Route 78 West 10/9/2005 back
Show #239 Only One Channel AUDIO UNAVAILABLE
 track  artist, song-label, format
 

01     R.D. Hedron's Western Jamboree Cowboys, Little Spanish Fireball-White Label, LP
02     Merle Haggard, Piedras Negras-Bear Family, CD
03     Richard Prine & His All-Stars, Boppin' The Mop-White Label, LP
04     Pee Wee King, Slow Poke-Bloodshot, CD
05     Bill Boyd, Monterey Polka-Bronco Polka, CD (1937)
- break 10:14 am
06     Lester Woytek's Melody Cowhands, Freeport Blues-White Label, LP
07     Lucky White & His Band, Flor, Lard, Coffee, Sugar-White Label, LP
08     Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers, Oh Mona-Flying Fish Records, LP
- break 10:26 am
09     Jimmie Short & His Silver Saddle Ranch Hands, Your Big Beaver-White Label, LP
10     Hank Williams, Kaw-Liga-Bear Family, CD
11     Tommy Scott, Cherokee Rose-White Label, LP
- break 10:38 am
12     Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers, Lovesick Blues (1928)
13     Pee Wee King, I Need Alot Of Loving
14     Al Dexter, Kokomo Island
15     Ernst Tubb, Hillbilly Fever-Proper, CD
- break 10:52 am
16     Carey Swinney, A Hero On A Square-Johnson Grass Publishing, CD
17     Bonanza Theme-TeeVee Toons, LP
18     The Old Joe Clarks, Haven't Got Forever-Indigo, CD
19     Green on Red, Honest Man-PolyGram, LP (No Free Lunch, 1985)
- break 11:07 am
20     Drive By Truckers, Like A Rolling Stone-Uncut, CD
21     Bob Dylan, Visions Of Johanna-Sony, CD
23     Paul Westerberg, It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry-Uncut, CD
22     Woody Guthrie, Wiggledy Giggledy-Smithsonian, CD
- break 11:29 am
23     Sophia, So Slow-45
24     Green on Red, Funny How Time Slips Away-PolyGram, LP
25     Neil Young, The Painter-Reprise, CD
26     Iron & Wine, Sodom South Georgia
27     Tom Rush, Rockport Sunday-Elektra, LP
- break 11:52 am
28     Son Volt, Flow-Warner, CD
29     The Hombres, Let It All Hang Out-Verve, 45
Notes: By 9 a.m. light rain was falling. Sort of slow motion. I found it relaxing. By the time the show began that would change. The station was sort of a wreak due to the aftermath of last week's pledge drive. The lights were on so I assume the goal was reached.

"These phones are nice and loud, but I only have one channel."

Uncle Jeff makes like a windmill with headphones. He demands an equipment check. I lean back and laugh... overcome by behind-the-scene shenanigans. I see Ukulele Loki's laughing eyes as he begins to troubleshoot the situation. The more he laughs the more I laugh. I don't think Jeff is amused, but he concedes.

"Same... all the same. Oh well, lets go with one channel."

By this time I'm grooving on jittery accordion and tap-piano of the Monterey Polka. A nice tune, but not as hot as Jimmie Short's, "Your Big Beaver," Could you believe that hot fiddle and beat in a western revamp of an old jazz standard? Man, I like that!

You might of thought Tommy Scott's, "Cherokee Rose" started out with a train wreck, but that's how it plays. Then the original, jazzy 1928 version of Irving Mills and Cliff Friend's, "Lovesick Blues." sung by Emmett Miller. A little history lesson for us all.

The show headed toward the never neutral territory of a Bob Dylaness set. Endless behind the scenes bantering. Brutal. Sophia set the tone for the balance of this show to mirror the outside weather.

Post Show caffeine and burger fix at the Mountain Sun on Pearl.

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