"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/7/2013

It was another summer Sunday -- another edition of Bluegrass Cafe.  As it's been exceedingly warm here in eastern Connecticut over the last week or so, we opened the show with a couple of songs that attempted to cool things down a bit.  Maybe this crazy attempt at "coolness" worked, as it was about 92 degrees when the show started at 4PM, and by the time I signed off at 7PM, the temperature had dropped to around 80 degrees.  Hooray!

Even though July 4th was technically on Thursday, this weekend ending Sunday at midnight still is considered a "holiday weekend."  To that end, it's a patriotic holiday, so it seemed quite logical to share a few patriotic-themed songs, including both "The Star Spangled Banner" and "Stars And Stripes Forever," as well as appropriate Independence Day songs from Eddie & Martha Adcock, as well as Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers.

It was a day to celebrate a few Bluegrass (and Bluegrass-related) birthdays, and we included at least two songs from a few different performers who celebrated or would have celebrated birthdays in the first few days of July.  Among them:  Charlie Louvin (born July 7, 1927) and Charlie Monroe (born July 4, 1903), as well as a couple of New

The first LP for a young Rhode
Island mandolin picker...

England contributions to the world of Bluegrass -- Rhode Island's Jimmy Gaudreau (born July 3, 1946) and from Massachusetts, Peter Rowan (born July 4, 1942).  We also wished a Happy Birthday today to the former Nita Pike, who was featured singing with her daughter, the late Earlene Pike, on a couple of songs from the Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers Rebel LP from 1968.

In spite of all of the birthday celebrating and patriotic music, we still found a few minutes to play a few newer recordings, too.  This time around, these new discs came from projects by the Gibson Brothers, the Spinney Brothers, Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge, Big Country Bluegrass, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, and Balsam Range.  We even included a bit of new music from brand-new-to-us-this-week records by Jason Davis, Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome, and Fletcher Bright & Bill Evans.

Hope you enjoyed something you heard on the radio this week, and that you'll be sure to join me once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another (hopefully) enjoyable edition of Bluegrass Cafe!  

Amy

REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Cold Chill Of Gone / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Steeltown Records
• Hot Corn, Cold Corn / Here Today / Grisman-Gill-Pedersen-Buchanan-Gordy / Rounder
• Stars And Stripes Forever / John McEuen / String Wizards / Vanguard
• Me And Paul Revere / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / single / Rounder
• The Star Spangled Banner / Lynwood Lunsford / Pick Along / Hay Holler
• Cotton Farmer / Travers Chandler & Avery County / State Of Depression / Mountain Fever Records
• There Is A Trap / Gillis Brothers / Down By The River / Hay Holler
• Wearin' The Blues / Josh Williams with David Peterson / I'll Take Love / Compass Records
• Where Dear Friends Will Never Part / Front Porch String Band / Rebel
• Nobody Cares For Me / Travers Chandler & Avery County / State Of Depression / Mountain Fever Records
• Heart And Soul / Gillis Brothers / Heart And Soul / Rebel
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH
• Let's / Country Gentlemen / Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Sunny Side Of Life / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Doc Watson Morning / Peter Rowan / The Old School / Compass Records
• One Way / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• What Is A Home Without Love / Monroe Brothers / Bill & Charlie Monroe, 1936 / JSP Records
• Have A Feast Here Tonight / Monroe Brothers / Bill & Charlie Monroe, 1937-1938 / JSP Records
• Knoxville Girl / Louvin Brothers / When I Stop Dreaming / Razor & Tie
• I Wish You Knew / Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone, 1955-1964 / Raven
• Dying For Someone To Live For / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• You Broke Your Promise / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• It's Just Like Rain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope
• Choking The Strings / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• On That Glorious Day / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• New Freedom Bell / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Where The Wild River Rolls / Jason Davis / Second Time Around / Mountain Fever Records
• Little Country Town / Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome / Blue Side Of Me / Mountain Fever Records
• Yellow Barber / Fletcher Bright & Bill Evans / Fine Times At Fletcher's House / Native & Fine Records
• Two O'Clock [music bed] / Fletcher Bright & Bill Evans / Fine Times At Fletcher's House / Native & Fine Records
• Polly Put The Kettle On [music bed] / Fletcher Bright & Bill Evans / Fine Time At Fletcher's House / Native & Fine Records
• Scott No. 2 [music bed] / Fletcher Bright & Bill Evans / Fine Times At Fletcher's House / Native & Fine Records
• Blackjack Grove [music bed] / Fletcher Bright & Bill Evans / Fine Times At Fletcher's House / Native & Fine Records
• Blue Blue Day / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Bell Of The Ball / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Rollin' With Tradition / Self-Produced
• Margie / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Dreams About The Hills Of Home / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Feeling Blue / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Other Side Of The Mountain / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Somehow Tonight / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin / Koch Records
• God Moves In A Windstorm / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• Valley Of Peace / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Country Church / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Kept And Protected By God's Love / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Kept And Protected / Sugar Hill
• Shouting On The Hills Of Glory / Stanley Brothers / All Bluegrass All Gospel / Federal
• Wait A Little Longer Please Jesus / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Let Us Travel, Travel On / Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone, 1955-1964 / Raven
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/30/2013

Sometimes, it seems like we let the little electronic "gizmos" in our lives dictate the things we do.  How many people do you know who really can't seem to go two seconds without having their iPhone in their hands?  Now, I don't have an iPhone, I do own an iPod Touch, and I'll admit that I really like the thing.  If there's WiFi available, this little "toy computer" gives me Internet access, and no matter if there is or isn't WiFi, I can always listen to one of the nearly 8,000 songs I have loaded on the iPod.  More often than not, I have the songs playing on "shuffle," so the iPod "gods" choose "random" songs whenever music is being played.  However, while listening to the iPod on shuffle during my nearly 4-hour drive home early Sunday morning from the really terrific Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival in Tunbridge, VT, I heard at least 7 or 8 songs by the sometimes overlooked duo of Don Reno & Red Smiley.  That's a lot of R&S, especially considering that there are just 141 of their songs on the player.  Hearing so much of them on the way back, though,  sure seemed like a good-enough reason to me to put Reno & Smiley front-and-center on Sunday's radio show!  

As enjoyable as the music of Don & Red can be, though, we found some time to play a few other records, too.  There was a second mini-spotlight feature on a band I will admit that I know very little about:  the Bray Brothers with Red Cravens.  Several years ago, I bought a Rounder CD featuring some early 1960s radio transcriptions from these brothers, and it's a very enjoyable collection.  My problem is that I don't always remember I own it, and should bring it to play on the radio.  By some miracle, this week, I actually remembered.

John Burns -- Gettysburg civilian soldier,
and subject of song on "God Didn't Choose Sides"

This week marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg -- a pivotal Civil War battle waged on Northern soil over the course of the first three days of July in 1863.  Several songs have been written to commemorate the battle and some of the characters associated with it, so we put together a few of these songs by performers as varied as Rickey Wasson & Dwight McCall, the Lonesome River Band, Gary Ferguson, and Maine songwriter, Stan Keach (whose "Up On Little Round Top" tells the tale of the 20th Maine Regiment of Volunteers and its heroic leader, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain).  Two of these songs were taken directly from the "God Didn't Choose Sides" project released by Rural Rhythm Records.  

New music is coming from the Seldom Scene in 2014...so they say...

In addition, there was time to play quite a few selections from New England performers past and present, including Hot Mustard, Nick Anderson & the Gospel Friends, Stonewall Bluegrass, the Case Brothers, White Mountain Bluegrass, Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys, ShoreGrass, and Grass Routes.  Also included was a good bit of newer music, some of which came from performers who'd been at Jenny Brook over the past weekend.  The newer stuff came from the Gibson Brothers, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Mike Compton & Joe Newbery, the Spinney Brothers, Mark Newton & Steve Thomas, Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson, Sweet Potato Pie (from the "Pickin' Like A Girl" box set from the Daughters of Bluegrass), Marty Raybon & Full Circle, Big Country Bluegrass, Dailey & Vincent, the Boxcars, and Don Rigsby.  

Hope you enjoyed something you heard on Sunday's show, and please join me once again next Sunday for another packed Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the 4th!  

Amy


REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Green Mountain Hop / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Cruel Love / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Country Boy Rock And Roll / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• I'm The Talk of The Town / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Buy A Ring, Find A Preacher / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• She Left Me Standing On The Mountain / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Close The Door Lightly When You Go / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume One / Rural Rhythm
• You're The Best Of All The Leading Brands / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• Sweetest Love / Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• I Can't Stand To Ramble / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'N Live / Sugar Hill
• East Tennessee Blues / Mike Compton & Joe Newbery / Live / Self-Produced
• Making Plans / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Live At Red, White & Bluegrass / Mountain Home
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / A Long Time Ago / Varese Sarabande
• Old MacDonald / Mark Newton & Steve Thomas / Reborn / Rural Rhythm
• Sweet Dixie / Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson / The Mandolin Chronicles / Pinecastle
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Hot Mustard / Live At Mole Hill Theatre / Self-Produced
• Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven / Nick Anderson & the Gospel Friends / Nick Anderson & the Gospel Friends / Self-Produced
• Slidin' Delta / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Nobody's Child / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• You Ain't Woman Enough / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• Where The Old Red River Flows / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band / Bray Brothers with Red Cravens / Prairie Bluegrass / Rounder
• Harley's Breakdown / Bray Brothers with Red Cravens / Prairie Bluegrass / Rounder
• Thinking About You / Bray Brothers with Red Cravens / Prairie Bluegrass / Rounder
• Old John Burns / Rickey Wasson & Dwight McCall / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• Up On Little Round Top / Stan Keach / Cry Of The Loon & Other Original Songs About Maine / Ayuh Records
• The Legend Of Jennie Wade / Lonesome River Band / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• Last Day At Gettysburg / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Clinch Mountain Mystery / Sweet Potato Pie / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records
• The Big Burnsville Jail / Marty Raybon & Full Circle / The Back Forty / Rural Rhythm
• Gray Eagle / Don Reno / The Golden Guitar Of Don Reno / King
• Polka On The Guitar / Don Reno / The Golden Guitar Of Don Reno / King [music bed]
• Lady Hamlet / Don Reno / The Golden Guitar Of Don Reno / King [music bed]
• Sticks That Made Thunder / The Steeldrivers / The Steeldrivers / Rounder
• The Letter / ShoreGrass / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Bailey's Deal / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• Won't You Think Of Me / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• I'll Be Broken Hearted / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Lost Highways & Treasured Memories / Old Homestead
• I Hear My Savior Calling / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Along The Way / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Traveling The Highway Home / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• Over In The Promised Land / Lou Reid & Carolina / Sounds Like Heaven To Me / Rural Rhythm Christian
• The Old Cross Road / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / JSP Records
• So Many Years, So Many Blessings / Lewis Family / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS
• One More Time (I Must Rise) / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler 
• Brighter Mansion Over There / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 6/23/2013 - Old Vinyl

Hi Folks,

This was a fill-in show for me because Amy was not available today.  I used the opportunity to play some old "moldy" vinyl bluegrass that needed to see some light outside of the Heritage Corner.  Some album covers from the source material are shown below.

Cullen Galyean on guitar on this rare recording

Lowell Varney and Landon Messer
Two of the best bluegrassers you never heard of

Flat and Scruggs on the radio - 1957

Boone Estep - old timey bluegrass fiddler

Dutch couple who recorded this LP with Don Stover & Red Rector

Charlie's first LP after the split with Bill Napier - 1970

First bluegrass album by a female leader - 1962

Leslie Keith 1974 LP -- composed "Black Mountain Blues"

Rare LP of Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, & Don Stover
produced by Toshio Watanabe

Not all of the music was legacy as we played a swath of newer music from the likes of The Gibson Brothers, Michael Martin Murphey, Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge, Kathy Kallick, The Kruger Brothers, Clinton Gregory, Dawn Kenney, Scott Brannon, Richard Bennett, The Boxcars, and a good number of tunes from the mandolin duo of Alan Bibey and Wayne Benson.

The Red Rooster Party show just before this edition of Bluegrass Cafe had an extensive interview with Gordon Pike and Darlene Champagne who grew up with the Pike Family in Eastern Connecticut and made music with that pioneering family.  We played a few songs from Darlene Champagne (Reflections of Grass) and Gordon Pike and the Dixie Darlins' to accent that previous show.

Amy will be back next Sunday, so don't miss it.  For some roots of this music, tune in two hours earlier for Red Rooster Party.

Jim Beaver

Title / Artist / Album / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On the "C" String / Self-produced
• They Called It Music / The Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass
• Shake It Off / Michael Martin Murphey / Red River Drifter / Red River Entertainment
• Baby's Back Again / Darlene & Reflections Of Bluegrass / If It Ain't Love / Self-produced
• May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Rollin' With Tradition / Galyean Family
• Darling Nellie Across The Sea / The Vern Williams Band / Traditional Bluegrass / Arhoolie
• Dark Hollow / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak
• Back To Hancock County / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• Shady Grove / Kruger Brothers / Doc - Remembering Doc Watson / Double Time
• Making Plans / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Live at Red White & Bluegrass / Mountain Home
• Pretty Woman / Larry Gillis / Swampgrass / Tinman
• Stumblin Stones / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever
• Roots Of My Raising / The Clinton Gregory Bluegrass Band / Roots Of My Raising / Melody Roundup
• Life Finds A Way / The Grascals / Life Finds A Way / Mountain Home
• Out The Door / Dawn Kenney / Sing Me Home / Heart Roots
• Tribulations / Carolina Native Sons / Rank Ol' Bluegrass / Patuxent
• Jesus On The Mainline / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Live at the Newburyport Firehouse / Rounder
• I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys / The Bluegrass Touch / Vetco (LP)
• Judy Lou / The Border Mountain Boys / Bluegrass On The Mountain / Homestead (LP)
• Black Mountain Blues / Leslie Keith / Black Mountain Blues / Briar Records (LP)
• Roustabout / Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, Don Stover, et.al / Self-titled / Red Clay (LP)
• Roane County Prisoner / Hylo Brown / Bluegrass Favorites on College and Campus / Nashville (LP)
• Dixie Darlin' / Gordon Pike & The Dixie Darlins' / Self-titled / Self-produced
• Singing Waterfall / Scott Brannon Your Old Standby / Patuxent
• If Teardrops Were Pennies / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Six More Miles / Jeanie West / Roaming The Blue Ridge with Jeanie West / Prestige (LP)
• Lorena Go Home / Charlie Moore / Charlie Bluegrass / Country Jubilee (LP)
• You Took All The Ramblin' Out Of Me / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Curtains Of Sorrow / Jim Eanes and the Shenandoah Valley Boys / The Early Days Of Bluegrass Vol. 4 / Rounder (LP)
• Things In Life / A.G. & Kate with Don Stover & Red Rector / Good Friends Vol 1 / Strictly Country (LP)
• Wilkes County Breakdown / Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson / The Mandolin Chronicles / Pinecastle
• Last Train From Poor Valley / Richard Bennett / Last Train From Poor Valley / Lonesome Day
• I Know What It Means To Be Lonely / Jack Casey / Rural Rhythm Presents Jack Casey / Rural Rhythm (LP)
• Owensboro Train (bed) / Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson / The Mandolin Chronicles / Pinecastle
• Sweet Dixie (bed) / Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson / The Mandolin Chronicles / Pinecastle
• Another Night (bed) / Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson / The Mandolin Chronicles / Pinecastle
• Waltz For Pamela (bed) / Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson / The Mandolin Chronicles / Pinecastle
• Owensboro Train (bed) / Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson / The Mandolin Chronicles / Pinecastle
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / On Radio 1957 / Collectors Classics (LP)
• Lovesick & Sorrow / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs w. Hylo Brown / On Radio 1957 / Collectors Classics (LP)
• Tragic Romance / Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys / Body & Soul / Vetco (LP)
• Liberty / Larry Richardson & Red Barker / Blue Ridge Bluegrass / County (LP)
• Rocky Island / Boone Estep and the Rambling Grass / I'll Take The Blame / White Dove (LP)
• Going To A City / Lowell Varney - Landon Messer and the Riverside Grass / Going To A City / Old Homestead (LP)
• City On A Hill / David Peterson / Jesus Use Me / Self-produced
• Shake My Mother's Hand For Me / Charlie Monroe / The Starday Sessions / Gusto
• Home On The River / The Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass
• Don't Judge / Don Reno Bill Harrell and The Tennessee Cutups / A Variety of New Sacred Gospel Songs / King (LP)
• God's Highway / Leon Morris / Thinking Today Of My Home / Patuxent
• Ain't Gonna Run / Mountain Faith / Battlefield / Pisgah Ridge
• How Great Thou Art / Darlene & Reflections Of Bluegrass / If It Ain't Love / Self-produced
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge w.Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' And Singin' / Self-produced

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/16/2013

On this Father's Day, the "agenda" for Bluegrass Cafe included a good portion of music by Bluegrass fathers and sons, as well as -- of course! -- several songs with the father as the subject.  This coming week also marks the 99th birthday anniversary of a true musical stylist -- one Lester Raymond Flatt -- so there was a good bit of music from Lester's very prolific pen, and the song catalog of Flatt & Scruggs.  

Like a lot of businesses, it seems that Bluegrass is a "family" type of business, wherein a whole lot of Bluegrass musicians were -- and continue to be -- drawn into playing and performing Bluegrass by their musical fathers.  While we could -- and should -- have included music from more musical families than what we had time for today, we still managed to share songs on Sunday from notable Bluegrass families with the surnames of Parmley, McCoury, Reno, Rosenthal, Mullins, Paisley, Harrell, Osborne, Hayes, Armistead, and, of course, Monroe.  Yes, there are Bluegrass fathers and daughters, but for some reason, we didn't get around to playing music from them today.  Maybe next time around, we'll try to squeeze in a few of those...

My father, Alton Orlomoski,
making a rare appearance at a
Bluegrass festival

As can be imagined, there are LOTS of Bluegrass songs that have been written with the subject of "father" in mind, no matter if he's called "Dad," "Daddy," or "Papa."  The dozen father songs we heard today -- some a bit bittersweet -- came from several performers, including Bill Harrell & the Virginians, BearTracks, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Phil Leadbetter, the Whitstein Brothers, White Mountain Bluegrass, the Spinney Brothers & Close Company, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott, Jim Mills with Paul Brewster, and the Gibson Brothers.  We even were able to track down a single from the late Fred Pike along with another IBMM-recognized Bluegrass Pioneer, Maine's Al Hawkes.  

Happy 99th, Lester Flatt!

We absolutely couldn't let the show pass without highlighting a few songs from big-time Bluegrass songwriter and super-musical stylist, Lester Flatt.  It's hard to truly appreciate the groundbreaking influence that Flatt and his long-time musical partner, Earl Scruggs, were able to achieve, but achieve it, they did.  Outstanding!  Lester Raymond Flatt would have turned 99 years old on June 19th.  Obviously, Bill Monroe was extremely important, but Lester Flatt was just plain old remarkable.  

Sideline includes IIIrd Tyme Out bandmates Steve Dilling &
Justin Hayes, as well as Jason Moore (Mountain Heart),
Darrell Webb, and Skip Cherryholmes (now of
Lou Reid & Carolina).

Despite all of the other features, we still managed to share a little bit of newer music on Sunday, too, including songs from projects by Della Mae, the Snyder Family Band, Claire Lynch, a terrific new record from Big Country Bluegrass, the Spinney Brothers, Gordon Pike & the Dixie Darlins, Flatt Lonesome, the Gibson Brothers, and a fun little throw-together band on Mountain Fever Records called Sideline.  

Hope all of the dads had a wonderful Father's Day, and be sure to join Jim next Sunday afternoon as he'll be doing double-duty on the ol' radio, hosting Red Rooster Party from 2-4PM, and then, sticking around for Bluegrass Cafe from 4-7PM.  It'll be fun, so listen, won't you?

Have a great week!

Amy

REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Smoke Along The Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Nine Pound Hammer / Reno & Smiley with the Stanley Brothers / Bluegrass, 1963 / Rural Rhythm
• Pretty Polly / The Rosenthals / Fly Away / American Melody
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• The Evening Train / Bob & Danny Paisley / Plum Pitiful / Time Life
• Roll On Buddy / Bill & James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• The Hard Times / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder
• Jacob's Ladder / Rick Hayes with Green Hayes / Fly By Night / Kang Records
• Roll On Muddy River / Bluegrass Cardinals / Welcome To Virginia / Rounder
• Do You Remember? / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• To Daddy / BearTracks / Makin' Tracks / AMT Records
• Me And Dad / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• California Cotton Fields / Phil Leadbetter with Marty Raybon / Slide Effects / Pinecastle
• Daddy's Old Time Guitar / Fred Pike & Al Hawkes / single / Event Records
• That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / Whitstein Brothers / Old Time Duets / Rounder
• When Papa Played The Dobro / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country
• Old Hickory Cane / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Mom & Dad's Waltz / Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott / We're Usually A Lot Better Than This / Full Light Records
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• Daddy Come Home / Spinney Brothers & Close Company / The Old Fundy Shore / Self-Produced
• Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Letter From The Road/And Other Things / Della Mae / This World Oft Can Be / Rounder
• Smoky Mountain Railway / Snyder Family Band / Building Bridges / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Roses In The Snow / Gordon Pike & the Dixie Darlins / Gordon Pike & the Dixie Darlins / Self-Produced
• Loneliness And Desperation / Sideline / Session 1 / Mountain Fever Records
• I'll Be Alright Tomorrow / Claire Lynch / Dear Sister / Compass Records
• I'm Longing For My Old Virginia Home / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Mark "Brink" Brinkman / On The Brink Of A Dream / Self-Produced
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Pages Of Time / Chris Warner with Dudley Connell / Chris Warner & Friends / Webco
• Lula Wall / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Slow Down (You'll Hit A Moose) / Stan Keach & Friends / Cry Of The Loon & Other Original Songs About Maine / Ayuh Records
• Tell All My Pickin' Friends Goodbye / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Boy Records
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Your Love Is Like A Flower / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Don't Get Above Your Raising / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts And Better Times / Open Road
• For Him / Gary Waldrep Band / Road Leading Home / Blue Circle Records
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways
• Get In Line, Brother / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• The Way, The Truth, The Light / Sideline / Session 1 / Mountain Fever Records
• Home On The River / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• The Right Side / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Pisgah Ridge
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/9/2013

As it was kind of a "quiet" week in the Bluegrass World (meaning, not too many birthdays or other events to remember and/or celebrate), the musical selections on Sunday's show were kind of a hodgepodge.  Sometimes, that's really not such a bad way to go, is it?

There was one notable birthday to remember:  that of a certain "guitar hero" for a whole bunch of Bluegrass guitar pickers -- Tony Rice (born June 8, 1951).  The show opened with a few selections a couple of different Rice configurations over the years -- with J.D. Crowe & the New South, the Bluegrass Album Band, as a guest on a David Grisman all-star production, and with occasional duet partner, Ricky Skaggs.

We took a few moments on Sunday's show to remember the musical Pike Family of eastern Connecticut.  In the mid-1960s to early 1970s, banjo/guitar picker Fred Pike worked in a band with his youngest brother, Earl, Earl's wife, Nita, and two musicians from Canterbury, CT, Dave Papuga and John Piela.  The band was called the Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers, and the star vocalist in this group was Earl and Nita's oldest daughter, Earlene.  Earlene Pike was a tremendously gifted singer, and her husky, full voice was extremely unique and sounded much older than her actual years.  If you've listened to Bluegrass Cafe at all over the last ten years, you've likely heard me say that the Rebel records of the Pikes were often played around my house, and honestly, I can't remember a time when I didn't know about the band.  Sadly, Earlene died on August 11, 1972 of complications from bone cancer, just a couple of months shy of her 19th birthday.  Still, her music and legacy live on through the life of her younger brother, Gordon, and we are always pleased to share the music of the Pikes on the air at WHUS.  Recently, Jim had an opportunity to talk with Gordon Pike, and Jim's interview -- complete with a whole lot of great Pike music, I'm sure -- will air on an upcoming edition of "Red Rooster Party."  We'll let you know the firm date the interview will air when it's settled, but I'm sure you'll want to tune in to hear it.

The hodgepodge show included a little bit of newer music, too, as always.  This time around, we heard songs from recent projects by Connecticut's Grass Routes, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge, Shannon & Heather Slaughter & County Clare, Hammertowne, Flatt Lonesome, Big Country Bluegrass, Don Rigsby, the Gibson Brothers, the Spinney Brothers, and Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass.  In addition, there was one brand-spanking new Rebel recording from Big Country Bluegrass.

Hope you heard something you enjoyed on Sunday afternoon, and that you'll be sure to join us once again for three hours of the Bluegrass -- Sunday, 4:00-7:00PM.  

Amy



REQUESTS ARE RED.

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Old Home Place / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Salt Creek / Tony Rice / Guitar / Rebel
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill
• Sophronie / David Grisman with Tony Rice / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams with Tony Rice / Down Home / Pinecastle
• Sockeye / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• The River / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Picture In A Tear / Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz / Picture In A Tear / Rebel
• It Don't Bring You Back To Me / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Way Down Deep / Ralph Stanley with Vern Gosdin / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• You Tried To Ruin My Name / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister! / Rounder
• Bad Fret / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• Lover's Quarrel / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice with Joe Mullins / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• A Blue Million Tears / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• You Better Get Right / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Rollin' With Tradition / Self-Produced
• If I Were A Carpenter / Shannon & Heather Slaughter & County Clare / One More Road / Self-Produced
• Walkin' The Country / Nightflyer / Nightflyer / Kang Records
• I'm Thinking You Don't Love Me Anymore / Hammertowne / Hammertowne / Mountain Fever Records
• Jackson / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Pisgah Ridge
• Crawford County / Balsam Range / All In / Mountain Home
• I'll Go To My Grave Lovin' You / Special Consensus / Signs / Pinecastle [Don Reid of the Statler Brothers birthday : June 5, 1945]
• Good Ole Boys Like Me / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records [Don Williams birthday:  May 27, 1939]
• Feeling Blue / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Each Season Changes You / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• My Love For You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• I'm Putting On My Leaving Shoes / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Choking The Strings / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Tennessee Truck Driving Man / Don Rigsby with Charlie Sizemore / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• Kickin' Grass [music bed] / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• Georgia Stomp [music bed] / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• You're The Best Of All The Leading Brands / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Hard Country / Rural Rhythm
• The Darker The Night, The Better I See / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Sad And Blue / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Money In The Bank / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume 3 / Rural Rhythm
• The Moon Saw Me Crying / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Theme Time / Hot Mustard / Live At Mole Hill Theatre / Self-Produced
• I Saw Your Face In The Moon / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Hide Me, Rock Of Ages / Dailey & Vincent / Singing From The Heart / Rounder [Jamie Dailey birthday:  June 9, 1975]
• Stormy Waters / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Will He Wait A Little Longer / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Count Your Blessings / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope
• Move On / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• One Is Taken, One Is Left / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• Good News When I Die / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Journey To My Savior's Side / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• Ring The Bell / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
  
  
  

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/2/2013

While there was some confusion about the start time of today's radio show due to various rain delays moving back the starting time for the UCONN Men's Baseball NCAA tourney game (from 1PM to 3PM), we were finally able to bring you a pretty packed 66 minutes of Bluegrass Cafe this evening.  As the men lost their game today, that ended the summer sports show preemptions from the WHUS Sports Department.  Needless to say, we're rather pleased about that...

As it was a super-short, 66 minute

While I didn't get a chance to go to Strawberry Park
this year, it's good to know Ted Lehmann's fine
photos can let me see the highlights, like the Friday
sets of the Gibson Brothers.  Visit Ted's blog for more:
www.tedlehmann.blogspot.com

show, we didn't get a chance to play a whole lot of new music, but still, there were songs from recent projects by Marty Raybon & Full Circle, John Reischman, the Kathy Kallick Band, the Spinney Brothers, the Boxcars, Don Rigsby, Volume Five, and Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass.  We also played music from two performers featured at this weekend's nearby Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival:  Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice and the ever-popular Gibson Brothers.  

Next week's show will feature a full 180 minutes of the best in Bluegrass - I hope!  Be sure to join me, if you can...

Amy

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine / Reno & Smiley / Country Ballads / King
• Deep River Blues / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• Never Get To Hold You In My Arms Anymore / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / Self-Produced
• Drinking At The Water Hole / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Hurt Me All The Time / Marty Raybon & Full Circle / The Back Forty / Rural Rhythm
• Little Maggie / John Reischman / Walk Along John / Corvus Records
• Time / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak Records
• On That Glorious Day / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• In Memory / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door) / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• The Mountain Doctor / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• See The Big Man Cry / Volume Five / Run / Mountain Fever Records
• I Been Walkin' / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Daddy Did His Best / Missy Werner / Send The Angels / Compass Records
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Sinner You'd Better Get Ready / Louvin Brothers / Songs That Tell A Story / Rounder
• Waiting For The Boys To Come Home / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• God Loves His Children / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Good Night, The Lord's Coming / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/26/2013 (plus, 30 minutes of "Red Rooster Party")

This Memorial Day weekend program included not only a whole bunch of songs with the common theme of American-soldier-who-goes-to-war-but-never-returns, but also birthday tributes to the most prolific songwriting couple in Bluegrass, as well as to a true Bluegrass legend.  It was 3 1/2 hours chock-full of music -- hope you were able to enjoy at least a small portion of it!

(Why was there an extra half-hour of music today?  As the UCONN Baseball team was playing -- and winning -- the Big East tournament this afternoon, Jim and Marti's Red Rooster Party was shortened to just 30 minutes.  Instead of them making the trip to WHUS for just a half-hour of airtime, I got to fill up that 30 minutes with a few songs.)

While Memorial Day has sort of morphed into a remembrance holiday in which folks honor and remember all of their deceased relatives, regardless of their military service, the fact remains that the tradition of "Decoration Day" began shortly after the end of the American Civil War in 1865, when relatives of dead soldiers would honor the memory of their loved ones by decorating their graves.  Many of the songs we played in honor of Memorial Day were somber stories of soldiers who didn't return home after fighting in various wars.  Thanks to all servicemen and servicewomen who have served, and who continue to serve in the Armed Forces, and who are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

The show wasn't all somber, solemn remembrance, though, as we had a few important birthdays to celebrate, including those of the extremely prolific songwriting couple, Tom T. and Miss Dixie Hall.  Tom T. was already an established Hall of Fame songwriter when he retired from his country music career, and put his energies toward writing Bluegrass music.  Miss Dixie has written several hundred songs in a short amount of time, and it's really challenging to pick up a new Bluegrass recording these days and NOT find at least one song written by either Tom T. or Miss Dixie.  We spent a bit of time on Sunday playing songs written by one or both of them, and we even included Tom T.'s 1972 recording of a song that's his best (if you ask me, that is):  "Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine."  

We also remembered Mac Wiseman, as he celebrated his 88th birthday this past week (born May 23, 1925).  

At the end of the day, there was still time for a good bit of newer music, too, from several performers, including the Spinney Brothers, Michelle Nixon (with the Daughters Of Bluegrass), the Boxcars, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Ronnie Bowman (from the "God Didn't Choose Sides" recording), Hammertowne, the Roys, the Gibson Brothers, Don Rigsby, and a song from a soon-to-be-released solo CD by Edgar Loudermilk.  Also included was a song from Gordon Pike & the Dixie Darlins -- a new group with some Connecticut ties, as Gordon is the son of Earl Pike, as well as the nephew of the well-remembered guitar and banjo picker, Fred Pike.  

Hope everyone has a delightful Memorial Day, and be sure to join us once again next Sunday for another edition of Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy

• The Brakeman's Blues (Yodelling The Blues) / Jimmie Rodgers / The Essential Jimmie Rodgers / RCA
• Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues) / Jimmie Rodgers / The Essential Jimmie Rodgers / RCA
• Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues) / Jimmie Rodgers / The Essential Jimmie Rodgers / RCA
• Blue Yodel No. 1 (T For Texas) / Jimmie Rodgers / The Essential Jimmie Rodgers / RCA
• The Train Carryin' Jimmie Rodgers Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder [Jimmie Rodgers died 5/26/1933]
• Old Ten Broeck / Laurie Lewis / Skippin' And Flyin' / Spruce & Maple Music
• Hemlocks And Primroses / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Air Mail Special On The Fly / Jim & Jesse / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Old, Old House / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country
• They Sleep Together, Now At Rest / Stanley Brothers / Shadows Of The Past / Copper Creek
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Durham's Reel / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs feat. Paul Warren / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall! / Koch Records
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA
• One Of Those Days (When I Miss Lester Flatt) / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie And Tom T. / Blue Circle Records
• The Year That Clayton Delaney Died / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Bill Monroe / Rebel
• Pickin' Like A Girl / Daughters Of Bluegrass / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records
• I Wish That I Could Have Met Carter / Stanley Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Never Can Forgive 'Til I Forget / Daughters Of Bluegrass feat. Michelle Nixon / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records
• Clinch Mountain Mystery / Larry Stephenson / Clinch Mountain Mystery / Pinecastle
• Don't Forget The Coffee, Billy Joe / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine / Tom T. Hall / Greatest Hits, Volume 2 / Mercury
• It's Just A Road / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Fiddlin' Will / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roads Well Traveled / Mountain Home
• The Lady In Gray / Ronnie Bowman / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• Shady Green / Edgar Loudermilk / forthcoming CD / Mountain Fever Records
• Sourwood Mountain / Hammertowne / Hammertowne / Mountain Fever Records
• You Can Count On My Love / The Roys / Gypsy Runaway Train / Rural Rhythm
• The Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / The Award Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel
• Purple Heart / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel
• Lost Soldier Son / Chris Brashear / Wanderlust / Copper Creek
• Soldier's Last Letter / Osborne Brothers / The Ernest Tubb Song Folio, Volume I / Pinecastle
• From Mother's Arms To Korea / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Forgotten Men / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• More Than A Name On A Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Robe Of White / Louvin Brothers / Songs That Tell A Story / Rounder
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Charlie Waller & the Country Gentlemen / Songs Of The American Spirit / Pinecastle
• Dixie Darlin' / Gordon Pike & the Dixie Darlins / Gordon Pike & the Dixie Darlins / Self-Produced
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Walking Up This Hill On Decoration Day / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome / CMH
• Blue Birds Are Singing For Me / Mac Wiseman with Lester Flatt / Bluegrass, 1971 / Rural Rhythm
• Bouquet In Heaven / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Country Church / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Is There Room For Me / Loafers' Glory / Loafers' Glory / Arhoolie
• Walking In Good Company / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day That I Died / Rebel
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Reveille Time In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
• I'm Making My Way / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• Voice Of My Savior / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH
• Goodbye / Crowe/Lawson/Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" Playlist - 5/19/2013

Hi Folks.

During the WHUS summer schedule, Amy has sole production responsibility for Bluegrass Cafe as I focus on Red Rooster Party with Marti.  I expect this will just be a summer shift, and I will return to the usual rotation of Bluegrass Cafe during the fall schedule.  That said, today was the first show of the summer schedule and Amy was away, so my appearance was as a fill-in host, which combined with Red Rooster Party made it a five-hour day on the air for me.

There was some great bluegrass though, starting with a trio of new recordings of songs from the pens of Tom T. and Dixie Hall by such Cafe favorites as Big Country Bluegrass and The Spinney Brothers.

Also, a couple of weeks ago we introduced new music from Low Gap NC native Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge, and we continued bringing music from that excellent disc to our listeners this week.

Dale Pyatt's song about Secretariat was appropriate for the day after the Preakness, and Rebecca Frazier's new solo effort made its first appearance on the show.

Rounding out the new music was material from The Gibson Brothers, Dailey & Vincent, Marty Raybon, Hammertowne, and The Boxcars.

We were still remembering George Jones when we played one of the last songs he recorded on a tribute project for Dr. Ralph Stanley.

The Heritage Corner was loaded with listener requests for first generation banjo instrumentals, so we played a cross-section from Earl, Don, Don, and Ralph.

Amy will be bringing you the banjos and fiddles of Bluegrass Cafe for most of the rest of the summer, so you know bluegrass is in good hands.  And if you are interested in where this music came from, try out Red Rooster Party 2-4pm just before Bluegrass Cafe.

Jim Beaver

requests in blue

Song Title / Artist / Album / Label

• Fire On The Mountain / Michael Cleveland / Sawing On The "C" String / Self-released
• Alcatraz Island Blues / Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent
• Day In The Life Of A Railroad Spike / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Thinkin' Of Home / Kathy Kallick Band / Time / Live Oak
• I'm Putting On My Leaving Shoes / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• I Wish That I Could've Met Carter / The Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever
• I Want My Dog Back / The Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever
• When You're Holding Me / Rhonda Vincent / Single-release / Upper Management
• Run Secretariat Run / Dale Pyatt / Dale Pyatt / Self-released
• May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Rollin' With Tradition / Self-released
• Randy Lynn Rag / Flatt & Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• Dixie Breakdown / Don Reno & Red Smiley / Early Years 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Buy A Ring, Find A Preacher / The Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass
• Steel Drivin' Man / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• Love Someone Like Me / Darlene & Reflections Of Bluegrass / If It Ain't Love / Self-released
• How Could I Dream Such A Dream / George Jones / A Special Tribute To A Living Legend - Dr. Ralph Stanley / Nathan Stanley
• Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / Rebecca Frazier / When We Fall / Compass
• Salt River / The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots - 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / The Stanley Brothers / Classic Bluegrass Collection / Time Life
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin / Classic Bluegrass Collection / Time Life
• Little Maggie / Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys / Appalachian Stomp: More Bluegrass Classics / Rhino
• Ruby / The Osborne Brothers / Appalachian Stomp: More Bluegrass Classics / Rhino
• Mystery Train / The Grascals / Life Finds A Way / Mountain Home
• Emmaline / Lou Reid & Carolina / Callin' Me Back Home / KMA
• The Big Burnsville Jail / Marty Raybon & Full Circle / The Back Forty / Rural Rhythm
• Kristi Lynn / Larry Gillis / Swampgrass / Tinman
• Cotton Farmer / Travers Chandler & Avery County / State Of Depression / Patuxent
• He Could Pick The Hound / Crowe Brothers / Bridging The Gap / Rural Rhythm
• Whiskey / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever
• Mandolin Tango / Travers Chandler & Avery County / State Of Depression / Patuxent
• Southern Train / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Did She Mention My Name / Robert Hale / Pure & Simple / Pinecastle
• Iver Johnson Is My Name / Hammertowne / Self-titled / Mountain Fever
• Our Old Kentucky Home / Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Gypsy, Joe and Me / Missy Werner / Drifting and Dreaming / Self-released
• Roger's Reel (bed) / Roger & JD Williams / Williams Squared / Happy Appy
• Crimson Raptor (bed) / Roger & JD Williams / Williams Squared / Happy Appy
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent
• Lonesome Pine Breakdown / The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Dooley / The Dillards / Back Porch Bluegrass / Elektra
• Nine Pound Hammer / The Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics / Rhino
• Pretty Little Girl From Galax / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Prime Tyme / Rural Rhythm
• I'm Going Back To The Mountain / Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press / New Bluegrass & Old Heartaches / Rural Rhythm
• Play The Lonesome Sound / Dewey Brown / Hard Times For A Fiddler / Dew Bug
• Don't Wait For The Hearse To Take You To Church / Rodney Dillard & The Dillard Band / Don't Wait For The Hearse To Take You To Church / Rural Rhythm
• When He Beckons Me Home / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Live at Red, White & Bluegrass / Mountain Home
• Let Your Light Shine For Jesus / John Bowman / Family Chain - The Songs of Joe Isaacs / Pisgah
• Talk About Suffering / Tony Rice & Ricky Skaggs / Heaven Bound / Time Life
• On The Jericho Road / Tom Mindte & Jeremy Stephens / Radio Favorites & Sacred Songs / Patuxent
• Let My Feet Go Runnin' / Mickey Boles / Let My Feet Go Runnin' / Self-released
• Working On A Building / The Seldom Scene / Heaven Bound / Time Life
• Hear Jerusalem Mourn / Don Reno & Red Smiley / Early Years 1951-1959 / Gusto
• I Can't Sit Down / Wade & Julia Mainer / Heaven Bound 2 / Time Life
• We Shall Meet Someday / The Stanley Brothers / A Clinch Mountain Sunday Vol. 2 / Harmony
• Walking In A Dream / Fred Etheridge w.Nick Anderson, Mark Doyle / Pickin' and Singin' / Self-released