#51: Water Works

Playlist for Sunday August 30, 2009
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Stacey Hare

LISTEN

1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. Take Me To The Water - Nina Simone
3. Bring A Little Water Sylvie - Leadbelly
4. Too Much Water - George Jones

5. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Roscoe Holcomb
6. Backwater Blues - Uncle Dave Macon
7. Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson

8. Cool Water - The Sons Of The Pioneers
9. Ice Water - Glenn Barber
10. Fire Water - Rufus Gore
11. Muddy Water - The Cats & The Fiddle

12. Pouring Water On A Drowning Man - James Carr
13. Papas Got Your Bath Water On - Memphis Jug Band
14. Don't Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater - The Backstabbers
15. You Don't Miss Your Water - The Byrds

16. Just A Wave - Jimmie Dale Gilmore

#50: Since She Started To Ride - Songs About Horses

Playlist for Sunday August 23, 2009
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Emily Jardine

LISTEN

1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. All The Tired Horses - Bob Dylan
The lead track from Bob Dylan's Self Portrait album and the only fresh original song on a double album of, ironically given the title, mostly cover songs. That irony is perhaps deepened by the fact that Dylan doesn't even sing on this track (and may not even play on it) - instead leaving it for a chorus of female voices and string section. "All the tired horses in the sun/how am I gonna get any riding [writing?] done".

3. My Rifle, My Pony And Me - Dean Martin & Ricky Neslon (intro by John Wayne)
Recorded live on set! From the soundtrack of the film Rio Bravo.

4. Since She Started To Ride - Jonathan Richman
5. High Horse Momma - Terry Allen

6. Flop-Eared Mule - The Holy Modal Rounders
7. The Horse Named Bill - Carl Sandburg
8. The Horsetrader's Song - Jimmy Driftwood

9. Molly And Tenbrooks (The Racehorse Song) - Bill Monroe
10. The Pale Horse & His Rider - Hank Williams
11. Horses - Slaid Cleaves

12. My Old Horse Died - Dock Boggs
13. Don't Ride That Horse - Old Crow Medicine Show
14. Wild Horses - The Flying Burrito Brothers

15. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - The Del McCoury Band

#49: BIG Ten-Inch Records

Playlist for Sunday August 16, 2009
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Darryl Stevenson

Listen

1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. BIG Time Woman - Leon Redbone
3. BIG BIG Love - K.D. Lang
4. BIG Bad John - Jimmy Dean
5. BIG Joe Mufferaw - Stompin' Tom Connors

6. My BIG Toe - Randy Sutherland
7. BIG O' Me - Al Tuck
8. BIG Group Breakfast - Old Man Luedecke

9. BIG Iron Skillet - Wanda Jackson
10. I Got Four BIG Brothers (To Look After Me) - The Maddox Brothers & Rose
11. BIG Family Trouble - Skeets McDonald

12. BIG Ten-Inch Records - Moose Jackson with Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra
13. Tain't BIG Enough - Buffalo Johnson
14. BIG Long Slidin' Thing - Dinah Washington

15. BIG Game Hunter - Buck Owens
16. BIG Blue Balloon - John Hartford

17. World's BIGGEST Whopper - Jr. Samples

#48: In Your Dreams

Playlist for Sunday August 9, 2009
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Mary Grebenc

Listen

1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. Janine's Dream - The Holy Modal Rounders
3. Dream Band Boogie - Hank Harral & His Palomino Cowboys
4. Country Boy's Dream - Carl Perkins

5. Trail Dreamin' - The Sons Of The Pioneers
6. Dreaming Of My Blue Eyes - Wilf Carter
7. Kentucky Is Only A Dream - Red Belcher
8. Death Is Only A Dream - The Stanley Brothers

9. I Watched My Dream World Crumble Like Clay - Hank Williams
10. Oh, What A Dream - Johnny Cash
11. Man Of Your Dreams - Luther Wright

12. Daydreamin' - Bud Deckelman With The Daydreamers
13. Daydreaming Of You - The Silver Hearts
14. Daydreams Come True - Buddy Bain, Kay Wayne, Merle Taylor With The Hayriders

15. When I Stop Dreaming - The Louvin Brothers
16. I've Stopped My Dreaming About You - Rose & The Maddox Brothers

17. In My Dream - Al Tuck & No Action

#47: From The Beginning To The End

Playlist for Sunday August 2, 2009
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Lindsay (No Show) Roe

Listen

1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. In The Beginning - Old Man Luedecke
3. I'll See You In The Spring When The Birds Begin To Sing - Memphis Jug Band
4. That's When Your Heartaches Begin - Billy Bunn & His Buddies

5. In The Middle Of A Heartache - Wanda Jackson
6. With A Vamp In The Middle - John Hartford
7. In The Middle Of Nowhere - The Louvin Brothers
8. Middle Of Nowhere - The Cracker Cats

9. Endless Grey Ribbon - The Corn Sisters
10. Endless Stream Of Tears - Dolly Parton
11. One Endless Night - Jimmie Dale Gilmore

12. Forever Is Ending Today - Ernest Tubb
13. Till The End Of The World Rolls Around - Flatt & Scruggs
14. End Of The Line - The Hot Club Of Cowtown
15. At The End - Leon Morris & Buzz Busby

16. End Of The Night - Washboard Hank & The Country Squires

#46: Walking On The Moon

Playlist for Sunday July 26, 2009
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Jocelyn Maurice

Songs about The Moon, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong first setting foot on The Moon - July 21, 1969.

Listen

1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. Meet Me By The Moonlight, Alone - The Carter Family
3. Shine On Harvest Moon - Vernon Dalhart & Carson Robison
4. Spoonin' Moon - Merle Travis & Judy Hayden
5. Griselda - The Holy Modal Rounders

6. Blue Moon Of Kentucky - The Stanley Brothers
7. Crazy Moon - Jimmy Work
8. My Swiss Moonlight Lullaby - Montana Slim (Wilf Carter)
9. Under A Texas Moon - King Nawahi Hawaiians

10. Howlin' At The Moon - Hank Williams
11. The Werewolf - Peter Stampfel

12. Midnight To Moonlight - Rosie Flores
13. Shoot Me To The Moon - Dan Reeder
14. RC Cola And Moon Pie - Big Bill Lister
15. How High The Moon - Slim Gaillard

16. Walking On The Moon - Lucia Pamela
From Lucia Pamela's 1969 album 'Into Outer Space', which she claims to have actually recorded in the year 2000 (with the aid of time travel) on the moon. "The air is so thin everything sounds different up there," claimed the former Miss St Louis 1926. Lucia plays all the instruments herself here, slighty out of time. According to the Into Outer Space website, "Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela is the sound of a ragtime band lost in another galaxy, hopelessly whacked out on alien hallucinogens, desperately trying to pull together history's strangest concept album". There's even a colouring book made by Lucia Pamela as an account of her visit to the moon, replete with smoking dogs, nut people, ice-skating (on the dark side of the moon), and an Indian wedding! The moon had perhaps changed a lot by the time Neil Armstrong set his foot down there later in the year, or perhaps it was the time travel that accounts for their differing experiences. Anyway, you can download Lucia's colouring book in pdf form. And you can still enter the colouring contest started in 1969 - it's ongoing because Lucia Pamela, apparently, doesn't want to rush anyone.

#45: Guitar Town

Playlist for Sunday July 19, 2009
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Claire Begin

Listen

1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers

2. Guitar Town - Steve Earle
3. The Hot Guitar - Eddie Hill
4. Old Flat-Top Guitar - Stompin' Tom Connors
5. Dust Off This Old Guitar - Michael Hurley

6. Guns And Guitars - Gene Autry
7. Guitar Pickin' Martyrs - Luther Wright & The Wrongs

8. The Preacher Picked The Guitar - Roy Book Binder
Live at Folkway Music, Guelph Ontario, September 19, 2008
9. Flatland Farmer - Terry Allen
10. Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man - Johnny Cash & June Carter

11. Space Guitar - Johnny "Guitar" Watson
12. I'll Keep My Old Guitar - Adolph Hofner & His Texans
13. Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar - The Louvin Brothers

14. Lay Down Your Weary Tune - Bob Dylan