August 23rd, 2009

Hi All,

Today's show was a repeat from back in May--it went like this.

1) Guy Clark; Cinco De Mayo in Memphis; Workbench Songs

2) Bob Dylan; Froggie Went a Courtin;; Good as I been to You
3) Bruce Springsteen; Froggie Went a Courtin; The Seeger Sessions
4) Guy Davis; Bring Back Storyville; Sweetheart Like You

Three from the excellent new Dave Alvin release--Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women

5) River Under the Road
6) Marie Marie
7) Don't Make Promises

8) Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum; My Heart's Own Love; Guest House
9) Mollie O'Brien; Henhouse Blues; Tell it True
10) Indigo Girls; Run; Despite our Differences
11) Patty Griffin; No Bad News; Children Running Through

12) The Jayhawks; Settled Down Like Rain; Hollywood Town Hall
13) John Hiatt; Stolen Moments; Stolen Moments

**Didn't get to it on air today, but the Cedar Paddle Band contacted me with a few local dates. Click here for info--they play great music at some really nice places around town.

And since I'm on a Dave Alvin kick, here's a video featuring Mr. Alvin

August 16, 2009

Hi All,

The playlist for the 16th went like this...

1) Loudon Wainwright III; So Darn Happy; Little Ship

2) June Tabor; All This Useless Beauty; Angel Tiger
3) William Elliott Whitmore; Midnight; Ashes to Dust
4) Todd Snider; Slim Chance; The Excitement Plan

Three songs from the King Easy Radio Sampler

5) Ben Bullington; Toe the Line
6) Gretchen Peters; Prairie in the Sky
7) Buzz Carson; Greyhound

Three instrumentals from Bill Frisell's new cd, Disfarmer

8) Peter Miller's Discovery
9) That's Alright Mama
10) I am not a Farmer

11) Stan Rogers; Forty-Five Years; Fogarty's Cave
12) Garnet Rogers; This Shirt; Summer Lightning
13) Steve Conn; I've Got Your Dog; King Easy Radio Sampler

August 9th, 2009

Hi All,

All music on today's show was mentioned in some form in Michael Perry's new book, Coop. Great book...and great music.

The playlist went like this...

1) Fred Eaglesmith; Bailin' Again; The Official Bootleg Series, Vol. II

2) The New Christy Minstrels; Green, Green; Greatest Hits
3) Greg Brown; Say a Little Prayer; In the Hills of California
4) Willie Nelson & Friends; Heartbreak Hotel; The Essential Willie Nelson

5) Steve Earle; Continental Trailways Blues; The Essential Steve Earle
6) Steve Earle; Six Days on the Road; The Essential Steve Earle
7) Duck for the Oyster; Dip and Dive; May We Have This Dance
8) Minnie Pearle; On Top of Old Smokey; Live From Grinder's Switch

9) Stan and Doug; Yust Go Nuts at Christmas; Yust Go Nuts at Christmas
10) Vince & Jenny Gill; Peace on Earth; Peace on Earth
11) Supertramp; Give a Little Bit; Greatest Hits
12) Duck for the Oyster/Kevin McMullin; Trash; Free Download

13) Bronski Beat; Small Town Boy; Greatest Hits
14) Michael Perry & the Longbeds; Somewhere Out In Mudrook; Headwinded
15) Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass; Green Peppers; Whipped Cream & Other Delights

And here's Mike introducing the book that led to today's show...

August 2nd, 2009

Hi All,

Thanks to Mark McCullough who sat in on today's show--mostly to be picked on for his decision to watch CBS Sunday Morning...but nice to have him in the studio all the same.

The playlist went like this...

1) The Flatlanders; Down on Filbert's Rise; Now Again

2) The Wailin Jennys; Glory Bound; Live at Mauch Chunk Opera House
3) Gillian Welch; Red Clay Halo; Time
4) Cheryl Wheeler; Alice; Defying Gravity

5) James McMurtry; Childish Things; Childish Things
6) James McMurtry; Memorial Day; Childish Things
7) Los Lobos; Johnny 99; Badlands--Tribute to Springsteen's Nebraska
8) Aimee Man & Michael Penn; Reason to Believe; Badlands...

9) Dave Alvin; Ol' 55; Step Right Up--Songs of Tom Waits
10) Lucinda Williams; Like a Rose; Lucinda Williams
11) Patty Sciafla; Big Black Heaven; Rumble Doll

12) John Prine; The Other Side of Town; Fair & Square
13) John Prine; Glory of True Love; Fair & Square

July 26th, 2009

Hi All,

The playlist for the 26th went like this...I'm gonna mostly skip capital letters today because my shift key fell off, darn it.

1) boulder acoustic society; i feel like i've seen you before; punchline

2) mustard's retreat; the fishing video; a resolution of something
3) david bromberg; wallflower; retrospective
4) jonatha brooke; new star; the works

5) alejandro escovedo; needle and a spoon; with these hands
6) blaze foley; oval room; oval room
7) guy clark; instant coffee blues; ol. number one

three from fred eaglesmith's live cd, ralph's last show

8) time to get a gun
9) i like trains
10) crashin' and burnin'

11) bastard sons of johnny cash; long black veil; distance between
12) rodney crowell; closer to heaven; sex and gasoline
13) guy clark; let him roll; ol. number one

and a fred eaglesmith video--he's the real deal...

July 19th, 2009

Hi All,

There was a program on the 12th, but, well, you know. The playlist is somewhere, I suspect.

The program on the 19th went like this...

1) Steve Earle White Freightliner Blues; Townes

2) John Hiatt; Dust Down a Country Road; Walk On
3) The Band; Time to Kill; Greatest Hits
4) Todd Snider; Green Castle Blues; The Excitement Plan

5) Keb Mo; Eilleen; Suitcase
6) Nanci Griffith; Across America; The Loving Kind
7) Among the Oak and Ash; Peggy O.; Among the Oak and Ashes

8) John Mellencamp; Longest Days; Life, Death, Love, and Fear
9) Richard Buckner; Blue & Wonder; Bloomed
10) Lucy Kaplansky; Off & Running; The Red Thread
11) Greg Brown; Eugene; The Evening Call

12) Eric Bibb; Cowboy Queen; Friends
13) Billy Bragg & Wilco; Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key; Mermaid Avenue

Saw Keb Mo at the Minnesota Zoo the other night...thought I'd include a video here.

July 5th, 2009

Hi All,

Today's show was a repeat from March--the program featured several students of mine enrolled in a class called "Communication and Community." Thanks to all the students who took part.

The playlist went like this...

1) Todd Snider; Happy to Be Here; Happy to Be Here

2) Townes Van Zandt; To Live is to Fly; A Far Cry From Dead

3) Son Volt; Windfall; Trace; Windfall

4) Nanci Griffith; Ten Degrees and Getting Colder; Other Voices/Other Rooms

5) Guy Clark; The Cape; Dublin Blues

6) John Prine; You Got Gold; The Missing Years

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

8) Bruce Springsteen; Thunder Road; MTV Unplugged

9) Indigo Girls w/ Ani Difranco; Ramblin' Round; Till We Outnumber Em'

10) Hayes Carll; Good Friends; Little Rock

11) Patty Griffin; Trapeze; Children Running Through

12) Julie Lee; Made from Scratch; Stillhouse Road

13) Todd Snider; Just in Case; Happy to Be Here

June 28th, 2009

Hi All,

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

1) Freddy Johnston; Coffee, Coffee, Coffee; Real: The Tom T. Hall Project

2) Mavis Staples; Have a Little Faith; Have a Little Faith
3) Neil Young; Harvest Moon; Unplugged
4) Richard Thompson; Shane and Dixie; Mirror Blue

5) The Flatlanders; There's Never Been; Hills and Valleys
6) Tom Russell; The Pugilist at 59; Love and Fear
7) Hayes Carll; I Don't Wanna Grow Up; Trouble in Mind

Three songs from the Eric Taylor cd, The Great Divide. I was made aware of Taylor's work through Michael Perry's website--and am very thankful I discovered his music. Great stuff...we'll play more in the coming weeks.

The three songs from Great Divide were...

8) The Great Divide
9) Big Love
10) Ain't But One Thing Give A Man The Blues

11) Alejandro Escovedo; Always a Friend; Real Animal
12) Old Crow Medicine Show; That Evening Sun; Tennessee Pusher
13) Chris Knight; If I Were You; The Trailer Tapes

And a video...

June 21st, 2009

Hi All,

The Father's Day show went like this...

1) Teddy Thompson; I Should Get up; Separate Ways

2) Hank III; I'm a Long Gone Daddy; Timeless: A Tribute to Hank Williams Sr.
3) The Three Pickers; Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms; The Three Pickers
4) Dan Zanes; Hallelujah I'm a Bum; Parades & Panoramas

5) Bruce Springsteen; The River; Live 1975-85
6) Tom Brieding; My Father's Clothes; The Unbroken Circle

7) Warren Zevon; Weirwolves of London; Preludes
8) Warren Zevon; HIt Somebody; My Ride is Here
9) Warren Zevon; Searching for a Heart; Mr. Bad Example

10) Loudon Wainwright III; Being a Dad; Little Ship
11) Chris Smither; So Long; Drive You Home Again

And here's a very cool BBC video featuring Warren Zevon--worth a watch even if just to see Warren's intro...

June 14th, 2009

Hi All,

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

1) Adam Carroll; Picture Show; Far Away Blues

2) Guy Clark; To Live is to Fly; Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt

3) Lyle Lovett; Private Conversation; Road to Ensenada

4) Elliza Gilykson; Emerald Street; Beautiful World

Four from Lonesome; On'ry; and Mean--A Tribute to Waylon Jennings

5) Carlene Carter; I've Always Been Crazy

6) Alejandro Escovedo; Lock, Stock, and Teardrops

7) Cowboy Jack Clement & Pam Tillis; Let's All Help the Cowboys Sign the Blues

8) Nanci Griffith; You Asked Me To

9) John Prine; Space Monkey; Live on Tour

10) John Prine; Picture Show; Live on Tour

11) Steve Goodman; City of New Orleans; Live Wire

12) Greg Brown; Canned Goods; One Night

13) Robert Earl Keen; I'm Comin' Home; No. 2. Live Diner

And here's Greg Brown doing Canned Goods...

June 7th, 2009

Hi All,

The playlist for the 7th went like this...

1) Bob Dylan; Country Pie; Nashville Sklyline

Three from the new Steve Earle cd, Townes.

2) White Freightliner Blues
3) Colorado Girl
4) Delta Momma Blues

**Here's a nice New York Times article about Earle and Townes

5) Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women; Boss of the Blues; Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women

6) Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women; Downey Girl; Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women

7) Rodney Crowell; Funky and the Farm Boy; Sex and Gasoline

8) Rodney Crowell; Moving Work of Art; Sex and Gasoline

9) Sarah Harmer; Luther's Got the Blues; I'm a Mountain

10) John Prine; Loretta; Poet--A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt

Three from Todd Snider's new cd, The Excitement Plan

11) Don't Tempt Me 

12) Green Castle Blues

13) Good Fortune

And how about a Todd Snider video as well...

May 31st, 2009

Hi All,

The playlist for the last day of May (where does the time go...) went like this...

1) Guy Clark; Cinco De Mayo in Memphis; Workbench Songs

2) Bob Dylan; Froggie Went a Courtin;; Good as I been to You
3) Bruce Springsteen; Froggie Went a Courtin; The Seeger Sessions
4) Guy Davis; Bring Back Storyville; Sweetheart Like You

Three from the excellent new Dave Alvin release--Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women

5) River Under the Road
6) Marie Marie
7) Don't Make Promises

8) Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum; My Heart's Own Love; Guest House
9) Mollie O'Brien; Henhouse Blues; Tell it True
10) Indigo Girls; Run; Despite our Differences
11) Patty Griffin; No Bad News; Children Running Through

12) The Jayhawks; Settled Down Like Rain; Hollywood Town Hall
13) John Hiatt; Stolen Moments; Stolen Moments

**Didn't get to it on air today, but the Cedar Paddle Band contacted me with a few local dates. Click here for info--they play great music at some really nice places around town.

And since I'm on a Dave Alvin kick, here's a video featuring Mr. Alvin

May 24th, 2009

Hi All,

Today's show was one of those encore presentations. The playlist 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...and here's an old Townes Van Zandt video you might enjoy...Hi All,

May 17th, 2009

Hi All,

Talked a fair amount today about the summer concert series at the MN Zoo--great place for a show.  Tickets go on sale to the general public May 18th at 10 am.

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

1) Todd Burge My Roots; Hip About Time

2) Jorma Kaukonen; Fur Peace Rag; Stars in My Crown

3) Sam Bush; The Dolphin Dance; Laps in Seven

4) Leo Kottke; Watermelon; 6 & 12 String Guitar

5) Keb Mo; Shave Your Legs; Keep it Simple

6) Alejandro Escovedo; Looking for Love; The Boxing Mirror

7) Robert Earl Keen; Travelin' Light; Walking Distance

8) Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver; Monroe's Mandolin; Lonely Street

9) Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver; Lonely Street; Lonely Street

10) Jeff Troxel; Sand Coulee Road; Dancing in the Flame

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

12) The Flatlanders; Thank God for the Road; Hills & Valleys

13) Greg Brown; Kate's Song; Greg Brown in the Hills of California 

14) Todd Snider; Old Friends; Peace, Love & Anarchy

And for the video...how about a little Billy Bragg

May 17th, 2009

May 10, 2009

Hi All,

The Mother's Day show went like this...

1) Iris Dement; Mama's Opry; Infamous Angel

2) Julie Lee; Made from Scratch; Still House Road

3) Don Rigsby; If I Had a Mother Like You; Empty Old Mailbox

4) Ralph Stanley; A Distant Land to Roam; A Distant Land to Roam (tribute to the Carter Family)

Three from Maybelle Carter on her 100th birthday--all songs from Wildwood Pickin'

5) The Storms are on the Ocean

6) Wildwood Flower

7) Gold Watch and Chain

and three from Rodney Crowell's excellent new cd, Sex and Gasoline

9) Closer to Heaven

10) Sex and Gasoline

11) I've Done Everything I can

and then three from Woody Guthrie's Songs for Mother and Child...

12) One Day Old

13) Rattle my Rattle

14) 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

15) Bruce Springsteen; Reason to Believe; Nebraska

16) The Yellow Room Gang; Simple Faith; The Yellow Room Gang

Well, about eight years after everybody else, I've learned how to embed video into a blog...so maybe we'll start a video of the week sorta deal.  Here's Rodney Crowell performing "Closer to Heaven" at the Ark in Ann Arbor, Michiagn.

May 3rd-2009--Pete Seeger's 90th

Hi All,

A special show today on Pete Seeger's 90th.  The playlist went like this...

1) Pete Seeger; Oh Sacred World; Sowing the Seeds

2) Steve Earle; Steve's Hammer (for Pete); Washington Square Serenade

3) P.S.; Oh Mary Don't You Weep; The Best of Pete Seeger

4) P.S.; If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus; Live at Carnegie Hall

5) P.S.; Down by the Riverside; The Best of P.S.

6) Bruce Springsteen; Oh Mary Don't You Weep; The Seeger Sessions

7) P.S.; Little Boxes; Live at Carnegie Hall

8) Greg Brown; Sailing Down My Golden River; Where Have all the Flowers Gone (Tribute to P.S.)

9) P.S.; Skip to my Lou; American Favorite Ballads

10) P.S.; This Land is Your Land; American Favorite Ballads

11) P.S.; My Ramblin' Boy; Live at Carnegie Hall

12) P.S.; I know an Old Lady (who swallowed a fly); Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes

13) Pete Seeger & Friends; Bring em' Home; Sowing the Seeds

14) Tommy Sands & Delores Keane; Where Have all the Flowers Gone; Where Have all the Flowers Gone (tribute to Pete) 

Here's the letter Pete Seeger wrote to Seventeen magazine back in 1963--a great read.  And below is a really nice story on the the party thrown for Pete at Madison Square Garden.  The story contains Springsteen's entire speech about Pete--great stuff.

April 26th, 2009

Hi All,

A show full of music from Soundtracks today...

The playlist went like this...

1) Buzzin' Cousins; Sweet Suzanne; Falling From Grace

2) Bob Dylan; Shelter from the Storm; Jerry MaGuire

3) Jim Lauderdale,, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys; Lost in the Lonesome Pines; TransAmerica

4) Allison Kruass & Gillian Welch; I'll Fly Away; O' Brother Where Art Thou

5) Steve Earle; Ellis Unit One; Dead Man Walking

6) Johnny Cash; In Your Mind; Dead Man Walking

7) Emmylou Harris & Robert Duvall; I Love to Tell the Story; The Apostle

8) Bruce Springsteen; The Wrestler; Working on a Dream

9) Bruce Springsteen; Secret Garden; Jerry MaGuire

10) Bruce Springsteen; Streets of Philadelphia; Philadelphia

11) Lucinda Williams; Like a Rose; TransAmerica

12) Jewell; Have a Little Faith in Me; Phenomenon

13) Hazel Dickens; They'll Never Keep Us Down; Harlan County USA

Thanks for listening...

April 12th & April 19th

Hi All,

Ok...I'm going to admit defeat on my current method of posting playlists.  I seem to be losing about every other one.  The show is pre-recorded (usually the Thursday or Friday before the Sunday at 9 airing), and I try to avoid posting the playlist until after the show airs.  Somehow the playlists never seem to be around come Sunday.  

The staff at Listen to Your Folks (me) will create a new system of some sort so the playlists appear on this blog in a timely manner.  Thanks.

On the 19th I mentioned the book Spirits in the Grass--I'm really enjoying it--thought you might as well.  

April 5th, 2009

Hi All,

The show for the 4th 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...