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The Back Country
May 20, 2023 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Music
With Jeff Corbin
The Back Country brings you the traditional sounds and styles of country music from the 1920s to the contemporary artists who respect and build on that tradition. The Back Country has Jimmie Rodgers and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Wayne Raney and Wayne Hancock, Cousin Emmy and Emmylou Harris.
3:00 PM |
| The Texas Troubadours Buddie's Boogie (intro) Almost To Tulsa: The Instrumentals Bear Family 2008 The usual Back Country suspects, with an emphasis on new music this week.
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3:02 PM |
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3:04 PM |
| The Carter Family Single Girl, Married Girl RCA Country Legends: The Bristol Sessions, Vol. 1 RLG/BMG Heritage 2002 A song to note the birthday of Ralph Peer, the architect of The Bristol Session--the Big Bang of Country Music--which took place from July 25-August 5, 1927. This was recorded August 2nd.
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3:06 PM |
| Tom T. Hall Back When the Old Homeplace Was New Home Grown Mercury 1997 Still missing Tom T., who passed away less than two years ago. Robert Bowlin plays fiddle, mandolin and acoustic guitar on this album.
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3:09 PM |
| Mac Wiseman w/ Sierra Hull & Justin Moses The Guitar I Sang the Song ( Life of the Voice with a Heart) Mountain Fever 2017 Mac co-wrote this one with Peter Cooper and Thomm Jutz, and the three co-produced this album, recorded over 9 Sundays at Mac's home just two years before he died at age 93.
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3:13 PM |
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3:14 PM |
| Michael Cleveland The Lovin' of the Game Lovin' of the Game Compass Records 2023 I first heard this title track on Steve Goodman's second album back in 1972. Another great album from Michael Cleveland,
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3:17 PM |
| Levon Helm The Mountain Dirt Farmer Dirt Farmer Music 2007 A fine rendition of a Steve Earle song by one of the best of a generation of rock and roots musicians.
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3:21 PM |
| Peter Cooper Here Comes that Rainbow Again The Lloyd Green Album Red Beet Records 2010 Peter Cooper covers Kristofferson with the incomparable Lloyd Green. Kristofferson based the song on a scene from the classic John Ford 1940 film "The Grapes of Wrath".
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3:24 PM |
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3:26 PM |
| Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz The Blue Grays N Lost Voices Mountain Fever Records 2023 This song tells the story of a barnstorming team of black ballplayers based in Elizabethton, TN. There are some fascinating songs informed by history on this fine album.
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3:29 PM |
| Rodney Crowell Somebody Loves You N The Chicago Sessions New West 2023 Rodney's latest album came out a couple of weeks ago, and features new material, a new version of an old tune and a Townes Van Zandt cover. Jeff Tweedy produced it at his Wilco studio.
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3:34 PM |
| Dom Flemons Old Desert Road N Traveling Wildfire Smithsonian Folkways 2023 Dom Flemons' new album features good songwriting and musicianship from this veteran of The Carolina Chocolate Drops.
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3:37 PM |
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3:39 PM |
| Hank Snow Rhumba Boogie R The Golden Rocket BMG Australia 1994 Regular listener James requested this song, from the RCA label in 1951. Johnnie & Jack and Hank Snow both began employing a rhumba beat in some of their recordings at about the same time.
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3:42 PM |
| Jimmy Capps Nashville Shuffle Country Guitar: America's Foremost Guitar Stylists Starday 1965 Sideman Jimmy Capps played with The Louvin Brothers and others, and many times he played on more than 500 recordings each year.
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3:44 PM |
| Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter Under Your Spell Again Wanted: The Outlaws (20th Anniversary Edition) RCA 1996 Waylon and Jessi cover Buck Owens on this expanded edition of the first million-selling record in country music history. Happy 80th birthday on Thursday to Jessi Colter.
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3:47 PM |
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3:48 PM |
| Bill Kirchen Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Tied To the Wheel HighTone Records 2001 Bill has recorded several Dylan songs on his albums, this one twice, as he included it on one of the Twangbanger releases.
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3:54 PM |
| Channing Wilson Sunday Morning Blues N Dead Man Channing Wilson 2023 Sunday morning is always such a sobering time in country songs.
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3:57 PM |
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4:04 PM |
| Gloria Attoun I've Never Been to Prison L GO Out Attoun Productions 2017 Gloria has never been to prison except vicariously, through songs of artists like Paycheck, Haggard and Earle, all of whom she references here. She and Michael Bauermeister are at McKelvey Vineyards in New Haven tomorrow at 2PM and they're at the Missouri Botanical Garden on Friday at 6:30PM
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4:07 PM |
| Leo Kottke Theme from 'the Rick and Bob Report' My Father's Face BMG Music 1989 Leo Kottke will play the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville tomorrow night, getting underway at 8 o'clock.
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4:10 PM |
| Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway Nashville Mess Around Crooked Tree Nonesuch 2022 Molly Tuttle and her fine band are at the Blue Note in Columbia, MO tomorrow night for an 8PM show. We'll send this one out to Fred Gumaer, who was messing around Nashville this past week, including taking a turn on the drum kit at the Bluebird.
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4:12 PM |
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4:14 PM |
| Dwight Yoakum Dim Lights, Thick Smoke 3 Pears Warner 2012 Matt in Columbia, MO requested some Dwight and I chose his cover of the Joe and Rose Lee Maphis honky tonky anthem. It's been six-plus years since we've had a new studio album from Dwight, the longest stretch of his career. You can catch Dwight Yoakum with Aaron Lewis at the Ozarks Amphitheater in Camdenton, MO next Friday at 7PM
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4:17 PM |
| Sheryl Crow Night Life N The Next Waltz's Tribute to the Red-Headed Stranger The Next Waltz 2023 From the Bruce Robison-produced tribute album to Willie comes Sheryl Crow's cover of one of Willie's earliest and oft-covered songs.
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4:21 PM |
| Willie Nelson She Called Me Baby N I Don't Know a Thing About Love Sony Legacy 2023 Willie's latest album covers the songs of Harlan Howard. Harlan put it on a 1961 album and two years later Patsy Cline sang it at her last recording session.
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4:24 PM |
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4:27 PM |
| Rosanne Cash My Baby Thinks He's a Train The Very Best of Rosanne Cash Columbia/Legacy 2005 Rodney Crowell and Rosanne were married when he produced this for her 1981 album, "Seven Year Ache". Yes, that's the instantly recognizable electric guitar of Albert Lee.
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4:30 PM |
| Kip Loui Cold Out There L N Cold Out There KL 2023 Veteran musician and songwriter Kip Loui has a fine new album out, featuring some of the best St. Louis musicians around. Available on Bandcamp. Kip's going to pay us a visit on next week's show to talk about his latest project.
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4:33 PM |
| Dan Whitaker Oh Cayenne N I Won't Play by Your Rules Dan Whitaker 2023 From Dan's new album. He's playing all over Texas these days.
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4:37 PM |
| Wylie and the Wild West Dryland Farm N Bunchgrass High Plains Country Music 2023 Wylie covers this Butch Hancock song on his latest release. It was the first track on Butch's 1978 debut, "West Texas Waltzes & Dust-Blown Tractor Tunes".
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4:40 PM |
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4:43 PM |
| Mary Lou Williams' Girl Stars Harmony Grits The Mary Lou Williams Collection, 1927-59 Acrobat 2014 This 1946 Victor recording features jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams' all-female band, consisting of Mary Lou, Marjorie Hyams on vibraphone, June Rotenberg on bass, Rose Gottesman on drums and Mary Osborne on vocal and some very tasty guitar licks.
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4:46 PM |
| Rose Sinclair Tiny's Tempo Lone Star Landing EP Rose Sinclair 2013 Rose included this composition of Lloyd "Tiny" Grimes" on her debut release after moving to Texas. Grimes played with Art Tatum, Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker, among many others.
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4:48 PM |
| Ida Red Tennessee Local Harmony Grits Ida Red 2021 Rose Sinclair and Sophia Johnson are the principals in Ida Red, and as the album title and liner notes confirm, they were influenced by Mary Lou Williams' Girls Band in making this album. This is an original composition.
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4:52 PM |
| Rose Sinclair Mr. Walker N Corcovado Steel Pal Music 2023 Rose's latest release further refines her concept of "cocktail steel" by including this Wes Montgomery composition. A couple by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Cindy Walker and Errol Garner's "Misty" among the offerings here.
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