November 30th, 2008

Hi All,

Had another new show on this week...and once again seem to have misplaced the playlist. Perhaps a good New Year's resolution on my end will be to keep better track of these darn things. I do know the show featured three songs from the new Jonatha Brooke cd, The Works. It's an excellent new release featuring previously unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics arranged and performed by Brooke.

The project and performer were recently featured on NPR 's Weekend Edition

November 23rd, 2008

Hi All,

The show for the 23rd went like this...

1) Old Crow Medicine Show; Take Em' Away; Old Crow Medicine Show

2) James McMurtry; Just Us Kids; Just Us Kids
3) Syd Straw & Evan Dando; For Shame of Doing Wrong; Beat the Retreat
4) Billy Bragg; I Keep Faith; Mr. Love & Justice

5) Old Crow Medicine Show; Highway Halo; Tennessee Pusher
6) Keith Sykes; Pictures; Let it Roll
7) Donnie Fritts & Waylon Jennings; A Damn Good Country Song; Everybody's Got a Song

8) Lucinda Williams; It's a Long Way to the Top; Little Honey
9) Lucinda Williams; Real Love; Honey Baby
10) Bob Dylan; Tangled Up in Blues; Live 1975
11) Warren Zevon; Numb as a Statue; The Wiind

12) Lyle Lovett; Don't Cry a Tear; It's Not Big, It's Large

Thanks for listening...

November 16th, 2008

Hi All,

Today's show was a repeat from this past August. We'll be back next week with a new show. Below is the original blog entry for the show that re-aired today...

On today's show I mentioned a book I'm finding quite interesting--Why We Hate Us by Dick Meyer. I learned of it through this interview on NPR.

The show today featured seven of my favorite records--cds I still find myself listening to in their entirety--year-after year...

1) Dave Alvin; What I'm Worth; King of California

2) Steve Goodman; You're the Girl I Love; Live Wire
3) Dave Alvin; King of California; King of California
4) Steve Goodman; The One That Got Away; Live Wire

5) John Hiatt; Back of My Mind; Stolen Moments
6) Waylon Jennings; Stop the World; Waylon Live
7) John Hiatt; One Kiss; Stolen Moments
8) Waylon Jennings; It's Not Supposed to be That Way; Waylon Live

9) Lyle Lovett; This Porch; Lyle Lovett
10) Wilco; Box of Letters; A.M.
11) Lyle Lovett; Can't Resist It; Lyle Lovett
12) Wilco; Must be High; A.M.

13) Warren Zevon; The Vast Indifference of Heaven; Learning to Flinch
14) Warren Zevon; Hasten Down the Wind; Learning to Flinch

November 9th, 2008

Hi All,

Talked a fair amount today about Studs Terkel who passed away on October 31st at the age of 96. Here's a link to the Chicago Historical Society's "Conversations with America" featuring a very good series of video conversations with Studs. And here's a story from the Chicago Tribune looking back on his life and an NPR story doing the same.

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

1) Woody Guthrie; Talking Hard Work; Ash Recordings Vol. I

2) Arlo Guthrie; City of New Orleans; Tribute to Steve Goodman
3) Steve Goodman; Don't Fence Me In; The Easter Tapes
4) Eric Noden; Down by the Riverside; Old Town School of Folk Music Vol. II

5) Vince Gill; Some Things Never Get Old; These Days
6) Anna Coogan & North 19; Love Will Find a Way; Glory
7) Jimmy Dale Gilmore & Lucinda Williams; Reunion; Spinning Around the Sun
8) The Derailers; The Wheel; Geniune

Three Songs from the new Old Crow Medicine Show Release, Tennessee Pusher

9) Highway Halo
10) Always Lift Him Up and Never Put Him Down
11) That Evening Sun

Three Songs from the Red House 25--(see Nov. 2nd entry below for link to the cd)

12) Kate Mackenzie; Past the Point of Rescue
13) Dave Moore; Lets Take Our Time and Do
14) Lynn Miles; 8 Hour Drive

November 2nd, 2008

Hi All,

1) Todd Snider; Is This Thing Working?, Peace Queer

2) Kate Campbell & John Prine; Looking for Jesus; Save the Day
3) John Prine & Iris Dement; In Spite of Ourselves; In Spite of Ourselves
4) John Prine & Steve Goodman; Souvenirs; Live

5) Keb Mo; The Times They are a Changin'' Peace--Back by Popular Demand
6) Jimmy Lafave; Shining on Through; Blue Nightfall
7) The Yellow Room Gang; Yellow Room Gang Vol. I

Four songs from Red House 25--A Celebration of Red House Records' 25th Anniversary

8) Greg Brown; Who Woulda Thunk it
9) Spider John Koerner; The St. James Infirmary
10) John Gorka; Raven in the Storm
11) Somebody's Home; Lucy Kaplansky

12) Levon Helm; Feelin' Good; Dirt Farmer
13) Charlie Louvin; Waiting for a Train; Charlie Louvin
14) Charlie Louvin; Great Atomic Power; Charlie Louvin
15) Nanci Griffith; Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound; Other Voices/Other Rooms

October 26th, 2008

Hi All,

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

1) Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash; Girl from the North Country; Nashville Sklyline

2) Loudon Wainwright III; Grey in LA; Strange Weirdos
3) John Hiatt; Have a Little Faith in Me; Hiatt Alive in Budokan
4) Kate Campbell; Everybody Knows Elvis; Save the Day

5) James McMurtry (with Joe Ely); Slew Foot; Childish Things
6) Buck Owens; Act Naturally; Greatest Hits
7) Iris Dement; Fill My Way with Love; Lifeline

8) Bruce Springsteen; Atlantic City; Nebraska
9) Bruce Springsteen; Atlantic City; Live in Dublin
10) Bruce Springsteen; Highway Patrolman; Nebraska
11) Bruce Springsteen; Highway Patrolman; Live in Dublin

12) Old Crow Medicine Show; Caroline; Tennessee Pusher
13) The Walin' Jennys; Things that you Know; Our Side of Town--Red House Sampler

October 19, 2008

Still searching for the playlist...was the second of two pledge drive shows. Thanks to everybody who supported the station during our fall drive.

October 12th, 2008

Hi All,

The playlist for the 12th went like this...

1) Iris Dement; Let the Mystery Be; Infamous Angel

2) Greg Brown; Smell of Coffee; Milk of the Moon
3) Ben Glaros; Coffee would be Great; Love Song Roulette
4) Guy Clark; Instant Coffee Blues; Old No. 1

5) Cherryholmes; Can Only Love You So Much; Don't Believe
6) Dar Williams; It's Alright; Promised Land
7) Old Crow Medicine Show; Caroline; Tennessee Pusher

8) James McMurtry; Ruins of the Realm; Just Us Kids
9) John Mellencamp; Don't Need This Body; Life Death Love Freedom
10) Hayes Carll; Bad Liver and a Broken Heart; Trouble in Mind
11) Flatlanders; Wheels of Fortune; Wheels of Fortune

12)Steve Earle; Sparkle and Shine; Washington Square Serenade
13) Nanci Griffith; Workin' in Corners; One Fair Summer Evening

October 5th, 2008

Hi All,

Today's show first aired on July 13th. We'll be back next week with a new show...and by the way, it's pledge drive time again. Hope you'll consider supporting the station--Call 507-389-5678 or 1-800 456-7810 if you're willing to make a contribution.

The playlist for the 5th went like this...

1) The Byrds; One Hundred Years From Now; Gram Parsons Anthology

2) Emmylou Harris; Broken Man's Lament; All I Intended to Be
3) Tom Breiding; The House We Called Home; The Unbroken Circle: Songs of the West Virginia Coal Mines
4) Michael Perry & The Longbeds; How Many Miles; Headwinded

5) Guly Clark; The Cape; Dublin Blues
6) Asleep at the Wheel; The Cape; Reinventing the Wheel
7) Bob Dylan; Lenny Bruce; Shot of Love

8) The Wood Brothers; Postcards from Hell; Loaded
9) Solomon Burke; That's How I Got to Memphis; Nashville
10) The Wood Brothers; Luckiest Man; Ways Not to Lose
11) Townes Van Zandt; A Song For...; Highway Kind

12) Slaid Cleaves; Lost of the V-8's; No Angel Knows
13) Slaid Cleaves; Jennie's All Right; No Angel Knows

As always, thanks for listening...

September 28th, 2008

Hi All,

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

1) Townes Van Zandt; Lonesome Whistle; The Highway Kind

2) Lyle Lovett; Private Conversation; Road to Ensenada
3) John Hiatt; Perfectly Good Guitar; Perfectly Good Guitar
4) Todd Snider; I Spoke as a Child; Songs for the Daily Planet

5) Greg Brown; Downtown; One Night...
6) Laura Cantrell; Old Downtown; Humming by the Flowered Vine
7) Ray Bonneville; So Long Blues; Goin' By Feel

8) Loudon Wainwright III; Mr. Ambivilant; Little Ship
9) Loudon Wainwright III; Hank and Fred; Here Come the Choppers

10) Dwight Yoakam & Earl Scruggs; Borrowed Love; In Others' Words
11) Steve Earle & Lucinda Williams; You're Still Standing There; I Feel Alright
12) Guy Clark; She Loves to Ride Horses; The Dark
13) Guy Clark; Magnolia Wind; The Dark

September 21st, 2008

Hi All,

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

1) The Three Pickers; Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms; The Three Pickers

2) John Prine; Clay Pigeons; Fair & Square
3) Steven Fromholz; Cowboy Country Club; A Guest in Your Heart
4) Junior Brown; Long Walk Back to San Antone; Long Walk Back

5) The Wood Brothers; Luckiest Man; Ways Not to Lose
6) The Suicide Kings; Suicide King; The Suicide Kings
7) The Darling Downs; A Moment of Despair; From One to Another

8) Jay Farrar & Anders Parker; Hard Times; Death Songs for the Living
9) Bob Dylan; Hard Times; Good as I Been to You
10) Bruce Springsteen; Thunder Road; Born to Run
11) Mary Lou Lord; Thunder Road; Uncut Mag. tribute to Bruce

12) Richard Thompson; Walking Through a Wasted Land; Watching the Dark
13) Billy Joe Shaver; Star in My Heart; The Earth Rolls On

September 14th, 2008

Hi All,

Talked about the upcoming Community Recording Session...Click here for more info. The event will be held on Sunday, Sept. 28th. It's easy and fun...

The playlist for the 14th went like this.. .

1) Buck Owens; Act Naturally; Greatest Hits Vol. I

2) Hayes Carll; Wish I Hadn't Stayed So Long
3) Rodney Crowell; Come on Funny Feelin'; Fates Right Hand
4) Notorious Cherry Bombs; Let it Roll, Let it Ride; Notorious Cherry Bombs

5) Laura Cantrell; California Rose; Humming by the Flowered Vine
6) Tony Rice; Wayfarring Stranger; Night Flyer
7) Robert Earl Keen; Song for Kathy; No Kinda Dancer

8) John Dee Graham; Jubilee; Full
9) Felice Brothers; Whiskey into my Whiskey; Felice Brothers
10) Johnny Flynn; Tickle Me Pink; A Larum
11) Sara Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion; Swing of Things; Exploration

12) Jason Ringenberg; Paradise; Best Tracks & Sidetracks--1979-2007
13) Cadillac Sky; Carousel; Gravity's Our Enemy
14) Tony Rice; Changes; Night Flyer

September 7th, 2008

Hi All,

Today's show featured seven songs--two different versions of each. The playlist went like this...

1) Woody Guthrie; Ramblin Round; Asch Recordings Vol. I

2) Indigo Girls (with Ani Difranco); Ramblin Round; Til' We Outnumber em'
3) Bob Dylan; Don't Think Twice; Greatest Hits Vol. II
4) Susan Tedeschi; Don't Think Twice; Live in Austin

5) Peter Case; Beyond the Blues; A Case for Case
6) Hayes Carll; Beyond the Blues; A Case for Case
7) Tom T. Hall; Harper Valley PTA
8) Syd Straw; Harper Valley PTA; Real: The Tom T. Hall Project

9) June Tabor; Hard Love; Angel Tiger
10) Tony Rice; Hard Love; Night Flyer
11) Lyle Lovett; This Old Porch; Lyle Lovett
12) Robert Earl Keen; The Front Porch Song; No Kinda Dancer

13) Emmylou Harris; Kern River; All I Intended to Be
14) Dave Alvin; Kern River; Tulare Dust

August 31st, 2008

Hi All,

Today's Labor Day show came from way back in 2005. I figured the songs were still good and hadn't been heard on the show for a few years...hope you enjoyed them.

By the way, very nice to hear Shelley and Tim from Shuffle Function play five hours of work songs on Labor Day itself. Great stuff...

One other thing...there's a cool group out there called the Working-Class Studies Association--the group consists of activists, academics, union folks, and all kinds of others. Check em' out if you haven't already.

Back next week with a new show...

August 24th, 2008

Hey Folks,

The playlist for the 24th went like this...

1) Merle Haggard; All My Friends are Gonna be Strangers; Oh Boy Classics

2) Emmylou Harris; The Wildwood Flower; All I Intended to Be
3) Chris Smither; Real Fine Love; Rollin' Into Memphis--Songs of John Hiatt
4) Hayes Carll; I Don't Wanna Grow Up; Trouble in Mind

5) Loudon Wainwright III; Last Man on Earth; Last Man on Earth
6) Cheryl Wheeler; Makes Good Sense to Me; Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar
7) Will Kimbrough; Less Polite; Americanitus

8) Donnie Fritts; Oldest Baby in the World; Everybody's Got a Song
9) Keith Sykes; You Can't Lie About Love; Let it Roll
10) Todd Snider; Combover Blues; Peace, Love & Anarchy
11) Bruce Springsteen; Better Days; Live--Unplugged

A few songs from Paste Magazine's sampler--vol. 46

12) Bon Iver; Fume
13) Luke Doucet; Blood's Too Rich
14) Johnny Flynn; The Box

August 17th, 2008

Hey All,

On today's show I mentioned a book I'm finding quite interesting--Why We Hate Us by Dick Meyer. I learned of it through this interview on NPR.

The show today featured seven of my favorite records--cds I still find myself listening to in their entirety--year-after year...

1) Dave Alvin; What I'm Worth; King of California

2) Steve Goodman; You're the Girl I Love; Live Wire
3) Dave Alvin; King of California; King of California
4) Steve Goodman; The One That Got Away; Live Wire

5) John Hiatt; Back of My Mind; Stolen Moments
6) Waylon Jennings; Stop the World; Waylon Live
7) John Hiatt; One Kiss; Stolen Moments
8) Waylon Jennings; It's Not Supposed to be That Way; Waylon Live

9) Lyle Lovett; This Porch; Lyle Lovett
10) Wilco; Box of Letters; A.M.
11) Lyle Lovett; Can't Resist It; Lyle Lovett
12) Wilco; Must be High; A.M.

13) Warren Zevon; The Vast Indifference of Heaven; Learning to Flinch
14) Warren Zevon; Hasten Down the Wind; Learning to Flinch

August 10, 2008

Hi All,

The playlist for the 10th went like this...

1) Donnie Fritts; Why is My Day So Long; Everybody's Got a Song

2) Greg Brown; Canned Goods; One Night
3) Maura O'Connell; Waltzing's for Dreamers; Live at the Iron Horse
4) Richard Thompson; From Galloway to Graceland; Live at the Iron Horse

5) The Flatlanders; My Wildest Dreams Grow Wilder Everyday; Now Again
6) Steve Earle; Some Dreams; Sidetracks
7) Donnie Fritts; My Life Would Make a Damn Good Country Song; Everybody's Got a Song

8) Todd Snider; My Generation (Part II); Songs for the Daily Planet
9) Todd Snider; You Think You Know Somebody; Songs for the Daily Planet
10) Mary Chapin Carpenter; I am a Town; Live at the Iron Horse

11) Don McCalister Jr.; Brand New Ways; Brand New Ways
12) Dwight Yoakam; Near You; Gone
13) John Prine; Lulu Walls; German Afternoons

Thanks for listening...

August 3rd, 2008

Hey All,

Well, last week's playlist was tossed before posting, so I figured I'd post this week's early. Here's what will be on Sunday morning.

1) Tom T. Hall; Sneaky Snake; Country Songs for Children

2) Todd Snider; Looking for a Job; The Devil You Know
3) The Wood Brothers; Post Cards From Hell; Loaded
4) Tom Russell; The Pugilist at 59; Love and Fear

5) Leo Kottke; Watermelon; 6 & 12 String Guitar
6) Bryan Sutton; Whiskey Before Breakfast; Not Far from the Tree
7) Sam Bush; The Dolphin Song; Laps in Seven

8) Eliza Gilkyson; Great Connection; Beautiful World
9) Ollabelle; Fall Back; Riverside Battle Songs
10) Chris Knight; House and 90 Acres; The Trailer Tapes

11) Steve Earle; Hillbilly Highway; Guitar Town
12) Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart; Up in Annie's Room; S & M Communion Bread
13) Alison Krauss & Union Station; Gravity; Lonely Runs Both Ways
14) Ford Turrell; The Stillest Hour; Ford Turrell

July 27th, 2008

Hi All,

My wife (and very clearly better half) informed me today that she likely threw away the playlist for the 27th. It appears this had something to do with my leaving it crumpled up on the front seat of our car. Oh well. The show was full of new music--I played new stuff from Mustard's Retreat, Matt Price, Johnny Flynn, and Pat Bacon (the Bacon was new to me, but actually from a 2005 release). My apologies for the lack of a playlist. I'll be sure to take next week's out of the car.

July 20th, 2008

Hey All,

Today's show was a repeat from late March (there tend to be a few repeats throughout the summer)--the playlist full of covers went like this...

1) Pete Yorn; Splendid Isolation; Enjoy Every Sandwich--Songs of Warren Zevon

2) Jerry Jeff Walker; The Cape; Gonzo Stew
3) Patty Griffin; Take it Down; It'll Come to You--Songs of John Hiatt
4) Pieta Brown; This Land is Your Land; Single found on itunes

5) Johnny Cash; City of New Orleans; I Walk the Line
6) E.G. Kight; Angel from Montgomery; Southern Comfort
7) Tracy Grammer; Blue Wing; Book of Sparrows
8) David Allen Coe; Satisfied Mind; David Allen Coe's Satisfied Mind

9) The Rolling Stones; Like a Rolling Stone; Stripped
10) Warren Zevon; Back in the High Life; Preludes
11) Nanci Griffith; Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound; Other Voices/Other Rooms

12) Robert Earl Keen; I Still Miss Someone; Gravitational Forces
13) Emmy Lou Harris; If You Were a Bluebird; Bluebird

Thanks for listening...