"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/20/2023

After a couple of whirlwind days in Washington DC, I returned to Connecticut late Saturday evening, but was still ready to put together another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe to present on Sunday afternoon.  Being in Washington DC made me think of two fine bands that for many years represented that brand of "Washington Bluegrass" that we all love so well, so we just had to share music from (or inspired by) these bands:  the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene.  Hope you enjoyed those selections.

We also belatedly remembered the wonderful Bluegrass songwriter, Jake Landers, who was born on August 14, 1938 and died February 13, 2018.  Landers had songs recorded by everyone from Bill Monroe to Red Allen to a new band called Retro 78.  In addition, we played a few songs from Connecticut band, Grass Routes, as one of their former members, Jack Jolie, recently passed.  Though Jack relocated to Maine a few years ago, he still had lots of good friends and family in Connecticut, and he will be greatly missed.

Newer music, as always, was part of the show, too.  To that end, we heard new music from Podunk favorites, the Henhouse Prowlers, Full Cord, and East Nash Grass, as well as newer selections from Billy Swinson, Unspoken Tradition, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Wyatt Ellis, and Daniel Grindstaff (with Paul Brewster and Dolly Parton).

Hope you were able to join us for this show, but if not, we'll have another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe ready for you next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

See you then!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Willow Creek Dam / American Drive / American Drive / Rural Rhythm
• Many A Mile / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Dudley Connell & John Cowan / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Seeing Nellie Home / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel
• Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Two Little Boys / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound / Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz / Picture In A Tear / Rounder
• This Morning At Nine / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Hickory Holler's Tramp / Bill Yates & Friends / The Country Gentlemen Tribute / Mastershield Records
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Mercury
• Calaveras County / Jason Barie with Michael Cleveland / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• Got No Reason Now For Goin' Home / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• One By One / Dale Ann Bradley with Dan Paisley / Kentucky For Me / Pinecastle
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Billy Strings / Me / And / Dad / Rounder
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love With You / Boone & Foster / Smoky Mountain Favorites / Mountain Fever Records
• The Old Home Town / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Keep A Memory / Jason Barie with Doyle Lawson & Russell Moore / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records
• My Last Run / Henhouse Prowlers / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Greener Grass / Billy Swinson / Greener Grass / Self-Produced
• Weeds Don't Wither / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home
• City Of New Orleans / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / single / Upper Management Music
• Ghost Of Good Times / Full Cord / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Forever Young / Daniel Grindstaff with Paul Brewster & Dolly Parton / single / Pinecastle
• Grassy Cove / Wyatt Ellis with Sierra Hull / single / Knee High Records
• Walk Softly On My Heart / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• This Is The Girl I Love / Retro 78 / EP / Ram Cat Records [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Your Heart Now Tells The Truth / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Don't Wake Me / Bill Emerson with Red Allen / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• I Beg To You / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Mountain Girl / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Sittin' Alone In The Moonlight / Grass Routes / Something New / Self-Produced [Remembering Jack Jolie]
• Walking The Dog / Grass Routes / Twentieth Anniversary / Self-Produced [Remembering Jack Jolie]
• Love Of The Mountains / Grass Routes / Something New / Self-Produced [Remembering Jack Jolie]
• Muddy Waters / Seldom Scene / Recorded Live At The Cellar Door / Rebel 
• I Haven't Got The Right To Love You / John Duffey [Seldom Scene] / The Rebel Years, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Going Up On The Mountain / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill
• Calling My Children / Hot Flashes / Live / Happy Appy Records
• In The Garden / Feller & Hill / I Firmly Promise You / Tommy Hillpicker Records
• Sing, Sing, Sing / Curly Seckler / That Old Book Of Mine / Rebel
• Old Daniel Prayed / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• Pray For The Boys / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I Want To Live Like Christ My Savior / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• The Heavenly Parade / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Gospel Parade / Sugar Hill
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Heaven / John Duffey [Seldom Scene] / The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/13/2023

Hot on the heels of last Sunday's playlist posting for our Bluegrass Cafe, here comes the list for this day's edition!  

As you might imagine, we started the show with selections from several performers who appeared at this year's recently concluded Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen.  It was a wonderful festival with so many terrific performers, including Authentic Unlimited, Full Cord, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, East Nash Grass, Jerry Salley (who performed with Kristy Cox & Grasstime), Mike Mitchell, the Henhouse Prowlers, and Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass.  Hope you were able to attend, but if not this year, you'll have another chance in 2024!  Reserve these dates on your calendar:  August 10-13, 2024.  

We also celebrated the shared birth anniversary date of two Country Music Hall of Fame members:  Porter Wagoner (August 12, 1927 - October 28, 2007) and Buck Owens (August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006).  Both of these legends have had their music covered in a Bluegrass style over the years, so we shared a couple of tracks from each man's catalog.  We also continued the celebration of the birth anniversary of the King Of Bluegrass (Jimmy Martin) with several songs and covers from his vast catalog.

Hope you were able to join us for this broadcast, but if not, you'll have another chance next weekend to check out our Bluegrass Cafe.

Until then, enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Long Gone / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• Yardboss / Full Cord / Hindsight / Self-Produced
• Die Tryin' / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Love Slippin' Away / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Idaho / Patrice Webb / The Mountain, The Valley, The River, The Pine / Self-Produced [1st Place -- 2023 Podunk Songwriting Competition]
• What Kind Of Fool (Do You Think You're Foolin') / Jerry Salley / single / Very Jerry Records
• Making Hay / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• Uncle Ned / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Weary River / Patuxent Music
• Home Run Man / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Milwaukee, Here I Come / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• Steppin' Stones / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Sophronie / David Grisman with Tony Rice / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder
• Grand Ole Opry Song / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine
• In The Pines / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• How Could I Love Her So Much / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• On The Lonesome Wind / Andy Lowe / Nervous Energy / Mountain Fever Records
• Longfellow's Excelsior Hornpipe / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• Bad Moon Rising / Dave Adkins / single / Billy Blue Records
• Uncommon Man / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• I Go / The Grascals / single / Mountain Home
• Last Chance To Win / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Don't Hold Back / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'm Still Broken / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' On / Mountain Home
• A Satisfied Man / Porter Wagoner / The Essential Porter Wagoner / RCA [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Carroll County Accident / James King / The Bluegrass Storyteller / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Misery Loves Company / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper / Sugar Hill [Remembering Porter Wagoner:  8/12/1927 - 10/28/2007]
• Ole Slew Foot / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Ruby & Other Bluegrass Specials / Jasmine [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Tall Dark Stranger / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Stony Mountain, West Virginia / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / JohnBoy & Billy, Inc. [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Old Memory / Gibson Brothers Bluegrass Band / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm Records
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• I Never Was Too Much / Gibson Brothers Bluegrass Band / Underneath A Harvest Moon / Big Elm Records
• I Never Was Too Much / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Dixie Breakdown / Traditional Grass / Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Rebel
• (Is This) My Destiny / Osborne Brothers / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1956-1960 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Live And Let Live / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Loggin' Man / Del McCoury Band / The Cold Hard Facts / Rounder
• Jordan / Darin & Brooke Aldridge feat. Ricky Skaggs, Mo Pitney, Mark Fain / single / Billy Blue Records
• Eternal Vacation / Dailey & Vincent / The Gospel Side Of Dailey & Vincent / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/25/2006]
• Rocking On The Waves / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris / Bluegrass Spirit / Rounder
• God Told Nicodemus / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Awake My Soul / Chosen Road / It Never Gets Old / Thoroughbred Records
• Happy On My Way / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Brother, I'm Getting Ready To Go / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/6/2023

I'm just back from the 2023 edition of the fabulous Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT, and realized that I never posted a playlist from LAST week's Bluegrass Cafe!  Sheesh.  

Without a lot of fanfare, the list follows.  Highlights included new music from the Lonesome River Band and Darren Beachley & Caleb Bailey (among others), a lot of songs from Podunk performers, and birthday tributes to Country Music Hall of Famers, Webb Pierce and Mel Tillis, as well as to the King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin.

Please be sure to join us on the radio TODAY (Sunday, 8/13) for three big hours of Bluegrass music starting off at 4PM!

See you soon!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• One Dime At A Time / Steep Canyon Rangers / One Dime At A Time / Rebel
• Blue Baby Now / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Appalachian Blue / Kristy Cox / Shades Of Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Cardboard Mansion / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Back To The Blue Ridge / Brandywine
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Cabin On A Mountain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sings Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Where Is My Sailor Boy? / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Bluegrass At The Roots, 1961 / Smithsonian Folkways
• Sockeye / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Blue Skies And Teardrops / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• These Crazy Dreams / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Don't Throw Your Life Away / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Quit Quittin' You / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• Kissimmee Kid / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Your Light Leads Me On / Hot Rize / Hot Rize's 40th Anniversary Bash / Ten In Hand Records
• Put It Off Until Tomorrow / Lost & Found / Final Chapter / Mountain Fever Records
• A Hundred Miles To Go / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Cold Virginia Night / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
• She Don't Know I'm Alive / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• Wayfaring Stranger / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Bristlecone
• Fiddler's Rock / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Be Good To My Little Baby Girl / Darren Beachley & Caleb Bailey / single / Turnberry Records
• The Hills And Home / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• Rebecca / Herschel Sizemore / Back In Business / Hay Holler Records [Remembering Herschel Sizemore:  8/6/1935 - 9/9/2023]
• Pages Of Time / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats & Ties / Rebel [Tommy Sells birthday, 8/6/1956]
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / Good 'n Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Sophronie / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Sittin' On Top Of The World / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume II / Universal [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Why Baby Why / The Sideman / Almost Live At The Station Inn / Red Clay Records [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/21/1991]
• Wondering / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler Records [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/21/1991]
• Good Woman Blues / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel [Remembering Mel Tillis:  8/8/1932 - 11/19/2017]
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Remembering Mel Tillis:  8/8/1932 - 11/19/2017]
• The Room Over Mine / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Abilene / Full Cord / Hindsight / Self-Produced
• Hannah / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• I Gotta Go / Lindley Creek / Freedom, Love, And The O pen Road / Pinecastle
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• Let Those Brown Eyes Smile At Me / Old & In The Gray / Old & In The Gray / Acoustic Disc
• She Thinks I Still Care / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Train 45 / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• There's A Highway To Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / King
• God Has Been So Good To Me / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder
• Yes, I See God / Larry Stephenson Band / Retrospective / Whysper Dream Music
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / single / Rebel
• Preachin', Prayin', Singin' / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• The Weary Pilgrim / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill Records
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / MCA [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/30/2023

We celebrated the original Carter Family during this day's Bluegrass Cafe.  A.P., his wife, Sara, and her cousin, Maybelle first recorded for Ralph Peer on August 1, 1927, so we celebrated that event with 60+ minutes' worth of Bluegrass covers from the Carter Family Songbook.  Where would we be without their music?

And, as promised, here are a couple of reading ideas for books if you would like to learn more about the Carter Family:

• Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?:  The Carter Family And Their Legacy In American Music by Mark Zwonitzer & Charles Hirschberg (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
• The Carter Family:  Don't Forget This Song by Frank M. Young & David Lasky (Abrams Comic Arts, 2012)

We included a bit of new or recent music from Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Alan Munde, and the Kody Norris Show.  In addition, we shared new music from a couple of performers who will soon be featured at the upcoming Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT:  Darin & Brooke Aldridge, the Henhouse Prowlers, and East Nash Grass.  

Hope you have a great week!  We'll look forward to having you join us once again next Sunday from 4-7PM for our Bluegrass Cafe.  

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Carter Family songs are BLUE]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• A Carter Family Song / Dennis Cash / Sing Me A Carter Family Song / Blue Circle Records
• Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• The Storms Are On The Ocean / Carter Family / Can The Circle Be Unbroken / RCA
• Little Log Cabin By The Sea / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• Foggy Mountain Top / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with Mother Maybelle Carter / Songs Of The Famous Carter Family / Columbia
• No Depression / Johnson Mountain Boys / Goin' Up Copper Creek / Copper Creek
• Little Darling Pal Of Mine / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records
• John Hardy / Tony Rice / Guitar / Rebel
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome / CMH
• Keep On The Sunny Side / The Whites / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway
• Worried Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Class Of '96 / Pinecastle
• Lula Wall / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Wildwood Flower / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Dixie Darling / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• The Wandering Boy / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me / Straight Drive / I'll Take A Page From Your Book / Cabinwood Music
• You've Been A Friend To Me / Price Sisters / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel
• Can The Circle Be Unbroken (Bye And Bye) / Carter Family / Can The Circle Be Unbroken:  Country Music's First Family / Columbia Legacy
• The City Of New Orleans / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / single / Upper Management Music
• Holler Up A Possum / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• Wildflower Too / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / single / Billy Blue Records
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Before You Miss Me / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• That's Why I'm Lonesome / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / That's Why I'm Lonesome / Patuxent Music
• I Know You're Married / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto [Remembering Mac Magaha:  8/1/1929 - 8/15/2003]
• The Cold Hard Facts / Jeff White / Right Beside You / Self-Produced [Jeff White birthday, 8/2/1957]
• Fishers Hornpipe / O'Connor Family Band / Coming Home / Rounder [Mark O'Connor birthday, 8/5/1961]
• Way Down Deep / Ralph Stanley with Vern Gosdin / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel [Remembering Vern Gosdin:  8/5/1935 - 4/28/2009]
• Memories / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records [Allan Spinney birthday, 8/5/1965; Rick Spinney birthday, 8/5/1966]
• Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel
• Come And Sit By The River / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• Love Of The Mountains / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Looking At The World Through A Windshield / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Wild Mountain Honey / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Hot Flash On The Highway / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• Lonesome Old Homesick Blues / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco
• Little Annie / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• You Better Wake Up / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Honey In The Rock / Chuck Wagon Gang / No Depression In Heaven:  The Gospel Songs Of The Carter Family / Mountain Home
• Lord Don't Leave Me Here / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel
• Power In The Blood / Weary Hearts / By Heart / Flying Fish
• Rank Stranger / Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands with Linda Ronstadt / The Golden West / High Tone Records
• All Prayed Up / Jeff White / The White Album / Rounder
• River Of Jordan / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/23/2023

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated July birthdays of members of both the Bluegrass Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame (and in one notable case, the celebrant was a member of both Halls).  

Most notably, we belatedly celebrated the 90th birthday of a wonderful member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, Bobby Hicks.  We shared music from Bobby's earliest recordings with Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys, as well as from the Bluegrass Album Band, Ricky Skaggs's country band, Bobby's solo recording, and a tune or two from his most recent band, Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks, & Asheville Bluegrass.  There was a nice write-up about Mr. Hicks's 90th birthday party posted in Bluegrass Today.  If you'd like to read it, please click here.

We also remembered three other important figures in the world of Bluegrass and country music:  the late Charlie Louvin (July 17, 1927 - January 26, 2011);  Bluegrass and Country Music Hall of Famer, Ricky Skaggs (born July 18, 1954); and Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971).  We shared lots of songs from the Louvin Brothers Songbook performed in a Bluegrass style, several tunes from Ricky's lengthy career, and a gospel tune from a young Alison Krauss & Union Station.  

Can't forget to mention that there was new music, too, most notably from the brand-new recording by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway ("City Of Gold" on Nonesuch Records).  In addition, we heard recent selections from Alan Munde, Bob & Sarah Amos, Becky Buller with Jim Lauderdale, the Kody Norris Show, Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams, and Special Consensus.

It was a fun show, and we are planning to have another session in our Bluegrass Cafe this coming Sunday from 4-7PM.  Hope you're able to join us!

Amy O.

P.S.  Another reason to tune in on Sunday:  we've got a couple of one-day passes to give away for the upcoming Podunk Bluegrass Festival.  Don't miss it!

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Truck Driving Man / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / The Chronological Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1963-1965 / JSP Records
• Don't Go Out Tonight / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / 10 / Galyean Family Records
• Talk To Your Heart / Eddie Adcock Band / Talk To Your Heart / CMH Records
• Heartache And Trouble / Fast Track / Heartache And Trouble / Engelhardt Music Group
• La La Blues / Appalachian Road Show / Jubilation / Billy Blue Records
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Take My Ashes To The River / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• I Feel The Blues Moving In / Del McCoury / High, Lonesome And Blue / Rounder
• Roanoke / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Cheyenne / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Lily Dale / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Big Mon / Bill Monroe / Anthology / MCA [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• They'll Never Take Her Love From Me / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Uncle Pen / Ricky Skaggs / Live In London / Sony Music [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Fiddle Patch / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Longfellow's Excelsior Hornpipe / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• Dream Of A Miner's Child / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Bristlecone
• Wall Around Your Heart / Becky Buller with Jim Lauderdale / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Evergreen, OK / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Highway 40 Blues / Ricky Skaggs / Live In London / Sony Music [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• I Had But 50 Cents / Ricky Skaggs / Ricky Skaggs Solo:  Songs My Dad Loved / Skaggs Family Records [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Pitfall / Louvin Brothers / The Family Who Prays:  26 Classic Tracks / Country Stars [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Seven Year Blues / Longview / Longview / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Take My Ring From Your Finger / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Tiny Broken Heart / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• I Don't Love You Anymore / Charlie Louvin / The Essential Louvin Brothers:  My Baby's Gone (1955-1964) / Raven [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• I Wish You Knew / Jim & Jesse / Bean Blossom / MCA [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• If I Could Only Win Your Love / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Are You Missing Me / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP&CD Records [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• When I Stop Dreaming / Louvin Brothers / When I Stop Dreaming:  The Best Of The Louvin Brothers / Razor & Tie [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/27/2011]
• Fancy Gap Runaway / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• My Home In Virginia / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• I Take The Chance / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Leavin' And Sayin' Goodbye / Darren Beachley & the Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent MUsic
• Caney Fork River / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Two Little Boys / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass At Carnegie Hall / Gusto
• Snowbird / Special Consensus with Claire Lynch / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• On Heaven's Bright Shore / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder [Alison Krauss birthday, 7/23/1971]
• There's A Higher Power / Kathy Kallick Band / Between The Hollow & The High-Rise / Live Oak Records [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• He Can Be Found / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• I Know What You're Talking About / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Make Him A Soldier / Whitstein Brothers / Songs Of The Louvin Brothers / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• The Old Crossroads / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At The New River Ranch / Copper Creek [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• The River Of Jordan / Louvin Brothers / Satan Is Real / Capitol [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/17/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/16/2023

High Fidelity has a new all-gospel recording from Rebel 
Records to be released in September 2023.

It's getting a little late in the week, but still wanted to make sure we shared our Bluegrass Cafe playlist from last Sunday.  In addition to playing songs of performers who celebrate (or celebrated) birthdays in the first part of July, we also shared new songs from forthcoming or recently released recordings by High Fidelity, Junior Sisk, Kentucky Just Us, Bob & Sarah Amos, Hammertowne, and Alan Munde.  

Please consider joining us for for another edition of our program this coming Sunday, 4-7PM.

Until then, enjoy what's left of the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Open Road / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar HIll
• Whispering Waters / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm
• Four Walls / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper / Rounder
• Shadows In My Room / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill
• Rhythm Of The Rain / Larry Stephenson / Everytime I Sing A Love Song / Webco
• Just Like Rain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope 
• Walk Out In The Rain / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Rounder
• Cold Hard Rain / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise
• Listening To The Rain / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes I & II / Sugar Hill
• Rain Please Go Away / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• Jerusalem Ridge / Kenny Baker / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life
• How Long? / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Sad Prison Song / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / Starday Records
• Kansas Cornfields / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Grandfather's Clock / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• I Can't Settle Down / Laura Orshaw with Brittany Haas & Jenee Fleenor / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'll Stay Around / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• When Someone Wants To Leave / Seldom Scene / Bluegrass:  The World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / single / Rebel
• The Hills That I Call Home / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Bristlecone
• Bluegrass Music / Kentucky Just Us / single / Self-Produced
• The Devil Was An Angel Too / Kristy Cox / Shades Of Blue / Billy Blue Records
• Byron's Buddies / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music
• I'm Going Sailing / Hammertowne / You Can Learn A Lot From A Song / Mountain Fever Records
• Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream) / Junior Sisk / single / Mountain Fever Recrods
• Virginia Waltz / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol 
• Five Speed / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder [Richard Underwood birthday, 7/14/1956]
• Kentucky Borderline / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / In Concert, Volume One -- All The Rage / Upper Management Music [Rhonda Vincent birthday, 7/13/1962]
• New York Town / Peter Rowan / Calling You From My Mountain / Rebel [Peter Rowan birthday, 7/4/1942]
• Bringin' In the Georgia Mail / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics (1946-1950) / Cattle [Remembering Charlie Monroe:  7/4/1903 - 9/27/1975]
• Tidwell Pike / Jimmy Gaudreau / Pieces And Bits / Goose Creek Music [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• Doin' My Time / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• Are You Missing Me? / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• I Never Was Too Much / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• I'll Live In Dixie / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• I Call Her Sunshine / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Best Female Actress Of The Year / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood music
• Don't You Call My Name / Carson Peters & Iron Mountain / Gotta Lotta Lonesome / Billy Blue Records
• Missing Her Has Never Slowed Me Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways
• Truck Driver's Queen / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Sunny Side Of Life / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records
• Driving Nails / Rock Hearts with Dale Ann Bradley / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Traveling The Highway Home / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders:  A Tribute To Ralph Stanley / Rebel
• The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Wait For The Light To Shine / Eddie Sanders / Wait For The Light To Shine / Engelhardt Music Group
• The Last Mile / Reno & Smiley / 16 Greatest Gospel Hits / King
• The Holy City / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I Heard The Angels Singing / Sugar Hill
• One Wide River / Country Gentlemen / Requests / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/9/2023

The playlist for Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was perfect for a lazy, summer Sunday.  We started off by belatedly remembered some important early July historical events in song (the disappearance of Amelia Earhart's airplane on July 2, 1937, as well as three songs remembering the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg).

We were delighted to give away a couple of day passes to this coming weekend's Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in Oak Hill, New York.  In anticipation, we played music from some of the Grey Fox featured performers for 2023, including the Del McCoury Band, Sam Bush, the Dan Tyminski Band, and the Dry Branch Fire Squad, to name a few.  Congratulations to our winners!

There was a little bit of newer music to share, too, including a brand-new single from the trio of Greg Blake, Rebekah Speer, and Jeff Brown, and a completely new recording from the Connecticut duo of Amy Gallatin and Roger Williams.  Recent music was represented, too, with songs by (Kristin Scott and Wayne) Benson, Retro 78, the Kody Norris Show, Rock Hearts, and Still Pickin'.  

And we couldn't forget to remember two more Bluegrass performers who died too soon in the month of June:  band leader Mark Kuykendall (October 17, 1962 - June 19, 2023) and musician and arranger John Miller (February 18, 1974 - June 22, 2023).  

Hope you're having a wonderful week!  We'll see you again on Sunday afternoon at 4PM for another Bluegrass Cafe!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Amelia Earhart's Last Flight / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• The Legend Of Jennie Wade / Lonesome River Band / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• Old John Burns / Rickey Wasson & Dwight McCall / God Didn't Choose Sides / Rural Rhythm
• Last Day At Gettysburg / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Jim & Jesse / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics--The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel
• Apartment #9 / Bradley & Adair / Oh Darlin' / Pinecastle
• Too Often Left Alone / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Lefty's Old Guitar / Rounder
• Holiday Pickin' / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Charlie Cotton / Osborne Brothers / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics--The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel
• Ode To Jimmy Martin / Dan Tyminski Band / God Fearing Heathen / 8 Track Entertainment
• Petticoat Junction / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Grand Ole Opry Live Classics--The Bluegrass Collection / Cracker Barrel
• Sophronie / Jimmy Martin / The King Of Bluegrass / Audium
• John Deere Tractor / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Say You'll Take Me Back / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Red Mountain Wine / Benson with Mickey Harris / Pick Your Poison / Mountain Home
• Bear On The Barn / Sandy River Ramblers / Home In The Heart Of Maine / Ayuh Records
• I've Lived A Lot In My Time / Dry Branch Fire Squad / Just For The Record / Rounder
• Tennessee Rain / Greg Blake, Rebekah Speer, Jeff Brown / single / Turnberry Records
• Endless Highway / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Slowly / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records
• Loose Talk / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records
• Each Season Changes You / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records
• Big Blue Raindrops / Del McCoury Band / The Streets Of Baltimore / McCoury Music
• This Is The Girl I Love / Retro 78 / Retro 78 / Ram Cat Records
• Wanderlust / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Howdy Neighbor Howdy / Reno & Smiley / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life
• Sweetheart Of The Mountains / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel [Remembering Mark Kuykendall:  10/17/1962 - 6/19/2023]
• Look To The Light / Rick Lang with John Miller / Look To The Light / Rural Rhythm Christian [Remembering John Miller:  2/18/1974 - 6/22/2023]
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Radio John / Sam Bush / Radio John:  Songs Of John Hartford / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Bluegrass Swing / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• The Death Of Stonewall Jackson / Still Pickin' / Southbound / Self-Produced
• Duncan And Brady / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Traveling Kind / Self-Produced
• Richest Man / Balsam Range / Moxie And Mettle / Mountain Home
• When We Meet To Part No More / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Beyond The Shadows / Sugar Hill
• (Some Call It Heaven) I Call It Home / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• S-A-V-E-D / South Carolina Broadcasters / Home To Stay / Patuxent Music
• Take Me In A Lifeboat / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Washed In The Blood / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Bad News For The Devil / Rick Lang with John Miller / Look To The Light / Rural Rhythm Christian [Remembering John Miller:  2/18/1974 - 6/22/2023]
• Wicked Path Of Sin / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel [Remembering Mark Kuykendall:  10/17/1962 - 6/19/2023]
• My Lord Delivered Me / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Beyond The Shadows / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/2/2023

The Bluegrass world was dealt a terrible blow over the last few days of June when not just one but two Bluegrass mandolin-playing legends passed away within four days of each other.  Both Jesse McReynolds (July 9, 1929 - June 23, 2023) and Bobby Osborne (December 7, 1931 - June 27, 2023) were innovative stylists on the mandolin, long-time members of the Grand Ole Opry, and each were the remaining brothers from their respective brother acts in which their legends were sealed.  It is difficult to know that these gentlemen are no longer with us, but how grateful we are that they left us so many wonderful years of recordings for us to enjoy forever.  We easily filled most of our program with music from Jesse and Bobby's careers, and we'll continue to hear their great music in future weeks of our Bluegrass Cafe.

On a show that aired two days before America's 247th birthday, we had to share a few patriotic selections, as well -- all performed in a Bluegrass style.

And we included new music from Becky Buller with Jim Lauderdale, Retro 78, and Authentic Unlimited.

Finally, a program note:  if you tuned in to the show on Sunday, June 25th, you probably noticed that Bluegrass Cafe was not on the air.  In truth, we started the show just fine, but about six songs in, the power went out on a good portion of the UConn campus, including the Student Union building, from which we broadcast.  There was no way to get back on the air during our airtime on Sunday the 25th.  In 30+ years of broadcasting, I've never had that happen before, so let's hope it doesn't repeat itself anytime soon.

Have a wonderful week, and we'll see you again next Sunday, July 9th.  Don't forget, too:  we will have Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival tickets to give away!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'll Wash Your Love From My Heart / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Ruby (Are You Mad At Your Man)? / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Leather Britches / Jesse McReynolds & Friends / Play The Bull Mountain Moonshiners' Way / Pinecastle [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• The Hard Times / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• East Tennessee Blues / Bobby Osborne & Jesse McReynolds / Masters Of The Mandolin / Pinecastle
• Stars And Stripes Forever / John McEuen / String Wizards / Vanguard Records
• Me And Paul Revere / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / single / Rounder
• New Freedom Bell / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• The Star Spangled Banner / Lynwood Lunsford / Pick Along / Hay Holler
• Are You Missing Me / Jim & Jesse / Jim & Jesse, 1952-1955 / Bear Family [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Cotton Mill Man / Jim & Jesse / Old Dominion Masters / Pinecastle [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Diesel Train / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Pinecastle [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Draggin' The Cow / The Masters / Laid Back / Pinecastle [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys / New Horizons / Pinecastle [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Paradise / Jim & Jesse / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Tennessee / Jim & Jesse / 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Pinecastle [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Thanks For The Trip To Paradise / Jim & Jesse / Music Among Friends / Rounder [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1923 - 6/23/2023]
• Smith's Reel / Jesse McReynolds & Friends / The Bull Mountain Moonshiners' Way / Pinecastle [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity with Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1923 - 6/23/2023]
• Deep Elem Blues / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage feat. Jesse McReynolds / Bluegrass Legends:  Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• Wall Around Your Heart / Becky Buller feat. Jim Lauderdale / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Black Vinyl 45 / Retro 78 / Black Vinyl 45 / Ram Cat Music
• Fall In Tennessee / Authentic Unlimited / single / Billy Blue Records
• Pain In My Heart / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Once More / Osborne Brothers & Red Allen / Classic Bluegrass Collection, Volume 3 / Time Life [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Bluegrass Melodies / Osborne Brothers / Live In Germany / Pinecastle [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Midnight Flyer / Osborne Brothers / Midnight Flyer / MCA [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Letters Have No Arms / Osborne Brothers / The Ernest Tubb Song Folio / Pinecastle [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Goodbye Wheeling / Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press / Original / Compass Records [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• My Favorite Memory/Beneath Still Waters/Windy City / Osborne Brothers / Bluegrass Legends:  Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• That's Why You Left Me So Blue / Jason Barie with Bobby Osborne & Doyle Lawson / Radioactive / Billy Blue Records [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Don't Forget Me / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Rocky Top / Osborne Brothers / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• Baltimore I'm Leaving / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Kentucky Gold / Dale Ann Bradley with Sam Bush / Kentucky For Me / Pinecastle
• The Likes Of Me / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Hickory Wind / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Pinecastle
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Pinecastle [Remembering Jesse McReynolds:  7/9/1929 - 6/23/2023]
• I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home / Virginia Squires / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Nearer My God To Thee / Osborne Brothers / Live In Germany / Pinecastle [Remembering Bobby Osborne:  12/7/1931 - 6/27/2023]
• The Hand Of The Higher Power / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• Heaven / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia
• I'll Be Rested / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder
• I'll Live Again / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley / Rebel
• I Have Found The Way / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/18/2023

Happy Father's Day!  During today's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated this special day with lots of Bluegrass songs about dear old Dad (naturally), and we also included a whole bunch of music performed by Bluegrass fathers with their sons and daughters.  In the latter category, we heard music from families named Amos, Armistead, Dailey, Emerson, Feinberg, Harrell, Holt, McCoury, McGee, Monroe, Osborne, Paisley, Parmley, Pike, Scruggs, Sparks, Watson, White, Williams, and Williamson.

And there were newer songs, too, from Unlimited Tradition, Balsam Range, Darren Nicholson, Rick Faris, Special Consensus, and Danny Roberts.  

Have a wonderful week, and we'll look forward to visiting you again next Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM. 

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Smoke Along The Track / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• I've Had A Time / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Roll On Buddy / Bill Monroe with James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• Bergold's Farm / Feinberg Brothers / Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Old Man Hoback's Farm / Williamson Branch / Free / Pinecastle
• Peking Fling / Earl Scruggs / The Essential Earl Scruggs / Columbia Legacy
• Ashes Of Love / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• Mom And Dad's Waltz / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Wabash Cannonball / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• The Road Home / Bob Amos with Sarah Amos / Borrowed Time / Bristlecone
• Are You Missing Me / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Bluegrass Cardinals / Copper Creek
• Leaving California / Emerson / Emerson 414 / AcoustiGrass Records
• To Warm And Comfort You / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• The Hard Times / Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press / Try A Little Kindness / Rounder
• Glastonbury Woodshed / Roger & J.D. Williams / Williams Squared / Happy Appy Records
• Nashville Cats / Del McCoury Band / The Family / McCoury Music
• Snake Charmer / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Too Lonely, Way Too Long / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Second Wind / Darren Nicholson / Wanderer / Mountain Home
• Snowbird / Special Consensus with Claire Lynch / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Moments / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home
• Baltimore I'm Leaving / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• My Brown Eyed Darling / Danny Roberts / single / Mountain Home
• My Father's Son / Ricky Skaggs / My Father's Son / Sony
• Daddy Was A Railroad Man / Seldom Scene / Act Four / Sugar Hill
• Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Devil On A Plow / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder
• Daddy Frank / Jim Mills with Paul Brewster / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• Proud To Be Your Dad / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy Anymore / Wildfire / Rented Room On Broadway / Pinecastle
• That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Blink Of An Eye / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• The Touch Of Your Hand / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway  
• Little John, I Am / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out / Rural Rhythm
• Papa Wants To Go Back / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Dad / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Rebel
• Nancy Rowland/Salt Creek / Doc & Merle Watson / Remembering Merle / Sugar Hill
• Father, I Stretch My Hand To Thee / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Waitin' For The Hard Time To Go / Sugar Hill
• I Will Not Fear / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Hymns From Wildwood Valley / Old Heritage Records
• House Of Gold / The Whites / I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Traditional Grass / I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• I Wanna Walk With Jesus / Spinney Brothers / Tried & True / Mountain Fever Records
• There Is A Fountain / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Bluegrass Cardinals / Copper Creek
• Williamson Branch with the Marshall Family / Walking In The Spirit / Heritage & Hope / Pinecastle
• He Will Set Your Fields On Fire / Country Gentlemen / The Ealry Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Johnson Mountain Boys / Black Mountain Blues / Requests / Rounder