Route 78 West 12/9/2007 back
Show #347 Red Velvet Seats
SHOW AUDIO  Mp3
 

 

 
 track  artist, song-label, format
  01     Hank Snow, The Mystery Of #5-Proper, CD
02     Lefty Frizzell, Through Your Heart There Runs a Highway-Bear Family, CD
03     Blue Sky Boys, Row Us Over The Tide-Starday, CD
04     Roy Acuff, Great Speckled Bird-Proper, CD
- break 10:13 am
05     Hank Snow, Ben Dewberry's Final Run-Proper, CD
06     Merle Travis, Fool At the Steering Wheel-78
07     Delmore Brothers, Trouble Ain't Nothin'-JSP, CD
08     Red Simpson, Jack Knife-Sundazed, CD
09     Dave Dudley, Trucker's Prayer-Mercury, CD
- break 10:30 am
10     Cary Swinney, Jesus Silverstein-Big Shot, CD
11     Louvin Brothers, Do You Live What You Preach-MGM, 78 (MGM 11392-A)
12     Bob Dylan, Knocking On Heaven's Door (rare)
13     Merle Haggard, Okie From Muskogee-Capitol, CD
14     Gram Parsons With The Burrito Brothers, Long Black Limousine-Amoeba Records, CD
- break 10:49 am
15     DeVotchka, Whistling Song (rare)
16     Ink Spots, I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire-MFP, LP
17     Bo Carter, Howling Tomcat Blues-CBS, CD
18     DeVotchka, Accordion Song (rare)
- break 11:05 am
19     Sam Beam, Sodom South Georgia (rare acoustic solo)
20     Richmond Fontaine, Safety-Cravedog, CD
21     Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter, Hard Not To Believe (rare)
22     Iron And Wine, Dead Man Will (demo, for Julia)
- break 11:26 am
23     Ryan Adams, Carolina Rain-Lost Highway, CD
24     The Flying Burrito Brothers, Tried So Hard-Irving Music, LP (written by Gene Clark)
25     Bob Dylan, Instrumental, The Final Theme (Rare)
- break 11:41 am
26     Sam Beam, Shepard's Dog (rare)
27     Dan Bern, Talkin' Alkida Blues-Messenger Records, CD
28     Grease Lizard Band, Duke Of Oil-Black Hole Records, 45
- break 11:55 am
29     Arthur Godfrey, The Man With A Weird Beard-78
Notes: Uncle Jeff began with plenty of religious allegory and Ukulele Loki added a few winter driving tips. Oh yes, leave at least one car length for each 10 mph. Ice, believe it or not, is icy. Especially along the perilous Route 93 (pray for me) commute. Common knowledge for any listener older than 25 I would think. This prompted a set of driving related music... follow the bouncing ball as it dances along the lyrics and simultaneously teaches a Driver's Ed course. We all were running on adrenaline today. Ukulele Loki has been spending lots of time tracking new material for his CD. Uncle Jeff is juggling a chainsaw, a bowling ball and a live monkey... with success I might add. I am preparing for a massive invasion of a foreign country. A top secret mission. Keep talking, keep moving.

An icy snow threw plans to chance, but Jeff and I still made it to the Paramount Theater for a great music event by DeVotchka and Sam Beam's super solo acoustic show on Saturday night. It was worth every ounce of energy and risk to attend this sold-out show. If you made it... man you know what I am talking about. If you didn't, kick yourself in the head for not being there. By the way Jeff, I am converted. Henceforth I am an Iron & Wine fan.

As you may have heard, Tom's Tavern will close for good on December 22nd. I'm sure some sort of tacky condo will soon take it's place. The first time I went to this bar was in winter of 1985. The inside was decked out with a nice wooden bar which could be used for either drinking or sleeping. The other main fixture was one of those long wooden shuffleboard tables with a dusty miniature revolving Budweiser wagon with Clydesdales hanging over it which provided the only light in the whole place. Of course there was lots of sawdust all over and everyone was chewing tobacco and drinking cheap beer. This was pre-microbrew. Memories and the ghosts of lost memories abound. RIP Tom Eldridge, and RIP Boulder for that matter.

Stay tuned for next week's show.
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