Routes & Branches 9/27/14

For a long time now I have been a fan of Chris Smither. I like his song writing and his guitar playing style. Last month I received a copy of his latest CD "Still On The Levee" which is a recently recorded retrospective of his career, and then last week I received the new songwriter tribute to Smither called "Link Of Chain", so I decided to make Smither my feature artist today and play a couple of sets of his music by both him and some of the artists on the tribute album. 

3pm
Little Feat - One Breath At A Time - Rooster Rag
Dave Alvin - Link Of Chain - Link Of Chain: A Songwriter Tribute To Chris Smither
Chris Smither - Love You Like A Man - Still On The Levee 
Mary Gauthier - I Feel The Same - Link Of Chain: A Songwriter Tribute To Chris Smither
Mary Gauthier - When a Woman Goes Cold - Trouble & Love 
Lucinda Williams - West Memphis - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
Tony Joe White - Willie And Laura Mae Jones - Deep Cuts
Jesse Winchester - She Makes It Easy Now - A Reasonable Amount Of Trouble
Dave Rawlings Machine - How's About You - A Friend of a Friend
Hot Rize - Blue Is Fallin' - When I'm Free
David Bromberg - The Fields Have Turned Brown - Only Slightly Mad
Jonny Two Bags - One Foot In The Gutter - Salvation Town
Finnegan Bell - Carolina Line - I Was Gone
4pm
Andrew Delaney - Wine & Roses - Stricken, Smitten, & Afflicted
Tim O'Brien - Origin Of Species - Link Of Chain: A Songwriter Tribute To Chris Smither
Chris Smither - Up On the Lowdown - Still On The Levee
Bonnie Raitt - Love Me Like A Man - Link Of Chain: A Songwriter Tribute To Chris Smither
Melissa Ruth and the Likely Stories - High Brow Blues - Riding Mercury
Joy B Band - Up Down and Sideways - Just Livin'
Hard Working Americans - Come from the Heart (with Rosanne Cash) - The First Waltz
Luke Winslow-King - Domino Sugar - Everlasting Arms
Lewi Longmire - Find Me A Woman - If I Live to Be 100
Rockin' Jason D. Williams - Hillbillies and Holy Rollers - Hillbillies and Holy Rollers
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives - That Gospel Music - Saturday Night / Sunday Morning 
Los Lobos - On Main Street - Tin Can Trust 
Jorma Kaukonen - Leave The Light - On Link Of Chain: A Songwriter Tribute To Chris Smither 

Routes & Branches 9/20/14

I watched the American Music Awards on Wednesday this week and since I wasn't Able to attend and many of my listeners were also stuck here in Eugene, I decided to feature the artists celebrated there on my show today. Also in the mix were some new releases as always.

Artist-Song-Source
3pm
Lucinda Williams - Burning Bridges - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bridge
The Band of Heathens - Maple Tears - Live @ The WOW Hall 2014
Rodney Crowell Fever On The Bayou Tarpaper Sky New West Records
Robert Ellis - Only Lies - The Lights From the Chemical Plant
Rosanne Cash - A Feather's Not A Bird - The River & The Thread
Jason Isbell - Cover Me Up - Southeastern
Ryan Adams - My Wrecking Ball - Ryan Adams Blue Note
Shakey Graves - Dearly Departed (feat. Esmé Patterson) - And the War Came 
Taj Mahal - I Pity the Poor Immigrant - The Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal
Wayne Haught - Guitar Player - Fingers
Blitzen Trapper - Love the Way You Walk Away - American Goldwing
4pm
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives - Jailhouse - Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives - Boogie Woogie Down the Jericho Road - Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
Dave Rawlings Machine - It's Too Easy - A Friend of a Friend 
Old Crow Medicine Show - Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer - Remedy
Patty Griffin - Ohio - American Kid
Sarah Jarosz - Fuel The Fire - Build Me Up From Bones
Douglass County Daughters - Let's Elope Baby - Going Home
The Milk Carton Kids - Honey, Honey - The Ash & Clay
Hard Working Americans - Blackland Farmer - Hard Working Americans
Hurray For The Riff Raff - I Know It's Wrong (But That's Alright) - Small Town Heroes
Rod MacDonald - That's Why You Play the Game - Later That Night Blue
Jason Isbell - Super 8 - Southeastern
Lucinda Williams - Everything But The Truth - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bridge

Routes & Branches 9/13/14

It is always a pleasure to have Mare Wakefield stop by the station and catch us up with her and Nomad's life and work. Formerly from Eugene Wakefield has now lived with Nomad in Nashville for Ten years and says it feels like her home now. She says that East Nashville feels a lot like Eugene.
Their new CD "Poet On The Moon" is an example of what living in Nashville has done for the couple. With help from a Kickstarter campaign they were able to hire Mitch Dane to produce this new album which allowed Nomad to focus on being a musician without the worries of producer too. He says that it really helps to get a few more ears listening to what your doing. With strong song writing "Poet On The Moon" is well worth taking a listen to.


Artist-Song-Source
3pm
The Band of Heathens - Mississippi Halfstep - Live @ Sam Bond's Garage 2012
Jonathan Warren and The Billy Goats - Angeline - On This Very Evening
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West - Natural Thing To Do - I'll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands
Steve Poltz - Giving Thanks - Noineen Noiny Noin
Bill Wence - 555-2109 - Songs That Make Me Think About You
Lipbone Redding - Cowgirls Meet (On Guadalupe St.) - Esmeralda
Blackie And The Rodeo Kings - Gotta Stay Young - South
Hot Buttered Rum - Ramblin' Girl - Live In the Sierra
The Howlin' Brothers - Pack Up Joe - Trouble
Greensky Bluegrass - In Control - If Sorrows Swim
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen - Country Song - Cold Spell

4pm.
Mare Wakefield & Nomad - The First Poet On the Moon - Live In The KRVM Studio 
Mare Wakefield & Nomad - Little Blueflowers and Butterflies - Live In The KRVM Studio 
Mare Wakefield & Nomad - Empty - Poet On The Moon Mare 
John Hiatt - Long Time Comin' - Terms Of My Surrender
Justin Townes Earle - Burning Pictures - Single Mothers
Waylon Speed - Smooth the Grain - KIN 
Nelson Wright - Ten O'Clock Blues - Orphans & Relics
Gavin Sutherlund - Down To The River - Tango At The Lost Cafe' 
The Bus Driver Tour - Truck Driver's Queen - Halfway Between
The Band of Heathens - Medicine Man - Live @ Sam Bond's Garage 2012

Routes & Branches 8/30/14

Celebrating the workers of America this Labor Day weekend.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm
Dave Insley - God Love's the Working Man - Here With You Tonight
David Lindley & Wally Ingram - Do You Want My Job - Twango Bango Deluxe
Woody Guthrie - Pastures Of Plenty - The Live Wire
Miss Laurie Ann & The SaddleTones - Saddletone Boogie - Ease My Mind
Sunny Sweeny - You Don't Know Your Husband - Provoked
The Black Lillies - Ramblin' Boy - Runaway Freeway Blues 
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West - Livin' In America - I'll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands
Tom Russell - Tulare Dust/ They're Tearing The Labor Camps Down - Tulare Dust
Merle Haggard - Working Man's Blues - Working In Tennessee 
Bill Kirchen - I Don't Work That Cheap - Word To the Wise
Steve Earle - Six Days On The Road - Essential Steve Earle
Kenny Butterill - Hocus Pocus - Troubadour Tales
Eric Bibb - Troubadour - Troubadour 

4pm
Sam Baker - Road Crew - Say Grace
James Luther Dickinson & North Mississippi Allstars - Truck Drivin' Man - I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone
Lyle Lovett - White Freightliner Blues - Release Me .
JP Harris and the Tough Choices - Gear Jammin' Daddy - I'll Keep Calling
Paul Thorn - Everythings's Gonna Be Alright - Too Blessed To Be Stressed
Jalapeño Compadres - China Made - The Ride 
James McMurtry - We Can't Make It Here - Childish Things
Curtis McMurtry - Whiskey Sweat - Respectable Enemy
Screen Door Porch - Shift Work - The Fate & The Fruit 
Grant Farm - The Nine Pound Hammer - Grant Farm
Old Crow Medicine Show - Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer - Remedy

Routes & Branches 8/23/14

Artist-Song-Source

3pm
Taj Mahal & Gregg Allman - Statesboro Blues - All My Friends Tribute to Gregg Allman
Joe Ely - What's Shakin' Tonight - B4 84
Drive-By Truckers - Primer Coat - English Oceans
Chuck Prophet - Countrified Inner City Technological Man - Night Surfer
Chuck Prophet - Ford Econoline - Night Surfer
Jonny Two Bags - Avenues - Salvation Town
Paul Thorn - I Backslide on Friday - Too Blessed To Be Stressed
Roger Cline & The Peacemakers - California Breakdown - The Independent 
Zoe Muth - Make Me Change My Mind - World of Strangers
Suzette Lawrence & The Neon Angels - Tear Up The Honky Tonk - Tear Up The Honky Tonk
Lynne Hanson - Whiskey And Tears - River Of Sand
John Hiatt - Long Time Comin' - Terms Of My Surrender
Cahalen Morrison & Country Hammer - Nighttime Is Here on the Valley - The Flower of Muscle Shoals
Willie Nelson - Hard to Be an Outlaw - Band Of Brothers

4pm
The Hot Nut Riveters - It's A Sin To Tell A Lie - Moustashe Girl 
The Brothers Comatose - Modern Day Sinners - Respect the Van
Black Prairie - Nowhere, Massachusetts - A Tear In the Eye Is a Wound In the Heart
Eric Bibb - Get On Board - Spirit I Am
The Black Lillies - The Fall - Runaway Freeway Blues
Old Crow Medicine Show - Sweet Home - Remedy
The Paperboys - Good Thing - Callithump 
Lindsay Lou & The Flatbelly's - Pass The Whiskey - Release Your Shrouds
Locust Honey String Band - When the Whiskey's Gone - Never Let Me Cross Your Mind
Old 97's - Nashville - Most Messed Up
Curtis McMurtry - Sparks In the Wind - Respectable Enemy
Blackie And The Rodeo Kings - Gotta Stay Young - South
Fred Eaglesmith - Can't Dance - Tambourine
Red Molly - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - The Red Album

Routes & Branches 8/16/14

Artist-Song-Source
3pm
Gram Parsons - She - GP/Grievous Angel
Willie Nelson - Come On Up To The House - Heroes
Old & In the Way - Pig In A Pen - Breakdown 
Robert Earl Keen - Barbeque - The Party Never Ends 
Bennett Jackson - Broken Hearted Dude - Texana
Max Gomez - Love Will Find A Way - Rule the World New
Paul Thorn - No Place I'd Rather Be - Too Blessed To Be Stressed 
Ellis Paul - Kick Out The Lights (Johnny Cash) - Chasing Beauty
Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line - Essential
Johnny Cash - Baby Ride Easy - Out Among The Stars
Curtis McMurtry - Ghost In My Bed - Respectable Enemy
James McMurtry - Dry River - Saint Mary Of The Woods
Kurtis Shaver - Curves - Long Road - EP
Hank Williams III - I'm the Only Hell My Mamma Ever Raised - Ramblin' Man
4pm
Merle Haggard - Honky Tonkin' - Roots Vol. 1
The Howlin' Brothers - Monroe - Trouble
Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Bound - Tennessee Bound
Todd Snider - Hill Country Rain - Time As We Know It
Hard Working Americans - Down To the Well - Hard Working Americans 
Susan Tedeschi - Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever - Hope and Desire
Sunny Sweeney - Sunday Dress - Provoked
Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart - Boss Is Watchin' - Town Square
Sam Baker Say Grace - Say Grace
The Mastersons - Closer To You - Good Luck Charm
Lewi Longmire & The Left Coast Roasters - I Do Believe - 45 Single 
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Will the Circle Be Unbroken Vol. 2 

Routes & Branches 8/9/14

This week I received a copy of the latest Levon Helm Band's "The Midnight Ramble Sessions, Vol. 3" which was my favorite of the many new CD's I listened to this week so I made it my feature album on today's show. The 13 tracks all recorded between 2005 and 2010 feature great tunes from the spectrum of Americana.

Other new music worth mentioning are: Kenny Butterill  who has nailed the JJ Cale sound on his new CD "Troubadour Tales", local Eugene band The Stagger & Sway and their new CD "Fun And Games" and Old Crow Medicine Show (who is at the top of the Americana chart this week) with their CD "Remedy".


Artist-Song-Source
3pm
The Levon Helm Band - Ain’t That Good News - The Midnight Ramble Sessions, Vol. 3
The Levon Helm Band - I’m a Jealous Man - The Midnight Ramble Sessions, Vol. 3
Whitey Morgan and The 78's - Bad News - Whitey Morgan and the 78's 
Paul Thorn - Everything's Gonna Be Alright -  Too Blessed To Be Stressed 
Kenny Butterill - Hocus Pocus (feat. John Lee Sanders & Ray Bonneville) -Troubadour Tales 
Kenny Butterill - Gaia Blues (feat. Donovan Leitch) - Troubadour Tales
Zoe Muth - Mama Needs a Margarita - World of Strangers
The Stagger and Sway - Fun And Games - Fun And Games
The Levon Helm Band - Drivin’ Wheel - The Midnight Ramble Sessions, Vol. 3
Rodney Crowell - The Long Journey Home - Tarpaper Sky
Jim Lauderdale - End Of The World Rag - I'm A Song 
The Strumbellas - Home Sweet Home - We Still Move On Dance Floors
The Whiskey Chasers - One More Pull of Whiskey - Well for the Worse 

4pm
Old Crow Medicine Show - 8 Dogs 8 Banjos - Remedy
Old Crow Medicine Show - Doc's Day - Remedy
Cahalen Morrison Nighttime Is Here In The Valley The Flower Of Muscle Shoals Free Dirt
Yvette Landry - Misery Loves Company - Me & T-Coe's Country
Douglas County Daughters - When You're Next To Me - Goin' Home
The Levon Helm Band - Turn Around - The Midnight Ramble Sessions, Vol. 3
Carrie Clark & the Lonesome Lovers - The Night Before  -Between the Bed Sheets & Turpentine 
Melissa Ruth & The Likely Stories - What I Got - Riding Mercury 
Br'er Rabbit - Distant Lands - The Wild North
Philip Gibbs - Honky Tonking Tonight - Box Canyon Blues 
Curtis McMurtry - Whiskey Sweat - Respectable Enemy 
The Levon Helm Band - Shake Your Money Maker - The Midnight Ramble Sessions, Vol. 3