Steve Krinsky: Playlist from November 5, 2005

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Artist	Track	Comments
Big Guitars from Texas	Holiday for Hoss	The usual twangy intro stuff
Big Guitars from Texas	Strained	More usual twangy intro stuff; can't get enough of these pickers
Karl Bryan	LK Strut	Clement "Coxsone" Dodd did wonders with stuff like this Jamaican ska instrumental from Studio One, on Soul Jazz
Count Ozzie & the Zion All Stars	Holy Mount Zion	More Studio One
Alton Ellis	Alton's Groove	From "Alton is a Legend" on Heartbeat, released 1995
Big Chief Ellis	Chief's E (flat) Blues"	1974 recording with Tarheel Slim on guitar-- and Brownie McGhee helping out on other cuts
Dexter Gordon	Confirmation	Dexter plays Bird on "Daddy Plays the Horn"-- recorded in 1955, released on CD by Shout Factory, 2005)
Mance Lipscomb	Going Down Slow	That sweet East Texas blues sound, recorded in Mance's hometown of Navasota in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz. This became one of the first releases of Arhoolie Records
Mississippi Fred McDowell	Someday	This guy could play! From "Bues Guitar Heroes" on Fuel, 2003
Johnny Copeland w/ Dr. John	Ghetto Child	Clyde Copeland plays the blues on "Strike a Deep Chord: Blues Guitars for the Homeless" (Justice Records, 1992)
Zora Neal Hurston	Shove It Over	A work song, done by one of the gems of the Harlem Renaissance; from "Music from the Florida Folklife Collection" (See floridamemory.com)
Crap Eye	One Morning at the Break of Day (Wake Up Song)	Part of the Alan Lomax archives: "Mississippi Saints & Sinners"-- from the "Deep River of Song" documentary
Frank Evans	French Song	More Lomax
Fernest & the Thunders	Since You've Been Gone	Zydeco from St. Martin's Parish in the swamps of Louisiana
Los Bomboras	Run & Hide	A listener called during this set-- it was only 7 am, Saturday-- to complain that she didn't want to be jarred awake. Sorry.
Joe King Carrasco	Bandido Rock	Title cut from Joe's very political Tex-Mex party album
Los Straitjackets w/ El Vez	Rey Criollo (aka King Creole)
Los Straitjackets w/ Dave Alvin	Caifornia Sun
Nick Lowe	Poor Side of Town	Nick Lowe does a great job on this cover of the 1960s Johnny RIvers hit; from "The Convincer" (Yep Roc, 2001)
Sue Foley	Oh Baby, We Got a Good Thing Going
Cliffie Stone Orchestra	Barracuda	Not much rockin' here-- even though the CD is called "Country Goes Rock N Roll, Vol. 1: The Old Guard" (Rev Ola 2005)
Shorty Long	Who Said I Said That	Another "Country Goes Rock" tune: Shorty has a little more rock & roll growl than Cliffie
Joe Ely	Rock Me My Baby	Joe Ely knows how to take this great Shorty Long song and make it rock!
Doug Sahm	Is Anybody Going to San Antone?	"This is a song about my hometown," he says. Doug died a few years ago, still in his 50s. A real loss
Doug Sahm	Groover's Paradise	This one is about Austin. I knew the Guacamole Queen but I can't remember her name. Her brother was a pretty good session drummer
Doug Sahm	Whirlaway	Nice instrumental you a young Doug Sahm; can be found-- with lots of other good stuff-- on "San Antonio Rocks: The Harlem Recordings, 1957-1961"
Sir Douglas Quintet	Song of Everything	Doug moved his band to San Francisco in the late 60s
Los Jazz Vatos	Sho Nuff Did	Led by Doug's longtime drummer and San Antonio pal Ernie Durawa, this contemporary Austin jazz combo covers Thad Jones here.
Los Jazz Vatos	Bluellespie	A Paquito D'Rivera composition
Rich Minus	Woke Up This Morning	My old pal Rich grew up in San Antonio, near Doug and Ernie. He has a bunch of albums out of Last Call records out of Paris
Texas Tornados	Bonita Es El Espanol	Doug teamed up with Flaco Jimenez, Freddy Frender and Augie Myers in the late 80s. They did a Spanish language version of their first album, here covering Butch Hancock's "She Never Spoke Spanish To Me"
Flaco Jimenez	Swiss Waltz	Flaco plays accordian-- in every style. Here is an instrumental that mixes Tex-Mex with European sounds, a common South Texas amalgam
Flaco Jimenez	Ay Te Dijo En San Antonio	Flaco comes from a musical family from San Antonio. This classic tune was written by his dad, Santiago Jimenez, Sr.
Flaco Jimenez w/ Radney Foster	Jealous Heart
Gamble Rogers w/ Will McLean	Orange Blossom Special	Florida folkies duet
Tommy Jarrell	Let Me Fall	Tommy (on banjo) with Oscar Jenkins & Fred Cockerham, from "Down at the Cidar Mill" (Country Records, 2004)
Seldom Scene	Philadelphia Lawyer	DC-bluegrass band does Woody Guthrie
Ramblin Jack Elliot	Rex's Blues	With help from Emmy Lou Harris & Nanci Griffith, Jack covers Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt	Dollar Bill Blues
Dave Alvin	Engine 143
Doc Watson Family	Georgie
Doc Watson Family	Reuben's Train
Joel Plaskett Emergency	What Do You Wnat Me To Do
Joel Plaskett Emergency	Light of the Moon