"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/7/2023

Before Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we were actually wondering if it was going to be possible to have a live radio program today.  You see, this is Commencement Weekend at the University of Connecticut and there were THREE separate graduation ceremonies that took place just today -- two of them during our show's airtime.  That means that parking on campus is kind of haywire and also, there was a possibility that the building in which the WHUS studios are located would be locked.  Turmoil!  Still, we found out last-minute that all was fine for our access, so we were able to provide three big hours of Bluegrass music today.  Phew!  :)  Congratulations to all 2023 graduates!

We devoted 17 songs -- a full hour's worth of airtime -- to Bluegrass covers of songs written by the legendary Canadian songwriter/performer who died at the age of 84 on May 1st:  Gordon Lightfoot.  It's no secret that the late Tony Rice was a major fan of Mr. Lightfoot, as over his own recording career, Mr. Rice recorded nearly a dozen and half songs from the pen of Gordon Lightfoot.  There have been loads of other Lightfoot Bluegrass covers over the years, though, and the ones we shared were from performers as varied as Mac Wiseman, Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band, the Front Porch String Band, Sideline, the Gibson Brothers, the Country Gentlemen, Bubba Chandler, Robert Hale, Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron, Special Consensus, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, J.D. Crowe & the New South, and, of course, the aforementioned Tony Rice.  Rest in peace, Gordon Lightfoot, and thank you for sharing your music with millions.

(If you'd like to read more about Gordon Lightfoot's impact on many Bluegrass performers over the years, check out this fine recent piece from Bluegrass Today.)

There was also a bit of new or recent music with brand-new tunes from Jana Mougin, Alison Brown (with Steve Martin), and the Dan Tyminski Band, and recent selections from the Little Roy & Lizzy Show, Special Consensus, Rock Hearts, Jason Carter, Larry Sparks, Starlett & Big John, and Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers.

My apologies for those who may have tuned in last week to discover there was no Bluegrass music airing during our regular timeslot.  I was at the Rhode Island Bluegrass Alliance Hall of Fame event (read more about that here), and while I had submitted an older show to be aired in the regular 4-7PM time frame, for whatever reason, it just didn't happen.  

We'll plan to be with you once again with a brand-new Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• Phone Call Away / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel
• Frog On A Lily Pad / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• One Day Late And A Dollar Short / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• This Weary Heart You Stole Away / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Close The Door Lightly When You Go / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume One / Rural Rhythm
• Rainbow Stew / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home
• Close By / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• Honeycat Hornpipe / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• Milwaukee Here I Come / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• You Are What I Am / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Long Way Back Home / Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Sit Down Young Stranger / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Steel Rail Blues / Mac Wiseman / Mac Wiseman Sings Gordon Lightfoot / CMH [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Go My Way / Front Porch String Band / Front Porch String Band / Rebel [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Did She Mention My Name / Robert Hale / Pure & Simple / Pinecastle [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Early Morning Rain / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Alberta Bound / Special Consensus  with the Jaybird Trio, Pharis & Jason Romero, Ray Legere, & Claire Lynch / Great Blue North / Compass Records [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Cold On The Shoulder / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot / Rounder [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Ribbon Of Darkness / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Lost Souls & Free Spirits / Rebel [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Don Quixote / Country Gentlemen / Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• If You Could Read My Mind / Bubba Chandler / Somebody To Sing To / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Girl From The Canyon / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / How Many Roads / Rebel [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Song For A Winter's Night / Sideline / Front & Center / Mountain Home [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Brave Mountaineers / Special Consensus / Great Blue North / Compass Records [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot / Rounder [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Redwood Hill / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Remembering Gordon Lightfoot:  11/17/1938 - 5/1/2023]
• Ode To Jimmy Martin / Dan Tyminski Band / God Fearing Heathen / 8 Track Entertainment
• Foggy Morning Breaking / Alison Brown with Steve Martin / On Banjo / Compass Records
• If I Didn't Love You / Jana Mougin / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Keep Your Eye On Kentucky / Dan Tyminski Band / God Fearing Heathen / 8 Track Entertainment
• Pain Of Loving You / Mark Newton with Gloria Belle / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel
• Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• The Likes Of Me / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Blink Of An Eye / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Prettier All The Time / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Bring 'Em On Back / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Like A Bird In A Cage / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Back Away Little Heart / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• Before You Miss Me / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Angels Watching Me / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Do You Live What You Preach? / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• I'll Be Going To Heaven Sometime / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• God On The Mountain / Jesse Brock with Greg Blake / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• Standing In The Need Of Prayer / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Give Me The Roses / Traver Hollow / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country Records
• It's A Grand And A Glorious Feeling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• Martha And Mary / Nu-Blu / Nail By Nail / Pinecastle
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/23/2023

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we shared lots of wonderful music, including a tune or two in honor Earth Day.  Hope you were able to join us!

Our main focus on Sunday was sharing music from several members of the Rhode Island Bluegrass Alliance (RIBA) Hall of Fame.  Of the seventeen members who have been inducted since this honor was established in 2016, we heard music from nine of them during our program.  This coming Sunday -- April 30th -- the RIBA folks will be holding their 2023 induction ceremonies, during which four pioneers (Gert Hall, Al Hawkes, Randy Hawkins, and the Lilly Brothers) will be honored.  The inductees for 2023 include the delightful Neon Valley Boys -- one of my favorite local bands of the 1980s -- and, as you likely have heard by now, me.  How do I fit in with the likes of Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell, and Jimmy Gaudreau?  Honestly, I'm not sure, but I'm delighted to be there!  😁 If you'd like to know more about the RIBA event this coming Sunday, click here for more information or visit RIBluegrass.org

Oh, and if everything goes as planned, you'll get to hear an archived Bluegrass Cafe from May 2021 during our 4-7PM timeslot on April 30th.  That's the plan, anyway. 

We also included some newer music, this week from Tina Adair, Marty Raybon, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers, (Wayne & Kristin Scott) Benson, and the Special Consensus, as well as 2023 releases from Boone & Foster, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Jason Barie, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and Larry Sparks.

We'll be back on the air with you with a live program on May 7th.  

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• What A Ways We've Come / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Where The Wild River Rolls / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• Deep River / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
• Come And Sit By The River / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Do You Remember? / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Rose Maddox / This Is Rose Maddox / Arhoolie
• Country Pride / Lost & Found / It's About Time / Rebel
• Fourteen Carat Mind / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• Your Eyes / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Golden West / Hightone
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Highway Of Sorrow / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Think Of What You've Done / Boone & Foster / Smoky Mountain Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Sparkling Brown Eyes / Rounder
• Fickle Wind / Bluegrass Cardinals / My Kinda Grass / BGC Records
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• Bending The Strings / Allen Shelton / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Ace Of Hearts / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music
• Cry Of The Loon / Stan Keach & Friends / Cry Of The Loon & Other Original Songs About Maine / Ayuh Records
• Lonesome Wind / Buzz Busby / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Skip, Hop & Wobble / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Me Oh My / Marty Raybon / single / Billy Blue Records
• Icy Cold / Benson / Pick Your Poison / Mountain Home
• Some Things You Can't Undo / Tina Adair / single / Engelhardt Music Group
• Snowbird / Special Consensus with Claire Lynch / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Blow Whistle / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Mountain Home
• The Lovin' Of The Game / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• Cowboys Dig Them High-Heeled Shoes / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records [RIBA Hall of Fame, 2023]
• That's When I Miss Her Most Of All / Bill Hall & Northwind Bluegrass / In The Shadow Of The Pines / Old Homestead Records [Bill Hall - RIBA Hall of Fame, 2017]
• Friend Of Steel / Southern Rail / Roadwork / Turquoise [Jim Muller & Sharon Horovitch - RIBA Hall of Fame, 2019]
• Adrienne's Reel / Jimmy Gaudreau / Classic J.A.G. / Webco [RIBA Hall of Fame, 2017]
• The Sun Also Rises / Shady Creek / The Old House / Self-Produced [Nick Anderson - RIBA Hall of Fame, 2021]
• Jubilation / Northern Lights / Can't Buy Your Way / Flying Fish [Mike Kropp - RIBA Hall of Fame, 2016]
• Headed Home For Maine / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records [Sam Tidwell - RIBA Hall of Fame, 2018]
• Pikearoo / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel [Fred & Earl Pike - RIBA Hall of Fame, 2020]
• I'll Go Steppin' Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Keep A Memory / Jason Barie with Doyle Lawson & Russell Moore / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• East Bound And Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys with Jason Carter & Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / single / Sound Biscuit
• Long Way To Denver / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Long Haul Truckin' / Chris Warner with Audie Blaylock / Chris Warner & Friends / Webco
• How Mountain Girls Can Love / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Maple On The Hill / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Sundown And Sorrow / Jimmy Martin / Classic J.A.G. / Webco
• Let Time Ride / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• On The Jericho Road / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 2 / Hay Holler
  
• Dust On The Bible / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• When Jesus Comes Down / Chris Warner with Dudley Connell / Chris Warner & Friends / Webco
• Don't Tune Him Out / The Whites / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Billy Blue Records
• Little Eyes / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Speakin ' To That Mountain / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow 
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/16/2023

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was one with no particular direction, so we turned it into a "Spotlight Letter" Day.  This time around, the letter was "S," and to that end, we found recordings from 30+ "S" performers to share.  To qualify, either the performer's surname or their band name had to start with an "S."  Among the featured performers were the Stanley Brothers (of course!), Herschel Sizemore, Larry Stephenson, the Spinney Brothers, Special Consensus, Billy Strings, Straight Drive, Larry Sparks, Sister Sadie, and several others.  We stretched things a bit, too, and included two fine Bluegrass Hall of Fame sets of partners:  Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt, as well as Red Smiley & Don Reno.

We included a bit of newer and recent music, as well, with newer recordings from Rick Faris, Cedar Hill, the Goodwin Brothers, and Boone & Foster, and recent selections from Greg Blake & Hometown, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and Still Pickin'.

And we couldn't forget the upcoming birthday of the great Doyle Lawson (born April 20, 1944), either, so we played a couple of songs from the original Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and that
you'll consider joining us once again on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Lost And I'll Never Find The Way / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Joyce's Waltz / Herschel Sizemore / My Style / Hay Holler Records
• Wasted On The Way / Shelton & Williams / So Much Time, So Much Love / Grass Tank Music
• I'm In Love All Over / Larry Stephenson / Everytime I Sing A Love Song / Webco
• Restless Blue Eyed Lover / Larry Stephenson / Everytime I Sing A Love Song / Webco
• There Ain't No Easy Street / Steep Canyon Rangers / Deep In The Shade / Rebel
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• The Letter / Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen / On The Edge / Compass Records
• Randy Lynn Rag / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
• Moonlight On My Cabin / Curly Seckler / 60 Years Of Bluegrass With My Friends / Copper Creek
• Memories / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Blue In The Blue Ridge / James Alan Shelton & Friends / Blue In The Blue Ridge / Freeland Recording Company
• Dusty Miller / Rickie Simpkins / Dancing On The Fingerboard / Pinecastle
• Makin' Tracks To Macon / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• I Didn't Ask / Southern Rail / Drive By Night / Turquoise
• Well / Sister Sadie / single / Mountain Home
• Blue Eyed Blonde / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Steeltown Records
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• Too Lonely, Way Too Long / Rick Faris / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love With You / Boone & Foster / Smoky Mountain Favorites / Mountain Fever Records
• Everyday Thing / Goodwin Brothers / single / Self-Produced
• I've Never Been So Lonesome / Boone & Foster / Smoky Mountain Favorites / Mountain Fever Records
• Window Of A Train / Cedar Hill / single / Self-Produced
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Missing Her Has Never Slowed Me Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Through The Window Of A Train / Blue Highway / Through The Window Of A Train / Rounder
• Home Run Man / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• That's Just Lonesome / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Picture Of Me Without You / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / In Dreams I Go Back / Mountain Fever Records
• Black And White / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• Don't Let Smokey Mountain Smoke Get In Your Eyes / Still Pickin' / Southbound / Self-Produced
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Unwanted Love / Sideline with Dudley Connell / Colors And Crossroads / Mountain Fever Records
• I Won't Be Far From Here / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Cotton Patch Rag / Orrin Star / No Frets Barred / Self-Produced
• Poverty Row / Springfield Exit / Springfield Exit / Cracker Barrel
• No Rhyme, No Reason / Sand Mountain Boys / No Rhyme, No Reason / Hay Holler Records
• She Thinks I Still Care / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Smith Ridge / Steve Sparkman / Smith Ridge / Copper Creek
• The Rock Island Line / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• What Will Become Of Me / Special Consensus / Everything's Alright / Pinecastle
• Rocking On The Waves / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• River Of Jordan / Shannon Slaughter / Hold On To Your Heart / Self-Produced
• Open Up Your Heart (And Let Jesus In) / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• I'm Going There / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• When I Wake Up (To Sleep No More) / The Soul Pickers / The Beautiful River Of Life / Blue Circle Records
• His Record Is On High / Jerry Salley / New Songs, Old Friends / Mountain Home
• Rock My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/9/2023

Happy Easter!  Appropriately, approximately one-third of our Bluegrass Cafe was filled with songs all about the Easter Story, from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection.  Hope you all had a pleasant day.

Our brand-new music this week was a little bittersweet, as we received a new CD from the Connecticut trio, Still Pickin'.  This group included Jim Sharpley, a fine musician who died suddenly in March.  Jim was a good friend who wintered in Florida, but every Spring, he would return to Connecticut and come to visit me at my library.  We would talk about the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in August (where Jim was the Stage Manager, and I helped with the MC work), and Jim would generally bring me the latest CD from Still Pickin'.  Unfortunately, that visit won't happen this Spring, but I'm very grateful to Jim's bandmate, Dennis Sheridan, as he sent WHUS a copy of the newest CD.  Thanks to him.

Other newer music we enjoyed this week came from Larry Sparks, the Gibson Brothers, Jason Barie, Rock Hearts, Greg Blake, Billy Strings, and the Kody Norris Show.

We'll be back on the air with you again this coming Sunday, 4-7PM.  Hope you can join us...

Until then, have a great week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Search Inside An Empty Tomb / Rarely Herd / What About Him / Pinecastle
• The Empty Grave / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise Records
• Stone Was Rolled Away / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Broken Stone / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• Remember The Cross / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Gonna Rise And Shine / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Gonna Rise And Shine / Mountain Fever Records
• Were You There / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• He's Passing This Way / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• The Cry From The Cross / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Purple Robe / Junior Sisk / The Stanley Gospel Tradition:  Songs About Our Savior / Doobie Sea
• The Man In The Middle / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
• Old Rugged Cross / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel
• Garden Tomb / The Isaacs & the Oak Ridge Boys / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Bluegrass Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways
• Here At The Cross / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Six Hours On The Cross / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross:  Songs Of Faith And Inspiration / Red Feather
• Because He Lives / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• Diggin' Up Bones / Still Pickin' / Southbound / Self-Produced
• The Death Of Stonewall Jackson / Still Pickin' / Southbound / Self-Produced
• May You Never Be Alone / Still Pickin' / Southbound / Self-Produced
• Other Side Of The World / Greg Blake / People, Places, And Songs / Turnberry Records
• Don't Neglect The Rose / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Way Downtown / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Mountain Rosalie / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• That's Why You Left Me So Blue / Jason Barie with Bobby Osborne & Doyle Lawson / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Never Grow Tired Of You / Patty Loveless / Honky Tonk Angel / MCA [Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, 2023 -- Patty Loveless]
• Pretty Polly / Ralph Stanley with Patty Loveless / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, 2023 -- Patty Loveless]
• Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold) / Dede Wyland / Keep The Light On / Patuxent Music [Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, 2023 -- Bob McDill]
• Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, 2023 -- Bob McDill]
• Making Up Stories / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Ocean Of Teardrops / Ron Spears & Within Tradition / Carolina Rain / Copper Creek
• Pages Of Time / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats & Ties / Rebel
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Six Feet Of Snow / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Copper Kettle / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Edgar Loudermilk Band feat. Jeff Autry / Lonesome Riverboat Blues / Pinecastle
• The Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Roanoke / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album, Volume 6:  Bluegrass Instrumentals / Rounder
• Lonesome Wind Blues / Reno & Smiley / Classic Bluegrass / King
• Slow Down (You'll Hit A Moose) / Sandy River Ramblers / Cry Of The Loon & Other Original Songs Of Maine / Ayuh Records
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Mountain Soul / Epic [Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, 2023 -- Patty Loveless]
• Back To The Cross / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Blue Moon Rising / He Arose / On The Rise / Lonesome Day Records
• It's A Grand And A Glorious Feeling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Recofrds
• Angels Watching Me / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Born Again / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways
• By The Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/2/2023

Before it's Sunday, again, it's time to share the playlist from our Bluegrass Cafe from last Sunday, April 2nd!

The Hag & Emmylou with Willie Nelson, too. 
 

Included in our lineup for last Sunday were a couple of tunes in celebration of the birthday of Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947), as well as a Bluegrass remembrance of the great Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016).  We also shared newer music from several folks, including Michael Cleveland, the Kody Norris Show, David Parmley, Greg Blake, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Mile Twelve, Lindley Creek, Danny Paisley with Sage Palser, Jason Barie, Larry Sparks, and Jason Carter.

Hope you've got plans to join us for a live Bluegrass Cafe on Easter Sunday, as we'll be there!  

Happy Easter!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Had It Not Been For The Train / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / It's About Tyme / Break A String
• The Passing Of The Train / Special Consensus / Roads & Rails / Shy Town Records
• The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore / New Coon Creek Girls / The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore / Pinecastle
• I Hear A Choo Choo Coming / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Live! At McClure! / Rebel
• With Body And Soul / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Big Black Train / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Greenlight On The Southern / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Blue Train / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
• Here Comes The Train / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Airmail Special / Jim & Jesse / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Fireball Mail / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel
• Sunny Days (Are Comin' Once Again) / Michael Cleveland feat. Dan Tyminski & Jeff White / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Cabin On A Mountain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• New Moon Over My Shoulder / Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Del McCoury / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill
• Stone Cold Loneliness / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• I Call Her Sunshine / Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• Bluegrass Breakdown / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Poor Ellen Smith / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Goodbye To The Blues / David Parmley / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Cold, Wyoming Morning / Greg Blake / People, Places & Songs / Turnberry Records
• Just An Old Penny / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Pinecastle
• Johnny Oklahoma / Mile Twelve / single / Self-Produced
• Fare Thee Well / Lindley Creek / single / Pinecastle
• Walls Of Time / Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers / At The Ryman / Reprise Records [Emmylou Harris birthday, 4/2/1947]
• My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers / Merle Haggard / Down Every Road, 1962-1994 / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Silver Wings / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Today I Started Loving You Again / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• The Old Man From The Mountain / Bear Tracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Big City / Merle Haggard / The Bluegrass Sessions / McCoury Music [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• What Cross Your Mind / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass with Sage Palser / single / Pinecastle
• Fare Thee Well Cisco / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Bottom Of The Ninth / Jason Barie / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• Mom And Dad's Waltz / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• You'll Never Get A Better Chance / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddle Man Records
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Free Salvation / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• Man On The Mule / The Isaacs / Bridges / Horizon Records
• Calling My Children Home / Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers / Live At The Ryman / Reprise Records [Emmylou Harris birthday, 4/2/1947]
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• God Told Nicodemus / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• They're Holding Up The Ladder / Virginia Ramblers / They're Holding Up The Ladder / Self-Produced
• The Old Account / Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Del McCoury / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill
• On The Wings Of Angels / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/26/2023

Our last Bluegrass Cafe for March 2023 included lots of fine new Bluegrass music, songs from a couple of favorite LPs, and several songs in remembrance of a fine Bluegrass entertainer who died earlier this week.

During this day's broadcast, we included brand new music from several performers, including Special Consensus, Larry Sparks, Balsam Range, Pam Gadd, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, and Boone & Foster, as well as recent 2023 releases from Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Jason Barie, the Gibson Brothers, Greg Blake & Hometown, Starlett & Big John, and Rock Hearts.

The entertaining Ron Spears died earlier this week at the age of 69, and so, we remembered him by playing lots of fine songs that he wrote and performed over the years.  This Utah native played with several bands, and also, made several recordings of his own.  We included music Ron Spears recorded when he worked with Special Consensus, David Parmley & Continental Divide, and his last band, Fast Track, as well as covers of his material by the Bluegrass Cardinals, Lou Reid & Carolina, and the Bluegrass Patriots.  Rest in peace, Ron Spears.

And a couple of times a year, I just have to play songs from a couple of beloved LPs that have never been released in compact disc in their entirety:  the self-titled Rounder debut recording from the Johnson Mountain Boys, as well as their 1982 follow-up recording, "Walls Of Time."  Still delightful after all these years...  :)

Hope you enjoyed the show!  Please consider joining me once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM for another Bluegrass Cafe.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity with Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• You Didn't Say Goodbye / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Nellie Kane / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• Molly And Tenbrooks / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life
• Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Big Train From Memphis / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• Dobro Chimes / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Sam's Place / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• My, My, My / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / In Dreams I Go Back / Mountain Fever Records
• Orange Blossom Special / The Stonemans / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life
• I Wanna Be Where You Are / Junior Sisk / Lost & Alone / Mountain Fever Records
• Soldier's Joy/Black Mountain Blues / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Holland, 1973 / Self-Produced
• Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Go Stepping Too / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller with Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Autumn Fell / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Sweetest Gift / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Dust / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Keep A Memory / Jason Barie with Doyle Lawson & Russell Moore / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• Alberta Bound / Special Consensus / single / Compass Records
• Bring 'Em On Back / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• That's What The Years Do / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Let Time Ride / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• Inch By Inch / Pam Gadd / single / Self-Produced
• Long Journey Home / Boone & Foster / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• The Nights Are So Long / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Sad Prisoners Song / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder
• River Of Regret / Ron Spears / My Time Has Come / Copper Creek [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Jenny Lynn / Lou Reid & Carolina / Lou Reid & Carolina / Rebel [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• I'd Like To Wander Back To The Old Home / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Carolina Rain / David Parmley & Continental Divide / Three Silver Dollars / Pinecastle [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Dreams About The Hills Of Home / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• The Only Promise / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Blue And Lonesome Again / Fast Track / Fast Track / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Say You Lied / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Date With An Angel / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• The Ghost Of Eli Renfro / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Stoney Creek / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Quit Quittin' You / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• The Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Tell Me What You Think Of My Lord / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Jordan / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with Ricky Skaggs, Mo Pitney & Mark Fain / single / Billy Blue Records
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• All Aboard / Del McCoury / By Request / McCoury Music
• Lord Show Me The Righteous Pathway / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/19/2023

On this last full day of "Winter" (we really haven't had much winter weather in eastern Connecticut this season), we opened our Bluegrass Cafe with songs celebrating Spring!  Bring on the flowers!  Welcome back, baseball!  At this point, it will be nice to see some green outside instead of just drab old grays and browns.  

During our show, we celebrated the mid-March birthdays of two important members of the Country Music Hall of Fame:  Carl Smith (March 15, 1927 - January 16, 2010) and Charley Pride (March 18, 1934 - December 12, 2020).  These two even recorded some Bluegrass songs during their careers, though they didn't really record them in a "Bluegrass" style.  Still, their songs have often been recorded by Bluegrass performers, so we heard several songs from each legend's repertoire.  

Newer music on our show this week included selections from Carl Bentley, Jason Barie, Starlett & Big John, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Billy Strings, Michael Cleveland, Greg Blake & Hometown, and the Gibson Brothers.

Thanks for listening!  Hope you'll consider joining us for another visit to our Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Red Feather
• Spring Will Bring Flowers / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• When Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Ah Spring / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• Winter's Come And Gone / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Cherry Blossoms In The Springtime / Jeanette Williams / Cherry Blossoms In The Springtime / Doobie Shea
• Blue Ridge Mountains Turning Green / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Home Run Man / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Stealing Second / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• This Morning At Nine / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• They Call Me The Breeze / Eddie Adcock Band / Talk To Your Heart / CMH
• This Weary Heart You Stole Away / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• I'd Like To Be A Train / Rhonda Vincent / Music Is What I See / Upper Management Music
• The Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / The Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH
• You Won't Be Satisfied That Way / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• My Walking Shoes / David Grisman, Vince Gill, Herb Pederson, Jim Buchanan, Emory Gordy, Jr. / Here Today / Rounder
• Nine Pound Hammer / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• These Old Blues / Carl Bentley / single / Self-Produced
• Good Love Gets Better With Time / Jason Barie with Jeff Parker / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Play The Wildwood Flower / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• The Ties That Bind / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• Thousand Dollar Holler / Michael Cleveland / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• A Hundred Miles To Go / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Yankee Cowboy / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced [Remembering Jim Sharpley:  4/15/1949 - 3/9/2023]
• Don't Just Stand There / Carl Smith / Let's Live A Little / Living Era [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• Are You Teasin' Me / Crowe Brothers / Brothers-n-Harmony / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• Loose Talk / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler [Remembering Carl Smith:  3/15/1927 - 1/16/2010]
• A Good Woman's Love / Charley Pride / Pride Of Country Music / RCA [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• I'd Rather Love You / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / GSM [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• Kiss An Angel Good Morning / Nothin' Fancy / It's A Good Feeling / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Rose Maddox / Sing A Little Song Of Heartache / Bear Family Records [Recorded 3/19/1962]
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• My Darkest Hour / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Born To Be With You / Flashback / Denver Snow / Pinecastle
• Footprints In The Snow / Rose Maddox / Sing A Little Song Of Heartache / Bear Family Records [Recorded 3/19/1962]
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Take A Little Time For Jesus / Junior Sisk / Lost & Alone / Mountain Fever Records
• Do A Little More For Him / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Only God / SSK Recording
• When I Reach That Home Up There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Still Waters / Osborne Brothers / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Travelling The Highway Home / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• On The Sunny Side Of Life / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/12/2023

It was good to be back on the air for this Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  After a fall  on February 28th left me with a pretty deep knee cut, it wasn't possible to do a live radio show on March 5th.  I'm working my way back to "normal" now, so I couldn't miss presenting today's live program.  Hope you enjoyed it.

We spent some time on Sunday remembering Jim Sharpley of Still Pickin', as Jim died suddenly at his winter home in Florida on Thursday.  I've had the pleasure of working with Jim for the last several years at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival.  He was a very nice guy with a wonderful sense of humor and a genuine love for Bluegrass music.  He will be greatly missed.

We also remembered the wonderful Bluegrass songwriter -- Bill Castle -- as he died at the age of 89 at the end of February.  Many performers have recorded Bill Castle-penned songs over the last several years, and we shared many of them on the air on Sunday.

And there was a bit of newer music to share, as well, with tunes from Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Sister Sadie, Jeff Parker & Company, Rock Hearts, the Churchmen, and Larry Sparks.

Hope you were able to join for this show, but if not, we'll hope to see you next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Time Changes Everything / Reno Brothers / Swing West / Pinecastle
• Dreaming / Delia Bell & Bill Grant / Dreaming / Rounder
• Don't Let My Love Get In The Way / Joe Mullins & Junior Sisk / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• My Sweet Love Ain't Around / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel
• Better Times A-Coming / Jim & Jesse / Classic Bluegrass Collection / Time Life
• I Can't Go On Loving You / Rock County / Rock County / Rebel
• On Whiskey Mountain / Bill Emerson with Bill Harrell / Reunion / Webco
• I'm Singing Harmony / The Big Dogs with Tony Trischka / Live At The Birchmere / Strictly Country Records
• Wildwood Flower / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Dooley / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• My Dear Old Southern Home / Doc Watson / Americana Master Series:  Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Greenville Trestle High / Doc Watson / Americana Master Series:  Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Whiskey Before Breakfast / Doc Watson with Bryan Sutton / Americana Master Series:  Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Get Along Home Cindy / Still Pickin' Trio / Reuben's Train / Natchaug Music [Remembering Jim Sharpley]
• I Still Carry You Around / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced [Remembering Jim Sharpley]
• Reuben's Train / Still Pickin' Trio / Reuben's Train / Natchaug Music [Remembering Jim Sharpley]
• Still Pickin' Theme Song / Still Pickin' / Hope Valley / Self-Produced [Remembering Jim Sharpley]
• Black And White / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• Well / Sister Sadie / single / Mountain Home
• You Don't Need To Be Improved / Jeff Parker & Company / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Sweetheart / Larry Sparks / single / Rebel
• The Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Kennebec Valley Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• In A Town This Size / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Remembrance Is A Golden Chain / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Honky-Tonked To Death / Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Don't Point Your Finger / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Stanley Family Records [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• It's In My Mind To Wander / Bluegrass Cardinals / My Kinda Grass / BGC Records [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Swing That Hammer / Lonesome River Band / Talkin' To Myself / Sugar Hill [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Here Today And Gone Tomorrow / James King / Thirty Years Of Farming / Rounder [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• If All Those Trains Were Still Around (I'd Be An Ol' Hobo) / Randy Kohrs / Old Photograph / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Careless Love / Marshall Wilborn / Root 5 / Pinecastle [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine [Remembering Bob Paisley:  3/14/1931 - 11/29/2014]
• Great Waterton / Kristin Scott Benson / Stringworks / Mountain Home [Kristin Scott Benson birthday, 3/14/1976]
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium [recorded 3/13/1964]
• Whoa Mule / Raymond Fairchild / Little Zane / Copper Creek [Remembering Raymond Fairchild:  3/15/1939 - 10/13/2019]
• Untold Stories / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Tim O'Brien birthday, 3/16/1954]
• Quicksburg Rondezvous / Del McCoury / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder [Ronnie McCoury birthday, 3/16/1967]
• Heartsongs / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• The Church At Hickory Grove / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Only God / Self-Produced [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Preachin', Prayin', Singin' / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Give The Devil An Inch / Billy Boone Smith / Five Flat Rocks / Muddy Sunshine
• They Can Only Fill One Grave / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Kneel Down And Pray Up / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Moon / Rebel [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Journey To My Savior's Side / The Churchmen / Shadow Of The Cross / Morning Glory Music
• Calling My Children Home / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Lord, Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/5/2023 -- REBROADCAST FROM MARCH 2021

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/26/2023

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe -- our last Sunday together in the month of February --  we celebrated the birthdays of two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and shared a couple of brand new songs, too.

The Country Hall of Famers were born one day and about 150 miles apart, but both are now enshrined for eternity in the Hall of Fame:  Faron Young (February 25, 1932 - December 10, 1996) and Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 - September 12, 2003).  Like many country stars, many of the songs in the respective catalogs of these two singers have been recorded in a Bluegrass style.  As we often do, we decided to spotlight some of these Bluegrass covers to honor the singers.

There was also a little bit of new music to share from Danny Paisley (with Sage Palser) and Rick Faris.  We also included newer music from Jason Carter, Billy Strings, Michael Cleveland, and Jason Barie.

Thanks for listening to the show!  As I write this, there's a possibility that this coming Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe will be an "encore" one, but we'll see how it goes.  We'll certainly let you know via our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe).

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Rain And Snow / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Too Often Left Alone / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• What Was I Supposed To Do / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Just Ain't / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life
• Stepping Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin--The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• I Can, I Will, I Do Believe / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Blow Out The Candle, Laura / Linda Lay & Sammy Shelor / Taking The Crooked Road Home / Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• Running Razorback / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Old Home Place / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• All In My Love For You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• Diamond Joe / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Comin' On Strong / David Peterson / Comin' On Strong / Necktie Records
• Salty Dog Blues / The Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Goodbye Girl / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch
• If That's The Way You Feel / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• Crazy Creek / Sally Van Meter / All In Good Time / Sugar Hill
• I Don't Care / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• What Crosses Your Mind / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass with Sage Paiser / single / Pinecastle
• Bottom Of The Ninth / Jason Barie / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• The Power Of Love / Rick Faris / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• The Lovin' Of The Game / Michael Cleveland / The Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• Leavin' / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder
• Life To Go / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Your Eyes / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands / The Golden West / High Tone Records
• 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]
• Goin' Steady / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Shades Of The Past / 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]
• I've Got Five Dollars (And It's Saturday Night) / Faron Young / The Complete Capitol Hits Of Faron Young / Collectors' Choice Music [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]
• Tennessee Flat Top Box / Mary Rachel Nalley / Headed Back To Bowling Green / Self-Produced [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Hey Porter / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [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]
• Give My Love To Rose / Sally Love Connell / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Get Rhythm / Johnny Cash / The Essential Johnny Cash / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• Me And The Jukebox / Buzz Busby / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Going Back To Bristol / Shawn Camp / I Sang The Song (Life Of The Voice With A heart ) / Mountain Fever Records
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Wall Around Your Heart / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Bending The Strings / Allen Shelton / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• California Cotton Fields / Phil Leadbetter with Marty Raybon / Slide Effects / Pinecastle
• You Must Be Born Again / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Down The Road To Gloryland / Cordle, Jackson & Salley / Lonesome Cafe / CJS Records
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• The Messenger / Kathy Kallick / Count Your Blessings / Live Oak Records
• Cabin In Gloryland / Tim O'Brien / Hard Year Blues / Flying Fish
• I Long To See His Face / Sideline / Front And Center / Mountain Fever Records
• Get In Line Brother / Marty Stuart / Busy Bee Cafe / Sugar Hill [Remembering Johnny Cash:  2/26/1932 - 9/12/2003]
• I've Made A Covenant / Johnson Mountain Boys / We'll Still Sing On / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder