August 28th, 2016

Hi All,

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

1) Wilco; James Alley Blues; The Harry Smith Project Revisited

2) Los Lobos; Down Where the Drunkards Roll; Beat the Retreat--Tribute to Richard Thompson
3) Graham Parker; The Madness of Love; Beat the Retreat
4) Bonnie Riatt; When the Spell is Broken; Beat the Retreat

5) Lucinda Williams; Mama You're Sweet; West
6) Ryan Adams and the Cardinals; Magnolia Mountain; Cold Roses
7) Billy Joe Shaver; White Freightliner Blues; Poet--Tribute to Townes Van Zandt

8) John Prine; Mexican Home; Sweet Revenge
9) John Prine; Baby Let's Play House; Pink Cadillac
10) John Prine; Long Monday; Fair and Square

11) John Hiatt; We're Alright Now; Mystic Pinball
12) Bruce Springsteen; Because the Night; The Promise

August 21st, 2016

Hi All,

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

1) Bob Dylan; Mutineer; Enjoy Every Sandwich

2) Warren Zevon; Mohamed's Radio; Stand in the Fire
3) Zoe Muth and the Lost Highlight Ramblers; Starlight Hotel; Starlight Hotel

4) Fred Eaglesmith; Cumberland County; Official Bootleg Series Vol. I
5) Wilco; If Ever was a Child; Schmilco
6) Sara Watkins; Young in all the Wrong Ways; Young in all the Wrong Ways

7) Buddy Miller; With God on Our Side; Universal United House of Prayer
8) Bob Dylan; North Country Blues; Live at Carnegie Hall 1963

**Can't seem to find what songs 9 and 10 were...but they were there

11) Shawn Colvin; Tenderness on the Block;  Fat City

August 7th, 2016

Hi All,

Talked quite a bit today about a new book I'm reading--Warren Zevon:  Desperado of Los Angeles.  Very much worth a read.  Great stuff.

Today's show, partly inspired by the book, went like this...

1) Bob Dylan; Baby I'm in the Mood for You; Sidetracks (I'd mean to start the show with this one, but technical problems led me to a pretty darn good replacement).

2) Steve Earle and Shawn Colvin; Ruby Tuesday; Colvin & Earle
3) Terry Allen; Old Friends; This One's for Him
4) Greg Brown; Good Morning Coffee; If I Had Known...

5) Shawn Colvin; Tenderness on the Block; Fat City
6) Jordan Zevon; Studebaker; Insides Out
7) Rachel Stamp; Carmelita; Hurry Home Early:  The Songs of Warren Zevon
8) Vitamin String Quartet; I Was in the House When the House Burned Down; The String Quartet Tribute to Warren Zevon:  Dad, get me out of this!

9) Redbird; Ships; Redbird
10) Robert Earl Keen; Laughing River; The Rose Hotel
11) Iris Dement; Fifty Miles of Elbow Room; Infamous Angel

12) James McMurtry; Paint by Numbers; Too Long in the Wasteland
13) Warren Zevon; My Ride is Here; My Ride is Here

July 31st, 2016

Hi Everyone,

Ok...it's time to get back to the blog.  The show has been on the air all of 2016--indeed, we are in our 13th year now.  I just stopped posting here...but back to it.

The playlist for the 31st went like this...

1) Margaret Glaspy; Emotions and Math; Emotions and Math

2) JD McPherson; Let the Good Times Roll; Let the Good Times Roll
3) Billy Bragg and Joe Henry; The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore; Shine a Light:  Field Recordings From the Great American Railroad
4) Mavis Staples; What Are They Doing in Heaven Today; One True Vine

5) Loudon Wainwright III; Old Paint; The 78 Project
6) Charlie Robison; Feelin' Good Again; Beautiful Day
7) Keb Mo; Tell Everybody I Know; The Hot Pink Blues

8) Bob Dylan; Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum; Love and Theft
90 Adele; Make You Feel My Love; Chimes of Freedom
10) Alabama Shakes; Don't Want to Fight; Sound and Color

11) Robert Earl Keen; Corpus Christi Bay; Bigger Piece of the Sky
12) John Prine (with Iris Dement); Whose Gonna Take the Garbage Out; For Better or Worse
13) John Prine (with Mac Wiseman); I Love You Because; Standard Songs for Average People

**Special thanks guest host Eddie Engen