Thursday Morning Mix:

Playlist, Episode 10308

Dayna Kurtz, "Those Were the Days" Beautiful Yesterday

Creekdippers, "Walk With Them" Political Manifesto

Luke Doucet, "Day Rick Danko Died" Blood's Too Rich

Bob Schneider, "World Exploded Into Love" Lonelyland

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, "Let Us Down Easy" Cardinology

Mavericks, "True Love Ways" Not Fade Away: Remembering Buddy Holly

Hot Club Of Cowtown, "Forget-Me-Nots" Best Of Hot Club of Cowtown

Decemberists, "Valerie Plame" Always the Bridesmaid

Bobby Bare Jr, "Visit Me In Music City" From the End Of Your Leash

Susan Tedeschi, "Back To the River" Back To the River

Charlie Haden w/Rosanne Cash, "Wildwood Flower" Rambling Boy

North Mississippi Allstars w/Lucinda Williams, "Hurry Up Sunrise" Electric Blue Watermelon

Rodney Crowell, "I've Done Everything I Can" Sex & Gasoline

Asylum St Spankers, "Leaf Blower" (live) What? And Give Up Show Biz?

Hayes Carll, "Long Way Home" Little Rock

Annabelle Chvostek, "Resilience" Resilience

Lambchop, "I Believe In You" OH (Ohio)

Jolie Holland, "Palmyra" Living & the Dead

John Doe w/Kathleen Edwards, "Golden State" Year In the Wilderness

Danielle Talamini, "Mercury Running" Road Rises

Johnny Cash, "I Am the Nation" America

Old Crow Medicine Show, "Lift Him Up" Tennessee Pusher

Miss Leslie, "Between the Whiskey and the Wine" Between the Whiskey and the Wine

Marah, "Songbirdz" Angels Of Destruction!

until then,

Scott

Sunday Drive traipsing thru the internets

... on a completely unrelated matter, there must be a never-ending supply of over-dramatic reaction shots from Wall Street types. A glance at any newspaper, weblog or tv newscast will reveal a shot of a financial sort, looking up at the Big Board with his hands on his balding head in complete surprise. Or head buried in despair. Do they give classes in assuming these poses? Do traders automatically assume this position once they notice a camera trained on them? Again, this has nothing to do with music, but ...

Anyhow, one of my favorite LPs of 2008 will receive a live, follow-up EP treatment. Alejandro Escovedo's phenomenal Real Animal is a near-perfect release. On November 11, AE will issue Live Animal, an EP featuring live in-studio versions of a handful of songs from the full length album.

M Ward's Post-War was one of my favorite albums of a couple of years back, and I've been eagerly tracking the progress of its follow-up. Pitchfork announced this week that M's Hold Time will see the light of day on February 11 of 2009. Tracks feature guests including Lucinda Williams, DeVotchka's Tom Hagerman and Zooey Deschanel. Even further down on the horizon is the long-rumored Monster of Folk collaboration with Conor Oberst and Jim James, which is promised for 2010.

In the end, I don't necessarily care if an artist is a MENSA member, as long as they can make good, honest music. Still, it doesn't hurt that Rosanne Cash has penned a bright, clever article for The Nation entitled "Why I'd Be a Better VP Than Sarah Palin".

Avett Bros have announced that they have put together a tour-only release of gospel music recorded with their family, called Jim Avett and Family.

Finally, I have to announce that Ryan Adams and the Cardinals' Cardinology LP is officially messing with my fledgeling Favorite Albums list for 2008. Sure, Adams currently seems reliably sober, and now adds Bono to the list of classic rock figures he's channeling (Jerry Garcia, Neil Young, Gram Parsons et al). Nevertheless, his writing is consistently great on Cardinology, and the Cardinals sound as good as ever.

alright then,
Scott

Thursday Morning Mix: Playlist,
Episode 10238

Yarn, "5 Guitars" Empty Pockets
Kirsty McGee, "Profit Song" Kansas Sessions
AJ Roach, "Sears & Roebuck Suit" Revelation
Bowery Boy Blue, "Eye For Love" Stalk That Myth
Jolie Holland, "Sweet Loving Man" Living & the Dead
Trampled By Turtles, "November" Duluth
Iguanas, "If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times" If You Should Ever ...
Neko Case, "Furnace Room Lullaby" Furnace Room Lullaby
Old 97s, "Lonely Holiday" Fight Songs
Ray Lamontagne, "Meg White" Gossip In the Grain
Susan Cowsill, "Just Believe It" Just Believe It
Conor Oberst, "Cape Canaveral" Conor Oberst
Broken Prayers, "Little Black Heart" Crow
Kasey Chambers w/Shane Nicholson, "Sweetest Waste of Time" Rattlin' Bones
Revival Tour, "Revival Road" internet single
Kate Campbell, "Save the Day" Save the Day
Eliza Gilkyson, "Paradise Hotel" Paradise Hotel
Dolorean, "We Winter Wrens" You Can't Win
Bob Dylan, "Miss the Mississippi" Tell Tale Signs
Emmylou Harris, "Broken Man's Lament" All I Intended To Be
X-Rated Cowboys, "Low Self-Esteem & Alcohol" X-Rated Cowboys
Bruce Robison, "California 85" New World
Ryan Adams, "Born Into a Light" Cardinology
Cross Canadian Ragweed, "Lawrence" Mission California
Guy Clark, "Like a Coat From the Cold" (live) Keepers
Wrinkle Neck Mules, "Liza" Pull the Brake
Lambchop, "National Talk Like a Pirate Day" OH
Gougers, "Rosaline" Long Day For the Weathervane

until then,
Scott

Thursday Morning Mix: Playlist, Episode 10168

Horse Feathers, "Curs in the Weeds" House With No Home
Kelly Willis, "Easy (As Falling In Love)" Easy
Amy Speace, "Born To the Breed" Born To the Breed
Jon Dee Graham, "Twilight" Great Battle
Trampled By Turtles, "Empire" Duluth
Waybacks, "City Boy" Loaded
Elephant Revival, "Ring Around the Moon" Elephant Revival
Jolie Holland, "Mexico City" Living & the Dead
Vic Chesnutt, "Bernadette & Her Crowd" Salesman & Bernadette
Lucinda Williams, "Circles & X's" Little Honey
Richard Buckner, "Lil Wallet Picture" Devotion & Doubt
ESP, "Highway 395" One For the Ditch
Carolyn Mark, "My Idaho Home" Tribute to Robert Altman's Nashville
Darrell Scott, "Frisco Depot" Modern Hymns
Carrie Rodriguez, "Rag Doll" She Ain't Me
Brett Dennen, "San Francisco" Hope For the Hopeless
Southern Culture on the Skids, "Muswell Hillbilly" Countrypolitan Favorites
Keith Moody, "Think" Only Ride You Can Get
Or the Whale, "Call & Response" Light Poles & Pines
Centro-Matic, "I the Kite" Dual Hawks
O'Death, "Lowtide" Broken Hymns Limbs & Skins
Band of Heathens, "Don't Call On Me" Band of Heathens
Little Willies, "Roll On" Little Willies
JD Souther, "House Of Pride" If the World Was You
Avett Bros, "Die Die Die" Emotionalism
Nick Lowe, "True Love Travels On a Gravel Road" Impossible Bird
Band of Annuals, "Ain't Lookin' Back" Let Me Live
Jason Boland & the Stragglers, "Comal County Blue" Comal County Blue


The Scott Foley Radio Experience will continue, incidentally, tomorrow from 1 to 3pm MST, as I take the mic on behalf of a traveling Charlie for Sonic Stew. While my efforts will be wider ranging than the typical Thursday Morning Mix, I'll definitely touch on a lot of similar ingredients. Hope you're able to join me. until then,
Scott

Sunday Drive
traipsing thru the internets

Been a few weeks since we've fired up the ol' americanacycle for a Drive. When high temps are only in the 40s, I suppose the last thing you want to do is feel the wind in your hair, etc. That's my excuse, and the fact that I've taken on another 'real' job at Boulder Book Store. My first minimum wage job in 15 years! I always want to feel younger, but ...

Anyhows, the new No Depression website is now active. I counted on their "Please Release Me" list of release dates on their older site, but that doesn't seem to have made the cut. In other news of great seismic shifts in the americana-sphere, one of the best independent distributors of our kind of music has pulled down the proverbial blinds. Miles of Music did a fine job pulling together albums from established acts and self-publishers, but couldn't compete with the pretty bells and whistles elsewhere. So what's next?

Please don't make it Paste Magazine, one of the last alternative mags featuring at least a modicum of americana content. Paste's online presence noticed that things are heating up in the Magnolia Electric Co camp. I'll have to save a space in my stocking this Christmas ... Wouldn't mind this either.

Plenty of fellow music snobs make a point of stressing their dislike of the holiday music which is dusted off over the next several weeks. I count myself as among those welcoming an excuse to play such favorites as Emmylou's Light of the Stable or "Nothing But a Child" by Steve Earle. 2008 has already delivered promising collections by Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Bela Fleck. Also on the horizon are Christmas Cheer by the Boxmasters, unreleased material from Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer called American Noel, Northern Lights by Gretchen Peters, and something called Hotel Cafe Presents Winter Songs, with contributions from Brandi Carlile, Nicole Atkins, and a handful of artists who sound like Jack Johnson ...

alright then,
Scott

Thursday Morning Mix: Playlist, Episode 10098

Matt Bauer, "Don't Let Me Out" Island Moved in the Storm
Over the Rhine, "Poughkeepsie" Good Dog Bad Dog
Calexico, "Bend to the Road" Carried to Dust
Cordero, "Ruleta Rusa" De Donde Eres
Yarn, "You Don't Love Me Anymore" Empty Pockets
Peter Mulvey, "Comes Love" Ten Thousand Mornings
Lucinda Williams, "If Wishes Were Horses" Little Honey
Jayhawks, "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" Smile
Guy Forsyth, "Long Long Time" Love Songs For & Against
JJ Grey & Mofro, "Orange Blossoms" Orange Blossoms
Paul Reddick, "I Will Vanish" Sugarbird
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, "Tie Me At the Crossroads" BARK
Los Cenzontles w/David Hidalgo, "Red River Road" Songs of Wood & Steel
Iguanas, "If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times" If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times
Jeb Loy Nichols, "Morning Love" Now Then
Derailers, "Guaranteed to Satisfy" Guaranteed to Satisfy
Danielle Talamini, "Pack My Bags" The Road Rises
Son Volt, "Medicine Hat" Wide Swing Tremolo
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, "Fix It" Cardinology
Dailey & Vincent, "More Than a Name" Dailey & Vincent
Jenny Lewis, "Black Sand" Acid Tongue
Blitzen Trapper, "Gold for Bread" Furr
Kathleen Edwards, "Back to Me" Back to Me
Dave Alvin, "Blue Wing" King of California
Gina Villalobos, "Can't Find My Way Home" web-only single
Chris Knight, "Hell Ain't Half Full" Heart of Stone
Rusty Truck, "Broken Promises" Luck's Changing Lanes
Joan Osborne, "Brokedown Palace" Pretty Little Stranger


until then,
Scott

Thursday Morning Mix: Playlist, Episode 10028

Steve Earle, "Revolution Starts" Revolution Starts Now
Bekka Bramlett, "What Happened" Imus Ranch Record
Los Super 7, "Heard it On the X" Heard it On the X
Band of Annuals, "Blood on My Shirt" Let Me Live
Cadillac Sky, "Wouldn't Put it Past Love" Gravity's Our Enemy
Horse Flies, "Baghdad Children" Until the Ocean
Susan Tedeschi, "True" Back to the River
Gram Parsons, "California Cotton Fields" (live) Live 1973
Asylum St Spankers, "Asylum St Blues" (live) What? And Give Up Show Biz?
Two Tons of Steel, "Vegas" Vegas
Rory Block, "I Want to Go Home" Blues Walkin' Like a Man
Legendary Shack Shakers, "Swampblood" Swampblood
Melonie Cannon w/Willie Nelson, "Back to Earth" And the Wheels Turn
Jesse Dayton, "Country Soul Brother" Country Soul Brother
Jenny Lewis, "See Fernando" Acid Tongue
Los Lonely Boys, "Castanets" Por Vida
Alejandro Escovedo, "Always a Friend" Real Animal
Lucinda Williams, "Well Well Well" Little Honey
Lyle Lovett, "Private Conversation" Road to Ensenada
Yarn, "Empty Pockets" Empty Pockets
Blue Mountain, "Free State of Jones" Midnight in Mississippi


Today's Episode of the Thursday Morning Mix was a tad abbreviated, owing to KRFC's Fall Membership Drive. Thanks honestly to all who have contributed to make it a success. Thanks also to Jeff Koepke of the House Rent Party blues show, who joined me behind the mic. Incidentally, today's Thursday Morning Mix was brought to you by great new music from Utah's Band of Annuals and New York's band Yarn, whose Empty Pockets is promising to be one of the year's best follow-ups. Their 2006 self-titled album was a humble, homemade affair, but one with enough appeal to see it onto the americana radio charts. Band of Annuals' debut full-length Let Me Live holds the same promise. until then,
Scott