Route 78 West Sunday 11/17/2002 back
Show #90 Whiskey, Cigars, Plastics & Neon audio unavailable
 track  artist, song-label, format
  01     Bobby Vinton, Blue Velvet-CD
02     Richard Buckner, Hoping Wishers Never Loose-Overcoat Recordings, CD
03     Red Simpson, Truck Drivin' Fool-EMI, CD
04     Richmond Fontaine, Out of State-El Cortez Records, CD
05     Jay Farrar, Station to Station-Artemis Records, CD
06     Johnny Cash, I Still Miss Someone, 33 Lp
07     Neil Young, Wondering
08     Bob Dylan, The Final Theme
09     Slim Whitman, When You Hear Me Calling, 78Rpm
10     The Replacements, Cool Water
11     Old 97's, Big Brown Eyes-Bloodshot, CD 1995
12     Richard Buckner, Jewelbomb
13     Lefty Frizzell, Saginaw Michigan-Bear Family Records, CD
14     Merle Haggard, If I could Only Fly-Anti, CD
15     Scud Mountain Boys, Half Way, 45 Rpm
16     Built to Spill, I Would Hurt A Fly-Warner, CD (sorta indie rock)
17     Steve Earle, The Kind-Artemis Records, CD
18     John Zorn, Doing The Big Gundown by Ennio Morricone-Nonesuch-CD
19     Calexico, Glowing Heart of the World-Self Released 1998
20     The Nogoodniks, Los Desapara Cidos-Demo
21     The Handsome Family, Stupid Bells-Self Released CD
22     Los Straitjackets-God Rest You Merry Gentleman-Yep Roc Records, CD
23     Crix Madine, Crix 12 (sci-fi western, just burned today)
24     Sophia, So Slow, 45rpm (Stones, Burrito Brothers, "boot gazer")
25     Sparklehorse, Sea of Teeth-Capitol Records, CD
26     Bruce Springsteen, Circus Song-Great Dane Records-CD (Italian Release)
27     Anton Karas, Third Man Theme, plus mysterious blues-78 Rpm (1949, Zorba the Greek sound)
28     Bill Frisell, Col, Cold, Heart-Nonesuch Records, CD
29     Uncle Tupelo, Weary Blues
30     Richard Buckner, Twenty-Two
Notes: The show started off with minor technical difficulties probably due to an early dinner of whiskey, cigars, plastics and neon. Your home for musical cross pollination, Route 78 West, is requesting ideas ie, the, "underground exchange program" taking place between Denver, Portland and Eugene... what's with that?

The NY song, Wondering, is a classic released in a long ago, far-away galaxy. The Old 97's track prompted the remark, "Art punks turned into real punks and at one time were important on the radio. Even pronto punks can get their country roots down". Well, profound thoughts just happen, right?

Uncle Jeff commented that Austin is a REAL music town. Boulder has good music, but none of the musicians want to live here.

"Frank" from Denver stopped by the 1190 studio and brought some CD's that had Uncle Jeff's eyes bulging out of his head. Believe me, this does not happen often. Especially impressive was Calexico and John Zorn. After playing Built to Spill (hits the spot sometimes!) Steve Earle brought the show back on track. Our traditional spaghetti western was by John Zorn (1971) and may well have been the only time ever played on the radio. Frank took some razzing as a result of the Zorn out-takes. The JZ art jazz can be interesting, so we let it slide and if you like it check out Naked City. After that a Spanish theme continued for a few cuts.

The show wound down with a Spanish guitar fusion by Crix Mandine, then into a hard-to-find Italian release of the Circus Song by Bruce Springsteen, which Loki thought to be the best song he'd ever heard. Yep, some music from Uncle Jeff's childhood... the good old days.

Post show... more whiskey, cigars, plastics and neon... somewhere in the Sunday night Boulderscape.
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