Route 78 West Sunday 12/8/2002 back
Show #93 TEXtosterone audio unavailable
 track  artist, song-label, format
  01     Dallas Wayne, If That's Country (our new theme song)
02     Del Reeves, Girl on the Billboard-Deluxe, CD
03     Dale Watson, Good Luck 'N' Good Truckin' Tonight-Koch, CD
04     Buddy Miller, Midnight and Lonesome
05     Halden Wofford and the High Beams, Mansion on the Hill-CD
06     Slaid Cleaves, Horseshoe Lounge-CD
07     Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys, Here Comes Nothing-Bloodshot, CD
08     Porter Wagner, How Quick-CLPM, LP
09     Webb Pierce, Drifting Texas Sandsplay
10     Robbie Faulks, Cocktails-Bloodshot CD
11     Porter Wagner, What Would You Do?-CLPM, LP
12     Stanley Brothers, Visions of Mother-Columbia, CD
13     Sons of the Pioneers, You Must Come in At The Door-Columbia, LP
14     Hoagy Carmichael, Honky Tonk Blues
15     Jackson Browne, Mohammed's Radio-Toasted Records, LP
16     Brinsley Schwarz, Egypt-United Artists, LP
17     Gene Autry, Deep In The Heart Of Texas-Columbia, LP
18     Hank Thompson, My Old Flame-Capitol/EMI, LP
19     Dallas Wayne, I'm You're Biggest Fan
20     Jack Ingram, Dallas-CD
21     Steve Earle, The Kind-Artemis Records, CD
22     La Cueva from Two Mules For Sister Sara (1970) Ennio Morriconi-Kapp, LP
23     The Lively Ones, Paradise Cove-CD
24     The Future Sound of London, Go Tell It to The Trees Egghead-Hypnotic Records, CD
25     Green on Red, Brave Generation-Slash Records, LP
26     Richmond Fontaine, Twyla-El Cortez Records-CD
27     Richard Buckner, Count Me in On This One-Overcoat Recordings, CD
28     Dallas Wayne, Textosterone
29     Luther Wright & the Wrongs, Mother Do You Think They'll Drop the Bomb-CD
30     Lucius Terwilliger, Floyd Pink's Dry Ice Barn-Mr. Random Enterprises, CD
31     Galaxie 500, Ceremony-Ryko, CD
Notes: Loki arrived for the show at exactly 5pm... he entered the studio, set his uke down and slid into the chair behind the boards. Uncle Jeff had the first tune in the CD player which Loki cued up and faded in perfectly. It was the beginning of Route 78 West's best show to date.

The first set of songs were hard-core country influenced by the Dallas Wayne concert at the Mercury Café the previous night. Dallas Wayne's vocals are similar to Ernest Tubb or Junior Brown with intimidating lyrics like, "Lazer beams from those navel rings" or "It might be rock... it might be shlock". The Wayne Dallas show was presented by Denver Barn Dance and Loki sent out a big thank you to Marty Jones. Loki and Uncle Jeff reviewed some up-coming shows in the Denver/Boulder area and encouraged everyone to support the local music scene.

As the music broadcasts Loki and Uncle Jeff engage in friendly bantering about which tune to play next. Piles of Uncle Jeff's CD's and records are close by, ready to be played, as Loki grills Uncle Jeff about how a tune will relate to the overall flow of the radio show. At times spur-of-the-moment reflection congers up a title which must be found in 1190's library of music. As the show continues I am amazed at the musical recall of these two guys. While listening to the live broadcast you may believe the show has been painstakingly scripted, but the fact is that the music these guys play is engrained in their minds... like sentences in an encyclopedia.

As the show wound through the last thirty minutes the true genius of the song sequence was realized. Uncle Jeff comments that the Green & Red (1985) and Richmond Fontaine songs are somehow related, even though separated by almost 20 years. I see a gleam of pure joy as Jeff backs up his claim. To bad it's only radio... stuff like this requires video.

No Post show activities. We all disappeared into the night back to our real lives.
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