"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/4/2020

The first-ever virtual conference of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) took place this past week, and by all accounts, it was a big success.  The "marquee" event of World of Bluegrass each year is the annual IBMA Awards.  This year's winners were announced in a virtual ceremony on Thursday evening, one night before we recorded this week's edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  So, we didn't talk at all about 2020 award winners during this week's program, but we found lots of other fine songs to play.  Hope you were able to join us.

We looked back a bit during our first hour, sharing selections from some of the performers who have been named "Emerging Artist of the Year" from 1994 through 2018.  While some of the bands/performers who have received this award over the years are no longer working in Bluegrass (or in some case, even performing at all), there was still plenty of good music to share.

The 2020 Podunk Songwriting Contest winning songs were shared during the first hour, as well.  Though the Podunk Bluegrass Festival was a casualty of COVID-19 for this year, the songwriting contest entries were still judged and ranked, and the songs of the winners in 2020 will be presented at the 2021 Podunk Bluegrass Festival.  In addition, there will also be a 2021 Podunk Songwriting Contest.  If you are a songwriter, consider entering the contest.  Entries will be accepted beginning November 1, 2021.  Need more information?  Find it here.

For the record, the 2020 Podunk Songwriting Contest winners were:

1. "Pines Of Caroline" - Boyd Timothy of Highland, UT
   
2. "Bluebonnet Blue" - Jerry Johnston of Ft. Worth, TX
   
3. "Word Of Mouth" - Paul Kelly of Santa Fe, NM & Buddy Guido of Mohawk, NY
   

Congratulations to the winners!

Our second hour celebrated birthdays of two more Country Music Hall of Famers --

both named Marty, and one definitely more Bluegrass than the other.  To celebrate 2020 Hall of Fame electee, Marty Stuart (born September 30, 1958), we included music he has recorded with Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass, Carl Jackson, Curly Seckler, Ralph Stanley, and others.  The second Marty is the late Marty Robbins (September 26, 1925 - December 8, 1982), who definitely was NOT a Bluegrass performer, but like many country music folks of his era, has had a whole lot of Bluegrass performers cover his material.  

Hope you enjoyed the program, and will consider joining us once again next Sunday, 4-7PM.  If you'd like to check our Facebook page, please do, and don't forget that you are always welcome to send us an email to bgcafe@gmail.com.

Have a great week ~ stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Destination Love / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Love Of The Mountains / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• All In My Love For You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• I Went Back Home Today / The Boxcars / The Boxcars / Mountain Home [IBMA Emerging Artist Of The Year, 2011]
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / It's A Long, Long Road / Rebel [IBMA Emerging Artist Of The Year, 1996]
• Looking For A Smile In A Heartache / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler [IBMA Emerging Artist Of The Year, 1998]
• I Know Where Love Lives / Kenny & Amanda Smith / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records [IBMA Emerging Artist Of The Year, 2003]
• Leavin's Heavy On My Mind / The Grascals / The Grascals / Rounder [IBMA Emerging Artist Of The Year, 2005]
• Rambler's Call / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Rebel [IBMA Emerging Artist Of The Year, 2012]
• Old, New, Borrowed, And Blue / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Trials & Trouble / Rounder [IBMA Emerging Artist Of The Year, 2018]
• Word Of Mouth / Ernie Thacker [Paul Kelly & Buddy Guido, songwriters] / The Hangman / Pinecastle [3rd Place, 2020 Podunk Songwriters Competition]
• Bluebonnet Blue / Jerry Johnston, songwriter / 2nd Place, 2020 Podunk Songwriters Competition
• Pines Of Caroline / Boyd Timothy, songwriter / 1st Place, 2020 Podunk Songwriters Competition
• John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• My Smoky Mountain Home / Bill Emerson with Wayne Taylor / Reunion / Webco
• Flint Hill Special / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• The Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH [Marty Stuart birthday, 9/30/1958]
• Roanoke / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Hats Off! / CMH [Marty Stuart birthday, 9/30/1958]
• No Doubt About It / Curly Seckler & the Nashville Grass / No Doubt About It / Revonah Records [Marty Stuart birthday, 9/30/1958]
• She's More To Be Pitied / Ralph Stanley with Marty Stuart / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Marty Stuart birthday, 9/30/1958]
• Talk To Me Lonesome Heart / Larry Stephenson with Connie Smith & Marty Stuart / 20th Anniversary / Whysper Dream Music [Marty Stuart birthday, 9/30/1958]
• One More Ride / Riders In The Sky with Marty Stuart / A Great Big Western Howdy! From Riders In The Sky / Rounder [Marty Stuart birthday, 9/30/1958]
• The Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Bean Blossom / MCA [Marty Stuart birthday, 9/30/1958]
• I'll Go On Alone / Marty Robbins / The Story Of My Life:  The Best Of Marty Robbins / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Don't Worry / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• I Can't Quit / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Devil Woman / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• The Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Begging To You / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / Dreaming / Rounder [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Ribbon Of Darkness / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / No One But You / Rebel [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Bitter Green / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Rambling Boy / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity with Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• I Been Walkin' / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Buzzin' With Buzz / Tom Mindte / Something I've Been Working On / Patuxent Music
• I'm A Stranger Here / Carl Jackson with Marty Stuart / Mississippi Homecoming / Rebel [Marty Stuart birthday, 9/30/1958]
• The Wrath Of God / Seldom Scene / Scenic Roots / Sugar Hill
• The Gospel Plow / Nashville Bluegrass Band / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS Music
• Because Of Him / Rhonda Vincent & the Sally Mountain Show / Bound For Gloryland / Rebel
• You Can Go To Heaven / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• The Old Cross Road / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• You Don't Knock / New Grass Revival / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill
• Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Claire Lynch / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Billy Blue Records
• They Can't Love Jesus More Than Me / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass / Rebel
• Get In Line Brother / Marty Stuart with Johnny Cash & Alan O'Bryant / Busy Bee Cafe / Sugar Hill [Marty Stuart birthday, 9/30/1958]
• Open Up The Window, Noah / Seldom Scene / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill[Phil Rosenthal birthday, 9/30/1948]
• Standing In The Need Of Prayer / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• You'll Be Rewarded Over There / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Voice Of My Savior / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Waiting For The Boys To Come Home / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• The New Jerusalem / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Gusto
• Gathering In The Sky / Ricochet / Carolina Memories / Rebel
• Won't That Be A Happy Time / Special Consensus / Chicago Barn Dance / Compass Records
• I'm Gonna Hold To His Hand / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco [IBMA Emerging Artist Of The Year, 1994]
• Walking In Jerusalem / Bill Monroe & Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1958 / JSP Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/27/2020

Happy Fall!  It's the last Sunday of September -- hope you enjoyed it!  

As this is the time of year when the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) holds their big World Of Bluegrass events in Raleigh, North Carolina, we geared the first hour of our program toward some IBMA things:  music from some of the nominees in two categories, and a look back at some of the "Song of the Year" award winners since the awards began in 1990.  This year's conference and various awards programs and musical presentations have all moved online in this COVID-19 year of 2020, so if you've always thought you might like to check out IBMA, but could not get to the conference, this year is your chance.  For more information, visit this link to World of Bluegrass.  Do it soon, though, as the IBMA festivities begin September 28th and run through October 3rd!  [The photos included here were taken during WoB events in 2019 in Raleigh].

Our second hour included a whole lot of Bluegrass classics, as well as a few newer selections from several bands, including the Edgar Loudermilk Band, Phil Leadbetter & the All-Stars of Bluegrass, Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, Merle Monroe, and the Grascals.  Other 2020 releases from which we heard included songs from Balsam Range, Laurie Lewis, Special Consensus, Becky Buller, Stephen Mougin, RockHearts, J.B. & Jamie Dailey, High Fidelity, Junior Sisk, and the Feinberg Brothers.

As you know, these shows are now pre-recorded, and sometimes, things get overlooked.  To that end, we will definitely be hearing the Podunk Bluegrass Festival Songwriter winners very soon, as early possibly as next week.  Stay tuned... 

Thanks so much for listening, and we'll look forward to visiting with you once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  

Have a great week ~ stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Richest Man / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Losing You Blues / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle
• Leavin' On Her Mind / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Mountain Home
• I Feel The Blues Moving In / Del McCoury Band / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder
• Hickory, Walnut & Pine / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Haggard / The Grascals / Straighten The Curves / Mountain Home
• Chicago Barn Dance / Special Consensus / Chicago Barn Dance / Compass Records
• Little Mountain Church House / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I Heard The Angels Singing / Sugar Hill [IBMA Song Of The Year 1990]
• Lonesome Standard Time / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Sugar Hill [IBMA Song Of The Year 1993]
• Mama's Hand / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder [IBMA Song Of The Year 1996]
• Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder [IBMA Song Of The Year 2009]
• Ring The Bell / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records [IBMA Song Of The Year 2010]
• A Far Cry From Lester And Earl / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel [IBMA Song Of The Year 2012]
• Thunder Dan / Sideline / Front And Center / Mountain Home [IBMA Song Of The Year 2019]
• 5-String Swing / Michael Cleveland / Tall Fiddler / Compass Records
• No Doubt About It / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Stanley Brothers / Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Starday King
• Mend This Heart Of Mine / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Are You Missing Me / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Hold Whatcha Got / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
• I'll Put The Blame On You / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Rural Rhythm Records
• There Ain't No End To This Road / Phil Leadbetter & the All-Stars Of Bluegrass / Swing For The Fences / Pinecastle
• Hitchhiking To California / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / single / Billy Blue Records
• Sleepy Little Town / The Grascals / single / Mountain Home
• Hello Sunshine / Merle Monroe / single / Pinecastle
• The Barber's Fiddle / Becky Buller / Distance And Time / Dark Shadow Recording
• Don't You Know I Love You, Charlie Brown / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• On Whiskey Mountain / Bill Emerson with Bill Harrell / Reunion / Webco [Bill Harrell birthday, 9/14/1936]
• New Beginnings / Stephen Mougin / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• Wake Up And Smell The Coffee / RockHearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• You Are My Flower / Laurie Lewis with Molly Tuttle / And Laurie Lewis / Spruce And Maple Music
• Devil On The Stump / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• Summer's Gone / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• It's Just Like Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Waiting For The King / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Listen To The Word Of God / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Will You Meet Me Over Yonder / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / What Will I Leave Behind / Rebel 
• Over In The Gloryland / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• Shadow Of The Son / Still Pickin' / Reuben's Train / Self-Produced
• Walkin', Runnin', Flyin' / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel
• Better Get In That Number / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Blue Highway / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Wings Of Gold / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• I'll Never Go Back / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• I'm Going There / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / A Change Of Scenery / Sugar Hill
• Goin' Up / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Vision Of Jesus / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• He Said If I Be Lifted Up / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/20/2020

 The twenty-second pre-recorded edition of our Bluegrass Cafe paid tribute in a Bluegrass style to three of the most influential country music singers of the 20th century, all of whom were born in month of September:  Roy Acuff (September 15, 1903 - November 23, 1992), Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953), and George Jones (September 12, 1931 - April 26, 2013).  While the main focus of our program is Bluegrass music, it would be silly to think that no Bluegrass performers have ever been influenced by the music of any of these Country Music Hall of Famers.  In fact, the opposite is true.  Therefore, we gathered as many Bluegrass covers of songs performed and/or written by these three as time would allow, and we celebrated some birthdays in a musical way.  

During the program, I promised to share some book titles for those of you who might like to read biographies or autobiographies.  This is not an exhaustive bibliography of works about these musicians, but here are a few titles to get you started:  

    ROY ACUFF:

    Schlappi, Elizabeth.  Roy Acuff:  The Smoky Mountain Boy.  (Pelican Publishing     Company, 1983)

    GEORGE JONES:

    Isenhour, Jack.  He Stopped Loving Her Today:  George Jones, Billy Sherrill,
    And The Pretty-Much Totally True Story Of The Making Of The Greatest Country
    Record Of All Time.  (University of Mississippi Press, 2011)

    Jones, George with Tom Carter.  I Lived To Tell It All.  (Dell, 1997)

    Kienzle, Rich.  The Grand Tour:  The Life And Music Of George Jones.  (Dey        Street, 2016)

    HANK WILLIAMS:  
    
    Escott, Colin.  Hank Williams:  The Biography.  (Little, Brown & Co., 1994)
   
    Hemphill, Paul.  Lovesick Blues:  The Life Of Hank Williams.  (Viking, 2005)

    Ribowsky, Mark.  Hank:  The Short Life And Long Country Road Of Hank                Williams.  (Liveright, 2017)

Newer Bluegrass music also was shared during the program, including 2020 selections from Rock Hearts, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, High Fidelity, Balsam Range, the Kody Norris Show, Carolina Blue, and J.B. & Jamie Dailey.

Have a wonderful week, and thanks for listening!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Hometown Blues / Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Home / Jim & Jesse / The Old Home Place / Rounder
• Anywhere Is Home Again / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• The Window Up Above / Ralph Stanley with George Jones / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• Don't Stop The Music / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• Color Of The Blues / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Color Of The Blues / Strictly Country Records [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• Why Baby Why / The Sidemen / Almost Live At The Station Inn / Red Clay Records [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• Flame In My Heart / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• When The Grass Grows Over Me / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Bluegrass Legends--Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• Choices / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• He Stopped Loving Her Today / George Jones / The Essential George Jones / Epic Legacy [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• Don't Let Smokey Mountain Smoke Get In Your Eyes / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Leave It At The Gate / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Mountain Home
• Next Train South / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Take My Ring From Your Finger / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rounder
• Eddie To The Rescue / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• The Precious Jewel / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Branded Wherever I Go / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Write Me Sweetheart / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Pressing On Regardless / Brentwood Music [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Wabash Cannonball / Roy Acuff /  The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Move In On Over / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Mansion On The Hill / Whitstein Brothers / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder[Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Honky Tonk Blues / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'n' Live / Sugar Hill [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Singing Waterfall / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Six More Miles / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Long Gone Lonesome Blues / Hank Williams / Live At The Opry / Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Grit And Grace / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Love Bug / Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• Too Wet To Plow / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• Love Pains / Osborne Brothers with Red Allen / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• I Couldn't Believe It Was True / Wilma Lee Cooper & the Clinch Mountain Clan / A Daisy A Day / Leather Records [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• The Country Side Of Heaven (Where The Bluegrass Music Flows) / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• Darling Nelly Bly / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Do You Call That Religion / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Jesus Is Waiting For Me / Larry Sparks / Blue Mountain Memories / Rebel
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• The Lord's Last Supper / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / King
• Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Great Speckled Bird / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• So High / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin' Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Born Again / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• When The Savior Reached Down For Me / J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• This World Can't Stand Long / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• I Saw The Light / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• House Of Gold / Steve Gulley with Don Gulley / Family, Friends, & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics, 1946-1950 / Cattle [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels / Gibson Brothers / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm Records [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Will You Be Ready To Go Home / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Country Church / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• I'll Have A New Life / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Dust On The Bible / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• From Jerusalem To Jericho / Hank Williams / The Unreleased Recordings / Time Life [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/13/2020

As this week's Bluegrass Cafe happens to fall on the 109th birth anniversary of William Smith Monroe -- the Father of Bluegrass Music -- it seemed like the proverbial "no-brainer" to make the music of Bill Monroe the one-and-only focus of today's Bluegrass Cafe.  And so we did.  :)  The full three hours of our 
program were filled with songs about Bill Monroe, songs performed by Bill Monroe (and some covers of his music, of course), and songs written by Bill Monroe.  Hope you enjoyed what we shared!

We always like to inform you about things you can read to learn more about particular subjects, and Bill Monroe has been the subject of a couple of different biographies (two written for adults; one an illustrated picture book biography for kids).  Seek out these books if you are interested in knowing more about the man and his music:  

Can't You Hear Me Callin':  The Life Of Bill Monroe, Father Of Bluegrass Music by Richard D. Smith (Little, Brown & Co., 2000)

Bill Monroe:  The Life And Music Of The Blue Grass Man by Tom Ewing (University of Illinois Press, 2018)

Blue Grass Boy:  The Story Of Bill Monroe, Father Of Bluegrass Music by Barb Rosenstock with illustrations by Edwin Fotheringham (Calkins Creek, 2018) 

Special mention:  we included a birthday celebration within a birthday celebration, as today also happens to be the birthdate of Lou Reid (born September 13, 1954).  To that end, we shared Monroe songs that Lou Reid has recorded over the years with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, as a guest on a recording by Mark Newton & Larry Stephenson, and with his own band, Lou Reid & Carolina.  

Hope you enjoyed today's Monroe-centric broadcast.  If you have any questions or comments during our pre-recorded programs, please don't hesitate to send an email to bgcafe@gmail.com or give our Facebook page a like (www.facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe)

Have a great week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.          

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Kentucky King / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Sugar Hill
• Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle
• From Rock & Roll To Bill Monroe / Tommy Webb / From Rock & Roll To Bill Monroe / Kindred Records
• Is The Grass Any Bluer (On The Other Side) / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / All The Rage, Volume One / Upper Management Music
• Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• What Is Home Without Love? / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1936 / JSP Records
• Have A Feast Here Tonight / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1937-1938 / JSP Records
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• True Life Blues / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / O Sister! / Rounder
• Highway Of Sorrow / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Frog On A Lily Pad / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Bill Monroe's Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• I'm On My Way To The Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• My Little Georgia Rose / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Tall Timber / Bluegrass Album Band / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Doghouse Blues / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Heavy Traffic Ahead / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Panhandle Country / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Used To Be / Gibson Brothers Bluegrass Band / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm Records
• I Was Left On The Street / Peter Rowan / The First Whippoorwill / Sugar Hill
• Wheel Hoss / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• I'm Lonesome I'm Blue / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music
• I Hope You Have Learned / Adcock, Gaudreau, Waller, Gray / The Country Gentlemen Reunion Band / RadioTherapy Records
• Thinking About You / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced
• In Despair / Lou Reid & Carolina / My Own Set Of Rules / Rural Rhythm
• Molly And Tenbrooks / Larry Stephenson & Mark Newton with Lou Reid / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records
• Toy Heart / Ricky Skaggs / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Come Back To Me In My Dreams / Balsam Range with Joe Diffie / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• Rawhide / Ronnie McCoury / True Life Blues:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / Sugar Hill
• Six Feet Under The Ground / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Bill Monroe--100th Year Celebration / Rural Rhythm
• Out In The Cold World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Old Brown County Barn / Michael Cleveland / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• What Would You Give In Exchange? / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1936 / JSP Records
• River Of Death / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• The Old Crossroads / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill
• Lord Protect My Soul / IIIrd Tyme Out / Live At The MAC / Rounder
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 2 / Hay Holler
• I'm Working On A Building / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• You're Drifting Away / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Let The Light Shine Down / Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice / Heartaches And Dreams / Rebel
• The Boat Of Love / Balsam Range / Marching Home / Mountain Home
• Drifting Too Far From The Shore / Boone Creek / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• I'm Travelin' On And On / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• The Little Community Church / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads
• A Voice From On High / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Cryin' Holy / J.D. Crowe & the New South / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Blue Highway / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• 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
• Mansions For Me / Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Beautiful Life / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• That Home Above / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Watermelon On The Vine / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/6/2020

And just like that, we've reached Labor Day weekend!  Hope you are enjoying your holiday weekend with some relaxation and maybe even enjoying some Bluegrass music!

Sunday's show began with some "working" songs, and our gospel hours included some songs loosely associated with working, too. 

We belatedly celebrated the birthday of 
the Queen of Country Music, Kitty Wells (born August 30, 1919) with a few Bluegrass covers, and we couldn't forget the birthday of Buzz Busby-- the "Father Of Washington DC Bluegrass" -- who was born on September 6, 1933.

There was a smattering of new music to share this Labor Day weekend, as well, as we heard new music from J.B. & Jamie Dailey, Stephen Mougin, the Feinberg Brothers, Linda Lay, Hammertowne, Junior Sisk, and High Fidelity.

Enjoy the week ~ and thanks for listening!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
• Working Girl Blues / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Poor Boy Workin' Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Lower On The Hog / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Sugar Hill
• Factory Floor / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Behind These Prison Walls Of Love / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Just Like Rain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Rounder
• Fox On The Run / Tony Trischka & Tom Adams with Dudley Connell, Lou Reid, Sally Love Connell / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Kitty Wells:  8/30/1919 - 7/16/2012]
• Stranger In My Home / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Kitty Wells:  8/30/1919 - 7/16/2012]
• I've Kissed You My Last Time / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Rounder [Remembering Kitty Wells:  8/30/1919 - 7/16/2012]
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• I'm Gonna Ride / Stephen Mougin / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• Like A Bird In A Cage / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Rebel
• Waiting On Isaac / Jason Barie / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Digging In The Ground / Larry Sparks / Blue Mountain Memories / Rebel
• Get In Line Buddy / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Bluegrass 1963 / Rural Rhythm
• Just Ain't / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• The Happiness Of Having You / Linda Lay / single / Mountain Fever Records
• I Can Tell By The Way You Dance / Hammertowne / single / Mountain Fever Records
• West Virginia Coal / Amanda Cook / single / Mountain Fever Records
• White House Blues / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Me And The Jukebox / Buzz Busby / Going Home / Gusto [Remembering Buzz Busby:  9/6/1933 - 1/5/2003]
• Mandolin Twist / Buzz Busby / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel  [Remembering Buzz Busby:  9/6/1933 - 1/5/2003]
• Two Little Boys / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Gusto
• Helen / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• I'll Have To Make Some Changes / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle
• Country Gentleman / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• Go Slow Greyhound / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I'm Really Leaving / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Skip, Hop & Wobble / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Kentucky Banjo / Ernie Thacker-Junior Blankenship Band / Tennessee Blues / Copper Creek
• I'm Working On A Road To Gloryland / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 2 / Hay Holler
• I'm Working My Way / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Rest For His Workers / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Lord, I've Been A Hard Working Pilgrim / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Heaven's Joy Awaits / Sugar Hill
• I'm Working On A Building / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1958 / JSP Records
• Where We'll Never Say Farewell / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• A Voice From On High / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• God Has Been So Good To Me / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures / David Grisman-Herb Pedersen-Vince Gill-Jim Buchanan-Emory Gordy, Jr / Here Today / Rounder
• On The Jericho Road / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live 1984-2014 / Davis Music
• I Know His Voice / Del McCoury / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder
• John / Mountain Heart / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume Two / GGS Music
• The First Time I Heard About Heaven / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP&CD Records
• The Little White Church / Jim & Jesse with Mac Wiseman / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• Don't Tune Him Out / The Whites / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Billy Blue Records
• Get In Line Brother / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• Wither Thou Go / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rounder
• When They Ring Those Golden Bells / Jim Eanes / In His Arms / Rebel
• New Born Soul / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/30/2020

Two words to describe Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe:  celebrate and remember.  We did a little bit of both for several different performers, as well as shared a smattering of newer Bluegrass music.  Hope you enjoyed the program.

Our main focus for the week was, of course, a big portion of music from the late Steve Gulley, who died on August 18th after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.  Steve Gulley didn't waste time in his 57 years on this earth, as he created loads of wonderful music which will be enjoyed and celebrated for years to come.  We shared a good selection of those songs from Steve's time spent with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, as a founding member of both Mountain Heart and Grasstowne, fronting his own band of Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle, with his sometimes songwriting and duet partners, Tim Stafford and Dale Ann Bradley, as well as a track from a soon-to-be-released record by Phil Leadbetter & the All-Stars of Bluegrass which features Steve Gulley and his wife, Debbie.  A couple of these tracks were recorded live at benefits for WDVX, a non-profit radio station in east Tennessee where Steve Gulley was a on-air DJ for the last couple of years.  Many thanks to broadcaster Lee Michael Demsey of BluegrassCountry.org for sharing some of these songs with me for broadcasting.  Steve Gulley will certainly be missed, but his music lives on...

We also remembered a Bluegrass legend (and Hall of Famer) who was born on August 27, 1925 -- Carter Stanley.  Twelve years after Carter, another Bluegrass Hall of Famer was also born on August 27th -- banjo picker extraordinaire J.D. Crowe.  In addition to songs from Carter and Crowe, we heard a couple from Shawn Camp of the Earls Of Leicester, as his birthday was celebrated on August 29th.  And, a bit closer to home for me were a couple of songs thrown into the mix in honor of my own father, Alton Orlomoski, who celebrated his 91st birthday on August 29th.  

There were a couple of newer selections to share, too, with music from the Kody Norris Show, Stephen Mougin, Carolina Blue, High Fidelity, the Feinberg Brothers, FastTrack, and Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road.

As always, many thanks for listening to our program, and be sure to give our Facebook page a "like," if you're so inclined:  www.facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe.  

Have a terrific week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Let Me Be Your Friend / John Duffey [Seldom Scene] / Always In Style / Sugar Hill [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• This Weary Heart You Stole Away / Dan Tyminski / The Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• The Lonesome River / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Write Me Sweetheart / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Cold Kentucky Rain / Mountain Heart / Mountain Heart / Doobie Shea Records [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• I Don't Worry About You Anymore / Grasstowne / Kickin' Up Dust / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Leaving Crazytown / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Live At WDVX [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Still Here / Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford / single / Mountain Home [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Through The Window Of A Train / Rounder [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• You're Gone / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / High Peaks & New Ground / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Victory In Jesus / Steve Gulley / Family, Friends & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Sweet Rosie Jones / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Yesterday's Gone / Phil Leadbetter & the All-Stars Of Bluegrass feat. Steve Gulley & Debbie Gulley / Swinging For The Fences / Pinecastle [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Old Rugged Cross / Tom Adams / Right Hand Man / Rounder
• There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle
• Wildwood Flower / Mac Wiseman / Sings Old Time Favorites / Rural Rhythm
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder [Shawn Camp birthday, 8/29/1966]
• Something Comin' To Me / Gibson Brothers / They Call It Music / Compass Records [Shawn Camp birthday, 8/29/1966]
• Crowe On The Banjo / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder [J.D. Crowe birthday, 8/27/1937]
• J's Tune / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [J.D. Crowe birthday, 8/27/1937]
• Love Bug / Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel 
• Ready For The Times To Get Better / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle
• I'd Like To Wander Back To The Old Home / FastTrack / FastTrack/ Engelhardt Music Group
• Why Do You Treat Me This Way / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Black Knob Breakdown / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• A Place For A Fool / Stephen Mougin with the Gibson Brothers / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• Old Home Place / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• I'm Better Off Now That You're Gone / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Sugar Coated Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Going To The Races / James King / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Loving You Too Well / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Sweetest Love / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• I'll Never Grow Tired Of You / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Daybreak In Dixie / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Pray For Me / Steve Gulley / Family, Friends & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• I'm A Weary Pilgrim / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / There's A Light Guiding Me / Sugar Hill [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Lonesome Road / Dale Ann Bradley & Steve Gulley / Live At WDVX [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Heaven's My Next Exit / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Kept And Protected / Sugar Hill [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• The Man I Ought To Be / Steve Gulley / Family, Friends & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Let My Life Be A Light / Balsam Range / Aeonic / Mountain Home
• Joy Of Revelation / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Camping In Canaan's Land / Dailey & Vincent / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS Music
• Message For Peace / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• I Can't Sit Down / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• The Man In The Middle / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
• Journey To My Savior's Side / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• I'm Goin' That Way / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [J.D. Crowe birthday, 8/27/1937]
• Count Your Blessings / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Rounder
• Home On The River / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Paul And Silas / Country Gentlemen / Country Songs, Old And New / Smithsonian Folkways
• Harbor Of Love / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/23/2020

As you know, we've been pre-recording our Bluegrass Cafe programs since mid-April.  Up until April, every one of the radio programs I have ever done since starting as a college broadcaster in late 1988 have been produced "live," so this recording thing is completely new to me.  My apologies for all of the background noise with cricket sounds and loud trucks you might hear in the background of our shows, but we are grateful to have the opportunity to still present a weekly radio program.  The show is put together in three separate parts on Monday, Tuesday, and/or Wednesday evenings on my porch.  I'm sharing that because the first two hours of today's show featured celebrations of four August birthday celebrants (Jimmy Martin, Steve Martin, Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner) and a good portion of new music released during 2020.  Those hours were recorded on Monday night.  By the time we got around to producing the Hour #3 on Wednesday night, the sad passing of Steve Gulley had taken place.  We intend to pay full tribute to this wonderfully gifted singer and songwriter during next week's show, but for today, we hope you enjoyed our brief tribute to Steve Gulley in the first segment of our Gospel Hour.  

Even though 2020 is a terrible year for performing live, many performers have been releasing new music this year.  We included a few of those in this show, with songs from Rhonda Vincent, Stephen Mougin, Carolina Blue, Wood & Wire, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, High Fidelity, J.B. & Jamie Dailey, Laurie Lewis, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, and Becky Buller.

Thanks for listening.  If you would like to get in touch, please do.  Send an email to bgcafe@gmail.com and/or please give our Facebook page a "like":  www.facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Sophronie / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Free Born Man / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Lost And Lonely / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• Carolina Moon / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Moon / Rebel
• Down In Caroline / Front Range / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Carolina In The Pines / Southbound / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• My Cabin In Caroline / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• The Ballad Of Mary Ann / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle
• The Barber's Fiddle / Becky Buller / Distance And Time / Dark Shadow Recording
• Old Friend / Laurie Lewis with Kathy Kallick / And Laurie Lewis / Spruce And Maple Music
• One Tear / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes One & Two / Sugar Hill
• Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go / Sugar Hill
• Remembering / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Speeding West / Eddie Adcock & Don Reno / The Sensational Twin Banjos Of Eddie Adcock & Don Reno / Rebel
• Pitkin County Turnaround / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• King Tut / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Rare Bird Alert / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Talk To Me Lonesome Heart / Larry Stephenson with Connie Smith & Marty Stuart / 20th Anniversary / Whysper Dream Music [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• I Never Once Stopped Loving You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• Once A Day / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel [Connie Smith birthday, 8/14/1941]
• What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Carroll County Accident / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• I Ain't Been Nowhere / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / single / Upper Management Music
• Summertime Rolls / Wood & Wire / North Of Despair / Blue Corn Music
• Last Train / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Sarah Jarosz / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Blind Man / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• New Beginnings / Stephen Mougin / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• Iron Curtain / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• The Yodelling Muleskinner Blues / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Shenandoah Breakdown / Rick Spinney / Off The Cuff / Self-Produced
• Calling To That Other Shore / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / There's A Light Guiding Me / Sugar Hill [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Patching It Up / Mountain Heart / Mountain Heart / Doobie Shea Records [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• I Never Shall Forget The Day / Steve Gulley with Joe Mullins / Family, Friends & Fellowship / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Angel On His Way / Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford / Dogwood Winter / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• You Better Wake Up / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Cast Aside / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel
• Get Down On Your Knees And Pray / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Shouting On The Hills Of Glory / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best / Federal
• That Home Above / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Traveling The Highway Home / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / Gloria Bell / Love Of The Mountains / Rebel
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Are You Lost In Sin / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Don't You Want To Go Home / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Rebel
• Will The Angels Play Their Harps For Me / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• I'm Getting Ready To Leave This World / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder