Route 78 West Sunday 10/12/2003 back
Show #137 Grandpa audio unavailable
 track  artist, song-label, format
  01     Hank Williams, Honky Tonkin'-Proper, CD
02     Enrst Tubb, When You Take Your Vacation With Me-Proper, CD
03     Porter Wagner, Big Wheels-Bear Family, CD
- break 5:08 pm
04     Wanda Jackson, Tunnel Of Love-Capitol, CD
05     Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys, You've Got Some Cheating To Do-Bloodshot, CD
06     Dallas Wayne, Textosterone
- break 5:16 pm
07     Carl Smith, Do I Like It
08     Lefty Frizzell, My Old Pal
09     Ernst Tubb, Help Me Find The Distant Shore
10     Santo & Johnny, In The Still Of The Night-Black Tulip, CD
11     Bells Of Joy, I'll Work Lord
12     Skip James, Skip's Worried Blues-Biograph Records, CD
- break 5:34 pm
13     Foy Willing & The Riders Of The Purple Sage, Texas Blues-Binge, CD
14     Paul Howard & His Arkansas Cotton Pickers, Texas Boogie-Westside, CD
15     Foy Willing & The Riders Of The Purple Sage, Where The Mountains Meet The Sky-Binge, CD
- break 5:44 pm
16     Neil Young, Sail Away (1977)
17     Neil Young, The Old Country Waltz-Reprise, 33 Lp
18     Neil Young, Bandit
- break 6:00 pm
19     Johnny Fortune, Lone Surfer-AVI, CD
20     Multicast, Green Sequence
21     Johnny Fortune, Sunset-AVI, CD
- break 6:13 pm
22     Johnny Barakat & The Vestells, Surf Riders In The Sky, Sunset-AVI, CD
23     Richmond Fontaine, Barely Losing-El Cortez, CD (November 2003 release)
- break 6:21 pm
24     Neil Young, Comes A Time (1977)
25     Drive By Truckers, My Sweet Annette
26     Santo & Johnny, Crying In The Chapel-Black Tulip, CD
27     Wanda Jackson, You Don't Know Baby-Capitol,, CD
- break 6:35 pm
26     Drive By Truckers, Three Great Alabama Icons
27     Neil Young, Grandpa's Interview
Notes: This show seemed monotonous at the time, but as I listened to the recording it took on a whole different feel. The play selection was a great musical blend of Route 78 West's conscious and if you were listening I bet you ended up reminsing in your head while relaxing in your favorite chair. Music and Indian Summer can do that to a person. I'll Work Lord backed by Skip's Worried Blues was literally music to my ears. The first, A religious song with a working beat, reminded me of railroad work crews straightening the rails with heavy steel bars. If it was such hard dangerous job why were they singing? My guess is to take their minds off the pain and at the same time pray for something better. Another reason might have been that they didn't know how to sing the blues yet... like Skip James. Anyway, those two songs made the show as far as I was concerned.

I also enjoyed The Neil Young traks, especially the live version of Bandit. I am amazed by the non-excitment of NY's Greendale CD. This album is a great modern composition with roots in blues and early rock. It got zero media reaction, but I predict that will change in the future. Sometimes greatness is only realized in retrospect.

A November release of Richmond Fontaine's Post And Wire is rumored to be accompanied by an article in No Depression. Greg Brown will be playing at the Boulder Theater Friday, December 5, 8pm.
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