Thursday Morning Mix Playlist

Episode 9118

Cheryl Wheeler "Arrow" Circles & Arrows

Avett Bros "Bella Donna" Second Gleam

Bonnie Prince Billy "Easy Does It" Lie Down in the Light

Kris Kristofferson "This Old Road" This Old Road

McCarthy Trenching "Roasting Song" Calamity Drenching

Greg Brown "Worrisome Years" Down in There

Chuck Ragan "California Burritos" Feast or Famine

Patty Loveless "Sleepless Nights" Sleepless Nights

Tony Rice "Pony" Night Flyer

Grayson Capps "Back to the Country" Rott & Roll

Brandi Carlile "Throw it All Away" Brandi Carlile

Will Quinlan & the Diviners "Hallowed Ground" Navasota

Bonepony "Poor Boy Blues" Stomp Revival

Robin & Linda Williams "Maybelle's Guitar and Monroe's Mandolin" Buena Vista

Magnolia Electric Co "Trouble in Mind" Sojourner Box Set

Joan Osborne "Hallelujah in the City" Little Wild One

Old Crow Medicine Show "Highway Halo" Tennessee Pusher

Danielle Talamini "Pack My Bags" Road Rises

Alison Krauss "Lose Again" Every Time You Say Goodbye

Dolorean "The Search" Violence in the Snowy Fields

Blue Mountain "Emily Smiles" Midnight in Mississippi

Carter Family "Waitin' on the Far Side Banks of Jordan" Apostle sndtk

Wovenhand "Cohawkin Road" Ten Stories

Verlon Thompson "Gimme a Ride to Heaven" (live) Live at the Ivey's

Chris Knight "Maria" Heart of Stone

Christian Kiefer w/Tom Brosseau "Martin Van Buren: Little Magician" Of Great and Mortal Men

Way back in 1990 or so, when there was still a TNN (and TNN meant "the Nashville Network"), there was apparently a short-lived program called American Music Shop. I know not because I saw it myself, but because the YouTube told me so.

On a whim, I looked up videos of Townes Van Zandt, and came across a nice version of "Pancho and Lefty", introduced by Nanci Griffiths and performed solo. Poking further, I came across a stirring rendition of Cheryl Wheeler's "Arrow" (a near-perfect song in my book), backed by Mark O'Connor, Harry Stinson and Jerry Douglas, and introduced by Chet Atkins. Then there was a sweet "Lost Again" with Alison Krauss and Union Station, which led me to conclude that I enjoy early, awkward Alison Krauss better than current, confident (whispery) Alison.

Worth looking into. Disproving those who believe the YouTube is solely for perusing shaky cell phone videos of preteens cavorting to "Barbie Girl" ...

Scott