April 22nd, 2007

Hi All,

Don't know about you, but I've been going back and glancing over a little Kurt Vonnegut. Hope the kids keep reading him in school for a very long time. Maybe they should start a whole Vonnegut section on those little tests all of em' are taking these days.

Ok...to the music...here's the playlist for the 22nd--a whole hour of stuff from tribute releases.

1) Shawn Colvin & Loudon Wainwright III; A Heart Needs a Home; Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson

2) Cowboy Jack Clement & Pam Tillis; Let's All Help the Cowboys; Lonesome, On'ry and Mean: A Tribute to Waylon Jennings
3) Dave Alvin; Kern River; West of the West
4) Lucinda Williams & David Crosby; Return of the Grievous Angel; Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons

5) Jimmy LaFave; This Land is Your Land; Pastures of Plenty: An Austin Celebration of Woody Guthrie
6) Dave Alvin; On My Way Downtown; A Case for Case: A Tribute to the Songs of Peter Case
7) Hayes Carll; Beyond the Blues; A Case for Case

8) Ani DiFranco; Used Cars; A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
9) Norah Jones; The Grass is Blue; Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton
10) Bobby Bare, Radney Foster, Buck Owens & Jeff Tweedy; Take This Job and Shove It; Touch My Heart: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck
11) Lyle Lovett; Sold American; Why the Hell Not...The Songs of Kinky Friedman

12) Guy Clark; To Live is to Fly; Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
13) John Prine; Souvenirs; Tribute to Steve Goodman