"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/31/2024

For a Bluegrass Cafe that aired on Easter Sunday, you might expect to hear all sorts of Easter-themed Bluegrass songs...and you would be absolutely right!  We included Easter music performed by everybody from the Stanley Brothers to the Old Time Bluegrass Singers to the Country Gentlemen Tribute Band to Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band.  And there were many more songs that we could have played, but we just ran out of time.  Hope you enjoyed this blessed day!  

Sunday was the last day of March, which is known as Women's History Month.  To that end, we shared several selections from some of the finest female singers and musicians in the history of Bluegrass music.  We could have easily filled the whole show with just music from female performers, but instead, we'll keep on enjoying music from these fine musicians whenever we can, no matter the month.

And there were a few late March/early April birthdays to celebrate, including those of young Wyatt Ellis, Jeremy Stephens, Missy Raines, Cliff Waldron, and Bluegrass Hall of Famer Bill Clifton.

Finally, we included a little bit of new music from the likes of Alison Brown with Steve Martin, Junior Sisk, Daniel Grindstaff (with Trey Hensley), and two brand-new recordings from Authentic Unlimited.

Enjoy your week, and we'll hope to join you once again on Sunday afternoon for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Cry From The Cross / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Just As The Sun Went Down / James King / Garden In The Sky / Rounder
• Stone Was Rolled Away / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Search Inside An Empty Tomb / The Rarely Herd / What About Him / Pinecastle
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch
• Forever You / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco
• You Tried To Ruin My Name / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister! / Rounder
• Blue Grass Breakdown / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• The Last Old Shovel / Phyllis Boyens / O Sister! / Rounder
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• So Far / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home
• Blue Baby Now / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Mama's Cross / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Pinecastle
• You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Love You In Vain / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Still Waters / Jaelee Roberts / Something You Didn't Count On / Mountain Home
• Once A Day / PIke Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Cabin On A Mountain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Alison Brown & Steve Martin / Bluegrass Radio / single / Compass Records
• Memories Of Mother / Junior Sisk with Ricky Skaggs / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Blue Smoke / Wyatt Ellis with Marty Stuart / Happy Valley / Knee High Records [Wyatt Ellis birthday, 4/3/2009]
• Looking At The World Through A Windshield / Daniel Grindstaff feat. Trey Hensley / single / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel [Jeremy Stephens birthday, 3/31/1984]
• Listen To The Lonesome Wind / Missy Raines / Highlander / Compass Records [Missy Raines birthday, 4/6/1962]
• Little White Washed Chimney / Bill Clifton / The Early Years, 1957-1958 / Rounder [Bill Clifton birthday, 4/5/1931]
• The Empty Grave / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise Records
• He's Passing This Way / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Gonna Rise And Shine / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Gonna Rise And Shine / Mountain Fever Records
• Legend Of The Dogwood Tree / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• Were You There / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Remember The Cross / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea Records
• By The Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Once Upon A Heartbeat / The Rarely Herd / Pure Homemade Love / Pinecastle
• Ragged Man / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Bye Bye Love / Spectrum / Bluegrass Goes To Town / Rounder
• Hold Whatcha Got / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Memories Cover Everything I Own / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Second To None / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Snowbird / Special Consensus with Claire Lynch / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Cry From The Cross / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• I'm Justified / Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• When We Look On His Face / Bill Emerson with Cliff Waldron / Reunion / Webco [Cliff Waldron birthday, 4/4/1941]
• Purple Robe / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Blood Stains On The Cross / Larry Sparks / New Highway / Mountain Home
• The Garden Tomb / The Isaacs with the Oak Ridge Boys / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Broken Stone / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/24/2024

We celebrated a few March birthdays during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, including those of Bluegrass Hall of Fame members John Starling, Dean Webb, and Paul Williams.  We also remembered a banjo playing Blue Grass Boy of the early 1950s, Rudy Lyle (March 17, 1936 - February 11, 1985), with several songs on which he played an active part.  This included music (of course!) from Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, as well as Uncle Joe Johnson and Jimmy Skinner, too.  If you would like to know more about Rudy Lyle, there was a biography published about him in 2022:  Rudy Lyle:  The Unsung Hero Of The Five-String Banjo by Max Wareham.  

There was some newer music to share during our broadcast, including brand-new selections from Junior Sisk, Adam McIntosh, the Tim Raybon Band, Crandall Creek with Greg Blake, the Edgar Loudermilk Band, Rock Hearts, and Lindley Creek.  There was also recent music from High Fidelity, the Price Sisters, the Kathy Kallick Band, the Country Gentlemen Tribute Band, and Barry Abernathy (from the new Rick Lang-penned gospel collection).

Our plan is to join you once again on Easter Sunday afternoon.  If you're able to tune in, please do!  We should be on the air from 4-7PM...as always.

Have a good week -
Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Howling Blue Winds / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• Lonesome Wind Blues / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Windy Mountain / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family Records
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Toy Heart / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Big Spike Hammer / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Here Today / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Sweet Thang And Cisco / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel
• Honeycat Hornpipe / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• Echo Canyon / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
• Don't You Know I Love You, Charlie Brown / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Dreamer's Hill / Lost & Found / Final Chapter / Mountain Fever Records
• If There's A Will, There's A Way / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Every Time A Train Goes By / Adam McIntosh / Restless / Billy Blue Records
• Headed Back To Tulsa / Tim Raybon Band / single / Pinecastle
• Lazy Sunday / Crandall Creek with Greg Blake / single / Self-Produced
• The Banks Of The River / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Pinecastle
• Unfinished Bridges / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Spring Is In The Air Again / Lindley Creek / single / Pinecastle
• Old Cold Shoulder / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Natural Bridge Blues / Uncle Joe Johnson / WPAQ:  The Voice Of The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rounder [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• 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 Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Too Hot To Handle / Jimmy Skinner / single / Decca [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Blue Grass Ramble / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Muddy Waters / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Starling:  3/26/1940 - 5/2/2019]
• The Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Dean Webb:  3/28/1937 - 6/30/2018]
• Steppin' Stones / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• Darling Please Come On Home / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• I Can Read Between The Lines In Your Letters / Price Sisters / Between The Lines/ McCoury Music
• Just Lonesome Ol' Me And The Radio / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall) / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• Bringing In The Georgia Mail / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Misty Mountain Rain / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland Strictly Country Records
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• The Touch Of God's Hand / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Hold On / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Are You Lost In Sin? / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Where No Cabins Fall / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Springtime In Glory / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• My Lord's Been A Walkin' / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Just Beyond / Barry Abernathy / Blue Collar Gospel / Billy Blue Records
• Goodbye / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/17/2024

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included a three-hour mix of Bluegrass songs old and new.  We included two separate song sets celebrating both St. Patrick's Day and the First Day of Spring.  Around the midway point, we had a telephone visit with Michelle Canning, a Massachusetts-born musician/songwriter who now makes her home in Nashville, and this coming weekend, is hosting her 13th annual Night On The Edge benefit for the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.  If you would like to know more about this worthy cause, please click on this link.

Marti & Jim at WHUS - November 2006

We remembered the late Al Jones with some of his music, and we sent out a couple of songs in honor of Marti Harmon, the wife of our former "Bluegrass Cafe" show co-host, Jim Beaver, as Marti passed from this world on March 12th.  Jim and Marti also were the creators and hosts of the delightful "Red Rooster Party" on WHUS for several years.  Simply put, Marti was an amazing lady who did so many interesting things during her lifetime.  If you would like to read Marti's lovely obituary, please do.  Rest in peace, Marti.

Both UConn basketball teams are getting ready to play in the NCAA tournament beginning this weekend, and with tournament action, that always means there is a possibility of our radio show being preempted.  We'll keep you posted if that happens as soon as we find out.

Enjoy the rest of the week, and we'll hope to have you join us on Sunday afternoon.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Coleen Malone / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
• Irish Spring / Country Gentlemen / Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• My Wild Irish Rose / Larry Stephenson Band / On Fire / Pinecastle
• Dublin Blues / Newtown / Time Machine / Pisgah Ridge Records
• Irish Medley (The Traveler/Green Gates) / Special Consensus / Our Little Town / Pinecastle
• Casey Jones / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood
• Some Things I Want To Sing About / The Grascals with Bobby Osborne / The Grascals / Rounder
• D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin) / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Norman Blake & Tony Rice 2 / Rounder
• The Angry Wife / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood
• Medicine / Michelle Canning / Outside The Lines / Self-Produced
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Are You Coming Back To Me? / Bill Harrell with Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Webco
• Shadows In My Room / Hot Rize / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cruel Love / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Too Late To Say Goodbye / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• King Of The Hill / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Lazy Whippoorwill / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• The Blues Ain't Workin' On Me / Michelle Canning with Rhonda Vincent / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Conversation with Michelle Canning
• Stranger / Michelle Canning feat. A.P. Harbor / Outside The Lines / Self-Produced
• Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / When It's Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Spring Will Bring Flowers / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Blue Ridge Mountains Turning Green / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• When Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Ah Spring / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• Winter's Come And Gone / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Cowboy Jubilee / Riders In The Sky / Live / Rounder [Remembering Martha Ann Harmon:  12/24/1956 - 3/12/2024]
• Yodel Blues / Riders In The Sky / Live / Rounder [Remembering Martha Ann Harmon:  12/24/1956 - 3/12/2024]
• What Do You Know About Heartaches / Frank Necessary, Al Jones & Buzz Busby / Frank Necessary, Al Jones & Buzz Busby / Old Homestead Records [Remembering Al Jones:  2/22/1932 - 3/3/2024]
• How The Story Had To End / Al Jones, Frank Necessary & the Spruce Mountain Boys / Al Jones, Frank Necessary & the Spruce Mountain Boys / Rounder [Remembering Al Jones:  2/22/1932 - 3/3/2024]
• Long Forgotten Dream / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• From The Hollow / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• Flat Creek / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / DSM Records
• Another Highway This Time / Amanda Cook / Changes / Mountain Fever Records
• Holiday Pickin' / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Forty Years Of Trouble / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• I Call Her Sunshine / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• My Friend Clyde / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• You Can't Buy Your Way / Northern Lights / Can't Buy Your Way / Flying Fish
• A Beautiful Life / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• When I Reach That Home Up There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/10/2024

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe got an unexpected (to me) delayed start due to the WHUS broadcast of a UConn Women's Basketball semifinal game in the 2024 Big East Tournament.  In the days before COVID, it was not at all unusual for our showtime to be preempted during basketball season at UConn, but that hasn't happened all that often in recent years...until yesterday.  We began the show around 4:30PM, so hope you were still able to enjoy 150 minutes of Bluegrass music on Sunday afternoon.

We began our delayed program with a belated birthday tribute to the great Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo picker of The Dillards, Doug Dillard (March 6, 1937 - May 16, 2012).  Somehow or other, Doug's birthday got overlooked during our broadcast on March 3rd.  For this week, we celebrated the birthdays of Norman Blake (born March 10, 1938), as well as those of Marshall Wilborn, Raymond Fairchild, Bob Paisley, Kristin Scott Benson, Ronnie McCoury, and Tim O'Brien.

International Women's Day was celebrated on March 8th, and while we could -- and should -- devote more airtime to the music of Bluegrass Women, we took a few minutes on Sunday to belatedly celebrate a few of the fine women in Bluegrass music.  To that end, we heard music from Becky Buller, Wilma Lee Cooper, Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, Alison Krauss, Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris, Laura Orshaw, and Rhonda Vincent.  

And there was some new music to share, too, this time from a new band named Red Camel Collective, as well as newer selections from the Price Sisters, Barry Abernathy (from the forthcoming Rick Lang-penned Gospel recording), Volume Five, Darren Nicholson, Michelle Canning, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, the Travelin' McCourys, Missy Raines & Allegheny, and Junior Sisk.

It was a busy, abbreviated show!  Sure hope you could join us, but if not this week, then I hope you'll seek out our next broadcast on Sunday, March 17th.  We should have three big hours of Bluegrass Cafe to share beginning at 4PM.

Until then, have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Dooley / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Somebody Touched Me / The Dillards / Back Porch Bluegrass / Elektra [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Are You Missing Me / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP&CD Records
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Mama & Daddy's Little Girl / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Select Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• You're Not A Drop In The Bucket / The Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Roll On Mississippi / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• There's A Song In There Somewhere / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• We Just Disagree / Volume Five / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Ain't No Sin / Darren Nicholson / single / Mountain Home
• Outside The Lines / Michelle Canning / Outside The Lines / Self-Produced
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk with Dan Tyminski / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Silence Or Tears / Norman & Nancy Blake / Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To / Shanachie [Norman Blake birthday, 3/10/1938]
• Black Pony / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Beer Barrel Polka / Raymond Fairchild / Little Zane / Copper Creek [Remembering Raymond Fairchild:  3/15/1939 - 10/13/2019]
• Margie / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Bob Paisley:  3/14/1931 - 11/29/2004]
• Quicksburg Rondezvous / Del McCoury Band / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder [Ronnie McCoury birthday, 3/16/1967]
• Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill [Tim O'Brien birthday, 3/16/1954]
• Great Waterton / Kristin Scott Benson / String works / Mountain Home [Kristin Scott Benson birthday, 3/14/1976]
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost HIghway Records [Norman Blake birthday, 3/10/1938]
• Runaway Train / The Travelin' McCourys / single / McCoury Music
• Fast Moving Train / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Highlander / Compass Records
• Foolish Heart / Alison Krauss / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Montana Cowboy / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / O Sister 2 / Rounder
• Eight More Miles / Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris & Rhonda Vincent / O Sister! / Rounder
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'll Be Hurtin' Either Way / Laura Orshaw / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Poor Ellen Smith / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister 2 / Rounder
• Just Beyond / Barry Abernathy with John Meador, Tim Raybon & Bradley Walker / Blue Collar Gospel / Billy Blue Records
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Count Your Blessings / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope Records
• Just Any Day Now / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I Love God's Way Of Living / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / rebel
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records
• I Know What You're Talking About / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/3/2024

Sunday was a gorgeous, early March day with weather that made folks think spring had arrived in eastern Connecticut.  It also happened to be the 101st birth anniversary of the one and only Arthel Lane"Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 - May 29, 2012), so how could we not both start and finish our Bluegrass Cafe with loads of music from Doc's vast catalog?

Doc Watson was not the only Bluegrass Hall of Famer whose birthday was celebrated this week, though.  The great, super-unique John Duffey would have turned 90 years old this week (March 4, 1934 - December 10, 1996).  We remembered John with several selections featuring him from both the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene.

The award-winning fiddler Bronwyn Keith-Hynes also celebrated a birthday this week, so we shared music from both her first record and her forthcoming one.

And if all of that wasn't enough, we pulled out another Feature Letter of the Week.  In this case, we shared music from lots of fine "M" performers, whose last name or band name begins with the letter "M."  This means we included music from everyone from Bill Monroe to Muleskinner, Jimmy Martin to Lynn Morris, Del McCoury to Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and many, many other fine "M" performers.  Check out the playlist for more details.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and please consider joining me once again this coming Sunday afternoon, 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
• My Dear Old Southern Home / Doc Watson / My Dear Old Southern Home / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Columbus Stockade Blues / Doc & Richard Watson / Third Generation Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• The Last Thing On My Mind / Doc Watson / Elementary Doctor Watson / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Tennessee Stud / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Doc Watson / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• The Game / Blue Highway / The Game / Rounder
• Ashes Of Love / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• No Other Man / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Friend Of Mine / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• There's No Room In My Heart In My Heart For The Blues / Clyde Moody / Shenandoah Waltz / Gusto
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Rose Maddox with the Vern Williams Band / This Is Rose Maddox / Arhoolie
• Old Federal / Justin Moses / Dusty Roads / Dustygrass Records
• I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers / Mashville Brigade / Bluegrass Smash Hits, Volume 1 / Rural Rhythm
• Let Time Ride / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• A Better Man / Dwight McCall / Kentucky Peace Of Mind / Lavenir Records
• Stompin' In The Flatlands / Alan Munde / Old Bones / Munde's Child Records
• Truck Driving Man / Jimmy Martin / The Chronological Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1963-1965 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Almost Proud / Del McCoury Band / Almost Proud / McCoury Music
• Dark Hollow / Muleskinner / Muleskinner Live / Sierra Records
• Walking The Blues / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Cowboys And Indians / Jim Mills / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• Back To Dixie / McPeak Brothers / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Old Lonesome Time / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek
• My, My, My / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / In Dreams I Go Back / Mountain Fever Records
• Pitkin County Turnaround / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder
• If You're Ever Gonna Love Me / Leroy Mack with the Nashville Bluegrass Band / ...And Friends / Rebel
• One Way Or The Other / Benny Martin / The "Big Tiger" Roars Again, Part 2 / OMS Records
• Will You Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / single / Sugar Petunia Records 
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes feat. Wes Corbett / Fiddler's Pastime / Sugar Petunia Records
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Reason For Being / Seldom Scene [John Duffey] / The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Walk Out In The Rain / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Rounder
• Plenty Of Everything But You / Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys / Blue Grass Style / Self-Produced
• Love Please Come Home / Buddy Merriam & Back Roads / Live At The Vail-Leavitt Music  Hall / Lilypad Records
• Tall Timber / John McEuen / String Wizards / Vanguard Records
• Mom And Dad's Waltz / Tom Mindte / Something I've Been Working On / Patuxent Music
• Hello Sunshine / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• Making Hay / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys / New Horizons / Pinecastle
• Things In Life / Don Stover / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• I'm Working On A Road / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/3/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Walking My Lord (Up Calvary's Hill) / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• I Found A Church Today / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Were You There / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• You Must Come In At The Door / Doc Watson / Americana Master Series:  Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Fill My Way With Love / Doc Watson / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/25/2024

Our Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday was a day to celebrate two important banjo innovators who both happened to be born on February 25th -- Bluegrass Hall of Famer Ralph Stanley (February 25, 1927 - June 13, 2016) and Peter Wernick (born February 25, 1946).  To that end, we shared loads of music from both of these performers throughout the course of our three hour visit.  And, since it only happens once every four years, we couldn't forget to celebrate the birthday of mandolin master, Mike Compton (born February 29, 1956).

Veronica "Roni" Stoneman (May 5, 1938 - February 22, 2024) may have been primarily known as one of the amusing cast members of "Hee Haw" for 18 years, but she was much more than that.  In her big, musical family -- The Stonemans -- Roni was the star banjo picker.  In fact, in 1957, she was the first female banjo player to record a song playing Scruggs-style banjo, which earned her the nickname of "First Lady of the Banjo."  Along with her family, Roni was inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2021.  For more information on Roni Stoneman, consider reading her 2007 memoir (as told to Ellen Wright) published by the University of Illinois Press:  Pressing On:  The Roni Stoneman Story.

New music was part of the mix on Sunday, as well, with brand new selections from Becky Buller (with Aoife O'Donovan), Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road, Shelton & Williams, and Donna Ulisse.

Hope you enjoyed what you heard, and that you'll consider joining us once again this coming Sunday from 4-7PM for our next edition of Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Dickson County Breakdown / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Rose Conley / Ralph Stanley / Short Life Of Trouble / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Nobody's Love Is Like Mine / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Live! At McClure! / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• The Window Up Above / Ralph Stanley with George Jones / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Clinch Mountain Backstep / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, 1971-1973 / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Your Light Leads Me On / Hot Rize / Hot Rize In Concert / Flying Fish [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Wild Ride / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• Just Like You / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• The Old Rounder / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• No Brakes / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• The Old Home / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
• These Old Blues / Missy Raines with Danny Paisley / Highlander / Compass Records
• The Hills And Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• I Cried Again / Blackstone Valley Bluegrass / Debut / Appleland Records
• Duncan And Brady / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Traveling Kind / Self-Produced
• Soppin' The Gravy / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• I'll Never See My Home Again / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Homesick For Virginia / Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road / single / Pinecastle
• It's A Lovely, Lovely World / Donna Ulisse / Mountain Lily / Billy Blue Records
• Carolina Time / Shelton & Williams / single / Turnberry Records
• Jubilee / Becky Buller with Aoife O'Donovan / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Lonesome Road Blues / Eugene Cox & Roni Stoneman / American Banjo:  Three-Finger And Scruggs Style / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• Sweet Thang / Donna & Roni Stoneman with Tom Mindte / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• Lonesome Banjo / The Stonemans / The Stonemans! / Starday Records [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• Good, Good Girl / The Stonemans / The Stoneman Tradition / Patuxent Music [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• My Dirty, Lowdown, Rotten, Cotton Pickin', Little Darlin' / The Stonemans / Those Singin', Swingin', Sensational Stonemans / MGM [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• Blue Grass Breakdown / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music [Remembering Roni Stoneman:  5/5/1938 - 2/22/2024]
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Ice Covered Birches / Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Cliff Waldron / Rebel
• Wave Goodbye / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• At The End Of A Long, Lonely Day / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Rocky Island / Ralph Stanley / Old-Time Pickin':  A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/27/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Hard Times / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/27/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Sixteen Years / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Can't You Hear The Mountains Calling / Rounder [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/27/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Pretty Polly / Ralph Stanley with Patty Loveless / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/27/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Old Time Pickin' / Ralph Stanley / Old-Time Pickin':  A Clawhammer Banjo Collection / Rebel [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/27/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Ring The Bell / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Don't Hold Back / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury / My Dixie Home / Rebel
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Monroebilia / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder [Mike Compton birthday, 2/29/1956]
• I Can't Settle Down / Laura Orshaw with Brittany Haas & Jenee Fleenor / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Wild Mountain Honey / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Gospel Plow / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder [Mike Compton birthday, 2/29/1956]
• Over In The Gloryland / Carolyn Eyerly / The Sunny Side Of Life / Patuxent Music
• Camping In Canaan's Land / Dailey & Vincent / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS 
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill [Pete Wernick birthday, 2/25/1946]
• I'm So Happy / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• A Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS [Remembering Ralph Stanley:  2/25/1927 - 6/13/2016]
• Daniel Prayed / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/18/2024

February 18th -- a day to celebrate
Dudley & Don!

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was all about celebrating mid-February birthdays.  We included music from four members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame who happen to have been born in the middle of February (Howard Watts, Don Reno, Little Roy Lewis, Dudley Connell), as well as several other Bluegrass notables with mid-February birthdays (Don Rigsby, Claire Lynch, Mark Newton).  Happy Birthday to all of them!

There wasn't a whole lot in the way of brand-new music to share on Sunday, but we did include a new single from Darin & Brooke Aldridge, as well as recent music from the Larry Stephenson Band, Adam McIntosh, Bluegrass Express, and the Edgar Loudermilk Band.

Hope you were able to join us on Sunday.  We'll be looking forward to having you join us this coming Sunday for another Bluegrass Cafe.  See you at 4PM!

Amy O. 

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Second Wind / Claire Lynch / Moonlighter / Rounder [Claire Lynch birthday, 2/20/1954]
• Bootleg John / Don Rigsby / The Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea Records [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Let The Whole World Talk / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• I'll Be Lovin' You / Greg Blake / People, Places And Songs / Turnberry Records
• Baby Girl / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Don't Neglect The Rose / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Fourth And Goal / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / 4th & Goal / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc.
• Is The Grass Any Bluer (On The Other Side) / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / In Concert, Volume One -- All The Rage / Upper Management Music
• Carolina And Tennessee / Unlimited Tradition / Imaginary Lines / Mountain Home
• Six White Horses / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Help My Brother / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Keep A Memory / Jason Barie with Doyle Lawson & Russell Moore / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• We'll All Drink Money / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
• Baby, You Ain't Baby Anymore / Adam McIntosh / single / Billy Blue Records
• Mountain Sally Ann / Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys / Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys / Old Blue Records
• Flatland Girl / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway with Margo Price / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• Kentucky Borderline / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / In Concert, Volume One -- All The Rage / Upper Management Music
• Price I Pay / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with John Jorgensen / single / Billy Blue Records
• I Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Larry Stephenson Band / Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Whysper Dream Music
• Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me / Bluegrass Express / A Tribute To Jim & Jesse / Plum River Records
• My Picasso / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Pinecastle
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Songbird / Special Consensus / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Darling Do You Know Who Loves You / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Johnson Mountain Boys / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Home In The Mountains / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders:  A Tribute To Ralph Stanley / Rebel [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Paradise / The Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Will You Fold My Flag For Me / Flashback / Blues Around My Cabin / Pinecastle [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Fox On The Run / Tony Trischka with Tom Adams / Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Meet Me By The Moonlight / Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby / Meet Me By The Moonlight / Sugar Hill [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956; Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• Welcome To The Show / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home [Little Roy Lewis birthday, 2/24/1942]
• Choking The Strings / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Your Love Is Dying / Reno & Smiley / On Stage / Copper Creek [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Frozen In Time / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Slowly Getting You Out Of The Way / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• Leslie County Blues / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Over The Hills To The Poorhouse / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Ridin' The L & N / Loafers' Glory / Loafers' Glory / Arhoolie Records
• Unwanted Love / Sideline with Dudley Connell / Colors & Crossroads / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / Starday [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Honey In The Rock / Lewis Family / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music [Little Roy Lewis birthday, 2/24/1942]
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• Little Community Church / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Bill Monroe, 1945-1949 / Columbia Legacy
• Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Don Reno:  2/21/1927 - 10/16/1984]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/11/2024

For the Sunday before Valentine's Day, our Bluegrass Cafe was (mostly) filled with love songs -- and most of them were of the positive variety.   

In addition, we celebrated birthdays for three members of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame -- Red Allen, David McLaughlin, and Jim McReynolds -- as well as the birthday of the late Charlie Moore.  We also remembered the great songwriter, Boudleaux Bryant (February 13, 1920 - June 25, 1987), who, while not a Bluegrass songwriter, has definitely had a good many of his songs recorded in the Bluegrass style over the years.

There was a tiny bit of new music to share, too, with newer recordings from the Larry Stephenson Band, Sister Sadie, Authentic Unlimited, Jerry Salley, and Bronwyn Keith-Hynes.

Thanks for tuning on Sunday.  We'll hope to have you join us next Sunday from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  

Happy Valentine's Day!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Out Behind The Barn / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• All I Have To Do Is Dream / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• A Brand New Heartache Comin' On / Larry Stephenson with Dudley Connell / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle [Remembering Boudleaux Bryant:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Smokey Greene:  2/13/1920 - 6/25/1987]
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Panhandle Country / Mark Newton / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome / CH
• Somewhere Forgotten / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Eating Out Of Your Hand / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• It's Grand To Have Someone To Love You / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Six Feet Of Snow / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• Weathered Gray Stone / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• Let's Part The Best Of Friends / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco
• Please Come Back Little Pal / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I'll Love Nobody But You / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rounder
• Well / Sister Sadie / No Fear / Mountain Home
• Colorado Winter / Jerry Salley / single / Very Jerry Records
• Sonny Weather / Larry Stephenson Band / Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Whysper Dream Music
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
• If You're Ever Gonna Leave Me / Larry Stephenson Band / Cast A Lonesome Shadow / Whysper Dream Music
• Will You Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / single / Sugar Petunia Records
• Midnight Flyer / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• San Joaquin / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Golden West / Nonesuch Records
• Love Bug / Lost & Found / January Rain / Rebel
• All In My Love For You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• If I Needed You / Seldom Scene with Ricky Skaggs & Sharon White Skaggs / Scene 20 / Sugar HIll
• The Court Of Love / Rhonda Vincent / Taken / Upper Management Music
• Love At Last / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Jim Eanes / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• A Good Woman's Love / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Prettier All The Time / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Love Bug / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• Are You Waiting Just For Me / Red Allen / Lonesome And Blue / Rebel [Remembering Red Allen:  2/12/1930 - 4/3/1993]
• Georgia Stomp / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [David McLaughlin birthday, 2/13/1958]
• Old Love Letters / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango [Remembering Charlie Moore:  2/13/1935 - 12/31/2002]
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [Remembering Jim McReynolds:  2/13/1927 - 12/31/2002]
• You're That Certain Someone / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder [David Davis birthday, 2/16/1961]
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Rose Of My Heart / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Move To The Top Of The Mountain / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• I'll Never Go Back / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• God Knows / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• The River Of Death / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Light At The River / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• I'm Ready To Go Home / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• See God's Ark A Movin' / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/4/2024

In the days before COVID, WHUS used to air many UConn Basketball games during the season.  Many times, portions of our Bluegrass Cafe was preempted for these basketball broadcasts.  While UConn still plays basketball (obviously!). the games are not often broadcast on WHUS these days.  Sunday afternoon, there was supposed to be a preemption with our show scheduled to have a delayed start.  However...a last-minute change cancelled the preemption.  Though parking at UConn on a game day is next to impossible, we still managed to get a nearly 3-hour show on the air.  Phew.

We didn't have a particular direction for Sunday's show, but we did share a bit of newer music, including songs from the Price Sisters, Wyatt Ellis, the Bluegrass Express, and Greg Blake.  The rest of the music played was an eclectic mix of classic favorites and other good Bluegrass.  

Hope you'll consider joining me once more this coming Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.  Until then, have a wonderful week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• True Life Blues / David Grisman with Del McCoury & Ricky Skaggs / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• So Blue / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• I'm Comin' Back, But I Don't Know When / David Grisman with Del McCoury / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder
• Walking With Joanna / Gibson Brothers / Red Letter Day / Sugar Hill
• Walkin' West To Memphis / Casey & Chris & the Two-Stringers / Get Along Girl / Arrandem Records
• I'm Walking The Dog / Charles Sawtelle & the Whippets / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Crazy Blues / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• There's Another Baby Waiting For Me Down The Line / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Another Town / Wyatt Rice & Danny Menzone Alliance / Something Out Of The Blue / Mountain Fever Records
• I'm Gonna Love You (Like There's No Tomorrow) / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Beaumont Rag / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• I Take The Chance / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records
• Slidin' Delta / Stonewall Bluegrass / I Won't Be Troubled Anymore / Self-Produced
• Some Old Day / John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Nine Pound Hammer / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• I Can Read Between The Lines In Your Letters / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Johnson Mountain Blues / Wyatt Ellis with David McLaughlin / Happy Valley / Knee High Records
• Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me / Bluegrass Express / A Tribute To Jim & Jesse / Plum River Records
• Happy Valley / Wyatt Ellis with Dominick Leslie / Happy Valley / Knee High Records
• It Ain't Their Heart That's Breaking / Greg Blake / single / Turnberry Records
• Home Again / Wildfire / Rented Room On Broadway / Pinecastle
• Spring Break / Pete Wernick / On A Roll / Sugar Hill
• You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming / Marshall Wilborn / Root 5 / Pinecastle
• Goodbye To The Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Just Load The Wagon / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• What Was I Supposed To Do? / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Heart Of A Little Mountain Girl / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Black And White / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• I've Been All Around This World / Marshall Wilborn / Root 5 / Pinecastle
• I Don't Care Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• Like A Bird In A Cage / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Memories Cover Everything I Own / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Long Journey Home / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Party For One / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Milwaukee Blues / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• Thousand Dollar Holler / Michael Cleveland / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch
• Take My Ashes To The River / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Bluegrass Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways
• I'm Ready To Go / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• I've Read The Book / Marty Raybon / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Standing On The Banks / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute To The Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Take Me In A Lifeboat / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• I'll Live With God (To Die No More) / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder