"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/15/2023

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured music from two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame as well as a whole lot of music from a bona fide Bluegrass legend (and member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame).  Hope you were able to join us for lots of music from the song catalogs of Ray Price, Dolly Parton, and Charlie Waller.  

We also included a couple of brand-new songs from Casey Penn, Greg Blake & Hometown, and Jason Carter.  

We'll be looking for you next Sunday afternoon for another session in our Bluegrass Cafe.

Until then, have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Sky Is Weeping / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Summer When You First Loved Me / Lonesome River Band / Head On Into Heartache / Mountain Home
• 32 Acres / Special Consensus / 25th Anniversary / Pinecastle
• The Likes Of You / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• The Eighth Of January / Chubby Wise / An American Original / Pinecastle
• Leftover Biscuits / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity with Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Sad And Blue / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• Battle Of New Orleans / Fritts Family / Home Grown Tomatoes / Atteiram Records
• The Train Song / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Singing Harmony / The Big Dogs with Tony Trischka / Live At The Birchmere / Strictly Country Records
• Tennessee / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Dickson County Breakdown / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Never Say Never Again / Dwight McCall / Never Say Never Again / F5 Music
• Poor Old Cora / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Rebels Ye Rest / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• We Go Together Like A Guitar And A Fiddle / Casey Penn / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Kissimmee Kid / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• In The Wind / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Self-Produced
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• I'll Be There / Ray Price / The Essential Ray Price, 1951-1962 / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Move On In And Stay / Mickey Harris / Dog House Blues / MJH Records [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Falling, Falling, Falling / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Crazy Arms / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Jim & Jesse / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics -- The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• You Done Me Wrong / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• I Can't Go Home Like This / Ray Price / The Essential Ray Price, 1951-1962 / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• My Tennessee Mountain Home / Dolly Parton / My Tennessee Mountain Home / RCA [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• My Blue Tears / Rhonda Vincent / My Blue Tears / Rebel [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Gypsy, Joe, And Me / Rhonda Vincent / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• 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]
• Loving You Too Well / Ralph Stanley with Dolly Parton / Clinch Mountain Sweethearts / Rebel [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• That's Why I'm Lonesome / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Can't You Hear Me Calling / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Dark As A Dungeon / Seldom Scene with Charlie Waller / 15th Anniversary Celebration [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Bill Emerson with Charlie Waller & Doyle Lawson / Teach Your Children / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004; Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Shall We Gather At The River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Country Faith Bluegrass / Billy Blue Records
• Walk On Faith / King James Boys / Walk On Faith / Pinecastle
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder 
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• Before The Fire Comes Down / Del McCoury Band / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• On The Sunny Side Of Life / Country Gentelmen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/8/2023

Happy New Year!  Our first live-in-the-studio Bluegrass Cafe for 2023 featured a look back at some of the finest Bluegrass releases for 2022.  In fact, our first hour (plus a bit more) included (mostly) 2022 releases from all kind of bands and performers, including the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, Dan Tyminski, Greg Blake, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, the Junior Sisk Band, Laura Orshaw, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Authentic Unlimited, the Gibson Brothers, Del McCoury, and others.  Great music.

On this January 8th, we celebrated in song the birth anniversary of the late Randall Hylton (January 8, 1945 - March 19, 2001).  Randall Hylton was one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of Bluegrass music, and we shared ten of his songs during our program.  And we can't forget that the King -- Elvis Presley -- also would have celebrated his birthday on January 8th, so we shared his version of "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" during this broadcast.

Hope you're enjoying your 2023 so far.  We'll look forward to you joining us once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  Please do!

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'm Warming Up To An Old Flame / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Sam's Place / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• Jesse James / Lonesome River Band / Heyday / Mountain Home
• Church Street Blues / Dan Tyminski with Molly Tuttle / One More Time Before You Go:  A Tribute To Tony Rice / North Star Records
• She'll Change / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch
• I'll Be Lovin' You / Greg Blake / single / Turnberry Records
• My, My, My / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / In Dreams I Go Back / Mountain Fever Records
• Hayes' Hoedown / Apple & Setser / Apple & Setser / Bell Buckle Records
• I Wanna Be Where You Are / Junior Sisk / Lost & Alone / Mountain Fever Records
• I Can't Settle Down / Laura Orshaw with Jenee Fleenor & Brittany Haas / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Blue Ridge Mountain Baby / Appalachian Road Show / Jubilation / Billy Blue Records
• Big City / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / single / Billy Blue Records
• That's Why You Left Me So Blue / Jason Barie with Bobby Osborne & Doyle Lawson / single / Billy Blue Records
• Deep River / Rick Faris / The Next Mountain / Dark Shadow Recording
• Take My Ashes To The River / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• They Sawed Up A Storm / Rick Lang with Becky Buller / A Tale To Tell / Dark Shadow Recording
• Blackbird / Special Consensus / single / Compass Records
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Almost Proud / Del McCoury Band / Almost Proud / McCoury Music
• Before You Miss Me / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Old Rusty Gate / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Old Rusty Gate / Rebel
• No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Tomorrow I'll Be Gone / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Misery Loves Company / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Elvis Presley / The Early Years / Newsound [Remembering Elvis Presley:  1/8/1935 - 8/16/1977]
• Sawmill Road / Randall Hylton / True Stories, Tall Tales & Lies / Copper Creek [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• China Grove, My Hometown / Curley Seckler / Down In Caroline / Copper Creek [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Hot Night In August / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Country Poor, Country Proud / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP&CD Records [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Slowly Getting You Out Of The Way / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Wanting, Wanting You / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Room At The Top Of The Stairs / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Slippers With Wings / Charlie Waller & Randall Hylton / The Singer & The Songster / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Blink Of An Eye / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Toil, Tears And Trouble / Connie & Joe / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Once More / Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life
• This HIlls And Home / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday
• Pretty Polly / Ralph Stanley with Patty Loveless / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Patty Loveless birthday, 1/4/1957]
• Love Bug / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / All Suited Up / Rebel [Kody Norris birthday, 1/6/1988]
• Shuckin' The Corn / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Gonna Be Movin' / Balsam Range / Trains I Missed / Mountain Home [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Lay Down Your Troubles / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco [Gary Ferguson birthday, 1/6/1950]
• Listen To Him / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / 10 / Galyean Family Records 
• Will You Be Ready To Go Home / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• I Couldn't Make It Without Him / Jay Armsworthy / I Couldn't Make It Without Him / Blue Circle Records
• Everybody Will Be Happy Over There / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• Going Up / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/1/2023 -- an encore presentation!

It's a new year!  We aren't allowed to be at UConn today broadcasting live, but we're happy to share a Bluegrass Cafe from the COVID-era archives with you on this first day of 2023.  If you're listening, you're probably aware that this show originally aired on January 3, 2020.  During our three hours for that broadcast, we shared loads of music from the then-recently-deceased Tony Rice (June 8, 1951 - December 25, 2020), and we included birthday tributes to two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame who are wickedly important in the history of Bluegrass -- and really ALL -- music:  Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953) and Earl Scruggs (January 6, 1924 - March 28, 2012).  

Hope you enjoyed the encore presentation, and we'll plan to be with for a live-in-the-studio show on January 8th!

Until then, Happy New Year!!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cold On The Shoulder / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Walk On Boy / Rice Brothers / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Bill Emerson with Tony Rice / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind / Claire Lynch / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Way / Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Move It On Over / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder  [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]
• Singing Waterfall / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Settin' The Woods On Fire / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'n' Live / Sugar Hill  [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  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Hey Good Lookin' / Hank Williams / Live At The Opry / Opry Music  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Wake Up And Smell The Coffee / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Last Train / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Sarah Jarosz / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Hitchhiking To California / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / single / Billy Blue Records
• Lonesome Leaving Train / Amanda Cook / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Auld Lang Syne / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Gusto
• San Antone / Bobby Atkins, Frank Poindexter, & Tony Rice / 1968 Session / Old Homestead Records [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Leaves That Are Green / J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys / single / Lemco [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Ten Degrees And Getting Colder / J.D. Crowe & the New South / The New South / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Blackberry Blossom / Tony Rice / Manzanita / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Church Street Blues / Tony Rice / Church Street Blues / Sugar Hill[Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Greenlight On The Southern / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• More Pretty Girls Than One / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams with Tony Rice / Down Home / Pinecastle [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Sawing On The Strings / Alison Krauss / A Hundred Miles Or More / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Dudley Connell with Tony Rice / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Heavy Traffic Ahead / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Pike County Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Farewell Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Come On Down / Fast Track / Fast Track / Engelhardt Music Group
• Father, Son, And The Holy Ghost / Ernie Thacker / The Chill Of Lonesome / Doobie Shea Records
• Prettiest Flower There / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• It's Just Like Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Collection
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• The Old Crossroads / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• I'll Answer The Call / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• Jesus Is Standing At My Right Hand / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / James King / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Shine, Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records
• From Jerusalem To Jericho / Hank Williams / The Unreleased Recordings / Time Life [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• So Many Years, So Many Blessings / Lewis Family / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• I Believe / Del McCoury Band / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• Get Up In Jesus' Name / Marty Raybon / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• Wonderful, Beautiful Place / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The News Is Out / Sugar Hill
• When The Sun Of Life Goes Down / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics (1946-1950) / Cattle [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/18/2022

Happy New Year!  

I'm super late in getting our last live-in-the-studio playlist for Bluegrass Cafe posted here.  Where does the time go?

Anyhow, as you can imagine, during our final show of the year, we shared lots of great Christmas music, mostly Bluegrass but with a few classic country offerings, as well.  We also included a couple of newer Christmas selections from 2022, including music Rick Lang, Don Rigsby, Becky Buller, and Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers.  

There were even four new songs played on the December 18th show that were not Christmas songs at all.  Among them:  a track from the new solo recording by Becky Isaacs Bowman (featuring Del McCoury on the lead vocal), Larry Sparks, David Parmley, and a duet from Kristy Cox & Marty Raybon.

In order to allow their employees to have a complete vacation, the University of Connecticut decided to lock the Student Union completely both on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, but we plan to be back on the air with you LIVE next Sunday, January 8th.  Until then, hope you had a great Christmas and that you'll enjoy lots of health and happiness in 2023!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Jingle Bells / Country Gentlemen / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
• Christmas Country Style / Larry Stephenson Band / Close My Eyes To Heaven / Webco
• I'm Goin' Home, It's Christmas Time / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Christmas Time With Ralph Stanley / Freeland Records
• Christmas In The Mountains / David Parmley & Continental Divide / A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' / Pinecastle
• All I Want Is Mary For Christmas / Lonesome River Band / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• Christmas Time's A-Coming / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Christmas Time's A-Comin':  The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Collection / Time Life
• Christmas Time Back Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Bluegrass Holiday / Rick Lang / single / Self-Produced
• 12 Days Of Bluegrass Christmas / Foxfire / Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas / Pinecastle
• Bluegrass, White Snow / Patty Loveless with Ricky Skaggs & Dolly Parton / Bluegrass & White Snow / Epic
• Bluegrass Christmas / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Christmas Time's A-Comin:  The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Collection / Time Life
• Two Step 'Round The Christmas Tree / Amy Gallatin / 'Tis The Season / Happy Appy Records
• An Old Fashioned Christmas Polka / Riders In The Sky / Christmas The Cowboy Way / Rounder
• Christmas Swing / Chesapeake / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• Christmas Is Near / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• I'll Meet You In The Morning / Becky Isaacs Bowman with Del McCoury / Songs That Pulled Me Through The Hard Times / Self-Produced
• Kentucky's Never Been This Far From Tennessee / Kristy Cox & Marty Raybon / single / Billy Blue Records
• West Virginia / David Parmley / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Mama's Apron Strings / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• In The Window / Claire Lynch Band / Holiday! / Thrill Hill Records
• Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy (Daddy Looked A Lot Like Him) / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
• Country Christmas / Loretta Lynn / 20th Century Masters -- The Christmas Collection / MCA
• The Carols Those Kids Used To Sing / Statler Brothers / Christmas Card / Rounder
• Away In A Manger / Loretta Lynn / 20th Century Masters -- The Christmas Collection / MCA
• I'll Be Walkin' The Floor This Christmas / Ernest Tubb / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• An Old Christmas Card / Jim Reeves / Twelve Songs Of Christmas / RCA Legacy
• Po' Folks Christmas / Bill Anderson / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• One Of Everything You Got / Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Merry Christmas From Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Rock Beat
• Reindeer Boogie / Hank Snow / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• A Very Merry Christmas / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK
• My Little Silver Bells / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• That White Christmas Song / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• Christmas Doll / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / Starday King 
• Lump Of Coal / Don Rigsby / single / Engelhardt Music Group
• White House Christmas / White House / A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' / Pinecastle
• Blue Christmas Lights / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• Dancing In The Snow / Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz / single / Mountain Fever Records
• The Box / Becky Buller / The Perfect Gift / Dark Shadow Recording
• Oh, Christmas Candle / Stony Point Quartet / Christmas Time Back Home / Cracker Barrel
• Christmas Story / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• There's A New Kid In Town / Heather Berry / Have A Merry Berry Christmas / Mountain Fever Records
• The Friendly Beasts / Johnson Mountain Boys / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• Light Of The Stable / Ricky Skaggs & the Whites / A Skaggs Family Christmas, Volume 2 / Skaggs Family Records
• No Room At The Inn / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / single / Billy Blue Records
• I Can't Go Home This Christmas / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
• Precious Child / Tony Trischka with Dudley Connell & James King / Glory Shone Around / Rounder
• The First Noel/It Came Upon The Midnight Clear/Joy To The World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK
• Jingle Bells / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / Starday King

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/4/2022

As it always seems in the month of December, you blink and notice that a few days have passed.  :)  I am incredibly tardy in posting our Bluegrass Cafe playlist from the first Sunday of December, and we stayed home for a "Snow Day" this past Sunday, but still...it's high time to share the playlist from our December 4th radio show...if I can remember back that far...

It looks like our Letter of the Day for the December 4th show was "D."  To that end, we shared music from several "D" performers, including David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, Hazel Dickens, Bob Dick, Dailey & Vincent, Jerry Douglas, Dry Branch Fire Squad, John Duffey, and the Dillards, just to name a few.  We also put two "D" brothers in the spotlight for a couple of reasons:  December happens to be the month of each of their birth anniversaries, and also, while these brothers did not sing "Bluegrass music" (they performed even before Bluegrass was "invented!"), there is no doubt that the music and harmonies of the Delmore Brothers (Alton & Rabon) have influenced and inspired many performers in the Bluegrass world.  We included ten Delmore Brothers songs, performed both by the brothers and by a bunch of other fine folks, including the Traditional Grass, the Louvin Brothers, David Peterson & 1946, the Nashville Bluegrass Band, and the Feinberg Brothers, among others.  

We shared music from a few other December birthday celebrants, too, including Bobby Osborne, Chris Jones, Jack Cooke, Jim Eanes, and Chris Hillman.   

Barring any other storm activity (and assuming we can get into the Student Union during the UConn Winter Break), I hope to join you on the WHUS airwaves this coming Sunday afternoon -- December 18th -- from 4-7PM.

Until then, enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• One Moonlight Night / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• Tell Me That You Love Me / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Sing Me Back Home:  The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 / Free Dirt
• Appleland Breakdown / Bob Dick / Life's Highway / Self-Produced
• He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• Cumberland River / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Too Blue To Have The Blues / Detour / Going Nowhere Fast / Mountain Fever Records
• How Will I Explain About You / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Records
• Raising The Bar / Chad Darou / Raising The Bar / Bell Buckle Records
• The Young Fisherwoman / John Duffey [Country Gentlemen] / John Duffey:  The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel
• High Wire / Deer Creek Boys / Midnight & Dawn / Mountain Fever Records
• Cannonball Blues / Jerry Douglas & Peter Rowan / Yonder / Sugar Hill
• Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine / Diamond Creek / Where Do I Go From Here / New Time Records
• Whistlin' Rufus / Stuart Duncan / Stuart Duncan / Rounder
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• Nobody's Darlin' But Mine / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Bird Bath / Mark Delaney / SideCar / Patuxent Music
• Blue Yodel #4 / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Never See My Home Again / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• I've Got The Big River Blues / Delmore Brothers / Classic Cuts, 1933-1941 / JSP Records [Remembering the Delmore Brothers:  Alton (12/25/1908 - 6/9/1964) & Rabon (12/3/1910 - 12/4/1952)]
• Blues Stay Away From Me / Larry Sparks with Vince Gill / 40 / Rebel [Remembering the Delmore Brothers:  Alton (12/25/1908 - 6/9/1964) & Rabon (12/3/1910 - 12/4/1952)]
• Some Of These Days (You're Gonna Be Sad) / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced [Remembering the Delmore Brothers:  Alton (12/25/1908 - 6/9/1964) & Rabon (12/3/1910 - 12/4/1952)]
• When It's Time For The Whippoorwill To Sing / Louvin Brothers / A Tribute To The Delmore Brothers / Capitol Nashville [Remembering the Delmore Brothers:  Alton (12/25/1908 - 6/9/1964) & Rabon (12/3/1910 - 12/4/1952)]
• Weary Lonesome Blues / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel [Remembering the Delmore Brothers:  Alton (12/25/1908 - 6/9/1964) & Rabon (12/3/1910 - 12/4/1952)]
• Happy On The Mississippi Shores / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering the Delmore Brothers:  Alton (12/25/1908 - 6/9/1964) & Rabon (12/3/1910 - 12/4/1952)]
• Brown's Ferry Blues / Louvin Brothers / A Tribute To The Delmore Brothers / Capitol Nashville [Remembering the Delmore Brothers:  Alton (12/25/1908 - 6/9/1964) & Rabon (12/3/1910 - 12/4/1952)]
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams with Tony Rice / Down Home / Pinecastle [Remembering the Delmore Brothers:  Alton (12/25/1908 - 6/9/1964) & Rabon (12/3/1910 - 12/4/1952)]
• Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar / Delmore Brothers / Classic Cuts, 1933-1941 / JSP Records [Remembering the Delmore Brothers:  Alton (12/25/1908 - 6/9/1964) & Rabon (12/3/1910 - 12/4/1952)] 
• Hickory Wind / Chris Hillman / Morning Sky / Sugar Hill [Chris Hillman birthday, 12/4/1944]
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Jim Eanes / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars [Remembering Jim Eanes:  12/6/1923 - 11/21/1995]
• North To Alaska / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle [Remembering Jack Cooke:  12/6/1936 - 12/3/2009]
• Final Farewell / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lost Souls & Free Spirits / Rebel [Chris Jones birthday, 12/7/1959]
• Ruby (Are You Mad At Your Man) / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Bobby Osborne birthday, 12/7/1931]
• Love Reunited / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder [Chris Hillman birthday, 12/4/1944]
• If We Make It Through December / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Winter's Grace / Signature Sounds
• Blue Christmas / Larry Sparks / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
• Muddy Waters / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• The Old Home Town / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music [Remembering the Delmore Brothers:  Alton (12/25/1908 - 6/9/1964) & Rabon (12/3/1910 - 12/4/1952)] 
• Try A Little Kindness / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder [Bobby Osborne birthday, 12/7/1931]
• Children, Go Where I Send Thee / Williamson Branch / Very Merry Christmas / Pinecastle
• Walk On Faith / King James Boys / Walk On Faith / Pinecastle
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris Band / Bluegrass Spirit / Rounder
• Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill / Feller & Hill / I Firmly Promise You / Tommy Hillpicker Records
• Little Country Preacher / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Who Do You Think / Chosen Road with Jimmy Fortune / Appalachian Christmas / Thoroughbred Records
• Going Up / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• I Found A Church Today / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist -- 11/27/2022

Our last Bluegrass Cafe for the month of November followed Thanksgiving.  To go along with the holiday, I was feeling both GLAD and GRATEFUL to be back on the radio after a week's absence.  As I didn't have a particular plan for how the show should go, I ended up spotlighting many Bluegrass performers with a last name or band name that begins with the letter "G."  To that end, we heard from performers as varied as Jimmy Gaudreau, Richard Greene, the Gibson Brothers, the Good Ol' Persons, Josh Graves, the Grascals, Pete Goble, and others.  We also included New England "G" bands such as Grass Routes, Gopher Broke, and Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters.

Thanksgiving's passing means the arrival of Christmas music.  We shared a few  selections from several new Christmas recordings, including new full albums from Becky Buller and Williamson Branch, and Christmas singles from Authentic Unlimited, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and Rick Lang.  

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  We'll look for you once again this coming Sunday, 4-7PM.

See you then!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone /Jimmy Gaudreau [Tony Rice Bluegrass Unit] / In Good Company / CMH
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Tim Graves / Walking On New Grass / Pinecastle
• Look For Me / Angelica Grim / Look For Me / Patuxent Music
• Panhandle Country / Richard Greene / The Grass Is Greener / Rebel
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• Waves Of Sorrow / Grasstowne / Kickin' Up Dust / Rural Rhythm
• Montana Cowgirl (Coyote Song) / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Phoenix / Happy Appy Records
• Mean Greene / Ben Greene / Bluegrass Sideman / Blue Circle Records
• Leavin's Heavy On My Mind / The Grascals / The Grascals / Rounder
• Your Old Standby / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• I Can't Stand To Ramble / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'N' Live / Sugar Hill
• My Dixie Home / Goins Brothers / We'll Carry On / Hay Holler
• When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass / Pete Goble / When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass / FireHeart Records
• A Good Way To Get The Blues / Grass Cats / A Good Way To Get The Blues / New Time Records
• Sourwood Mountain / Daniel Grindstaff / April's Fool / Self-Produced
• Heart And Soul / Gillis Brothers / Heart & Soul / Rebel
• Hold Whatcha Got / Pam Gadd / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway Productions
• Aim High / Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle / Aim High / Rural Rhythm
• Fireball / Josh Graves / Sultan Of Slide / OMS Records
• A Marshmallow World / Becky Buller with Rhonda Vincent / The Perfect Gift / Dark Shadow Recording
• Old Fashioned Christmas / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers with Paul Williams / single / Billy Blue Records
• Very Merry Christmas / Williamson Branch / Very Merry Christmas / Pinecastle
• Silent Night / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
• Bluegrass Holiday / Rick Lang / single / Self-Produced
• I Feel The Blues Moving In / Jr Williams / Railroad Town / Mountain Fever Records
• Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1953-1955 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Heartaches Keep On Coming / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• My, My, My / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / In Dreams I Go Back / Mountain Fever Records
• Dooley's Farm / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway with Billy Strings / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• New York Town / Peter Rowan / Calling You From My Mountain / Rebel
• Almost Proud / Del McCoury Band / Almost Proud / McCoury Music
• After The Fire Is Gone / Pam Gadd with Marty Raybon / Benefit Of Doubt / Home Sweet Highway Productions
• Poor Rambler / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / 10 / Galyean Family Records
• Home Is Where The Heart Is / David Grisman / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Diamond Joe / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• The Old Home / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia
• Turkey In The Straw / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• I'll Fly Away / Gospel Plowboys / Still Standing / Morning Glory Music
• I Know His Voice / Del McCoury / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Joy Bells / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill 
• Listen To The Word Of God / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• Let Me Walk In Your Footsteps Moses / Gopher Broke / The Wayworn Traveler / Self-Produced
• Shine, Hallelujah, Shine / Reno & Smiley / Together Again / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/13/2022

At last, here's the playlist from Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  Our show on this Sunday had no particular "theme," so we started out with an hour's worth of songs recorded by performers with a band name or last name that began with the letter "N."  Why N?  Why not?  :)  Actually, "N" was chosen in honor of the month of November.  To that end, we heard from performers as varied as the Kody Norris Show, Northern Lights, Mark Newton, Nu-Blu, the Nashville Bluegrass Band, and Alecia Nugent, as well as New England favorites, the Neon Valley Boys and Northernbound.  

For something slightly different, we also cast a bit of spotlight on four albums I brought along from home:  "The Early Days Of Bluegrass, Volume 10" by Connie & Babe (Rounder), "Modern Sounds Of Bluegrass Music" by the Osborne Brothers (Decca), "Play It Like It Is" by the Country Gentlemen (Rebel), and "We'll Still Sing On" by the Johnson Mountain Boys (Rounder).  Three songs from each LP were shared during the show.  

This Sunday -- tomorrow, November 20th -- I will not be in the studio to share a live version of the Bluegrass Cafe.  The lose plan is to have a re-airing of our Bluegrass Cafe which originally aired on November 21, 2021.  I plan to be back in the studio for a live presentation of our program one week from tomorrow -- Sunday, November 27th.  

Hope you and yours have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Kentucky Darlin' / Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• Mr. Engineer / Northern Connection / Northern Connection / Patuxent Music
• Breaking New Ground / Alecia Nugent / A Little Girl...A Big Four-Lane / Rounder
• Twilight Time / Northernbound / Time Goes So Fast / Self-Produced
• Grandad Hank / Northernbound / Grandad Hank / Self-Produced
• No Answer Blues / New Vintage / No Time For The Blues / Pinecastle
• Pain Of Loving You / Mark Newton with Gloria Belle / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel
• Home From The Mills / Northern Lights / Living In The City / Red House Records
• The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore / New Coon Creek Girls / The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore / Pinecastle
• It's Raining The Blues / New Found Road / Somewhere Between / Mountain Home
• That Road / Nu-Blu / Ten / Rural Rhythm
• The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder
• If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone) / Michelle Nixon & Drive / What More Should I Say / Pinecastle
• Flora, The Lily Of The West / Newtown / Newtown / Self-Produced
• One Tear / No One You Know / Calm Before The Storm / Mountain Fever Records
• Six Feet Of Snow / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Over And Over / Nothin' Fancy / It's A Good Feeling / Mountain Fever Records
• Mountain Rosalie / Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• From Me To We / Greg Blake / People, Places And Songs / Turnberry Records
• Just Ain't / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• Sourwood Mountain / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
• Tomorrow I'll Be Gone / Mary Rachel Nalley / Headed Back To Bowling Green / Self-Produced
• Roll Muddy River / Osborne Brothers / Modern Sounds Of Bluegrass Music / Decca
• Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello (In A Friendly Kind Of Way) / Osborne Brothers / Modern Sounds Of Bluegrass Music / Decca
• One Tear / Osborne Brothers / Modern Sounds Of Bluegrass Music / Decca
• Farewell Blues / Tony Trischka with Earl Scruggs / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• Fox On The Run / Tony Trischka with Tom Adams / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder
• How Will The Flowers Bloom / Connie & Babe / The Early Days Of Bluegrass, Volume 10 / Rounder
• Barbara Allen / Connie & Babe / The Early Days Of Bluegrass, Volume 10 / Rounder
• The Lonely Years Belong To Me / Connie & Babe / The Early Days Of Bluegrass, Volume 10 / Rounder
• Proud Mary / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Ten Degrees And Getting Colder / Dan Tyminski with Dailey & Vincent / One More Time Before You Go:  A Tribute To Tony Rice / North Star Records
• I'll Live In Dixie / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies / Dan Tyminski with Billy Strings / One More Time Before You Go:  A Tribute To Tony Rice / North Star Records
• Cold November Rain / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Almost Proud / Del McCoury Band / Almost Proud / McCoury Music
• Raggy Mountain Shakedown / Country Gentlemen / Play It Like It Is / Rebel
• Banana Boat Song / Country Gentlemen / Play It Like It Is / Rebel
• Going To The Races / Country Gentlemen / Play It Like It Is / Rebel
• Are You Washed In The Blood / Northernbound / Time Goes So Fast / Self-Produced
• God's Not Dead / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Angels Watching Me / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Old Satan / Jim Eanes / Let Him Lead You / Rebel
• I'm A Stranger / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Living Left To Do / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• John 3:16 / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best:  All Bluegrass, All Gospel / Starday King
• I've Made A Covenant / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/6/2022

Before the week completely gets away from me, here's a look back at Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe!

We had no particular theme for this show, although we did include a couple of "leftover" ghostly tales from the previous week's mostly-Halloween show.  We also had a little bit of newer music to share from the likes of Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Theo & Brenna, the Lost & Found, Tina Adair, Steven Moore, Nick Chandler & Delivered, and the Gibson Brothers.

In addition, we celebrated the November 6th birthday of the great Junior Sisk, and belatedly celebrated the 85th birthday of Grand Ole Opry legend and Country Music Hall of Famer, Bill Anderson (born November 1, 1937).  Ol' Whisperin' Bill is still a very prolific songwriter, and our tribute to him included several Bluegrass covers of a few of his songs, as well as the man himself singing a classic on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry.

Hope you've had a fine week, so far, and we'll see you on the radio again this coming Sunday, 4-7PM.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Birmingham Jail / Barry Abernathy with Vince Gill / Barry Abernathy & Friends / Billy Blue Records
• Between The Lines / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• Goodbye Marie / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• I Can't Settle Down / Laura Orshaw with Brittany Haas & Jenee Fleenor / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• The Ghost Of Noah Hayes / Rick Pardue & Timmy Massey / The Ghost Of Noah Hayes / Lizard Records
• Ashes Of Love / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• A Couple Beers More / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Clinch Mountain Mystery / Larry Stephenson Band / Clinch Mountain Mystery / Pinecastle
• The Long Black Veil / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
  
• The Convict And The Rose / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Down, Down, Down / Mary Rachel Nalley / Headed Back To Bowling Green / Self-Produced
• Duncan And Brady / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Traveling Kind / Self-Produced
• Amandalyn / Merl Johnson / Better Man / Patuxent Music
• Echo Mountain / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / 10 / Galyean Family Records
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango Records
• Don't Tell Me Stories / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Milwaukee Blues / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• I've Been Down That Road / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / single / Billy Blue Records
• I Can Hear Kentucky Calling Me / Theo & Brenna / Dreams For Sale / Mountain Fever Records
• Seasons Of Love / Tina Adair / single / Engehardt Music Group
• All Of Me / Steven Moore / Just A Little Talk With Myself / Self-Produced
• Giving Up On You / Lost & Found / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Sam's Place / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• Dust / Gibson Brothers / single / Bull Run Records
• Girl At The Crossroads Bar / Bluegrass Cardinals / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life
• The Guitar Song / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers with Del McCoury / For The Record / Billy Blue Records [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]
• Once A Day / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel [Bill Anderson birthtday, 11/1/1937]
• Slippin' Away / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Certain / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Saginaw, Michigan / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• The Lord Knows I'm Drinking / Wildfire / Where Roads Divide / Pinecastle [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Cincinnati, Ohio / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• Bright Lights And Country Music / Bill Anderson / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics, Volume One / Opry Music [Bill Anderson birthday, 11/1/1937]
• New York Chimes / The Big Dogs with Tony Trischka / Live At The Birchmere / Strictly Country Records
• She'll Change / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• Paul Bunyan Love / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• When I Get The Money Made / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• When Are You Gonna Tell Me? / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• Patches On My Heart / Junior Sisk / Lost & Alone / Mountain Fever Records [Junior Sisk birthday, 11/6/1964]
• The Crow / Tony Trischka with Steve Martin / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder 
• Take A Little Time For Jesus / Junior Sisk / Lost & Alone / Mountain Fever Records [Junior Sisk birthday, 11/6/1964]
• Little Eyes / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Be Going To Heaven Sometime / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies / Dan Tyminski with Billy Strings / One More Time Before You Go:  A Tribute To Tony Rice / North Star Records
• Rank Strangers / Hot Rize / In Concert / Flying Fish
• Light At The River / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• Riding On My Savior's Train / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Early Recordings / Rebel
• Traveling The Highway Home / The Grascals / Up All Night / Mountain Home
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/30/2022

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was the last one to air before Halloween, and as you might expect, our playlist was dominated by tunes about ghostly trains, mysterious lights, empty coffins, and, of course, little ghost girls looking for a ride home.  Hope these songs served to create a proper "mood" for our October 30th show.

It's been just over a year since the Bluegrass world lost a true legend:  Roland "Sonny" Osborne (October 29, 1937 - October 24, 2021).  We remembered this Hall of Famer with a few songs from the innovative Osborne Brothers, as well as some songs from the Osborne Brothers' song catalog which have been covered by others.  

And there was a smattering of newer music, too, from the likes of Nick Chandler & Delivered, the Foreign Landers, the Gibson Brothers, Anthony Howell, Sister Sadie, Appalachian Road Show, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, and the Gospel Plowboys.

Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween.  We'll be looking forward to seeing you once more next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

See you then!

Amy O.



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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Bringing Mary Home / Eddie & Martha Adcock / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Once More / Osborne Brothers / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Up This Hill And Down / Larry Stephenson & Mark Newton / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Bluegrass Express / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes 1 & 2 / Sugar Hill [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Leslie County Blues / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Me And My Old Banjo / Larry Stephenson with Sonny Osborne & Ronnie Reno / 20th Anniversary / Pinecastle [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• Down In The Cold Ground / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel
• Sasquatch / California / Traveler / Sugar Hill
• George Cunningham / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• The Ghost Of Cecil Martin / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records
• Brown Mountain Light / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Witches Of Harlan / Breaking Grass / Running With The Moon / Self-Produced
• Legend Of Grace Sherwood / East Virginia / The Major Years / DK Records
• Footsteps So Near / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Garden / The Foreign Landers / single / Self-Produced
• Darling Please Come On Home / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / single / Bull Run Records
• When I'm Dead My Dearest / Anthony Howell / single / Self-Produced
• Diane / Sister Sadie / single / Mountain Home
• Only A Hobo / Appalachian Road Show / Jubilation / Billy Blue Records
• The Silver Ghost / David Parmley / Southern Heritage / Rebel
• The Ghost Of Norma Jean / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• Burying Ground / Kathy Kallick / Call Me A Taxi / Sugar Hill
• Who's That Knocking At My Door? / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Ballad Of Maudie Dawson / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• I've Come To Take You Home / Seldom Scene / Like We Used To Be / Sugar Hill
• The Lantern / Front Range / Ramblin' On My Mind / Sugar Hill
• Widow Janie / Fox Family / Follow My Lead / Sierra Records
• The Grave Robber / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / The Heart Of A Song / Rebel
• Ghost Bound Train / Dale Ann Bradley / Don't Turn Your Back / Compass Records
• The Ballad Of Sarah Malone / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Amelia Earhart's Last Flight / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Sonny Osborne:  10/29/1937 - 10/24/2021]
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Electricity / Jimmy Murphy / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life
• The Old Fashioned Preacher / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• You Don't Love God If You Don't Love Your Neighbor / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage with Bill Gaither / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming / GGS Music
• Just A Little Talk With Jesus / Gospel Plowboys / Welcome Home / Mountain Fever
• Echoes From The Burning Bush / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Starday King
• Tree Of Life / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Starday King
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder