Month: March 2018

The Twang:

Lattie Moore – I’m Not Broke But I’m Badly Bent – I’m Not Broke But I’m Badly Bent (West Side)
JP Harris and the Tough Choices – Badly Bent – I’ll Keep Calling (Cow Island)
James Hand – Baby, Baby, Baby (Don’t Tell Me That) – Evil Things (Cold Spring)
Starline Rhythm Boys – Honky Tonk Gal – Masquerade for Heartache (Cow Island)
David Myles – Look At Me – Real Love (Little Tiny)*
Justin Townes Earle – Move Over Mama – Harlem River Blues (Bloodshot)
The Far West – Bitter, Drunk and Cold – The Far West (Wooden Tapes)
The Far West – Nothing Like You – The Far West (Wooden Tapes)
The Steel Wheels – Help Me – Leave Some Things Behind (Big Ring)
Steep Canyon Rangers – Stand and Deliver – Tell the Ones I Love (Rounder)
Roger Miller –
Roger Miller – England Swings –
Libbi Bosworth – Ha Ha Ha – Libbiville (Ramble Records)
The Wild Peyotes – Don’t Treat Me Like  Treated You – VA: True Sounds of the New West (Freedom Records)
Marti Brom – Mean –  VA: True Sounds of the New West (Freedom Records)
Slobberbone – Gimme Back My Dog – Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today (New West)
Fred Eaglesmith – I Shot Your Dog – Balin’ (AML)
Libbi Bosworth – It’s Late –  VA: True Sounds of the New West (Freedom Records)
Dale Watson – I Wish I was Crazy Again – Whiskey or God (Palo Duro)
Dale Watson – My Baby Makes Me Gravy – The Sun Sessions (Red House)
J.D. Wilkes – Walk Between the Raindrops – Fire Dream (Big Legal Mess)*
Rosie Flores – Little But I’m Loud – Working Girl’s Guitar (Bloodshot)

Bill Steely – This is Love – This is Love – Where’s Dave (self)*
Beth Bombara – Found Your Way -Beth Bombara (The Right Pills)*
Jolie Holland – Black Hand Blues – Catalpa (Anti)
Buddy and Julie Miller – Dirty Water – Love Snuck Up (Hightone)
Daniel Martin Moore –  O My Soul – In the Cool of the Day (SubPop)
Jesse Sykes – Your Side Now – Reckless Burning (Burn Burn Burn )

The Twang: 

Future Lives – The Knowing – Mansions (self)*
Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops – Little Birdie – Little Birdie (Phovsho)
Jim & Jesse – Are You Missing Me – First Sounds: the Capitol Years (Capitol)
Emmylous Harris, Alison Krauss, and Gillian Welch – Didn’t Leave Nobody  But the Baby – VA: O Brother Where Art Thou (Lost Highway)
Saint-Jean Street Band – St. James Infirmary – Live in the Street
Sons of the Pioneers – One More Ride – Symphonies of the Sage (Soundies)
Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three – Drinkin’ Whiskey Tonight – Middle of Everywhere (Free Dirt)
Pokey LaFarge – Central Time – Pokey LaFarge (Third Man)
Pokey LaFarge – The Devil Ain’t Lazy – Pokey LaFarge (Third Man)
Tom Armstrong – River and the Railroad Track – Heart Songs (Carswell)
The Hollisters – Fishin’ Man – Sweet Inspiration (Hightone)
The Hollisters – Walk ‘Em Off – Sweet Inspiration (Hightone)
C.W. Stoneking – The Thing I Done – Gon’ Boogaloo (King Hokum)
C.W. Stoneking – Jungle Lullaby – Jungle Blues (King Hokum)
J.D. Wilkes – Fire Dream – Fire Dream (BLM)*
J.D. Wilkes – Starlings, KY – Fire Dream (BLM)*
Big Smith – His Eye Is on the Baptist – Gig (May Apple)
Big Smith – Rich Man’s Poor – Gig (May Apple)
Cracker – Low
Gene Clark – Lonely Saturday – Two Sides To Every Story (High Moon)*
Waylon Jennings – Lonesome, ‘Onry and Mean – The Essential Waylon Jennings (Sony)
Whiskeytown – What May Seem Like Love – Faithless Street (Mood Food)
Jayhawks – Settled Down Like Rain – Hollywood Town Hall (American)
Jayhawks – I’d Run Away – Tomorrow the Green Grass (American)
Chad Elliott – Homefire Blues – Wreck and Ruin (self)*
Patterson Hood – Better Off Without – Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (ATO)
Patterson Hood – Better Than the Truth – Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (ATO)
Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue – There Stands the Glass – Set Two (self)*
Boots Randolph – Greenback Dollar – VA: Juke Joint Boogie (Bear)

The Twang:
Sonny Fisher – Pink and Black – VA: Rockin’ Bones (Rhino)
Roy Orbison – Domino – VA: Rockin’ Bones (Rhino)
Hank Mizell – Jungle Rock – VA: Rockin’ Bones (Rhino)
Flat Duo Jets – Wild Wild Lover – Flat Duo Jets (DogGone)
Flat Duo Jets – Blues Wrapped Around My Head – Lucky Eye (Outpost)
The Cramps – I Was a Teenage Werewolf – How To Make a Monster (Vengeance)
Gene Vincent – Red Blue Jeans and a Ponytail – Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps (Capitol)
Jimmie Lee Maslon – Be Bop Boogie Boy – VA: Turning the World Blue (Skizmatic)
Bob Luman – Red Hot – Bob Rocks (Bear)
Luis & the Wildfires – Yeah, Yeah Come Another Day – Brain Jail (Wild)
Omar Romero – Step Back Baby – Hog Wild (Wild)
Jack Rabbit Slim – Wild CaveWoman – From the Waist Down (Western Star Recording)
The Twistin’ Tarantulas – Greased Lightnin’ – Attack of the Twistin’ Tarantulas (self)
Gamblers Mark – Rock n Roll Mama – The Last Chance Saloon (Western Star)
Gamblers Mark – Down a Highway – The Last Chance Saloon (Western Star)
Marvin Rainwater – Whole Lotta Woman – Whole Lotta Woman (Bear)
Thumper Jones (George Jones) – Rock It – VA: Rockin’ Bones (Rhino)
Boz Boorer – Shruggin’ You Off – My Wild Life (Raucous)
Janis Martin – Bang Bang – The Female Elvis (Bear)
Charline Arthur – Burn That Candle – Welcome to the Club (Bear)
The Barnstompers –  Two Timin’ Mama – Western Rhythm (Barn Records)
Wildfire Willie & the Ramblers – My Baby’s Got the Paranoia – Gettin’ My Kicks (Lenox)
The Blasters – Crazy Baby – American Music (Hightone)
Ray Condo & His Hardrock Goners – One Hand Loose – Hillbilly Holiday (Fury)
Red Meat – Deep Water – 13 (Ranchero)
Buck Owens – Diggy Liggy Lo – On the Bandstand (Sundazed)
Jimmie O’Neal & the Colorado Hillbillies – Streamliner Boogie – VA: Hillbilly Boogie (Proper)
Johnnie Lee Wills & HIs Boys – The Band’s a Rockin’ – VA: Perfect for Parties (Bear)
Billy Jack Wills – Mr. Cotton Picker vocals: Tiny Moore – Billy Jack Wills & His Western Swing Band (Joaquin)
Paul Howard – The Boogie’s Fine Tonight – VA: Louisiana Hayride (Proper)
Floyd Tillman – I Almost Lost My Mind – VA: Shuffle On Down (Proper)
Kenny Roberts – Choo Choo Ch’Boogie – VA: Perfect for Parties (Bear)

Jimmy Heap – Ethyl in My Gas Tank – VA: Perfect for Parties (Bear)
Ronnie Self – Too Many Lovers – Bop-a-Lena (Bear)
Ronnie Self – Date Bait – Bop-a-Lena (Bear)
The Barnshakers – She Likes to Bop – Honky Tonk Session (Goofin)
Charline Arthur – Boogie Woogie Blues – Hillbilly Blues (Proper)
Miss MaryAnn – What Am I Doing Here – Rock It On Down to My House (Sonic)