January 27th, 2013

Hi All,

Today's show featured mostly new/old music I purchased during a recent stop at Cheapo Records up in the Twin Cities.

The playlist went like this...

1) Old Crow Medicine Show; Stepping Out; Carry Me Back

Three from Greg Brown's 1995 live cd called, The Live One

2) Just by myself
3) 1952 Vincent Black Lightening
4) Brand New 64 Dodge (man, what a great song)

Four from the tribute cd to The Louvin Brothers--Livin', Lovin', Losin'

5) Joe Nichols & Rhonda Vincent; Cash on the Barrelhead
6) Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell; My Baby's Gone
7) James Taylor & Allison Krauss; How's the World Treating You
8) Pam Tillis & Johnny Cash with the Jordanaires; Keep Your Eyes on Jesus

Three from the outstanding family cd from Sarah Lee Guthrie and Family, Go Waggaloo

9) Don't I Fit in My Daddy's Shoes
10) Go Waggaloo
11) Brush Your Teeth Blues

12) Lucinda Williams; Blessed; Blessed
13) Gillian Welch; Six White Horses; The Harrow & The Harvest

14) Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family; Take Me to Show and Tell; Go Waggaloo

Thanks for listening...

January 20th, 2013

Hi All,

The playlist for the 20th went like this...

1) Tony Rice; Changes; Night Flyer

2) Bob Dylan; Song to Woody; Bob Dylan
3) Bob Dylan; You're No Good; Bob Dylan
4) Bob Dylan; Talkin' New York; Bob Dylan

5) Gillian Welch; Scarlet Town; The Harrow and the Harvest
6) Gillian Welch; Dark Turn of Mind;  The Harrow and the Harvest
7) Grace Potter & the Nocturnals; Mr. Columbus; This is Somewhere
8) Grace Potter & the Nocturnals; Ain't No Time; This is Somewhere

9) City Mouse; Faithful; Goodtime Music 1973
10) Guy Clark; Somedays You Write the Song; Somedays the Song Writes You
11) Loudon Wainwright III; Things; Here Come the Choppers

12) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Face on the Cutting Room Floor; Tribute to Steve Goodman
13) John Hartford; Gentle on My Mind; Tribute to Steve Goodman
14) Rodney Crowell; Shelter from the Storm; The Outsider

15) John Prine; Please Don't Bury Me; Tribute to Steve Goodman

January 13th, 2013

Hi All,

Lots of stuff today that has been played lots of times over the years--some of my favorites from a collection of 40 songs I'm putting together for a friend who turned 40.  The playlist on the 13th went like this...

1) Redbird; Ships; Redbird (I love, love this song...haven't a clue exactly what it's all about, but it gets me every time I hear it)

2) Warren Zevon; Hit Somebody; My Ride is Here
3) Todd Snider; Good Fortune; The Excitement Plan
4) Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion; In Lieu of Flowers; Exploration

5) Richard & Linda Thompson; Hard Luck Stories; In Concert--November, 1975
6) Greg Brown; Freak Flag; Freak Flag
7) Gillian Welch; Orphan Girl; Revival
8) Drive by Truckers; George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues; The Fine Print

9) John Prine; My Old Man; A Tribute to Steve Goodman
10) Iris Dement; Go On Ahead and Go Home; Sing the Delta
11) Alejandro Escovedo; Down in the Bowery; Street Songs of Love
12) The Decemberists; I 4 U and U 4 Me; Long Live the King (home demo)

13) Robert Earl Keen; Train Song; Ready for Confetti

January 6th, 2013

Happy New Year Everyone,

I'm posting the playlist about ten minutes after the show--so far keeping my resolution to be better about getting these lists posted.  As always, thanks for listening and for supporting community radio!

Before the list...here are links to the items I mentioned on today's show...the great blog post connecting a haircut to Bruce Springsteen, the book about former champ Floyd Patterson, and the magazine article called "Frank Sinatra has a Cold"--enjoy.  Oh, and I also shared my affection for the song, The Rose--heard it the other day while putting gas in my car and am not ashamed to say I was moved.  Well, maybe kinda ashamed, but...

The playlist for the 6th went like this...

1) John Prine, Spanish Pipedream; In Person and On Stage

2) Robert Plant & Allison Krauss; Killing the Blues; Raising Sand
3) Robert Plant & Allison Krauss; Gone, Gone, Gone; Raising Sand
4) Steve Goodman; Old Fashioned; Words We can Dance To

5) The Avett Brothers; The Once and Future Carpenter; The Carpenter
6) The Avett Brothers; I Never Knew You; The Carpenter
7) Redbird; Buckets of Rain; Redbird
8) The Yellow Room Gang; Simple Faith; The Yellow Room Gang

9) Bruce Springsteen; Cadillac Ranch; The River
10) Jay Farrar and Friends; Hoping Machine; New Multitudes
11) Iris Dement; Hobo Bill's Last Ride; The Songs of Jimmie Rogers

12) Old Crow Medicine Show; Mississippi Saturday Night; Carry Me Back
13) Doc Watson; Stream of Whiskey; Doc Watson
14) Old Crow Medicine Show; Country Gal; Carry Me Back

15) Townes Van Zandt; If I Needed You; First Album

December 9th, 2012

Hi All,

Today's show featured a whole lot of Steve Goodman and John Prine--mostly because I got some great deals the other day at Oh Boy Records.

Ben Leonard guest hosts on the 16th--all Xmas and Holiday music I'm told.

The playlist for the 9th went like this...

1) John Hiatt; My Business; Mystic Pinball

2) Drive By Truckers; Like a Rolling Stone; The Fine Print
3) Bruce Springsteen; Born to Run; Born to Run
4) Keb Mo; Imagine; Peace--Back by Popular Demand

5) Steve Goodman; Six Hours Ahead of the Son; Somebody Else's Troubles
6) Steve Goodman; I'll Fly Away; Live at the Earl of Old Town
7) Steve Goodman; Don't Do Me Any Favors Any More; Somebody Else's Troubles
8) Steve Goodman; Old Smoothies; Live at the Earl of Old Town

9) John Prine; Lulu Walls; German Afernoons
10) John Prine; Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian; German Afternoons
11) John Prine; I Just Want to Dance With You; German Afternoons

12) Billy Joe Shaver; White Freightliner Blues; Poet--A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
13) Emmylou Harris; Snake Song; Poet

December 2nd, 2012

Hi All, The playlist for the 12th featured a whole lot of Warren Zevon--just in the mood, I guess. It went like this...

1) Warren Zevon; Studebaker; Preludes

2) John Hiatt; Go Down Swingin; The Open Road
3) Fred Eaglesmith; Cigarette Machine; 6 Volts
4) Guy Clark; Analog Girl; Workbench Songs

5) Iris Dement; Go on Ahead and Go Home; Sing the Delta
6) Greg Brown; Let the Mystery Be;  Freak Flag
7) Iris Dement; There's a Whole Lot of Heaven; Sing the Delta
8) Greg Brown; Where are You Going When You're Gone; Freak Flag

9) Warren Zevon; Empty Hearted Town; Preludes
10) Warren Zevon; French Inhaler; Preludes
11) Bruce Springsteen; The River; The River
12) Caroline Herring; Travelling Shoes; Camilla

13) Steve Earle; Every Part of Me; I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
14) The Decemberists; I 4U & U4 Me; Long Live the King (ep)

November 25th, 2012

The Thanksgiving weekend show was repeated from late September...an all Avett Brothers set that went like this...

1) Closing Night; Country Was

2) About Love; The Mourning, The Silver, The Bell

3) Sanguine; The Gleam

4) A Father's First Love; The Carpenter

5) If It's the Beaches; The Gleam

6) Murder in the City; The Second Gleam

7) I and Love and You; I and Love and You

8) Me and God; Carolina Jubilee

9) Swept Away (sentimental version); Mignonette

10) Famous Flower of Manhattan; Four Thieves Gone

11) The Weight of Lies; Emotionalism

12) The Once and Future Carpenter; The Carpenter

13) Tear Down the House; The Second Gleam

The show was another playlist from Troy Murphy--an old friend from Michigan who sends in a playlist every so often.  

November 11th, 2012

Hi All,

I'm gong to admit defeat on getting older playlists up...but here's the most recent one.  And thanks to everyone who contributed during the fall pledge drive--much appreciated.

The show on the 11th was designed to get everybody ready for Bruce Springsteen's dates on November 11th and November 12th up in St. Paul.  I was there on the 11th and am kicking myself for not going back on the 12th.

All Springsteen songs...

1) Cadillac Ranch; Live 1974-85

2) Wrecking Ball; Wrecking Ball
3) Death to My Hometown; Wrecking Ball
4) Youngstown; Ghost of Tom Joad
5) Born to Run; Born to Run

6) The E Street Shuffle; The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
7) The Ties That Bind; The River
8) Ain't Good Enough for You; The River
9) You Can Look but You Better Not Touch; The River

10) Reason to Believe; Nebraska
11) This Land is Your Land; Live 1975-85
12) My Oklahoma Home; The Seeger Sessions

13) It's Hard to be a Saint in the City; Greetings from Asbury Park

October 21st, 2012

Hi All,

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

1) The State Champs; Oxford Town; Duluth Does Dylan Revisited

2) Wilco; James Alley Blues; Harry Smith Project Revisited
3) Dave Alvin; Ashgrove; Ashgrove
4) Fred Eaglesmith; Livin' Out on the Road; Ralph's Last Show
5) Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion; Never Far From My Heart; Bright Examples

6) Eddie Brickell; What I Am; Shooting Ruberbands at the Stars
7) Jacob Dylan; Nothing but the Whole Wide World; Women & Country
8) Anna Coogan & North 19; Love Willy Find a Way; Glory

Three from John Hiatt's new one, Mystic Pinball

9) It All Comes Back Someday
10) Bite Marks
11) Blues Can't Even Find Me

12) Shawn Colvin; Another Long One; Steady On
13) Cowboy Junkies; If You Were a Woman and I Was a Man; Black Eyed Man

October 7th and 14th

Hey Everyone,

The October 7th show was a repeat from a couple years ago...the show featured all Guy Clark tunes.  The playlist for the 14th went like this...

1) Todd Snider; Vinyl Records; New Connection

Three songs from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. II

2) Grandpa was a Carpenter (featuring John Prine)
3) One Step Over the Line (featuring John Hiatt)
4) Will the Circle be Unbroken

5) Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer; Any Way I Do; Little Blue Egg
6) Old Crow Medicine Show; Ain't it Enough; Carry Me Back
7) Drive by Truckers; 3 Dimes Down; Brighter Than Creation's Day

8) Woody Guthrie; This Land is Your Land; Woody at 100 box set
9) Bob Dylan; Duquesne Whistle; Tempest
10) Woody Guthrie; Better World a Comin'; Woody at 100

Three songs featuring Bruce Springsteen doing back up...

11) Joe Ely; All Just to Get to You; Letter to Laredo
12) John Prine; Take a Look at My Heart; The Missing Years
13) Warren Zevon; Disorder in the House; The Wind

September 30th, 2012

Hi All,

Another playlist sent in from Troy Murphy--an old friend from Michigan. This one featured all Avett Brothers and sounded great.  It went like this...

1) Closing Night; Country Was

2) About Love; The Mourning, The Silver, The Bell
3) Sanguine; The Gleam
4) A Father's First Love; The Carpenter

5) If It's the Beaches; The Gleam
6) Murder in the City; The Second Gleam
7) I and Love and You; I and Love and You

8) Me and God; Carolina Jubilee
9) Swept Away (sentimental version); Mignonette
10) Famous Flower of Manhattan; Four Thieves Gone

11) The Weight of Lies; Emotionalism
12) The Once and Future Carpenter; The Carpenter
13) Tear Down the House; The Second Gleam

September 23rd, 2012

Hi Everyone,

Today was to be an all Avett Brothers show, but the music didn't make it with me to the studio.  So...all Avett Brothers next week.  But this week featured a playlist put together for a recent family vacation to Chicago.

It went like this...

1) Bob Dylan; Only a Hobo; The Witmark Demos

2) Ralph's World; The Funniest Joke in the World; All Around Ralph's World
3) Alejandro Escovedo; Big Station; Big Station
4) John Prine; Bottomless Lake; In Person and On Stage

5) Bruce Springsteen; Easy Money; Wrecking Ball
6) Petter Himmelman; Willa; My Lemonaid Stand
7) Robert Earl Keen; Play a Train Song; Ready for Confetti
8) Greg Brown; Freak Flag; Freak Flag

9) Tom T. Hall; Sneaky Snake; Country Songs for Children
10) Bonnie Raitt; Ain't Gonna Let You Go; Slipstream
11) Ralph's World; All Around the World; All Around Ralph's World
12) Bruce Springsteen; Death to My Hometown; Wrecking Ball

13) Robert Earl Keen; Ready for Confetti; Ready for Confetti
14) John Prine; The Frying Pan; The Singing Mailman Delivers
15) Robert Earl Keen; The Road Goes On and On; Ready for Confetti

Thanks for listening...oh, and two very important birthdays today.  My daughter turns eight and this guy turns 63.

September 16th, 2012

Hi All,

Thanks to Trent Vandertie for sitting in with me this morning.

The playlist went like this...

1) Jimmie Dale Gilmore; Pick Me Up on Your Way Down; Come on Back

2) Chris Smither; Train Home; Train Home
3) Mavis Staples; You are Not Alone; You are Not Alone
4) Billy Joe Shaver; Love is So Sweet; The Earth Rolls On

5) Bob Dylan; Duqesne Whistle; Tempest
6) Bob Dylan; Roll on John; Tempest
7) Bruce Springsteen; The E Street Shuffle; The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
8) Bruce Springsteen; Spirit in the Night; Greetings from Asbury Park

9) John Prine; Hello in There; The Singing Mailman Delivers
10) Lucinda Williams; Born to be Loved; Blessed
11) Alejandro Escovedo; Bottom of the World; Big Station

12) Uncle Tupelo; Grindstone; March 16-20, 1992
13) Wilco; Box Full of Letters; AM

September 9, 2012

You should have listened to this show for many reasons. First, it was my last day of being 36. The consequences of this have not been lost on the young people of St. Peter. Perhaps more importantly to you, this was, if I dare say so, a pretty darn good set. My name is Ben Leonard, I aprove this playlist, and it went like this:

1) Lumineers; Flowers In Your Hair; The Lumineers

2) Johnny Cash; The Man Comes Around; Unearthed
3) The Decemberists; I 4 U & U 4 Me; Long Live The King
4) The Greencards; Shinnin' In The Dark; Viridian

*** The Greencards are playing free in St. Peter @ Rockbend today (9/9/12)!!

5) Dan Bern; Oklahoma; Dog Boy Van
6) Uncle Tupelo; New Madrid; Anodyne
7) Billy Brag and Wilco; Christ For President; Mermaid Avenue II
8) Golden Smog; Pecan Pie; Down By The Old Mainstream

9) Townes [Freaking] Van Zandt; Still Looking For You; The Highway Kind
10) Graham Parsons; How Much I've Lied; GP
11) Josh Ritter; You Don't Make It Easy Babe; Hello Starling

12) John Prine and Iris DeMent; In Spite Of Ourselves; In Spite Of Ourselves
13) Hayes Carll; Another Like You; Kmag Yoyo (& Other American Stories)

14) Lyle Lovett; God Will; Anthology Vol. 1 Cowboy Man
15) Kilkenny Brothers; Seven Drunken Nights; 50 Best of St. Patrick's Day
16) Wally Pleasant; Song For Bob Dylan; Houses Of The Holy Moly

17) Bob Dylan; When The Ship Comes In; The Times They Are A-Changin'

Way Back Machine - August 19, 2012

Sorry for the delay in posting the setlist from August 19th. I wish I could tell you I've been fighting forest fires, or in a coma, or trapped under something heavy. Alas, it's no more than a good ol' fashion case of procrastination. A late post is a sad post, and this post is very sad indeed.

At any rate. Here was my (Ben Leonard's) guest spot on August 19, 2012. It went like this:

1)  Old Crow Medicine Show; Steppin' Out; Carry Me Back

2)  The Honeydogs; Aubben; What Comes After
3)  They Might Be Giants; They'll Need a Crane; They'll Need a Crane
4)  Regina Spektor; Don't Leave Me; What We Saw From The Cheap Seats

5)  Tallest Man On Earth; Criminals; There's No Leaving Now
6)  Middle Brother; Wilderness; Middle Brother
7)  Uncle Tupelo; Still Be Around; Still Be Around

8)   Lila Nelson; Jeannette; Still Got The Farm
9)   Christina Courtin; Foreign Country; Foreign Country
10) Haley Bonar; Am I Allowed; The Size of Planets

11)  Those Darlins; Red Light Love; Those Darlins
12) Loretta Lynn; This Old House; This Old House
13) Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles; Puget Sound; Heat

14) Cake; Palm of Your Hand; Pressure Chief
15) Jerry Jeff Walker; Gettin' By; Viva Terlingua
16) Todd Snider; The Very Last Time; Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables

17) Rilo Kiley; Go Ahead; Take Offs and Landings

August 26th, 2012

Hi All,

The playlist for the 26th went like this...

1) Bruce Springsteen; We Take Care of Our Own; Wrecking Ball

**I'm reading this right now and really liking it.  This is pretty darn good, too.

2) Lead Belly; Irene; Where Did You Sleep Last Night
3) Lead Belly; Pick a Bale of Cotton; Where Did You Sleep Last Night
4) The Wallin' Jennys; Glory Bound; Firecracker
5) Caroline Herring; Fireflies; Camilla

6) Michael Perry and the Longbeds; Tiny Pilot
**Michael Perry's new book is out!  They're always great...

7) Tim Hardin; Tribute to Hank Williams; Hang on to a Dream
8) The Devil Makes Three; Do Wrong Right; Do Wrong Right
9) The Low Anthem; Keep on the Sunny Side; What the Crow Brings

10) Tom Russell; Muhammad Ali; Modern Art
11) Warren Zevon; Boom Boom Mancini; Learning to Flinch
12) Pete Seeger; Who Killed Davey Moore; The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert

Three from Uncle Tupelo's March 16-20. 1992

13) Atomic Power
14) Grindstone
15) Criminals

16) Gurf Morlix; If I could Fly; Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream

August 5th, 2012

Hi All,

All songs on today's show were selected by Troy Murphy--an old friend from the great state of Michigan.

The playlist went like this...

1) Steve Martin; Clawhammer Medley; The Crow

2) Elliott Brood; Northern Air; Days into Years
3) Elliott Brood; The Valley Town; Mountain Meadows
4) The Decemberists; I4U & U4ME; Long Live the King--EP

5) The Decemberists; E. Watson; Long Live the King--EP
6) Old Crow Medicine Show; We Don't Grow Tobacco; Carry Me Back
7) Old Crow Medicine Show; Down Home Girl; Big Iron World

8) Donovan; Catch the Wind; Catch the Wind
9) Eddie Vedder; Rise; Into the Wild
10) Grace Potter & the Nocturnals; Ain't No Time; This is Somewhere
11) Graham Parker; I Discovered America; Don't Tell Columbus

12) The Avett Brothers; Love Like the Movies; Live Vol. 2
13) Steve Martin; Pretty Flowers; The Crow
14) The Low Anthem; Keep on the Sunny Side; What the Crow Brings

July 22nd and 29th

Hi Everyone,

Today's show aired last week as well--sorry about that.  I had a couple technical problems in the month of July.  Hope you enjoyed the music all the same.

The playlist for the 22nd and 29th went like this...

1) Rodney Crowell; I'm a Mess; Kin

2) Bruce Springsteen; Wrecking Ball; Wrecking Ball
3) Dawes; My Way Back Home; Nothing is Wrong
4) Ryan Adams; Lovesick Blues; Timeless

5) Patty Griffin; The Cape; This One's for Him
6) Guy Clark; Black Diamond Strings; Dublin Blues
7) Lyle Lovett; Sold American; Why the Hell Not...

Three from Bonnie Riatt's new one, Slipstream

8) Used to Rule the World
9) Right Down the Line
10) Marriage Made in Hollywood

11) The Black Swans; Basket of Light
12) The Three Pickers; What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul; The Three Pickers
13) John Prine; Sour Grapes; The Singing Mailman Delivers

July 8th, 2012

Hi All,

The playlist for the 8th went like this...

1) Caroline Herring; Traveling Shoes; Camilla

**Thanks to Phil Molling for stopping by to play a couple songs from The Tinderbox.

2) The Tinderbox; The Northern Ways
3) The Tinderbox; Our Praise

4) Sam Bush; Riden' That Bluegrass Train; Laps in Seven
5) Trampled by Turtles; Midnight on the Interstate; Stars and Satellites
6) Sam Bush; Laps in Seven; Laps in Seven

Three from Rodney Crowell's new one, Kin

7) My Father's Advice
8) Anything But Tame
9) I'm a Mess

10) Alejandro Escovedo; Down in the Bowery; Street Songs of Love
11) Alejandro Escovedo; Man of the World; Big Station
12) Peter Wolf (with Neko Case); The Green Fields of Summer; Midnight Souvenirs

13) Greg Brown; Someday House; Freak Flag

July 3rd 2012

Hi All,

I've been out of town for much of June--had a couple of new shows and a couple of repeat episodes.  I'm back in town for most of July and will be posting new playlists starting with July 6th's show.  As always, thanks for listening.

Dave