Steve Krinsky: Playlist from March 26, 2003

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Artist	Track	Comments
Big Guitars from Texas	The Absorber	Jesse Taylor, who played in Joe Ely's band in 70s along with Lloyd Maines, wrote this tune and plays lead guitar
Hot Club of Cowtown	Tchavolo Swing	Hot instrumental from this fine Austin band, produced by Lloyd Maines
Hot Club of Cowtown	It's My Lazy Day	Cover of the Smiley Burnette's western classic
Uncle Tupelo	We've Been Had	Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy together on guitars and vocals before they split up to form Son Volt and WIlco
Ned Sublette	Oil and Water	From 1997 "Monsters of the Deep" with Lawrence Weiner-- and Lloyd Maines on pedal steel guitar. Ned Sublette is from Lubbock too.
Texana Dames	You Don't Know (How Much I Love You)	This trio consists of Charlene Hancock (wife of West Texas wildman Tommy) and daughters Charlene and Traci, with Tomas Ramirez on saxophone and Lloyd Maines on pedal steel
Flatlanders	South Wind of Summer	These Lubbock boys still can play!
Maines Brothers	Amarillo Highway	Lloyd Maines-- producer, musician, dad of Dixie Chick Natalie-- covers Terry Allen's West Texas anthem. The Maines Brothers have 8 albums; this song is from their first, "High Rollin'" (1984)
Joe Ely	Ranches and Rivers	from his 1995 "Letter to Laredo" album
Loose Diamonds	Ruby	Doesn't this tune have that George Jones feel? From "Across the Great Divide" album where Austin musicians cover songs by Jo Carol Pierce
George Jones	I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep	A Hank Williams tune
Doyle Bramhall	I'd Rather Be (Blind, Crippled & Crazy)	Solid cover of OV Wright song, from Bramhall's new Texas blues album "Fitchburg Street"
Sir Charles Thompson	Mister Boogie	Jazz pianist played with Lester Young and Bird in the 40s. This boogie woogie solo organ number was recorded in Paris in 1961
King Coleman	Bulldog	from "It's Dance Time" (Norton, 2002)
Sidney Bechet	Texas Moan Blues	New Orleans jazz clarinet at its best
Sidney Bechet	Strange Fruit	Willie the Lion Smith on piano
		Conversation with Joel Katz, producer of a new film on the anti-lyncing song "Strange Fruit" which will be show on PBS stations on 4/8, the day after Billie Holiday's birthday.
Billie Holiday	Strange Fruit	Recorded live in California in 1951
		Joel Katz describes the 1939 meeting between Billie Holiday and "Strange Fruit" composer Abel Meeropol
Don Byron	Monroe, GA Lynching	From original soundtrack to "Strange Fruit" documentary, composed and performed by Don Byron
		Joel Katz on the the role of music in the anti-lynching movement of the 1930s and 40s
Marcus Miller	Strange Fruit	Contemporary jazz instrumental version from 1995
		Joel Katz talks about blacks and Jews working together to fight racism
Josh White	Strange Fruit	1950s version done by bluesman Josh White, an outspoken anti-racist. White was later called before House Un-American Activities Committee where he read the lyrics of "Strange Fruit" into the Congressional Record
		Joel Katz tells how his film relates "Strange Fruit" to modern times
UB40	Strange Fruit	Multiracial British ska band sang "Strange Fruit" at Rock Against Racism concerts in 1980s
Max Roach with JC White Singers	Let The People Go	from "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (1971)
Charles "Soul" Brown	Standing on the Outside	from "60s Soul Senders" compilation of R&B produced by New Orleans Wardell Quezergue
Alvin Robinson	Something You Got	Superb 1964 New Orleans R&B tune, from "Lieber & Stoller Present the Daisy/Tiger Records Story"
Buckwheat Zydeco w/ Sonny Landreth & Little Buck Sinegal		from "Boozoo Hoodoo" tribute album to zydeco star Boozoo Chavis
Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls	Jivin' Me	Hot midwestern rockabilly R&B band
The Angels	Buck Shot	from "Raging Teens (Volume 4): Wild New England Rock & Roll)" on Norton Records
Friends of Dean Martinez	On the Shore	Soundtrack music from unknown movie
Victoria Williams w/ Don Heffington & Mark Olson	Early	from "Going Driftless" tribute to Greg Brown
Reverend Gary Davis	12 Gates to the City	Blues guitar master. Listen to him pick.
Charlie Hunter Trio	Fables of Faubus	Short snippet of Mingus clever classic
Charlie Hunter Trio	Funky Niblets	Great guitar from 1994