October 23rd, 2016

Hi Everyone,

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

1) Billy Bragg & Joe Henry; Lonesome Whistle; Shine a Light

2) Margo Price; Hands of Time; Midwest Farmer's Daughter
3) JD McPherson; Bridgebuilder; Let the Good Times Roll
4) The Jayhawks; Leaving the Monsters Behind; Paging Mr. Proust

Four from the new John Prine release, For Better, Or Worse

5) Whose Gonna Take the Garbage Out (with Iris Dement)
6) Storms Never Last (with Lee Ann Womack)
7) Falling in Love Again (with Alison Krauss)
8) Color of the Blues (with Susan Tedeschi)

9) Leonard Cohen; So Long Marianne; Live in London
10) Bob Dylan; Visions of Johanna (take five); The Cutting Edge
11) Greg Brown; The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home; Essential Recordings--1980-1996

12) Peter Cooper Tulsa Queen; The Lloyd Green Album

October 9th, 2017

Hi Everyone,

The entire show today featured music from the Dylan-Cash-Nashville Cats exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame.  I had the opportunity to visit the exhibit last weekend while seeing this guy at the Ryman Auditorium.

The music is great...and all came from this release.

1) Charle McCoy & the Escorts; Harpoon Man

2) Johnny Cash; It Ain't Me
3) Paul McCartney; Sally G.
4) Earl Scruggs and Linda Ronstadt; Silver Wings

5) The Byrds; Hickory Wind
6) Kris Kristofferson; If You Don't Like Hank Williams
7) Tracy Nelson; I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry

8) Steve Goodman; City of New Orleans
9) John Hartford; Gentle on My Mind
10) Ian and Sylvia; This Wheel's on Fire

11) Bob Dylan; Absolutely Sweet Marie
12) Derek and the Dominos; Matchbox

13) Area Code 615; Stone Fox Chase
14) Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash; Girl from the North Country

September 25, 2016

Hi Everyone,

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

1) Jason Isbell; If It Takes a Lifetime; Something More Than Free

2) Jason Isbell; Flying Over Water; Southeastern
3) John Hiatt; Master of Disaster; Master of Disaster
4) John Hiatt; It All Comes Back Someday; Mystic Pinball

5) Bob Dylan; Political World; Oh Mercy
6) Bob Dylan; Riing Them Bells; Oh Mercy
7) William Elliott Whitmore; Let's Do Something Impossible; Field Songs
8) William ElliottWhitmore; Hard Times; Animals in the Dark

9) John Prine; You Got Gold; Live on Tour
10) John Prine; Illegal Smile; Live on Tour
11) Indigo Girls; Closer to Fine; Indigo Girls
12) Indigo Girls; Secure Yourself; Indigo Girls

13) Todd Snider; New Connection; New Connection

September 18th, 2016

Hi All,

The original plan today was to play the last 13 or so songs on this list ranking 314 of Bruce Springsteen's songs.  My wife suggested that maybe, just maybe, that was a bad idea.  And so...today's show features a few of the late entries on the list above as well as some other good stuff from a bunch of good folks.

The playlist went like this...

1) The Time Jumpers; My San Antonio Rose; Kid Sister

2) Bruce Sprinsgsteen; Badlands; Darkness on the Edge of Town
3) Bob Dylan; Duquesne Pay in Blood; Tempest

Three from The Oxford American's Southern Music CD featuring the music of Tennessee

4) Sid Selvidge; That's How I Got to Memphis
5) The Fisk University Jubilee Singers; Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
6) Charlie Rich; Life Has It's Little Ups and Downs

A few Bruce Springsteen songs pretty far down on the top 314 list from above

7) #314--Mr. Outside; The Ties that Bind
8) #303--Surprise, Surprise; Working on a Dream
9) #310--Bishop Danced; Tracks
10) #311--This is Your Sword; High Hopes

11) Graham Nash; This Path Tonight; This Path Tonight
12) John Prine; Glory of True Love; In Person and On Stage (cut off halfway through...oops)

13) John Prine; Paradise; In Person and On Stage

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

January 17th, 2016

The playlist for the 17th went like this...

1) John Hiatt; Real Fine Love; Stolen Moments

2) Bob Dylan; North Country Blues; Live at Carnegie Hall (1963)
3) Magokoro Brothers; My Back Pages; Masked and Anonymous Soundtrack
4) Patty Griffin; The Cape; This One's for Him--A tribute to Guy Clark

5) Warren Zevon; Hit Somebody; My Ride's Here
6) Redbird; Ships; Redbird
7) Iris Dement; Go on Ahead and Go Home; Sing the Delta
8) Greg Brown; Freak Flag; Freak Flag

9) Steve Martin and Edie Brickell; So Familiar; So Familiar
10) Dave Rawlings Machine; Short Haired Woman Blues; Nashville Obsolete

11) James McMurtry; Lost in the Backyard; Where'd You Hide the Body
12) Jason Isbell; 24 Frames; Something More than Free
13) Gram Parons; Ooh Las Vegas; Hi Five

January 10th, 2016

Hi All,

The first new show of 2016 went like this...

1) Joe Ely; Magdalene; Panhandle Rambler

2) Jimmy LaFave; Not Dark Yet; Music from the tv show Californication
3) The Wood Brothers; Luckiest Man; Ways Not to Lose
4) Tift Merritt; Good Hearted Man; Tambourine

5) John Prine; Billy the Bum; Bruised Orange
6) Stan Rogers; First Christmas; Between the Breaks (Live)

7) Bruce Springsteen; Land of Hope and Dreams; Wrecking Ball
8) The Wood Brothers; Singing to Strangers; Paradise
9) Futurebirds; Twentyseven
10) Patty Griffin; There Isn't One Way; Servant of Loe

11) Los Lobos; Made to Break Your Heart; Gates of Gold
12) Bob Dylan; Gambling Willie; The Wittmark Demos

January 3rd, 2016

First post of 2016.  This morning's show was an "encore presentation" of a 2015 show featuring all Warren Zevon.  The playlist is long gone, but...

The show started with Boom Boom Mancini and went from there.

I'll be back next week with the first new show of 2016.

Thanks for listening and happy new year.

Dave

December 20th, 2015

The playlist for the 20th went like this...

1) James McMurtry's Holiday Message (played every year at this time)
2) Bob Dylan; Winder Wonderland; Christmas in the Heart

3) James McMurtry; Panting by Numbers; Too Long in the Wasteland
4) John Fullbright; Keeping Hope Alive; Songs
5) Chris Stapleton; Traveller; Traveller

6)  John Prine; The Sins of Memphisto; The Missing Years
7) Donnie Fritts; Them Old Love Songs; Oh My Goodness
8) Nanci Griffith; Working in Corners; One Fair Summer Eventing

9) John Prine; A John Prine Christmas; A John Prine Christmas
10) Bob Dylan; Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas; Christmas in the Heart

11) Steve Goodman; In Between the Lines; No Big Surprise
12) Guy Clark; To Live is to Fly; Poet--A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
13 Steve Goodman; My Old Man; No Big Surprise

14) Sarah Jarosz; Simple Twist of Fate; Build Me Up from the Bones

Show notes...

After my dad passed away 18 months ago I thought I'd probably never again be able to listen to Steve Goodman's My Old Man, but it felt right here around the holidays...McMurtry's Christmas Message is kinda right on, but when you have an 11 and 8 year old at this time of the year he sure seems wrong.  My daughter asked me for the history of Santa Clause, why we have him, etc., and I didn't really have a good answer.  Here's one, well kinda anyway...this is one of the best books I read in 2015, and I really liked this article for some reason.

Happy Holidays everybody...thanks for listening.

December 13th, 2015

Hey Everyone,

I've been away from the blog for quite a while now...the show is alive and well.  New shows nearly every weekend, but for one reason or another the blog has drifted. I shall try once more...maybe I'll even change the color or something.

Playlist for the 13th went like this...

1) James McMurtry; Where's Johnny; Candyland

2) Robert Plant & Allison Krauss; Raising Sand; Killing the Blues
3) Bob Dylan; Hazel; Planet Waves
4) Sarah Jarosz; Rearrange the Art; Build Me Up From the Bones

5) Chris Knight; It Ain't Easy Being Me; Chris Knight
6) Dave Alvin; Ol 55; Step Right Up--The Songs of Tom Waits
7) Tom Waits; Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards); Closing Time
8) Tom Waits; Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love); Closing Time

Three from Chris Stapleton's new one, Traveller

9) Traveller
10) Fire Away
11) Tennessee Whiskey

12) Lyle Lovett (with intro by Guy Clark); South Texas Girl; It's Not Big It's Large
13) Bruce Springsteen; Badlands; Darkness on the Edge of Town

Show thoughts..........

Man is it fun to revisit a song after the passing of a good many years.  Like a conversation with an old friend.  They've changed.  You've changed.  But it's all the same, too.  Haven't heard Where's Johnny for probably five years and like so many McMurtry songs you find a little more in it every time you listen.

Dylan's Hazel ain't a bad song either, though I played it by mistake.   It sounded right though and you can't ask for more.  Was trying to play this one, which I believe is the only time Bob talks about Duluth in a tune.

Maybe I just have James McMurtry on my mind, but Sarah Jarosz's song Rearrange the Art got me thinking of McMurtry's Painting by Numbers, probably the first song of his I ever heard.

Played some Tom Waits today, a guy I've never really listened to quite enough.  Found myself watching a video of his for God's Away on Business which I thought was just delightful and not a bad commentary on the state of things in this goofy ol' world.  Got to thinking I need more Tom Waits in my life...

And speaking of God being away on business, this is an awfully powerful article, the kind that messes you up in all the right ways.  I don't think Donald Trump will read it.

No word on when Chris Stapleton will be around Minnesota, but don't forget Jason Isbell will be here on Feb. 22nd.  One week before Springsteen plays Xcel on the 29th...

I don't know he does it, but for me anyway Lyle Lovett can create an entire visual scene in my head with two or three words.  Seems no matter what he says I somehow find myself outside riding my Big Wheel in the driveway of my childhood home with my parents holding hands and watching me through the picture window...or maybe closing down a bar with old friends.

Thanks for listening.

September 13, 2015

Hi All,

Lots of new shows lately, but my blog woes continue...

Here's how the show went today

1) Loudon Wainwright III; Being a Dad; Little Ship

2) John Hiatt; Buffalo River Home; Perfectly Good Guitar
3) Kasey Musgraves; Pageant Material; Pageant Material
4) Sheryl Crow; Long Gone Lonesome Blues; Timeless

5) Richard Thompson; No Peace, No End; Still
6) Lucinda Williams; Everything has Changed (Demo); West (Demos)
7) Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men; So Long Baby Goodbye; Interstate City

Three songs from Dylan's Street Legal

8) Baby, Stop Crying
9) No Time to Think

10) Warren Zevon; Don't Let Us Get Sick; Preludes
11) Rodney Crowell; Closer to Heaven; Sex & Gasoline

August 9th, 2015

Hi All,

The playlist for the 9th went like this...featured a few tracks this morning from this film
An awfully good movie you can find on Netflix.   

1) Suzy Bogguss; Old Dan Tucker;

2) Jason Isbell; Something More Than Free; Something More Than Free
3) Joe Pug; Silver Harps and Violins; The Great Despiser
4) Justin Townes Earle; Farther From Me; Absent Fathers

Three songs from the soundtrack for 20 Feet From Stardom--loved the movie and the soundtrack is nice.  I played...

5) Lean on Me; Darlene Love (and friends)
6) Gimme Shelter; Merry Clayton
7) He's a Rebel; The Crystals

8) Bruce Springsteen; This Train; Live in New York
9) Rodney Crowell; The Long Journey Home; Tarpaper Sky
10) Trampled by Turtles; Late Night on the Interstate; Live at First Avenue

11) Sturgill Simpson; Life Ain't Fair and the World is Mean;
12) Todd Snider; If Tomorrow Never Comes; Storyteller

13) David Bowie; Young Americans; 20 Feet From Stardom

July 19th, 2015

Hi All,

The playlist for the 19th started with a slow beautiful one from Fred Eaglesmith and went from there...

1) Fred Eaglesmith; The Rocket; Bailin

2) Mandolin Orange; Train Song; Mandolin Orange
3) Todd Snider; Play a Train Song; The Storyteller
4) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Orange Blossom Special; Will the Circle be Unbroken

5) Lucinda Williams; Tryin' to Get to Heaven; Chimes of Freedom--The Songs of Bob Dylan
6) Bob Dylan; Workingman's Blues; Modern Times
7) The Avett Brothers; Spanish Pipedream; Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows--The Songs of John Prine

8) Chris Smither; Killing the Blues; Happier Blue
9) James McMurtry; Ain't Got a Place; Complicated Game
10) Parker Millsap; Old Time Religion; Parker Millsap
11) Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris; I Just Wanted to See You So Bad; The Traveling Kind

12) Jeffery Foucault; Billy the Bum; Shoot the Moon, Right Between the Eyes
13) Lyle Lovett; Closing Time; Lyle Lovett

14) Todd Snider; Beer Run; Brewed in Texas Vol. 3

July 12th, 2015

Hi All,

I'd best begin with birthday wishes to my wife of 15 years--she's great and has always supported the heck out of this show.

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

1) John Prine; You Got Gold; Live on Tour

2) Bruce Springsteen; Old Dan Tucker; The Seeger Sessions
3) Bruce Springsteen; John Henry; The Seeger Sessions
4) William Elliot Whitmore; Hard Times; Animals in the Dark

Here's the film I mentioned today...awfully darn good movie about...a rock.

5) Dave Alvin; Blue Wing; Wounded Heart of America
6) Suzy Bogguss; Outbound Plane; Wounded Heart of America
7) Steve Goodman; Six Hours Ahead of the Sun; Somebody Else's Troubles

8) Bob Dylan; Folsom Prison Blues; Basement Tapes
9) Bob Dylan; This Wheel's on Fire; Basement Tapes
10) Son Volt; Windfall; Trace

11) John Hiatt; Long Time Comin'; Terms of My Surrender
12) Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard; Somewhere Between; Django and Jimmie
13) Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard; California Zephyr; One Fast Move or I'm Gone

14) Todd Snider; Slim Chance; The Excitement Plan

June 28th, 2015

Hi All,

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

1) Bob Dylan; Blowing in the Wind; The Basement Tapes (Bootleg Series Vol. 11...previously unreleased version) 

2) Grace Potter & the Nocturnals; Ain't No Time; This is Somewhere
3) Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell; La Danse de la Joie; The Traveling Kind
4) Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell; I Just Wanted to See You So Bad; The Traveling Kind

Three for This One's for Him:  A Tribute to Guy Clark
 **The link is intended...I'll leave it to you to figure out the connection, which may well exist only in my mind

5) James McMurtry; Cold Dog Soup
6) Dublin Blues; Joe Ely
7) Patty Griffin; The Cape

8) Richard Thompson; She Never Could Resist a Winding Road; Still
9) Richard Thompson; The Guitar Song; Still

10) Bruce Springsteen; Wrecking Ball; Wrecking Ball
11) Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson; Don't Think Twice It's Alright; Django and Jimmie

June 21st, 2015

Hi All,

All new shows lately...not always updated here, but summer is off to a good start.

Today's show went like this...

1) William Elliot Whitmore; Come Hell or High Water; Animals in the Dark

2) Fred Eaglesmith; Bailin Again; Bailin

**Fred makes me think of Mike--he's great too.

3) Bruce Springsteen; The River; The River
4) Warren Zevon; Knockin' on Heaven's Door; The Wind

5) John Fullbright; Happy; Songs
6) Townes Van Zandt; Colorado Bound; In the Beginning
7) Sturgill Simpson; Turtles all the Way Down; Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

8) Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard; Django and Jimmie; Django and Jimmie
9) Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard; It's All Going to Pot; Django and Jimmie
10) Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris; The Traveling King; The Traveling Kind
11) Rodney Crowell &; Emmyhou Harris; No Memories Hanging Around; The Traveling Kind

12) James McMurtry; Copper Canteen; Complicated Game
13) Jason Isbell; Flying Over Water; South Eastern
14) Guy Clark; LA Freeway;

15) Bob Dylan; I Shall be Released; The Basement Tapes (Bootleg Series vol. 11)

June 7th, 2015

Hi All,

Here comes summer...

Playlist for June 7th went like this...

1) John Hiatt; We're Alright Now; Mystic Pinball

2) Steve Earle; Brand New Companion; Townes
3) Townes Van Zandt; Brand New Companion; Live at the Old Quarter
4)Billy Joe Shaver; White Freightliner Blues; Poet--A Tribute to TVZ

This book is really something...I mean really something.  It'll change the way you think about stuff.

Three from John Fullbright's newest...the release is called Songs

5) Happy
6) When You're Here
7) Keeping Hope Alive

8) Richard Thompson; From Galway to Graceland; Watching the Dark
9) Tom Waits; Hold On; Mule Variations
10) Hayes Carll; Beyond the Blues; A Case for Case 

Three from some re-mastered Bruce releases  

11) Does this Bus Stop at 82nd Street; Greetings from Asbury Park
12) The E Street Shuffle; Bruce Springsteen:  The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
13) Darkness on the Edge of Town; Darkness on the Edge of Town