Taproot Radio News #173

Taproot Radio News #173

Rotation #173 – October 28, 2008
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Howdy,

New music this week from Chapel Hill native Tokyo “Toke” Rosenthal, his new CD is a bluesy eclectic mix and his ear for making electric blues and Americana sound fresh reminds me a lot of John Alex Mason. I’ve also added the new CD from the Asylum Street

Dig Deep,
Calvin

Recent Adds:

Texasee / Texasee / Luke Powers / 2:58
Here Today / Texasee / Luke Powers / 2:57

Everybody Loves My Baby / What? And Give Up Show Biz? / Asylum Street Spankers / 3:20
Blue Prelude / What? And Give Up Show Biz? / Asylum Street Spankers / 5:41
Since I Met You Baby / What? And Give Up Show Biz? / Asylum Street Spankers / 6:26

Little Poetry Girl / Love Won Out / Tokyo Rosenthal / 3:23
Who’s To Say What Might Have Been / Love Won Out / Tokyo Rosenthal / 3:48
Love Won Out / Love Won Out / Tokyo Rosenthal / 3:16

This Week’s Focus Tracks:

Everybody Loves My Baby / What? And Give Up Show Biz? / Asylum Street Spankers / 3:20
Let It Go / The Last CD / Lonesome Brothers / 4:09
Real Love / Little Honey / Lucinda Williams / 3:45
Crazy As A Loon / Trunk Songs / Greg Humphreys / 2:43
A. On Horseback / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 4:00
Crawling / The Northeast Kingdom / Cheri Knight / 4:02
Fire & Fast Bullets / Furr / Blitzen Trapper / 2:51
When It’s Good (feat. Leann Rimes) / Keep Coming Back / Marc Broussard / 4:12
Why Baby Why / Sleepless Nights / Patty Loveless / 2:19
Conjuring A Dead Rabbit / Zebulon / Don Chambers / 4:04
Dew Drops / Orange Blossoms / JJ Grey & Mofro / 3:38
The Middle / Nature Of The Blues / Eric Hisaw / 4:25
I’m A Man / Forgiven / Los Lonely Boys / 4:04
Real As An Animal / Real Animal / Alejandro Escovedo / 3:05
I’ll Be There / Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels / Franciene Thomas / 2:05
Soul Mountain / Arizona Motel / Hacienda Brothers / 5:05
If It Wasn’t For You / Can You Deal With It? / Andre Williams and the New Orleans Hellhounds / 3:35
Yard Cars / Past Life Crashing / Collin Herring / 3:09
No Baby I / Blame It On Gravity / Old 97′s / 3:32
Take Care / Mission Door / Peter Cooper / 2:54
Jackson Station / The Band Of Heathens / Band Of Heathens / 3:51
Go Away / Momofuku / Elvis Costello & The Imposters / 4:55
Funky Bell / New Orleans Funk Vol.2 / Warren Lee / 3:03
Filipino Dance Hall Girl / I, Flathead / Ry Cooder / 3:54
Orphan Of The Storm / Mudcrutch / Mudcrutch / 4:07
Too Proud / Not Crazy Tonight / R.G. Stark / 3:56
Tattletale / Calico Girl / Guy Forsyth / 3:57
Colette / Langhorne Slim / Langhorne Slim / 3:47
I Only Want To Be With You / Just A Little Lovin’ / Shelby Lynne / 3:52
Wild As A Turkey / Trouble In Mind / Hayes Carll / 2:30

DJ/Promo Tracks:

That’s The Way Love Goes / Buena Vista / Robin & Linda Williams / 3:17
The Little Red Shoes / Carve It To The Heart / Linda McRae / 3:11
Here Today / Texasee / Luke Powers / 2:57
It’s The Little Things / The Party Never Ends / Robert Earl Keen / 2:24
Dark Hair’d Rider / Heavy Trash / Heavy Trash / 1:52
O Rings / Bolsa De Agua / The Gourds / 3:10
Funny How Time Slips Away / Rhythm Country & Blues / Al Green And Lyle Lovett / 4:34
Checkout Time In Vegas / Brighter Than Creation’s Dark / Drive-By Truckers / 2:42
Mach 1 / Hope Is A Thing With Feathers / Trailer Bride / 2:19
Beachcombing / All The Roadrunning / Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris / 4:14

Backfill:

Serves Him Right / A Woman Like Me / Bettye LaVette / 4:20
Here Comes My Girl / Greatest Hits / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers / 4:25
HE’S A REAL GONE GUY / EARLY FEMALE ROCKBILLY / Anita Carter / 2:31
Only Everything / Citation / Scott Miller / 3:07
Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie / Freight Train And Other North Carolina Folk Songs And Tunes / Elizabeth Cotten / 4:44
Pretty Boy Floyd Was A Travelin Salesman / Known On The Underground / David Childers / 5:17
Trampled By the Sun / Dem’s Good Beeble / The Gourds / 1:36
Grieve All You Want / Stories Under Nails / Ben Weaver / 4:24
Hell No, I Ain’t Happy / Decoration Day / Drive-By Truckers / 4:39
Don’t Give Up On Me / Sweet Sounds Of Muscle Shoa : Vol. 1-Tear Stained Soul / Brenda Varner / 2:38
Wave / A Man Under The Influence / Alejandro Escovedo / 5:27
The Beauty Way / Delirium Tremolos / Ray Wylie Hubbard / 3:30
Done Got Old / Sunday Nights / Jim white / 2:52
Live Free / Trace / Son Volt / 3:14
Blue Norther / The Prime of Sir Douglas Quintet / Sir Douglas Quintet / 2:17
I Love Everybody / I Love Everybody / Lyle Lovett / 3:38
Nadine (Is It You?) / The Definitive Collection / Chuck Berry / 2:36
Goodnight Irene (Live) / The Skiffle Sessions: Live In Belfast 1998 / Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan & Chris Barber / 2:46
Let Me Be Your Fool – Two Dollar Pistols / Revival: Brunswick Stew & Pig Pickin’ / Two Dollar Pistols / 3:25
Broken Down Piece Of Junk / 13 [Bonus Track] / Brian Setzer / 2:44

Last Week’s Focus Tracks:

Fins On A Cadillac / The Last CD / Lonesome Brothers / 3:03
It’s A Long Way To The Top / Little Honey / Lucinda Williams / 4:56
Buttons And Strings / Trunk Songs / Greg Humphreys / 4:47
Cowboy No 77 / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 3:45
Black-Eyed Susie / The Northeast Kingdom / Cheri Knight / 4:39
Furr / Furr / Blitzen Trapper / 4:08
Keep Coming Back / Keep Coming Back / Marc Broussard / 3:34
Please Help Me, I’m Falling / Sleepless Nights / Patty Loveless / 2:40
Fire In The Kitchen / Zebulon / Don Chambers / 3:37
Higher You Climb / Orange Blossoms / JJ Grey & Mofro / 4:09
Fair Fight / Woodshed’n / Earl Musick and Mark Merritt / 3:42
Carnival / Nature Of The Blues / Eric Hisaw / 4:43
Staying With Me / Forgiven / Los Lonely Boys / 4:01
People (We’re Only Gonna Live So Long) / Real Animal / Alejandro Escovedo / 3:22
Down In The Country / Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels / Tee Fletcher / 2:22
Use To The Pain / Arizona Motel / Hacienda Brothers / 3:45
Never Had A Problem / Can You Deal With It? / Andre Williams and the New Orleans Hellhounds / 2:29
Sandstorm / Past Life Crashing / Collin Herring / 3:23
Dance With Me / Blame It On Gravity / Old 97′s / 2:39
Couple of Lies / Mission Door / Peter Cooper / 4:03
Don’t Call On Me / The Band Of Heathens / Band Of Heathens / 5:16
Stella Hurt / Momofuku / Elvis Costello & The Imposters / 4:46
I’m Mr Big Stuff / New Orleans Funk Vol.2 / Jimmy Hicks / 2:33
Train Back To Texas / Drunk As Dragons / Woodbox Gang / 4:25
Reborn / New Orleans Funk: New Orleans – The Original Sound Of Funk 1960-75 / Marilyn Barbarin / 2:26
Pink-O-Boogie / I, Flathead / Ry Cooder / 3:06
As I Cry My Broken Heart To Sleep / Agua Noir / Paul Evans / 3:21
Beyond The Great Divide / All I Intended To Be / Emmylou Harris / 4:26
This Is A Good Street / Mudcrutch / Mudcrutch / 1:54
Faith / Calico Girl / Guy Forsyth / 3:03

Archive:

Silk Hope Road / Hope Is A Thing With Feathers / Trailer Bride / 3:04
Blazing Out Of Sight / Our Side Of Town: A Red House Records 25th Year Collection / Storyhill / 4:25
Wait A Minute / This Is Americana / The Notorious Cherry Bombs / 2:50
Nothing Is Wrong / Late Show At The Cave / The Brown Mountain Lights / 2:45
Too Many Pills / The Other Women / The Corn Sisters / 3:47
Five Hearts Breaking / Gravity (1) / Alejandro Escovedo / 4:10
Can You Dig It / Can You Dig It / Blue Plate Special / 4:08
Millionaire / Unsung / Slaid Cleaves / 2:51
Amazing Grace / Songbird / Willie Nelson / 4:49
Try Me / The Best Of James Brown / James Brown / 2:34
Keep Your Hat On Jenny / Broadcasts Vol. 13 (Disc 2) / Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez / 3:38
Back To Me / Back To Me / Kathleen Edwards / 3:31
You and Me, Me and You / Love Me Tender / B.B. King / 3:11
Rockin’ Chair / Endless Highway: The Music Of The Band / Death Cab For Cutie / 5:32
You Got Me Hurtin’ / The Prime of Sir Douglas Quintet / Sir Douglas Quintet / 2:14
Jealous Guy / Soul Sides: Volume One / Donny Hathaway / 3:10
No Baby Swings Like Mine / Dark And Weary World / South Austin Jug Band / 2:38
Barrelhouse Woman Blues / From Clarksdale to Cleveland Vol.1 The Roadhouse / John Hammond / 2:23
A Restless Wind / Restless Wind: The Legendary Billy Joe Shaver 1973-1987 / Billy Joe Shaver / 2:23
Leave My Blues At Home / Beginnings / The Allman Brothers Band / 4:18
Rollin’ Down The Track / Remember The Sun / Pieta Brown / 3:48
That Girl on Tangerine Road / West Of Texas / Kris Hollis Key / 3:49
Do Right Woman / Sacred Hearts And Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology (Disc 1) / The Flying Burrito Brothers / 3:57
Jesus Drives A Ford / Johnson County / Johnson County / 3:28
Step Into The Light / Have A Little Faith / Mavis Staples / 4:47
Scarlet / The Great American Yard Sale / Mark Lemhouse / 3:20
Give It To Me / Wail & Ride / Grayson Capps / 2:04
I Can Love You / See The Lovers Right On Time / Choosy Beggars / 2:35
Burn Me Down / Hell Under The Skullbones / Graham Lindsey / 4:10
Worried Brow / Forever Hasn’t Happened Yet / John Doe / 3:08
Holdin’ On / Keep Reachin’ Up (universal pub) / Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators / 3:37
Some Dreams / Sidetracks / Steve Earle / 3:04
R-O-C-K / 20th Century Masters: The Best of Bill Haley & His Comets: The Millennium Collection / Bill Haley & His Comets / 2:23
New Shoes / These Streets / Paolo Nutini / 3:22
Dancing With The Women At The Bar / Strangers Almanac / Whiskeytown / 4:39
All Over Town / Step Right Up / The Turnstiles / 4:04
Emerald Street / Beautiful World / Eliza Gilkyson / 3:46
Kicked Out of Town / Steep Canyon Rangers / Steep Canyon Rangers / 3:16
Bridge Street Lullaby / Roses Are Black / Austin Collins / 4:51
Red Staggerwing / All The Roadrunning / Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris / 3:03
Tomorrow Night In Baltimore / All Time Greatest Hits / Roger Miller / 2:55
Coneville Slough / The Evening Call / Greg Brown / 4:28
Brand New Day / Love Songs: For And Against / Guy Forsyth / 4:01
Reason To Cry / Essence / Lucinda Williams / 3:44
The Lowering / Four Thieves Gone / The Avett Brothers / 5:03
The Usual Place / Mercy/See-Saw / Don Covay / 2:08
I Still Miss Someone / Safe At Home / The International Submarine Band / 2:47
American Girl / Greatest Hits / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers / 3:33
Demon Valley / The Longest Meow / Bobby Bare Jr’s Young Criminals’ Starvation League / 4:11
American Gangster Time / Momofuku / Elvis Costello & The Imposters / 3:47
10 Miles Deep / Rollercoaster / Randy Rogers / 3:20
Love And Hope / Broadcasts Vol. 13 (Disc 1) / Ozomatli / 3:52
I’m Gonna Change My Ways / Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John / Peter Case / 3:25
Shakin’ The Blues (With Waylon Jennings) / Uncovered / Tony Joe White / 5:19
No One In The World / The Wiskey Tango Sessions / Hideaway / 3:15
New Highway / Blackjack David / Dave Alvin / 3:14
Get It When You Want It / The Ultimate Fame Years Collection / Candi Staton / 2:22
Rendezvous For The Bayou / Night Train To Nashville / Tab Benoit / 6:47
Goddamn Lonely Love / The Dirty South / Drive-By Truckers / 4:59
One More Day / Sad, But Familiar / Lou Ford / 4:48