"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/13/2022

So, it seems there was a little issue getting into the Student Union at UConn today ~ the building was locked up tight as the UConn students are enjoying their Spring Break this week.  Unfortunately, those of us who are not students didn't get the message, and so, we weren't able to get inside the building.  These things (unfortunately) seem to happen every now and then.  Fortunately, though, in the absence of a "live" show, today's broadcast was a COVID-era recording that originally aired on February 28, 2021.  Hope you enjoyed a revisit.  :)

Hope to be back inside the WHUS studios broadcasting next week.  Until then, have a fine week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Break My Heart / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel
• Back To Hancock County / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Skip, Hop & Wobble / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau [Tony Rice Unit] / In Good Company / CMH
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Ice Covered Birches / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Someone Play Dixie For Me / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Hobo Blues / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Thank God For The Highways / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Just Load The Wagon / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Mend This Heart Of Mine / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Johnson Mountain Chimes / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Grand Ole Opry Song / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Mother Maybelle Carter / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Tennessee Stud / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Doc Watson / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• My Dear Old Southern Home / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / A Long Time Ago / Vivid Sound [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Bob Wills Medley / Bluegrass Cardinals / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH [Remembering Bob Wills:  3/6/1905 - 5/13/1975]
• Idle Time / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder [Mike Compton birthday, 2/29/1956]
• Your Lone Journey / Doc Watson / Best of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Walk Through This World With Me / Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Won't Be Crying Over You / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• Darby's Castle / Professor Dan Boner / West Of West Virginia / Self-Produced
• Swinging A Nine Pound Hammer / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Music
• Flint Hill Special / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Earl Scruggs / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol
• Things In Life / Don Stover / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Satisfied / Sullivan Family / Live! At McClure / Rebel
• Leaning On The Everlasting Arms / The Grascals / Dance 'Til Your Stockings Are Hot And Ravelin' / Time Life
• Praying / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• The Church Back Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Starday
• Going Home / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 1 / Hay Holler
• I've Just Seen The Rock Of Ages / Larry Sparks / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Dust On The Bible / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Jesus Made The Wine / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• My Lord Delivered Me / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Gospel Collection, Volume One / Sugar Hill
• Living On The Hallelujah Side / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• Jesus Is Standing At My Right Hand / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• On The Wings Of A Dove / Gopher Broke Bluegrass / The Wayworn Traveler / Self-Produced
• Get On That Road To Glory / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• It's So Hard To Stumble (When You're Down On Your Knees) / Lou Reid & Carolina / Sounds Like Heaven To Me / Rural Rhythm
• Something That The World Didn't Give Me / Marshall Family / Live! At McClure / Rebel
• When We All Get To Heaven / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Glory Bound Train / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
• I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/6/2022

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured something that I haven't done in over two years -- a bona fide, live-as-it's-happening telephone interview!  Our interviewee was the delightful Michelle Canning, who told us all about the things she's been doing (writing songs like crazy!) and also, about her upcoming virtual event to benefit the Alzheimer's Foundation of America:  A Night On The Edge.  For more information about the event and all of the other things Michelle is doing, visit Michelle's website (https://michellecanning.net).  

The songs we played also included birthday selections in honor of two Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo players who were both born on March 6th:  Don Stover (1928) and Doug Dillard (1937).  Other birthday music celebrated Norman Blake, Rickie Simpkins, Cia Cherryholmes, and the first part of a two-show selection of songs written by the great Marshall Wilborn.  

And we remembered Mac Martin, who died on February 28th at the age of 96.  Mr. Martin was a fine purveyor of traditional Bluegrass music in the Pittsburgh, PA area for over 70 years.  Amazing.

We'll look for you once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.  Hope you have a fine week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Things In Life / Don Stover / Hand-Picked / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Little Annie / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• The Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Bob Wills Medley / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH [Remembering Bob Wills:  3/6/1905 - 5/13/1975]
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Hank / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Polka On A Banjo / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• New Curly Headed Baby / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• A Faded Rose, A Broken Heart / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• Blue Skies In Your Eyes / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• Are You Missing Me / Dailey & Vincent / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways
• Date With An Angel / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Cheek To Cheek With The Blues / Del McCoury / High Lonesome And Blue / Rounder
• Telephone chat with Michelle Canning
• The Blues Ain't Workin' On Me / Michelle Canning with Rhonda Vincent / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Which Train / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• I'd Jump The Mississippi / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records [Norman Blake birthday, 3/10/1938]
• Dusty Miller / Rickie Simpkins / Dancing On The Fingerboard / Pinecastle [Rickie Simpkins birthday, 3/10/1955]
• How Long / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records [Cia Cherryholmes birthday, 3/11/1984]
• Workin' Man (Nowhere To Go) / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Black Pony / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Heart Of A Little Mountain Girl / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• If Lonely Was The Wind / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Goodbye To The Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• I Wanna Be Where You Are / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Don't Let Smokey Mountain Smoke Get In Your Eyes / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• You Are The One / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Dixie In My Eye / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
• The Sun Also Rises / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• 20/20 Vision / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• Down To The River To Pray / Alison Krauss / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• In The Cool Light Of Dawn / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek [Remembering Mac Martin:  4/26/1925 - 2/28/2022]
• There's A Higher Power / Kathy Kallick Band / Between The Hollow & The High-Rise / Live Oak Records
• John In The Jordan / Jerry Salley with the Oak Ridge Boys / All God's Children Sing / Very Jerry Records
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• He Will Set Your Fields On Fire / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe / Columbia Legacy
• Bring Him Your Talents / Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/27/2022

In the days before COVID, it seemed like WHUS used to air every single UConn Basketball game that was played, but today, things are not the same.  While we may not experience sports-shortened radio broadcasts so much these days, we still have to deal with the traffic and parking issues that occur on game days when the basketball teams are playing on campus.  Today was one of those days, but COVID has actually provided us with a "fix," of sorts:  we can give recorded shows an "encore" appearance once in a while.  For this day's Bluegrass Cafe, we were both recorded and live:  the first hour was a broadcast first aired on February 28, 2021, and the second two hours were "warts and all" live broadcasts from WHUS.  Hope you enjoyed this "hybrid."  

During the show, we celebrated birth anniversaries of two wonderful, very original performers: Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 - May 29, 2012) and John Duffey (March 4, 1934 - December 9, 1997).  There's no better way to celebrate a musician than by sharing his music, and so, we did.  And we could have celebrated a lot more, too, but we'll save that for another Sunday.

New music hit our airwaves today, as well, with brand-new music from the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Rick Lang's new stories-in-song collection, Unlimited Tradition, the Lonesome River Band, Kristy Cox, and Cedar Hill.  

Hope you were able to join us, but if not, you'll have another chance in one week.  See you on March 7th!

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

HOUR 1 - originally aired 2/28/2021

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Break My Heart / Rhonda Vincent / A Dream Come True / Rebel
• Back To Hancock County / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Skip, Hop & Wobble / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss When I'm Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau [Tony Rice Unit] / In Good Company / CMH
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Wes Corbett / Fiddler's Pastime / Sugar Petunia Records
• Ice Covered Birches / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Someone Play Dixie For Me / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Hobo Blues / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Thank God For The Highways / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• Just Load The Wagon / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Mend This Heart Of Mine / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Johnson Mountain Chimes / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
  
  

HOURS 2 & 3 - live in studio 2/27/2022

• Grand Ole Opry Song / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol [album released 3/1/1972]
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• Tennessee Stud / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Doc Watson / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Soggy Bottom Boys / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records [received Grammy Award for "Album of the Year," 2/27/2002]
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Maybelle Carter / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol [album released 3/1/1972]
• Ramblin' Woman / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• That Stanley Sound / Cedar Hill / New Chapter / Mountain Fever Records
• Restless Wind / Rick Lang feat. David Parmley / A Tale To Tell / Dark Shadow Recording
• Moonlight, Moonshine, And Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Kristy Cox / Shades Of Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Mary Ann Is A Pistol / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• Lookout Mountain / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home
• Treasures Of The Past / Jesse Brock feat. Greg Blake / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do / Michelle Canning / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• It's Amazing What Sunshine Can Do / Pete Goble / When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass / FireHeart Records
• Old Home Place / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Going Back To Bristol / Shawn Camp / I Sang The Song:  Life Of The Voice With A Heart / Mountain Fever Records
• Jimmy Brown The Newsboy / Mac Wiseman / Time-Life Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life
• Readin', Rightin', Route 23 / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Whispering Waters / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Whatcha Gonna Do / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• You Must Come In At The Door / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• River Of Jordan / Ricky Skaggs & the Whites / Hand-Picked / Rounder
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals:  The Definitive Collection / CMH
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways 
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Starday Records [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/9/1997]
• I Feel Closer To Heaven Everyday / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• Pray The Clouds Away / Jimmy Martin / The Chronological Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1961-1962 / Kipepeo Publishing
• The Gospel Way / Dry Branch Fire Squad / The Gospel Way / Self-Produced
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• The Automobile Of Life / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/20/2022

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured birthday tributes to two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, two members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and one Dr. Banjo.  We also included newer music, and some songs recorded 50 years ago today that were the first recordings of one of the most celebrated bands in the history of Bluegrass Music.  

We had birthday tributes galore this show, with Bluegrass covers of songs originally performed by two Country Music Hall of Famers who were born one day apart:  Faron Young (February 25, 1932 - December 10, 1996) and Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 - September 12, 2003).  This week also happens to be the birthday week of two legendary musicians in the Bluegrass Hall of Fame:  Don Reno (February 21, 1927 - October 16, 1984) and Ralph Stanley (February 25, 1927 - June 23, 2016).  In addition, Pete Wernick celebrates a birthday this week (born February 25, 1946).

In addition, we shared two songs that were the very first recordings made by the Seldom Scene.  Both songs were featured on their 1972 Rebel album, "Act I" and were recorded on February 20, 1972.

If all of that wasn't enough, there was some new (or newish) music by Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive, Mike Compton, Shannon Slaughter, Linda Lay, Dale Ann Bradley & Danny Paisley, and Rick Lang.

Hope you were able to join us for all or part of today's Bluegrass Cafe, but if not, you've got another chance coming up next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  See you then.  😁

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• One Way / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Thinking Of Home / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Records
• Foxhounds / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• I'm Gonna Love You (Like There's No Tomorrow) / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Fiddler's Pastime / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Laura Orshaw / Fiddler's Pastime / Sugar Petunia Records
• Once Upon A Heartbeat / Rarely Herd / Pure Homemade Love / Pinecastle
• Wedding Bell Chimes / Bill & the Belles / DreamSongs, Etc. / Jalopy Records
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Blue Blue Ridge Mountain Girl / Linda Lay / Linda Lay / Mountain Fever Records
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• When I Can Forget / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Chicago Barn Dance / Special Consensus / Chicago Barn Dance / Compass Records
• City Of New Orleans / Seldom Scene / Act I / Rebel [recorded 2/20/1972]
• With Body And Soul / Seldom Scene / Act I / Rebel 
• Darling Corey / Seldom Scene / Act I / Rebel [recorded 2/20/1972]
• Common Ground / Shannon Slaughter / single / Elite Circuit Music
• Hello Blues / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / single / Driving Duke Records
• Orange Blossom Breakdown / Mike Compton / Rare & Fine:  Uncommon Tunes Of Bill Monroe / Self-Produced
• One By One / Dale Ann Bradley with Danny Paisley / single / Pinecastle
• They Sawed Up A Storm / Rick Lang with Becky Buller / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Alone With You / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / Self-Produced [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• A World So Full Of Love / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• Go Back You Fool / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• Goin' Steady / Faron Young / The Complete Capitol Hits Of Faron Young / Capitol [Remembering Faron Young:  2/25/1932 - 12/10/1996]
• Big River / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• I Still Miss Someone / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• There You Go / Jimmy Gaudreau / Classic J.A.G. / Webco [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Hey Porter / Johnny Cash / The Essential Johnny Cash / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Reno Ride / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Hard Times / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Wild Ride / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Green Mountain Hop / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Fling Ding / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Just Like You / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Chattanooga Dog / Summer Wages / Summer Wages / Rebel
• The Cotton Farmer / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• I Know A Good Thing When I Feel It / David Parmley / I Know A Good Thing / Sugar Hill
• Love Grown Cold / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Come Back Home / Jimmy Gaudreau / Classic J.A.G. / Webco
• If I Don't Lose My Fire / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / single / Driving Duke Records
• God On The Mountain / Jesse Brock with Greg Blake / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• A Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave / Ralph Stanley / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/23/2016]
• Get Up In Jesus' Name / Gena Britt with Alecia Nugent / Chronicle:  Friends And Music / Pinecastle
• I Am Going To Heaven / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• When The Angels Sing / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/13/2022

For this week's edition of our Bluegrass Cafe, since it's Valentine's Day Eve, we shared a whole bunch of Bluegrass love songs -- mostly positive ones, but a few more "dysfunctional" songs, too.  Pretty much every facet of the spectrum of love was represented in our love songs today, so that's a good thing.  💓

We also shared several songs in honor of the birth anniversary on February 9th of the Texas Troubadour, Ernest Tubb (February 9, 1914 - September 6, 1984).  Although we know ET was not a "Bluegrass singer," like many of his contemporaries, the music of Ernest Tubb has been covered loads of times in the World of Bluegrass, so it seemed only appropriate to share a few songs.

And we shared a little bit of newer music, too, from the likes of the Edgar Loudermilk Band, a young group of siblings from western Pennsylvania known as Echo Valley, and a new Monroe-centric recording by the great Mike Compton.  Hope you were able to join us.

We'll be looking for you once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.  Until then, have a wonderful week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• All In My Love For You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• The Court Of Love / Rhonda Vincent / Taken / Upper Management Music
• I Know My Baby Loves Me / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Row Number 2, Seat Number 3 / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• You Didn't Say Goodbye / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• You're In My Heart / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Never Ending Song Of Love / Feller & Hill / Here Come Feller And Hill...Again! / Blue Circle Records
• The Rapido Kid / Jason Barie / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• Blue Love In My Heart / Hot Flashes / Eponymous / Happy Appy Records
• You're That Certain Someone / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• I Fell In Love / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• If I Needed You / Seldom Scene [Ricky Skaggs & Sharon White] / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Jim Eanes / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Rose Of My Heart / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• I'll Be Lovin' You / Greg Blake / single / Turnberry Records
• The Sweetest Song I Sing / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Love At Last / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Love Bug / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• Just Lovin' You / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Good Woman's Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• I'm Going Home / Edgar Loudermilk Band / The Dark Side Of Lonesome / Rural Rhythm
• Singing The Blues / Echo Valley / Wildest Dreams / Bell Buckle Records
• Orange Blossom Breakdown / Mike Compton [Bill Monroe] / Rare & Fine:  Uncommon Tunes Of Bill Monroe / Self-Produced
• Reelfoot / Mike Compton / Rare & Fine:  Uncommon Tunes Of Bill Monroe / Self-Produced
• Drivin' Nails In My Coffin / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Letters Have No Arms / Osborne Brothers / The Ernest Tubb Song Folio / Pinecastle [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Are You Waiting Just For Me / Charlie Sizemore / In My View / Rebel [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Waltz Across Texas / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Thanks A Lot / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Sweet Thang / Donna & Roni Stoneman with Tom Mindte / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Walking The Floor Over You / Ernest Tubb / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Georgia Stomp / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [David McLaughlin birthday, 2/13/1958]
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [Remembering Jim McReynolds:  2/13/1927 - 12/31/2002]
• Rebel Soldier / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again--Gone But Not Forgotten / Wango [Remembering Charlie Moore:  2/13/1935 - 12/24/1979]
• Meet Me By The Moonlight / Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby / Meet Me By The Moonlight / Sugar Hill [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956; Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Second Wind / Claire Lynch / Moonlighter / Rounder [Claire Lynch birthday, 2/20/1954]
• Prettier All The Time / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Fourth And Goal / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / 4th & Goal / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc.
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• Move To The Top Of The Mountain / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Way Down Deep In My Soul / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder [David Davis birthday, 2/16/1961]
• Grit And Grace / Balsam Range / Moxie And Mettle / Mountain Home
• Hold To God's Unchanging Hand / Jimmy Martin / The Chronological Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1960-1961 / Kipepeo Publishing
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Harbor Of Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/6/2022

The first Bluegrass Cafe of February also happened to be our first live-as-it-happens show in a few weeks.  We survived it, and hope you did, too.  :)

During the show, we shared songs from of the winners of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (or, SPBGMA) Awards which were presented in ceremonies held last week in Nashville.  Among the winners from whom we heard:  the Kody Norris Show, Junior Sisk, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and Donna Ulisse.  Congratulations to all.

We shared new music from some forthcoming releases from Laura Orshaw, Cedar Hill, the Tim Raybon Band, Amanda Cook, and a new "not really band" of all-stars called the No Joke Jimmy's.  

And we shared music from some fine performers who would have celebrated birthdays this week including Bluegrass Hall of Famers Red Allen and Donna Stoneman, the great Wilma Lee Cooper, and long-time sideman Paul Brewster.  We also remembered a fine musician who died much too young just one year ago this week:  Aaron "Frosty" Foster.  

Hope you heard something you enjoyed during the show today, and that you will consider tuning in once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Pages Of Time / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
• Restless Rambling Heart / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky:  Songs Of Laurie Lewis / Rounder
• Carolina Mountain Home / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• The Hills Of My Home / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky:  Songs Of Laurie Lewis / Rounder
• Lee Highway Blues / Bass Mountain Boys with Chubby Wise / Fiddlin' With Tradition / BMM Records
• I Want To Be Loved / New Kentucky Colonels / The All Night Gang:  Bluegrass From Nashville / Rebel
• You'll Forget / Whitstein Brothers / Sweet Harmony / Rounder
• Fiddlin' John / Summertown Road / Summertown Road / Rounder
• Be Good To My Little Baby Girl / The Sidemen / The All Night Gang:  Bluegrass From Nashville / Rounder
• I Might Take You Back Again / Josh Williams / Sincerely / Pinecastle
• Just Wondering Why / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• Cannonball Yodel / Dede Wyland / Urge For Going / Patuxent Music
• I'll Take The Lonesome Every Time / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Seven Lonely Days / Donna Ulisse / Time For Love / Billy Blue Records
• Readin', Rightin', Route 23 / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Messin' With Sasquatch / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Hitchhiking To California / Billy Blue Records
• Just Load The Wagon / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Kentucky Darlin' / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• Hank / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Leaving Cleveland / Tim Raybon Band / single / Pinecastle
• Smilin' / Cedar Hill / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Be Proud Of The Gray In Your Hair / No Joke Jimmy's / single / No Joke Records
• Another Highway This Time / Amanda Cook / single / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Aaron "Frosty" Foster]
• Songbird / Aaron "Frosty" Foster with the Gibson Brothers / Opening Doors / Self-Produced [Remembering Aaron "Frosty" Foster]
• Daisy A Day / Wilma Lee Cooper / A Daisy A Day / Rebel [Remembering Wilma Lee Cooper:  2/7/1921 - 9/13/2011]
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Paul Brewster birthday, 2/6/1956]
• Bluegrass Breakdown / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music [Donna Stoneman birthday, 2/7/1934]
• Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel [Remembering Red Allen:  2/12/1930 - 4/3/1993]
• You Tried To Ruin My Name / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister / Rounder [Remembering Wilma Lee Cooper:  2/7/1921 - 9/13/2011]
• Tomorrow I'll Be Gone / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [Remembering Wilma Lee Cooper:  2/7/1921 - 9/13/2011]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Roll On Buddy / Monroe Brothers / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1937-1938 / JSP Records
• I'll Be Lovin' You / Greg Blake / single / Turnberry Records
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• Casey Jones / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Fox On The Run / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Are You Walking And A-Talking For The Lord / Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper & the Clinch Mountain Clan / Columbia Country Classics / Columbia [Remembering Wilma Lee Cooper:  2/7/1921 - 9/24/2011]
• The Lord Will Light The Way / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel [Remembering Red Allen:  2/12/1930 - 4/3/1993]
• Get On The Main Highway / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• I Found A Church Today / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Everybody Will Be Happy Over There / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• I'm Going There / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/30/2022

I'm very delinquent in getting this playlist posted for our last Bluegrass Cafe in January, but better late than never...

The first part of Sunday's show featured several songs in honor of four important members of the Bluegrass community who were all born on February 1st.  Chronologically, they are Del McCoury (1939), Tom Gray (1941), David Parmley (1959), and Jason Carter (1973).  In addition, we remembered the January 31st birthdays of Becky Buller (born 1979) and Lynwood Lunsford (1962).

We also included a little bit of brand-new music from the likes of the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Kenny & Amanda Smith, Magnolia Drive, and Junior Sisk.  

Hope you will be able to join us for this coming Sunday's live-in-the-studio Bluegrass Cafe.  

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Loneliness And Desperation / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• You Left Me Alone / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Mountain Laurel / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals / CMH [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Natural To Be Gone / Travelin' McCourys / The Travelin' McCourys / McCoury Music [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• East Bound And Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys with Jason Carter & Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Never Slow Down / Sound Biscuit [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• 32 Acres / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals / CMH [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Grandfather's Clock / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Don't Stop The Music / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 1/31/1979]
• Making Tracks / Lost & Found / Just Pickin' / Copper Creek [Lynwood Lunsford birthday, 1/31/1962]
• Southern Flavor / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 1/31/1979]
• My Little Georgia Rose / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [recorded 2/3/1953]
• Georgia Girl / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Bringing In The Georgia Mail / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Georgia Stomp / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Blues Are Close At Hand / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• Lost In The Shuffle / Linda Lay / Linda Lay / Mountain Fever Records
• Everything To Me / Kenny & Amanda Smith / single / Farmboy Records
• Patches On My Heart / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Unwanted Love / Barry Abernathy with Dan Tyminski / Barry Abernathy & Friends / Billy Blue Records
• The Turntable / Alex Leach Band / I'm The Happiest When I'm Moving / Mountain Home
• The Old Crooked Trail / Big Country Bluegrass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Rebel
• On Whiskey Mountain / Bill Emerson with Bill Harrell / Reunion / Webco
• 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Mac Wiseman / Eight Classic Albums / Real Gone
• If You've Ever Gonna Love Me / Appalachian Express / Walking The Blues / Rebel
• Slowly / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Scissor Jack / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I'll Never Do Better Than You / Charlie Sizemore with Ralph Stanley / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel
• Hello Sunshine / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• Hot Night In August / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Pinecastle
• Sunny Mountain Chimes / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Hot Sauce / Larry Sparks / John Deere Tractor / Rebel
• It's Me Again Lord / Magnolia Drive / Timeless / Mountain Fever Records
• The Hand Of The Higher Power / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• He'll Take You In / Billy & Terry Smith / Bill Monroe Tribute / K-Tel
• Little Community Church / Boys From Indiana / Good Times Blues / Rebel
• Goodnight, The Lord's Coming / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• Keep On The Sunny Side / Carolyn Eyerly / The Sunny Side Of Life / Patuxent Music
• Listen To The Word Of God / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel
• I Ain't Got Time / High Fidelity / High Fidelity / Self-Produced
• Joy Of Revelation / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• I've Read The Book / Marty Raybon / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Are You Walkin' And A Talkin' For The Lord / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• God Sees Me / Flashback / Blues Around My Cabin / Pinecastle
• Clinging To A Saving Hand / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Paul And Silas / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Singing As We Rise / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass 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
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/23/2022

It's January 23rd and it's dang cold.  That's hardly a shocking announcement, but as the temperatures have been slightly colder than normal this January, we thought that was a good "theme" for the first hour of this week's home-recorded Bluegrass Cafe.  We shared all sorts of "cold" songs, so maybe next week, we'll have to look for some "hot" songs to balance things out?  We shall see...

We are recording both this week's edition of our program and next week's, too, as the UConn campus is currently on a higher COVID precaution level of operation, so that means there will be no in-person broadcasting until at least the first week of February.  We're just glad to have a way of recording at home for you, as who wants to go a week without Bluegrass?  :)  

This day's program also included a couple of newer selections from forthcoming or recently-released recordings by Kristy Cox, Larry Cordle, the duo of Dale Ann Bradley & Danny Paisley, a song from the forthcoming CD by New Hampshire songwriter Rick Lang.  

Hope you'll consider joining me once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  Stay safe, stay warm, and have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cold Lonesome Night / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cold Lonesome Night / GSM
• Cold Hard Rain / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise
• Cold Frosty Morn / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
• The Cold Hard Facts / Del McCoury Band / The Cold Hard Facts / Rounder
• Cold Heart / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Cold, Lonely And Blue / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
• Cold Hard Truth / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• Coldest Day Of Winter / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder
• The Wandering Boy / Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Cold North Wind / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• Love Grown Cold / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Love Gone Cold / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel
• Colder And Colder / Lost & Found / My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Hot Corn, Cold Corn / David Grisman, Vince Gill, Herb Pedersen, Jim Buchanan, Emory Gordy, Jr. / Here Today / Rounder
• Cold Kentucky Night / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Cold Trailin' / The Dillards with Byron Berline / Pickin' & Fiddlin'/Back Porch Bluegrass / Collectors' Choice Music
• Toodleoo / Rick Lang with Stephen Mougin / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Appalachian Blue / Kristy Cox / Shades Of Blue / Billy Blue Records
• You've Walked On My Heart / Larry Cordle / Where The Trees Know My Name / MightyCord Records
• One By One / Kitty Wells & Red Foley / 20th Century Masters / MCA Legacy
• One By One / Dale Ann Bradley & Danny Paisley / single / Pinecastle
• Wallkin' West To Memphis / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• The HIlls And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• She's Holding These Lonely Hands Of Mine / Barry Berrier / First Time With Feeling / Pinecastle
• Some Old Day / John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• I'm Not Your Honey Baby Now / Kathy Kallick Band / Foxhounds / Live Oak Records
• (I'll Pawn You My) Gold Watch And Chain / Eddie Adcock & Talk Of The Town / The Acoustic Collection / CMH
• Call Me The Breeze / Eddie Adcock Band / Talk To Your Heart / CMH
• I'd Rather Be Alone / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder
• No Doubt About It / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• You're Not A Drop In The Bucket / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Shuckin' The Corn / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia Legacy
• Get Right With God / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• God Has Been So Good To Me / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• I Hear My Savior Calling / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• When My Time Comes To Go / Gloria Belle with the Johnson Mountain Boys / Love Of The Mountains / Webco
• In His Arms / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Grass Tank Music
• I'm Never Alone / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Working My Way / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• I'm Goin' That Way / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek
• I'll Be Happy In My Home / Jeremy Stephens with Paul Brewster / How I Hear It / Rebel
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Jesus I'll Never Forget / Forbes Family / Best Of The Early Forbes Family / Rebel
• Going Up / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Standing On The Banks / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute To The Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• You Can Go To Heaven / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• Sinner You Better Get Ready / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• Two Wings / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder
• Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / Jimmy Martin / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / MME
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
  
  

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/16/2022

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included lots of birthday music, a Bluegrass farewell to a top-notch country music songwriter, and even a new duet from two of the finest voices in Bluegrass music.  Hope you were able to join us for all or part of the program.

We started and finished the show with songs from the prolific pen of an American original:  Dolly Parton (born January 19, 1946).  As Dolly has dabbled in Bluegrass music for years, we even included some of her singing, as well.

On Friday, January 14, 2022, the music world lost a wonderful member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame:  Dallas Frazier.  Originally, my plan was to play a couple of Mr. Frazier's tunes that had been covered in the Bluegrass world, but as I made a list of some of his songs, I realized there were far more than 2 or 3 really good ones to share.  Instead, we put together a set of a dozen songs either written or co-written by Dallas Frazier, and all of them were wonderful.  Rest in peace, Dallas Frazier.

We couldn't let the show pass without remembering a few January birthdays, two of which were of founding members of the Country Gentlemen (Bill Emerson born January 22nd and Charlie Waller born January 19th).  And there was a song in honor of Tony Trischka, who celebrates his birthday on January 16th.

And if that wasn't enough, there is a new duet record by Dale Ann Bradley and Danny Paisley.  Yay!

Hope you were able to tune in to the show, but if not, we sure hope you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• AppleJack / Pam Gadd with Dolly Parton / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway Productions [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• My Tennessee Mountain Home / Dolly Parton / The Essential Dolly Parton / Columbia Legacy [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Gypsy, Joe And Me / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Jolene / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury / My Dixie Home / Rebel
• Blue Eyed Darlin' / Jason Barie / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• Country Boy, Banjo And Flat Top Guitar / Big Country Bluegrass / Mountains, Mamas, And Memories / Rebel
• Timber I'm Falling / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / Self-Produced [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• I'm So Afraid Of Losing You Again / Chris Jones / Just A Drifter / Rebel [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Ain't Love A Good Thing / New Coon Creek Girls / Ain't Love A Good Thing / Pinecastle [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Baptism Of Jesse Taylor / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• California Cottonfields / J.D. Crowe & Rickey Wasson / Hats Off To Haggard! / TrueGrass Entertainment [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• All I Have To Offer You Is Me / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone) / Mark Newton with the Whites / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Fourteen Carat Mind / Lost & Found / It's About Time / Rebel [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Back In My Baby's Arms Again / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Shoulder To Shoulder / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder [Remembering  Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• Beneath Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes 1 & 2 / Sugar Hill [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Dallas Frazier:  10/27/1939 - 1/14/2022]
• One By One / Dale Ann Bradley with Danny Paisley / single / Pinecastle
• I Surely Will Be Singing / Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz / Surely Will Be Singing / Mountain Fever Records
• Larry Sparks Medley / Josh Williams, Bradley Walker, Russell Moore / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Once More / The Grascals / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Come And Sit By The River / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/8/2004]
• Ridin' The High Iron / Bill Emerson / Gold Plated Banjo / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• High Lonesome / Bill Emerson with Charlie Waller / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• New York Chimes / The Big Dogs with Tony Trischka / Live At The Birchmere / Strictly Country Records [Tony Trischka birthday, 1/16/1949]
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Hometown Blues / Seldom Scene / SCENEchronized / Sugar Hill
• Let The Whole World Talk / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• People, Places, And Songs / Greg Blake / People, Places, And Songs / Turnberry Records
• Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Claire Lynch / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Shall We Gather At The River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Traveling On And On / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• The Shining Path / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1945-1949 / Columbia 
• Enter The Gates / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• When He Calls My Name / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Hitchhiking To California / Billy Blue Records
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder