Routes and Branches Play List 05/30/09

This week feature artist was The Mother Truckers. They are one of my wife's favorite Americana bands and this week is the anniversary of their last album Lets All Go To Bed. A great disc which really highlights all of the group's talents from Teal Collins' soaring vocals to Josh Zee's amazing guitar work.
Thinking back to this time last year had me picking out some of the other bands that I was playing a year ago like Sonny Landreth, Eleven Hundred Springs and Railroad Earth. I also played a couple from The Felice Brothers since they will be in town this coming week.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
The Mother Truckers - Broke, Not Broken - Broke, Not Broken
The Mother Truckers - Streets Of Atlanta - Let's All Go To Bed
Eilen Jewell - Everywhere I Go - Sea Of Tears
Sonny Landreth - Way Past Long - From The Reach
JJ Cale - Down To Memphis - Roll On
Dave Alvin - Artesia - Man Of Somebody's Dreams (A Tribute To Chris Gaffney)
Langhorne Slim - The Electric Love Letter - When The Sun's Gone Down
Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers - Devil's In Boston - Songs Of The Night
The Mother Truckers - Can't Sleep In Tucson - Let's All Go To Bed
The Drive By Truckers - Gravity's Gone - A Blessing And A Curse
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Them Old Minglewood Blues - Where I Come From
The Gourds - Country Gal - Haymaker
Eleven Hundred Springs - Every Time I Get Close To You - Country Jam

4pm.
Kendell Carson - Belt Buckle - Alright Dynamite
Hayes Carll - A Lover Like You - Trouble In Mind
The Mother Truckers - Nothing There - Broke, Not Broken
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Change Is - Roadhouse Sun
The Felice Brothers - Katie Dear - Yonder Is The Clock
Steve Earle - Colorado Girl - Townes
Buddy & Julie Miller - One Part, Two Part - Written In Chalk
Railroad Earth - Right In Tune - Amen Corner
The Felice Brothers - Boy From Lawrence County - Yonder Is The Clock
Sideroads - River - Destinations
The Wrights - You Were Made For Me - The Wrights
The Mother Truckers - Northbound Trail - Broke, Not Broken
The Mother Truckers - When I Get My Wings - Let's All Go To Bed

Routes and Branches Play List 05/23/09

As I was gathering my music together for the show this week I first noticed that Steve Earle's new album "Townes" had debut at #11 on the Americana Charts this week. Then I noticed that I had 9 of the other 10 top CDs sitting in my to play pile. So with the exception of a new track from Bob Dylan, I counted down the top 11 CDs on this week's list with The Flatlanders and their new CD "Hills & Valleys" coming in at #1.
The rest of the show was also mostly new music with a vintage track from Wilco in the middle.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Commander Cody - It's Gonna Be One Of Those Nights - Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers
Steve Earle -Pancho & Lefty - Townes
JJ Cale - Roll On - Roll On
Eilen Jewel - Nowhere In No Time - Sea Of Tears
Seth Walker - Can't Come With You -Leap Of Faith
Justin Townes Earle - Halfway To Jackson - Midnight At The Movies
Scott Miller & The Commonwealth - Double Indemnity - For Crying Out Loud
Buddy & Julie Miller -What You Gonna Do Leroy - Written In Chalk
Alejandro Escovedo - Too Little Too Late - Keep Your Soul, A Tribute To Doug Sahm
Bob Dylan - World Gone Wrong
Slaid Cleaves -Tumbleweed Stew -Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
The Flatlanders -Homeland Refugee -Hills & Valleys
Sideroads - Raye Jean -Destinations

4pm.
Nelo - Love Solution - Two Years Ago
The Gourds - Country Love - Haymaker
Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers - Songs Of The Night -Songs Of The Night
Susan Cattaneo - Can't Chase A Train -Brave And Wild
Hillstomp - Goin' Down South - After Two But Before Five
John Doe & The Sadies - Are The Good Times Really Over For Good - Country Club
Todd Snider - America's Favorite Pastime -The Excitement Plan
Wilco - Sunken Treasure - Being There
Mark Olsen & Gary Louris - Chamberlin SD - Ready For The Flood
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Where I Come From - Where I Come From
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - California's Burning - Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
The Felice Brothers - Penn Station -Yonder Is The Clock
Jim Byrnes - Ol' Rattler - My Walking Stick

Routes and Branches Play List 05/16/09

This week's show was a mix of emotions with several cuts in memory of artists and tour mates that have passed on within the past year or so to great new music put together by seasoned musicians. My feature disks this week both came from Dave Alvin who last year lost a dear friend and band mate, Chris Gaffney. Dave has produced a tribute album to Chris entitled "Man Of Somebody's Dreams" with artists from Joe Ely, Boz Scaggs, James McMurtry, Los Lobos and many others.
His other disc just out is called Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women. This CD came out of a group he put together for the 2008 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Fransico. The Guilty Women are; Christy McWilson, Cindy Cashdollar, Nina Gerber, Laurie Lewis, Amy Farris, Sarah Brown, and Lisa Pankratz. This is another great Dave Alvin CD. It is well balanced with some of Dave's old favorites done a new way to soulful cuts featuring the women.

I also want to send out my condolences to Willie Nelson for the loss of his stage manager Poodie Locke last week. Thank you Poodie for helping Willie play all of those great shows.


Artist -Song-Source
3pm.
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Barracuda Moon - Where I Come From
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - Marie Marie - Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
James McMurtry - Fight (Tonight's The Night) - Man Of Somebody's Dreams, A Tribute To Chris Gaffney
Lewi Longmire - Find Me A Woman - If I Live To Be 100
The Flatlanders - Borderless Love - Hills & Valleys
One Horse - World On Fire - Post Time
Blame Sally - Pass The Buddha - Night Of 1000 Stars
Holly Williams - Keep The Change - Single
Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers -You Never Know - Songs Of The Night
Slaid Cleaves - Hard To Believe - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - Weight Of The World - Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
Betty Soo - Never Knew No Love - Heat Sin Water Skin

4pm.
Michelle Malone - Restraining Order Blues - Debris
Susan Cattaneo - Love Takes What It Takes - Brave And Wild
Molasses - Sullivan's Hollow - Angeline The Baker - Greenback Dolla
Molasses - Honeysuckle Rose - Greenback Dolla
Sideroads - River - Destinations
Ramblin' Jake Elliot - Rising Highwater Blues - A Stranger Here
James Luther Dickinson - Save The Bones For Henry Jones - Dinosaurs Run In Circles
Willie Nelson - Gravedigger - Moment Of Forever
The Derek Trucks Band - Already Free - Already Free
Ben Mallott w/ Eliza Gilkyson - Shotgun Suzy - Look Good Feel Good
Los Lobos - Man Of Somebody's Dreams - Man Of Somebody's Dreams, A Tribute To Chris Gaffney
Jimmie Vaughan - Why Why Why - Keep Your Soul, A Tribute To Doug Sahm
The Felice Brothers - Katie Dear - Yonder Is the Clock
Sarah Borges - Do It For Free - The Stars Are Out
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - Potter's Field - Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women

Routes and Branches Play List 05/02/09

A couple of birthdays this week set the tone for my show. Willie Nelson turned 76 this past Thursday and Pete Seeger turns 90 this Sunday.

Since I had a larger collection of Willie's music I decided to make him my feature artist this week. Willie Nelson has been putting out several albums a year for the past couple of years. He has released 2 CDs already this year, one with Asleep At the Wheel and a second disc called "Naked Willie" in which he has taken several songs he released in the 60's and early 70's that he has now remastered taking out the horns and other souped-up "Nashville sound". I like many of the songs better this way, more like what you would expect a country singer/songwritter should sound like.

Pete Seeger has been an inspiration to many of the artists that we play on Routes and Branches. Pete celebrates his birthday today with a concert full of friends at Madison Square Garden. It is a benefit for Pete's Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a nonprofit organization he founded more that four decades ago to help preserve the river, which has suffered from pollution. I certainly hope they release a CD and DVD of the concert.


Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
James McMurtry - I'm Not From Here - Live In Aught-Three
Willie Nelson - If You Could See What's Going Through My Mind - Naked Willie
Willie Nelson - I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World - Willie And The Wheel
Willie Nelson - My Life's Been A Pleasure - Last Of The Breed
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Dylan's Hard Rain - Lost Highway
Slaid Cleaves - Tumbleweed Stew - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Pete Seeger - Banks Of The Ohio - American Favorite Ballads
Pete Seeger - Where The Old Allegeny And the Monongahela - American Favorite Ballads
Shawn Sahm - Mendocino - Keep Your Soul
The Whopner County Country Allstars - City Limits - It's Too Loud
Willie Nelson - Gravedigger - Moment Of Forever
Willie Nelson w/ Lucinda Williams - Overtime - It Always Will Be
Michelle Shocked - Other People - Soul Of My Soul

4pm.
Sideroads - Spirit HWY -Destinations
Indigo Girls - Second Time Around - Poseidon And The Bitter Bug
Star Anna & The Laughing Dogs - Where I Come From - The Only Thing That Matters
The Mother Truckers - Nothing There - Broke, Not Broken
Darrell Scott - I'm Nobody - The Invisible Man
Buddy & Julie Miller w/ Robert Plant - What You Gonna Do Leroy - Written In Chalk
JJ Cale - Down To Memphis - Roll On
The Flatlanders - Borderless Love - Hills & Valleys
Justin Townes Earle - Mama's Eyes - Midnight At The Movies
Sarazin Blake - India Or Spain - The Air Your Lungs Forced Out
Willie Nelson - Over You Again - Moment Of Forever
Willie Nelson w/Toby Keith - Good Hearted Woman -Stars & Guitars
Willie Nelson -Sunday Morning Coming Down - Naked Willie
Blame Sally - Hurricane - Night Of 1000 Stars