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Weird Old America

May 17, 2021 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

With Dylan Fox

Tennessee (But Not Nashville)

3:03 PM		Blind Willie McTell Statesboro Blues Blind Willie McTell Blind Willie McTell, Vol. 1
3:05 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:09 PM		The Same Hot & Cold The Same N Sync or Swim 2021
3:13 PM		La Luz Tale of My Lost Love (Cover) La Luz N Tale of My Lost Love - EP 2021
3:16 PM		Jimmie Rodgers Sleep Baby, Sleep Jimmie Rodgers Jimmie, Vol. 1
3:19 PM		The Carter Family The Poor Orphan Child The Carter Family American Epic: The Best of The Carter Family
3:22 PM		Ernest Phipps Do, Lord, Remember Me Ernest Phipps Top 13 Classics - The Very Best of Ernest Phipps
3:25 PM		Eddie Stubbs Don't Deny Yourself the Sheer Joy of Orhophonic Music Eddie Stubbs Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
3:30 PM		Ernest V. Stoneman and His Dixie Mountaineers Sweeping Through the Gates Ernest V. Stoneman and His Dixie Mountaineers RCA Country Legends: The Bristol Sessions, Vol. 1 2002
3:33 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:36 PM		Roy Harvey Back To the Blue Ridge Roy Harvey A Hobo s Pal Black & Partners LLC 2014
3:39 PM		Clarence Green Johnson City Blues (Remastered) Clarence Green Johnson City Blues (Remastered) - Single
3:42 PM		Blind Lemon Jefferson Rising High Water Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Lemon Jefferson Vol. 2 (1927)
3:45 PM		Charlie Bowman and His Brothers Moonshiner and His Money (Remastered) Charlie Bowman and His Brothers Moonshiner and His Money (Remastered) - Single
3:48 PM		Clarence Ashley The Coo-Coo Bird Clarence Ashley The Original Folkways Recordings of Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley, 1960-1962
3:51 PM		The Stanley Brothers Clinch Mountain Backstep The Stanley Brothers Complete Starday & King Instrumentals
3:53 PM		Carl Butler I'm a Prisoner of Love Carl Butler Don't Let Me Cross Over 1963
3:56 PM		The Louvin Brothers Knoxville Girl The Louvin Brothers Country & Western Highlights, Pt. 1: Vol. 9, The Louvin Brothers & Merle Travis Intense Media GmbH 2019
4:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:07 PM		Arovane nonlinear.r Arovane N Atol Scrap
4:09 PM		Lois Johnson Heaven In My Arms Lois Johnson Singles (1965-1969) 2017
4:11 PM		Howlin' Wolf California Boogie Howlin' Wolf The Memphis Sessions 2007
4:14 PM		Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats Rocket 88 Jackie Brenston The Blues-AMusical Journey
4:17 PM		Rufus Thomas (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons Rufus Thomas Did You Heard Me?
4:21 PM		W.C. Handy Muscle Shoals Blues W.C. Handy W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band (Re-mastered) 1994
4:24 PM		B.B. King Chains and Things B.B. King Anthology
4:30 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:35 PM		Elvis Presley Milkcow Blues Boogie Elvis Presley A Boy from Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings
4:38 PM		Carla Thomas A Love of My Own Carla Thomas Gee Whiz It's Carla
4:40 PM		Otis Redding My Lover's Prayer Otis Redding Stax Profiles: Otis Redding
4:43 PM		Mahalia Jackson Move On Up a Little Higher Mahalia Jackson Moving On Up a Little Higher (Live & Previously Unreleased 1946-1957)
4:46 PM		Piano Red Red's Boogie Piano Red Blues, Blues, Blues
4:49 PM		Sam Chatmon Open Your Book, Your Daddy Got to Read With You Sam Chatmon Blues At Home 2 2013
4:51 PM		Johnny Cash Wreck of the Old '97 Johnny Cash Johnny Cash At Sun Columbia Nashville Legacy 2014
4:52 PM		Roy Orbison Domino Roy Orbison Single
4:57 PM		Old 97's Northern Line Old 97's Too Far to Care (Expanded)

Chat is archived.

Greetings and Salutations!

Morning

Afternoon

New banner images, new tab icon image. Spring clean fresh at prb

Family shout out roll call from Mr McTell

Nashville is CHEUGY

Pigeon Forge represent

I don’t care about how you don’t care, BohKay?!

Were you able to hear Deirdre's show Dylan? The Native American/ country rock tunes were great in one of the sets

Okay

I wasn't, but I did catch the thing about Jim Sullivan, which is weird considering that the pentagon is basically about to announce that aliens are real.

illegal aliens???

A nice companion show today. I mean always a grand time here and Deirdre's but especially good segue today. Some Africa music at end of their show

No, like 60 minutes just did a thing about UFOs

They are from China and/or Russia. Calm down.

Got to meet a bunch of the prb gang over the weekend. Really nice to see them in person. Love fest

I never get to really listen to Deirdre's show because I'm either panicking or going crazy getting ready for this show

Speaking of aliens 👽

Like Aliens are more interesting as modern mythology than interesting as actual things

I’m always yelling at the tv during 60 Mins

I haven't seen those guys in so long, hope to get back on campus this year.

Ha. Try BHI brand "Calming " tablets. Under tongue. They work. And if it's placebo then set me up in the placebo gazebo and I'll have a nice calm time...

😆😆😆

finally moved into an office of my own at workee... put it off for a year or so. Do not like the overhead fluoro light ugh... but solved! Scavenged a standing lamp in an abandoned office area. It's nice in here. Speaker instead of headphones. Rockin out

We are powerless in the face of a vast unknowable universe.

I was sitting inside w my huge sun hat w big visor b4 i found this lamp. Great look

DylanFox, see post about Calming Tabs

This is heading to be a very chaotic chat

O the Carter Fam. Heavenly. Western Virginia meets Tenn

Private office!! Well done! @BrianD! 🎂 🎉

Gotta get some artwork, decor, rugs etc

And JIMMIE RODGERS! 💚

Mini fridge with freezer

For ice cream

Ya close the door fur lunchee.. privacy. Nice

Close the door… all day

Mini fridge! Yeah that was on list! Now we talkin'

Mini fridge, mini dice sized ice cubes. Win win

Maybe full size fridge/freezer 🥸😎

Used to have one o those fisherman nets for the ceiling... toss balloons & paper airplanes up there.. invent games...

That’s amazing 🤩

Nice start to the show, DJ DylanFox!!

At home i mean... old job the net would work.. in fact the source of said net in first place. This office maybe not so much

Wait, Brian D… was the net at work. Oh! Haha

Too few fish nets in the modern world

Did everyone watch Ken Burns COUNTRY MUSIC?

I did not. 😞

I think the boss office had a net on ceiling at old job... don't remember if oneof my offices over the years had one up . But i did have one at home in bedroom years ago

Me neither

Watch it! So Outstanding!

In the bedroom!!

Only if it has Achy Breaky Heart.

I watched the PBS Appalachia one few years back. Multi parts. Carter Fam figures heavy in 1st part

Only to make fun of it, DaveTheObscure!

Yeah the Burns one was pretty good too

Oh I missed that one, Brian D

But the Appalachia one was better. And then there's Mike Judge Tales from the Tour Bus

I’ve never listened to The Lights Are On But Everyone's Home With Deirdre Dionysiac, but the description of its latest broadcast is interesting. Too bad it doesn’t appear to be archived anywhere. Is it?

The Appalachia one was about music specifically??

Such a fun show! Deirdre has treasures. Always new discoveries

Now that i search... i am not sure what the name of that docu was or if it specifically had "Appalachian " word in title .... i know it had 4 parts and the Carter Fam was featured a lot in 1st part....

The MUSIC is TopNotch, DJ DylanFox!!

Good yet chaotic chat

"The Mountain Minor" was a film i really enjoyed too. A movie but feels like a doc too.. real musicians perform. Great story of Old-Time Music and multi generations in Appalachia

The Mountain "Minor?"

Still waiting on the deets on that Appalachian one, Brian D. 🙂 Did you look at the pbs website?? 🤨

Brian D is all discombobulated from the fridge in the net on the ceiling.

Yes Dylan the Full name of movie is 'The Mountain Minor '

What's your favorite rabbit hole wikipedia's?

No i am just fine ha. I have to search hard drives at home to get the exact title of that one Mr M

David Shortell, I believe deirdre dionysiac has posted shows somewhere, maybe ask in the chat next week. I’ll ask too! Cheers!

Okay, Brian D. Okay.

Success ... ! It was called "American Epic" Mr M

Didn't even have to go home ha

It was about history of recording of roots music in USA

Oh yes The Stanleys! Great music

Ralph just kept going... so glad i got to see him a bunch

Oh! Excellent!! I just bought the cd box set of American Epic. Yet to see the documentary. I didn’t think that’s what you were referring to with just Appalachia as the only clue. 😜 Thanks, Brian D!

I saw most of Ken Burns’ country music documentary. Nick Tosches’ first book “Country: The Biggest Music in America” was important in winning over my Northern suburban self to that genre I once disdained. I remember how, when I first listened to the WFMU show “Music to Spazz By” three decades ago, I thought it was crazy that DJ Dave the Spazz mixed in country with punk and soul. Now it makes perfect sense to me.

I heart RALPH STANLEY❣️

Wow, I enjoy everything about that message, David Shortell!!

I have to go back and re watch.... i don't know if i saw pt 3 yet... technically it's 3 parts. The "4th part" was a live session w artists today honoring the music represented in the series

Wikipedia rabbit holes make me more BoNkErS than necessary. I like looking at lists of music or movies or tv shows from 1993 or other magical years. Or maybe populations of countries and random weird chit like that, such as, et cetera. Tell us about your fave Wikipedia rabbit holes, DJ DylanFox!!!

"Bluegrass Country Soul" another great docu. Great footage from a festival in the 70s

I like Unexplained Disappearances before 1970

What’s all this talk about the Pentagon and extraterrestrials? I missed that in the news. I did see this good gag on The Simpsons last night though: a newspaper headline read: “Pentagon loses side in budget cut. Now square.”

Are you answering my question, DylanFox??? Is that a thing on Wikipedia???

CBS 60 MINUTES @David Shortell

I used to rabbit hole Wikipedia "history " of a particular entry. Just to see the funny "graffitti" people would put up. Some were clever... mhm many were not. But the "white whale" of teh funny kept me going....

Wikipedia needs an editor.

I WAS NOT YELLING AT YOU UNTIL NOW, DYLANFOX

Yea! I love the mysterious disappearances Dylan!

I have clicked that very link many times

HAHAHAHAHAHA

And aircraft crashes too. Looked at a bunch of those.

U.F.O.s are always a thing. It's when they can positively identify it as extra terrestrial is when I get interested.

The one about the missing US Attorney from Baltimore was weird

Yes a good point Dave. The "U" letter there

I lived in Johnson City Tennessee for a while back in the la'70s

Damn I always somehow send these things before I mean to...

Coming down through that area (3 states) and then on down though mountains into Asheville NC is a great drive

There was a great bluegrass venue there called down home, started by a local musician named Ed snodderly who has gone on to consult on or score films like o brother where art thou. That was a home to some real bluegrass. One time David Bromberg played a concert locally and then came over to town home after the show to just play some more. I remember him saying every time I play a big place like whatever that was that he played in it's so I can come and play at places like this

"LA 70s!" would be a great bad rip off of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood but with Lucha Libre wrestlers instead of cowboy actors.

Love that guy

If you can find a song by Ed called pearly Mae from his album sidewalk shoes it's worth listening to

A lucha themed taco restaurant is my fave part about our vacations. Dont know when we'll get back to that place tho

Totally great selections today Dylan!

Favorite Wikipedia hole:

Thanks man

The bizarre attacker known as "whipping tom" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipping_Tom

According to Wallis, he was "resolved to be Revenged on all the women he could come at after that manner, for the sake of one Perjur'd Female, who had been Barbarously False to him".[13

bonus points for that article having the word haberdasher , Krista

A great word (sort of woody, not at all tinny)

Howlin Wolf just wanting to move to California but still singing like his love just shot him in the kneecap

gonna take a lil nip.... ah drinkin n drivin songs

RN AF THIS CHAT 💖

Barbarously False Women is the basis of many blues songs

<-- not condoning just like the lyric

Having vibes at Sun records

Well your honour... they were behaving in a barberously false manner. .

I never drive intoxicated but I do love to get lit and crash rollercoasters on rollercoaster tycoon

Another favorite, Elliot reminded me of this the other day https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_the_Midwestern_United_States

Okay, I vote KRISTA join every chat. ✅

“Cuisine”

And finally, that leads into https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruel

Did you ever play Swamp Dogg on yer show(s) Dylan (or Krista)? Good time. Total destruction of your mind LP especially

Technically, Ovaltine is a gruel. And yes, Brian. He produced my favorite album of all time, Doris Duke's I'm A Loser

Ooo what waa the wiki Brian from Vibes too Cosmic talked about? Small underground body of water in USA w rare fish species?

Swamp Dogg's Love Loss and Auto Tune is a recent great of his. "I'll Pretend" is my favorite

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_cavefish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_the_Train

Dylan, that relates to one of my own pet conspiracy theories, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_face_murder_theory

Jonathan Luna is name of US Atty from Balt, Md. Wiki that. ...

B. B. KING ❤️‍🔥

I remember how hip UFO’s became when I was a kid in the 70’s (earlier if you consider the ABC series “The Invaders”). There was the 1970 ITC series “UFO”, the 1978 NBC series “Project U.F.O.” and of course “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. I remember people taking Erich von Däniken’s “Chariots of the Gods?” seriously, though It’s since been debunked (but at least it inspired Jack Kirby’s great series “The Eternals”).

I was all into that von Daniken book as a kid. But barely understood it ha

Arsters talk? Mmmmm

Teeny curds

Throw mental rocks at the mower now....

Nashville is ChewGhee

so is cottage cheese

@Brian D. Did you make a reference to the “woody, tinny” bit from the generally ignored 6-episode post-Cleese 1974 season of Monty Python?

gone .. really

ELVIS 👑💙🕺🏻

Yes David! Python ref

Gee Whiz it’s Carla!

There have been countless recorded versions of "Milk Cow Blues" since Kokomo Arnold did it in 1934. It amazes me that the most renowned version was sang by an 18-year-old English boy in 1965.

OTIS REDDING ❤️❤️‍🔥♥️

MAHALIA JACKSON 💟

this installment needs an open chat for the rebroadcast

Real good time today y'all

I agree and concur with both of us

Lot of fun to make this playlist

As for UFOs, I'm a long time believer in non human intelligent life (Thank you, Carl Sagan), and the Pentagon disclosure has me very excited.

Final Ten Mins?!? I’m cry.

Ever see that picture of an adulatory Carla Thomas planting a kiss on Elvis Presley?

Not yet.

DJ DylanFox, great show again today! Good on ya! Many thanks and kind regards to you, Sir!

JOHNNY CASH 🖤

Jarmusch moment...

ROY ORBISON 🧡

Love when it kicks in

You could do Nashville every week for all time and not exhaust it

I ENJOYED MYSELF! 👽

G'night all

Bye everybody!

Cheers Dears!

One question before you close the chat: Who's being arrested in that photo?

Bernie Sanders

Liberace

King of Appalachia