Routes and Branches Play List 9/27/08

This is going to be a great week for music for me. On Tuesday Robert Plant and Alison Krauss perform in Portland and my sweetie bought us tickets. The other show that I'm excited about is the Tift Merritt show here in Eugene on Wednesday night. I opened and closed Routes and Branches with all of these artists this week. Otherwise, it was another great mix of music with a lot of new music mixed in. If you like my show and read this blog, please let me know what you think.
Tim

3pm.
Tift Merritt - Late Night Pilgrim - Tambourine
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Rich Woman - Raising Sand
Eliza Gilkyson - Dream Lover - Beautiful World
The Watson Twins - Bar Woman Blues - Fire Songs
The Mother Truckers - Can't Sleep In Tucson - Let's All Go To Bed
Jake Payne - If I could Only Hold You - What The Folk Is Roots Music
Ralph Stanley II - Train Songs - This One Is Two
Eleven Hundred Springs - Every Time I Get Close To You - Country Jam
Mad Buffalo - Destination Unknown - Wilderness
Badlands Trio - Waiting - Badlands Trio
J. Scott Hinkle - Take My bones To Alabama - Blueridge Martini
k.d. lang - Coming Home - Single
Drew Emmitt - Beat Of The World - Long Road
Bow Thayer - Sprawl - Bow Thayer & The Perfect Trainwreck

4pm.
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - The Devil's Inside My Head - Rattlin' Bones
Wild Sweet Orange - Either / Or - We Have Cause To Be Uneasy
Old Crow Medicine Show - Motel In Memphis - Tennessee Pusher
Slaid Cleaves - This Morning I Am Born Again - Broke Down
Robin & Linda Williams - When A Thread Gets Caught - Buena Vista
Golden Smog - Until You Came Along - Stay Golden, Smog
The Drive By Truckers - Righteous Path - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Sonny Landreth - Way Past Long - From The Reach
Dave Alvin - Out Of Control - Ashgrove
Backyard Tire Fire - Time With You - The Places We Lived
Jenny Reynolds - Never Let Him Go - Next To You
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone - Raising Sand
Tift Merritt - Broken - Another Country

Routes and Branches Play List 9/20/08

This week's show featured a conversation with Will Sheff of Okkervil River. Will and his band were in Eugene last night for a show at the McDonald Theater. Will brings a renewed approach to the creation of folk music. With his new album "The Stand Ins", Will passed out acoustic versions of the songs to other musicians for them to do covers of the tunes in their own way, as a means of promoting the new record. He says that this is more like how folk music was created and passed around from one musician to another. I asked Will if hearing someone else do one of his songs differently ever cause him to change how he preformed the song himself. He said that most of the time that he continues to his songs his own way, but that he recently was playing a song and found himself wanting to do it like one of his friends did it. "It keeps the music alive."

3pm.
Tift Merritt - Morning Is My Destination - Another Country
Jake Payne - They Don't Play Enough Haggard On The Radio - What The Folk Is Roots Music
Donna The Buffalo - Temporary Misery - Silverlined
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand Ins
Okkervil River - A Girl In Port - The Stage Names
Okkervil River - Singer Songwriter - The Stand Ins
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones - Rattlin' Bones
The Mother Truckers - Streets Of Atlanta - Let's All Go To Bed
Mad Buffalo - Three Rivers - Wilderness
Drew Emmitt - I'm Alive - Long Road
Band Of Annuals - Ain't Lookin' Back - Let Me Live

4pm.
Angel Band - Moon Over Montgomery - With Roots And Wings
Red Molly - Beaumont Rest Stop - Love And Other Tragedies
John Hiatt - On With You - Same Old Man
Ron Sexsmith - Poor Helpless Dreams - Exit Strategy of the Soul
One Horse Shy - Dead End Road - One Horse Shy
Rosalie Sorrels - Goodnight Loving Trail - Strangers In Another Country
Robin & Linda Williams - Maybelle's Guitar and Monroe's Mandolin - Buena Vista
Slaid Cleaves - Horseshoe Lounge - Broke Down
Taj Mahal - Further On Down The Road - Maestro
Alejandro Escovedo - Sister Lost Soul - Real Animal
Jimmy Thackery and The Drivers - Hit The Big Time - Solid Ice
Mike Zito - Little Red Corvette - single
Los Lonely Boys - Crazy Dream - Los Lonely Boys

Routes and Branches Play List 9/13/08

This week's show started out with an in studio conversation and music with local artist Phoebe Blume. Phoebe brings a wide mix of musical experiences to her music from Opera training to touring the clubs in a band. She uses a variety of music sampling to create unique and original music. With lyrics that reflect her rural upbringing Phoebe's songs have the feel of modern folk songs. Phoebe is currently working on a new CD due out early next year. Until then you can find more about Phoebe Blume and her music at www.phoebeblume.com.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Phoebe Blume - Conversation & Music - Music Supplied By Artist
War Wounds
Congregation Of One
Little Trees
Alcohol Jive
Railroad Earth - Hard Livin' - Amen Corner
Rodney Crowell - I Want You #35 - Sex & Gasoline
John Hiatt - Old Days - Same Old Man
James McMurtry - Fire Line Road - Just Us Kids
Old 97's - She Loves The Sunset - Blame It On Gravity
Austin Lounge Lizards - Luster's Motel - Paint Me On Velvet
Drew Emmitt - Gypsy in My Soul - Long Road

4pm.
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken - Join The Band
Slaid Cleeves - One Good Year - Broke Down
The Mother Truckers - No Mercy - Broke, Not Broken
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Jackson Hole - Rattlin' Bones
Jenny Reynolds - Next To You - Next To You
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Trampled Rose - Raising Sand
Steve Earle - Down Here Below - Washington Square Serenade
Uncle Tupelo - The Long Cut - The Long Cut + 5
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Rollin' On - All The Road Running
Keller Williams - Same Ole' - Live W/ Moseley, Droll & Sipe
Sonny Landreth - Congo Square - Grant Street

Routes and Branches Play List 9/06/08

Tim Little

I picked up Drew Emmitt's new CD "Long Road" this week and found a lot of great tunes on it. From originals to cover tunes Drew has put together an excellent album. His covers of Super Tramp's "Take The Long Way Home", Marshall Tucker's "Take The Highway" and Van Morrison's "Gypsy in My Soul" are very well done respectable versions of the originals. He also has several excellent original tunes including "I'm Alive" and "River's Risin'
Other new music to Routes and Branches this week included the new disc from Little Feat "Join The Band" and Rodney Crowell's "Sex and Gasoline". Little Feat have joined up with a bunch of their friends and recorded new versions of all the old favorites. Rodney Crowell's new disc is loaded with great new original tunes from the title track "Sex & Gasoline" to "The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design".

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Drew Emmitt - Take They long Way Home - Long Road
Rodney Crowell - Sex and Gasoline - Sex and Gasoline
John Hiatt - On With You - Same Old Man
Mad Buffalo - Little Walk - Wilderness
Okkervil River - Singer Songwriter - The Stand Ins
Little Feat - Fat Man In The Bathtub - Join The Band
Mother Truckers - When I Get My Wings - Let's All Go To Bed
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines - The Stand Ins
Randall Bramblett - Blue Road - Now It's Tomorrow
The Watson Twins - Just Like Heaven - Fire Songs
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Stick with Me Baby - Raising Sand
Red Molly - Beaumount - Love And Other Tragedies

4pm.
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones - Rattlin' Bones
Drew Emmitt - River's Risin' - Long Road
Hayes Carll - Girl Downtown - Trouble In Mind
Billy Bragg - M For Me - Mr. Love & Justice
Raining Jane - Pinball - Paper Nest
J. Scott Hinkle - Take My Bones To Alabama - Blueridge Martini
Josh Phillips Folk Festival - Little Something Baby - Wicker
Band Of Annuals - Aint' Lookin' Back - Let Me Live
Drive By Truckers - A Ghost To Most - Brighter Than Creations Dark
Alejandro Escovedo - People - Real Animal
Rodney Crowell - The Rise And Fall Of Intelligent Design - Sex & Gasoline
Bowery Boy Blue - Ah, What a Cruel Change - Stalk That Myth
Drew Emmitt - Take The Highway - Long Road

Routes and Branches Play List 8/30/08

Tim Little

For Labor Day weekend I focused on americana songs featuring the working man or woman. One of my focus discs was "Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway" the tribute album to Woody Guthrie by various artists including Jimmy LaFave, Eliza Gilkyson, Slaid Cleeves and Bob Childers as the narrator speaking the words of Woody. There are plenty of songs that would fit this show. Here are the ones that I picked.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.

Jacob Dylan - All Day and All Night - Seeing Things
Dave Insley - God Loves The Working Man - Here With You Tonight
Little Village - Don't Bug Me When I'm Working - Little Village
Ryan Bingham - Dollar A Day - Mescalito
Renegade Saints - Treadmill - Mercy Saints Alive
Bob Childers - Dust Bowl - Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway
Jimmy LaFave & Eliza Gilkynson - Pastures Of Plenty - Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway
Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars - Mermaid Avenue
Bob Childers - Union Membership - Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway
Jimmy LaFave & Eliza Gilkynson - 1913 Massacre - Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway
Nanci Griffith - Looking For The Time - One Fair Summer Evening
Steve Earle - Six Days On The Road - Essential Steve Earle
Rancho Deluxe - Maintenance Man - True Freedom
Merle Haggard - Workin' Man Blues - The Best Of
Willie Nelson - Gravedigger - Moment Of Forever

4pm.
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men - Jubilee Train/Do Re Mi/Promised Land - Interstate City
Joan Baez - Henry Russell's Last Words - Day After Tomorrow
Rosalie Sorrels - Schofield Mine Disaster - Strangers In Another Country
W. V. Hill - Dyin' To Make A Livin'
Bob Childers - In The Red - Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway
Jimmy LaFave & Eliza Gilkynson - Ramlin' Reckless Hobo - Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway
Old & In The Way - Muleskinner Blues - Breakdown
Jimmy LaFave & Eliza Gilkynson - Deportee - Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway
Railroad Earth - Elko - Elko
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Grandpa Was A Carpenter - Will The Circle Be Unbroken
David Lindley - Do You Want My Job - Twango Bango Delux
David Bromberg - Working On A Building - Live In New York City

Routes and Branches Play List 8/23/08

Tim Little

I started this week's show with Wilco for all of us Eugene folks that couldn't make it to Bend to see the Saturday night. Other than that I had several new discs to feature this week, Backyard Tire Fire, Red Molly, Joan Baez, and The Bittersweets to name a few. I am looking forward to all of the Americana music coming to our area this fall.

Artist-Song-Source

3:00
Wilco - Misunderstood - Kicking Television
Lucinda Williams - Righteously - World Without Tears
Backyard Tire Fire - The Places We Lived - The Places We Lived
J Scott Hinkle - Trucker's Lament - Blueridge Martini
Asylum Street Spankers - Got My Mojo Workin' - Mercurial
Angel Band - Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep - With Roots and Wings
Red Molly - Honey On My Grave - Love and Other Tragedies
Jonatha Brooke - My Sweet and Bitter Bowl - The Works
Miss Leslie - Between The Whiskey and the Wine - Between The Whiskey and the Wine
Honky Tonk Train - Tell Me That Isn't True - Honky Tonk Train
Calexico - Two Silver Trees - Carried To Dust
The Cat Mary - Way Down Deep In The Jungle - Pissants & Pilgrims & Vagrants & Victims

4:00
Steve Earle & Allison Moorer - Days Aren't Long Enough - Washington Square Serenade
Joan Baez - God Is God - Day After Tomorrow
The Bittersweets - Wreck - Goodnight, San Fransisco
The Mother Truckers - When I get My Wings - Lets All Go To Bed
Jenny Reynolds - Next To You - Next To You
Tift Merritt - Shadow In The Way - Tambourine
Paul Thorn - A Long Way From Tupelo - A Long Way From Tupelo
James Intveld - A Women's Touch - Have Faith
Asylum Street Spankers - Don't Turn Out The Light - Mommy Says No
Donna The Buffalo - Temporary Misery - Silverlined
Eliza Gilkyson - Great Correction - Beautiful World
JJ Cale - All Mama's Children - Rewind

Routes and Branches Play List 8/16/08

Tim Little

A hot summer week here in Eugene. A great time for seeing live music outside. A big thank you to Scott Majors who added the local Americana concert list to this blog.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Asylum Street Spankers - Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue - Mercurial
Gary Nicholson - Memphis Women And Chicken - Whitey Johnson
Martin Sexton - Goin' To the Country - Seeds
Jenny Reynolds - Whiskey & Pie - Next To You
Digney Fignus - No Worry For The Berry - Talk Of The Town
Skinner City String Band - Who Broke The Lock
Asylum Street Spankers - Everybody Loves My Baby - Mommy Says No!
The Mother Truckers - Never Miss My Baby - Let's All Go To Bed
Asylum Street Spankers - Sidekick - Mommy Says No!
The Waybacks - The River - Loaded
Donna The Buffalo - Beauty Within - Silverlined
Old 97's - She Loves The Sunset - Blame It On Gravity
Phoebe Blume - Alcohol Jive
Old Crow Medicine Show - Caroline - Caroline

4pm.
Vassar Clements - Hillbilly Jazz - Back porch Swing
Chris Knight - Another Dollar - Heart Of Stone
Hayes Carll - Bad Liver and a Broken Heart - Trouble In Mind
The Drive By Truckers - Gravity's Gone - A Blessing and a Curse
Lloyd Jones & Fiona Boyes - Sugar Mama - Firewater
David Bromberg - Dark Hollow - Live In NY City
Railroad Earth - Hard Livin' - Amen Corner
Bad Mitten Orchestra - Blue Skies - Garden Of Eve
Eliza Gilkyson - The Party's Over - Beautiful World
John Hiatt - Cherry Red - Same Old Man
Alvin Youngblood Hart - Porch Monkeys
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman & Tony Rice - Guitar space/Summertime - The Pizza Tapes