"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/12/2023

Before a new week begins, it's time to share last Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe playlist.  During this show, we shared several songs from Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway (who brought her tour to the UConn campus the previous evening with a fine show at the Jorgensen Auditorium), as well as a couple of songs honoring veterans, and a whole bunch of songs from performers whose band name or last name began with the letter "N."  In addition, there was new or recent music from the likes of Amanda Cook, Cory Walker, Williamson Branch, David Parmley, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, the Kathy Kallick Band, the Seldom Scene, Jim Lauderdale & the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Appalachian Roadshow, Kristen Bearfield & Brooke Aldridge, High Fidelity, and Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out.

Thanks for listening, and we hope to be with you tomorrow from 4-7PM.  Join us, if you can!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• 'Til The End Of The World Rolls 'Round / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow / Stanley Brothers / The Coplete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia
• She Left Me Standing On The Mountain / Jim & Jesse / Y'all Come:  The Essential Jim & Jesse / Epic Legacy
• On And On / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The King And The Father / MME
• The Army Vet Song / Volume Five / For Those Who Care To Listen / Mountain Fever Records
• God Bless The Soldier / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Margie / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Down Where The River Bends / Ralph Stanley with Dwight Yoakam / Saturday Night & Sunday Morning / CRF Records
• Waiting For The Boys / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Bugle Call Rag / Cory Walker / School Project / Mountain Fever Records
• Grass Valley / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• It Takes A Train To Cry / The Tuttles & A.J. Lee / Introducing The Tuttles with A.J. Lee / Back Studio Records
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• Oh Darlin' / Bradley & Adair / Oh Darlin' / Pinecastle
• Don't Throw Your Life Away / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Apartment #9 / Bradley & Adair / Oh Darlin' / Pinecastle
• New Star / Amanda Cook / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Kentucky Highway / Williamson Branch / single / Pinecastle
• What Makes You Think / David Parmley / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Never Been So Lonesome / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Reason To Believe / The Seldom Scene / single / Down The Road Records
• Troubled Life / Appalachian Road Show / Jubilation / Billy Blue Records
• Last Resort / Jim Lauderdale & the Po' Ramblin' Boys / The Long And Lonesome Letting Go / Sky Crunch Records
• Winterhawk / Northern Lights / Take You To The Sky / Flying Fish Records
• Sweet Virginia / No Speed Limit / Sweet Virginia / Arhoolie Records
• Train On The Island / Mark Newton Band / No Boundaries / Rebel 
• Watson's Blues / Nixon, Blevins & Gage / Pickin' On Doc / Self-Produced
• Wild Bill Jones / New Coon Creek Girls / Ain't Love A Good Thing / Pinecastle
• If You're Ever Gonna Love Me / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Sweden 1973 / Self-Produced
• Twilight Time / Northern Lights / Time Goes So Fast / Self-Produced
• Mountain Rosalie / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel 
• Old Devil's Dream / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Cold Virginia Night / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
• Frog On A Lilly Pad / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• It's Just A Road / The Boxcars / It's Just A Road / Mountain Home
• Autumn Fell / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Walking With Joanna / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill Records
• Once More / The Grascals / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Blackbird / Special Conensus / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Don't You Know I Love You, Charlie Brown? / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Bring Him Your Talents / Bluegrass Cardinals / Way Down Deep In My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Kristen Leigh Bearfield & Brooke Aldridge / Heaven's Getting Sweeter Each Day / single  / Thoroughbred Records
• I Touch God's Loving Hand / NorthernBound / Granddad Hank
• The Lord's Last Supper / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Get Behind Me Satan / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road
• When I Get There / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / single / Self-Produced
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Lord, Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 11/5/2023

Really late in posting this playlist for the November 5th edition of our Bluegrass Cafe, but during this show, we shared songs about changing time, a little bit of new music from the likes of Nu-Blu, Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve, and Jim Lauderdale & the Po' Ramblin' Boys, birthday songs in honor of Alan Munde and Junior Sisk, and 16 songs about trains. 

Read on to thoroughly review the playlist, won't you?

Amy O. 

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Time Changes Everything / Reno Brothers / Swing West / Pinecastle
• Time / Lou Reid & Carolina / Time / Lonesome Day Records
• Time Has Made A Change In Me / Jeff Parker & Company / Time Has Made A Change / Truegrass Entertainment
• Grandfather's Clock / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• My Dying Day / Lou Reid & Carolina / Time / Lonesome Day Records
• I'm So Dog Gone Used To Lovin' You / Reno Brothers / Swing West / Pinecastle
• If That's The Way You Feel / Amanda Smith / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Cheek To Cheek With The Blues / Del McCoury / High Lonesome And Blue / Rounder
• How Could I Love Her So Much / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Just Wondering Why / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• No Longer A Sweet Heart Of Mine / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow / Bill Clifton / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• The Old Home / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Wheel Hoss / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records
• Not Loving Me / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• Sweetest Gift / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• I'll Stay Around / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• The Will / Nu-Blu with Ricky Skaggs & Sharon White Skaggs / single / Self-Produced
• Geronimo's Cadillac / Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve / Mile 77 / Self-Produced
• Long And Lonesome Letting Go / Jim Lauderdale & the Po' Ramblin' Boys / The Long And Lonesome Letting Go / Sky Crunch Records
• Blue Hold Stroll / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music [Alan Munde birthday, 11/4/1946]
• Just Load The Wagon / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records [Junior Sisk birthday, 11/6/1964]
• Longfellow's Excelsior Hornpipe / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music [Alan Munde birthday, 11/4/1946]
• Mend This Heart Of Mine / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records [Junior Sisk birthday, 11/6/1964]
• Here Comes The Train / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• Steel Rails / Alison Krauss / I've Got That Old Feeling / Rounder
• The Spell Of A Freight Train / Ricochet / Raised By The Railroad Line / Rebel
• Railroad Line / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Old Train / The Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore / New Coon Creek Girls / The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore / Pinecastle
• She's On A Different Train / Jim Lauderdale & the Po' Ramblin' Boys / The Long And Lonesome Letting Go / Sky Crunch Records
• The Engineers Don't Wave From The Trains Anymore / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Flatland Girl / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway with Margo Price / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Blue Train (Of The Heartbreak Line) / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Hard Game Of Love / Sugar Hill
• The Train Song / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• California Zephyr / Larry Sparks / Raised By The Railroad Line / Rebel
• Get A Transfer / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• So High / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin' & Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm Christian
• You Can Feel It In Your Soul / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
• Little White Church / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• My Savior's Train / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Journey To My Savior's Side / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• When I Wake Up (To Sleep No More) / Soul Pickers / Beautiful River Of Life / Blue Circle Records
• Hold On / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Good News When I Die / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 10/29/2023

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured -- as you might expect -- included nearly two dozen tunes which featured stories of ghosts and other spooky incidents.  Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

We also included a tiny bit of newer Bluegrass, including the debut single from Connecticut Bluegrasser Austin Scelzo and a brand-new single from Lonesome River Band guitar picker/lead singer, Jesse Smathers.  We also included music from 2023 releases from the Kathy Kallick Band, Nothin' Fancy, RockHearts, the Henhouse Prowlers, and High Fidelity.

Hope you're having a wonderful week,.  We'll look forward to having you join us this coming Sunday, 4-7PM.  See you then!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Your Love Is Dying / Reno & Smiley / On Stage / Copper Creek
• Have You Lost Your Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Matterhorn / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Close The Door Lightly When You Go / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume 1 / Rural Rhythm
• The Grey Ghost / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Pinecastle
• Wild, Wild Rose / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Rock Hearts / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA
• Airmail Special / Jim & Jesse / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Sad And Blue / BearTracks / Together 'Til The End / AMT Records
• A Lonesome Night / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Why Don't You Tell Me So? / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• The Long Black Veil / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
• Polly Vaughn / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• Ghostbound Train / Dale Ann Bradley / Don't Turn Your Back / Compass Records
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Footsteps So Near / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• The Ghost Of Norma Jean / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• The Ghost Of Cecil Martin / Audie Blaylock / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records
• Brown Mountain Light / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder
• Cold, Icy Fingers / Lost & Found / It's About Time / Rebel
• Second Fiddle Blues / Austin Scelzo feat. Vickie Vaughn / single / Self-Produced
• A Lonesome Feeling / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Sing Darling Sing / Jesse Smathers / single / Self-Produced
• Tired Of These Little Games You're Playing / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Forgotten Gravestones / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• Here We Go Again / Nothin' Fancy / Here We Go Again / Mountain Fever Records
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Clinch Mountain Mystery / Larry Stephenson Band / Clinch Mountain Mystery / Pinecastle
• The Silver Ghost / David Parmley / Southern Heritage / Rebel
• Sam Jocelyn's Ghost / ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band / single / Self-Produced
• The Ghost Of Noah Hayes / Rick Pardue & Timmy Massey / The Ghost Of Noah Hayes / Lizard Records
• Old Tom's Restless Bones / Gary Ferguson & Sally Love / Our Old Home / Eureka Recordings
• The Ballad Of Sarah Malone / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel
• Down In The Cold Ground / Mark Newton Band / Charlie Lawson's Still / Rebel
• George Cunningham / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• I've Come To Take You Home / Seldom Scene / Like We Used To Be / Sugar Hill
• The Ghost Of Jim Bob Wilson / Wildfire / Rented Room On Broadway / Pinecastle
• Ballad Of Maudie Dawson / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• The Lantern / Front Range / Ramblin' On My Mind / Sugar Hill
• All Aboard / Del McCoury Band / By Request / McCoury Music
• Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho / Dailey & Vincent / Singing From The Heart / Rounder
• I Love God's Way Of Living / White Mountain Bluegrass / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country Records
• My Lord Is Taking Me Away / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Jesus Is Whispering Now / Whetstone Run / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country Records
• Down The Road To Gloryland / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time / Sugar Hill
• Better Get In That Number / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• A Beautiful Life / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"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