Last Cowtippers of '09!

We're heading into automation over the break, so I'll have to make due without you guys until January. Before then, though, tune into Melodically Challenged on Thursday night/Friday Morning from midnight to 2 this week. We'll be playing a bunch of cowboy poetry and cowboy music, and I hope you'll enjoy the show.

Happy Holidays!

Merle Haggard - If We Make It Through December
Roy Orbison - Pretty Paper
Charley Pride - Christmas In My Home Town
Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
Gene Autry & Rosemary Clooney - The Night Before Christmas Song
Lynn Anderson - Don't Wish Me Merry Christmas
John Prine - Silent Night All Day Long
Marty Robins - Merry Christmas To You From Me
Tammy Wynette - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

Loretta Lynn - Country Christmas
The Boxmasters - My Dream of Christmas
Slim Whitman - Winter Wonderland
Ray Price - The Little Drummer Boy
The Oak Ridge Boys - Uncle Luther Made the Stuffin'
Jimmy Boyd - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
George Strait - Merry Christmas Strait to You
Dolly Parton - Hard Candy Christmas
Jimmy Dean - Jingle Bells
Eddy Arnold - Jolly Old St. Nicholas

Johnny Cash - The Christmas Guest
Montgomery Gentry - Merry Christmas from the Family
Cactus Jim & The Wranglers - Pride of the Prairie Mary
Jim Nabors - I'll Be Home for Christmas
Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa
Los Straitjackets - Holiday Twist
Asleep at the Wheel - Mele Kalikimaka
Gene Autry - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
The Revered Horton Heat - Santa Bring My Baby Back
George Jones & Tammy Wynette - The Greatest Christmas Gift

O! Santa - Chatham County Line
Old 97's - Here It Is Christmas Time
Jon Bon Jovi - Blue Christmas
The Decemberists - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
Rusty Bladen - Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - The Greatest Gift of All
Elvis Presley - Merry Christmas Baby

12/8

Merle Haggard - That's the Way Love Goes
Jerry Jeff Walker - Cocaine Blues
Johnny Cash - My Treasure - The Sun Years
Hank Williams III - Lovin' and Huggin' - Lovesick, Broke & Driftin'
Jimmie Rodgers - Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again
John Prine - Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore - John Prine
The Hackensaw Boys - Gospel Plow - Look Out
BR-549 - Way Too Late (To Go Home Early Now) - Tangled in the Pines
Kev Russell's Junker - (Somebody Bring Me a Flower) I'm a Robot
Elvis Presley - He'll Have to Go

Ralph Stanley with Larry Sparks - Going Up Home to Live in Green Pastures
Richard Betts - Long Time Gone
Rebel Meets Rebel - One Night Stands - Rebel Meets Rebel
Jimmy Dean - Mind Your Own Business
Waylon Jennings - (That's What you Get) For Lovin' Me
The Flatlanders - Hello Stranger
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Ten Years
The Louvin Brothers - Satan and the Saint
Hank Williams - They'll Never Take Her Love from Me

Drive-By Truckers - Loaded Gun in the Closet - Decoration Day
Uncle Tupelo - Black Eye - March 16-20, 1992
Wayne Hancock - Friday and Saturday Night - Thunderstorms and Neon Signs
Million Dollar Quartet - That's When Your Heartaches Begin
Vernon Oxford - I'll Forgive You
Iron & Wine - Freedom Hangs Like Heaven - Woman King
Possessed By Paul James - Ferris Wheel - Cold and Blind

Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons - Sin City
Rose Maddox - Take Me Back Again
Gear Daddies - Dream Vacation (In the Dells) - Can't Have Nothin' Nice
Old Crow Medicine Show - Down Home Girl - Big Iron World
George Jones - Who's Gonna Fill Their SHoes
Merle Haggard - Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
Dillard & Clark - She Darked the Sun - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark
Peter Kraus - Das Alte Haus von Rocky Docky - Deutsche Country Hits

Prison songs

David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name
The Byrds - Life in Prison (take #11)
Andy Griffith - The Midnight Special
Tex Ritter - Fort Worth Jail
Leon Russell - In the Jailhouse Now
Wanda Jackson - Riot in Cell Block Number Nine
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr. Bojangels
The Band - I Shall Be Released

Conway Twitty - Jailhouse Rock
Robbie Fulks and Joy Lynn White - Tupelo County Jail
Bobbie Gentry - Parchman Farm
Calexico/Iron & Wine - Prison on Route 41
Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Group - Stewball
Dock Boggs - Cole Younger
Vernon Dalhart - The Prisoner's Song
Todd Snider - Tillamook County Jail
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried

Johnny Cash - I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
Gene Autry - Dallas County Jail Blues
John Prine - Christmas in Prison
Chatham County Line - Birmingham Jail
Junior Brown - Parole Board
The Knitters - Baby Out of Jail (whoops!)
Lucinda Williams - Jailhouse Tears
Loretta Lynn - Women's Prison

Roger Miller - Dang Me
Black Death All Stars - Jail
The Charlie Daniels Band - Wichita Jail
Woody Guthrie - Warden in the Sky
Tom T. Hall - A Week in a Country Jail
Bob Dylan - Outlaw Blues
Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson - Folsom Prison Blues
James Carter & Prisoners - Po' Lazarus

Tuesday Night Live

It's (almost) all live recordings tonight. Hope you enjoyed it.
Osborne Brothers - Orange Blossom Special
Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels - California Cottonfields
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
Elvis Presley - Release Me
Gillian Welch - Tennessee Stud
Jerry Jeff Walker - Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys - Sunny Side of the Mountain
John Prine - Illegal Smile

Neko Case - Alone and Forsaken
Tammy Wynette - Medley: Amazing Grace, I'll Fly Away, Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Old Crow Medicine Show - My Bones Gonna Rise Again
Roy Clark - Thank God and Greyhound
The Flatlanders - Settin' the Woods on Fire
Pete Seeger - Midnight Special
Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely
The Del McCoury Band - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

The Rolling Stones - Sweet Virgina
The Country Gentlemen - Hank Snow Medley
Steve Goodman - Lost Highway
Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Avett Brothers - I Killed Sally's Lover
The Stanley Brothers - Meet Me Tonight
Bob Wills Original Texas Playboys - San Antonio Rose
Buck Owens - Crying Time
Waylon Jennings - Buddy Holly Medley: Well All Right, It's So Easy, Maybe Baby, Peggy Sue

Devil Makes Three - Aces and Twos
Son Volt - Medicine Hat
Junior Brown - Broke Down South of Dallas
Yonder Mountain String Band - Bloody Mary Morning
Carl Perkins - Honey Don't
The Byrds - You Ain't Going Nowhere
Ray Charles ft. Willie Nelson - Busted

Halloween Part II and Chomp & Stomp

Only three sets tonight due to basketball and a delayed Tower of Song - Here ya go:
Charley Pride - The Snakes Crawl at Night
Doc Watson Family - The Triplett Tragedy
Tony Rice - Brown Mountain Light
Lefty Frizzell - I Never Go Around Mirrors
The Avett Brothers - Die Die Die
Tom T. Hall - Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On
Dolly Parton - Jeannie's Afraid of the Dark
The New Lost City Ramblers - Little Glass of Wine
Porter Wagoner - The Cold Hard Facts of Wine
The Packway Handle Band - There's Something Going On in the Graveyard

Joyce Brookshire - Cabbagetown
JJ Cale - Mama Don't
Slim Chance - Don't Sell Daddy No More Whiskey
The Honey Dewdrops - Bluest Blue Eyes
The Dappled Grays - Put You In My Pocket
Peachtree Station - Driving Nails in my Coffin
The Nashvillain Family Band - The Devil Begs

The Pea Ridge Ramblers - Indian Ate a Woodchuck
Aubrey Slackey - Radio Boogie
The Musselwhite Family - Run
Vortex Park - Gypsy Metropolis
The Packway Handle Band - Sinner, You Better Get Ready
Bouldercrest Singing Group - Louise
The Nashvillain Family Band - Angel From Montgomery
Johnny Roquemore - Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms

The Halloween Show!

Ralph Stanley - O Death
David Allan Coe - The Ride
Mac Wiseman - Bringing Mary Home
Seldom Scene & Louvin Brothers - I've Come to Take You Home
Johnny Cash - Delia's gone
Townes Van Zandt - Wreck on the Highway
Dolly Parton - Me and Little Andy
Porter Wagoner - The Carroll County Accident

Bill Monroe & Doc Watson - Banks of the Ohio
Elvis Presley - Long Black Limousine
Loretta Lynn - Dear Uncle Sam
David Ball - Riding with Private Malone
Norman & Nancy Blake - Black Jack David
Reverend Billy C Wirtz - The Visitor
B. Lilly, Chubby Anthony & Don Stover - Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me
Gram Parsons' International Submarine Band - Millers Cave

Red Sovine - Phantom 309
Larry Stephenson - Clinch Mountain Mystery
Little Jimmy Dickens - Raggedy Ann
Ralph Stanley - In the Pines
The Band - Long Black Veil
The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
The Charlie Daniels Band - The Legend of Wooley Swamp
Doc Watson - Matty Groves

Austin Lounge Lizards - Highway Cafe of the Damned
Violent Femmes - Country Death Song
The Stanley Brothers - Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off of Me
Marty Robbins - Ghost Riders in the Sky
Jack Kittel - Psycho
Ray Stevens - Sittin' Up With the Dead
Big Lister Bill - There's a Tear in my Beer

Tribute to Shel Silverstein

I played only a tiny fraction of the 800 songs Shel Silverstein has to his name. Some of the ones I skipped are kids songs, and others are so filthy I couldn't play them on the radio. Hopefully you liked this selection from the ones in between.

Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
Tompall Glaser - Put Another Log on the Fire
Bobby Bare - The Mermaid
Loretta Lynn - One's on the Way
Old Dogs - Me & Jimmie Rodgers
Brenda Lee - Big Four Poster Bed
Shel Silverstein - A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing
Waylon Jennings - Ned Kelly

Bobby Bare - The Winner
Dr. Hook - Sylvia's Mother
Emmylou Harris - Queen of the Silver Dollar
Shel Silverstein - Pathetic Way of Getting Over Me
Old Dogs - Rough on the Living
Kris Kristopherson - The Taker

Tompall Glaser - Oleander
Johnny Cash - 25 Minutes To Go
Burl Ives - Time
Bobby Bare, Mac Davis & Shel Silverstein - Alimony
Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show - Cover of the Rolling Stone
Bobby Bare - Rosalie's Good Eats Cafe

Bobby Bare Jr - Things I Didn't Say
Dick Nolan - The Unicorn
Shel Silverstein - June 25th at the Fourth of July - Great Conch Train Robbery
Shel Silverstein - So Good to So Bad - Great Conch Train Robbery
Dennis Locorriere, Shel Silverstein, Waylon Jennings - A Couple More Years
Bobby Bare - Marie Lavaux
Old Dogs - Still Gonna Die