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September 12, 2004

Playlist - Sunday, September 5, 2004

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Started with some Western Swing and then moved into the new stuff (denoted with an *); I love Western Swing and highly recommend Rhino's Heroes of Country Music: Legends of Western Swing as a starting place (the whole series is good). Features seminal folks like Tex Williams, Hank Thompson, and Spade Cooley. My dad used to tell me the story of how Spade Cooley called his daughter, Melody, home from school so he could make her watch him stomp his wife, Ella, to death. My father always used to tell me that after Spade had kicked his wife's head in, he put out his cigarette in her face. I always wondered if this was an embellishment...

The Fly-Rite Boys - Flyin' Rite - Big Sandy presents... (Hightone)
Tennessee Ernie Ford w/Betty Hutton - This Must Be the Place - The Essential T.E.F. (Razor & Tie)
Hot Club of Cowtown - Chinatown - Continental Stomp (Hightone)
Tex Williams and His Western Caravan - Artistry in Western Swing - VA: Legends of Western Swing (Rhino)
Hank Thompson - How Cold Hearted Can You Get? - VA: Hillbilly Music, Thank God! (Capitol)
Jimmy Bryant with Speedy West - Stratosphere Boogie - VA: Hillbilly Music, Thank God! (Capitol)
Two Dollar Pistols - Runnin' With the Fools - Hands Up! (YepRoc)*
The Meat Purveyors - I'd Rather Be Your Enemy - Pain By Numbers (Bloodshot)*
The Avett Brothers - Hard Worker - Mignonette (Ramseur)*
Reeltime Travelers - Little Bird of Heaven - VA: Fresh Faces at Merlefest 2004*
Randy Howard - New Camptown Races - I Rest My Case (Sugar Hill)
Greg Parker - Get In Line Caroline - On the Break (Whitewall)*
Moot Davis - Highway Kind - Moot Davis (Little Dog Records)*
The Rizdales - I Could Tell You Lies - Bar & Lounge (Willyboy)*
Dale Watson - Honky Tonkers Don't Cry - Dreamland (Koch)*
Buddy Owens, Ray Benson, Flaco Jiminez - Think of Me - VA: Happy Birthday Buck (Texas Music Round Up)
John Doe - I Can't Hold Myself in Line - VA: Tulare Dust (Hightone)
Merle Haggard - Stay Here and Drink - dj copy
Alseep at the Wheel - Before the Last Teardrop Falls - VA: Merlefest Live*
Dave Alvin - Out of Control - Ashland (YepRoc)*
I See Hawks in L.A. - I Stayed Away - Grapevine (Western Seeds)*
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel - Wagon Wheel ep (Nettwerk)*
Mountain Heart - Heart Like a Road Sign, Head Like a Wheel - Force of Nature (Skaggs Family)*
Eddie Pennington - Walking the Strings - Walks the Strings (Smithsonian)
Randy Thompson - If That Wasn't Love - That's Not Me (Jackpot)*
The Hangdogs - She Took A Lotta Pills - Something Left to Sell (Crazyhead)
Todd Snider - Alcohol and Pills - East Nashville Skyline (Oh Boy)*
Neko Case - I'm Gonna Sink - VA: Touch My Heart - Tribute to Johnny Paycheck (SugarHill)*
Shelley Campbell - Typical Truckstop - Blue Ridge Reveille (Nettwerk)*
Brightblack - Better Days - ali.cali.tucky (galaxia)*
Dillingers - Sleepwalk - Instro-mania (Favored Nations)*

Posted by DJ Wanda at September 12, 2004 11:29 PM

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