"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/25/2024

Our last Bluegrass Cafe for the month of August was spent celebrating a couple of Bluegrass Hall of Famer birthdays -- Carter Stanley (August 27, 1925 - December 1, 1966) and J.D. Crowe (August 27, 1937 - December 24, 2021).  We shared lots of music from each of these important Bluegrass legends.

We also belatedly celebrated the August 8th birthday of Country Music Hall of Famer, Webb Pierce.  Though Webb was not a Bluegrass person, lots of his music has been covered in the Bluegrass world, so we included several Bluegrass covers of Webb Pierce classics in our show.

There wasn't a whole lot of brand-new music to share this week, but we did include a song from the new recording by singer/songwriter Troy Engle.  There was also selections from 2024 recordings by the Po' Ramblin' Boys, the Grascals, Andy Statman, Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve, the Del McCoury Band, Authentic Unlimited, and Darin & Brooke Aldridge.

Thanks for joining us on Sunday!  We'll look forward to another Bluegrass Cafe this coming Sunday from 4-7PM.  See you then!

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Movin' On / Merle Monroe / Back To The Country / Pinecastle
• Ridin' The High Iron / Bill Emerson / Gold Plated Banjo / Rebel
• Copper Kettle / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel
• Feel Good Day / Continental Divide / Feel Good Day / Pinecastle
• Slowly / Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper / Fired Up / Rounder [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• More And More / Crowe & McLaughlin / Going Back / Rounder [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• I Don't Care / Ricky Skaggs / Country Hits Bluegrass Style / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Wondering / Gibson Brothers / Spread Your Wings / Hay Holler [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Honky Tonk Song / Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers / Flying Fish [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• It's Been So Long / Webb Pierce / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Webb Pierce:  8/8/1921 - 2/24/1991]
• Up This Hill And Down / Osborne Brothers / Country Bluegrass / MCA
• Pike County Breakdown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• Comin' On Strong / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Just Lonesome Ol' Me And The Radio / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Leftover Biscuits / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• New River Train / Monroe Brothers / Bill & Charlie Monroe, 1936 / JSP Records
• Indecision / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Can't Live Life / Edgar Loudermilk with Rhonda Vincent / Roads Travelled / Mountain Fever Records
• Roll Muddy River / Osborne Brothers / Country Bluegrass / MCA
• Back Home / Troy Engle / Back Home / Pinecastle
• Lonely Pine / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Georgia Pineywoods / The Grascals / 20 / Mountain Home
• Stoney Lonesome / Andy Statman / Bluegrass Tracks / Shefa Records
• Little Black Train / Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve / Instant Lonesome And The Twinkle Brigade / Don Giovanni Records
• She's Heavenly / Del McCoury Band with Molly Tuttle / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Sugar Coated Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Let Me Be Your Friend / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• The Fields Have Turned Brown / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Let's Part The Best Of Friends / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Cabin Of Love / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Crowe On The Banjo / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• I'm Walkin' / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Blackjack / J.D. Crowe / Blackjack / Rebel [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1927 - 12/24/2021]
• Beartracks / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Good 'n' Country AND Country Music Time / Jasmine [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1927 - 12/24/2021]
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost Highway Records
• (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records
• Hot Burrito Breakdown / Alan Munde / Festival Favorites Revisited / Rounder
• Just A Friend / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• Where The Old Red River Flows / King Wilkie / Broke / Rebel
• Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream) / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Next Train Smokin' / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Bring 'Em On Back / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Makin' Tracks To Macon / Starlett & Big John / Living In The South / Rebel
• A Vision Of Mother / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Carter Stanley:  8/27/1925 - 12/1/1966]
• Will He Wait A Little Longer / Larry Efaw & the Bluegrass Mountaineers / She Left Me Standing On A Mountain / Blue Circle Records
• You've Been A Blessing To Me / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• I Ain't Got Time / High Fidelity / High Fidelity / Self-Produced
• Jordan / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with Ricky Skaggs, Mo Pitney, & Mark Fain / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records
• Going Up / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / I Can Go To Them / Pinecastle
• Prayer Bells Of Heaven / J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Paul Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder [Remembering J.D. Crowe:  8/27/1937 - 12/24/2021]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/18/2024

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we spent a good portion of time remembering and sharing the music of the great Bobby Hicks, who died on August 16th at the age of 91.  Bobby Hicks had an incredible career, and while he could play many instruments, he was primarily known as a top-notch fiddler.  From his early days in the 1950s playing with Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys [see Bobby Hicks play the banjo with Bill Monroe circa 1955 here] to his many years working with Ricky Skaggs's band to his pairing with Mark Kuykendall in the 2010s, and, of course, to his position in the Bluegrass Album Band (watch "Cheyenne" here), we shared lots of music featuring this outstanding member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame.  Rest in peace, Bobby Hicks.  

There were a couple of Bluegrass birthdays to remember, as well, so we shared songs by Steve Martin (born August 14, 1945) and the late Audie Blaylock (August 18, 1962 - January 12, 2024).

We remembered the birth anniversary of Country Music Hall of Famer Buck Owens (August 12, 1929 - March 26, 2006).  Many of Buck's classic tunes have been covered in the Bluegrass world, so we included a bunch of them.

And finally, there was a tiny bit of newer music to share, this time from new recordings by the Grascals, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland, Greg Blake & Amanda Cook, Alan Bibey, and Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers.

Hope you were able to join us last Sunday afternoon!  We'll look forward to our next visit this Sunday from 4-7PM.  Hope to see you on the radio!

Enjoy the weekend!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Waiting For The Real Thing / Front Range / The New Frontier / Sugar Hill
• Country Side Of Heaven (Where The Bluegrass Music Flows) / White House / White House / Pinecastle
• Hound Dog Blues / Laurie Lewis / Trees / Spruce And Maple Music
• This Morning At Nine / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Pitkin County Turnaround / Steve Martin / The Crow:  New Songs For The Five-String Banjo / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Thirty Years Of Farming / James King / Thirty Years Of Farming / Rounder
• A Dime Looks Like A Wagon Wheel / Reno & Smiley / Together Again / Rebel
• Greenville Trestle High / Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins / Hall Of Fame Bluegrass! / Rebel
• Wally On The Run / Steve Martin / The Crow:  New Songs For The Five-String Banjo / Rounder [Steve Martin birthday, 8/14/1945]
• Whispering Waters / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Audie Blaylock & Redline / Rural Rhythm [Remembering Audie Blaylock:  8/18/1962 - 1/12/2024]
• Loving You Too Well / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Time / Lou Reid & Carolina / Time / Lonesome Day Records
• Tennessee Cut-Up Breakdown / Charlie Cushman / Five String Time / Self-Produced
• Kentucky Darlin' / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• Every Time You Say Goodbye / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Listen To The Lonesome Wind / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Highlander / Compass Records
• Say You Lied / Neon Valley Boys / Bluegrass / Sudden Comfort Records
• My Walkin' Shoes / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Audie Blaylock:  8/18/1962 - 1/12/2024]
• Tennessee Hound Dog / The Grascals / 20 / Mountain Home
• Outrun The Rain / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / single / Fiddleman Records
• Out Of Control Raging Fire / Greg Blake & Amanda Cook / single / Turnberry Records
• Streets Of Chicago / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Time / Alan Bibey / single / Billy Blue Records
• Coal Dust Kisses / The Grascals / 20 / Mountain Home
• Some Things I Want To Sing About / The Grascals / The Grascals / Rounder
• Roanoke / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Lily Dale / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Louisville Breakdown / Kenny Baker & Bobby Hicks / Darkness On The Delta / County Records [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Boston Boy / Ricky Skaggs / Ancient Tones / Skaggs Family Records [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Cheyenne / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• They'll Never Take Her Love From Me / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Forever And A Day / Rebel [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Wheel Hoss / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1954-1957 / JSP Records [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• Open Up Your Heart / Terry Baucom with the Gibson Brothers / In A Groove / John Boy & Billy, Inc. [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• I'll Love You Forever And Ever / Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• Together Again / Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen / At Edwards Barn / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• There Goes My Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• I Don't Care / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• It Takes People Like You / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• Ruby (Are You Mad) / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos / Buck Owens' Ruby & Other Bluegrass Specials / Sundazed [Remembering Buck Owens:  8/12/1929 - 3/26/2006]
• On The Sea Of Life / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rocky My Soul / Sugar Hill [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• One Breath Away / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / single / Billy Blue Records
• The Truth, The Light, The Way / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Rank Strangers To Me / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Enter The Gates / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Get Behind Me Satan / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• A Beautiful Life / Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks & Asheville Bluegrass / Down Memory Lane / Rebel [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder [Remembering Bobby Hicks:  7/21/1933 - 8/16/2024]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/11/2024

What a fine weekend we had!  The Podunk Bluegrass Festival -- though a bit rainy at times -- ended in an outstanding way with a spot-on set of music from the Del McCoury Band.  At Podunk, we also enjoyed music from High Fidelity, Nick Chandler & Delivered, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, the Kevin Prater Band, Carley Arrowood, John McEuen & the Circle Band, and several others.  Outstanding!  Congratulations to the hard-working Podunk Board and volunteers on another top-notch festival!  We included music from some of the Podunk performers during our Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday afternoon.  Hope you were able to join us!

As befitting Bluegrass Royalty, we also belatedly celebrated the 97th birth anniversary of the self-appointed King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin (August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005).  To celebrate, we shared lots of his music performed both by him and others throughout the program.

We also celebrated three fine Bluegrass songwriters and performers who all happened to have been born within a few days of each other in 1938:  Paul Craft (August 12, 1938 - October 18, 2014), Jake Landers (August 14, 1938 - February 13, 2018), and Aubrey Holt (August 15, 1938 - October 5, 2017).  August 1938 must have been a big month for Bluegrass legends, as we also remembered banjo great, Ben Eldridge (August 15, 1938 - April 14, 2024).  

New music was part of the show, too, as we got mail!  We shared music from brand-spanking-new CDs from the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Rebecca Frazier, and Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve.  There was also a new single from Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter, and selections from 2024 recordings by Junior Sisk, Daniel Grindstaff, and the Travelin' McCourys.

Hope you enjoyed the program, and we'll be sure to look for you on Sunday for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe!

See you soon - 
Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Jimmy Martin's Life Story / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Night / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Tennessee / Gary Brewer / Jimmy Martin Songs For Dinner / Stretchgrass [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• The Last Song / Bill Emerson with Jimmy Martin / Reunion / Webco [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• If You Talk In Your Sleep / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Fly Trouble / John McEuen / The Newsman:  A Man Of Record / Compass Records
• The Hills And Home / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Old Devil's Dream / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / Pinecastle
• Ducks On The Millpond / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' On / Mountain Home
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Bury Me Beneath The Willow / Tony Trischka with Vince Gill / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Earl Scruggs:  Classic Bluegrass Live! / Vanguard
• You're Not A Drop In The Bucket / The Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Outrun The Rain / Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter / single / Fiddleman Records
• Smoky Mountain Home / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Saro Jane / Rebecca Frazier / Boarding Windows In Paradise / Amtoco Records
• A Little Home To Go To / Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve / Instant Lonesome And The Twinkle Brigade / Don Gionvanni Records
• Wanderers Like Me / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Looking At The World Through A Windshield / Daniel Grindstaff with Trey Hensley / Heroes And Friends / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Bluegrass Country / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Raised By The Railroad Line / The Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill [Remembering Paul Craft:  8/12/1938 - 10/18/2014]
• Teardrops Will Kiss The Morning Dew / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Two Highways / Rounder [Remembering Paul Craft:  8/12/1938 - 10/18/2014]
• Fastest Grass Alive / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes 1 & 2 / Sugar Hill [Remembering Paul Craft:  8/12/1938 - 10/18/2014]
• You'll Never Find Another So True / Fast Track / Heartache And Trouble / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Aubrey Holt:  8/15/1938 - 10/5/2017]
• Atlanta Is Burning / The Boys From Indiana / Good Time Blues / Rebel [Remembering Aubrey Holt:  8/15/1938 - 10/5/2017]
• Sad Wind Sighs / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder [Remembering Aubrey Holt:  8/15/1938 - 10/5/2017]
• Mountain Girl / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records [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]
• Secret Of The Waterfall / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Jake Landers:  8/14/1938 - 2/13/2018]
• Old Train / The Seldom Scene / Different Roads / Rebel [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/15/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Runaway Train / Travelin' McCourys / single / McCoury Music
• Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jimmy Martin / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol Nashville [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• The White Dove / Ralph Stanley with Jimmy Martin / Live! At McClure / Rebel [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Martin / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Country Church / Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• A Voice From On High / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / High Lonesome / CMH [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• I've Changed My Mind / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• I Like To Hear 'Em Preach It / Paul Williams / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin:  The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/15/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• Lead Me Down The Pathway / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Hymns From Wildwood Valley / Old Heritage Records
• Church Bells A-Ringin' / Danny Paisley / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• I'll Be No Stranger There / The Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Ben Eldridge:  8/15/1938 - 4/14/2024]
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virgina Squires / Rebel
• There Was Something Missing / Bluegrass Cardinals / Mountain Girl / BGC Records
• Prayer Bell Of Heaven / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind, 1956-1966 / Rounder [Remembering Jimmy Martin:  8/10/1927 - 5/14/2005]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 8/4/2024

It's nearly time for the annual Podunk Bluegrass Festival, so we made sure to highlight some of the performers during this past Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe. This event is Connecticut's only major Bluegrass festival, and the lineup is filled with top-notch bands such as High Fidelity, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, the Kevin Prater Band, Carley Arrowood, Nick Chandler & Delivered, the Del McCoury Band, and others.  The weather forecast for this weekend in Goshen, CT doesn't seem super-promising, but no matter -- the music will be great, and we hope to see you at Podunk!  For more information on the festival, visit this link.

One more fabulous performer who will be coming to Podunk this Saturday is the legendary John McEuen (along with his Circle Band).  One of the founding members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John McEuen is quite a character who has a thousand stories to tell.  At Podunk, he will be sharing selections from the iconic Dirt Band record released in 1972:  "Will The Circle Be Unbroken," as well as Dirt Band favorites, and maybe even a song or two from the record he released in April, "The Newman."  We had the privilege of talking to John McEuen on the telephone during Sunday's radio program.  Hope you were able to join us.

We'll be looking for you at Podunk!  If not, though, you'll be able to hear some Bluegrass when our next edition of Bluegrass Cafe takes the airwaves on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.

Enjoy the weekend -- and stay dry!  :)

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Will You Be Leavin' / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' On / Mountain Home
• Leslie County Blues / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Missing You Blues / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• If You Talk In Your Sleep / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Cripple Creek / John McEuen with Earl Scruggs / String Wizards / Vanguard
• Cruel Love / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• New Fool / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• Lower On The Hog / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall) / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• Hard Times / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Boys Are Back In Town / Sugar Hill
• Duncan And Brady (He's Been On The Job Too Long) / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• My Kentucky Dream / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Don't Tell Me Stories / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Bending Blades / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill
• If I Could Go Back Home Again / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Flashback / Rounder
• Breakin' New Ground / The Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Lonesome Old Home / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Milwaukee, Here I Come / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family
• San Joaquin / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Golden West / Nonesuch Records
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1959-1953 / JSP Records
• Sorry County Blues / Lonesome River Band / One Step Ahead / Sugar Hill
• I Built A World / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Jason Carter / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• New Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• Old Rivers / John McEuen / The Newsman:  A Man Of Record / Compass Records
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Only The Lonely / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Telephone conversation with John McEuen
• The Cremation Of Sam McGee / John McEuen / The Newman:  A Man Of Record / Compass Records
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• It's Hot Down Here / James King / Gardens In The Sky:  The Bluegrass Gospel Of James King / Rounder
• Meet Me Over On The Other Side / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• The Gospel Ship / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Get On Board / Williamson Branch / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• See God's Ark A Movin' / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Before The Fire Comes Down / Del McCoury Band / Bluegrass Spirit / Rounder
• One More Time (I Must Rise) / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Drowning Sailor / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/28/2024

As we opened last Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we played a few songs written by the late Bluegrasser, Ron Spears (July 28, 1953 - March 22, 2023).  It's hard to think of too many successful Bluegrassers born in the State of Utah, but Ron Spears was one of them -- and a very talented singer and songwriter he was.  

The Podunk Bluegrass Festival is coming up very soon, so we took some time mid-show to have a telephone chat with one of the Podunk performers for 2024:  Nick Chandler of Nick Chandler & Delivered.  Mr. Chandler will be performing on the Thursday and Friday of Podunk on the Main Stage, and he will also be conducting a mandolin workshop.  For a full look at the Podunk lineup, please visit their website ~ and we'll see you in Goshen!

We included a tiny bit of brand-new or recent Bluegrass tunes from several performers, as well, including tunes from Nick Chandler & Delivered, the Price Sisters, Fast Track, Chris Jones, Steve Thomas & the Time Machine, the Po' Ramblin' Boys, Authentic Unlimited, and Blue Highway.

Hope you'll consider joining us for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM!

See you soon!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• River Of Regret / Ron Spears / My Time Has Come / Copper Creek [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Ocean Of Teardrops / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Dreams About The Hills Of Home / Bluegrass Cardinals / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Please Don't Leave / Bluegrass Cardinals / My Kinda Grass / BGC Records [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Carolina Smokey Mountain Home / Special Consensus / Everything's Alright / Pinecastle [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Hello / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Maple On The Hill / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Remington Ride / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• I Call Her Sunshine / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Pinecastle
• The Waves On The Sea / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• There's A Song In There Somewhere / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Best Female Actress / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Heartbreaker's Alibi / Rhonda Vincent with Dolly Parton / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' / Bill Monroe with Ricky Skaggs / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• I Might Take You Back Again / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Inside The Lines / 615 Hideaway Records
• Sam's Place / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Eagle / Pinecastle
• Telephone conversation with Nick Chandler of Nick Chandler & Delivered
• Old Devil's Dream / Nick Chandler & Delivered / single / Pinecastle
• Haunting Memories Of The Past / Fast Track / IV / Engelhardt Music Group
• The Last Hobo / Chris Jones / single / Mountain Home
• Get Love / Steve Thomas & the Time Machine / single / Pinecastle
• Price I Pay / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with John Jorgensen / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records
• Lonely Pine / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Walk The Way The Wind Blows / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / It's A Long, Long Road / Rebel
• Where I'm Bound / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Letters Have No Arms / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Bluer Records
• Eli Renfro / Del McCoury / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I'll Stay Around / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Kentucky Gold / Dale Ann Bradley feat. Sam Bush / Kentucky For Me / Pinecastle
• Wrong Road Again / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• The North Side / Blue Highway / Lonesome State Of Mind / Down The Road Records
• Wings Of Love / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Bluer Records
• Standing By The Bedside Of A Neighbor / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Crying Holy / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Traveling Kind / Self-Produced
• Jordan / Stanley Brothers / All Bluegrass, All Gospel / Starday King
• Beyond The Sunset For Me / Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore, Jamie Dailey, John Swift / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm
• Don't Hold Back / Rick Faris / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Jesus Is Whispering Now / Whetstone Run / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country Records
• Lord Lift Me Up / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Ron Spears:  7/28/1953 - 3/22/2023]
• Righteous Prayer / Bluegrass Cardinals / My Kinda Grass / BGC Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/21/2024

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we celebrated the three newly-announced inductees into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame for 2024:  long-time Bluegrass broadcaster Katy Daley, as well as two top-notch musicians, Jerry Douglas and Alan Munde.  We will focus on some of the music of Jerry Douglas in a future program, but this past week, we enjoyed playing a whole lot of fine tunes from the banjo innovator and educator, Alan Munde.  To that end, we included selections from Alan's time with Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, and also included music from Alan guesting with the Country Store and New Kentucky Colonels, with the Country Gazette, with Joe Carr, and a song or two from Alan's 2023 solo release for Patuxent Music, "Excelsior."  Great music.  Congratulations to all of the IBMA 2024 Hall of Famers!

We also belatedly celebrated the 70th birthday of Ricky Skaggs (born July 18, 1954).  This Kentucky-born member of the Country and Bluegrass Music Halls of Fame has long been an important entertainer and musician, from his time working with Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys as a teenager to his multi award-winning country music career and back to his return to Bluegrass in the mid-1990s.  We celebrated all of it with several songs from the span of Ricky's career.  

There was a tiny bit of newer music shared, though none of it was really brand-new.  Instead, we heard from 2024 releases from Authentic Unlimited, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, the Del McCoury Band, Danny Paisley, Junior Sisk, the Price Sisters, a cut from the new Rick Lang-penned gospel recording, and the latest edition of the Cox Family.

Hope you were able to join us on Sunday afternoon.  Please consider tuning in this coming Sunday afternoon, won't you?  We'll have three hours of our Bluegrass Cafe starting off at 4PM.

See you then!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Possum Up A Holler / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• When Papa Played The Dobro / Jerry Douglas with Alan O'Bryant / Slide Rule / Sugar Hill [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Jerry Douglas]
• Banjo Boy Chimes / New Kentucky Colonels / Live In Sweden, 1973 / Self-Produced [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Spanish Two Step/Steel Guitar Blues / Earls Of Leicester / Live At The CMA Theater At The Country Music Hall Of Fame / Rounder [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Jerry Douglas]
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• I Almost Told Her / East Nash Grass / Last Chance To Win / Mountain Fever Records
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Will You Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Bluegrass Radio / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / single / Compass Records
• I'm On My Way To The Old Home / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• What A Difference A Day Makes / Gibson Brothers / Darkest Hour / Bull Run Records
• Cold Wind A Blowin' / Ronnie Bowman & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Tears Of Regret / High Fidelity feat. Jesse McReynolds / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• (Say) Won't You Be Mine / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Singin' My Troubles Away / Laurie Lewis & Grant Street / Singin' My Troubles Away / Flying Fish
• Yellow River / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Quicksilver Rides Again / Sugar HIll
• Brown's Ferry Blues / Tony Trischka feat. Billy Strings / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Son Of Hobert / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• One Way Track / Boone Creek / One Way Track / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Will The Roses Bloom / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Sweet Temptation / Ricky Skaggs / Favorite Country Songs / CBS [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Uncle Pen / Ricky Skaggs / Live In London / Sony Music [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Rawhide / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Bluegrass Rules! / Rounder [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• Lily Dale / Bobby Hicks / Fiddle Patch / Rounder [Bobby Hicks birthday, 7/21/1933]
• Homesick / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Hot Burrito Breakdown / Country Gazette / A Traitor In Our Midst! / United Artists [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Picking At Snuffy's / Alan Munde & Country Gazette / Keep On Pushing / Flying Fish [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Shuckin' The Corn / Country Store / Country Store Live! / Ridge Runner Records [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Yellow Rose / Alan Munde & Joe Carr / Welcome To West Texas / Flying Fish [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Blue Ridge Express / Alan Munde / Alan Munde's Banjo Sandwich / Ridge Runner Records [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Chattanooga Dog / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Lloyd's Of Lubbock / Alan Munde / Excelsior / Patuxent Music [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall of Famer, Alan Munde]
• You And The World Outside / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Lost River / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Daniel Grindstaff feat. Jimmy Fortune / Heroes And Friends / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Till Lonesome Comes Around / Danny Paisley / single / Pinecastle
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk with Dan Tyminski / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Joe's Last Train / Country Gentlemen / Joe's Last Train / Rebel [Remembering Bill Holden:  7/25/1950 - 7/15/2021]
• Don't Tell Me Stories / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• I Can Read Between The Lines In Your Letters / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Wildwood Flower / Carter Family / Anchored In Love / Rounder [Remembering Sara Carter:  7/21/1898 - 1/8/1979]
• Blue Collar Gospel / Jerry Salley & the Oak Ridge Boys / Blue Collar Gospel / Billy Blue Records [Remembering Joe Bonsall:  5/18/1948 - 7/9/2024]
• Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Father's Table Grace / MME
  
• The First Time I Heard About Heaven / Cox Family / single / Will House Records
• Lift Your Eyes To Jesus / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family [Honoring 2024 Bluegrass Hall Of Famer, Alan Munde]
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder
• Goin' Up / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/14/2024

With a whole lot of the country being impacted by soaring temperatures during this mid-July edition of our Bluegrass Cafe, we opted to open the show with a few "cold" songs.  Not sure how much we succeeded in cooling folks down, but the thought was there...

A tiny bit of new music made its way onto the program on Sunday, when we heard brand-new music from Dan Tyminski, Alan Bibey, and Thomas Cassell.  There was also music from recent releases from Missy Raines, Daniel Grindstaff, Tony Trischka, and Junior Sisk.

Several mid-July birthdays were celebrated, as well, including those of Rhonda Vincent, Mike Barber, Richard Underwood, Ricky Skaggs, and Wayne Taylor.  In honor of the late Charlie Louvin (July 7, 1927 - January 26, 2011), we shared lots of songs from the Louvin Brothers Songbook.  Charlie was the shorter, younger, guitar-playing member of this immensely talented brother duo, and he and brother Ira wrote many of the songs they recorded over the years.  Lots of Louvin songs have been covered by Bluegrass performers over the years -- so many that we could probably have filled the whole three hours with Louvin tunes.  On Sunday, though, we limited ourselves to 14 covers of Louvin-penned songs.  Great stuff!

Hope you enjoyed the program!  I'll look forward to our next visit in the Bluegrass Cafe this coming Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM.  

See you soon!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Out In The Cold World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records
• Cold, Cold Heart / Jeff White / The White Album / Rounder
• It's A Cold, Cold World / James King / Webco Classics, Volume Two / Webco
• Cold Virginia Night / Ronnie Bowman / Cold Virginia Night / Rebel
• Cold, Cold Heart / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• Colder And Colder / Lost & Found / My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Farm Of Yesterday / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Everybody's Somebody's Fool / Sierra Hull / Secrets / Rounder
• Pages Of Time / Audie Blaylock / Trains Are The Only Way To Fly / Self-Produced
• Hartfordtown 1944 / Laurie Lewis / Skippin' & Flyin' / Spruce And Maple Music [In memory of the Hartford Circus Fire, 7/6/1944]
• Weathered Gray Stone / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Grandfather's Clock / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• These Old Blues / Missy Raines with Danny Paisley / Highlander / Compass Records
• Blue Tears Are Falling / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Helen / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Home Is Where The Heart Is / Connie & Babe / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Whiskey Drinking Man / Dan Tyminski / single / Self-Produced
• Colleen Malone / Daniel Grindstaff feat. Rickey Wasson / Heroes And Friends / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Welcome To Virginia / Thomas Cassell / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Dooley / Tony Trischka with Molly Tuttle & Sam Bush / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Time / Alan Bibey / single / Mountain Home
• Wabash Cannonball / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Meet Me By My Old Kentucky Home / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• A Face In The Crowd / Larry Sparks / The Best Of Larry Sparks:  Bound To Ride / Rebel
• When I Stop Dreaming / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Tiny Broken Heart / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Seven Year Blues / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• My Baby's Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• My Baby Came Back / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Are You Missing Me? / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Love And Wealth / Charlie Louvin & Charles Whitstein / Hoping That You're Hoping / Copper Creek [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Jimmie Rodgers Rode A Train / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Gotta Get You Near Me Blues / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Newton Grove / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder [Richard Underwood birthday, 7/14/1956]
• Cry Of The Whippoorwill / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder [Rhonda Vincent birthday, 7/13/1962]
• The Open Road / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [Mike Barber birthday, 7/13/1970]
• Poor Monroe / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel [Ricky Skaggs birthday, 7/18/1954]
• My Smokey Mountain Home / Bill Emerson with Wayne Taylor / Reunion / Webco [Wayne Taylor birthday, 7/18/1952]
• Timeless And True Love / Rhonda Vincent / Timeless And True Love / Rebel [Rhonda Vincent birthday, 7/13/1962]
• Five Speed / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder [Richard Underwood birthday, 7/14/1956]
• Stone Was Rolled Away / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road 
• I Can't Say No / Whitstein Brothers / The Whitstine [sic] Brothers Sing Gospel Songs Of The Louvins / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• If There's A Will, There's A Way / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Angels Rejoice / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Angels Rejoice / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• River Of Jordan / Ricky Skaggs / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• I'll Never Go Back (To The Ways Of Sin) / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Born Again / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek [Remembering Charlie Louvin:  7/7/1927 - 1/26/2011]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 7/7/2024

At the end of long holiday weekend, we opened up our Bluegrass Cafe with a few more appropriately patriotic selections.  Hope everyone has enjoyed the 4th!  We also included four versions of "New Freedom Bell" -- a classic Bluegrass tune written by Louise Osborne and first performed in 1951 by Louise and her brothers, Bobby and Sonny.  The Country Gentlemen recorded the song a few times throughout the band's long existence, with the first version being recorded by the Gents in 1959.  In addition to the Osbornes' original version, we shared three different Gents' versions of this patriotic classic.

While the vibe last week was mostly pretty festive, the Bluegrass community still lost two important members last week:  New England Bluegrass Pioneer, Herb Applin (April 10, 1938 - June 29, 2024) and DC-area bandleader and IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award winner, Cliff Waldron (April 4, 1941 - July 1, 2024).  We remembered the Bluegrass contributions of each of these gentlemen.  Herb Applin was an important fixture from the earliest days of New England Bluegrass, as he played with all sorts of bands ranging from the Lilly Brothers, Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys, with Don Stover, and most recently, with the second incarnation of his own Old Time Bluegrass Singers.  We shared several selections either showcasing the brother-style harmonies of Joe Val and Herb Applin, or music from the Old Time Bluegrass Singers featuring Herb Applin.  Several years ago, Herb's OTBGS bandmate Dick Bowden interviewed Herb for an archival University of Kentucky Libraries Oral History Project interviewing Bluegrass Pioneers.  This interview is very entertaining and is a good watch for those who may be curious about the early days of Bluegrass in the Boston area.  Watch it by clicking on this link:  
https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7k3j39347p

If Cliff Waldron had done nothing more than introduce "Fox On The Run" to the Bluegrass world (with early partner Bill Emerson), he would still be an important member of the Bluegrass community.  He did a ton more than that, though, sharing his warm vocals and musical talents on many fine songs over the years.  Cliff Waldron was recognized with a Distinguished Achievement Award from IBMA back in 2021, and was a member of the SPBGMA Hall of Greats.  

New music came to us from the Del McCoury Band (a fine new record called "Songs Of Love And Life" was released at the end of June).  We also belatedly celebrated three Bluegrass birthdays:  those of Jimmy Gaudreau, Peter Rowan, and Charlie Monroe.  

Hope you enjoyed the program, and that you'll consider joining us once again next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for another Bluegrass Cafe!

Enjoy the week!

Amy O. 

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Star Spangled Banner / Lynwood Lunsford / Pick Along / Hay Holler
• America The Beautiful / Mike Scott / Star-Spangled Bluegrass:  Instrumental Patriotic Bluegrass / Homestead
• Me And Paul Revere / Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / single / Rounder
• Stars And Stripes Forever / John McEuen / String Wizards / Vanguard
• New Freedom Bell / Lou Osborne & the Osborne Family [Osborne Brothers] / The Chronological Osborne Brothers, 1951-1953 / no label
• New Freedom Bell / Country Gentlemen / High Lonesome / Starday 
• New Freedom Bell / Country Gentlemen / The Award Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel
• New Freedom Bell / Country Gentlemen / New Horizon / Rebel
• Sunny Days (Are Comin' Once Again) / Michael Cleveland feat. Dan Tyminski & Jeff White / Lovin' Of The Game / Compass Records
• The Last Old Shovel / Phyllis Boyens / O Sister! / Rounder
• The Lonesome River / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Chronological Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Alberta Bound / Special Consensus / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Who's Going Down To Town / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Pardon Me / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Kissimmee Kid / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Give It Away / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / single / Fiddleman Records
• If You Talk In Your Sleep / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• She's Heavenly / Del McCoury Band feat. Molly Tuttle / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder [Remembering Herb Applin:  4/10/1938 - 6/29/2024]
• Jealous Heart / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road [Remembering Herb Applin:  4/10/1938 - 6/29/2024]
• Comin' On Strong / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder [Remembering Herb Applin:  4/10/1938 - 6/29/2024]
• Plastic Heart / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road [Remembering Herb Applin:  4/10/1938 - 6/29/2024]
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder [Remembering Herb Applin:  4/10/1938 - 6/29/2024]
• Early Morning Rain / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Remembering Cliff Waldron:  4/1/1941 - 7/1/2024]
• Ice Covered Birches / Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Cliff Waldron & the New Shades Of Grass / Rebel [Remembering Cliff Waldron:  4/1/1941 - 7/1/2024]
• Only A Memory Away / Cliff Waldron / Season Past / Rebel [Remembering Cliff Waldron:  4/1/1941 - 7/1/2024]
• Fox On The Run / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel [Remembering Cliff Waldron:  4/1/1941 - 7/1/2024]
• Crazy Blues / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• New York Town / Peter Rowan / Calling You From My Mountain / Rebel [Peter Rowan birthday, 7/4/1942]
• I'm Longing For A Love I'll Never Know / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• It's Lonesome Everywhere I Go / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Trail Of Tears / Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band / New Moon Rising / Sugar Hill [Peter Rowan birthday, 7/4/1942]
• Scotty's Hoedown / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Hi Dee Diddle / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• On My Mind / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Say You Lied / The Seldom Scene / 15th Anniversary Celebration / Sugar Hill
• Memories Cover Everything I Own / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Another Mile / Cliff Waldron & Paul Williams / Higher Ground / Rebel [Remembering Cliff Waldron:  4/1/1941 - 7/1/2024]
• Let Me Be The Best Bible / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• I Hear My Savior Calling / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Threads / Open Road [Remembering Herb Applin:  4/10/1938 - 6/29/2024]
• Rise Above It All / Becky Buller & Nathan Woodard / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Lord Lift Me Up / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group
• Jesus Gave Me Water / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• Heaven / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Jimmy Gaudreau birthday, 7/3/1946]
• When The Angels Carry Me Home / Charlie Monroe / Post War Country Classics / Cattle [Remembering Charlie Monroe:  7/4/1903 - 9/27/1975]
• Do You Live What You Preach / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder [Remembering Herb Applin:  4/10/1941 - 7/1/2024]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/30/2024

Just moments before the start of Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, parts of eastern Connecticut experienced a very big rainstorm.  In honor of the unstable weather, we started the show with five songs featuring rain.  Hopefully, the weather will be less wet this coming Sunday, but you just never know with the New England summer weather...

July 1st is the birthdate of three important members of the Bluegrass community,
so we remembered all of them during our program:  Bluegrass Hall of Famer Everett Lilly, Country Music Hall of Famer Keith Whitley, and longtime Lost & Found mandolinist, Dempsey Young.  We also included a number from the late banjo picker (and Bluegrass Hall of Famer), Allen Shelton.  And we couldn't forget two important historical events which took place during the first days of July:  the disappearance of Amelia Earhart's airplane in 1937 and the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War (July 1-3, 1863).  

Can't forget to mention the new music we shared, as well, with a couple of selections from Tony Trischka's recently released "Earl Jam" recording, and songs from the Edgar Loudermilk Band, Blue Diggity, and Red Camel Collective.  

Hope you enjoyed the program, and best wishes for a safe and happy 4th of July!  We'll be looking for you once again this coming Sunday during our Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Listening To The Rain / Osborne Brothers / Once More, Volumes 1 & 2 / Sugar Hill
• Rhythm Of The Rain / Larry Stephenson / Every Time I Sing A Love Song / Webco
• The Rain / Monroe Crossing / Live From Silver Dollar City / Self-Produced
• Just Like Rain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope Records
• Rain Please Go Away / Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Going To The West / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Just Wondering Why / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• Bootleg John / Don Rigsby / The Stanley Tradition / Doobie Shea Records
• The Old Home Town / White Mountain Bluegrass / Oh So Many Years / Self-Produced
• Row Number 2, Seat Number 3 / Laura Orshaw / Songs Of Lost Yesterdays / Self-Produced
• Six White Horses / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• I Haven't Got The Right To Love You / John Duffey [The Seldom Scene] / Always In Style / Sugar Hill
• One Way Train / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I'll Wander Back Someday / Sugar Hill
• White Oak Breakdown / Don Stover / Things In Life / Rounder
• I'm Still To Blame / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• She'll Change / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Callie's Reel / Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill
• Sincerity / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• Rosalee Mcfall / Blue Diggity / Dust In The Ground / Tiger Spa
• Your Shadow Still Hangs Heavy On This Mountain / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Pinecastle
• Lonesome State Of Mind / Blue Highway / Lonesome State Of Mind / Down The Road Records
• She Flies / Off The Rails / single / Self-Produced
• Brown's Ferry Blues / Tony Trischka feat. Billy Strings / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Roll On Buddy / Tony Trischka feat. Del McCoury / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Shackles And Chains / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Amelia Earhart's Last Flight / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel
• No More The Moon Shines On Lorena / Everett Lilly / Everett Lilly And Everybody And Their Brother / Swift River Music [Remembering Everett Lilly:  7/1/1934 - 5/8/2012]
• She's Gone, Gone, Gone / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Live In Japan / Rounder [Remembering Keith Whitley:  7/1/1954 - 5/9/1989]
• A Daisy A Day / Lost & Found / Love, Lost & Found / Rebel [Remembering Dempsey Young:  7/1/1954 - 12/10/2006]
• Chicken Reel / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder [Remembering Allen Shelton:  7/2/1936 - 11/21/2009]
• Soldier's Last Request / Rick Lang feat. Trey Hensley / A Tale To Tell / Dark Shadow Recording [Remembering the Battle of Gettysburg:  July 1-3, 1863]
• Last Day At Gettysburg / Gary Ferguson / I'm Really Leaving / Webco [Remembering the Battle of Gettysburg:  July 1-3, 1863]
• Lady Madonna / Tony Trischka feat. the Gibson Brothers / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Carolina Mountain Home / Stanley Brothers / The Early Starday King Years, 1958-1961 / Gusto
• My Last Run / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording
• The River / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Stars And Stripes Forever / John McEuen / String Wizards / Vanguard Records
• My Lord Is Taking Me Away / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• It's A Grand And A Glorious Feeling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• Angels Watching Me / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Come On In / Authentic Unlimited / The Future Of The Past / Billy Blue Records
• Will There Be Any Stars? / Alison Krauss & the Cox Family / I Know Who Holds Tomorrow / Rounder
• I Have Found The Way / Lilly Brothers / What Will The Profit Be / Rebel [Remembering Everett Lilly:  7/1/1938 - 5/8/2012]
• That Glory Bound Train / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Beautiful Life / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder