"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/31/2021

On this fifth Sunday of January, we had a whole lot of wonderful Bluegrass folks to celebrate as their birthdays happen either very late in January or early in February.  Among the celebrants:  Bluegrass Hall of Famers Del McCoury and Tom Gray, as well as David Parmley, Jason Carter, and Becky Buller.  Happy Birthday to all!

A few weeks ago, old friend and New England musician, Dave Shaw, suggested that I play a block of songs in honor of the February 4th birthday of the late Clarence "Tater" Tate.  Though Tater died in 2007, he still made his mark in the Bluegrass world by serving as a sideman for bands with Hylo Brown, Jimmy Martin, Carl Story, Bill Monroe, and even on his own.  In later years, Tater played bass on Patty Loveless's 2001 recording, "Mountain Soul."  We were happy to include several songs from Dave Shaw's vast music library, and we look forward to hearing whatever else he chooses to spotlight in future weeks.   

We shared a tiny bit of newer music this week, too, with a look back at a 2020 release by Professor Dan Boner, and newer 2021 music from Barry Abernathy, Dale Ann Bradley, and Linda Lay.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and don't hesitate to check in anytime:  bgcafe@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• A Good Man Like Me / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Who Will Calm The Storm / Strictly Country [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• Grandfather's Clock / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Bob Wills Medley / Bluegrass Cardinals / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet [Jason Carter birthday, 2/1/1973]
• The Barber's Fiddle / Becky Buller / Distance And Time / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 1/31/1979]
• Lights On The Hill / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder [Del McCoury birthday, 2/1/1939]
• Little Glass Of Wine / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways [Tom Gray birthday, 2/1/1941]
• Wonder Could I Live There Anymore / David Parmley & the Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & the Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records [David Parmley birthday, 2/1/1959]
• John D. Champion / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording [Becky Buller birthday, 2/1/1959]
• Smoke Along The Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine 
• Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• The Sweetest Gift / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Birmingham Jail / Barry Abernathy & Friends / single / Billy Blue Records
• Things She Couldn't Get Over / Dale Ann Bradley / Things She Couldn't Get Over / Pinecastle
• Watermelon On The Vine / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories:  Songs Of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music
• Darling Nellie Across The Sea / Hylo Brown / Hylo Brown / Stetson [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Love And Wealth / Hylo Brown / Hylo Brown / Stetson [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Flower Blooming In The Wildwood / Hylo Brown / Hylo Brown / Stetson [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• The Fiddling Cricket / Lester Flatt's Nashville Grass / Fantastic Pickin' / CMH [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Sing Widow Maker / Decca [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Lee Sutton Special / Tater Tate / Fiddling Favorites Of The U.S.A & Canada / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• The Boys Are Back In Town / Patty Loveless / Mountain Soul / Epic [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Liza Lynn Waltz / Tater Tate / Fiddling Favorites Of The U.S.A. & Canada / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Your Heart Now Tells The Truth / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Dave Shaw birthday, 1/29/1961]
• An Old Log Cabin For Sale / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road [Dave Shaw birthday, 1/29/1961]
• I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road [Dave Shaw birthday, 1/29/1961]
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / Professor Dan Boner / West Of West Virginia / Self-Produced
• Looking For A Reason / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Grown Cold / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• Jolly Blacksmith / Paul Warren / At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight / Bear Family Records
• Black Eyed Suzy / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder 
• Blue, Blue Ridge Mountain Girl / Linda Lay / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Is It Wrong (To Love Somebody New) / Paul Adkins & the Borderland Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• The Last Thing On My Mind / Professor Dan Boner with Sally Berry & Buck Trent / West Of West Virginia / Self-Produced
• Lone Star Rag / Tater Tate / Fiddling Favorites Of The U.S.A. & Canada / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• You're Drifting Away / Bill Monroe with Ricky Skaggs / Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord / MCA [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Let Him Lead You / Shenandoah Valley Quartet / Shenandoah Valley Quartet with Jim Eanes / County [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Will The Angels Play Their Harps For Me / Hylo Brown / In Concert / Copper Creek [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Light At The River / Carl Story / 16 Greatest Hits / Starday [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Mountain Soul / Epic [Remembering Clarence "Tater" Tate:  2/4/1931 - 10/17/2007]
• Lay Down Your Troubles / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Get In Line Brother / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia
• Come On Down / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I'm Rollin' Through This Unfriendly World / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Heavenward Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Place On Calvary / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Before The Fire Comes Down / Del McCoury / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• I Saw Mother With God Last Night / Bluegrass Patriots / Kneel At The Cross / Red Feather
• I'll Meet You In The Morning / Appalachian Express / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• They Were Fishermen / Kenny & Amanda Smith / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Billy Blue Records
• Row By Row / Balsam Range / Papertown / Mountain Home
• Gone Home / Gibson Brothers / Iron & Diamonds / Sugar Hill
• Little White Church / Jim & Jesse with Mac Wiseman / Music Among Friends / Rounder
• Lay Your Burdens At His Feet / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Heavenly Treasures / Sugar Hill
• Bluegrass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/24/2021

Blue was the color for Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, but not for any particular melancholy reason.  There just so many "blues" songs in my "Bluegrass library" that we use to produce our "homemade shows" that it seems appropriate to pull them out and play them in clusters from time to time.  I expect that we will continue doing this for a while, yet.  

We also shared a few selections from a few more 2020 recordings that we weren't able to showcase much (if at all) during 2020.  To that end, we heard two songs each from the latest recordings by Donna & Roni Stoneman, Flashback, Appalachian Road Show, Gary Brewer & the Kentucky Ramblers, and a gospel CD from Eddie Sanders.  Hope you enjoyed these selections.  

Hope you enjoyed this week's broadcast -- warts and all.  :)  We'll be back again with you next Sunday from 4-7PM, so sure hope you'll consider tuning in once more.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Coldest Day Of Winter / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder
• Winter Of A Broken Heart / Alison Krauss / I've Got That Old Feeling / Rounder
• Song For A Winter's Night / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot / Rounder
• Shelley's Winter Love / Larry Stephenson with Ronnie Reno / 20th Anniversary / Whysper Dream Music
• Winterhawk / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Sweet Thang And Cisco / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel
• Lefty's Old Guitar / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• In My Next Life / Springfield Exit / Springfield Exit / Cracker Barrel
• Something In The Wind / Seldom Scene / Act Four / Sugar Hill
• Winterhawk / Northern Lights / Take You To The Sky / Flying Fish
• I Feel The Blues Moving In / Del McCoury / Don't Stop The Music / Rounder
• Alcatraz Island Blues / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Across The Sea Blues / Goins Brothers / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• The Bluest Man In Town / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Clinch Mountain Blues / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1956 / JSP Records
• Big City Blues / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Bluegrass Blues / Steep Canyon Rangers / Steep Canyon Rangers / Rebel
• Crazy Finger Blues / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Rock-A-Bye Boogie / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• The Appalachian Road / Appalachian Road Show / Tribulation / Billy Blue Records
• Daddy And The Old Oak Tree / Gary Brewer & the Kentucky Ramblers with Dale Ann Bradley / 40th Anniversary Celebration / Stretch Grass Music
• Virginia In The Springtime / Flashback / Blues Around My Cabin / Pinecastle
• Tater Valley Chimes / Flashback / Blues Around My Cabin / Pinecastle
• Big Train / Gary Brewer & the Kentucky Ramblers with Doug Phelps & the Kentucky Headhunters / 40th Anniversary Celebration / Stretch Grass Music
• Blue Grass Breakdown / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• My Baby's Gone / Justin Moses with Del McCoury / Fall Like Rain / Mountain Fever Records
• Blue Collar Blues / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / single / Billy Blue Records
• East Virginia Blues / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Hard Time Banjo Blues / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / 
• The Government Blues / Feller & Hill / Here Come Feller & Hill..Again! / 
• White House Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1958 / JSP Records
• Last Dollar Blues / Blue Highway / Midnight Storm / Rebel
• Crazy Blues / Mac Wiseman / 
• Roll On Blues / Connie & Babe / 
• Dixon County Blues / Curly Ray Cline / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Wait For The Light To Shine / Eddie Sanders / Wait For The Light To Shine / Engelhardt Music Group
• Voice Of My Savior / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Is There Room For Me / Loafers Glory / Loafers Glory / Arhoolie
• Fishers Of Men / Rhonda Vincent / One Step Ahead / Rounder
• You Go To Your Church / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & the Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel
• Vision Of Jesus / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Beyond The Sunset For Me / Jason Barie with Paul Williams / Pieces / Billy Blue Records
• Just As The Sun Went Down / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• John 3:16 / Stanley Brothers / All Gospel, All Bluegrass / 
• Talk About Sufferin' / Ricky Skaggs with the Whites / Stained Glass Bluegrass / Rounder
• I've Got A Friend (His Name Is Jesus) / Eddie Sanders / Wait For The Light To Shine / Engelhardt Music Group
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Do You Live What You Preach / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Band / One Morning In May / Rounder
• We Can Sing / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• They Can Only Fill One Grave / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road 
• The Lighthouse / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Got A Little Light / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Calm The Storm / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/17/2021

Our Bluegrass Cafe on this day was mainly one to celebrate birthdays, and there were a passel of them!  Those celebrating birthdays included Bluegrass Hall of Famers Charlie Waller and Bill Emerson, as well as Country Music Hall of Famers Dolly Parton and Phil Everly, and West Virginia Hall of Famer Walter Bailes.  If you celebrate your birthday in mid-January, Happy Birthday wishes to you, too!

Last week, we received in the mail a big box of CDs that have been sent to to the WHUS studios since mid-March 2020.  We're working our way through some of those CDs now, and trying to play catch-up.  On this broadcast, we shared two songs each from four CDs that had been sent to WHUS last year, but that had received limited airplay during our "home-made" COVID shows:  "My Best Friend" by Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition (Patuxent Music); "Ronnie Bowman" by Ronnie Bowman (Engelhardt Music Group); "Fiddler's Pastime" by Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (Self-Produced); and "Bridges And Backroads" by Jerry Salley (Very Jerry Records).  We'll check out a few more 2020 CDs in future weeks of our continued home-produced program.  

This week's show also included three new recordings for 2021 from the likes of Williamson Branch, Carolyn Eyerly, and Chris Jones & the Night Drivers.

Thanks, as always, for listening, and be sure to check in with a request or comment, if you're so inclined.  Email can be sent to bgcafe@gmail.com and our Facebook page can be found at www.Facebook.com/WHUS.BluegrassCafe.

Have a good week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Mighty Mississippi / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Sugar Hill [Jimmy Haley birthday, 1/19/1955]
• Sweet Dixie / Bill Emerson / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel [Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• John Hardy / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder [John Hardy hanged, 1/19/1894]
• The Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [#1 on Billboard country chart, 1/19/1963]
• Music Of The Mountains / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Let Me Be The Bridge / Jerry Salley / Bridges And Backroads / Very Jerry Records
• Fiddler's Pastime / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Laura Orshaw / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Lucille / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Pearl / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• How I Want To Be Remembered / Jerry Salley / Bridges And Backroads / Very Jerry Records
• Gonna Be Raining When I Die / Ronnie Bowman / Ronnie Bowman / Engelhardt Music Group
• Quiet Click / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Mountain Home
• I'm Gonna Be The Wind / Laurie Lewis / Restless Rambling Heart / Flying Fish
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Charlie Moore Sings Again / Wango
• Won't You Think Of Me / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Banjo Boy Chimes / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• When Someone Wants To Leave / Seldom Scene / Bluegrass The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• I Wasted My Tears / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Celebration / Rebel [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Kentucky Gambler / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Jolene / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Pain Of Loving You / Ronnie Reno & the Reno Tradition / Portfolio / Shell Point Records [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• Coat Of Many Colors / Dolly Parton / Classic Country, 1970-1974 / Time Life [Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail / Everly Brothers / Songs Our Daddy Taught Us / Ace [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Brand New Heartache / Larry Stephenson with Dudley Connell / Wash My Blues Away / Webco [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Bye Bye Love / Gibson Brothers / Rounder [Remembering Phil Everly:  1/19/1939 - 1/3/2014]
• Many A Mile / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways [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; Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek [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; Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• The Double Eagle / Country Gentlemen / Country Songs Old And New / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• You Go To Your Church And I'll Go To Mine / Bailes Brothers / At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight / Bear Family [Remembering Walter Bailes:  1/17/1920 - 11/27/2000]
• Dust On The Bible / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Blue Side Of The Blue Ridge / Rebel [Remembering Walter Bailes:  1/17/1920 - 11/27/2000]
• We're Living In The Last Days Now / Bailes Brothers / Remember Me / Bear Family [Remembering Walter Bailes:  1/17/1920 - 11/27/2000]
• Over In The Glory Land / Carolyn Eyerly / The Sunny Side Of Life / Patuxent Music
• I Want To Be A Christian Soldier / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Heaven's Green Fields / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• So Happy I'll Be / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• I'll Shout And Shine / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• You Must Come In At The Door / Doc Watson / Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Mount Zion's Lofty Heights / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Stained Glass Bluegrass / Rounder
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road 
• God's Coloring Book / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004; Dolly Parton birthday, 1/19/1946]
• He Knows My Name / Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / The Gospel Side Of Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie / Rural Rhythm [Bill Emerson birthday, 1/22/1938]
• Camping In Canaan's Land / Bill Harrell & the Virginians / The Cat Came Back / Rebel
• He'll Take You In / Billy & Terry Smith / Bill Monroe Tribute / KTel 
• Wait A Little Longer, Please Jesus / John Duffey, Charlie Waller, Eddie Adcock, Tom Gray / Classic Country Gents Reunion / Sugar Hill [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• God's Not Dead / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Walking In The Spirit / Williamson Branch / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• One Wide River / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Waller:  1/19/1935 - 8/18/2004]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/10/2021

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included lots of music in celebration of birthdays, as well as a couple of newer tunes, and a whole bunch of blue ones, too.  Hope you were able to join us.        

Birthday celebrating took up the main portion of our program this week, as we remembered prolific songwriter Randall Hylton (January 8, 1945 - March 19, 2001) by sharing lots of his songs.  We also remembered Country Music Hall of Famer Ray Price (January 12, 1926 - December 16, 2013) with music both performed by him and from his vast songbook.  And if that wasn't enough, we even remembered Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977) just a tiny bit, too.  

There was just a tiny bit of brand-new music to share this week, and it came to us from the likes of Sturgill Simpson, Billy Wise & Mountain Time, and Balsam Range.

We even played a bit of requested music this week, too.  If you have any requests, feel free to send me an email:  bgcafe@gmail.com.  I can't guarantee that I will be able to play whatever you request, as these "home-made" shows are limited by what music I have in my personal music library.  Still, there's always a possibility, and it's fun to hear from people.

Thanks for listening, stay healthy, and enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Country Side Of Heaven (Where The Bluegrass Music Flows) / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• Dirt Roads / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa / Raincoe Music
• Blue Railroad Train / Tony Rice / Manzanita / Rounder
• The Blues Are Still The Blues / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• Blue / Stevens Sisters / O Sister! / Rounder
• Baby Blue Eyes / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Bad Case Of The Blues / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill
• Banjo Player's Blues / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Blue Days, Black Nights / Tasty Licks / Hand-Picked / Rounder
• Blue And Lonesome Again / Fast Track / Fast Track / Engelhardt Music Group
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life
• Dixie / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records [Remembering Elvis Presley:  1/8/1935 - 8/16/1977]
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Elvis Presley / At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight... / Bear Family [Remembering Elvis Presley:  1/8/1935 - 8/16/1977]
• All Around You / Sturgill Simpson / Cuttin' Grass / High Top Mountain Records
• Lonesome / Billy Wise & Mountain Time / single / Self-Produced
• Rivers, Rains, And Runaway Trains / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• The Eighth Of January / Chubby Wise / An American Original / Pinecastle
• Coal Town Saturday Night / Randall Hylton / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Cold Sheets Of Rain / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Dream Softly, My Love / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• My Heart Is Yours / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Twenty One Miles / Adcock, Gaudreau, Waller & Gray / The Country Gentlemen Reunion Band / Radio Therapy Records [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Country Poor, Country Proud / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP & CD Records [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Rough Edges / Bear Tracks / Rough Edges / Self-Produced [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Room At The Top Of The Stairs / Longview / Deep In The Mountains / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• Slippers With Wings / Charlie Waller & Randall Hylton / The Singer And The Songster / Rebel [Remembering Randall Hylton:  1/8/1945 - 3/19/2001]
• I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) / Ray Price / I'll Be There:  The Legend Begins / Country Stars [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Weary Blues From Waitin' / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / David Grisman, Herb Pedersen, Vince Gill, Jim Buchanan, Emory Gordy, Jr. / Here Today / Rounder [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Wasted Words / Johnson Mountain Boys / Live At The Birchmere / Rounder [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Falling, Falling, Falling / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Never Walk Away / Sugar Hill [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Crazy Arms / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• I'll Sail My Ship Alone / Ray Price / At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight / Bear Family[Remembering Ray Price:  1/12/1926 - 12/16/2013]
• Who Showed Who / Del McCoury / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Casey Jones / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Looking For The Stone / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Memories That Bless And Burn / Rounder
• He Will Roll You Over The Tide / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• Give The Devil An Inch / Lonesome River Band / Window Of Time / Doobie Shea
• I'm A Stranger / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Lord In The Morning / Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Lord In The Morning / Pisgah Ridge
• Talk It All Over With Him / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album, Volume 4 / Rounder
• The River Of Jordan / Jim & Jesse / Y'All Come:  The Essential Jim & Jesse / Legacy
• Who Will Sing For Me / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Drowning Sailor / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• The Future Remains / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• That Home Far Away / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Memories That Bless And Burn / Rounder
• Angel At Your Side / Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters / Everything I Wanted Love To Be / Happy Appy Records
• Rank Strangers To Me / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Over On The Other Side / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / On Down The Line / Rounder
• My Shepherd Is God / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning / Hot Rize / Traditional Ties / Sugar Hill
• Oh What A Day / Barry Scott & Second Wind / In God's Time / Rebel
• On The Jericho Road / Bass Mountain Boys / A Beautiful Life / CMH
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / Good & Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 1/3/2021

Happy New Year!  Hope you're enjoying your 2021, so far.  

Our first show of the new year included a whole bunch of songs in tribute to the late Tony Rice, who died at the age of 69 on Christmas Day.  To say Tony Rice has influenced a generation of musicians would be a tremendous understatement.  Through his solo recordings to records made with occasional duet partners (Ricky Skaggs and Norman Blake), with J.D. Crowe & the New South, with his brothers, with the Bluegrass Album Band, and his appearances as a guest on other performers' records, Tony Rice left an indelible impression on Bluegrass and acoustic music that will be felt forever.  We listened to lots of music from the amazing songbook of this Bluegrass Hall of Famer on Sunday, and we will continue to do so in future editions of our Bluegrass Cafe.  Rest in peace, Tony Rice, and thanks for the music.

We also remembered the late Hank Williams with several Bluegrass renditions of his songs.  Hank famously died at the age or 29 on his way to performing a show on New Year's Day in 1953.  His incredible songs live on in many styles of music, including Bluegrass.

And we couldn't have a show without remembering the legendary Earl Scruggs, who was born on January 6, 1924.  Would there be Bluegrass without Earl?  

Hope you enjoyed the program, and that you're staying safe and healthy in this new year.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cold On The Shoulder / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Walk On Boy / Rice Brothers / Blue Ribbon Bluegrass / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Bill Emerson with Tony Rice / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind / Claire Lynch / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Way / Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Move It On Over / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Cold, Cold Heart / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Singing Waterfall / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Settin' The Woods On Fire / Good Ol' Persons / Good 'n' Live / Sugar Hill  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Jim Mills with Alan O'Bryant / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Hey Good Lookin' / Hank Williams / Live At The Opry / Opry Music  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Wake Up And Smell The Coffee / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Last Train / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Sarah Jarosz / Fiddler's Pastime / Self-Produced
• Hitchhiking To California / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / single / Billy Blue Records
• Lonesome Leaving Train / Amanda Cook / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Auld Lang Syne / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Gusto
• San Antone / Bobby Atkins, Frank Poindexter, & Tony Rice / 1968 Session / Old Homestead Records [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Leaves That Are Green / J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys / single / Lemco [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Ten Degrees And Getting Colder / J.D. Crowe & the New South / The New South / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Blackberry Blossom / Tony Rice / Manzanita / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Church Street Blues / Tony Rice / Church Street Blues / Sugar Hill[Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Greenlight On The Southern / Tony Rice / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• More Pretty Girls Than One / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Eight More Miles To Louisville / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Blake & Rice 2 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Blue Railroad Train / Josh Williams with Tony Rice / Down Home / Pinecastle [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Sawing On The Strings / Alison Krauss / A Hundred Miles Or More / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Dudley Connell with Tony Rice / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Heavy Traffic Ahead / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Pike County Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Earl's Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Farewell Blues / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records [Earl Scruggs birthday, 1/6/1924]
• Come On Down / Fast Track / Fast Track / Engelhardt Music Group
• Father, Son, And The Holy Ghost / Ernie Thacker / The Chill Of Lonesome / Doobie Shea Records
• Prettiest Flower There / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• It's Just Like Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Collection
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• The Old Crossroads / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• I'll Answer The Call / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• Jesus Is Standing At My Right Hand / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / James King / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea
• I'm On A Journey / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Shine, Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Let The Church Roll On / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Flatt & Scruggs At Carnegie Hall!:  The Complete Concert / Koch Records
• From Jerusalem To Jericho / Hank Williams / The Unreleased Recordings / Time Life [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• So Many Years, So Many Blessings / Lewis Family / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• I Believe / Del McCoury Band / Blue Side Of Town / Rounder
• Get Up In Jesus' Name / Marty Raybon / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• Wonderful, Beautiful Place / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The News Is Out / Sugar Hill
• When The Sun Of Life Goes Down / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Sacred Memories / Rebel
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder
• I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics (1946-1950) / Cattle [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA  [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/27/2020

What a year!  When we last produced a Bluegrass Cafe in the WHUS studio on Sunday, March 8th, we had no idea it would be the last live-as-it's-happening broadcast for 2020.  After a delay of several weeks, it was decided that we could start producing radio programs at home using a program called Audacity and drawing from our own music collections, so the first pre-recorded Bluegrass Cafe aired on Sunday, April 19th.  Whoa!  Thirty-six weeks later, the recording process at home has become slightly easier, but still...we look forward to the day when in-studio, live radio shows can again be the norm.  In the meantime, though, we'll keep plugging along with these at-home shows, so hope you enjoy them.  

Since this particular Bluegrass Cafe was produced a couple of days before Christmas, as we were recording, the passing on Christmas Day of guitar legend and Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Tony Rice, had not yet happened.  We will be gathering some favorite music from Tony's long career over the next few days to share on our first BGC broadcast of 2021.

In the meantime, this week's Bluegrass Cafe included lots of fine music.  There was an entire hour devoted to some favorite music from recordings released in 2020, featuring performers such as the Feinberg Brothers, FastTrack, Becky Buller, Junior Sisk, Jamie & J.B. Dailey, Stephen Mougin, Special Consensus, High Fidelity, and a few others.  Even though there really wasn't much of a festival season for this year, there was still some excellent recorded music to be heard.

We also included several songs from late-December birthday celebrants, including the late Curly Seckler, Mike Auldridge, Melvin Goins, Alan O'Bryant, and Joe Diffie.  And since we are technically only on the 3rd Day of Christmas, we included a few more Christmas songs on our playlist.  Hope you enjoyed them.

No doubt about it -- 2020 has been a dismal year in many ways.  However, I am very grateful that I can still present a full three-hour program to you each week.  My wish is that 2021 is a much-improved year for all of us!

Have a good week ~ and Happy New Year!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Breaking New Ground / Seldom Scene / A Change Of Scenery / Sugar Hill
• Brand New Silent Partner / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• New Camptown Races / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The Kitchen Tapes / Acoustic Disc
• Brand New Shoes / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1958 / JSP Records
• Come You Cheerful People / Bill Carroll / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
• Christmas In The Hills / Hylo Brown / Christmas Jamboree / Hollywood 
• Mary, Merry Christmas / Ralph Stanley II / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
• Good Christian Men, Rejoice / Louvin Brothers / Christmas With The Louvin Brothers / Gusto
• There's A New Kid In Town / Wildfire / A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' / Pinecastle
• Breakin' Up Christmas / Al Murphy & Bob Black / single / no label
• Cumberland River / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder [Darrin Vincent birthday, 12/27/1969]
• Spanish Grass / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Mike Auldridge birthday, 12/30/1938]
• Across The Sea Blues / Goins Brothers / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel [Melvin Goins birthday, 12/30/1933]
• Doghouse Blues / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder [Alan O'Bryant birthday, 12/26/1955]
• Somehow Tonight / Joe Diffie / Homecoming / Rounder [Joe Diffie birthday, 12/28/1958]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [song released 12/25/1967]
• Moonlight On My Cabin / Curly Seckler / 60 Years Of Bluegrass With My Friends / Copper Creek [Curly Seckler birthday, 12/25/1919]
• Carolina Palms / Mike Auldridge / Treasures Untold / Sugar Hill 
• One Day At A Time / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I'd Like To Wander Back To The Old Home / FastTrack / FastTrack / Engelhardt Music Group
• We Needed This Ride / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / single / Mountain Home
• The Ride / Becky Buller / Distance And Time / Dark Shadow Recording
• Ashes Of Love / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• I Miss My Miss In Mississippi / Jerry Salley / Bridges And Backroads / Very Jerry Records
• Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle
• I Ain't Been Nowhere / Rhonda Vincent / single / Upper Management Music
• Yesterday's Gone / Phil Leadbetter & the All Stars Of Bluegrass / Swing For The Fences / Pinecastle
• Old Home Place / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• The Dark Side Of Lonesome / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Rural Rhythm
• You Are My Flower / Laurie Lewis with Molly Tuttle / And Friends / Spruce And Maple Music
• A Place For A Fool / Stephen Mougin with the Gibson Brothers / Ordinary Soul / Dark Shadow Recording
• Love Bug / Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• Mend This Heart Of Mine / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Chicago Barn Dance / Special Consensus / Chicago Barn Dance / Compass Records
• Scissor Jack / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Select Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Sailing On / Russell Moore / Look To The Light:  Songs Of Faith From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Rural Rhythm Christian
• Let's Make A Baby King / New Grass Revival / Best Of New Grass Revival / Capitol 
• I Found A Church Today / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass & White Snow / Legacy
• Keep Me Humble / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• You Better Wake Up / Volume Five / Children Of The Mountain / Mountain Fever Records
• Little White Church / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Mr. Jesus / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Johnson Mountain Boys / Walls Of Time / Rounder
• Along The Way / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• I'm Gonna Wait On Jesus / Carolina Blue / Take Me Back / Billy Blue Records
• Grit And Grace / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country
• On The Wings Of Angels / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced
• In His Arms / Johnny & Jeanette Williams / Thirty Years Later / Self-Produced
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Living In The Kingdom Of God / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Classic Country Christmas" - 3 episodes for 2020!

Every year, I love to play some of my favorite country Christmas music during our Bluegrass Cafe "Christmas Extravaganza."  This year, though, I didn't have to limit myself to playing just a couple of country Christmas songs mixed in at the Bluegrass Cafe, as some gaps in our WHUS broadcast schedule (plus, home recording) allowed me to record three separate one-hour programs featuring (mostly) nothing but classic country Christmas music.  WHUS has aired these shows a few times over the past few days, so hope the songs added a bit of joy to some Christmas celebrations.  

As for the songs I chose to play this year, there were selections from lots of favorite Christmas recordings of my childhood, as well as a few "newer" tunes (newest from 1993), and even more songs recorded many years before I was born.  It was a fun mix.

Hope you had a Merry Christmas, and we'll see you again on the Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

Show #1

• Because It's Christmas Time / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
• Country Christmas / Loretta Lynn / The Best Of Loretta Lynn:  The Christmas Collection / MCA
• Christmas Country Style /  Statler Brothers / Christmas Present / Mercury
• Good Old Fashioned Country Christmas / Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Merry Christmas From Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Rock Beat
• Christmas In My Home Town / Charley Pride / Christmas In My Home Town / RCA
• Senor Santa Claus / Jim Reeves / The Twelve Songs Of Christmas / RCA
• That Christmassy Feeling / Johnny Cash & Tommy Cash / The Johnny Cash Family Christmas / Sony
• Dasher With A Light Upon His Tail / Kitty Wells / A Country Christmas / Jasmine
• Po' Folks Christmas / Bill Anderson / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• Christmas In My Home Town / Sonny James / My Christmas Dream / Capitol
• The Reindeer Boogie / Hank Snow / The Goldrush Is Over / Bear Family
• An Old Fashioned Christmas Polka / Riders In The Sky / Christmas The Cowboy Way / Rounder
• Christmas Swing / Chesapeake / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• Two Step 'Round The Christmas Tree / Amy Gallatin / 'Tis The Season / Happy Appy Records
• My Mom And Santa Claus / George Jones / A Country Christmas / Jasmine
• Christmas Schottische / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas Shopping / Sundazed
• Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree / Brenda Lee / The Best Of Brenda Lee:  The Christmas Collection / MCA
• A Holly Jolly Christmas / Alan Jackson / Honky Tonk Christmas / Arista
• The Carols Those Kids Used To Sing / Statler Brothers / Christmas Card / Mercury
• The Joy Of Christmas / Marty Robbins / Christmas With Marty Robbins / Sony
• Jingle Bell Rock / Bobby Helms / A Country Christmas / Jasmine
• Jingle Bells / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
  
  
  

Show #2

• Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
• Here Comes Santa Claus / Gene Autry / The Christmas Cowboy / Laser Light
• Santa Claus Is Coming To Town / Randy Travis / An Old Fashioned Christmas / Warner Bros.
• Don't Look For Santa Claus / Charley Pride / Christmas In My Home Town / RCA
• Dear Mr. Santa Claus / Red Sovine / Celebrating Christmas:  Down Country Lanes / Jasmine
• He's A Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus / Tennessee Ernie Ford / A Country Christmas / Jasmine
• Santa's On His Way / Kitty Wells / Christmas Day With Kitty Wells / Decca
• That's Santa Claus / Jimmy Wakely / A Country Christmas / Jasmine
• To Heck With Ole Santa Claus / Loretta Lynn / The Best Of Loretta Lynn:  The Christmas Collection / MCA
• I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus / Brenda Lee / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• Santa's Comin' In A Whirlybird / Gene Autry / The Christmas Cowboy / Laser Light
• Santa's Gonna Come In A Stagecoach / Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Merry Christmas From Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Rock Beat
• Santa Train / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass & White Snow / Epic
• Santa's Gonna Come In A Pickup Truck / Alan Jackson / Honky Tonk Christmas / Arista
• I Believe In Santa Claus / Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton / Once Upon A Christmas / RCA
• I Believe In Santa's Cause / Statler Brothers / Christmas Card / Mercury
• Little Sandy Sleighfoot / Jimmy Dean / A Country Christmas / Jasmine
• Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer / Riders In The Sky / Merry Christmas From Harmony Ranch / Columbia
• Leroy The Redneck Reindeer / Joe Diffie / Mr. Christmas / Epic
• Here Comes Santa Claus Again / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
  
  
  

Show #3

• One Of Everything You Got / Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Merry Christmas From Buck Owens & Susan Raye / Rock Beat
• An Old Christmas Card / Jim Reeves / The Twelve Songs Of Christmas / RCA
• All I Want For Christmas Is You / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Sundazed
• Jingle Bells / Statler Brothers / Christmas Card / Mercury
• My Little Silver Bells / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• Sleigh Bells / Gene Autry / The Christmas Cowboy / Laser Light
• Silver Bells / Riders In The Sky with Kathy Mattea / Merry Christmas From Harmony Ranch / Columbia 
• Christmas For Cowboys / John Denver / Rocky Mountain Christmas / BMG
• Christmas Carols By The Old Corral / Tex Ritter / Billboard Greatest Country Christmas Hits / Rhino
• Christmas Yodel / Riders In The Sky / Christmas The Cowboy Way / Rounder
• Baby It's Cold Outside / Homer & Jethro with June Carter / Homer & Jethro Fracture Frank Loesser / RCA 
• Christmas With You / Johnny Cash with June Carter / The Johnny Cash Family Christmas / Sony
• Blue Christmas / Ernest Tubb / Billboard Greatest Country Christmas Hits / Rhino
• Pretty Paper / Willie Nelson / Hillbilly Holiday / Rhino
• I'll Be Walkin' The Floor This Christmas / Ernest Tubb / A Country Christmas / Jasmine
• Joy To The World / Gatlin Brothers / Christmas With The Gatlins / Capitol
• Hark The Herald Angels Sing / Marty Robbins / Christmas With Marty Robbins / Sony
• Silent Night/O Holy Night/The First Noel/It Came Upon The Midnight Clear / Statler Brothers / Christmas Card / Mercury

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 12/20/2020

Here we are:  five days away from Christmas!  Are you ready?  Chances are good that your holiday celebrations will be a bit toned down during this COVID year, but we still wanted to share loads of Christmas music with you during this Season of Joy, so hope you enjoyed it during the show!  In the early days when I was doing radio (1988!), I had exactly one Bluegrass Christmas record to play, so I ended up making every Christmas show I did on the radio from that point on a mix of Bluegrass Christmas songs (there are MANY more to choose from now) and country Christmas songs -- things I heard at the house during the Christmas season when I was a kid, and favorites as I aged.  This year, though, things are different.  Of course, they are, right?  It's 2020!!  :)  Our Bluegrass Cafe on this Sunday before Christmas includes 2+ hours of (mostly) Bluegrass Christmas tunes.  The country Christmas songs can be heard at some point on the WHUS airwaves over the next few days, as I put together three separate one-hour broadcasts I've called, "Classic Country Christmas."  If I figure out exactly when those shows are going to air, I will let you know with a post on our BG Cafe Facebook page.  

Charley Pride
  March 18, 1934 - December 12, 2020

The passing of legendary country singer Charley Pride couldn't go unmentioned
during today's Bluegrass Cafe.  I'll be honest:  I had heard interview with Mr. Pride in which he said Bill Monroe had been one of his favorite singers when he was kid, but I wasn't really aware that Charley Pride had ever recorded any "bluegrass" music,  It seems, though, that he recorded four songs with the Osborne Brothers back in 1967.  Learn something new everyday, right?  Thanks to longtime listener and friend, Dave Shaw, I was able to share Charley Pride's "bluegrass" songs, plus a few more of his big hit records, as Charley Pride's voice was one that demanded to be heard.

We also included a few favorites from 2020 from the likes of High Fidelity, the Feinberg Brothers, Junior Sisk, Rock Hearts, and a few others.  We'll include more 2020 selections during our December 27th broadcast.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and may 2020 bring better days for all of us!

Thanks for listening!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
• White House Christmas / WhiteHouse / A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' / Pinecastle
• Bluegrass Christmas / McCoury Brothers with Del McCoury, Osborne Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
• 12 Days Of Bluegrass Christmas / Foxfire / Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas / Pinecastle
• Good Woman's Love / Charley Pride with the Osborne Brothers / Pride Of Country Music / RCA [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• Banks Of The Ohio / Charley Pride with the Osborne Brothers / Make Mine Country / RCA [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• Best Banjo Picker / Charley Pride with the Osborne Brothers / Pride Of Country Music / RCA [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• Just Between You And Me / Charley Pride / Legendary Country Singers / Time Life [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• All I Have To Offer You (Is Me) / Charley Pride / Legendary Country Singers / Time Life [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• I'm Just Me / Charley Pride / Signature Series / CMG Records [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• Christmas In My Home Town / Charley Pride / Christmas In My Home Town / RCA [Remembering Charley Pride:  3/18/1934 - 12/12/2020]
• My Louisiana Home / Matt Dudman / Poa / Pleasant Valley Music 
• Juxtaposed / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• Roll Slow Greyhound / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Ready For The Times To Get Better / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Bill Monroe's Ol' Mandolin / Pinecastle
• The South Bound Train / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• Roll On Buddy / Junior Sisk / Load The Wagon / Mountain Fever Records
• Happy Times / Brent Burke / New Reso Gathering / Pinecastle
• Christmas In The Mountains / Larry Sparks / Christmas In The Hills / Rebel
• When It's Snowin' In The Mountains / Wildwood Valley Boys / Christmas In The Mountains / Rebel
• O Christmas Tree / Rhonda Vincent / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• My Christmas Dream / Charlie Moore & His Dixie Partners / Charlie Moore & His Dixie Partners with Al Elliot / Old Homestead Records
• Frosty The Snowman / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / King
• O Christmas Candle / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Christmas Grass, Volume 2 / Koch Records
• Merry Christmas Everybody / Spinney Brothers / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Christmas Time Back Home / Country Gentlemen / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
• Ring The Bells At Midnight / Kathy Kallick / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• I'm Goin' Home, It's Christmas Time / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Christmas Time With Ralph Stanley / Freeland
• Kentucky Noel / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / The Christmas Collection:  The Songs Of Dixie & Tom T. Hall / Blue Circle
• Old-Fashioned Christmas / Jimmy Martin / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
• Blue Christmas Lights / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / Tinsel Tunes / Sugar Hill
• Call Collect On Christmas / Del McCoury / 35 Years Of The Best In Bluegrass / Rebel
• Blue Christmas / Larry Sparks / Christmas Time Back Home / Rebel
• Mister Santa / Amy Gallatin / 'Tis The Season / Happy Appy Records
• Daddy Looked A Lot Like Santa [sic] / Terry Eldredge / Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas / Pinecastle
• I Feel The Christmas Spirit / The Isaacs / Christmas Time's A-Comin' / Time Life
• Country Christmas / Larry Stephenson / A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin' / Pinecastle
• Jingle Bells / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / King
• Joy To The World / Stony Point Quartet / Christmas Time Back Home / Cracker Barrel
• What Child Is This? / South Ocean String Band / Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas / Pinecastle
• Angels We Have Heard On High / Ray Cardwell / A Very Acoustic Christmas / Pinecastle
• Away In A Manger / Louvin Brothers / Christmas With The Louvin Brothers / Razor & Tie
• The First Noel / Ricky Skaggs & the Whites / A Skaggs Family Christmas, Volume 2 / Skaggs Family Records
• O Come All Ye Faithful / Tony Trischka / Precious Child / Rounder
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Balsam Range / It's Christmas Time / Mountain Home
• Go Tell It On The Mountain / Cox Family / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• We Three King / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• It Came Upon The Midnight Clear / Reno & Smiley / The True Meaning Of Christmas / King
• Silent Night / Seldom Scene / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• The Birthday Of Our King / Larry Sparks / Christmas In The Hills / Rebel
• Precious Child / Tony Trischka with Dudley Connell & James King / Precious Child / Rounder
• Christmas Lullaby / Doc Watson / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• Nothing But A Child / Robin & Linda Williams / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill
• A Cradle In Bethlehem / Bass Mountain Boys / Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas / Pinecastle
• Mary's Christmas / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House / SSK
• The Friendly Beasts / Johnson Mountain Boys / O Christmas Tree / Rounder
• Light Of The Stable / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / single / Billy Blue Records
• Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem / John Starling / Sugar Plums / Sugar Hill