smiley / Legends Of Bluegrass 1963 / 615 Hideaway Records
• Little White Washed Chimney / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Travelin' This Lonesome Road / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Show Me The Way To Go Home / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / 10 / Self-Produced
• On The Roof Of The World / Blue Highway / single / Rounder
• Footprints In The Snow / Kathy Kallick Band / What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? / Live Oak Records
• Up There On The Hillside / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• The Old Swinging Bridge / Unspoken Tradition / Imaginary Lines / Mountain Home
• Songbird / Aaron "Frosty" Foster with the Gibson Brothers / Opening Doors / Self-Produced [In memory of Etta Crawford:  8/20/1942 - 6/11/2022]
• Little John, I Am / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Daddy And Me / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Hitchhiking To California / Billy Blue Records
• Devil On A Plow / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Papa Wants To Go Back / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• My Daddy's Shoes / Rick Lang with Troy Engle / single / Self-Produced
• That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949 / Columbia [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / single
• Old Home Place / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949 / Columbia [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Remarks/My Cabin In Caroline / Lester Flatt / Lester Raymond Flatt / Flying Fish [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• The Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• The Automobile Of Life / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Daddy Did His Best / Dale Ann Bradley / Send The Angels / Compass Records
• I'll Owe To My Mother And Dad / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / Living On The Hallelujah Side / Rebel
• Calling My Children Home / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Justified / Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records [Remembering Lester Flatt:  6/19/1914 - 5/11/1979]
• Daddy Sang Bass / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/20/2021

Happy Father's Day!!

Happy Father's Day!  If you're a father, hope you were able to spend the day with -- or at least got to talk to -- your kid (or kids).  Also hope you got to spend some time doing something you enjoy...like, maybe even listen to our Bluegrass Cafe!  :)  

As you might expect on a day celebrating dad, we shared lots of songs performed by Bluegrass fathers and their offspring.  Some of the last names from whom we heard:  Amos, Armistead, Dailey, Feinberg, Harrell, McCoury, McGee, Mullins, Paisley, Parmley, Pike, Vincent, Williamson, and, of course, we heard from the Father of Bluegrass and his son, James.

In addition to songs performed by fathers and sons and daughters, we heard lots of songs about dear old dad.  

And, there was a tiny bit of new music performed by the Crowe Brothers and Rick Lang (with Kati Penn).

Hope you enjoyed the show, and please consider joining me once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'd Love To Do Some Living / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Lorene / Bluegrass Cardinals / True Bluegrass / Rounder
• Somewhere Between / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Roll On Buddy / Bill & James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Cry Of The Catamount / Bob Amos / Sunrise Blues / Bristlecone
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Have You Lost Your Love / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Forever And Ever / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• My Deceitful Heart / Ralph Stanley with Ralph Stanley II / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Forty Years Of Trouble / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• That's Just Lonesome / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Winter Wren Song / Crowe Brothers / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• White Dove Of The Desert / Rick Lang with Kati Penn / A Tale To Tell / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Never See My Home Again / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts And Better Times / Open Road
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Frankfield Strut / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• My Father's Son / Ricky Skaggs / My Father's Son / Sony
• Daddy & Me / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne with Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Hitchhiking To California / Billy Blue Records
• Daddy For A Day / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Big Daddy (Is Alabamy Bound) / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Devil On A Plow / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rebel
• They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy Anymore / Wildfire / Rented Room On Broadway / Pinecastle
• California Cottonfields / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel
• Little John, I Am / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Fathers And Sons / Del McCoury Band / The Company We Keep / McCoury Music
• Dad / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• My Daddy's Shoes / Rick Lang with Troy Engle / single / Self-Produced
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• Proud To Be Your Dad / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / David Peterson / Simplicity / Self-Produced
• Daddy's Old Time Guitar / Al Hawkes with Fred Pike / single / Event Records
• Don't Tune Him Out / The Whites / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Billy Blue Records
• Daddy Tried / Lou Reid & Carolina / Sounds Like Heaven To Me / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Father's Table Grace / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• Daddy Was An Ole Time Preacher Man / Volume Five with Rhonda Vincent / Voices / Mountain Fever Records
• Father's Hand / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / 30 Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• Father I Stretch My Hand To Me / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Sugar Hill
• Let In The Guiding Light / Rhonda Vincent & the Sally Mountain Show / Bound For Gloryland / Rebel
• To My Mansion In The Sky / Larry Sparks / Ministry In Song / Rebel
• Pull Your Savior In / Larry Stephenson Band / Pull Your Savior In / Whysper Dream Music
• Open Up Your Heart (And Let Jesus In) / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• I Love God's Way Of Living / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Cabin In The Sky / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Out In The Middle Of Nowhere / Raincoe Music
• Which Train / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone / Stanley Brothers / Plum Pitiful / Time Life
• Come On, Dear Lord, And Get Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 6/20/2010 - Father's Day

Sunday's show was on Father's Day, so that was the topic. I approached the theme thinking I might find one or two sets of songs that fit, but after checking my archives I found almost enough "father songs" to do an entire show. So that is what we did with a few exceptions.

We also did a set of songs from Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs to commemorate the anniversary of Lester's birthday June 19th.

By the way, "we" was Marti and me. Marti is off school now and just returned from a trip out West with a group of middle school students, and felt she could now devote at least one Sunday to the ol' radio show.

One surprise at having Marti on this show was her unexpectedly drawing out some of our own good father stories. Some were tough to get through, but we hope you enjoyed them anyway. Marti lost her father in 1998, and my father still resides in North Carolina with my mother in the house he built 50 years ago.

Amy has been doing a lot of fill-ins this summer at various times at WHUS, so perhaps you have heard her even though she has not been on Bluegrass Cafe for a few weeks. That will change this coming Sunday when Amy will make the banjos and fiddles ring.

Jim Beaver

Song / Artist / Album / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• Workin' End Of A Hoe / Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time / Songs From the Workbench / Shell Point
• My Father's Son / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Brand New Strings / Skaggs Family
• That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / Doc Watson / My Dear Old Southern Home / Sugar Hill
• Papa Made A Livin' / Blue Moon Rising / Where Wood Meets Steel / Crosscut Records
• Bailin' Again / James Reams & The Barnstormers / Pre-release Single / Mountain Redbird
• Don't Worry 'Bout Daddy / Lonesome River Band / Finding The Way / Sugar Hill
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• That Star Belongs To Me / Wade Mainer / I'm Not Looking Backward / Gusto
• Keep Your Feet On The Ground / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Papa Wants To Go Back / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Who Showed Who / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder
• Wildwood Flower / Ralph Stanley with Ralph Stanley II / Like Father, Like Son / Copper Creek
• I've Got A Lot To Thank My Father For / Leroy Mack / Leroy Mack & Friends / Rebel
• Leader Of The Band / Randy Howard with Don Rigsby / I Rest My Case / Sugar Hill
• Fathers And Sons / The Del McCoury Band / The Company We Keep / McCoury Music
• Daddy Was A Railroad Man / Seldom Scene / Act Four / Sugar Hill
• When Papa Played The Dobro / Flatt & Scruggs / 1964-1969 / Bear Family
• A Man Must Carry On / Aubrey Haynie / A Man Must Carry On / Sugar Hill
• Papa's Wagon / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• How Far To Little Rock / The Stanley Brothers / The Early Years 1958-1961 / King
• Old Hickory Cane / Ted Lundy, Bob Paisley, and the Southern Mountain Boys / Lovesick and Sorrow / Rounder (LP)
• Son Of Hobert / Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Dream Of A Miner's Child / The Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Stumbling In My Father's Footsteps / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder
• Unwed Fathers / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• My Father's Footsteps / Butch Robins / Grounded, Centered, Focused / Hay Holler
• What I Am / Alan Bibey / In The Blue Room / Sugar Hill
• Halfway Home Cafe / Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder / History Of The Future / Skaggs Family
• Papaw Taught Me / Blue Moon Rising / On The Rise / Lonesome Day
• You're Dead To Me / Dierks Bentley / Up On The Ridge / Capitol
• Can You Hear Me Now / Heather Berry & Tony / Before Bluegrass / Blue Circle
• Home Sweet Home / Hylo Brown / The Golden Age Of Bluegrass / Rural Rhythm
• Dim Lights, Thick Smoke / Flatt & Scruggs / 1955-1959 / JSP
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Flatt & Scruggs / 1955-1959 / JSP
• Till The End Of The World Rolls Around / Flatt & Scruggs / 1955-1959 / JSP
• A Hundred Years From Now / Flatt & Scruggs / 1955-1959 / JSP
• Daddy's Chair / Darren Beachley / I Love You To The Moon And Back / Blue Circle
• Tall Weeds And Rust / Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent
• Last Old Shovel / Carolina Native Sons / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / Patuxent
• Father's Table Grace / Flatt & Scruggs / 1964-1969 / Bear Family
• A Father's Prayer / Front Range / One Beautiful Day / Sugar Hill
• Daddy's Wildwood Flower / Ralph Stanley / While The Ages Roll On / Rebel
• Friends In Gloryland / Patty Loveless / Mountain Soul II / Saguaro Road
• There'll Come A Time / Wade Mainer / I'm Not Looking Backward / Gusto
• What Would You Do / Fred Etheridge with Nick Anderson & Mark Doyle / Pickin And Sing'n / Self-released
• The Little White Church / Crowe-Lawson-Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• He Understands / Barry Scott, Dale Ann Bradley, others / Look To The Light / Rural Rhythm
• The Promise / The Gillis Brothers / Best of The Gillis Brothers / Hay Holler