"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/22/2023

Before we begin our new show at 4PM today, here's the playlist from last Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  We shared some newer music, a few classic favorites, and remembered a very special entertainer from New York who was a fixture on the New England and Northeast music scene for many, many years:  Walter "Smokey" Greene (August 10, 1930 - October 19, 2023).  Smokey was the rare singer who performed (generally) by himself with his guitar, and played and sung a steady repertoire of heart-tugging ballads followed by laugh-out-loud novelty tunes.  What an incredible performer!  He will be missed.

Please consider joining us on Sunday afternoon for this week's show.  We'll see you at 4PM!

See you soon!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Windy Mountain / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family 
• Cold Wind / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced
• The Winds Are Blowing In Maggie Valley / Crowe Brothers / Bridging The Gap / Rural Rhythm
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• 1500 Miles Away From Home / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / David Grisman with Tony Rice / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Outbound Plane / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Flying / Organic Records
• Weathered Gray Stone / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Give Me A Little Old Fashioned Love / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle [Remembering Smokey Greene:  3/10/1930 - 10/19/2023]
• If You Don't Believe It / Smokey Greene / The Laughs On Me / Self-Produced [Remembering Smokey Greene:  3/10/1930 - 10/19/2023]
• Red Headed Stranger / Smokey Greene / Self-Produced [Remembering Smokey Greene:  3/10/1930 - 10/19/2023]
• Old New Hampshire Home / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle [Remembering Smokey Greene:  3/10/1930 - 10/19/2023]
• I Don't Look Good Naked Anymore / Smokey Greene / The Laughs On Me / Self-Produced [Remembering Smokey Greene:  3/10/1930 - 10/19/2023]
• Far Side Banks Of Jordan / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle [Remembering Smokey Greene:  3/10/1930 - 10/19/2023]
• Helplessly Hoping / Dre Anders with the Gibson Brothers / single / Self-Produced
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• The North Side / Blue Highway / single / Down The Road Records
• Baltimore I'm Leaving / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Baby, You Ain't Baby Anymore / Adam McIntosh / single / Billy Blue Records
• Rolling Wheels / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• Reason To Believe / Seldom Scene / single / Down The Road Records
• Just Lonesome Ol' Me And The Radio / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• I Got A New One / Kelley Gibson / The Keeping Kind / Self-Produced
• Pretty Polly / Ralph Stanley with Patty Loveless / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• Strong Enough To Bend / Special Consensus / Strong Enough To Bend / Pinecastle
• If That's The Way You Feel / Ralph Stanley with Vince Gill & Patty Loveless / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold) / Balsam Range / Five / Mountain Home
• Good Ole Boys Like Me / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Catfish John / Country Gentlemen / The Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• The Last Log Drive / Fred Pike, Sam Tidwell & the Twin River Boys / The Last Log Drive / Revonah Records
• Snowflake Breakdown / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• I'll Go Steppin' Too / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Dede Wyland / Keep The Light On / Patuxent Music
• Last Chance To Win / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Leaving Cleveland / Tim Raybon Band / I Could Get Used To This / Pinecastle
• That High Lonesome Sound / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Joy Of Revelation / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• Reveille Time In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel
• I Need The Prayers / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• John 3:16 / Stanley Brothers / Best Of The Best / Starday King
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• A Little More Faith In Jesus / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• You Better Wake Up / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Will You Be Ready To Go Home / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/15/2023

Sunday's show was a fun one and very full!  We paid tribute to the late Buck Trent (February 17, 1938 - October 9, 2023), shared a bunch of new music, and at the midway point in our program, we enjoyed a nice telephone visit with Jeremy & Corrina Rose Logston Stephens of High Fidelity.  

If you've listened to our Bluegrass Cafe in recent weeks, you know that High Fidelity has a brand-new gospel recording called "Music In My Soul."  This is their third release for Rebel Records, and it is a dandy.  We talked about the band, the CD, and shared that High Fidelity will be one of the featured bands at the 2024 edition of the Podunk Bluegrass Festival ~ August 8-11, 2024.  The full Podunk lineup has not yet been announced, but be sure to mark your calendars and check out High Fidelity (and the whole festival) on Friday, August 9, 2024.  And if you'd like to know more about the band and their traditional Bluegrass sound, please visit their website:  www.highfidelitybluegrass.com

New music was part of the show, too.  To that end, we enjoyed new (or recent) music from Bobby Osborne & C.J. Lewandowski, Balsam Range, the Kathy Kallick Band, Sister Sadie, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, and Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway.

As always, thanks for listening to the show.  We hope you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Hills And Home / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / David Grisman, Vince Gill, Herb Pedersen, Jim Buchanan, & Emory Gordy, Jr. / Here Today / Rounder
• Talking Banjo / Buzz Busby / Going Home / Starday
• Live And Let Live / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Let Me Borrow Your Heart / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Pressing On Regardless / Brentwood Music
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• A Hundred Miles To Go / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• What Was I Supposed To Do / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• My Walkin' Shoes / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Randy Lynn Rag / Roy Clark & Buck Trent / A Pair Of Fives (Banjos, That Is) / ABC Dot Records [Remembering Buck Trent:  2/17/1938 - 10/9/2023]
• The Carroll County Accident / Porter Wagoner / Golden Age Of Country / Time Life [Remembering Buck Trent:  2/17/1938 - 10/9/2023]
• Grandfather's Clock / Buck Trent / The Buck Trent Show / Gusto [Remembering Buck Trent:  2/17/1938 - 10/9/2023]
• Cumberland Gap / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• I Don't Know What To Do / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• The Hills Of My Home / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky:  Songs Of Laurie Lewis / Rounder
• Cruel Love / Reno Brothers / Drawing From The Well / Pinecastle
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Telephone chat with Jeremy Stephens & Corrina Rose Logston Stephens of High Fidelity
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Too Old To Die Young / Bobby Osborne & C.J. Lewandowski / single / Turnberry Records
• It's Lonesome Everywhere I Go / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Pages In Your Hand / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Pages In Your Hand / Mountain Home
• Heading East To West Virginia / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / single / Self-Produced
• We'll All Drink Money / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Willow / Sister Sadie / single / Mountain Home
• Can't Live Without Love / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes feat. Molly Tuttle & Sam Bush / single / Self-Produced
• San Joaquin / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Golden West / Nonesuch Records
• The Old Home / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• Eating Out Of Your Hand / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• Walking In The Early Morning Dew / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Black Eyed Susie / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Big Mon / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• Please Don't Honey Please / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Sam Smith / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler
• I'm Ready To Go / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• A Beautiful Life / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Weapon Of Prayer / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Hold On / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Are You Lost In Sin / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• It's A Grand And A Glorious Feeling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• He's Coming Back To Earth Again / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• We're Living In The Last Days Now / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/8/2023

While driving to UConn on Sunday afternoon to present our Bluegrass Cafe, I had to figure out what music to play during the program.  I knew I had new songs to share from both Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out and the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, but what else to play?  As we hadn't done it in a while, we pulled out the "Spotlight Letter of the Week" feature and shared songs from performers with a last name or band name that began with the letter "O" or the letter "P" (clearing the way to play lots of music from Bobby & Sonny -- the Osborne Brothers).

In addition to the new music from 3TO and the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, we also shared 2023 releases from the Henhouse Prowlers, Full Cord, Darren Beachley & Caleb Bailey, Rhonda Vincent, the Kody Norris Show, the Dan Tyminski Band, East Nash Grass, Nothin' Fancy, Greg Blake, Rebekah Speer, & Jeff Brown, and High Fidelity.

Hope you enjoyed our program for this week.  Be sure to join us once more next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM!

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Who's That Knocking At My Door? / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Bluegrass Time / Mickey Galyean with Cullen Galyean / Born Into Bluegrass:  The Songs Of Cullen Galyean / Mountain Roads Recordings
• Rebel Soldier / Charlie Moore / Plum Pitiful / Time Life
• Pages Of Time / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
• Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
• Sinking Of The Titanic / The Stonemans / Patsy, Donna & Roni / Patuxent Music
• Fiddlin' John / Summertown Road / Summertown Road / Rounder
• Lee Highway Blues / Bass Mountain Boys with Chubby Wise / Fiddlin' With Tradition / BMM Records
• Red River Valley/Back To Red River / Front Rage / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill Records
• Pain In My Heart / Osborne Brothers [Bobby Osborne] / Chronological Classics, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• White Orchid / Akira Otsuka / First Tear / Patuxent Music
• On Her Own / Laura Orshaw with Trey Hensley / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• You're My Darling / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road
• Making Plans / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes I & II / Sugar Hill Records
• Jerusalem Ridge / O'Connor Band with Mark O'Connor / Coming Home / Rounder
• Windy Mountain / Tim O'Brien / Where The River Meets The Road / Howdy Skies Records
• Cold Wind (On Fletcher Hill) / Open Road / Cold Wind / Rounder
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH Records
• Heading East To West Virginia / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / single / Self-Produced
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Tennessee Rain / Greg Blake, Rebekah Speer, & Jeff Brown / single / Turnberry Records
• The Show / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• Be Good To My Little Baby Girl / Darren Beachley & Caleb Bailey / single / Turnberry Records
• The City Of New Orleans / Rhonda Vincent / single / Upper Management Music
• Ghost Of Good Times / Full Cord / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Call Her Sunshine / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Leaves Musn't Fall / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / James Price / The Old Mountaineer / Hay Holler
• You're Gonna Wonder About Me / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Don't You Call My Name / Carson Peters & Iron Mountain / Gotta Lotta Lonesome / Billy Blue Records
• Smoke Along The Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Ragtime Annie / Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers / Old Time Songs Recorded From 1926 To 1930, Volume 2 / County
• Back To The Mountains / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Back To The Mountains / Randm Records
• Heartbroke And Lonesome / Jeff Presley & South Central Bluegrass / I Need A Song / Webco
• How Come You Do Me Like You Do / Jeff Parker / Go Parker! / Lonesome Day Records
• 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• She'll Change / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch
• Ode To Jimmy Martin / Dan Tyminski Band / God Fearing Heathen / 8 Track Entertainment
• All The Good Times Are Past And Gone / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Memories Of Monroe / Nothin' Fancy / Here We Go Again / Mountain Fever Records
• If I Should Wander Back Tonight / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Rodger Young / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Poets And Fools / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• The Storm / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Give Me The Roses While I Live / Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home
• Wait For The Light To Shine / Whitstein Brothers / Sweet Harmony / Rounder
• Calling From Heaven / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• When I Get There / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / single / no label
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• I Have Found The Way / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Free Salvation / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• I'm A Pilgrim / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/1/2023

Before our next edition of Bluegrass Cafe airs tomorrow (4-7PM), it 's high time to get the playlist posted from our October 1st edition of this program!  We shared music from several of the big winners of IBMA Awards on September 28th, including Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Special Consensus, Greg Blake, Jason Carter, Authentic Unlimited, and Entertainer of the Year, Billy Strings).  We also included a couple of songs each from the three new members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame:  Wilma Lee Cooper, Sam Bush, and David Grisman.  

We also took a few moments to remember the delightful Mark Wayne Kitchin ~ someone who was not only a noted country music DJ in eastern Connecticut for 30+ years, but also a Bluegrass bass player who made a record in the mid-1960s with some friends:  Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys.  In addition, he also played a bit with Shady Creek in the 1990s. On a personal note, Mark was a radio mentor of mine for several years, and an all-around good guy who will be greatly missed.  Read his obituary here.  Rest in peace, Mark.

The next edition of our Bluegrass Cafe comes tomorrow afternoon at 4PM.  Hope you'll consider joining me.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch [2023 IBMA Award Winner:  Female Vocalist; Album; Song]
• People, Places, And Songs / Greg Blake / People, Places, And Songs / Turnberry Records [2023 IBMA Award Winner:  Male Vocalist]
• Once / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records [2023 IBMA Award Winner:  Vocal Group; New Artist]
• John Deere Tractor / Billy Strings with Terry Barber / Me/And/Dad / Rounder [2023 IBMA Award Winner:  Entertainer]
• Alberta Bound / Special Consensus feat. the Jaybird Trio, Pharis & Jason Romero, Ray Legere & Claire Lynch / Great Blue North / Compass Records [2023 IBMA Award Winner:  Collaborative Recording]
• Kissimmee Kid / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records [2023 IBMA Award Winner:  Fiddle Player; Instrumental Recording]
• The Galveston Flood / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Queen Anne's Lace / Del McCoury Band / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• Georgia Stomp / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Just Like You / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill
• Can't You Hear Me Calling / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Hold Whatcha Got / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA
• Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Hickory Hollow / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage [Remembering Mark Wayne Kitchin]
• Maple Sugar / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage [Remembering Mark Wayne Kitchin]
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / single / Osage [Remembering Mark Wayne Kitchin]
• Lonesome Indian / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / single / Osage [Remembering Mark Wayne Kitchin]
• You Better Hold On To Your Heart / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar hill
• When The Grass Grows Over Me / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Bluegrass Legends--Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• Say You Lied / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• A Daisy A Day / Wilma Lee Cooper / A Daisy A Day / Rounder [IBMA Hall of Fame, 2023]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Sam Bush / King Of My World / Sugar Hill [IBMA Hall of Fame, 2023]
• On The Old Kentucky Shore / Old & In The Gray / Old & In The Gray / Acoustic Disc [David Grisman ~ IBMA Hall of Fame, 2023]
• Sunrise / Sam Bush & Bela Fleck / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways [IBMA Hall of Fame, 2023]
• Home Is Where The Heart Is / David Grisman / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder [IBMA Hall of Fame, 2023]
• Poor Ellen Smith / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister 2 / Rounder [IBMA Hall of Fame, 2023]
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch
• The Sun Also Rises / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• Sad Situation / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / O Sister! / Rounder
• It's Goodbye And So Long To You / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• Angeline The Baker / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Idle Time / Rounder
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Ridin' On That Midnight Train / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Rebel
• Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel
• Once More / David Grisman, Vince Gill, Herb Pedersen, Jim Buchanan, Emory Gordy, Jr / Here Today / Rounder
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 2 / Hay Holler
• Who Will Sing For Me / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems / no label
• Gotta Travel On / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Working On A Building / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Walkin', Runnin', Flyin' / IIIrd Tyme Out / Grandpa's Mandolin / Rebel 
• God Told Nicodemus / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/24/2023

Just as we honored Hank Williams on what would have been his 100th birthday on September 17th, on this past Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we remembered the King of Country Music, Roy Acuff (September 15, 1903 - November 23, 1992).  Mr. Acuff was definitely not a Bluegrass performer, but, like the music of Hank Williams, a whole lot of Roy Acuff's songs have been covered by Bluegrass performers over the years.  We shared a dozen songs written, performed, or made famous by Roy Acuff over the course of our three hour program.  Hope you enjoyed them.

New music is part of our programming most weeks, and during Sunday's show we shared some new music from the Henhouse Prowlers, as well as Nothin' Fancy and Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road.  We also shared recent music from the Kody Norris Show, the Tim Raybon Band, East Nash Grass, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Jason Barie, and High Fidelity.

We also brought along several LPs to share this week, including the Osborne Brothers ("Up This Hill And Down"), J.D. Crowe & the New South ("You Can Share My Blanket"), Lester Flatt & Mac Wiseman ("Lester 'n' Mac"), Fred Pike ("Fred Pike And The Flat-Top Guitar"), and the Country Gentlemen ("Live From The Stage Of The Roanoke Bluegrass Festival"). 

Hope you enjoyed the show.  Please consider joining me once again this Sunday for another visit in our Bluegrass Cafe, won't you?

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Write Me Sweetheart / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Pressing On Regardless / Brentwood Music [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Wreck On The Highway / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Barnyard Frolic / RME Records [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Night Train To Memphis / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Wabash Cannonball / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Band / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Fireball Mail / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Low And Lonely / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / New Bluegrass And Old Heartaches / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Branded Wherever I Go / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Freight Train Blues / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Great Speckle Bird / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Memories That We Shared / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Wise County Jail / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced
• Pain Of Loving You / The Grascals with Dolly Parton / The Grascals & Friends / BluGrascal Records
• Newton Grove / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Banjo Am The Instrument For Me / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Lovesick And Sorrow / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
• Cotton Dice / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• With Body And Soul / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Home For / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• Time Gone By / Nothin' Fancy / Here We Go Again / Mountain Fever Records
• Crooked As You Go / Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road / single / Trailhead Records
• Endless Highway / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Gone At Last / Nothin' Fancy / Here We Go Again / Mountain Fever Records
• I Could Get Used To This / Tim Raybon Band / I Could Get Used To This / Pinecastle
• Love Slippin' Away / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• Up This Hill And Down / Osborne Brothers / Up This Hill And Down / Decca
• Black Mountain Rag / Fred Pike / Fred Pike And The Flat-Top Guitar / Revonah Records
• Making Plans / Osborne Brothers / Up This Hill And Down / Decca
• Jimmy G.'s Gas Pipe / Fred Pike / Fred Pike And The Flat-Top Guitar / Revonah Records
• Bluebirds Are Singing For Me / Lester Flatt & Mac Wiseman / Lester 'n' Mac / RCA
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / Lester Flatt & Mac Wiseman / Lester 'n' Mac / RCA
• Hickory Wind / J.D. Crowe & the New South / You Can Share My Blanket / Rounder
• Nine Pound Hammer / Country Gentlemen / Live From The Stage Of The Roanoke Bluegrass Festival / Zap
• Pallet On The Floor / Country Gentlemen / Live From The Stage Of The Roanoke Bluegrass Festival / Zap
• San Joaquin / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Golden West / Nonesuch Records
• I'm Better Off Now That You're Gone / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Tradition:  Tribute To A Bluegrass Legacy / Doobie Shea Records
• Bottom Of The Ninth / Jason Barie / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Don't Sell Daddy Anymore Whiskey / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Is It True? / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family Records
• Hank / Laura Orshaw / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Mansion On The Hill / Whitstein Brothers / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• I'll Never Go Back (To The Ways Of Sin) / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• Little Eyes / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• God On The Mountain / Jesse Brock / Streamliner / Sound Biscuit
• He Took Your Place / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• I'm A Pilgrim / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• This World Can't Stand Long / Roy Acuff / The Essential Roy Acuff / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/17/2023

On the 100th birthday anniversary of the one and only Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953), we couldn't help but pay tribute to the
man and his music during a good portion of our Bluegrass Cafe.  We included both covers of songs Hank recorded and music from the man, himself.  Seventy years after his passing, the music world is still feeling the impact of Hank's troubled, short, very musical life...and we will forever be grateful.

Need to read more about Hank?  As promised, here are a few book options:

Escott, Colin.  Hank Williams:  The Biography.  (Little, Brown & Co., 1994)

Hemphill, Paul.  Lovesick Blues:  The Life Of Hank Williams.  (Viking, 2005)

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

There were a few songs that weren't from Hank's songbook, though.  To that end, we shared newer music from Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Alan Munde, Greg Blake & Hometown, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Authentic Unlimited, East Nash Grass, Rock Hearts, Special Consensus, and High Fidelity.

Enjoy the week, and we'll look for you once again on Sunday at 7PM for our next Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Songs of Hank Williams in RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Move It On Over / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• Singing Waterfall / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• Honky Tonk Blues / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'n' Live / Sugar Hill 
• Lovesick Blues / Hank Williams / Long Gone Lonesome Blues / Country Stars
• Long Gone Lonesome Blues / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury
• I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind / Claire Lynch / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Way / Mercury
• Weary Blues From Waitin' / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Your Cheatin' Heart / Ernie Thacker / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Way / Mercury
• Settin' The Woods On Fire / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced
• May You Never Be Alone Like Me / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• Cold, Cold Heart / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• You Win Again / Ralph Stanley with Melba Montgomery / Clinch Mountain Sweethearts / Rebel
• Why Don't You Love Me / Gene Wooten / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Way / Mercury
• Six More Miles / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders:  A Tribute To Ralph Stanley / Rebel
• Happy Rovin' Cowboy / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper
• Pan American / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper
• Lovesick Blues / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper
• Arkansas Traveller / Hank Williams with Jerry Rivers / Hillbilly Hero / Proper
• I Saw The Light / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper
• Sally Goodin' / Hank Williams with Jerry Rivers / Hillbilly Hero / Proper
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Lost Highway / Crowe Brothers / Forty Years Old / Mountain Fever Records
• The Evening Train / Bob & Danny Paisley / Plum Pitiful / Time Life
• You're Gonna Change Or I'm Gonna Leave / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Flying Fish
• 'Neath A Cold Gray Tomb Of Stone / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler 
• Dear John / Adam Steffey / Here To Stay / Mountain Home
• My Sweet Love Ain't Around / McCoury Brothers / The McCoury Brothers / Rounder
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Jim Mills with Alan O'Bryant / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill
• (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle / Ronnie McCoury / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Way / Mercury
• Baby We're Really In Love / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Phoenix / Happy Appy Records
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / Hank Williams / Long Gone Lonesome Blues / Country Stars
• Let Time Ride / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• Miss Kitty's Hornpipe / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• The Sky Is Weeping / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• The Likes Of You / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Fall In Tennessee / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• The Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Don't Let Smokey Mountain Smoke Get In Your Eyes / Still Pickin' / Southbound / Self-Produced
• Snowbird / Special Consensus feat. Claire Lynch / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics / Cattle
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways
• A House Of Gold / The Whites / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill 
• Standing On The Banks / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute To The Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• From Jerusalem To Jericho / Hank Williams / The Unreleased Recordings / Time Life
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/10/2023

After two weeks of missed broadcasts, I had a lot of ground to cover during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  We had birth anniversaries of three Bluegrass legends to celebrate, it was Grandparents Day, and we had a whole lot of brand-new music to share.  It was a show filled with lots of great music -- hope you were able to join us!

Probably 3/4 of the songs that made up Sunday's playlist were from the song catalogs of Carter Stanley (August 27, 1925 - December 1, 1966), J.D. Crowe (August 27, 1937 - December 24, 2021), and, of course, that of the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe (September 13, 1911 - September 9, 1996).  

And there was lots of new music to share, too.  In addition to two songs from the soon-to-be-released gospel recording from High Fidelity ("Music In My Soul"), we heard selections from Full Cord, the Tim Raybon Band, Donna Ulisse, the Edgar Loudermilk Band, Robert Hale, Cory Walker, and Kelley John Gibson.  We also played a couple of songs from the brand-new recording from Connecticut band, Audrey Mae.

We'll look forward to having you dine us once again next Sunday afternoon for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Grandpa's Way Of Life / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Grandma's Gift / Dale Ann Bradley / Catch Tomorrow / Compass Records
• Arleigh / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• A Grandmother's Love / Bear Tracks / Rough Edges / AMT Records
• The White Dove / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia/Legacy [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Our Darling's Gone / Stanley Brothers / Earliest Recordings / Rounder [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Sugar Coated Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Nobody's Love Is Like Mine / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• The Lonesome River / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia/Legacy [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Bear Tracks / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Down Where The River Bends / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Blackjack / J.D. Crowe / Blackjack / Rebel [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Too Often Left Alone / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder [Remembering J.D .Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Big Spike Hammer / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You / Full Cord / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Could Get Used To This / Tim Raybon Band / I Could Get Used To This / Pinecastle
• My Picasso / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Pinecastle
• Where The Mountain Lilies Grow / Donna Ulisse / single / Billy Blue Records
• I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water / Robert Hale / single / Pinecastle
• Bugle Call Rag / Cory Walker / School Project / Mountain Fever Records
• Pray / Kelley John Gibson / The Keeping Kind / Bull Run Records
• Loving You Too Well / Audrey Mae / Bad Fret / Self-Produced
• Bad Fret / Audrey Mae / Bad Fret / Self-Produced
• Many A Mile / Audrey Mae / Bad Fret / Self-Produced
• I'm On My Way To The Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Will You Be Loving Another Man / The Grascals / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration:  A Classic Bluegrass Tribute / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• True Life Blues / Hazel & Alice / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration:  A Classic Bluegrass Tribute / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Highway Of Sorrow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & HIs Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Farewell To Long Hollow / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration:  A Classic Bluegrass Tribute / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Molly And Tenbrooks / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Heavy Traffic Ahead / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  The Songs Of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Bluegrass Swing / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Walls Of Time / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Toy Heart / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass:  Tribute To 1946 And 1947 / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Bluegrass Breakdown / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Come Back To Me In My Dreams / Balsam Range with Joe Diffie / Marching Home / Mountain Home [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Rose Of Old Kentucky / Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Southern Flavor / Becky Buller / 'Tween Earth & Sky / Dark Shadow Recording [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• I'm Ready To Go / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• The Boat Of Love / Peter Rowan / The First Whippoorwill / Sugar Hill [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Voice From On High / Joe Val / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• River Of Death / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• You Can Be A Millionaire With Me / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Are You Lost In Sin? / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• That Home Above / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe, 1945-1949 / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Bill Monroe:  9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/20/2023

After a couple of whirlwind days in Washington DC, I returned to Connecticut late Saturday evening, but was still ready to put together another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe to present on Sunday afternoon.  Being in Washington DC made me think of two fine bands that for many years represented that brand of "Washington Bluegrass" that we all love so well, so we just had to share music from (or inspired by) these bands:  the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene.  Hope you enjoyed those selections.

We also belatedly remembered the wonderful Bluegrass songwriter, Jake Landers, who was born on August 14, 1938 and died February 13, 2018.  Landers had songs recorded by everyone from Bill Monroe to Red Allen to a new band called Retro 78.  In addition, we played a few songs from Connecticut band, Grass Routes, as one of their former members, Jack Jolie, recently passed.  Though Jack relocated to Maine a few years ago, he still had lots of good friends and family in Connecticut, and he will be greatly missed.

Newer music, as always, was part of the show, too.  To that end, we heard new music from Podunk favorites, the Henhouse Prowlers, Full Cord, and East Nash Grass, as well as newer selections from Billy Swinson, Unspoken Tradition, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Wyatt Ellis, and Daniel Grindstaff (with Paul Brewster and Dolly Parton).

Hope you were able to join us for this show, but if not, we'll have another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe ready for you next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

See you then!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Willow Creek Dam / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• Many A Mile / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Dudley Connell & John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Two Little Boys / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound / Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz / Picture In A Tear / Rounder
• This Morning At Nine / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Hickory Holler's Tramp / Bill Yates & Friends / The Country Gentlemen Tribute / Mastershield Records
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Mercury
• Calaveras County / Jason Barie with Michael Cleveland / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• Got No Reason Now For Goin' Home / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• One By One / Dale Ann Bradley with Dan Paisley / Kentucky For Me / Pinecastle
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Billy Strings / Me / And / Dad / Rounder
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love With You / Boone & Foster / Smoky Mountain Favorites / Mountain Fever Records
• The Old Home Town / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Keep A Memory / Jason Barie with Doyle Lawson & Russell Moore / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• My Last Run / Henhouse Prowlers / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Greener Grass / Billy Swinson / Greener Grass / Self-Produced
• Weeds Don't Wither / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home
• City Of New Orleans / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / single / Upper Management Music
• Ghost Of Good Times / Full Cord / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Forever Young / Daniel Grindstaff with Paul Brewster & Dolly Parton / single / Pinecastle
• Grassy Cove / Wyatt Ellis with Sierra Hull / single / Knee High Records
• Walk Softly On My Heart / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• This Is The Girl I Love / Retro 78 / EP / Ram Cat Records [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Your Heart Now Tells The Truth / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Don't Wake Me / Bill Emerson with Red Allen / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• I Beg To You / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Mountain Girl / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Sittin' Alone In The Moonlight / Grass Routes / Something New / Self-Produced [Remembering Jack Jolie]
• Walking The Dog / Grass Routes / Twentieth Anniversary / Self-Produced [Remembering Jack Jolie]
• Love Of The Mountains / Grass Routes / Something New / Self-Produced [Remembering Jack Jolie]
• Muddy Waters / Seldom Scene / Recorded Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel 
• I Haven't Got The Right To Love You / John Duffey [Seldom Scene] / The Rebel Years, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Going Up On The Mountain / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Calling My Children / Hot Flashes / Live / Happy Appy Records
• In The Garden / Feller & Hill / I Firmly Promise You / Tommy Hillpicker Records
• Sing, Sing, Sing / Curly Seckler / That Old Book Of Mine / Rebel
• Old Daniel Prayed / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Pray For The Boys / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• The Heavenly Parade / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Gospel Parade / Sugar Hill
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Heaven / John Duffey [Seldom Scene] / The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/13/2023

Hot on the heels of last Sunday's playlist posting for our Bluegrass Cafe, here comes the list for this day's edition!  

As you might imagine, we started the show with selections from several performers who appeared at this year's recently concluded Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen.  It was a wonderful festival with so many terrific performers, including Authentic Unlimited, Full Cord, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, East Nash Grass, Jerry Salley (who performed with Kristy Cox & Grasstime), Mike Mitchell, the Henhouse Prowlers, and Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass.  Hope you were able to attend, but if not this year, you'll have another chance in 2024!  Reserve these dates on your calendar:  August 10-13, 2024.  

We also celebrated the shared birth anniversary date of two Country Music Hall of Fame members:  Porter Wagoner (August 12, 1927 - October 28, 2007) and Buck Owens (August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006).  Both of these legends have had their music covered in a Bluegrass style over the years, so we shared a couple of tracks from each man's catalog.  We also continued the celebration of the birth anniversary of the King Of Bluegrass (Jimmy Martin) with several songs and covers from his vast catalog.

Hope you were able to join us for this broadcast, but if not, you'll have another chance next weekend to check out our Bluegrass Cafe.

Until then, enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Yardboss / Full Cord / Hindsight / Self-Produced
• Die Tryin' / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Love Slippin' Away / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Idaho / Patrice Webb / The Mountain, The Valley, The River, The Pine / Self-Produced [1st Place -- 2023 Podunk Songwriting Competition]
• What Kind Of Fool (Do You Think You're Foolin') / Jerry Salley / single / Very Jerry Records
• Making Hay / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• Uncle Ned / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Home Run Man / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Milwaukee, Here I Come / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Sophronie / David Grisman with Tony Rice / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Grand Ole Opry Song / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• How Could I Love Her So Much / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• On The Lonesome Wind / Andy Lowe / Nervous Energy / Mountain Fever Records
• Longfellow's Excelsior Hornpipe / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• Bad Moon Rising / Dave Adkins / single / Billy Blue Records
• Uncommon Man / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• I Go / The Grascals / single / Mountain Home
• Last Chance To Win / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Don't Hold Back / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'm Still Broken / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' On / Mountain Home
• A Satisfied Man / Porter Wagoner / The Essential Porter Wagoner / RCA [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Carroll County Accident / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Misery Loves Company / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper / Sugar Hill [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Ole Slew Foot / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Ruby & Other Bluegrass Specials / Jasmine [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Tall Dark Stranger / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Stony Mountain, West Virginia / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc. [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Old Memory / Gibson Brothers Bluegrass Band / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm Records
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• I Never Was Too Much / Gibson Brothers Bluegrass Band / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm Records
• I Never Was Too Much / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Dixie Breakdown / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• (Is This) My Destiny / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Live And Let Live / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Loggin' Man / Del McCoury Band / The Cold Hard Facts / Rounder
• Jordan / Darin & Brooke Aldridge feat. Ricky Skaggs, Mo Pitney, Mark Fain / single / Billy Blue Records
• Eternal Vacation / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Rocking On The Waves / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris / Bluegrass Spirit / Rounder
• God Told Nicodemus / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Awake My Soul / Chosen Road / It Never Gets Old / Thoroughbred Records
• Happy On My Way / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder