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Howdy,
With Hobex and Dillion Fence being more or less inactive these days, local boy Greg Humphreys has been going through his back log of written songs, the songs he's been holding on to for himself, the songs he calls his trunk songs, and has put them out as a solo effort. Trunk Songs wanders from swingy blues to deep twang, to indie folk but no matter the genre window dressing all the songs have a deep appreciation for the beauty of acoustic string instruments, down-to-earth ballads, heart-felt turns of phrase. Highlights for me are "I Cover The Waterfront," "Buttons and Strings," and "Crazy As A Loon."
Bloodshot Records has pulled together the best material from Charlie Pickett's 3 indie albums from the 80's. Sorta punk, but with equal influences from 60's era garage rock and down home blues, if you can believe that. There's echoes of Velvet Underground and Jason and the Scorchers here. It's hard to pick favorites on this one, but try "Get Off On Your Porch," "A. on Horseback," "Overtown," "On The River in '59," "Death Letter," "Heads Up, Heels Down," "But I Didn't," "Slow Death," and the live version of "Phantom Train."
Dig Deep,
Calvin
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I Cover The Waterfront / Trunk Songs / Greg Humphreys / 2:49Buttons And Strings / Trunk Songs / Greg Humphreys / 4:47
Crazy As A Loon / Trunk Songs / Greg Humphreys / 2:43
Slow Death / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 3:49
Phantom Train / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 3:42
Overtown / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 4:31
On The River In '59 / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 3:20
Heads Up Heels Down / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 3:35
Get Off Of Your Porch / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 4:00
Death Letter / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 3:58
Cowboy No 77 / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 3:45
But I Didn't / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 1:59
A. On Horseback / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 4:00
This Week's Focus Tracks:
I Cover The Waterfront / Trunk Songs / Greg Humphreys / 2:49Get Off Of Your Porch / Bar Band Americanus / Charlie Pickett / 4:00
Northeast Kingdom / The Northeast Kingdom / Cheri Knight / 4:56
Gold for Bread / Furr / Blitzen Trapper / 2:47
Man For Life / Keep Coming Back / Marc Broussard / 3:27
Don't Let Me Cross Over / Sleepless Nights / Patty Loveless / 3:23
Highwater / Zebulon / Don Chambers / 4:41
On Fire / Orange Blossoms / JJ Grey & Mofro / 4:27
When She Leaves / Woodshed'n / Earl Musick and Mark Merritt / 3:17
Shout Out Loud / Nature Of The Blues / Eric Hisaw / 3:28
Make It Better / Forgiven / Los Lonely Boys / 3:27
One False Move / Bulletproof / Reckless Kelly / 3:55
Oceans & Streams / Attack & Release / The Black Keys / 3:26
Smoke / Real Animal / Alejandro Escovedo / 3:54
That's How Much I Love You / Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels / Eula Cooper / 2:35
A Lot Of Days Are Gone / Arizona Motel / Hacienda Brothers / 3:09
Can You Deal With It / Can You Deal With It? / Andre Williams and the New Orleans Hellhounds / 2:34
Cellophane / Past Life Crashing / Collin Herring / 3:58
The Fool / Blame It On Gravity / Old 97's / 4:17
Boy Genius / Mission Door / Peter Cooper / 3:31
Cornbread / The Band Of Heathens / Band Of Heathens / 4:43
Flutter And Wow / Momofuku / Elvis Costello & The Imposters / 4:24
12 Red Roses / New Orleans Funk Vol.2 / Betty Harris / 2:31
Tough Guy Blues / Drunk As Dragons / Woodbox Gang / 3:45
Just Kissed My Baby / New Orleans Funk: New Orleans - The Original Sound Of Funk 1960-75 / The Meters / 4:40
Ridin' With The Blues / I, Flathead / Ry Cooder / 3:01
Old Five And Dimers Like Me / All I Intended To Be / Emmylou Harris / 4:17
Bootleg Flyer / Mudcrutch / Mudcrutch / 3:49
Calico Girl / Calico Girl / Guy Forsyth / 4:20
Listen Up Sweetheart / Yarn / Yarn / 2:38
DJ/Promo Tracks:
Something to Say / Where We Come From / Ray William Roldan / 4:51Curtains & Dreams / Choosy Beggars / Choosy Beggars / 3:57
Take Out Some Insurance / Dead Man Shake / Grandpaboy / 2:39
When It Was Over / Here Tomorrow Gone Today / Two Dollar Pistols / 3:28
I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You / Lyle Lovett and his Large Band / Lyle Lovett / 3:14
Shake Your Moneymaker / Shake Your Moneymaker - The Best of the Fire Sessions / Elmore James / 2:36
Drivin' Wheel / House Of Blues: Essential Blues (Disc 2) / Junior Parker / 2:36
Aftermath USA / A Blessing And A Curse / Drive-By Truckers / 3:16
Not Today / Ammunition / Tim Easton / 3:11
16 Days / Strangers Almanac / Whiskeytown / 3:55
Backfill:
Can't Take It / With These Hands (Expanded Edition) / Alejandro Escovedo / 2:38Winter's Come And Gone / Hell Among The Yearlings / Gillian Welch / 2:15
Slipping Around / Baby / The Detroit Cobras / 2:55
Alabamy Bound (Live) / The Skiffle Sessions: Live In Belfast 1998 / Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan & Chris Barber / 2:23
Jump Jive An' Wail / The Dirty Boogie / The Brian Setzer Orchestra / 2:54
Have You Ever Loved A Woman / Royal Blues / Lightnin' Hopkins / 2:40
Heartaches And Hangovers / Step Right Up / Two Dollar Pistols / 2:37
CB Song / Cockadoodledon't / Th' Legendary Shack Shakers / 2:56
Piece Of My Heart / Oxford American 2005 / Erma Franklin / 2:37
Firecracker / Gold / Ryan Adams / 2:52
I Got You (I Feel Good) / The Best Of James Brown / James Brown / 2:49
My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' / Wreck Your Life / Old 97's / 2:15
Soul Meets Body / Broadcasts Vol. 14 (Disc 1) / Death Cab For Cutie / 3:37
Love Shack / Poor Little Knitter On The Road / Anna Fermin & Friends / 3:04
1st In Line / Cow Fish Fowl Or Pig / The Gourds / 2:54
Exposé / Workbench Songs / Guy Clark / 2:19
I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock & Roll) / Basher -The Best of Nick Lowe / Nick Lowe / 4:27
Lay My Burden Down / N'awlinz: Dis, Dat Or D'Udda / Dr. John / 4:32
The Train I'm On / The Best Of Tony Joe White (Featuring Polk Salad Annie) / Tony Joe White / 3:10
Highway 61 Revisited / Bob Dylan The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration / Johnny Winter / 5:06
Last Week's Focus Tracks:
If Wishes Were Horses / The Northeast Kingdom / Cheri Knight / 4:30Sleepytime in the Western World / Furr / Blitzen Trapper / 3:30
When It's Good (feat. Leann Rimes) / Keep Coming Back / Marc Broussard / 4:12
Color Of The Blues / Sleepless Nights / Patty Loveless / 3:06
Open The Gates / Zebulon / Don Chambers / 3:15
Wylf / Orange Blossoms / JJ Grey & Mofro / 4:17
Take A Number / Woodshed'n / Earl Musick and Mark Merritt / 3:03
El Dorado / She Ain't Me / Carrie Rodriguez / 4:12
Cheap Living / Nature Of The Blues / Eric Hisaw / 3:40
Heart Won't Tell A Lie / Forgiven / Los Lonely Boys / 3:50
Love In Her Eyes / Bulletproof / Reckless Kelly / 3:35
Psychotic Girl / Attack & Release / The Black Keys / 4:11
Chelsea Hotel '78 / Real Animal / Alejandro Escovedo / 3:31
Strange Feeling / Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels / Nathan Wilkes / 2:14
When You're Tired Of Breaking Other Hearts / Arizona Motel / Hacienda Brothers / 2:48
Your Woman / Can You Deal With It? / Andre Williams and the New Orleans Hellhounds / 3:47
One Last Morning / Past Life Crashing / Collin Herring / 4:11
Color Of A Lonely Heart Is Blue / Blame It On Gravity / Old 97's / 5:52
Take Care / Mission Door / Peter Cooper / 2:54
Unsleeping Eye / The Band Of Heathens / Band Of Heathens / 4:48
Drum And Bone / Momofuku / Elvis Costello & The Imposters / 2:36
12 Red Roses / New Orleans Funk Vol.2 / Betty Harris / 2:31
Sex & Gasoline / Walls Fall Down / Kimmie Rhodes / 4:22
Drunk As Dragons / Drunk As Dragons / Woodbox Gang / 3:15
Dap Walk / New Orleans Funk: New Orleans - The Original Sound Of Funk 1960-75 / Ernie & The Top Notes / 3:09
Johnny Cash / I, Flathead / Ry Cooder / 3:09
Her Lonely Forgotten / Agua Noir / Paul Evans / 3:59
Gold / All I Intended To Be / Emmylou Harris / 3:32
Crystal River / Mudcrutch / Mudcrutch / 9:29
Children Of Jack / Calico Girl / Guy Forsyth / 4:53
Archive:
Room Eleven / Not Forgotten / Malcolm Holcombe / 3:44Miss Molly / You Don't Know Me - Songs Of Cindy Walker / Willie Nelson / 2:35
Dirty Angels / Oxford American 2000 / Kevn Kinney / 3:15
Checking Out / When The Sun's Gone Down / Langhorne Slim / 2:49
Over My Shoulder / Tomorrow The Green Grass / The Jayhawks / 3:41
When The Saints Go Marching In / N'awlinz: Dis, Dat Or D'Udda / Dr. John / 4:52
Rollin' and Tumblin' / Shake Your Moneymaker - The Best of the Fire Sessions / Elmore James / 2:35
Burn Down This Town / Black Cadillac / Rosanne Cash / 3:11
Sportin' Life Blues / Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook Volume Two & Three (Disc 1) / Mary Peterson / 3:17
I'm Just A Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin') / Do I Move You / Janiva Magness / 3:51
The Part I Like Best / Cost Of Living / Delbert McClinton / 2:17
O.D. Blues / Dead Man Shake / Grandpaboy / 4:33
My Way / Atlantic Unearthed: Soul Sisters / Aretha Franklin / 4:05
Talkin' Born Blues / Starving Winter Report / Deadstring Brothers / 4:22
Faithless Street / No Depression: What It Sounds Like, Vol. 1 / Whiskeytown / 3:55
Somethin' In The Water / Pandelirium / Th' Legendary Shack Shakers / 2:49
Penguins / I Love Everybody / Lyle Lovett / 2:31
She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died) / Hell-Bent: Insurgent Country Volume 2 / Robby Fulks / 2:42
We Are The Maurauders / 13 [Bonus Track] / Brian Setzer / 2:29
It's Lonesome In Prison / A Trip To The Holiday Lounge / Charivari / 2:42
The Closer / If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry / Marah / 2:45
Take The 5th / Wolfgang's Big Night Out / The Brian Setzer Orchestra / 4:25
Better Than Broken / Zoysia / The Bottle Rockets / 4:05
Everything Good Is Bad / Orange Blossoms / JJ Grey & Mofro / 3:41
Borrow Your Cape / The Longest Meow / Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League / 5:25
The Life We'll Fake / Sodajerk / Sodajerk / 3:39
Still Amazed / Intuition / Betty Harris / 4:30
Be For Me / Handwriting Is On The Wall / Ann Peebles / 3:31
Cryin In The Street / Deep Soul Treasures 2 / George Perkins And Ths Silver Stars / 3:18
Don't Hit Me No More / Stax 1959-1968 #8 / Mable John / 2:50
Sky Blue Sky / Sky Blue Sky / Wilco / 3:24
What'd I Say / Night Train to Nashville (Disc 2) / Etta James / 3:18
Summer Is Over / Milly's Cafe / Fred Eaglesmith / 2:36
Only Everything / Reconstruction / Scott Miller & The Commonwealth / 3:13
Singing In My Soul / The Gospel Of The Blues / Sister Rosetta Tharpe / 2:56
Beautiful Mistake / Love Songs: For And Against / Guy Forsyth / 4:47
It's The Shame / Songs For Sixty Five Roses / Tift Merritt / 3:13
Don't Leave Me Girl / Bullet/Sur-Speed Soul:Music City Blues & Soul 1960's / Shy Guy Douglas / 3:38
Dyin' Diamond / Stadium Blitzer / The Gourds / 3:09
Kink In The Chain / More Storms Comin' / Mark Selby / 3:35
Carve That Possum / Plastic Seat Sweat / Southern Culture On The Skids / 17:19
Cornershops And Subway Trains / Army Jacket Winter / Jon Shain / 3:08
El Dorado / She Ain't Me / Carrie Rodriguez / 4:12
Oh! Chicago / Fear Not The Obvious / The Yayhoos / 4:19
Baby Needs A New Pair Of Shoes / Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch (P) 2007 / Joe Ely / 3:37
Pullin' Back The Reins / Reintarnation / k.d. lang / 4:26
Something Big / Hard Promises / Tom Petty / 4:44
Creedence Song / Revival / John Fogerty / 3:49
Crooked Frame / With These Hands (Deluxe Edition) / Alejandro Escovedo / 4:02
Fell In Love With A Boy / KGSR Broadcasts Volume 12 / Joss Stone / 3:22
Land Of A 1000 Dances / ARB 6: 1965-1967 / Wilson Pickett / 2:26
Words / If You Need Me - Rock 'n' Soul / Solomon Burke / 2:28
Time Wounds All Heels / Basher -The Best of Nick Lowe / Nick Lowe / 2:45
Driveway To Driveway / Songs For Sixty Five Roses / Two Dollar Pistols / 4:08
Killer Diller Blues / Oxford American 2003 (#6) / Memphis Minnie / 2:31
Don't Fade On Me / Wildflowers / Tom Petty / 3:32
On Your Way Down / The River In Reverse / Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint / 4:55
Falling Out Of Love / Mercy Now / Mary Gauthier / 5:58
Some Kind Of Wonderful / 30 Years Of Funk / Grand Funk Railroad / 3:23
Color Of A Lonely Heart Is Blue / Blame It On Gravity / Old 97's / 5:52
Mississippi Home / Miracle Mule / The Subdudes / 4:11
Pork Chop from Way Out Bonus Tracks / Misc MP3s #1 / Heavy Trash / 4:03
Living Of Love / Emotionalism / The Avett Brothers / 4:31
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