Route 78 West Sunday 2/2/2003 back
Show #101 Skip Pop 78 audio unavailable
 track  artist, song-label, format
  01     Willie Nelson, I Gotta Get Drunk-Sugar Hill, CD
02     Bob Wills, Carolina In The Morning-Proper Records, CD
03     Don Walser, Big Ball In Cowtown
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04     Jimmy Martin, Widowmaker-Koch, CD
05     John Prine, You're Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore-Atlantic, 33 Lp
06     Ry Cooder, Rally Around The Flag-Reprise, 33 Lp
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07     Rolling Stones, No Expectations-London, 33 Lp
08     Rolling Stones, Dear Doctor-Eva, 33 Lp
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09     Johnny Barfield, Boogie Woogie-Proper Records, CD
10     Village Boys, Boogie Woogie In The Village-Proper Records, CD
11     Johnny Cash, Come In Stranger-Varèse Sarabande, CD
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12     Uncle Tupelo, Whiskey Bottle-Legacy, CD
13     Calexico, Across The Wire-Our Son Our Strength, CD
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14     Volebeats, Maggot Brain-Bloodshot, CD
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15     Ennio Morricone, Carambola Main Title-Drg, CD
16     Multicast, A-Minor
17     Nilsson Schmilsson, The Moonbeam Song-RCA Records, CD
18     Roy Willing, Sometime-Cowgirlboy Records, 33 Lp
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19     Bob Wills, Liebestraum-Columbia, 33 Lp
20     Bob Wills, The Waltz You Saved For Me-Proper Records, CD
21     Hardrock Gunter, Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night-Proper, CD
22     Jerry Irby & His Texas Ranchers, Hillbilly Boogie-Proper Records, CD
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23     Bill Haley and The Saddlemen, Green Tree Boogie-Proper Records, CD
24     Arlen Sanders, Hopped Up Mustang
25     Don Walser, Hot Rod Mercury
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26     The Riptones, Big Timber-Bloodshot, CD
27     Death Valley, Lammie Don't Surf-Linguini Records, CD
28     Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Crazy Rhythm-Kaleidoscope Records, 33 Lp
29     Ray Price, I Made A Mistake I'm Sorry
30     Bob Wills, Texas Blues
31     Hank Thompson, Rub-A-Dub-Dub-Bloodshot, CD
32     Flaming Lips, Somewhere Over The Rainbow-Select, CD
Notes: Tonight's show, inspired by this morning's Skip Pop Scratch Alt-Country crossover, set the stage for a meeting of the minds. Loki, Uncle Jeff and guest Danny abused the breaks with impromptu stories and educational soap boxing.

The show began with Willie Nelson's, "I Gotta Get Drunk", due out this Tuesday. A Bob Walser trak was followed by Danny's inside scoop. It seems that upon Don Walser's retirement from the Texas National Guard he wanted to make his first record. He had been performing since he was 21 years old and now at 65 Walser was signed by Watermelon Records, Austin Texas. Ray Benson, from Asleep At The Wheel, produced the album and it got NPR exposure resulting in over 10,000 copies sold. He has put out 6 records since then and is a success story. Thanks to Peter for the CD's he sent of Don Walser.

The second set including "Widowmaker" by Jimmy Martin led to the bluesy "Dear Doctor" and "No Expectations" by The Rolling Stones. Danny told of his recent "Stones" photo op, which included a quick hand shake with the still fierce foursome.

Loki then steered the show toward Boogie Woogie with a tune by Johnny Barfield from Proper Record's Hillbilly Box Set. Initially Boogie Woogie got started in the rural Black barrel houses, and then moved north from Louisiana to Texas where it somehow fused with the whole country sound and influenced the development of Rock and Roll.

Dashes of Johnny Cash, Uncle Tupelo's anthology remix and Calexico newest CD preceded Route 78 West's traditional venture to spaghetti-ville.

Loki further proved that Boogie Woogie came from Black Rural music by playing "Green Tree Boogie" In Jeff's head the Hot Rod sound was also related and the instrumental cut "Big Timber" by the Riptones' was a perfect example of hillbilly influenced surf beat.

This show went all over the map and at times got close to the ditch, but still provided balance in dialogue and audio genre.

Hope you make it to the concert of the year... Steve Earle at the Boulder Theater, February 4th.
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