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John Hartford - Steam Powered Aereo Plane - Aereo-Plain
Charley Pride - The Banks of the Ohio
Willie Nelson & George Jones - Gotta Get Drunk
The Packway Handle Band - Gets Me Every Time - The Packway Handle Band
John Prine - Jesus the Missing Years - The Missing Years
The Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes - Some Girls
Doc & Merle Watson - Twin Sisters - Down South

Nashville Train - Hasta Manana - Abba Our Way
Jimmy Dean - Fort Worth Jail
Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson & Ricky Skaggs - Doin' My Time - Three Pickers
Trampled by Turtles - Wait So Long - Palomino
Loudon Wainwright III - Wine with Dinner - T Shirt
Wayne Hancock - Route 23 - A-Town Blues
Marshall Tucker Band - This Ol' Cowboy - Where We All Belong

Unknown Hinson - Foggy Windows - The Future is Unknown
Tom Russell - Blue Wing - The Long Way Around
The Louvin Brothers - I Wish It Had Been a Dream
Conway Twitty - The Image of Me
Waylon Jennings - Big Mamou
Loretta Lynn - You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man - Legends of Country Music: The Best of Austin City Limits
Townes Van Zandt - Honky Tonkin' - Texas Troubadour
Leon Payne - I'm a Lone Wolf - I Love You Because
Uncle Tupelo - Steal the Crumbs - Anodyne

Emmylou Harris - Two more bottles of Wine
Neko Case - This Little Light - The Tigers Have Spoken
Jerry Jeff Walker - Won't You Give Me One More Chance
Jerry Reed - Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces
Randy Newman - Back on My Feet Again - Good Old Boys
Jim Reeves - Adios Amigo
Donovan - Remember the Alamo
Nashville Train - Waterloo - Abba Our Way

The Ballad Of

This is a show I've had in mind for a long time - every ellipsis in the set list that follows is in place of the show's titular phrase. Thanks for indulging me in this evening's genre-bending!

Sgt. Barry Sadler - The Ballad of the Green Berets
Bill Hayes - ... Davey Crockett
Marty Robins - ... the Alamo
Johnny Cash - ... Ira Hayes
Gill Landry - Lawless Soirez - ... Lawless Soirez
Steve Goodman - ... Penny Evans - Somebody Else's Troubles
Doc & Merle Watson - John Henry - Home Sweet Home
Jeffrey Foucault - ... Copper Junction - Miles from the Lightning
Big Star - ... El Goodo

Sam Bush - ... Stringbean and Estelle - Circles Around Me
Cadillac Sky - ... Restored Confidence - Letters in the Deep
Tom T. Hall - ... Forty Dollars
Guy Clark - ... Laverne and Captain Flint
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt - The Wild Hunt
The Avett Brothers - ... Love and Hate - Emotionalism

Nat King Cole & Stubby Kaye - ... Cat Ballou
Flatt & Scruggs - ... Jed Clampett
Ray Stevens - ... The Blue Cyclone (pts 1 & 2)
Johnny Cash - ... a Teenage Queen
Lucinda Williams - ... Lucy Jordan - Twistable, Turnable Man
Whiskeytown - ... Carol Lynn - Pneumonia
Bob Dylan - ... a Thin Man - Hwy 61 Revisited

Steve Goodman - You Better Get It While You Can (The Ballad of Carl Martin) - Santa Ana Winds
Lynyrd Skynyrd - ... Curtis Loew - Second Helping
Elton John - ... a Well-Known Gun - Tumbleweed Connection
Eef Barzelay - ... Bitter Honey - Bitter Honey
Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil
Drakkar Sauna - When I Stop Dreaming - Wars and Tornadoes