Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Trains!

Billy Joe Shaver - Georgia on a Fast Train
Hank III - Wreck of the Old '97
Boxcar Willie - Big Freight Train Carry Me Home
Southern Culture on the Skids - Engine Engine #9
Merle Haggard & Vernon Oxford - Hobo's Meditation
Del McCoury - Trainwreck of Emotion
Merle Travis - Nine Pound Hammer
Andrews Sisters - Chatanooga Choo Choo
BR5-49 - No Train to Memphis
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train

Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys - Hobo's Lullaby
John Fogerty - Big Train from Memphis
Asleep at the Wheel - My Baby Thinks She's a Train
Johnny Cash - Train of Love
Leo Kottke - Last Steam Engine Train

Uncle Tupelo - Train
The Highwaymen - Desperados Waiting for a Train
The Rolling Stones - Silver Train
Johnny Cash - Engine One-Forty-Three
Leadbelly - Rock Island Line
Osborne Brothers - Orange Blossom Special
Doc Watosn - Blue Railroad Train

Carl Sandburg - Casey Jones
The Monkees - What Am I Doin' Hangin' Round
Johnny Cash - On the Evening Train
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
Sam Bush - Bringing in the Georgia Mail
The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
David Hasselhoff - City of New Orleans

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Looking California

Tonight's show was mostly California-centric, with a sendoff for Les Paul and birthday greetings to Martin Mull. Hope you had fun.

Chet Atkins & Les Paul - Lover Come Back to Me - Chester & Lester
Freddy Fender - Before the Next Teardrop Falls
Buck Owens - Open Up Your Heart
Doye O'Dell - Shut Up and Drink Your Beer
Bobby Austin, Johnny Paycheck & Tammy Wynette
Hank Snow - Ninety Miles an Hour
Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels - California Cottonfields
Loretta Lynn - Fist City
Johnny Cash - Two Timin' Woman
Mickey Gilley - Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys - Uncle Penn

Steve Goodman - Gotta Hand It To You
Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty - You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly
Neko Case - In California - Canadian Amp
Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens - Streets of Bakersfield
Kris Kristofferson - The Taker - The Silver Tongued Devil and I
Emmylou Harris - Luxury Liner - Luxury Liner
Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee
Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars - Mermaid Avenue

The Maddox Brothers & Rose - Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down
Kitty Wells & Red Foley - My Happiness
Martin Mull - Licks Off of Records - Martin Mull & His Fabulous Furniture
Southern Culture On The Skids - Nitty Gritty
The Byrds - Life In Prison (rehearsal version)
The Packway Handle Band - There's Something Going On In the Graveyard - Sinner You Better Get Ready
Larry Stephenson - Clinch Mountain Mystery
Ween - Fluffy - 12 Golden Country Greats
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Panama Red

Commander Cody - Down To Seeds and Stems Again Blues - Live From Deep In the Heart Of Texas
First National Band - Keys To the Car
Fred Price, Clint Howard, Doc Watson - Daniel Prayed
Ned Miller - From a Jack to a King
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
Patsy Cline - Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Jerry Jeff Walker - LA Freeway
Beck - Your Cheatin' Heart

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Cowtippers celebrates Woodstock and Jimmy Dean's birthday

Tonight was, as they teach us to say here in school, an exercise in contrasts: the first set was Woodstock, the second Jimmy Dean. The rest was, well, Cowtippers. Thanks for all the calls.

Grateful Dead - Mama Tried - Grateful Dead
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant - Alice's Restaurant
Country Joe McDonald - Talkin' Dust Bowl -Vanguard Visionaries
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Hello Mary Lou
The Band - Long Black Veil - Music From Big Pink
The Flying Burrito Brothers - My Uncle - Gilded Palace of Sin
Uncle Tupelo - Mercedes Benz - Covers and Oddities '88-'93

Happy 81st Birthday, Jimmy Dean:
PT 109
Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette
Basin Street Blues
Sixteen Tons
Please Pass The Biscuits
Make The Waterwheel Roll
Steel Men

Asleep At The Wheel - Sugarfoot Rag
Jerry Lee Lewis - Working Man Blues - Killer Country
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel - O.C.M.S
Jerry Reed - Ko-Ko Joe
Lefty Frizzell - Don't Think It Ain't Been Fun, Dear
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys - Sunny Side Of The Mountain
John Prine - Spanish Pipedream - John Prine
Jeannie C. Riley - Yesterday All Day Long - Harper Valley P.T.A.
Townes Van Zandt - Rex's Blues
Homer & Jethro - Hart Brake Hotel - At The Country Club

Don Gibson - Oh Lonesome Me
The Del McCoury Band - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - All-Star Bluegrass Celebration
The Seldom Scene - California Blues - Act Four
Avett Brothers - Die Die Die - Emotionalism
The Stanley Brothers - Angel Band - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Ida Red Likes The Boogie
Hayes Carll - She Left Me For Jesus - Trouble In Mind
Waylon Jennings - Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Texas Extravaganza

Tonight's show was (almost) all Texas, (almost) all the time. Thanks for all your calls!

Also, have you checked out Nashville or Bust over at The Onion AV Club? Nathan Rabin, a music critic but country music neophyte, is spending a year immersing himself in the classics. There are 17 entries so far, from Dolly to Johnny to Billy Joe Shaver.

Bob Wills - Deep In The Heart Of Texas
Asleep At The Wheel - Boogie Back To Texas
Waylon Jennings - T Is For Texas
Ernest Tubb - Waltz Across Texas
Sonny James - Abilene
Roy Rogers - Yellow Rose Of Texas
Marty Robbins - El Paso
Jimmie Rodgers & The Carter Family -

Gale Garnett - We'll Sing In The Sunshine
Billy Joe Shaver - Black Rose
George Jones - You Can't Get the Hell Out of Texas
Kinky Friedman - We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You
Kenneth Threadgill - Coming Back To Texas
Jerry Reed - Texas Bound And Flyin'
Beach Boys - Long Tall Texan
Asleep At The Wheel - Miles And Miles Of Texas
Willie Nelson - Me and Paul

Hank Williams Jr. - Texas Women
Roy Clark - Thank God And Greyhound
David Allan Coe - Longhaired Redneck
Junior Brown - My Wife Thinks You're Dead
The Earl Scruggs Review - Tall Texas Woman
Willie Nelson - Till I Gain Control Again
Jerry Jeff Walker - Northeast Texas Women

Elvis Presley - The Yellow Rose Of Texas/The Eyes Of Texas
Jimmy Dean - Little Bitty Big John
The Flaming Lips - Thank You Jack White (For The Fiberoptic Jesus That You Gave Me)
Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around To Die
Tex Ritter - High Noon
George Strait - All My Exes Live In Texas
Waylon Jennings - People in Dallas Got Hair
Robert Earl Keene - Corpus Christi Bay
Sons Of The San Joaquin - Texas Plains
Medium Terzett - Texas Rose