Route 78 West 8/26/2007 back
Show #333 Neon Signs, Diners, Dead Ends
SHOW AUDIO  Mp3
 

 

 
 track  artist, song-label, format
 

01     Roy Acuff, Great Speckled Bird-Proper, CD (1937)
02     Kitty Wells, It wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angles-Bear Family-CD
03     Jimmie Widner, You Can Stay At Home-Westside, CD
04     Hank Thompson, Wild Side of Life-Bear Family Records, CD
05     Roy Acuff, Honky Tonkin' Mamas-Proper, CD
- break 10:18 am
06     Billy Murray, In My Merry Oldsmobile-Columbia, Wax Cylinder (1910)
07     W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys, Don't Let The Deal Go Down-Old Timey, LP
08     Louise Masse & His Westners, Ye Olde Rye Waltz-Vocallion, 78
- break 10:27 am
09     Edward Favor, Fol The Rol Lol-Edison, Wax Cylinder (1905)
10     Foy Willing & The Riders Of The Purple Sage, Riding Down That Old Texas Trail-Binge, Cattle Compact-CD (215)
11     The Delmore Brothers, I'll Be There-Starday/King Records, LP (KS1090)
12     Santo & Johnny, Come September-Black Tulip, CD
13     The Delmore Brothers, Pan-American Boogie-Starday/King Records, LP
14     Roy Acuff, Freight Train Blues-Proper, CD
- break 10:48 am
15     Tiny Hill And The Cactus Cutups, Behind The Eight Ball-Mercury, 78 Rpm
16     Red Simpson, Highway Patrol-Razor & Tie, CD
17     Lonesome Brothers, Church Of Nicotine-Spirithouse, CD
18     Scud Mountain Boys, In A Ditch-Bony Gap, CD (1966)
19     Frank Smith, Put Up Some Curtains-Ye Olde Records, CD (new)
20     Captain Travis, Wichita Lineman (rare)
- break 11:12 am
21     Kevin Deal, What Am I Fighting For-Blind Nello, CD
22     Richmond Fontaine, Four Walls-El Cortez, CD
23     Magnolia Electric Co, Memphis Moon (rare)
- break 11:29 am
24     The Moe Greene Specials, Buicks OTM, CD (advance demo)
25     Charlie Ryan, Hot Rod Hades
26     Manuel & The Renegades, Surf Walk-Romulan, LP
- break 11:45 am
27     Kevin Deal, Texas Beer-Blind Nello, CD
28     The Blind Robbins, Famous Non-Belivers-Rolling Blackout, CD (new)
- break 11:57 am
29     Songs:Ohia, Hold On Magnolia-CD (Jason Molina, Magnolia Electric Co)
Notes: Another road trip through the Americana psyche searching out the feral children of Hank Williams, Kitty Wells and Ennio Morricone. Bring up the volume slowly, wait a half second, switch on the turntable and feel the sound's weight and follow the lyric. New laws make old things go away, but vintage music thrives on Route 78 West. The dusty old tunes give birth to fresh audio. Acoustic riffs drifting out of limping tour van windows in the night on a Denver to Seattle nonstop. I wanna know the exit number where that song first spilled over a hayfield and entered the atmosphere. Give me the details of a headache reprieving greasy eggs'n coffee served by a luscious Wyoming waitress dot on the map neon diner. She can't wait to escape to Missoula. What I need is more musical novels devised in dirty white culdesac shacks and urban bungalow basements. I hear the click-it-tee-clack 60 mph freight train percussion dream circulate with my swirling creek-side sleep and wonder how it found me.

You are tuned to 1190 on the AM dial. If you read this far then it's the right place for you. Route 78 West is an alternative to the alternative broadcasting in a format-less format. We are a fluid outfit, inquisitive about the effect of roots music on the creation of future sound. You can easily spot us in dank clubs edging the stage and slugging down with the youngsters.

Todays hot trak was Freight Train Blues by Roy Acuff. My playlist as of today is Big Business, Shellac and Frank Smith.

Ukulele Loki's Gadabout Orchestra August 27th at the Fox. Magnolia Electric Co August 28th at the Bluebird. The Apples In Stereo at the Bluebird on August 31st. Jesse Sykes October 18th at the Fox and October 19th at the Larimer Lounge. DeVotchKa will perform with the Yard Dogs Road Show October 27th at the Fillmore.
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