"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

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/27/2024

The last Sunday of January was a dreary, chilly day featuring a wintry mix throughout Connecticut.  Therefore, we thought that a perfect "excuse" for making "W" (for Winter!) our Spotlight Letter of the Week during this day's Bluegrass Cafe.  Surprisingly, there were far more recordings from "W" performers than we had time to play, so it's always possible you may hear more "W" folks again very soon.  For today, we enjoyed music from Roland White to Mac Wiseman, the Warrior River Boys to White Mountain Bluegrass to Jeanette Williams, and more.  

While that wasn't really any new music to share this week, we couldn't forget the late January/early February birthdays of a whole bunch of Bluegrass performers, including Lynwood Lunsford, Becky Buller, Del McCoury, Tom Gray, David Parmley, and Jason Carter.  

Hope you enjoyed the program today.  There is a possibility that we might get a delayed start next Sunday due to a UConn sports broadcast, but we'll keep you posted on our Facebook page.  Have a wonderful week, and thanks for listening...as always.  :)

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• When I Get The Money Made / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• The Eighth Of January / Chubby Wise / An American Original / Pinecastle
• The Cowboy Lives Forever / The Whites / A Lifetime In The Making / Skaggs Family Records
• Trying To Get To You / Roland White / Trying To Get To You / Sugar Hill
• Leavin' / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder
• Chilly Winds / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Sawing On The Strings / Alison Krauss / A Hundred Miles Or More:  A Collection / Rounder
• I Want To Be Loved / Bill Harrell with Del McCoury / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Lonely River / James King / These Old Pictures / Rounder
• Timber I'm Falling / White Mountain Bluegrass / January Weekend / Self-Produced
• This Old Town / Darrell Webb Band / Breaking Down The Barriers / Rural Rhythm
• Old Man Winter / Matt Wallace / For A Season / Pinecastle
• Blue Skies And Teardrops / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• New Camptown Races / Frank Wakefield / That Was Now...This Is Then / Rosewood Records
• Early / Joe Walsh with the Gibson Brothers / Sweet Loam / Skinny Elephant Music
• Midnight On The Highway / Wilson Banjo Co. / Six Degrees Of Separation / Pinecastle
• Enough Of You / Jeanette Williams / Thank You For Caring / Blue Circle Records
• A Man Like Me / Roger Miller / A Man Like Me:  The Early Years Of Roger Miller / Bear Family
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk with Dan Tyminski / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Do I Ever Cross Your Mind / Serene Green / If It Wasn't For Longing / Patuxent Music
• Will You Ever Be Mind / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / single / Sugar Petunia Records
• I Call Her Sunshine / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Looking At The World Through A Windshield / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• The Eddie Swing / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent [Lynwood Lunsford birthday, 1/31/1962]
• John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 1/31/1979]
• Grandfather's Clock / Seldom Scene / Recorded Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Wing And A Prayer / David Parmley, Scott Vestal & Continental Divide / David Parmley, Scott Vestal & Continental Divide / Pinecastle [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• The Likes Of Me / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Self-Produced [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Who Will Calm The Storm / Strictly Country Records [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• Evil Hearted Woman / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939; David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• A Little Ways Down The Road / Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / A Little Ways Down The Road / Rebel
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Black Mountain Rag / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder
• The Goldrush Is Over / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder
• She's Crazy For Leaving / Wildfire / Quiet Country Town / Pinecastle
• Medley For Dobro And Double Bass / Roger Williams / I Know This Road / Happy Appy Records
• I Can't Believe That That's Bluegrass / Wide Open Spaces / Fiddletown / Self-Produced
• Country Side Of Heaven (Where The Bluegrass Music Flows) / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• I Can't Say No / Whitstein Brothers / The Whitstein Brothers / Sing Gospel Songs Of The Louvins / Rounder
• Waiting For The King / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Walking In The Spirit / Williamson Branch with the Marshall Family / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• All Prayed Up / Jeff White / The White Album / Rounder
• Get In Line Brother / Rickey Wasson / From The Heart And Soul / Rural Rhythm
• There's Always A Light (In The Church) / Paul Williams & the Victory Trio / I'll Be No Stranger There / Rebel
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Bubbling In My Soul / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• One Wide River To Cross / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/21/2023

Mid-January is prime time to celebrate some important Bluegrass birthdays, so that was our primary focus during this day's Bluegrass Cafe.  

We remembered the January 19th birthdays of several folks, most notably those of Bluegrass Hall of Famer Charlie Waller (January 19, 1935 - August 8, 2004) and Queen of the World Dolly Parton (born January 19, 1946).  Charlie's nearly 50 years as the lead singer/guitarist of the Country Gentlemen were filled with songs that have become Bluegrass standards.  And while Dolly has recorded a couple of what she marketed as "Bluegrass" albums, the fact remains that Dolly is a top-notch songwriter and many of her songs have been covered in the world of Bluegrass.  We also shared many songs in honor of Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo picker, Bill Emerson (January 22, 1938 - August 21, 2021), whose career included being a founding member of the Country Gentlemen, a stint with Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, partnerships with Cliff Waldron and Pete Goble, and as a bandleader with his own Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie.  Great music.

There were quite a few new songs to share today from performers like Authentic Unlimited, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Jerry Salley, Missy Raines, and a new band called Wood Box Heroes.  

Thanks for listening!  Hope you will be sure to join us next Sunday afternoon for our Bluegrass Cafe -- 4-7PM.  

Have a great week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Early Morning Rain / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• All I Have To Do Is Dream / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Pain Of Loving You / The Grascals with Dolly Parton / The Grascals & Friends / BluGrascal Records [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Come And Sit By The River / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Empty Pocket Blues / Michael Cleveland with Flamekeeper feat. Bryan Sutton / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Dixie In My Eye / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Pick Your Own / Bill Emerson / Banjo Man / Pinecastle [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Home Run Man / Bill Emerson & Mark Newton / A Foot In The Past, A Foot In The Future / Pinecastle [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / This World Is Not My Home / MME [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• State Line Ride / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Dancin' Annie / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• Little White Washed Chimney / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Wasted Words / Feller & Hill / Feller & Hill & the Bluegrass Buckaroos / Self-Produced
• Maple Sugar / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
• Listen To The Lonesome Wind / Missy Raines / Highlander / Compass Records
• Will You Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / single / Self-Produced
• Colorado Winter / Jerry Salley / single / Very Jerry Records
• These Old Blues / Missy Raines with Danny Paisley / Highlander / Compass Records
• Cross The Line / Wood Box Heroes / single / Self-Produced
• The Sunny Side Of Life / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Slippers With Wings / Charlie Waller & Randall Hylton / The Singer & the Songster / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Fare Thee Well / Duffey, Waller, Adcock & Gray / Classic Country Gents Reunion / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• High Lonesome / Bill Emerson with Charlie Waller / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Honey Don't / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Fox On The Run / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Mighty Mississippi / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Jimmy Haley birthday, 1/19/1955]
• Viva Las Vegas / The Grascals with Dolly Parton / The Grascals / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Gypsy, Joe, And Me / Missy Werner / Drifting And Dreaming / Self-Produced [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Orange Blossom Special / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• You're In My Heart / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/8/2004; Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Traditional Grass / I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• Kneel Down And Pray Up / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Moon / Rebel
• When We Look On His Face / Bill Emerson with Cliff Waldron / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Bill Emerson:  1/22/1938 - 8/21/2021]
• I Am The Road / Hot Rize / When I'm Free / Ten In Hand Records
• Brighter Mansion Over There / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King Records
• Music In My Soul / HIgh Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• I'm Working On A Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• Gone Home / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/8/2004]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/14/2024

Since the first Sunday of 2024 turned out to be a snow day for us here in eastern Connecticut, we spent a good deal of the January 13th edition of our Bluegrass Cafe tying up loose ends from that missed week.  We played a few more songs from recordings issued in 2023, belatedly celebrated the 100th birth anniversary of the one and only Earl Scruggs, and paid tribute to a fine musician and singer who left us too early, Audie Blaylock.

So many tributes have been made since January 6th -- the centennial anniversary of the birthday of one super legend named Earl Eugene Scruggs.  It's difficult to overstate how important this young banjo picker from North Carolina would become in the world of Bluegrass music, and music, in general.  We shared lots of Earl's music on Sunday -- his earliest days with Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, as well as his many years of partnership with Lester Flatt.  We also shared music that Earl made on his own, and where he served as a guest musician with performers such as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Tom T. Hall, IIIrd Tyme Out, and Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder.  Many hours could be filled with the music of Earl Scruggs, and we will absolutely continue to share his music and his influence during our program.

We also learned this week of the passing of Audie Blaylock.  In addition to being a bandleader of Audie Blaylock & Redline for the last couple of decades, Audie was also a 9-year member of Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, and worked for a bit with both Rhonda Vincent & the Rage and Michael Cleveland.  We included lots of Audie's music during Sunday's show and enjoyed all of it, as we will for years to come.  Rest in peace.

There wasn't really any brand-new music for us to share this week; instead, we included selections from 2023 releases that we didn't get to play during our December 31st broadcast.  To that end, we heard 2023 music from Sam Bush, Michael Cleveland, Bob & Sarah Amos, the Tim Raybon Band, Jason Carter, the Kody Norris Show, the Dan Tyminski Band, Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve, Rick Faris, East Nash Grass, and the Tennessee Bluegrass Band.

Hope you enjoyed the program, and please be sure to join us for another brand-new Bluegrass Cafe next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a fine week.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Heavy Traffic Ahead / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder with Earl Scruggs / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass:  Tribute To 1946 And 1947 / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Radio John / Sam Bush / Radio John:  Songs Of John Hartford / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Sunny Days (Are Comin' Once Again) / Michael Cleveland with Jeff White / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• The Hills That I Call Home / Bob & Sarah Amos / EverOnward / Bristlecone 
• Leaving Cleveland / Tim Raybon Band / I Could Get Used To This / Pinecastle
• Long Haul Truckin' / Chris Warner with Audie Blaylock / Chris Warner & Friends / Webco [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• Don't Wake Me / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• Miller's Cave / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• I Remember / Chris Warner with Audie Blaylock / Chris Warner & Friends / Webco [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• Whispering Waters / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• Matches / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Cryin' Heart Blues / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• Love Is An Awful Thing / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Originalist / 615 Hideaway Records [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• Sophronie / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• Roll On Blues / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• Kissimmee Kid / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Mountain Rosalie / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• When The Wind Comes Up / Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve / Mile 77 / Don Giovanni Records
• Never Met A Stranger / Dan Tyminski Band / God Fearing Heathen / 8 Track Entertainment
• Too Lonely, Way Too Long / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Paper Angel / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• The Boys In Hats And Ties / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel
• Old Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Flint Hill Special / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Wildwood Flower / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Mother Maybelle Carter & Earl Scruggs / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Sittin' On Top Of The World / Earl Scruggs with Rodney Dillard / Top Of The World / Columbia [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Song Of The South / Earl Scruggs & Tom T. Hall / The Storyteller And The Banjo Man / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• You Are My Flower / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Songs Of The Famous Carter Family / Columbia [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Mama Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• Don't Stop The Music / Del McCoury / High Lonesome And Blue / Rounder
• The Bramble And The Rose / Lynn Morris Band / The Bramble And The Rose / Rounder
• Thinking About You / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced
• You Better Hold On To Your Heart / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• Redwood Hill / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Shine Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Harbor Of Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• I'm Working On The Road To Gloryland / IIIrd Tyme Out with Earl Scruggs / Living On The Other Side / Rounder [Remembering Earl Scruggs:  1/6/1924 - 3/28/2012]
• You Don't Love God If You Don't Love Your Neighbor / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage with Bill Gaither / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming / GGS Music [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• The Heavenly Parade / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Gospel Parade / Sugar Hill
• Goodbye / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Audie Blaylock]
• I Have Found The Way / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/31/2023

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was our very last for 2023.  Our spotlight for the show was -- naturally -- on songs from many of the wonderful recordings released during the year.  We also paid tribute to some of the many Bluegrass performers who passed in 2023.  And if all of that wasn't enough to squeeze into a show, we also remembered the late Hank Williams, who died in the back of a car enroute to playing a show in Canton, Ohio on New Year's Day 1953.  

Nearly thirty of the fifty-one songs that were played during our broadcast were taken from 2023 recordings.  We still had several more 2023 recordings from which to share music on Sunday, but we just ran out of time.  That music will need to be shared when next we meet.  For Sunday, though, we played music from performers ranging from 2023 award winners, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Greg Blake, and Special Consensus to perennial favorites like Larry Sparks, the Gibson Brothers, Dale Ann Bradley, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and Rhonda Vincent.  In addition, there were newer (or, new-to-us) bands like the Henhouse Prowlers, Full Cord, Retro 78, and Starlett & Big John.  And there was music from my personal favorite recording for 2023:  "Music In My Soul" from High Fidelity.  It was a fine year for Bluegrass music, and we were happy to share it!

Those we lost in 2023 will never be forgotten.  We couldn't do a year-end show without remembering and honoring the great Jesse McReynolds and Bobby Osborne -- two first-generation members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and mandolin legends.  We also remembered Terry Baucom, Gloria Belle, Bill Castle, Smokey Greene, Mark Kuykendall, John Miller, Ron Spears, and regional Bluegrass favorites Jack Jolie, Mark Wayne Kitchin, and Jim Sharpley.  Rest in peace.

There would be no Bluegrass Cafe without the support of our wonderful listeners.  Thanks very much to all of you for a fine 2023.  May we all enjoy good health, happiness, and lots more fine Bluegrass in 2024!  

Happy New Year!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Recordings from 2023 are in RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Carolina Smokey Mountain Home / Special Consensus / Everything's Alright / Pinecastle [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Just Wondering Why / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family Records [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Ruby (Are You Mad) / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Yellow River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom:  10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
• Auld Lang Syne / Tony Trischka / Glory Shone Around:  A Christmas Collection / Rounder
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden HIghway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Mayberry State Of Mind / Daryl Mosley / A Life Well Lived / Pinecastle
• Calaveras County / Jason Barie with Michael Cleveland / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• That's Why You Left Me So Blue / Jason Barie with Bobby Osborne & Doyle Lawson / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Pinecastle
• With A Pain In My Heart / Tim Graves & the Farmhands / Bluegrass DNA / Pinecastle 
• Quit Quittin' You / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• Making Hay / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• The Last Log Drive / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Dreamer's Hill / Lost & Found / Final Chapter / Mountain Fever Records
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk feat. Dan Tyminski / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Fall In Tennessee / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
• There's A Song In There Somewhere / Price Sisters / single / McCoury Music
• You'll Never Find Another Love So True / Fast Track / Heartache And Trouble / Engelhardt Music Group
• Cold Cold Heart / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Hey Good Lookin' / Hank Williams / Live At The Grand Ole Opry / Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / The Essential Collection / MCA [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Banjo Pickin' Girl / Gloria Belle / Sings Bluegrass In The Country / Rebel [Remembering Gloria Belle: 6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
• RV Blues / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle [Remembering Walter "Smokey" Greene:  3/10/1930 - 10/19/2023]
• I Don't Have The Want To Anymore / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel [Remembering Mark Kuykendall:  10/17/1962 - 6/19/2023]
• Hickory Hollow / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage [Remembering Mark Wayne Kitchin:  died 9/29/2023]
• My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Bill Castle:  1/6/1934 - 2/27/2023]
• Something New / Grass Routes / Something New / Self-Produced [Remembering Jack Jolie:  died 8/12/2023]
• Girl From West Virginia / Still Pickin' / Southbound / Self-Produced [Remembering Jim Sharpley:  4/15/1949 - 3/9/2023]
• Hillbilly Fever / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Airmail Special On The Fly / Jim & Jesse / RockyGrass / Blue Planet [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Alberta Bound / Special Consensus / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Slowly / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records
• This Is The Girl I Love / Retro 78 / EP / Ram Cat Records
• One By One / Dale Ann Bradley with Danny Paisley / Kentucky For Me / Pinecastle
• I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You / Full Cord / Cambium / Dark Shadow Recording
• The City Of New Orleans / Rhonda Vincent / single / Upper Management Music
• Long And Lonesome Letting Go / Jim Lauderdale & the Po' Ramblin' Boys with Del McCoury / The Long And Lonesome Letting Go / Sky Crunch Records
• I'm Ready To Go / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• A Beautiful Life / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• It's A Grand And A Glorious Feeling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• The Scarlet Red Lines / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Rocking On The Waves / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Remembering Terry Baucom:  10/6/1952 - 12/7/2023]
• Look To The Light / John Miller / Look To The Light;  Songs Of Faith From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Rural Rhythm Christian [Remembering John Miller:  2/18/1974 - 6/22/2023]
• Are You Lost In Sin? / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel 
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder