"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/14/2024

Our Tax Day Eve Bluegrass Cafe broadcast on April 14th started with several songs about money (or lack of it) and, of course, taxes.  Other sets of music from Sunday's show focused on newer tracks, and there were several April birthdays to remember.  Hope you were able to join us, but if not, read on for the recap...

For April birthdays, we remembered the 60th birthday of Stuart Duncan (born April 14, 1964), as well as the 80th birthday of Doyle Lawson (born April 20, 1944).  We also celebrated the birthdays (or birth anniversaries) of Delia Bell, Bob Dick, and Hylo Brown.

There was a bit of recent music from Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Darren Beachley & Kyle Windbeck, Junior Sisk, Adam McIntosh, the Price Sisters, Authentic Unlimited, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, and Howard Parker.

And we celebrated two Pioneers of Bluegrass who were honored Sunday afternoon by the Rhode Island Bluegrass Alliance at their Hall of Fame ceremonies.  We celebrated both the late Bill Rawlings, as well as Dave Papuga, an eastern Connecticut guitarist who worked for several years with the Pike Brothers and Earlene Pike.  We'll focus more on their music over the next few weeks.

Hope you were able to join us on Sunday, but if not, we sure hope you'll consider tuning in this coming Sunday from 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Lower On The Hog / IIIrd Tyme Out / Puttin' New Roots Down / Rebel
• Empty Pocket Blues / Hot Rize / Hot Rize / Flying Fish
• I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent / David Grisman / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Taxes / Smokey Greene / The Friendly Voice Of Smokey Greene / Pinecastle
• Poverty Row / Cedar Hill / Poverty Row / Blue Circle Records
• Seventeen Cents / Lynn Morris Band / You'll Never Be The Sun / Rounder
• Over The Hills To The Poorhouse / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Rambler's Call / Rebel
• Another Day, Another Dollar / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• Every Time You Say Goodbye / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Every Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder
• I Don't Do Floors / James King / Bed By The Window / Rounder
• The Lonesome River / Stanley Brothers / The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers / Columbia Legacy
• Georgia Five String / Gillis Brothers / Heart & Soul / Rebel
• Look For Me / Angelica Grim / Look For Me / Patuxent Music
• Best Female Actress / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Love Please Come Home / Reno & Smiley / Classic Bluegrass / King
• Leaves In The Wind / Missy Werner Band / Three Kinds Of Lonesome / Self-Produced
• 1946 / David Peterson & 1946 / In The Mountaintops To Roam / Self-Produced
• Bluegrass Radio / Alison Brown & Steve Martin / single / Compass Records
• Where Does A Hobo Go / Darren Beachley & Kyle Windbeck / single / Turnberry Records
• Midnight / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• Girl Behind The Bar / Adam McIntosh / Restless / Billy Blue Records
• A Drive At Dusk / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• I'm Down To My Last Cigarette / Howard Parker feat. Shannon Leigh Reynolds / single / Waiting For Lester Records
• Wild And Wicked World / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• The Price I Pay / Darin & Brooke Aldridge with John Jorgensen / single / Billy Blue Records
• Angeline The Baker / Nashville Bluegrass Band / The Nashville Bluegrass Band / Rounder [Stuart Duncan birthday, 4/14/1964]
• Prisoner's Song / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / King [Remembering Hylo Brown:  4/20/1922 - 1/17/2003]
• Life's Highway / Bob Dick / Life's Highway / Self-Produced [Bob Dick birthday, 4/18/1969]
• Sad Situation / Bill Grant & Delia Bell / Dreaming / Rounder [Remembering Delia Bell:  4/16/1935 - 6/15/2018]
• Lovesick And Sorrow / Hylo Brown / Lovesick And Sorrow / King [Remembering Hylo Brown:  4/20/1922 - 1/17/2003]
• Walking Down The Line / Country Gentlemen / Live In Japan / Rebel [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Blackjack / J.D. Crowe / Bluegrass Holiday / Rebel [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• I'll Be Around Somewhere / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The Original Band / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Out In The Cold World / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Live In Prague, Czech Republic / Billy Blue Records [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• One Car Funeral / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• The Room Over Mine / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Steeped In Tradition / Brandywine
• No One Now / Earlene Pike / Earlene Pike / Zap
• I'll Never See My Home Again / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Pickin' On Asheville Pike / Pike Family & the Pine Hill Ranchers / To Warm And Comfort You / Rebel
• He Was A Friend Of Mine / Fred Pike, Bill Rawlings & the Twin River Boys / Authentic Bluegrass Folk Music / Osage
• Rock My Soul / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• When My Time Comes To Go / IIIrd Tyme Out / IIIrd Tyme Out / Rebel
• Won't It Be Wonderful / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• I Am Just A Pilgrim / Appalachian Road Show / Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Present Appalachian Road Show / Billy Blue Records
• So Happy I'll Be / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Ragin' Live / Rounder
• Hold Fast To The Right / Nashville Bluegrass Band / To Be His Child / Rounder [Stuart Duncan birthday, 4/14/1964]
• Preachin', Prayin', Singin' / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1948-1950 / JSP Records
• On The Sea Of Life / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill [Doyle Lawson birthday, 4/20/1944]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 4/7/2024

Our first Bluegrass Cafe for the month of April started with nearly an hour's worth of songs featuring "A" performers (requirement:  the performer's last name or band name began with the letter "A").  We also honored a New England Bluegrass pioneer who recently passed, shared a little bit of new music, remembered the great Merle Haggard's birth anniversary with lots of covers of his music, and included a telephone visit with Alex MacLeod of Rock Hearts.  It was a stuffed three hours -- hope you were able to join us!

A few weeks ago, old friend Dave Shaw asked me if I was aware that Herb Hooven (May 29, 1931 - February 22, 2024) had passed.  I recognized his name, but wasn't overly familiar with this multi-instrumentalist.  Turns out this Southern transplant to Massachusetts played music with some very influential Bluegrass musicians over the years, including Jimmy Martin, the Lilly Brothers & Don Stover, and Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys, among others.  Thanks to Dave for providing some of Herb's music for us to enjoy.  If you'd like to know more about Herb Hooven, here's a link to his obituary.

We checked in with Alex MacLeod from Rock Hearts around 5:30PM today.  This busy band is getting ready to release their second recording for 615 Hideaway Records later on this Spring.  If you would like to see this band perform, they have an upcoming show at the Suffield VFW in West Suffield, CT on April 13th.  For more information about Rock Hearts, their music, or their upcoming gigs, check out the band's website.

And we couldn't let the birth (and death) anniversary of the great Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) pass without acknowledgement, either.  Though the Hag was not a Bluegrass performer -- even though he released "The Bluegrass Sessions" in 2007 -- his music has greatly influenced many Bluegrass performers over the years.  We included three songs by Merle Haggard in our tribute set and six Bluegrass covers, though we could have played far more.

Hope you were able to join us for the show today.  We hope to be back on the air with you next Sunday afternoon from 4-7PM with another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.  Consider joining us, if you can.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Willow Creek Dam / American Drive / American Drive / Pinecastle
• Reflections Of Love / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Reflections Of Love / Rebel
• Funky Mountain Special / Tom Adams / Adams County Banjo / Rounder
• Helen / Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends / Many A Mile / Patuxent Music
• Banjo Bop / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses / Tina Adair / Tina Adair / Engelhardt Music Group
• The Hills That I Call Home / Bob & Sarah Amos / EverOnward / Bristlecone
• You'll Always Be My Blue Eyed Darling / Red Allen & Frank Wakefield / The WDON Recordings, 1963 / Patuxent Music
• La La Blues / Appalachian Road Show / Jubilation / Billy Blue Records
• Lucille / Jay Armsworthy & Eastern Tradition / My Best Friend / Patuxent Music
• Goin' Home Comin' On / Carley Arrowood / Goin' Home Comin' Home / Mountain Home
• Thinking About You / Bobby Atkins & the Countrymen / Memories Of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Of The 1950s / Thunderbolt Records
• Grand Ole Circle / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Temperance Reel / Scott Anderson / Tales From The Swamp / Mato
• Silence Or Tears / Auldridge, Bennett & Gaudreau / This Old Town / Rebel
• I'm Going Back Home (Cabin Song #47) / ASH&W / ASH&W / Rebel
• Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / Apple & Setser / Apple & Setser / Bell Buckle Records
• Big Wheels / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Last Train / Howard Parker feat. Dave Bitler / single / Waiting For Lester Records
• Benfield Line / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Changing The Words To My Love Song / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Rounder [Remembering Herb Hooven:  5/29/1931 - 2/22/2024]
• 'Neath That Cold Gray Tomb Of Stone / Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways [Remembering Herb Hooven:  5/29/1931 - 2/22/2024]
• Wanderlust / Rock Hearts / Wanderlust / 615 Hideaway Records
• Telephone conversation with Alex MacLeod of Rock Hearts
• Let Me Be The Best Bible / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Unfinished Bridges / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Wind To The West / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers / Merle Haggard / Down Every Road, 1962-1994 / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Working Man Blues / Osborne Brothers / Hillbilly Fever / CMH [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Big City / U.S. Navy Band Country Current / Live / Altissimo [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Mama Tried / Merle Haggard / Timeless / Cracker Barrel [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Slowly But Surely / Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams / Something 'Bout You / Happy Appy Records [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Rainbow Stew / The Little Roy & Lizzy Show / Welcome To The Show / Mountain Home [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Silver Wings / Spinney Brothers / Side By Side / Self-Produced [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Back To The Barrooms / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Come On Down To My World / Rounder [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• The Fightin' Side Of Me / Merle Haggard / Down Every Road, 1962-1994 / Capitol [Remembering Merle Haggard:  4/6/1937 - 4/6/2016]
• Come On In / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures / Ralph Stanley with Larry Sparks / Saturday Night & Sunday Morning / Freeland Recording
• Music In My Soul / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Mansion In The Grave / Bear Bridge Band / A Bluegrass Sampler / Open Road
• God Moves In A Windstorm / Blue Highway / Wind To The West / Rebel
• If There's A Will There's A Way / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Get In Line Brother / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Gospel / Columbia Legacy
• I'll Be No Stranger There / Seldom Scene / Long Time...Seldom Scene / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Singing As We Rise / Gibson Brothers with Ricky Skaggs / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/31/2024

For a Bluegrass Cafe that aired on Easter Sunday, you might expect to hear all sorts of Easter-themed Bluegrass songs...and you would be absolutely right!  We included Easter music performed by everybody from the Stanley Brothers to the Old Time Bluegrass Singers to the Country Gentlemen Tribute Band to Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band.  And there were many more songs that we could have played, but we just ran out of time.  Hope you enjoyed this blessed day!  

Sunday was the last day of March, which is known as Women's History Month.  To that end, we shared several selections from some of the finest female singers and musicians in the history of Bluegrass music.  We could have easily filled the whole show with just music from female performers, but instead, we'll keep on enjoying music from these fine musicians whenever we can, no matter the month.

And there were a few late March/early April birthdays to celebrate, including those of young Wyatt Ellis, Jeremy Stephens, Missy Raines, Cliff Waldron, and Bluegrass Hall of Famer Bill Clifton.

Finally, we included a little bit of new music from the likes of Alison Brown with Steve Martin, Junior Sisk, Daniel Grindstaff (with Trey Hensley), and two brand-new recordings from Authentic Unlimited.

Enjoy your week, and we'll hope to join you once again on Sunday afternoon for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Amy O.

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

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Cry From The Cross / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Just As The Sun Went Down / James King / Garden In The Sky / Rounder
• Stone Was Rolled Away / Old Time Bluegrass Singers / Plastic Heart / Open Road
• Search Inside An Empty Tomb / The Rarely Herd / What About Him / Pinecastle
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch
• Forever You / Gloria Belle / Love Of The Mountains / Webco
• You Tried To Ruin My Name / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister! / Rounder
• Blue Grass Breakdown / Donna & Roni Stoneman / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music
• The Last Old Shovel / Phyllis Boyens / O Sister! / Rounder
• You'll Get No More Of Me / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• So Far / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home
• Blue Baby Now / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / This Life We're Livin' / Billy Blue Records
• Mama's Cross / Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road / A Little Bit Of Bluegrass / Pinecastle
• You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• Love You In Vain / Alison Krauss & Union Station / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Still Waters / Jaelee Roberts / Something You Didn't Count On / Mountain Home
• Once A Day / PIke Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / The Pike Brothers & the Pine Hill Ranchers / Rebel
• Cabin On A Mountain / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Laurie & Kathy Sing Songs Of Vern & Ray / Spruce And Maple Music
• Alison Brown & Steve Martin / Bluegrass Radio / single / Compass Records
• Memories Of Mother / Junior Sisk with Ricky Skaggs / If There's A Will There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Blue Smoke / Wyatt Ellis with Marty Stuart / Happy Valley / Knee High Records [Wyatt Ellis birthday, 4/3/2009]
• Looking At The World Through A Windshield / Daniel Grindstaff feat. Trey Hensley / single / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel [Jeremy Stephens birthday, 3/31/1984]
• Listen To The Lonesome Wind / Missy Raines / Highlander / Compass Records [Missy Raines birthday, 4/6/1962]
• Little White Washed Chimney / Bill Clifton / The Early Years, 1957-1958 / Rounder [Bill Clifton birthday, 4/5/1931]
• The Empty Grave / Gary Ferguson / Without You / Turquoise Records
• He's Passing This Way / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• Gonna Rise And Shine / Alan Bibey & Grasstowne / Gonna Rise And Shine / Mountain Fever Records
• Legend Of The Dogwood Tree / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• Were You There / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill
• Remember The Cross / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1940-1946 / JSP Records
• I Am The Man, Thomas / Scottie Sparks / The Stanley Gospel Tradition / Doobie Shea Records
• By The Mark / Dailey & Vincent / Dailey & Vincent / Rounder
• Once Upon A Heartbeat / The Rarely Herd / Pure Homemade Love / Pinecastle
• Ragged Man / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Bye Bye Love / Spectrum / Bluegrass Goes To Town / Rounder
• Hold Whatcha Got / Jimmy Martin / Good 'N' Country & Country Music Time / Jasmine
• Memories Cover Everything I Own / Johnson Mountain Boys / Let The Whole World Talk / Rounder
• Second To None / Authentic Unlimited / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Snowbird / Special Consensus with Claire Lynch / Great Blue North / Compass Records
• Cry From The Cross / Authentic Unlimited / The Gospel Sessions, Volume 2 / Billy Blue Records
• I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• I'm Justified / Del McCoury Band / Family Circle / McCoury Music
• When We Look On His Face / Bill Emerson with Cliff Waldron / Reunion / Webco [Cliff Waldron birthday, 4/4/1941]
• Purple Robe / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Blood Stains On The Cross / Larry Sparks / New Highway / Mountain Home
• The Garden Tomb / The Isaacs with the Oak Ridge Boys / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Broken Stone / Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band / Wings Of Gold / Rebel
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/24/2024

We celebrated a few March birthdays during Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe, including those of Bluegrass Hall of Fame members John Starling, Dean Webb, and Paul Williams.  We also remembered a banjo playing Blue Grass Boy of the early 1950s, Rudy Lyle (March 17, 1936 - February 11, 1985), with several songs on which he played an active part.  This included music (of course!) from Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, as well as Uncle Joe Johnson and Jimmy Skinner, too.  If you would like to know more about Rudy Lyle, there was a biography published about him in 2022:  Rudy Lyle:  The Unsung Hero Of The Five-String Banjo by Max Wareham.  

There was some newer music to share during our broadcast, including brand-new selections from Junior Sisk, Adam McIntosh, the Tim Raybon Band, Crandall Creek with Greg Blake, the Edgar Loudermilk Band, Rock Hearts, and Lindley Creek.  There was also recent music from High Fidelity, the Price Sisters, the Kathy Kallick Band, the Country Gentlemen Tribute Band, and Barry Abernathy (from the new Rick Lang-penned gospel collection).

Our plan is to join you once again on Easter Sunday afternoon.  If you're able to tune in, please do!  We should be on the air from 4-7PM...as always.

Have a good week -
Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Howling Blue Winds / David Peterson & 1946 / The Howling Blue Winds / Self-Produced
• Lonesome Wind Blues / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Cold And Windy Night / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder
• Cold Wind / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Windy Mountain / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Windy Mountain / Bear Family Records
• Age / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
• Down The Road / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / The Complete Mercury Recordings / Mercury
• Our Last Goodbye / Stanley Brothers / 20th Century Masters / Mercury
• Toy Heart / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA
• Big Spike Hammer / Bluegrass Album Band / The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2 / Rounder
• Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary / Lost & Found / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes / Here Today / Bluegrass Mountain Style / Rounder
• Sweet Thang And Cisco / Lost & Found / A Ride Through The Country / Rebel
• Honeycat Hornpipe / Corrina Rose Logston / Bluegrass Fiddler / Patuxent Music
• Echo Canyon / Balsam Range / Kinetic Tone / Mountain Home
• Don't You Know I Love You, Charlie Brown / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Dreamer's Hill / Lost & Found / Final Chapter / Mountain Fever Records
• If There's A Will, There's A Way / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Every Time A Train Goes By / Adam McIntosh / Restless / Billy Blue Records
• Headed Back To Tulsa / Tim Raybon Band / single / Pinecastle
• Lazy Sunday / Crandall Creek with Greg Blake / single / Self-Produced
• The Banks Of The River / Edgar Loudermilk Band / single / Pinecastle
• Unfinished Bridges / Rock Hearts / single / 615 Hideaway Records
• Spring Is In The Air Again / Lindley Creek / single / Pinecastle
• Old Cold Shoulder / Junior Sisk / If There's A Will, There's A Way / Mountain Fever Records
• Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Natural Bridge Blues / Uncle Joe Johnson / WPAQ:  The Voice Of The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rounder [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• 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 [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Too Hot To Handle / Jimmy Skinner / single / Decca [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Blue Grass Ramble / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records [Remembering Rudy Lyle:  3/17/1936 - 2/11/1985]
• Muddy Waters / Seldom Scene / Live At The Cellar Door / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Starling:  3/26/1940 - 5/2/2019]
• The Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Dean Webb:  3/28/1937 - 6/30/2018]
• Steppin' Stones / Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys / You Don't Know My Mind / Rounder [Paul Williams birthday, 3/30/1935]
• Darling Please Come On Home / Nick Chandler & Delivered / Silver Bird / Pinecastle
• I Will Always Be Waiting For You / High Fidelity / Hills And Home / Rebel
• I Can Read Between The Lines In Your Letters / Price Sisters / Between The Lines/ McCoury Music
• Just Lonesome Ol' Me And The Radio / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• The Bigger The Fool (The Harder The Fall) / Lonesome Standard Time / Mighty Lonesome / Sugar Hill
• Bringing In The Georgia Mail / Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Misty Mountain Rain / Country Gentlemen Tribute Band / Yesterday And Tomorrow / Patuxent Music
• Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland Strictly Country Records
• Palms Of Victory / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• The Touch Of God's Hand / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Hold On / Authentic Unlimited / Gospel Sessions, Volume 1 / Billy Blue Records
• Are You Lost In Sin? / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Where No Cabins Fall / Rhonda Vincent / Back Home Again / Rounder
• Springtime In Glory / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• My Lord's Been A Walkin' / Spinney Brothers / Here At The Cross / Self-Produced
• Just Beyond / Barry Abernathy / Blue Collar Gospel / Billy Blue Records
• Goodbye / Crowe, Lawson & Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/17/2024

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe included a three-hour mix of Bluegrass songs old and new.  We included two separate song sets celebrating both St. Patrick's Day and the First Day of Spring.  Around the midway point, we had a telephone visit with Michelle Canning, a Massachusetts-born musician/songwriter who now makes her home in Nashville, and this coming weekend, is hosting her 13th annual Night On The Edge benefit for the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.  If you would like to know more about this worthy cause, please click on this link.

Marti & Jim at WHUS - November 2006

We remembered the late Al Jones with some of his music, and we sent out a couple of songs in honor of Marti Harmon, the wife of our former "Bluegrass Cafe" show co-host, Jim Beaver, as Marti passed from this world on March 12th.  Jim and Marti also were the creators and hosts of the delightful "Red Rooster Party" on WHUS for several years.  Simply put, Marti was an amazing lady who did so many interesting things during her lifetime.  If you would like to read Marti's lovely obituary, please do.  Rest in peace, Marti.

Both UConn basketball teams are getting ready to play in the NCAA tournament beginning this weekend, and with tournament action, that always means there is a possibility of our radio show being preempted.  We'll keep you posted if that happens as soon as we find out.

Enjoy the rest of the week, and we'll hope to have you join us on Sunday afternoon.

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Coleen Malone / Bill Emerson & Pete Goble / Webco Classics, Volume One / Pinecastle
• Irish Spring / Country Gentlemen / Complete Vanguard Recordings / Vanguard
• My Wild Irish Rose / Larry Stephenson Band / On Fire / Pinecastle
• Dublin Blues / Newtown / Time Machine / Pisgah Ridge Records
• Irish Medley (The Traveler/Green Gates) / Special Consensus / Our Little Town / Pinecastle
• Casey Jones / Feinberg Brothers / The Feinberg Brothers / Cabinwood
• Some Things I Want To Sing About / The Grascals with Bobby Osborne / The Grascals / Rounder
• D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin) / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Norman Blake & Tony Rice 2 / Rounder
• The Angry Wife / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood
• Medicine / Michelle Canning / Outside The Lines / Self-Produced
• I'm Head Over Heels In Love / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Sides, 1950-1952 / JSP Records
• Are You Coming Back To Me? / Bill Harrell with Mac Wiseman / Bill Harrell & Friends / Webco
• Shadows In My Room / Hot Rize / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Cruel Love / Reno & Smiley / Good Old Country Ballads / King
• Too Late To Say Goodbye / Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge / Songs From The Blue Ridge / Rebel
• King Of The Hill / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Lazy Whippoorwill / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Roundtable / Billy Blue Records
• The Blues Ain't Workin' On Me / Michelle Canning with Rhonda Vincent / The Flower And The Serpent / Self-Produced
• Conversation with Michelle Canning
• Stranger / Michelle Canning feat. A.P. Harbor / Outside The Lines / Self-Produced
• Springtime In The Rockies / Bluegrass Patriots / When It's Springtime In The Rockies / Copper Creek
• Spring Will Bring Flowers / Balsam Range / Last Train To Kitty Hawk / Mountain Home
• Blue Ridge Mountains Turning Green / Country Gentlemen / The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill
• When Springtime Comes Again / Vern Williams Band / Bluegrass From The Gold Country / Rounder
• Ah Spring / Chris Thile / Stealing Second / Sugar Hill
• Winter's Come And Gone / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Cowboy Jubilee / Riders In The Sky / Live / Rounder [Remembering Martha Ann Harmon:  12/24/1956 - 3/12/2024]
• Yodel Blues / Riders In The Sky / Live / Rounder [Remembering Martha Ann Harmon:  12/24/1956 - 3/12/2024]
• What Do You Know About Heartaches / Frank Necessary, Al Jones & Buzz Busby / Frank Necessary, Al Jones & Buzz Busby / Old Homestead Records [Remembering Al Jones:  2/22/1932 - 3/3/2024]
• How The Story Had To End / Al Jones, Frank Necessary & the Spruce Mountain Boys / Al Jones, Frank Necessary & the Spruce Mountain Boys / Rounder [Remembering Al Jones:  2/22/1932 - 3/3/2024]
• Long Forgotten Dream / Gibson Brothers / Long Forgotten Dream / Hay Holler
• From The Hollow / BearTracks / From The Hollow / AMT Records
• Flat Creek / Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / Cloud Of Dust / DSM Records
• Another Highway This Time / Amanda Cook / Changes / Mountain Fever Records
• Holiday Pickin' / Stanley Brothers / Selected Cuts, 1956-1959 / JSP Records
• Forty Years Of Trouble / Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass / Bluegrass Troubadour / Pinecastle
• I Call Her Sunshine / The Kody Norris Show / Rhinestone Revival / Rebel
• My Friend Clyde / Spinney Brothers / If I Were Your Brother / Self-Produced
• Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder
• The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• You Can't Buy Your Way / Northern Lights / Can't Buy Your Way / Flying Fish
• A Beautiful Life / Kathy Kallick Band / The Lonesome Chronicles / Live Oak Records
• The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Hear Jerusalem Calling / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Somewhere Beyond The Blue / Billy Blue Records
• When I Reach That Home Up There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers From Different Mothers / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/10/2024

Sunday's Bluegrass Cafe got an unexpected (to me) delayed start due to the WHUS broadcast of a UConn Women's Basketball semifinal game in the 2024 Big East Tournament.  In the days before COVID, it was not at all unusual for our showtime to be preempted during basketball season at UConn, but that hasn't happened all that often in recent years...until yesterday.  We began the show around 4:30PM, so hope you were still able to enjoy 150 minutes of Bluegrass music on Sunday afternoon.

We began our delayed program with a belated birthday tribute to the great Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo picker of The Dillards, Doug Dillard (March 6, 1937 - May 16, 2012).  Somehow or other, Doug's birthday got overlooked during our broadcast on March 3rd.  For this week, we celebrated the birthdays of Norman Blake (born March 10, 1938), as well as those of Marshall Wilborn, Raymond Fairchild, Bob Paisley, Kristin Scott Benson, Ronnie McCoury, and Tim O'Brien.

International Women's Day was celebrated on March 8th, and while we could -- and should -- devote more airtime to the music of Bluegrass Women, we took a few minutes on Sunday to belatedly celebrate a few of the fine women in Bluegrass music.  To that end, we heard music from Becky Buller, Wilma Lee Cooper, Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, Alison Krauss, Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris, Laura Orshaw, and Rhonda Vincent.  

And there was some new music to share, too, this time from a new band named Red Camel Collective, as well as newer selections from the Price Sisters, Barry Abernathy (from the forthcoming Rick Lang-penned Gospel recording), Volume Five, Darren Nicholson, Michelle Canning, the Tennessee Bluegrass Band, the Travelin' McCourys, Missy Raines & Allegheny, and Junior Sisk.

It was a busy, abbreviated show!  Sure hope you could join us, but if not this week, then I hope you'll seek out our next broadcast on Sunday, March 17th.  We should have three big hours of Bluegrass Cafe to share beginning at 4PM.

Until then, have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Dooley / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Banjo In The Hollow / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Somebody Touched Me / The Dillards / Back Porch Bluegrass / Elektra [Remembering Doug Dillard:  3/6/1937 - 5/16/2012]
• Are You Missing Me / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition / DP&CD Records
• Out In The Cold World / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1957-1958 / JSP Records
• Mama & Daddy's Little Girl / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Select Cuts, 1955-1959 / JSP Records
• You're Not A Drop In The Bucket / The Earls Of Leicester / The Earls Of Leicester / Rounder
• Roll On Mississippi / Red Camel Collective / single / Pinecastle
• There's A Song In There Somewhere / Price Sisters / Between The Lines / McCoury Music
• We Just Disagree / Volume Five / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Ain't No Sin / Darren Nicholson / single / Mountain Home
• Outside The Lines / Michelle Canning / Outside The Lines / Self-Produced
• A Man Like Me / Junior Sisk with Dan Tyminski / single / Mountain Fever Records
• Coming Down The Line / Tennessee Bluegrass Band / single / Billy Blue Records
• Silence Or Tears / Norman & Nancy Blake / Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To / Shanachie [Norman Blake birthday, 3/10/1938]
• Black Pony / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder [Marshall Wilborn birthday, 3/12/1952]
• Beer Barrel Polka / Raymond Fairchild / Little Zane / Copper Creek [Remembering Raymond Fairchild:  3/15/1939 - 10/13/2019]
• Margie / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Live In Holland / Strictly Country Records [Remembering Bob Paisley:  3/14/1931 - 11/29/2004]
• Quicksburg Rondezvous / Del McCoury Band / A Deeper Shade Of Blue / Rounder [Ronnie McCoury birthday, 3/16/1967]
• Colleen Malone / Hot Rize / Take It Home / Sugar Hill [Tim O'Brien birthday, 3/16/1954]
• Great Waterton / Kristin Scott Benson / String works / Mountain Home [Kristin Scott Benson birthday, 3/14/1976]
• You Are My Sunshine / Norman Blake / O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Lost HIghway Records [Norman Blake birthday, 3/10/1938]
• Runaway Train / The Travelin' McCourys / single / McCoury Music
• Fast Moving Train / Missy Raines & Allegheny / Highlander / Compass Records
• Foolish Heart / Alison Krauss / Bluegrass Class Of 1990 / Rounder
• Montana Cowboy / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / O Sister 2 / Rounder
• Eight More Miles / Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris & Rhonda Vincent / O Sister! / Rounder
• Another Love Gone Wrong / Becky Buller / Crepe Paper Heart / Dark Shadow Recording
• I'll Be Hurtin' Either Way / Laura Orshaw / Solitary Diamond / Dark Shadow Recording
• Poor Ellen Smith / Wilma Lee Cooper / O Sister 2 / Rounder
• Just Beyond / Barry Abernathy with John Meador, Tim Raybon & Bradley Walker / Blue Collar Gospel / Billy Blue Records
• The Mighty Name Of Jesus / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• Count Your Blessings / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / Together / Kaleidoscope Records
• Just Any Day Now / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Rock My Soul / Sugar Hill
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• I Love God's Way Of Living / White Mountain Bluegrass / Aragon Mill / Strictly Country Records
• These Men Of God / Country Gentlemen / Let The Light Shine Down / rebel
• Sweeping Through The Gates / Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass / Forty Years Of Trouble / Strictly Country Records
• I Know What You're Talking About / Lynn Morris Band / Shape Of A Tear / Rounder
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 3/3/2024

Sunday was a gorgeous, early March day with weather that made folks think spring had arrived in eastern Connecticut.  It also happened to be the 101st birth anniversary of the one and only Arthel Lane"Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 - May 29, 2012), so how could we not both start and finish our Bluegrass Cafe with loads of music from Doc's vast catalog?

Doc Watson was not the only Bluegrass Hall of Famer whose birthday was celebrated this week, though.  The great, super-unique John Duffey would have turned 90 years old this week (March 4, 1934 - December 10, 1996).  We remembered John with several selections featuring him from both the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene.

The award-winning fiddler Bronwyn Keith-Hynes also celebrated a birthday this week, so we shared music from both her first record and her forthcoming one.

And if all of that wasn't enough, we pulled out another Feature Letter of the Week.  In this case, we shared music from lots of fine "M" performers, whose last name or band name begins with the letter "M."  This means we included music from everyone from Bill Monroe to Muleskinner, Jimmy Martin to Lynn Morris, Del McCoury to Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, and many, many other fine "M" performers.  Check out the playlist for more details.

Hope you enjoyed the show, and please consider joining me once again this coming Sunday afternoon, 4-7PM for another edition of our Bluegrass Cafe.

Enjoy the week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• My Dear Old Southern Home / Doc Watson / My Dear Old Southern Home / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Columbus Stockade Blues / Doc & Richard Watson / Third Generation Blues / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• The Last Thing On My Mind / Doc Watson / Elementary Doctor Watson / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Tennessee Stud / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Doc Watson / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Highway / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• The Game / Blue Highway / The Game / Rounder
• Ashes Of Love / J.B. & Jamie Dailey / Step Back In Time / Pinecastle
• No Other Man / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Friend Of Mine / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / 20th Century Masters / MCA
• There's No Room In My Heart In My Heart For The Blues / Clyde Moody / Shenandoah Waltz / Gusto
• Philadelphia Lawyer / Rose Maddox with the Vern Williams Band / This Is Rose Maddox / Arhoolie
• Old Federal / Justin Moses / Dusty Roads / Dustygrass Records
• I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers / Mashville Brigade / Bluegrass Smash Hits, Volume 1 / Rural Rhythm
• Let Time Ride / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Let Time Ride / Billy Blue Records
• A Better Man / Dwight McCall / Kentucky Peace Of Mind / Lavenir Records
• Stompin' In The Flatlands / Alan Munde / Old Bones / Munde's Child Records
• Truck Driving Man / Jimmy Martin / The Chronological Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, 1963-1965 / Kipepeo Publishing
• Almost Proud / Del McCoury Band / Almost Proud / McCoury Music
• Dark Hollow / Muleskinner / Muleskinner Live / Sierra Records
• Walking The Blues / Lynn Morris / Mama's Hand / Rounder
• Cowboys And Indians / Jim Mills / Hide Head Blues / Sugar Hill
• Back To Dixie / McPeak Brothers / Classic Bluegrass / Rebel
• Old Lonesome Time / Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers / Venango / Copper Creek
• My, My, My / Seth Mulder & Midnight Run / In Dreams I Go Back / Mountain Fever Records
• Pitkin County Turnaround / Steve Martin / The Crow / Rounder
• If You're Ever Gonna Love Me / Leroy Mack with the Nashville Bluegrass Band / ...And Friends / Rebel
• One Way Or The Other / Benny Martin / The "Big Tiger" Roars Again, Part 2 / OMS Records
• Will You Ever Be Mine / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes with Dudley Connell / single / Sugar Petunia Records 
• Happy Hollow / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes feat. Wes Corbett / Fiddler's Pastime / Sugar Petunia Records
• The Young Fisherwoman / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Reason For Being / Seldom Scene [John Duffey] / The Rebel Years, 1962-1977 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Bringing Mary Home / Country Gentlemen / Can't You Hear Me Callin':  Early Classics, 1963-1969 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• The Boatman / Seldom Scene / Dream Scene / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Walk Out In The Rain / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Ronnie & Rob McCoury / Rounder
• Plenty Of Everything But You / Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys / Blue Grass Style / Self-Produced
• Love Please Come Home / Buddy Merriam & Back Roads / Live At The Vail-Leavitt Music  Hall / Lilypad Records
• Tall Timber / John McEuen / String Wizards / Vanguard Records
• Mom And Dad's Waltz / Tom Mindte / Something I've Been Working On / Patuxent Music
• Hello Sunshine / Merle Monroe / Songs Of A Simple Life / Pinecastle
• Making Hay / Mike Mitchell / Fathers & Sons / Turnberry Records
• There's More Pretty Girls Than One / Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys / New Horizons / Pinecastle
• Things In Life / Don Stover / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder [Remembering Don Stover:  3/6/1928 - 11/11/1996]
• I'm Working On A Road / Country Gentlemen / The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 / Rebel [Remembering John Duffey:  3/3/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• Walking My Lord (Up Calvary's Hill) / Rhonda Vincent & the Rage / Sunday Mornin' Singin' Live! / Upper Management Music
• Shouting In The Air / Johnson Mountain Boys / The Stained Glass Hour / Rounder
• I Found A Church Today / Gibson Brothers / In The Ground / Rounder
• Were You There / Seldom Scene / Scene 20 / Sugar Hill [Remembering John Duffey:  3/4/1934 - 12/10/1996]
• You Must Come In At The Door / Doc Watson / Americana Master Series:  Best Of The Sugar Hill Years / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Fill My Way With Love / Doc Watson / Every Time I Feel The Spirit / Sugar Hill [Remembering Doc Watson:  3/3/1923 - 5/29/2012]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder