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November 14th, 2010

Hi Everyone,

Mentioned today the upcoming visit from radio documentarian John Biewen. Hope to see some of you there.

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

1) Sarah Harmer; I am Aglow; I'm a Mountain

2) James McMurtry; Childish Things; Childish Things

3) Jack Ingram; Beat Up Ford; Young Man

4) John Prine; Spanish Pipedream; In Person & On Stage

5) Lyle Lovett; I've Been to Memphsis; Live in Texas

5) Eric Brace & Peter Cooper; Suffer a Fool; Master Sessions

6) Merl Haggard; Daddy Frank; Merle Haggard Again (on Oh Boy Records)

7) Tom Russell; Tulare Dust; Tulare Dust--The Songs of Merl Haggard

8) Waylon Jennings; You Asked Me To; Waylon Live

9) Nanci Griffith; You Asked Me To; Lonesome, On'ry; and Mean--The Songs of Waylon Jennings

10) Old 97s; My Two Feet; Blame it on Gravity

11) Old 97s; No Baby I; Blame it on Gravity

12) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Way Downtown; Will the Circle be Unbroken

13) James McMurtry; Memorial Day; Childish Things

Thanks for listening...

November 7th, 2010

Hey Everybody,

Ben Leonard guest hosted today--his return to radio hosting for the first time since those good ol' college days in Morris. Thanks Ben--great job and great songs.

His playlist went like this...

1) Todd Snider; Age Like Wine; East Nashville Skyline

2) Ben Folds; Gracie; Songs for Sliverman

3) Loudon Wainwright III, Daughter; Strange Weirdos

4) Bellwether; Sweethearts; The Stinging Nettles

5) Drive By Truckers; Carl Perkins' Cadillac; The Dirty South

6) Regina Spektor; Samson, Begin to Hope

7) Justin Townes Earle One More Night in Brooklyn; Harlem River Blues

8) Josh Ritter; Girl in the War; The Animal Years

9) Basia Bulat; Heart of my Own; Gold Rush

10) Pete Drodge; Hampton Inn Room 306; Necktie Second

11) Old Crow Medicine Show; My Good Gal; Big Iron World

12) Jill Sobule; Don't Let Us Get Sick; Enjoy Every Sandwich (A Tribute to Warren Zevon)

13) Bright Eyes; Bottom of Everything; Motion Sickness

14) Darrell Scott; A Crooked Road; The Americana Music Awards Sampler

October 17th, 2010

Hello Everybody,

Thanks to everybody who pledged during the fall drive--we were live both this week and last, and a number of you were kind enough to call in during the show. The playlist for the 17th went like this...

1) The Secret Sisters; Why Baby Why; The Secret Sisters

2) Joe Pug, Not So Sure

3) The Jayhawks; People in This Place on Every Side; The Bunkhouse Album

4) Alejandro Escovedo; Down in the Bowery; Street Songs of Love

5) Alejandro Escovedo; Faith; Street Songs of Love

6) Fred Eaglesmith; Careless; Cha, Cha, Cha

7) Clare Burson; Baby Boy; Silver and Ash

8_ Rodney Crowell; Closer to Heaven; Sex and Gasoline

9) Guy Clark; If I Needed You; Sometimes the Song Writes You

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

11) John Prine & Emmylou Harris; Angel From Montgomery; In Person & On Stage

12) The Secret Sisters; Tennessee Me; The Secret Sisters

October 3rd, 2010

Hi All,

Had another guest host today--an old friend from the great state of Ohio, Pravin Rodrigues. Our playlist went like this...

1) Fred Eaglesmith & The Flying Squirrels; Pretty Good Guy, Ralph's Last Show

2) Nanci Griffith; Workin' in Corners; One Fair Summer Evening

3) Indigo Girls with Ani DiFranco; Ramblin' Round; Til' We Outnumber Em'

4) Guy Clark; Forever, For Always, For Certain; Cold Dog Soup

5) John Hiatt; The Open Road; The Open Road

6) John Mellencamp; Save Some Time to Dream; No Better Than This

7) John Hiatt; Go Down Swingin'; The Open Road

8) John Mellencamp; Clumsy Old World, No Better Than This

9) Hayes Carll; Drunken Poets Dream; Trouble in Mind

10) John Prine; That's the Way the World Goes Round; John Prine Live

11) Steve Goodman; The Dutchman; Live Wire

12) Alejandro Escovedo; Always a Friend; Real Animal

13) Alejandro Escovedo; People, We're Only Gonna Live So Long; Real Animal

Thanks for listening!

September 26th, 2010

Hi All,

Last week's program was a repeat from an episode with no playlist. The playlist for the 26th went like this...

1) Bruce Springsteen; Tomorrow Never Knows; Working on a Dream

2) Hank Williams III; Atlantic City

3) Stacy Earl & Mark Stuart; Are You Ready

4) Lyle Lovett; God Will

5) Todd Snider; I May Smoke Too Much

Three from Trampled by Turtles--all songs from the cd Songs From A Ghost Town

6) Ain't No Use Tryin'

7) Wrong Way Street

8) School Bus Driver

9) John Mellencamp; Thinking About You; No Better Than This

10) John Mellencamp; No One Cares About Me; No Better Than This

11) Uncle Tupelo; Looking for a Way Out; Still Feel Gone

12) Uncle Tupelo; If That's Alright (Demo); Still Feel Gone

Two from Peter Cooper's excellent new release on Red Beet Records

13) Peter Cooper; Elmer The Dancer; The Lloyd Green Album

14) Peter Cooper; Tulsa Queen; The Lloyd Green Album

Thanks for listening...

September 12th, 2010

Hi All,

Today's show featured guest host Ben Leonard from the Nicollet County Historical Society. His playlist is below. Be sure to check out the cool documentary film series Ben and others host at the Nicollet County Historical Society--a description of the film series is posted below the playlist.

1 Jars at Home; Trampled by Turtles; Blue Sky and the Devil

2 American Hearts; A.A. Bondy; American Hearts

3 The Door was Always Open; Joe Pug; In the Meantime

4 The End ; Allison Weiss; The Way She Likes It

5 You Look Like ICould Use A Drink; Todd Snider; Live, Cedar Cultural Center,7/14/2010

6 Natural Disaster; Loudon Wainwright III; A Live One

7 Political Science; Randy Newman; Sail Away

8 Atomic Power; Uncle Tupelo; March 16-20 1992

9 The Temptation of Adam;Josh Ritter; The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter

10 Racing in the Streets; Townes Van Zandt (Springsteen); Roadsongs

11 Sam Stone; Evan Dando (Prine); Live, Iowa City, 1/18/04

12 Eye of the Tiger; Rural Alberta Advantage (Survivor); Drain the Blood

13 Mexico City; Jolie Hollan; The Living and the Dead

14 Hey Little Mama; Frazey Ford; Obadiah

15 A Little Blues; Be Good Tanyas; Hello Love

**The Nicollet County Historical Society, St. Peter Community and Family Education, St. Peter Food Co-op, Arts Center of Saint Peter, St. Peter Senior Center, St. Peter Public Library, and St. Peter Recreation Department have teamed up to bring you another documentary film series. Join us the first Thursday of every month from September through May at 7pm at the St. Peter Community Center. Some films are serious, some are amazing, and a few are just plain weird.

September 5th, 2010

Hello All,

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

1) Billy Bragg & Wilco; Another Man's Done Gone; Mermaid Avenue

2) The Band; I Shall be Released; Greatest Hits

3) The Avett Brothers; I Would be Sad; Emotionalism

4) The Indigo Girls; Get Out the Map; Shaming of the Sun

5) Willie Murphy; What Daddy Wants (Momma Needs)

6) Junior Brown; Long Walk Back to San Antonio; Long Walk Back

7 Keb Mo; Folsom Prison Blues; Kindred Spirits

8) Michael Perry & the Longbeds; Somewhere Out in Mudrook; Headwinded

Three from John Mellencamp's excellent new release, No Better Than This

9) Clumsy Old World

10) Save Some Time to Dream

11) Coming Down the Road

12) Darren Hanlon; All These Things; I Will Love You at All

13) Loudon Wainwright III; Down at the Bar; Attempted Mustache

August 22nd, 2010

Hello All,

Had a new show last week as well...but playlists disappear from time-t0-time. This week's new show went like this...

1) The Byrds; One Hundred Years From Now; The Gram Parson's Anthology

2) Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women; Downey Girl; Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women

3) Chatham County Line; Wildwood; Wildwood

4) Marty Stuart; Branded; Ghost Train--The Studio B Sessions

5) James McMurtry; Painting By Numbers; Too Long in the Wasteland

6) James McMurtry; Just Us Kids; Just Us Kids

7) James McMurtry; Out Here in the Middle; Love in Aught Three

8) Lucy Kaplansky; Off and Running; The Red Thread

9) Heather Masse; High Heeled Woman; Birdsong

10) Ruth Moody; Travellin' Shoes; The Garden

11) Guy Clark; The Cape; Dublin Blues

12) Patty Griffin; Never Grow Up; Downtown Church

13) Carrie Newcomer; Two Toasts; The Geography of Light

14) Eric Anderson; Ramblin' Boy; Waves

August 8th, 2010

Hi All,

Today's show featured music sent my way by Ben Leonard at the Nicollet County Historical Society. I forget the exact order of what I played, but the day included the great stuff listed below. Thanks Ben! And by the way, Ben will host the show on Sunday, September 12th.

1) The Rural Alberta Advantage; Rush Apart

2) Todd Snider; A Boy Named Sue

3) Caroline Smith & the Good Nigh...; Closing the Doors

4) Trampled by Turtles; Wait So Long

5) She & Him; Gonna Get Along Without You Now

6) Kate Maki; I'll Be Here in the Morning

7) Dan Auerbach; Trouble Weighs a Ton

8) Uncle Tupelo; Blue Eyes

9) Wood Brothers; Luckiest Man

10) Josh Ritter; To the Dogs or Whoever

11) Sara Watkins; Will We Go

12) Good Old War; Coney Island

13) Haley Bonar; Am I Allowed

14) Joe Pug; Nation of Heat

15) Jenny Owen Youngs; Start + Stop

August 1st, 2010

Hi All,

Not quite sure where the playlist went for last week's show--but we had a new show on the 25th and another today on the 1st.

Today's playlist went like this...

1) Doc Watson & Bill Monroe; You Won't Be Satisfied That Way; Live Duet Recordings Vol. II

2) Garnet Rogers; Give the Fiddler a Dram; Summer Lightning

3) Robert Plant & Allison Krauss; Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On); Raising Sand

4) Shinyribs; Country Cool; Well After Awhile

5) Mountain Man; Buffalo; Made the Harbor

6) John Hiatt; Movin' On; The Open Road

7) Charlie Robison; Beautiful Day; Beautiful Day

8) Peter Wolf; Tragedy; Midnight Souvenir

9) Butch Hancock; West Texas Waltz; Own & Own

10) Jerry Jeff Walker; Driftin' Way of Life; Best of the Vanguard Years

11) Cheryl Wheeler; His Hometown; Sylvia Hotel

12) Tim O'Brien; Runnin' Out of Memory; Corn Bread Nation

13) Wilco; Pick Up the Change; AM

14) Son Volt; Windfall; Trace

15) Wilco; Box Full of Letters; AM

Thanks for listening...

July 11th and 18th...

Hello All,

Didn't mean for it to happen, but the same program aired on the 11th and the 18th. Your friendly volunteer host screwed up--sorry about that. Hope you enjoyed the show at least once.

Oh, one good excuse for the mistake was that I was working hard with KMSU's Shelley Pierce hosting KMSU's first-ever Radio Camp. Check out the story here--we had some great kids at the station the week of July 12th.

The playlist went like this for the 11th and 18th went like this...

1) Shinyribs; Change is Gonna Come; Well After Awhile

2) Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall; Cities Sampler Vol. 3

3) The Wailin' Jennys; Glory Bound; Firecracker

4) Rick Spreitzer; Roll Back; From the Bottom

5) Todd Snider; Don't Tempt Me; The Excitement Plan

6) Todd Snider; Money, Compliments, Publicity; The Excitement Plan

7) My Morning Jacket; All the Best; Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows--the Songs of John Prine

8) Warren Zevon; Hasten Down the Wind; Learning to Flinch

9) Warren Zevon; Splendid Isolation; Learning to Flinch

10) Loudon Wainwright III; Living Alone; Last Man on Earth

11) David Bromberg; Try Me One More Time; Sowing the Seeds--Appleseed Records 10th Anniversary cd

12) Frank Prenevost; I Miss Lake Bemidji; I Miss Lake Bemidji

13) Peter Rowan & Tony Rice; You Were There for Me; You Were There for Me

14) Ramblin' Jack Elliott; Don't Think Twice It's Alright; Sowing the Seeds

July 4th, 2010

Hi All,

The holiday weekend featured an "encore" presentation of a show from April 2010. The playlist went like this...

1) Gary Ogan; Till the Next Time that I see You; King Easy Sampler, Vol. 7

2) Chris Knight; It Ain't Easy Being Me; Chris Knight
3) The Tallest Man on Earth; The Wild Hunt; The Wild Hunt
4) Eric Brace & Last Train Home; Always Running on My Street; Six Songs

5) John Hiatt; Pirate Radio; Little Head
6) John Hiatt; Feelin' Again; Little Head
7) Conner Christian & Southern Gothic; Sunday Suit; 90 Proof Lullabies

8) Drag the River; Brookfield; Drag the River: Primer
9) Drag the River; Me and Joe Drove Out to California; Drag the River: Primer
10) Jeff Bridges; Fallin' and Flyin'; Crazy Heart Soundtrack
11) Mumford & Sons; Winter Wind; Sigh No More

12) Adam Carroll; Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffle; King Easy Radio Sampler, Vol. 7
13) JB Bruck; It's Just You; King Easy Radio Sampler
14) Dawes; Love is All I Am; Dawes

**I've mentioned The Oxford Project a few times on air--really is worth a look.

June 27th, 2010

Hi All,

The playlist for the 27th went like this...

1) The Infamous Stringsters; In God's Country; Things That Fly

2) Jakob Dylan; Nothing but the Whole Wide World; Women & Country

3) Lucinda Williams; Mama You Sweet; West

4) Luther Cole; 309 to Richmond; Solitude

5) Shinyribs; Who Built the Moon; Well After Awhile

6) Shinyribs; Country Cool; Well After Awhile

7) Sarah Harmer; One Match; Oh Little Fire

8) Hayes Carll; Waiting on the Stars to Fall; Trouble in Mind (vinyl)

9) Dave Alvin; Rio Grande; Ashgrove

10) Cowboy Junkies; Sun Comes Up It's Tuesday Morning; 200 More Miles

11) Bruce Springsteen; Ain't Got You; Tunnel of Love

12) Guy Clark; Indian Head Penny; Cold Dog Soup

13) Lyle Lovett; Pantry; Natural Forces

Thanks for listening...

June 20th, 2010

Hi All,

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

1) Ramblin' Jack Elliott; Roll on Buddy; The Essential Ramblin Jack...

2) Joe Ely; Me and Billy the Kid; Live at Liberty Lunch

3) Ramblin' Jack Elliott; More Pretty Girls; The Essential Ramblin Jack...

4) Joe Ely; Honky Tonk Masquerade; A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver

5) Fish Frye; St. Patrick Walks into a Bar; Konsbruck Hotel

6) Richard and Linda Thompson; A Heart Needs a Home; Live in 1975

7) Chuck Ragan; For Goodness Sake; Gold Country

8) Son Volt; Down to the Wire; American Central Dust

Three from John Hiatt's new release, The Open Road

9) Carry You Back Home

10) Movin' On

11) Haulin'

12) Will Kimbrough; Less Polite; Americanitis

13) Todd Snider; Vinyl Records; New Connection

14) Lyle Lovett; If I had a Boat; Live in Texas

Hi All,

Today's show featured music from a bunch of new cds that have made it my way--some just new to me, some brand new releases.

The playlist went like this...

1) Richard and Linda Thompson; Together Again; Live in 1975

2) Frank Prenevost; Happy Daze; I Miss Lake Bemidji

3) Frank Prenevost; I Miss Lake Bemidji; I Miss Lake Bemidji

4) John Prine; Spanish Pipedream; In Person and On Stage

5) John Prine & Iris Dement; In Spite of Ourselves; In Person and On Stage

6) Jayhawks; Falling Storm; The Bunkhouse Record

7) Jayhawks; Tried & True; The Bunkhouse Record

8) Jakob Dylan; Nothing but the Whole Wide World; Women & Country

9) Jakob Dylan; Lend a Hand; Women & Country

10) Luther Cole; Searchers; Searchers

11) Luther Cole; Two Left Hands; Searchers

12) Richard & Linda Thompson; Jet Plane and a Rocking Chair; Live in 1975

13) Richard & Linda Thompson; Hard Luck Stories; Live in 1975

14) John Hiatt; Go Down Swingin'; The Open Road

15) Frank Prenevost; Bluewater Outdoors; I Miss Lake Bemidji

June 6th, 2010

Hi All,

Today's show was a repeat from early March...Everything came from the new Red Beet Records release, East Nashville Vol. 3--More Music from the Other Side. The playlist went like this...

1) Tim Carroll; No Easy Way

2) Phil Lee; Neon Tombstone
3) Kieran Kane; Way Down Below
4) Eric Brace; Tanquility Brace

5) Peter Cooper & Lloyd Green; Gospel Song
6) Anne McCue; Broken Promise Land
7) Kevin Gordon; Black Dog
8) Chuck Mead; I Wish it was Friday

9) Duane Jarvis; I Miss You Already
10) Tom Mason; Chano Pozo's Shoes
11) Carey Ott; Getting Thru

12) Audrey Audd; Love You Like the Earth
13) Phil Lee; The Taterbug Rag

May 30th, 2010

Hi All,

Today's show was all John Prine. We heard JP doing versions of his songs and then cuts from the outstanding new cd in his honor, Broken Hearts and Dirt Windows: Songs of John Prine.

The playlist went like this...

1) John Prine; Spanish Pipedream; Great Days--The John Prine Anthology

2) The Avett Brothers; Spanish Pipedream; Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows

3) John Prine; Six O'clock News; Souvenirs

4) Lambchop; Six O' clock News; Broken Hearts...

5) JP; All the Best; Great Days

6) My Morning Jacket; All the Best,, Broken Hearts...

7) JP; Bruised Orange; Great Days

8) Bon Iver; Bruised Orange; Broken Hearts...

9) JP; My Mexican Home; Sweet Revenge

10) Josh Ritter; My Mexican Home; Broken Hearts...

11) JP; The Late John Garfield Blues; Souvenirs

12) Sara Watkins; The Late John Garfield Blues; Broken Hearts...

13) Old Crow Medicine Show; Angel from Montgomery; Broken Hearts...

May 23rd, 2010

Hi All,

This week's show was a repeat from October--a show for which the playlist was lost. Hope you'll tune in on the 30th for a new show featuring the brand new tribute cd to John Prine.

May 16th, 2010

Hi All,

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

1) Jimmie Dale Gilmore; Pick Me Up On Your Way Down; Come On Back

2) Alejandro Escovedo; Always a Friend; Real Animal
3) Avett Brothers; Go to Sleep; Emotionalism
4) Adam Carroll; Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler; Live at Flipnotes

5) John Prine; She is My Everything; She is My Everything (free download available here)
6) John Hiatt; The Open Road; The Open Road (free download available here)
7) The Proclaimers; Three More Days; The Rockfield Session

Three from Peter Wolf's new cd, Midnight Souvenirs

8) Tragedy (with Shelby Lynne)
9) The Green Fields of Summer (with Neko Case)
10) It's Too Late for Me (with Merl Haggard)

11) Curtis Evans; Windows; from the forthcoming release, Life with Buffalo
12) Nathaniel Rateliff; Once in a Great While; In Memory of Loss
13) Greg Macpherson; First Class; Mr. Invitation