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United States of Americana: salutes Woody Guthrie

Posted at 11:15 AM on July 10, 2011 by Bill DeVille (0 Comments)
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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.

Below is the audio and playlist for 7-10-11...

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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

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United States of Americana - 7-3-11

Posted at 10:00 AM on July 3, 2011 by Mac Wilson (0 Comments)
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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)

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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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United States of Americana
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
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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
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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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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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United States of Americana
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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United States of Americana
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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United States of Americana
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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United States of Americana
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!

The playlist and audio for 2/6/11 are below...

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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!

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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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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!

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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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United States of Americana
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.

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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
Smog - Drinking at the Dam [A River Ain't Too Much Too Love]
Mavis Staples - Only The Lord Knows [You Are Not Alone]
Drive By Truckers - Sink Hole [Decoration Day] Documentary Thursday night at Red Stag
Blue Giant - Blue Sunshine [Blue Giant]
Southern Culture on the Skids - Pig Pickin [Kudzu Ranch]
Asylum St. Spankers - TV Party [Mercurial]
Tom T. Hall - I Like Beer
Mason Jennings - Child of Nature [MN Beatle Project V. 2] Tonight at First Ave w/Sarah Harmer
Kasey Chambers - The Captain [The Captain]
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
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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.

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United States of Americana
11/28/2010
8:00am
Time Machine Weekend - 2010

Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues (album: Harlem River Blues)
Phosphorescent - Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly) (Here's to Taking IT Easy)
Megafaun - Volunteers (Heretofore)
Trampled By Turtles - Victory ( Palomino)
Lissie - In Sleep (Catching a Tiger)
Kris Kristofferson - The Winner (Twistable Turnable Man)
Ray Lamontagne - Beg Steal or Borrow (God Willin and the Creek Don't Rise)
Jakob Dylan - Everybody's Hurtin' (Women and Country)
Dawes - The Western Skyline (recorded live in the studio)
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like (Genuine Negro Jig)
Deer Tick - Twenty Miles (The Black Dirt Sessions)
Marty Stuart - Country Boy Rock and Roll (Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions)
The Sadies - Another Year Again (Darker Circles)
Mumford and Sons - The Cave (Sigh No More)

United States of Americana
Nov 28, 2010
9:00 a.m.
Time Machine Weekend - 1967

Ennio Morricone - The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Merle Haggard - Branded Man
Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence (live at Monterey Pop Festival)
Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure to Where Flowers in Your Hair)
Buck Owens - Sam's Place
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home a Drinkin
Dolly Parton - Dumb Blonde
Bob Dylan - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
The Byrds - My Back Pages
George Jones - Walk Through This World With Me
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash - Jackson
Ray Charles - Here We Go Again
Glen Campbell - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Monkee's - Pleasant Valley Sunday
Buffalo Springfield - Mr. Soul
Stone Poney's - Different Drum
The Hombres - Let It All Hang Out

United States of Americana: S.C.O.T.S. are back!

Posted at 11:21 AM on November 21, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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Got a brand new CD in the mail from our old friends from the veteran Chapel Hill, NC band, Southern Culture On The Skids. Bandleader Rick Miller describes the new Kudzu Ranch album like this: "The Kudzu Ranch is collection of 10 originals and a couple covers," Rick says, "songs about people, places and things -- like good friends and crazy neighbors, dry dirt and pompadoured flirts, busy roads and horny toads -- all of them motivatin', salivatin' and procreatin' to their own crazy beat!" - just what you'd want from 'em! I featured a track called, "Highlife" on the latest USofA.

I also played music from John Mellencamp, who has a couple shows this week at the Orpheum in Minneapolis, and I played another track from The Guitar Song album from Jamey Johnson.

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United States of Americana
Nov 21, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Morning Coming Down
The Civil Wars - Poison and Wine (album: Barton Hollow)
Good Old War - My Own Sinking Ship (Good Old War)
Blue Mountain - Blue Canoe (Dog Days)
Fabulous Ginn Sisters - You Should've Known (You Can't Take A Bad Girl Home)
Langhorne Slim - Restless (Langhorne Slim)
Whitey Morgan - Bad News (Whitey Morgan and the 78's)
John Mellencamp - Save Some Time to Dream (No Better Than This) Orpheum Tues and Wed
Tallest Man On Earth - King of Spain (Record live in studio)
Will Hoge - Favorite Waste of Time (The Wreckage) Saturday at Orpheum
House of Mercy Band - I'm Going Down ( Blesses, Curses) part of Scarecrow on Fire next weekend at Fitzgerald Theater with Kevin Kling
Wilco - Deeper Down (Wilco (the Album)
Mavis Staples - Your Not Alone (Your Not Alone) Cedar next Sunday
Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle - Fire Alarm (We Still Love Our Country)
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
Robert Plant - Harm's Swift Way (Band of Joy)

United States of Americana
Nov 21, 2010
9:00 a.m.

Camper Van Beethoven - Never Go Back (Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart)
Brett Amaker And The Rodeo - Man In Charge (Please Stand By)
Johnny Burnett and the Rock 'n Roll Trio - Train kept a Rollin'
Neko Case - Train From Kansas City (The Tiger's Have Spoken)
Doug Paisley - What I Saw (Constant Companion)
The Band - When I Paint My Masterpiece (Cahoots)
The Jayhawks - Nothing Left to Borrow (Live Current #6)
Jamey Johnson - Macon (The Guitar Song)
The Gourds - How Will You Shine (Noble Creatures)
Jason and the Scorchers - Beat on the Mountain (Halcyon Times)
Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs - For the Summer (God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise)
Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil (American Beauty)
Alejandro Escovedo Always a Friend (Real Animal)
Southern Culture on the Skids - High Life (Kudzu Ranch)

United States of Americana

Posted at 10:48 AM on November 14, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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For this installment of United States of Americana I featured a brand new tune from Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle, who you may know from the band Romantica. They have a new album called, We Still Love Our Country. Great title! You can find the album here. It features 6 covers and 2 new tracks!

I also featured a new track from The White Stripes. It's a cover of Loretta Lynn's, "Rated X." Jack and Meg, please get back together soon!

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United States of Americana
Nov 14, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Sam Baker - Snow (album: Cotton)
Ben Weaver - Drag the Hills (Mirepoix and Smoke)
The Pines - Heart And Bones (Tremolo)
The Erickson's - Box of Letters (Don't Be Scared Don't Be Alarmed)
Rockin' Jason D. Williams - You Look Like I Could Use A Drink (Killer Instincts)
Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless
Cotton Jones - Gone the Bells (Paranoid Cocoon)
Ryan Bingham - Direction of the Wind (Junky Star)
The Gleam - Damn City Lights (Sunrise)
Bobby Bare Jr. -Sad Smile (A Storm - A Tree- My Mothers Head)
Moondoggies - Lead Me On (Tidelands)
Honeydogs - Kandiyohi (Everything, I Bet You)
Six Mile Grove - Steel Mule (Steel Mule) Americana Showcase in Rochester Wednesday
Tallest Man on Earth - Little River (Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird EP)
Lucinda Williams - Minneapolis (World Without Tears)

United States of Americana
Nov 14, 2010
9:00 a.m.

Delta Spirit - 9/11 (History From Below) Madison on Thursday at High Noon Saloon
John Francis - Johnny Cash on the Radio (The Better Angels)
Rodney Crowell - I Walk the Line Revisited
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (American V)
White Stripes - Rated X (Coal Miners Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn)
Loretta Lynn - Mrs. Leroy Brown (Van Lear Rose)
Eilen Jewell - Fist City (Butcher Holler: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn)
Elvis Costello - Five Small Words (National Ransom)
The Long Ryders - Run Dusty Run (Native Sons/10-05-60)
Alex Chilton - Free Again (19 Years: A Collection of Alex Chilton)
Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle - Your Lonely Heart (We Still Love Our Country)
Steve Earle - Someday (Guitar Town)
Calexico - Writer's Minor Holiday (Carried To Dust)
The Decemberists - Down By the Water (The King Is Dead)
Chris Isaak - Fade Away (Chris Isaak)

United States of Americana salutes Dawes and You!

Posted at 11:29 AM on November 7, 2010 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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This show marks a year on the airwaves for United States of Americana. I sincerely want to thank you for listening. The show wouldn't be what is without you!

I featured a couple of tracks from the Los Angeles band, Dawes. The Current welcomes Dawes to the Twin Cities this Thursday for a First Avenue show. I also gave a spin to a great new song from the Canadian artist Doug Paisley, featuring Leslie Feist. Also on today's playlist was another song from the modern outlaw Jamie Johnson and I played the first song ever spun on USofA from Uncle Tupelo!

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United States of Americana
11/7/2010
8:00 a.m.

Rodriguez - This is Not a Song, Its an Outburst:Or Establishment Blues (album:Cold Fact)
The Chapin Sisters - Palm Tree (Two) performing at The Dakota Wednesday
Dawes - That Western Skyline (North Hills) Thursday First Ave
Pert Near Sandstone - I Am the Walrus (MN Beatle Project) Cabooze on Friday
Johnny Flynn - Kentucky Pill (Been Listening)
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Vetiver - Roll On Babe (Thing of the Past)
Lucy Michell and the Velvet Lapelles - St. Paul (Good of That)
Linda Martell - Color Him Father (Oxford American: 11th Edition - Southern Music)
Peter Case - Colors of Night (Wig!)
Charlie Louvin - Smoke on the Water (The Battle Rages On)
Louvin Brothers - The Great Atomic Power
The Yayhoos - Highway Junkie (Rig Rock Deluxe)
Old 97's - The Magician (The Grand Theatre Vol. 1)
Drive By Truckers - Self Destructive Zones (Brighter Than Creation's Dark)

United States of Americana
11/7/2010
9:00 a.m.

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (No Depression)
Sharon Van Etten - Save Yourself (Epic) Tonight at Cedar w/ Junip
Lucinda Williams - Right In Time (Car Wheels On A Gravel Road)
Dylan Leblanc - If Time Was For Wasting (Paupers Field)
Jamie Johnson - The Guitar Song (featuring Bill Anderson) The Guitar Song
Merle Haggard - Ramblin' Fever
Phosphorescent - The Mermaid Parade (Here's to Taking It Easy)
Doug Paisley - Don't Make Me Wait feat. Feist (Constant Companion)
Dawes - Love Is All I Am (recorded live on the Current) Thursday First Ave
Charlie Robison - Yellow Blues (Beautiful Day)
The Secret Sisters - My Heart Skips a Beat (The Secret Sisters)
Pieta Brown - Faller (One And All) Tonight's Dakota show rescheduled for Jan. 30, 2011
Willie Nelson - Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away
Megafaun - Volunteers (Heretofore)
The Byrds - You Ain't Going Nowhere (Sweetheart of the Rodeo)

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United States of Americana: It's a Monster's Holiday!

Posted at 11:18 AM on October 31, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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For this episode I threw in some Halloween treats, including Buck Owens, (It's a) Monster's Holiday. I almost blew the speakers here at the studios with that one! I also played another track from my favorite album of the moment, Blue Giant! We also listened to new sounds from Doug (not Brad!) Paisley, and reissues from Bob Dylan, Ray Charles with Johnny Cash, and Elvis!

Also, United States of Americana is coming up on it's 1st birthday. I was wondering what you enjoyed on the show in it's inaugural year?

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United States of Americana
10/31/2010
8:00 a.m.

Johnny Cash - Ghost Riders in the Sky
Thomas Wold - Texas Roadtrip Breakdown (album: Buried transmissions vol. 33)
Fleet Foxes - He Doesn't Know Why (Fleet Foxes)
Horse Feathers - Belly of June (Thistled Spring) Wednesday at Cedar in Minneapolis
Frazey Ford - Lay Down With You (Obadiah)
Ben Kweller - Fight (Changing Horses)
Red Sovine - Big Joe and Phantom 309
Doug Paisley - What I Saw (Constant Companion)
The Mekons - Ghost of American Astronauts (So Good It Hurts)
Jon Langford and Skull Orchard - Haunted (Old Devils)
Blue Giant - Run Rabbit Run (Blue Giant)
Flying Burrito Brothers - Christine's Tune (Guilded Palace of Sin)
Pete Yorn - Wheels (Pete Yorn)
Jason D. Williams - You Look Like I Could Use a Drink (Killer Instincts)
Violent Femmes - Country Death Song (Hallowed Ground)

United States of Americana
10/31/2010
9:00 a.m.

Buck Owens - Monster's Holiday
Charlie Parr and the Black Twig Pickers - Death's Black Train (Glory in the Meeting House)
Uncle Tupelo - Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down (March 16-20, 1992)
Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues (The Best of the Original Mono Recordings)
Elvis Costello - I Lost You (National Ransom)
A.A. Bondy - When the Devil's Loose
Porter Wagoner - Carrol Country Accident
Raul Malo - Living for Today (Sinners and Saints)
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds (Viva Elvis: The Album)
Trailer Trash - Swizzle Stick (Nearer My Bar to Thee) Lee's Friday
Neil Young - Sign of Love (Le Noise)
Southern Culture on the Skids - Werewolf
Legendary Shack Shakers - Sugar Baby (Agri-dustrial) with Rev Horton and Split Lip Rayfield at First Ave Thursday
16 Horsepower - Black Soul Choir (Sackcloth n Ashes)
Ray Charles and Johnny Cash - Why Me Lord (The Undiscovered Masters)
Rev. Horton Heat - Halloween Dance...First Avenue Thursday!

United States of Americana: Neil Young's gorgeous new album

Posted at 11:35 AM on October 24, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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Thanks to Mac Wilson for filling in for me last weekend!

Neil Young has returned with his "solo" album Love and War. It's might be the most personal album of his career. I featured a track from it this morning on the USofA. Listen to The Current for more tracks, as it's our CD of the week. I also featured music from Deer Tick, who are in the Twin Cites for a show at The Triple Rock on Friday! The full playlist and audio is below.

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United States of Americana
Oct 24, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Wynn Stewart - Another Day, Another Dollar
Jimmy Webb - Galveston feat.Lucinda Willlams (CD: Just Across the River) at Dakota tonight
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice It's Alright (The Bootleg Series V. 9)
Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez - On An Island (The New Bye Bye)
Amanda Shaw - Mississippi Kid (Good Southern Girl) Dakota Wednesday
Solomon Burke - We're Gonna Hold On (Nashville)
Shelby Lynne - Killin' Kind (Love Shelby)
Sharon Van Etten - Save Yourself (Epic) opening for Junip Nov 7 at Cedar
Mike Farris and The Cumberland Saints - The Night the Cumberland Came Alive (s/t)
BottleRockets - Get Down River (Leftovers)
Jamie Johnson - Set Em' Up Joe (The Guitar Song)
Ernest Tubb - Walking the Floor Over You
Cadillac Sky - Ballad of Restored Confidence (Letters in the Deep) Opening for Mumford and Sons on Friday
Cuff the Duke - Follow Me (Way Down Here)

United States of Americana
Oct 24, 2010
9:00 a.m.

The Meat Purveyors - Little White Pills
Dwight Yoakam - I Want You To Want Me (Tomorrow's Sounds Today)
Blue Giant - Blue Sunshine (Blue Giant) Opening for Dandy Warhols Thursday
Willie Nelson - Blue Skies (Stardust) Willie Nelson at mystic lake this wknd
Mumford and Sons - Winter Wind (Sigh No More) Friday First Avenue
Avett Bros. - Shame (Live Vol. 3)
Old 97's - Nineteen (Fight Songs)
Ben Weaver - Drag the Hills (Mirepoix and Smoke)
Lucky Peterson - I'm New Here (You Can Always Turn Around)
Smog - Cold Blooded Old Times (Knock Knock)
Marshall Crenshaw - Someday, Someway (Hopkins Center for the Arts Tuesday)
Neil Young - Love and War (Le Noise)
Blitzen Trapper - Not Your Lover (Furr)
John Doe - The Losing Kind (Forever Hasn't Happened Yet)
Deer Tick - Mange (The Black Dirt Sessions) Triple Rock Friday

United States of Americana - 10-17-10

Posted at 10:00 AM on October 17, 2010 by Mac Wilson
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Bill is at Lambeau Field cheering on his beloved Packers, which means I've been sitting in for him all weekend. Here is the playlist from this morning's United States of Americana show:

Conor Oberst, "Cape Canaveral" (from Conor Oberst)
The Sadies, "Tell Her What I Said" (from Darker Circles)
Robert Plant and Allison Krauss, "Stick with Me Baby" (Mel Tillis cover, from Raising Sand)
Over the Rhine, "If a Song Could Be President" (from The Trumpet Child)
Dawes, "If You Let Me Be Your Anchor" (from North Hills)
The Flying Burrito Brothers, "Cody, Cody" (from Burrito Deluxe)
Blue Giant, "Blue Sunshine" (89.3 The Current live in-studio performance)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Cairo Gang, "Troublesome Houses" (from The Wonder Show of the World)
Yonder Mountain String Band, "Troubled Mind" (from Yonder Mountain String Band)
Carolina Chocolate Drops, "Trouble in Your Mind" (from Genuine Negro Jig)
Storyhill, "Well of Sorrow" (from Shade of the Trees)
Gillian Welch, "Acony Bell" (from Revival)
Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard, "These Roads Don't Move" (from One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Music from Jack Kerouac's Big Sur)
Roma di Luna, "Before I Die" (from Then the Morning Came)
Fleet Foxes, "Blue Ridge Mountains" (from Fleet Foxes)
Bob Dylan, "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum" (from "Love and Theft")
Justin Townes Earle, "Harlem River Blues" (from Harlem River Blues)
The Avett Brothers, "Kick Drum Heart" (from I and Love and You)
Jimmie Rodgers, "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love" (from Jimmie Rodgers...His Golden Year)
Mavis Staples, "Don't Knock" (from You Are Not Alone)
The Jayhawks, "Waiting for the Sun" (from Hollywood Town Hall)
Deer Tick, "When She Comes Home" (from The Black Dirt Sessions)
Charlie Parr, "Mastodon" (from When the Devil Goes Blind)
Wilco, "Either Way" (from Sky Blue Sky)
Neko Case, "Don't Forget Me" (Nilsson cover, from Middle Cyclone)
Band of Horses, "Compliments" (from Infinite Arms)
Good Old War, "Coney Island" (from Only Way to Be Alone)
Erik Koskinen, "Learning the Hard Way" (from Keep It to Yourself)
Lissie, "Cuckoo" (from Catching a Tiger)
Dwight Yoakam, "Suspicious Minds" (Elvis Presley cover, from the Honeymoon in Vegas soundtrack)

United States of Americana welcomes Jason and the Scorchers

Posted at 11:09 AM on October 10, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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After a long layoff, Jason and the Scorchers are back on the road! They perform at Lee's Liquor Lounge on Thursday. I featured a few Scorchers tunes on the show. I also played some John Prine and a few covers on his 64th birthday! Tonight at 9, it's The Current Presents: John Prine, Under the Influence.

I also gave a spin to new music from Neil Young's Le Noise release, Raul Malo and Blue Giant, who will opening for Dandy Warhols at the Fine Line on October 28th.

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United States of Americana
Oct. 10, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Iron and Wine - Belated Promise Ring (album: Around the Well)
Ben Weaver - Drag the Hills (Mirepoix and Smoke)
Alela Diane - White as Diamonds (To Be Still)
Nora Jane Struthers - Green Briar County (s/t)
Jason and the Scorchers - Beat on the Mountain (Halcyon Times) Lee's Thursday
TN. Earnie Ford - 16 Tons
Old 97's - Every Night is a Friday Night in Hell (The Grand Theatre Vol. 1)
Raul Malo - Living for Today (Sinners and Saints)
Charlie Rich - Lonely Weekends
Lambchop - Six O'clock News (Broken Heart and Dirty Windows)
Blue Giant - Blue Sunshine (Blue Giant)
Chuck Prophet - Run Primo Run (Soap and Water) Turf Club Friday
The Gourds - Shake the Chandelier (Heavy Ornamentals)
Leslie Stevens and the Badgers - Roomful of Smoke (Roomful of Smoke)
Nanci Griffith - The Speed of the Sound of Lonliness (Other Voices Other Rooms)

United States of Americana
10/10, 2010
9:00 a.m.

John Prine - That's The Way That the World Goes Around (Bruised Orange)
Neil Young - Love and War (Le Noise)
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin' (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - Witmark Sessions 1962 - 64)
Jason and the Scorchers - Absolutely Sweet Marie (Fervor)
Carl Broemel - In the Garden ( All Birds Say)
Erik Brandt - Madison (Sometimes)
Langhorne Slim - In the Midnight (When The Suns Gone Down)
John Langford and Skull Orchard - Flag of Triumph (Old Devils)Thursday at Cedar
Charlie Robison - Yellow Blues (Beautiful Day)
Jakob Dylan - Everybody's Hurting (Women and Country)
Sufjan Stevens - Heirloom (All Delighted People EP) Saturday at Orpheum
The Dodos - Fools ( Visitor)
Gary Louris - True Blue (Vagabonds)
Jason and the Scorchers - Country Roads

United States of Americana "In Studio" with Ben Weaver

Posted at 5:51 PM on October 2, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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This time on USofA, Ben Weaver drops by to play a few tunes from his new album, Mirepoix and Smoke, which is due to drop in a couple of weeks on the Bloodshot label.
Also on the agenda are a couple of tunes from British legend, Nick Lowe, who will be performing on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Dakota in Minneapolis.

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here is the playlist for 10/3/2010...

United States of Americana
10/2/2010
8:00 a.m.

Willie Nelson - Bloody Mary Morning (album: Phases and Stages) at Mystic Lake Friday/Saturday
Alejandro Escovedo - Down in the Bowery (Street Songs of Love)
Whiskeytown - Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight (Strangers Almanac) House of Mercy Band - Trouble Coming (Left behind)
The Secret Sisters - My Heart Skips a Beat (s/t)
Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens - Streets of Bakersfield (Buenos Noches From A Lonely Room)
Richard Thompson - Haul Me Up (Dream Attic)
Bobby Bare Jr. - A Storm - A Tree - My Mothers Head (A Storm - A Tree - My Mothers Head) at 400 Saturday w/Blue Giant
Tim O'Reagan - These Things (s/t)
Nick Lowe - Beast in Me (The Impossible Bird) at Dakota Tuesday and Wednesday
Deer Tick - Twenty Miles (The Black Dirt Sessions)
Joe Henry - Dead to the World (Kindness of the World)
Roger Miller - Dang Me (King of the Road)
Elvis Costello - National Ransom (National Ransom)
Chuck Prophet - American Man (Let Freedom Ring) Friday Oct 15 Turf Club

United States of Americana
10/2/2010
9:00 a.m.

Lucinda Williams - Get Right With God (radio remix)

Ben Weaver - IN STUDIO PERFORMANCE
Performing at Bryant Lake Bowl this Friday

22 Shells
Maiden Cliff
Split Ends

Robert Plant - Can't Buy My Love (Band of Joy)
Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About a Mover (Mendocino)
Defibrilators - Get What's Coming (Corn Money)
Megafaun - Volunteers (Heretofore)
Smog - I'm New Here (A River Ain't Too Much to Love)
The Avett Brothers - I Love
Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs - Beg Steal or Borrow (God Willin and the Creek Don't Rise)
Johnny Cash - Five Feet High and Rising (The Essential Johnny Cash)
Blue Giant - Clean the Clock (s/t) perfroming Saturday at the 400 Bar
Nick Lowe - What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding (Untouched Takeaway) at the Dakota this Tuesday and Wednesday

United States of Americana salutes Drive By Truckers

Posted at 11:20 AM on September 26, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the USofA I featured a couple of tracks from Drive by Truckers, who are bringing their live show to First Avenue on Thursday! I bookended the show with a couple of "Harvest Moon" tunes to welcome Fall from Jason and the Scorchers and Neil Young. I also featured brand new music from These United States with a song about a near drowning experience by the band singer. These United States perform tonight at the Turf club here in St. Paul.

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United States of Americana
Sept 26
8:00 a.m.

Neil Young - Harvest Moon (album: Harvest Moon)
Amelia Curran - The Mistress (Hunter Hunter)
Sad Brad Smith - Help Yourself (Up in the Air sdck)
Sera Cahoone - Baker Lake (Only As the Day Is Long)Turf Club w/Sea Wolf Monday
Fistful of Mercy - In Vane or True (As I Call You Down)
Lucero - Ain't So Lonely (Tenessee)
Drive By Truckers - Sante Fe (The Big To Do) Thursday at First Ave
Mike Farris and the Cumberland Saints - The Night the Cumberland came Alive
The Everly Brothers - Nashville Blues (It's Everly Time)
Mason Jennings - Pittsburg (Live at First Avenue)
Nora Jane Struthers - Mocking Bird (s/t)
Those Darlins - Wild One (Those Darlins) Tonight at 7th St Entry
Patsy Montana - I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart
Roy Hubbs - Just What I Had In Mind (More Tales of Love and Murder) at 331 on Friday

United States of Americana
Sept 26, 2010
9:00 a.m.

Los Lobos - I Can't Understand (The Neighborhood)
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses - Direction of the Wind (Junky Star)
The Derailers - Pawnshop Wedding Rings (Reverb Deluxe)
Bob Dylan - Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat (Blonde on Blonde)
These United States - Nobody Can Tell (What Lasts)Turf club tonight
Pieta Brown - Faller (One And All)
Marty Robbins - Big Iron (Gunfighter Ballads...)
Dylan Leblanc - If the Creek Don't Rise ( Paupers Field)
Drive By Truckers - Carl Perkins Cadillac (The Dirty South)
Carl Perkins - Put Your Cat Clothes On
Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues (Harlem River Blues)
Mavis Staples - Only the Lord Knows (You Are Not Alone)
John Prine - Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone
Jason and the Scorchers - Harvest Moon (Fervor) October 14 Lee's

United States of Americana: Happy birthday Hank & hello John Prine!

Posted at 11:26 AM on September 19, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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This time on the USofA I featured a couple tunes from Hank Williams. We just passed his, would be, 87th birthday. His songs have certainly stood the test of time. John Prine's tunes have also aged nicely. With his concert next weekend, I thought we should feature some of JP's music as well!

Also on this weeks show was new music from the duo Cotton Jones, Jon Langford, and Megafaun.

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8am Hour

George Jones - Race is On
Cotton Jones - Place At the End of the Street (Tall Hours)
Lee Hazelwood/Nancy Sinatra - Sundown, Sundown
Johnny Cash - Hurt
The Secret Sisters - House of Gold (recorded in the studio)
Hank Williams - Lost Highway
Blitzen Trapper - Silver Moon (Black River Killer EP)
Jon Langford and Skull Orchard - Luxury (Old Devils)
Emmylou Harris - Born To Run
John Prine and Emmylou Harris - Angel From Montgomery (In Person and On Stage)
Marty Stuart - Branded (Ghost Train (the Studio B Sessions) (tonight Dakota)
The Sadies - Wolf Tones
The BottleRockets - Get On the Bus (Lean Forward)
Tony Joe White - Ain't Doin' Nobody No Good (The Shine)
Cat Power - Ramblin (wo)Man (Jukebox)

9am hour

Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues
Phosphorescent - Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly) (album: Here's to Taking it Easy)
Rolling Stones - No Expectations (Beggars Banquet)
Old 97's - Every Night is A Friday Night (The Grand Theatre, Vol 1)
Megafaun - Volunteers (Heretofore)
Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps - Closing the Doors (Back Yard Tent Set)
Texas Tornadoes - (Hey Baby) Que Paso (s/t) Cedar Culteral tonight
Trampled By Turtles - Seperate (Palomino)
Avett Brothers - Shame (Emotionalism)
Dwight Yoakam - Little Sister (Hillbilly Deluxe)
Robert Plant - Harm's Swift Way (Band of Joy)
Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You (Crazy Heart)
Ryan Adams - Nuclear (Demolition)
Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues (Harlem River Blues)
Calexico - Victor Jara's Hands (Carried to Dust) opening for Arcade Fire Wed.
John Prine - This Guitar is For Sale (Twistable Turnable Man)

United States of Americana: new Justin Townes Earle

Posted at 11:45 AM on September 12, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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For today's United States of Americana...I featured a couple new tracks from Justin Townes Earle and his brand new album Harlem River Blues. He's outdone himself with this one. It's full of sharply crafted songs with many having kind of a Memphis feel. JTE plays First Avenue October 9th! I also played some of the winners at the recent Americana Music Awards and we remembered the "man in black," Johnny Cash on the 7th anniversary of his death.

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United States of Americana
Sept 12, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Patsy Cline - Sweet Dreams of You
Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues (album: Harlem River Blues)...Oct 9 show at First Avenue
Louvin Brothers - The River of Jordan
Mark Olson - Bluebell Song (Many Colored Kite) Tonite at Varsity.
John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (No Better than This)... Nov 22,23 Orpheum
Buddy Miller - Fire and Water (Universal United House of Prayer)
Calexico - Across the Wire (Feast of Wire)...Opening for Arcade Fire at Roy Wilkins
These United States - Nobody Can Tell (What Lasts)
Drive By Truckers - Easy on Yourself (Live Current 2)
Slobberbone - To Love Somebody (Slippage)
Dylan Leblanc - If Time Was For Wasting (Pauper's Field)
Bonnie Prince Billy - I Came To Hear Music (Ask Forgiveness)
Uncle Tupelo - Chickamauga (Anodyne)
Texas Tornadoes - Sugar Blue (Esta Buena)...Cedar Next Sunday
Gear Daddies - Little Red Corvette (Can't Have Nuthin Nice)...Fine Line Friday

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

Ryan Bingham - The Weary Kind (Crazy Heart)
Rosanne Cash - Sea of Heartbreak (The List)
Don Gibson - Oh Lonesome Me
Carl Broemel - The Garden (All Birds Say)
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whiskey River (Mean Old Man)
Lucinda Williams - Drunken Angel (Car Wheels on a Gravel Road)
Eilen Jewell - Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (Butcher Holler: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn)
Tony Joe White - Season Man (The Shine)
Shelby Lynne - Willie and Laura Mae Jones (Just A little Lovin')
Band of Horses - Older (Recorded live In the studio)
Justin Townes Earle - Ain't Waitin' (Harlem River Blues)
Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys - Hey Muchachita (Swingin' West)...at Lee's Saturday
Wayne Hancock - Shootin' Star From TX (Tulsa)
Mavis Staples w/Jeff Tweedy- Only The Lord Knows (You Are Not Alone)
Johnny Cash - Aloha Oe (American VI)

United States of Americana 9/5

Posted at 9:24 AM on September 5, 2010 by Mac Wilson
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With Bill DeVille at the State Fair later today, I hosted United States of Americana this morning. Here's the playlist:

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Iron and Wine, "House by the Sea" (from The Shepherd's Dog)
Los Lobos, "Burn It Down" (from Tin Can Trust)
The Be Good Tanyas, "Oh Susanna" (from Blue Horse)
Conway Twitty, "Linda on My Mind"
Dawes, "Love Is All I Am" (89.3 The Current in-studio performance)
Joe Henry, "Civilians" (from Civilians)
Old 97's, "Cryin' Drunk (from Early Tracks)
Mavis Staples, "Wrote a Song for Everyone" (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover, from You Are Not Alone)
Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Long as I Can See the Light" (from Cosmo's Factory)
Monsters of Folk, "The Right Place" (from Monsters of Folk)
Josh Ritter, "Lantern" (from So Runs the World Away)
The Defibulators, "Your Hearty Laugh" (from Corn Money)
Sun Kil Moon, "Carry Me Ohio" (from Ghosts of the Great Highway)
Lucinda Williams, "Concrete and Barbed Wire" (from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road)
Charlie Parr, "Where You Gonna Be (When the Good Lord Calls You Home)" (from When the Devil Goes Blind)
Sufjan Stevens, "All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands" (from Seven Swans)
The Secret Sisters, "Ring of Fire" (Johnny Cash cover, 89.3 The Current in-studio performance)
Ryan Bingham, "Depression" (from Junky Star)
John Prine, "Glory of True Love" (from Fair and Square)
Blitzen Trapper, "Not Your Lover" (from Furr)
Trampled by Turtles, "Wait So Long" (from Palomino)
Bob Dylan, "Isis" (from Desire)
Cat Power, "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (Bob Dylan cover, from the I'm Not There soundtrack)
Lissie, "In Sleep" (from Catching a Tiger)
The Mavericks, "I Want to Know" (from The Mavericks)

United States of Americana welcomes Rosanne Cash

Posted at 5:01 PM on August 28, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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Roseanne Cash dropped by The Current's studio's last fall when she was in town to perform on Prairie Home Companion. I decided, since she performs at the MN State Fair on Monday and Tuesday, to replay it today. It originally aired in November for United States of Americana's inaugural show. She is joined by her husband and collaborator John Leventhal. It will air shortly after 9am Sunday.

United States of Americana airs 8-10am Sunday mornings.

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Here is the playlist for 8/29/2010

8am hour

The Band - Life Is A Carnival
Mark Olson - May Colored Kite (album: Many Colored Kite)
Amos Lee - Supply and Demand (Live in Studio Performance from 2006)
Mason Jennings - California Part II (Mason Jennings)
Leslie Stevens and the Badgers - Roomful of Smoke (Roomful of Smoke)
Megafaun - Kaufman's Ballad (Gather, Form and Fly)
Byrds - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Blue Giant - Clean the Clock (Blue Giant)
Wilco - Hate it Here (Sky Blue Sky)
Randy Weeks - Transistor Radio (Sugarfinger)
Trampled By Turtles - Separate (Palomino)
Carrie Rodriguez - Big Love (Love and Circumstance)
Jakob Dylan - Everybody's Hurting (Women and Country)
Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues (Harlem River Blues)
Romantica - Don't Let It Fall (Control Alt Country Delete)

9am hour

Richard Buckner - A Chance Counsel (Dents and Shells)

Rosanne Cash in the Studio

Songs performed:

The Mississippi And You
Long Black Veil
Sea of Heartbreak
Girl From The North Country

Phosphorescent - Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly) (Here's To Taking It Easy)
Deer Tick - Mange (The Black Dirt Sessions)
Bottle Rockets - Mendocino
Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet - At the Crossroads
Marty Stuart - Hillbilly Rock and Roll (Ghost Train)
John Doe and the Sadies - Stop the World and Let Me Off (Country Club)
Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (Highway 61 Revisited)

United States of Americana welcomes The Secret Sisters

Posted at 4:25 PM on August 21, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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This time on United States of Americana...I featured special 'in-studio' guests The Secret Sisters. The band dropped by this past Wednesday while in the midst of a promotional tour for their debut album, which drops in early October. They are indeed sisters from Mussel Shoals, Alabama. Their music is rich in close harmonies which remind me of both The Everly Brothers and the Andrew Sisters. T-Bone Burnette serves as executive producer on the duo's self-titled album. The Secret Sisters also have a 7" single produced by Jack White, who also added his guitar prowess.

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United States of Americana
Aug 22, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham -I Met Her In Church (album: Moments From This Theatre LIVE)
Griffin House - If You Want To The Learner
Freedy Johnston - Bad Reputation (This Perfect World)
Brandi Carlile - Dreams (Recorded live in studio)
Nora Jane Struthers - Greenbriar County (s/t)
Tom T. Hall - I'm a Coal Mining Man
Jason and the Scorchers - Beat on the Mountain (Halcyon Days)
Jerry Lee Lewis - You Can Have Her (Mean Old Man)
Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues (Highway 61 Revisited)
Charlie Parr - Where You Gonna Be (When the Devil Goes Blind)
Dylan LeBlanc - If Time Was For Wasting (Pauper's Field)
My Morning Jacket - Golden (It Still Moves)
Lissie - In Sleep (Catching A Tiger)
Dawes If You Let Me Be Your Anchor (North Hills) Nov 11 1st Ave

United States of Americana
Aug 22, 2010
9:00 a.m.

Johnny Cash - Man In Black

The Secret Sisters LIVE IN STUDIO PERFORMANCE

I've Got a Feeling
Ring of Fire
House of Gold

Avett Brothers - Spanish Pipedream (Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows)
John Prine - Spanish Pipedream (In Person And Onstage)
The Pines - Heart and Bones (Tremolo)
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Your baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine (Genuine Negro Jig) Zoo Friday
Dave Rawling's Machine - To Be Young (A Friend of a Friend)
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Easy Plateau (Cold Roses)
Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs - For the Summer (God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise)
Willie Nelson - Satisfied Mind (Country Music)
Porter Wagoner - I'll Go Down Swingin
Junior Brown - Highway Patrol (Guit With It)

United States of Americana: "I'm Goin Where There's No Depression"

Posted at 11:50 AM on August 15, 2010 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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It's great to be back in the saddle again! Thanks Mac, for fillin in!

This time on the USofA I featured a bunch of new music. I played songs from former Johnny Cash guitar slinger Marty Stuart, the LA band Leslie Stevens and the Badgers, Defibulators, and I played two from the Black Crowes, who play the MN Zoo tonight.

I also gave a spin to a brand new tune from Ryan Bingham called, Depression, and I kept that run going with Uncle Tupelo's cover of the old Carter Family classic, No Depression.

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United States of Americana
Aug 15, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Delta Spirit - 9-11 (album: History From Below)
Mike and Ruthy - End of Time (Million to One)
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Side (World Without Tears)
Elvis Costello - Sulphur to Sugarcane (Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Hank Snow - I've Been Everywhere
Leslie Stevens and the Badgers - Los Angeles (Roomful of Smoke)
Guy Clark - L.A. Freeway
Mark Olson - Bluebell Song (Many Colored Kite)
Los Lobos - Burn It Down (Tin Can Trust)
Robert Plant - Angel Dance (Band of Joy)
Meat Puppets - Lost (Meat Puppets II)
The Black Crowes - Morning Song (Croweology) Zoo Tonight!
Gram Parsons - In My Hour of Darkness (Grievous Angel)
Cory Chisel - Born Again (Death Won't Send a Letter) Red Stag Block Party next Saturday

United States of Americana
Aug 15, 2010
9:00 a.m.

Glen Campbell - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses - Depression (Junky Star)
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (No Depression)
Trampled By Turtles - Wait So Long (Live In Studio performance)
Marty Stuart - Country Boy Rock and Roll (The Studio 8 Sessions)
Buck Owens - Open Up Your Heart
Dwight Yoakam - Honky Tonk Man (Guitars, Cadillacs etc etc)
Jon Langford and Skull Orchard - Getting Used to Uselessness (Old Devils)
Faron Young - Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
Phosphorescent - Mermaid Parade (Here's to Taking it Easy)
Defibulator's - Ol' Winchester (Corn Money)
Those Darlins - Wild One (Those Darlins)
Bobby Bare JR. - Sad Smile (A Storm - A Tree - My Mother's Head)
The Jayhawks - Won't be Coming Home (Tomorrow the Green Grass:Legacy Edition)
Iron and Wine - Lovesong of the Buzzard (The Shepherd's Dog)
Black Crowes - Jealous Again (Croweology)

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United States of Americana 8/8

Posted at 10:00 AM on August 8, 2010 by Mac Wilson
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Good morning! I sat in for Bill DeVille this weekend on United States of Americana. Here is today's playlist:

Cowboy Junkies, "A Common Disaster" (from Lay It Down)
Mark Olson, "Bluebell Song" (from Many Colored Kite)
The Avett Brothers, "Die Die Die" (from Emotionalism)
A.A. Bondy, "When the Devil's Loose" (from When the Devil's Loose)
Johnny Cash, "Sunday Morning Coming Down" (Kris Kristofferson cover)
Elvis Costello, "Ring of Fire" (Johnny Cash/June Carter cover, from Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash)
The Holmes Brothers, "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?" (Elvis Costello/Nick Lowe cover, from State of Grace)
Lissie, "In Sleep" (from Catching a Tiger)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, "Easy Does It" (from Lie Down in the Light)
The Flatlanders, "Wheels of Fortune" (from Wheels of Fortune)
Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs, "Beg Steal or Borrow" (from God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise)
Cat Power, "Moonshiner" (from Moon Pix)
Langhorne Slim, "And If It's True" (from When the Sun's Gone Down)
Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver), "Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)" (John Prine cover, from Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine)
Dar Williams, "Iowa (Traveling III") (from Mortal City)
Trampled by Turtles, "Separate" (from Palomino)
Son Volt, "Gramophone" (from Okemah and the Melody of Riot)
Ron Sexsmith, "One Last Round" (from Exit Strategy of the Soul)
Jerry Lee Lewis feat. Kris Kristofferson and Ronnie Wood, "Mean Old Man" (Kris Kristofferson cover, from Mean Old Man)
R.L. Burnside, "Let My Baby Ride" (from Come On In)
Buffalo Springfield, "Expecting to Fly" (from Buffalo Springfield Again)
Storyhill, "Avalon" (from Shade of the Trees)
Iron and Wine, "Love Vigilantes" (New Order cover, from Around the Well)
Don Edwards, "Coyotes" (from the Grizzly Man soundtrack)
Dawes, "If You Let Me Be Your Anchor" (from North Hills)
Alison Rae, "This Is Your Song" (from Alison Rae)
M. Ward, "Sad, Sad Song" (from Transfiguration of Vincent)
Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social, "All the Way from Moscow" (from Love It to Life)
Drive-By Truckers, "Life in the Factory" (from Southern Rock Opera)

United States of Americana: We have audio!

Posted at 12:26 PM on August 1, 2010 by Bill DeVille (1 Comments)
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If you missed this morning's United States of Americana, find the audio below!

This episode I featured tracks from a bunch of the artists who'll be in the Twin Cities soon like Tift Merritt, Phosphorescent, Asleep at the Wheel & Chris Isaak!

I also gave a final salute to Ben Kieth, a long time sideman for Neil Young, who died of a heart attack on July 26th. Rest in peace Mr. Kieth.

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United States of Americana
Aug 1, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Willie Nelson - All of Me (Stardust)
Storyhill - Town Talks (Shades of Trees)
Cotton Jones - Gotta Cheer Up (Paranoid Cocoon) Entry tonight
Ryan Traster - The Tourists (The Tourists EP)
Pieta Brown - Faller (One And All)
Jolie Holland - Your Big Hands (The Living and the Dead)
Rolling Stones - Country Honk (Let It Bleed)
Pernice Brothers - We Love the Stage (Goodbye Killer)
Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World (Heart Shaped World)The O'Shaughnessy Wednesday
Roy Orbison - In Dreams
Dawn Landes - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Byrds - Hickory Wind (Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Martin Zeller - Falling Sky (Born Under)
Phosphorescent - Mermaid Parade (Here's to taking it Easy)Tuesday at Cedar Cultural Center
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Hesitating Beauty (Mermaid Avenue)

United States of Americana
Aug 1, 2010
9:00 a.m.

Ryan Bingham - The Weary Kind (Crazy Heart sdck)
Tift Merritt - Mixtape (See You On The Moon) Fine Line Tonight
Dolly Parton - Dumb Blonde
Eilen Jewell - Fist City (Butcher Holler: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn)
Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants - Bandaged (Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants)
Band of Horses - Laredo (Recorded live in the studio 2 weeks ago)
Doug Sahm and Sir Douglas Quintet - Texas Me
The Sadies - Another Year Again (Darker Circles)
Lyle Lovett - That's Right Your're Not from Texas (Road to Ensenada)
Asleep at the Wheel - Stay All Night (Ride With Bob) next Sunday at the Dakota
Punch Brothers - Rye Whiskey (Antifogmatic)
Uncle Tupelo - Whiskey Bottle (No Depression)
Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces
Neil Young - Old Man
Dan Sartain - Bad Things Will Happen (Dan Sartain Lives)
Sonny Burgess - Ain't Got A Thing
Hank III - Gettin' Drunk and Falling Down (Rebel Within)

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United States of Americana: Here's To Taking It Easy

Posted at 1:29 PM on July 25, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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Can't get enough of the band Phosphorescent! Gave a spin to splendid new song from that new, "Here's to Taking It Easy," album. I also played new things from Bobby Bare Jr., Los Lobos and Mark Olson of the Jayhawks, his new solo album drops on Tuesday.

Today marks the 45th anniversary of Bob Dylan going "electric" at Newport. I closed the USofA with Bob's unleashing the opening song that day, "Maggie's Farm!"

United States of Americana
July 25, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Buck Owens - Together Again
Dawes - If You Let Me let Me Be Your Anchor (North Hills)
Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain (in studio performance)
Kaiser Cartel - Ready To Go (Secret Transit)
Jennifer Markley & the TN Snowpants That's What You Get
Ray Price - Crazy Arms
Jonathan Rice - What Am I Gonna Do (Further North)
Lay Low - Little By Little (Farewell Goodnight's Sleep)
Neko Case - People Got A Lot of Nerve (Middle Cyclone)
Langhorne Slim - Back to the Wild (Be Set Free)
Merle Haggard - Mexican Bands (I Am What I Am)
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Los Lobos - Burn it Down (Tin Can Trust)
The Goodnight Loving Supperclub - It's a Long Way In A Bad Way (The Goodnight Loving Supperclub)
Blue Rodeo - Sheba (The Things We Left Behind)
Seasick Steve - Diddley Bo (Man From Another Time)


United States of Americana
July 25, 2010
9:00 a.m.

Robbie Fulks - Sleeping on the Job Of Love
Phosphorescent - The Mermaid Parade (Here's To Taking It Easy)
The Band - It Makes No Difference (Northern Lights - Southern Cross)
Jason Isbell - Seven-Mile Island (Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) Zoo 7/31
The Gleam - Away Like A Song (Sunrise) Turf Club Friday w/ Ol' Yeller/the Gleam
Mekons - Lost Highway (The Mekons Rock N Roll)
John Doe - The Golden State (A Year In the Wilderness)
Bobby Bare JR. - Sad Smile (A Storm - A Tree - My Mother's Head)
Lucero - Anjalee (Nobody's Darlings) Zoo next Saturday
Deer Tick - When She Comes Home (The Black Dirt Sessions)
Justin Vernon - Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) (Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows)
John Prine - In Spite of Ourselves (In Person and on Stage) w/Iris DeMent
Mark Olson - Bluebell Song (Many Colored Kite) Drops Tuesday
Blitzen Trapper - Evening Star (Destroyer of the Void) Tuesday at 1st Ave
Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm (Live)

United States of Americana: more songs about Cheatin, drinkin, and LOVE!

Posted at 11:48 AM on July 18, 2010 by Bill DeVille
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For the latest installment of the new 2 hour version of United States of Americana I featured lots of new music! I featured songs from Alejandro Escovedo's new album as well as fellow Texan and recent T-Bone Burnette discovery, Sahara Smith.

I also gave Band of Horses, Phosphorescent, and the Punch Brothers a spin. I also blew the dust off songs from Lefty Frizzell & the instrumental duo of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant.

Here is the 2nd hour's audio (will have the full 2 hour show by next week)

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United States of Americana
July 18, 2010
8:00 a.m.

Alex Chilton - Free Again
Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/Steve Earle - T'Ain't Nobody's Business (CD: Preservation) performing at the Dakota on Monday and Tuesday
Tony Joe White - Willie & Laura Mae Jones (Black and White)
Shelby Lynne - Don't Think Twice It's Alright (The Village)
Luke Redfield - With You in Minnepolis (Ephemeral Eon) perfroming at Big Vees tonite/Sauce Monday/Kitty kat thurs
Whiskeytown - Inn Town (Strangers Almanac)
The Mad Ripple - Lyric Sheet (People Who Need People) (Here Tattoos Could Sail Ships) the Hoot at Mears Park Friday eve w/Martin Devaney and Eliza Blue Graham Parker - Weather Report (Imaginary Television) Brits rooftop garden at 3pm today
Solomon Burke featuring Emmylou Harris - We're Gonna Hold On (Nashville)
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Trouble in Your Mind (Genuine Negro Jig)
Punch Brothers - Rye Whiskey (Antifogmatic)
Lefty Frizzell and Johnny Bond - Sick Sober and Sorry
Sahara Smith - The Real Thing (Myth of the Heart)
Band of Horses - Older (Infinite Arms)

United States of Americana
July 18, 2010
9:00 a.m.