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
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