"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/27/2019

On the Sunday before Halloween, you know that we loaded our Bluegrass Cafe program with lots of ghostly, spooky Bluegrass tunes.  In addition, we paid tribute to several birthday celebrants, and even shared a little bit of new music, too.  Hope you were able to join us!

Scary song deserves a scary album cover.

Halloween is just four days away, and there are loads of spooky-sounding Bluegrass tunes that are especially appropriate to hear this time of year.  We included eighteen of these songs in Sunday's show, and could have played others.  Happy Halloween!

A couple of favorite Bluegrass performers celebrate birthdays this week, and so, we shared music from those folks, as well, including songs from the late Fred Pike (born 10/27/1932), Joe Mullins (born 10/27/1965), Martha Adcock (born 10/29/1949), and Bluegrass Hall of Famer Sonny Osborne (born 10/29/1937).

Expect new music from the Junior Sisk Band in 2020

There was still a little bit of time to share brand new music, too.  This time, that brand-new included songs from the Junior Sisk Band, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, and Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle.  

Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Windy Mountain / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family 
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Lonesome Wind / Del McCoury / High, Lonesome And Blue / Rounder
• Lonesome Wind Blues / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• I Haven't Got The Right To Love You / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1953-1955 / Kipepeo Publishing
• I'm So Blue I Could Cry / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Pressing On Regardless / Brentwood Music
• I'm Coming Back But I Don't Know When / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Greenville Trestle High / Doc Watson / Americana Masters Series:  Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Hickory Hollow / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage Records [Fred Pike birthday, 10/27/1932]
• Bacon In My Beans / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records [Joe Mullins birthday, 10/27/1965]
• Call Me The Breeze / Eddie Adcock Band / Talk To Your Heart / CMH Records [Martha Adcock birthday, 10/29/1949]
• Wild Mountain Honey / Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Rounder [Sonny Osborne birthday, 10/29/1937]
• Many A Mile / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music [Martha Adcock birthday, 10/29/1949]
• She's No Angel / Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Rounder [Sonny Osborne birthday, 10/29/1937]
• Pikearoo / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel [Fred Pike birthday, 10/27/1932]
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Sam Jocelyn's Ghost / ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band / single / Now And Then Records
• Down In The Cold Ground / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel
• Footsteps So Near / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Ghost Stories / Lost Highway / Bluegrass The Way You Like It / Hay Holler
• Brown Mountain Light / The Hillmen / The HIllmen / Sugar Hill
• Lily Dale / Junior Sisk Band / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Teach Your Children / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Inner Journey / Rounder
• Real Shine / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / High Peaks And New Ground / Rural Rhythm
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• I've Come To Take You Home / Seldom Scene / Like We Used To Be / Sugar Hill
• The Ghost Of Norma Jean / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• George Cunningham / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• The Ghost Of Cecil Martin / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records
• Clinch Mountain Mystery / Larry Stephenson Band / Clinch Mountain Mystery / Pinecastle
• Didn't Die / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth And Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• The Ghost Of Noah Hayes / Rick Pardue & Timmy Massey / The Ghost Of Noah Hayes / Lizard Records
• The Ballad Of Sarah Malone / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Ballad Of Maudie Dawson / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Banjo Ringing Saturday Night / Osborne Brothers / The Osborne Brothers / Decca [Sonny Osborne birthday, 10/29/1937]
• Dixie Breakdown / The Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• Let The Light Shine Down / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Father's Hand / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• You're Drifting Away / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• Won't Be It Be Wonderful There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• He Took Your Place / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• That's Where Glory Can Be Found / Flashback / Foxhounds And Fiddles / Pinecastle
• Tree Of Life / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Starday King Records
• When I Wake Up To Sleep No More / Gospel Plowboys / When The Crops Are Laid By / Mountain Glory Music
• Home On The River / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• I Want To Know More About My Lord / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records [Joe Mullins birthday, 10/27/1965]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/20/2019

During Sunday's Bluegrass Café, we played a variety of Bluegrass, new and not-so-new, and included special tributes to the late Raymond Fairchild (March 15, 1939 - October 13, 2019), as well as a birthday tribute to Country Music Hall of Famer Grandpa Jones, who was born on October 20, 1913.

Lewis Marshall Jones was in his 20s when the "Grandpa" nickname was assigned to him, but he grew into that character over the years.  Grandpa may not have been a "Bluegrass" performer, but he was an entertainer who was featured on the Grand Ole Opry for many years, and he was a cast member of "Hee Haw" for a number of years, too.  During our Sunday tribute, we included a few songs performed by Grandpa Jones, as well as a couple of songs written by Grandpa Jones.  In addition, we included two songs from the Brown's Ferry Four -- a gospel quartet featuring Grandpa Jones, the Delmore Brothers, and (sometimes) Merle Travis.  Many songs found in the gospel catalog of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver were taken there directly from the Brown's Ferry Four.  

There was a tiny bit of brand-new music to share this week, as well, with selections from an upcoming recording by Sideline, and the debut recording of a new band known as Jeff Parker & Company.  Other 2019 releases included in Sunday's show were by Jason Barie, the Farm Hands, the Band Of Ruhks, the Mosley Brothers, the Grascals, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, and the Seldom Scene.

Hope you were able to join us, but if not, you'll have another opportunity to listen in next Sunday, 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.



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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Day! / Raincoe Music
• The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee / Bill Clifton / The Early Years, 1957-1958 / Rounder
• Whole Lot More Living / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• No Depression / Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• Brown Mountain Light / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• The Leaves Musn't Fall / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Timber I'm Falling / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / R Own
• If You're Ever Gonna Love Me / Country Gazette / Appalachian Stomp / Rhino
• Two Highways / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Windy City Rag / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Singing My Troubles Away / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• One More Dollar / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Unleashed / Sugar Hill
• Dim Lights, Thick Smoke / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Everybody's Talkin' / Seldom Scene / Changes / Rounder
• Old New Borrowed And Blue / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Callin' Your Name / The Grascals / Straighten The Curves / Mountain Home
• Reason For Being / Fred Travers / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Return To Windy Mountain / Sideline / single / Mountain Home
• Black Shiny Stone / Mosley Brothers / The Mosley Brothers / Patuxent Music
• Julie / Bank Of Ruhks / Authentic / Rebel
• What About You / Jeff Parker & Company / Time Has Made A Change / Truegrass Entertainment
• Stop And Smell The Roses / Farm Hands / Memories Of Home / Pinecastle
• Daybreak In Dixie / Raymond Fairchild / Raymond Fairchild Plays The Classics / Copper Creek [Remembering Raymond Fairchild:  March 15, 1939 - October 13, 2019]
• Whoa Mule / Raymond Fairchild / Little Zane / Copper Creek [Remembering Raymond Fairchild:  March 15, 1939 - October 13, 2019]
• Mountain Dew / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Starday King Records [Grandpa Jones birthday, 10/20/1913]
• It's Raining Here This Morning / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder [Grandpa Jones birthday, 10/20/1913]
• Here Rattler / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Starday King Records [Grandpa Jones birthday, 10/20/1913]
• Fallen Leaves / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Hymns From The Hills / Rebel [Grandpa Jones birthday, 10/20/1913]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced [Grandpa Jones birthday, 10/20/1913]
• Five-String Banjo Boogie / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Starday King Records [Grandpa Jones birthday, 10/20/1913]
• Rocking On The Waves / Brown's Ferry Four / Rockin' On The Waves:  Complete King Recordings, 1946-1952 / King [Grandpa Jones birthday, 10/20/1913]
• Gotta Get You Near Me Blues / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Mountains Are Calling Me Home / Mountain Fever Records
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH
• Party For One / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / High Lonesome / CMH
• The Court Of Love / Rhonda Vincent / Taken / Upper Management Music
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records [Eric Gibson birthday, 10/23/1970]
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• I Hear My Savior Calling / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• I Want To Be A Christian Soldier / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• After The Sunrise / Brown's Ferry Four / Rockin' On The Waves:  Complete King Recordings, 1946-1952 / King [Grandpa Jones birthday, 10/20/1913]
• He Said If I Be Lifted Up / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Beyond The Sunset For Me / Jason Barie / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• Home Of The Soul / Jimmy Gaudreau with Bill Clifton / In Good Company / CMH
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/13/2019

On a gorgeous October Sunday, our "plan" was really no plan at all.  We shared a little bit of brand new music, and in some cases, we showcased more than one song from a few different CDs.  Hope you were able to join us.

For brand-new music, we included a couple of songs from a soon-to-be-released CD by Volume Five.  There were lots of other 2019 selections, too, from Jesse McReynolds, the Garrett Newton Band, Band Of Ruhks, Jason Barie, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Mile Twelve, Larry Sparks, Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys, the Edgar Loudermilk Band, and Audie Blaylock & Redline.

Hope you can join us once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a great week!

Amy O.



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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Remembering / David Peterson / Comin' On Strong / Self-Produced
• You're The Girl Of My Dreams / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Jerry Wicentowski / Thanks, Mac!:  Songs Of Mac Wiseman / Self-Produced
• Are You Coming Back To Me / Bill Harrell & Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me / Bill Harrell & Jim McReynolds / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• The Stanley Brothers / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever Records
• The Lonesome River / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Blue Monday Morning / Travers Chandler & Avery County / Pardon Me... / Mountain Fever Records
• Let's Part The Best Of Friends / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Big Rock Candy Mountain / Harry McClintock / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• Flat Tops A Pickin' / Reno & Harrell / Rebel Records:  35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebbel
• Where Is The Love? / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Burn The Barn / Big Country Bluegrass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Rebel
• Some Old Day / John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Sawmill Road / Lost & Found / Down On Sawmill Road / Rebel
• That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Earl's Breakdown / Eddie Adcock & Don Reno / Rebel Records:  35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Poor Ellen Smith / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• All The Way To The Bottom / Volume Five / For Those Who Care To Listen / Mountain Fever Records
• Chinese Breakdown / Jesse McReynolds & Friends / The Bull Mountain Moonshiners' Way / Pinecastle
• No More Painting Up This Town / Garrett Newton Band / Bluegrass Barn / Pinecastle
• There's Another Baby Waiting For Me Down The Line / Band Of Ruhks / Authentic / Rebel
• Wrong So Right / Rick Faris / Breaking In Lonesome / Billy Blue Records
• The Army Vet Song / Volume Five / For Those Who Care To Listen / Mountain Fever Records
• Sarah Jo / Jason Barie / Pieces / Billy Blue Records [Jason Barie birthday, 10/13/1979]
• Hickory, Walnut & Pine / Po' Ramblin Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Dark As The Night / Kathy Kallick Band / Horrible World / Live Oak Records
• Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Edgar Loudermilk Band / Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Rural Rhythm
• Back In My Baby's Arms Again / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Too Late To Say Goodbye / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• Ride Away / Kathy Kallick Band / Horrible World / Live Oak Records
• Have You Seen My Blueridge Girl / Edgar Loudermilk Band / Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Rural Rhythm
• Next Train South / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• City That Drowned / Mile Twelve / City On A Hill / Delores The Taurus Records
• That's Just Lonesome / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Remembrance Is A Golden Chain / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records
• Indecision / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• I'm Really Leaving / Larry Sparks / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Rebel
• Losing You / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• I've Just Seen A Face / Jim Gaudet & the Railroad Boys / No Questions Asked / Self-Produced
• Love Is An Awful Thing / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records
• Wild Mountain Honey / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Get In Line, Brother / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Lay Your Burdens At His Feet / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Gospel Collection, Volume 1 / Sugar Hill
• Lord Help Me Find My Way / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Lord Help Me Find My Way / Stanley Family Records
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Satan And The Saint / Malpass Brothers / The Malpass Brothers / Organic Records
• Where Shall I Be? / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• My Savior's Train / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• When The Sun Of Life Goes Down / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/6/2019

After a quick visit last week to Raleigh, North Carolina for what I call "IBMA Lite," I returned to WHUS today for a fun edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.   Big thanks to James Ward and his mom, Cathy, for hosting the program last Sunday.  Hope you were able to join them...

The show today started with music from a few different IBMA award-winners for 2019, including selections from Sideline, the Rick Lang gospel collection (featuring Claire Lynch, among others), the Del McCoury Band, Missy Raines, and IBMA Entertainers of the Year, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers.

A whole lot of new music has made its way to WHUS since I was last at the station two weeks ago.  To that end, we shared new music from Rick Faris, Williamson Branch, the Garrett Newton Band, Jesse McReynolds & Friends, the Chatham Rabbits, the Band of Ruhks, John Bowman, and Lake Side.  

And we couldn't resist sharing a few songs in honor of the September 26th birth anniversary of Country Music Hall of Famer, Marty Robbins.  Several songs of his have been recorded in a Bluegrass style, so why not remember the fine music of a legend while we can?  

Hope you enjoyed the show this week, and that you will consider joining us once again next Sunday, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Thunder Dan / Sideline / Front And Center / Mountain Home
• Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Claire Lynch / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• I Fell In Love / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music
• Darlin' Pal(s) Of Mine / Missy Raines with Alison Brown, Mike Bub, & Todd Phillips / Royal Traveller / Compass Records
• The Guitar Song / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers with Del McCoury / For The Record / Billy Blue Records
• Bacon In My Beans / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records
• Backwards And Forwards / Junior Sisk with Heather Berry Mabe / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
• Wedding Bell Chimes / Bill & the Belles / DreamSongs, Etc. / Jalopy Records
• Cold Wind A Blowin' / Ronnie Bowman & Lou Reid / Epilogue:   A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Keep On Going / Big Country Bluegrass / Mountains, Mamas, And Memories / Rebel 
• Cross My Broken Heart / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Going Back To Bristol / Shawn Camp / I Sang The Song (Life With The Voice With A Heart) / Mountain Fever Records
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo 
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Leaving You And Mobile, Too / Lost & Found / My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• The Grey Ghost / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Pinecastle
• If The Kansas River Can / Rick Faris / Breaking In Lonesome / Dark Shadow Recording
• Blue Moon Over Texas / Williamson Branch / Classy. Sassy. Bluegrassy. / Pinecastle
• Bluegrass Barn / Garrett Newton Band / Bluegrass Barn / Pinecastle
• Smith's Reel / Jesse McReynolds & Friends / The Bull Mountain Moonshiners' Way / Pinecastle
• Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Chatham Rabbits / All I Want From You / Robust Records
• Run Fanny Run / Band Of Ruhks / Authentic / Rebel
• The Bull Mountain Moonshiners / Jesse McReynolds & Friends / The Bull Mountain Moonshiners' Way / Pinecastle
• Breaking In Lonesome / Rick Faris / Breaking In Lonesome / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Can't Quit / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Marty Robbins birthday, 9/26/1925]
• Beggin' To You / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / Dreaming / Rounder [Marty Robbins birthday, 9/26/1925]
• At The End Of A Long Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder [Marty Robbins birthday, 9/26/1925]
• Devil Woman / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Marty Robbins birthday, 9/26/1925]
• Big Iron / Jim Hurst / Second Son / Pinecastle [Marty Robbins birthday, 9/26/1925]
• Don't Worry / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder [Marty Robbins birthday, 9/26/1925]
• The Hanging Tree / Marty Robbins / Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs / Columbia Legacy [Marty Robbins birthday, 9/26/1925]
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Loving You Too Well / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Arkansas Traveler / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• The Wreck Of The Old 97 / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Help Me Climb That Mountain / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Lynn Morris birthday, 10/8/1948]
• Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & HIs Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [song recorded 10/7/1940]
• Sparta Flash / The Expedition Show / The Expedition Show / Mountain Fever Records [Blake Williams birthday, 10/8/1956]
• Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle [Barry Berrier birthday, 10/10/1960]
• The In Crowd / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Kent Dowell birthday, 10/10/1955]
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar HIll [Leigh Gibson birthday, 10/11/1971]
• I've Read The Book / Marty Raybon / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• What A Day That Will Be / Lake Side / Moving On / Mountain Fever Records
• I Want To Be A Christian Soldier / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Josh Crowe birthday, 10/11/1957]
• I'll Talk It All Over With Him / John Bowman / The Hole / Mountain Home
• We Missed You In Church Last Sunday / Sally Berry / God Is In Control / Upper Management Music
• Electricity / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• I Am Going To Heaven / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/22/2019

Roy Claxton Acuff
 (September 15, 1903 - November 23, 1992)

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we paid musical tribute to three soon-to-be members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, a bit of newer music, some Bluegrass music from one of the subjects of the "Country Music" documentary series, and a belated birthday tribute to the King of Country Music, Roy Acuff.  

This coming Thursday evening, two individual acts (Mike Auldridge and Bill Emerson) as well as one band (the Kentucky Colonels) will be inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.  We shared music from each of these performers who have been such a vital part of the Bluegrass community over the years.  

Last Sunday (September 15th) was the birth anniversary of Roy Claxton Acuff, the King of Country Music.  The music of Roy Acuff has been covered numerous times in the world of Bluegrass music, too, so this week, we shared a dozen Roy Acuff songs in belated celebration of what would have been Roy's 116th birthday.  

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Mr. Acuff has been recently featured on the wonderful Ken Burns documentary, "Country Music."  Another prominent subject on a couple of these episodes has been California honky-tonk singer, Rose Maddox, who made a Bluegrass record of her own in 1962.  We shared a few songs from that collection simply titled, "Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass."  Indeed, she did.  Great stuff.

And if all of that wasn't enough, we included brand-new music from fiddler Jason Barie, as well as the Mosley Brothers, and Donna Ulisse.  Other 2019 releases we heard were by Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, No Time Flatt, Johnny & Jeanette Williams, Blue Highway, Audie Blaylock & Redline, and Hammertowne.

I'll be heading down to North Carolina this week to check out some of the annual World of Bluegrass events down there, so hope you will join James & Cathy Ward sitting in for our Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  

Have a great week!

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Ridin' The High Iron / Bill Emerson / Gold Plated Banjo / Rebel
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• The Old Man And The Kid / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume 1 / Webco
• Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Eight String Swing / Mike Auldridge / Eight String Swing / Sugar Hill
• We Live In Two Different Worlds / Auldridge, Bennett & Gaudreau / This Old Town / Rebel
• Columbus Stockade / Chesapeake / Rising Tide / Sugar Hill 
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder
• Wild Bill Jones / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder
• If You're Ever Gonna Love Me / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home
• Billy In The Lowground / Kentucky Colonels / Appalachian Swing! / Rounder
• Another Chance With You / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Eating Out Of Your Hand / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• Drifting With The Tide / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• I'll Wash Your Love From My Heart / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Losing You Blues / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / Jason Barie with Paul Williams & Del McCoury / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• Black Shiny Stone / Mosley Brothers / The Mosley Brothers / Patuxent Music
• Waiting On Isaac / Jason Barie / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Never Find Another You / Donna Ulisse / single / Billy Blue Records
• Blue Eyed Darlin' / Jason Barie / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• She's Walking Through My Memory / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• How Deep Is The Lonesome / No Time Flatt / Calling After Me / Self-Produced
• How Long Has It Been / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• I Can't Think Of One / Blue Highway / Somewhere Far Away:  Silver Anniversary / Rounder
• In Foggy Old London / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records
• Wabash Cannonball / Roy Acuff / The Best Of Roy Acuff:  The Prodigal Son / Country Stars [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Wreck On The HIghway / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Barnyard Frolic / RME Records [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• The Streamlined Cannonball / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Write Me Sweetheart / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Pressing On Regardless / Brentwood Music [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Night Train To Memphis / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Branded Wherever I Go / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Freight Train Blues / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Great Speckle Bird / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Rose Maddox / Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass / Capitol
• My Rose Of Old Kentucky / Rose Maddox / Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass / Capitol
• Down, Down, Down / Rose Maddox / Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass / Capitol
• The Hills And Home / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• The Angry Wife / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Bad Tom Smith / Hammertowne / Pictures / Mountain Fever Records
• Those Pictures Mean A Whole Lot More These Days / Hammertowne / Pictures / Mountain Fever Records
• This World Can't Stand Long / Roy Acuff / The Best Of Roy Acuff:  The Prodigal Son / Country Stars [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Light At The River / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• I'm Going To Heaven / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Dying A Sinner's Death / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Beyond The Sunset For Me / Jason Barie / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• So Happy I'll Be / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950/ JSP Records
• The Old Crossroad Is Waitin' / Rose Maddox / Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass / Capitol
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/15/2019

Happy Birthday, Bill Monroe!
(September 13, 1911 - September 9, 1996)

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was dominated by William Smith Monroe, with songs about Bill Monroe, songs written by Bill Monroe, and songs performed by Bill Monroe.  Playing all of this Monroe-related music always seems like an appropriate way to celebrate the September birthday of the man recognized as the Father of Bluegrass.  Hope you were able to join us!

Mid-September isn't just the birth month of Bill Monroe, though, as we also briefly celebrated two Country Music Hall of Famers who have had an incredible influence on Bluegrass music.  There were a few songs from the songbook of the one and only Hank Williams (born September 17, 1923) and one song from the King Of Country Music, Roy Acuff (born September 15, 1903).  Be on the lookout for more Acuff songs during next Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.

Hope you were able to tune in today, but if not, we sure hope you will consider joining us next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a great week!

Amy O.




SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Bill Monroe-related songs are BLUE]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Bill Monroe For Breakfast / Acoustic Blue / This Is Now / Self-Produced
• Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Kentucky King / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Sugar Hill
• Is The Grass Any Bluer / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Goin' Back To Old Kentucky / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass:  Tribute To 1946 And 1947 / Skaggs Family Records
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & HIs Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Six Feet Under The Ground / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Watermelon Hangin' On The Vine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• Panhandle Country / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• Dark Hollow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• On And On / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Live At Mechanics Hall / Acoustic Disc
• Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• Southern Flavor / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Highway Of Sorrow / Junior Sisk & Larry Stephenson / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• The First Whippoorwill / Peter Rowan / The First Whippoorwill / Sugar Hill
• Molly & Tenbrooks / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1947-1949 / JSP Records
• I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Joe Val / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Cheyenne / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Kentucky Waltz / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country
• True Life Blues / Kathy Kallick & Laurie Lewis / True Life Blues--The Songs Of Bill Monroe / Sugar Hill
• Bluegrass Swing / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Self-Produced
• Out In The Cold World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Old Brown County Barn / Michael Cleveland / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / 
• I'm On My Way To The Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Bill Monroe & HIs Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Lovesick Blues / Hank Williams / Live At The Opry / Mercury [Hank Williams birthday, 9/17/1923]
• Your Cheatin' Heart / Ernie Thacker / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Way / Mercury [Hank Williams birthday, 9/23/1923]
• Cold, Cold Heart / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced [Hank Williams birthday, 9/17/1923]
• Hey Good Lookin' / Hank Williams / Live At The Opry / Mercury [Hank Williams birthday, 9/17/1923]
• I Can't Get You Off My Mind / Claire Lynch / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Way / Mercury [Hank Williams birthday, 9/17/1923]
• Six More Miles / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing [Hank Williams birthday, 9/17/1923]
• Wabash Cannonball / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records [Roy Acuff birthday, 9/15/1903]
• My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' / Bill Monroe with Ricky Skaggs / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• Thank God For Kentucky / Billy & Terry Smith / Bill Monroe Tribute / K-Tel Records
• The Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Farewell To Long Hollow / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• The One I Love Is Gone / Price Sisters / The Price Sisters / Rebel
• Raw Hide / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
• What Would You Give In Exchange / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1936 / JSP Records
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine / Hay Holler
• Mansions For Me / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe (1945-1949) / Columbia Legacy
• Working On A Building / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Get Down On Your Knees And Pray / Alan O'Bryant, Del McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, Roland White / True Life Blues:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / Sugar Hill
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Blue Highway / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration:  A Classic Bluegrass Tribute / Rounder
• Let The Light Shine Down / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/8/2019

With my grandmother, Fannie Mae Butler Orlomoski Burgess

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was (almost) all about the birthdays, as we remembered everyone from Jimmie Rodgers to Bill Monroe.  Plus, today is National Grandparents Day, so how could we not play a couple of songs celebrating grandmothers and grandfathers?  And then, there was a bit of brand-new music to share, too, so the show was just plain ol' packed with music.  Fun.

While we didn't play any songs performed by Jimmie Rodgers, himself, the influence of the Singing Brakeman has been felt ever since this music was even known as Bluegrass.  Bill Monroe performed Jimmie Rodgers' "Mule Skinner Blues" on his first night performing at the Grand Ole Opry, so Monroe's tune was just one of the many songs from the Jimmie Rodgers Songbook that have been covered in Bluegrass music over the years.  

This is the time of year when many record labels are releasing new music, and so, we had quite a bit of brand-new music to share this week, including a live recording from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, as well as new studio recordings from several favorites including the Grascals, Audie Blaylock & Redline, and Johnny & Jeanette Williams.  Other 2019 music came from releases by Joe Hott, Connecticut's Grass Routes, Larry Sparks, and Hammertowne.

And, of course, we celebrated a few Bluegrass birthdays this week, with selections from Paul Adkins, James King, Lou Reid, Rick Pardue, Tim Stafford, and Bill Harrell.  Bill Monroe's birthday comes up this week, too, and while we didn't have time today to do a big, many-song tribute to the Father of Bluegrass, we will put together a full tribute for next week's show.

Thanks for listening!  

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / Rocky Grass / Blue Planet
• Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• Blue Yodel #7 / King Wilkie / Broke / Rounder [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• Blue Yodel #4 / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• In The Jailhouse Now / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Mercury [Jimmie Rodgers birthday, 9/8/1897]
• Dixie In My Eye / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
• Snowflake Breakdown / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• You Tried To Ruin My Name / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister! / Rounder
• Grandma's Gift / Dale Ann Bradley / East Kentucky Morning / Pinecastle [Grandparents Day]
• Grandpa's Mandolin / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel [Grandparents Day]
• Grandma's Hands / Tim O'Brien / Where The River Meets The Road / Howdy Skies Music [Grandparents Day]
• Arleigh / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [Grandparents Day]
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Up This Hill And Down / Larry Stephenson & Mark Newton / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records
• Living In These Troubled Times / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced
• Julianne / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• How Long Has It Been / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• Callin' Your Name / The Grascals / Straighten The Curves / Mountain Home
• Love Is An Awful Thing / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records
• Loving You Too Well / Joe Hott / West Virginia Rail / Rural Rhythm
• (Is This) My Destiny? / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records
• My Virginia Mama / The Grascals / Straighten The Curves / Mountain Home
• Gone For So Long / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• Jealous / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Old Rusty Gate / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Old Rusty Gate / Rebel [Paul Adkins birthday, 9/9/1952]
• Indecision / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [James King birthday, 9/9/1959]
• You Better Hold On To Your Heart / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill [Lou Reid birthday, 9/13/1954]
• No Candy In My Bluegrass / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel [Rick Pardue birthday, 9/14/1952]
• Both Ends Of The Train / Blue Highway / Somewhere Far Away / Rounder [Tim Stafford birthday, 9/14/1960]
• On Whiskey Mountain / Bill Emerson with Bill Harrell / Reunion / Webco [Bill Harrell birthday, 9/14/1932]
• Bill Monroe & HIs Blue Grass Boys / Uncle Pen / Bean Blossom / MCA [Bill Monroe birthday, 9/13/1911]
• I'm On My Way To Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & HIs Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Bill Monroe birthday, 9/13/1911]
• Blue Grass Ramble / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Bill Monroe birthday, 9/13/1911]
• Party For One / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Fiddle And Bow / Grass Routes / Buffalo Nickel Liberty Dime / Self-Produced
• The Story Of The Day That I Died / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Story Of The Day I Died / Rebel
• There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder / Larry Sparks / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Rebel
• Caney Fork River / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home
• Little Bessie / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Boat Of Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Bill Monroe birthday, 9/13/1911]
• Some Day / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
• Jesus On The Mainline / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Lord Help Me Find The Way / Stanley Family Records
• Will There Be Any Stars? / Alison Krauss & the Cox Family / O Sister! / Rounder
• My Eyes Shall Be On Canaan's Land / Hammertowne / Pictures / Mountain Fever Records
• You Better Wake Up / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• In His Arms / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• The Sons And Daughters Of God / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• On The Sea Of Life / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/1/2019

Kitty Wells with Johnnie & Jack

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included a Bluegrass celebration of the 100th birthday anniversary of the Queen of Country Music, a full hour-half of semi-"old-fashioned" radio broadcasting with music from several LPs, some songs for Labor Day, and of, course, a little bit of new music, too.  

Though we don't know of too many Bluegrass renditions of the music of Kitty Wells, we managed to find a few to play in honor of the 100th birthday anniversary of Kitty Wells, who was born August 30, 1919.  Without Kitty Wells stepping forward and becoming a band leader in the early 1950s -- becoming more than just the token "girl singer" with her husband's act (Johnnie & Jack) -- there may not have been other female band leaders in country and later, Bluegrass music.  

While it's been a mighty long time since I've had to put together a radio show featuring nothing but music from LPs, it was fun to try out programming half-hour increments of LP music this summer.  On Sunday, the records came back for a second Summer session, so we may continue trying this out every few weeks.  

There was a tiny bit of new music, too, including brand-new music from the Po' Ramblin' Boys, No Time Flatt, and Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys, as well as 2019 music from the Edgar Loudermilk Band featuring Jeff Autry, Hammertowne, Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, and the Seldom Scene.

Hope you enjoyed your Labor Day weekend, and we'll be looking for you 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
• Poor Boy Workin' Blues / Dailey & VIncent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Working Girl Blues / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Hazel And Alice Sessions / Spruce And Maple Music
• Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
• Workin' Man (Nowhere To Go) / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Working Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Small Exception Of Me / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel
• Oklahoma Bound / Alan Munde & Billy Bright / Es Mi Suerte / Munde's Child Records
• The Open Road / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• The Singing Waterfall / Kitty Wells / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells At KWKH / Bear Family Records [Remembering Kitty Wells (August 30, 1919 - July 16, 2012)]
• Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Kitty Wells (August 30, 1919 - July 16, 2012)]
• As Long As I Live / Charlie Moore & Don Reno / Bluegrass Legends Together / Wango Records [Remembering Kitty Wells (August 30, 1919 - July 16, 2012)]
• Stranger In My Home / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Kitty Wells (August 30, 1919 - July 16, 2012)]
• I've Kissed You My Last Time / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill  [Remembering Kitty Wells (August 30, 1919 - July 16, 2012)]
• It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / Kitty Wells / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Kitty Wells (August 30, 1919 - July 16, 2012)]
• I'll Go Steppin' Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Till The End Of The World Rolls Round / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Toil, Tears & Trouble / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears, & Trouble / Rounder
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / No Time Flatt / Calling After Me / Self-Produced
• Ice Covered Birches / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• The Bull Mountain Moonshiners / Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys / single / Pinecastle
• Hickory, Walnut & Pine / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Make Me A Pallet On The Floor / Country Gentlemen / Yesterday & Today, Volume 3 / Rebel
• The Lonely Years Belong To Me / Connie & Babe & the Backwoods Boys / The Early Days Of Bluegrass, Volume 10 / Rounder
• Lonesome Feelin' / Osborne Brothers / Modern Sounds Of Bluegrass Music / Decca
• I'm Leavin' / Osborne Brothers / Modern Sounds Of Bluegrass Music / Decca
• Old Home Place / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• Down In Caroline / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Bound To Ride / Rounder
• Lonesome Road Blues / Kentucky Wind with Dave Liska / Indian Summer / Aztec Records
• Idle Time / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder
• Light At The River / Lonesome River Band / Saturday Night, Sunday Morning / Rebel
• Blue Days / Dusty Miller / Dusty Miller / June Appal Records
• Close The Door Lightly When You Go / Lonesome River Band / Saturday Night, Sunday Morning / Rebel
• Banana Boat Song / Country Gentlemen / Play It Like It Is / Rebel
• Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Edgar Loudermilk Band feat. Jeff Autry / Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Rural Rhythm
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / The Hills And Home / Rebel
• I'm Gonna Love You One More Time / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Now It's Back To The Old Homeplace / Hammertowne / Pictures / Mountain Fever Records
• Nobody Loves Me / Lost & Found / My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Louise / Seldom Scene / Changes / Rounder
• Going To The Races / James King / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• White House Blues / Mashville Brigade / Bluegrass Smash Hits, Volume 1 / Rural Rhythm
• Shine, Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• You Must Be Born Again / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Build It Up / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music
• Gonna Rise And Shine / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Gonna Rise And Shine / Mountain Fever Records
• Two Wings / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Dust On The Bible / Kitty Wells / Dust On The Bible / Decca [Remembering Kitty Wells (August 30, 1919 - July 16, 2012)]
• So High / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin' Praisin' & Singin' -- Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• I've Made A Covenant / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder