La Grange

Show from 10 Nov 2009 - Doug Sahm, Leon Russell, Kenny Rogers etc

2009-11-09T14:07:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone,

You can download the show from this morning

Here's the tracklisting:

1. Mohawks - Champ
2. Taj Mahal - Fishing blues
3. Malcolm Yelvington - It's me baby
4. Jeb Stuart - I bet you're gonna like it
5. Young Rascals - Good loving
6. Leon Russell & The Asylum Choir - Bye Bye
7. Roger Miller - Shame bird
8. Howling Wolf - Highway blues
9. Hardrock Gunther - Gonna dance all night
10. Doug Sahm - Tortilla Flats
11. Kenny Rogers - Morgana Jones
12. Doug Sahm - Monterrey Sun
13. Doug Sahm - Sixty minutes
14. Charlie Rich - Who will the next fool be?
15. Pink Mountaintops - Plastic man, you're the devil
16. White Hassle - Life is still sweet
17. Ivor Cutler - Nobody knows who I am
18. Leon Russell & The Asylum Choir - Indian dance
19. ? - Midnight Special
20. Loudon Wainright III - Dead skunk
21. Dr. John - Memories of Professor Longhair
22. White Stripes - Southern can

Radio show 13 October - Justin Townes Earle, Tom Petty, the Hollies

2009-10-12T18:52:00.000-07:00

Hello folks. Well, the last 2 shows I did didn't record, due to technical gremlins. Today however, everything was working. So I have a show for you to download.

Click here to download the show

There's plenty of Justin Townes Earle, as I went to see him Sunday night at the Kings Arms in Auckland, and he was brilliant.

Track listing as follows:

1. Justin Townes Earle - I don't care
2. Justin Townes Earle - They killed John Henry
3. Justin Townes Earle - So different blues
4. The White Brothers - Why you been gone so long?
5. Manassas - Do you remember the Americans?
6. Willie Nelson - Stay all night, stay a little longer
7. Rolling Stones - Off the hook
8. The Hollies - Mickey's monkey
9. Jacques Dutronc - Le fille de pere noel
10. The Hollies -
11. Waylon Thornton & The Heavy Hands - Arcane Luv
12. Jim Ford - Big mouth USA
13. Gram Parsons - Big mouth blues
14. Tom Petty - American girl
15. Adam Green - Born to run
16. Frank Black - Beautiful day, horrible day
17. Willie Nelson - She's not for you
18. Versatones - Tight skirt, tight sweater
19. Ersal Hickey - Hangin around
20. The Cee Gees - Buzzsaw twist
21. Hasil Adkins - Do it to me tonight (only about 10 seconds of this one sadly)

Radio Show 1st Sep - The new raunchy, Waylon Thornton, 11 minutes + of Creedence oh yes

2009-09-02T17:27:00.000-07:00

Yow. I really enjoyed the show this week. It was a gorgeous morning, I didn't feel too knackered and it was nice to start the day with some choice country tuneage.

Listening back, my own favourites include the very first track of the show, by JJ Light, the Swamp Dogg song and all 11 minutes of Heard it through the Grapevine - with extra record jumps.

Download it here!

Here's the tracklisting - show starts about 40 seconds or so in.

1. JJ Light - Na Ru Ka
2. Allman Brothers - Come on down and get me
3. Swamp Dogg - Redneck
4. Michael Nesmith - Little red rider
5. Gram Parsons - 6 days on the road
6. Doug Sahm - Hard way
7. Waylon Thornton & The Heavy Hands - I need love
8. Hasil Adkins - Ha ha catwalk baby
9. Webb Pierce - The new raunchy
10. The Oblivians - Feel alright
11. Pure Country Gold - Low lady low
12. Furious Few - Midnite host
13. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Heard it through the grapevine - please forgive the jumps at the start
14. Serious Sam Barrett - Heather
15. Deer Tick - Straight into a storm

ZZ Top, Hoodoo Rhythm Devils and dodgy microphone techniques - radio show August 18 2009

2009-08-17T16:41:00.000-07:00

Howdy folks. Endure various microphone problems in the first 5 mins or so, and enjoy a large helping of quality country rock n roll by getting my radio show from this morning.

Go here to download the show.

Here's the tracklisting.

1. ZZ Top - Heartbreaker
2. Hoodoo Rhythm Devils - Too hot to handle
3. Tony Joe White - Save your sugar for me
4. Dr John - A quitter never wins
5. Kris Kristofferson - I may smoke too much
6. Johnny Bond - Sick, sober and sorry
7. GL Crockett - Look out Mabel
8. ZZ Top - Ten dollar man
9. Mason Profit - Joe Clark
10. Hoodoo Rhythm Devils - All tore down
11. Carl Smith - San Antone Rose
12. Everly Brothers - Girl of mine
13. Collins Kids - Walking the floor over you
14. Roger Miller - I ain't coming home tonight
15. Willie Nelson - On the road again
16. Allman Brothers - Louisiana Lou and three card Monty John
17. Don Williams - Tulsa Time
18. Soul Asylum - Made to be broken
19. Silver Jews - How can I love you if you won't lie down?
20. Hasil Adkins - Put my guitar away mommy

Close up the honky tonks

2009-07-20T16:07:00.001-07:00

Slightly ramshackle show this morning, but worth downloading for some great Burrito Bros tracks and a tune by a big bunch of hippies called Garden of Smiles. The Lee Hazelwood track is fantastic too, and the Furry Lewis song is worthy of a mention.

Click here to download the show

Here's the tracklisting:

0-30 seconds of silence, whoops
1. Sir Douglas Quintet - Hot Tomato Man
2. Flying Burrito Bros - Close up the honky tonks
3. Ryan Adams - To be young (is to be sad, is to be high)
4. Harmonica Ray - Grits
5. Carl Belew - Lonely nights
6. Lee Hazelwood - Hey me I'm riding
7. South Alabama State Troopers - Going down
8. Flying Burrito Bros - If you've got to go
9. Jas Mathus - Dixie
10. Furry Lewis - I'm black
11. Andrew Youngblood-Hart - Bootlegger's blues
12. Little Feat - Willin
13. Garden of Smiles -
14. Gene Clark - Elevator operator
15. Somethin' Smith and the redheads and their banjos - Alabamy bound
16. Flying Burrito Bros - Wild horses
17. Euros Childs - Horse riding
18. Eddio Bo - Horse with a freeze part 2

Hope you're all good!
Dave.

2009-06-29T15:05:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone. The show recorder worked today, so I have a show for you to download.

You can get it here:

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange30june2009.mp3

Tracklisting as follows:

1. Taj Mahal - Chevrolet
2. Tony Joe White - As the crow flies
3. John Prine - Your plastic flag decal won't get you into heaven any more
4. Tennesee Ernie Ford - Milk em in the morning blues
5. Everly Brothers - Be bop a Lula
6. Serious Sam Barrett - Lay a white rose
7. Singin' Sam - I'm goin back
8. George Jones & Gene Pitney - A new heartache
9. Gram Parsons - Brass buttons
10. Eddie Hinton - The fool that I was
11. Wishbone Ash - Blind eye
12. Rolling Stones - I just want to make love to you
13. Jonathan Brandmeier - Horse with no legs
14. Long Ryders - Still get by
15. Soul Asylum - Crashing down
16. Jacques Dutronc - can't remember the title, something french
17. Serious Sam Barrett - Lonely night at JoJos
18. John Hore - Hello trouble

Also! I'm DJ'ing at a 4th July do at the DOC bar in Auckland. Invite yourself along. It's free and there'll be 5 NZ Dollar budweisers all night long. That's so cheap, if you drank a lot of them it would almost pay for your flight here.

Event details are on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=92088397809&ref=mf

Thanks for listening!

Serious Sam Barrett

2009-06-18T16:59:00.000-07:00

Here's someone to get excited about. Serious Sam Barrett plays rough and raw heartflet bluegrass music. It's the music of hard drinking mountain men, except Sam's from Yorkshire.

Sense of place comes through loud and proud in these songs, and Sam sings in an honest northern accent without hamming it up. This brings an authenticity to his music so necessary in this genre. It's not po-faced or purist though, it's just right and it makes his songs all the more wonderful.

Sam calls his music 'Yorkshirecana' and I can't think of a more apt description.

Serious Sam Barrett - Lay A White Rose from James Rhodes on Vimeo.

Hear Sam on myspace

There's an album out soon, with some fantastic screen printed artwork. You can view more of this on Sam's blog.

2009-06-18T16:41:00.000-07:00

Sadly, the radio recorder stuffed up this week, so I didn't get a recording of Tuesday's show. A shame, as I really enjoyed some of the tracks I played - especially the Tennessee Ernie Ford tracks. I'll just play them next time.

So instead, here's another old show I dug up. It's from April 28th 2008. The recording skips a bit and I say 'um' a lot, but it's worth a listen.

The old show is here:

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange28april.mp3

Tracks are:

1. Snoop Dogg - My medicine (skips like a bugger)
2. Willie Nelson - Gotta get drunk
3. Doug Sahm - Give back the key to my heart (play this a lot don't I?)
4. Kris Kristofferson - Josie
5. Tony Joe White - They caught the devil (I get the title wrong, duh)
6. Blitzen Trapper - Ten cent slut
7. Pearlene - You done told everybody
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break in the country
8. White Denim - World as a waiting room
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9. Dr John - Zu Zu Man
10. Jim Stafford - Swamp Witch
11. Screaming Jay Hawkins - Feast of the Mau Mau
12. Vincent Pringle - Cane on the Brasos
13. Hoyt Axton - Thunder and Lightning
14. Jack Cooke - Sitting on top of the world
15. Virginia Boys - She left me standing on the mountain
16. Jim Lauderdale - One blue mule
17. Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City
18. Patsy Cline - Crazy
19. Archie and Lorraine - Dark end of the street
20. ZZ Top - La Grange
21. Someone sampling Cheap Sunglasses, abandoned
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songs from my Dad
22. Kenny Rogers - Tulsa Turnaround
23. Townes Van Zandt - Black widow spider
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songs for my son Billy
24. Ry Cooder - Billy the kid
25. Ralph Steadman - Little boy Billie
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Dexateens - Singlewide

2009-06-10T13:33:00.000-07:00

Looking forward to my show next Tuesday. I've dug out some interesting Kiwi country records from the 60s - and I nabbed a great Taj Mahal LP from 1973 which I'd not heard before. Has one killer track on it, which I shall enjoying playing for you.

In the meantime, here's a review of the excellent new Dexateens album which I posted on www.artrocker.com.

Recording with Mark Nevers has proved an inspired choice for The Dexateens. He's produced the cream of the alt.country crop - Lambchop, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Calexico and the Silver Jews - but he's a self confessed rocker at heart. "I mean, I love the Ramones!" he confessed in a recent interview, "I don't quite know how I got into this hushed down world".

The hushed down world of The Dexateens is explored and captured expertly on Singlewide, but crucially by someone who understands that even in more plaintive mood, the Tuscaloosa Alabama five piece have the passion and fire of a true rock n roll band. It's the passion and soul that makes The Dexateens rise above many of their country (and alt.country) contemporaries - most evident in singer Elliott McPherson's performance. A great vocalist and frontman, Elliott has never sounded better on record - his voice cracks with emotion, at times vulnerable and fragile sounding without ever coming across as forced or histrionic. He reminds me a lot of Dave Pirner's better earlier moments on this record, there's a touch of Jeff Tweedy in there too.

'New Boy' is a real standout, melancholy and hopeful. 'Battle of departed souls' is a beautiful tune, similarly hushed and aching with some fuzz and white noise in the background like a half forgotten memory.

Elsewhere, there are some great campfire sing alongs. Opener 'Downlow' starts off with some percussion on the guitar and builds to a tasty stomp. 'Same as it used to be' and 'Trail' are other sing along winners, with infectious 'come on come on' and 'whoo hoos' choruses.

The Dexateens can't resist slipping in a bit of kick ass at the end of the record on 'Can You Whoop It?' with some classic 3 way harmony southern rock guitar.

Fans of the better known artists Nevers has produced should get their hands on Singlewide and discover how well it sits with the rest of their collection.

Dexateens on Myspace

Wentworth Kersey

2009-06-03T19:49:00.000-07:00

This knocked me for six. Some stunning, beautiful country music from Joe Kersey Sampson (A Dog Paloma) and Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens (George&Caplin).

Wentworth Kersey describe their sound as a 'sci-fi folk experiment' which gives a good impression of what they're up to. The songs are simply crafted but swathed in a rich psychey soundscape. Far from swamping the country goodness, the extra layers add a whole new dimension to the songs, making them extraordinary. It's very cleverly done - velvety and honest at the same time.

Fans of Beachwood Sparks and Mystic Chords of Memory will fall in love with this.

Indeed, fans of good music everywhere should be legging it over to the Plastic Sound Supply site to buy a copy of the album.

Go to Plastic Sound Supply

You can download a sample tune from there too - download 'wealth'.

Show from Tuesday 2 June 2009

2009-06-03T19:29:00.000-07:00

Bob Logg III - one man band!!

Today's radio show can be found here:

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange3june2009.mp3

My favourite tracks from this week: Swamp Dogg, Bob Logg, Wanda Jackson & Alvin Youngblood-Hart. The Bill Mack tune rules too.

Here's the listing...

- 30 seconds of very quiet crap at the start
1. Willie Nelson - Remember me
2. Doug Sahm - Give back the key to my heart
3. Langhorne Slim - I'd like to thank all the ladies
4. Doug & Rusty Kershaw - Diggy diggy lo
5. ZZ Top - Arrested for driving while blind
6. Redlands Palomino Company - Get on the train
Buy Redlands' latest album - it's mighty fine - http://www.myspace.com/theredlandspalominoco
7. Arnold - Windsor Park (or could be Country Biscuit)
8. Everly Brothers - Rip it up
9. Wanda Jackson - I gotta know
10. Sonny James - Running bear
11. Swamp Dogg - Total destruction to your mind
12. Bob Logg III - Logg bomb
13. Immortal Lee County Killers - Let's get killed
14. Bill Mack - Waiting for the river to rise
15. Doug & Rusty Kershaw - Cheated too
16. Tom T Hall - I like beer
17. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Living without you (I think)
18. Alvin Youngblood-Hart - Down in the alley
- 5 minutes of tat at the end - worst kind of dub lite. Sorry it's there.

Thankyou for listening!

Dave.

Radio show 19 May 2009

2009-06-03T19:20:00.000-07:00

Fists, from Nottingham.

Hey folks - here's the show for this fortnight:

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrangemay19.mp3

My particular faves include the Jim Ford tracks and the song by Nottingham band Fists.

Tracklisting as follows:

1. Beachwood Sparks - Canyon ride
2. Hasil Adkins - She said
3. Fever
4. Rex Allen - Tongue-tied Smith
5. Jim Ford - Big mouth USA
6. Gene Pierce - Living, learning, trying to forget
7. Woody & Sam Jones - Monkey see, monkey do
8. Aretha Franklin & Duane Allman - The weight
9. The Youngbloods - Sham
10. Sir Douglas Quintet - Bacon fat
11. Flatt & Scruggs - Memphis
12. Spider John Koerner - Sail away ladies
13. Fists - 6 to 5 Special
14. Jonathan Richman - Let's take a trip
15. Jimbo Mathus - Let me be your rocker
16. Manassas - Isn't it about time
17. Jim Ford - Mixed greens
18. Tommy Scott's Bluegrass - Come go with me
19. Some squaredancers - Promenade the halls
20. Willie Nelson - The troublemaker
21. Sir Douglas Quintet - Neuvo Laredo
22. The Trailers - Lucille

Hope you're all great!

Show from Sunday 18 May 2008

2009-06-03T17:43:00.000-07:00

Here's the mp3 of Sunday's show:

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange18may.mp3

And the tracklisting is below. I played of lot of Youngbloods tracks! Brilliant.

This show also features my favourite 'technical difficulty' so far, experienced in the very last track. No idea how it happened.

Hope you're all good. Come on down to the next club night at DOC bar, on 5th June.

1. The Youngbloods - CC Rider (half of it anyway)
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
3. The Youngbloods - Sugar babe
4. Willie Nelson - Devil shivered in his sleeping bag
5. Waylon Jennings - Time to bum again
6. The Youngbloods - Sham
7. Bob Dylan - To be alone with you
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Songs about being ill
8. White Hassle - Health food store
9. James Gang - Hairy hypochondriac
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A break in the country
10. White Denim - Goldie Locks
11. Art Brut - My little brother
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12. Loudon Wainright III - Swimming song
13. The Youngbloods - The wine song
14. Johnny Bond - Here come the elephants
15. Travis Edmonson - Rye Whiskey
16. Yodellin Kenny Roberts - Arizona Yodeller
17. Buck Owens - You gotta have a licence
18. Marty Robins - Singing the blues
19. Dillard & Clark - Out on the side
20. Doug Sahm - Stoned faces don't lie
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Songs from my Dad
21. Bob Luman - Lonely women make good lovers
22. Buddy Miller - Poison Love
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23. Ken Parker - Kiss an angel good morning

Show from Sunday 25 May 2008

2009-06-03T17:39:00.000-07:00

Soul Asylum!

Sunday's show went a bit wrong, as I brought the wrong bag of records with me. Instead of lots of old stuff, I played a bit too much country punk, including Taylor Holingsworth and early Soul Asylum. But it's still quite interesting to hear if you've not heard it before.

Plus there's some great Eddie Hinton, Manassas and Avett Brothers tracks, so all good.

Here's the show:

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange25may.mp3

Here's the playlist:

1. Soul Coughing - Listening to Los Angeles (fades out, was playing when I got to the studio)
2. Frank Black - Coastline
3. Flying Burrito Brothers - Older Guys
4. Beachwood Sparks - Sister Rose
5. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
6. Jim Mills - There'll be no teardrops tonight
7. Bill Nettles - Hadacol Boogie
8. Avett Brothers - Shame
9. Willie Nelson - Sad songs and waltzes
10. Loudon Wainwright III - Nocturnal Stumblebut
11. Tony Joe White - As the crow flies
12. Townes Van Zandt - Black Widow Spider
13. Doug Sahm - It didn't even bring me down
14. Cracker - Infirmary
15. Noahjohn - Infirmary
16. Taylor Hollingsworth - I don't wanna
17. Dexateens - Pine Belt Blues
18. Wiskey Biscuit - Kids hang out
19. Soul Asylum - New feelings
20. Eddie Hinton - 300 pounds of hongry
21. Duncan Pain - Ub Glubb
22. Charlie Rich - Hey good looking
23. James Gang - Dreamin' in the country
24. Manassas - A song of love
25. ZZ Top - Tush
26. G. Love & Special Sauce - Small Fish
27. Little Barrie - Comeback song
28. Razzy - I hate hate (abandoned)
29. Chuck E Weiss - Juvenile Delinquent

And hopefully see you on the 5th June at the DOC for La Grange II

Show from Sunday 1 June 2008

2009-06-03T17:06:00.000-07:00

Roger Miller, painting by: smartdecorpainting.com

If you've not downloaded any shows yet, give this one a go. It's a cracker, even though I say so myself. With some excellent Del Reeves tunes, a brilliant Roger Miller cover of Heartbreak Hotel and a spot of square dancing.

You can GET IT HERE:

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange1june3.mp3

Hopefully see you on Thursday night at the DOC for the La Grange club night.

Playlist for Sunday 1 June

(bit of a gap at the start...)
1. The Staple Singers - The weight
2. Dobie Gray - Eddie's song
3. Rick Roberts - In my own small way
4. Glen Campbell - A satisfied mind
5. Del Reeves - Alabama bull in the woods
6. Tom T. Hall - The year Clayton Delaney died
7. Faron Young - I've got five dollars and it's Friday night
8. Redbird - I gotta get drunk (thanks Kev! - forgot to mention on air you sent it to me, doh)
9. Del Reeves - Sweet Tater and Cisco
10. Kriss Kristofferson - To beat the devil
11. The Youngbloods - Grizzly bear
12. Stoney Cooper & Big Wilma Lee - Big midnight special
13. Roger Miller - Heartbreak hotel
14. Avett Brothers - Will you return?
15. Bob Gallion - Loving you
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Songs from my Dad
16. Curly Seckler - Dig a hole in the meadow
17. Jim Lauderdale - Mighty lonesome
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18. Rex Trezy and His Action Promenaders - Promenade around
19. Blondie Chaplin - Loose lady
20. Bread - Easy love

Show from 22 June 2008

2009-06-03T16:59:00.000-07:00

Howdy folks. Here's the mp3 of Sunday's show...

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange22june.mp3

The first and last tracks are my favourite in this show, but why not listen to everything else in between? It's all good.

(bit of the National, terrible - doesn't last long though)
1. Youngbloods - Statesboro Blues
2. Joe South - Hush
3. Jesse Winchester - Isn't that so?
4. John Stewart - Never going back
5. Richard & Jim - Old home place
6. Earl Scruggs & Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline Rag
7. Stanley Brothers - How mountain girls can love
8. Earl Scruggs & The Byrds - You ain't going nowhere
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Two songs with the same title
9. Jerry Reed - I'm a lover not a fighter
10. The Kinks - I'm a lover not a fighter
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11. Dick Curless - Can't go back again
12. Kelly Gordon - Love took my heart and mashed that sucker flat
13. Leon Russell - Queen of the roller derby
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Songs about smoking fags
14. Commander Cody - smoke smoke smoke (that cigarette)
15. Homer & Jethro, cigareets, whusky and wild wild women
16. Jerry Reed - another puff
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Songs for Billy, Dulcie & children of all ages
17. Tom T Hall - Sneaky snake
18. Tom T Hall - I wish I had a million friends
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19. Nitty Gritty Dirt band - The moon just turned blue
20. Van Morrison - Bulbs
21. Flying Burrito Bros - Do right woman
22. Scott Biram - Wreck my car
23. Jas Mathus - Got your picture
24. Hasil Adkins - No shoes
25. Kelly Gordon - Independently poor

Radio show 7 May 2009

2009-06-03T16:54:00.000-07:00

Sir Douglas Sahm

Howdy! I'm back doing La Grange after a few months faffing about. Tune in to FleetFm 88.3 on alternate Tuesday mornings - or simply download from the interweb.

I really enjoyed this Tuesday's show - playing some excellent tracks from LPs I've just aquired, including the Sir Douglas Quintet's 1+1+1=4, and Rainmaker by The Dillards. As well as some great truck driving songs.

Download today's show here:

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrangeb1.mp3

Here's the track listing.

1. Flying Burrito Brothers - Do right woman
2. Sir Douglas Quintet - Sixty minutes of your love
3. The Dillards - Old man at the mill
4. Ronnie Milsap - Don't forget about me
5. Eddie Hinton - 300 pounds of hongry
6. Blanchard & Morgan - Chapel Hill
7. Run Westy Run - Rags n bones
8. Wiskey Biscuit - Santa Anna Delta Blues
9. Dave Dudley - I'm a comin home
10. Slim Jacobs - That's truck driving
11. Roger Miller - England swings
12. Jimmy Martin - Widowmaker
13. Roger Miller - Chugg a lug
14. Jas Mathus - Blues for Blind Melon
15. The Dillards - West Montana Hannah
16. Willie Nelson - Stay all night, stay a little longer
17. Stanley Brothers - Rollin on these rubber wheels
18. Sir Douglas Quintet - What about tomorrow?
19. Jim Croce - Speedball Tucker
20. Roger Miller - Dang me
21. Kris Kristofferson - Blame it on the stones
22. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Feeling blue (cruelly cut short - damn!)

I'm also doing a La Grange club night at the DOC on Saturday 16 May. From 9pm and it's free. I'll be inviting you to that one in the near future.

Show from Sunday 11 May 2008

2009-06-03T16:26:00.000-07:00

Commander Cody & his lost planet airmen

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange11may.mp3

1. Willie Nelson - Time of the preacher
2. Beachwood Sparks - Wake up little Suzie
3. Youngbloods - Sugar babe
4. Little Barrie - Greener Pastures
5. Neil Diamond - Thank the Lord for the night time
6. Johnny Horton - I'm a comin' home
7. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - 16 Tracks
8. Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen - Shall we meet beyond the river?
9. G. Love & Special Sauce - Sweet Sugar Mama
10. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Down in Texas
11. Greg Allman - Midnight Rider (spot the deliberate mistake in this one)
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Songs about weird old men
12. Tony Joe White - Old Man Willis
13. Bellamy Brothers - Old Hippie
14. Sittin on top of the world (played by mistake)
15. Mason Proffit - Old Joe Clark
16. Jim Reeves - Jimbo Jenkins
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17. Allman Brothers - Ramblin Man
18. Lynryd Skynryd - I'm a Country Boy
19. ZZ Top! YES! - Balinese
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Songs from me Dad
20. Hayes Carl - Drunken Poets Dream
21. Kathy Chiavola - Harvest
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A break in the country
22. Pete & The Pirates - Come on feet

Radio show from Sunday 15 March 2008

2009-06-03T16:22:00.000-07:00

Sunday's show can be downloaded here:

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange15march.mp3

Note the deliberate mistake in the filename.

Full track listing:

(0-1.34: misc hip hop track with that annoying Chipmunks vocal effect)
1. Lonzo and Oscar - Country music time
2. Moon Mullican - Ragged but I'm right
3. Johnny Horton - Bull by the horns
4. Ray Clark - Chomp'n
5. Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferon - Dakota
6. Mac Davis - Chop no wood
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Songs for my Dad's parrotts:
7. Roger Miller - Shame bird
8. Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - Tennnesee bird walk
9. John Wakely - Flight of the wild goose
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10. Hank Williams - Jambalaya
11. Freddie Hart - Whole hog or none
12. Johnny Horton - Honky tonk man
13. Johnny Horton - Golden Rocket
14. Yumpalong Yansen - Kum a ti yi yippee ya sure
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Songs from my Dad:
15. Scott H Birham - Been down too long
16. Bruce Robinson - What would Willie do?
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17. ZZ Top - Enjoy and get it on
18. Steve Miller Band - Living in the USA
19. James Gang - Standin' in the rain
20. Kriss Kristofferson - Border Lord
21. Barefoot Jerry - I ain't getting no touching
22. Don Bowman - World's worst guitar picker
23. Railroad Jerk - Sweet librarian
24. Doug Sahm - Lord I'm just a country boy in this great big freaky city
25. Buck Owens - Above and beyond

Show from Sunday 9 March 2008

2009-06-03T16:19:00.000-07:00

Playlist is copied below:

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange9march.mp3

La Grange: 9 March

1. ZZ Top - Thunderbird
2. Run Westy Run - Mop it up
3. Pearlene - Burial ground
4. Serendipity Singers - Mercy McBee
5. The Dillards - Reuben's train
6. JD Crowe & the New South - Old home place
7. Ween - Help me scrape the mucus off my brain
8. Pansy Division - Cowboys are secretly, frequently fond of each other
(* I waffle on about this afterwards and get things a bit wrong. It's not
by Willie Nelson - it's by Ned Sublette. Though Willie did cover it.)
9. Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie
10. Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen - Country casanova
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A break in the country
11. Dottie Cambridge - He's about a mover
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12. Doug Sahm - Catch a man on the rise
13. Bob Martin - Desert island prison
14. Uncle Tupelo - No depression (abandoned)
15. Mystic Chords of Memory - Like a lobster
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Songs from my Dad
16. Avett Brothers - Wanted man
17. Tom Russell - Beat folk
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18. Tom Waits - Looks like I'm up shit creek again
19. Quadrajets - All my rowdy friends are dead
20. ZZ Top - Cheap sunglasses (plays a bit slow)
21. ZZ Top - Waiting for the bus (nice big gap after this)
22. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (plays a bit slow I think)
23. Norm Heard - Cane on the brazos
24. Blanchard and Morgan - Chapel Hill
25. Loretta Lynn - Don't come home a drinking (with loving on your mind)
26. Dave Dudley - I'm a comin' home
27. Loudon Wainwright III - Clockwork Chartreuse (speeds up halfway through)
28. The Everly Brothers - T for Texas
29. I walk the line
30. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Ole cow hand
31. Bob Dylan - Apple suckling tree part 2
32. Black Jack David (played by mistake, abandoned)
33. CW McCall - The ole home fill her up and keep on trucking cafe
34. Bob Lind - Loser

2008-12-09T18:20:00.000-08:00

Old show time! This one from back in March.

Also - I think I'm DJ'ing at the Whammy on Saturday 13th, as part of the Cheese on Toast 5 Year celebrations. But I'm not sure how confirmed that is. Go along anyway, as you get to see Tourettes and Vietnam War and eat sausages, all for charidee.

http://audio.substep.com/fleetfm/lagrange15march.mp3

Full track listing:

(0-1.34: misc hip hop track with that annoying Chipmunks vocal effect)
1. Lonzo and Oscar - Country music time
2. Moon Mullican - Ragged but I'm right
3. Johnny Horton - Bull by the horns
4. Ray Clark - Chomp'n
5. Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferon - Dakota
6. Mac Davis - Chop no wood
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Songs for my Dad's parrotts:
7. Roger Miller - Shame bird
8. Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - Tennnesee bird walk
9. John Wakely - Flight of the wild goose
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10. Hank Williams - Jambalaya
11. Freddie Hart - Whole hog or none
12. Johnny Horton - Honky tonk man
13. Johnny Horton - Golden Rocket
14. Yumpalong Yansen - Kum a ti yi yippee ya sure
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Songs from my Dad:
15. Scott H Birham - Been down too long
16. Bruce Robinson - What would Willie do?
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17. ZZ Top - Enjoy and get it on
18. Steve Miller Band - Living in the USA
19. James Gang - Standin' in the rain
20. Kriss Kristofferson - Border Lord
21. Barefoot Jerry - I ain't getting no touching
22. Don Bowman - World's worst guitar picker
23. Railroad Jerk - Sweet librarian
24. Doug Sahm - Lord I'm just a country boy in this great big freaky city
25. Buck Owens - Above and beyond

Archived radio shows - La Grange One

2008-10-27T17:45:00.000-07:00

Howdy folks. So Uber went tits up unfortunately, and my old site bit the dust.

Fortunately, the old radio shows I recorded are still alive and well on a different server, so I've jumped ship to good old fashioned Blogger. I plan to add links to the old shows with track listings, as and when I get the time.

Here's the first show I did. Note the mumbling and microphone problems. Rest assured, things didn't really improve much on that front.

But hopefully, the quality of the tunes I played made up for the general DJ incompetence.

Sweet!

LA GRANGE ONE

Download the show here

Here's the tracklisting:

1. (half of) Baby it just don't matter - Sir Douglas Quintet
2. Cocaine - Hoyt Axton
3. I ain't got nobody - Dick Curless
4. My Uncle used to love me but she died - Roger Miller
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A break in the country:
5. Don't you call her no tramp - Betty Davis
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6. Shotgun Willie - Willie Nelson (track jumps, it's a fault with the show recording)
7. Working my way to LA - Jim Ford
8. For what it's worth - Buffalo Springfield
9. Rainin wine on Sunday - Diabolo Dimes
10. Slow Eyes - John Barrett's bass drum of death
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Songs from my Dad:
11. Carly Simon - The Haints
12. The other side - Ryan Bingham
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13. Dead flowers - Caitlin Rose
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Songs about animals for my dog Ted:
14. Yellow dawg - Crow
15. Grizzly Bear - Hoyt Axton (my son loves this track - he's 5 months old)
16. Tiger by the tail - Waylon Jennings
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Short country songs from '30 country greats':
17. Walking the floor over you - Charlie Walker
18. Columbus Stockade - Boots Randolph & Jimmy Richardson
19. 16 tonnes - Jimmy Dean
20. Alabam - Cowboy Copas
21. Giddyup go - Red Sovine
22. I can't go on living this way - Stonewall Jackson
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23. Kentucky woman - Ronnie Milsap
24. House of the rising sun - Ronnie Milsap
25. King of rock n roll - Crow
26. Space captain - Joe Cocker
27. Backside rules the navy - Oscar Brand & Dave Sears
28. Crying holy unto the Lord - Dillard & Clark
29. Cocaine blues - Johnny Cash
30. Death of song - White Hassle
31. Please don't bury me - John Prine
32. Calling lightning (part 2) - Howlin' Rain (again, recording jumps a bit)

La Grange! Is what exactly?

2008-02-13T19:17:00.000-08:00

La Grange is a country music show on FleetFm, Sundays midday till 2pm. You can listen online www.fleetfm.co.nz

It's also this blog of course. I'm going to rip some nice old tunes from the vinyl I've been plundering from Real Groovy and post up here. I'll chuck up some new tunes too.

And it's going to be a monthly club night at The Department of Conversation Bar on K Road, Auckland. When it opens.

What do I mean by country?

I mean stuff like

Doug Sahm
Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen
Jim White
Tony Joe White
Willie Nelson
Hasil Adkins
Tom Russell
The James Gang
The Rolling Stones
Beachwood Sparks
Tom Waits
ZZ Top (before Eliminator)
The Flying Burrito Borthers
Blitzen Trapper
Manassas
Howlin' Rain
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Run Westy Run
Mystic Chords of Memory

If you're in a country band and want to send me music to play on the show, or post here - email dave@artrocker.com.

Cheers!