Routes and Branches Play List 03/31/12

I was sad to hear that Earl Scruggs had passed away this week,so I started and end the show with Earl playing with Doc Watson and Ricky Scaggs from a 2003 Rounder Records release called The Three Pickers. This was an excellent album recorded live late in Earl's career. I first listened to Earl Scruggs when my high school teacher, Steve Sigur turned me onto Sgruggs and Flatt back in the '70s. Steve owned a Scruggs style banjo complete with the Scruggs tuners that let you change the tuning of the strings while in mid song. He taught me to flat pick my guitar and we played several Flatt and Scruggs tunes together.

On the new music front, I had the pleasure of listening to new CD's from The James Low Western Front and Audrey Auld. While the James Low CD "Whiskey Farmer" is their first, Auld's CD "Resurrection Moon" is sort of a best hits disc with two new songs. Although Auld has several recordings, this is my first time listening to her music and I like it a lot.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Earl Scuggs, Doc Watson, Ricky Scaggs - Earl's Breakdown - The Three Pickers
Earl Scuggs, Doc Watson, Ricky Scaggs - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - The Three Pickers
Earl Scuggs, Doc Watson, Ricky Scaggs - What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul - The Three Pickers
Earl Scuggs, Doc Watson, Ricky Scaggs - Down In The Valley To Pray - The Three Pickers
The James Low Western Front - Whiskey Farmer - Whiskey Farmer
The James Low Western Front - Medicine Show - Whiskey Farmer
Justin Townes Earle - Look The Other Way - Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
Misner & Smith - Greyhound Days - Live At The Freight & Salvage
Katya Chorover - Whiskey Clouds - Big Big Love
Pert Near Sandstone - Just One Day - Needle & Thread
Pert Near Sandstone - Give The Fiddler A Dram - Out On A Spree
Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys - Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor - Back At The Quonset Hut
Alison Krauss & Union Station - On The Outside Looking In - Paper Airplane
Amy Ray - The Rock Is My Foundation - Lung Of Love
Karen Collins & The Backroads Band - Parallel Lines - No Yodeling On The Radio

4pm.
Audrey Auld - I'd Leave Me Too - Resurrection Moon
Audrey Auld - Next Big Nothing - Resurrection Moon
Cole Mitchell - Bones - The Valley Of Want
Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams - All Along The Watch Tower - Live At Hodi's
Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers - Go Away, Stop, Turn Around, Come Back - Rare Bird Alert
Emmylou Harris - Old Five And Dimers Like Me - All I Intended To Be
Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers - More Bad Weather On The Way - Rare Bird Alert
Lyle Lovett - White Freightliner Blues - Release Me
Greg Brown - Freak Flag - Freak Flag
Chuck Cannon - Give God The Blues - Symphony Of Scars
Earl Scuggs, Doc Watson, Ricky Scaggs - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - The Three Pickers

Routes and Branches Play List 03/24/12

Highlights this week include Karen Collins & The Backroads Band, some old and new Lewi Longmire (old w/Apricot Jam)and several vinyl tracks including Ray Lamontagne,new Chuck Prophet and vintage J.J. Cale.


Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Karen Collins & The Backroads Band - No Yodeling On The Radio - No Yodeling On The Radio
Karen Collins & The Backroads Band - Mama's In A Honky Tonk Downtown - No Yodeling On The Radio
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings - Black Sheep - Kings And Queens
The Honey Dewdrops - Test Of Time - These Old Roots
Mike & Ruthy - Raise Your Glasses High - The NYC EP
Ellis Paul - Woody Guthrie, Working Man - The Hero In You
Joe Peck - It's Time To Go - In The City Lights
Apricoct Jam - Break All The Chains - Preserved
Lewi Longmire Band - The Ballad of Me & Sweet Marie - Tales Of The Left Coast Roasters
John Lilly - Come And Go - Cold Comfort
Misner & Smith - Madeline (Paradise Cracked)- Live At The Freight & Salvage
Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs - Like Rock & Roll And Radio - Live Fall 2010

4pm.
Great American Taxi - A.M. Radio - Paradise Lost
Steve Earle - Waitin' On The Sky - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
Otis Gibbs - Broke And Restless - Harder Than Hammered Hell
Janiva Magness - Dirty Water - Stronger For It
Chuck Prophet - Temple Beautiful - Temple Beautiful
Ry Cooder - Humpty Dumpty World - Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
Dan Weber - Hank & Jesus - Ash And Bone
J.J. Cale - Anyway The Wind Blows - Okie
Railroad Earth - Black Elk Speaks - Railroad Earth
Counting Crows - Untitled (Love Song)- Underwater Sunshine
I See Hawks In L.A. - Bohemian Highway - New Kind Of Lonely
Too Slim and The Taildraggers - Daddies Bones - Shiver

Routes and Branches Play List 03/17/12

This week I am so excited about The Drive By Truckers paying a visit to our lovely rain soaked Northwest. Their three guitar attack takes me right back to Georgia and the days of my youth with all of its great music. I grew up with Lynyrd Skynyrd. Having moved to Oregon in the late '80s I never experienced a DBT show until 4 years ago in Portland. They just weren't on my musical radar. The house was packed and DBT put on a show I will never forget. Drive By Truckers tell tales of real life (in the South or not)with a gritty determination that can only be found with three screaming guitars trading leads. We love that Southern Rock!!!


Artist-Song-Source

3pm
I See Hawks In L.A. - I Fell In Love With The Greatful Dead - New Kind Of Lonely
Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams - Dire Wolf - Live At Hodi's
Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams - Hippie In My House - Live At Hodi's
Levon Helm - Rag Mama Rag - Ramble At The Ryman
Justin Townes Earle - Look The Other Way - Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
Drive By Truckers - Carl Perkins' Cadillac - The Dirty South
Drive By Truckers - Bob - Brighter Than Creations Dark
Drive By Truckers - Dancin' Ricky - Go-Go Boots
Marvin Etzioni - Living Like A Hobo - Marvin Country
James McMurtry - Just Us Kids - Just Us Kids
Hayes Carll - Hard Out Here - KMAG YOYO
Heartless Bastards - Parted Ways - Arrow
James McMurtry - We Can't Make It Here - Childish Things

4pm
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken / Tripe Face Boggie - Waiting For Columbus
Little Feat - Old Folks' Boggie - Waiting For Columbus
Drive By Truckers - A Ghost To Most - Brighter Than Creations Dark
Drive By Truckers - Pulaski - Go-Go Boots
Drive By Truckers - Gavity's Gone - A Blessing And A Curse
Janiva Magness - Whistlin' In The Dark - Stronger For It
Katya Chorover - Movin' On - Big Big Love
Misner & Smith - Poor Player - Live At The Freight & Salvage
Drive By Truckers - The Rightous Path - Brighter Than Creations Dark
Drive By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love - Go-Go Boots

Routes and Branches Play List 3/10/12

Shotgun Majors in the hot seat this week...


Artist - Song - Album

3pm
Corey Hart - Blue Mountain Thistle - Winter Bones
Elvin Bishop - Struttin' My Stuff (feat. Derek Trucks & Warren Haynes) - The Blues Rolls On
Otis Gibbs - Don't Worry Kid - Harder Than Hammered Hell
Ox - Out On the Weekend - Tuco
Ryan Adams - Rosalie Come and Go - Lost & Found, Vol.1
Hot Buttered Rum - A Great Many Things - Limbs Akimbo
The Mallett Brothers Band - Watch You Walk Away - The Mallett Brothers Band
Michael Fracasso - Loretta - A Pocketful of Rain
Tim Carroll - Punk Rockin' Honky Tonk Girl - If I Could
Justin Townes Earle - Movin' On - Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
Devon Sproule - Dress Sharp, Play Well, Be Modest - Keep Your Silver Shined
The Yawpers - Angel Wings - Savage Blue EP
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside - Danger - Dirty Radio

4pm
Dead Man Winter - New Orleans - Bright Lights
Heartless Bastards - Low Low Low - Arrow
Ryan Bingham - Long Way from Georgia - Mescalito
Carla Bozulich - Time of the Preacher - Red Headed Stranger
Doug Moreland - I Need a Girl - Toast to Life
Lydia Loveless - Can't Change Me - Indestructible Machine
The Steel Wheels - Endure - Lay Down Lay Low
Shurman - Back to Texas - Inspiration
Drive-By Truckers - Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Turn 4 - Tattoo Blues - What You Do About It
Son Volt - Mystifies Me - Trace
Eilen Jewell - That's Where I'm Going - Queen of the Minor Key
Kory Quinn and the Comrades - Barn Yard Stomp - Angels and Outlaws
Pharis & Jason Romero - Out On the Western Plains - A Passing Glimpse

Routes and Branches Play List 03/03/12

The new discs have been stacking up on me lately so this show was an attempt at playing some of them including my top 6 choices for the FAR charts this past month. My top 6 were:
1)Jason Arnold - Crazy Things
2)Shoebox Letters - You Or Someone Like You
3)Beth Wood - The Weather Inside
4)The Little Willies - For The Good Times
5)Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - Little Blue Egg
6)Amos Lee - As The Crow Flies

The new Lyle Lovett CD "Release Me" just landed in my hands yesterday and the couple of tunes I have listened to I really liked. And I picked up Chuck Prophet's latest "Temple Beautiful" just last weekend at his show here in Eugene. I'm sure that both of these releases will find a spot in my list of this month's top favorites.


Artist-Song-Source

3pm
Lyle Lovett - White Boy Lost In The Blues - Release Me
Jonathan Jeter & The Revelators - Bar Fly - Late To My Own Funeral
Heartless Bastards - Parted Ways - Arrow
Chuck Prophet - Play That Song Again - Temple Beautiful
The Little Willies - Jolene - For The Good Times
Johnny Cash & The Avett Brothers - One Too Many Mornings - Chimes Of Freedom
Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli - One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) - Chimes Of Freedom
Drive By Truckers - Used To Be A Cop - GO-GO Boots
Chip Taylor & The New Ukrainians - Phoned In Dead - Fuck All The Perfect People
Too Slim and The Taildraggers - Daddies Bones - "Shiver"
Dave Carter And Tracy Grammer - Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key - Little Blue Egg

4pm
Beth Wood - Miles Before Breakfast - The Weather Inside
Amos Lee - Simple Things - As The Crow Flies
Jay Farrar - Fly High - New Multitudes
Jack Wilson - Black Hills Fiction - Jack Wilson
Otis Gibbs - Broke And Restless - Harder Than Hammered Hell
Bob Livingston - Middle Ages Rockabilly Blues - Gypsy Alibi
Tommy Womack - 90 Miles an Hour Down A Dead End Street - Now What!
Shoebox Letters - Mud Flap Girl - You Or Someone Like You
Punch Brothers - Who's Feeling Young Now? - Who's Feeling Young Now?
Eight Dollar Mountain - Riverboat Gambler - Riverboat Gambler
Jason Arnold - Just One More Time - Crazy Things
Thrift Store Cowboys - Rosemary - Light Fighter
Lyle Lovett - Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Release Me