Wednesday, November 23, 2011

One Week Til Elections

1 The Band - Don't Do It
2 John Doe and the Sadies - Night Life
3 Robert Earl Keen Jr - Corpus Christi Bay
4 John Dee Graham - $100 Dollar Bill
5 Waylon Jennings - Bob Wills Is Still The King
6 Lucinda Williams - Still I Long For Your Kiss
7 Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
8 Ronnie Fauss - Clay Pigeons
9 Gene Clark - Babe Ruth
10 Ryan Adams - Ashes and Fire
11 Linda Rondstat - Hasten Down The Wind
12 Greg Allman and Warren Haynes - Midnight Rider
13 Eb and Sparrow - Turn The Car Around
14 Eb and Sparrow - Quietly We Tread
15 Ray Davies - Waterloo Sunset
16 Neil Young - Walk With Me
17 John Hiatt - Paper Thin
18 Ronnie Fauss - Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone [for Naomi]
19 Hayes Carll - She Left Me For Jesus
20 Ryan Adams - Dirty Rain
21 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Tennessee Stud

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Time Changes

1 Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Time Changes Everything
2 Katy Moffat - Working on the Moon
3 Lyle Lovett - Rollin By
4 John Prine - Saddle in the Rain
5 Steve Earle - Don't Take Your Guns To Town
6 Ryan Adams - Dirty Rain
7 The Warratahs - Kupes Tears
8 Jamey Johnson - Can't Cash My Checks
9 Hayes Carll - She Left Me for Jesus
10 Eliza Gilkyson - Land of Milk and Honey
11 John Hiatt - Shredding the Dovument
12 Warren Zevon -Lawyers Guns and Money
13 Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Clap Your Hands
14 Calvin Russell - The Hole
15 Jason - The Life of the Party
16 Janis Joplin - Get It While you Can
17 The DriveBy Truckers - I Used To Be A Cop
18 Gillian Welch - Dark Turn of Mind
19 The Jayhawks - Miss Williams Guitar

Monday, September 26, 2011

The Week Ireland Beat Australia

1 Chris Smither - Desolation Row
2 Caitlin Cary - By Eleven
3 Robbie Fulks - Lets Kill Saturday Night
4 Fred Eaglesmith - Spookin the Horses
5 Willy Nelson - Angel Flyin Too Close to the Ground
6 The Handsome Family - Eleanor Rigby
7 Darden Smith - Loving Arms
8 Lisa Crawley - Blind Eyes
9 Ray Wylie Hubbard - Life of the Crimson King
10 Bonnie Raitt - Fools Game
11 Golden Smog
12 Billy Bob Thornton and Rodney Crowell Interview
13 Rodney Crowell - I Walk the Line Revisited
14 Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer -Redemption Song
15 The Warratahs - Kupes Tears
16 Jonathan Wilson -Desert Raven
17 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Killing the Blues
18 Steve Earle - Snake Oil
19 The Ozark Mountain Daredevils - If You Wanna Get to Heaven
20 Jim Lauderdale - Alligator Alley
21 The Drive by Truckers - Everybody Needs Love
22 Billy Lee Riley - The Little Green Men

Thursday, August 18, 2011

A Couple Days Late


1 Guy Clark – Cold Dog Soup
2 Adam Carroll – The Girl With the Dirty Hair
3 Paul Kelly – Reckless
4 Sam Baker – Pretty World
5 John Hiatt – Lipstick Sunset
6 The Kinks – Don’t Forget To Dance
7 Leonard Cohen – Comin Back To You
8 Black Winds – The Pahiatua Track
9 Joe Blossom live – Got Sunshine
10 Joe Blossom live – Go
11 Patterson Hood – To Wynona
12 The Ranchsliders – Not Trustworthy
13 The Ranchsliders – Look Up
14 Calvin Russell – Play with Fire
15 Gillian Welch – That’s The Way
16 Elvis Presly – Like A Baby
17 Little Feat – Cold,Cold,Cold
18 John Hiatt - Feels Like Rain
19 Billy Joe Shaver – Texas Uphere Tennessee
20 – not sure . . .

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Curried Sausages for Tea

1 Adam McGrath - The Waterside
2 Jason Isbell – Brand New Kind of Actress
3 Fred Eaglesmith – Drinkin Too Much [ for Keitha and Allan]
4 Adam Carroll – Blondie and Dagwood
5 Tom Russell – Hurricaine Season
6 Sam Baker – Juarez
7 Townes Van Zandt – Waitin Around To Die
8 Tim Hardin – Black Sheep Boy
9 Chuck Prophet – Star Crossed Misshaped Love
10 Bill Morrissey – You’ll Never Get To Heaven
11 Billy Jo shaver – When the Word Was Thunderbird
12 Marlon Williams – Ghost Of This Town
13 Bill Miller – Folsolm Prison Blues
14 Steve Earle –Angel Is The Devil
15 Red Simpson and Junior Brown – Nitro Express
16 Faron Young – Live Fast,Love Hard,Die Young
17 David Munyon – Hey Benny
18 David Olney – My Family Owns This Town
19 The Mavericks – Dance the Night Away
20 Good God Damned Live – A Little More Cocaine
21 Breakin the Law
22 Everything and Nothing
23 Dave Alvin - Harlan County Line
24 Bob Dylan - Hurricaine

Monday, June 27, 2011

Play A Train Song

1 Buddy Miller – Cattle Call
2 Greg Brown – Rain and Snow
3 Dave Alvin – Brother
4 Gillian Welch – Scarlet Town
5 Neil Young – Are You Ready for the Country
6 JJ Cale – Don’t Go to Strangers
7 Dwight Yoakam – Suspicious Minds
8 Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell – Billy
9 Michelle Shocked – Roads of East Texas
10 Robert plant and Alison Krauss – Killing the Blues
11 Matraca Berg – Jolene
12 Diana Krall – The Heart of Saturday Night
13 Tom Russell – The Sky Above and the Mud Below
14 Mountain – Theme From An Imaginary Western
15 Gillian Welch – Dark Turn of Mind
16 Webb Wilder – Gold Finger
17 John Hiatt – Slugline
18 OCMS – Wagon Wheel
19 Calexico – Tulsa Telephone Book
20 Sid Straw – Harper Valley PTA
21 Todd Snider – Train Song

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

And possibly others and possibly not in this order

1 Chuck Prophet - Baton Rouge
2 Roger Miller - King of the Road
3 Dave Olney - My Family Wwns This Town
4 Waylon and Willy - I Could Write A Book About You
5 Steve Wynn - Christine's Tune
6 Link Wray - Rumble
7 Johnny Paycheck - Excuse Me I Have Someone To Kill
8 Dick Curless - Evil Me
9 Hank Thompson - Cocaine Blues
10 Maria Mckee - I Forgive You
11Joe Henry - Homecoming
12 Roger Miller - London Swings
13 Drive by Truckers -Everybody Needs Love
14 Alejandro Escovedo - Down In The Bowery
15 Butch Hancock - Fools Foolin Love
16 The Byrds - Hickory Wind
17 ZZ Top - La Grange
18 Bob Dylan - Baby Let Me Follow You Down (for Isabella)

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Winter's Comin'

1 Guy Clarke - Cold Dog Soup
2 Desotos - Hearts In One Place
3 Ron Sexmith - Ships Go Out
4 Neil young - The Old Laughing Lady
5 Kelly Willis - Thats How I Got to Memphis
6 Joel C Phelps - Spokane Motel Blues
7 Gillian Welch - Look at Miss Ohio
8 Joe Henry - Homecoming
9 Jeffery Faucault - Ghost Repeater
10 Warratahs - Cape Gournigain featuring Sam Hunt
11 DeSotos - Can't Go Back
12 Hindu Love Gods - Mannish Boy
13 Pat Mears - Ready to Pay
14 Dr John - Storm Warning
15 Sid Straw - Harper Valley PTA
16 Hayes Carll- a song about screwing in the lift
17 NGR - White Freightliner Blues
18 Adam James Ring - By the Water
19 Sweetly Sapping
20 Alejandro Escovedo - This Bed Is Getting Crowded
21 Adam James Ring - Helpless [all done with lovely BV's From Ebony Lamb
22 Hindu Love Gods - Raspberry Beret

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Sam Hunt's Coming

1 Neil Young - Albuquerque
2 Carrie Rodriguez - Cortez the Killer
3 Dr John - Storm Warning
4 Waylon and Willie - Old Age and Treachery
5 Buddy Miller - Dang Me
6 Matt Skinner - Christabell
7 John Hiatt - Trudy and Dave
8 Greg Brown - Pledging my Time
9 Hayes Carll - KMAG
10 Dave Alvin - Sonoras Death Row
11 Little Feat - Mercenary Territory
12 Lucinda Williams - awakening
13 Warratahs and Sam Hunt - Cape Trnaigain
14 Sam Hunt -- the legendary poet live
15 Drive by Truckers - Everybody Meeds Love
16 Michelle Shocked - Anchorage
17 Steve Earle -Meet Me in the Alleyway
18 Ray Davies and Jackson Browne - Waterloo Sunset
19 Jim Lauderdale - Alligator Alley
20 the Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia
21 - the Byrds - Hickory Wind

not entirely in that order
if you want a guarentee buy a toaster

Monday, May 09, 2011

We Love Mothers



1 Josh T Pearson - Woman When i've Raised Hell
2 Eliza Gilkyson - Love Minus Zero
3 Villagers - Home
4 Eva Prouse - Long Distance Love
5 Simone Felice - Union Street
6 Rhythm Oil - Rhythm Oil
7 Kelly Willis - Drive South
8 Rod Picot - Pontiac
9 Emmylou Harris - Icy Blue Heart
10 Audrey Auld - He's A Good Dog
11 David Olney - Rose Tattoo
12 Bela Fleck - Star of the County Down
13 Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women Live - Blackjack Davy
14 Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women Live - Out in California
15 Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women Live - Abilene
16 Paul Simon -Love Is Eternal
17 Drive-By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love
18 Robert Plant and Lil Band of Gold - It Keeps Raining
19 Lucinda Williams - Changed The Locks

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Winter's Comin'



1 Calexico – Victor Jara’s Hands
2 Joe Henry – Civilians
3 Gene Clark – For a Spanish Guitar
4 Larry Jon Wilson – Missing You
5 Dave Olney –
6 Rosanne Cash – Girl from the North Country
7 Tom Russell – Blood Oranges
8 Buddy Miller – Dang Me
9 Jimmy La Fave – Goin' Down
10 Jimmy La Fave – Walk Away Renee
11 Lee Ann Womack – Meds
12 Waylon Jennings – Are you Sure Hank Done It This Way?
13 Ryan Bingham – The Weary Kind
14 Toni Price – Dean and Brandy
15 Justin Townes Earle (live) – Boy Keep Movin'
16 Mama's Eyes
17 They Killed John Henry
18 Carrie Rodriguez and Tim Easton – Cortez the Killer
19 Drive By Truckers – I Used To Be A Cop
20 Chuck Prophet – Soap and Water [ for Dave]
21 Neil Young – Walk with Me
22 Paul Simon – Dazzling Blue
23 Jerry Lee Lewis – Dead Flowers
24 Ray Davies – Waterloo Sunset

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Ain't Something You Can Trust


1 Billy Joe Shaver – Oklahoma Wind
2 Neil Young – Last Trip to Tulsa
3 Jim White – Still Water
4 Hayes Carll- OMG
5 The O’Kanes – Highway 55
6 Jimmy La Fave – Don’t Go to Strangers – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7 Lucinda Williams – Convince Me [For Missy ]
8 Alejandro Escovedo – This Bed is Getting Crowded
9 Gurf Morlix – Cheese Burgers and Fries
10 Greg Brown – I Don’t Wanna Have a Nice Day
11 Shaver – Hottest Thing in Town By a Country Mile
12 Peter Wolf [with Shelby Lynn ] – Tragedy
13 Johnny Cash – Solitary Man
14 Bob Woodruff – Dreams and Saturday Nights
15 Wayne Hancock – Brand New Cadillac [For Kat from Austin ]
16 Marg Layton and Dave Murphy live – Blues Everywhere
17 Marg Layton and Dave Murphy live – Momma How you Have The Blues
18 Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus
19 Little Feat - Willin

Thursday, March 24, 2011

You Better Watch Your Step



1 Lucinda Williams - Buttercup
2 Bernard Fowler -
3 Hayes Carll - We Do It
4 Monte Warden - It's Only Love
5 Social Distortion - Road Zombie
6 Frazey Ford - Firecracker
7 Southside Johnny - Hearts of Stone
8 The Rolling stones - Sweet Black Angel [for Charlotte]
9 John Prine - Unwed Fathers
10 Dylan Le Blanc - 5th Avenue Bar
11 Tim O'Brien - Señor
12 The Steeldrivers - The Wreckless Side of Me
13 Gurf Morlix - Baby Can I Crawl Back To You
14 Greg Brown - BoomTown
15 Lucinda Williams - Kiss Like Your Kiss
16 Terry Allen - Gone to Texas
17 Alejandro Escovedo - Down in the Bowery
18 Justin Townes Earle - Here We Go Again
19 Michelle Shocked - Memories of East Texas
20 Bruce Springsteen - Adam Raised a Cain
21 Dave Alvin - Don't Look Now
22 Southern Culture on the Skids - Voodoo Cadillac

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

And The Gods Went Crazy

1 Terry Allen – Gone To Texas
2 Greg Brown – 52 Vincent
3 Lucinda Williams – ButterCup
4 Greg Brown – Beatniks Gonna Rise Again
5 Hayles Karll – Kmag YoYo
6 Rowland S Howard – Girl Called Johnny
7 AA Bondy – American Heart
8 Le Anne Womack – Meds
9 Buddy Miller – Dang Me
10 Alejandro Escovedo – This Bed is Getting Full
11 Michelle Shocked – When I Grow Up
12 Michelle Shocked - The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore
13 Louis Armstrong – Infirmary Blues
14 Kris Kristofferson – Me and Bobby McGhee
15 Steve Earle – SnakeOil
16 Ray Davies – Dead End Street
17 Robert Plant and Allison Krause – Killing The Blues
18 NGDB- Tennessee Stud
19 (or somewhere in there) Ronnie Fauss - Pistols in the Air

Michelle Shocked interview

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Dedicated to the Wonderful Strong People of Christchurch

1 Tim O'Brien and Darrel Scott live - Talking Cavan Blues
2 Buddy Miller - Dang Me
3 Hayes Carll - Grand Parade
4 Gurf Murlix - Baby Can I Crawl Back To You
5 Butch Hancock - Like a Kiss
6 The Steel Drivers - The Reckless side of me
7 Dylan LeBlanc - Good Lords Willin
8 Buddy Miller - Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
9 Jim Stafford - Spiders and Snakes [ for Merryl]
10 Shawn Colvin - That's the Way Love Goes
11 Hayes Carll -Kmag Yoyo
12 Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies
13 Justin Townes Earle - They Killed John Henry
14 Brewer and Shipley - One Toke over the Line
15 Jerry Lee Lewis - Dead Flowers
16 Drive By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love
17 Alejandro Escovedo - Anchor
18 Christoff Van Der Ven - Cukoo
19 " " - Ballad of the Dead end Home
2o " " - Mind Myself
21 Frank Black - The Shrimp Song
22 Roger Miller - Chug A Lug
23 Ray Davies - Till the End of the Day

Friday, February 18, 2011

Tim's Back!


1 Buddy Miller – Cattle Call
2 Two Oceans – Country Blues
3 Bruce Springsteen – Racing in the Street
4 Lee Ann Womack – Meds
5 Dave Alvin – Kern River
6 Darren Watson – A Desperate Man
7 Jim Lauderdale – Alligator Alley
8 Ray Davies – Till the End of the Day
9 Buddy Miller – Dang Me
-- Tim O’Brien interview --
10 Darren Watson – Bitter Suite
11 Darren Watson – St Hilda’s Faithless Boy
12 Jerrry Lee Lewis – Sweet Virginia

Dancin' Ricky - DriveBy Truckers - a song by Shona Tucker (played it somewhere in there . . . .)
Also -- John Lennon – Ain’t That A Shame

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Ronnie Fauss Interview


1 Alabama 3 – Woke Up This Morning
2 Gary Louris – Saturday Night on Sunday Street
3 Ronnie Fauss – Night Before The War
4 Gram Parsons – Kiss the Children
5 Justin Townes Earle – Midnight At The Movies
6 Jim White – Static on the Radio
7 Libra Accord – Tear Scare
8 Robert Mitchum – Thunder Road
9 Todd Snider – Summertime Blues
10 Butch Hancock – Fools Fall in Love
11 Morricone – A Fistful of Dollars
12 Ronnie Fauss – Pistols in the Air
13 The Ginn Sisters – You Should’ve Known
14 Frank Black – Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day
15 Gregg Allman – Melissa
16 Tim O’Brien – Jimmy Brown the Blues Boy
17 Don Burnham – Fern Frond Boogie

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Arrival of Ebony


1 Gregg Brown – I Don’t Want a Have a Nice Day for Ames
2 Eb and Sparrow - Country Song
3 Bob Martin – River Turns The Wheel
4 Dylan LeBlanc – If The Creek Don’t Rise
5 Ray Bonneville – A Gust of Wind
6 The Duke and the King – Don’t Take that Plane Tonight
7 The Warratahs –I’m Addicted
8 Ray Wylie Hubbard – Enlightenment
9 Bruce Springsteen – Talk to Me
10 The Steeldrivers – The Reckless Side of Me
11 Sam Baker – Sweetly Undone
12 Jamey Johnson – Can’t Cash My Checks
13 Bob Dylan – Cold Irons Bound
14 Barry Reynalds – Guilt
15 Eb and Sparrow – The Wave
16 Steve Earle – Angel Is The Devil
17 Josh White – St James Imfirmary
18 The Greatful Dead – Neil Young – Forever Young

Friday, January 14, 2011

Too Much Wine

1 Neil Young - Walk With Me
2 Jim White - Jailbird
3 Little Feat - Down Below The Border Line
4 Sam Baker - Sweetly Undone
5 Toni Price - Dean and Brandy
6 Steve Earle - Taneytown
7 Terry Allen - After The Fall
8 Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Kings Highway
9 Tom Russell - Claude Dallas
10 Donna Dean -Empty Big Blue Sky
11 John Mellencamp - Paper and Fire
12 Rich Hopkins - The Other Side
13 Syd Straw - Meeting Across The River
14 Ted Hawkins - Biloxi
15 Dylan LeBlanc - 5th Avenue Bar
16 Peter Case - Down To The River
17 John Mayall - Room To Move
18 Robert Plant and the Band of Joy - Rock'n'Roll

Sunday, January 02, 2011

Boxing Day Soul

1 Greg Brown - All By Myself
2 Highwaymen - Silver Stallion
3 Bob Martin - River Turns the Wheel
4 Bruce Springsteen - Racing in the Streets
5 The steeldrivers - The Reckless Side of Me
6 Kris McKay - Across the Great Divide
7 Lil Band of Gold - Sunshine
8 Alejandro Escovedo - Everybody Loves Me
9 Robert Plant - Misty Mountain Hop
10 Ronnie Fauss- To Ease My Mind
11 The Steeldrivers - Whiskey,Guns and Knives
12 Gram Parsons - She
13 The Highwaymen - Angels Love Bad Men
14 Greg Brown - Billy from the Hills
15 Alejandro Escovedo - Castanets

Boxing Day Soul

1 Greg Brown - All By Myself
2 Highwaymen - Silver Stallion
3 Bob Martin - River turns the Wheel
4 Bruce Springsteen - Racing in the Streets
5 The steeldrivers - The Reckless Side of Me
6 Kris McKay - Across the Great Divide
7 Lil Band of Gold - Sunshine
8 Alejandro Escovedo - Everybody Loves Me
9 Robert Plant - Misty Mountain Hop
10 Ronnie Fauss- To Ease my Mind
11 The Steeldrivers - Whiskey,Guns and Knives
12 Gram Parsons - She
13 The Highwaymen - Angels Love Bad Men
14 Greg Brown - Billy from the Hills
15 Alejandro Escovedo - Castanets