Route 78 West

11/12/2006

Show #295 The Republic's Western Soul

SHOW AUDIO

track artist, song-label, format

01     The Hacienda Brothers, Six Days On The Road (rare)
02     Hi-Flyers, Honky Tonk Mama-Krazy Kat, CD (1939)
03     Bill Boyd, I Can't Tame A Wild Woman-RCA, LP (1935)
04     Hoagy Carmichael, Ginger And Spice-Sarabandas, CD (1944)
05     Hi-Flyers, Lonesome Man Blues-Krazy Kat, CD (1937)
06     Andy Parker And The Plainsmen, Across The Wide Missouri-CD
- break 10:17 am
07     Rex Allen, Son Don't Go Near The Indians-Cowboy Legends, CD
08     Bud Isaacs, Indian Love Call-Bear Family, CD
09     Lucinda Williams, Jumbalia-Folkways, CD
10     The Rolling Stones, No Expectations-CD (out-take)
11     Gob Iron, Hard Times-Transmit Sound, CD
- break 10:42 am
12     Bud Isaacs, Beautiful Mahana-Bear Family, CD
13     Speedy West, West Of Samoa-Sundazed, CD
- break 10:48 am
14     The Hacienda Brothers, Cowboys To Girls (rare)
- break 10:58 am
15     Brinsley Schwarz, Egypt-United Artists, LP (1971)
16     Magonlia Electric Company, Hold On Magnolia (rare)
17     Tom Waits, Old 55 (rare)
- break 11:14 am
18     Richmond Fontaine, Westward Ho (rare)
19     Cary Hudson, What The Old Man Told Me-Black Dog Records, CD
20     Loomer, Dirt Angel-Newtone, CD
21     Drive By Truckers, Bulldozers And Dirt-New West, CD
22     Gob Iron, Buzz And Grind-Transmit Sound, CD
- break 11:38 am
23     The Space Cossacks, The Defector-MuSick, CD
24     Friends Of Dean Martinez, Sealed With A Kiss (rare)
25     Cul De Sac, Portland Cement Factory At Monolith California-Strange Attractors, CD (1989)
- break 11:55 am
26     Red Sparowes, A Message Of Avarice Rained Down and Carried Us Away Into False Dreams
         Of Endless Riches-Neurot Recordings, CD

Notes:

Late nite mute TV, caffeine and D F chord variations trigger anxious sleep under a lite I am unable to turn off. Of course my alarm was not set. Mulled over sleeping till whenever but in a few minutes pulled my legs over the bedside and stared at the wall, more broken than operative. Not all Sundays are sweet. A quick shower, cup of oatmeal and coffee set up today's awareness as I pull the shade to see a light northern snow drive by my window. I pull the car out and head north to the Republic.

Uncle Jeff dubs the show's onset as, "A standard set of stuff." Each one a first play... hardly just typical stuff. I stumble along gathering info. I grab up "Death Song For The Living" to read the latest Jay Farrar CD cover. Before long Jeff snatched it out of my hand and Ukulele Loki cues up trak 3. Then I got comfy with an old style 70s Brinsley Schwarz LP cover till "Cowboys To Girls" beamed out like the Republic's western soul. Trapped in a music library for 2 hours a week makes it tough to realize reality.

Turned out a better Sunday than it began. Lots of new tunes and the finale, "A Message Of Avarice Rained Down and Carried Us Away Into False Dreams Of Endless Riches" beckoned us to go for green chile soup at the Rio Grande.

Back at my office finishing notes as the amp warms up. In a bit will post this dispatch and settle in to
D F chord mutations till my eyes are heavy. There's a reality out there, but today I wasn't in it.

Gob Iron will perform December 6 at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado.

Stay tuned.

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