Routes and Branches Play List 03/19/11

It was good to be back on the air this week. My thanks go out to Shotgun Majors for sitting in for me last week while I was taking care of business.

Back in February I had Tom Russell on my show and I asked him about Americana Radio and his Merle Haggard Tribute Album "Tulare Dust" 1994. At the time of it's release "Tulare Dust" was considered the definition of the Americana Radio format, alternative singer/songwriters doing classic country tunes. Although it is now out of print, a friend of mine had a copy of it and made it available to me to feature on today's show.
I have been listening to it all this past week and I like every cut on it, 15 artists each interpreting Haggard in their own way. Russell opens the album with a wonderful medley of the title track "Tulare Dust/They're Tearin' The Labor Camps Down" and Co-producer Dave Alvin closes it out with his version of "Kern River". In between you have artists like Iris Dement, Peter Case, Dwight Yoakam, Robert Earl Keen....among several more doing a great job with Haggard's songs.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Tom Russell - Tulare Dust/ They're Tearin' The Labor Camps Down - Tulare Dust
Iris Dement - Big City - Tulare Dust
Merle Haggard - I've Seen It Go Away - I Am What I Am
Lucinda Williams - You Don't Have Very Far To Go - Tulare Dust
Lucinda Williams - Butter Cup - Blessed
Drive By Truckers - Cartoon Gold - GO-GO Boots
Punch Brothers - Don't Need No - Antifogmatic
The Apache Relay - American Nomad - American Nomad
The Bridge - Big Wheel - National Bohemian
Peter Case - A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today - Tulare Dust
Chris Smither - Don't Call Me Stranger - Time Stands Still
Dave Alvin - Kern River - Tulare Dust
Hayes Carll - Hard Out Here - KMAG YOYO
G-Love - The Road - Fixin' To Die

4pm.
Pete Sijin - Funeral Train - Better Angels Radio
The Shinkle Band - California Stars - The Shinkle Band
The Shinkle Band - Roadside Blues - The Shinkle Band
Robert Earl Keen & The Sunshine Boys - Daddy Frank - Tulare Dust
Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real - Four Letter Word - Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real
Robert Plant - You Can't Buy My Love - Band Of Joy
Buddy Miller - Why Baby Why - The Majestic Silver Strings
Mason Porter - Dark Hollow - Story Of The Rifle
Robbie Robertson - How To Become Clairvoyant - How To Become Clairvoyant
Danny Schmidt - Man Of Many Moons - Man Of Many Moons
Joe Ely - White Line Fever - Tulare Dust
Billy Joe Shaver - Ramblin' Fever - Tulare Dust
Merle Haggard - I Am What I Am - I Am What I Am

Routes and Branches 3/12/11

Shotgun Majors here filling in for Tim Little this week. Thanks for tuning in, here's what I played:


Song - Artist - Source

3pm
Northern Train - The Hobo Nephews Of Uncle Frank - The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank
River Callin' - Musketeer Gripweed - Dyin' Day
No Good Lover - Buddy Miller;Ann McCrary - The Majestic Silver Strings
Welfare Music - The Bottle Rockets - The Brooklyn Side
The Road - G. Love & Special Sauce - Fixin' To Die
Busy Road - Southern Culture On the Skids - The Kudzu Ranch
Girl Of The North Country - Sam Bush - Ice Caps, Peaks of Telluride
Used To Be A Cop - Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots
Nothing You Can't Lose - The Steel Wheels - Red Wing
Movie Loves A Screen - April Smith & The Great Picture Show - Songs For A Sinking Ship
Me and Billy the Kid - Joe Ely - Live at Antone's
Crow In Oklahoma - Nathan Bell - Black Crow Blue
No Excuses - Aunt Martha - No Excuses, Single

4pm
Mission Of My Soul - Peter Himmelman - Mission Of My Soul: The Best Of Peter Himmelman
Down By the Water - The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
Man Over - Robinella and the CCstringband - Robinella and the CCstringband
Baby Don't Go - Jim Faddis - One More Ride
Mighty River- Railroad Earth - Elko
Alabama Daydream - Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil - Victims, Enemies & Old Friends
How I Wish My Train Would Come - North Mississippi Allstars - Keys to the Kingdom
Cypress In The Pines - Damon Fowler - Devil Got His Way
No Sense In Lovin' - Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Stolen From Them - Jeff Martin - Gold In The Water
Santa Rosa Plums - Boris McCutcheon - When We Were Big
On a Monday - Ry Cooder - The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed

Routes and Branches Play List 03/05/11

The Drive By Truckers are coming to Eugene this week so I decided to make them the featured artist for this week's show. I first saw DBT about 3 years ago in Portland and the show was great with a lot energy from both the band and the crowd. I'm so glad that they are performing in Eugene this time through Oregon. I have read some reviews that say DBT's latest album "Go-Go Boots" is not as good as their past material, but I have to disagree. I think it is some of their best work ever and as a whole I like "Go-Go Boots" better than some of their earlier albums in which I only liked one or two tunes. I also really like how Mike Cooley sounds on this album. His voice has a classic country feel to it on songs like "Pulaski" and "The Weakest Man".

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Drive By Truckers - Gravity's Gone - A Blessing And A Curse
Drive By Truckers - Pulaski - Go-Go Boots
Drive By Truckers - Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife - Brighter Than Creations Dark
David Jacob Strain - Halfway To The Coast - Terraplane Angel
The Punch Brothers - Rye Whiskey - Antifogmatic
The Stagger And Sway - Wyoming - Break Til You Bend
Nanci Griffith - This Heart - Flyer
Drive By Truckers - Carl Perkins' Cadillac - The Dirty South
Drive By Truckers - When I Ran Off And Left Her - Sometimes Late At Night
Patterson Hood - I Understand Now - Murdering Oscar
Buddy Miller - Cattle Call - The Majestic Silver Strings

4pm.
Robert Plant - Silver Rider - Band Of Joy
Los Lobos - West L.A.Fadeaway - Tin Can Trust
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain - The Mountain
Drive By Truckers - Sandwiches For The Road - Gangstbilly
Hayes Carll - Another Like You - KMAG YO-YO
Jason & The Scorchers - Land Of The Free - Halcyon Times
Drive By Truckers - Used To Be A Cop - Go-Go Boots
Drive By Truckers - Dancin' Ricky - Go-Go Boots
Drive By Truckers - Working This Job - The Big To-Do
Drive By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love - Go-Go Boots

Routes and Branches Play List 02/26/11

We received a new Johnny Cash CD into the station this week called "From Memphis To Hollywood Bootleg Vol. II" which has the first radio show (KWEM, Memphis) which Johnny performed on back in 1955 as well as a bunch of early demos which were recorded in the 50's and 60's. And then I went out last night to hear The Whopner county Country Allstars perform at their annual Johnny Cash tribute show at John Henry's. So listening to a bunch of Johnny Cash I thought that I would make him my featured artist for this week's show. Thanks for all the great phone calls saying you liked the Johnny Cash.

I also featured some new Lucinda Williams and some new Tyler Fortier from his new project "And They Rode Like Wildfire Snaking Through The Hills 'Neath The Scarlet Sun" which you can down load for free from Fortier's profile at bandcamp.com.


Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line - Cash The Legend
Johnny Cash - Wide Open Road - From Memphis To Hollywood Bootleg Vol. II
Johnny Cash - Man In Black - Cash The Legend
Greg Allman - Devil Got My Women - Low Country Blues
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whiskey River - Mean Old Man
Lucinda Williams - Seeing Black - Blessed
Lucinda Williams - Soldier's Song - Blessed
The Bridge - Sanctuary - National Bohemian
Paul Marshall - Work To Do - Weed And Water
Reckless Kelly - Idaho Cowboy - Somewhere In Time
Johnny Cash - Big River - From Memphis To Hollywood Bootleg Vol. II
Johnny Cash - Girl In Saskatoon - From Memphis To Hollywood Bootleg Vol. II

4pm.
Johnny Cash - Jackson - The Essential Johnny Cash
Tyler Fortier - Dead Man's Hand - And They Rode Like Wildfire Snaking Through The Hills 'Neath The Scarlet Sun
Tyler Fortier - When Time Stands Still - This Love Is Fleating
Tyler Fortier - How'd They Know I done It - And They Rode Like Wildfire Snaking Through The Hills 'Neath The Scarlet Sun
Drive By Truckers - The Weakest Man - Go-Go Boots
David Jacob Strain - West County Rain - Terraplane Angel
Hayes Carll - Chances Are - KMAG YOYO
Malcome Holcombe - Mountains Of Home - To Drink The Rain
Johnny Cash - Highwayman - The Essential Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash - The Losing Kind - From Memphis To Hollywood Bootleg Vol. II
Pete Sinjin - Funeral Train
The Stagger & Sway - Sam Bond's Garage - Break Til' You Bend
The Jayhawks - Neveda California - Hollywood Town Hall
Johnny Cash - Goodnight Irene - From Memphis To Hollywood Bootleg Vol. II

Routes and Branches Play List 02/19/11

I started today's show with a group of Grammy Award winners. It is good to see a variety of Americana Artists earning Grammy's for their good work. Ryan Bingham who was in Eugene this week won his second award for his song "The Weary Kind". Mavis Staples won the award for Best Americana album which is a fairly new catagory at the Grammys.
This week I did my first interview in a motor home that the Evangenitals were traveling in for their Northwest tour. The Evangenitals are an alt.country band from southern California founded by Juli Crocket and Lisa Dee when they were working together. They started at an open mic night and received such a great response that they decided to keep writting songs and performing. Their infectious and inspiring music will keep you tappin' your toes.


Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Marty Stuart - Hummingbyrd - Ghost Train
Mavis Staples - Last Train - You Are Not Alone
Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs - Like Rock & Roll Radio - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise
Ryan Bingham - The Weary Kind - Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges - Somebody Else - Crazy Heart
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread And Butterbeans - Genuine Negro Jig
Guy Clark - Hemmingway's Whiskey - Somedays The Song Writes You
John Prine - This Guitar Is For Sale - Twistable Turnable Man
Drive By Truckers - Daddy's Little Pumpkin - Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows
John Prine - Angel From Montgomery - In Person & On Stage
Punch Brothers - Rye Whiskey - Antifogmatic
Shawn Mullins - Catoosa County - Light You Up

4pm.
Evangenitals - Bad Town - Evangenitals
Evangenitals - How Can I Choose - Live in a RV
Evangenitals - Hard Luck - Evangenitals
David Jacobs-Strain - Hurricane Railroad - Terraplane Angel
Hayes Carll - Hard Out Here - KMAG YO YO
Danny Schmidt - Buckets Of Rain - Man Of Many Moons
Sassparilla - Devil - Ramshackle
Kelly Hunt - Gravity Loves You - Gravity Loves You
Patty Griffin - If I Had My Way - Down Town Church
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel - O. C. M. S.

Routes and Branches Play List 02/12/11

At KRVM we are in the midst of our Winter Pledge drive. KRVM is true community radio and we depend on our loyal listeners to help keep the bills paid so that we can continue to bring you the variety of music you have become accustom to hearing on KRVM. Please call the station at 800-285-2895 or 541-790-5786 or go on-line to krvm.org to contribute to KRVM.

With Valentines day around the corner I put together a bunch of love songs for today's show. There is no shortage of songs about romance in Americana music but I only had two hours to fill, so this is what I played.


Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Robbie Robertson - This Is Where I get Off - How To Become Clairvoyant
Drive By Truckers - FEB 14 - A Blessing And a Curse
Paul Thorn - Tequila Is Good For The Heart - Pimps And Preachers
Carrie Rodriguez - Big Love - Love And Circumstance
John Hiatt - My Baby - The Open Road
Cowboy Junkies - Flirted With You All My Life - Demong
Martin Sexton - Boom Sh-Boom - Sugarcoating
Tom Russell - Finding You - Blood And Candle Smoke
Steve Earle - Colorado Girl - Townes
D.B. Rielly - Loving You Again - Love Potions And Snake Oil
Robert Plant - You Can't Buy My Love - Band Of Joy

4pm.
The Shinkle Band - Long Since Over You - The Shinkle Band
James McMurtry - Ruby And Carlos - Just Us Kids
Evangenitals - So Sweet - Evangenitals
W J McEachern - Fog Of Love - Knee Deep
Hayes Carll - Another Like You - KMAG YO YO
John Prine - Spanish Pipedream - In Person & On Stage
Buddy & Julie Miller - Gasoline & Matches - Written In Chalk
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Target On Your Heart - Bright Examples
Robbie Robertson - Fear Of Falling - How To Become Clairvoyant
Drive By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love - Go-Go Boots

Routes and Branches Play List 02/05/11

I had the great pleasure and honor to have Americana Legend Tom Russell into the KRVM studio this week. Russell is credited along with Dave Alvin with creating the Americana Radio format when they released their tribute to Merle Haggard 'Tulare Dust' in 1994. I have not heard 'Tulare Dust' my self but Russell described it as an acoustic album with Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yokum and Steve Young along with himself and Dave Alvin performing Haggard songs and that it did really start the 'Americana Radio' format at the time. Russell says that we have always needed a box to put in song writers and their music which don't fit into mainstream radio format and 'Americana' was it at the time. Today he acknowledged that 'Americana' has been used very liberally to describe many artists. This is reflected in the variety of music that you can hear on the variety of 'Americana' shows on the radio.


Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Dave Alvin - Redneck Friend - West Of The West
Peter Case - Dig What You're Puttin' Down - Wig
Cowboy Junkies - Ladle - Demong
The Shinkle Band - Some Heads Are Gonna Roll - The Shinkle Band
Ryan Bingham - The Weary Kind - Crazy Heart
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Dylan's Hard Rain - Roadhouse Sun
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Southside Of Heaven - Mescalito
Hayes Carll - Hard Out Here - KMAG YOYO
Matt Bunsen And The Burners - Life On The Road 2.0 - Greatest Hits
Boris McCutcheon & The Saltlicks - California - Wheel Of Life
The Mother Truckers - Nothing There - Broke, Not Broken
Janiva Magness - The Devil Is An Angel Too - The Devil Is An Angel Too

4pm.
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Never Too Far From My Heart - Bright Examples
Greg Allman - Devil Got My Woman - Low Country Blues
Buddy Miller - Lonesome For You - Poison Love
The Jayhawks - Last Cigarette - Tomorrow The Green Grass
The Jayhawks - Blue From Now On (take 2)- The Mystery Demos
David Wilcox - Cast Off - Reverie
Carrie Rodriguez And Ben Kyle - If I Needed You - We Still Love Our Country
Drive By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love - Go-Go Boots
Carolina Chocolate Drops/ Luminescent Orchestrii - Knockin' - Carolina Chocolate Drops/ Luminescent Orchestrii
Tom Russell - The Rose Of The San Joquin - The Rose Of The San Joquin
Tom Russell - Nina Simone - Live In The KRVM Studio
Tom Russell - Goodnight Juarez - Live In The KRVM Studio
Tom Russell - East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam - Blood And Candle Smoke