February 2nd, 2014 (Tribute to Pete Seeger)

Hi All,

All Pete Seeger today...The playlist went like this.

1) Dink's Song

2) Introduction by Bruce Springsteen
3) We Shall Overcome; We Shall Overcome--The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert

4) Little Birdie; Children's Concert at Town Hall
5) Be Kind to Your Parents; Children's Concert at Town Hall
6) Riding in My Car; Children's Concert at Town Hall
6) Put Your Finger in the Air; Children's Concert at Town Hall

7) This Land is Your Land; American Favorite Ballads
8) What Did You Learn in School Today; We Shall Overcome--The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert
9) A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall; We Shall Overcome--The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert
10) Little Boxes; We Shall Overcome--The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert

11) Nanci Griffith & Friends; If I Had a Hammer; Where Have All the Flowers Gone:  The Songs of Pete Seeger
12) Odetta; One Grain of Sand; Where Have All the Flowers Gone:  The Songs of Pete Seeger
13) The Weavers; Wimoweh; Where Have All the Flowers Gone:  The Songs of Pete Seeger

14) Pete Seeger; Forever Young; Chimes of Freedom
15) Pete Seeger; Skip to My Lou; Children's Concert at Town Hall

Here's Pete Seeger's Letter to Teens
and his testimony before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee

January 12th and 19th, 2014

Hi All,

The playlist for the 12th & 19th went like this (the show aired on the 12th at 8 am instead of 9, so we also aired in on the 19th)...

1) Conor Oberest and the Mystic Valley Band; Wedding Day in Funeralville; Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows

2) Neil Young; This Land is Your Land; Americana
3) Holly Williams; The Highway; The Highway
4) Jake Bugg; Two Fingers; Jake Jake Bugg

5) Joe Pug; Messenger; Messenger
6) Guy Clark; Analog Girl; Workbench Songs
7) Rodney Crowell w/Norah Jones; If the Law Don't Want You; Kin

Four from Mr. Dylan...

8) B.D.; Talkin' New York; Bob Dylan
9) B.D.; Song to Woody; Bob Dylan
10) B.D.; Girl from the North Country; The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
11) B.D.; I Shall be Free; The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

12) Woody Guthrie; So Long it's Been Good to Know You; Woody at 100
13) Woody Guthrie; Rablin' Round; Woody at 100
14) Bruce Springsteen; Sherry Darling; The River

15) Bob Dylan; You're No Good; Bob Dylan

January 5th, 2014

Happy New Year!

Today's show featured cuts from No Depression's list of the best albums  in 2013.  The playlist went like this (the number by the album title is the record's ranking by ND readers).

1) Steve Earle; Love's Gonna Blow My Way; The Low Highway (#9)

2) Richard Thompson; Good Things Happen to Bad People; Electric (#5)
3) Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison; Cheater's Game; Cheater's Game (#4)
4) Dawes; Most People; Stories and Songs ((#26)

5) Caitlin Rose; I was Cruel; The Stand-In (#21)
6) Guy Clark; Good Advice; My Favorite Picture of You (#12)
7) Patty Griffin; Highway Song; American Kid (#2)

8) Holly Williams; Drinkin'; The Highway (#3)
9) Son Volt; Down the Highway; Honkytonk (#6)
10) Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris; Back When We Were Beautiful; Old Yellow Moon (#13)
11) Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris; Chase That Feeling; Old Yellow Moon

12) Holly Williams; Gone Away From Me; The Highway (#3)

13) Jason Isbell; Flying Over Water; Southeastern (#1) (easily my favorite record of the year as well…he'll be at First Avenue on Feb. 8th)

Thanks for listening...

December 29th, 2013

Hi All,

Today's show was a repeat from just a couple weeks ago.  Be back next week with the first show of 2014…

Got on a bit of a Gram Parsons kick today…the playlist went like this…

1) Patty Griffin; Go Wherever You Wanna Go; American Kid

2) The Coal Porters; Hickory Wind; The Gram Parsons Tribute Concert
3) The Coal Porters; Drug Store Truck Driving Man; The Gram Parsons Tribute Concert
4) Elvis Costello; Sleepless Nights; Return of the Grievous Angel--A Tribute to Gram Parsons
5) Wilco; One Hundred Years from Now; Return of the Grievous Angel

6) Jason Isbell; Outfit; Live in Alabama (I freakin' love this song…and I don't really even mean freakin')
7) Charlie Parr; Cheap Wine; Rooster
8) Bob Dylan; If Dogs Run Free; New Morning

9) Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels; Drug Store Truck Driving Man; The Gram Parson's Anthology
10) Gram Pasons; Sleepless Nights; The GP anthology
11) Gram Parsons; Love Hurts; The GP anthology
12) Gram Parsons; Streets of Baltimore; The GP anthology

13) The Avett Brothers; Spanish Pipedream; Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows--The Songs of John Prine
14) Drive by Truckers; Daddy's Little Pumpkin; Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows

December 22nd, 2013

Hi All,

The annual Christmas/Holiday show went like this...

1) James McMurtry; Christmas Message
2) Bob Dylan; Winter Wonderland; Christmas in the Heart

3) Caitlin Rose; Three Cigarettes and an Ashtray; Dead Flowers
4) Caitlin Rose; Dead Flowers; Dead Flowers
4) City Mouse; Sittin' On Top of the World; It's About Time

As always, a bunch from A John Prine Christmas (songs below)

5) Everything is Cool
6) Silent Night All Day Long
7) Silver Bells
8) I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause

9) Christmas in Prison
10) A John Prine Christmas

11) The Decemberists; I 4 U & U 4 Me; Long Live the King (Home Demo)
12) Anna Coogan; Take the Sky and Run; The Nocturnal Among Us
13) Guy Clark; My Favorite Picture of You; My Favorite Picture of You

14) The Indigo Girls; Your Holiday Song; Holly Happy Days
15) Del McCoury; Doc Watson & Mac Wiseman; Christmas Time's a Comin'; Christmas on the Mountain

December 15, 2013

Hey Everyone,

Got on a bit of a Gram Parsons kick today…the playlist went like this…

1) Patty Griffin; Go Wherever You Wanna Go; American Kid

2) The Coal Porters; Hickory Wind; The Gram Parsons Tribute Concert
3) The Coal Porters; Drug Store Truck Driving Man; The Gram Parsons Tribute Concert
4) Elvis Costello; Sleepless Nights; Return of the Grievous Angel--A Tribute to Gram Parsons
5) Wilco; One Hundred Years from Now; Return of the Grievous Angel

6) Jason Isbell; Outfit; Live in Alabama (I freakin' love this song…and I don't really even mean freakin')
7) Charlie Parr; Cheap Wine; Rooster
8) Bob Dylan; If Dogs Run Free; New Morning

9) Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels; Drug Store Truck Driving Man; The Gram Parson's Anthology
10) Gram Pasons; Sleepless Nights; The GP anthology
11) Gram Parsons; Love Hurts; The GP anthology
12) Gram Parsons; Streets of Baltimore; The GP anthology

13) The Avett Brothers; Spanish Pipedream; Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows--The Songs of John Prine
14) Drive by Truckers; Daddy's Little Pumpkin; Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows

December 8, 2013

Been a while since I posted.  Got a touch behind but new shows have been on…here's another one.

The playlist of the 8th went like this…

1) The Avett Brothers; Pretty Girl from Michigan The Carpenter

2) Steve Earle; Waitin' on the Sky; I'll Never Get out of this World Alive
3) Bonnie Raitt; Used to Rule the World; Slipstream
4) Greg Brown; Let the Mystery Be; Freak Flag

5) Robert Earl Keen; Laughing River; The Rose Hotel
6) Rosanne Cash; Better Days; This One's for Him:  A Tribute to Guy Clark
7) Chris Smither; Leave the Light On

8) Jake Bugg; Lightning Bolt; Jake Bugg
9) Jake Bugg; Two Fingers; Jake Bugg 
10) John Martin; Don't Think Twice It's Alright; Dylan Covered
11) The Hollies; My Back Pages; Dylan Covered

12) John Prine; Mexican Home; In Person & On Stage
13) John Prine; The Great Compromise; The Singing Mailman Delivers

November 17th, 2013

Hey Everyone,

First of all, thanks for all your support during the Fall Pledge Drive.  The station met it's $20,000 goal and a bunch of people called in to LTYF during last week's live show.  Much appreciated.

Got on a Fred Eaglesmith kick to start off this week's show...playlist went like this.

Four songs from Fred Eaglesmith's Ballin

1) The Building

2) Bailin Again
3) John Deere B.
4) Small Motors

5) Old Crow Medicine Show; Angel From Montgomery; Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows--Songs of John Prine
6) Drive By Truckers; Daddy's Little Pumpkin; Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows
7) Sara Watkins; The Late John Garfield Blues; Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows

8) Old Crow Medicine Show; Back Home Again; The Music is You:  A Tribute to John Denver
9) Mary Chapin Carpenter; I Guess He'd Rather be in Colorado; The Music is You
10) Amos Lee; Some Days are Diamonds; The Music is You

11) Guy Clark; Walk Don't Walk; Unsung Hero: A Tribute to the Songs of Ron Davies
12) John Anderson;  What Good is a Secret; Unsung Hero
13) Vince Gill & Kelly Hogan; More Today than Yesterday; Unsung Hero

14) Rodney Crowell & Kris Kristofferson; My Father's Advice; Kin:  Songs by Mary Carr and Rodney Crowell
15) Rodney Crowell; I'm a Mess; Kin

November 3rd, 2013

Hi All,

Had a new show last week, too, but no post.  Forgot the computer gosh darn it.  But this week--a new show and a new post.  The set list went like this.

1) Lou Reed; This is No Time; New York

**Take the link above, man.  The song is BEAUTIFUL.

2) The Avett Brothers; Open-Ended Life; Magpie and the Dandeloin
3) Old Crow Medicine Show; Mississippi Saturday Night; Carry Me Back
3) Joe Pug; Silver Harps and Violins; The Great Despiser

4) The Drive by Truckers; TVA; The Fine Print
5) The Drive by Truckers; Rebels; The Fine Print
6) Jason Isbell; Outfit; Live in Alabama

7) Ben Sollee; Prettiest Girl on the Mountain; Learning to Bend
8) Ben Sollee; Built for This; Learning to Bend
9)  Spirit Family Reunion; I am Following the Sound; No Separation
10) Hurray for the Riff Raff; People Talkin'; My Dearest Darkest Neighbor



 

October 20th, 2013

Hi All,

A different sort of show today...spent the first half of the program listening to Bob Dylan's 1989 release Oh Mercy and the second half of the show listening to John Prine's 1995 release Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings.

The playlist went like this...

From Oh Mercy:

1) Political World
2) Where Teardrops Fall
3) Everything is Broken
4) Ring them Bells
5) Man in the Long Black Coat
6) Most of the Time
7) What Good Am I?

And from Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings:

8) New Train
9) Ain't Hurtin' Nobody
10) All the Way with You
11) We are the Lonely
12) Lake Marie
13) Quit Hollerin' at Me

October 13th, 2013

Hey Everyone,

Today's show was a repeat...and went like this.

1) Caitlin Rose; Shotgun Wedding; Dead Flowers

2) Greg Brown; 1952 Vincent Black Lightning; The Live One
3) Bob Dylan; New Morning; New Morning
4) John Prine; Speed of the Sound of Loneliness; German Afternoons

5) Charlie Robison; Feeling Good; Beautiful Day
6) Son Volt; Jukebox of Steel; American Central Dust
7) Glen Campbell; Nothing but the Whole Wide World; Ghost on the Canvas
8) Lucinda Williams; West; West

9) The Rolling Stones; Dead Flowers; Stripped
10) Caitlin Rose; Dead Flowers; Dead Flowers
11) Townes Van Zandt; Dead Flowers; Sunshine Boy

12) Bruce Springsteen & Alejandro Escovedo; Always a Friend; Magic Tour Highlights
13) The Rolling Stones; Like a Rolling Stone; Stripped

October 6th, 2013

Hi All,

Today's show featured selections from 40 songs I put together for a friend on her 40th birthday.  Well, actually, she was 43 before I gave her the gift.  But the songs are good all the same...the playlist went like this.

1) Redbird; Ships; Redbird

2) Greg Brown; Freak Flag; Freak Flag
3) Bruce Springsteen; Wrecking Ball; Wrecking Ball
4) Todd Snider; Good Fortune; The Excitement Plan

5) Richard & Linda Thompson; Hard Luck Stories; In Concert, November 1975
6) Uncle Tupelo; No Depression; 89/93 Anthology
7) Alejandro Escovedo; Down in the Bowery; Street Songs of Love

8) Iris Dement; Go on Ahead and Go Home; Sing the Delta
9) Patty Griffin; The Cape; This One's for Him
10) John Prine; Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore; The Singing Mailman Delivers
11) Gillian Welch; Orphan Girl; Revival

12) Tom T. Hall; I Love; Country Songs for Children
13) The Avett Brothers; Life; The Carpenter

14) Bob Dylan; Duquesne Whistle; Tempest

September 29th, 2013

Hi All,

A special MSU homecoming show this morning, featuring songs sent to us from Troy Murphy.  Though he claims not to recall the year, Troy graduated from the then Mankato State University back in 1990.  He now lives in Michigan.

The show suggests a far younger and hipper man and went like this...

1) Ben Sollee; Prettiest Tree on the Mountain; Learning to Bend

2) Ben Sollee; Build for This; Learning to Bend
3) Black Prairie; What You Gave; A Tear in the Eye is a Wound in the Heart
4) Black Prairie; Richard Manual; A Tear in the Eye is a Wound in the Heart

5) Sarah Jarosz; Come Up to the House; Song Up in Her Head
6) Sarah Jarosz & Black Prairie; Queen of the Silver Dollar; Twistable, Turnable Man:  A Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein
7) Caitlin Cary & Ryan Adams; The Battle; No Depression--What It Sounds Like--V. 2
8) David Childers & The Modern Don Juans; The Prettiest Thing; Room #23

9) Spirit Family Reunion; Under the Highway; No Separation
10) Spirit Family Reunion; I am Following the Sound; No Separation

11) Hurray for the Riff Raff; Look out Mamma; Look out Mamma
12) Hurray for the Riff Raff; My Dearest Darkest...
13) Riley Downng, Sam Doores & the Tumbleweeds; Wrong Time to be Right; Holy Cross Blues
14) Eric Clapton; Goodnight Irene; Old Sock

September 22nd, 2013

Hi All,

Mentioned Richard Russo and his recent memoir on today's show.  If you haven't read Russo, he's really worth a look.

Today's playlist went like this...

1) Caitlin Rose; Shotgun Wedding; Dead Flowers

2) Greg Brown; 1952 Vincent Black Lightning; The Live One
3) Bob Dylan; New Morning; New Morning
4) John Prine; Speed of the Sound of Loneliness; German Afternoons

5) Charlie Robison; Feeling Good; Beautiful Day
6) Son Volt; Jukebox of Steel; American Central Dust
7) Glen Campbell; Nothing but the Whole Wide World; Ghost on the Canvas
8) Lucinda Williams; West; West

9) The Rolling Stones; Dead Flowers; Stripped
10) Caitlin Rose; Dead Flowers; Dead Flowers
11) Townes Van Zandt; Dead Flowers; Sunshine Boy

12) Bruce Springsteen & Alejandro Escovedo; Always a Friend; Magic Tour Highlights
13) The Rolling Stones; Like a Rolling Stone; Stripped

September 8th, 2013

Hi All,

Day two of the Rock Bend Folk Festival today...hope everyone is out there enjoying the music.

The playlist featured some Rock Bend music and went like this...

1) Bob Dylan; Blue Moon;  Self Portrait

2) John Prine; How Lucky; Pink Cadillac
3) John Prine; Killing the Blues; Pink Cadillac
4) Guy Clark; Cornmeal Walz; My Favorite Picture of You
5) Guy Clark; Rain in Durango; My Favorite Picture of You

A set of artists performing today at the Rock Bend Folk Festival

6) Amanda Shires; Devistate
7) Mary Gauthier; Wheel Inside the Wheel
8) Erik the Viking; Dead Horses

9) Caitlin Rose; I was Cruel; The Stand-In
10) Peter Cooper; Much Better Now; Opening Day
11) Fred Eaglesmith; Freight Train; Ralph's Last Show

12) Cloud Cult; Mr. Tambourine Man; Duluth Does Dylan Revisited

September 1st, 2013

Hi All,

The Labor Day weekend show went like this...

1) The Freedom Singers; This Little Light of Mine; Songs of Freedom

2) Steve Earle; The Low Highway; The Low Highway
3) Richard Thompson; Time to Ring Some Changes; Hard Cash
4) Uncle Tupelo; Graveyard Shift; 89/93:  An Anthology

5) The Avett Brothers; Live and Die; The Carpenter
6) Chris Smither; Outside In; Train Home
7) Joe Pug; Not So Sure; The Messenger...man, do I love this song...

Getting close to ten years since Warren Zevon passed away, a reasonable excuse for a full set of Zevon

8) Warren Zevon; Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School; Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
9) Warren Zevon; Boom Boom Mancini; Sentimental Hygiene
10) Warren Zevon; The Factory; Sentimental Hygiene
11) Warren Zevon; Heartache Spoken Here; Mr. Bad Example

12) Loudon Wainwright III; Kings and Queens; Unrequited
13) Son Volt; Down the Highway; Honky Tonk
14) The Freedom Singers; We Shall Overcome; Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

**Billy Bragg is coming to the Cedar Cultural Center in September...always puts on a great show.

August 25th, 2013

Hi All,

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

1) The Steel Wheels; Story About Love; No More Rain

2) Graham Parker; The Madness of Love; Beat the Retreat
3) Susan Tedeshi; Angle From Montgomery; Live in Austin

Three from Joe Pug's release, Messenger

4) Messenger
5) How Good You Are
6) Not So Sure

Three from a real nice tribute cd to Hank Williams, Timeless

7) Bob Dylan; I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind
8) Keb Mo; I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
9) Lucinda Williams; Cold, Cold Heart
10) Beck; Your Cheatin' Heart

11) John Prine; You Stayed Away Too Long; Unsung Hero:  A Tribute to the Music of Ron Davies
12) Steve Earle; 21st Century Blues; The Low Highway
13) Evan Dando; Looking For Space; The Music is You:  A Tribute to John Denver

August 18th, 2013

Hi All,

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

1) Bruce Springsteen; Radio Nowhere; Magic (Bruce's intro provided by Eddie Engen)

2) Mavis Staples; You Are Not Alone; You are Not Alone
3) Wilco; Sunken Treasure; Being There

Here's some info about the cool book on Wisconsin Taverns that I mentioned on air...

4) Emmylou Harris (with Tanya Tucker); Sister's Coming Home; Blue Kentucky Girl
5) Emmylou Harris (with Don Everly); Everytime You Leave; Blue Kentucky Girl
6) Kris Kristofferson (with Steve Earle); Sunday Morning Coming Down; The Austin Sessions
7) Kris Kristofferson (with Mark Knopfler); Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends; The Austin Sessions

8) John Prine; Spanish Pipedream; In Person & On Stage
9) Steve Goodman; I'll Fly Away; Live at the Earl of Old Town
10) John Prine; The Late John Garfield Blues (featuring Sara Watkins); In Person & On Stage
11) Steve Goodman; Lost Highway; Live at the Earl of Old Town

12) Guy Clark; Hell Bent on Heartache; My Favorite Picture of You
13) Dave Olson; Old Birds Sing; No October

August 11th, 2013

Hi All,

Lots of new music today...and some good old stuff, too.  The playlist went like this.

1) Hank Williams; Lovesick Blues; The Ultimate Collection

**I'm reading this really nice book about Hank Williams...worth a look.

2) John Hiatt; We're Alright Now; Mystic Pinball
3) Dave Alvin; Nine Volt Heart; Ashgrove
4) Hayes Carll; Beyond the Blues; A Case for Case

5) The Steel Wheels; Walk Away; No More Rain
6) The Steel Wheels; Kiss Me Like a Stranger; No More Rain

**Learned about the Steel Wheels just recently through this blog post.  They're good, real good.

7) Guy Clark; My Favorite Picture of You; My Favorite Picture of You
8) Guy Clark; Waltzing Fool; My Favorite Picture of You

9) Lord Huron; Ends of the Earth; Lonesome Dreams
10) Lord Huron; I Will Be Back Someday; Lonesome Dreams
11) Jason Isbell; Stockholm; Southeastern
12) Jason Isbell; Travelling Alone; Southeastern

13) Billy Bragg; January Song; Tooth and Nail
14) Hank Williams; I Saw the Light; The Ultimate Collection

August 4th, 2011

Hi All,

Today's show was what we like to call an "encore presentation"--also known as a repeat.  This one from just a few weeks ago featuring the fairly new release, Woody Guthrie at 100!  Live at the Kennedy Center.  The entire show was made up of songs from this release--if you buy the cd (at least the version I got), you also get a really nice DVD of the entire concert.


The playlist went like this...

1) Old Crow Medicine Show; How Di Do

2) Old Crow Medicine Show; Union Maid
3) Joel Rafael; Rablin' Reckless Hobo
4) Jimmy LaFave; Hard Travelin'
5) Donovan; Riding in my Car

6) Rosanne Cash; I Ain't Got No Home
7) Rosanne Cash; Pretty Boy Floyd
8) Sweet Honey in the Rock; I've Got to Know
9) Lucinda Williams; House of Earth

10) Ani DiFranco; Deportee
11) Jackson Browne with Rob Wasserman; You Know the Night
12) The Del McCoury Band with Tim O'Brien; So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh

13) Everybody; This Train is Bound for Glory
14) Everybody; This Land is Your Land