December 17th, 2017

Hi All,

The playlist for the 17th went like this...

1) Greg Brown; Morning Coffee; If I Had Known

2) Bob Dylan; Winder Wonderland; Christmas in the Heart
3) Brandi Carlile; Wherever is Your Heart; The Firewatcher's Daughter
4) Sarah Jarosz; House of Mercy; Undercurrent

Here's a link to the documentary I mentioned on the show--I really enjoyed it.  The Parking Lot Movie

And one more...Levitated Mass

5) Warren Zevon; My Ride's Here; My Ride's Here
6) Jason Isbell; Hope the High Road; The Nashville sound
7) Lilly Hiatt; Trinity Lane; Trinity Lande

8) Indigo Girls; The Holiday Song
9) Otis Redding; Merry Christmas Baby; Pure Southern Soul
10) Greg Tropper; Muhammad Ali (the Meaning of Christmas); Christmas Americana

11) Lawrence Welk; Friendly Tavern Polka; The Essential Tavern Polka (one for dad)
12) Patty Griffin; Go Wherever You Want to Go; American Kid
13) Bob Dylan; That Lucky Old Son; Shadows in the Night

14) The Avett Brothers; Spanish Pipedream; Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows
15) John Prine; Silver Bells; A John Prine Christmas

December 10th, 2017

Hi Everyone,

The show has been going strong, but the blog not so much.  Couldn't get into the darn program with the darn new computer.  You know the story.  But let's try it again.

The setlist for the 10th of December went like this...

1) Brandi Carlile; Keep Your Heart Young; Bear Creak

2) Chris Stapleton; Millionaire; From A Room Vol. II
3) JD McPherson; Style (is a losing game); Undivided Heart and Soul
4) Shovels & Rope with JD McPherson; Nothing Takes the Place of You; Busted Juke Box

5) Warren Zevon; The Indifference of Heaven; Mutineer
6) The Tallest Man on Earth; Love is All; The Wild Hunt
7) Lucinda Williams; Sweet Old World; Sweet Old World

8) Bob Dylan; Lay Down Your Weary Tune; Biograph
9) Bob Dylan; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Biograph
10) Drive by Truckers; George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues; The Fine Print

11) Esme Patterson; Never Chase a Man; Woman. to Woman
12) Esme Patterson; No River; We Were Wild
13) Esme Patterson; Francine; We Were Wild

14) Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires; Mutineer; Sea Songs

June 11th, 2017

Spent the entire morning with Bob and his new release, Triplicate

The playlist went like this...

1) Braggin'

2) Sentimental Journey
3) As Time Goes By
4) Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans

5) Imagination
6) How Deep is the Ocean
7) The Best is Yet to Come

8) September of My Years
9) I Could Have Told You
10) Once Upon a Time
11) Stormy Weather

12) Day In, Day Out
13) I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night
14) Somewhere Along the Way

15) There's a Flaw in my Flue
16) Why Was I Born

May 28th, 2017

The playlist for the 28th went like this...

1) The Allman Brothers Band; Ain't Waistin' No More Time; Eat a Peach

2) Blitzen Trapper; Working on the Highway; Dead Man's Town
3) Linda Ronstadt; Hasten Down the Wind; Hasten Down the Wind
4) Warren Zevon; Splendid Isolation; Learning to Flinch

5) Townes Van Zandt; To Live is to Fly; Sunshine Boy
6) Son Volt; The Storm; Notes of Blue
7) Shovels and Rope; This Ride; Little Seeds

8) Slightly longer version of this "Happy Birthday Bob" piece from 2016
9) Bob Dylan; Queen Jane Approximately (Take 5); The Cutting Edge

10) The Allman Brothers Band; Melissa; Eat a Peach
11) The Allman Brothers Band; Statesboro Blues; At the Fillmore East
12) The Allman Brothers Band; Don't Keep Me Wondering'; At the Fillmore East

13) Billy Bragg & Wilco; California Stars; Mermaid Avenue

May 21st, 2017

The playlist for the 21st went like this...

1) James McMurtry; Copper Canteen; Complicated Game

2) Jason Isbell; Hope the High Road; That Nashville Sound
3) Ryan Adams; Prisoner; Prisoner
4) William Elliott Whitmore; Who Stole the Soul; Animals in the Dark

5) Merle Haggard; If I Could Fly
6) Bonnie "Prince" Billy; The Fugitive; Best Troubadour
7) Willie Nelson; He Won't Ever Be Gone; God's Problem Child

8) Chris Stapleton; Broken Halos; From a Room. Vol. 1
9) Sarah Shook & the Disarmers; Keep the Home Fires Burnin'
10) Angaleena Presley; American Middle Class; American Middle Class

11) Bruce Robison & The Back Porch Band; Long Time Comin'; Bruce Robison & The Back Porch Band
12) Old Crow Medicine Show; I Want You; 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde

May 7th, 2017

Hi All,

The playlist for May 7th went like this...

1) Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion; When the Lilacs are in Bloom; Folksong

2) Willie Nelson; Still Not Dead; God's Problem Child
3) Rodney Crowell; East Houston Blues; Close Ties
4) Bob Dylan; New Morning; New Morning

5) Old Crow Medicine Show; Sad Eyed Lady of the Low Lands; 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde

6) Alison Krauss; Gentle on My Mind; Windy City
7) Shovels and Rope; St. Anne's Parade; Little Seeds
8) Jason Isbell; Flagship; Something More than Free

9) Warren Zevon; Hit Somebody; My Ride's Here
10) Shawn Colvin; Tenderness on the Block; Fat City

11) Bob Dylan; Things Have Changed; Wonder Boys Soundtrack

April 30th, 2017

Hi Everyone,

Hey...thanks for the huge help on the pledge drive.  Something like $42,000 raised.  Way above our goal. Much appreciated.

The playlist for the 30th went like this...

1) Joe Pug; Bright Beginnings; Windfall

2) Ray Davies; Americana; Americana
3) Steve Earle; San Antonio Girl; Live from Austin Texas
4) Charlie Parr; Over the Red Cedar; Stumpjumper

Side Two from Old Crow Medicine Show's brand new Blonde on Blonde

5) I Want You
6) Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
7) Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
8) Just Like a Woman

9) Rodney Crowell; Nashville 1972; Close Ties
10) Tom T. Hall; Balled of Forty Dollars; The Definitive Connection
11) Lucinda Williams; Nothin'; Poet:  A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
12) Guy Clark; Hemingway's Whiskey; Best of the Dualtone Years

13) Buddy and Julie Miller; The River's Gonna Run; Buddy & Julie Miller

April 16th, 2017

Hi All,

The playlist for Easter Sunday went like this...

1) John Prine; Just Waitin'; For Better, For Worse

2) Loretta Lynn; Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven; Full Circle
3) Margo Price; Weekender; Midwest Farmer's Daughter
4) Robert Earl Keen; Daddy Had a Buick; Bigger Piece of the Sky

5) Rodney Crowell; Ain't Over Yet; Close Ties
6) Rosanne Cash; Sea of Heartbreak; The List
7) Fred Eaglesmith; The Cold War; Falling Stars and Broken Hearts

8) Bill Bragg; Sing Their Souls Back Home; Mr. Love and Justice
9) Shovels and Rope (with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band); Perfect Day; Busted Jukebox (Vol. 1)
10) John Hiatt; I Love That Girl; Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns

11) Bob Dylan; Queen Jane Approximately; The Cutting Edge
12) Loudon Wainwright; Older Than My Old Man Now; Older Than My Old Many Now
13) Leo Kottke; Why Can't You Fix My Car; My Father's Face

14) Guy Clark; Time; The Best of the Dualtone Years

April 9th, 2017

Playlist for the 9th went like this...

1) Bob Dylan; If You Ever Go to Houston; Together Through Life

2) Alison Krauss; Gentle on My Mind; Windy City
3) Greg Brown; Freak Flag; Freak Flag
4) John Prine; That's How Every Empire Falls; Fair and Square (extra stuff)

5) Margo Price; Hurtin' (on the bottle); Midwest Farmer's Daughter
6) Amanda Shires; Harmless; My Piece of Land
7) Rosanne Cash; I'm Movin' On; The List

8) Parker Millsap; Hades Pleades; The Very Last Day
9) Mandolin Orange; Hey Stranger; Blindfaller
10) Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers; Tired Worker's Song; Starlight Hotel

11) Guy Clark; Maybe I Can Paint of That; The Best of the Dualtone Years
12) John Hiatt; Like Your Dad Did;

April 2nd

Hi Everyone,

The playlist on the 2nd went like this...

1) Bob Dylan; The Best is Yet to Come; Triplicate

2) Dead Man Winter; Destroyer; Furnace
3) Son Volt; BackAgainst the Wall; Notes of Blue
4) Jason Isbell; If it Takes a Lifetime; Something More than Free

5) Richard and Linda Thompson; Together Again; I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (Live)
6) Shovels & Rope (with Shakey Graves); Unknown Legend; Busted Jukebox vol. 1
7) Steve Martin & Edie Brickell; When You Get to Asheville; Love Has Come for You

8) Lambchop; Six O'Clock News; Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows--Songs of John Prine
9) Alejandro Escovedo; Suit of Lights; Burn Something Beautiful
10) Charlie Parr; Over the Red Cedar; Stumpjumper

11) Billy Bragg & Joe Henry; Lonesome Whistle; Shine a Light
12) Blaze Foley; Clay Pigeons; Wanted More Dead than Alive
13) Brandi Carlile; Mainstream Kid; The Firewalker's Daughter

14) Bob Dylan; Once Upon a Time; Triplicate

March 26, 2017

Hi Everyone,

New shows every week...new posts not so much.  But the show on March 26th went like this...

1) Fred Eaglesmith; At Your Door; Standard

2) Guy Clark; The Last Hobo (unreleased demo); The Best of the Dualtone Years
3) Guy Clark; Time (unreleased demo); The Best of the Dualtone Years
4) Bob Dylan; That Lucky Old Son; Shadows in the Night

5) Steve Earle; Hillbilly Highway; Live from Austin TX
6) Jason Isbell and Elizabeth Cook; Tecumseh Valley
7) Mirinda Lambert; Greyhound Bound for Nowhere; Kerosene

8) Holly Williams; No Surrender; Dead Man's Town
9) Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion; In Lieu of Flowers; Folksong (Live)
10) Keb Mo; More Than One Way Home; The Hot Pink Album

11) Wilco; One Hundred Years From Now; Return of the Grievous Angel
12) Chris Smither; Killing the Blues; Live at Caffe Lena
13) Peter Case; A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today; Tulare Dust

14) Fred Eaglemith; Mr. Rainbow; Standard

February 26th, 2017

Hi All,

Eddie Engen sat in today as guest host...nice job buddy!



The playlist went like this...

1) Son Volt; Promise the World; Notes of Blue

2) Curtis McMurtry; Ghost in My Bed; Respectable Enemy
3) James McMurtry; Where's Johnny; Candyland
4) Shovels & Rope; Johhny Come Outside; Little Seeds

5) Robert Earl Keen & Lyle Lovett; This Old Porch; Live Dinner Reunion
6) Sturgill Simpson; Keep it Between the Lines; A Sailor's Guide to Earth
7) Brandi Carlile; Hard Way Home; Bear Creek

8) Bob Dylan; I was Young When I Left Home; No Direction Home Soundtrack
9) My Morning Jacket; Leaving on a Jet Plane; The Music is You:  A Tribute to John Denver
10) John Prine; Clay Pigeons; Fair and Square

11) Margo Price; About to Find Out; Midwest Farmer's Daughter
12) Jimmie Dale Gilmore and the Flatlanders; Dallas; Jimmie Dale Gilmore and the Flatlanders

13) Fred Eaglesmith; Bob's Dogs and Burgs; The Official Bootleg Collection Vol. 2

February 19th, 2017

Hi All,

Related and not so related to the program is an important new audio series from John Biewen and Duke University's Center for documentary studies--Seeing White.  Hope you might give it a listen...and pass it around.

The playlist for the 19th went like this...

1) Joan Baez & Emmylou Harris; Hard Times Come Again No More; Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration

2) Bobby Rush; I Don't Want Nobody Hanging Around; Porcupine Meat
3) Gurf Morlix; Deeper Down; The Soul and the Heat
4) Lyle Lovett; Rollin' By; Step Inside This House

Three from Jason Isbell...he's in the Cities on July 7th!

5) Tour of Duty; Live in Alabama
6) Flying Over Water; Southeastern
7) Flagship; Something More than Free

8) Sarah Jarosz; Back of My Mind; Undercurrent
9) Esme Patterson; Never Chase a Man; Woman to Woman
10) Emmylou Harris; From Boulder to Birmingham; Anthology

11) Chris Stapelton; Parachute; Traveller
12) Buddy Miller; That's How I Got to Memphis; Your Love and Other Lies
13) Shakey Graves (with Esme Patterson); Dearly Departed; And the War Came

February 4th, 2017

The playlist for the 4th went like this...

1) Iris Dement; Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day; My Life

2) Gurf Morlix; Quicksilver Kiss; The Soul and the Heal
3) Margo Price; How the Mighty Have Fallen; Midwest Farmer's Wife
4) Hayes Carll; Sake of the Song; Lovers and Leavers

5) Chris Knight; It Ain't Easy Being Me; Chris Knight
6) James McMurtry; Off and Running; Where'd You Hide the Body
7) Esme Patterson; Feel Right; We Were Wild

8) Richard and Linda Thompson; Down Where the Drunkards Roll; I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
9) Robert Earl Keen; Corpus Christi Bay; Live at the Ryman
10) Shovels and Rope & JD McPherson; Nothing Takes the Place of You
11) Warren Zevon; Desperados Under the Eaves; Warren Zevon

12) John Hiatt; Circle Back; Beneath This Rough Exterior
13) Todd Snider Vinyl Records; New Connection

January 29th, 2017

Hi All,

The playlist for the 29th went like this...

1) Bob Dylan; She Belongs to Me (Take one); The Cutting Edge

2) Alejandro Escovedo; San Antonio Rain; Big Station
3) Gillian Welch; Orphan Girl; Boots No. 1
4) Kris Kristofferson; This Old Road; This Old Road

Three from Margo Price's Midwest Farmer's Daughter...she'll be at First Avenue on Saturday, April 8th

5) Hands of Time
6) Four Years of Chances
7) World's Greatest Loser

8) Mary Tyler Moore Theme Song
9) Barbara Kessler; Mary Tyler Moore; Stranger to This Land
10) Rhiannon Giddens & Iron and Wine; Forever Young; From the NBC Show Parenthood (which is awesome by the way...miss that show)
11) Lucinda Williams; Car Wheels on a Gravel Road; Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

12) Shovels and Rope; I Know (kitchen demo); Little Seeds
13) Shovels and Rope with Shakey Graves; Unknown Legend;
14) William Elliott Whitmore; Hell or High Water; Animals in the Dark

January 22, 2017

Hi Everyone,

A belated happy new year.  We're still going here at LTYF.  Playlist for today went like this...

1) William Elliott Whitmore; Healing to Do; Radium Death

2) Leonard Cohen; You Want it Darker; You Want it Darker
3) Lucinda Williams; Blessed; iTunes live at SXSW
4) Robert Earl Keen; I'm Coming Home; Live at the Ryman

Side two of Guy Clark's first release Ol No. 1

5) Texas-1947
6) Desperados Waiting for the Train
7) Like a Coat from the Cold
8) Instant Coffee Blues
9) Let Him Roll

And then...side two of John Prine's most recent release, For Better or Worse

10) Fifteen Years Ago (with Lee Ann Womack)
11) Cold Cold Heart (with Miranda Lambert)
12) Dreaming my Dreams (with Kathy Mattea)
13) Mental Cruelty (with Kacey Musgraves)
14) Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be (with Iris Dement)
15) My Happiness (with Fiona Prine)