THURSDAY MORNING MIX
January 29, 2009
Scott Foley

* Ben Kweller, "Fight" Changing Horses (ATO, 09)
* Annabelle Chvostek, "Resilience" Resilience (Borealis, 08)

* Drive-By Truckers, "Perfect Timing" Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West, 08)
* Rachel Harrington, "Sunshine Girl" Bootlegger's Daughter (Skinny Dennis, 07)
* William Elliott Whitmore, "There's Hope For You" Animals In the Dark (Anti, 09)
* Subdudes, "All the Time In the World (live)" Live At the Ram's Head (Biographica, 08)
* Buddy & Julie Miller, "Gasoline and Matches" Written In Chalk (New West, 09)
* Southern Culture On the Skids, "I Want a Love" Mojo Box (Yep Roc, 04)
* Yarn, "Empty Pockets" Empty Pockets (self, 08)
* Ryan Bingham, "Bread and Water" Mescalito (Lost Highway, 07)
* Bon Iver, "Blood Bank" Blood Bank (Jagjaguwar, 09)
* Devotchka, "Clockwise Witness" Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti, 08)
* Gurf Morlix, "Hard Road" Last Exit To Happyland (self, 09)
* Devil In the Woodpile, "Bron-y-Aur Stomp" In Your Lonesome Town (Bloodshot, 05)
* Stephanie Chapman, "Long Hot Summer" This Song Is To You (Pain In the Art, 08)
* Redlands Palomino Co, "Take Me Home" Take Me Home (Laughing Outlaw, 07)
* Jason Isbell, "Seven Mile Island" Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit (Lightning, 09)
* Donna Ulisse, "In My Wildest Dreams" Walk This Mountain Down (Hadley, 09)
* Ben Nichols, "Davy Brown" Last Pale Light In the West (Liberty & Lament, 09)
* Derailers, "Guaranteed To Satisfy" Guaranteed To Satisfy (Palo Duro, 08)
* Tallest Man On Earth, "Pistol Dreams" Shallow Grave (Mexican Summer, 08)
* Samantha Crain, "Get the Fever Out" Songs In the Night (Ramseur, 09)
* Jay Farrar, "Feel Free" Sebastopol (Artemis, 01)
* Eleni Mandell, "Right Side" Artificial Fire (Zedtone, 09)
* Ruthie Foster, "When It Don't Come Easy" Truth According To (Blue Corn, 09)
* Patty Griffin, "Love Throw a Line" Impossible Dream (ATO, 04)

Scott

THURSDAY MORNING MIX
January 22, 2009 Scott Foley

More promising new music continues to fill our in-box at TMM, already making 2009 a pretty good year musically. Jason Isbell's 2nd solo album will keep my ears company this week, as well as the new effort by William Elliott Whitmore. Debuted Ben Nichols' Last Pale Light In the West on this Episode, as well as Supersuckers. I'm not expecting dazzling brilliance from Willie & The Wheel, but it's new, and that's a Good Thing.


* Richmond Fontaine, "Give Me Time" Obliteration By Time (El Cortez, 05)
* Willis Alan Ramsey, "Goodbye Old Missoula" Willis Alan Ramsey (EMI, 72)
* Fred Eaglesmith, "Shoulder To the Plow" Tinderbox (Major Label, 08)
* Chris Knight, "Rural Route" Enough Rope (Drifter's Church, 06)
* Guy Davis, "Sweetheart Like You" Sweetheart Like You (Red House, 09)
* Otis Gibbs, "Caroline" Grandpa Walked the Picketline (Wanamaker, 08)
* Ben Nichols, "Last Pale Light In the West" Last Pale Light In the West (Suburban Home, 09)
* Jolie Holland, "Sweet Loving Man" Living and the Dead (Anti, 08)
* Sarah Borges, "Do It For Free" Stars Are Out (Sugar Hill, 09)
* Walt Wilkins, "Paint the Town Beige" Undone: MusicFest Tribute To Robert Earl Keen (30Tigers, 08)
* Shane Nicholson, "God and Elvis" Familiar Ghosts (Liberation, 09)
* Will Quinlan & the Diviners, "Remember the Beatitudes" Navasota (Ironweed, 08)
* Beausoleil, "Little Darlin'" Alligator Purse (Yep Roc, 09)
* Bo Ramsey, "And I Wonder" Fragile (Self, 08)
* Willie Nelson & Asleep At the Wheel, "Hesitation Blues" Willie & The Wheel (Bismeaux, 09)
* Darrell Scott, "Shattered Cross" Invisible Man (Full Light, 06)
* Stephanie Chapman, "Train Of Love" This Song Is To You (Pain In the Art, 08)
* Graham Lindsey, "If I Ever Make It Home" We Are All Alone In This Together (Spacebar, 08)
* Chip Taylor, "Shotgun Man" Songs From a Dutch Tour (Train Wreck, 08)
* Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, "Good" Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit (Lightning Rod, 09)
* Townes Van Zandt, "Pancho & Lefty" Anthology: 1968-1979 (Fuel)
* Jim White, "Alabama Chrome" Drill a Hole In That Substrate ... (Luaka Bop, 04)
* Marah, "City Of Dreams" If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry (Yep Roc, 05)
* Supersuckers, "Breaking Honey's Heart" Get It Together (Mid-Fi, 08)
* Gwil Owen, "Cadillac" Gravy (Rambler, 08)

Scott

THURSDAY MORNING MIX
January 15, 2008
Scott Foley

Had a silent, special guests in studio this morning. Colorado Sound host Chris K had stopped by, in town for the day with some free time to kill. While he calls almost every Thursday, I'd only met Chris K face-to-face one time previous to this, and then very briefly during my first visit to KRFC.

One of our recurring discussions is about the responsibility of a programmer with regards to offering up a modicum of "hits" along with new and lesser known artists. Fact is, there are a paltry few veritable hits in the realms of americana, alt.country and roots music, and I freely admit to wallowing in relative obscurity for a good share of the TMM.

If I'm actually ever paid for my services, I'd certainly be open to skewing the majority my Mix in the direction of the Lucindas, the Earles and the Hiatts of our genre. For today, however, while I can't help but keep various folks in mind while I assemble a show, my own happiness is my foremost barometer. I just want to have a good time, period.

In the end, I believe it's my responsibility to both reflect and project. I intend for TMM to reflect the current state of americana music, to remain relevant in light of national charts, trends, etc. I also intend to project our attention beyond the mainstream, into the darker corners where good music also hides. It's the only way an artist (like Boris McCutcheon or Stephanie Chapman, for instance) will ever be more than a regional entity.


* Steve Earle, "Christmas In Washington" El Corazon (Warner, 97)
* Diana Jones, "Pony" My Remembrance Of You (New Song, 06)
* Boris McCutcheon & Saltlicks, "Ballad Of Rusty Strange" Bad Road Good People (Frogville, 08)
* Over the Rhine, "Ohio" Ohio (Back Porch, 03)
* Beausoleil, "I Spent All My Money Loving You" Alligator Purse (YepRoc, 09)
* Laura Cantrell, "Too Late For Tonight" When the Roses Bloom Again (Diesel Only)
* Hayes Carll, "Beaumont" Trouble In Mind (Lost Highway, 08)
* Hayes Carll, "Drunken Poet's Dream" Trouble In Mind (Lost Highway, 08)
* Bruce Robison, "Desperately" His Greatest (Premium, 09)
* Patty Loveless w/Vince Gill, "Sleepless Nights" Sleepless Nights (Saguaro, 08)
* Tony Furtado, "Lighten Up Your Load" Deep Water (Funzalo, 09)
* Gourds, "All the Way To Jericho" Haymaker! (YepRoc, 09)
* Stephanie Chapman, "Steely Dan" This Song Is To You (Pain In the Art, 08)
* Elizabeth Cook w/Bobby Bare Jr, "Rest Your Weary Mind" Balls (31 Tigers, 07)
* Gabe Dixon w/Mindy Smith, "Further the Sky" Gabe Dixon Band (Fantasy, 08)
* Subdudes, "Poorman's Paradise (live)" Live At the Ram's Head (Biograhica, 09)
* Mary Gauthier, "Please" Between Daylight & Dark (Lost Highway, 07)
* Reckless Kelly, "Think It Over One Time (live)" Undone: MusicFest Tribute To Robert Earl Keen (Right Ave, 09)
* Mark Olson & Gary Louris, "Doves & Stones" Ready For the Flood (New West, 09)
* Rhythm Angels, "29 Ways" Girls Like Us (High Horse, 09)
* Jim Lauderdale w/Donna the Buffalo, "Ginger Peach" Wait 'Til Spring (Dualtone, 03)
* Derek Trucks, "Sweet Inspiration" Already Free (Victor, 09)
* Be Good Tanyas, "When Doves Cry" Hello Love (Nettwerk, 06)
* Gurf Morlix, "She's a River" Last Exit To Happyland (self, 09)
* Tallest Man On Earth, "I Won't Be Found" Shallow Grave (Mexican Summer, 08)
* Chatham County Line, "Chip Of a Star" IV (YepRoc, 08)
* Jim Avett & Family, "Keep On the Sunny Side" Jim Avett & Family (Ramsuer, 08)

Scott

THURSDAY MORNING MIX January 8, 2009
Scott Foley

These Thursday mornings come and go all too quickly.

Thursday mornings find me up at around 5, gathering the final few CDs into my box despite the fact that I know I already have more than enough to build an entire Episode of the Mix. Load the car around 6 and head north up 287. These days, the sun is just rising, making for a beautiful drive.

Up the road, I'm throwing on CDs to preview tracks for play. I always consider stopping for coffee in Loveland, but never do. There's a Dazbog Coffee shop just after a new place advertising pizza and oysters ... The stretch between Loveland and Fort Collins can be a bit congested, and I'll switch between my CDs and KRFC, checking out what Chris or EP has to say.

I arrive at the station by 7. Check out newly arrived CDs, send and print out the week's reviews I've written, and gather a few stragglers from the library. By 7:30 I'll establish my space in the studio, News On the Range playing in the background, sun warming the parking lot.

On at 8, the time goes too fast. Plans rarely come together as expected. I'll either hit a groove or I won't, knowing that either way it's probably fine with listeners. I inevitably wish I'd prepared more (or less) with more (or less) to say, or wish I'd said it all better. Never feel I'm ready to go once Charlie or Aaron or Steve pulls in for Morning Dew.

It's a delicious but troubling operation for us. As an insatiable lover of music, it's all about the "you've got to hear this!" moments, and there are times when I feel some extra satisfaction for having cobbled together a good show. More often than not, I leave the parking lot, back onto 287, looking forward to my next chance to achieve groove, to correct my missteps, to pull magic from my cardboard box.

* Billy Bragg & Wilco, "Hesitating Beauty" Mermaid Avenue (Elektra, 98)
* Neko Case, "John Saw That Number" Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti, 06)
* Mando Saenz, "Engine Roll" Watertown (Carnival, 04)
* The Bridge, "Poison Wine" Blind Man's Hill (Hyena, 08)
* Mark Olson & Gary Louris, "Turn Your Pretty Name Around" Ready For the Flood (New West, 09)
* Horse Flies, "Baghdad Children" Until the Ocean (Pest Control, 08)
* Paper Bird, "Pennies" Anything Nameless and Joymaking (self, 07)
* Boris McCutcheon & Saltlick, "I Long (Then I'm Gone)" Bad Road Good People (Frogville, 08)
* Brave Combo, "Louie Louie" Exotic Rocking Life (denTone, 08)
* Gwil Owen, "Cadillac" Gravy (Rambler, 08)
* Eleni Mandell, "Bigger Burn" Artificial Fire (Zedtone, 09)
* Shane Nicholson, "It's Such a Shame" Familiar Ghosts (Liberation, 09)
* Old 97s, "Salome" Too Far To Care (Elektra, 97)
* Ben Sollee, "Only a Song" Something Worth Keeping EP (self, 08)
* Pine Hill Haints, "Say Something Say Anything" Ghost Dance (K, 07)
* Jamey Johnson, "High Cost Of Living" That Lonesome Song (Mercury, 08)
* Gourds, "Way You Can Get" Haymaker! (YepRoc, 09)
* Gurf Morlix, "Walkin' To New Orleans" Last Exit To Happyland (self, 09)
* Tift Merritt, "Wayward & Weary" Please Break the Silence Of the Middle Of the Night (08)
* Bob Dylan, "Mississippi" Tell Tale Signs (Columbia, 08)
* Rhythm Angels, "If I Had a Gun" Girls Like Us (High Horse, 09)
* Kathy Mattea, "Green Rolling Hills" Coal (30 Tigers, 08)
* Ben Kweller, "Things I Like To Do" Changing Horses (ATO, 09)
* Corb Lund, "Short Native Grasses" Five Dollar Bill (Stony Plain, 02)
* Otis Gibbs, "Preacher Steve" Grandpa Walked a Picketline (Wanamaker, 08)
* Peter Case, "Every 24 Hours" Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (YepRoc, 07)

Scott

THURSDAY MORNING MIX January 1, 2009

Scott Foley

With the holidays officially passed, I'm thrilled to return to plain ol' music on TMM. Whereas 2008 dawned with a yawn, with very few new releases heralding the new year, 2009 appears off to a promising start. Debuts this week from Eleni Mandell, Andrew Bird, Gourds, Ben Kweller, Graham Lindsey and Mark Olsen & Gary Louris. Before month's end, we should hear new stuff from a tribute to Robert Earl Keen, Lucero's Ben Nichols, Bon Iver, and more.

I also have great hopes to return some original commentary to this spot. Of course, these feelings are subject to change on a whim, so don't call the family just yet. For today, just enjoy the following fond recollection of this morning's Mix:


* Auld Lang Syne, "Where My Fortune Lies" Fortune 7" vinyl (Viper Bite, 08)
* The Wrights, "In the Summertime" In the Summertime (self-released, 08)
* Johnny Flynn, "The Box" A Larum (Lost Highway, 08)
* John Prine & Mac Wiseman, "Just the Other Side Of Nowhere" Standard Songs For Average People (Oh Boy, 07)
* Eleni Mandell, "Right Side" Artificial Fire (Zedtone, 09)
* Andrew Bird, "Oh No" Noble Beast (Fat Possum, 09)
* Steeldrivers, "Heaven Sent" Steeldrivers (Rounder, 07)
* Trampled By Turtles, "Shenandoah" Duluth (BanjoDad, 08)
* North Mississippi Allstars, "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (live)" (Songs Of the South, 08)
* Gourds, "Fossil Contender" Haymaker! (YepRoc, 09)
* Waco Bros, "See Willy Fly By" Cowboy In Flames (Bloodshot, 97)
* Desert Rose Band, "Story Of Love" Pages Of Life (Curb, 90)
* Ben Kweller, "Gypsy Rose" Changing Horses (ATO, 09)
* Charlie Robison, "New Year's Day" Good Times (Dualtone, 04)
* Split Lip Rayfield, "Rig Or Cross" I'll Be Around (self-released, 08)
* Carrie Rodriguez, "Absence" She Ain't Me (Back Porch, 08)
* Chip Taylor, "Jack Of Diamonds, Queen Of Hearts" Songs From a Dutch Tour (Train Wreck, 08)
* Cowboy Junkies, "Where Are You Tonight?" Caution Horses (RCA, 90)
* Randy Kohrs, "Dust My Broom" Hornography (Left Of Center, 08)
* Mark Olsen & Gary Louris, "Doves & Stones" Ready For the Flood (New West, 09)
* Blitzen Trapper, "Gold For Bread" Furr (Sub Pop, 08)
* Jim Avett & Family, "Learning To Lean" Jim Avett & Family (Ramseur, 08)
* Graham Lindsey, "Tomorrow Is Another Night" We Are All Alone In This Together (Spacebar, 08)
* Neil Young, "Sugar Mountain (live)" Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House (Silver Bow, 08)
* Kathleen Edwards, "Only Love (live)" iTunes Exclusive (Zoe, 08)
* AJ Roach, "Revelation" Revelation (Waterbug, 06)