"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/22/2025

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we belatedly celebrated Father's Day with several songs performed by Bluegrass fathers and their offspring.  We included songs by Bluegrass fathers and sons and daughters with last names of Feinberg, Harrell, Holt, McCoury, McGee, Monroe, Mullins, Paisley, Parmley, Stanley, Tuttle, and Watson.  

New music played a large part in our broadcast, as well, as we included songs from recent or soon-to-be released projects by Wyatt Ellis, Rrinaco (also known as Corrina Rose Logston Stephens), Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Don Rigsby, C.J. Lewandowski, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, the Kody Norris Show, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, Danny Paisley, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Missy Raines & Allegheny, the Seldom Scene, the Henhouse Prowlers, Laura Orshaw, Carson Peters & Iron Mountain, and Special Consensus.  Phew!  That's a whole lot of new!

Our next Bluegrass Cafe will be one from the archives, but we'll be back with another live broadcast on the first Sunday of July.  Sure hope you can join us!

Until then, take care and stay cool!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Margie / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records
• Carolina Mountain Home / Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II / Side By Side / Rebel
• Where The Wild River Rolls / The Tuttles & A.J. Lee / The Tuttles & A.J. Lee / Self-Produced
• Board That Train And Ride / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Lost Highways And Treasured Memories / Old Heritage Records
• Roll On Buddy / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys with James Monroe / Bean Blossom / MCA
• I Had A Time / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Together In Our Hearts / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• Black Mountain Rag / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder
• Smoke, Smoke, Smoke / Doc & Merle Watson / Black Mountain Rag / Rounder
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• Bergold's Farm / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Bill Harrell with Mitch Harrell / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel
• Knee Deep In Lovin' You / Bluegrass Cardinals / The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals / CMH
• Jimmie Rodgers Rode A Train / Del McCoury Band / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Stone Walls And Steel Bars / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC Records
• Polly's Revenge / Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys / single / Stanley Family Records
• Choo Choo Coming / Wyatt Ellis / single / Knee High Records
• The Veil Has Been Lifted / Rrinaco / Little Songs / Rebel
• Big Train / Don Rigsby with Ronnie Reno / single / Rebel
• She's No Angel / C.J. Lewandowski with Del McCoury / single / Turnberry Records
• Coming On Strong / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Coming On String / Rebel
• Rockabye Boogie / Kody Norris Show / Highfalutin' Hillbilly / Rebel
• Nolichucky / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Flagpond Records
• Bluegrass State Of Mind / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle
• Yanceyville Jail / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Granite Mills / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Arcadia / Down The Road Records
• Red Bandana / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Space Man / Henhouse Prowlers / Unravel / Dark Shadow Recording
• Hard Travelin' / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• Durham's Bull / Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass / Tennessee Mountain Bluegrass Festival / CMH
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• What Am I Doing Hangin' Round / Special Consensus with Chris Jones & Dallas Wayne / Been All Around This World / Compass Records
• Used To Be / Carson Peters & Iron Mountain / single / Billy Blue Records
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• That Bluegrass Music / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Heartaches Keep On Coming / Patuxent Partners / Seven Or Eleven / Patuxent Music
• Homesick For Virginia / Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road / single / Pinecastle
• Making Up Stories / Johnson Mountain Boys / Favorites / Rounder
• When I Reach That Home Up There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• He Took Your Place / Bluegrass Band / Shine Hallelujah Shine, Volume 2 / Hay Holler
• I Believe / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• I Can Call Jesus / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Stairway Of Gold / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Hymns From Wildwood Valley / Old Heritage Records
• I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Traditional Grass / I Believe In The Old-Time Way / Rebel
• Way Up On The Mountain / Tony Holt & the Wildwood Valley Boys / Hymns From Wildwood Valley / Old Heritage Records
• I Am A Pilgrim / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/8/2025

Early June seems like a good time to celebrate a birthday, so we did quite a bit of that during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe.  Our show started with several selections featuring the great Tony Rice (June 8, 1951 - December 25, 2020), as even though the man is probably best known for the way he played his guitar, his vocals were always stellar, too.  

Other birthdays we celebrated on Sunday included those of a Bluegrass pioneer who deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, Gloria Belle (June 9, 1939 - May 5, 2023), as well as a current singer who may someday be inducted into the Hall of Fame, Jamie Dailey (born June 9, 1975).  And we belatedly celebrated the birthday of a fine New Hampshire songwriter who also happens to be a nice guy, Rick Lang (born June 8, 1947).  Happy Birthday to all!

We spent about 45 minutes of our three hour broadcast today celebrating trains. The romance of the train never seems to go out of style, and we could easily fill a couple of shows with songs about this mode of transportation.  Maybe someday we will do just that.

Next week's Bluegrass Cafe will be one from the archives, but I'll plan to join you once again live in the studio on June 21st.  Hope you have a fine week, and, as always, thanks for listening to our program!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cold On The Shoulder / Tony Rice / Hand-Picked:  Twenty-Five Years Of Rounder Records / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice / Skaggs & Rice / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Ten Degrees And Getting Colder / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album Band / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Galveston Flood / Tony Rice / Tony Rice Plays And Sings Bluegrass / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• It's All Right With Me / Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill
• Here Today And Gone Tomorrow / Hazel Dickens with the Johnson Mountain Boys / By The Sweat Of My Brow / Rounder 
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• I Gotta Get Back To You / Gibson Brothers / Long Way Back Home / Sugar Hill
• Pardon Me / Cox Family / Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone / Rounder
• Nightwalk / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• I Once Believed In Love / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• Anywhere The Wind Blows / Missy Raines & Allegheny with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Country Poor, Country Proud / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP&CD Records
• We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Proud Mary / Bill Emerson & Cliff Waldron / The Best Of Emerson & Waldron / Rebel
• I've Never Been So Lonesome / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• I'll Never See My Home Again / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Here Comes The Train / Traditional Grass / 10th Anniversary Collection / Rebel
• The Train Song / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Bluegrass Express / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• One Way Train / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / I'll Wander Back Someday / Sugar Hill
• Pan American / The Seldom Scene / Old Train / Rebel
• Wreck Of The Old 97 / David Holt / Grandfather's Greatest Hits / High Windy Audio
• The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore / New Coon Creek Girls / The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore / Pinecastle
• Wabash Cannonball / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Screams From The Holler / Spring Fed Records
• Old Train / Tony Rice Unit / Manzanita / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• Orange Blossom Special / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Diesel Train / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Pinecastle
• I'm Watching The Train Passing By / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• The Passing Of The Train / Special Consensus / Roads & Rails / Shy Town Records
• My Blue Tears / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Remembering Gloria Belle:  6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
• Pain Of Loving You / Mark Newton with Gloria Belle / Follow Me Back To The Fold / Rebel [Remembering Gloria Belle:  6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
• Love Of The Mountains / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco [Remembering Gloria Belle:  6/9/1939 - 5/5/2023]
• Poor Boy Workin' Blues / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• Maybe This Time / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• They Sawed Up A Storm / Rick Lang with Becky Buller / A Tale To Tell / Dark Shadow Recording [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Subscription To Loneliness / Henhouse Prowlers / Lead And Iron / Dark Shadow Recording [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Another Long Sleepless Night / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Walking Down The Line / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Kisses Don't Lie / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• She's Heavenly / Del McCoury Band with Molly Tuttle / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Listen To The Word Of God / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Meet Me Over On The Other Side / Country Gentlemen / Sugar Hill Collection / Sugar Hill
• There's A Highway To Heaven / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• The Sons And Daughters Of God / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• Don't Tune Him Out / The Whites / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout--Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records [Rick Lang birthday, 6/7/1947]
• Beyond The Sunset For Me / Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore, Jamie Dailey, Josh Swift / Life Goes On / Rural Rhythm [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• So Happy I'll Be / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder [Remembering Tony Rice:  6/8/1951 - 12/25/2020]
• A Place On Calvary / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder [Jamie Dailey birthday, 6/9/1975]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 6/1/2025

On the first day of June, we shared lots of songs in honor of a Bluegrass pioneer who would have turned 100 years old on June 1st -- Bluegrass Hall of Famer Hazel Dickens (June 1, 1925 - April 22, 2011).  In addition to being a raw, authentic, honest singer, Hazel was an amazingly wonderful songwriter.  We shared several of her songs on Sunday, including Hazel herself, Hazel with her long-time musical partner, Alice Gerrard, and several Hazel covers from lots of performers, including Flatt Lonesome, the Lynn Morris Band, Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick, Missy Raines & Allegheny, James King, and Hot Rize.

New music was a big part of the show, as well, as we included music from recently released- or soon-to-be-released recordings by Danny Paisley, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, Missy Raines & Allegheny, Route 3, Shawn Lane & Richard Bennett, Ashley Graham, C.J. Lewandowski (with Del McCoury), Becky Buller, and Jason Burleson.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and are enjoying your June, so far!  We'll look forward to having you join us once again this coming Sunday afternoon for our next Bluegrass Cafe.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Goodbye Old Pal / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Are You Waiting Just For Me? / Stanley Brothers / Select Sides, 1949-1953 / JSP Records
• Drifting With The Tide / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Flatt & Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die / Dreadful Snakes / Snakes Alive! / Rounder
• Lonesome River / David Grisman/ Vince Gill/Herb Pedersen/Jim Buchanan/Emory Gordy, Jr. / Here Today / Rounder
• Windy Mountain / Longview / High Lonesome / Rounder
• Big Spike Hammer / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album, Volume 3:  California Connection / Rounder
• Look For Me / Angelica Grim / Look For Me / Patuxent Music
• The HIlls And Home / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Lonesome Standard Time / Lonesome Standard Time / Top Of The Hill Bluegrass / Sugar Hill
• If That's The Way You Feel / Amanda Smith / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Jim Eanes / Bluegrass Spectacular / Country Stars
• Wave Goodbye / Bluegrass Patriots / Springtime In The Rockies / Red Feather 
• When The Grass Grows Over Me / Rhonda Vincent / Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• Can't You Hear That Whistle Blow / The Grascals / Keep On Walkin' / Rounder
• Free To Go / Jason Burleson feat. Courtney Burleson / single / Self-Produced
• 1,000 Miles / Shawn Lane & Richard Bennett / 1682 / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Choo Choo Coming / Wyatt Ellis / single / Knee High Records
• Fiddle And Bow / Ashleigh Graham / I'll Just Drive / Pinecastle
• Muddy Waters / Becky Buller / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Your Love Is A Miracle / Route 3 / The Best Of Route 3 (Live From The Station Inn) / Pinecastle
• She's No Angel / C.J. Lewandowski with Del McCoury / single / 
• Another Long Sleepless Night / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle
• T.B. Blues (They're At Rest Together) / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Cowboy Jim / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / The Hazel And Alice Sessions / Spruce And Maple Music [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Flatt Lonesome / Flatt Lonesome / Mountain Home [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• I Can't Find Your Love Anymore / Hazel Dickens / O Sister!  The Women's Bluegrass Collection / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Help Me Climb That Mountain / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Scraps From Your Table / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Hills Of Home / Hazel Dickens / It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• Close By / Dailey & Vincent / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• The Old Swinging Bridge / Ted Lundy & the Southern Mountain Boys / True Bluegrass / Rounder
• A Few Old Memories / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• When I Get The Money Made / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Missing Her Has Never Slowed Me Down / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Never Slow Down / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Walls Of Time / Johnson Mountain Boys / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder
• Twilight Time / NorthernBound / Time Goes So Fast / Self-Produced
• Won't You Come And Sing For Me / Hot Rize / Untold Stories / Sugar Hill [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2011]
• When He Blessed My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• So Many Years, So Many Blessings / Lewis Family / Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / Spring House 
• I Need The Prayers / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Press On O' Pilgrim / Jim & Jesse / Radio Shows / Rural Rhythm Records
• Standing On The Banks / Lonesome River Band / Singing Up There:  A Tribute To The Easter Brothers / Mountain Home
• He Set Me Free / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Thankful And Blessed / Billy Blue Records
• I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Hazel Dickens:  6/1/1925 - 4/22/2021]
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/25/2025

During Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, we spent a good portion of our program remembering those soldiers who gave their lives in battle for our country.  While this is always a very sad subject, there have been so many wonderful and poignant songs written that are appropriate to share on Memorial Day -- and so, we did.  We won't forget.

We also shared lots of music from three folks who would have celebrated their birthdays in the month of May:  two of them are members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, and all three of them have been inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.  We'll never forget "The Voice With A Heart," Mac Wiseman (May 23, 1925 - February 24, 2019), as well as "The Storyteller," Tom T. Hall (May 25, 1936 - August 20, 2021), and his wife "Miss Dixie" Deen Hall (May 26, 1934 - January 16, 2015).  Their contributions to the world of Bluegrass music will be honored forever.

There was some new music to share, too, most notably this week from longtime Northeastern Bluegrass favorite Danny Paisley and his new album, "Bluegrass State Of Mind."  We also shared recent music from Missy Raines & Allegheny, Carter & Cleveland, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, and the Tennessee Bluegrass Band.  

Hope you had a wonderful weekend.  If you happened to miss the original airing of the show on May 25th, you can listen to the archival broadcast of this program for the next two weeks (listen here).  If you are only interested in hearing our next live broadcast, please join us next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM for our Bluegrass Cafe.

Have a good week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home / Mac Wiseman / High Lonesome:  The Story Of Bluegrass Music / CMH [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• The Guitar / Sierra Hull & Justin Moses / I Sang The Song (Life Of The Voice With A Heart) / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• You're The Girl Of My Dreams / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Jimmie Brown The Newsboy / Mac Wiseman / Time Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass / Time Life [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Are You Coming Back To Me / Bill Harrell with Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Rebel [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• I'll Sail My Ship Alone / Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson & Del McCoury / Mac, Doc & Del / Sugar Hill [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Going Back To Bristol / Shawn Camp / I Sang The Song (Life Of The Voice With A Heart) / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Goin' To The Dance / Chris Warner with Tom Adams / Goin' To The Dance / Patuxent Music
• Eula Dorsey / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Big Tilda / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• If That's The Way You Feel / Ralph Stanley with Vince Gill & Patty Loveless / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• Lonesome Pine / Blue Highway / Lonesome Pine / Rebel
• That Was Then And This Is Now / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Late Night Cry Of The Whippoorwill / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel
• Bluegrass State Of Mind / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle
• Nolichucky / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Flagpond Records
• Have I Stayed Away Too Long / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle
• In The Middle Of Middle Tennessee / Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter / Carter & Cleveland / Fiddleman Records
• Mountain Bill / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Coming On Strong / Rebel
• Won't You Think Of Me / Danny Paisley / Bluegrass State Of Mind / Pinecastle
• Legend Of The Rebel Soldier / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Last Letter Home / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Soldier's Last Letter / Rick Lang with Trey Hensley / A Tale To Tell / Dark Shadow Recording
• Searching For A Soldier's Grave / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Toil, Tears & Trouble / Rounder
• A Folded Flag / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / For The Record / Billy Blue Records
• Riding With Private Malone / James King / Three Chords And The Truth / Rounder
• Sally's Waltz / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Casualty Of War / Larry Sparks / The Last Suit You Wear / McCoury Music
• More Than A Name On A Wall / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Fox On The Run / Tom T. Hall / 50 Greatest Hits / Wrasse [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Year That Clayton Delaney Died / Charlie Sizemore / The Story Is...The Songs Of Tom T. Hall / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew / Sister Sadie / Sister Sadie II / Mountain Home [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• I Like Beer / Travelin' McCourys / One Chord That Rings True / McCoury Music [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• Don't Forget The Coffee, Billy Joe / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021]
• The Boys In Hats And Ties / Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021; Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• The Windowsill Song / Becky Buller / Pickin' Like A Girl / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021; Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• A Hero In Harlan / Tom T. Hall / Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. / Blue Circle Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021; Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Troublesome Waters / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy [Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Reveille Time In Heaven / Mac Wiseman / Bluegrass Hits And Heartsongs / Rebel [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• Walk Slow / Heather Berry & Tony Mabe / The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show / Mountain Fever Records [Remembering Tom T. Hall:  5/25/1936 - 8/20/2021; Remembering Dixie Hall:  5/26/1934 - 1/16/2015]
• Little White Church / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing [Remembering Mac Wiseman:  5/23/1925 - 2/24/2019]
• Stormy Waters / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Gonna Rise And Shine / Mountain Fever Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/18/2025

 

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Miller's Cave / Michael Cleveland with Audie Blaylock / Let 'Er Go, Boys! / Rounder [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Nobody's Child / American Drive / American Drive / Pinecastle [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• The Goldrush Is Over / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• The Golden Rocket / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• My Nova Scotia Home / Hank Snow / RCA Country Legends:  Hank Snow / BMG [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Down The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Talk Of The Town / Billy Blue Records [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• One More Ride / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Hank Snow Medley / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• I'm Moving On / Hank Snow / RCA Country Legends:  Hank Snow / BMG [Remembering Hank Snow:  5/9/1914 - 12/20/1999]
• Crooked Tree / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / Crooked Tree / Nonesuch Records
• Casey Jones / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Never See My Home Again / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• I Fall To Pieces / Too Blue / Trouble With The Grey / Self-Produced
• Here Today And Gone Tomorrow / Hazel Dickens with the Johnson Mountain Boys / Songs Of The Louvin Brothers / Rounder
• Truck Driving Man / Jimmy Martin / The Chronological Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1963-1965 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Hit Parade Of Love / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Live At The Ryman / Upper Management Music
• Blue Tears Are Falling / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• I've Always Been A Rambler / Po' Ramblin' Boys / single / Sound Biscuit
• Used To Be / Carson Peters & Iron Mountain / single / Billy Blue Records
• Blues / Lonesome River Band / single / Mountain Home
• You Are My Sun / Rudy's Bluegrass Revue / single / Self-Produced
• I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Coming On Strong / Rebel
• Scraps From Your Table / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Hard Travelin' / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Times They Are A-Changin' / Del McCoury Band / single / McCoury Music
• Draggin' The Cow / The Masters / Laid Back / Pinecastle
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Rose Maddox / This Is Rose Maddox / Arhoolie
• Just Wondering Why / Jim & Jesse / First Sounds:  The Capitol Years / Capitol
• Never Say Never Again / Dwight McCall / Never Say Never Again / Self-Produced
• Pitkin County Turnaround / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder
• Truck Driver's Queen / Charlie Moore / Gone...But Not Forgotten / Wango 
• Johnson Island Prison / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Another Day From Life / Rebel
• No One Has To Tell Me (What Love Is) / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Ode To Jimmy / Dan Tyminski / Live From The Ryman / 8 Track Entertainment
• Lonesome Man In A Lonesome Town / Rock Hearts with Danny Paisley / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• Fourteen Carat Mind / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH
• Daughter Of The Stars / Red Camel Collective / Red Camel Collective / Pinecastle
• Sweeter Than Tupelo Honey / Junior Sisk / single / Turnberry Records
• I Overlooked An Orchid / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Road Into Town / Patuxent Music
• Are You Missing Me? / Jim & Jesse / Industrial Strength Bluegrass:  Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Ragged Man / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Touch Of God's Hand / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Even Better When You Listen / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Thankful And Blessed / Billy Blue Records
• The Old Fashioned Preacher / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• Lift Your Voice In Prayer / Special Consensus / The Trail Of Aching Hearts / Pinecastle
• Move On / Grass Routes / Bailey's Deal / Self-Produced
• The Heavenly Parade / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Gospel Parade / Sugar Hill
• I Am The Road / Hot Rize / 40th Anniversary Bash / Ten In Hand Records
• Waiting For The Boys To Come Home / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
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"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/11/2025

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was mostly about Mother, just as it should have been on a
Mother's Day.  We included many songs about the most important woman in many of our lives.  Hope you had a nice chance to visit with your mother on Sunday -- or remember her with great fondness and affection (as I did mine).    

In addition to sharing songs about moms, we included Bluegrass tributes both to the late duet "brothers" (in-law), Johnnie & Jack, as both Johnnie Wright and Jack Anglin were born on the same date two years apart.  We also remembered the great Johnny Rodriguez, who by no stretch of the imagination could ever be considered a Bluegrass performer, but he sure did make some great records in the early 1970s that have withstood the test of time (and have been covered in the Bluegrass world many a time).  

New music was a big part of the show, too.  To that end, we heard brand new music from the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, Sister Sadie, and Don Rigsby (with Ronnie Reno).  There was also recently released music by Missy Raines & Allegheny, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, Laura Orshaw, Big Country Bluegrass, Special Consensus, Red Camel Collective, and Alison Krauss & Union Station.

Thanks for listening, as always.  Hope you'll consider joining us once again this coming Sunday from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Until then, enjoy the week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I Know Whose Tears / Gibson Brothers / Ring The Bell / Compass Records
• Use A Napkin (Not Your Mom) / Kathy Kallick / Mother, Queen Of My Heart:  A Collection Of Songs Inspired By Mom / Sugar Hill
• Mother, The Queen Of My Heart / Lonesome Standard Time / Lonesome As It Gets / Sugar Hill
• Mama Tried / The Seldom Scene / Scenechronized / Sugar Hill
• God Bless Her ('Cause She Is My Mother) / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek
• Mother Knows Best / Jesse Brock / Kickin' Grass / Pinecastle
• Thank God For A Mama / Lonesome River Band / Mother, Queen Of My Heart:  A Collection Of Songs Inspired By Mom / Sugar Hill
• Mom's Old Picture Book / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• Mama's Hand / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Pass Me By / Nothin' Fancy / Album #7 / Pinecastle [Remembering Johnny Rodriguez:  12/10/1951 - 5/9/2025]
• Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico / Bill Emerson & the Sweet Dixie Band / Bill Emerson & the Sweet Dixie Band / Rebel [Remembering Johnny Rodriguez:  12/10/1951 - 5/9/2025]
• How Could I Love Her So Much / Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac / Take Off / Patuxent Music [Remembering Johnny Rodriguez:  12/10/1951 - 5/9/2025]
• That's The Way Love Goes / Johnny Rodriguez / The Greatest Hits Of Johnny Rodriguez / Mercury [Remembering Johnny Rodriguez:  12/10/1951 - 5/9/2025]
• Stop 88 / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Loose Talk / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Homespun / Happy Appy Records
• Nolichucky / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Flagpond Records
• Coming On Strong / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / Coming On Strong / Rebel
• I Wish It Would Rain / Sister Sadie / single / Mountain Home
• Big Train / Don Rigsby with Ronnie Reno / single / Rebel
• Springtime In The Mountains / Big Country Bluegrass / Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass / Rebel
• Red Bandana / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• Richmond On The James / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Arcadia / Down The Road Records
• Been All Around This World / Special Consensus / single / Compass Records
• Mama's Opry / Chris Brashear / Heart Of The Country / Dog Bog Records
• Listen To Me Mother / Springfield Exit / That Was Then / Patuxent Music
• Mama's Apron Strings / Larry Sparks / It's Just Me / Rebel
• Memories Of Mother / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Mama's Roses / Spinney Brothers / No Borders / Mountain Fever Records
• Sweetest Gift / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Dear Old Mother / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
• Little Cabin Home On The Hill / Johnnie & Jack / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells At KWKH / Bear Family [Remembering Johnnie Wright (5/13/1914 - 9/27/2011) & Jack Anglin (5/13/1916 - 3/7/1963)]
• Johnny [sic] And Jack Medley / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Johnnie Wright (5/13/1914 - 9/27/2011) & Jack Anglin (5/13/1916 - 3/7/1963)]
• Three Ways Of Knowing / Johnnie & Jack / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells At KWKH / Bear Family [Remembering Johnnie Wright (5/13/1914 - 9/27/2011) & Jack Anglin (5/13/1916 - 3/7/1963)]
• Tall Stands Of Timber / Rock Hearts / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• Benfield Line / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Last Time I Saw Him / Red Camel Collective / Red Camel Collective / Pinecastle
• Mama Don't Allow / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / Bear Bridge Band / One More Ride / Open Road
• Give Mother My Crown / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• I Saw Mother With God Last Night / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Medals For Mothers / IIIrd Tyme Out / Back To The Mac / Rounder
• Shake Hands With Mother Again / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Mother, Queen Of My Heart:  A Collection Of Songs Inspired By Mom / Sugar Hill
• Mother Prays Loud In Her Sleep / David Peterson / Old Time Power / Self-Produced
• Shake My Mother's Hand For Me / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• Sweeping Through The Gate / Johnnie & Jack / Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells At KWKH / Bear Family [Remembering Johnnie Wright (5/13/1914 - 9/27/2011) & Jack Anglin (5/13/1916 - 3/7/1963)]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 5/4/2025

On the May 4th edition of Bluegrass Cafe, we shared lots of fine music -- some classic and some of the very new variety.  We even included some non-Bluegrass music...but not too much.

For the new music, we shared songs from forthcoming projects by Rrinaco (a new musical endeavor from High Fidelity's Corrina Rose Logston Stephens) as well as the Tidalwave Road Bluegrass Band, as well as recent releases from the Seldom Scene, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Big Country Bluegrass, the Travelin' McCourys, the Henhouse Prowlers, and Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers.  In addition, we shared music from a soon-to-be-released recording from Missy Raines & Allegheny on Compass Records called "Love & Trouble."  Missy and her fine, energetic band have been performing all over the northeast for the last week or so in support of this new record, and it's a dandy.  We hope to have a chat with Missy on the air over the next few weeks, so we'll let you know when that happens.  

For the non-Bluegrass music, we shared a selection from Country Music Hall of Famer, Randy Travis (who was born on May 4, 1959).  In addition to two Bluegrass covers of Randy Travis songs, we played Randy's first chart record, "1982." 

One week from today is Commencement at the University of Connecticut.  Parking is always a big whoop on campus during graduation, so we'll have to let you know if there will be a live edition of our Bluegrass Cafe on May 11th or not.  We'll post on our WHUS Bluegrass Cafe Facebook page, so keep your eyes open...

...and have a good week!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Mighty Mississippi / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• The Lonesome River / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Red River Valley/Back To Red River / Front Range / Back To Red River / Sugar Hill
• The River / Lynn Morris / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Mis'ry River / Doyle Lawson / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Will I Be That Lucky Man / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Everybody's Somebody's Fool / Sierra Hull / Secrets / Rounder
• Puddle Jumper / Ray Legere & Roger Williams / River Of No Return / Strictly Country Records
• Radio Boogie / Hot Rize / So Long Of A Journey / Sugar Hill
• A Hundred Miles To Go / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Broke Down And Lonesome / King Wilkie / Broke / Rebel
• Medley:  The Wild Side Of Life/Take These Chains From My Heart/They'll Never Take Her Love From Me/Don't Be Angry/Wedding Bells/The Wild Side Of Life / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel
• The Hills Of My Home / Laurie Lewis / Earth & Sky:  Songs Of Laurie Lewis / Rounder
• Raw Hide / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Diagnosis Broken Heart / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / single / Pinecastle
• With Body And Soul / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder
• Get Along Somehow / Rrinaco / single / Rebel
• Daydreamer / Travelin' McCourys / One Chord That Rings True / McCoury Music
• Low Down And Lonesome / Tidalwave Road Bluegrass Band / Low Down & Lonesome / Pinecastle
• I Like Beer / Travelin' McCourys / One Chord That Rings True / McCoury Music
• Yanceyville Jail / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Cold Wind / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• Anywhere The Wind Blows / Missy Raines & Allegheny with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Love & Trouble / Compass Records
• 1982 / Randy Travis / Storms Of Life / Warner Bros. [Randy Travis birthday, 5/4/1959]
• Digging Up Bones / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / Country Grass / Pinecastle [Randy Travis birthday, 5/4/1959]
• Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart / Charlie Sizemore Band / Good News / Rounder [Randy Travis birthday, 5/4/1959]
• Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico / Bluegrass Etc. / Bluegrass Etc. / Sierra Records
• Kentucky Borderline / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / In Concert, Volume One -- All The Rage / Upper Management Music
• Poor Monroe / Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs / Second Generation / Rebel
• Why Don't You Tell Me So / J.D. Crowe & the New South / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Rounder
• Green Mountain Girl / Seth Sawyer Band / Green Mountain Girl / Self-Produced
• Roll On Buddy / Tony Trischka with Del McCoury / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Back In The Country / Big Country Bluegrass / Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass / Rebel
• Honey Will You Be Mine / Henhouse Prowlers / Unravel / Dark Shadow Recording
• If I Lose / Roland White Band / Straight-Ahead Bluegrass / Self-Produced
• The Memory Of Your Smile / Dede Wyland / Keep The Light On / Patuxent Music
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / Jerry Wicentowski / Thanks, Mac!:  Songs Of Mac Wiseman / Self-Produced
• Walking Down The Line / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Rock Bottom / WhiteHouse / WhiteHouse / Pinecastle
• He Set Me Free / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Thankful And Blessed / Billy Blue Records
• His Charming Love / High Fidelity / Banjo Player's Blues / Rebel
• God's Record Book Of Life / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Along The Way / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / Rebel
• Two Wings / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder
• Just Beyond / Barry Abernathy with John Meador, Tim Raybon & Bradley Walker / Blue Collar Gospel:  Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• Give Me The Roses While I Live / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home
• Goin' Up / The Hillmen / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
• He Put A Rainbow In The Clouds For Me / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill
• Lord Lift Me Up / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/27/2025

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe featured three hours' worth of fine Bluegrass music, including a post-birthday tribute to one-half of possibly the greatest brother duet in the history of music; and if that wasn't enough, we also included LOTS of new music.  It was a fun show, so sure hope you were able to join us.

Ira Lonnie Loudermilk (April 20, 1924 - June 20, 1965) was considered as sort of the "hothead" of the Louvin Brothers, 

but there is no question whatsoever that he was an excellent mandolin player and songwriter.  Ira and his younger brother, Charlie, recorded so many fine songs together, and their harmonies are easily identifiable and wickedly enjoyable.  Though these singing brothers were not a Bluegrass act, their music has inspired many a Bluegrass performer, and their songs have been covered so many times in the world of Bluegrass.  We included several Louvin songs and a more Louvin covers during Sunday's show.

New music played a very large part in our programming on Sunday.  We featured a full half-hour of brand-new music from several performers, including Balsam Range, Alison Brown & Steve Martin (with Tim O'Brien), the ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band, Darren Nicholson, the Kody Norris Show, Missy Raines & Allegheny, Shelton & Williams, Junior Sisk, and the Special Consensus.  In addition, there was recent music from Becky Buller, Carter & Cleveland, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and the Seldom Scene.  

If you missed the show's April 27th airing, but would like to try to listen, please visit this link:  https://spinitron.com/WHUS/pl/20573197/Bluegrass-Cafe and click on the player at the top of the page.  You can listen to each show for two weeks after it airs.

Enjoy the rest of the week, and we'll look forward to joining you once again for three big hours of the Bluegrass Cafe on Sunday afternoon!

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Separating Hearts / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel
• Why Baby Why / Cox Family / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Stealing Second / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• I Do / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Carolina Blue / I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me / Pinecastle
• Before I Met You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Say I Do / Lonesome River Band / One Step Forward / Sugar Hill
• Bad Case Of Lovin' You / Lou Reid, Terry Baucom & Carolina / Carolina Blue / Webco
• Prettier All The Time / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood Music
• Old Hickory Cane / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Ain't Nobody Gonna Me When I'm Gone / Mashville Brigade / Bluegrass Smash Hits / Rural Rhythm
• Green Mountain Hop / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Don't Tell Me Your Troubles / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Outrun The Rain / Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland / Carter & Cleveland / Fiddleman Records
• Come Walk With Me / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / One Morning In May / Rounder
• Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Country Gentlemen / On The Road (And More) / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• The Story Of My Life / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Sweeter Than Tupelo Honey / Junior Sisk / single / Turnberry Records
• In The Circle / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• The Door Is Always Open / Shelton & Williams / A Time For Every Season / Turnberry Records
• Seesaw / ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band / single / Now And Then Records
• 5 Days Out, 2 Days Back / Alison Brown & Steve Martin with Tim O'Brien / single / Compass Records
• When It Comes To Loving You / Balsam Range / single / Mountain Home
• Any Highway / Darren Nicholson / single / Mountain Home
• Been All Around This World / Special Consensus / single / Compass Records
• When I Stop Dreaming / Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone, 1944-1964 / Raven [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• My Baby's Gone / Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• My Baby Came Back / Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / The Oak And The Laurel / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I Take The Chance / Jim & Jesse / Saluting The Louvin Brothers / Epic [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Seven Year Blues / Longview / Longivew / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I Can't Keep You In Love With Me / Malpass Brothers / Live At The Paramount Theatre / Minnow Media [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Cash On The Barrelhead / Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone, 1944-1964 / Raven [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Anywhere The Wind Blows / Missy Raines & Allegheny with Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / single / Compass Records
• Wait A Minute / Laurel Canyon Ramblers / Blue Rambler 2 / Sugar Hill [Herb Pedersen birthday, 4/27/1944]
• Music Of The Mountains / Spinney Brothers / Going Home / Self-Produced
• I Got A Notion / Radio Flyer / Old Strings New Strings / Turquoise Records
• Reach / Becky Buller / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• You'll Be Rewarded Over There / Louvin Brothers / The Family Who Prays:  26 Classic Tracks / Country Stars [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• He Sees The Little Sparrow / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Thankful And Blessed / Billy Blue Records
• Joshua / Rhonda Vincent / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live / Upper Management Music
• My Lord Grows Sweeter Each Day / Paul Williams & Cliff Waldron / Higher Ground / Rebel
• Are You Afraid To Die? / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I'll Never Go Back (To The Ways Of Sin) / Fast Track / Good News / Engelhardt Music Group [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• I Have Found The Way / Gibson Brothers / Brotherhood / Rounder
• Daniel Prayed / Patty Loveless / Bluegrass Top 20 Gospel Songs Of The Century / New Haven Records
• Make Him A Soldier / Whitstein Brothers / Sweet Harmony / Rounder [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Live At New River Ranch / Copper Creek Records [Remembering Ira Louvin:  4/21/1924 - 6/20/1965]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/20/2025

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe was our first live show in three weeks, and it was a busy one!  We included a bit of newer music, and celebrated the April 20th birthdays of both Doyle Lawson and Hylo Brown.  And, of course, since it was Easter Sunday, we couldn't forget to share many songs relating to this most holy season.

If you happened to miss this show's original airing on Easter Sunday, you have another week and a couple of days to check out the streaming show.  Click on this link if you'd like to hear it.

Hope you'll consider joining us for another Bluegrass Cafe this coming Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Search Inside An Empty Tomb / Rarely Herd / What About Him / Pinecastle
• The Empty Tomb / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise Records
• Stone Was Rolled Away / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Broken Stone / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• You Can't Hurt Ham / Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Music To My Ears / Skaggs Family Records
• Come Early Morning / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• Leftover Biscuits / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Follow The Leader / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH Records
• Girl From The North Country / Steve Gulley / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways
• Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• I'll Be Around Somewhere / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Walkin' Down The Line / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Please Search Your Heart / J.D. Crowe / Blackjack / Rebel [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1994]
• Big Spike Hammer / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Album, Volume 3:  California Connection / Rounder [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Talk To Me Lonesome Heart / Doyle Lawson & Paul Williams / Chapter 3 / Mountain Home  [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• C.G. Express / Country Gentlemen / The Award Winning Country Gentlemen / Rebel [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Lovesick And Sorrow / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow - 16 Greatest Starday Recordings / Starday [Remembering Hylo Brown:  4/20/1922 - 1/17/2003]
• The Prisoner's Song / Earl Scruggs & Hylo Brown / Classic Bluegrass Live 1959-1966 / Vanguard [Remembering Hylo Brown:  4/20/1922 - 1/17/2003]
• Look Up To The Sky / Henhouse Prowlers / Unravel / Dark Shadow Recording
• Dance 'Til Your Socks Are Hot And Ravelin' / The Dillards / Songs That Made Charlene Cry / Dillard Song Records
• Listening To The Rain / Bob Minner feat. Rhonda Vincent & John Meador / single / Billy Blue Records
• Poor Boy Like Me / Henhouse Prowlers / Unravel / Dark Shadow Recording
• There Is A Time / The Dillards / Songs That Made Charlene Cry / Dillard Song Records
• Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains / Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways
• When There's Nothing But The Crickets Left To Sing / Big Country Bluegrass / Carry Me Back To The Bluegrass / Rebel
• Whispering Waters / Rock Hearts / Starry Southern Nights / Self-Produced
• The Automobile Of Life / Bear Minimum / The Automobile Of Life / Open Road
• He Can't Own Them / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• Daughter Of The Stars / Red Camel Collective / Red Camel Collective / Pinecastle
• 20/20 Vision / Jimmy Martin / The Chronological Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1963-1965 / Kipepeo Publishing
• White House Blues / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder
• I Call Her Sunshine / Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• Let's / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• I Beg To You / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• Broke Down Engine / Woody Platt with Del McCoury / Far Away With You / Compass Records
• Leaving London / Greg Blake / Bluegrass Sings Paxton / Mountain Home
• Scotty's Hoedown / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Memories That We Shared / Sideline / Front And Center / Mountain Home
• I Don't Love You Anymore / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• It's Lonesome Everywhere I Go / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• Listen To The Lonesome Wind / Missy Raines / Highlander / Compass Records
• The Cry From The Cross / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• He Took Your Place / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• Were You There / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Rock My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea Records
• Purple Robe / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• He's Passing This Way / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• By The Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/23/2025

During this edition of our Bluegrass Cafe, we put the spotlight on an important member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame:  Edward Windsor Adcock (June 21, 1938 - March 19, 2025).  This beloved icon of the banjo (and guitar) was an innovator whose banjo stylings will be remembered forever both for the work he did with his own bands and, of course, as part of the Classic Country Gentlemen (Eddie, John Duffey, Tom Gray, Charlie Waller).  We remembered him the best way we know how to honor someone -- by sharing a good portion of his/her music.  To this end, we heard music from Eddie joined by the Masters (Eddie, Kenny Baker, Josh Graves, Jesse McReynolds), songs recorded by Eddie with his wife of nearly 50 years, Martha Hearon Adcock, with the great Don Reno, on his own, and, of course, with the Country Gentlemen.  Eddie Adcock will never be forgotten.  Read more about his remarkable life in this full-length obituary published by Bluegrass Today.

In between selections from Eddie Adcock, we also shared some newer Bluegrass selections from folks like Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, Williamson Branch, Jim Hurst, Red Camel Collective, and the Seldom Scene.  We also remembered Bluegrass Hall of Famer David Grisman on his 80th birthday (born March 23, 1945).

I learned this week that our WHUS website holds an audio archive for two weeks of our Bluegrass Cafe program, so if you did not get a chance to listen to this particular edition of our show, you still have one more week to do so.  Here's a direct link, or if you want to walk yourself through:  

* Visit WHUS.org

* Click on the tab that reads, "Listen 91.7 FM+"

* Choose "WHUS FM Schedule"

* Scroll down to Sunday, 4-7PM where the block reads, "Bluegrass Cafe Amy Orlomoski"

* Click on that link and a new window will open with the show's playlist and a player on top. Click the player and enjoy the show!

I will not be live in the studio with you on March 30th, but there should be an archival broadcast of the show made during the COVID-era. We'll be back in studio with you one week from today -- April 6th -- from 4-7PM.

Until then, have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Matterhorn / Country Gentlemen / 25 Years / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Lickety-Split / The Masters / Saturday Night Fish Fry / CMH Records [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Uncle Joe / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Eddie To The Rescue / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Brown County Breakdown / Noam Pikelny / Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe / Compass Records
• Weary Lonesome Blues / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• John Deere Tractor / Billy Strings / Me/And/Dad / Rounder
• Streets Of Chicago / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Home Is Where The Heart Is / David Grisman / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder [David Grisman birthday, 3/23/1945]
• Say Won't You Be Mine / Dan Tyminski / Live From The Ryman / 8 Track Entertainment
• This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart) / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• I'm A Believer / Jim Lloyd / The Ghost Of Virginia / Patuxent Music
• Best Female Actress / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Will Your Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• Roll Muddy River / Osborne Brothers / Country Bluegrass / MCA
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• I'm My Own Grandpa / David Grisman / Home Is Where The Heart Is / Rounder [David Grisman birthday, 3/23/1945]
• Come On Sunshine / Williamson Branch / single / Pinecastle
• Gilgarry's Glen / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / single / Rebel
• Southbound / Jim Hurst / single / Pinecastle
• In Spite Of Me / Red Camel Collective / Red Camel Collective / Pinecastle
• I Could Cry / The Seldom Scene / Remains To Be Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Goin' Like Wildfire / Mac Wiseman / The Chronological Mac Wiseman, 1951-1953 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Raw Hide / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Dooley / Tony Trischka with Molly Tuttle & Sam Bush / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Make Me A Pallet On The Floor / Country Gentlemen / Live From The Stage Of The Roanoke Bluegrass Festival / Zap [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Draggin' The Cow / The Masters / Laid Back / Pinecastle [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• She Used To Love Me A Lot / Eddie Adcock Band / Dixie Fried / CMH [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Bye Bye Blues / Eddie Adcock & Don Reno / Sensational Twin Banjos / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Sad And Lonesome Day / Randy Waller & Lou Reid / Epilogue:  A Tribute To John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Nightwalk / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Mercury [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Helen / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Theme From 'Exodus' / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Talk To Your Heart / Eddie Adcock Band / Talk To Your Heart / CMH Records [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Grave In The Valley / Adcock, Gaudreau, Waller, Gray / The Country Gentlemen Reunion Band / RadioTherapy Records [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Jerusalem Ridge / Noam Pikelny / Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe / Compass Records
• Larry Sparks Medley:  Dark Hollow/A Face In The Crowd/These Old Blues / Josh Williams, Bradley Walker, Russell Moore / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Lonesome Man In A Lonesome Town / Rock Hearts with Danny Paisley / Unfinished Bridges / 615 Hideaway Records
• Let's Live For Tonight / Reno & Smiley / Early Years, 1951-1959 / Gusto
• Are You Missing Me? / Dailey & Vincent / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Let's / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Snapshots / Mountain Home [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• Gonna Get There Soon / Waller, Duffey, Adcock, Gray / Classic Country Gents Reunion / Sugar Hill [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• On The Sunny Side Of Life / Bob & Sarah Amos / Ever Onward / Self-Produced
• The First Step To Heaven / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• Take Me In the Life Boat / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering Eddie Adcock:  6/21/1938 - 3/19/2025]
• I Wouldn't Take Nothin' For My Journey Now / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• Get A Transfer / King James Boys / Get A Transfer / Pinecastle
• Cry From The Cross / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Ready To Go / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel 
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder