WFMU: Steve Krinsky: Playlist from December 11, 2004

Steve Krinsky: Playlist from December 11, 2004

December 11, 2004: No Hootenanny Tonight

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Artist	Track	Comments
Big Guitars from Texas	Boomerang	Wild twang intro.
Alan Freeman & Frank Beal	Redwing	Woody Guthrie turned this into "Union Maid" ("You Can't Scare Me, I'm Sticking to the Union")
Adrian Legg	Frank the Part Time Clown	Brit Guitarist Legg;s 1993 album-- "Mrs. Crowe's Blue Waltz"-- probably has nothing to do with FMU DJ Tom.
Lloyd Green	The Cave	Nashville in 1966/67 couldn't deal with this styish guitar player, say the liner note to "The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green" (Koch, 2004). He also played on the Byrds' great "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album.
Michael Bloomfield	I Am A Pilgrim	from "If You Love these Blues, Play 'Em as you Please" (Kicking Mule, 2004)
June Gardner	Tennessee Waltz	Sweet country classic funked up in New Orleans; Gardner was Sam Cooke's drummer.
Dwight Yoakum	Train in Vain	"Under the Covers" is a collection of tunes, some great, some not so, that DY did in 1993. Ralph Stanley sings backup on this Clash song!
Tommy Steele	Singing the Blues	British rockabilly cover of great 50s tune, a hit for both Guy Mitchell and Marty Robbins. On CD of songs that influenced the Clash that MOJO Magazine put out.
The Clash	I Fought the Law	Written by Sonny Curtis (one of Buddy Holly's Crickets), the song was a hit in 1966 for the Bobby Fuller Four and has been covered by many. And the Clash do a pretty good job with it.
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros	Yalla Yalla	Former Clash Frontman Strummer always had interesting things to day. So sad he is gone.
Johnny Cash	I Never Picked Cotton	This country song could have been sung anytime during JC's long career but it's from his 1996 "Unchained" album.
John Hartford	I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow	A bittersweet banjo tune, from the soundtrack to "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"
Laura Cantrell	Little BIt of You	From Laura's "Not the Tremblin' Kind" album
Courtney & Western	Hands Off	A Diesel Only 45, Courtney Lee Adams and band
Robyn Hitchcock	Creeped Out	On his recent CD-- "Spooked" on Yep Roc-- former Soft Boy works with American country folkies Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Leonard Cohen	Go No More A-Roving	New LC CD-- "Dear Heather" (Columbia, 2004)
Wilco	Hummingbird	Grammy-nominated, strong songs, good harmonies.
Kenneth Threadgill	Silver Haired Daddy of Mine	Austin legend: Yodeler, restauranteur, Janis Joplin booster.
Wilco	Wishful Thinking	This is a nice song-- Beatle-esque-- but it doesn't fit here. Played by mistake, it messed up the set. Apologies to Kenneth Threadgill.
Commander Cody & his Lost Planet AIrmen	Lost in the Ozone	Now we're talking. These guys played the Armadillo a lot, always a good time when they did. Thirty years later, some of those bandmembers ended up in some interesting (musical) places.
Butch Hancock with Jimmie Gilmore	Bluebird	These guys moved to Austin, from Lubbock, in the early 70s and made a huge impact. This tune is from "Own & Own"-- a great Demon Records collection of Butch tunes.
Greezy Wheels	Country Music and Friends	Another Austin hippie band, Armadillo regulars. In 1976, London Records put out an album of their stuff.
Greezy Wheels	Heartburn (I'm a Menace)	Fiddler Mary Egan was the band standout.
Joe Ely	Oh Boy	Lubbock boys, Joey does Buddy
Mark Brine	New Blue Yodel	NY singer-songwriter moved to Nashville after this Diesel Only 45 came out. What ever happened to him?
Kenneth Threadgill	Coming Back to You My Texas	This is the tune that Kenneth did in Willie Nelson's "Honeysuckle Rose" movie
Yoon Il-Lo	Guitar Boogie	Korean take on C&W tune
Ernest Tubb & George Jones	Half a Mind	The first time at the wrong speed; better the second time. Roger Miller wrote this tune, by the way.
Little Jimmie Dickens	Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)	Written by Boudleaux Bryant, recorded in 1954.
Ramblin' Jack Elliot	Intro/T for Texas	A 1957 live performance at Isle of Wight: "The Lost Topic Tapes" on Hightone
Everly Brothers	So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad	1960 hit written by brother Don.
Everly Brothers	Walk Right Back	Another song written by Buddy Holly bandmate Sonny Curtis of the Crickets-- who wrote "I Fought the Law" played earlier.
Old & In the Way	Land of the Navajo	Peter Rowan wrote this song and plays here with Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and others on a rousing bluegrassy album from 1975/
Frankie Laine	Moonlight Gambler	50s pop singer-- one of the biggest in his day-- had a Western flair. Still alive in his 90s. Bob Hilliard, who wrote this song, died in 1971; not recently at all.
Louise Massey & the Westerners	My Adobe Hacienda	On Rounder Record's 1997 compilation: "Don't Fence Me In: Western Music's Early Golden Era". The title tune (sung by Roy Rogers) written by that great cowboy songwriter Cole Porter.
Dean Martin/Rick Nelson	My Rifle, My Pony and Me	Corny Hollywood, with John Wayne intro
Ennio Morricone	Una Pistola Per Ringo	Cowboys from Italy!
Juan Gaytan y Frank Cantu	El Contrabandista	Outlaws in 1934. Corridos are those great topical Mexican story songs-- often about controversial subjects. Rounder just did an entire CD of corridos about drugs: "The Roots of the Narcocorrido" includes tunes from the 1800s!
Freddy Fender	Bailando El Rock & Roll	Freddy knew how to rock back then; had piles of Tex Mex hits like this. Too bad the CD skipped.
Freddy Fender	Tell It Like It Is	A more soulful song, his take on Aaron Neville. Freddy spent some "time" in the New Orleans area, at Angola Prison on a pot charge. Huey Meaux, the Crazy Cajun, produced some of his biggest hits.
Freddy Fender	Corrina Corrina	Not rock at all but a cool Tex Mex version of a great old song from the guy born as Baldemar Huerta.
Nashville Bluegrass Band	Garfield's Blackberry Blossom	From "Twenty Year Blues" (Sugar Hill, 2004)
International Submarine Band	Knee Deep in the Blues	Mediocre music but a great vocal from a young Gram Parsons in 1967. On Sundazed.
Flying Burrito Brothers	Christine's Tune (Devil in Disguise)	Gram cooks, with a great band. This tune first appeared on "Gilded Palace of Sin"
Asylum Street Spankers	Digga Digga Do	Contemporary playful Austin band; song cuts off abruptly.
LA Brown	No Hootenanny Tonight	From "Just Shuckin' Around 1953-1963 Wild & Crazy LA R&B" on Panic Records
The Treniers	Bald Head	Raunchy R&B brothers cover Professor Longhair on the "Hoss Allen Sessions"
Professor Longhair	Tipitina	Fess tinkles those New Orleans keys-- no one does it better than him.
Professor Longhair	Mess Around	This one rocks too. I saw this guy play at the Village Gate in the late 70s, just a few years before he died.
Ernie Hawkins	Lightnin's Hideaway	A Freddy King number, from "Mean Little Poodle" on Say Mo' Music.

Artist

Track

Comments

Big Guitars from Texas

Boomerang

Wild twang intro.

Alan Freeman & Frank Beal

Redwing

Woody Guthrie turned this into "Union Maid" ("You Can't Scare Me, I'm Sticking to the Union")

Adrian Legg

Frank the Part Time Clown

Brit Guitarist Legg;s 1993 album-- "Mrs. Crowe's Blue Waltz"-- probably has nothing to do with FMU DJ Tom.

Lloyd Green

The Cave

Nashville in 1966/67 couldn't deal with this styish guitar player, say the liner note to "The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green" (Koch, 2004). He also played on the Byrds' great "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album.

Michael Bloomfield

I Am A Pilgrim

from "If You Love these Blues, Play 'Em as you Please" (Kicking Mule, 2004)

June Gardner

Tennessee Waltz

Sweet country classic funked up in New Orleans; Gardner was Sam Cooke's drummer.

Dwight Yoakum

Train in Vain

"Under the Covers" is a collection of tunes, some great, some not so, that DY did in 1993. Ralph Stanley sings backup on this Clash song!

Tommy Steele

Singing the Blues

British rockabilly cover of great 50s tune, a hit for both Guy Mitchell and Marty Robbins. On CD of songs that influenced the Clash that MOJO Magazine put out.

The Clash

I Fought the Law

Written by Sonny Curtis (one of Buddy Holly's Crickets), the song was a hit in 1966 for the Bobby Fuller Four and has been covered by many. And the Clash do a pretty good job with it.

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros

Yalla Yalla

Former Clash Frontman Strummer always had interesting things to day. So sad he is gone.

Johnny Cash

I Never Picked Cotton

This country song could have been sung anytime during JC's long career but it's from his 1996 "Unchained" album.

John Hartford

I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow

A bittersweet banjo tune, from the soundtrack to "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"

Laura Cantrell

Little BIt of You

From Laura's "Not the Tremblin' Kind" album

Courtney & Western

Hands Off

A Diesel Only 45, Courtney Lee Adams and band

Robyn Hitchcock

Creeped Out

On his recent CD-- "Spooked" on Yep Roc-- former Soft Boy works with American country folkies Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

Leonard Cohen

Go No More A-Roving

New LC CD-- "Dear Heather" (Columbia, 2004)

Wilco

Hummingbird

Grammy-nominated, strong songs, good harmonies.

Kenneth Threadgill

Silver Haired Daddy of Mine

Austin legend: Yodeler, restauranteur, Janis Joplin booster.

Wilco

Wishful Thinking

This is a nice song-- Beatle-esque-- but it doesn't fit here. Played by mistake, it messed up the set. Apologies to Kenneth Threadgill.

Commander Cody & his Lost Planet AIrmen

Lost in the Ozone

Now we're talking. These guys played the Armadillo a lot, always a good time when they did. Thirty years later, some of those bandmembers ended up in some interesting (musical) places.

Butch Hancock with Jimmie Gilmore

Bluebird

These guys moved to Austin, from Lubbock, in the early 70s and made a huge impact. This tune is from "Own & Own"-- a great Demon Records collection of Butch tunes.

Greezy Wheels

Country Music and Friends

Another Austin hippie band, Armadillo regulars. In 1976, London Records put out an album of their stuff.

Greezy Wheels

Heartburn (I'm a Menace)

Fiddler Mary Egan was the band standout.

Joe Ely

Oh Boy

Lubbock boys, Joey does Buddy

Mark Brine

New Blue Yodel

NY singer-songwriter moved to Nashville after this Diesel Only 45 came out. What ever happened to him?

Kenneth Threadgill

Coming Back to You My Texas

This is the tune that Kenneth did in Willie Nelson's "Honeysuckle Rose" movie

Yoon Il-Lo

Guitar Boogie

Korean take on C&W tune

Ernest Tubb & George Jones

Half a Mind

The first time at the wrong speed; better the second time. Roger Miller wrote this tune, by the way.

Little Jimmie Dickens

Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)

Written by Boudleaux Bryant, recorded in 1954.

Ramblin' Jack Elliot

Intro/T for Texas

A 1957 live performance at Isle of Wight: "The Lost Topic Tapes" on Hightone

Everly Brothers

So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad

1960 hit written by brother Don.

Everly Brothers

Walk Right Back

Another song written by Buddy Holly bandmate Sonny Curtis of the Crickets-- who wrote "I Fought the Law" played earlier.

Old & In the Way

Land of the Navajo

Peter Rowan wrote this song and plays here with Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and others on a rousing bluegrassy album from 1975/

Frankie Laine

Moonlight Gambler

50s pop singer-- one of the biggest in his day-- had a Western flair. Still alive in his 90s. Bob Hilliard, who wrote this song, died in 1971; not recently at all.

Louise Massey & the Westerners

My Adobe Hacienda

On Rounder Record's 1997 compilation: "Don't Fence Me In: Western Music's Early Golden Era". The title tune (sung by Roy Rogers) written by that great cowboy songwriter Cole Porter.

Dean Martin/Rick Nelson

My Rifle, My Pony and Me

Corny Hollywood, with John Wayne intro

Ennio Morricone

Una Pistola Per Ringo

Cowboys from Italy!

Juan Gaytan y Frank Cantu

El Contrabandista

Outlaws in 1934. Corridos are those great topical Mexican story songs-- often about controversial subjects. Rounder just did an entire CD of corridos about drugs: "The Roots of the Narcocorrido" includes tunes from the 1800s!

Freddy Fender

Bailando El Rock & Roll

Freddy knew how to rock back then; had piles of Tex Mex hits like this. Too bad the CD skipped.

Freddy Fender

Tell It Like It Is

A more soulful song, his take on Aaron Neville. Freddy spent some "time" in the New Orleans area, at Angola Prison on a pot charge. Huey Meaux, the Crazy Cajun, produced some of his biggest hits.

Freddy Fender

Corrina Corrina

Not rock at all but a cool Tex Mex version of a great old song from the guy born as Baldemar Huerta.

Nashville Bluegrass Band

Garfield's Blackberry Blossom

From "Twenty Year Blues" (Sugar Hill, 2004)

International Submarine Band

Knee Deep in the Blues

Mediocre music but a great vocal from a young Gram Parsons in 1967. On Sundazed.

Flying Burrito Brothers

Christine's Tune (Devil in Disguise)

Gram cooks, with a great band. This tune first appeared on "Gilded Palace of Sin"

Asylum Street Spankers

Digga Digga Do

Contemporary playful Austin band; song cuts off abruptly.

LA Brown

No Hootenanny Tonight

From "Just Shuckin' Around 1953-1963 Wild & Crazy LA R&B" on Panic Records

The Treniers

Bald Head

Raunchy R&B brothers cover Professor Longhair on the "Hoss Allen Sessions"

Professor Longhair

Tipitina

Fess tinkles those New Orleans keys-- no one does it better than him.

Professor Longhair

Mess Around

This one rocks too. I saw this guy play at the Village Gate in the late 70s, just a few years before he died.

Ernie Hawkins

Lightnin's Hideaway

A Freddy King number, from "Mean Little Poodle" on Say Mo' Music.

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