THURSDAY MORNING MIX
March 26, 2009
Scott Foley

* Chris Knight, "Undone (live)" Undone: MusicFest Tribute To Robert Earl Keen (30 Tigers, 08)
* AA Bondy, "American Hearts" American Hearts (Fat Possum, 07)
* Michelle Malone, "Yesterday's Make Up" Debris (30 Tigers, 09)
* Split Lip Rayfield, "All the Same" I'll Be Around (self, 08)
* Kathleen Edwards, "One More Song the Radio Won't Like" Failer (Zoe, 03)
* John Doe & the Sadies, "Are the Good Times Really Over" Country Club (Yep Roc, 09)
* Bow Thayer, "Meanwhile In the Here and Now" Perfect Trainwreck (self, 08)
* Mark Olsen & Gary Louris, "Saturday Morning On Sunday Street" Ready For the Flood (New West, 09)
* Slaid Cleaves, "Beautiful Thing" Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away (Music Road, 09)
* AJ Roach, "Dogwood Winter" Dogwood Winter (self, 03)
* Star Anna, "Hawks On a Pole" Only Thing That Matters (09)
* Drive By Truckers, "Like a Rolling Stone" Blessing and a Curse (New West, 06)
* Alela Diane, "Dry Grass and Shadows" To Be Still (Rough Trade, 09)
* Greencards, "Fascination" Fascination (Sugar Hill, 09)
* Kelly Joe Phelps, "Western Bell" Western Bell (Black Hen, 09)
* Ramblin' Jack Elliott, "New Stranger Blues" Stranger Here (Anti, 09)
* Bonnie Prince Billy, "I Am Goodbye" Beware (Drag City, 09)
* Scott Miller, "Cheap Aint Cheap" For Crying Out Loud (FAY, 09)
* Willie Nelson, "Jimmy's Road" Naked Willie (RCA, 09)
* Great Lake Swimmers, "Pulling On a Line" Lost Channels (Netwerk, 09)
* Richard Buckner, "Roll" Devotion & Doubt (MCA, 97)
* Flatlanders, "Homeland Refugee" Hills and Valleys (New West, 09)
* David Berkeley, "Milwaukee Road" Strange Light (self, 09)
* Robbie Fulks, "Goodbye Virginia" 50-Vc. Doberman (Boondoggle, 09)
* North Twin, "Roll On" Stronger At the Broken Places (self, 09)
* Little Willie G, "She's About a Mover" Keep Your Soul: Tribute To Doug Sahm (Vanguard, 09)
* Lori McKenna, "Bible Song" Bittertown (Signature Sounds, 04)
* Crosby Tyler, "So Out Of Place" 10 Songs Of America Today (Bohemia, 08)

Scott

THURSDAY MORNING MIX

March 19, 2009

Scott Foley

* Ruthie Foster, "When it Don't Come Easy"  Truth According To ... (Blue Corn, 09)

* Kerri Powers, "Nobody Minds My Drinking"  Faith In the Shadows  (self, 09)

* Ian McLagan, "Little Black Number"  Never Say Never  (2:59, 09)

* Jeff Finlin, "Postcard From Topeka"  Angels In Disguise  (Ryko, 06)

* Ramblin' Jack Elliott, "Rising  High Water  Blues"  A  Stranger Here  (Anti, 09)

* Steve Earle, "Dead Flowers (live)"  Live At the BBC  (MCA, 09)

* Michelle Malone, "Feather In a Hurricane"  Debris  (Thirty Tigers, 09)

* Last Train Home, "Last  Good Kiss"  Last Good Kiss  (Red Beet, 07)

* Eleni Mandell, "Bigger Burn"  Artificial Fire  (Zedtone, 09)

* Kimmie Rhodes, Emmylou Harris, Beth Neilson Chapman,  "Send Me the Sun"  Love Me Like a Song  (Sunbird, 02)

* Slaid Cleaves, "Hard To Believe"  Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away  (Music Road, 09)

* Tres Chicas, "Drop Me Down"  Bloom Red and the Ordinary Girl  (Yep Roc, 06)

* Believers, "Ring Ring Ring"  Lucky You  (Chinese Baby, 09)

* Jaimi Shuey, "Poison Kisses"  Wrong Girl  (Borondo, 07)

* John Doe & the Sadies, "Stop the World and Let Me Off"  Country Club  (Yep Roc, 09)

* Crosby  Tyler, "Six Tattoos and a Tongue Ring"  10 Songs Of America Today  (Bohemia, 08)

* Jon Dee Graham, "Jubilee"  Full  (Freedom, 06)

* Resentments, "Look Up"  Roselight  (Freedom, 09)

* Willie Nelson, "Sunday Morning Coming Down"  Naked Willie (RCA, 09)

* Ted Russell Kamp, "Never Gonna Do You Wrong"  Poor Man's Paradise  (PoMo, 09)

* Richmond Fontaine, "Don't Look And It Won't Hurt"  The Fitzgerald  (El Cortez, 05)

* Alejandro Escovedo, "Rosalie (live)"  Room Of Songs  (More Miles, 05)

* Booker T, "Get Behind the Mule"  Potato Hole  (Anti, 09)

* Jon Snodgrass, "Remember My Name"  Visitor's Band  (Suburban Home, 09)

* Elliot Randall, "How To Get Old"  Take the Fall  (self, 07)

Scott

THURSDAY MORNIN' MIX
March 12, 2009
Scott Foley

* M Ward w/Lucinda Williams, "Oh Lonesome Me" Hold Time (Merge, 09)
* Ben Nichols, "Davy Brown" Last Pale Light In the West (Liberty & Lament, 09)
* Jenny Lewis, "The Charging Sky" Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love, 06)
* Townes Van Zandt, "No Lonesome Tune" Late Great TVZ (EMI, 1972)
* JJ Cale, "Strange Days" Roll On (Rounder, 09)
* Dan Auerbach, "Whispered Words" Keep It Hid (Nonesuch, 09)
* Deep Dark Woods, "How Can I Try" Winter Hours (Black Hen, 09)
* The Believers, "Higher Ground" Lucky You (Chinese Baby, 09)
* Steve Earle, "Oxycontin Blues" Washington Square Serenade (New West, 07)
* Blue Rodeo, "Bad Timing (live)" Blue Road (Warner, 08)
* Sacred Shakers, "Jordan Is a Hard Road" Sacred Shakers (Signature Sound, 08)
* Dex Romweber Duo, "Ruins Of Berlin" Ruins Of Berlin (Bloodshot, 09)
* Samantha Crain, "Rising Sun" Songs In the Night (Ramseur, 09)
* Justin Townes Earle, "Can't Hardly Wait" Midnight At the Movies (Bloodshot, 09)
* Crosby Tyler, "So Out Of Place" 10 Songs Of America Today (Bohemia, 08)
* Wilco, "I Can't Stand It" Summer Teeth (Reprise, 1999)
* Vetiver, "On the Other Side" Tight Knit (Sub Pop, 09)
* Jason Isbell, "No Choice In the Matter" Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit (Lightning, 09)
* Bill Frisell, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" Best Of Vol 1: Folk Songs (Nonesuch, 09)
* Brigitte DeMeyer, "Shepherd" Red River Flower (self, 07)
* Lewi Longmire, "Baby Would You Take Me Home" Fire 'Neath the Still (Lawnmower, 08)
* Will Kimbrough, "Pride" Americanitis (Daphne, 06)
* William Elliott Whitmore, "Hell Or High Water" Animals In the Dark (Anti, 09)
* Maria McKee, "Only Once" You Gotta Sin To Get Saved (Geffen, 93)
* Golden Smog, "Love and Mercy" Stay Golden, Smog (Ryko, 08)
* Shemekia Copeland, "Dirty Water" Never Going Back (Telarc, 09)
* Buddy & Julie Miller, "Hush Sorrow" Written In Chalk (New West, 09)

Scott

THURSDAY MORNING MIX March 5, 2009 Scott Foley

I like to think that, while I'm not surfing atop it, I am at least within splashing distance of the tech wave that has been destroying/transforming the music industry over the past few years. Nearly all my show research is conducted online, and I discover nearly every new, independent artist there as well. On any given Episode of TMM, anywhere from 5 to a dozen songs are played from MP3 downloads. When I solicit labels for new releases, more and more of them are zipping me digital copies, rather than the more tangible brown padded envelopes which used to crowd my mailbox. My curbside mailbox.

Talking with a radio friend this week, I was told that the music industry was collapsing into a heap of smoldering plastic. Not a surprise, really. I've always believed that while mega-labels and super-distributors are having a tough go of it, more great music is available (online, of course) today than ever before. Still, my friend told me that the CD was a thing of the past, and that in mere years, it would be obsolete, replaced by digital files.

Coming from a guy who sold his LP collection in college to fund a wild cassette buying spree, my 2 cents is probably not worth even that at this point. As a bookseller by trade, I've been eavesdropping on conversations about the demise of the book in light of Amazon's mighty Kindle. Apparently, between my two passions, I've dedicated my life to dying media ... No surprise, then, that I fall on the more conservative side of this argument. Both expressions of digital media will certainly make inroads over the next few years. I can't imagine, however, that our mainstream culture won't always need some material reminder of the music which they enjoy. It's no fluke that LP sales in 2008 leaped 89 percent, even as CD sales continue their freefall (down over 50 percent since their 2000 heyday).

I'll continue to (legally) download tracks for TMM as they are available. Most will remain on my computer (I have 2 lonely and unused iPods I do plan to enlist some day), while I burn my new songs and albums onto CD. It's probably no coincidence that I've never found a pair of "earbuds" that stays put in my ears ...

Until then, I'll be waiting for the hovercar at the curb.

* Anais Mitchell & Rachel Ries, "MGD" Country EP (Righteous Babe, 08)
* Paul Reddick, "I Will Vanish" Sugarbird (Northern, 08)
* Nels Andrews, "Jesse's Mom" Sunday Shoes (Little Kiss, 04)
* Blue Rodeo, "Losing You" Blue Road (Warner, 08)
* Jeffrey Foucault, "Late John Garfield Blues" Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes (Signature Sound, 09)
* Split Lip Rayfield, "Hobo Love Song" I'll Be Around (self, 08)
* Brigitte DeMeyer, "Without You" Red River Flower (self, 07)
* Ryan Adams, "My Winding Wheel" Heartbreaker (Bloodshot, 00)
* Justin Townes Earle, "Midnight At the Movies" Midnight At the Movies (Bloodshot, 09)
* Emmylou Harris & Mary Black, "Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia" Singing Through the Hard Times (Righteous Babe, 09)
* The Resentments, "Home Again" Roselight (Freedom, 08)
* Robbie Fulks, "Irreplaceable" 50-Vc. Doberman (Boondoggle, 09)
* Malcolm Holcombe, "Sittin' Sad" I Never Heard You Knockin' (self, 05)
* Fleet Foxes, "English House" Sun Giant EP (Sub Pop, 08)
* Earl, "Beautiful Delilah" Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Undertone, 2004)
* Supersuckers, "When I Go I'm Gone" Get It Together (Mid-Fi, 08)
* Alela Diane, "Age Old Blues" To Be Still (Rough Trade, 09)
* Sarah Borges, "No One Will Ever Love You" Stars Are Out (Sugar Hill, 09)
* Star Anna, "If Wishes Were Horses" Crooked Path (Malamute, 08)
* Son Volt, "The Search" The Search (Legacy, 07)
* Kerri Powers, "Nobody Minds My Drinking" Faith In the Shadows (Gritty Ditty, 09)
* Drag the River, "Crawling" Bad At Breaking Up (Suburban Home, 09)
* Jon Snodgrass, "Brave With Strangers" Visitor's Band (Suburban Home, 09)
* Gretchen Peters & Tom Russell, "Billy 4" One To the Heart One To the Head (Frontera, 08)
* Blitzen Trapper, "Black River Killer" Live Sessions (Sub Pop, 08)
* Lucinda Williams, "Lately" Going Driftless: An Artist's Tribute To Greg Brown (Red House, 02)
* Deep Dark Woods, "How Can I Try" Winter Hours (Black Hen, 09)

Scott