Sunday, January 27, 2019

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/27/2019

We missed our broadcast last week due to icy weather in eastern Connecticut, and today, two hours of our broadcast time was given over to a UConn Women's Basketball game.  Still, we tried to squeeze in as much music as we could into a show reduced by two-thirds this week.  Hope you got to tune in!  

Even though the show was shortened, we still found some time (and a few songs) to pay tribute to Country Music Hall of Famer Maxine Brown, who died on January 21st at the age of 87.  While not a Bluegrass performer, Maxine was a fine songwriter, and her autobiography, Looking Back To See, is worth a read for those who want to learn more about the musical adventures of a feisty Arkansas gal who attained Country Music's highest honor (with brother Jim Ed and sister Bonnie, of course).  

Hope to join you next week for three full hours of our Bluegrass Cafe, weather- and sports-permitting!  

Have a good week!

Amy O.



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 
  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Hard Pressed / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
  • Lonesome Truck Driver's Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
  • Sophronie / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium Records
  • Air Mail Special / Jim & Jesse / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Wave Goodbye / Bluegrass Patriots / Through The Years...Favorite Songs And Requests / Red Feather
  • Here Today And Gone Tomorrow / Hazel Dickens with the Johnson Mountain Boys / Songs Of The Louvin Brothers / Rounder [Remembering Maxine Brown (April 27, 1931-January 21, 2019)]
  • The Three Bells / Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas, Rob Ickes / The Three Bells / Rounder [Remembering Maxine Brown (April 27, 1931-January 21, 2019)]
  • Looking Back To See / Jim Ed & Maxine Brown / The Essential Jim Ed Brown & the Browns / RCA [Remembering Maxine Brown (April 27, 1931-January 21, 2019)]
  • Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
  • Milwaukee Blues / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
  • Crazy Heart / Remington Ryde / A Storyteller's Memory / Pinecastle
  • Going Back To Bristol / Shawn Camp / I Sang The Song / Mountain Fever Records
  • Grass That I'm Playing Is Really Blue / Sally Berry / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage With Bluegrass Legends--Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
  • I Wouldn't Take Nothin' For My Journey Now / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
  • Wings Of Angels / Jay Armsworthy / I Couldn't Make It Without Him / Blue Circle Records
  • Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
  • Make Him A Soldier / Whitstein Brothers / Songs Of The Louvin Brothers / Rounder
  • I Am Going To Heaven / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume Two / GGS Music
  • Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Sunday, January 13, 2019

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/13/2019

Two January 19th birthday celebrants -- Charlie Waller (b. 1935)
and Dolly Parton (b.1946)
On Sunday's show, we featured music from two wonderful performers who both happen to have been born on January 19th -- Charlie Waller (born in 1935) and Dolly Parton (born 1946).  Though these two have (and had) very different styles, each has had a big impact on the world of Bluegrass, and we are always glad to have any excuse to celebrate them.  

Hope you enjoyed our Bluegrass Cafe today, and that you will consider joining us once more next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.




SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Request is RED]
  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Cold Virginia Night / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
  • Cold, Cold Love / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / In Full Color / Rebel
  • It's A Cold, Cold World / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / My Daddy's Grass / Rebel
  • Cold, Cold Heart / Jeff White / The White Album / Rounder
  • Cold, Cold Heart / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
  • Cold, Icy Fingers / Lost & Found / It's About Time / Rebel
  • Cold Rails / Jeff Parker / Go Parker! / Lonesome Day Records
  • Cold On The Shoulder / Tony Rice / Hand-Picked:  Twenty-Five Years Of Rounder  Bluegrass / Rounder
  • Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
  • Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
  • Wall Around Your Heart / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
  • Lonesome With Heartaches / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
  • Time Has Slipped Away / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Modern Times / Rebel
  • Geezer Ride / Alan Munde & Billy Bright / Bright Munde / Munde's Child Records
  • Cannonball Yodel / Dede Wyland / Urge For Going / Patuxent Music
  • Thinkin' About You / David Peterson & 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / Self-Produced
  • You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder [recorded 1/13/1960]
  • Blue Love (In My Heart) / The Hot Flashes / Eponymous / Happy Appy Records [Amy Gallatin birthday, 1/13/1958]
  • Coat Of Many Colors / Dolly Parton / Live And Well / Sugar Hill [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]
  • When Someone Wants To Leave / Seldom Scene / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
  • AppleJack / Pam Gadd with Dolly Parton / Ragin' Live / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
  • I've Wasted My Tears / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
  • Jolene / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
  • Pain Of Lovin' You / The Grascals with Dolly Parton / The Grascals & Friends / Cracker Barrel [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
  • My Blue Tears / Dolly Parton / Box Set Sampler / RCA Legacy [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
  • It's Grand To Have Someone To Love You / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
  • Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight, Mister? / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
  • The Bluebirds Are Singing / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel 
  • I Am Weary, Let Me Rest / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek [Pete Kuykendall birthday, 1/15/1938]
  • Riverboat Fantasy / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Charlie Waller birthday, 1/19/1935]
  • Banana Boat Song / Country Gentlemen / The Early  Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Charlie Waller birthday, 1/19/1935]
  • Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Charlie Waller birthday, 1/19/1935]
  • Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel [Charlie Waller birthday, 1/19/1935]
  • You'll Never Get A Better Chance / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
  • Grey Eagle / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
  • That's How The Cookie Crumbles / Jack Cooke / Sittin' On Top Of The World / Pinecastle
  • This Weary Heart You Stole Away / Stanley Brothers / Selected Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
  • Me And Becky (Hand In Hand) / Big Country Bluegrass / Let Them Know I'm From Virginia / Rebel
  • I'm Gonna Settle Down / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
  • He Was A Friend Of Mine / Dudley Connell & John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
  • The Last Old Shovel / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / The Story We Tell / Rebel
  • God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill 
  • Henry Clayton Parker / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
  • Lord Show Me The Righteous Pathway / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
  • Giving My Soul Back To Him / IIIrd Tyme Out / Living On The Other Side / Rounder
  • Some Day / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
  • Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Claire Lynch / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
  • Do A Little More For Him / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Only God / SSK
  • By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel [Charlie Waller birthday, 1/19/1935]
  • Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder 

Sunday, January 06, 2019

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/6/2018

Earl Eugene Scruggs
(January 6, 1924 - March 28, 2012)
On this first Sunday of January, we celebrated the birth anniversary of the most-emulated banjo picker in all of Bluegrass:  Earl Scruggs (born January 6, 1924).  We also celebrated the birth anniversary of a fine Bluegrass songwriter who left us too soon, Randall Hylton (born January 8, 1945), as well as a songwriter celebrating a birthday today, Gary Ferguson (born January 6, 1950).



In addition to celebrating birthdays, we included some brand new music from a perennial favorite in the area, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, as well as a new, throwback kind of band, Carolina Blue.   Other newer music came to us from Dreamcatcher and Deanie Richardson.

Hope you enjoyed the show this week.  Please consider joining me once again next Sunday from 4-7PM.

Have a good 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 [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • The Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Classic Bluegrass Live / Vanguard [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Cumberland Gap / Hylo Brown & the Timberliners with Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Soldier's Joy / Earl Scruggs with Family & Friends / The Ultimate Collection:  Live At The Ryman / Rounder [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • I'm Goin' Back To Old Kentucky / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder with Earl Scruggs / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass:  Tribute To 1946 And 1947 / Skaggs Family Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Flint Hill Special / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • You Are My Flower / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Songs Of The Famous Carter Family / Columbia [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • We Three Kings / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
  • Some Old Day / John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways 
  • Hobo Blues / Balsam Range / Aeonic / Mountain Home
  • Dixie Hoedown / Mike Barnett with Jesse McReynolds / Portraits In Fiddles / Compass Records
  • Are You Missing Me / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
  • I'm Walkin' / Rickey Wasson / Croweology:  J.D. Crowe's Musical Legacy / Truegrass Entertainment
  • They Call Me Trouble / Terry Baucom's Dukes Of Drive / single / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc.
  • Mississippi River Raft / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
  • Light At The River / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
  • I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
  • Dreamcatcher / Carolina Bound / single / Self-Produced
  • No Vacancy / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
  • Lost Indian / Deanie Richardson / Love Hard, Work Hard, Play Hard / Pinecastle
  • That's Why I'm Lonesome / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
  • Sometimes Good Girls Go Bad / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
  • I've Never Been So Lonesome / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
  • Three Ways Of Knowing / Allerton & Alton / Black, White And Bluegrass / Bear Family
  • Pulleybone Gaden / Randall Hylton / True Stories, Tall Tales, And Lies / Copper Creek [Randall Hylton birthday, 1/8/1945]
  • Country Poor, Country Proud / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records [Randall Hylton birthday, 1/8/1945]
  • The Likes Of You / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Randall Hylton birthday, 1/8/1945]
  • Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Randall Hylton birthday, 1/8/1945]
  • Slippers With Wings / Charlie Waller & Randall Hylton / The Singer & The Songster / Rebel [Randall Hylton birthday, 1/8/1945]
  • Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Elvis Presley / Blue Moon Of Kentucky / RCA [Elvis Presley birthday, 1/8/1935]
  • Dixie / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
  • The Eighth Of January / Chubby Wise / An American Original / Pinecastle
  • The Hills And Home / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
  • 1500 Miles Away From Home / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
  • Some Of These Days (You're Gonna Be Sad) / David Peterson / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
  • I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Jerry Wicentowski / Thanks, Mac!:  Songs Of Mac Wiseman / Self-Produced
  • Mama Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt And Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Randy Lynn Rag / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia Legacy [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Earl's Breakdown / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Shuckin' The Corn / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems / no label [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Lay Down Your Troubles / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Pinecastle [Gary Ferguson birthday, 1/6/1950]
  • Old Roman Soldier / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
  • Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
  • He Said If I Be Lifted Up / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
  • You'll Be Rewarded Over There / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
  • Have Mercy On My Soul / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
  • Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
  • Who Will Sing For Me / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems / no label [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
  • Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

18 Bluegrass Favorites from 2018!

As we get ready to welcome 2019, it seems like a good time to look back on a few of the finest Bluegrass recordings that we enjoyed at Bluegrass Cafe in 2018.  This list of favorites is not ranked in order of preference, but rather, alphabetically.  Most of these selections have been played frequently throughout the year, but in case you missed 'em, here's a recap:


  • Bill And The Belles - "DreamSongs, Etc." (Jalopy Records):  Is this a Bluegrass record?  Nope.  Is it an enjoyable record of tunes you might have heard in the 1930s or 1940s?  Absolutely.  
  • Becky Buller - "Crepe Paper Heart" (Dark Shadow Recording):  Released on Valentine's Day, this CD features Becky with her fine band, as well as guests Rhonda Vincent, Sam Bush, and the Fairfield Four.  The recording also features a song named as the 2018 IBMA Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year, "Speakin' To That Mountain."
  • David Davis & the Warrior River Boys - "Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole" (Rounder Records):  Charlie Poole's music pre-dated what we know as Bluegrass, but still, he was a definite influence on the music we hear today.  Clearly, Poole's music influenced David Davis, too, as this tribute is a delight.  
  • The Earls Of Leicester - "Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame" (Rounder Records):  The music of Lester & Earl & the Foggy Mountain Boys lives on...as it should.
  • Feinberg Brothers - "Party For One" (Cabinwood Music):  The sophomore effort from these Long Island, college student brothers (and their wonderful band) is a joy from start to finish.  The record is filled with band originals and covers of songs written by Northeast favorites, Smokey Greene and Robert Fraker, among others.  Seek it out.
  • Five Mile Mountain Road - "Five Mile Mountain Road" (Patuxent Music):  Do you like old-time instrumental music?  This is the disc for you.
  • Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge - "Songs From The Blue Ridge" (Rebel Records):  Worried that traditional Bluegrass is disappearing?  Fear not when there are still bands like this one to carry on that traditional sound.
  • High Fidelity - "Hills And Home" (Rebel Records):  Another retro-type of band:  modern pickers who love to recreate the traditional Bluegrass sounds of bands like Reno & Smiley and others.  Great stuff.
  • Hot Rize - "40th Anniversary Bash" (Ten In Hand Records):  How do you celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the most popular bands in the history of Bluegrass?  Why, with a concert, of course!  Add in some special guests, and you have a delightful CD celebrating (most) all things Hot Rize.
  • Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road - "True Grass Again" (Pinecastle Records):  Lorraine Jordan has made it her mission to perform what she calls "true grass."  The title song from this project is one this band recorded with two fellow Bluegrass traditionalists:  Dan Paisley & Junior Sisk.  Clearly, someone wants to hear this style of music, as the title song is currently in the #1 position on the National Bluegrass Survey.
  • Kathy Kallick Band - "Horrible World" (Live Oak Records):  This California-based band doesn't record often enough, in my opinion, and Kathy's band and her records just don't disappoint.
  • Del McCoury Band - "Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass" (McCoury Music):  As if there was ever any doubt.
  • Alan Munde & Billy Bright - "Es Mi Suerte" (Munde's Child Records):  This is the second recording from a banjo legend and a wonderful mandolin picker from Texas.  If you like to listen to all sorts of banjo music, this is the record for you.
  • Junior Sisk - "Brand New Shade Of Blue" (Mountain Fever Records):    Though Junior has disbanded his Rambler's Choice band, he certainly hasn't abandoned his traditional Bluegrass sound.  
  • Special Consensus - "Rivers And Roads" (Compass Records):  Another solid effort from this Chicago-based band.
  • Various - "Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey" (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings):  With 50+ musicians paying tribute to one of the most colorful characters in the history of Bluegrass Music, how can you go wrong?  Project co-producer Akira Otsuka spent many years matching performer to song, and has done an outstanding job recreating and making new many terrific tunes from both the Country Gentlemen and Seldom Scene song catalogs.  
  • Various - "Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang" (Billy Blue Records):  The New Hampshire songwriter wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on this record, which is one of the first two recordings issued by a brand new label in the Bluegrass World, Billy Blue Records.
  • Roland White & Friends - "A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels" (Mountain Home):  Just as the title says, the Bluegrass Hall of Famer (with a little help from his friends) pays tribute to his former band with brothers Clarence and Eric White.
     
Happy New Year!!

Amy O.

Sunday, December 30, 2018

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/30/2018

Two favorites from 2018
For this last Bluegrass Cafe broadcast for 2018, we featured a whole lot of fine music released during the year.  Boy, there sure was a ton of it!  At some point over the next week, I plan to put together a list of my personal favorites for the year, but for now, suffice it to say that on Sunday's radio show, we shared a whole lot of great Bluegrass from 2018.  Hope you enjoyed it!

Allerton Hawkes
(December 25, 1930 - December 28, 2018)
We also paid tribute on Sunday to a bona fide New England Bluegrass legend, Al Hawkes, who died on December 28th at the age of 88.  Mr. Hawkes lived an amazingly full life both as a performer and as a record label owner and jack-of-all-trades.  He was a frequent festival attendee who could always be spotted jamming and enjoying himself and the music.  A few years ago, Maine Public Television aired a fabulous documentary all about the life of this Westbrook, Maine legend.  Click on this link to view the show in its entirety:

https://vimeo.com/16297214?outro=1&ref=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR3Hb_6BPpkZPItN0-aydr_Ja0yKw9xDjt-hksQIoG9xBigXzCV98LXN5tg

Thanks very much for joining us for Bluegrass Cafe in 2018.  We intend to keep bringing you this program in 2019, too, so hope you'll consider joining us whenever you can!

Happy New Year!!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [2018 releases in GREEN]

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Dance Dance Dance / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
  • Singing My Troubles Away / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
  • Anything Worth Doing (Is Worth Doing Right) / Larry Cordle / Tales From East Kentucky / Mighty Cord Records
  • Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash / Ten In Hand Records
  • Ain't Nothing Wrong With That / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
  • No Candy In My Bluegrass / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel
  • He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
  • Oklahoma Bound / Alan Munde & Billy Bright / Es Mi Suerte / Munde's Child Records
  • Poor Monroe / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Aeonic / Mountain Home
  • Poet With Wings / Volume Five / Milestones / Mountain Fever Records
  • Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
  • Lawnmower / David Benedict / The Golden Angle / Self-Produced
  • We Might Get A Little Loud / Flashback / Denver Snow / Pinecastle
  • Swept Away / Missy Raines / Royal Traveller / Compass Records
  • Keep On The Sunny Side / Allerton & Alton / Black, White And Bluegrass / Bear Family Records [Remembering Al Hawkes, 12/25/1930 - 12/28/2018]
  • Orange Blossom Special / / Allerton & Alton / Black, White And Bluegrass / Bear Family Records [Remembering Al Hawkes, 12/25/1930 - 12/28/2018]
  • Kentucky / Allerton & Alton / Black, White And Bluegrass / Bear Family Records [Remembering Al Hawkes, 12/25/1930 - 12/28/2018]
  • I'll Get Along Somehow / Allerton & Alton / Black, White And Bluegrass / Bear Family Records [Remembering Al Hawkes, 12/25/1930 - 12/28/2018]
  • Twelfth Street Rag / Allerton & Alton / Black, White And Bluegrass / Bear Family Records [Remembering Al Hawkes, 12/25/1930 - 12/28/2018]
  • When You're Smiling / Al Hawkes / Keep On Smiling / Event Records [Remembering Al Hawkes, 12/25/1930 - 12/28/2018]
  • I'll Go Somewhere And Sing My Songs Again / Al Hawkes & the Nighthawks / I'll Go Somewhere And Sing My Songs Again / Event Records [Remembering Al Hawkes, 12/25/1930 - 12/28/2018]
  • Deep Dark Hollow Road / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music
  • Under The Double Eagle / Five Mile Mountain Road / Five Mile Mountain Road / Patuxent Music
  • I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
  • She Took The Tennessee River / Special Consensus with Bobby Osborne, Becky Buller, Josh Williams / Rivers And Roads / Pinecastle
  • Losing You Blues / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Pinecastle
  • My Honey Lou / Kathy Kallick Band / Horrible World / Live Oak Records
  • That's Just Lonesome / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
  • Wedding Bell Blues / Bill And The Belles / DreamSongs, Etc. / Jalopy Records
  • Cold Wind A Blowin' / Ronnie Bowman & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
  • Follow The Leader / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
  • Rusty Rails / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
  • If I'd Have Wrote That Song / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / The Story We Tell / Rebel
  • Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Radio Gems / no label
  • Tomorrow I'll Be Gone / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
  • Sunrise / Sam Bush & Bela Fleck / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
  • Girl From The North Country / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
  • Don't Tune Him Out / The Whites / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
  • Gonna Rise And Shine / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / single / Mountain Fever Records
  • Will He Wait A Little Longer / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
  • Speakin' To That Mountain / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
  • Goodnight, The Lord's Coming / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
  • Take Your Shoes Off, Moses / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
  • My Mother's Bible / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / King
  • My Savior's Train / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
  • Auld Lang Syne / Monroe Crossing / The Happy Holidays / Self-Produced

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

The Annual Country & Bluegrass Christmas Spectacular - 12/23/2018

As we have for the last several years, on the Sunday afternoon before Christmas, we devote our Bluegrass Cafe programming to a mixture of Country & Bluegrass Christmas music.  The beauty of this particular show is that you really never know who you're going to hear -- and we intend to keep things that way!  

This coming Sunday (December 30th), we will devote our entire three hours to Bluegrass music.  Please consider joining me from 4-7PM, won't you?

Hope you had a great Christmas!  

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL


  • Jingle Bells / Country Gentlemen / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
  • Because It's Christmas Time / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
  • Our Gingerbread House / Becky Buller / The Christmas 45 / Dark Shadow Recording
  • Home For The Holidays / Claire Lynch Band / Holiday! / Thrill Hill Records
  • That White Christmas Song / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
  • Christmas Swing / Chesapeake / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
  • When It's Snowin' In The Mountains / Wildwood Valley Boys / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
  • Deck The Halls / Raymond Fairchild / Smoky Mountain Christmas / Rural Rhythm 
  • Christmas Eve (Kodia's Theme) / Statler Brothers / Christmas Present / Mercury
  • I'm Goin' Home, It's Christmas Time / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
  • Dreaming Of Christmas / Rhonda Vincent / Christmas Time / Upper Management Music
  • Christmas Is Near / Stanley Brothers / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
  • Christmas Time Is Here Again / Marty Robbins / Christmas With Marty Robbins / Sony
  • Po' Folks Christmas / Bill Anderson / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
  • My Little Silver Bells / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
  • Here Comes Santa Claus / Riders In The Sky / Merry Christmas From Harmony Ranch / Columbia
  • To Heck With Ole Santa Claus / Loretta Lynn / 20th Century Masters--The Christmas Collection / MCA
  • I Believe In Santa's Cause / Statler Brothers / Christmas Card / Mercury
  • Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
  • The First Noel / Louvin Brothers / Christmas With The Louvins / Gusto
  • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Balsam Range / It's Christmas Time / Mountain Home
  • The First Noel / It Came Upon The Midnight Clear / Joy To The World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK
  • Country Christmas / Larry Stephenson / A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' / Pinecastle
  • O Christmas Candle / Stony Point Quartet / Christmas Time Back Home / Cracker Barrel
  • Carol Of The Bells / Dan Crary / Holiday Guitar / Sugar Hill
  • Old Fashioned Christmas / Jimmy Martin / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
  • Oh The Joy Of Christmas / Merle Monroe / A Very Acoustic Christmas / Pinecastle
  • Christmas Doll / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / Gusto
  • Bluegrass Christmas / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
  • Light Of The Stable / The Whites / A Skaggs Family Christmas, Volume Two / Skaggs Family Records
  • An Old Christmas Card / Jim Reeves / Twelve Songs Of Christmas / RCA
  • All I Want For Christmas (Dear Is You) / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas Time With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
  • Reindeer Boogie / Hank Snow / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
  • The Merry Christmas Polka / Jim Reeves / Twelve Songs Of Christmas / RCA
  • Blue Christmas / Ernest Tubb / The Definitive Collection / MCA
  • Christmas Carols By The Old Corral / Tex Ritter / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
  • Riding Home On Christmas Eve / Riders In The Sky / Merry Christmas From Harmony Ranch / Columbia
  • Blue Christmas / Larry Sparks / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
  • Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
  • Slowly Fall The Snowflakes / Bill Carroll / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
  • Fiddle For Christmas / Glen Duncan / A Very Merry Bluegrass Christmas / Engelhardt Music Group
  • Christmas The Mountain Way / Dale Ann Bradley & Steve Gulley / Christmas The Mountain Way / Rural Rhythm
  • O Christmas Tree / Rhonda Vincent / Beautiful Star / Rounder
  • Merry Christmas Everybody / Spinney Brothers / single / Mountain Fever Records
  • Christmas Time Back Home / Country Gentlemen / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
  • Christmas Time Back Home / Various / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
  • All I Want Is Mary For Christmas / Lonesome River Band / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
  • A Holly Jolly Christmas / Bob Dick / Tidings Of Comfort And Joy / Appleland Records
  • Christmas Story / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
  • Brahms' Bethlehem Lullaby / Statler Brothers / Christmas Present / Mercury
  • Precious Child / Tony Trischka with Dudley Connell & James King / Glory Shone Round / Rounder
  • There's A New Kid In Town / Heather Berry / Have A Merry Berry Christmas / Mountain Fever Records
  • Silent Night / Flashback / single / Pinecastle
  • Mary's Christmas / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK
  • Joy To The World / Louvin Brothers / Christmas With The Louvins / Gusto

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/16/2018

Happy Boxing Day, everyone!  I am a bit delayed in getting the last couple of show playlists posted, but better late than never...  

Shows that feature Bluegrass Christmas music
MUST include Reno & Smiley's 1963 Christmas LP.
The second to the last Bluegrass Cafe to air before Christmas featured a whole lot of (what else?) Christmas music.  We also included several selections from projects released in 2018, as well as music from two bands who either announced a band dissolution (Highland Travelers) or a touring hiatus (Flatt Lonesome) over the past few weeks.  The 2018 tunes included new music from a new-for-this-year Christmas compilation from Pinecastle Records, as well as songs from Bill And The Belles, the Kathy Kallick Band, the Earls Of Leicester, the Feinberg Brothers, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Junior Sisk, High Fidelity, the Appalachian Road Show, David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, Nothin' Fancy, the Rick Lang gospel collection, and the John Duffey tribute recording.  

Thanks for listening!  

Amy O.


SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL 

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • Christmas Lullaby / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK
  • My Little Silver Bells / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
  • Blue Christmas / Larry Sparks / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
  • Frosty The Snowman / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / King 
  • Christmas Doll / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / King
  • 12 Days Of Bluegrass Christmas / Foxfire / Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas / Pinecastle
  • Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer / Lynn Morris / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / True Life
  • Christmas In Virginia / Lost & Found / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
  • Christmas Country Style / Larry Stephenson Band / Close My Eyes To Heaven / Webco
  • Girl That Loved Me / Highland Travelers / The Highland Travelers / Mountain Fever Records
  • You'll Get No More Of Me / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Mountain Home
  • The Little Tennessee / Highland Travelers / The Highland Travelers / Mountain Fever Records
  • You're The Reason / Flatt Lonesome / Silence In These Walls / Mountain Home
  • Little Whitewashed Chimney / Bill Clifton & Pick Of The Crop / 10 Years Of European World Of Bluegrass / Strictly Country Records
  • When You Wore A Tulip / Bill And The Belles / DreamSongs, Etc. / Jalopy Records
  • My Friend Clyde / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
  • Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
  • Brand New Heartache / New England Bluegrass Band / 10 Years Of European World Of Bluegrass / Strictly Country Records
  • My Music Comes From Bill / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
  • Footprints In The Snow / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA
  • Ride Away / Kathy Kallick Band / Horrible World / Live Oak Records
  • Spanish Grass / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
  • Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
  • Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
  • Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
  • Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
  • Baby Blue Eyes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
  • All I Want Is You / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
  • Today Has Been A Lonesome Day / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
  • Wild Kentucky Roan / Seldom Scene / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
  • A Couple Beers More / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
  • True Grass / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road with Junior Sisk & Danny Paisley / True Grass Again / Pinecastle
  • By Now I Would Be Dead / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
  • Maple On The Hill / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
  • Georgia Buck / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
  • White House Blues / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
  • Papa Wants To Go Back / Nothin' Fancy / Time Changes Everything / Mountain FEver Records
  • Christmas In The Blueridge [sic] / Lou Reid & Carolina / Rollin' On / KMA Records
  • It Must Be Getting Close To Christmas / Clay Hess / A Very Acoustic Christmas / Pinecastle
  • You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch / Tony Wray / A Very Acoustic Christmas / Pinecastle
  • Christmas In The Mountains / David Parmley & Continental Divide / A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' / Pinecastle
  • Joshua / Larry Stephenson Band / Close My Eyes To Heaven / Webco
  • Close My Eyes To Heaven / Larry Stephenson Band / Close My Eyes To Heaven / Webco
  • Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
  • The Back Of The Church / Jerry Salley / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
  • One More Time (I Must Rise) / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler 
  • When He Reached Down His Hand For Me / Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys / Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground / MME
  • Lord Show Me The Righteous Pathway / Special Consensus / Everything's Alright / Pinecastle
  • Feel Like My Time Ain't Long / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
  • Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Sunday, December 09, 2018

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/9/2018

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured a bunch of favorite recordings of 2018, a bit of Christmas music, and a whole lot more.  Hope you were able to join us!


Daniel Grindstaff & Tim Raybon headline
the new band, Merle Monroe.
Among the 2018 selections we shared was a bunch of favorite music from the year, including selections from the John Duffey tribute record, the Del McCoury Band, the Kathy Kallick Band, High Fidelity, Junior Sisk, the Feinberg Brothers, Bill & the Belles, Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge, Becky Buller, Roland White, Sister Sadie, Balsam Range, and the gospel compilation of songs written by Rick Lang.  We even included a brand new Christmas song from a brand new band, Merle Monroe. 



Dreamcatcher at Blistered Fingers BGF - 2018
In addition there was music from a forthcoming recording by a young band called Dreamcatcher.  To those of us who have attended Bluegrass festivals in the northeast over the past couple of decades, the young man who is heading up Dreamcatcher is a familiar face:  guitar picker Aaron Foster of New York.  Nice to see bands formed by young kids who were always found picking at Bluegrass festivals.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and that you'll consider joining me once again next Sunday afternoon!


Enjoy the week!


Amy O.



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • New Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / 20th Century Masters / MCA
  • Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / 20th Century Masters / MCA
  • Lonesome, Sad, And Blue / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family
  • I'll Stay Around / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Select Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
  • Hey! Hey! Hey! / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1952 / JSP Records
  • Dream Of Me / Jim & Jesse McReynolds / Music Among Friends / Rounder
  • Molly And Tenbrooks / Larry Stephenson & Mark Newton with Lou Reid / Live At Mr. B's / B's Records
  • Smokey Mountain Rag / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
  • Lonesome Feeling / Jim & Jesse McReynolds / Music Among Friends / Rounder
  • Oh The Joy Of Christmas / Merle Monroe / A Very Acoustic Christmas / Pinecastle
  • Christmas Time Back Home / Various / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
  • Christmas Time Back Home / Country Gentlemen / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
  • Letters Have No Arms / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music
  • Dark As The Night / Kathy Kallick Band / Horrible World / Live Oak Records
  • I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
  • A Brand New Shade Of Blue / Junior Sisk / Brand New Shade Of Blue / Mountain Fever Records
  • Cross My Broken Heart / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
  • Too Late To Say Goodbye / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
  • Hum Your Troubles Away / Bill & the Belles / DreamSongs, Etc. / Jalopy Records
  • John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
  • If You're Ever Gonna Love Me / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home
  • It's You Again / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie 2 / Pinecastle
  • Carolina Bound / Dreamcatcher / forthcoming CD / Self-Produced
  • Girl With The Sparkling Eyes / Dreamcatcher / forthcoming CD / Self-Produced
  • Leavin' You And Mobile, Too / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
  • 'Neath That Cold Grey Tomb Of Stone / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways
  • Say You'll Take Me Back / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
  • A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Who Will Calm The Storm / Strictly Country Records
  • Sold Down The River / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Heritage / Brandywine
  • Tennessee Blues / Whetstone Run / Who Will Calm The Storm / Strictly Country Records
  • Brand New Silent Partner / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
  • Get In Line Buddy / Country Gentlemen / The Award Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel
  • Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt And Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!  The Complete Concert / Koch Records
  • Yonder Stands Little Maggie / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt And Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!  The Complete Concert / Koch Records
  • The Sun Also Rises / Shady Creek / The Old Home / Self-Produced
  • Remember Who You Are / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
  • Strangest Christmas Yet / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / The Long-Awaited Album / Rounder
  • White House Christmas / WhiteHouse / A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' / Pinecastle
  • Christmas Time In the Country / Carson Peters & Iron Mountain / single / Self-Produced
  • Stuck In The Chimney / Fred Travers / Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas / Pinecastle
  • Merry Christmas Everybody / Spinney Brothers / single / Mountain Fever Records
  • Let My Life Be A Light / Balsam Range / Aeonic / Mountain Home
  • Drifting Too Far From The Shore / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
  • Travelin' Shoes / Special Consensus / Rivers And Roads / Compass Records
  • Standing By The Bedside Of A Neighbor / Cox Family / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
  • Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Claire Lynch / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
  • So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder
  • Electricity / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
  • He's Coming Back To Earth Again / Feller & Hill / Here Comes Feller & Hill...Again! / Blue Circle Records
  • Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

Sunday, December 02, 2018

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/2/2018

It's December!  That means a smattering of Bluegrass Christmas (and Hannukah) tunes were introduced into our Bluegrass Cafe playlist today.  Look for more Christmas tunes as we work our way towards the 25th.

We also shared a whole bunch of music from 2018 releases during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe program, including music from Five Mile Mountain Road Band, the tribute record to John Duffey, Roland White, the Rick Lang gospel collection, NewTown, the Grascals (from the "Come See About Me" collection), Balsam Range, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Dede Wyland, the Feinberg Brothers, Rhonda Vincent, Bill & the Belles, Hot Rize, Flashback, Del McCoury, and High Fidelity.  We also listened to a bit of a demo from southern New England-based band, Rock Hearts.

Hope you heard something you enjoyed today, and that you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Have a good week!

Amy O.



SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

  • Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
  • I Been Walkin' / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
  • Walkin' West To Memphis / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
  • I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder
  • If We Make It Through December / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / Winter's Grace / Signature Sounds
  • Christmas Is Near / Stanley Brothers / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
  • Sleigh Ride / Sam Bush / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
  • In The Window / Claire Lynch Band / Holiday! / Thrill Hill Records
  • The Boys Are Back In Town / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
  • Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
  • My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
  • Sugar Coated Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
  • Highway Of Sorrow / Don Reno & Charlie Moore / Bluegrass Legends "Together" / Wango Records
  • Alabama Jubilee / Five Mile Mountain Road / Five Mile Mountain Road / Patuxent Music
  • Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
  • Rock Bottom Blues / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
  • Smoky Mountain Smoke / Rock Hearts / demo / no label
  • I Might Take You Back Again / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home
  • I've Read The Book / Marty Raybon / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
  • Laura Lee / NewTown / Old World / Mountain Home
  • Help! / The Grascals / Come See About Me / Mountain Home
  • Get Me Gone / Balsam Range / Aeonic / Mountain Home
  • Seven Year Blues / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Sing Me Back Home:  The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 / Free Dirt Records
  • Could You Love Me One More Time / Dede Wyland with Dudley Connell / Urge For Going / Patuxent Music
  • Little White Washed Chimney / Roland White & Friends / A Tribute To The Kentucky Colonels / Mountain Home
  • I've Never Been So Lonesome / Longview / Longview / Rounder
  • The Angry Wife / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
  • My Favorite Memory/Beneath Still Waters/Windy City / Rhonda Vincent with the Osborne Brothers / Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
  • Wedding Bell Blues / Bill & the Belles / DreamSongs, Etc. / Jalopy Records
  • Lonesome Old Home / Longview / Longview / Rounder
  • The Night Flatt & Scruggs Played Carnegie Hall / Jerry Salley / Front Porch Philosophy / Very Jerry Records [Flatt & Scruggs' Carnegie Hall concert, 12/8/1962]
  • Salty Dog Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt And Scruggs At Carnegie Hall:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records [Flatt & Scruggs' Carnegie Hall concert, 12/8/1962]
  • I Overlooked An Orchid / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
  • Stepping Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin - The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
  • Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater In The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder
  • Remington Ryde / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
  • Radio Boogie / Hot Rize / Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash / Ten In Hand Records
  • Wise County Jail / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced
  • Born To Be With You / Flashback / Denver Snow / Pinecastle
  • They're Holding Up The Ladder / Virginia Ramblers / They're Holding Up The Ladder / Self-Produced
  • Get On The Main Highway / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
  • Sunday Morning Gospel Jubilee / Larry Cordle / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
  • Meet Me Over On The Other Side / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
  • Build It Up / Del McCoury Band / Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass / McCoury Music
  • Where Will You Be? / Crowe Brothers / Forty Years Old / Mountain Fever REcords
  • Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
  • My Savior's Train / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
  • Jesus Is Waiting / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
  • Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder