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Howdy,
You’ll be hearing them all on Taproot Radio over the next few weeks. Can I get a witness, brothers and sisters?
Taproot Radio Rotation #218 on iTunes
(Alphabetical by Artist)
From her new CD, Western Ballad…
Taproot Radio – 9-10 – Calvin
Gee, I Really Love You / Midnight Soul Serenade / Heavy Trash / 3:18
You Are My Sunshine / Dirty Laundry – The Soul Of Black Country / Earl Gaines / 2:41
By And By / God’s Favorite Band / Asylum Street Spankers / 4:17
Down Home Country Blues (Radio Edit) / A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is no C) / Ray Wylie Hubbard / 3:02
I’ve Done Everything I Could Do Wrong / Somewhere In Time / Reckless Kelly / 4:14
Houston / Sao Paulo / Deadstring Brothers / 3:49
Wasted / The Things We Left Behind / Blue Rodeo / 5:56
Rollin Highway Blues / Roadhouse Sun / Ryan Bingham / 3:50
Little White Lies / Born On Flag Day / Deer Tick / 3:39
I’m Doin’ Fine / Down The Mountain / Mark Lennon / 3:57
Penn Station / Yonder Is The Clock / The Felice Brothers / 3:58
Find Another Man / Wait…I wasn’t finished yet / Mark Wehner / 3:43
Psycho / Reform School Girl / Nick Curran And The Lowlifes / 1:57
This Ain’t My Home / Coldwater / Shannon McNally / 4:34
Dirty Laundry 10-11pm – Rick
Torn Apart / Kasey Anderson / Nowhere Nights / 2:31
A Prayer Please / Chip Robinson / Mylow / 3:52
Notes: two new ones from Red River Records
I’d Rather Be an Old Man’s Sweetheart (Than a Young Man’s Fool) / Candi Staton / Candi Staton / 2:06
Where’s Eddie / Lulu / The Atco Sessions 1969-1972 / 3:08
Stay There and Try to Be Strong / Mary Gresham / Voice from the Shadows / 3:40
Notes:Muscle Shoals, part 1
Untie Me / James & Bobby Purify / Shake a Tail Feather! / 2:33
The Weight / King Curtis / Duane Allman: An Anthology Volume II / 2:46
Inspired to Love You / The Blues Busters / Behold! The Anthology / 2:43
Notes: Muscle Shoals, part 2
Lucinda / Elonzo / Extended Play EP / 3:08
Hey, Lucinda / Betty Everett / The Sound Stage 7 Story / 3:25
Lucinda Williams / Vic Chesnutt / 2003 Tour Souvenir / 5:20
You’re Still Standing There / Steve Earle & Lucinda Williams / I Feel Alright / 3:24
Notes: a Lucinda set — and, yes, I realize that “Hey, Lucinda” is not about Ms. Williams
Beautifully Broken / Jon Dee Graham & the Fighting Cocks / It’s Not as Bad as It Looks / 3:17
Flyrock Blues / Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore / Dear Companion / 3:28
Speak Plainly, Diana / Joe Pug / Messenger / 3:18
Powder & Sweat / Shipwrecker / Shipwrecker EP / 4:14
Taproot Radio 9-10pm Calvin
White Limo / The Felice Brothers / Mix Tape / 2:46
Bogachiel Rain Blues / The Moondoggies / Don’t Be A Stranger / 4:27
Down The Mountain / Mark Lennon / Down The Mountain / 3:33
Down By The Riverside / Asylum Street Spankers / God’s Favorite Band / 4:06
Arizona Dust / Blue Rodeo / The Things We Left Behind / 3:54
Something to Keep Me Going / Chris Knight / Heart of Stone / 3:03
Loose (Radio Edit) / Ray Wylie Hubbard / A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is no C) / 4:11
Tell My Mother I Miss Her So / Ryan Bingham / Roadhouse Sun / 3:45
It’s Too Easy / Dave Rawlings Machine / A Friend Of A Friend / 3:09
Carrying This Heartache / Hooverville / Follow That Trail Of Dust Back Home / 3:14
The Ballad of Elano DeLeon / Reckless Kelly / Somewhere In Time / 3:26
Can’t Make It Through The Night / Deadstring Brothers / Sao Paulo / 3:23
Young Dreams / Dex Romweber Duo / Unreleased / 2:32
Tough Lover / Nick Curran And The Lowlifes / Reform School Girl / 2:14
Bolder Than Paradise / Shannon McNally / Coldwater / 5:25
Dirty Laundry 10-11pm Rick
Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin’ / Mayer Hawthorne / A Strange Arrangement / 3:03
Notes: some neo-Motown by a guy originally from neighboring Ann Arbor (now in L.A.)
All Lit Up / Kasey Anderson / Nowhere Nights / 3:32
Ain’t That Right / Hearts and Daggers / And Then There Was Dust / 3:21
Never Look Back / Blue Rodeo / The Things We Left Behind / 3:20
True Grit / Ken Will Morton / True Grit / 2:50
Notes: New rootsy releases: double disc set from the venerable Blue Rodeo; Hearts and Daggers is from Raleigh.
You Got Me Hummin’ / Sam & Dave / The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968 / 2:51
Stop / Howard Tate / Beg, Scream & Shout! The Big Ol’ Box of ’60s Soul / 2:48
I’d Rather Go Blind / Etta James / Take Me to the River: A Southern Soul Story 1981-1977 / 2:33
You Are Too Much for the Human Heart / Herman Hitson / Sanctified Soul / 2:32
Notes: Public service time: If you have room for only one 9-disc soul set on your shelves, make it The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968. Only one 6-disc set? Make it Beg, Scream & Shout! (although its ’70s companion, Can You Dig It?, is also mighty fine). Ditto Take Me to the River and 3-disc sets. And Sanctified Soul is an essential 1-discer.
I Can’t Dance / Scott Miller / For Crying Out Loud / 3:02
Ain’t Got the Time / Kenny Roby & Neal Casal / Black River Sides / 2:32
Harper Valley P.T.A. / Mary Jane Hooper / Psychedelphia / 3:25
Mama Bake a Pie / Drive-By Truckers / The Fine Print (A Collection of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008) / 3:19
That’s How I Got to Memphis / Solomon Burke / Nashville / 3:20
Notes:The theme set tonight is Songs of Tom T. Hall. Awfully tough to narrow it down to only five. Had to leave off Joe Henry’s take on “I Flew Over Our House Tonight” — or was that the Two Dollar Pistols’ take? Also hard to ignore additional covers of “That’s How I Got to Memphis” by Buddy Miller, Kelly Willis, and Otis Williams & the Midnight Cowboys, not to mention Real: The Tom T. Hall Project in its entirety. By the way, Scott Miller is at the Berkeley Café on Tuesday, February 2, and the Drive-By Truckers have a two-night stand at the Lincoln Theatre 12FEB-13FEB.
Don’t Fall in Love with a Lonely Girl / Freedy Johnston / Rain on the City / 4:09
Notes:brand new one from a longtime favorite
Howdy,
New music this week from The Deadstring Brothers and Reckless Kelly. And I just got around to putting Ryan Bingham’s Roadhoue Sun into rotation. Fun to see him gettin’ all Axl Rose on us. Wanda Jackson is playing in Raleigh Sunday night. It’s not often legends come passing through this area. You should go see her if you can.
Taproot Radio Rotation 217 on iTunes
(Alphabetical by Artist)
Tokyo Rosenthal’s latest CD, Ghosts, continues his ongoing experiments in songwriting. You gotta give this guy credit for engaging, original lyrics and an ear for mashing up riffs. Take, for example, his song. “Inside Your Skull.” It starts off with blues-rock riffs and and old school rock crooner vocal. And just when you expect it to move into a minor bridge he throws you a change up with a full on pedal steel twangy riff. And on “I Can’t Read Ya” he gives us visions of go go dancers with a flute-based riff off-beat keyboard while he belts out obtuse lyrics. The thing you gotta love about Toke Rosenthal though is that he never forgets is job is to entertain the listener, which separates him from your run-of-the-mill songwriter.
Highlights for me are “Inside Your Skull,” “Still She Thanks God,” “Goin’ On Saturday,” and “I Can’t Read Ya.”
Hour 1
Tex- Mex Mile / KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 17 [Disc 1] / The Gourds / 3:19
Stop The World And Let Me Off / Country Club / John Doe & The Sadies / 3:42
Positive Friction / Positive Friction / Donna The Buffalo / 4:07
Sea Of Tears / Sea Of Tears / Eilen Jewell / 2:46
On Your Way Down / The River In Reverse / Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint / 4:55
And The Band Played Om / Before The Frost…Until The Freeze / The Black Crowes / 4:11
Sheba / The Things We Left Behind / Blue Rodeo / 4:19
Good Man / Midnight Soul Serenade / Heavy Trash / 2:58
Tough Lover / Reform School Girl / Nick Curran And The Lowlifes / 2:14
Please Don’t Break My Heart / Sweet Sounds Of Muscle Shoa : Vol. 4-More Power To Ya! / Tony Borders / 2:41
Goin’ On Saturday / Ghosts / Tokyo Rosenthal / 3:16
Red Hot Kisses / In North Carolina / Bob Margolin / 3:22
Cold, Cold Heart / Sleepless Nights / Patty Loveless / 2:54
To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) / A Friend Of A Friend / Dave Rawlings Machine / 3:48
Wildwood Rambler / Follow That Trail Of Dust Back Home / Hooverville / 4:39
Hour 2
We Don’t Run / Songbird / Willie Nelson / 4:20
Shadrack, Meshach, And Abednego / God’s Favorite Band / Asylum Street Spankers / 2:42
Rollin’and Tumblin’, Part 1 / His Best: 1947 To 1955 / Muddy Waters / 3:01
Petaluma / A Thousand Small Things / The Mayflies / 3:54
Down The Mountain / Down The Mountain / Mark Lennon / 3:33
Stars On The Water / The Essential Rodney Crowell / Rodney Crowell / 3:44
Charlie James / Since I Saw You Last / Steve Howell / 4:49
Daniel Lee / This Is Americana Volume 2 / Sarah Borges / 3:16
Toe The Line / Starving Winter Report / Deadstring Brothers / 3:42
Fräulein O. / Live In Europe / James McMurtry / 4:17
What Are You Willing To Lose / 1372 Overton Park / Lucero / 4:08
Lonely Avenue / Step Right Up / Two Dollar Pistols / 2:50
I Can’t Sleep / Tejas Brothers / Tejas Brothers / 2:55
His Hands / His Hands / Candi Staton / 5:49