Routes and Branches Play List 2/27/10

Song - Artist - Source

3pm

4 & 20 Blues - Jeffrey Foucault - Stripping Cane

I Smell A Rat - Patty Griffin - Downtown Church

Ready or Not - Backyard Tire Fire - Good To Be

Seven Long Years - The Whipsaws - 60 Watt Avenue

Oppenheimer - Old 97's - Fight Songs

Baby, Baby, Don't Tell Me That - James Hand - The Truth Will Set You Free

Let the Lead Fly - Wrinkle Neck Mules - Let the Lead Fly

Take A Break - Catherine MacLellan - Water In The Ground

Like a Cannonball - Honey Gitters - Barrel Sniffer's Holiday

These Roads Don't Move - Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone

Don't Spill The Sugar - The Wiyos - Broken Land Bell

Not Again - Slimfit - The Path

Dance All Night - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses

Tennesse Rose - The Deep Vibration - Veracruz

4pm

As Fast As You Can - Mark Wehner - Wait...I Wasn't Finished

Alfred - Gordie Tentrees - Mercy Or Sin

Devil Talks - Gordie Tentrees - Mercy Or Sin

Mercy Or Sin - Gordie Tentrees - Mercy Or Sin

Tulsa Sounds Like Trouble To Me - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Speed Of Life

Fried Chicken And Gasoline - Southern Culture On The Skids - Dirt Track Date

Jesus & James Dean - Charlie Shafter Band - 17th & Chicago

Walken - Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Stunt Double - The Texas Saphires - As He Wanders

Speak Plainly, Diana - Joe Pug - Messenger

Hard Livin' Life - Matthew Dean Herman - Blackbird

Shake Your Party Dress - Boca Chica - Lace Up Your Work Boots

Dark Autumn Hour - Frontier Ruckus - The Orion Songbook

Routes and Branches Play List 2/20/10

Song - Artist - Source

3pm

Desdemona (Featuring Patty Griffin) - The Alternate Routes - A Sucker's Dream

Care - Austin Collins & The Rainbirds - Wrong Control

Something Less Than Something More - Caitlin Cary - Begonias

360 - Heath Haynes & the Hi-Dollars - Ain't With Bein' Broke

Breaking Honey's Heart - Supersuckers - Get It Together

Take My Hand - David Hidalgo & Louie Pérez - The Long Goodbye

Let'em Run - Rita Hosking - Come Sunrise

Sounds Of The City - Lucero - 1372 Overton Park

Copathetic - Fragile Jack - Thirsty Work

I Hold The Bottle, You Hold The Wheel (w/Micky Braun) - Reckless Kelly - Somewhere In Time

Nobody from Nowhere - Daddy - For a Second Time

Silently Mine - Gavin GLass And The Holy Shakers - Gavin Glass & The Holy Shakers

4pm

Blackbirds - Jonathan Terrell - Trials And Stimulations

Never Be Fooled Again - Zoe Muth - Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers

Follow You - Trevor Alguire - Thirty Year Run

Can't Lose You - Bourgeois Gypsies - Faulty Fairytales

Larosse - Bruce Robison - The New World

Passing Dream - Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle - Let's Just Stay Here

Alfred - Gordie Tentrees - Mercy Or Sin

The Gates Of Liberty - Bow Thayer And Perfect Trainwreck - Bow Thayer And Perfect Trainwreck

New Shoes - Joy Kills Sorrow - Darkness Sure Becomes This City

Car Outside - Jimmy LaFave - Cimarron Manifesto

House Of Gold - Patty Griffin - Downtown Church

Right Here With Me - The Band Of Heathens - Voices of a Grateful Nation Vol. 1

Routes and Branches Play List 02/13/10

With James McMurtry coming back to Eugene next week, I had the opportunity to talk with him on the phone this past week. Our conversation included highlights about recording his Live In Europe album, performing on Michael Nesmith's Videoranch and what songs that he is enjoying playing right now. I mixed this conversation in with his music during the second hour of my show.

Following the McMurtry set I played a set featuring tunes from the Crazy Heart soundtrack. The movie has finally come to Eugene and I'm looking forward to seeing it this afternoon.

Shotgun Majors will be filling in for me while my wife and I join John Hiatt, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen, Buddy Miller, along with many other artists on the 2010 Cayamo Cruise to Belize and Mexico. "Party Time"

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
The Drive By Truckers - Feb. 14 - A Blessing and A Curse
Dave Rawlings Machine - Sweet Tooth - A Friend Of A Friend
Grandpa Elliott - Sugar Is Sweet - Sugar Sweet
Dereck Trucks Band - Our Love - Already Free
Carrie Rodriguez - Got Your Name On It - Live In Louisville
Los Lonely Boys - Loving You Always - Forgiven
Will Kimbrough - Big Big Love - Wings
Emmitt Nershi Band - Mango Tango - New Country Blues
Emmylou Harris - Beyond The Great Divide - All I Intended To Be
Lyle Lovett - Pantry (Acoustic)- Natural Forces
John Hiatt - Let's Give This Love A Try - Same Old Man
Buddy And Julie Miller - Ellis County - Written In Chalk

4pm.
James McMurtry - Hurricane Party - Live In Europe
James McMurtry - Lobo Town - Saint Mary Of The Woods
James McMurtry - Bayou Tortous - Just Us Kids
Ryan Bingham - The Weary Kind - Crazy Heart
Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You - Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges - Somebody Else - Crazy Heart
Richard Thompson - Dad's Gonna Kill Me - Sweet Warrior
Hayes Carll - A Lover Like You - Trouble In Mind

Routes and Branches Play List 02/06/10

I was surprised and pleased this week when I took a look at the Americana Chart.

Pleased by seeing Ray Wylie Hubbard sitting at the top with his CD A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C). I have been listening to Hubbard's music for so many years that I can't remember when I started. His new CD has some great song writing and deserves to be at the top of the charts.

I was surprised to see Allison Moorer's new CD Crows sitting at number nine on the chart. When I first listened to it, nothing really jumped out at me saying "I'm Americana music". Instead it felt more main stream to pop type songs. Now that it is getting so much air play on "Americana Stations" I think that I will have to give it a closer listen.

A number of good concerts are on our concert calendar in the next few weeks. I featured several up coming performers on this week's show.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Richard Thompson - Needle & Thread - Sweet Warrior
JJ Cale - Roll On - Roll On
Blue Rodeo - One More Night - The Things We Left Behind
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Down Home Country Blues - A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C)
Joe Pug - Messenger - Messenger
Jeff Bridges - Somebody Else - Crazy Heart
James McMurtry - Freeway View - Live In Europe
Carrie Rodriguez - She Ain't Me - She Ain't Me
Los Lonely Boys - Loving You Always - Forgiven
Patty Griffin - Wade In The Water - Down Town Church
Allison Moorer - The Broken Girl - Crows
Maria Muldar & Her Garden Of Joy - Bank Failure Blues - Good Time Music For Hard Times

4pm.
South Memphis String Band - Jesse James - Home Sweet Home
Phoebe Blume - Hot And Sweet - The Homing Beasts
Eric Bibb - Booker's Guitar - Booker's Guitar
Head For The Hills - Nooks And Crannies - Head For The Hills
Pert' Near Sandstone - No Rest - Needle & Thread
Asylum Street Spankers - My Baby In The CIA - God's Favorite Sampler
Swamp Cabbage - Dixieland - Squeal
Joy Kills Sorrow - New Shoes - Darkness Sure Becomes This City
Buddy & Julie Miller - You Make My Heart Beat Too Fast - Love Snuck Up
Slimfit - More Than Wrong - The Path
Robert Earl Keen - On And On - The Rose Hotel
The Wailin' Jennys - Deeper Well - Live At The Mauch Chunk Opera House