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

June 3rd, 2012

Hi All,

Today's show paid tribute to Doc Watson, who passed away earlier in the week.  Thanks to Mark McCullough for sitting in as a co-host.

The playlist featured all Doc Watson (and one Guy Clark song that mentions Doc)...the playlist went like this...

1) My Dear Old Southern Home; My Dear Old Southern Home

2) Curly Headed Baby; Memories
3) Moody River; Memories
4) Baby Please Don't Go; 3rd Generation Blues
5) Down in the Valley to Pray; Essential Doc Watson

6) Keep on the Sunny Side; Memories
7) My Rose of Old Kentucky; Memories
8) I'm Gonna Lay My Burdens Down; On Praying Ground
9) Beaumont Rag; Essential Doc Watson

10) Guy Clark; Dublin Blues; Dublin Blues
11) Doc Watson; Columbus Stockade; Memories
12) Doc Watson & Bill Monroe; Foggy Mountain; Live Recordings Vol. II
13) Doc Watson & Bill Monroe; Watson's Blues; Live Recordings Vol. II
14) Doc Watson & Bill Monroe; Paddy on the Turnpike; Live Recordings Vol. II

15) Black Mountain Rag; Essential Doc Watson

May 27, 2012

This was a special guest set by St. Peterite Ben Leonard - so blame him. Sorry to go crazy with the links, but it's work on this post or clean the bathroom. The show went like this:

1) Caitlin Rose, Shotgun Wedding, Dead Flowers EP

2) First Aid Kit, Emmylou, The Lion's Roar
3) Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan, Girls Gather Round, Retrospect
4) Matt Costa, Astair, Songs We Sing

5) The Lumineers, Flapper Girl, The Lumineers
6) Matt the Electrician, I Wish You Didn't Feel Like My Home, Accidental Theif 
7) Joe Pug, A Gentle Few, The Great Despiser

8) Zee Avi, Honey Bee, Zee Avi
9) Trampled by Turtles, Keys to Paradise, Stars and Satellites
10) Old Crow Medicine Show, My Good Gal, Big Iron World

11) Wilco, Jolly Banker, Mermaid Avenue III
12) Josh Ritter, Long Shadows, So the World Runs Away
13) Dawes, Coming Back to a Man, Nothing is Wrong

14) Hayes Carll, Another Like You, Kmag Yoyo
15) Todd Snider; Combover Blues; Peace, Love, and Anarchy
16) Adam Caroll, Ol' Milwaukee's Best, Lookin' Out the Screen Door

(fade out) Bellwether, We Thought That You Were Dead, Seven and Six

Some other random links... because I care:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/01/great-songs-in-car-commercials.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/arrested-development-new-episodes-cast_n_1241409.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/sports/caballo-blancos-last-run-the-micah-true-story.html?pagewanted=all

May 13th, 2012

Hi All,

The show on the 13th first aired back in March of 2012...the playlist went like this.

1) Johnny Horton; North to Alaska; Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits (one of four songs today from good ol' vinyl records passed my way by my parents who are doing a little cleaning)

2) Dave Alvin; Blue Wing; Kind of California

3) Fred Eaglesmith; Angel of the Lord; Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline

4) Bruce Springsteen; Land of Hope and Dreams; Wrecking Ball

5) Trampled By Turtles; Shelter From the Storm; Duluth Does Dylan Revisited

6) Jay Farrar & Friends; Hoping Machine; New Multitudes

7) Drive By Truckers; Everybody Needs Love; Go Go Boots

8) Dean "Tex" Martin; I'm Gonna Change Everything; Dean "Tex" Martin Rides Again

9) Mitch Miller & the Gang; Meet Me in St. Louis; Sing Along with Mitch

10) Mitch Miller & the Gang; Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home; Sing Along with Mitch

11) Greg Brown; Canned Goods; One Night

12) Dudley Taft; Back Door Man; Left for Dead

13) Guy Clark; Wrong Side of the Tracks; Some Days the Song Writes You

14) Charlie Louvin; Blues Stay Away From Me; Charlie Louvin

15) Lyle Lovett; If I Needed You; Step Inside This House

May 6th, 2012

Hi All,

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

1) The Decemberists; All Arise; The King is Dead

2) John Hiatt; Buffalo River Home; The John Hiatt Anthology
3) Alejandro Escovedo; Faith; Street Songs of Love
4) Son Volt; Windfall; Trace

5) John Prine & Emmylou Harris; Magnolia Wind; This Ones for Him (Tribute to Guy Clark)
6) John Prine; People Puttin' People Down; Souvenirs
7) Steve Goodman; My Old Man; No Big Surprise
8) Steve Goodman; Between the Lines; No Big Surprise

Four songs from the New West sampler passed out for free on Record Store Day...

9) Drive By Truckers; 3 Dimes Down
10) The Flatlanders; South Wind of Summer
11) Mark Olson & Gary Louris; Turn Your Pretty Name Around
12) Steve Earle; This City

13) Loudon Wainwright III; The Days That We Die; Older Than My Old Man Now
14) Guy Clark; Maybe I Can Paint Over That; Somedays the Song Writes You

April 29th, 2012

Hi All,

We were live today during the pledge drive--thanks to everyone who contributed.  We raised over $600 in the one hour we were on the air.  Thanks to Shelley Pierce for sitting in and answering the phone.

The playlist...

1) Loudon Wainwright III; Double Lifetime; Older Than My Old Man Now

2) Loudon Wainwright III; The Here and the Now; Older Than My Old Man Now
3) John Hiatt; Circle Back; Beneath This Gruff Exterior

4) Sarah Lee Guthrie; Young Girl's Mind; Sarah Lee Guthrie
5) Trampled by Turtles; Midnight on the Interstate; Stars & Satellites
6) John Prine; Angel From Montgomery; The Singin' Mailman Delivers

7) Guy Clark; The Cape; Dublin Blues

8) Willie Nelson & Lukas Nelson; Just Breath; Just Breath
9) Merle Haggard; Jackson; Working in Tennessee
10) Lyle Lovett; Don't Touch My Hat; The Road to Ensenada

April 22nd, 2012

Hi Everyone,

The playlist for the 22nd went like this...

1) Trampled By Turtles; Midnight on the Interstate; Stars and Satellites

2) The Jayhawks; Touch The Stars; Mockingbird Time
3) Gary Louris; She Only Calls Me On Sundays; Vagabonds
4) The Decemberists; Calamity; The King is Dead

Three songs from I Love:  Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow

5) Patty Griffin--I love
6) Buddy Miller--Sneaky Snake
7) Peter Cooper--Everybody Loves to Hear a Bird Sing

8) Nanci Griffith; These Days I'm an Open Book; Dust Bowl Symphony
9) Trampled By Turtles; Alone; Stars and Satellites
10) Nanci Griffith; It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go; Dust Bowl Symphony
11) Trampled By Turtles; The Calm and the Crying Wind; Stars and Satellites

12) Dave Alvin; Nine Volt Heart; Ashgrove
13) Robert Earl Keen; Feelin' Good Again; Live From Austin
14) John Prine; Glory of True Love; Fair and Square

April 15th, 2012

Hi All,

The playlist for the 15th went like this...

1) Golden Smog; Pecan Pie; Down By the Old Mainstream

2) John Prine; Aw Heck; John Prine Live
3) Lyle Lovett; Brown Eyed Handsome Man; Release Me
4) Steep Canyon Rangers; Open Country; Nobody Knows You

5) City Mouse; Goodbye; It's About Time
6) Steve Earle; I Still Carry You Around; El Corazon
7) Stacy Earle & Mark Stuart; Town Square; Communion Bread

Four songs from Glen Campbell's Ghost on the Canvass

8) A Better Place
9) Nothing but the Whole Wide World
10) Hold on Hope
11) Any Trouble

12) Jacob Dylan; Nothing but the Whole Wide World; Women and Country
13) Tom Russell & Iris Dement; Box of Visions; The Long Way Around
14) Guy Clark; Stuff That Works; Dublin Blues

April 1st, 2012

Hi All,

The playlist on the first went like this (no kidding)...

1) Earl Scruggs & Family; Earl's Breakdown; The Three Pickers

2) Tom Russell & Nanci Griffith; St. Olive's Gate; The Long Way Around

3) Tom Russell; Outboard Plane; The Long Way Around

4) Shawn Colvin & Loudon Wainwright III; A Heart Needs a Home; Beat the Retreat

5) Lyle Lovett; Baby It's Cold Outside; Release Me

6) Lyle Lovett; White Freightliner Blues; Release Me

7) Steep Canyon Rangers; Nobody Knows You; Nobody Knows You

8) Steep Canyon Rangers; As I Go; Nobody Knows You

9) Bruce Springsteen; Shackled and Drawn; Wrecking Ball

10) Tom Waits; Raised Right Men; Bad as Me

11) Warren Zevon; Numb as a Statue; The Wind

12) Billy Bragg; Must I Paint You a Picture; The Essential Billy Bragg

13) Justin Townes Earle; Maria; Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now

14) Richard and Linda Thompson; Shoot Out the Lights;

March 25th, 2012

Hey Everyone,

The playlist for the 25th went like this...

1) Johnny Horton; North to Alaska; Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits (one of four songs today from good ol' vinyl records passed my way by my parents who are doing a little cleaning)

2) Dave Alvin; Blue Wing; Kind of California

3) Fred Eaglesmith; Angel of the Lord; Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline

4) Bruce Springsteen; Land of Hope and Dreams; Wrecking Ball

5) Trampled By Turtles; Shelter From the Storm; Duluth Does Dylan Revisited

6) Jay Farrar & Friends; Hoping Machine; New Multitudes

7) Drive By Truckers; Everybody Needs Love; Go Go Boots

8) Dean "Tex" Martin; I'm Gonna Change Everything; Dean "Tex" Martin Rides Again

9) Mitch Miller & the Gang; Meet Me in St. Louis; Sing Along with Mitch

10) Mitch Miller & the Gang; Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home; Sing Along with Mitch

11) Greg Brown; Canned Goods; One Night

12) Dudley Taft; Back Door Man; Left for Dead

13) Guy Clark; Wrong Side of the Tracks; Some Days the Song Writes You

14) Charlie Louvin; Blues Stay Away From Me; Charlie Louvin

15) Lyle Lovett; If I Needed You; Step Inside This House

March 18th, 2012

Hi All,

The playlist for the 18th went like this...

1) Bruce Springsteen; Shackled & Drawn; Wrecking Ball

2) Robert Earl Keen; The Road Goes On and On; Ready for Confetti

3) Trampled By Turtles; Wrong Way Street; Trampled By Turtles

4) John Prine; Souvenirs; The Singing Mailman

5) Jay Farrar & Friends; Hoping Machine; New Multitudes

6) Jay Farrar & Friends; Fly HIgh; New Multitudes

7) Bruce Springsteen; Death to My Hometown; Wrecking Ball

8) Bruce Springsteen; Wrecking Ball; Wrecking Ball

9) Jacob Dylan; Holy Rollers For Love; Women & Country

10) Nanci Griffith; Money Changes Everything; The Loving Kind

11) Steve Earle; Gulf of Mexico; I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

12) Justin Townes Earle; Am I That Lonely Tonight; Nothings Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now

13) Justin Townes Earle; Baby's Got a Bad Idea; Nothings Gonna Change...

14) Julie Holland; Rex's Blues; Pint of Blood

March 11th, 2012

Hi All,

Today's show first aired in January and featured the new tribute cd for Guy Clark. The release is called "This One's For Him" and it is outstanding!

The playlist (all songs from the tribute cd) went like this...

1) Rodney Crowell--That Old Time Feeling

2) Suzy Boguss--Instant Coffee Blues

3) Kevin Welch--Magdalene

4) Emmylou Harris & John Prine--Magnolia Wind

5) Patty Griffin--The Cape

6) Willie Nelson--Desperados Waiting for a Train

7) James McMurtry; Cold Dog Soup

8) Rosie Flores--Baby Took a Limo to Memphis

9) Ray Wylie Hubbard; Homegrown Tomatoes

10) Rosanne Cash; Better Days

11) Lyle Lovett; Anyhow I Love You

12) Radney Foster; LA Freeway

13) John Townes Van Zandt II--Let Him Roll

March 4th, 2011

Hi All,

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

1) Jamey Johnson; Lucky at the Top; Guitar Song

Three songs from a cd titled Texas Songwriters

2) Jimmy LaFave; The Open Space;

3) Eric Taylor; Walking Back Home

4) Sara Hickman; Take Me with You

5) Trampled By Turtles; Shenandoah; Duluth

6) Greg Brown; Freak Flag; Freak Flag (I love this song!!)

7) The Dave Rawlings Machine; I Hear Them All

8) Kathleen Edwards; Empty Threat; Voyageur

9) Kathleen Edwards; A Soft Place to Land; Voyageur

10) Stave Earle; Waitin' On the Sky; I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

11) Steve Earle; I am a Wonderer; I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

12) Dave Alvin; King of California; King of California

13) Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women; Marie, Marie; Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women

14) Mavis Staples; Hard Times Come Around No More; Beautiful Dreamer--The Songs of Stephen Foster

February 26th, 2012

Hi Everyone,

Because of studio remolding at KMSU I ended up pairing with the kids from Shuffle Function for this week's show--lots of fun. The program will air again on Thursday night March 1st at 6 PM.

The playlist went like this...

1) Todd Snider; Good Fortune; The Excitement Plan

2) Bob Mould; Turning of the Tide; Beat the Retreat

3) Justin Townes Earle; Can't Hardly Wait; Midnight at the Movies

4) Steve Earle; Loretta; Townes

5) The Flatlanders; Wheel of Fortune; Wheel of Fortune

6) The Hindu Love Gods; Raspberry Barret; Hind Love Gods

7) John Prine; Clay Pigeons; Fair & Square

8) All the Tired Horses; Retribution Gospel Choir; Dylan Does Duluth II

9) Billy Bragg & Wilco; Christ for President; Mermaid Avenue

10) The Jayhawks; Hide Your Colors; Mockingbird Time

11) Rodney Crowell; Closer to Heaven; Sex & Gasoline

February 19th, 2012

Hi All,

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

1) Drive By Truckers; Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife; Brighter Than Creation's Dark

Three songs from a 2006 cd of new music from the Cities 97

2) Bonnie Riatt; I Will Not Be Broken

3) Little Willies; Roll On

4) Wood Brothers; Atlas

5) Peter Case; Colors of Night; Wig

6) Lucinda Williams; Right In Time; Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

7) The Civil Wars; I've Got This Friend; Barton Hollow

Three from Richard Thompson's Watching the Dark

8) Beat the Retreat

9) I Ain't Gonna Drag My Feet No More

10) Wall of Death

11) Lyle Lovett; Anyhow I Love You; This One's For Him

12) Gillian Welch; I Dream a Highway (part of song); Time (The Revelator)

13) Mumford & Sons; Winter Winds; Sigh No More

February 5th, 2012

Hi All,

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

1) Merle & Theresa Haggard; Jackson; Working in Tennessee

2) Dawes; That Western Skyline; North Hills

3) Cross Canadian Ragweed; Lonely Girl; Soul Train

4) John Hiatt; Train to Birmingham; Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns

5) Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer; Hard to Make It; Little Blue Egg

6) Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer; Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key; Little Blue Egg

7) John Prine; Souvenirs; The Singing Mailman

9) The James Low Western Front; Whiskey Farmer; Whiskey Farmer

10) The James Low Western Front; Whiskey Farmer; Whiskey Farmer

11) Uncle Tupelo; Blue Eye

12) Robert Earl Keen; Lay Down My Brother; Ready for Confetti

13) Gurf Morlix; Clay Pigeons; Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream

No show on the 12th because of trivia on KMSU (produced by KVSC at St. Cloud State University but airing on KMSU, too,...sign up through the link above).

January 29th, 2012

Hi All,

We've had new shows all this year--just not so great at updating the blog here--will get better in 2012, even though I'm off to a slow start, darn it.

Today's show featured the new tribute cd for Guy Clark. The release is called "This One's For Him" and it is outstanding!

The playlist (all songs from the tribute cd) went like this...

1) Rodney Crowell--That Old Time Feeling

2) Suzy Boguss--Instant Coffee Blues

3) Kevin Welch--Magdalene

4) Emmylou Harris & John Prine--Magnolia Wind

5) Patty Griffin--The Cape

6) Willie Nelson--Desperados Waiting for a Train

7) James McMurtry; Cold Dog Soup

8) Rosie Flores--Baby Took a Limo to Memphis

9) Ray Wylie Hubbard; Homegrown Tomatoes

10) Rosanne Cash; Better Days

11) Lyle Lovett; Anyhow I Love You

12) Radney Foster; LA Freeway

13) John Townes Van Zandt II--Let Him Roll

January 8th, 2012

Hey Everyone,

Today's show first aired in October of 2011 and featured a certain 7 year-old co-host (my daughter). The playlist went like this...

1) John Prine; Fish & Whistle; Souvenirs

2) Robert Earl Keen; Think It Over One Time; Gringo Honeymoon

3) Guy Clark; Stuff That Works; Songs & Stories

4) The Flatlanders; Down in My Hometown; The Flatlanders

5) Julie Holland; Rex's Blues; Pint of Blood

6) Reter Rowan & Tony Rice; To Live is to Fly; Quartet

7) Chris Smither; Real Fine Love; Rollin' Into Memphis--The Songs of John Hiatt

8) James McMurtry; Off and Running; Where'd You Hide the Body

9) James McMurtry; Valley Road; Saint Mary of the Woods

10) James McMurtry; Paint by Numbers; Too Long in the Wasteland

11) John Mellencamp; Clumsy Ol' World; No Better Than This

12) Fred Eaglesmith; Thirty Years of Farming; The Official Fred Eaglesmith Bootleg Collection

13) Dave Alvin; Two Lucky Bums; Eleven, Eleven

January 1st, 2012

Hi All,

Our first show of the new year featured a whole lot of Michael Perry and the Longbeds who will be performing on Friday night, January 6th over in Northfield. Should be a great evening of music and storytelling...hope to see some of you there.

The playlist for the 1st went like this...

1) Comments on the new year (recording of Mankato residents talking about their hopes for 2012)

2) The Civil Wars; 20 Years; Barton Hallow

**Three songs on good ol' vinyl records...

3) Steve Goodman; This Hotel Room; The Best of the Asylum Years

4) John Prine; Shoptalk; Storm Windows

5) Gary Stewart; The Blues Don't Care Who's Got Em'; Gary

6) Michael Perry & The Longbeds; Alice Mayhew Jackson; Tiny Pilot

7) Michael Perry & The Longbeds; If They Give You Wings; Tiny Pilot

8) Greg Brown; Smell of Coffee; Milk of the Moon

9) Erik Taylor; Hollywood Pocketknife; Hollywood Pocketknife

10) Guy Clark; If I Needed You; Songs & Stories

11) Michael Perry & The Longbeds; Somewhere Out in Mudrook; Headwinded

12) Michael Perry & The Longbeds; Undone; Tiny Pilot

13) Michael Perry & The Longbeds; Tiny Pilot; Tiny Pilot

Thanks for listening...and happy new year.