THURSDAY MORNING MIX
May 28, 2009
Scott Foley

* Laura Gibson, "Spirit" Beasts Of Seasons (Hush, 09)
* Elvis Costello, "My All Time Doll" Secret Profane & Sugarcane (Hear, 09)
* Gram Parsons, "Song For You" Gram Parsons (Rhino, 73)
* Jon Jackson, "Untitled" Green Apples (self, 07)
* Nanci Griffith, "One Of These Days" Loving Kind (Rounder, 09)
* Jay Bennett, "Hank" Whatever Happened I Apologize (Rock Proper, 09)
* Red Stick Ramblers, "Bloodshot Eyes" My Suitcase Is Always Packed (Sugar Hill, 09)
* Charlie Robison, "Feelin' Good" Beautiful Day (Dualtone, 09)
* Susan Cowsill, "Honeychild" Case For Case: Tribute To the Songs Of Peter Case (Hungry For Music, 06)
* Laura Cantrell, "Too Late For Tonight" When the Roses Bloom Again (Diesel Only, 02)
* Dexateens, "Spark" Singlewide (Skybucket, 09)
* Dave Alvin, "These Times We're Living In" Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women (Yep Roc, 09)
* Michelle Shocked, "Other People" Soul Of My Soul (Mighty Sound, 09)
* Hoots & Hellmouth, "Roll Brandywine Roll" Holy Open Secret (Ryko, 09)
* Derailers, "One Before Me" Soldier Of Love (Palo Duro, 06)
* Todd Snider, "Don't Tempt Me" Excitement Plan (Yep Roc, 09)
* Kendel Carson, "Ten Lost Men" Alright Dynamite (Tranwreck, 09)
* Slaid Cleaves, "Black T-Shirt" Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away (Music Road, 09)
* Jim Lauderdale, "Tennessee Dawn" Could We Get Any Closer (Say Crunch, 09)
* Gregory Alan Isakov, "Evelyn" This Empty Northern Hemisphere (self, 09)
* King Wilkie, "Goodbye Rose" Wilkie Family Singers (Casa Nueva, 09)
* Headless Heroes, "Blues Run the Game" Silence Of Love (World's Fair, 09)
* Patterson Hood, "I Understand Now" Killing Oscar (& other love songs) (Ruth St, 09)
* Amy Speace, "Killer In Me" Killer In Me (Wildflower, 09)
* Steve Earle, "To Live Is To Fly" Townes (New West, 09)
* Johnny Cash, "Devil's Right Hand" Unearthed (American, 03)
* John Doe, "Quiet Desperation" Man Of Somebody's Dreams: Tribute To Chris Gaffney (Yep Roc, 09)
* Catherine Maclellan, "Set This Heart On Fire" Water In the Ground (True North, 09)
* Samantha Crain, "Bananafish Revolution" Songs In the Night (Ramseur, 09)

Scott

THURSDAY MORNING MIX
May 21, 2009
Scott Foley

First, my apologies for neglecting to post the playlist for this Episode until today.

Most importantly, I've stated my policy previously that I'll never play local music simply because it's local. That's not what my program is about. If something is local, and deserves to be called "the best of americana, alt.country and roots music," then I'll be doubly thrilled to play it.

Fortunately, today's episode featured a pair of excellent new releases that just happen to be from Colorado artists: Reed Foehl and Gregory Alan Isakov. Both Foehl's Once An Ocean and Isakov's This Empty Northern Hemisphere are very well-produced, mature efforts, sporting literate, original lyrics. Both feature great local music, but more importantly, it's just great music, period.

Finally, I spotlighted several artists and songs nominated for this year's Americana Music Awards, handed out in September in Nashville. I don't know if it says more about mainstream americana radio or me that a few of my year-end favorites for 2008 intersected here and there with the AMA's choices. I don't want to think I'm holding back on my dedication to obscurity ...


* Sara Watkins, "Pony" Sara Watkins (Nonesuch, 09)
* Belleville Outfit, "Two Days Of Darkness" Time To Stand (self, 09)
* William Elliott Whitmore, "Let the Rain Come In" Animals In the Dark (Anti, 09)
* The Mystix, "Down To the Shore" Down To the Shore (self, 09)
* Buddy and Julie Miller, "Chalk" Written In Chalk (New West, 09)
* Reed Foehl, "All Its Stars" Once An Ocean (self, 09)
* Flatlanders, "Homeland Refugee" Hills and Valleys (New West, 09)
* Southern Culture On the Skids, "Rose Garden" Countrypolitan Favorites (Yep Roc, 07)
* Blue Rodeo, "Four Strong Winds" The Gift: Tribute To Ian Tyson (Stony Plain, 07)
* Ronnie Fauss, "The Last" New Songs For the Old Frontier, Vol 1 (FTG, 09)
* Spring Creek, "My Love Is Way Up On a Mountain" Way Up On a Mountain (Rebel, 09)
* Alejandro Escovedo, "Always a Friend" Real Animal (Back Porch, 08)
* Star Anna, "Burn" Only Thing That Matters (self, 09)
* Gregory Alan Isakov, "Virginia May" This Empty Northern Hemisphere (self, 09)
* Horse Feathers, "Hardwood Pews" Words Are Dead (Lucky Madison, 06)
* Steve Earle, "Mr Mudd & Mr Gold" Townes (New West, 09)
* Devil Makes Three, "For Good Again" Do Wrong Right (Milan, 09)
* Two Gallants, "Despite What You've Been Told" Two Gallants (Saddle Creek, 07)
* Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson, "Rattlin' Bones" Rattlin' Bones (Sugar Hill, 08)
* Joe Ely, "Lift Your Leg" Man Of Somebody's Dreams: Tribute To Chris Gaffney (Yep Roc, 09)
* BettySoo, "Get Clean" Heat Sin Water Skin (self, 09)
* Todd Snider, "America's Favorite Pastime" Excitement Plan (Yep Roc, 09)
* Gourds, "Country Love" Haymaker (Yep Roc, 09)
* Elvis Costello, "I Felt the Chill" Secret Profane & Sugarcane (Hear, 09)
* Robert Earl Keen, "Broken End Of Love" What I Really Mean (Koch, 05)
* Sarah Borges, "No One Will Ever Love You" Stars Are Out (Sugar Hill, 09)
* Jim White, "Town Called Amen" Transnormal Skiperoo (Luaka Bop, 07)
* Chuck Mead, "Albuquerque" Journeyman's Wager (30 Tigers, 09)

Scott

THURSDAY MORNING MIX
May 14, 2009
Scott Foley

* Matt the Electrician, "Valedictorian" Long Way Home (self, 04)
* Doug Sahm, "Tennessee Blues" Texas Tornado (Rhino, 73)
* Calexico, "Frank's Tavern" Man Of Somebody's Dreams: Tribute To Chris Gaffney (Yep Roc, 09)
* Justin Townes Earle, "Poor Fool" Midnight At the Movies (Bloodshot, 09)
* Two Tons Of Steel, "Vegas" Vegas (Palo Duro, 06)
* Todd Snider & Loretta Lynn, "Don't Tempt Me" Excitement Plan (Yep Roc, 09)
* Stephen Bruton, "Every Once In a While" From the Five (New West, 05)
* Steve Earle, "Colorado Girl" Townes (New West, 09)
* Delbert McClinton, "Texas Me" Keep Your Soul (Vanguard, 09)
* Scott Biram, "Draggin' Down the Line" Something's Wrong / Lost Forever (Bloodshot, 09)
* Gillian Welch, "Winter's Come and Gone" Hell Among the Yearlings (Acony, 98)
* Slaid Cleaves, "Cry" Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away (Music Road, 09)
* Chuck Ragan & Austin Lucas, "Heading Down" Bristle Ridge (Ten Four, 08)
* Iron & Wine, "God Made the Automobile" Around the Well (Sub Pop, 09)
* Bob Dylan, "I Feel a Change Comin' On" Together Through Life (Columbia, 09)
* Diana Jones, "Appalachia" Better Times Will Come (Proper, 09)
* Gina Villalobos, "Sun In My Eyes" Days On Their Side (Face West, 09)
* Sun Kil Moon, "Neverending Math Equation" Tiny Cities (Caldo Verde, 06)
* Tractors, "There's Gonna Be Some Changes Made" Trade Union (Koch, 09)
* Fernando Viciconte, "Kissing the Lips Of God" True Instigator (self, 09)
* Elizabeth Cook & Bobby Bare Jr, "Rest Your Weary Mind" Balls (30 Tigers, 07)
* Amy Speace, "I Met My Love" Killer In Me (Wildflower, 09)
* Dave Alvin, "Nana & Jimi" Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women (Yep Roc, 09)
* Kelly Joe Phelps, "Western Bell" Western Bell (Black Hen, 09)
* Flatlanders, "Just About Time" Hills and Valleys (New West, 09)
* Tim Easton, "Porcupine" Porcupine (New West, 09)
* Belleville Outfit, "Let Me Go" Time To Stand (self, 09)
* Headless Heroes, "Blues Run the Game" Silence Of Love (World's Fair, 09)

Scott

THURSDAY MORNING MIX
May 7, 2009
Scott Foley

Had an opportunity to interview Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers on Wednesday. It has been committed to tape and will be featured during KRFC's Live at Lunch program on a date to be determined. Can't wait to put it on the air; the band sounded terrific and Samantha was in fine voice. The interview segments won't win any awards, unfortunately. I'm guessing that Ms Crain either lacks interview experience at her young age, or she's so tired of folks like me tossing her questions about stuff we researched online.

The Gods of Music have opened the floodgates this week, with no fewer than ten (10) debuts on our TMM playlist. Potentially the most promising is Amy Speace's Killer In Me.


* Emmylou Harris, "Hickory Wind" Blue Kentucky Girl (Rhino, 79)
* Roger Dean Young, "Two-Step" Threshold (Copperspine, 07)
* Chris Pureka, "Wagon Wheel" Chimera EP (self, 09)
* Trampled By Turtles, "Shenandoah" Duluth (Banjodad, 08)
* Ray Lamontagne, "Three More Days" Till the Sun Turns Black (RCA, 06)
* Belleville Outfit, "Two Days Of Darkness As" Time To Stand (self, 09)
* Steve Earle, "Lungs" Townes (New West, 09)
* Samantha Crain, "Devils In Boston" Songs In the Night (Ramseur, 09)
* Dave Alvin, "River Under the Road" Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women (Yep Roc, 09)
* Andy Friedman, "I Miss Being Broken" Weary Things (City Salvage, 09)
* Ryan Adams, "Magnolia Mountain" Cold Roses (Lost Highway, 05)
* Diana Jones, "Soldier Girl" Better Times Will Come (Proper, 09)
* Catherine MacLellan, "Take a Break" Water In the Ground (High Romance, 09)
* Lucinda Williams, "If Wishes Were Horses" Little Honey (Lost Highway, 08)
* Reckless Kelly, "I Still Do" Millican (Sugar Hill, 97)
* Scott H Biram, "Still Drunk Still Crazy Still Blue" Something's Wrong (Bloodshot, 09)
* John Doe & the Sadies, "Husbands and Wives" Country Club (Yep Roc, 09)
* Felice Bros, "Penn Station" Yonder Is the Clock (Team Love, 09)
* Wanda Jackson w/Elvis Costello, "Crying Time" Heart Trouble (CMH, 03)
* Paleface, "Show Is On the Road" Show Is On the Road (Ramseur, 09)
* Lyle Lovett, "Skinny Legs" I Love Everybody (Curb, 94)
* Dale Watson, "Jack's Truckstop and Cafe" Truckin' Sessions Vol 2 (Hyena, 09)
* Golden Smog, "Long Time Ago" Another Fine Day (Lost Highway, 06)
* Amy Speace, "Killer In Me" Killer In Me (Wildflower, 09)
* Alejandro Escovedo, "1968" Man Of Somebody's Dream: Tribute To Chris Gaffney (Yep Roc, 09)
* Over the Rhine, "Looking Forward" Drunkard's Prayer (Back Porch, 05)
* The Mystix, "Roll Of the Dice" Down To the Shore (self, 09)
* Bonnie Prince Billy, "I Am Goodbye" Beware (Drag City, 09)

Scott