Routes and Branches Play List 7/25/09

A Happy Birthday to Alison Krauss this week. In honor of her birthday I made her my feature artist this week. From her solo career, to her work with Union Station, Alison has produced great vocals, but I feel her best came out when she hooked up with Robert Plant. Their album "Raising Sand" was one of my favorites last year. No word yet on a follow-up album. I know there are many fans including me who would like to see them do another album.


Artist-Song-Source
3pm.
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant - Your Long Journey Home - Raising Sand
Alison Krauss with John Waite - Missing You - A Hundred Miles Or More
Buffy Saint-Marie - I Bet My Heart On You - Running For The Drum
Kendel Carson - Belt Buckle - Alright Dynamite
Truckstop Honeymoon - Georgia & Blue - Great Big Family
Cory Chisel And The Wandering Sons - Born Again - Single
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Dylan's Hard Rain - Roadhouse Sun
Levon Helm - When I Go Away - Single
Sideroads - River - Destinations
Bob Harp -One Last night In California - Collecting Dust
Sam Baker - Cotton - Cotton
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Find My Way Back Into My Heart - So Long So Wrong
Alison Krauss - Stay - Forget About It
Blame Sally - Hurricane - Light Of 1000 Stars

4pm.
Wilco - You Never Know - Wilco (the album)
Son Volt - Jukebox Of Steel - American Central Dust
Todd Snider - Greencastle Blues - The Excitement Plan
Steve Earle - Delta Mama Blues - Townes
Gumbo - Never Tell Me To Quit - Never Tell Me To Quit
Dan Hicks & The Hot licks - Savin' My Lovin' - Tangled Tales
The Jayhawks - Waiting for The Sun - Music From The North Country
Sonny Landreth - Levee Town - Levee Town
Dave Alvin - Artesia - Man Of Somebody's Dreams
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - Don't Make Promises - Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant - Through The Morning, Through The Night - Raising Sand

Routes and Branches Play List 7/18/09

After a week off to broadcast the Oregon The Oregon Country Fair, it was good to be back in the studio again. And now at 15,000 watts. That's right!! KRVM has just completed our power and HD upgrade on our transmitter. My thanks go out our Engineer and General Manager Randy Larson and his assistants for working so hard to bring KRVM into the digital age.
I started by playing a couple of my favorites from the fair and then I focused the show on catching up on the new music to the station over the past few weeks. I really like the single "Summer Wine" by Shelley King who got some help from some members of the Subdudes. Other good new cuts include Among The Oak & Ash with a different version of "Peggy O", Otis Taylor's "Looking For Some Heat" and The Minus 5 "The Long Hall".


3pm.
The Gourds - Country Gal - Haymaker
Lewi Longmire - This Time>Are You Lonely For Me Baby - Crazy Coyote
Son Volt - Roll On - American Central Dust
Shelley King w/ The Subdudes - Summer Wine - Single
The Sweetback Sisters - I Want To Be A Real Cowboy Girl - Chicken Ain't Chicken
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Change Is - Roadhouse Sun
Among The Oak & Ash - Peggy O - Among The Oak & Ash
The Waifs - How Many Miles - Live From The Union Of Soul
Albert & Gage - If I Die Tomorrow - Dakota Lullaby
Otis Taylor - Looking For Some Heat - Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs

4pm.
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - California's Burning - Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
Greg Brown - Whatever It Was - Dream City
Assembly Of Dust - Leadbelly - Some Assembly Required
The Minus 5 - The Long Hall - "Killingsworth"
Cracker - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out With Me - Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey
Sarah Jarosz - Come On Up To The House - Song Up In Her Head
Those Darlins - Wild One - Those Darlins
Nancy Griffith - The Loving Kind - The Loving Kind
Eilen Jewel - Nowhere In No Time - Sea Of Tears
Ten Foot Tall & 80 Proof - Princess Of Doom - Princess Of Doom
The Olympic Ass-Kickin Team - You Had Me At Get Lost - National Champions
Pure Grain - Truckin' Song - out Of the Storm
Wayne Hancock - Jump The Blues - Viper Of Melody
Davis Coen - Change In The Weather - Magnolia Land

Routes and Branches Play List 7/04/09

This week I started with Railroad Earth who put on a great show at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland a couple of Fridays ago and Jake Payne who was playing at Art in the Vinyard as I was starting the show today.
We quickly moved into my focuss of the afternoon which was on artists who will be playing at the Oregon Country Fair this coming weekend. We will be broadcasting Live from the Blue Moon Stage of the OCF next week. Some of the artists that I played today will be part of that live broadcast. So If you cannot attend the fair in person, you can listen to it on your radio or computer.

Artist,Song,Source

3pm.
Railroad Earth - Hard Livin' - Amen Corner
Jake Payne & Dixie Creek - Colorado - What The Folk Is Roots Music
Jake Payne & Dixie Creek - Goodbye Jackson - What The Folk Is Roots Music
Laura Kemp - Hannah Branch - May
Laura Kemp - Love And Sell - May
Jim Page - Andres Raya - Head Full Of Pictures
Jim Page - I Keep Comin' Back - Seattle Songs
Brian Cutean - Everywhere I Need To Be - Hearthearthearth
Brian Cutean - Sweep Me Off My Feet - Lubricating The Species
Peter Wilde - Going Down To New Orleans - Carnival
Peter Wilde - Linda Lou - Carnival
David Jacobs Strain - Rainbow Junkies - Liars Day

4pm.
David Jacobs Strain - Poor Black Mattie
Sugar Beets - Secret To Happiness - Secret To Happiness
Sugar Beets - The Reason We Make Love - Secret To Happiness
Green Mountain Bluegrass Band - Shenadoah Valley Breakdown - Live At Sprout City Studios
Green Mountain Bluegrass Band - Deep Elm Blues - Live At Sprout City Studios
Lewi Longmire Band - When Your Time Comes A Callin' - If I Live To Be 100
Lewi Longmire Band - This Time - Fire 'Neath The Still
The Gourds - Country Love - Haymaker
The Gourds - How Will You Shine? - Noble Creatures
The Del McCoury Band - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Del And The Boys
The Del McCoury Band - Nashville Cats - The Family
Yonder Mountain String Band - Boatman's Dance - Mountain Tracks Vol. 5

Routes and Branches Play List 6/27/09

Thanks Tim for letting me fill in for you this week.
XXXOOO
Shotgun


Song - Artist - Album

3pm
No Regrets - Porterdavis - Live At Eddie's Attic
Roll, Brandywine, Roll - Hoots & Hellmouth - The Holy Open Secret
Long Hot Summer Days - Sara Watkins - Sara Watkins
Ro-Deo-Deo Cowboy - Jerry Jeff Walker - A Man Must Carry On
Me and Townes - Big Sur - Women
Take A Break - Catherine MacLellan - Water In The Ground
Another Girlfriend - Rhett Miller - Rhett Miller
Let's Kill Saturday Night - Robbie Fulks - Let's Kill Saturday Night
Angels And Acrobats - Amanda Shires - West Cross Timbers
Charlemagne - Dexateens - Singlewide
Real Love - Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
Freight Train Lady - Robby Hecht - Late Last Night
As Good As It Gets - The Belleville Outfit - Time To Stand

4pm
Where Is Bobby Gentry? - Tom Gillam - Never Look Back
Wear My Ring - Bart Crow Band - Finally...
Hill Farmer's Blues - Mark Knopfler - The Ragpicker's Dream
Frankie Lee - Mulehead - Finer Things
Dream's A Dream - Darden Smith - Little Victories
Left Home - Sarah Jarosz - Song Up In Her Head
Tears Don't Matter Much - Lucero - That Much Further West
Look At Miss Ohio - Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
Ragdoll - Gavin Glass - Rag Doll Single (feat. Cathy Davey)
No Expectations - Shannon Whitworth - No Expectations
The Truth & Love - Brian Ledford - The Truth And Love
My Old Friend - Zoe Muth - Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers

Routes and Branches Play List 06/20/09

Happy Solstice.
A few new adds to the play list this week. Nancy Griffith has a new CD called The Loving Kind with several great songs on it. "Cotton's All We Got" is about her grandfather's garden. She has a great way of telling stories about real people in her songs.

Another new CD that I really liked this week is the one from Mark Karan. I really don't know much about him, but I really liked his new CD Walk Through The Fire. He does a version of Easy Wind that I think even Pigpen would enjoy.

Finally, I had to start and end the show with Lewi Longmire. Not a new CD, but I was recently introduced to Lewi's music and then yesterday I heard that he was playing in town tonight.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Lewi Longmire - When Your Time Comes Callin' - If I Live To Be 100
Nancy Griffith - Cotton's All We Got - The Loving Kind
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Sweetest Waste Of Time - Rattlin' Bones
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - Weight Of the World - Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
Eilen Jewell - Shakin' All Over - Sea Of Tears
Cindy Kalmenson - I'm Not Leaving - I'm Not Leaving
John Hiat - On With You - Same Old Man
JJ Cale - Roll On - Roll On
Mark Karan - Easy Wind - Walk Through The Fire
Railroad Earth - Waggin' The Dog - Amen Corner
Larry Keel & Natural Bridge - Bluegrass In The Backwoods - Backwoods
The Whopner County Country Allstars - City Limits - It's Too Loud!
Sonny Landreth - Howlin' Moon - From The Reach

4pm.
James McMurtry - The Governor - Just Us Kids
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Dylan's Hard Rain - Roadhouse Sun
Son Volt - Dynamite - American Central Dust
Slaid Cleaves - Dylan's Hard Rain - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Hayes Carll - Bad Liver And A Broken Heart - Trouble In Mind
The Bridge - Honey Bee - Blind Man's Hill
Chuckanut Drive - Ballad Of Becky & Bobby - Fidelity Grange
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Them Old Minglewood Blues - Where I Come From
Yonder Mountain String Band - Kentucky Mandolin - Mountain Tracks Vol. 5
The Flatlanders - Borderless Love - Hills And Valleys
The Derek Trucks Band - Our Love - Already Free
Lewi Longmire - Find Me A Woman - If I Live To Be 100

Routes and Branches Play List 06/13/09

No feature artist this week, just a whole bunch of great new Americana. I started with Steve Earle's new disc Townes since he made it to the top of the Americana Charts this week with it. I was also happy to see Todd Snider debut on the charts at #18. His new disc "The Excitement Plan" was the most added album on the charts last week.

Another new CD this week that caught my attention was Grant Peeples Pawnshop. His biography says that he has been around the music industry for years, but only in the last two years has he recorded any of his own songs. Pawnshop is Grant's second recording and first full length CD. He calls it Americana all the way through. Great songs done in a down to earth style with stories of real people.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Steve Earle - Delta Mama Blues - Townes
Sideroads - Cool June Night - Destinations
The Whopner County Country Allstars - I'll Be With You Tonight - It's Too Loud
Olin And The Moon - Drivin' West - Terrible Town
One Horse - On The Road - One Horse
The Bridge - Born Ramblin' - Blind Man's Hill
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Change Is - Roadhouse Sun
Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
Wilco - You Never Know - Single
Son Volt - Jukebox Of Steel - American Central Dust
Todd Snider - Greencastle Blues - The Excitement Plan

4pm.
Dave Alvin - Artesia - Man Of Somebody's Dreams ( A Tribute To Chris Gaffney)
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - California's Burning - Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
Robert Earl Keen - Gringo Honeymoon - Live At The Ryman
The Flatlanders - Sowing On The Mountain - Hills And Valleys
The Gourds - Country Love - Haymaker
Buzz Cason - Big Whoppin' Love - Busload Of Love
Reckless Kelly - Ragged As The Road - Bulletproof
Jimmie Vaughan - Why, Why, Why - Keep Your Soul ( A Tribute To Doug Sahm)
Grant Peeples - Real Country - Pawnshop
Albert & Gage - Hell Or High Water - Dakota Lullaby (The Songs Of Tom Peterson)
Buddy & Julie Miller - One Part, Two Part - Written In Chalk
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Barracuda Moon - Where I Come From

Routes and Branches Play List 6/06/09

This week I had the band Sideroads into the studio to talk about their new album Destinations. Sideroads is a local group that has been together for about two years now. They first played together when Michael Kevin Daly and Richard Gabriel were looking for a bass player (Willie McEachern) and drummer (Joel Narva) to back up their guitar playing. They told me that by the end of that first rehearsal they all felt good about the group and looked forward to the next time to play together which continues to this day.

They have just released their first CD Destinations which features songs written by Michael, Richard and Willie. They each bring a different perspective to song writing, but then they back each other up which brings a balanced harmony to the whole CD. Even though he didn't write any of the songs, Joel also feels like he helps to make the band's sound blend together.

Artist-Song-Source

3pm.
Bob Dylan -Jolene - Together Through Life
Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Richland Women Blues - A Stranger Here
Todd Snider - Don't Tempt Me - The Excitement Plan
Sarah Borges And the Broken Singles - Being With you - The Stars Are Out
Susan Tedeschi - Love Will - Back To the River
Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You - Middle Cyclone
BettySoo - Never Knew No Love - Heat Sin Water Skin
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - Don't Make Promises - Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
Angel Band - I'm Coming Home To You - With Roots And Wings
Antje Duvekot - Ragdoll Princes & Junkyard Queens - The Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer
Mark Knopler & Emmylou Harris - Right Now - Real Live Roadrunning
Patterson Hood - I Understand Now - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
Commander Cody - They Kicked Me Out Of The Band - Dopers, Drunks And everyday Losers

4pm.

Conversation and music with the band Sideroads.
Sideroads - Sideroads - Destinations
Sideroads - Raye Jean - Destinations
Sideroads - Morning Star - Destinations
Sideroads - Spirit Hwy - Destinations

New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Where I Come From - Where I Come From
Sons OF Bill - Broken Bottles - One Town Away
The Felice Brothers - Cooperstown - Yonder Is the Clock
John Doe & The Sadies - Are The Good Times Over For Good - Country Club
Son Volt - Roll On - American Central Dust
The Lonely H - Cold Blues - Concrete Class
Carbon Leaf - Another man's Woman - Nothing Rhymes With Woman