"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/7/2021

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe aired on a "Fall Back" day, so we shared some songs about time to get the show started.  We also included a whole bunch of music in honor of Country Music Hall of Famer, Whisperin' Bill Anderson, whose 84th birthday was celebrated on November 1st.  If that wasn't enough, we included a bit of music from two of the newest members of the Rhode Island Bluegrass Alliance (RIBA) Hall of Fame.  It was a show filled with fine music!  Hope you were able to tune in for a bit.

On Saturday evening (November 6th), RIBA hosted a wonderful Hall of Fame ceremony honoring the music endeavors of four important performers in the history of Bluegrass music in Rhode Island and southern New England.  As they weren't able to hold their induction ceremony in 2020 due to COVID, this event featured both the 2020 inductees (the late brothers, Fred & Earl Pike, as well as Rhode Island banjo picker Richard Guilbault) and the 2021 honorees (Connecticut's Nick Anderson and Rhode Island pioneer Roger Williams).  While I wasn't able to find music to share from Rich Guilbault or Roger Williams, I am certainly willing to play some on the air if anyone has any to share.  We did, however, include a bit of music from Nick Anderson (both with Shady Creek, as well as with the Gospel Friends) and the Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers.  It's so important to honor these Bluegrass pioneers.  Thank you to RIBA for doing this!  

Hope you'll consider tuning in once again on Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Amelia Earhart's Last Flight / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  1963-1969 / Rebel
• Matterhorn / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Dudley Connell & John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• East Virginia Blues / Rickey Wasson with Dan Tyminski / Croweology / Truegrass Entertainment
• Time / Lou Reid & Carolina / Time / Lonesome Day Records
• Time Changes Everything / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Going Up Home / Nick Anderson & the Gospel Friends / Nick Anderson & the Gospel Friends / Self-Produced
• Houses On The Farm / Nick Anderson & Shady Creek / Back To The Roots / Self-Produced
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• Thanks For The Trip To Paradise / Jim & Jesse McReynolds / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• Charlotte Breakdown / Reno Brothers / Drawing From The Well / Pinecastle
• I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• That Star Belongs To Me / Case Brothers / Radio Album / CaBro Records
• Cold, Icy Fingers / Lost & Found / It's About Time / Rebel
• The Ghost Of Noah Hayes / Rick Pardue & Timmy Massey / The Ghost Of Noah Hayes / Lizard Records
• I Can't Think Of One / Blue Highway / Somewhere Far Away / Rounder
• Pikearoo / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Still / Bill Anderson / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics, Volume 2 / Opry Music [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Lost Highways & Treasured Memories / Old Heritage Records [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Cincinnati, Ohio / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Slippin' Away / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Saginaw, Michigan / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Once A Day / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• I Don't Love You Anymore / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Bright Lights And Country Music / Rhonda Vincent / Only Me / Upper Management Music [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Amnesia / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• The Lord Knows I'm Drinking / Wildfire / Where Roads Divide / Pinecastle [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• The Guitar Song / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers with Del McCoury / For The Record / McCoury Music [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• We Live In Two Different Worlds / Red Allen & the Kentuckians / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems / Radio Gems
• Nobody Cares (Not Even You) / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family Records 
• Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Hit Parade Of Love / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder
• Don't Give Your Heart To A Rambler / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Fall On The Rock / Barry Abernathy with Shawn Lane / Barry Abernathy & Friends / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Go Steppin' / U.S. Navy Band Country Current / Live / DoD
• You Left Me Alone / Longview / Lessons In Stone / Rebel
• Wrong Road Again / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Everybody's Somebody's Fool / Sierra Hull / Secrets / Rounder
• (Is This) My Destiny / Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Greenlight On The Southern / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Gonna Rise And Shine / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Gonna Rise And Shine / Morning Glory Music
• God Will Make A Way / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• Gone Home / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• Let The Light Shine Down / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Heartaches And Dreams / Rebel
• Justified / Billy Boone Smith / Five Flat Rocks / Muddy Sunshine
• Soul Of Man Never Dies / Nothin' Fancy / Lord Bless This House / Pinecastle
• Martha And Mary / Nu-Blu / Nail By Nail / Pinecastle
• Giving My Soul Back To Him / IIIrd Tyme Out / Footprints / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/31/2021

One week after the passing of the great Roland "Sonny" Osborne (October 24, 1937 - October 24, 2021), during this day's Bluegrass Cafe, we remembered his life and legacy with a whole lot of his music:  songs he recorded during his long, award-winning career with his brother, Bobby; his sister, Louise; with Red Allen; and while he was a teenage member of Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys.  There will never be another Sonny Osborne, that's for certain.  In recent years, if you've not been reading his "Ask Sonny Anything" column in Bluegrass Today, you owe it to yourself to go back and read through the archives.  To do that, follow this link ~ and enjoy!  

Today also happens to be Halloween, so on what other day would it be better to play spooky stories-in-song?  To that end, we played more than a dozen songs featuring tales of ghostly girls, ghostly men, even ghostly trains.  We even through in some spooky, unexplained lights, and some creepy footsteps.  Hope you've had a happy Halloween with more emphasis on the treats than the tricks!

Please consider joining me once more next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  Until then, have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Bringing Mary Home / Original Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / Yesterday, Today, And The Osborne Brothers / Decca [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• New Freedom Bell / Lou & Sonny Osborne / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Ruby / Osborne Brothers / Hyden / Pinecastle [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1947 - 10/24/2021]
• Sunny Mountain Chimes / Sunny Osborn [sic] / single / Gateway Records [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1947 - 10/24/2021]
• Kentucky / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes I & II / Sugar Hill [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1947 - 10/24/2021]
• Pike County Breakdown / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1947 - 10/24/2021]
• The Sound (That Set My Soul On Fire) / Larry Stephenson Band / On Fire / Pinecastle
• Roll Muddy River / The Grascals / Long List Of Heartaches / Rounder
• Bluegrass Express / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• Up This Hill And Down / Larry Stephenson & Mark Newton / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records
• Osborne Brothers Medley (Windy City/Making Plans/Fair & Tender Ladies/Kentucky) / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / They're Playing My Song / Rebel
• Me And My Old Banjo / Larry Stephenson with Sonny Osborne & Ronnie Reno / 20th Anniversary / Whysper Dream Music
• Brown Mountain Light / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Sam Jocelyn's Ghost / ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band / single / Now And Then Records
• The Ballad Of Sarah Malone / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Footsteps So Near / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• The Silver Ghost / David Parmley / Southern Heritage / Rebel
• Burying Ground / Kathy Kallick / Call Me A Taxi / Sugar Hill
• Who's That Knocking At My Door / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive / Rounder
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin' / Rebel
• I've Come To Take You Home / Seldom Scene / Like We Used To Be / Sugar Hill
• Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• The Grave Robber / Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel
• George Cunningham / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Ballad Of Maudie Dawson / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• The Ghost Of Norma Jean / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Once More / Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Beneath Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Country Roads / Decca [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• The Cuckoo Bird / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volume I & II / Sugar Hill [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Give This Message To Your Heart / Osborne Brothers with Ira Louvin / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Lost In This World / David Peterson & 1946 / Cup Of Loneliness / Necktie Records
• Each Season Changes You / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Steal Away And Pray / Osborne Brothers / Our Favorite Hymns / Special Products [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• No Depression / Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Cripple Creek / Copper Creek
• I'll Never Go Back (To The Ways Of Sin) / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• My Future Ain't What It Used To Be / Marty Raybon & Jerry Salley / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• In The Sweet By And By / Dolly Parton / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• The Little White Church / Jim & Jesse with Mac Wiseman / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• A Little More Faith In Jesus / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

                

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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/24/2021

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe started out as one with no particular agenda or direction, except that we planned to play a few songs from the catalog of Country Music Hall of Famer Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones, whose 108th birthday would have been celebrated on October 20th.  By the time the show was over, we'd played several songs in honor of Doyle Lawson, who had announced that his retirement from the road would happen one year earlier than originally announced (end of 2021 vs. end of 2022).  We'd also learned while playing birthday songs for this week that the great Sonny Osborne, who would have celebrated his 84th birthday on October 29th had possibly died on this day.  I say "possibly" as there were too many conflicting sources of Facebook information during the time the news originally came.  It was all very confusing, but in the end, it seems that Sonny did, indeed, pass earlier this afternoon.  We will work this week on a program to honor the legendary music of this incredible performer.  Rest in peace, Sonny.

Hope you were able to join us for all or some of today's show.  Please consider joining us once more next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• When Someone Wants To Leave / Seldom Scene / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I'll Take The Lonesome Every Time / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Please Search Your Heart / J.D. Crowe / Blackjack / Rebel
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Every Now And Then / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Happy Go Lucky / Alan Bibey & Doyle Lawson / single / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Stay Around / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Baby Blue Eyes / Vince Gill / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Leaves In The Wind / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• Deep River / Rick Faris / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'll Never Grow Tired Of You / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Prisoner's Song / David Peterson & 1946 / Cup Of Loneliness / Self-Produced
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy [song recorded 10/24/1951]
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Pikearoo / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel [Remembering Fred Pike:  10/27/1932 - 3/5/1997]
• Gold Watch And Chain / Eddie & Martha Adcock / TwoGrass / Pinecastle [Martha Adcock birthday, 10/29/1949]
• Where The Wild River Rolls / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone [Bob Amos birthday, 10/24/1957]
• O-hio / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records [Joe Mullins birthday, 10/27/1965]
• The Sound (That Set My Soul On Fire) / Larry Stephenson Band / Retrospective:  LSB Live / Whysper Dream Music [Larry Stephenson birthday, 10/24/1956]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Are You From Dixie / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Starday King [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• It's Raining Here This Morning / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Grandpa Jones / 28 Greatest Hits / Starday King [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Falling Leaves / Seldom Scene / John Duffey:  The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Roll Slow, Greyhound / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Hit Parade Of Love / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Bluegrass Legends:  Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Goodbye Marie / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• They Called It Music / Gibson Brothers / They Called It Music / Compass Records
• Hickory Hollow / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage Records
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner with Tom Adams / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• L.A. International Airport / Dale Ann Bradley / Things She Couldn't Get Over / Pinecastle
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Milwaukee, Here I Come / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA
• Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill 
• Jesus Hold My Hand / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Rockin' On The Waves / Brown's Ferry Four / Rockin' On The Waves / King [Remembering Grandpa Jones:  10/20/1913 - 2/19/1998]
• Won't That Be A Happy Time / Special Consensus / Chicago Barn Dance / Compass Records
• Do You Live What You Preach / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Standing Tall And Tough / Mountain Home
• Grit And Grace / Balsam Range / Mettle And Moxie / Mountain Home
• Eat At The Welcome Table / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Will There Be Any Stars? / Cox Family & Alison Krauss / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/17/2021

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included music celebrating a couple of mid-October birthdays, a bit of newer music, and tributes to two important members of the Bluegrass community.

The week just past was a rough one for friends and fans of the great Phil Leadbetter, who died at the age of 59 on October 14th.  "Uncle Phil" was a big personality who was a multi-time cancer survivor, as well as a bandleader and, by all accounts, a fine person.  He will be missed.  A day before the passing of Phil Leadbetter, Kerry Hay -- the founder of Hay Holler Records -- died at the age of 89.  In the 1990s, Mr. Hay's record label roster included lots of fine performers, including Big Country Bluegrass, the Gillis Brothers, the all-star-packed Bluegrass Band, and the Gibson Brothers.  

We shone a small spotlight on the co-recipient of the 2021 Steve Martin Banjo Prize, Alan Munde.  Congratulations to him!

New music featured on Sunday included selections from Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Amanda Cook, Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz, Colebrook Road, Sideline, Junior Sisk, Daryl Mosley, Balsam Range, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Jeremy Stephens, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and Merle Monroe, and a selection from the "Industrial Strength Bluegrass" collection.

Hope you're able to join us once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  We'll be looking for you!

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Forty Years Of Trouble / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Love Bug / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• When You Come Back Down / Amanda Cook / Narrowing The Gap / Mountain Fever Records
• One Day At A Time / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• November Rose / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Long Forgotten Dream / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler [Remembering Kerry Hay:  2/3/1932 - 10/13/2021]
• Love Of The Mountains / Big Country Bluegrass / Big Country Bluegrass / Hay Holler [Remembering Kerry Hay:  2/3/1932 - 10/13/2021]
• Room At The Top Of The Stairs /Gillis Brothers /  Ice Cold Stone / Hay Holler [Remembering Kerry Hay:  2/3/1932 - 10/13/2021]
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler [Remembering Kerry Hay:  2/3/1932 - 10/13/2021]
• Widow Mae / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• You've Been A Friend To Me / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Wild Mountain Honey / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Come Back Darling / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy
• Larry Sparks Medley:  Dark Hollow/A Face In The Crowd/These Old Blues / Josh Williams, Bradley Walker & Russell Moore / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Picking At Snuffy's / Alan Munde & Country Gazette / Keep On Pushing / Flying Fish
• Munde's Child / Alan Munde / Blue Ridge Express / Rounder
• Traditional Family Breakdown / Alan Munde Gazette / Made To Last / Munde's Child Records
• I Surely Will Be Singing / Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Carolina Side / Colebrook Road / Hindsight Is 2020 / Mountain Fever Records
• Marshallville / Sideline / Ups, Downs, And No Name Towns / Mountain Home
• I Wanna Be Where You Are / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Bringing Simple Back / Daryl Mosley / Small Town Dreamer / Pinecastle
• Highway Side / Balsam Range / Moxie & Mettle / Mountain Home
• The South Bound Train / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• I'll Wash Your Love From My Heart / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [Leigh Gibson birthday, 10/11/1971]
• I'll Have To Make Some Changes / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle [Barry Berrier birthday, 10/10/1960]
• Holdin' On When You've Let Go / Crowe Brothers / Brothers-n-Harmony / Rural Rhythm [Josh Crowe birthday, 10/11/1957]
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [recorded 10/15/1950]
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records [Eric Gibson birthday, 10/23/1970]
• Sledd Ridin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder [Remembering Phil Leadbetter:  3/31/1962 - 10/14/2021]
• California Cottonfields / Phil Leadbetter with Marty Raybon / Slide Effects / Pinecastle [Remembering Phil Leadbetter:  3/31/1962 - 10/14/2021]
• Swing For The Fences / Phil Leadbetter & the All-Stars Of Bluegrass / Swing For The Fences / Pinecastle [Remembering Phil Leadbetter:  3/31/1962 - 10/14/2021]
• Philibuster / Phil Leadbetter / Philibuster / Mid-Knight Records [Remembering Phil Leadbetter:  3/31/1962 - 10/14/2021]
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Wes Corbett / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Western Skies / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• Thinking Of Home / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Music
• Whispering Waters / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Going Up / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Working On A Building / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• S-A-V-E-D / South Carolina Broadcasters / Home To Stay / Patuxent Music
• Calling My Children / Hot Flashes / The Hot Flashes Live / Happy Appy Records
• Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blues / Billy Blue Records
• Sing His Praises Forever / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• That Glorious Day / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Touch Of God's Hand / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

 

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/3/2021

Robert Fraker at Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival
(Photo by MaryE Yeomans)

Our first Bluegrass Cafe of October 2021 featured music from some of the 2021 International Bluegrass Music Association award winners , as well as music from the three newly-minted members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and birthday tributes to several performers.  Most notably, we shared seven songs from the pen of a good friend gone too soon:  Robert Fraker (October 1, 1946 - May 2, 2017).  Hope you were able to join us for all or part of the broadcast.

The annual gathering known as WoB (World of Bluegrass) took place this past week in Raleigh, NC.  While I wasn't an in-person attendee of the festivities this year, I was able to follow along virtually at some events that were posted on either the IBMA Facebook page or the group's YouTube.  To that end, we played some music from quite a few IBMA Award winners for 2021, and we mentioned the others.  

We also shared music from some of the performers who will be in Vermont next weekend at the first-time-ever Jenny Brook Minifest.  This annual event normally takes place at the end of June, but COVID meeting restrictions cancelled the big festival this year.  This smaller festival is "mini" in name only, as there will be a load of top-notch performers there, including IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year Danny Paisley, as well as the Po' Ramblin' Boys, the Feinberg Brothers, and others.  For more info, visit this website.  

As I will be in Vermont next weekend, our Bluegrass Cafe will be recorded during this week, and will air for you on Sunday afternoon.  Hope you'll consider joining us, if you can.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Richest Man / Balsam Range / Moxie And Mettle / Mountain Home [IBMA Song of the Year, 2021]
• Living On The Edge / Dale Ann Bradley / Things She Couldn't Get Over / Pinecastle [IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year, 2021]
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle [IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year, 2021]
• Letters Have No Arms / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music [IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year, 2021]
• Hollow Heart / Billy Strings / Home / Rounder [IBMA Entertainer of the Year, 2021]
• Readin', Rightin', Route 23 / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways [IBMA Album of the Year, 2021]
• Losing You Blues / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle [IBMA Vocal Group of the Year, 2021]
• Fiddler's Pastime / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Laura Orshaw / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced [IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year, 2021]
• Are You Missing Me / Dailey & Vincent / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways [IBMA Album of the Year, 2021]
• No Other Man / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• I Got A Letter / Valerie Smith & Becky Buller / Here's A Little Song... / Bell Buckle Records [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Cross My Broken Heart / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Louisville Suite / Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin / So Long Arizona / Dog Boy Records [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• The Cheshire Tragedy / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Like A Bird In A Cage / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Here Come The Teardrops / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / Fine Time To Get The Blues / Driving Duke Records [Terry Baucom birthday, 10/6/1952]
• Helping Hand / Johnny Williams / Last Day At Galax / Mountain Roads Recordings [Johnny Williams birthday, 10/6/1951]
• Ezekiel Saw The Wheel / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads [Remembering Ray Deaton:  10/6/1952 - 6/4/2019]
• Sparta Flash / The Expedition Show / The Expedition Show / Mountain Fever Records [Blake Williams birthday, 10/8/1962]
• Taking The Crooked Road Home / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / VA Foundation for the Humanties [Sammy Shelor birthday, 10/8/1962]
• Old Rip / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder [Lynn Morris birthday, 10/8/1948]
• Blue Skies And Teardrops / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Blue Grass Breakdown / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• Tupelo County Jail / The Stonemans / Family Tradition:  The Stoneman Legacy / CMH
• Two Highways / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder
• Enough On My Mind / Rambler's Choice / Sounds Of The Mountains / Rounder
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• I'm Feeling For You (But I Can't Reach You) / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
• Honeycat Hornpipe / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Edgar Loudermilk Band with Jeff Autry / Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Rural Rhythm
• A Hundred Years From Now / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Teach Your Children / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Don't Weep For Me / Blue Highway / Original Traditional / Rounder
• Cannonball Yodel / Dede Wyland / Urge For Going / Patuxent Music
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Stagger Lee / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Whatcha Gonna Do / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• East Bound And Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys with Jason Carter & Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / single / Sound Biscuit
• Ice Covered Birches / Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / Rebel
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Proud Mary / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• After While / Dale Ann Bradley / Things She Couldn't Get Over / Pinecastle [Gospel Recording of the Year, 2021]
• Take Me In The Lifeboat / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• I'll Be Singing Up There / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute to the Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown / Alison Krauss & the Cox Family / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass with Lizzy Long / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle 
• In The Resurrection Morning / Sacred Reunion / single / Billy Blue Records [Gospel Recording of the Year, 2021]
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Robert Fraker:  10/1/1946 - 5/2/2017]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/26/2021

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe started with music appropriate for the changing seasons, and also included all five nominees for IBMA Song of the Year, lots of birthday tributes, new music, and a few classics, too.  

The big International Bluegrass Music Association World of Bluegrass event takes place this coming week in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the highlight event coming on Thursday, September 30th when the IBMA Awards ceremony is held.  We played all five songs that are nominated in the category of Song of the Year.  We also shared selections from the three newest members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame:  Alison Krauss, Lynn Morris, and the Stoneman Family.

There were several Bluegrass birthdays to remember this week, including those of Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick, Marty Stuart, and others.  We also paid tribute to Country Music Hall of Famer, Marty Robbins (September 26, 1925 - December 8, 1982).    

Hope you were able to enjoy this beautiful last Sunday of September.  We'll be looking forward to joining you again next Sunday, too.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Fall Branch / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Falling, Falling, Falling / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill
• Blue Tears Are Falling / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Hitchhiking To California / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Hitchhiking To California / Billy Blue Records
• Just Load The Wagon / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Leaving On Her Mind / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Richest Man / Balsam Range / Moxie And Mettle / Mountain Home
• Row Number 2, Seat Number 3 / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Stormy Horizons / The Expedition Show / Stormy Horizons / Mountain Fever Records
• A Place For A Fool / Stephen Mougin with the Gibson Brothers / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Next Train South / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Going To The West / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Stanley Brothers / Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / King
• Going Like Wildfire / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Where Is My Little Cabin Home / Kathy Kallick Band / Between The Hollow & The High-Rise / Live Oak Records [Kathy Kallick birthday, 9/19/1952]
• I'm Walking The Dog / Charles Sawtelle & the Whippets / RockyGrass / Blue Planet [Remembering Charles Sawtelle:  9/20/1946 - 3/20/1999]
• Leaving Crazytown / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Steve Gulley:  9/20/1962 - 8/18/2020]
• Boogie Grass Band / Ronnie Reno & the Reno Tradition / Porfolio / Shell Point Records [Ronnie Reno birthday, 9/28/1947]
• Don't Get Too Close / Laurie Lewis & Grant Street / Singin' My Troubles Away / Flying Fish [Laurie Lewis birthday, 9/28/1950]
• Something In The Wind / Seldom Scene / Act Four / Sugar Hill [Phil Rosenthal birthday, 9/30/1948]
• Homesick / Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives / Live At The Ryman / Show Dog Universal [Marty Stuart birthday, 9/30/1958]
• El Paso / Marty Robbins / Gunfigher Ballads And Trail Songs / Columbia Legacy [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]
• Devil Woman / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Beggin' To You / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Don't Worry / Johnson Mountain Boys / Request / 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]
• Second Son / Jim Hurst / Second Son / Pinecastle [Remembering Marty Robbins:  9/26/1925 - 12/8/1982]
• Don't Let Smokey Mountain Smoke Get In Your Eyes / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Whatcha Gonna Do / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Livin' Large In A Little Town / Donna Ulisse / single / Billy Blue Records
• Rocks In The River / Missy Werner / Turn This Heart Around / Self-Produced
• Chicago Barn Dance / Special Consensus / Chicago Barn Dance / Compass Records
• Ridin' The High Iron / Bill Emerson / Gold Plated Banjo / Rebel
• Love You In Vain / Alison Krauss / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Living On The Hallelujah Side / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• Along The Way / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Touch Of God's Hand / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce & Maple Music
• Get In Line Brother / Marty Stuart with Johnny Cash & Alan O'Bryant / Busy Bee Cafe / Sugar Hill
• Yes I See God / Larry Stephenson Band / Retrospective:  LSB Live / Whysper Dream Music
• Keep Me Humble / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Get Right With God / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• Shall We Gather At The River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/19/2021

During our second back-to-the-studio Bluegrass Cafe, we paid tribute to not one but two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, shared a healthy portion of new music, and included a whole lot of favorites, too.  Hope you were able to join us!  

The two members of the Hall of Fame were -- and still are -- probably considered to be the top two male country singers of all time.  Though neither were ever "Bluegrass singers," their material certainly has been covered in the World of Bluegrass over the years.  Who are these singers?  Well, none other than George Jones (September 12, 1931 - April 26, 2013) and Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953).  Wonderful music.

We had a little bit of brand new music to share this week, too, with never-before-heard-on-our-program songs from Junior Sisk, Irene Kelley, Shannon Slaughter, and Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road.  We also shared a good bit of music from recordings we've received over the last year, and were trying to find shelf space for at WHUS today.  Those performers were Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Ronnie Bowman, David Peterson & 1946, Tina Adair, the Larry Stephenson Band, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Jesse Brock, Amanda Cook, Merle Monroe, Balsam Range, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, the King James Boys, and Jeremy Stephens. 

Hope you have a wonderful week.  We'll be looking for you next Sunday for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'll Go Steppin' Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Ruby Are You Mad / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Your Love Is Dying / Reno & Smiley / On Stage / Copper Creek
• Cabin Of Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• There Ain't No Easy Street / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Grand Ole Circle / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• You've Walked On My Heart / Lonesome Standard Time / Lonesome As It Gets / Sugar Hill Records
• The Call Of The Wild / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Country Gentleman / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• Looking For A Reason / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Mayberry / Randall Hylton / True Stories, Tall Tales, And Lies... / Copper Creek
• Lovesick Blues / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• My Heart Would Know / David Peterson & 1946 / Cup Of Loneliness / Self-Produced [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Jim Mills with Alan O'Bryant / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill Records [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Cold Cold Heart / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Pan American / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• You Win Again / Ralph Stanley with Melba Montgomery / Clinch Mountain Sweethearts / Rebel [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 Can't Get You Off Of My Mind / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Hey Good Lookin' / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• I Wanna Be Where You Are / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Wild Mountain Stream / Irene Kelley / single / IRK Records
• Goin' Up The Mountain / Shannon Slaughter / single / Elite Circuit Records
• Restless Blue Eyed Lover / Larry Stephenson Band / Retrospective:  LSB Live / Whysper Dream Music
• Lazy Whippoorwill / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Black Rock City / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• The Window Up Above / Ralph Stanley with George Jones / Clinch Mountain Sweethearts / Rebel [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• White Lightning / The Grascals / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds / Rhonda Vincent with Daryle Singletary / Only Me / Upper Management Music [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]
• Color Of The Blues / George Jones / The Essential George Jones / Epic Legacy [Remembering George Jones:  9/12/1931 - 4/26/2013]
• Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel
• Let's Part The Best Of Friends / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• My Used To Be Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Amanda Cook / Narrowing The Gap / Mountain Fever Records
• That's Just Lonesome / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• I've Seen It All / Bob Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
• Roll On Muddy River / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• Highway Side / Balsam Range / Moxie And Mettle / Mountain Home
• You Are My Sunshine / Tom Adams / Right Hand Man / Rounder
• If Lonely Was The Wind / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Leavin' Town / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Scraps From Your Table / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Back To The Mountains / Big Country Bluegrass / Mountains, Mamas And Memories / Rebel
• Forty Years Of Trouble / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Clinging To A Saving Hand / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• More Than Enough / King James Boys / Living On A Promise / Morning Glory Music
• Way Down Deep In My Soul / Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill Records
• I Cannot Bring Them Back (But I Can Go To Them) / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / single / Pinecastle
• I'll Be Happy In My Home / Jeremy Stephens with Paul Brewster / How I Hear It / Rebel
• I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Larry Sparks with Jesse McReynolds & Curly Seckler / Lonesome And Then Some... / Rebel [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/12/2021

For the first Sunday since March 8, 2020, our Bluegrass Cafe was presented live from the WHUS studio at the University of Connecticut.  Does this mean that everything is now completely back to "normal?"  Not really, as COVID regulations currently require us to broadcast while wearing a mask, but overall, it's a step in the right direction, for sure.  While our broadcast wasn't the smoothest ever, it was fun to present music in celebration of a few birthdays, plus there was new music and some classic tunes, too.  Hope you were able to join us!

September 13th is the birth anniversary of the Father of Bluegrass Music, William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 - September 9. 1996).  While you can be assured that you will hear a Bill Monroe tune (either performed or written by him) just about every Sunday, today, we added a few extras in celebration of what would have been Bill's birthday.  Other birthday celebrants for this week include Country Music Hall of Famer (and King of Country Music), Roy Acuff, Lou Reid, Bill Harrell, and Michael Cleveland. We also remembered the late Aaron Foster, who would have celebrated his 29th birthday on September 11th.

There was a smidge of new music, too, from the the likes of Marty Raybon, Starlett & Big John, and the Grascals.  We also included music we've received over the past 18 months from folks like Jesse Brock, Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition, Barry Abernathy, Laurie Lewis, High Fidelity, the Feinberg Brothers, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, the Kody Norris Show, Rock Hearts, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.  

And if all of that wasn't enough, we shared a few songs in honor of National Grandparents Day.

Hope you enjoyed something you heard somewhere along the way today, and that you'll consider joining me once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• My Rose Of Old Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe, 1945-1949 / Columbia [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Is The Grass Any Bluer / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Arleigh / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [National Grandparents Day]
• Grandma's Gift / Dale Ann Bradley / East Kentucky Morning / Pinecastle [National Grandparents Day]
• A Grandmother's Love / Bear Tracks / Rough Edges / AMT Records [National Grandparents Day]
• That Ain't The Grandpa That I Know / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records [National Grandparents Day]
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / Volume Five / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• Got No Reason Now For Goin' Home / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Unwanted Love / Barry Abernathy with Dan Tyminski / Barry Abernathy & Friends / Billy Blue Records
• Rooster Crow / Laurie Lewis with Craig Smith / And Laurie Lewis / Spruce And Maple Music
• Swinging A Nine Pound Hammer / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Music
• Take My Ring From Your Finger / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Don't You Know I Love You, Charlie Brown / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Great Speckle Bird / Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia [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 / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Wreck On The Highway / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Barnyard Frolic / RME Records [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Wabash Cannonball / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Drip Rock Kentucky / Marty Raybon / single / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Have You Back / Starlett & Big John / Till The End Of The Road / Turnberry Records
• Low Down Blues / The Grascals / Up All Night / Mountain Home
• East Bound And Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys with Jason Carter & Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / single / Sound Biscuit
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Whatcha Gonna Do / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• The Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Toy Heart / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass:  Tribute To 1946 And 1947 / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Big Mon / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• I'm Blue And Lonesome / Reno & Smiley / Love Please Come Home / King [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways [Lou Reid birthday, 9/13/1954]
• Walking In The Early Morning Dew / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Remembering Bill Harrell:  9/14/1934 - 6/24/2009]
• Five-String Swing / Michael Cleveland / Tall Fiddler / Compass Records [Michael Cleveland birthday, 9/18/1980]
• I'm Going Back To The Mountains / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder / Larry Sparks / New Moon Over My Shoudler / Rebel
• Whispering Waters / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Is It True / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family
• He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• Marianne / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Modern Times / Rebel
• When I Wake Up To Sleep No More / Aaron "Frosty" Foster / single / Beehive Records [Remembering Aaron Foster:  9/11/1992 - 2/10/2021]
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Walk In The Sunshine / Spinney Brothers / Living The Dream / Mountain Fever Records
• Lay Down Your Troubles / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Inside The Gate / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Get On The Main Highway / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Let The Light Shine Down / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Heartaches And Dreams / Rebel [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• A Little More Faith In Jesus / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/5/2021

Hard to believe, but we've already reached Labor Day weekend.  Where did the summer go?  It seems in eastern CT, we had either days of monsoon-type rains or days of high humidity this summer.  Still, our Labor Day Sunday edition of the Bluegrass Cafe -- the 71st of our COVID-era, recorded-at-home shows -- began with several songs about laboring -- perfectly appropriate for this day.  

In addition to music celebrating labor, we belatedly celebrated the birth anniversary of the Queen of Country Music, Kitty Wells (August 30, 1919 - July 16, 2012).  Kitty Wells was not a voice of Bluegrass music, but like many of her classic country contemporaries, her music has been covered in the world of Bluegrass.

There was a tiny bit of newer music to share this week, too, with brand new selections from forthcoming CDs from Bela Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart and Kristy Cox, as well as newer music from Jeremy Stephens, Jesse Brock, Rock Hearts, Still Pickin', Tina Adair, the Alex Leach Band, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, the Lonesome River Band, and the Industrial Strength Bluegrass collection.

Thanks for listening!  Enjoy the weekend -- and the week, too!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Working Girl Blues / Hazel & Alice / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Rounder
• Working Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• Lower On The Hog / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• Factory Floor / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Workin' Man (Nowhere To Go) / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Poor Boy Workin' Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Greenwood Mill / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Blue Mafia / My Cold Heart / Self-Produced
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• Every Time You Say Goodbye / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• I'm Lost Without You / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Readin', Rightin', Route 23 / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Streamliner / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit Productions
• Juxtaposed / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Blue Blue Day / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced
• Why You Been Gone So Long / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• Big Mon / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit Productions
• It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / Kitty Wells / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Kitty Wells:  8/30/1919 - 7/16/2012]
• I've Kissed You My Last Time / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Remembering Kitty Wells:  8/30/1919 - 7/16/2012]
• Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On / Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder [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]
• The Singing Waterfall / Kitty Wells / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells At KWKH / Bear Family [Remembering Kitty Wells:  8/30/1919 - 7/16/2012]
• Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Drifting With The Tide / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Dream Of Me / Jim & Jesse / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• Life Gets Up And Gets Gone / Becky Buller / Distance And Time / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'm Putting On My Leaving Shoes / Big Country Bluegrass / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Cowboys And Indians / Country Gentlemen / Memories Of The Past / Rebel
• Wheels Up / Bela Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart / single / Renew Records
• Person Of The Year / Kristy Cox / single / Billy Blue Records
• Sophronie / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• Get In Line Buddy / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Love Bug / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Dust On The Bible / Kitty Wells / Dust On The Bible / Decca [Remembering Kitty Wells:  8/30/1919 - 7/16/2012]
• I'm Working On A Road To Gloryland / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume One / Hay Holler
• Golden Rule / Alex Leach Band / I'm The Happiest When I'm Moving / Mountain Home
• Standing On The Banks / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute To The Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• Far Side Banks Of Jordan / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records
• Go Spread The Gospel / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Place On Calvary / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Far Better Than This / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• You Don't Love God If You Don't Love Your Neighbor / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage with Bill Gaither / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS Music
• Drifting Too Far From The Shore / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
  
• The Gospel Ship / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Lord I'm Coming Home / Curly Seckler / 60 Years Of Bluegrass With My Friends / Copper Creek
• I Believe / Del McCoury Band / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume One / GGS Music
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• I Am The Road / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• Goodbye / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / This World Is Not My Home / MCA
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder