Route 78 West Sunday 7/25/2004 back
Show #178 Let's Jump A Train AUDIO UNAVAILABLE
 track  artist, song-label, format
  01     Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies, St. Louis Blues-Proper, CD
02     Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies, Brownie Special-Proper, CD
- break 5:19 pm
03     Bob Wills, Ida Red Likes The Boogie-SP Records, CD
04     Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies, Swinging On The Garden Gate-Proper, CD (1939)
- break 5:16 pm
05     Fort Worth Doughboys, Nancy Jane-Proper, CD
06     Tex Williams & His Western Caravan, Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (that Cigarette)-Proper, CD
- break 5:26 pm
07     Hank Thompson, Bummin' Around-Koch, CD
08     Enrst Tubb, You Nearly Lose Your Mind-MCA, CD
09     Kitty Wells, Amigo's Guitar-MCA, CD (w/The Nashville Cats)
- break 5:35 pm
10     George Jones, If You Want Me Too-Mercury, CD
11     Rodger Miller, If You Want Me Too-Bear, CD
12     Grandpa Jones, T For Texas-Sony, CD
13     Don Walser, Cow Poke-Watermelon Records, CD
14     George Jones, She Thinks I Still Care-Mercury, CD
- break 5:48 pm
15     George Jones, Why Baby Why-Mercury, CD
16     Jimmie Rodgers, Blue Yodel-ASV, CD
17     Henson Cargill, Skip A Rope-Sony, CD
18     Jerry Lee Lewis, What's Made Milwaukee Famous-Tomato, CD
- break 6:04 pm
19     Flatlanders, The Stars In My Life-New West, CD (1972)
20     Dwight Yoakum, I Said-Koch, CD
21     Paradise String Band, Gonna Make You Beg-CD
- break 6:20 pm
22     Ukulele Blues, Sidecar Slim
23     The Avett Brothers, Nothing Short Of Thankful-Ramseur, CD
24     Jason Ringenberg (w/Steve Earle), Bible & A Gun-Nettwerk, CD (The Grass Is Always Bluer)
25     Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips, Bum On The Rod-Righteous, CD
26     Laura Cantrell, Lee Harvey Oswald Was A Friend Of Mine-Diesel Only, CD
- break 6:43 pm
27     Rambling' Jack Ellot & Derrell Adams, There's More Pretty Girls Than One
28     Elizabeth Cotton, Goin' Down The Road
29     Jolie Holland, Poor Girl's Blues-Anti, CD
30     Patterson Hood, Rising Sun-New West, CD
Notes: Tonight's presentation included historical music commentary by Sidecar Slim. Sidecar's happy, sparkling eyes gave indication of his delight as he added his knowledge to the Western Swing sets. First up was "St. Louis Blues," the first blues tune to be notated and written down by W. C. Handy, followed by Milton Brown's theme song, "Brownie Special," which begins with the strangest train whistle I ever heard and had me thinkin' about last week's train inspired playlist. In fact, I reminisced about train riding hobos most of this past week and am inspired by their freedom based philosophy.

The show continued with several sets of seldom heard tunes by traditional country artists and came to an end featuring two current stars, Jolie Holland and Patterson Hood.

The standout performance of this show was Milton Brown's, "St. Louis Blues," united with Sidecar Slim's musical analysis. I could just imagine what Uncle Jeff would of added to this show if he had been present.

Guests tonight included Sidecar Slim, a genuine musician who played a mean ukulele, and our good friend DJ Danny. Thanks to you both for all the facts and trivia.

Join Loki at Boulder's West End Tavern each Wednesday at 7pm for Western Wednesdays... and remember to wear something western.

Till next week.
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