Tupelo Honey Playlist 11/10/09

Played some great new gems this week from people you've never heard of. Doug and Telisha Williams have a wonderful CD out called Ghost of the Knoxville Girl. Judy Tampa and Bunko Squad just released an uninteresting disc with, surprise surprise, a couple of earth shatteringly great tunes. Mark Lennon from L.A. has a very nice EP out called Down the Mountain. Then again, I also played some great new songs from mega stars The Black Crowes, Rickie Lee Jones, and The Subdudes.

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Song - Artist - Album

5pm

I'm Doin' Fine - Mark Lennon - Down the Mountain

Kitchen Light - Doug & Telisha Williams - Ghost Of The Knoxville Girl

Good Morning Captain - The Black Crowes - Before The Frost...

Mighty Fine Day - Judy Tampa & Bunko Squad - Tainted

Faithfully - Matt The Electrician - Animal Boy

Tallboy - The Meat Purveyors - More Songs About Buildings and Cows

Devil's Best Dress - Corb Lund - Losin' Lately Gambler

Far Away Eyes - The Rolling Stones - Some Girls

Summer Number 39 - Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers - Turbo Ocho

The Rifle - Alela Diane - The Pirate's Gospel

King of the Road - Rufus Wainwright & Teddy Thompson - Brokeback Mountain

If You Want Me 2 - Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank - Traveling Show

Devil Woman - Marcy Playground - Leaving Wonderland ... In A Fit Of Rage

The Moon Is Made Of Gold - Rickie Lee Jones - Balm In Gilead

Livin' In a Dream - Laura Love & Orville Johnson - The Sweeter the Juice

6pm
She's Still Mine - Scott Miller & The Commonwealth - For Crying Out Loud

Town Square - The Subdudes - Flower Petals

You're My Lover Now - Pieta Brown - Shimmer

TSA - Danny Barnes - Pizza Box

Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight - Rodney Crowell - The Rodney Crowell Collection

Next Equation - Bow Thayer And Perfect Trainwreck - Bow Thayer And Perfect Trainwreck

The One - Old 97's - Blame It On Gravity

Vagabond Wind - The Low Tide Drifter - Progress & Porchlights

Done It All Before - The Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward

Drunken Poet's Dream - Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind

Take A Holiday - Mindy Smith - Stupid Love

King of California - Dave Alvin - King of California

Friday Night Fever - Silver Jews - Bright Flight

Highway - Grace Basement - Gunmetal Gray

Tupelo Honey Playlist 11/3/09

Thanks to all of you for supporting KRVM and Tupelo Honey during our fall fundraiser. It's been a spectacular pledge drive and we do appreciate all of you who were able to become members and all of you who renewed your membership.

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Song - Artist - Album

5pm
One Big Love - Patty Griffin - Flaming Red
Down to the Wire - Son Volt - American Central Dust
Pantry (Acoustic Version) - Lyle Lovett - Natural Forces
Spell On Me (Radio Mix) - Too Slim & The Taildraggers - The Fortune Teller
That's What I Like About the South - The Red Stick Ramblers - Right Key, Wrong Keyhole
Voodoo Cadillac - Southern Culture On The Skids - Dirt Track Date
Ol' Milwaukee's Best - Adam Carroll - Lookin' Out the Screen Door
I Feel Alright - Steve Earle - I Feel Alright
Spinnin' Around - Backyard Tire Fire - Bar Room Semantics
Lovin' In My Baby's Eyes- Shannon McNally - Geronimo
Midnight Train to Memphis - The SteelDrivers - The SteelDrivers

6pm
Hippie Boyfriend - Anna Laube - Pool All The Love*Pool All The Knowledge
That's Not The Issue - Wilco - A.M.
Blue - The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass
Think About You - Eliza Gilkyson - Paradise Hotel
Till I Gain Control Again - Van Morrison - Pay the Devil
Jagged - Old 97's - Fight Songs
Back to Dallas - Eilen Jewell - Boundary County
My Wife Things Your Dead - Junior Brown - Junior Brown: Greatest Hits
Mighty River - Railroad Earth - Elko
Jim 3:16 (Live) - Jim White - A Funny Little Cross to Bear

Tupelo Honey Playlist 10/27/09

After just returning from a week of drinking and debauchery in Los Cabos Mexico I had to play a set of my favorite cantina tunes. Some like "Drunk in Mexico" make for perfect drinkin' tunes, others are Mexican tinged classics that should be sing-a-longs for any Americana fan. Hope you got out the blender, some chips and salsa, a sombrero, some limes and enjoyed the tangent.

BTW if you plan on a trip to Mexico don't forget you ipod. Mexican cantinas have the worst music I've heard in a long time. No local slant, no originality just bad cliche rock tunes. It reminded me of the problems with commercial radio: programing to the lowest common denominator. I heard song after song that I didn't want to hear 15 years ago and I certainly didn't want to hear on my vacation. Thank god I brought an ipod loaded with my favorite cantina songs.

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Hasta Luego

Song - Artist - Album

5pm
This Time - Will Phalen And The Stereo Addicts - Middle West
Short Street Blues - Malcolm Holcombe - For The Mission Baby
Bonnie & Clyde - Big Japan - Music For Dummies
Lake Marie - John Prine - Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings
Storm Comin' - Ana Egge - Road To My Love
Burn the Honeysuckle - The Gourds - Heavy Ornamentals
Tennessee - Cory Chisel And The Wandering Sons - Death Won't Send A Letter
Tulsa Sounds Like Trouble To Me - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Speed Of Life
Indiana - Tramps & Thieves - Mill Avenue Cowboys
Fräulein O. - James McMurtry - Live In Europe
Down Among the Wines and Spirits - Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Feltpicker - El Capitan - Stickeen
Letter to Loveless - Stereofan - You Can't Go Home Again

6pm
Magpie to the Morning - Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Drunk In Mexico - Max Stalling - Sellout, Live At Dan's Silver Leaf
Una Mas Cerveza - The Texas Tornados - Best of The Texas Tornados
Oye Isabel - The Iguanas - Nuevo Boogaloo
Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes - Bonnie Raitt - Home Plate
Mas Y Mas - Los Lobos - Colossal Head
Tequila After Midnight - Nanci Griffith - The Loving Kind
Mexico - Poor Man's Whiskey - Roadside Attraction
Honkytonk Tequila - Hot Buttered Rum - Limbs Akimbo
Pancho And Lefty - Townes Van Zandt - A Far Cry From Dead
Gallo Del Cielo - Tom Russell - Poor Man's Dream
One More Night In Heaven - Todd Adelman & The Love Handles - Todd Adelman & The Love Handles

Tupelo Honey Playlist 10/20/09

Got to interview the talented Bowery Boy Blue tonight. They just released an new EP with Lesser Lights, Now We Will Be Brothers. Their 2008 debut CD, Stalk That Myth, was one of the most refreshingly honest and unique discs of last year. The song "Ah, What A Cruel Change" made it on my list of "The 20 Best Americana Songs of 2008." This is a band with a small following but a huge sound. I'm not sure why the mainstream music scene is slow to notice, but this is a band making some phenomenal music. You can see them this Thursday at The Axe & Fiddle in Cottage Grove.

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Ciao

Song - Artist - Album

5pm
One Thing At A Time - Lewi Longmire Band - Fire 'Neath The Still
God Fearing Blues - Jason Eady - When The Money's All gone
Shaking Like a Flame - Glossary - For What I Don't Become
Touching The Ground - Brandi Carlile - Give Up The Ghost
This Land - Jimmy LaFave - Voices of a Grateful Nation Vol. 1

Ah, What A Cruel Change - Bowery Boy Blue - Stalk That Myth

Long Grey Blade - Bowery Boy Blue - unreleased CD

Now We Will Be Brothers - Bowery Boy Blue - Now We Will Be Brothers EP

Come Closer, Sisters - Bowery Boy Blue - Stalk That Myth
How to Rob a Bank - Willy Porter - How to Rob a Bank

6pm
Shame On Me - The Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten - Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Looking Elsewhere - Jim Lauderdale - Headed For The Hills
Devil Woman - Marcy Playground - Leaving Wonderland ... In A Fit Of Rage
Duncan and Brady - Woody Pines - Lonesome Shack Blues
Grandaddy's Mouth - Dexateens - Singlewide
Last Night On Earth Again - Over The Rhine - Discount Fireworks
Harbor Shops - Big Sur - Women
Somebody Tell The Truth - The Band Of Heathens - One Foot In The Ether

Cheap Reward - The Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right
Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken) - Drive-By Truckers - The Fine Print
Second Option - Caitlin Cary - Begonias
Bayou Tortue - James McMurtry - Live In Europe

Don Juan - Leslie And The Badgers - Roomful of Smoke

Tupelo Honey Playlist 10/13/09

I've always been a fan of Malcolm Holcombe. His voice sounds like something you can only get from gargling glass or hard, HARD living. Unfortunately I think Malcolm's story is the latter. Drugs and alcohol were going to be his demise. Steve Earle was once quoted as saying Malcolm was "the best singer/songwriter I ever threw out of my studio."

Holcolmbe's been clean and sober for awhile now it sure is nice to see that with that sobriety has come the best album he's ever done. His new CD, For The Mission Baby, was just released and it is spectacular. If you're a fan of his don't miss this one and if you're not, I promise this new disc will make you love that one-of-a-kind, gargled-glass voice.

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Ciao

Song - Artist - Album

5pm
Little Birdy - Pert' Near Sandstone - Needle & Thread
Can't Feel A Thing - Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
In My Time of Dying - The Be Good Tanyas - Le Coeur Des Hommes 2
Cleaning My Gun - Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky
The Right Stuff - Bap Kennedy - Howl On
California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
Stuck Between Stations (Acoustic Version) - The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
Fisherman's Blues - Rick Shea - Shelter Valley Blues
I Bow Down and Pray to Every Woman I See - Chuck Prophet - No Other Love
Ethylene - John Hiatt - Walk On
Don't Touch My Hat -Lyle Lovett - The Road to Ensenada
Datura - Or, The Whale - Or, The Whale
Sin City - Limbeck - Let Me Come Home

6pm
Sparta, TN - Danny Barnes - Pizza Box
Emerald Street - Eliza Gilkyson - Beautiful World
Ophelia - Jim Byrnes - My Walking Stick
Talkin' Veterinarian Blues - Corb Lund - Losin' Lately Gambler
For the Mission Baby - Malcolm Holcombe - For The Mission Baby
Amarillo Highway - Terry Allen - Lubbock (On Everything)
One Red Thread - Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds and a Sound
People Just Love To Talk - Delbert McClinton - Acquired Taste
A Great Many Things - Hot Buttered Rum - Limbs Akimbo
Mr. Wrong - Cracker - Cracker
Love's Not Passing Us By - Anne McCue - East Of Electric
Red Wine - Wink Keziah - Hard Times
Hymn #101 - Joe Pug - Nation of Heat EP

Tupelo Honey Playlist 10/6/09

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

I was digging around the new release box at the station and decided to give Danny Barnes new disc a listen.

Barnes has been doing his own unique take on the banjo/bluegrass thing for longer then I can remember. I liked some of the stuff he did when he fronted the Bad Livers, but his solo stuff, while interesting, has always left me wondering if I missed the musical portion of the show. Not so with his new release Pizza Box.

My jaw hit the floor when the first song came on and by the end of the CD my tongue was down there too. Absolutely one of the best discs of the year, every track on it is an utter joy to hear. Danny Boy, you my friend have just released one helluva CD!

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Ciao

Song - Artist - Album

5pm
Down By The River - Mac McAnally - Down By The River
Sparta, TN - Danny Barnes - Pizza Box
Tell Me Mama - Kieran Kane - Somewhere Beyond The Roses
Lodi - Jeffrey Foucault - Stripping Cane
Walk of a Gurl - Preston School of Industry - Monsoon
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan
Empire - Trampled By Turtles - Duluth
My Old Drunk Friend - Freakwater - Feels Like the Third Time
Kissing Abilene Goodbye - Jesse Dayton - Raisin' Cain
Dixie - Gill Landry - The Ballad of Lawless Soirez
New York City 23rd Of July - Toni Price - Hey
Time Of The Preacher - Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Good To Be Alive - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Speed Of Life
Singing Joy To The World - Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
Texas Lost Highway - Michael Fracasso - Red Dog Blues

6pm
Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show - O.C.M.S.
The Valley Town - Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
Inn Town - Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
Paradise - John Fogerty - The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
Joe Citizen Blues - Son Volt - Okemah and the Melody of Riot
New Tattoo - Ana Egge - Road To My Love
Bone - Danny Barnes - Pizza Box
Little Pony And The Great Big Horse - Drive-By Truckers - The Fine Print
One More Day - King Johnson - Hot Fish Laundry Mat
Frozen Car - The Hobo Nephews Of Uncle Frank - The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank
A Long, Long Time - Buddy & Julie Miller - Written In Chalk
Mother Road - Old Californio - Westering Again
Drinkin' To You - The Red Stick Ramblers - My Suitcase Is Always Packed

Tupelo Honey Playlist 9/29/09

Ah the ebb and flow that is americana music. It's amazing how many bands I play have long since disappeared. Tonight I played The Star Room Boys, a band that I thought back in 1995 was going to catapult to the forefront of this genre. One CD and poof, they're gone! However, for every dead soldier another rises to fill the shoes. I just got my hands on the debut release from the L.A. band Old Californio. Just a great new band with a recognizable sound but plenty of uniqueness. No time to whine about the death of any band when new ones like Old Californio keep popping up.

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Ciao

Song - Artist - Album

5pm
The Devil's Real - Chris Smither - Blues Live from Mountain Stage
Keep Your Hat On Jenny - Chip Taylor And Carrie Rodriguez - Red Dog Tracks
People Just Love To Talk - Delbert McClinton - Acquired Taste
From The Mouths Of Babes - Old Californio - Westering Again
Fall Down 7, Stand Up 8 - J. Scott Hinkle - Blueridge Martini
Our Town - Iris DeMent - Infamous Angel
America - Bap Kennedy - Howl On
Cajun Waltz - Tremoloco - Dulcinea
Garden Party - John Fogerty - The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
My Dog - Matt the Electrician - One Thing Right
Say - The Band Of Heathens - One Foot In The Ether
New Madrid - Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Golden Opportunity - Austin Hartley-Leonard - Franklin Ave.

6pm
Don't Take Me Home - Ben Rait - No Regrets
Well Well Well - Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
California Run - Neil Nathan - The Distance Calls
Sick of Debt - Backyard Tire Fire - Sick of Debt
Mary's Kitchen - Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher
Country Funk - Southern Culture On The Skids - Plastic Seat Sweat
Prairie Dog Town - Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers - Levitate
Sometimes You Win - Wink Keziah - Hard Times
Love Makes Me Stupid - Mumbo Gumbo - Potluck
Granddaddy - Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
Going Up The Country - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Speed Of Life
Both our Towns - The Star Room Boys - Why Do Lonely Men And Women Want To Break Each Other's Hearts?
Another Girlfriend - Rhett Miller - Rhett Miller
Christopher Street - Yarn - Empty Pockets