Month: April 2018

The Twang:

Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue – There Stands the Glass – Set Two (self)
West Coast Pinups – Close Down the Honky Tonks  – Woman’s Work (Hard Eight)
The Handsome Family – All the Time in Airports – Last Days of Wonder (Carrot Top)
The Corn Sisters – Long Black Veil – The Other Women (Mint)
Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton – Make It Up to Me – Wildflower Blues (Cinquefoil Records)
Carla Bozulich – Time of the Preacher / Red Headed Stranger – Red Headed Stranger (DiCristina)
David Myles – Everybody Knows – Real Love (Little Tiny Records)*
Roger Miller – Chug-A-Lug – The Best of Roger Miller (Curb)
Gene Clark – Lonely Saturday – Two Sides to Every Story (Universal)
Ryan Koenig – The Old Main Drag (Is About to Drag Me Down) – Two Different Worlds (Big Muddy Records)
Bill Steely – Grace – Where’s Dave (self)*
Cowboy Junkies – Misguided Angel – Misguided Angel (BMG)
Lindi Ortega – The Comeback Kid – Liberty (Shadowbox)*
Tom Armstrong – Looking Forward to Looking Back – Heart Songs (Carswell)
The Hollisters – Better Slow Down – The Land of Rhythm and Pleasure (Freedom)
The Belmont Playboys – Have Wheels Gotta Roll (Teen Rebel)
The Bellfuries – Wasted on Him – Just Plain Lonesome (ASP)
The Bellfuries – Just Plain Lonesome – Just Plain Lonesome (ASP)
Pokey LaFarge – Shenandoah River – Middle of Everywhere (Free Dirt)
Pokey LaFarge – One Town At a Time – Pokey LaFarge (Third Man)
Pokey LaFarge – Something In the Water – Something In the Water (Rounder)
J.D. Wilkes – Walk Between the Raindrops – Fire Dream (blm)*
Gill Landry – Mexico – The Ballad of Lawless Soirez (Nettwerk)
The Paladins – Hot-Rod Rockin’ – Palvoline No. 7 (Ruf Records)
The Paladins – She Tears Me Up – Palvoline No. 7 (Ruf Records)
Luis & the Wildfires – Like a Storm – VA: The Young Breed (Wild)
Gizzelle – Sugar Coated Love – VA: The Young Breed (Wild)
The Planet Rockers – Come On

Wasn’t here

The Twang:

Merle Haggard – Branded Man – VA: Rebels & Outlaws (Capitol)
Rex Hobart – It Won’t Be Long (and I’ll Be Hating You) – Empty House (Bloodshot)
Johnny Paycheck – (Pardon Me) I’ve Got Someone to Kill – VA: Rebels & Outlaws (Capitol)
Sally Timms – Tumbling Tumbleweeds – VA: For a Decade of Sin v. 1 (Bloodshot)
Hymn for Her – Hi Ho Silver – Drive til You Die (self)*
David Myles – Cry, Cry, Cry – Real Love (Little Tiny)*
Bill Steely – This is Love – Where’s Dave (self)*
The Hens – Drunk on Love – Chicon (Topless)*
Rex Hobart – I Always Cry at Weddings – Forever Always Ends (Bloodshot)
The Blacks – Goin’ Out West – Just Like Home (Bloodshot)
The Meat Purveyors – Little White Pills – VA: For a Decade of Sin v. 1 (Bloodshot)
Split Lip Rayfield – A Little More Cocaine Please – Should Have Seen it Coming (Bloodshot)
Trailer Bride – Quit That Jealousy – Smelling Salts (Bloodshot)
J.D.  Wilkes – Fire Dream – Fire Dream (Big Legal Mess)*
Sonny George & The Tennessee Sons – Hillbilly Train – VA: Nashville: the Other Side of the Alley (Bloodshot)
Lindi Ortega – Liberty – Liberty (Shadowbox)*
John Doe – Just for the Hell Of It –  VA:  Songs for Slim (New West)
Deer Tick + Scott Lucas + Vanessa Carlton – From the Git Go – VA: Songs for Slim (New West)
Tim Carroll – Open Flame – VA: Nashville: the Other Side of the Alley (Bloodshot)
The Mammals – Doctor’s Orders – Sunshiner (Humble Abode Music)*
The Sweet Potatoes – By the Light of Day – Headin’ Home (Root Crop)*
The Old 97s – I’d Be Lonesome – VA: For a Decade of Sin v. 2 (Bloodshot)
Ryan Koenig – Am I Still In Your Heart – Two Different Worlds (Big Muddy Records)*
Devil in a Woodpile – Got Just What I Want – VA: For a Decade of Sin v. 2 (Bloodshot)
Tex Williams – Downtown Poker Club – VA: Rebels & Outlaws (Capitol)
Bob Wills (Tommy Duncan vocals) – My Window Faces the South – The Tiffany Transcriptions v. 5 (Kaleidoscope)
Bob Wills (Tommy Duncan vocals) – Swing Blues – The Tiffany Transcriptions v. 5 (Kaleidoscope)
Johnny Lee Wills – In the Mood – Tulsa Swing 1950-51 Radio Transcriptions (Rounder)
Bob Wills (Tommy Duncan vocals) – China Town – The Tiffany Transcriptions v. 5 (Kaleidoscope)

The Twang:

Bill Steely – Back to Susquehanna – Where’s Dave? (self)*
Michael Gamble & the Rhythm Serenaders – Got a Pebble in My Shoe – Get Rhythm in Your Feet (Organic Records)
Hank Penny – Taxes, Taxes – Crazy Rhythm (Soundies/Bloodshot)
Great Recession Orchestra – Sales Tax – Double Shot (New Tex)
Dave & Deke Combo – Snatchin’ and Grabbin’ – Hollywood Barn Dance (Heyday)
Moon Mullican – Showboy Special – Showboy Special (Westside)
Moon Mullican – Let Me Rock – Showboy Special (Westside)
The Time Jumpers – On the Outskirts of Town – The Time Jumpers (Rounder)
Hot Club of Cowtown – Dev’lish Mary – Dev’lish Mary (
Dave Stuckey & the Rhythm Gang – Nobody’s Sweetheart –
White Ghost Shivers – Who Walks In – Hokum If You Got ‘Em (self)
C.W. Stoneking – The Zombie – Gon’ Boogaloo (King Hokum)
Flat Duo Jets – You Belong To Me – Go Go Harlem Baby (Sky)
Flat Duo Jets – My Life, My Love – Flat Duo Jets (Dog Gone)
David Myles – Look at Me – Real Love (Little Tiny)*
Planet Rockers – Voodoo Woman
J.D. Wilkes – Hobos Are My Heroes – Fire Dream (Big Legal Mess)*
Marty Stuart – Lost on the Desert – Way Out West
Tom Waits – Goin’ Out West – Bone Machine
Bad Livers – I’m Goin’ Back to Mom and Dad – Industry and  Thrift (Sugar Hill)
Danny Barnes – Hey Baby I’m Falling – Things I Done Wrong (Terminus)

Red Stick Ramblers – Bring It On Down to My House – Bring It On Down (Memphis)
Red Stick Ramblers – Katrina – Made in the Shade (Sugar Hill)

J.D. Wilkes with Charlie Stamper – Selections from Cattle in the Cane (
Rose’s Pawn Shop – Funeral Pyre – The Arsonist (self)
Lindi Ortega – You Ain’t Foolin’ Me – Liberty (Shadowbox)*
Beth Bombara – Give Me Something – Beth Bombara (self)*

Saints and Sinners Easter Show
The Twang: 

John Prine – Jesus, the Missing Years  – The Missing Years (Oh Boy)
Lydia Loveless – Jesus was a Wino Too – Indestructible Machine (Bloodshot)
The Pioneers – I Praise Your Name – Rockabilly Gospel (Golly Gee)
The Found Cats – John the Baptist – Full Gospel Rockabilly (Golly Gee)
Old Crow Medicine Show – Lift Him Up  – Tennessee Pusher (Nettwerk)
Alison Krauss – Down in the River to Prayer – VA: Oh Brother Where Art Thou? (Lost Highway)
Patty Loveless – Daniel Prayed – Mountain Soul (Sony)
Rose Maddox – We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder – Beautiful Bouquet (Arhoolie)
Uncle Tupelo – Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down –
The Louvin Brothers – Satan is Real – Satan Is Real (Capitol)
The Country Teasers – Only My Savior – Country Teasers (Crypt)
The Handsome Family – Water Into Wine – Odessa (Carrot Top)
Dale Watson – Whiskey or God – Whiskey or God (Palo Duro)
The Starline Rhythm Boys – Sin & Salvation – Red’s Place (Cow Island)
The Del McCoury Band – It’s Surprising What the Lord Can Do – The Promised Land (McCoury Music)
Jim Lauderdale – I Met Jesus in a Bar – Country Super Hits (YepRoc)
Buddy Miller – There’s a Higher Power – Universal United House of Prayer (New West)
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver – Coming Soon – Open Carefully: Message Inside (Cross Road)
Old Crow Medicine Show – God’s Got It – Big Iron World (Nettwerk)
Old Crow Medicine Show – I Hear Them All – Big Iron World (Nettwerk)
The Devil Makes Three – I am the Man Thomas – Redemption & Ruin (New West)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Jesus Christ – Always Say Please and Thank You (Alternative Tentacles)
Audra Mae – The Happiest Lamb – The Happiest Lamb (Side One Dummy)
The Legendary Shack Shakers – Bible, Candle and Skull – Pandelirium (YepRoc)
The Altar Billies – Saved – Head’n Out West (self)
Scott H. Biram – Gotta Get To Heaven – Nothin’ But Blood (Bloodshot)
Scott H. Biram – Amazing Grace – Nothin’ But Blood (Bloodshot)
Hank Williams – I Saw the Light – I Saw the Light (Mercury)
Slaid Cleaves – This Morning I am Born Again – Broke Down (Philo)
Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus – American IV (Lost Highway / American)
Daniel Martin Moore – It Is Well With My Soul – In the Cool of the Day (Sub Pop)