Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Decmeber 28th, 2014

Hi Everyone,

The last playlist for 2014 came from releases on the year-end No Depression Reader's Poll.  The playlist went like this. 

1) Sturgill Simpson; Voices; Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

2) Sturgill Simpson; Turtles all the Way Down; Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
3) Sturgill Simpson; Life of Sin; Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
4) Lucinda Williams; Protection; Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
5) Lucinda Williams; East Side of Town; Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

6) Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin; All by Myself; Common Ground--Songs of Big Bill Broonzy
7 Hurray for the Riff Raff; Good Time Blues; Small Town Heroes
8) Drive by Truckers; First Air of Autumn; Crossing English Oceans

9) Justin Townes Earle; Worried About the Weather; Single Mothers
10) Richard Thompson; Walking On a Wire; Acoustic Classics (not on the list, but should have been)
11) John Hiatt; Come Back Home; Terms of My Surrender
12) John Hiatt; Long Time Comin'; Terms of My Surrender

13) Rodney Crowell; Fever on the Bayou; Tarpaper Sky
14) Sturgill Simpson; Long White Line; Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

Thursday, December 18, 2014

December 21st, 2014

Hi Everyone,

Last week was an encore presentation of the Dylan show from late November of this year. 

This week's show went like this...

1) Townes Van Zandt; Colorado Bound; In the Beginning...

Four from the recent special music issue of the Oxford American

2) Billy Joe Shaver; Hill Country Love Song
3) JT "Funny Paper" Smith; Fool's Blues
4) Joe Ely; You Can Bet I'm Gone
5) Ruthie Foster; Death Came A-Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes)

6) Bob Dylan; Here Comes Santa Clause; Christmas in the Heart
7) John Mellencamp; I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause; A Very Special Christmas vol. 1
8)Suzy Bogguss; Beautiful Dreamer; American Folk Songbook
9) Patty Griffin; Go Wherever You Want to Go; American Kid

10) The Avett Brothers; Spanish Pipedream; Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows (John Prine tribute)
11) Jamestown Revival; Paradise; The California EP
12) Guy Clark; The Carpenter; Live from Dixie's Bar and Bus Stop

13) Bob Dylan; O' Little Town of Bethlehem; Christmas in the Heart
14) Iris Dement; Fill My Way with Love; Lifeline
15) Indigo Girls; Your Holiday Song; Holly Happy Days

16) Old Crow Medicine Show; Ain't it Enough; Carry Me Back

Sunday, December 07, 2014

December 7, 2014

Hi All,

Today's show featured just one release--Badlands:  A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Got to thinking about Bruce this week after this...

November 30, 2014

Hi All,

All Bob Dylan today...playlist went like this.

1) Wiggle Wiggle; Under a Red Sky

2) Something There is About You; Planet Waves
3) Dark Eyes; Empire Burlesque
4) Mississippi; "Love and Theft"

5) Don't Fall Apart on Me; Infidels
6) Shooting Star; Oh Mercy
7) Queen Jane Approximately; Dylan and the Dead

8) Working Man's Blues #2; Modern Times
9) World Gone Wrong; World Gone Wrong
10) Forever Young; Side Tracks

11) Changing of the Guards; Street Legal