Route 78 West

3/25/2007

Show #312 Rusted Chrome Rails

SHOW AUDIO

track artist, song-label, format

01     Charlie Brown, Mean Mean Mama-White Label, LP
02     Louvin Brothers, Satan Is Real- Capitol, CD
03     Louvin Brothers, Great Atomic Power-Mercury, LP
- break
04     Jim Crain, Spooky Village-White Label, LP
05     Cap'n Travis, Witchita Lineman (rare)
06     Jon Rauhouse, Widowmaker-Bloodshot, CD
- break --- SXSW Tow Story ---
07     Jerry Jeff Walker, London Homesick Blues (rare)
08     Jon Rauhouse, Perry Mason Theme-Bloodshot, CD
09     Red Simpson, Roll Truck Roll-Diesel, CD
10     Buffalo Springfield, Hot Dusty Roads-Atco, CD
- break
11     Danny O'Keefe, Northern California (Where the Palm Trees Meet the Pines)-Atlantic, LP
12     The Hacienda Brothers, Cowboy's to Girls-Proper, CD
- break
13     Danny O'Keefe, Looking Glass-45
14     Bruce Springsteen, Visitation At Fort Horn-CD
15     Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Reckless Burning (rare)
16     Danny O'Keefe, The Drover-Cotillion, LP
- break
17     Son Volt, Highways and Cigarettes (demo)
18     Big Bill Lister, (There's A) Tear In My Bear-Capitol, LP
19     Lefty Frizell, A King Without A Queen-78
20     Lefty Frizell, Forever And Always-78
21     Hal Lone Pine & Betty Cody, Pale Moon-Bear Family, CD
22     Fred Lowery, Indian Love Call-78
- break
23     Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, LLL (rare)
24     Traffic, John Barleycorn-LP
25     Hyakkei, Prairie- (Japanese CD from SXSW)
- break
26     The Black Angels, (rare)

Notes:

Sunday train track solitude. Unusual March warmth flows past my face as a short freight blows by on track 2. Action of various sorts crisscross the tracks. Farther away, near the woods, someone walks the tracks. I know the thrill and just wait for any sort of cold steel rusted chrome carriage. Watch the rattling noise. A few punk industrial young souls head my way. Just east the metropolis drools ideas from concrete pores. High/low fashion, corporate aggression, greasy cafes and cognac. Incognito wanderings. Electric lines connect distant minds and fuse newest of new ideas to paper and steel. Sweet power from the mental fountain. Knit your stuff to mine and sell it at the mall. Find it laying on the ground or blowing in the wind and it is yours.

Shows coming up include The Apples In Stereo April 1 at the Bluebird Theater, Son Volt/Magnolia Electric Company April 7 at the Fox Theatre, and Oakley Hall April 28 at the Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre. Way off in the future May 12 & 13 Drive-By Truckers at the Fox Theatre.

Via BNSF hope to make Denver by next broadcast. Adios.

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