Route 78 West Sunday 2/9/2003 back
Show #102 Paralyzed by Emptiness audio unavailable
 track  artist, song-label, format
  01     Jim Eanes and the Shenandoah Valley Boys, Don't Hand Me That Stuff
         Bear Family Records, CD
02     Porter Wagner, Trying To Forget The Blues-Bear Family Records, CD
03     Bob Wills, Bubbles In My Beer-Mercury, CD
- break
04     Johnny Barfield, Boogie Woogie-Proper Records, CD
05     Turner Brothers (Red & Lige), Boog-Boog-Boogie-Proper Records, CD
06     Big Jeff & the Radio Playboys, Juke Box Boogie-Proper Records, CD
07     Onie Wheeler, Jump Right Out of This Jukebox-Bear Family Records, CD
- break
08     Banana and the Bunch, Interlude, Warner Brothers, 33 Lp
09     Comfortably Numb, Luther Wright & the Wrongs
10     Calexico, Not Even Stevie Nicks
11     Steve Earle, Come Back Woody Guthrie
12     Woody Guthrie, Ludlow Massacre-Folkways, CD
13     Sopwith Camel, Dancin' Wizard-Reprise Records, 33 Lp
- break
14     Skip James, Special Rider Blues-Yazoo, CD
15     Steve Earle, Transcendental Blues
16     Loose Fur, Laminated Cat-Drag City, CD
- break
17     Sella D'Argento, M34-Drg, CD
18     Calexico, Close Behind
19     Freddy Fender, Before The Next Teardrop Falls-Edsel Recording, CD
20     Jackson Browne, Come All You Fair & Tender Women
21     Jackson Browne, Take It Easy
22     Songs:Ohia, Blue Factory Flame-Secretly Canada, CD
- break
23     Amalgamated Sons of Rest, My Donal-Galaxie, CD
24     Bonnie Raitt, Under The Falling Sky
- break
25     Kelley Willis, Easy
26     The Flaming Lips, Waiting For Superman
27     Richard Buckner, I Know What I Know
- break
28     Youngbloods, Everybody Get Together-RCA, 45 Rpm
29      The Chamber Brothers, Time Has Come Today-Columbia, 45 Rpm
Notes: For reasons not worth mentioning a funky, freaky blue cloud hung over the studio. It was one of those slow motion days when you never quite get out of the haze. The music selection set the mood for an unsettled, overcast audio forecast. Sort of like staring out the window on an autumn evening watching raindrops hit the glass. It's times like this that we are reduced to talking with ourselves and asking tough questions that cannot be answered.

The first half of the show explored moody country sagas, boogie woogie, dismal historical interludes, and the psychedelic 60's. Thank god for the 60's. Long sets inspired the already somber mood.

Reference to the recent Steve Earle show prompted an obscure version of "Transcendental Blues" and "Come Back Woody Guthrie". Listener calls indicated acceptance of the show's soothing state of mind. My head grew numb as the music recreated memories from times gone by. Dèjá Vu overload is not easily disguised and requires immediate attention to avoid permanent gray matter damage. It's not a death spiral, but rather a low slow flight "Under The Falling Sky".

At times you might of thought you were passed out, having a bad dream, on the floor of an old Honky Tonk... but hey, there ain't no "Waiting For Superman" on the jukebox! Just where the hell am I anyway? Reality check... it's Sunday night and I'm in my favorite recliner listening to Loki and Uncle Jeff on the AM Revolution, where the unexpected is more or less expected.

Jeeze, I hope them boys are gonna be ok.
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