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| 01 Red Simpson, Truck
Driving Man-EMI, CD 02 Buck Owens, Santa Looked A lot Like Daddy-Rhino, LP 03 Old 97's, Victoria, CD 04 Hank Williams III, Broke, Lovesick & Driftin'-Curb Records, CD 05 Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers, Barn Dance Rag-LP (1935) 06 Flatlanders, I thought the Wreck Was Over-New West Records, CD 07 Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys, Mother of a Member of the Band-Bloodshot, CD 08 Junior Brown, Tarbucket Dan 09 Dallas Wayne, If That's Country (w/Halden Wofford & the High Beams) 10 Porter Wagner, How Quick-CLPM, 33Lp (1951) 11 Richmond Fontaine, Don't Go Back There (deemed Soul Country, coined right now and you heard it first) 12 Richard Buckner, Loaded at the Wrong Door (acoustic demo version) 13 Paul Westerberg, Let the Bad Times Roll-Vagrant, CD 14 The Sons of the Pioneers, Riders in the Sky-Bear Family Records, LP 15 Dale Watson, Loose Nut Behind the Wheel-Koch, CD 16 I Lunghi Girni Della Vendetta, A. Trovaioli-EMI, CD (english translation, Days of Vengeance) 17 Calexico, El Picador 18 Los Strait Jackets, God Rest You Merry Gentlemen-Yep Roc Records, CD 19 Brinsley Schwartz, Rocking Chair 20 Commander Cody, Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas (1973) 21 Bruce Springsteen, Circus Song-Great Dane Records-CD (Italian Release) 22 Iron and Wine, Bird Stealing Bread-Sub Pop, CD (Originally recorded for his friends and with a little editing was released) 23 Richard Buckner, ...& The Clouds've Lied-Over Coat Recordings, CD 24 Ryan Adams, Tomorrow-Lost Highway, CD 25 Gillian Welch, Miner's Refrain 26 David Rawlings, Dark As A Dungeon 27 Sons of the Pioneers, When You and I Were Young Maggie Bear Family Records, LP 28 Porter Wagner, What Would You Do?-CLPM, LP 29 Steve Earle, John Walker Blues,-Artemis Records, CD 30 Richmond Fontaine, Western Skyline |
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| Notes: | My late afternoon drive
along Highway 93 to Boulder was a reflected sky cruise through the make-believe
landscape. I was feeling calm and clear as I walked down to the studio.
Loki and Jeff were already preparing for the show. The first set started off with Red Simpson and then quickly took on some Christmas flare courtesy of Buck Owens. Loki insisted that Uncle Jeff might be a "bah-hum-bugger", but how could that be considering that Jeff looks a lot like Santa? Somehow Loki got started on the circus sideshow human oddity stuff and Uncle Jeff conceded to play Springsteen's Circus Song to calm him down. Uncle Jeff lamented that one of the best shows he had seen this past year was The Flatlanders & Richmond Fontaine... just more proof that old folks still got it. He and Loki heard that Rex Hobart was great at the Lion's Lair (depressing and dingy in a good way), plus they have PBR on tap. One drawback though, shows start just a little to late for "us guys who work". Conversation regarding vocals went back and forth... "Junior is smooth, Dallas is gritty..." Loki reined Jeff in when needed. Tarbucket Dan by Junior Brown is a tune about the road crew guys you see when you're flying by at 65 mph with a bucket of tar lookin' for cracks to patch. Jeff talked of how Bill Boyd (1935) was instrumental in developing the origins of the western swing sound. You can hear this sound locally at the Denver Barn Dance on December 20th. Tonight it was Route 78 West's turn to gain a little fame. Bronson Hilliard of the Colorado Daily was in the studio interviewing Loki and Uncle Jeff for a future story. Between sets Bronson and the boys settled down into conversing music... all smiles, you would have thought they were tipping a beer at Tom's, but it happened in the studio. It goes like this, Bronson was working at the Colorado Daily office one Sunday evening and couldn't find a darn thing to listen to on the radio. He did a slow search of the dial and was surprised to find a station (Kvcu) playing country music. Each Sunday he made it a point to listen to Route 78 West and enjoyed the show so much that he set up an interview. Bronson fit right in as Loki and Jeff wailed music jargon and even added a story about Porter Wagner and Dolly doing a TV ad for breeze detergent, even remembering the towel give-a-way. Bronson asked how long it took Uncle Jeff to grow THAT beard... well ah, about 3 months... You know it's sort of a civil war era look? Yep! Loki and Jeff insist that one focus of the show is to relate different types of music and that can only be done by going outside the genre. This accounts for the broad span of music heard on Route 78 West and is a key difference between commercial country radio and what you get here. As the show came to an end it was clear that all had a rejuvenating evening listening and reminiscing country music. The Colorado Daily Story is scheduled to come out the week of Jan 13th in the Welcome Back Issue. Stay tuned for further information. Post show was at Tom's Tavern burger heaven. Bronson, thanks for dinner! |
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