ROUTES & BRANCHES
featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music
July 15, 2026
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust
Frazey Ford, Jolie Holland, Trish Klein, Samantha Parton. In their various combinations, Be Good Tanyas released just three (3) records during their collaboration. But Blue Horse, Chinatown and Hello Love remain unparalleled as the product of the coming together of such unique voices. Of course, the Trio sessions of Harris, Parton, and Ronstadt were remarkable, but Be Good Tanyas featured almost unknown artists creating something new.
For this Episode of Lookback Machine, we're not only celebrating the music of Be Good Tanyas. We're reaching into the solo work of Ford, Holland, Klein, and Parton and extracting the gems. While most of their work featured original songs, they were also deeply guided by trad music, as well as a handful of terrific covers - we could make a case for BGTs' run through "When Doves Cry" as among the very best in our kind of music. We also gave some thought to featuring songs from Po' Girl, Trish Klein's act with Allison Russell, but didn't want to cast our net too wide.
BE GOOD TANYAS: thirty favorites
- "The Littlest Birds" Blue Horse (Be Good Tanyas, 2001)
- "Lakes Of Pontchartrain"
- "Light Enough To Travel"
- "Roll My Blues" Catalpa (Jolie Holland, 2003)
- "Wandering Angus"
- "It's Not Happening" Chinatown (Be Good Tanyas, 2003)
- "In Spite Of All the Damage"
- "In My Time Of Dying"
- "Rudy" Maybe This Christmas Too (Be Good Tanyas, 2003)
- "Old Fashioned Morphine" Escondida (Jolie Holland, 2004)
- "Amen"
- "Goodbye California"
- "Crush In the Ghetto" Springtime Can Kill You (Jolie Holland, 2006)
- "Mexican Blue"
- "For the Turnstiles" Hello Love (Be Good Tanyas, 2006)
- "Draft Daughter's Blues aka Ootischenia"
- "When Doves Cry"
- "Mexico City (ft M Ward)" Living and the Dead (Jolie Holland, 2008)
- "Firecracker" Obadiah (Frazey Ford, 2010)
- "One More Cup Of Coffee"
- "All Those Girls" Pint Of Blood (Jolie Holland, 2011)
- "September Fields" Indian Ocean (Frazey Ford, 2014)
- "Done"
- "On and On" Wine Dark Sea (Jolie Holland, 2014)
- "Waiting For the Sun"
- "Wildflower Blues" Wildflower Blues (Jolie Holland, Samantha Parton, 2017)
- "Louisiana 1927" single (Jolie Holland, 2018)
- "Azad" U kin B the Sun (Frazey Ford, 2020)
- "Highway 72 (ft Buck Meek)" Haunted Mountain (Jolie Holland, 2023)
- "Haunted Mountain"
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