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United States of Americana: an early happy birthday to Bob!

Posted at 11:10 AM on May 20, 2012 by Bill DeVille (0 Comments)
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That Zimmerman guy from "the range" turns 71 this Thursday. I featured a few Dylan tunes and couple of choice covers on this weeks USofA! An early happy birthday to Bob Dylan!

Also took a couple new track from Rhett Miller's new album for a test drive. We also heard new music from Ray Wylie Hubbard, Bonnie Whitmore, and hot one from Langhorne Slim!

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United States of Americana
May 20, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Bob Dylan - Meet Me In The Morning [Blood on the Tracks]
Rose Cousins - The Darkness [We Have Made A Spark]
Tom T Hall - I Love
Union Suits - Do Things [You Got the Wrong Guy]
Rhett Miller - Out of Love [The Dreamer]
Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Hey [Elvis Perkins In Dearland]
Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons - I've Been Accused [Old Believers]
Lyle Lovett - Brown Eyed Handsome Man [Release Me
Blake Mills - It'll All Work Out [Break Mirrors]
Sara Watkins - You're the One I Love [Sun Midnight Sun]
Jack Klatt and the Cat Swingers - Turn Your Money Green [Mississippi Roll]
The Cactus Blossoms - Lonesome and Blue [The Cactus Blossoms]
Everly Brothers - (Til) I Kissed You
Ray Wylie Hubbard - South of the River [The Grifter's Hymnal]
Paul Thorn - Snake Farm [What The Hell Is Goin On]

United States of Americana
May 20, 2012
9:00 a.m.

Marty Robbins - Don't Wory
Bonnie Whitmore - Embers to Ashes [Embers to Ashes]
M. Ward - Right In the Head [Post War]
Lucero - Women and Work [Women and Work]
Alejandro Escovedo - Bottom of the World [Big Station]
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Listening to the Wind That Blows [Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions]
Cory Branan - Bad Man [Mutt]
The Barr Brothers - Beggar in the Morning [The Barr Brothers]
Steve Earle and Lucia Micarelli - One More Cup of Coffee For the Road [Chimes of Freedom]
Ben Kweller - Full Circle [Go Fly A Kite]
Langhorne Slim and the Law - The Way We Move [The Way We Move]
Rhett Miller - Lost Without You [The Dreamer]
Lucero - Women and Work [Women and Work]
Bob Dylan - Isis [Live 1975 Bootleg Series]
Jason and the Scorchers - Absolutely Sweet Marie [Fervor]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe

David Lindley - Tuesday - Cedar
M Ward - Thursday - First Avenue
Chuck Meade (of BR549) - Thursday - Lee's
Barr Brothers - Thursday - Bryant Lake Bowl
Jack Klatt and the Cat Swingers CD Release Show w/Cactus Blossoms/Dakota Dave Hull/Cornbread Harris - Saturday - Cedar Cultural Center
Trailer Trash - 6/1 - Lee's
Langhorne Slim/Ha Ha Tonka - 6/2 - Triple Rock
O' Death/Charlie Parr - 6/3 - Turf Club
The Low Anthem(w/Feist) - June 2 - MN Zoo
Deer Tick - 6/7 - First Avenue
The Flatlanders 40th anniversary tour - 6/13 - Cedar
Jerry Jeff Walker - June 17 - MN Zoo
Dale Watson - 6/20 - Lee's
Brandi Carlile - June 20 & 21 - MN Zoo
The Pines - June 23 - MN Zoo
Tedeschi Trucks Band - June 24 & 25 - MN Zoo
Booker T Jones - June 21 - Dakota
JD McPherson - June 26 - Fine Line
Emmylou Harris - June 28 - MN Zoo
John Prine - June 29 - MN Zoo
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry - 6/30
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - July 6th - 1st Avenue
Bill Kirchen - 7/20 - Lee's
Los Lobos/Steve Earle - July 25 - MN Zoo
Hayes Carll - July 27 - Soundtown
Shawn Colvin - July 30 - Guthrie
Robert Earl Keen - August 4 - Cedar
Pert Near Sandstone - Aug 18 - Cabooze
Del McCoury - Aug 19th - Dakota
The Desert Rose Band - Aug 27 & 28 - Dakota

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United States of Americana: Justin Townes Earle was in the house!

Posted at 7:11 PM on May 12, 2012 by Bill DeVille (0 Comments)
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We were lucky enough to be joined by Justin Townes Earle last Monday, prior to his sold-out show at the Varsity Theatre in Minneapolis. JTE was in good spirits early on a Monday! We talked about winning song of the year at the Americana Awards, his songwriting style, Levon Helm, The Staple Singers & his fine new album, "Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel bout Me Now."

You can hear the session, right here.

Will also feature some songs for Mom and a few from Willie Nelson's new album, which drops on Tuesday.

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United States of Americana
May 13, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Justin Townes Earle - Mama's Eyes [album: Midnight at the Movies]
Lee Ann Womack - Momma's on A Roll [Kin: The Songs of Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell]
Lefty Frizzell - Mom and Dad's Waltz
Wayne Hancock - Thunderstorms and Neon Signs
Lindsay Fuller - Everything I Ever Had [You, Anniversary]
Emmylou Harris - The Road [Hard Bargain]
Willie Nelson - The Scientist [Heroes]
Todd Snider - In Between Jobs [Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables]
Deer Tick - Main Street [Divine Providence]
Patrick Watson - Into Giants [Adventures in Your Own Backyard]
Lisa Marie Presley - Over Me [Storm and Grace]
Michelle Shocked - Come A Long Way [Arkansas Traveler]
Cuff The Duke - Count On Me [ Morning Comes]
John Fullbright - Gawd Above [From the Ground Up]
JD McPherson - Fire Bug [Signs and Signifiers]

United States of Americana
May 13, 2012
9:00 a.m.

Grateful Dead - Ripple [American Beauty]

Justin Townes Earle Live In-studio performance

songs performed: "Memphis in the Rain," "Am I That Lonely" and "Look The Other Way"

Joe Pug w/Craig Finn - The Great Despiser [The Great Despiser]
Billy Bragg and Wilco - My Thirty Thousand [Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions]
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
Sara Watkins - When it Pleases You [Sun Midnight Sun]
Sarah Jarosz - The Tourist [Follow Me Down]
Lucinda Williams - Mama You Sweet [West]
Willie Nelson - Roll Me Up [Heroes]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe

Michelle Shocked - Tuesday - Dakota
Sarah Jarosz - Wednesday - Varsity
Joe Pug - Thursday- 7th Street Entry
Amy Ray - Friday - Turf Club
Jenn Rawling/Basho Parks - 5/22/12 - The Acadia Cafe & 5/23 - Honey - Minneapolis, MN
David Lindley - 5/22 - Cedar
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Barr Brothers - 5/24 - Bryant Lake Bowl
Jack Klatt and the Cat Swingers CD Release Show w/Cactus Blossoms/Dakota Dave Hull/Cornbread Harris - 5/26 - Cedar Cultural Center
Trailer Trash - 6/1 - Lee's
Langhorne Slim/Ha Ha Tonka - 6/2 - Triple Rock
O' Death/Charlie Parr - 6/3 - Turf Club
The Low Anthem(w/Feist) - June 2 - MN Zoo
Deer Tick - 6/7 - First Avenue
The Flatlanders 40th anniversary tour - 6/13 - Cedar
Jerry Jeff Walker - June 17 - MN Zoo
Dale Watson - 6/20 - Lee's
Brandi Carlile - June 20 & 21 - MN Zoo
The Pines - June 23 - MN Zoo
Tedeschi Trucks Band - June 24 & 25 - MN Zoo
JD McPherson - June 6 - Fine Line
Booker T Jones - June 21 - Dakota
Emmylou Harris - June 28 - MN Zoo
John Prine - June 29 - MN Zoo
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry - 6/30
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - July 6th - 1st Avenue
Bill Kirchen - 7/20 - Lee's
Los Lobos/Steve Earle - July 25 - MN Zoo
Hayes Carll - July 27 - Soundtown
Shawn Colvin - July 30 - Guthrie
Robert Earl Keen - August 4 - Cedar
Pert Near Sandstone - Aug 18 - Cabooze
Del McCoury - Aug 19th - Dakota
The Desert Rose Band - Aug 27 & 28 - Dakota

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United States of Americana featuring Justin Townes Earle and Lee Hazlewood

Posted at 10:59 AM on May 6, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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For this episode I featured a couple tracks from Justin Townes Earle. He is performing tomorrow night at The Varsity in Minneapolis. I am doing a session with JTE on Monday and will play it back next Sunday on the USofA.

I also featured a few tunes from Lee Hazlewood. The guy behind "These Boots Are Made For Walkin," Nanci Sintra's signature 60's hit. He also worked with Gram Parsons and the International Submarine Band in the mid 1960s. Gram Parsons's departure from the band and decision to become part of The Byrds created legal problems with Hazlewood. The new collection on the Light In the Attic label is called The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes, And Backsides (1968-1971.)

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United States of Americana
5/6/12
8:00 a.m.

Lee Hazlewood - The Night Before [album: The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes and Backsides (1968-1971)]
Chris Erickson - On the Way Down [Lost Track of the Time]
Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man
Turnpike Troubadors - Gin Smoke and Lies [Goodbye Normal Street]
Beachwood Sparks - Forget The Song [The Tarnished Gold]
Tristen - Baby Drugs [Charlatans at the Garden Gate]
Justin Townes Earle - Automobile Blues [Recorded live in-studio in Feb 2011]
Dylan Hicks - Days of Dayton, Nights of Columbus [Sings Bolling Greene]
Johnny Cash - Strange Things Happen Everyday [Bootleg IV]
Tom Jones - Jezebel [Third Man 7"]
Sons of Bill - Turn It Up [Sirens]
Leslie and the Badgers - Roomful of Smoke [Roomful of Smoke]
Neil Casal - Need Shelter [Sweeten the Distance]
Alejandro Escovedo - Bottom of the World [Big Station]

United States of Americana
3/6/11
9:00 a.m.

Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band - Garden Party
Starling, TN - Dry County in Hell [Heartache in 4/4 Time]
Handsome Family - June Bugs [Honey Moon]
Hayes Carll - I Don't Wanna Grow Up [Trouble In Mind]
Justin Townes Earle - Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now[Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now]
The Flatlanders - See the Way [Wheels of Fortune]
Teague Alexy - Quarter to Four [This Dance ]
Doug Paisley w/Feist- Learn To Lose [Golden Embers]
Billy Bragg and Wilco - When the Roses Bloom Again [Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions]
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker & Yim Yames - Old L.A. [New Multitudes]
First Aid Kit - Blue [The Lion's Roar]
Everly Brothers - Love Hurts
Lee Hazlewood w/Nina Lizwell - Hey Cowboy [The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes and Backsides (1968-1971)]
The Mastersons - One Word More [Birds Fly South]
NRBQ - Ridin' in My Car

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe

Justin Townes Earle - Monday, 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - Thursday 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
NRBQ - Saturday 5/12 - Famous Dave's
Dylan Hicks - Bryant Lake Bowl - Saturday
Michelle Shocked - 5/15 - Dakota
Sarah Jarosz - 5/16 - Varsity
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
Jenn Rawling/Basho Parks - 5/22/12 - The Acadia Cafe & 5/23 - Honey - Minneapolis
David Lindley - 5/22 - Cedar
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Barr Brothers - 5/24 - Bryant Lake Bowl
Trailer Trash - 6/1 - Lee's
Langhorne Slim - 6/2 - Triple Rock
O' Death/Charlie Parr - 6/3 - Turf Club
The Low Anthem(w/Feist) - June 2 - MN Zoo
Deer Tick - 6/7 - First Avenue
The Flatlanders 40th anniversary tour - 6/13 - Cedar
Jerry Jeff Walker - June 17 - MN Zoo
Dale Watson - 6/20 - Lee's
Brandi Carlile - June 20 & 21 - MN Zoo
The Pines - June 23 - MN Zoo
Tedeschi Trucks Band - June 24 & 25 - MN Zoo
Emmylou Harris - June 28 - MN Zoo
John Prine - June 29 - MN Zoo
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry - 6/30
Bill Kirchen - 7/20 - Lee's
Los Lobos/Steve Earle - July 25 - MN Zoo
Hayes Carll - July 27 - Soundtown
The Desert Rose Band - Aug 27 & 28 - Dakota

Burrito's for breakfast on the USofA!

Posted at 7:43 PM on April 28, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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This time on United States of Americana we remember Chris Etheridge, founding bass player in pioneering alt-country band Flying Burrito Brothers. Ethridge died on April 23, at age of 65 in Meridian, Mississippi of complications from pancreatic cancer.

Also, I can't get enough of of this JT McPherson. He's a gentleman from Oklahoma, who sounds like he could have recorded his album with Sam Phillips at Sun Studio in 1953! I'l spin a couple from his new album called Signs and Signifiers!

Lots of new stuff this time! We'll hear Willie Nelson and his son Lukas, Austin, Tx singer/songwriter Graham Weber, Nanci Griffith, and a new 45 from Jonny Corndawg, featuring Dawes and recorded at Jackson Browne's house!

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United States of Americana
April 29, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burrito [The Gilded Palace of Sin]
Lower 48 - Come Awake [Where All Maps End]
Porter and Dolly - Better Move It On Home
Mike And Ruthy - On My Way Home [The NYC EP]
Nanci Griffith - Hell No (I'm Not Alright) [Intersection]
Dawes - Love Is All I Am [Recorded live In-Studio]
Johnny Corndawg - Exercise [7"] w/Dawes
JD McPherson - Fire Bug [Signs and Signifiers]
Delmore Brothers - Blues Stay Away From Me
The Wandering featuring Luther Dickinson - Old Joe Clarke [Mississippi Folk Music Vol. III]
Graham Weber - I'm Already Lonely [Women]
Aretha Franklin - Cold, Cold Heart
Ray Charles - Hey Good Lookin' [Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music]
Willie Nelson - Just Breathe [Heroes]
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real - Wasted [Wasted]

United States of Americana
April 29, 2012
9:00 a.m.

The Flying Burrito Brothers - Wheels [The Gilded Palace of Sin]
Great Lake Swimmers - Easy Come, Easy Go [New Wild Everywhere]
Josh Rouse - Quiet Town [Subtitalo]
Ryan Adams - Black Sheets of Rain [i-Tunes session]
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Country Girl [Leaving Eden]
Pokey Lafarge & the So. City 3 - Mississippi Girl [Middle of Everywhere]
7Horse - Low Fuel Drug Run [Let the 7Horse Run]
Justin Townes Earle - Memphis In the Rain [Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now]
Reckless Ones - Nothin' [Set the World On Fire]
JD McPherson - Country Boy [Signs and Signifiers]
Rhett Miller - Out of Love [The Dreamer]
Todd Snider - Sangria Wine [Time As We Know It]
First Aid Kit - Emmylou [The Lions Roar]
Flying Burrito Brothers - Christine's Tune [Gilded Palace of Sin]
Paul Thorn - Take My Love With You [What the Hell is Goin' On?]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Wednesday - Cedar
7Horse - Fine Line - Wednesday
Great Lake Swimmers - Thursday - Cedar
Reckless Ones/Cat Club (from Valencia Spain) - Thursday - Lee's
Trailer Trash - Friday - Lee's
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - Friday - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - Saturday - Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - Monday, 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
NRBQ - 5/12 - Famous Dave's
Michelle Shocked - 5/15 - Dakota
Sarah Jarosz - 5/16 - Varsity
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
Jenn Rawling/Basho Parks - 5/22/12 - The Acadia Cafe & 5/23 - Honey - Minneapolis, MN
David Lindley - 5/22 - Cedar
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Barr Brothers - 5/24 - Bryant Lake Bowl
Trailer Trash - 6/1 - Lee's
Langhorne Slim - 6/2 - Triple Rock
O' Death/Charlie Parr - 6/3 - Turf Club
The Low Anthem(w/Feist) - June 2 - MN Zoo
Deer Tick - 6/7 - First Avenue
The Flatlanders 40th anniversary tour - 6/13 - Cedar
Jerry Jeff Walker - June 17 - MN Zoo
Dale Watson - 6/20 - Lee's
Brandi Carlile - June 20 & 21 - MN Zoo
The Pines - June 23 - MN Zoo
Tedeschi Trucks Band - June 24 & 25 - MN Zoo
Emmylou Harris - June 28 - MN Zoo
John Prine - June 29 - MN Zoo
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry - 6/30
Bill Kirchen - 7/20 - Lee's
Los Lobos/Steve Earle - July 25 - MN Zoo
The Desert Rose Band - Aug 27 & 28 - Dakota

United States of Americana welcomes Sara Watkins to our studios!

Posted at 8:02 AM on April 22, 2012 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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It was a busy morning around here on the USofA! Sara Watkins dropped by to perform a few tunes. You might remember her from Nickel Creek. Her 2nd solo album will be released in early May. She dropped by with her brother Sean and Tyler Chester. It was a lovely set for a Sunday morning!

Here is the link to the session.

We also remembered Levon Helm, who passed away this past week.

As always, I featured a bunch of new Americana! We listened to new stuff from JD McPherson, Travis Linville, Chelle Rose & some local sounds from Teague Alexy, who is also a member of Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank.

Happy birthday Glen Campbell!

Here are the details about Neil Young's new Americana album, and how to submit your covers of select songs...

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United States of Americana
April 22, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Bob Dylan and the Band - Forever Young [album: Planet Waves]
Sarah Siskind - I Think About Love [Novel]
Johnny Cash and Marshall Grant - I Was There When It Happened [The Soul of Truth: Bootleg Vol. IV]
The Carper Family - Loving Me Like You Do [Back When]
Teague Alexy - Riding On A Ferris Wheel [This Dance]
Hank Williams - A Mansion On the Hill
Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Band of Heathens - Hurricane [Top Hat Crown & the Clapmaster's Son]
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush [After the Gold Rush]
Horse Feathers - Fit Against the Country [Cynics New Year]
Chelle Rose - Browder Holler Boy [The Ghost of Browder Holler]
Travis Linville - Sun Or Moon [Sun or Moon EP]
Trampled By Turtles - Midnight on the Interstate [Stars and Satellites]
Punch Brothers - Flippen [Who's Feeling Young Now]

United States of Americana
April 22, 2012
9:00 a.m.

The Band - Rag Mama Rag [Ramble at the Ryman]
Lucinda Williams - God I'm Missing You [Kin: The Songs of Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell]
Freedy Johnston - Don't Fall in Love With A Lonely Girl [Rain on the City]
Haley Bonar - Money [Golder]
Glen Campbell - Galveston
Lambchop - Gone Tomorrow [Mr. M]
Roy Orbison - Crying
JD McPherson - Wolfteeth [Signs and Signifiers]
John Prine - Other Side of Town [Fair and Square]

Sara Watkins - LIVE IN-STUDIO
songs played: "The Foothills," "You and Me," & "Take Up Your Spade"

The Band - The Weight [The Last Waltz]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe

Sara Watkins/Sarah Siskind - tonight- Cedar
Horse Feathers - Tuesday - 7th St. Entry
Lambchop - Thursday - Dakota
Dar Williams - Thursday - Cedar
Infamous Stringdusters - Thursday - Cabooze
Band of Heathens - Thursday - Fine Line
Haley Bonar/Peter Wolf Crier - Friday - Cedar
Freedy Johnston - Friday - Amsterdam
Teague Alexy - Friday - 331
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 5/2 - Cedar
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
Reckless Ones/Cat Club (from Valencia Spain) - 5/3 - Lee's
Trailer Trash - 5/4 - Lee's
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - 5/4 - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - 5/5 Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
Michelle Shocked - 5/15 - Dakota
Sarah Jarosz - 5/16 - Varsity
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
Jenn Rawling/Basho Parks - 5/22/12 - The Acadia Cafe & 5/23 - Honey - Minneapolis
David Lindley - 5/22 - Cedar
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Barr Brothers - 5/24 - Bryant Lake Bowl
Trailer Trash - 6/1 - Lee's
Langhorne Slim - 6/2 - Triple Rock
O' Death/Charlie Parr - 6/3 - Turf Club
The Low Anthem(w/Feist) - June 2 - MN Zoo
Deer Tick - 6/7 - First Avenue
The Flatlanders 40th Anniversary Tour - 6/13 - Cedar
Jerry Jeff Walker - June 17 - MN Zoo
Dale Watson - 6/20 - Lee's
Brandi Carlile - June 20 & 21 - MN Zoo
The Pines - June 23 - MN Zoo
Tedeschi Trucks Band - June 24 & 25 - MN Zoo
Emmylou Harris - June 28 - MN Zoo
John Prine - June 29 - MN Zoo
Midtown Dickens - 6/30 - 7th St. Entry
Bill Kirchen - 7/20 - Lee's
Los Lobos/Steve Earle - July 25 - MN Zoo
The Desert Rose Band - Aug 27 & 28 - Dakota

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USofA celebrates the release of Johnny Cash's Bootleg IV & remembers the Titanic, which sank 100 years ago today.

Posted at 11:51 AM on April 15, 2012 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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It's good to be back in the saddle again! Thanks to Mac Wilson for the fine job filling in!

I featured a couple of tunes from The Soul of Truth; Bootleg Vol. IV, from Johnny Cash. The album is an intimate look Cash's love of gospel music. It includes 3 rare albums and some assorted outtakes and unreleased goodies. The quality of the material is quite good!

We also remembered the Titanic, which sunk on it's maiden voyage 100 years ago today. I featured tunes from Woody Guthrie and Koerner, Ray & Glover.

I also featured new Americana from Bonnie Raitt, Doug Paisley, Jeff Litman & a couple of new covers from Willie Nelson & Ryan Adams.

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United States of Americana
4/15/2012
8:00 a.m.

Woody Guthrie - Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down)
Jeff Litman - What Hasn't Happened Yet [album: Outside]
Barna Howard - Promise I Won't Laugh [Barna Howard]
Johnny Cash - Wildwood in the Pines [The Truth of Soul: Bootleg IV]
Starlings, TN - Aragon Mill [Heartache in 4/4 Time]
Marty Robbins - El Paso City
Lambchop - The Good Life is Wasted [Mr. M]
Bonnie Raitt - Million Miles [Slipstream]
Greg Brown - Freak Flag [Freak Flag]
Nick Lowe - Sensitive Man [The Old Magic]
Sons of Bill - Find My Way Back Home [Sirens]
The Doc Marshall's - Why I'm Leaving [Look Out, Compadre]
Waco Brothers and Paul Burch - Wrong Side of Love [Great Chicago Fire]
Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon [Van Lear Rose]

United States of Americana
4/15/2012
9:00 a.m.

Koerner, Ray, and Glover - Titanic [The Return of...]
The Deep Dark Woods - Virginia [The Place I Left Behind]
Steve Earle - More Than I Can Do [I Feel Alright]
Leon Russell - Out of the Woods [Carney]
Hank III - Sun Comes Up [Long Gone Daddy]
Hayes Carll - Bad Liver and Broken Heart [Trouble In Mind]
Alejandro Escovedo - Anchor [Street Songs of Love]
Doug Paisley - Learn to Lose [Golden Embers EP]
Tony Joe White - Rainy Night In Georgia [Continued]
Southern Culture on the Skids - Voodoo Cadillac [Dirt Track Date]
Willie Nelson - Just Breathe [Heroes]
Ryan Adams - Black Sheets of Rain [iTunes session]
Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis) [The Trinity Session]
Johnny Cash - Strange Things Happen Every Day [ The Soul of Truth: Bootleg IV]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf Club
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe

Kathleen Edwards - Tonight - Varsity [POSTPONED]
Cowboy Junkies - Tonight - Dakota
Jeff Litman - Monday - 7th St. Entry
Leon Russell - Tuesday and Wednesday - Dakota
Nick Lowe and His Band - Wednesday - First Avenue
Greg Brown - Friday - Cedar
Sara Watkins/Sarah Siskind - Sunday, 4/22 - Cedar
Horse Feathers - 4/24 - 7th St. Entry
Lambchop - 4/26 - Dakota
Dar Williams - 4/26 - Cedar
Infamous Stringdusters - 4/26 - Cabooze
Band of Heathens - 4/26 - Fine Line
Haley Bonar/Peter Wolf Crier - 4/27 - Cedar
Freedy Johnston - 4/27 - Amsterdam
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 5/2 - Cedar
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
Reckless Ones/Cat Club (from Valencia Spain) - 5/3 - Lee's
Trailer Trash - 5/4 - Lee's
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - 5/4 - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - 5/5 Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
Michelle Shocked - 5/15 - Dakota
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
Jenn Rawling/Basho Parks - 5/22/12 at The Acadia Cafe & 5/23 at Honey in MPLS
David Lindley - 5/22 - Cedar
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Trailer Trash - 6/1 - Lee's
The Low Anthem(w/Feist) - June 2 - MN Zoo
Deer Tick - 6/7 - First Avenue
The Flatlanders 40th anniversary tour - 6/13 - Cedar
Jerry Jeff Walker - June 17 - MN Zoo
Dale Watson - 6/20 - Lee's
Brandi Carlile - June 20 & 21 - MN Zoo
The Pines - June 23 - MN Zoo
Tedeschi Trucks Band - June 24 & 25 - MN Zoo
Emmylou Harris - June 28 - MN Zoo
John Prine - June 29 - MN Zoo
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry - 6/30
Bill Kirchen - 7/20 - Lee's
Los Lobos/Steve Earle - July 25 - MN Zoo
The Desert Rose Band - Aug 27 & 28 - Dakota

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United States of Americana - 4/8 Easter Sunday

Posted at 10:00 AM on April 8, 2012 by Mac Wilson
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Lucinda Williams, "Right in Time" (from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road)
Horse Feathers, "Fit Against the Country" (from Cynic's New Year)
The Byrds, "Nothing Was Delivered" (from Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Sad Brad Smith, "Help Yourself" (from the Up in the Air soundtrack)
Joe Pug, "One of Many" (from The Great Despiser)
A.A. Bondy, "When the Devil's Loose" (from When the Devil's Loose)
Patsy Cline, "Back in Baby's Arms" (from The Definitive Collection)
The Lower 48, "Miles from Minnesota" (from Everywhere to Go)
Bowerbirds, "Tuck the Darkness In" (from The Clearing)
Megafaun, "The Fade" (from Gather, Form and Fly)
Waylon Jennings, "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" (from (Ol' Waylon)
Holcombe Waller, "Baby Blue" (from Into the Dark Unknown)
Neko Case, "The Pharaohs" (from Middle Cyclone)
Cracker, "This Is Cracker Soul" (from Cracker)
Carl Perkins, "Blue Suede Shoes"
Dawes, "The Way You Laugh" (from Nothing Is Wrong)
Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, "If I Wrote a Song (About Our Love Affair)" (from Swingin' West)
Buck Owens, "Act Naturally" (from The Very Best of Buck Owens)
Cowboy Junkies, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Hank Williams cover, from The Trinity Session)
Wilco, "One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)" (from The Whole Love)
Allison Krauss and Gillian Welch, "I'll Fly Away" (from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack)
Trampled by Turtles, "Beautiful" (from Stars and Satellites)
Glen Campbell, "Sadly Beautiful" (Replacements cover, from Meet Glen Campbell)
June Carter, "Juke Box Blues"
Lambchop, "Gone Tomorrow" (from Mr. M)
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, "Let It Ride" (from Cold Roses)

Holcombe Waller - 4/9 - Bryant Lake Bowl....CD on desk
Trampled By Turtles/These United States - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Cave Singers - 4/13 - 7th St. Entry
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Cowboy Junkies - 4/15 - Dakota
Leon Russell - 4/17 & 4/18 - Dakota
Nick Lowe and His Band - 4/18 - First Avenue
Horse Feathers - 4/24 - 7th St. Entry
Lambchop - 4/26 - Dakota
Band of Heathens - 4/26 - Fine Line
Freedy Johnston - 4/27 - Amsterdam
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 5/2 - Cedar
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - 5/4 - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - 5/5 Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy  
Michelle Shocked - 5/15 - Dakota
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Deer Tick - 6/7 - First Avenue
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry - 6/30

United States of Americana - 4/1

Posted at 10:00 AM on April 1, 2012 by Mac Wilson
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It's no joke -- it's the April Fools' edition of United States of Americana!

The Honeydogs, "Miriam" (from Everything, I Bet You)
Mason Jennings, "Rudy" (from Minnesota)
Neko Case, "Margaret vs. Pauline" (from Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)
The Band, "Ophelia" (from Northern Lights - Southern Cross)
Peggy Sue, "Matilda" (from Fossils and Other Phantoms)
Langhorne Slim, "Loretta Lee Jones" (from When the Sun's Gone Down)
Loretta Lynn, "Mrs. Leroy Brown" (from Van Lear Rose)
Trampled by Turtles, "Walt Whitman" (from Stars and Satellites)
Billy Bragg and Wilco, "Ingrid Bergman" (from Mermaid Avenue)
Bob Dylan, "Song to Woody" (from Bob Dylan)
Caitlin Robertson, "Sally Ireland" (from Coyote Blues)
Romantica, "Oscar Wilde" (from It's Your Weakness That I Want)
Johnny Cash, "A Boy Named Sue" (from At San Quentin)
First Aid Kit, "Emmylou" (from The Lion's Roar)
Bill Callahan, "Jim Cain" (from Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle)
John Prine, "Paradise" (from John Prine)
Great Lake Swimmers, "Easy Come Easy Go" (from New Wild Everywhere)
Son Volt, "The Picture" (from The Search)
Pert' Near Sandstone, "Appalachian Girl" (from Paradise Hop)
The Flying Burrito Brothers, "Christine's Tune (Devil in Disguise)" (from The Gilded Palace of Sin)
Neal Casal, "Bird with No Name" (from Sweeten the Distance)
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, "Born Into a Light" (from Cardinology)
Old 97's, "Crying Drunk" (from Early Tracks)
Lambchop, "The Good Life (Is Wasted)" (from Mr. M)
Hank Williams, "Move It On Over" (from 40 Greatest Hits)
Holcombe Waller, "Risk of Change" (from Into the Dark Unknown)
Jessica Lea Mayfield, "I'll Be the One That You Want Someday" (from Tell Me)
The Jayhawks, "Nevada, California" (from Hollywood Town Hall)
Lucero, "On My Way Downtown" (from Women and Work)
BR549, "No Train to Memphis" (from Tangled in the Pines)

Americana Calendar

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - Monday and Tuesday (4/2 & 4/3) - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - Tuesday, 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Pert Near Sandstone and Charlie Parr - 4/6 - First Avenue
John Prine's 1/2 Birthday Tribute featuring Dan Newton, Caitlin Robertson, Jon Rodine, Mother Banjo, Art Vandalay - 331. Saturday 4/7
First Aid Kit/Peggy Sue - 4/7 - Cedar
Holcombe Waller - 4/9 - Bryant Lake Bowl....CD on desk
Trampled By Turtles/These United States - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Cave Singers - 4/13 - 7th St. Entry
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Cowboy Junkies - 4/15 - Dakota
Leon Russell - 4/17 & 4/18 - Dakota
Nick Lowe and His Band - 4/18 - First Avenue
Horse Feathers - 4/24 - 7th St. Entry
Lambchop - 4/26 - Dakota
Band of Heathens - 4/26 - Fine Line
Freedy Johnston - 4/27 - Amsterdam
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 5/2 - Cedar
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - 5/4 - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - 5/5 Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
Michelle Shocked - 5/15 - Dakota
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Deer Tick - 6/7 - First Avenue
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry - 6/30

United States of Americana featuring an in studio performance from Jonny Corndawg!

Posted at 7:59 PM on March 24, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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Jonny Corndawg dropped by The Current's studios yesterday to record an in-studio session! He was in the Twin Cities to perform at the Triple Rock on Friday night and Palmer's last night. You can also hear the session right here!

Corndawg and his newly named band, the Almonds, played a few of new tracks from an upcoming album that was recored with the guys from Dawes at Jackson Browne's house in California!

I have a few new new tracks from Justin Townes Earle, his new album, Nothings Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now drops on Tuesday. I will also feature brand new tunes from Shooter Jennings, Andra Suchy, Six Mile Grove & an excellent songwriter named Kevin Gordon.

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United States of Americana
3/25/12
8:00 a.m.

Rodney Crowell - Still Learning How to Fly [Fate's Right Hand]
Justin Townes Earle - Memphis in the Rain [Nothings Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now]
Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors
The Vespers - Flower Flower [The 4th Wall]
Andra Suchy - Little Heart [Little Heart]
Lay Low - Little By Little [Farewell Goodnight's Sleep]
Madison Violet - Goin' Away [The Good in Goodbye]
Six Mile Grove - Fight Like A Man [Secret Life in a Quiet Town]
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Cody Canada and the Departed - Ballad of Rosalie [This is Indian Land]
Ben Kweller - Out the Door [Go Fly A Kite]
Dave Rawlings Machine - Too Be Young is to Be Sad [A Friend of A Friend]
Kevin Gordon - Tearing It Down [Gloryland]
Todd Snider - New York Banker [Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables]

United States of Americana
3/25/12
9:00 a.m.

Buck Owens - Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass

JONNY CORNDAWG IN-STUDIO SESSION

songs performed: Fever Dreams, Ain't It Your Birthday, Have You Ever Wanted To Die

Audra Mae and the Almighty Sound - Smokin' the Boys [Audra Mae and the Almighty Sound]
The Silos - I'm Over [The Silos]
Bowerbirds - Tuck the Darkness In [The Clearing]
Justin Townes Earle - Baby's Got A Bad Idea [Nothings Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now]
Rhett Miller - Our Love [The Instigator]
The Cactus Blossoms - Adios Maria [The Cactus Blossoms]
Trampled By Turtles - Midnight on the Interstate [Stars and Satellites]
The Byrds - Pretty Boy Floyd [Sweetheart of the Rodeo]
Shooter Jennings - The Long Road Ahead [Family Man]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe
Dan Hicks - Tuesday - Dakota
Andra Suchy CD Release Show - Tuesday - Varsity
Shooter Jennings/Cody Canada and the Departed - Wednesday - Cabooze
Ben Kweller - Wednesday - Fine Line
Lay Low w/Of Monsters and Men - Thursday - Fine Line
Six Mile Grove Album release Party - Friday - Aster Cafe
Bowerbirds - Saturday - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - Monday and Tuesday (4/2 & 4/3) - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - Tuesday, 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Pert Near Sandstone and Charlie Parr - 4/6 - First Avenue
First Aid Kit/Peggy Sue - 4/7 - Cedar
Trampled By Turtles/These United States - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Cave Singers - 4/13 - 7th St. Entry
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Cowboy Junkies - 4/15 - Dakota
Leon Russell - 4/17 & 4/18 - Dakota
Nick Lowe and His Band - 4/18 - First Avenue
Horse Feathers - 4/24 - 7th St. Entry
Lambchop - 4/26 - Dakota
Band of Heathens - 4/26 - Fine Line
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 5/2 - Cedar
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - 5/4 - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - 5/5 Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
Michelle Shocked - 5/15 - Dakota
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Midtown Dickens - 6/30 - St. Entry

United States of Americana celebrates 50 years of Dylan!

Posted at 10:48 AM on March 18, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the USofA, we celebrated Bob Dylan. It was 50 years tomorrow that he released his self-titled debut. It was a modest album which featured a few folk/blues standards & two originals. It was produced by Columbia's legendary talent scout John Hammond, who signed Dylan to the label. Metro Magazine did a special issue this month to celebrate Dylan. You can find it at your favorite newsstand. Editor in Chief at Metro, Dana Raidt drops by in the 2nd hour to talk Dylan!

We will also heard new music from Justin Townes Earle, The Union Suits, The Masterson's and Starlings, TN.

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3/18/12
8:00 a.m.

Bob Dylan - Meet Me in the Morning [Blood on the Tracks]
Andra Suchy - 90 MPH [Little Heart]
Guy Davis - Sweetheart Like You [Sweetheart Like You]
Harmondale - Holy Water [Spirit of 73]
Six Mile Grove - Long Live the Queen [Secret Life In A Quiet Town]
Van Morrisson - My Buckets Got a Hole In It [Pay the Devil]
The Union Suits - Do Things [You Got The Wrong Guy]
Justin Townes Earle - Nothings Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now [Nothings Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now]
Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make it Through the Night
Starlings, TN - Too Little Too Late [Heartache in 4/4 Time]
Ben Howard - The Wolves [Every Kingdom]
Michael Nesmith - Joanne
Steve Kaul and the Brass Kings - Machine [Machine]
The Mastersons - One More Word [Birds Fly South]

United States of Americana
3/18/12
9:00 a.m.

David Wax Museum - Yes, Maria, Yes [CD: Everything Is Saved]
Bob Dylan - Gospel Plow [Bob Dylan]
Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues [Highway 61 Revisted]
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Girl from the North Country [Nashville Skyline]
The Staves - Mexico [Mexico E.P.]
Ryan Adams - Easy Plateau [Cold Roses]
Bhi Bhiman - Guttersnipe [Bhiman]
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Country Girl [ Leaving Eden]
Robert Ellis - Westbound Train [Photograph]
Jonny Corndawg - Shaved Like A Razor [Down By The Bikini Line]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe
David Wax Museum - Wednesday - Cedar
Communion: Austin to Boston w/Ben Howard, The Staves, Nathaniel Rateliff - Thursday - Varsity
Bhi Bhiman/Rosie Thomas - Friday - Turf
Steve Kaul and the Brass Kings - Friday - Cedar
Jonny Corndawg, Shovels and Rope, & Robert Ellis - Saturday - Triple Rock
Pat Donahue, Guy Davis - Saturday - Fitzgerald
Megafaun - Saturday - Turf Club
Cactus Blossoms/Calamity and the Owl/The Union Suits CD Release Show - Saturday - Lee's
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Andra Suchy CD Release Show - Tuesday 3/27- Varsity
Ben Kweller - 3/28 - Fine Line
Lay Low w/Of Monsters and Men - 3/29 - Fine Line
Six Mile Grove Album release Party - 3/30 - Aster Cafe
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Pert Near Sandstone and Charlie Parr - 4/6 - First Avenue
First Aid Kit/Peggy Sue - 4/7 - Cedar
Trampled By Turtles/These United States - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Cave Singers - 4/13 - 7th St. Entry
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Cowboy Junkies - 4/15 - Dakota
Leon Russell - 4/17 & 4/18 - Dakota
Nick Lowe and His Band - 4/18 - First Avenue
Horse Feathers - 4/24 - 7th St. Entry
Lambchop - 4/26 - Dakota
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 5/2 - Cedar
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - 5/4 - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - 5/5 Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
Michelle Shocked - 5/15 - Dakota
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry - 6/30

United States of Americana: tons of new stuff!

Posted at 12:11 PM on March 11, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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There has been an abundance of new Americana the last few weeks. I've been diggin' through it and trying to sort it all out! This time, we'll hear new stuff from Todd Snider, Jack Wilson, Chip Taylor, he's the guy who wrote "Wild Thing," which was a big hit for The Troggs. Also on the agenda are Rosie Thomas, who has a new album featuring Sam Beam on a couple of tracks, and I have a new track one from Joe Pug, which features Craig Finn!

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United States of Americana
March 11, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Slim Dunlap - Balled of the Opening Band [CD: The Old New Me]
Chip Taylor & the Ukranians - Screw All the Perfect People[Screw All the Perfect People]
J. J. Cale - Crazy Mama [Naturally]
Erik Tasa - Sunny Miles [Ballad of A Winter Beard]
Nathaniel Rateliff - Whimper and Wail [In Memory of Loss]
Alsison Krauss - I'll Fly Away [O Brother, Where Art Thou]
Daniel Rossen - Silent Song [Silent Hour/Golden Mile]
Jack Wilson - The Cure [Jack Wilson]
The Avett Brothers - Shame [Emotionalism]
Rosie Thomas - Over the Moon [With Love]
Lambchop - Gone Tomorrow [Mr. M]
Glen Campbell - By the Time I Get To Phoenix
Todd Snider - New York Banker [Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables]
Texas Tornadoes - (Hey Baby) Que Pasa [Texas Tornadoes]

United States of Americana
March 11, 2012
9:00 a.m.

Loretta Lynn - Fist City
The Pines - Rise Up and Be Lonely [Dark So Gold]
Bob Dylan - Most of the Time [Oh Mercy]
The Barr Brothers - Beggar in the Morning [The Barr Brothers]
First Aid Kit - King of The World [The Lions Roar]
The Faces - Ooh La La [Ooh La La]
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - Fly High [New Multitudes]
Joe Pug - The Great Despiser [The Great Despiser]
Craig Finn - Terrified Eyes [Clear Heart Full Eyes]
The Byrds - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere [Sweetheart of the Rodeo]
Lucero - On My Way Downtown [Women and Work]
G. Love - Fixin to Die [Fixin to Die]
Scott H. Biram - Victory Song [Bad Ingredients]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Charlie Parr - Tuesdays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe

Bad Companions - Thursday - 331
Rev. John Wilkins - Thursday - 7th St. Entry
G. Love & the Special Sauce /Scott H. Biram - Friday - First Avenue
David Wax Museum - 3/21 - Cedar
Communion: Austin to Boston w/Ben Howard, The Staves, Nathaniel Rateliff - 3/22 - Varsity
Bhi Bhiman/Rosie Thomas - 3/23 - Turf
Steve Kaul and the Brass Kings - 3/23 - Cedar
Jonny Corndawg, Shovels and Rope, & Robert Ellis - 3/24 - Triple Rock
Pat Donahue, Guy Davis - 3/24 - Fitzgerald
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Ben Kweller - 3/28 - Fine Line
Lay Low w/Of Monsters and Men - 3/29 - Fine Line
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Pert Near Sandstone and Charlie Parr - 4/6 - First Avenue
First Aid Kit/Peggy Sue - 4/7 - Cedar
Trampled By Turtles/These United States - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Cave Singers - 4/13 - 7th St. Entry
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Cowboy Junkies - 4/15 - Dakota
Leon Russell - 4/17 & 4/18 - Dakota
Nick Lowe and His Band - 4/18 - First Avenue
Horse Feathers - 4/24 - 7th St. Entry
Lambchop - 4/26 - Dakota
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 5/2 - Cedar
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - 5/4 - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - 5/5 Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
Michelle Shocked - 5/15 - Dakota
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry - 6/30

United States of Americana: My session with Punch Brothers!

Posted at 9:46 PM on March 3, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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Punch Brothers were in the Twin Cities for a sold out show at the Varsity on Friday. On their way to the club, Punch Brothers dropped by The Current's studio's to talk about their new album, Who's Feeling Young Now, and to play a little music, including the exciting new single, "Movement and Location," which they opened their set with for both performances.

They were fun to talk to, excited to play their music, and tight as a drum, though they spent the night in transit from Chicago. Chris Thile, the band's leader, said he got roughly 2 hour of sleep!

I also featured new Americana from Lyle Lovett, who performs with John Hiatt at the State on Wednesday, as well as Madi Diaz, & Tommy Womack.

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United States of Americana
March 4, 2012
8:00 a.m.

The Monkee's - What Am I Doin' Hangin' Round?
Madi Diaz - Gimme A Kiss [album: Plastic Moon]
Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
Robert Deeble - Heart Like Feathers [Heart Like Feathers]
The Honeydogs - Better Word [What Comes After]
Rogue Valley - Onward and Over [False Floors]
John Hiatt - Drive South [Slow Turning]
Whitehorse - Broken [Whitehorse]
Califone - 3 Legged Animal [Roots and Crowns]
Jim White - What Rocks Will Never Know [Where It Hits You]
Levon Helm - Rag Mama Rag [Ramble at the Ryman]
Jonny Corndawg - Chevy Berretta [Down By The Bikini Line]
John and Tom - Lonesome Yodel Blues #2 [Third Man 7 inch]
Delmore Brothers - Freight Train Boogie [Freight Train Boogie]

United States of Americana
March 4, 2012
9:00 a.m.

Merle Haggard - The Fugitive

PUNCH BROTHERS SESSION

songs perfromed: Movement and Location, Patchwork Girlfriend, & Flippen

Laura Gibson - La Grande [La Grande]
Patsy Cline - Crazy
Chieftans & The Civil Wars - Lily Love [Voice Of Ages]
Justin Townes Earle - Memphis in the Rain [Nothing Gonna Chang the Way You Feel About Me Now]
Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You [Crazy Heart sdck]
Lyle Lovett - White Freightliner Blues [Release Me]
Tommy Womack - Play That Cheap Trick, Cheap Trick Play [Now What]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Charlie Parr - Tuesdays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe

The Chieftains - Sunday - Orchestra Hall
Laura Gibson - Monday - 7th St. Entry
Whitehorse - Tuesday - 7th St. Entry
an acoustic evening w/Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt - Wednesday - State
The Cactus Blossoms & Foghorn Stringband - Thursday - Dakota
Honeydogs - Saturday - First Avenue
Bad Companions - 3/15 - 331
Rev. John Wilkins - 3/15 - 7th St. Entry
G. Love & the Special Sauce /Scott H. Biram - 3/16 - First Avenue
David Wax Museum - 3/21 - Cedar
Bhi Bhiman/Rosie Thomas - 3/23 - Turf
Steve Kaul and the Brass Kings - 3/23 - Cedar
Jonny Corndawg, Shovels and Rope, & Robert Ellis - 3/24 - Triple Rock
Pat Donahue, Guy Davis - 3/24 - Fitzgerald
Dan Hicks - 3/27 - Dakota
Ben Kweller - 3/28 - Fine Line
Lay Low w/Of Monsters and Men - 3/29 - Fine Line
Bowerbirds - 3/31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Pert Near Sandstone and Charlie Parr - 4/6 - First Avenue
First Aid Kit/Peggy Sue - 4/7 - Cedar
Trampled By Turtles/These United States - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Cave Singers - 4/13 - 7th St. Entry
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Cowboy Junkies - 4/15 - Dakota
Leon Russell - 4/17 & 4/18 - Dakota
Nick Lowe and His Band - 4/18 - 1st Ave
Horse Feathers - 4/24 - 7th St. Entry
Lambchop - 4/26 - Dakota
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 5/2 - Cedar
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - 5/4 - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - 5/5 Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
Michelle Shocked - 5/15 - Dakotai
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry - 6/30

United States of Americana: Happy 80th Mr. Cash!

Posted at 11:18 AM on February 26, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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It was on this day in 1932 John R. Cash was born in Arkansas. The Man in Black would have turned 80 today. We lost him in 2003. Much of the family is in Dyess, Arkansas this weekend for a celebration. They are restoring his boyhood home and building a museum.

If you are a Johnny Cash completist, like myself, there is more music from the vaults on the way! In April, two lost gospel albums Cash recorded in the Seventies and Eighties will be released as Bootleg IV: The Soul of Truth. This summer, Sony is issuing a box set of everything Cash released on Sun and Columbia Records in the first three decades of his recording career, with some unreleased stuff. There is even talk of more recent material left in the vaults for another volume of The American Recordings series!

Lotsa Cash on the docket today!

I will also feature new Americana from Lucero, Midtown Dickens, New Multitudes (Jay Farrar, and Yim Yames and friends covering Woody) and Punch Brothers, who will be special guests on next weekends United States of Americana.

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2/26/12
8:00 a.m.

Johnny Cash/Dylan/Avett's - One Too Many Mornings [Chimes of Freedom]
Midtown Dickens - Only Brother [Home]
Ralph Stanley - False Hearted Lover's Blues [Ralph Stanley]
Horse Feathers - Fit Against the Country [Cynics New Year]
Bowerbirds - Tuck the Darkness In [The Clearing]
Tom T Hall - Don't Forget the Coffee Billy Joe [The Essential Tom T. Hall]
Slim Dunlap - Taken on the Chin [The Old New Me]
Elliott Brood - If I Get Old [Days Into Years]
Joe Pug - Messenger [Messenger]
Lydia Loveless - Can't Change Me [Indestructible Machine]
Lyle Lovett - Isn't That So [Release Me]
Johnny Cash w/June - Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man
First Aid Kit - Emmylou [The Lions Roar]

United States of Americana
2/26/12
9:00 a.m.

Lambchop - Gone Tomorrow [Mr. M]
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Country Girl [Leaving Eden]
Rev. Horton Heat - Lonesome Train Whistle [The Full Custom Gospel Sounds of...]
Lucero - On My Way Downtown [Women And Work]
Craig Finn - New Friend Jesus [Clear Heart Full Eyes]
Old 97's - Please Hold on While the Train Is Moving [The Grande Theatre Vol. 1]
Johnny Cash - Like the 309 [American V]
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - Old L.A. [New Multitudes]
Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars [Mermaid Avenue]
John Hiatt - Adios to California [Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns]
Honeydogs - Particles and Waves [What Comes After]
Sarah Jarosz - The Tourist [Follow Me Down]
Punch Brothers - Movement and Location [Who's Feeling Young Now]
Johnny Cash - San Quentin (Live) [At San Quentin]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Charlie Parr - Tuesdays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe

Punch Brothers - Friday - Varsity
Bad Companions - Saturday - Memory Lanes
Dave Alvin - Saturday - Dakota
The Chieftains - next Sunday - Orchestra Hall
Laura Gibson - Monday, March 5 - 7th St. Entry
Whitehorse - Tuesday, 3/6 - 7th St. Entry
Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt - Wednesday, 3/7 - State
Honeydogs - 3/10 - First Avenue
Bad Companions - 3/15 - 331
G. Love & the Special Sauce /Scott H. Biram - 3/16 - First Avenue
David Wax Museum - 3/21 - Cedar
Bhi Bhiman/Rosie Thomas - 3/23 - Turf
Steve Kaul and the Brass Kings - 3/23 - Cedar
Jonny Corndawg, Shovels and Rope, & Robert Ellis - 3/24 - Triple Rock
Pat Donahue, Guy Davis - 3/24 - Fitzgerald
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Ben Kweller - 3/28 - Fine Line
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Pert Near Sandstone - 4/6 - First Avenue
First Aid Kit/Peggy Sue - 4/7 - Cedar
Trampled By Turtles - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 5/2 - Cedar
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - 5/4 - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - 5/5 Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue
Midtown Dickens - 7th St. Entry 6/30

United States of Americana: a buncha new things and some Big Easy related tunes!

Posted at 11:57 AM on February 19, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the USofA i featured a couple of New Orleans related tunes from Steve Earle, both have a link to my favorite TV series, Treme. Mardi Gras is in full swing in The Big Easy!

Also played new Americana from Justin Robinson & the Mary Annettes, The Staves, Amos Lee & my song of the moment by First Aid Kit!

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February 19, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Steve Earle & Lucia Miccarelli - One More Cup Of Coffee For The Road [album:Chimes of Freedom]
Fairfax, AK - The Stranger [Love Stories and Picture Shows]
Randy Weeks - Transistor Radio [Sugarfinger]
Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash - Girl From the North Country [Nashville Skyline]
The Staves - Mexico [Mexico EP]
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - We'll Get Ahead Someday
Bethany Larson & the Bee's Knees - Still [When We Reach the City]
Erik Brandt - Anywhere But Here [The Long Winter]
Roger Miller - Dang Me
Justin Robinson and the Mary Annettes - Vultures [Bones For Tinder]
Martin Zellar & the Hardways - I'm That Problem [Rooster's Crow]
Deer Tick - Smith Hill [Born on Flag Day]
Charlie Parr - Gospel Plow [Keep Your Hands on the Plow]
Bhi Bhiman - Kimchee Line [Recorded Live in the Studio]
Mason Jennings - Train Leaving Grey [Birds Flying Away]

United States of Americana
February 19, 2012
9:00 a.m.

Willie Nelson - The Scientist
Amos Lee - Say Goodbye [As the Crow Flies]
Southern Culture on the Skids - Just How Lonely [Liquored Up and Laquered Down]
7Horse - Low Fuel Drug Run [Let The Seven Horse Run]
The Chieftains w/Bon Iver - Down In The Willow Garden [Voice Ages]
Scott Walker - Duchess [Scott 4]
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow [Barton Hollow]
Justin Townes Earle - Look The Other Way [Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now]
Joe Ely - Me and Billy the Kid
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Paper Airplane [Paper Airplane]
First Aid Kit - Emmylou [The Lion's Roar]
Tallest Man On Earth - King Of Spain [Recorded Live in the Studio]
Merle Haggard - Basin Street Blues [Preservation]
Steve Earle - This City [I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Mondays - Turf
Charlie Parr - Tuesdays - Turf
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Wednesdays - Aster Cafe

Joe Ely - Sunday - Dakota
Bethany Larson and the Bee's Knees - Friday - Cause
Erik Brandt CD Release Show - Saturday - Amsterdam
Del Fuegos - 2/28 - Varsity
Rev. Horton Heat - 2/29 - First Avenue
Hackensaw Boys/Lydia Loveless - 3/1 - Cabooze
Punch Brothers - 3/2 - Varsity
Bad Companions - 3/3 - Memory Lanes
The Chieftains - March 4 - Orchestra Hall
Laura Gibson - March 5 - 7th St. Entry
Whitehorse - 3/6 - 7th St. Entry
Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt - 3/7 - State
Honeydogs - 3/10 - First Avenue
Bad Companions - 3/15 - 331
G. Love & the Special Sauce /Scott H. Biram - 3/16 - First Avenue
David Wax Museum - 3/21 - Cedar
Bhi Bhiman/Rosie Thomas - 3/23 - Turf
Steve Kaul and the Brass Kings - 3/23 - Cedar
Jonny Corndawg, Shovels and Rope, & Robert Ellis - 3/24 - Triple Rock
Pat Donahue, Guy Davis - 3/24 - Fitzgerald
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Ben Kweller - 3/28 - Fine Line
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Pert Near Sandstone - 4/6 - First Avenue
First Aid Kit/Peggy Sue - 4/7 - Cedar
Trampled By Turtles - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Carolina Chocolate Drops - 5/2 - Cedar
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
The Lower 48 CD release with Sky Lion - 5/4 - Cedar
Loudon Wainwright III - 5/5 Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue

United States of Americana: featuring an in studio performance by The Pines

Posted at 11:07 AM on February 12, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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The Pines dropped by The Current's studio a couple weeks ago to support their fine new albnum, Dark So Gold album. The band's CD release show is Friday at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis.check in out, right here!

We also heard new Americana from Whitehorse, Chuck Mead of the band BR549, Cuff the Duke, Punch Brothers, and more tunes from Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan!

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United States of Americana
February 12, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Leon Payne - I Love You Because
Whitehorse - Broken [album: Whitehorse]
Bob Dylan - If You See Her Tell Her I Love Her [Blood on the Tracks]
Kris Kristofferson - Quinn The Eskimo [Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Great Lake Swimmers - Broken [New Wild Everywhere ]
The Jayhawks - King Of Kings [(the Bunkhouse album)]
Molly Maher & Her Disbelievers - Chicken/No Bone [Merry Come Up]
Cuff the Duke - What It's Like [Morning Comes]
The Decemberists - Down By the Water [The King Is Dead]
Punch Brothers - Movement and Location [Who's Feeling Young Now]
Chuck Mead - You Better Treat Your Man Right [Back at the Quonset Hut]
Hank Williams - Half As Much [The Memorial Album]
Bad Companions - I Like Hank Before You Did [What, Me Worry]
Reckless Ones - Nothin [Set The World On Fire]
Gene Vincent - Women Love

United States of Americana
February 12, 2012
9:00 a.m.

Lyle Lovett - Anyhow I Love You [This One's For You: A Tribute To Guy Clark]

The Pines - LIVE IN STUDIO
songs perfromed: "All The While," "If By Morning," "Cry, Cry, Crow," and "Rise Up and Be Lonely"

Lucinda Williams - Tryin' To Get To Heaven [Chimes of Freedom:The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Jon Dee Graham - A Place in the Shade [Summerland]
The Jayhawks - Cinnamon Love [Mockingbird Time]
Sharon Van Etten - We Are Fine [Tramp]
Phosphorescent - Mermaid Parade [Here's To Taking It Easy]
Jerry Reed - Eastbound and Down

Americana gig list:

Jon Dee Graham - Tuesday - 400 Bar
The Pines CD Release Show w/Jeffrey Focault - Friday - Cedar
The Jayhawks - Saturday - State Theatre
Laura Veirs - Saturday - Cedar (kid's matinee show)
Reckless Ones - Saturday - Lee's
Sharon Van Etten/Shearwater - Saturday - Cedar
Bethany Larson and the Bee's Knees - 2/24 - Cause
Del Fuegos - 2/28 - Varsity
Rev. Horton Heat - 2/29 - First Avenue
Hackensaw Boys/Lydia Loveless - 3/1 - Cabooze
Punch Brothers - 3/2 - Varsity
Bad Companions - 3/3 - Memory Lanes
Laura Gibson - March 5 - 7th St. Entry
Whitehorse - 3/6 - 7th St. Entry
Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt - 3/7 - State
Honeydogs - 3/10 - First Avenue
Bad Companions - 3/15 - 331
G. Love & the Special Sauce /Scott H. Biram - 3/16 - First Avenue
David Wax Museum - 3/21 - Cedar
Bhi Bhiman/Rosie Thomas - 3/23 - Turf
Steve Kaul and the Brass Kings - 3/23 - Cedar
Guy Davis - 3/24 - Fitzgerald
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Ben Kweller - 3/28 - Fine Line
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
Pert Near Sandstone - 4/6 - First Avenue
First Aid Kit - 4/7 - Cedar
Trampled By Turtles - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
Joe Pug - 5/17 - 7th Street Entry
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue

United States of Americana with a new tune from Justin Townes Earle

Posted at 11:46 AM on February 5, 2012 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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I played a bunch of new Americana this time on the USofA! I featured a brand new tune from the highly anticipated new album from Justin Townes Earle, which is due March 27th. Expect to hear this all over The Current's airwaves! JTE plays the Varsity on May 7th.

Also on the agenda are new works from the Norwegian group, Orbo and the Longshots, as well as Canadians Elliot Brood, The Barr Brothers & local brothers, The Cactus Blossoms.

BTW: Next Sunday shortly after 9, I will air my session with The Pines!

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United States of Americana
February 5, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Fizz Kizer - The Current [The River Road]
Jonathan Wilson - Desert Raven [Gentle Spirt]
The Honeydogs - Everything In Its Place [What Comes After]
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Political World [Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Lucinda Williams - Words [West]
Walter Rose - Black Crow [Cast Your Stone]
Orbo and the Longshots - Magic [Prairie Sun]
The Long Ryders - Run Dusty Run [Native Sons/10-5-60]
Roy Orbison - Running Scared
Harmondale - Holy Water [Spirit of 73]
Romantica - National Side [Recorded LIVE in the Studio]
The Cactus Blossoms - Lonesome and Blue [The Cactus Blossoms]
The Barr Brothers - Beggar in the Morning [The Barr Brothers]

United States of Americana
February 12, 2012
9:00 a.m.

Waylon Jennings - Ain't Living Long Like This
Elliott Brood - If I Get Old [Days Into Years]
Old 97's - Rollerskate Skinny [Satellite Rides]
Sugar and the Hi-Low's - Two Day High
Fistful of Mercy - Buckets of Rain [Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Neil Young - Harvest [Harvest]
Laura Gibson - La Grande [La Grande]
Martin Zellar and the Hardways - I'm That Problem [Rooster's Crow]
Willie Nelson - Today I Started Loving You Again [Remember Me Vol. 1]
Trampled By Turtles - Alone [Stars and Satellites]
Justin Townes Earle - Look The Other Way [Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now]
Loretta Lynn - One's On The Way
Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles -Just A Kid [Heat]
Charlie Parr - Gospel Plow [Keep Your Hands on the Plow]
Asylum St. Spankers - TV Party [Mercurial]

Americana gig list:

Rogue Valley - tonight - 7th St. Entry
Schlitz Kickin' Country w/Cactus Blossoms - Mondays at Turf Club
Charlie Parr - Tuesday's at Turf Club
Romantica & Western Fifth - Turf Club - Friday
Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles - The Cedar - Friday
Martin Zellar and the Hardway's CD Release Show - Friday - Fine Line
The Pines CD Release Show w/Jeffrey Focault - 2/17 -Cedar
The Jayhawks - 2/18 - State Theatre
Laura Veirs - 2/18 - Cedar (11am kids show)
Reckless Ones - 2/18 - Lee's
Sharon Van Etten/Shearwater - 2/18/12 - Cedar
Del Fuegos - 2/28 - Varsity
Rev. Horton Heat - 2/29 - First Avenue
Hackensaw Boys/Lydia Loveless - 3/1 - Cabooze
Punch Brothers - 3/2 - Varsity
Laura Gibson - March 5 - 7th St. Entry
Whitehorse - 3/6 - 7th St. Entry
Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt - 3/7 - State
Honeydogs - 3/10 - First Avenue
G. Love & the Special Sauce /Scott H. Biram - 3/16 - First Avenue
David Wax Museum - 3/21 - Cedar
Bhi Bhiman/Rosie Thomas - 3/23 - Turf
Steve Kaul and the Brass Kings - 3/23 - Cedar
Guy Davis - 3/24 - Fitzgerald
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Ben Kweller - 3/28 - Fine Line
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
Pert Near Sandstone - 4/6 - First Avenue
First Aid Kit - 4/7 - Cedar
Trampled By Turtles - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
Justin Townes Earle - 5/7 - Varsity
kd lange & Siss Boom Bang - 5/10 - O'Shaughnessy
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue

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United States of Americana featuring Bhi Bhiman in the studio!

Posted at 11:47 AM on January 29, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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Bhi Bhiman joined me this moring to talk about and perform some of his music. He's an artist originally from St. Louis. We talked about as the blues, his latest video, & Kobe Bryant, among other things!

I featured new Americana from The Pines, Adam Arcuragi, & Buxton. Also played more tracks from Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan, this week it was CD 2. We also remembered local musician, booker & all around good guy, Paul Manske, who passed away last week.

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United States of Americana
January 29, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Jim White - Sunday's Refrain [Where It Hits You]
Good Old War - Calling Me Names [Come Back As Rain]
Jerry Jeff Walker - L.A Freeway
Adam Arcuragi - You'd Think This Was Easy [Like A Fire That Consumes All Before It]
Blake Mills/Danielle Haim - Heart Of Mine [Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Merle Haggard - Ramblin' Fever
Shawn Colvin/Buddy Miller - That's the Way Love Goes [Buddy Miller's Magnificent Silver Strings]
First Aid Kit - Emmylou [The Lion's Roar]
Gram Parsons - In My Hour Of Darkness [Grievous Angel]
Johnny Cash - Jackson
Buxton - Boy of Nine [Nothing Here Seems Strange]
Billy Bragg - Lay Down Your Weary Tune[Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Martin Zellar and the Hardways Took The Poison Rosters Crow

United States of Americana
January 29, 2012
9:00 a.m.

Buck Owens - Together Again

Bhi Bhiman - LIVE IN STUDIO

Kimchee Line
Take What I'm Given
Guttersnipe

Steve Earle/Lucia Micarelli - One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) [Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Dolly Parton - Joshua
Mount Moriah - Lament [Mount Moriah]
Pieta Brown - Be With You [Mercury
Greg Brown - Freak Flag [Freak Flag]
The Pines - Rise Up and Be Lonely [Dark So Gold]
Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls - Red Hot Boogie Woogie [Rhythm Disease]
Wanda Jackson - I'm Shakin' [The Party Ain't Over]

Americana gig list:

Shawn Colvin - Tuesday thru Thursday - Dakota
Mount Moriah (w/Craig Finn) - Saturday - Triple Rock
Acoustic Cafe w/Carrie Rodriguez, Kelly Joe Phelps & Pieta Brown - Saturday - Dakota
The Cactus Blossoms Saturday, Feb. 4 - Eagles #34
Schlitz Kickin' Country w/Cactus Blossoms - Mondays at Turf Club
Charlie Parr - Tuesday's at Turf Club
Romantica & Western Fifth - Turf Club - 2/10
Martin Zellar and the Hardway's CD Release Show - 2/10 - Fine Line
The Pines CD Release Show w/Jeffrey Focault - 2/17 -Cedar
The Jayhawks - 2/18 - State Theatre
Reckless Ones - 2/18 - Lee's
Sharon Van Etten/Shearwater - 2/18/12 - Cedar
Del Fuegos - 2/28 - Varsity
Rev. Horton Heat - 2/29/12 - First Avenue
Punch Brothers - March 2 - Varsity
Whitehorse - March 6 - 7th St. Entry
Honeydogs - 3/10 - First Avenue
G. Love & the Special Sauce /Scott H. Biram - 3/16 - First Avenue
David Wax Museum - 3/21 - Cedar
Guy Davis - 3/24 - Fitzgerald
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Ben Kweller - 3/28 - Fine Line
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
First Aid Kit - 4/7 - Cedar
Trampled By Turtles - 4/11 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
Kathleen Edwards - 4/15 - Varsity
Great Lake Swimmers - 5/3 - Cedar
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue

United States of Americana with songs from CHIMES OF FREEDOM: The songs of Bob Dylan

Posted at 8:24 AM on January 22, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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The next few weeks I'll be featuring songs from the new Amnesty International CD, CHIMES OF FREEDOM: The Songs of Bob Dylan album. It features 4 CD's in all, with a wide array of artists from Miley Cyrus to Johnny Cash featuring The Avett Brothers. This time I'll feature tracks from Bettye Lavette, Rafael Saadiq & Mariachi El Bronx.

Also on the docket: Barna Howard, Bhi Bhiman, who is performing tonight at the Fitz, and Pert Near Sandstone & my faves of the moment, the Swedish sisters known as First Aid Kit, who just announced a gig at the Cedar Cultural Center on April 7th!

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United States of Americana
January 22, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Louvin Brothers - River of Jordan [Satan is Real]
Red Wanting Blue - Walking Shoes [From The Vanishing Point]
Joe Ely - She Never Spoke Spanish To Me [Joe Ely]
Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown [After Awhile]
Bettye Lavette - Most of the Time [Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Iris Dement - Our Town [Infamous Angel]
Grace Woodroofe - I've Handled Myself Wrong [Always Want]
The Barr Brothers - Beggar in the Morning [The Barr Brothers]
The Pines - All The While [Dark So Gold]
Martin Sexton - Fall Like Rain [ Fall Like Rain]
Mariachi El Bronx - Love Sick [Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Calexico/Iron and Wine - Burn That Broken Bed [In the Reins EP]
Barna Howard - Promise I Won't Laugh [single]
Bob Dylan - The Love that Faded [The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams]

United States of Americana
January 22, 2012
9:00 a.m.

Porter Wagoner - Settin the Woods On Fire [Sing Me A Hank Williams Song]
Kathleen Edwards - Sidecar [Voyageur]
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues [Transcendental Blues]
Pert Near Sandstone - Ruben's Train [Paradise Hop]
Raphael Saadiq - Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat [Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Rank N File - Amanda Ruth [Sundown]
Jimbo Mathus - Glad It's Dark [Confederate Buddha]
Bhi Bhiman - Kimchee Line [Bhiman]
Emmylou Harris - 2 More Bottle of Wine [Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town]
First Aid Kit - Emmylou [The Lion's Roar]
Johnny Cash/Avett's/Dylan - One Too Many Mornings [Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan]
Dwight Yoakam - Honky Tonk Man [Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc.]
The Hilltops - Sidewalk [The Oxford American Southern Music CD 13]
Charlie Gracie - Baby Doll [single]
The Low Anthem - Boeing 737 [Smart Flesh]
Ben Vaughn - Goin Down That Road [MONO USA]

Americana gig list:

Marton Sexton/Bhiman - tonight - Fitzgerald Theatre
Keb Mo/Anders Osborne - tomorrow - Guthrie
Pert Near Sandstone/Henhouse Prowlers - Friday and Saturday - Cedar
Shawn Colvin - 1/31 thru - 2/2/12 - Dakota
Mount Moriah (w/Craig Finn) - 2/4/12 - Triple Rock
Acoustic Cafe w/Carrie Rodriguez, Kelly Joe Phelps & Pieta Brown - 2/4 - Dakota
The Cactus Blossoms Saturday, Feb. 4 - Eagles #34
Martin Zellar and the Hardway's CD Release Show - 2/10 - Fine Line
Reckless Ones - 2/18 - Lee's
Sharon Van Etten/Shearwater - 2/18/12 - Cedar
Del Fuegos - 2/28 - Varsity
Rev. Horton Heat - 2/29/12 - First Avenue
Punch Brothers - March 2 - Varsity
Whitehorse - March 6 - 7th St. Entry
G. Love & the Special Sauce /Scott H. Biram - 3/16 - First Avenue
David Wax Museum - 3/21 - Cedar
Guy Davis - 3/24 - Fitzgerald
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Ben Kweller - 3/28 - Fine Line
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota
Rodney Crowell - 4/3 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Darrell Scott - 4/3 - Bunkers
First Aid Kit - 4/7 - Cedar
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's
M Ward - 5/24 - First Avenue

United States of Americana - 1/15

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The Jayhawks, "Pouring Rain at Dawn" (from Mockingbird Time)
The Little Willies, "If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time" (from For the Good Times)
Buck Owens, "Under Your Spell Again"
Mason Jennings, "Be Here Now" (from Boneclouds)
Lone Justice, "Ways to Be Wicked" (from Lone Justice)
Haley Bonar, "Candy Machine Gun" (from Golder)
Ryan Bingham, "The Weary Kind" (from the Crazy Heart soundtrack)
Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet, "(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone"
The Cactus Blossoms, "Lonesome and Blue" (from The Cactus Blossoms)
Bob Dylan, "Mozambique" (from Desire)
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers, "Reconsider Me" (from Merry Come Up)
Ben Weaver, "Maiden Cliff" (89.3 The Current in-studio performance)
Mount Moriah, "Lament" (from Mount Moriah)
Hem, "The Fire Thief" (from Eveningland)
Martin Zellar, "East Side Boys" (from Born Under)
Old 97's, "King of All the World" (from Satellite Rides)
Johnny Cash, "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
Sharon Van Etten, "Serpents" (from Tramp)
Lucero, "Sixteen" (from Nobody's Darlings)
Jeff Hanson, "This Time It Will" (from Jeff Hanson)
AA Bondy, "The Twist" (from Believers)
Fleet Foxes, "Blue Ridge Mountains" (from Fleet Foxes)
The Band, "Life Is a Carnival" (from Cahoots)
The Minor Planets, "Forsaken" (from Shadow in the Water)
Blitzen Trapper, "Below the Hurricane" (from Destroyer of the Void)
Alela Diane, "Long Way Down" (from Wild Divine)
Great Lake Swimmers, "Easy Come Easy Go" (New Wild Everywhere)
Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, "Guided by Wire" (from Furnace Room Lullaby)
Megafaun, "Volunteers" (from Heretofore)
Waylon Jennings, "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" (from Dreaming My Dreams)
Deer Tick, "Miss K." (from Divine Providence)

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United States of Americana: remembers Elvis on his birthday and a stunning new track from Bhi Bhiman

Posted at 8:37 AM on January 8, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the USofA we remember Elvis Presley. He was born on this day in 1935. My meager math skills tell me would be 77 today. Granted Elvis was known as, "the King of Rock-n-Roll," but his roots were in country, bluegrass and gospel. I have a couple of Elvis tracks and a few track inspired by him lined up!

Also, I'll feature an artist who I discovered in a big pile of CD's on my desk. You don't run into stuff this good very often! His name is Bhi Bhiman. (Bee Bee-men) He is of Sri-Lankan descent & grew up in St. Louis. He has a very powerful and incredibly soulful voice, which reminds me of artists like Ritchie Havens or Paul Pena. Expect to hear his song, "Guttersnipe" frequently. The Current just added it to the regular rotation! Bhiman will open for Martin Sexton at the Fitgerald Theatre on Sunday January 22nd.

Below is the audio, playlist and Americana calender...

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United States of Americana
January 8, 2012
8:00 a.m.

Darrell Scott - It Must Be Sunday [album: Long Ride Home]
The Minor Planets - Oh Lonely Day [Shadow in the Water]
Kris Kristofferson - Why Me
Walter Rose - Black Crow [Cast Your Stone]
Dan Israel - Up To You [Crosstown Traveler]
Lucinda Williams - I Just Want To See You So Bad [Lucinda Williams]
JT Nero - Grey House [Mountains/Forests]
The Pines - All the While [Dark So Gold]
Gillian Welch - Elvis Presley Blues [Time (The Revelator)]
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
Kelly Pardekooper - Mommy Was A Punk Rock Queen [Yonder]
Josh T Pearson - Country Dumb [Last Of The Country Gentleman]
Justin Townes Earle - One More Night In Brooklyn [Harlem River Blues]
Charlie Parr - Gospel Plow [Keep Your Hands on the Plow]
Dead Man Winter - Wasteland [Bright Lights]

United States of Americana
Jan. 8, 2012
9:00 a.m

John Doe - Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line [Lonesome On'ry and Mean]
The Little Willie's - For the Good Times [For the Good Times]
Elvis Presley - Burning Love
Darrell Scott - Pay Lake [Long Ride Home]
Sugar and the Hi-Lows -Two Day High [Sugar and the Hi-Lows]
Johnny Cash - Luther Played the Boogie
Rosanne Cash - My Baby Thinks He's A Train
Sons of Fathers - Adam and Eve [Sons of Fathers]
Romantica - Queen of Hearts [America]
Pert Near Sandstone - Save Me [Paradise Hop]
Bhi Bhiman - Guttersnipe [Bhiman]
Calexico - Convict Pool [Convict Pool EP]
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar [The Lion's Roar]
Farewell Milwaukee - You're the Cure [MN Music 4 MN Kids]
Mojo Nixon - Elvis is Everywhere [Bo-day-shus!!!]

Americana calender:

Cash Only - Jan. 13 & 14/12 - Cabooze
Farewell Milwaukee/Romantica - Jan. 13 - Cedar
The Cactus Blossoms - Saturday, Jan. 14 - Hell's Kitchen (brunch show 10am - 1pm)
Charlie Parr/Dave Simonett - 1/14/12 - Cedar
Martin Zellar - 1/19 - Anoka - Lyric Arts Theater
Martin Zellar - 1/20 & 1/21 - Maplewood Performing Arts Theater
David Bromberg - 1/20/12 - Cedar
Hymie's Record Road Show, w/Spider John Koerner and Papa John Kolstad, The Brass Kings, Cactus Blossoms and Flying Dorito Brothers - Saturday January 21st - Triple Rock
Marton Sexton/Bhiman - Fitzgerald Theatre 1/22/12
Keb Mo/Anders Osborne - Guthrie - 1/23/12
Pert Near Sandstone/Henhouse Prowlers - 1/27 & 1/28/12 - Cedar
Shawn Colvin - 1/31 thru - 2/2/12 - Dakota
Mount Moriah (w/Craig Finn) - 2/4/12 - Triple Rock
Acoustic Cafe w/Carrie Rodriguez, Kelly Joe Phelps & Pieta Brown - 2/4 - Dakota
The Cactus Blossoms Saturday, Feb. 4 - Eagles #34
Martin Zellar and the Hardway's CD Release Show - 2/10 - Fine Line
Sharon Van Etten/Shearwater - 2/18/12 - Cedar
Del Fuegos - 2/28 - Varsity
Rev. Horton Heat - 2/29/12 - First Avenue
Punch Brothers - March 2 - Varsity
Whitehorse - March 6 - 7th St. Entry
G. Love & the Special Sauce /Scott H. Biram - 3/16 - First Avenue
David Wax Museum - 3/21 - Cedar
Guy Davis - 3/24 - Fitzgerald
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Ben Kweller - 3/28 - Fine Line
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota
Lucero - 4/4 - First Avenue
Big Sandy - 4/13 - Lee's

United States of Americana: Some of the best of 2011 & we remember Hank!

Posted at 11:07 AM on January 1, 2012 by Bill DeVille
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Happy New Year!

This time on the USofA we remember Hank Williams, who passed away on New Years Day in 1953. There like wouldn't be a show like this without him.

I played a ton of great Americana from 2011. We heard artists like Deer Tick, Hayes Carll, Lucinda & Dawes. I also highlighted a couple of "in studio" recordings from Megafaun & Justin Townes Earle

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Playlist for 1/1/2012

9:57 Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO
9:50 Justin Townes Earle - Automobile Blues
9:45 Gillian Welch - The Way It Will Be
9:41 Ryan Adams - Come Home
9:35 Jack White - You Know That I Know
9:32 Hank Williams - Lost Highway
9:26 David Lowery - Raise 'em Up on Honey
9:21 Dawes - Fire Away
9:17 Deer Tick - Main Street
9:11 Sarah Jarosz - The Tourist
9:06 Zoe Muth and The Lost High Rollers - If I Can't Trust You With A Quarter (How Can I Trust You With My Heart?)
9:00 Lucinda Williams - Blessed

8:56 Steve Earle - Waitin' On The Sky
8:52 Jonny Corndawg - Shaved Like a Razor
8:49 Eilen Jewell - Warning Signs
8:45 The Cactus Blossoms - Adios Maria
8:38 The David Wax Museum - Yes, Maria, Yes
8:35 Nikki Lane - Gone, Gone, Gone
8:33 Haley Bonar - Money
8:26 Megafaun - Second Friend
8:23 Shelby Lynne - Heaven's Only Days Down the Road
8:19 Middle Brother - Thanks For Nothing
8:12 Blackie And The Rodeo Kings - I'm Still Lovin' You feat. Amy Helm
8:09 Mount Moriah - Lament
8:06 The Gourds - I Want It So Bad
8:02 Hank Williams - I Saw The Light

U.S.ofA: Ho Ho Ho, It's the holiday show! Also, a new artist named Bhiman (Bee - men)

Posted at 11:57 AM on December 18, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the USofA, I featured a ton of holiday "americana" 'tunes! There are only six shopping, according to my math!

We heard holiday faves from Cash, Merle, Willie, Old 97's & Everly's.

Also featured a bunch of new stuff from Pegi Young, Carter Tanton, the Honeydogs, and an artist who really caught my ears named Bhiman. You don't hear a new voice like this very often!

Bhi Bhiman "Guttersnipe" from Bhi Bhiman on Vimeo.

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United States of Americana
12/18/11
8:00 a.m.

Steve Earle - Christmas in Washington [album: El Corazon]
Pegi Young and the Survivors - I Don't Want To Talk About It [Bracing For Impact]
Whiskeytown - Choked Up [Stranger Almanac]
Merle Haggard - Santa Claus and Popcorn
Caitlin Robertson - Coyote Blues [Coyote Blues]
Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues [Harlem River Blues]
Willie Nelson - Pretty Paper
Sons of Fathers - The Country [Sons of Fathers]
Buck Owens - Blue Christmas Lights
Calexico - Gift X-Change
Jessica Jalbert - Lack of A Lake [Brother Loyola]
Alejandro Escovedo - Across the River [A Man Under the Influence]
Trailer Trash - Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas [Hell, It's X-Mas]
Bhiman - Guttersnipe [Bhiman]
Rolling Stones - We Had It All [Some Girls expanded edition]

United States of Americana
12/18/ 2011
9:00 a.m.

Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash - Christmas With You
Shearwater - Breaking the Yearlings [Animal Joy]
Blitzen Trapper - Christmas is Coming
John Prine - Christmas in Prison [Sweet Revenge]
Carter Tanton - Murderous Joy [Free Clouds]
Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles - Worries [Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles]
Robert Earl Keen - Merry Christmas From the Family [Gringo Honeymoon]
Honeydogs - Everything In It's Place [What Comes After]
Everly Brothers - Christmas Eve Can Kill You
Dawes - Million Dollar Bill [Live in the UBS Forum]
Rogue Valley - Onward and Over [False Floors]
Old 97's - Here it is Christmas
Commander Cody - Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas
Louvin Brothers - Santa's Big Parade
The Cactus Blossoms - Cold Foot Boogie [The Cactus Blossoms]
Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa [Christmas in the Heart]

Americana gig list:

Trailer Trash's Trashy Little X-Mas Show - 12/23 - Lee's Liquor Lounge
Rogue Valley - Wednesday - Varsity
Dark Pony Christmas Show - Wednesday - Cedar
Gear Daddies - 12/30 - Medina Entertainment Center
Dawes - 12/30 &12/31 - Varsity
Caitlin Robertson/Walker Fields/Frankie Lee - 12/30 - Amsterdam
Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven - 1/7/12 - Fine Line
Farewell Milwaukee/Romantica - Jan. 13 - Cedar
Cash Only - Jan. 13 & 14 - Cabooze
The Cactus Blossoms - Saturday, Jan. 14 - Hell's Kitchen (brunch show 10am - 1pm)
Martin Zellar - 1/19 - Anoka - Lyric Arts Theater
Martin Zellar - 1/20 & 1/21 - Maplewood Performing Arts Theater
David Bromberg - 1/20/12 - Cedar
Pert Near Sandstone/Henhouse Prowlers - 1/27 & 1/28/12 - Cedar
Mount Moriah (w/Craig Finn) - 2/4/12 - Triple Rock
The Cactus Blossoms Saturday, Feb. 4 - Eagles #34
Martin Zellar and the Hardway's CD Release Show - 2/10 - Fine Line
Sharon Van Etten/Shearwater - 2/18/12 - Cedar
Rev. Horton Heat - 2/29/12 - First Avenue
Punch Brothers - March 2 - Varsity
Whitehorse - March 6 - 7th St. Entry
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota

United States of Americana - 12-11-11

Posted at 10:02 AM on December 11, 2011 by Mac Wilson
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The Avett Brothers, "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise" (from I and Love and You)
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, "Christmas with You" (from The Johnny Cash Family Christmas)
Jessica Lea Mayfield, "Our Hearts Are Wrong" (from Tell Me)
The Dirt Daubers, "Wake Up, Sinners" (from Wake Up, Sinners)
Ryan Adams, "Do I Wait" (from Ashes and Fire)
Blue Giant, "Clean the Clock" (from Blue Giant)
Dolly Parton, "Jolene" (from Jolene)
Brown Bird, "Fingers to the Bone" (from Salt for Salt)
Cracker, "Low" (from Garage d'Or)
Dead Man Winter, "Wasteland" (from Bright Lights)
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, "Don't Make a Fool Out of Me" (from Smoking in Heaven)
Johnny Horton, "North to Alaska"
Old 97's, "I"m a Trainwreck" (from The Grande Theater Volume 2)
Bill Callahan, "Baby's Breath" (from Apocalypse)
Ryan Adams, "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)" (from Heartbreaker)
Mekons, "Geeshie" (from Ancient and Modern)
Crooked Fingers, "Andalucia" (from Dignity and Shame)
Steve Earle, "Waitin' on the Sky" (from I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive)
Ben Weaver, "Mr. Reilly" (Vic Chesnutt cover, from Minnesota Remembers Vic Chesnutt)
Vic Chesnutt, "Wren's Nest" (from Silver Lake)
FIrst Aid Kit, "The Lion's Roar" (from The Lion's Roar)
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, "If I Am a Stranger" (from Cold Roses)
Old Crow Medicine Show, "I Hear Them All" (from Big Iron World)
Justin Townes Earle, "Who Am I to Say" (from The Good Life)
Willie Nelson, "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (from Red Headed Stranger)
Romantica, "Queen of Hearts" (from America)
Neko Case, "This Tornado Loves You" (from Middle Cyclone)
Heartless Bastards, "Parted Ways" (from Arrow)
16 Horsepower, "Black Soul Choir" (from Sackcloth 'n' Ashes)

United States of Americana: a double dose of Wilco!

Posted at 11:28 AM on December 4, 2011 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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With Wilco in the Twin Cites for a couple of sold-out show in the week to come, I thought I'd spin a couple of tracks from the Chicago band...also, gave a spin to the opener, Nick Lowe!

We heard new Americana this week from The Avett Brothers, from a brand new holiday compilation, as well as Sharon Van Etten, Sans Souci Quartet, and a new duo from Nashville called Sugar and the Hi-Lows.

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United States of Americana
Dec. 4, 2011
8:00 a.m.

Poco - Rose of Cimarron [Rose of Cimarron]
Charlie Parr - Rabbit Box [MN Remembers Vic Chesnutt]
Willie Nelson - The Scientist [The Scientist single]
Phosphorescent - The Last Thing I Needed (First Thing This Morning) [To Willie]
Sans Souci Quartet - PGOAT [Lemming]
Defibulators - Your Hearty Laugh [Corn Money]
Wilco - Jesus Etc. [Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]
The Infamous Stringdusters - Long Lonesome Day [We'll Do It Live]
Carl Perkins - Matchbox
Girls Guns and Glory - Sweet Nothings [Sweet Nothings]
Wooden Wand and the Briarwood Virgins - Big Mouth USA [Briarwood]
Hoots and Hellmouth - Apple Like a Wrecking Ball [Salt]
Don Gibson - Sea of Heartbreak
Sugar & the Hi-Lows - Two Day High [from forthcoming album]

United States of Americana
Dec 4, 2011
9:00 a.m.

The Byrds - Goin' Back [Notorious Byrd Brothers]
Haley Bonar - Gepetto [MN Remembers Vic Chesnutt]
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Lady Bird
The Bottlerockets - Nancy Sinatra [Brand New Year]
The Cactus Blossoms - Adios Maria [The Cactus Blossoms]
B.W. Stevenson - My Maria
David Wax Museum - Yes, Maria Yes [Everything Is Saved]
Nick Lowe - Sensitive Man [The Old Magic]
Solomon Burke - That's How I Got to Memphis [Nashville]
Wilco - What Light [Live at A Prairie Home Companion ]
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents [Tramp]
Doug Paisely - Out On the Weekend
The Avett Brothers - I Thank God [My Favorite Gifts]
Rodney Crowell - Shelter from the Storm [The Outsider]
Rolling Stones - You Win Again [Some Girls (Deluxe Edition)]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Wednesday - Aster Cafe - Wednesday
Trailer Trash's Trashy Little X-Mas Lee's - 12/10,12/16,17 & 12/23
Wilco/Nick Lowe - Tuesday and Wednesday - State Theatre s/o
Ryan Adams/Jessica Lea Mayfield. - 12/13 - State Theatre s/o
Wayne "The Train" Hancock - Lee's - 12/15
Rogue Valley - 12/21 - Varsity
Dark Pony Christmas Show - 12/23 - Cedar
Dawes - 12/30 &12/31 - Varsity
Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven - 1/7/12 - Fine Line
Cash Only - Jan. 13, 14/12 - Cabooze
David Bromberg - 1/20/12 - Cedar
Pert Near Sandstone/Henhouse Prowlers - 1/27 & 1/28/12 - Cedar
Mount Moriah (w/Craig Finn) - 2/4/12 - Triple Rock
Sharon Van Etten/Shearwater - 2/18/12 - Cedar
Rev. Horton Heat - 2/29/12 - First Avenue
Punch Brothers - March 2 - Varsity
Whitehorse - March 6 - 7th St. Entry
Dan Hicks - March 27 - Dakota
Bowerbirds - March 31 - Cedar
Soul Salvation featuring Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn - April 2 & 3/12 - Dakota

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United States of Americana: Time Machine, Americana style! (1969, 2009)

Posted at 12:11 PM on November 27, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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On this Time Machine Weekend, I decided to play along! I chose 1969 and 2009 for my featured hours.

1969 was a pretty monumental year. Country rock was getting big. I featured artistst like Neil Young, Tony Joe White, The Rolling Stones and the Band. Also heard some old-school country from Del Reeves, Merle, Johnny, and even Kenny Rogers!

2009 was the year the USofA began! I featured tracks from the Avett Brothers, Justin Townes Earle, Son Volt and others!

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09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

09:56 AM That Western Skyline Dawes North Hills
09:49 AM I'll Fight Wilco Wilco (the Album)
09:47 AM Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth Neko Case Middle Cyclone
09:42 AM Kaufman's Ballad Megafaun Gather, Form and Fly
09:39 AM January Wedding The Avett Brothers I and Love and You
09:35 AM Mama's Eyes Justin Townes Earle Midnight At The Movies
09:31 AM Sawdust Man Ben Kweller Changing Horses
09:27 AM No Turning Back Son Volt American Central Dust
09:22 AM The Devil and Maggie Chascarillo Lucero 1372 Overton Park
09:16 AM Sulphur To Sugarcane Elvis Costello Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
09:13 AM Lungs Steve Earle Townes
09:10 AM Wedding Bells Lissie Why You Runnin'
09:04 AM It's All Good Bob Dylan Together Through Life
09:02 AM Everbody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young and Crazy Horse

08:00 AM - 9:00 AM

08:58 AM Statue of A Fool Jack Greene
08:57 AM Yesterday When I Was Young Roy Clark
08:49 AM Country Honk The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
08:48 AM Johnny B. Goode Buck Owens
08:47 AM Galveston Glen Campbell
08:41 AM Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town) Kenny Rogers
08:37 AM Son Of A Preacher Man Dusty Springfield
08:35 AM She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye Jerry Lee Lewis
08:32 AM Okie from Muskogee Merle Haggard
08:28 AM Carroll County Accident Porter Wagoner
08:25 AM The Ways to Love a Man Tammy Wynette
08:24 AM Rag Mama Rag The Band The Band
08:17 AM Lodi Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River
08:13 AM Polk Salad Annie Tony Joe White Black And White
08:08 AM Good Time Charlies Del Reeves
08:07 AM Hot Burrito #1 The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace Of Sin
08:03 AM A Boy Named Sue Johnny Cash At San Quentin

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - next few Tuesday's Turf Club
Brandi Carlile/Secret Sisters - tonight and Monday - Fitzgerald Theatre
Leo Kottke - Monday - Guthrie
Hank III - Tues - First Ave
Sans Souci Quartet - Thursday - Cabooze
Lydia Loveless/Jezebel Jones/Jennifer Markey - Friday - Lee's
Kinky Friedman - Saturday - 400 Bar
Haley Bonar (w/Andew Bird) - Saturday - First Avenue
Trailer Trash's Trashy Little X-Mas Lee's 12/3-12/10-12/16,17-12/23
Wilco/Nick Lowe - 12/6-12/7 - State Theatre s/o
Ryan Adams/Jessica Lea Mayfield. - 12/13 - State Theatre s/o
Wayne "The Train" Hancock - Lee's - 12/15
Rogue Valley - 12/21 - Varsity
Dark Pony Christmas Show - 12/23 - Cedar
Dawes - 12/30 &12/31 - Varsity
Cash Only - Jan 13 & 14/12 - Cabooze
David Bromberg - 1/20/12 - Cedar
Mount Moriah (w/Craig Finn) - 2/4/12 - Triple Rock
Sharon Van Etten/Shearwater - 2/18/12 - Cedar
Rev. Horton Heat - 2/29/12 - First Avenue

United States of Americana: Duo's, duets and bands and songs named after birds!

Posted at 9:12 AM on November 20, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the USofA I played a bunch of and duo's and duets, by sheer coincidence! We listened to the Cactus Blossoms, Brown Bird, Bowerbirds, Walter Rose (featuring Lucinda Williams) & Lydia Loveless, who plays Lee's on December 2nd!

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11/20/11
8:00 a.m.

Roy Clark - Yesterday, When I Was Young
Mandolin Orange - Haste Make [Haste Make]
Bowerbirds - House of Diamonds [Upper Air]
Randy Weeks and Eliza Gilkyson - That's What I'd Do [Going My Way]
Walter Rose - Driving South w/Lucinda Wiliams [Cast Your Stone]
Blake Mills - It'll All Work Out [Break Mirrors]
Big Harp Everybody Pays [White Hat]
Pieta Brown - Butterfly Blues [Mercury]
Neil Young - Oh, Lonesome Me [After the Goldrush]
Jonathon Wilson - Ballad of the Pines [Gentle Spirit]
The Harvest - Move Along
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression [No Depression]
Johnny Cash - Country Boy [Unchained]
Jon Rodine Lonesome Bird [Last Star]
Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John

United States of Americana
11/20/11
9:00 a.m.

Asleep At the Wheel House of Blue Lights [The Very Best of...]
Brown Bird - Fingers To the Bone [Salt For Salt]
Jim White - Borrowed Wings [Drill a Hole in...]
Milk Carton Kids - Undress the World [Prologue]
Cactus Blossoms - Adios Maria [The Cactus Blossoms]
Louvin Brothers - Pitfall
Secret Sisters - House of Gold [The Secret Sisters]
Shelby Lynne - Heaven's Only Days Down the Road [Revelation Road]
Lydia Loveless - Can't Change Me [Indestructible Machine]
Reckless Ones - Nothin [Set The World on Fire]
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
Dale Watson and the Texas 2 - My Baby Makes Me Gravy [Sun Sessions]
Deer Tick - Main Street [Divine Providence]
Eilen Jewell - Warning Signs [Queen of the Minor Key]
Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - next several Tuesday's Turf Club
Charlie Daniels - Mystic Lake - Tonight
F-Knights, Reckless Ones, Flying Dorito Brothers - Turf - Wednesday
Randy Weeks/Molly Maher and her Disbelievers - Friday - 331
Brandi Carlile/Secret Sisters Sunday - 11/27 & 28 - Fitzgerald Theatre
Roy Clark - Dakota - Sunday - 11/27
Leo Kottke - 11/28 Guthrie
Hank III - 11/29 - First Ave
Sans Souci Quartet - 12/1 - Cabooze
Lydia Loveless/Jezebel Jones/Jennifer Markey - Lee's - 12/2
Kinky Friedman - 12/3 - 400 Bar
Trailer Trash's Trashy Little X-Mas Lee's - 12/3-12/10-12/16,17-12/23
Wilco - 12/6-12/7 - State Theatre s/o
Ryan Adams - 12/13 - State Theatre s/o
Wayne "The Train" Hancock - Lee's, 12/15
Dark Pony Christmas Show - 12/23 Cedar
Dawes - 12/30 &12/31 - Varsity
Cash Only - Jan 13, 14 - Cabooze

United States of Americana: Dawes recorded live in the UBS Forum

Posted at 7:24 PM on November 13, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time of the USofA, I featured a session with the band Dawes recorded last Friday in the UBS Forum. The band was in good spirits! We talked about a couple of legendary artists they've played with like Jackson Browne & Robbie Robertson. We also talked about the Laurel Canyon scene, and songwriting, among other things.

We also listened to Americana from Sweetback Sisters, the Wheeler Brothers & 3 siblings named Kitty, Daisy and Lewis. Here is their supercool video!

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11/13/11
8:00 a.m.

Hobo Nephew of Uncle Frank - In The Morning [Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank]
Ry Cooder - Quicksand [Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down]
The Band - Across the Great Divide [The Band]
Wheeler Brothers - Spent Time [single]
Merle Haggard - Working in TN [Working in TN]
Buck Owens - Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass
Kenny Vaughan - Stay Outta My Dreams [Kenny Vaughan]
Sweetback Sisters - TX Bluebonnets [Looking For A Fight]
Loretta Lynn - Fist City
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Don't Make A Fool Out Of Me [Smoking In Heaven]
John Doe - Never Enough [Keeper]
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
Rosanne Cash - Sea Of Heartbreak [recorded in the studio 2009]
Girls, Guns and Glory - Sweet Nothings [Sweet Nothings]
The Sadies - The Trial [New Seasons]

United States of Americana
11/13/11
9:00 a.m.

Hayes Carll - Another Like You [Kmag Yoyo]

DAWES Recorded Live in the UBS Forum

The Gourds - I Want It So Bad [Old Mad Joy]
Los Lobos - Burn It Down [Tin Can Trust]
North MS Allstars - Po Black Maddie [Shakin' Hands With Shorty]
Nikki Lane - Gone Gone Gone [Walk Of Shame]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - next several Tuesday's Turf Club
Nikki Lane/Noah and the Whale - Monday, First Avenue 11/14
The Gourds - Wednesday 11/16, Turf Club
Rosie Flores/Reckless Ones - Thursday 11/17, Lee's
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - Thursday 11/17, 400 Bar
North MS Allstars - Thursday, First Avenue
David Hidalgo & Louis Perez - Friday 11/18 Varsity
Fattenin' Frogs - Loring Theatre Friday 11/18 (annual Oh Brother Tribute)
Ruth Moody - Landmark Center Friday 11/18
Rosanne Cash - Orchestra Hall Friday 11/18
Sweetback Sisters - 400 Bar Friday 11/18
Charlie Daniels - Mystic Lake, 11/20
Hank III - 11/29, First Ave
Lydia Loveless/Jezebel Jones/Jennifer Markey - Lee's, 12/2
Trailer Trash's Trashy Little X-Mas Lee's 12/3-12/10-12/16,17-12/23
Wilco - 12/6-12/7, State Theatre s/o
Ryan Adams - 12/13, State Theatre s/o
Wayne "The Train" Hancock - Lee's, 12/15
Dawes - 12/30 &12/31, Varsity

United States of Americana: double doses of Lucinda and Deer Tick!

Posted at 11:43 AM on November 6, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Lucinda Williams and Deer Tick ar both back in the Twin Cities for shows this week. I featured a couple of tune from both of 'em this time on the USofA! Lucinda performs Wednesday night at First Avenue. Deer Tick will be at the Triple Rock Saturday.

I also featured track from Twin Cities bound artists like Todd Snider, Elizabeth Cook, Nikki Lane and Pegy Sue. I also gave a spin of a track from Glen Campbell's, "Ghost on the Canvas," the video below features Paul Westerberg, who wrote the song.

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11/6/11
8:00 a.m.

Lucinda Williams - I'm So Happy I Found You [The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams]
Sarah Siskind - I Think About Love [Novel]
Deer Tick - Twenty Miles [The Black Dirt Sessions]
Blake Mills - It'll All Work Out [Break Mirrors]
Hoots and Hellmouth - Why Would You Not Want To Go There [Salt]
Jean Shepard and Speedy West - Twice the Lovin in Half the Time [Hillbilly Music]
Cactus Brothers - Cold Foot Boogie [The Cactus Blossoms]
Great American Taxi - Radiation Blues [Paradise Lost]
M Ward - Four Hours in Washington [Transistor Radio]
The Gourds - Peppermint City [Old Mad Joy]
Glen Campbell - Ghost On The Canvas [Ghost On The Canvas]
Dead Rock West - God Help Me [Bright Morning Star]
Peggy Sue - D.U.M.B.O. [Acrobats]
Reckless Ones - Forbidden [Make Your Move]
Sonny Burgess - Ain't Got A Thing
The Acceleratii - Rockabilly Rebel [The Acceleratii]

United States of Americana
11/6/11
9:00 a.m.

Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover
Nikki Lane - Hard Livin' [Walk of Shame]
Elizabeth Cook - El Camino [Welder]
Todd Snider featuring Loretta Lynn - Don't Tempt Me [The Excitement Plan]
Pert Near Sandstone - Save Me [Paradise Hop]
Meat Puppets - Lost [II]
Mekons - Space in Your Face [Ancient and Modern]
Ryan Adams - Kindness [Ashes and Fire]
Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel [Grievous Angel]
Lucinda Williams - Blessed [Blessed]
Dawes - A Little Bit Of Everything [Recorded at The Current in 2010]
Deer Tick - Miss K [Divine Providence]
Trampled by Turtles -Where is My Mind

Americana gig list:
Cactus Blossoms - next several Tuesday's Turf Club
Lucinda Williams/Blake Mills - Wednesday, First Avenue
Todd Snider/Elizabeth Cook - Wednesday, Fitzgerald Theatre
Shawn Lee/Peggy Sue - Thursday, Fitzgerald Theatre
Pert Near Sandstone - Friday, Cabooze
Deer Tick - Saturday, 11/12, Triple Rock
Meat Puppets - Saturday, Turf Club
Nikki Lane/Noah and the Whale - First Avenue 11/14
The Gourds - 11/16, Turf Club
Rosie Flores/Reckless Ones 11/17 Lee's
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 11/17, 400 Bar
David Hidalgo & Louis Perez - 11/18 Varsity
Fattenin' Frogs - Loring Theatre 11/18 (annual Oh Brother Tribute)
Ruth Moody - Landmark Center 11/18
Rosanne Cash - Orchestra Hall 11/18
Sweetback Sisters - 400 Bar 11/18
Charlie Daniels - Mystic Lake, 11/20
Lydia Loveless/Jezebel Jones/Jennifer Markey - Lee's, 12/2
Trailer Trash's Trashy Little X-Mas Lee's 12/3-12/10-12/16,17-12/23
Wilco - 12/6-12/7, State Theatre s/o
Ryan Adams - 12/13, State Theatre s/o
Wayne "The Train" Hancock - Lee's, 12/15
Dawes - 12/30 & 12/31, Varsity

United States of Americana salutes Dawes and Blitzen Trapper!

Posted at 11:30 AM on October 30, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Dawes and Blitzen Trapper will be appearing at First Avenue for a sold out show on Friday. We'll hear 'em both in this installment of United States of Americana! BTW: Dawes is dropping by next week. I'll play back the the band's "In Studio Performance" on USofA on Sunday morning, November 13th at 9!

We also hear americana from Jonny Corndawg, my recent faves Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, as well as Bearfoot, Mandolin Orange, and locals Sherwin Linton and DarkPony.

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10/30/11
8:00 a.m.

Mandolin Orange - Wake Me [Haste Make]
Dark Pony - Turnaround [Suburban Serenade Vol. 1]
Lee Hazlewood with the Duane Eddy Orchestra - Girl on Death Row
Dawes - Love Is All I Am [In Studio performance 2010]
Sherwin Linton - I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven [Hillbilly Heaven]
Steve Earle - Hillbilly Highway [Guitar Town]
Little Jimmy Dickens - Hillbilly Fever
Bearfoot - Come Get Your Lonesome [American Story]
Patsy Montana - I Want to Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart
Those Darlins - Wild One [Those Darlins]
Jonny Corndawg - Shaved Like A Razor [Down on the Bikini Line]
David Johansen and the Harry Smiths - Well I've Been To Memphis [David Johansen and the Harry Smiths]
The Fattenin' Frogs - Death Letter [The Fattenin' Frogs]
Blind Boys of Alabama w/Jamey Johnson - Have Thine Own Way [Take the High Road]

United States of Americana
10/30/11
9:00 a.m.

Rory Block - Come On In My Kitchen
Blitzen Trapper - Astronaut [American Goldwing]
The Byrds - You Ain't Going Nowhere [Sweetheart of the Rodeo]
Megafaun - Resurrection [Megafaun]
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis - Don't Make A Fool Out Of Me [Smoking In Heaven]
Phosphorescent - Are You Ready For the Country
AA Bondy - The Twist [Believers]
Bethany Larson and the Bee's Knees - Still [When We Reach the City]
John Hiatt - Adios to California
Dawes - Fire Away [Nothing Is Wrong]
Southern Culture on the Skids - She's My Witch [Zombified]
Buck Owens - Monster's Holiday
Imelda May - Psycho [Mayhem]
Neil Young - Vampire Blues [On The Beach]

Americana gig list:

Rory Block - Tonight10/30 Dakota
Sherwin Linton CD release show - Wednesday, 11/2, Fine Line
Pete Anderson - Thursday, 11/3, Turf
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara and Sean Watkins - Thursday, 11/3, Cedar
Dawes/Blitzen Trapper - 11/4, 1st Avenue
Bethany Larson 11/5 - 331
A.A. Bondy - 11/5, 7th St. Entry
Lucinda Williams - 11/9, First Avenue
Todd Snider/Elizabeth Cook - Fitzgerald Theatre 11/9
Deer Tick - 11/12, Triple Rock
Meat Puppets - 11/12, Turf Club
Dawes performance airs on USofA 11/13
The Gourds - 11/16, Turf Club
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 11/17, 400 Bar
David Hidalgo & Louis Perez - 11/18 Varsity
Fattenin' Frogs - Loring Theatre 11/18 (annual Oh Brother Tribute)
Ruth Moody - Landmark Center 11/18
Rosanne Cash - Orchestra Hall 11/18
Sweetback Sisters - 400 Bar 11/18
Charlie Daniels - Mystic Lake 11/20
Wilco - 12/6-12/7, State Theatre s/o
Ryan Adams - 12/13, State Theatre s/o
Dawes - 12/31, Varsity

United States of Americana featuring Hank Williams: The Lost Notebooks

Posted at 4:31 PM on October 22, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time on United States of Americana I'll feature Hank Williams: The Lost Notebooks. . It's a one hour special hosted Alejandro Escovedo on the making of the album, which features Bob Dylan, Jack White, Lucinda Williams and Norah Jones, among others!

I'll be spinning an hour of Americana at 9! I'll be spinning Hayes Carll, who plays Thursday at the Varsity! We'll also hear music from Shelby Lynne, Romantica, and Drive-By Truckers. All of 'em are performing this week in the Twin Cities!

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10/23/11
9:00 a.m.

Dwight Yoakam - It Only Hurts When I Cry [Hillbilly Deluxe]
Gurf Morlix - Clay Pigeons
Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin - I Want To Be With You Always [Buddy Miller's Majestic Siilver Strings]
These United States - Nobody Can Tell [ What Lasts]
Shelby Lynne - Heaven's Only Days Down The Road [Revelation Road]
Avett Brothers - The Once and Future Carpernter
Romantica - Fiona [America]
Frank Turner - Wessex Boy [England Keep My Bones]
Uncle Tupelo - Looking For A Way Out [Still Feel Gone]
Hayes Carll - Hard Out Here [Kmag Yoyo]
Drive-By Truckers - George Jones Talkin Cell Phone Blues [The Fine Print]
George Jones - Why Baby Why
Those Darlins - Boy [Screws Get Loose]
Dale Watson - Down Down Down Down Down [The Sun Sessios]
Bob Dylan - The Time They Are A-Changin' [The Time They Are A-Changin']

Americana gig list:

Frank Turner - tonight, Triple Rock
Drive-By Truckers/Those Darlins - Tuesday, First Avenue
Ollabelle - Wednesday, Dakota
These United States - Wednesday, Entry
Hayes Carll/Caitlin Rose - Varsity, 10/27/11
Shelby Lynne - 10/27, Dakota
Romantica - 10/29, Turf
Gurf Morlix - Patrick's Cabaret Saturday, October 29
Rory Block - 10/30 Dakota
Sherwin Linton CD release show - 11/2, Fine Line
Pete Anderson - 11/3, Turf
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara and Sean Watkins - 11/3, Cedar
Dawes/Blitzen Trapper - 11/4, 1st Avenue
Bethany Larson 11/5 - 331
A.A. Bondy - 11/5, 7th St. Entry
Lucinda Williams - 11/9, First Avenue
Todd Snider/Elizabeth Cook - Fitzgerald Theatre 11/9
Deer Tick - 11/12, Triple Rock
Meat Puppets - 11/12, Turf Club
The Gourds - 11/16, Turf Club
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 11/17, 400 Bar
David Hidalgo & Louis Perez - 11/18 Varsity
Rosanne Cash - Orchestra Hall 11/18
Sweetback Sisters - 400 Bar 11/18
Charlie Daniels - Mystic Lake 11/20
Wilco - 12/6-12/7, State Theatre s/o
Ryan Adams - 12/13, State Theatre s/o
Dawes - 12/31, Varsity

United States of Americana with new music from Merle!

Posted at 11:14 AM on October 16, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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One of my heroes, Merle Haggard, is back with a new album called, Working In Tennesee. Mr. Haggard is now 74 and is still crafting timely songs, still has a fantastic singing voice & still has something to say. I gave a spin to a track called, "What I Hate."

We heard a new music from Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes, who plays the Cedar on Thursday with Dylan Leblanc opening. We also listened to new stuff from Scott H. Biram, local artist Molly Maher and I played some of the winners at this weekend's Americana Music Awards in Nashville.

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10/16/11
8:00 a.m.

Willie Nelson - Bloody Mary Morning
Jonathan Wilson -Ballad of the Pines [Gentle Spirit]
Paul Metsa - Virginia [Paper Tigers]
Grey Reverend - Altruistic Holiday [Of the Days]
Merle Haggard - What I Hate [Working In TN.]
Steve Earle - Someday [Guitar Town]
Big Harp - Everybody Pays [White Hat]
Cactus Blossoms - Lonesome and Blue [The Cactus Blossoms]
The Louvin Brothers - The Great Atomic Power [Hillbilly Music...thank God Vol. I]
Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell - I Hope You Shed A Million Tears [The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams]
Scott H. Biram - Open Road [Bad Ingredients]
Tony Joe White - As The Crow Flies [The Train I'm On]
Peter Case - Look Out [Wig!]
Rich Robinson - Hey Fear [Through A Crooked Sun]
Dylan Leblanc - If Time Was For Wasting [Paupers Field]

United States of Americana
10/16/11
9:00 a.m.

Ricky Nelson - Garden party
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - Cry Baby [Merry Come Up]
Caitlin Rose - Shanghai Cigarettes [Own Side Now]
Loretta Lynn - The Pill
Dawes - The Way You Laugh [Nothing Is Wrong]
Hank Williams - Kaw-Liga
Jakob Dylan - Oh, Mama, Come Home [The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams]
Deer Tick - Miss K [Divine Providence].
Robert Plant - Harms Swift Way [Band of Joy] Album of the year at Americana awards
Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues [Recorded Live in the Studio in 2010] Song of the year at Americana Music Awards
Ryan Adams - Come Home [Ashes and Fire]
Lucinda Williams - Passionate Kisses [Lucinda Williams] Lifetime achievement award at Americana Music Awards
Los StraitJackets - Calor (Slow Down) [Rock in Espanol]

Americana gig list:

Cactus Blossoms - Monday, Turf Club
Los StraitJackets - Wednesday, Turf Club
Paul Metsa - Book release show "Blue Guitar Highway" - Ritz Wednesday
Rich Robinson/Dylan Leblanc - Thursday, Cedar
Peter Case - Friday Lee's
Frank Turner - Sunday 10/23, Triple Rock
Drive-By Truckers/Those Darlins - 10/25, First Avenue
Hayes Carll/Caitlin Rose - Varsity, 10/27/11
Shelby Lynne - 10/27, Dakota
Romantica - 10/29, Turf
Gurf Morlix - Patrick's Cabaret Saturday, October 29
Sherwin Linton CD release show - 11/2, Fine Line
Pete Anderson - 11/3, Turf
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara and Sean Watkins - 11/3, Cedar
Dawes/Blitzen Trapper - 11/4, 1st Avenue
A.A. Bondy - 11/5, 7th St. Entry
Lucinda Williams - 11/9, First Avenue
Deer Tick - 11/12, Triple Rock
Meat Puppets - 11/12, Turf Club
The Gourds - 11/16, Turf Club
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 11/17, 400 Bar
Wilco - 12/6-12/7, State Theatre s/o
Ryan Adams - 12/13, State Theatre s/o
Dawes - 12/31, Varsity

United States of Americana featuring new music from Hank Williams, by others...

Posted at 12:29 PM on October 9, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the USofA. I featured a handful of tracks from The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams. Apparently when he died in 1953, there was a notebook found next to the country legend containing a bunch of lyrics never set to song, until now! The album boasts a ton of talent! Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, and Jack White all contribute their
expertise to the project.

We heard new music from Merle Haggard, the Coal Porter's, Dale Watson & Southern Culture on the Skids, and we also celebrated John Prine's 65th birthday a day early with a couple of Prine tunes!

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10/9/11
8:00 a.m.

Wilco - One Sunday Morning [The Whole Love]
Nora Jones - How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart [The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams]
John Prine - This Guitar is For Sale [Twistable Turnable Man]
Minor Planets - Forsaken [Shadow in the Water]
Alabama Shakes - Hold On [Alabama Shakes]
Cat Power - Moonshiner [Moon Pix]
Lucinda Williams - I'm So Happy I Found You [The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams]
Dale Watson - My Baby Makes Me Gravy [The Sun Sessions]
Johnny Cash - The Rebel Johnny Yuma
Hank Thomspon - Rockin' In the Congo [ A Capitol Rockabilly Party]
Joe Henry - Odetta [Reverie]
John Dee Graham - October [Summerland]
 
United States of Americana
Sept 10/9/11
9:00 a.m.

Merle Haggard - Working In TN. [Working In TN.]
Mekons - Geeshie [Ancient and Modern]
Sarah Jarosz - The Tourist [Follow Me Down]
The Coal Porters - No More Chains [Durango]
Bob Dylan - The Love that Faded [The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams]
Big Bill Lister - There's A Tear In My Beer [Hillbilly Music V. 1]
The Gourds - I Want It So Bad [Old Mad Joy]
Avett Brothers - The Once and Future Carpenter
John Prine - Spanish Pipedream [John Prine]
Ha Ha Tonka - Problem Solver [Death of A Decade]
Jack White - You Know That I Know [The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams]
The Stray Cats - Runaway Boys
Imelda May - Johnny Got a Boom Boom [Mayhem]
Hayes Carll - KMAG Yoyo [KMAG Yoyo]
Southern Culture on the Skids - Zombified [Zombified]

Americana gig list:

Robert Randolph/Ha Ha Tonka - (Friday) 10/14 First Ave
Los StraitJackets - 10/19, Turf Club
Rich Robinson - 10/20 Cedar
Peter Case - Lee's 10/21
Frank Turner - 10/23, Triple Rock
Drive-By Truckers/Those Darlins - 10/25, First Avenue
Hayes Carll/Caitlin Rose - Varsity, 10/27/11
Shelby Lynne - 10/27, Dakota
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara and Sean Watkins - 11/3, Cedar
Dawes/Blitzen Trapper - 11/4, 1st Avenue
A.A. Bondy - 11/5, 7th St. Entry
Deer Tick - 11/12, Triple Rock
The Gourds - 11/16, Turf Club
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 11/17, 400 Bar
Wilco - 12/6-12/7, State Theatre s/o
Ryan Adams - 12/13, State Theatre s/o

United States of Americana: Megafaun in the studio!

Posted at 5:34 PM on October 1, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Megafaun, the indie-folk-rockers now based in North Carolina dropped by The Current's studios on Friday, prior to the band's Cedar Cutural Center concert, to record a live session. Their pal Doug Paisley even dropped in for a song!

Also on the agenda: new Americana from Ry Cooder, Ryan Adams (stream the album here), and Zoey Muth, who performs a free show Monday evening at the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis.

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10/2/11
8:00 a.m.

Elvis Presley - Blue Moon of Kentucky
Dave Simonett - Gravity of the Situation [MN Remembers Vic Chesnutt]
Vic Chesnutt - Wallace Stevens [Northstar Deserter]
Matt Latterell - Hostage [Life On Land]
Bonnie Prince Billy - Black Ice Cream [Quail and Dumplings]
Cowboy - Please Be With Me [Delta Swamp Rock: Sounds From the South]
Dawes - The Way You Laugh [Nothing is Wrong]
Nick 13 - 101 [Nick 13]
Son Volt - No Turning Back [American Central Dust]
A.A. Bondy - The Twist [Believers]
Ry Cooder - Quick Sand [Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down]
Johnny Horton - North to Alaska
The Cactus Blossoms - Cold Foot Boogie [The Cactus Blossoms]
Tyler Ramsey - The Valley Wind [The Valley Wind]
Neil Young - Goin' Back [Comes A Time]

United States of Americana
10/2/11
9:00 a.m.

Levon Helm - Rag Mama Rag [Ramble at the Ryman]

Megafaun IN STUDIO SESSION

songs performed: "State/Meant," "Kill The Horns," "Second Friend," and "What I Saw" with Doug Paisley.

Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers - I've Been Gone [Starlight Hotel]
Nikki Lane - Gone, Gone, Gone [Walk on Shame]
Imelda May - Tainted Love [Mayhem]
Deer Tick -Miss K. [Divine Providence]
Dwight Yoakam - I Want You To Want Me [Tomorrow's Sounds Today]
Rich Robinson - Hey Fear [Through A Crooked Sun]
Ryan Adams - Come Home [Ashes and Fire]
X - Breathless [More Fun in the New World]

Americana gig list:

Nick 13 - Tonight, 7th St. Entry
Zoey Muth - Monday Electric Fetus
Imelda May - Wednesday, Fine Line
X - Thursday 10/6, Cabooze
Cactus Blossoms - Friday, Ritz
Robert Randolph/Ha Ha Tonka - (Friday) 10/14 First Ave
Los StraitJackets - 10/19, Turf Club
Rich Robinson - 10/20 Cedar
Frank Turner - 10/23, Triple Rock
Drive-By Truckers/Those Darlins - 10/25, First Avenue
Hayes Carll/Caitlin Rose - Varsity, 10/27/11
Shelby Lynne - 10/27, Dakota
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara and Sean Watkins - 11/3, Cedar
Dawes/Blitzen Trapper - 11/4, 1st Avenue
A.A. Bondy - 11/5, 7th St. Entry
Imelda May - 11/5, Fine Line
Deer Tick - 11/12, Triple Rock
The Gourds - 11/16, Turf Club
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 11/17, 400 Bar
Wilco - 12/6-12/7, State Theatre s/o
Ryan Adams - 12/13, State Theatre s/o

United States of Americana featuring a ton of new music!

Posted at 11:03 AM on September 25, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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It's a busy early fall around here! Decided to clear my desk of some of the new music & take it for a test drive on the latest USofA!

I featured new Americana from Dirt Daubers, the Canadian husband and wife team known as Whitehorse, Wilco, which is streaming here at thecurrent.org, The Mekons and Pieta Brown, who will be performing at the Dakota on Thursday night!

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9/25/11
8:00 a.m.

Dirt Daubers - Wake Up Sinners [Wake Up Sinners ]
Shelby Lynne - I'll Hold Your Head [Revelation Road]
Cotton Jones - Gotta Cheer Up [Paranoid Cocoon]
Whitehorse - Broken [Whitehorse]
The Jayhawks - Hide Your Colors [Mockingbird Time]
Michael Nesmith - Joanne [The Older Stuff (The Vest of the Early Years)]
Ivan and Alyosha - Glorify [Fathers Be Kind]
Nick Lowe - Sensitive Man [The Old Magic]
Ray Price - I Won't Mention it Again
Willie Nelson - The Scientist
Lydia Loveless - Can't Change Me [Indestructible Machine]
Loretta Lynn - Fist City
Reckless Ones - Forbidden [Make Your Move]
Nick 13 - Carry My Body Down [Nick 13]
Paul Kelly - Dumb Things [Songs from the South Volumes 1 & 2]

United States of Americana
9/25/11
9:00 a.m.

Tony Joe White - Roosevelt And Ira Lee (Night of t he Mossacin) [...Continued]
Pieta Brown - No Words Now [Mercury]
Tom Petty - Big Weekend [Highway Companion]
Haley Bonar - Money [Golder]
Lanie Lane - Ain't Hungry [Third Man 7" inch]
Buck Owens - Excuse Me ( I Think I've Got A Heartache)
Kenny Vaughan - Stay Outta My Dreams [Kenny Vaughan]
Megafaun - State/Meant Megafaun Friday Cedar
Doug Paisley - What I Saw [Constant Companion]
Marty Robbins - Story of My Life
Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers - If I Can't Trust You With A Quarter [Starlight Hotel]
Wilco - Born Alone [The Whole Love]
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson - Sweetest Waste of Time [Rattlin' Bones]
Ryan Adams - Lucky Now [Ashes and Fire]
Mekons - Space in Your Face [Ancient and Modern]
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - The Ballad of Jed Clappett

Americana gig list:

Ivan and Alyosha - Monday 9/26, Cedar
Pieta Brown - Thursday, 9/29, The Dakota
Megafaun/Doug Paisley - Friday, Cedar
Haley Bonar - Saturday, Dakota
Nick 13 - 10/2, 7th St. Entry
Zoey Muth - 10/3, Electric Fetus
Imelda May - 10/5, Fine Line
X - 10/6, Cabooze
Los StraitJackets - 10/19, Turf Club
Frank Turner - 10/23, Triple Rock
Drive-By Truckers/Those Darlins - 10/25, First Avenue
Hayes Carll/Caitlin Rose - Varsity, 10/27
Shelby Lynne - 10/27, Dakota
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara and Sean Watkins - 11/3, Cedar
Dawes/Blitzen Trapper - 11/4, 1st Avenue
A.A. Bondy - 11/5, 7th St. Entry
Deer Tick - 11/12, Triple Rock
The Gourds - 11/16, Turf Club
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 11/17, 400 Bar
Wilco - 12/6-12/7, State Theatre

United States of Americana features O, Brother Where Art Thou? radio special!

Posted at 11:58 AM on September 18, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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For the 1st hour of United States of Americana we featured an hour long radio special about the soundtrack from O, Brother Where Art Thou? It's hosted by David Wild of Rolling Stone and features interviews with T-Bone Burnette and even George Clooney!

For the 2nd hour I'll giveaway a couple expanded edition O, Brother Cd's. I'll also feature new americana from Milk Carton Kids, Deer Tick and Chris Isaak. I also gave a spin to George Jones, who just turned 80 the other day, and Hank Williams, who would have turned 88 yesterday.

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9.18.11
9:00 a.m.

George Jones - The Race is On
Matreca Berg - Silver and Grass [album: The Dreaming Fields]
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Cotton Pickin'
Chris Isaak - Live It Up [Beyond the Sun]
Milk Carton Kids - Undress the World [Prologue]
Gillian Welch - The Way It Goes [The Harrow and the Harvest]
Whitey Morgan and the 78's - Bad News [Whitey Morgan and the 78's]
John Hiatt - Train to Birmingham [Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns]
South Memphis Stringband - Worry 'Bout Your Own Backyard [Home Sweet Home]
Hank Williams - Lost Highway
Matthew Sweet - She Walks the Night [Modern Art]
Southern Culture on the Skids - Nitty Gritty [Dirt Track Date]
Deer Tick - Miss K. [ Divine Providence]
The Jayhawks - High Water Blues [Mockingbird Time]
Eilen Jewell - That's Where I'm Going [Queen of the Minor Key]
Hank III - I'm A Long Gone Daddy [Timeless]

United States of Americana remembers 9/11

Posted at 12:02 PM on September 11, 2011 by Bill DeVille (2 Comments)
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For the latest USofA we remember the fallen heroes of 9/11/01. I featured songs from Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Perkins, Willie Nelson and others.

I also featured new tunes from the Jayhawks, AA Bondy, Shelby Lynne & Nick Lowe.

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9/11/2011
8:00 a.m.

Willie Nelson - America the Beautiful [America: A Tribute To Heroes]
Driftwood Fire - Backdoor [How to Untangle a Heartache]
Alison Krauss - Down to the River to Pray [Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?]
Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday [Ash Wednesday]
The Jayhawks - Pouring Rain At Dawn [Mockingbird Time]
Louvin Brothers - When I Stop Dreaming
Steve Cropper feat.Dan Penn - Someone Made You For Me [Dedicated]
Nick Lowe - Sensitive Man [The Old Magic]
Howie Gelb's A Band of Gypsies - Blood Orange [Alegrias]
Shelby Lynne - I'll Hold Your Head [Revelation Road]
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe [HOME]
John Hiatt - I Love That Girl [Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns]
Lydia Loveless - More Like Them [Indestructible Machine]

United States of Americana
9/11/2011
9:00 a.m.

Delta Spirit - 9/11 [History From Below]
Ryan Adams - New York, New York [Gold]
Mason Jennings - Hearts Stop Beating [Minnesota]
The Band - When I Paint My Masterpiece
The Gourds - I Want It So Bad [Old Bad Joy]
Willie Nelson - The Scientist
Deer Tick - Twenty Miles [The Black Dirt Sessions]
Gear Daddies - Gonna Change [Billy's Live Bait]
A.A. Bondy - Surfer King [Believers]
Bob Dylan - High Water (for Charlie Patton) [Love and Theft]
Dead Man Winter - New Orleans [Bright Lights]
The Jayhawks - Hide Your Colors [Mockingbird Time]
Bruce Springsteen - My City of Ruin [America: A Tribute to Heroes]
Johnny Cash - Aloha Oe [American VI: Ain't No Grave]

Americana gig list:

Alison Krauss and Union Station - Tuesday, Orpheum Theatre
Gear Daddies/Uberscenester - Friday, Fine Line
Dead Man Winter (w/Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps) Friday, First Avenue
The Jayhawks and Martin Zellar and the Hardways - Saturday, Riverfront Park, Mankato
Gordon Lightfoot - Saturday, State Theatre
Marissa Nadler/James Vincent McMorrow - Saturday, Cedar Cultural Center
John Hiatt - Monday 9/19, Guthrie
Whitey Morgan and the 78's - Tuesday 9/20, Lee's
Ivan and Alyosha - 9/26, Cedar
Pieta Brown - 9/29, Cedar
Megafaun/Doug Paisley - Cedar, 9/30
Haley Bonar - 10/1, Dakota
Nick 13 - 10/2, 7th St. Entry
X - 10/6, Cabooze
Los StraitJackets - 10/19, Turf Club
Frank Turner - 10/23, Triple Rock
Drive-By Truckers/Those Darlins - 10/25, First Avenue
Hayes Carll/Caitlin Rose - Varsity, 10/27/11
Shelby Lynne - 10/27, Dakota
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara and Sean Watkins - 11/3, Cedar
Dawes/Blitzen Trapper - 11/4, 1st Avenue
A.A. Bondy - 11/5, 7th St. Entry
Imelda May - 11/5, Fine Line
Deer Tick - 11/12, Triple Rock
The Gourds - 11/16, Turf Club
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 11/17, 400 Bar
Wilco - 12/6-12/7, State Theatre

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United States of Americana: "Oh Brother" turns 10!

Posted at 11:56 AM on August 28, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? is a little more than 10 years old. The film was released back in December of 2000 and somehow the soundtrack ended up being one of the ultimate collections of americana. I featured a couple of track from, the just released, deluxe edition, which features a bonus disk with a bunch of unreleased songs! In September we will be giving away several copies on United States of Americana and on the 18th at 8am, we will be airing an hour long radio special, hosted by David Wild, featuring commentary from the albums producer T-Bone Burnette.

We also checked out some new americana from Matthew Sweet, The Gourds, and Blitzen Trapper.

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8/28/11
8:00 a.m.

Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene
Connie Smith - I Don't Believe That's How You Feel [Long Line of Heartaches]
Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man [1968]
Iris Dement - Let the Mystery Be
Joy Kills Sorrow - One More Night [This Unknown Science]
Sir Douglas Quintet - At the Crossroads
Delbert McClinton - Texas Me [Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm]
The Gourds - I Want It So Bad [Old Bad Joy]
The Cox Family - Keep on the Sunny Side [Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (Bonus disc)]
Chris Thile and Michael Daves - You're Running Wild [Sleep With One Eye Opened]
Cody Canada and the Departed - True Love Never Dies [This is Indian Land]
NRBQ - Ridin in My Car
Band Of Horses - For Annabelle [Infinite Arms]
Red Wanting Blue - Audition [From the Vanishing Point]
Rosanne Cash w/Bruce Springsteen - Sea of Heartbreak [The List]
Johnny Cash & June Carter - If I Were A Carpenter

United States of Americana
8/28/11
9:00 a.m.

Harry McClintock - The Big Rock Candy MT. [Oh Brother Where Art Thou]
Matthew Sweet - She Walks the Night [Modern Art]
The Byrds - Hickory Wind [Sweetheart of the Rodeo]
John Doe - Giant Step Backward [Keeper]
The Duke and the King - Union Street [The Duke and the King]
Alejandro Escovedo - Sister Lost Soul [Real Animal]
Dawes - The Way You Laugh [Nothing Is Wrong]
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - Got You Covered [Kings and Queens]
Junior Brown - My Wife Thinks Your Dead [Guit With It] MN State Fair next weekend
Ricky Skaggs - Little Maggie [Songs My Dad Loved] MN State Fair tonight!
Those Darlins - Boy [Screws Get Loose]
Sharon Van Etten - Save Yourself [Epic]
Elvis Costello - Good Year For the Roses [Almost Blue]
Blitzen Trapper - Love the Way You Walk Away [American Goldwing]
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited [Highway 61 Revisited]

United States of Americana: Sounds from the South

Posted at 12:32 PM on August 21, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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I did a little record shopping the other day! I purchased this new compilation called, Sounds of the South: At the Crossroads of Rock, Country and Soul. I love record shopping! I featured a couple of track on the latest United States of Americana. We listened to a track from Link Wray. This guy is more than his instrumental, "Rumble." We also caught a track from Joe South, which was an even bigger hit for, you guessed it, Deep Purple!

Also on the docket were new tracks Blitzen Trapper, Steve Cropper, Nikki Lane and Megafaun.

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8/21/11
8:00 a.m.

Willie Nelson - So Much To Do [album: Shotgun Willie]
The BottleRockets - Kerosene [Not So Loud]
Bob Luman - Let's Talk About Living
Goodbye Sun - Yours Mine and Everyone Else's [Bruise on Bloom]
Tisdales - It's All Now Baby Blue [Another Side of Duluth does Dylan]
The Pines - What Good Am I [A Nod to Bob 2]
Bob Dylan - Love Sick [Time Out Of Mind]
Joe Ely - Not That Much Has Changed [Satisfied at Last]
Link Wray - Be What You Want To [Sounds of the South: At the Crossroads of Rock, Country and Soul]
Dale Hawkins - Susie Q
John Hiatt - Damn This Town [Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns]
Bob Wooton and Six Mile Grove - Big River
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses - Direction of the Wind [Junky Star]
Elephant Revival - What is Time [Break in the Clouds]

United States of Americana
8/21/11
9:00 a.m.

Patsy Cline - Crazy
Megafaun - State Meant [State Meant single]
Neil Young - Cortez the Killer [Zuma]
Haley Bonar - Silver Zephyrs [Golder]
Nikki Lane - Gone, Gone, Gone [Gone, Gone, Gone E.P.]
Porter and Dolly - We'll Get Ahead Someday
Tom Morello - Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine [Worldwide Rebel Songs]
Steve Cropper w/Lucinda Williams and Dan Penn- Dedicated To the One I Love [Dedicated]
Doug Paisley - What I Saw [Constant Companion]
The Jayhawks - Hide Your Colors [Mockingbird Time]
Richard Buckner - Traitor [Our Blood]
Michelle Shocked - Come a Long Way [Arkansas Traveler]
Blitzen Trapper - Love The Way You Walk Away [American Goldwing]
Joe South - Hush [Sounds of the South: At the Crossroads of Rock, Country and Soul]
Americana gig list:

Loudon Wainwright - Thursday, Cedar
Haley Bonar - Thursday, Mears Park
Bob Wooton - Thursday and Friday, State Fair
Goodbye Sun - Thursday, Lee's
Elephant Revival - Friday, Cabooze
Junior Brown - 9/2 & 9/3 MN State Fair
Janie Miller - Patsy Cline Birthday show - Lee's 9/8 Thursday
Gear Daddies - 9/16, Fine Line
The Jayhawks and Martin Zellar and the Hardways - 9/17, Riverfront Park, Mankato
Ivan and Alyosha - 9/26 Cedar
Pieta Brown - 9/29 Cedar
Megafaun/Doug Paisley - Cedar 9/30
Drive-By Truckers 10/25 First Ave
Hayes Carll/Caitlin Rose - Varsity, 10/27/11
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara and Sean Watkins - 11/3, Cedar
Dawes/Blitzen Trapper - 11/4 - 1st Ave
A.A. Bondy - 11/5 - 7th St.Entry
Imelda May - 11/5 - Fine Line
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 11/17, 400 Bar

United States of Americana remembers Johnny Cash's bassman, Marshall Grant

Posted at 11:51 AM on August 14, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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For today's show we remembered Marshall Grant, Johnny Cash's bass player for several decades. He suffered an aneurysm 1 1/2 weeks ago and died at the age of 83. Grant on bass, and Luther Perkins on guitar were the original Tennesee Two, who backed cash on his earliest recordings on the famed Sun Records label. Grant toured with Cash for more than twenty years and later managed The Statler Brothers.

We also listened to a bunch of new americana from Frank Turner, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Guy Clark and the Australian artist know as Wagons. We also listened to a Dan Penn classic recorded by the Flying Burrito Brothers and one of his own. Dan Penn plays The Dakota in Minneapolis tonight.

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United States of Americana
8/14/11
8AM

Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach, TX (Back to the Basics)
Frank Turner - Rivers [album: England Keep My Bones]
Steve Earle - Rivers of Babylon [Train A Comin']
Johnny Cash - Big River
Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three - Mississippi Girl [Middle of Everywhere]
Handsome Family - Little Sparrows [Honey Moon]
Conway Twitty - Lonely Boy Blue
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - I'm Still Loving You [Kings and Queens]
Tift Merritt - Stray Paper [Tambourine]
Amanda Shires - When You Need A Train It Never Comes [Carrying Lightning]
Wagons - Willie Nelson [Rumble, Shake and Tumble]
Willie Nelson - All Of Me [Stardust]
Guy Clark - If I Needed You [Songs And Stories]
Lyle Lovett - Wallisville Road [My Baby Don't Tolerate]

United States of Americana
8/14/11
9:00 a.m.

Justin Townes Earle - Who Am I To Say [The Good Life]
Avett Brothers - The Once and Future Carpenter
Flying Burrito Brothers - Do Right Woman [Gram Parson Anthology]
Dan Penn - The Dark End of the Street [Do Right Man]
Jeff Bridges - What A Little Bit Of Love Can Do [Jeff Bridges]
Ryan Adams - Nuclear [Demolition]
Kasey Chambers - Devil On Your Back [Little Bird]
Jonny Corndawg - Chevy Beretta [Down On the Bikini Line]
Buck Owens - Foolin' Around
Trailer Trash - Swizzle Stick [Nearer My Bar To Thee]
Vetiver - Worse For Wear [The Errant Charm]
John Doe - Giant Step Backward [Keeper]
Drive-By Truckers - Carl Perkins Cadillac [Greatest Hits 1998-2009]
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
Alejandro Escovedo - Castanets [No One Got Hurt]

Americana shows:

Dan Penn/Bobby Emmons - show added Monday night at The Dakota
Lyle Lovett - Burnsville Performing Arts Center - Thursday
Trailer Trash - Minneapolis Institute of Art - Thursday
Loudon Wainwright - 8/25, Cedar
Haley Bonar - Mears Park 8/25
Goodbye Sun - Lee's 8/25 (CD at Home)
Elephant Revival - 8/26, Cabooze
Junior Brown - 9/2 & 9/3 MN State Fair
Janie Miller - Patsy Cline Birthday show - Lee's 9/8 Thursday
Gear Daddies - 9/16, Fine Line
The Jayhawks and Martin Zellar and the Hardways - 9/17, Riverfront Park, Mankato
Ivan and Alyosha - 9/26 Cedar
Pieta Brown - 9/29 Cedar
Doug Paisley/Megafaun - Cedar 9/30
Drive-By Truckers 10/25 First Ave
Hayes Carll/Caitlin Rose - Varsity, 10/27/11
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara and Sean Watkins - 11/3, Cedar
Dawes/Blitzen Trapper - 11/4 - 1st Ave
A.A. Bondy - 11/5 - 7th St.Entry
Imelda May - 11/5 - Fine Line
th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 11/17, 400 Bar

United States of Americana: out come the Wolves!

Posted at 11:09 AM on August 7, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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The Wolves, better known as Los Lobos will invade the MN Zoo on Tuesday, for what has turned in to an annual show! A good reason to spin a couple tracks from the East L.A.'s finest!

I also gave spins to new americana from Richard Buckner, Nikki Lane, Tara Nevins, The BottleRockets and Grayson Capps!

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United States of Americana
8/7/11
8:00 a.m.

Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down
Grayson Capps - Highway 42 [CD: The Lost Cause Minstrels]
Wayne Hancock - Throwin' Away My Money [Viper of Melody]
Spade Cooley - Shame On You
Martin Devaney - Hold On to Your Money [The West End]
Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
Tara Nevins - Wood and Stone [Wood and Stone]
The Roe Family Singers - Reuben Train [The Owl The Bat and the Bumblebee]
Los Lobos - Burn It Down [Tin Can Trust]
Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside - Danger [Dirty Radio]
The BottleRockets - Smokin 100's Alone [Not So Loud]
Son Volt - Highway's and Cigarettes [Recorded live in the studio 2007]
Commander Cody - Smoke, Smoke Smoke that Cigarette
Robert Earl Keen - I Gotta Go [Ready For Confetti]

United States of Americana
8/7/11
9:00 a.m.

Robbie Fulks - Sleepin On the Job Of Love [The Very Best of Robbie Fulks]
Richard Buckner - Traitor [Our Blood]
Chris Isaak - You Owe Me Some Kind Of Love [Best Of Chris Isaak]
Sadies - Empty the Chamber
Haley Bonar - Money [Golder]
Phosphorescent - Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly) [Here's to Taking It Easy]
Glen Campbell - Ghost on the Canvas [Ghost on the Canvas]
The Jayhawks - Pouring Rain at Dawn [Mockingbird Time]
Buffalo Springfield - Flying On The Ground Is Wrong [Buffalo Springfield]
Dawes - If I Wanted Someone [Nothing Is Wrong]
Amy Levere - You Can't Keep Me [Stranger Me]
Los Lobos - One Time One Night [By the Light Of The Moon]
Nick 13 - Carry My Body Down [Nick 13]
Dan Penn - Where There's A Will (There's A Way) [Do Right Man]
Nikki Lane - Gone Gone Gone

United States of Americana features more songs about goin' nuts, missing teeth, cheap cars and food.

Posted at 11:55 AM on July 31, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time on United States of Americana I featured brand new music from Jonny Corndawg and John Doe. I suspect both of those names are pseudonyms!

I also gave a plug to several of t he artists who'll be playing around the Twin Cities in the days to come. Aritst like Justin Townes Earle, Wanda Jackson, The Head and the Heart, The Pines, Romantica, and Marty Stuart!

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United States of Americana
7-31-11
8:00 a.m.

Porter Wagoner - Committed To Parkview [Wagonmaster]
Dan Israel - Seaweed [Crosstown Traveller]
Romantica - Queen Of Hearts [America]
Ryan Traster - Staring at the Lights [The Tourist EP]
Bahamas - Hockey Teeth [Pink Strat]
Old Crow Medicine Show - Fall on My Knees [Big Iron World]
Jim Reeves - Bimbo
Eilen Jewell - Warning Signs [Queen of the Minor Key]
Charlie Rich - Lonely Weekends
Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues [Harlem River Blues]
Jonny Corndawg - Chevy Beretta [Down On the Bikini Line]
Bob Dylan - From A Buick 6 [Highway 61 Revisited]
John Hiatt - Damn This Town [ Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns]
John Doe - Giant Step Backward [Keeper]
Richard Buckner - Little Wallet Picture [Devotion and Doubt]

United States of Americana
7-31-11
9:00 a.m.

Ray Charles - Hey Good Lookin [Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music]
Kasey Chambers - Devil on Your Back [Little Bird]
Wanda Jackson - Thunder on the Mountain [The Party Ain't Over]
Jerry Lee Lewis - Real Wild Child
Dead Man Winter - Nicotine [Bright Lights]
Steve Young - Lonesome On'ry and Mean [Renegade Picker]
Dawes - A Little Bit Of Everything [Nothing Is Wrong]
Marty Stuart - Country Boy Rock and Roll [Ghost Train (the Studio B Sessions)]
Steve Earle - Hillbilly Highway [Guitar Town]
The Pines - Spike Driver Blues [Tremolo]
Avett Brothers - The Once and Future Carpenter
Bright Little Field - I Will Dare [Treatment Bound]
Justin Townes Earle - Can't Hardly Wait [Midnight at the Movies]
The Head and the Heart - Honey Come Home [The Head and the Heart ]
Drive- By Truckers - Sink Hole Greatest Hits [1998-2009]

United States of Americana features a new Glen Campbell song

Posted at 11:31 AM on July 24, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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We listened to a track from what is likely Glen Campbell's final album. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Campbell is on what is likely his last tour. The album and song I featured is called, "Ghost on the Canvas." The song was written by Paul Westerberg and appeared on his PW and The Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys album in 2009.

Dolly Parton is our neighborhood for a sold out show at Mystic Lake on Wednesday. What a great reason to feature a couple of Dolly classic's on the U.S.of A.!

I also featured a track from Steve Earle, fresh off his appearance at the Pantages last night! (U2 wasn't the only show in town) I also gave a spin to new songs from Cody Beebe and the Crooks, Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three and Jeff Bridges.

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United States of Americana
7/24/11
8:00 a.m.

Doug Sahm & Sir Douglas Quintet - Sunday Summer Mill Valley Groove Day
Alela Diane - To Begin [Wild Divine]
Dan Penn - Dark End of the Street [Do Right Man]
Willie Nelson feat. Merle - Pancho and Lefty
Farewell Drifters - Punchline [Echo Boom]
Dolly Parton - Dumb Blonde
Bethany Larson and the Bee's Knees - Still [When We Reach the City]
Cody Beebe and the Crooks - The Aftermath [Friends of the Old Mill]
Smog - Drinking at the Dam [A River Ain't Too Much To Love]
Johnny Cash - Hurt [American IV]
Jeff Bridges - What A Little Bit Of Love Can Do [Jeff Bridges]
Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Jamey Johnson - This Time [The Music Inside: A Collaboration Dedicated to Waylon Jennings]
Dave Alvin - Johnny Ace Is Dead [Eleven Eleven]

United States of Americana
7/24/11
9:00 a.m.

Tom Jones - Strange Things [Praise and Blame]
Glen Campbell - Ghost on the Canvas [Ghost on the Canvas]
Megafaun - Kaufman's Ballad [Gather, Form and Fly]
Gram Parsons - Wheels [Gilded Palace of Sin]
Steve Earle - This City [I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive]
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Trouble in Your Mind [Genuine Negro Jig]
Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three - Mississippi Girl [Middle of Everywhere]
The Jayhawks - She Walks In So Many Ways [Mockingbird Time]
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Bob Dylan - Jolene [Together Through Life]
Ray Lamontagne - Jolene [Trouble]
Amy Levere - You Can't Keep Me [Stranger Me]
Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie
Drive-By Truckers - Birthday Boy [Recorded in The Current's studios]
Dex Romweber Duo - Death Of Me [Is That You In The Blue?]
Hayes Carrl - KMAG Yoyo [KMAG Yoyo]

Americana gig list:

Dolly Parton - 7/27 Mystic Lake Wednesday s/o
Sherwin Linton CD Release show - Fine Line Thursday
Bethany Larson and the Bee's Knees - Friday July 29, Dakota, 11pm set
Ryan Traster - 7/31, 7th St. Entry
Richard Buckner - 7/31 Triple Rock
Marty Stewart - Dakota, Aug. 3
Trailer Trash - August 5, Lee's
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11
Los Lobos - MN Zoo 8/9
Amy Levere - August 9, Cedar
Robbie Fulks/Martin Devaney - Aug 12, Turf Club
Chris Isaak - August 13th, State Theatre
Commander Cody - 8/13, Dakota
Dan Penn - August 14, Dakota
Loudon Wainwright - Aug 25, Cedar
Elephant Revival - 8/26 Cabooze
Junior Brown - 9/2 & 9/3 MN State Fair
Janie Miller - Patsy Cline Birthday show at Lee's 9/8 Thursday
Gear Daddies - Sept 16, Fine Line
The Jayhawks and Martin Zellar and the Hardways - September 17th Riverfront Park Mankato
Doug Paisley/Megafaun - Cedar 9/30
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara Watkins - Cedar Nov. 3
Th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 400 Bar, Nov 17

United States of Americana: a live session with Mount Moriah!

Posted at 10:34 PM on July 16, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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United States of Americana is on the air from 8 - 10am Sunday mornings on 89.3 The Current.

The North Carolina band Mount Moriah was in our neighborhood for a show at the MN Zoo last Wednesday, opening for Indigo Girls. They dropped by The Current's studio's to chat and play a few tunes. They discussed broken water pumps, a collision with a deer in Wisconsin and their love of Dolly Parton.

Also on the agenda are a bunch of artists in the Twin Cities in the coming week! We'll hear Steve Earle, as well as Old 97's, Robert Ellis, Marissa Nadler & Gillian Welch.

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United States of Americana
July 17, 2011
8:00 a.m.

Steve Earle - Guitar Town [Guitar Town]
The Sweetback Sisters - Run Home and Cry [Looking For A Fight]
Porter Wagoner - Sorrow on the Rocks
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - Got You Covered [Kings and Queens]
Jeff Bridges - What A Little Bit Of Love Can Do [Jeff Bridges]
Alejandro Escovedo - I Was Drunk [Bourbonitis Blues]
Gillian Welch - The Way It Goes [The Harrow and the Harvest]
Robert Ellis - Westbound Train [Photographs]
Deer Tick - Houston, Tx. [Born On Flag Day]
Old 97's - Rollerskate Skinny [Satellite Rides]
Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle - Your Lonely Heart [We Still Love Our Country]
Richard Buckner - Her [Dents and Shells]
Marissa Nadler - The Sun Always reminds Me Of You [Marissa Nadler]
Dead Man Winter - House Of Glory [Bright Lights]

United States of Americana
July 17, 2011
9:00 a.m.

Merle Haggard - Okie from Muskogee

in the Studio with Mount Moriah

songs performed:

Reckoning
The Letting Go
Lament

Eilen Jewell - Warning Signs [Queen of the Minor Key]
Cowboys and Indians - She's Sweet [A Big Night In Cowtown]
Old 97's - Time Bomb [Too Far To Care]
Kasey Chambers - Little Bird [Little Bird]
Wanda Jackson - Right Or Wrong
Trampled By Turtles - Stranger [Trouble]
Fleet Foxes - Bedoin Dress [Helplessness Blues]
John Prine - Clay Pigeons [Fair and Aquare]
Buck Owens - Love's Gonna Live Here
Steve Earle - Goodbye is All We Got Left to Say [Guitar Town]

Americana gig list:

Fleet Foxes/Alela Diane - Tonight, State Theatre
Carrie Rodriguez - Dakota, Tonight
Romantica - 6pm today, Peavey Plaza, downtown Mpls.
Old 97's/Dead Man Winter/Robert Ellis - 1st Avenue Wednesday, 7/20
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - Wednesday, 7/20 Fitzgerald
Marissa Nadler/Luke Redfield - Friday, July 22nd at Turf Club.
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Alison Moorer - Saturday, 7/23 Pantages Theatre
Trampled By Turtles - Saturday, 7/23 Cabooze Plaza
Dolly Parton - 7/27 Mystic Lake
Sherwin Linton - CD Release show 7/28 Fine Line
Bethany Larson and the Bee's Knees Friday July 29, Dakota, 11pm set
Wayne Hancock - 7/29 Lee's
Ryan Traster - July 31st, 7th St. Entry
Richard Buckner - 7/31 Triple Rock
Marty Stewart - Dakota, Aug. 3
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11
Los Lobos - MN Zoo 8/9
Amy Levere - August 9, Cedar
Robbie Fulks, Martin Devaney Aug 12, Turf Club
Chris Isaak - August 13th, State Theatre
Commander Cody - 8/13, Dakota
Dan Penn - August 14, Dakota
Loudon Wainwright - Aug 25, Cedar
Elephant Revival - Cabooze 8/26
Junior Brown - 9/2 & 9/3 MN State Fair
Gear Daddies - Sept 16, Fine Line
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara Watkins - Cedar Nov. 3
Th' legendary Shack Shakers/Split Lip Rayfield - 400 Bar, Nov 17

United States of Americana: salutes Woody Guthrie

Posted at 11:15 AM on July 10, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Thanks to Mac for so capably filling in, while I took a little respite!

This time on the USofA...I gave a salute to Woody Guthrie, who would have turned 99 this week. I played a track from that Mermaid Avenue album that Billy Bragg and the guys from Wilco made back in the 90's with some leftover Woody lyrics. We heard Pop Wagner, Tony Glover and Charlie Maguire from there new tribute to Guthrie. I also gave a spin to his son, Arlo, as he turns 64 today.

We also heard new americana from Sally Ford, John Hiatt, Amy Levere and Nick 13.

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United States of Americana
July 10, 2011
8:00 a.m.

George Jones - The Race Is On
Matraca Berg - Silver and Glass [The Dreaming Fields]
Mark Brown - Bucket Truck [Uncle Buckle]
Dave Dudley - Truck Drivin' Son of A Gun [VINYL - Truck Drivin' Son of A Gun]
Handsome Family - June Bugs [Honey Moon]
Bethany Larson and the Bee's Knees - Still [When We Reach the City]
Pop Wagner, Tony Glover and Charlie Maguire - Take A Whiff On Me [Woody Reflected]
Woody Guthrie - Do-Re-Mi
Billy Bragg and Wilco - California Stars [Mermaid Avenue]
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Simple Things [Revelator]
Charlie Parr - Where You Gonna Be (When the Good Lord Call You Down) [Live Current Volume 1]
Greg Allman - Floating Bridge [Low Country Blues]
John Hiatt - Damn This Town [Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns]
Drive-By Truckers - Aftermath USA [A Blessing and A Curse]
Jim Reeves - I Guess I'm Crazy

United States of Americana
July 10, 2011
9:00 a.m

Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans
Amy Levere - You Can't Keep Me [Stranger Me]
Leon Russell - Out In The Woods [Carney]
Steve Earle - I Am a Wanderer [I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive]
Jolie Holland and the Grand Chandeliers - Gold and Yellow [Pint Of Blood]
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Easy Plateau [Cold Roses]
Sally Ford and the Sound Outside - Danger [Dirty Radio]
Nick 13 - Carry My Body Down [Nick 13]
Romantica - National Side [America]
Josh T. Pearson - Country Dumb [Last of the Country Gentlemen]
Mount Moriah - Lament [Mount Moriah]
Dolly Parton - The Seeker
Lucinda Williams - Blessed [Blessed]
Old 97's - I'm A Trainwreck [Grand Theatre Vol. 2]

Americana gig list:

Lucinda Williams and Freedy Johnston - Vetter Stone Ampitheatre, Mankato 6pm doors
Mount Moriah MN Zoo (opening for Indigo Girls) Wednesday
Pop Wagner, Tony Glover & Charlie Maguire - Gingko Coffehouse, Thursday in St Paul
Jolie Holland/Sallie Ford - Thursday Cedar
Bethany Larson - Friday July 15, Kitty Cat Club
Fleet Foxes - Sunday, 7/17 State
Carrie Rodriguez - Dakota July 17th
Romantica - 6pm Peavey Plaza, downtown Mpls, July 17th
Old 97's/Robert Ellis - 1st avenue 7/20
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - 7/20 Fitzgerald
Marissa Nadler - Friday, July 22nd at Turf Club.
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Alison Moorer - Pantages Theatre, 7/23
Trampled By Turtles - 7/23 Cabooze Plaza
Dolly Parton - 7/27 Mystic Lake
Sherwin Linton - CD Release show 7/28 Fine Line
Wayne Hancock - 7/29 Lee's
Richard Buckner - 7/31 Triple Rock
Marty Stewart - Dakota, Aug. 3
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11
Los Lobos - Zoo 8/9
Chris Isaak - August 13th, State Theatre
Commander Cody - 8/13, Dakota
Elephant Revival - Cabooze 8/26
Junior Brown - 9/2 & 9/3 MN State Fair
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara Watkins - Cedar Nov. 3

United States of Americana - 7-3-11

Posted at 10:00 AM on July 3, 2011 by Mac Wilson
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It's a holiday weekend, which means I'm in for Bill. Here's what I played today on United States of Americana.

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Bob Dylan, "It's All Good" (from Together Through Life)
The Byrds, "One Hundred Years from Now" (from Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Mason Jennings, "Sunlight" (from Blood of Man)
Marissa Nadler, "The Sun Always Reminds Me of You" (from Marissa Nadler)
The Felice Brothers, "Fire at the Pageant" (from Celebration, Florida)
The Avett Brothers, "Die Die Die" (from Emotionalism)
Deadstring Brothers, "Where Are All My Friends?" (from For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records)
The Greencards feat. Vince Gill, "Heart Fixer" (from The Brick Album)
Glen Campbell, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (from By the Time I Get to Phoenix)
G. Love, "Walk On" (from Fixin' to Die)
Jolie Holland, "Gold and Yellow" (from Pint of Blood)
Whiskeytown, "Yesterday's News" (from Strangers Almanac)
Trampled by Turtles, "Help You" (from Palomino)
Vetiver, "Wonder Why" (from The Errant Charm)
Kathleen Edwards, "Back to Me" (from Back to Me)
Golden Smog, "Red Headed Stepchild" (from Down by the Old Mainstream)
Bob Dylan, "Mississippi" (from "Love and Theft")
Loretta Lynn feat. Jack White, "Portland Oregon" (from Van Lear Rose)
Jerry Lee Lewis, "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser of Me)" (from Another Place, Another Time)
Lucinda Williams, "Copenhagen" (from Blessed)
Dawes, "That Western Skyline" (from North Hills)
Waylon Jennings, "America" (from Waylon's Greatest Hits Volume 2)
Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, "Thrice All American" (from Furnace Room Lullaby)
Marideth Sisco and Blackberry Winter, "High on a Mountain" (from the Winter's Bone soundtrack)
Bill Callahan, "America!" (from Apocalypse)
Buck Owens, "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line" (from Open Up Your Heart)
Texas Tornados, "Little Bit Is Better Than Nada" (from 4 Aces)
The Jayhawks, "She Walks in So Many Ways" (from Mockingbird Time)
Heavy Trash, "Kissy Baby" (from Going Way Out with Heavy Trash)

United States of Americana: Gillian Welch is back!

Posted at 11:09 AM on June 26, 2011 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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Ok, she never really went away, but, Gillian Welch is back with her first new album under her moniker in 8 years. She did sing on her musical and life partner Dave Rawlings album a couple years ago. Gillian's new album is called, The Harrow And The Harvest. It will be released on Tuesday. Jolie Holland's new album is also out this week, we heard both artists on the latest United States of Americana!

Also heard new americana from Dave Alvin, Dawes, Wheeler Brothers & Bill Callahan, who performs on Friday at the Cedar.

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United States of Americana
June 26, 2011
8:00 a.m.

Slim Dunlap - Ballad of the Opening Band [The Old New Me]
Carl Creighton - Christian Girl [11 North]
The Byrds - The Christian Life [Sweetheart of the Rodeo]
Don Gibson - Sea of Heartbreak
Wheeler Brothers - Mississippi [Portraits]
The Rolling Stones - Country Honk [Let It Bleed]
North Mississippi Allstars - How I Wish My Train Would Come [Keys To The Kingdom]
Gillian Welch - The Way It Will Be [The Harrow and the Harvest]
Elvis Presley - That's All Right
Yellowhammers - Come On Elvis [Yellowhammers]
Dan Israel - Up To You [Crosstown Traveler]
Chuck Prophet - Sonny Liston's Blues [Let Freedom Ring]
Jamey Johnson - This Time [Waylon tribute: The Music Inside Volume 1]
Dave Alvin - Johnny Ace Is Dead [Eleven Eleven]
Paul Simon - The Late Great Johnny Ace [Hearts and Bones]

United States of Americana
6/26/11
9:00 a.m.

Kris Kristofferson - For the Good Times
Jolie Holland & the Grand Chandeliers - Gold and Yellow [Pint of Blood]
Sarah Jarosz - The Tourist [Follow Me Down]
Ted Daffan's Texans - Born to Lose
Bill Callahan - Drover [Apocalypse]
Calexico - Guero Canelo [Feast of Wire]
Mavis Staples - Only the Lord Knows [You Are Not Alone]
Mount Moriah - The Reckoning [Mount Moriah]
Maria McKee - You Gotta Sin to Get Saved [You Got to Sin to Get Saved]
Sir Douglas Quintet - Texas Me
Dawes - Fire Away [Nothing Is Wrong]
Neil Young International Harvesters - Amber Jean [A Treasure]
Elvis Costello - Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down [Almost Blue]

Americana gig list...

Elvis Costello - Wednesday State Theatre 6/29
Mavis Staples/Taj Mahal 6/29 - Wednesday MN Zoo
North Mississippi Allstars MN Zoo (W/Matisyahu) Thursday 6/30
Bill Callahan - Cedar Cultural Center 7/1 Friday
Yellowhammers - Kierans July 2 Saturday
Dan Israel - Saturday, July 2 at the Aster Cafe with Slim Dunlap
Jessica Lea Mayfield - 7/3 Varsity Sunday
Music From Winter's Bone - July 7 Cedar
Romantica - July 7 Kierans
Mount Moriah - MN Zoo (opening for Indigo Girls) 7/13
Jolie Holland - July 14th Cedar
Fleet Foxes - 7/17 State
Carrie Rodriguez - Dakota July 17th
Romantica - 6pm Peavey Plaza, downtown Mpls, July 17th
Old 97's/Robert Ellis - 1st avenue 7/20
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - 7/20 Fitzgerald
Marissa Nadler - Friday, July 22nd at Turf Club.
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Alison Moorer - Pantages Theatre, 7/23
Trampled By Turtles - 7/23 Cabooze Plaza
Dolly Parton - 7/27 Mystic Lake
Wayne Hancock - 7/29 Lee's
Richard Bucker - 7/31 Triple Rock
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11
Los Lobos - Zoo 8/9
Chris Isaak - August 13th State Theatre
Commander Cody - 8/13 Dakota
Elephant Revival - Cabooze 8/26
Junior Brown - 9/2 & 9/3 MN State Fair
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara Watkins - Cedar Nov. 3

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United States of Americana: Songs for Dad and a new tune from the Jayhawks!

Posted at 11:52 AM on June 19, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Featured a good handful of "songs for dad" on Father's Day for this episode of United States of Americana. Played songs from Simon and Garfunkel, Loretta Lynn, Waylon, Johnny Cash and others.

I also featured a brand new tune from The Jayhawks called, "She Walks In So Many Ways," from the upcoming Mockingbird Time album. An early taste! It's not due for release until September. Nice to have 'em back! It sounds like exactly what you'd want from the Jayhawks. It nice to hear thos mournful Mark & Gary harmonies again!

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United States of Americana
June 19, 2011
8:00 a.m.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Save It For Sunday [Here We Rest]
Wylie and the Wild West - Raven on the Wind [Raven on the Wind]
Little Feat - Willin' [Little Feat]
Caitlin Rose - Shanghai Cigarettes [Own Side Now]
The High Irons - Carolina [Unusual Opportunities for Young Men]
Blue Mountain - Blue Canoe [Dog Days]
Loretta Lynn - They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy
Farewell Drifters - Tip of the Iceburg [Echo Boom]
Neko Case - People Got A Lot Of Nerve [Middle Cyclone]
Nanci Griffith - Speed of the Sound of Lonliness [Other Voices/Other Rooms]
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion - Never Far From My Heart [Bright Examples]
Hayes Carll - Hard Out Here [KMAG YoYo]
Robert Ellis - Westbound Train [Photographs]
John Hiatt - Just To Satisfy You [A Collaborations Dedicated to Waylon Jennings]

United States of Americana
June 19, 2011
9:00 a.m.

Waylon Jennings - Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
The Greencards - Make It Out West [The Brick Album]
Dwight Yoakam - Holding Things Together [Tulare Dust]
Dawes - If I Wanted Someone
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - If I Can't Have You Kings and Queens
Simon and Garfunkel - That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine [Old Friends]
Bobby Bare Jr. & Isabella - Daddy What If [Twistable, Turnable Man]
The Jayhawks - She Walks in So Many Ways [Mockingbird Time]
Bob Dylan and the Band - Million Dollar Bash [The Basement Tapes]
Johnny Cash - Daddy Sang Bass [Live at San Quentin]
Chris Thile (THEE Lee) & Michael Daves - Man In the Middle [Third Man 7"]
Charlie Robison - Yellow Blues [Beautiful Day]
Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle - Unwed Fathers [We Still Love Out Country]
Old 97's - I'm A Trainwreck [Grand Theatre V. II]
Uncle Tupelo - Train [No Depression]
Los StraitJackets - G-Man [The Utterly Fantastic and Totally Unbelievable Sounds of...]
Americana gig list:

Benefit show for Danny Amis of Los Straitjackets. Performances by Parisota Surf Club w/ guest appearance by Curtiss A, Al's Rockabilly Trio, Big Surf, Reckless Ones, Nordic Surf, M.O.R.T. and Thee Unholy Three - Lee's Saturday $15 suggested cover
Nanci Griffith - Saturday MN Zoo
Elvis Costello State Theatre 6/29
Mavis Staples/Taj Mahal 6/29 - MN Zoo
North Mississippi Allstars MN Zoo (W/Matisyahu) Thursday 6/30
Bill Callahan - Cedar Cultural Center 7/1
Dan Israel - Saturday, July 2 at the Aster Cafe with Slim Dunlap
Yellowhammers - Kierans July 2
Dan Israel - Saturday, July 2 at the Aster Cafe with Slim Dunlap
Jessica Lea Mayfield - 7/3 Varsity
Music From Winter's Bone - July 7 Cedar
Romantica - July 7 Kierans
Mount Moriah MN Zoo (opening for Indigo Girls) 7/13
Jolie Holland - July 14th Cedar
Carrie Rodriguez - Dakota July 17th
Romantica - 6pm Peavey Plaza, downtown Mpls, July 17th
Old 97's/Robert Ellis - 1st avenue 7/20
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - 7/20 Fitzgerald
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Alison Moorer - Pantages Theatre, 7/23
Dolly Parton 7/27 Mystic Lake
Wayne Hancock 7/29 Lee's
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11
Los Lobos - Zoo 8/9
Chris Isaak - August 13th State Theatre
Commander Cody 8/13 Dakota
Elephant Revival - Cabooze 8/26
Junior Brown - 9/2 & 9/3 MN State Fair
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara Watkins Cedar Nov. 3

United States of Americana featuring new tracks from Dawes!

Posted at 11:27 AM on June 12, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Dawes is back in business! Their 2nd album is called "Nothing Is Wrong." It's no sophomore slump, either. It's an album that seems like it's from another era. CSN& Y and Tom Petty come to mind, among others. The songs are expertly crafted and are full of warm harmonies. The songs seem to come straight from the heart. You can feel Taylor Goldsmith's ache on his songs of love and love gone wrong. We'll hear a couple tracks on this installment of the USofA!

Also on the docket are a a few prison songs and new music from Joe Ely, Marissa Nadler, Cody Canada and the Departed and some live Neil Young International Harvesters!

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June 12, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Matt Latterell - Holy Land [Charades]
Meredith Sisco & Blackberry Winter - High On A Mountain [Winter's Bone Sdck]
Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe
Eilen Jewell - Warning Signs [Queen of The Minor Key]
Dawes - If I Wanted Someone [Nothing Is Wrong]
The Jayhawks - Nothing Left To Borrow [Live Current V. 6]
Stonewall Jackson - Life to Go
Vetiver - Worse for Wear [The Errant Charm]
Lee Hazlewood and Duane Eddy & His Orchestra - The Girl on Death Row
Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage [Unchained]
Brian Wright - Striking Matches [House On Fire]
Kathleen Edwards - Summerlong [Back To Me]
Grateful Dead - Ripple [American Beauty]
Ponderosa - Little Runaway [Moonlight Revival]
Scott H. Biram - Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue [Something's Wrong/Lost Forever]
United States of Americana
June 12, 2010
9:00 a.m.

Phosphorescent - Mermaid Parade [Here's to Taking It Easy]
Joe Ely - You Can Bet I'm Gone [Satisfied At Last]
Chris Isaak - Blue Spanish Sky [Heart Shaped World]
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Blue Skies Again [Tell Me]
Cody Canada & the Departed - Ballad of Rosalie [This Is Indian Land]
Commander Cody - Hot Rod Lincoln
Junior Brown - Highway Patrol [Guit With It] 59th birthday today!
Marissa Nadler - The Sun Always Reminds Me Of You [Marissa Nadler]
Neko Case - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth [Middle Cyclone]
Cave Singers - Swim Club [No Witch]
Centro-matic - Iso-Residue [Candidate Waltz]
Soul Asylum - P-9 [Clam Dip and Other Delights]
Dawes - Fire Away [Nothing Is Wrong]
Neil Young International Harvester's - Grey Riders [Neil Young International Harvester's: A Treasure]

Americana gig list:

Cave Singers - Thursday Entry
Scott H Biram - Thursday 400 Bar 6/16
The American Beauty Project (feat. Jim Lauderdale, Ollabelle others) - Orchestra Hall Friday
Benefit show for Danny Amis of Los Straitjackets...more details soon 6/25
Elvis Costello State Theatre 6/29
Bill Callahan - Cedar Cultural Center
Dan Israel - Saturday, July 2 at the Aster Cafe with Slim Dunlap
Yellowhammers - Kierans July 2
Mount Moriah MN Zoo (opening for Indigo Girls) 7/13
Jolie Holland - July 14th Cedar
Dan Israel - Saturday, July 2 at the Aster Cafe with Slim Dunlap
Music From Winter's Bone - July 7 Cedar
Carrie Rodriguez - Dakota July 17th
Romantica - 6pm Peavey Plaza, downtown Mpls, July 17th
Old 97's - 1st avenue 7/20
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Alison Moorer - Pantages Theatre, 7/23
Dolly Parton - 7/27 Mystic Lake
Wayne Hancock - 7/29 Lee's
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11
Chris Isaak - August 13th State Theatre
Commander Cody - 8/13 Dakota
Elephant Revival - Cabooze 8/26
Junior Brown - 9/2 MN State Fair
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara Watkins Cedar Nov. 3

United States of Americana: a bunch of talented women!

Posted at 1:00 PM on June 5, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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I just glanced at my playlist today and noticed an abundance of talented ladies on it! I played tunes from a new group called Mount Moriah. They hail from North Carolina and feature a really great singer named Heather McEntire, who sounds an awful lot like Dolly Parton, who we also heard, as well as Sharon Van Etten, and I played that eerie cover of a Radiohead track by Sarah Jarosz.

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United States of Americana
6/5/11
8:00 a.m.

John Prine - Morning Train [Fair and Square]
GB Leighton - Waiting For Trouble [Hope 1 Mile]
Glen Campbell - Sadly Beautiful [Meet Glen Campbell]
Dan Israel - Up To You [Crosstown Traveler]
Bahamas - Hockey Teeth [Pink Strat]
Solomon Burke - Ain't Got You [Nashville]
Del Reeves - Women Do Funny Things to Me [Doodle-oo-Doo-Doo] on vinyl!
Greg Brown - Where Are You Going When You're Gone [Freak Flag]
Dale Watson - List of Reasons
Whitey Morgan - Bad News [Whitey Morgan & the 78's]
Chris Thile and Michael Daves - You're Running Wild [Sleep With One Eye Open]
Jolie Holland - Goodbye California [Escondida]
Sarah Jarosz - The Tourist [Follow Me Down]
The Belle Brigade - Shirt [The Belle Brigade]
The Everly Brothers - Bird Dog
Son Volt - No Turning Back [American Central Dust]


United States of Americana
6/5/11
9:00 a.m.

Joe Ely - The Road Goes on Forever [Love and Danger]
Old 97's - Perfume [Grand Theatre Volume II]
Southern Culture on the Skids - Oh Lonesome Me [Countrypolitan Favorites]
Neil Young - Revolution Blues [On The Beach]
Okkervil River - Wake and Be Fine [I Am Very Far]
Roy Orbison - Running Scared
The Mavericks - I Want To Know [The Mavericks]
Iron and Wine - Brother in Love [Kiss Each Other Clean]
The Byrds - Nothing Was Delivered [Sweetheart of the Rodeo]
Langhorne Slim - Worries [Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles]
Mount Moriah - The Reckoning [Mount Moriah]
Dolly Parton - Mule Skinner Blues
Sharon Van Etten - One Day [Epic]
Those Darlins - Boy [Screws Get Loose]
Jason and the Scorchers - Absolutely Sweet Marie [Fervor]

Americana Gig Guide

Dead Man Winter (Trampled By Turtles members) - Turf Tuesdays
Langhorne Slim tonight at Triple Rock
Joe Ely Tonight Cedar
Iron and Wine/The Head and the Heart - First Ave Wednesday
Dale Watson/Whitey Morgan and the 78's - Lee's Wednesday
Cave Singers - 6/16 Entry
Scott H Biram - 400 Bar 6/16
Benefit show for Danny Amis of Los Straitjackets...many bands TBA, more details soon 6/25
Elvis Costello - 6/29 State
Mount Moriah MN Zoo (opening for Indigo Girls) 7/13
Jolie Holland - July 14th Cedar
Carrie Rodriguez - Dakota July 17th
Old 97's - 1st avenue 7/20
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Alison Moorer - Pantages Theatre, 7/23
Dolly Parton - 7/27 Mystic Lake
Wayn Hancock - 7/29 Lee's
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11
Chris Isaak - August 13th State
Commander Cody - 8/13 Dakota
Elephant Revival - Cabooze 8/26
Junior Brown - 9/2 MN State Fair
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara Watkins - Cedar Nov. 3

Block Rockin'...Americana Style!

Posted at 10:22 AM on May 29, 2011 by Bill DeVille
Filed under: Honey-Do List, United States of Americana

With 89.3, The Current doing it's annual "Block Rockin' Weekend," I followed suit! I featured "Americana blocks" of Lucinda, Loretta, Willie, Wayne "the Train, and the Man In Black. among others!

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United States of Americana
5/29/2011
8am Hour

Willie Nelson

On the Road Again [album: Greatest Hits...]
Blue Skies [Stardust]
Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground [Greatest Hits...]

Loretta Lynn

The Pill [Back to Country]
Portland Oregon [Van lear Rose]
Fist City [Fist City]

Elvis Costello

Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down [Almost Blue]
Sulphur To Sugarcane [Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane]
Monkey To Man [The Delivery Man]

Wayne Hancock

Thunderstorms and Neon Signs [Best Of]
Shootin' Star From Texas [Tulsa]
Jump the Blues [Viper of Melody]

Lucinda Williams

Blessed [Blessed]
Six Blocks Away [Sweet Old World]
Get Right With God [radio remix]

Uncle Tupelo

Chickamauga [Anodyne]
Watch Me Fall [Still Feel Gone]
No Depression [No Depression]

United States of Americana
5/29/2011
9am Hour

Johnny Cash

Sunday Morning Coming Down [The Legend of Johnny Cash]
San Quentin [Johnny Cash At San Quentin]
Hurt [American IV]

Old 97's

Murder (Or A Heart Attack) [Fight Songs]
The Magician [The Grand Theatre Vol. 1]
Won't Be Home [Drag It Up]

Drive-By Truckers

Hell No, I Ain't Happy [Decoration Day]
Used to Be A Cop [Go-Go Boots]
Dressed Blues [In The Studio Performance]

The Avett Brothers

Laundry Room [I and Love and You]
Shame [Live, Vol 3]
Kick Drum Heart [I and Love and You]

Americana gig list:

Dead Man Winter (Trampled By Turtles members) - Turf Tuesdays
Crooked Still - Cedar Wednesday
Martin Devaney & Jake Hyer at Rudolph's BBQ Thursday, June 2
Randy Weeks plus the Cactus Blossoms 331 Club Friday, June 3
Romantica - St. Anthony Main 7pm Saturday, June 4
Joe Ely 6/5 Cedar
Iron and Wine/The Head and the Heart - First Ave 6/8
Dale Watson/Whitey Morgan and the 78's - Lee's 6/8
Dan Israel - Peavey Plaza 11:45am to 1:15pm Peavey Plaza
Cave Singers 6/16 Entry
Scott H Biram 400 Bar 6/16
benefit show for Danny Amis of Los Straitjackets...many bands TBA, more details soon 6/25
Elvis Costello 6/29 State
Mt Moriah MN Zoo (opening for Indigo Girls) 7/13
Jolie Holland - July 14th Cedar
Dan Israel - Saturday, July 2 at the Aster Cafe with Slim Dunlap
Carrie Rodriguez - Dakota July 17th
Romantica - 6pm Peavey Plaza, downtown Mpls, July 17th
Old 97's - 1st avenue 7/20
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Alison Moorer - Pantages Theatre, 7/23
Dolly Parton 7/27 Mystic Lake
Wayne Hancock 7/29 Lee's
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11
Chris Isaak - August 13th State Theatre
Commander Cody 8/13 Dakota
Elephant Revival - Cabooze 8/26
Junior Brown - 9/2 MN State Fair
The Blind Boys of Alabama/Sara Watkins Cedar Nov. 3

United States of Americana: Lucinda and fishin' songs!

Posted at 11:39 AM on May 15, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time I featured a couple from Lucinda Williams, including the title track from her latest. "Blessed," a thoughtful tune with a very majestic jam at the end which juxtaposed nicely into Wilco's "Impossible Germany." Lucinda performs in Rochester at the Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall on Wednesday.

Walleye is on my mind! I featured a few tunes for the fishing opener this weekend. I also gave a spin to Roger McGuinn. He plays this week at the Hopkins Center For the Arts on Tuesday.

We also heard new music from Eric Hanke, Vandaveer and my band of the moment, Mount Moriah.

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May 15, 2011
8:00 a.m.

Taj Mahal - Fishin Blues
Rebecca Pronsky - Hard Times [Viewfinder]
Roger McGuinn - My Back Pages [In Studio Performance from 2009]
Minor Kingdom - Crazy Charlie [Don't Worry Baby]
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Daisy Mae [Here We Rest]
Ryan Paul and the Ardent - Melinda [La Vita Nuova]
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road [Car Wheels On A Gravel Road]
Eric Hanke - East Side Blues [Factory Man]
J.J. Cale - Down to Memphis [Roll On]
Ramsay Midwood - Chicago [Shootout at the OK Chinese Resturant]
Vandaveer - The Nature of Our Kind [Dig Down Deep]
The Jayhawks - Poor Little Fish [The Sound Of Lies]
Blind Boys of Alabama - Have Thine Own Way Lord feat. Jamey Johnson - Take the High Road
Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers - If I Can't Trust You With a Quarter [Starlight Hotel]

United States of Americana
May 15, 2011
9:00 a.m.

Hank Locklin - We're Gonna Go Fishin' [Country Legends]
John Prine - Fish and Whistle [Bruised Orange]
Steve Earle - Little Emperor [I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive]
Paul Burch and Ralph Stanley - Little Glass of Wine
Chris Thile and Michael Daves - Loneliness and Desperation [Sleep With One Eye Opened]
Haley Bonar - Candy Machine Gun [Recorded "In The Studio"]
Dylan Leblanc - If Time Was For Wasting [Paupers Field]
Marty Robbins - Don't Worry
Lucinda Williams - Blessed [Blessed]
Wilco - Impossible Germany [Sky Blue Sky]
Mount Moriah - Lament [Mount Moriah]
Dawes - Time Spent in Los Angeles [Nothing Is Wrong]
Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar - California Zephyr [One Fast Move or I'm Gone]
The Byrds - Chestnut Mare [Untitled]

Americana shows...

Roger McGuinn - Tuesday, 5/17 Hopkins Center For the Arts
Lucinda Williams - Wednesday, May 18th, Rochester, Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall
Ramsay Midwood - Thursday, 5/19 Rudolph's in Minneapolis
Ryan Paul and the Ardent - Thursday at Cause w/Liminal Phase
Big Sandy - Friday, 5/20 - Lee's
Bruce Cockburn - 5/23 Cedar S/O
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/28
David Bazan/Cotton Jones June 6th Turf Club
Iron and Wine/The Head and the Heart - First Ave 6/8
Dale Watson/Whitey Morgan June 8th Lee's
Church of Cash June 9th Lee's
Elvis Costello - June 29th, State Theatre
Fleet Foxes - July 17, State Theatre
Old 97's - 1st avenue 7/20
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Alison Moorer - Pantages Theatre, 7/23
July 29th Wayne "The Train" Hancock at Lee's
Wanda Jackson/Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11

United States of Americana salutes Mom!

Posted at 11:58 AM on May 8, 2011 by Bill DeVille
Filed under: United States of Americana

United States of Americana didn't forget Mom! I gave a spin to tracks by Merle Haggard, Lucinda Williams, Waylon and Willie, Those Darlins and two songs from Justin Townes Earle, including the gorgeous, "Mama's Eyes."

I also featured a couple of tracks from Raul Malo. This man has a golden voice! See and hear for yourself, he's appearing at the Dakota in Minneapolis on Saturday.

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United States of Americana
May 8, 2011
8:00 a.m.

Bill Anderson - Mama Sang A Song
Southeast Engine - Summer And Her Ferris Wheel [Canary]
The Carpetbaggers - Sin Now...Pray Later [Sin Now...Pray Later]
Justin Townes Earle - Move Over Mama [Harlem River Blues]
Emmylou Harris - The Road [Hard Bargain]
Gram Parsons - In My Hour of Darkness [Grievous Angel]
Ray Lamontagne - Hey Me Hey Mama [In-the-Studio performance]
Kurt Wagner and Cortney Tidwell - Eyes Look Away [KORT: Invariable Heartache]
Calexico and Iron and Wine - He Lays In Reins [In the Reins (EP)]
Howie Gelb & A Band of Gypsies - Blood Orange [Alegrias]
Raul Malo - Superstar [Saints and Sinners]
Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens - Streets of Bakersfield [Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room]
Cave Singers - Swim Club [No Witch]
The Belle Brigade - Shirt [The Belle Brigade] Bro/sis
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses - Tell My Mother I Miss Her So [Roadhouse Sun].

United States of Americana
May 8, 2011
9:00 a.m.

Lucinda Williams - Mama You Sweet [West]
Patsy Cline - Crazy
Sarah Jarosz - The Tourist [Follow Me Down]
Loretta Lynn - One's On the Way
Wanda Jackson - Busted [The Party Ain't Over]
Lloyd Cole - Writer's Retreat [Broken Record]
Romantica - Blue Heart [Control Alt-country Delete]
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
Mount Moriah - Lament [Mount Moriah]
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
Those Darlins - Mama's Heart [Those Darlins]
Felice Brothers - Fire at the Paegeant [Celebration Florida]
Willie Nelson - Mama's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Justin Townes Earle - Mama's Eyes [Midnight at the Movies]
Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside - Danger [Dirty Radio]
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why [Several Shades of Why]
The Mavericks - Dance the Night Away [Trampoline]

Americana Gig List:

Felice Brothers - Monday - Triple Rock
Holly Golighly - Saturday, 7th St Entry
Kevin Steinmen/Farewell Milwaukee/Rogue Valley - Fine Line Saturday
Americana Showcase at Aster Café on Saturday w/Ben Kyle, Brandon Sampson
Raul Malo - Dakota on Saturday
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/17
Roger McGuinn - 5/17 Hopkins Center For the Arts
Lucinda Williams - May 18th, Rochester [TICKETS]
Big Sandy and the Fly-rite Boys - 5/20 - Lee's
Bruce Cockburn - 5/23 Cedar S/O
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/28
Iron and Wine/The Head and the Heart - First Ave 6/8
Old 97's - 1st Avenue 7/20
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Alison Moorer - Pantages Theatre, 7/23
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11

United States of Americana: new Fleet Foxes tracks!

Posted at 12:22 PM on May 1, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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For this episode of the USofA, I featured a couple of tunes from the highly anticipated new album from Fleet Foxes. The band's Helplessness Blues album arrives in stores on Tuesday. This one might make your top 10 list by years end! BTW: It's streaming at The Current.org.

I featured a couple of tunes by Willie Nelson. He turned 78 yesterday. Happy b-day Willie! He doesn't look a day over 60! Also on the docket were new tunes from Ben Waters, featuring Mick Jagger, we heard Elephant Revival and great new tune from Brian Wright.

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5/01/11
8:00 a.m.

Chip Taylor - Americana
Elephant Revival - What Is Time [Break in the Clouds]
Don Gibson - Sea of Heartbreak
Farewell Milwaukee - Always Be Your Man [When It Sinks In]
Mother Banjo - Lying Down With Sinners [Stray Songs]
Willie Nelson - All of Me [Stardust]
Bruce Robison - What Would Willie Do? [Country Sunshine]
Amanda Shires - When You Need A Train It Never Comes [Carrying Lightning]
Rosanne Cash - My Baby Thinks He's A Train
Jorma Kaukonen - Blue Railroad Train [Blue Country Heart]
The Black Lillies - Two Hearts Down [100 Miles of Wreckage]
Hot Club of Cowtown - The Devil Ain't Lazy [What Makes Bob Holler]
Wayne Hancock - Dog House Blues [Viper of Melody]
Fleet Foxes - Bedouin Dress [Helplessness Blues]
Lucinda Williams - Blessed [Blessed]

United States of Americana
5/1/2011
9:00 a.m.

Meat Puppets - Lost [II]
Rogue Valley - Onward and Over [False Floors]
Alejandro Escovedo - Ballad of the Sun and Moon [Thirteen Years]
Old 97's - Champaign, Il [The Grand Theatre Vol I]
Brian Wright - Striking Matches [House of Fire]
Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles - Bula Bula [Good Of That]
Bobby Bare Jr. - Daddy What If [Twistable Turnable Man]
Ben Waters - Watching the River Flow feat. Mick Jagger [Boogie 4 Stu]
Bob Dylan - Mozambique [Desire]
Bill Callahan - Riding For the Feeling [Apocalypse]
Fleet Foxes - Blue Spotted Tail [Helplessness Blues]
Willie Nelson - Angel Flying to Close to the Ground
Phosphorescent - The Last Thing I Needed (First Thing This Morning) [To Willie]
The Replacment's - If only You Were Lonely [Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out The Trash (Expanded Edition)]

Americana shows...

Charlie Parr/Koerner and Glover - Turf Club Tonight
Paul Simon - Monday Convention Center in MPLS & Tuesday First Ave
Bobby Bare Jr. - 400 Bar, Tuesday
Dead Man Winter - Tuesdays at Turf
White Iron Band - Friday, Cabooze
Meat Puppets - Friday, First Avenue
Jorma Kaukonen - Friday, Cedar Cultural Center
Mother Banjo - Aster Cafe, Saturday
The Felice Brothers and Shovel and Rope - 5/9 Triple Rock
Holly Golighly - 5/14, 7th St Entry
Kevin Steinmen/Farewell Milwaukee/Rogue Valley - Fine Line 5/14
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/17
Roger McGuinn - 5/17 Hopkins Center For the Arts
Lucinda Williams - May 18th, Rochester
Big Sandy - 5/20 - Lee's
Bruce Cockburn - 5/23 Cedar
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/28

Iron and Wine/The Head and the Heart - First Ave 6/8
Old 97's - 1st avenue 7/20
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Alison Moorer - Pantages Theatre, 7/23
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11

United States of Americana: New sounds from Steve Earle!

Posted at 11:31 AM on April 24, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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If you are a fan of Steve Earle, like myself, this is an exciting time! His new album will be released on Tuesday. It's called, I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, and was produced by "it' producer T-Bone Burnett.
I featured several tracks from the new album.

The other exciting Steve Earle news is his upcoming show at the Pantages Theatre on Saturday July 23rd! He is reunited with his old band the Dukes for this tour, which also features wife Alison Moorer! Tickets are now on sale for the show.

I also featured a few Easter inspired tunes from Blue Giant and Yonder Mountain String Band and new music from Emmylou Harris, The Silos, k.d. lang and Sarah Jarosz.

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4/24/11
8:00 a.m.

Langhorne Slim - Bunny Rabbit [Recorded Live in the studio]
Steve Earle - God Is God [I'll never Get Out Of This World Alive]
John Prine - All the Best [The Missing Years]
Justin Vernon - Chain of Sorrow (Bruised Orange) [Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows]
k.d.lang and the sis boom bang - I Confess [Sing It Loud]
Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces
Tift Merrit - Six More Days of Rain [See You On the Moon]
The Band of Heathens - Hurricane [Top Hat Crown and the Clapmaster's Son]
Phosphorescent - Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly) [Here's to Taking It Easy]
Jamey Johnson - Two Out of Three Ain't Bad [The Imus Ranch Record II]
Steve Earle - Waitin On the Sky [I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive]
Wayne Hancock - Thunderstorms and Neon Signs [Best Of]
Yonder Mountain String Band - East Nashville Easter [Yonder Mountain String Band]
Sarah Jarosz - The Tourist [Follow Me Down]

United States of Americana
4/24/11
9:00 a.m.

Blue Giant - Run Rabbit Run [Blue Giant]
Bill Callahan - Baby's Breath [Apocalypse]
Charlie Rich - Who Will the Next Fool Be
Joe Pug - Messenger [Messenger]
Blind Boys of Alabama - Family Bible feat. Willie Nelson [Take the High Road]
Roy Orbison - In Dreams [Monumental Hits]
Neko Case - Runnin' Out of Fools [Blacklisted]
The Silos - Teenage Dream [Florizona]
Bob Dylan - Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues [In Concert Brandeis University 1963]
G Love - Walk On [Fixin' To Die]
Steve Earle - Heaven Or Hell [I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive]
Flying Burrito Brothers - Wheels [The Gilded Palace of Sin]
Emmylou Harris - The Road [Hard Bargain]

Americana Shows:

Wayne Hancock - Turf Club, Thursday
G Love - 1st Avenue, Saturday
Joe Pug - Turf Club, Saturday
Tift Merritt - Cedar, Saturday
Charlie Parr/Koerner and Glover - Turf Club Sunday
Paul Simon - 5/2, Convention Center in MPLS

White Iron Band - Cabooze 5/6

Meat Puppet - 5/6 First Avenue

The Felice Brothers and Shovel and Rope - 5/9 Triple Rock
Holly Golighly - 5/14 7th St Entry

Farewell Milwaukee/Kevin Steinmen/Rogue Valley - 5/14 Fine Line
Raul Malo - Dakota May 14th
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/17

Roger McGuinn - 5/17 Hopkins Center For the Arts

Big Sandy - 5/20 Lee's

Bruce Cockburn - 5/23 Cedar
Dead Man Winter - 5/24 Turf Club

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/28

Iron and Wine/The Head and the Heart - First Ave 6/8
Bill Callahan - July 1 Cedar
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11

United States of Americana: featuring John Doe and Vinyl!

Posted at 10:57 AM on April 17, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the United States of Americana I featured a couple of tunes from X founder John Doe. He's in the Twin Cities on Wednesday for a show at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis. Also, yesterdays Record Store Day inspired me to spin some old country vinyl! Support your local record store! I played tracks from Carl Perkins, Ray Price and Susan Raye.

I also featured new music from Amanda Spires, Alela Diane, and Kurt Wagner (Lampchop) & Cortney Tidwell's new album.

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April 17, 2011
8:00 a.m.

Michael Perry and the Long Beds - Somewhere South of Sunday [Tiny Pilot]
Blame Sally - Bird In Hand [Speeding Ticket and A Valentine]
Tony Joe White - Willie and Laura Mae Jones
Amanda Spires - When You Need A Train It Never Comes [Carrying Lightning]
O'Death - Bugs [Outside]
Wynn Stewart - Another Day, Another Dollar
John Doe and the Sadies - The Cold Hard Facts of Life [Country Club]
Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers - I've Been Gone [Starlight Hotel]
Loretta Lynn - The Pill
Lucinda Williams - Blessed [Blessed]
Alela Diane - Long Way Down [Wild Divine]
Susan Raye - L.A. International Airport [VINYL]
Richard Hawley - Serious [Lady's Bridge]
Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell - Picking Wild Mountain Berries [KORT: Invariable Heartache]
Sally Timms and Jon Langford - Watching the Horizon [Songs of False Hope and High Values]

United States of Americana
April 17, 2011
9:00 a.m.

B.W. Stevenson - My Maria
Ha Ha Tonka - Problem Solver [Death Of A Decade]
The Damnwells - I Am A Leaver [Air Stereo]
Rank and File - Amanda Ruth [Sundown]
Haley Bonar - Silver Zephyrs [Golder]
Whiskeytown - Choked Up [Lost and Found]
Ray Price - Heartaches By the Number [VINYL]
Rogue Valley - Onward and Over [False Floors]
Felice Brothers - Run Chicken Run [Yonder is the Clock]
John Doe - Highway 5 [Forever Hasn't Happened Yet]
Steve Earle - Waitin' on the Sky [I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive]
Lyle Lovett - Record Lady [I Love Everybody]
Carl Perkins - Pointed Toe Shoes [VINYL]
Bill Kirchen - I Don't Work That Cheap [Word To the Wise]
Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy

Americana shows...

The Damnwells - Tonight 7th Street Entry
Charlie Parr - Tonight at Turf Club
Ha Ha Tonka - Varsity Tuesday
John Doe and Jill Sobule - Wednesday Varsity
Tristen - Thursday 7th St Entry
Bill Kirchen - Friday Lee's
Wayne Hancock - Turf 4/28
G Love - 1st Avenue, 4/30
Joe Pug - Turf Club 4/30
Paul Simon - 5/2 Convention Center in MPLS
White Iron Band - Cabooze 5/6
Meat Puppet 5/6 First Avenue
The Felice Brothers and Shovel and Rope 5/9 Triple Rock
Holly Golighly 5/14 - 7th St Entry
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/17
Roger McGuinn - 5/17 Hopkins Center For the Arts
Big Sandy - 5/20 - Lee's
Bruce Cockburn - 5/23 Cedar
Dead Man Winter - 5/24 Turf Club
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/28
Iron and Wine/The Head and the Heart - First Ave 6/8
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11

United States of Americana: Robert Plant and Golden Smog play this week!

Posted at 11:08 AM on April 10, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time on United States of Americana, Robert Plant performs at the State Theater supporting his excellent new release with the Band of Joy and Golden Smog are back in business with their first shows in a few years. They perform this coming weekend at the Fine Line in Minneapolis.I featured a couple track from both artists!

I also gave a spin to a great new cover of an old Jesus and Mary Chain by Dead Rock West. We also heard tunes from MiddleBrother, Over the Rhine and The Black Lillies.

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April 10, 2011
8:00 a.m.

Willie Nelson - Bloody Mary Morning
Over the Rhine - The Laugh of Recognition [The Long Surrender]
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style [Moon Pix]
Tristen - Eager For Your Love [Charlatons at the Garden Gate]
Bill Callahan - Baby's Breath [Apocalypse]
Merle Haggard - Branded Man
Josh T. Pearson - Country Dumb [Last of the Country Gentlemen]
Sharon Van Etten - One Day [Epic]
Golden Smog - Until You Came Along [Weird Tales]
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Please Read the Letter [Raising Sand]
Cave Singers - Swim Club [No Witch]
Bob Dylan - Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues [In Concert Brandeis University 1963]
Johnny Horton - When It's Springtime in Alaska
The Black Lillies - Two Hearts Down [100 Miles of Wreckage]

United States of Americana
April 10, 2011
9:00 a.m.

Elvis Costello - A Slow Drag With Josephine [National Ransom]
North Mississippi Allstars - This A' Way [Keys to the Kingdom]
Dan Penn - You left the Water Running [Do Right Man]
Doug Paisley - What I Saw [Constant Companion]
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Heart On A String [Here We Rest]
Marty Robbins - El Paso
Dead Rock West - God Help Me [Bright Morning Stars]
The Low Anthem - Apothecary Love [Smart Flesh]
Robert Plant - Harm's Swift Way [Band Of Joy]
Townes Van Zandt - White Freightliner Blues [Rear View Mirror]
Hayes Carll - Hard Out Here [KMAG YoYo]
Middle Brother - Blue Eyes [Middle Brother]
Golden Smog - V [Down By the Old Mainstream]
Wayne Hancock - Jump the Blues [Viper of Melody]

Americana gig list

Robert Plant/North MS Allstars - Tuesday at the State
Greg Brown - Cedar Friday s/o
Golden Smog - Friday and Saturday Fine Line
The Civil Wars 4/17&18 Bryant Lake Bowl
Charlie Parr - Turf Club 4/17
Ha Ha Tonka - Varsity 4/19
John Doe - 4/20 Varsity (opening for Jill Sobule)
Tristen - 4/21 7th St. Entry
Bill Kirchen - Lee's 4/22
Wayne Hancock - Turf 4/28
G Love - 1st Avenue, 4/30
Joe Pug - Turf Club 4/30
Paul Simon - 5/2 Convention Center in MPLS
White Iron Band - Cabooze 5/6
Meat Puppets - 5/6 First Avenue
Holly Golighly 5/14 - 7th St Entry
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/17
Roger McGuinn - 5/17 Hopkins Center For the Arts
Big Sandy - 5/20 - Lee's
Bruce Cockburn - 5/23 Cedar
Dead Man Winter - 5/24 Turf Club
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/28
Iron and Wine/The Head and the Heart - First Ave 6/8
Bill Callahan - 7/1 Cedar
Wanda Jackson and Justin Townes Earle - MN Zoo 8/6/11

United States of Americana: features Hayes Carll and new Steve Earle tracks!

Posted at 11:51 AM on April 3, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time on United States of Americana I featured a couple of tracks from the new KMAG Yoyo album by the Texas singer/songwriter, Hayes Carl. He's playing the Varsity Theater on Tuesday night! I also just got the new Steve Earle album. T-Bone Burnette produced this one. I featured a couple of new songs. The album, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive will be released later this month.

Also on the docket were songs from Emmylou Harris, who turned 64 yesterday, and Those Darlins, who perform tonight at th e Cedar!

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April 3, 2011
8:00 a.m.

Gary Louris and Mark Olson - Saturday Morning on Sunday Street [Recorded live in the studio in 2009]
Bruce Cockburn - Call Me Rose [Small Source of Comfort]
Iris Dement - Let the Mystery Be [Infamous Angel]
Lucinda Williams - Soldiers Song [Blessed]
Blind Boys of Alabama - Have Thine Own Way, Lord feat. Jamey Johnson [Take The High Road]
Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues [Harlem River Blues]
John Doe and the Sades - The Cold Hard Facts of Life [Country Club]
Hayes Carll - KMAG Yoyo [KMAG Yoyo]
Bob Dylan - Subteranean Homesick Blues [Bringing It All Back Home]
Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain [Recorded live in the studio in 2010]
Steve Earle - Waitin' on the Sky [I'll Never Get Out of this World Alive]
Kelly Willis - What I Deserve [What I Deserve]
Abigail Washburn - Chains (remix) [City of Refuge]
Alison Krauss and Union Station - Paper Airplane [Paper Airplane]

United States of Americana
April 3, 2011
9:00 a.m.

Del Reeves - Philadelphia Fillies [Baseball's Greatest Hits V. II]
Wood Brothers - Shoofly Pie [Smoke Ring Halo]
Ben Vaughan - Just A Little Bit of You [Mono USA]
Sir Douglas Quintet She's About A Mover
The Gourds - Shake the Chandelier [Heavy Ornamentals]
Emmylou Harris - To Ohio feat. The Low Anthem [Hard Bargain]
The Band - I Shall Be Released
Sharon Van Etten - Love More [Epic]
Steve Earle - God Is God [I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive]
My Morning Jacket - All The Best [Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows]
Joe Henry - Dead To the World [Kindness of the World]
Hayes Carll - Chances Are [KMAG Yoyo]
Merle Haggard - Ramblin Fever
The Mavericks - The Air That I Breathe [The Mavericks]
Those Darlins - Waste Away [Screws Get Loose]

Americana Calender

Those Darlins (opening for Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears) Tonight at Cedar
Iris Dement at the Dakota tonight
Wood Brothers at the Fine Line tonight
Hayes Carll - Varsity Theater Tuesday
Sharon Van Etten - Wednesday at the Cedar
Abigail Washburn Friday at Cedar
Robert Plant/North MS Allstars - 4/12 at the State
Greg Brown - Cedar 4/15
Golden Smog - 4/15 and 16 Fine Line
The Civil Wars 4/17&18 Bryant Lake Bowl
Ha Ha Tonka - Varsity 4/19
John Doe 4/20 Varsity (opening for Jill Sobule)
Bill Kirchen - Lee's 4/22
G Love - 1st Avenue, 4/30
Paul Simon - 5/2 Convention Center in MPLS
White Iron Band - Cabooze 5/6
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/17
Bruce Cockburn - Cedar 5/23

United States of Americana features a couple of Tweedy tunes!

Posted at 11:47 AM on March 27, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time on United States of Americana I featured some of Jeff Tweedy's music with Wilco and from that album made with Billy Bragg called, Mermaid Avenue. Mr. Tweedy is in our neighborhood on Tuesday for a show at the Rochester Civic Center.

Also gave a spin to new songs from Josh T. Pearson, Zoe Muth, and we heard a brand new track from Blind Boys of Alabama, featuring Willie Nelson, produced by fellow Alabama artist Jamey Johnson!

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3/27/11
8:00 a.m.

Ray Price - I Won't Mention it Again
Maggie Bjorklund - Playground Stars [Coming Home]
Calexico - Quatro (World Drifts In) [Feast of Wire]
Billy Bragg and Wilco - California Stars [Mermaid Avenue]
Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers - If I Can't Trust You With A Quarter [Starlight Hotel]
Blitzen Trapper - Gold For Bread [Furr]
Caroline Smith and Jesse Schuster - Tying My Shoes [Local Current Vol. 1]
Sahara Smith - The Real Thing [Myth of the Heart]
Dave Alvin - Abilene [Blackjack David]
Buddy Miller w/Emmylou Harris - Why I'm Walkin'[Buddy Miller's Majestic Silver Strings]
Josh T. Pearson - Woman When I've Raised Hell [Last of the Country Gentlemen]
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why [Several Shades of Why]

United States of Americana
3/27/11
9:00 a.m.

James McMurtry - Bayou Tortous [Just Us Kids]
Massey Ferguson - Sparks and Shrapnel [Hard Water]
Byrds - Pretty Boy Floyd [Sweetheart of the Rodeo]
The Jayhawks - Nothing Left to Borrow [Live Current Volume 6]
David Rawlings Machine - Sweet Tooth [A Friend of A Friend]
Romantica - How to Feel [Local Current Vol. 1]
Lucinda Williams - Copenhagen [Blessed]
David Lowery - Marigold [The Palace Guards]
Wilco - I'll Fight [Wilco (the Album)]
Hayes Carll - KMAG YoYo [KMAG YoYo]
Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Willie Nelson - Family Bible [Take the High RD]
Southern Culture on the Skids - Just How Lonely [Liquored Up and Laquered Down]
Porter Wagoner - I'll Go Down Swingin'
The BottleRockets - I'll Be Coming Around [The Brooklyn Side]

Americana Gig List:

Ray Price - performing tonight Treasure Island in Redwing
Massey Ferguson - Lee's Tuesday
Jeff Tweedy - Rochester Civic Center, Tuesday
James McMurtry and the BottleRockets at the 400 Bar on Friday
J Mascis - Saturday at 7th St. Entry
Those Darlins (opening for Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears) Sunday at Cedar April 3rd
Iris Dement at the Dakota on Sunday April 3rd
Wood Brothers at the Fine Line Sunday April 3rd
Hayes Carll - Varsity Theater 4/5
Sharon Van Etten - Wednesday 4/6 at the Cedar
Abigail Washburn 4/8 Cedar
Robert Plant/North MS Allstars - 4/12 at the State
Greg Brown - Cedar 4/15
Golden Smog - 4/15 and 16 Fine Line
The Civil Wars 4/17&18 Bryant Lake Bowl
Ha Ha Tonka - Varsity 4/19
John Doe 4/20 Varsity (opening for Jill Sobule)
Bill Kirchen - Lee's 4/22
G Love - 1st Avenue, 4/30
Paul Simon - 5/2 Convention Center in MPLS
White Iron Band - Cabooze 5/6
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club 5/17

United States of Americana remembers country legend Ferlin Huskey

Posted at 11:25 AM on March 20, 2011 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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Thanks to Mac for so capably filling in! I'm back from 5 days of "70 and sunny," in New Orleans. I did have the jamalaya, but didn't make it to the bayou. None the less; it's good to be back!

I featured a bunch of new stuff this morning. I played new music from Steve Martin, it's better than you might think! Also, heard newbies from J. Mascis, Ha Ha Tonka and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. We heard a great new track from the, "Blessed" album from Lucinda Williams, and we remembered country star Ferlin Huskey, who passed away a couple of days ago.

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3/20/11
8:00 a.m.

Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet - Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day
J. Mascis - Several Shades Of Why [Several Shades Of Why]
M. Ward - Hi-Fi [Transistor Radio]
Dwight Yoakam - Suspicious Minds [Honeymoon In Vegas]
Amos Lee - Jesus [Mission Bell]
Clem Snide - Jews For Jesus Blues [End of Love]
Massey Ferguson - Pretty Plane Jane [Hard Water]
Ha Ha Tonka - Usual Suspects [Death of Decade]
Buck Owens - Under Your Spell Again
The Derailers - Bar Exam [Brewed In Texas Vol. 2]
The Secret Sisters - My Heart Skips A Beat [The Secret Sisters]
The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
Ferlin Huskey - Wings of A Dove
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers - Best Love featuring Paul McCartney [Rare Bird Alert]
Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band - Garden Party [Garden Party]

United States of Americana
3/20/11
9:00 a.m.

Meat Puppets - Confusion Fog [Mirage]
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Heart On A String [Here We Rest]
Steve Earle - Lungs [Townes]
Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty [Rear View Mirror]
Middle Brother - Thanks For Nothing [Middle Brother]
Wilco with Syd Straw - The T.B Is Whipping Me [Red Hot and Country]
Dennis Crommett - New Years Resolution [In the Buffalo Surround]
Lucinda Williams - Seeing Black [Blessed]
The Undertow Orchestra - The Pool [Live in Studio 2006]
Cowboy Junkies - Wrong Piano [Demons]
Ron Sexsmith - Get In Line [Long Player Late Bloomer]
The Dodo's - Don't Try and Hide It [No Color]
Southern Culture on the Skids - Voodoo Cadillac [Dirt Track Date]
Stray Cats - Runaway Boys [Built For Speed]

Americana Calender:

Ron Sexsmith - Monday at the Cedar
The Dodo's - Wednesday at the Cedar
Amos Lee/Secret Sisters - Thursday at the State Theater
Ray Price - 3/27 - Treasure Island in Redwing
Massey Ferguson - Lee's March 29
James McMurtry/The BottleRockets - 400 Bar 4/1
Those Darlins (opening for Black Joe Lewis) 4/3 Cedar
Iris Dement - Dakota 4/3
Wood Brothers - Fine Line 4/3
Hayes Carll - Varsity Theater 4/5
Sharon Van Etten - Cedar 4/6
Robert Plant - 4/12 at State
Golden Smog - Fine Line, April 15 and 16
Whitey Morgan - April 16 Lee's
Charlie Parr - Turf Club 4/17 & 18
Bill Kirchen - April 22 Lee's
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Turf Club May 28th

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United States of Americana - 3/13/11

Posted at 10:00 AM on March 13, 2011 by Mac Wilson
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Hope you remembered to set your clocks ahead last night; otherwise, you're living an hour in the past! Here is the playlist from this morning's installment of United States of Americana.

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Neko Case, "Margaret vs. Pauline" (from Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)
Deer Tick, "Twenty Miles" (from The Black Dirt Sessions)
Loretta Lynn, "High on a Mountain Top" (from Van Lear Rose)
Lambchop, "Loretta Lung" (from The Decline of Country and Western Civilization)
Ron Sexsmith, "Love Shines" (from Long Player Late Bloomer)
The Band, "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" (from The Band)
Pert' Near Sandstone, "Okanagan Valley" (from Up and Down the River)
Maggie Bjorklund feat. Rachel Flotard, "Summer Romance" (from Coming Home)
The Avett Brothers, "Spanish Pipedream" (John Prine cover, from Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: The Songs of John Prine)
Alejandro Escovedo, "Castanets" (from A Man Under the Influence)
The Volebeats, "The City That's Always Asleep" (from The Volebeats)
Waylon Jennings, "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" (from Only the Greatest)
Lissie, "Little Lovin'" (from Catching a Tiger)
Drive-By Truckers, "Everybody Needs Love" (from Go-Go Boots)
Gram Parsons, "Love Hurts" (from Grievous Angel)
Dawes, "If You Let Me Be Your Anchor" (from North Hills)
Wanda Jackson, "Thunder on the Mountain" (Bob Dylan cover, from The Party Ain't Over)
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, "Let It Ride" (from Cold Roses)
Johnny Cash, "Big River" (from The Legend of Johnny Cash)
The Wood Brothers, "Shoofly Pie" (from Smoke Ring Halo)
The Jayhawks, "Cherry Pie" (from The Jayhawks)
Golden Smog, "Pecan Pie" (from Down by the Old Mainstream)
Ray Price, "Crazy Arms" (from 16 Biggest Hits)
Cowboy Junkies, "This Street, That Man, This Life" (from Black Eyed Man)
Ben Weaver, "East Jefferson" (from Mirepoix and Smoke)
Tony Joe White, "Willie and Laura Mae Jones" (from Black and White)
Sharon Van Etten, "Save Yourself" (from Epic)
Middle Brother, "Me Me Me" (from Middle Brother)
Old 97's, "Murder (or a Heart Attack)" (from Fight Songs)

United States of Americana: celebrates Mardi Gras!

Posted at 11:30 AM on March 6, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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This time I featured a few tunes for Mardi Gras including a couple from that Preservation CD released last year. It's a benefit compilation released to coincide with Mardi Gras. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band band i featured alongside contributors like Merle Haggard and Steve Earle. The project benefits New Orleans historic Preservation Hall and its music outreach program. BTW: The Preservation Hall Jazz band perform at the Guthrie on March 14th!

I also featured tracks from Hayes Carll, The Low Anthem, and Patsy Cline, as we just passed the 48th anniversary of the plane crash that took her life.

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3/6/11
8:00 a.m.

Ron Sexsmith - Heavenly [Long Player Late Bloomer]
Gurf Morlix - If I Could Only Fly [Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream]
John Prine - Clay Pigeons [Fair and Aquare]
Joe Pug - Messenger [Messenger]
The Head and the Heart - Lost In My Mind [The Head and the Heart]
Merle Haggard - Basin St Blues [Preservation]
Rusty and Doug - Louisiana Man
Caitlin Rose - Shanghai Cigarettes [Own Side Now]
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Smoke Smoke Smoke (That Cigarette)
Lucero -Smoke [1372 Overton Park]
Daniel Martin Moore - Dark Road [In the Cool of the Day]
Willie Nelson - On the Road Again
Bruce Robison - What Would Willie Do
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Blue Skies Again [Tell Me]
Patsy Cline - Sweet Dreams (Of You)

United States of Americana
3/6/11
9:00 a.m.

Ryan Bingham - Depression [Junky Star]
Jamey Johnson - Playing the Part [The Guitar Song]
Phosphorescent - It's Hard to Be Humble (When Your From Alabama) [Here's to Taking It Easy]
Cowboy Copas - Alabam
The Low Anthem - Hey All You Hippies [Smart Flesh]
The Byrds - One Hundred Years From Now [Sweetheart of the Rodeo]
Uncle Tupelo - Watch Me Fall [Still Feel Gone]
Hayes Carll - KMAG Yo-Yo [KMAG Yo-Yo]
Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm [Bringing It All Back Home]
G. Love - Walk On [Fixin' To Die]
David Lowery - Marigold [The Palace Guards]
Hank Williams - Jambalaya on the Bayou
Steve Earle - T'Ain't Nobody's Business [Preservation]

Americana calender:

Dan Bern - 400 Bar Saturday
Delbert McClinton - Medina Saturday
Middle Brother/Dawes/Deer Tick 1st Ave March 14
River Falls Bluegrass and Roots Festival March 18, 19 (featuring Pieta Brown, Pert Near Sandstone and Becky Schlegal)
White Iron Band - Famous Dave's 3/17
Ron Sexsmith - Varsity 3/21
The Dodo's - Cedar 3/23
Amos Lee/Secret Sisters 3/24 State Theater
Ray Price - 3/27 - Treasure Island in Redwing
Massey Ferguson - Lee's March 29
James McMurtry/The BottleRockets - 400 Bar 4/1
Those Darlins (opening for Black Joe Lewis) 4/3 Cedar
Iris Dement - Dakota 4/3
Wood Brothers - Fine Line 4/3
Hayes Carll - Varsity Theater 4/5
Sharon Van Etten - Cedar 4/6
Robert Plant - 4/12 at State
Golden Smog - Fine Line, April 15 and 16
Whitey Morgan - April 16 Lee's
Charlie Parr - Turf Club 4/17 & 18
Bill Kirchen - April 22 Lee's

United States of Americana: Happy 79th Mr. Cash!

Posted at 11:56 AM on February 27, 2011 by Bill DeVille (2 Comments)
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One of my heroes, Johnny Cash, would have turned 79 yesterday. We lost Johnny in 2003. If you are a Cash collector, like myself, you may be interested in, From Memphis to Hollywoood: Bootleg Volume II. The CD was released last Tuesday and features 57 previously unreleased and hard to find tracks, including 16 never before released recordings. A must for Cash completists! I opened the show with Johnny's first ever radio appearance in his adopted hometown of Memphis, TN!

It's a big concert week! I featured many of the artists who'll be in our neighborhood in the days to come, including Merle Haggard and Khris Kristofferson, who are at Mystic Lake tonight. I gave a spin to Jamey Johnson, who's playing a benefit tonight for Jared Allen's Wounded Warriors charity. I also played new tracks from Middle Brother, Lynn Miles, and The Yellowbirds.

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2/27/11
8:00 a.m.

Johnny Cash - First radio appearance from 1955, performed, "Wide Open Road" [From Memphis to Hollywood: Bootleg Vol. 2]
Kasey Chambers - Hollywood [Wayward Angel]
Goodbye Sun - Yours, Mine, and Everyone Else's [Bruise on Bloom]
Merle Haggard - It's All in the Movies
Buddy Miller - Why Baby Why [Buddy Miller's The Majestic Silver Strings]
Freedy Johnston - Don't Fall n Love With a Lonely Girl [Rain on the City]
Lynn Miles - Three Chords and the Truth [Fall For Beauty]
Cotton Jones - Place at the End of the Street [Tall Hours in the Glowstream]
The Pines - Heart and Bones [Tremolo]
Ben Weaver - 40 Watt Bulb [Stories Under Nails]
Robbie Robertson - He Don't Live Here No More [How To Become Clairvoyant]
Los Lobos - Somewhere In Time [The Ride]
David Wax Museum - Yes, Maria Yes [Everything Is Saved]
Jamey Johnson - For the Good Times [The Guitar Song]
Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make It Through the Night

United States of Americana
2/27/11
9:00 a.m.

Ryan Bingham - The Weary Kind [Crazy Heart]
The Wood Brothers - Shoofly pie [Smoke Ring Halo]
Rodney Crowell - Telephone Road [The Houston Kid]
Steve Earle - Telephone Road [El Corazon]
The Yellowbirds - Rings in the Trees [The Color]
Golden Smog - V [Down By the Old Mainstream]
Romantica - How to Feel [Local Current V. 1]
Middle Brother - Thanks for Nothing [Middle Brother]
B.J.Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head [Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]
Doug Paisley - What I Saw [Constant Companion]
Drive By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love [Go-Go Boots]
Merle Haggard - Someday We'll Look Back...
Trampled By Turtles - Valley [Trouble]
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues


Americana Shows:

Merle Haggard/Kris Kristofferson - Tonight at Mystic Lake
Jamey Johnson - Fine Line tonight
Real-Phonic 8th Commandment Revival - First Avenue Monday, featuring Erik Koskinen, Dead Man Winter, Trampled By Turtles, Molly Maher and Charlie Parr
Nicole Atkins/Cotton Jones - Turf Club Tuesday
Rodney Crowell - Wednesday at Cedar
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses - Varsity Theater Thursday
Romantica - Kierans on Thursday/Turf on Saturday
Ben Weaver - Are You Local Showcase, Friday at Varsity
The Pines - Cedar Saturday
Dan Bern - 400 Bar 3/12
Middle Brother/Dawes/Deer Tick 1st Ave March 14
Ron Sexsmith - Varsity 3/21
Massey Ferguson - Lee's March 29
Hayes Carll - Varsity Theater 4/5
Robert Plant - 4/12 at State
Golden Smog - Fine Line, April 15 and 16
Whitey Morgan - April 16 Lee's
Bill Kirchen - April 22 Lee's

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United States of Americana: Justin Townes Earle "in the studio!"

Posted at 4:56 PM on February 19, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Justin Townes Earle dropped by the station with his guitar prior to his First Avenue gig last Monday. We talked about everything from fashion, to blues music, and his oddest gig. It was fun to shoot the breeze with him and he sounded great. It was simply a treat to have him playing 5 feet in front of me.

Catch Mr. Earle's session on this installment of United States of Americana. See video and photos here.

Also on the agenda are new tunes from Middle Brother, Exene Cervenka, as well as a few Grammy winners, and Lucinda Williams and Old 97's, who are both in town this week!

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Lucinda Williams - I Just Want To See You So Bad [album: Lucinda Williams]
Greg Allman - Devil Got My Woman [Low Country Blues]
Linda Martell - Color Him Father
Merle Haggard - Pretty When It's New [I Am What I Am]
The Head and the Heart - Lost in My Mind [The Head and the Heart]
Steve Earle - I Ain't Ever Satisfied [Exit 0]
The Autumn Defense - Huntington Fair [Once Around]
The Low Anthem - Apothecary Love [Smart Flesh]
Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City [Guilded Palace of Sin]
Old 97's - Jagged [Fight Songs]
Exene Cervenka - I Wish It Would Stop Raining [The Excitement of Maybe]
Rosanne Cash - Tennesee Flat Top Box [Kings Record Shop]
Those Darlins - Mama's Heart [Those Darlins]
David Lowery - Raise Em Up Honey [The Palace Guards]
Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs - For the Summer [God Willin' And the Creek Don't Rise]

United States of Americana
Sept 12, 2010
9:00 a.m.

Mavis Staples - Only the Lord Knows [You Are Not Alone]
Justin Townes Earle - LIVE IN STUDIO

HARLEM RIVER BLUES
AUTOMOBILE BLUES
SLIPPIN' AND SLIDING

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread and Butter Beans [Genuine Negro Jig]
Lucinda Williams - Lines Around Your Eyes [Sweet Old World]
Hayes Carll - Another Like You [KMAG Yoyo]
MiddleBrother - Blue Eyes [Middle Brother]
Celexico - Writer's Minor Holiday [Carried To Dust]
Amos Lee - Jesus [Mission Bell]
Old 97's - The Magician [The Grand Theatre Vol. 1]
Asylum Street Spankers - Dance This Mess Around [Mercurial]

Americana gig guide:

Old 97's - tonight, First Avenue
Lucinda Williams - tonight, tommorow and Tuesday at Dakota
Pete Yorn/Ben Kweller - First Avenue, Tuesday
Asylum Street Spankers - Varsity, Tuesday
Tribute to Charlie Louvin - The Dubliner on Tuesday
Akron/Family - Cedar on Friday
Merle Haggard/Kris Kristofferson - Mystic Lake Feb 27 (next Sunday)
Jamey Johnson - Fine Line 2/27 (next Sunday)
Nicole Atkins/Cotton Jones - Turf Club 3/1
Rodney Crowell - 3/2 - Cedar
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses - Varsity Theater 3/3
Ben Weaver - Are You Local Showcase at Varsity 3/4/11
The Pines - Cedar 3/5
Dan Bern - 400 Bar 3/12
Dawes/Deer Tick 1st Ave March 14
Ron Sexsmith - Varsity 3/21
Massey Ferguson - Lee's March 29
Hayes Carll - Varsity Theater 4/5
Robert Plant - 4/12 at State
Whitey Morgan - April 16 Lee's
Bill Kirchen - April 22 Lee's

United States of Americana: songs in the key of LOVE!

Posted at 12:34 PM on February 13, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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With Valentine's Day coming up on Monday, I featured a bunch of musical Valentines! I played a few classic's from Willie Nelson, The Everly Brothers and Johnny Cash. I also gave a spin to some more recent material from Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle, and Drive By Truckers. I also featured new americana songs from Bobby Long, Dead Rock West, North Mississippi Allstars. and the Avett Brothers wonderful cover of a Tom T. Hall's, "I Love"!

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2/13/11
8:00 a.m.

Justin Townes Earle - Ain't Waitin' [Harlem River Blues]
The Boys N the Barrels - On His Own [The Boys N the Barrels] Thursday at Lees'
Neko Case - Deep Red Bells [Blacklisted]
Jennifer Markey - That's What You Get For Cryin' [The Sparta Session]Ladies night at Lee's Saturday
Cowboy Junkies - Wrong Piano [Demons]
Soul Asylum - Never Really Been [Made to Be Broken]
Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Cryin In the Rain [Red Headed Stranger]
The Volebeats - 1000 Miles of Confusion [The Volebeats]
Everly Brothers - Love Hurts
Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World [Heart Shaped World]
Robbie Robertson - He Don't Live Here Anymore [Clairvoyant]
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Andre Williams - Busted
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Our Hearts Are Wrong [Tell Me]

United States of Americana
2/13/11
9:00 a.m.

Trampled By Turtles - Seperate [Local Current Vol. 1]
Dead Rock West - Beyond the Blues [Bright Morning Stars]
Josh Ritter - Empty Heart [Recorded live in the studio]
Lucinda Williams - Buttercup [Blessed]
Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle - Your Lonely Heart [We Still Love Out Country]
Solomon Burke - We're Gonna Hold On [Nashville]
Waylon - Amanda
Drive By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love [Go-Go Boots]
Chuck Berry - Nadine
Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues [Harlem River Blues]
North Mississippi Allstars w/Mavis Staples - The Meeting [Keys to the Kingdom]
John Prine - Glory of True Love [Fair and Square]
Old 97's - Valentine [Fight Songs]
Bobby Long - Who Have You Been Loving [A Winter Tale]
The Avett Brothers - I Love

Americana shows...

Justin Townes Earle - Monday, First Avenue
Bobby Long - Tuesday at Varsity
The Boys N the Barrels - Thursday at Lees'
Jennifer Markey - Lee's Saturday
Josh Ritter - First Avenue, Saturday
White Iron Band - Cabooze, Saturday
Old 97 - Sunday, First Avenue
Lucinda Williams - Dakota Feb 20 and 21
Pete Yorn/Ben Kweller - First Avenue, Feb. 22
Akron/Family - Cedar 2-25
Merle Haggard/Kris Kristofferson - Mystic Lake Feb 27
Jamey Johnson - Fine Line 2/27
Nicole Atkins/Cotton Jones - Turf Club 3/1
Rodney Crowell - 3/2 - Cedar
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses - Varsity Theater 3/3
The Pines - Cedar 3/5
Dan Bern - 400 Bar 3/12
Dawes/Deer Tick 1st Ave March 14
Ron Sexsmith - Varsity 3/21
Massey Ferguson - Lee's March 29
Hayes Carll - Varsity Theater 4/5
Robert Plant - 4/12 at State
Whitey Morgan - April 16 Lee's
Bill Kirchen - April 22 Lee's

United States of Americana: remembers the White Stripes

Posted at 11:25 AM on February 6, 2011 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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After a more than 10 year run, The White Stripes quietly made it offical this week. They broke up. Here's what it said at the band's website, "the White Stripes would like to announce that today, February 2nd, 2011,their band has officially ended and will make no further new recordings or perform live." I featured a couple of track's this morning from Jack and Meg and also a couple of things that Jack produced.

I featured new music from Cracker's David Loughery, Bobby Long and Amos Lee. I also played a few songs from a few Texas artists in honor of today's Superbowl!

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2/6/11
8:00 a.m.

Willie Nelson - Blue Skies [Stardust]
Phosphorescent - The Last Thing I Needed (First Thing This Morning) [To Willie]
Johnny Cash - I Hung My Head [American IV]
Civil Wars - Poison and Wine [Barton Hollow]
Dave Alvin - King of California - King of California
The Decemberists - January Hymn [The King is Dead]
Bobby Long - Who Have You Been Loving [A Winter Tale]
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose [Van Lear Rose]
White Stripes - Rated X [Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn]
Dolorean - Country Clutter [The Unfazed]
Jim White - Bluebird [Drill a Hole in that Substrate...]
Leslie and the Badgers - Los Angeles [Roomful of Smoke]
Massey Ferguson - Sparks and Shrapnel [Hard Water]
Wayne Hancock - Shootin' Star From Texas [Tulsa]
Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach, TX
David Loughery - Raise 'em Up Honey [The Palace Guards]
John Hiatt - Memphis in the Meantime [Bring the Family]

United States of Americana
2/6/11
9:00 a.m.

The Knitter's - Rank Stranger [Modern Sounds of the Knitter's]
Ponderosa - Pistolier [Moonlight Revival]
Son Volt - No Turning Back [American Central Dust]
Flying Burrito Brothers - Christine's Tune [Guilded Palace of Sin]
Hayes Carll - KMAG Yoyo [KMAG Yoyo]
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues [Bringing It All Back Home]
Wanda Jackson - Rip It Up [The Party Ain't Over]
Amos Lee - Jesus [Mission Bell]
Lyle Lovett - I'm Going To A Place [My Baby Don't Tolerate]
Old 97's - Oppenheimer [Fight Songs]
Asleep at the Wheel - Big Balls In Cowtown
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues [Helplessness Blues]
Bright Little Field - I'll Be You [Treatment Bound: A Ukelele Tibute to the Replacements
Justin Townes Earle - Can't Hardly Wait [Midnight at the Movies]
White Stripes - Hotel Yorba [White Blood Cells]

Upcoming Americana shows

Decemberists - tonight State theatre
Lyle Lovett/John Hiatt - Guthrie 2/7/11
Justin Townes Earle - February 14, First Avenue
Josh Ritter - First Avenue, 2/19/11
Old 97's - Feb 20 First Avenue
Lucinda Williams - Dakota Feb 20 and 21
Pete Yorn/Ben Kweller - First Avenue, Feb. 22
Merle Haggard/Kris Kristofferson - Mystic Lake Feb 27
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses - Varsity Theater 3/3
The Pines - Cedar 3/5
Dawes/Deer Tick/Middle Brother - First Ave March 14
Ron Sexsmith - Varsity 3/21
Massey Ferguson - Lee's March 29
Hayes Carll - Varsity Theater 4/5
Robert Plant - 4/12 at State
Whitey Morgan - April 16 Lee's
Bill Kirchen - April 22 Lee's

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United States of Americana salutes Charlie Louvin

Posted at 11:15 AM on January 30, 2011 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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This time on the USofA...

Americana Music lost one of founders this past week. Charle Louvin passed a few days ago from complications of Pancreatic cancer. I played a track from Charlie's latest album as well a classic Louvin Brothers tune. There is still nothing like those Louvin's sweet harmonies!

Just got a brand new CD from Bright Little Field, it's a ukelele tribute to our own Replacements. Imitation is the sincerest for of flattery! I gave that a spin as well as the 'mats. I also featured new tracks from Drive By Truckers, Hayes Carll, and Daniel Martin Moore.

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United States of Americana
1/30/11
8:00 a.m.

Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Morning Coming Down
Mason Jennings - The Field [Blood Of Man]
Charlie Louvin - What We're Fighting For [album: The Battles Rage On]
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road [Car Wheels on a Gravel Road]
Daniel Martin Moore - Dark Road [In the Cool of the Day]
Richard Buckner - Rafters [Dents and Shells]
Moondoggies - Lead Me On [Tidelands]
M. Ward - Headed for a Fall [To Go Home EP]
Quiet Life - No Surprise [Big Green]
Deer Tick - When She Comes Home [The Black Dirt Sessions]
The Band - Up On Cripple Creek [The Band]
David Wax Museum - Yes, Maria, Yes [Everything is Saved]
Calexico - Convict Pool [Convict Pool]

United States of Americana
1/30/11
9:00 a.m.

The Jayhawks - Wichita [Hollywood Town Hall]
Rogue Valley - Rutting Moon [Geese in the Flyway]
Bob Dylan - One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) [Blonde on Blonde]
Drive By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love [Go-Go Boots]
Eddie Spaghetti - Party Dolls and Wine [Sundowner]
Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home a Drinkin'
White Iron Band - Whiskey Should've Killed Me [3rd Rate Country Stars]
Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle - Fire Alarm [We Still Love Our Country]
Pieta Brown - Other Way Around [One And All]
The Louvin Brothers - My Baby's Gone [Crazy Heart soundtrack]
Hayes Carll - KMAG Yoyo [KMAG Yoyo]
Lone Justice - Ways to be Wicked
Carolina Chocolate Drops w/Luminescent Orchestrii - Short Dress Gal
Bright Little Field - I Will Dare [Treatment Bound]
The Replacements - If Only You Were Lonely [Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash Deluxe Edition]

Americana Gigs:

The Jayhawks - tonight with Rogue Valley at First Avenue
Pieta Brown - Dakota tonight
Moondoggies - 400 Bar 2/5/11
Decemberists Feb 6 State theatre
Lyle Lovett/John Hiatt - Guthrie 2/7/11
Justin Townes Earle - February 14, First Avenue
Josh Ritter - First Avenue, Feb. 19
Old 97's - Feb 20 First Avenue
Lucinda Williams - Dakota Feb 20 and 21
Pete Yorn/Ben Kweller - First Avenue Feb. 22
Merle Haggard/Kris Kristofferson - Mystic Lake Feb 27
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses - Varsity Theater 3/3
The Pines - Cedar 3/5
Dawes/Deer Tick/Middle Brother - First Avenue, March 14
Ron Sexsmith - Varsity 3/21
Hayes Carll - Varsity Theater 4/5
Robert Plant - 4/12, State Theater

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United States of Americana: Freedy is back!

Posted at 11:26 AM on January 23, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Freedy Johnston is back at it! He released his first album of new material in eight years in 2010 called, Rain on the City. Johnston still shows his gift of great hooks and melodies and excellent songwriting. The same old Freedy! I featured a tune from the new album. He's also back on the local stage as he performs on Thursday at the Turf Club in St. Paul with Darden Smith opening.

I also gave a spin to a new tunes from Cowboy Junkies (covering Vic Chesnutt), Rogue Valley and Wanda Jackson, who's new album is produced by Jack White!

here is the audio for 1/23/11

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Dead Man Winter - A Long Cold Night in Minneapolis [Wolves EP]
Cowboy Junkies - Wrong Piano [Demons]
Vic Chesnutt - New Town [About to Choke]
The Pines - Shiny Shoes [Tremolo]
James Vincent McMorrow - This Old Dark Machine [Early in the Morning]
The Avett Brothers - Murder in the City [Live Volume 3]
Lyle Lovett - Wallisville Road [My Baby Don't Tolerate]
Justin Townes Earle - Ain't Waitin' [Harlem River Blues]
Hank Williams - Cold Cold Heart
Ben Kweller - Sawdust Man [Changing Horses]
The Volebeats - 1,000 Mile of Confusion [s/t]
Blue Rodeo - Til I Am Myself Again [Casino]
Ponderosa - Pistolier [Moonlight Revival]
James McMurtry - See the Elephant [Childish Things]

United States of Americana
1/23/11
9:00 a.m.

Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash - Girl from the North Country [Nashville Skyline]
Freedy Johnston - Other Side of Love [Rain On the City]
The Jayhawks - Won't Be Coming Home [Tomorrow the Green Grass Expanded Edition]
The Sadies -The Trial [New Seasons]
Rogue Valley - Rockaway [Local Current Vol. 1]
Shooter Jennings - Gone To Carolina [s/t]
Old 97's - Smokers [ Drag it Up]
Wanda Jackson - Thunder on the Mountain [The Party Ain't Over]
Those Darlins' - Wild One [Those Darlins]
BR5-49 - Wild One [Big Backyard Beat Show]
The Decemberists - Calamity Song [The King is Dead]
R.E.M. - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville [Reckoning]
The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers [Sticky Fingers]
Social Distortion - Alone and Forsaken [Hard Time and Nursery Rhymes]

Upcoming shows:

Freedy Johnston/Darden Smith - Thursday Turf Club
The Jayhawks - First Ave 1/29 and 1/30/11
Moondoggies - 400 Bar 2/5/11
Decemberists - Feb 6 State theatre
Lyle Lovett/John Hiatt - Guthrie 2/7/11
Justin Townes Earle - February 14 First Avenue
Josh Ritter - First Avenue 2/19/11
Old 97's - First Avenue 2/20/11
Lucinda Williams - Dakota Feb 20 and 21
Pete Yorn/Ben Kweller - First Avenue Feb. 22
Merle Haggard/Kris Kristofferson - Mystic Lake Feb 27
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses - Varsity Theater 3/3
The Pines - Cedar 3/5
Dawes/Deer Tick - First Avenue March 14
Ron Sexsmith - Varsity 3/21
Hayes Carll - Varsity Theater 4/5
Robert Plant - 4/12 at State Theater

United States of Americana celebrates the Jayhawks reissues!

Posted at 5:42 PM on January 14, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Next Friday night we'll be handing out a few awards at our 6th birthday party. I'll be presenting an award for best local "Americana" album of 2010. Vote for your favorite below...

I featured the above artists on this Sunday's USofA, I'll also spin a couple of tracks from the Jayhawks reissues of Hollywood Town Hall and Tomorrow the Green Grass, which are set for release on Tuesday.

Here is the audio and playlist for 1/16/2011

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United States of Americana
1/16/2011
8:00 a.m.

Charlie Rich - Sunday Kind of Woman
Doug Paisley - Out On The Weekend [Harvest Revisited (Mojo CD)]
Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done [Harvest]
The Gleam - Away Like A Song Lights [Sunrise]
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Drunken Poet's Dream [A. Enlightenment/B. Endarkenment]
John Doe - The Golden State [A year in the Wilderness]
Romantica - Blue Heart [Control-Alt Country Delete]
David Wax Museum - Born With A Broken Heart [Everything is Saved]
Doug Sahm and Sir Douglas Quintet - At the Crossroads
The Jayhawks - Warm River [Hollywood Town Hall Expanded Edition]
North Mississippi AllStars - This A Way [Keys to the Kingdom]
Johnny Horton - Honky-Tonk Man
Dale Watson - Caught [Cheatin' Heart Attack] At Lee's on Friday
Mark Olson - Many Colored Kite [Many Colored Kite]
Cat Power - Cross-bones Style [Moon Pix]

United States of Americana
1/16/11
9:00 a.m.

Phosphorescent - Are You Ready For the Country [Harvest Revisited (Mojo CD)]
Dylan Leblanc - Low [Pauper's Field] Thursday at Cedar w/ Lissie
Josh Ritter - Girl in the War [The Animal Years]
Ben Weaver - Drag the Hills [Mirepoix and Smoke]
Hayes Carll - KMAG Yoyo [KMAG Yoyo]
Steve Earle - Home To Houston [The Revolution Starts Now]
Trampled By Turtles - Wait So Long [Palomino]
Lucinda Williams - Buttercup [Blessed] Performs Feb 20 and 21 at Dakota
The Byrds - Hickory Wind [Sweetheart of the Rodeo]
The Jayhawks - Sleep While You Can [Tommorow the Green Grass Expanded Edition] 2nd show added Sunday 1/30 1st Ave
Lissien - Little Lovin' [Recorded live at 89.3 The Current [Thursday at Cedar]
Loretta Lynn - This Old House [Van Lear Rose]
Black Prairie - Red Rocking Chair [Feast of the Hunter's Moon]
Ryan Adams - Typecast [Cardinals III/IV]
Rank and File - Amanda Ruth [Sundown]

Upcoming Americana gigs:

Moondoggies 400 Bar 2/5/11
Decemberists Feb 6 State Theatre
Lyle Lovett/John Hiatt Guthrie 2/7/11
Justin Townes Earle First Avenue 2/14
Josh Ritter First Ave 2/19/11
Old 97 Feb 20 First Avenue
Lucinda Williams at Dakota Feb 20 and 21
Merle Haggard/Kris Kristofferson at Mystic Lake Feb 27
Dawes/Deer Tick First Avenue March 14
Robert Plant 4/12 at State

United States of Americana remembers Elvis

Posted at 11:25 AM on January 9, 2011 by Bill DeVille
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Elvis would have turned 76 this weekend. There would be no rock 'n roll without him. In the words of Mojo Nixon, "Elvis is Everywhere!" We'll salute The KING with a few tracks, even that Mojo Nixon song!

Also on the docket are songs from Trampled By Turtles, who play a few sold out show this week. We'll also check a out a tune from the Wilco offshoot, The Autumn Defense.

Here is the audio for January 9, 2011...

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United States of Americana
1/9/11
8:00 a.m.
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
The Secret Sisters - My Heart Skips a Beat [album: The Secret Sisters]
Stook - Swept Away [The Soundtrack to My Minneapolis]
Vic Chesnutt - Gravity of the Situation [Is the Actor Happy?]
Moondoggies - Uncertain [Tidelands] 400 Bar 2/5
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal [Fleet Foxes]
Trampled by Turtles - Codeine [Recorded live in the studio] s/o shows Friday and Saturday at 1st Ave
The Autumn Defense - Huntington Fair [Once Around]
Lucinda Williams - Words [West] performs at the Dakota Feb 20 and 21, 2011
Cave Singers - Leap [Welcome Joy]
Merle Haggard - Mexican Bands [I Am What I Am] Feb 27 Mystic Lake
Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burrito #2
Jamie Johnson - Macon [The Guitar Song]
J Mascis - Not Enough [Several Shades of Why]
Uncle Tupelo - Madrid [Anodyne]
The Gosdin Brothers - There Must Be Someone (I Can Turn Too) [The Oxford American Southern Music CD #12]

United States of Americana
1/9/11
9:00 a.m.

John Hiatt - Ridin' With the King - Ridin' With the King [Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at State on Monday Feb. 7]
Los Lobos - On Main Street [Tin Can Trust]
The Wallflowers - Shy of the Moon [The Wallflowers]
Little Feat - Willin' [Sailin' Shoes]
Iron and Wine - Tree By the River [Kiss Each Other Clean]
Johnny Cash - San Quentin [Johnny Cash Live at San Quentin]
John Francis - Johnny Cash On the Radio [The Better Angels]
Drive By Truckers - Used to Be A Cop [Go-Go Boots]
John Prine - Bear Creek Blues [In Person and On Stage]
Avett Brothers - Spanish Pipedream [Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows]
Trampled by Turtles - Shelter From the Storm [Duluth Does Dylan Revisited] Friday & Saturday 1st Ave s/o
Bob Dylan - Meet Me in the Morning [Blood on the Tracks]
Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle - Your Lonely Heart [We Still Love Our Country]
Elvis Presley - Polk Salad Annie (Live)
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - Elvis is Everywhere [Bo-Day Shus!!!]

United States of Americana: Top 30 tunes of 2010

Posted at 10:40 AM on January 2, 2011 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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I decided to follow suit and had my own countdown show! I featured the Top 30 Americana tunes of 2010 this time on th e USofA. I tallied all the new songs played and compiled a list of the the 30 most played new songs on the show in 2010. Hear the audio and see the Top 30 below...

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United States of Americana
1/2/2011
8:00 a.m.

Rank

30 Leslie Stevens and the Badgers - Roomful of Smoke [Roomful of Smoke]
29 Elvis Costello - National Ransom [National Ransom]
28 Dylan Leblanc - If Time Was For Wasting [Paupers Field]
27 Marty Stuart - Country Boy Rock And Roll [Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions]
26 Romantica - Blue Heart [Control Alt-Country]
25 Doug Paisley - What I Saw [Constant Companion]
24 Lissie - In Sleep [Catching a Tiger]
23 Legendary Shack Shakers - Sugar Baby [Agri-Dustrial]
22 Bobby Bare - Sad Smile [A Storm - A Tree - My Mother's Head]
21 Mavis Staples - Only The Lord Knows [You Are Not Alone]
20 Pieta Brown - Faller [One And All]
19 Punch Brothers - Rye Whiskey [Antifogmatic]
18 Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain [The Wild Hunt]
17 The Gleam - Damn City Lights [Sons of the Sunrise]
16 Trampled By Turtles - Wait So Long [Palomino]

United States of Americana
1/2/11
9am hour

Rank
15 Dawes -That Western Skyline [North Hills]
14 Ben Weaver - Drag the Hills [Mirepoix and Smoke]
13 Ray Lamontagne - Beg Steal or Borrow [God Willin and the Creek Don't Rise]
12 Carolina Chocolate Drops - Trouble in Your Mind [Genuine Negro Jig]
11 Cory Chisel - Born Again [Death Won't Send A Letter]
10 Blue Giant - Blue Sunshine [Blue Giant]
9 Jakob Dylan - Everybody's Hurtin' [Women And Country]
8 Mark Olson - Blue Bell Song [Many Colored Kite]
7 Megafaun - Volunteers [Heretofore EP]
6 Phosphorescent - Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly) [Here's to Taking It Easy]
5 Jason and the Scorchers - Beat on the Mountain [Halcyon Times]
4 The Sadies - Another Year Again [Darker Circles]
3 Ryan Bingham - The Weary Kind [Crazy Heart SDCK]
2 Deer Tick - 20 Miles [Black Dirt Sessions]
1 Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues [Harlem River Blues]

United States of Americana's #1 song, Justin Townes Earle!

United States of Americana #2 song, Deer Tick!

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United States of Americana: Gear Daddies and a few overlooked albums of 2010

Posted at 11:04 AM on December 26, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the USofA I gave a spin to a couple of tracks from Gear Daddies, the pride of Austin, MN! They are back on the stage of the Fine Line on Thursday. I also played music from a few artists who's album were overlooked in 2010, artists like Tom Jones, South Memphis String Band, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Elizabeth Cook and Dan Sartain.

Also, I wanted to let you know that for next Sunday's USofA, I'll feature some of the best Americana music of 2010!

Here is the audio and playlist for 12/26/2010

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United States of Americana
12/26/10
8:00 a.m.

Asleep at the Wheel and Leon Rausch - It's A Good Day [album: It's A Good Day]
Cotton Jones - Place At the End of the Street [Tall Hours n the Glowstream] March 1st Turf Club
Gillian Welch - Acony Bell [Revival]
Eliza Gilkyson - Borderline [Paradise Hotel]
South Memphis String Band - Worry 'Bout Your Own Backyard [Home Sweet Home]
Magnolia Electric Company - Hammer Down [What Comes After the Blues]
Graham Parker - New Year's Revolution
Elizabeth Cook w/Dwight Yoakam - I'll Never Know [Welder]
Robbie Fulks - Georgia Hard [Georgia Hard]
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Drunken Poet's Dream [A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment]
The Rockford Mules - Christmas in South Dakota
Gear Daddies - She's Happy [Let's Go Scare Al] 12/30 Fine Line
Dan Sartain - Bad Things Will Happen [Dan Sartain Lives]
Justin Vernon - Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) [Broken Hears and Dirty Windows]
Freedy Johnson - The Lucky One [Unlucky E.P.]

United States of Americana
12/26/10
9:00 a.m.

Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra - Lady Bird [Califia: The Songs of Lee Hazlewood]
Jamie Johnson - Macon [The Guitar Song]
Steve Young - Lonesome On'ry and Mean [Renegade Picker]
Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Tom Jones - Strange Things [Praise And Blame]
Link Wray - Rumble
Los StraitJackets - Teen Beast [The Further Adventures of Los StraitJackets]12/30 Turf Club
Old 97's - The Magician [The Grand Theater Volume 1]Feb 20, 2010 First ave
Gear Daddies - Color of Her Eyes [Billy's Live Bait] 12/30 Fine Line
Merle Haggard - I've Seen It Go Away [I Am What I Am] Mystic Lake 2/27
Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle - Your Lonely Heart [We Still Love Our Country]
Meat Puppets - Lost [II]
The Jayhawks - Up Above My Head [Hollywood Town Hall (expanded Edition)] Jan 31 1st Avenue
Tallest Man On Earth - Little River [Sometimes the Blues is Just A passing Bird]
Califone - Krill [All My Friends Are Funeral Singers]
Trailer Trash - I've Shopped Everywhere [Nutcrackers]

United States of Americana: ho ho ho it's the Holiday Show!

Posted at 10:27 AM on December 19, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the USofA...I recieved such an awsome response last year to the holiday show that I decided to do a full two hour episode!

I blended a classics from Elvis, Johnny, Merle and Buck alongside more recent material from the likes of Old 97's, Calexico, Trailer Trash, Tift Merrit and Blitzen Trapper.

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8am hour
12/19/2010

Little Jimmy Dickens - Hillbilly Fever
Emmylou Harris - Christmas Time's A-Coming
Ernest Tubb - I'll Be Walking the Floor This Christmas
Richard Hawley - Silent Night
Roy Orbison - Pretty Paper
Josh Rouse - Christmas With Jesus
Hank Thompson - It's Christmas Everday in Alaska
Louvin Brothers - Santa's Big Parade
John Prine - Christmas In Prison
My Morning Jacket - Xmas Time is Here Again
George Jones and Tammy Wynette - Mr. And Mrs. Santa Claus
Roger Miller - Old Toy Trains
Blitzen Trapper - Christmas is Coming Soon
Canned Heat - Christmas Blues
Robert Earle Keen - Merry Christmas From the Family
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Christmas Time In the City
Los StraitJackets - Sleigh Ride
Johnny Cash - Blue Christmas
Felice Brothers - Murder By the Mistletoe

United States of Americana
9am hour
12/19/2010

Southern Culture on the Skids - Merry Christmas Baby
Ryan Adams - Hey Parker, It's Christmas
Merle Haggard - Santa Claus and Popcorn
Buck Owens - Blue Christmas Lights
Eliza Blue - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen [performing Monday at Aster Cafe in Minneapolis 7pm]
The Everly Brothers - Christmas Eve Can Kill You
Commander Cody - Daddy's Drinkin' Up Our Christmas
John Denver - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
Old 97's - Here It Is Christmas
Trailer Trash - Do You Hear What I Hear [final Christmas show this season is 12/25 at Lee's]
Bob Dylan - Christmas Blues (album: Christmas in the Heart)
The Band - Christmas Must Be Tonight
Tift Merritt - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Calexico - Gift Exchange
Freedy Johnston - Have Yourself a Merry Christmas
Elvis Presley - Merry Christmas Baby
Reverend Horton Heat - Jingle Bells (We 3 Kings - Christmas Album)
Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run

United States of Americana: a double dose of Dylan and Old 97's

Posted at 11:21 AM on December 12, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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Dug out a little Dylan for the latest episode of United States of Americana. Played a track from last years Christmas album and one from his, Together Through Life album. Played a couple from Old 97's, as well. They'll play First Avenue February 20th.

For some reason, I also played a bunch of Texas artists singing about Texas!

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Dec. 12, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Gary Louris - She Only Calls Me on Sundays [album: Vagabonds] Wed...First Ave 40th Birthday Bash
The Civil Wars - Poison and Wine [Barton Hollow]
Steve Earle - Christmas in Washington [El Corazon]
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Hesitating Beauty [Mermaid Avenue]
Doug Paisley - What I Saw [Constant Companion]
Handsome Family - Weightless Again [Through the Tree's]
Molly Maher - Tugboat [Balms of Gilead] w/Kid Dakota and Martin Devaney at Turf Saturday
Old 97's - State of Texas [Grand Theatre V. 1] Feb 20 First Ave
Lyle Lovett - That's Right Your Not From Texas [The Road to Ensanada]
Ernest Tubb - Waltz Across Texas
Johnny Flynn - Kentucky Pill [Been Listening]
Romantica - The National Side [America] Tonight at Cedar
Raul Malo - Superstar [Sinners and Saints]
Texas Tornadoes - A Little Bit is Better than Nada [4 Aces]

United States of Americana
Dec 12, 2010
9:00 a.m.

Merle Haggard - If We Make it Through December...Mystic Lake w/Kris Kristofferson, Feb 27/2011
Phosphorscent - Pick up the Tempo [To Willie]
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson - Good Hearted Woman
Langhorne Slim - Worries [Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles] Last nights Varsity Show postponed until spring
Southern Culture on the Skids - High Life [Kudzu Ranch]
Bob Dylan - It's All Good [Together Through Life]
Wayne Hancock - Thunderstorms and Neon Signs
Old 97's - Champaign, Il [The Grand Theatre V. 1]
Slobberbone - Springfield, Il. [Slippage]
Kris Kristofferson - Why Me
Elvis Costello - Five Small Words [National Ransom]
Cory Chisel - Born Again [Death Won't Send A Letter]
White Stripes - Rated X [Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn]
The Morrells - Growin' A Beard [Shake and Push]
Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa [Christmas in the Heart]

United States of Americana: celebrates National Repeal Day!

Posted at 10:37 AM on December 5, 2010 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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This time, I featured a flask full of drinkin' song to celebrate National Repeal Day, (December 5, 1933) which officially opened the corks to legally consume alcoholic beverages again! I included tracks from Willie Nelson, George Jones, and Tom T. Hall and more recent tunes from Todd Snider, Calexico and Asylum Street Spankers.

I also featured a couple of hard to find tunes from The Jayhawks upcoming reissues and a brand new one from Southern Culture on the Skids.

below is the playlist and audio...

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United States of Americana
12/5/2010
8:00 a.m.

George Jones - White Lighting
Martin Devaney - Wise Blood [album: The West End] 12/18 Turf Club
Bowerbirds - Northern Lights [Upper Air]
The Jayhawks - Won't Be Coming Home [Tomorrow the Green Grass: Legacy Edition] 1/29/11 First Ave
Thomas Wold - Tx Roadtrip Breakdown [Buried Transmissions vol. 22]
Rolling Stones - No Expectations [Beggars Banquet]
Charlie Parr - Cheap Wine - [Rooster] Hopkins Center for the Arts Tuesday
Rogue Valley - Rutting Moon [Geese in the Flyway]
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - The Big Guns [Rabbit Fur Coat]
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion - Hurry Up and Wait [Bright Examples]
Lucinda Williams Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight) [Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn]
Calexico - Corona [Convict Pool EP]
Moondoggies - Lead Me On [Tidelands]

United States of Americana
12/05/2010
9:00 a.m.

Willie Nelson - Bloody Mary Morning
Ben Weaver - East Jefferson [Mirepoix and Smoke] Varsity Saturday
The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass [Tomorrow the Green Grass:Legacy Edition]
Punch Brothers - Rye Whiskey [Antifogmatic] Fine Line Wednesday
Old 97's - Cryin' Drunk [Early Tracks] February 20 First Avenue
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Blue Giant - Blue Sunshine [Blue Giant]
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Tom T. Hall - I Like Beer
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Todd Snider - Beer Run [New Connection]

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United States of Americana hops on the time machine!

Posted at 11:55 AM on November 28, 2010 by Bill DeVille
Filed under: United States of Americana

I thought with all the fun we've been having on this Time Machine Weekend that I'd hop on the bandwagon! I chose this year, 2010, and focused on a bunch the "americana" sounds of this year. I also took the time machine backward to 1967. The year that brought us great music from Dylan, The Byrds, The Monkee's and country music from George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and others.

Here is the audio for 11/28/2010