Steve Earle - Magnetised Motherfuckers & More Magnetised Motherfuckers

OK, as promised....FINALLY! It took me a while to upload this as I was having technical differcations (to create a Bushism), but here it is....the massive Steve Earle rarites box. Comprised of 4 discs that are jam packed with Steve Earle heroin & high cholesterol goodness....that is, these tracks are pre 9/11 Steve, so we all know what that means (good stuff). Not that I have anything against his post 9/11 work, but I know alot of people do. So anyway, here it is. It's a collection of live songs, songs he cut for soundtracks or tributes, songs he guested on other peoples albums, songs from radio promos, Duets, Singles, etc...

Disc 1
1. Continental Trailways Blues (Steve Earle & The Dukes) (Planes, Trains And Automobiles Soundtrack, 1987)
2. Six Days On The Road (Steve Earle & The Dukes) (Planes, Trains And Automobiles Soundtrack, 1987)
3. Honey Don't (Steve Earle & Joe Walsh) (Beverly Hillbillies Soundtrack, 1993)
4. What's Your Name (Steve Earle) (Skynyrd Frynds, 1994)
5. Johnny Too Bad (Steve Earle & The V-Roys) (Steve Earle & The V-Roys: Johnny Too Bad CD Single, 1996)
6. Ellis Unit One (Steve Earle & The Fairfield Four) (Steve Earle & The V-Roys: Johnny Too Bad CD Single, 1996)
7. Johnny Too Bad (Steve Earle & The V-Roys; Jamaican Hillbilly Mix) (Steve Earle & The V-Roys: Johnny Too Bad CD Single, 1996 )
8. Crying, Waiting, Hoping (Steve Earle & Marty Stuart) (Notfadeaway: Remembering Buddy Holly, 1996)
9. Creepy Jackalope Eye (Steve Earle & The Supersuckers) (Steve Earle & The Supersuckers: Sub Pop EP, 1997)
10. Angel Is The Devil (The Supersuckers & Steve Earle) From Steve Earle & The Supersuckers: Sub Pop EP, 1997)
11. Before They Make Me Run (Steve Earle & The Supersuckers) (Steve Earle & The Supersuckers: Sub Pop EP, 1997)
12. In The Jailhouse Now (Steve Earle & The V-Roys) (The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute, 1997)
13. Hot Enough For Ya (Steve Earle & Lee Rocker, Scotty Moore, D. J. Fontana) (All The King's Men, 1997)
14. Poison Love (Buddy Miller & Steve Earle) (Buddy Miller: Poison Love, 1997)
15. I Call On You (Julie Miller & Steve Earle) (Julie Miller: Blue Pony, 1997)
16. Dallas (Jack Ingram & Steve Earle) (Jack Ingram: Livin' Or Dyin', 1997)
17. Don't Take Your Guns To Town (Jerry Douglas & Steve Earle) (Jerry Douglas: Restless On The Farm, 1998)
18. Desperados Waiting For A Train (Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, Steve Earle et al) (Nanci Griffith: Other Voices Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful), 1998)
19. Dirty Old Town (Bap Kennedy & Steve Earle) (Bap Kennedy: Domestic Blues, 1998)
20. Me And The Eagle (Steve Earle) (The Horse Whisperer: Songs From And Inspired By The Motion Picture, 1998)

Disc 2
1. Sunday Morning Coming Down (Kris Kristofferson & Steve Earle) (Kris Kristofferson: The Austin Sessions, 1999)
2. Love Match (Buddy Miller & Steve Earle) (Buddy Miller: Cruel Moon, 1999)
3. High Fashion Queen (Chris Hillman & Steve Earle) (Return Of The Grievous Angel: A Tribute To Gram Parsons, 1999)
4. Breed (Steve Earle & The Dukes) (Transcendental Blues (Japan), 2000)
5. Time Has Come Today (Steve Earle & Sheryl Crow) (Steal This Movie Soundtrack, 2000)
6. The Galway Girl (Sharon Shannon & Steve Earle) (Sharon Shannon: The Galway Girl CD Single, 2000)
7. Our Lady Of The Highways (John Wesley Harding & Steve Earle) (John Wesley Harding: The Confessions Of St. Ace 2000)
8. The Truth (Steve Earle) (Free The West Memphis Three, 2000)
9. Nebraska (Steve Earle & The Dukes) (Johnny Come Lately CD Single, 1988)
10. Little Sister (Steve Earle & The Dukes) (Copperhead Road CD Single, 1988)
11. State Trooper (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Chicago, IL, 15-Aug-1986 (Back To The Wall CD Single, 1989)
12. Dead Flowers (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Calgary, Canada, 14-Apr-1989 (The Other Kind UK CD Single, 1990)
13. Copperhead Road (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Calgary, Canada, 14-Apr-1989 (Steve Earle & Energy Orchard HMV Promo, 1990)
14. I Ain't Ever Satisfied (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Calgary, Canada, 14-Apr-1989 (Steve Earle & Energy Orchard HMV Promo, 1990)
15. Guitar Town (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Calgary, Canada, 14-Apr-1989 (The Other Kind UK CD Single, 1990)
16. When Will We Be Married? (Steve Earle & The Dukes) London, England, 29-Nov-1988 (BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert, 1992)
17. Hard-Core Troubadour (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Henning, TN, 26-Jun-1996 (Hard-Core Troubadour US Promo CD, 1996)
18. White Freight Liner Blues (Steve Earle) (Rig Rock Deluxe: A Musical Salute To The American Truck Driver, 1996)
19. Ellis Unit One (Steve Earle) Boulder, CO, 22-Sep-1996 (E-Town Live, 1997)

Disc 3
1. Copperhead Road (Steve Earle & Peter Rowan, Roy Huskey Jr., Norman Blake) (American Songbook, 1997)
2. Sorry Dwayne (Steve Earle & The Dukes) (More Than I Can Do CD Single (Australia), 1996)
3. You Know The Rest (Steve Earle) Nashville, TN, 1-Oct-1997 (The Fairfield Four & Friends: Live From Mountain Stage, 2000)
4. Valentine's Day (Steve Earle & The Fairfield Four) Nashville, TN, 1-Oct-1997 (The Fairfield Four & Friends: Live From Mountain Stage, 2000)
5. Christmas In Washington (Steve Earle) Nashville, TN, 14-Jul-1999 (Freedom Sings: First Amendment Center, 2000)
6. This Land Is Your Land (Steve Earle et al) Nashville, TN, 14-Jul-1999 (Freedom Sings: First Amendment Center, 2000)
7. Copperhead Road (Steve Earle & The Del Mccoury Band) Hamburg, Germany, 13-May-1999(The Mountain CD Single, 1999)
8. I Ain't Ever Satisfied (Steve Earle) Hamburg, Germany, 13-May-1999 (The Mountain CD Single, 1999)
9. Sin City (Steve Earle & The Bluegrass Dukes) Fargo, ND, 20-Aug-1999 (Transcendental Blues US Bonus CD, 2000)
10. My Uncle (Steve Earle & The Bluegrass Dukes) Fargo, ND, 20-Aug-1999 (Transcendental Blues US Bonus CD, 2000)
11. Copperhead Road (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Bristow, VA, 12-Sep-1999 (Farm Aid: Volume 1 Live, 2000)
12. The Galway Girl (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Austin, TX, 16-Mar-2000 (Transcendental Blues UK Bonus CD, 2000)
13. Steve's Last Ramble (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Austin, TX, 16-Mar-2000 (Transcendental Blues UK Bonus CD, 2000)
14. I Feel Alright (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Austin, TX, 16-Mar-2000 (Transcendental Blues UK Bonus CD, 2000)
15. Copperhead Road (Steve Earle & The Dukes) Austin, TX, 16-Mar-2000 (Transcendental Blues UK Bonus CD, 2000)
16. Until The Day I Die (Steve Earle & The Del Mccoury Band) Glasgow, Scotland, 16-Mar-1999
17. Sara's Angel (Steve Earle & The Bluegrass Dukes) Seattle, WA, 29-Aug-1999
18. Goodbye (Steve Earle & Emmylou Harris, Sharon Shannon) Washington, D.C., 13-May-2000

Disc 4 - More Magnetised Motherfuckers
1. Light In The Window (Greg Trooper) (Greg Trooper: Noises In The Hallway, 1996)
2. Love Is Never Equal (Jill Sobule) (Jill Sobule: Happy Town, 1997)
3. Losers Weep (Stacey Earle) (Stacey Earle: Simple Gearle, 1998)
4. Concrete And Barbed Wire (Lucinda Williams) (Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, 1998)
5. I'll Keep It With Mine (Greg Trooper) (Greg Trooper: Popular Demons, 1998)
6. Open Your Window (Steve Earle) (Pay It Forward Soundtrack, 2000)
7. Neverland (Cindy Bullens) (Cindy Bullens: Neverland, 2001)
8. Candy Man (Steve & Justin Earle) (Avalon Blues: A Tribute To The Music Of Mississippi John Hurt, 2001)
9. Two Girls (Steve Earle & The Dukes) (Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt, 2001)
10. Walking Down Death Row (Steve Earle) (If I Had A Song... The Songs Of Pete Seeger Vol. 2, 2001)
11. Mercenary Song (Steve Earle, Guy Clark & Townes Van Zandt) Nashville, TN, 13-Sep-1995 (Together At The Bluebird Café, 2001)
12. Ft. Worth Blues (Steve Earle) Cambridge, England, 26-Jul-1997
13. Ellis Unit One (Steve Earle) (KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 6, 1998)
14. Goodbye (Steve Earle) (E-Town Show #9828, feed date 10-Jul-1998)
15. Hometown Blues (Steve Earle) (E-Town Show #9828, feed date 10-Jul-1998)
16. Raleigh And Spencer (Tim O'Brien, Steve Earle & Friends) Nashville, TN, 7-Jul-1999
17. Christmas In Washington (Steve Earle) Santa Rosa, CA, 2-Dec-1999 (Concerts For A Landmine Free World, 2001)
18. Halo 'Round The Moon (Steve Earle) (KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 8, 2000)
19. South Nashville Blues (Steve Earle) (KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 9, 2001)

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Great post over at The Heat Warps (Link Wray - Link Wray)

Ok, so the Steve Earle is giving me problems uploading.....so in the meantime.....I found this killer post over at The Heat Warps:

Now I'm a big fan of Link Wray's early 70's work, and this self-titled album released in 1971 (and long out of print) is the centerpiece of that work. This is not the Link Wray you are familiar with, this is rootsy, gutteral, bluesy, folksy.....just damned good. Think of it like this, this album is to Link Wray what "American Recordings" was to Johnny Cash. This album was recorded in an abandoned chicken coup dubbed the "three-track shack" and features some of the best country-rock-folk-blues you are likely to ever hear. Pretty much every song on here is essential listening, but the standouts among the standouts are "La-Di-Da", "Take Me Home Jesus", "Fallin' Rain", "Rise and Fall of Jimmy Stokes", "God Out West", and the exposive "Fire and Brimstone". Download this just for "fire and brimstone" if you haven't heard it, and I guarantee you will be a convert.

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comin' up

Some things I'm working on for upcoming posts:

Bottle Rockets Sampler
Whiskeytown Sampler
some live Gourds
some more live Slaid Cleaves
A hellacious Steve Earle rare box set
An Alt-Country 1989-1999 sampler (very rough idea right now)
possibly a country rock sampler, something like 1965-1975 (another very rough idea)

and there's probably some other random stuff I'll throw up in between those.

Brian Henneman (of the Bottle Rockets) - Live Solo Oct. 10th, 2001

I got a request for some live Bottle Rockets, well I'll get to that, but here is a killer Brian Henneman solo show. Brian Henneman is the leader of the Bottle Rockets, and he writes all their songs.....he also used to play with Uncle Tupelo and is all over Wilco's first album (you know the one that doesn't completely suck :P). The Bottle Rockets are a great band, and if you're not familiar with them, I will be doing a sampler of them here soon. This is also a good intro to them, though it's not quite as rockin' as they can be.

On this boot Henneman runs through some of my fave BoRox songs....particularly "Idiot's Revenge" & "Perfect Far Away".....not to mention "1000 Dollar Car", "Wave That Flag", & "Turn For The Worse".

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Slaid Cleaves - Live on KUT May 31st, 2006

Here's a nice little Slaid Cleaves set for you. If your not familiar with Slaid, he's one hell of a songwriter from Texas. Only here he is doing other peoples songs, in support of his 2006 album "Unsung". So really this one is not much of an introduction to him and will be more for the people who are already familiar with him. It's a good recording nonetheless, he just spends alot of time talking about the songs on said album. I will probably put up a different boot sometime later that will be a better intro, but this is not bad.

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The Meat Purveyors - Live on KUT Austin, TX April 28th 2002

How would I describe The Meat Purveyors, well "frantic lesbian bluegrass" is my favorite way to describe it. These guys are good, damned good. They take traditional bluegrass and add just the right amount of punk abandon to it. And did I mention they can play......some damn fined instrumentalists. Anyway, give it a listen if you dig bluegrass. Even if you don't dig bluegrass, give it a listen, they just might convert you.

Fans of "The Gourds" & "Bad Livers" will probably dig this as well.

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A Truer Sampler 06 - The Sound Of Texas 1970 - 1979

Allright, first let me state that I'm not from Texas, nor have I ever been to Texas. I do know a couple people from Texas, but that still doesn't qualify me to make a definitive "Texas Music" sampler.....even though I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night :P. So this is just a compilation with an outsider's (who happens to love Texas music) perception. Besides, I like to think Texas and Virginia have a rich musical connection that goes all the way back to when the Carter Family relocated there to be on border radio back in the 30's, and more recently....Steve Earle who was born in VA and legend has it that his grandfather had dirt brought in from texas in a shoebox so that the first piece of soil Earle's feet touched would be Texas soil.

So with this sampler I wanted it to be different and not include the "standard" texas songs you would normally get on something like this, so I tried to choose more obscure songs from the higher profile guys. Also, a couple of the guys on here aren't specifically Texas (Steve Young & Gary Stewart) but I would consider them "Texas-centric". Another thing is the Blaze Foley song was not released until 2006 but was recorded in 1979, so I snuck it in there. I think the end result is a pretty good compilation that is easy on the ears.
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1. The Year 2003 Minus 25 - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
Off the 1978 album "Waylon & Willie". It's a Kristofferson song, so he's represented too. Just thought I would kick it off with the two who really opened the doors for everyone else.
2. Dallas - The Flatlanders
Originally released in 1972, then re-released years later on "More a Legend Than A Band", this is just a classic Texas song.
3. Texas Lullaby - David Allan Coe
Off his 1975 album "Longhaired Redneck" which is among his best work. DAC gets a bad rap but in my opinion he is one of the best.
4. Kiss Money - Bob Neuwirth
Off his 1974 self-titled album, Bob Neuwirth is often overlooked but I just love this song. He is probably most famous for writing the song "Mercedes Benz" with Janis Joplin. He also helped Bob Dylan assemble his Rolling Thunder Revue tour.
5. Desperados Waiting For A Train - Guy Clark
Off his 1975 debut album "Old No. 1" this is another classic song. Features Steve Earle on background vocals, so he's represented too. (Emmylou sings backup vocals too)
6. Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
Off his 1972 album "The Late Great Townes Van Zandt". His most famous song, made famous by Willie & Merle and Emmylou. I always liked the sparseness of his version though.
7. Treat Me Like A Saturday Night - Joe Ely
Off his self titled 1977 debut album. Joe Ely was 1/3 of the legendary Flatlanders out of lubbock.
8. Amarillo Highway - Terry Allen
Off his 1979 masterpiece "Lubbock (On Everything)", Terry Allen also hails from lubbock and is well known in the artists community for his artwork.
9. Election Day - Blaze Foley (and the Beaver Valley Boys)
OK, this is off the 2006 release "Cold, Cold World" but was actually recorded in 1979 Sessions and lost for years. Blaze was a character....and one of my favorites. He was best friends with Townes Van Zandt, and was shot in 1989 by one of his friends son. Also the subject of numerous songs, most notably Lucinda Williams "Drunken Angel".
10. (Up Against The Wall) Redneck Mother - Ray Wylie Hubbard
Off his 1978 release "Off The Wall", this song was made famous years earlier by Jerry Jeff Walker, and is what I would like to consider an anthem for the cosmic cowboys. Check out this Youtube vid where RWH tells the storie of writing this song.
11. Georgia On A Fast Train - Billy Joe Shaver
Off his 1973 masterpiece "Old Five And Dimers Like Me". Billy Joe was the fuel behind the whole outlaw/progressive country movement, and many, many others recorded his songs and made them famous. Hell Waylon did a whole album of his songs.
12. Jaded Lover - Jerry Jeff Walker
Off his 1975 album "Ridin’ High" Jerry Jeff is probably most famous for penning the song "Mr. Bojangles" but his later mid 70's stuff is where I think he really shines.
13. Devil In A Sleepin’ Bag - Willie Nelson
Off his 1973 album "Shotgun Willie", It's vintage Willie, what else can I say. Also he namechecks Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge in this song....so there represented.
14. Memories of You and I - Waylon Jennings
Off his 1974 album "The Ramblin’ Man", this is when Waylon was really hittin' his stride and could do no wrong.
15. The White Trash Song - Steve Young
Steve Young, not from texas. This is off his 1972 album Seven Bridges Road....that's right, THAT seven bridges road. Probably his most famous song, but he also wrote "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" which Waylon made famous.
16. Drinkin’ Thing - Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart, also not from texas. This is off his 1975 release "Out of Hand" and Stewart was a master of the hardcore honkytonk style, and was at home in Texas during the 70's.
17. Texas Tornado - Doug Sahm
Off his 1973 LP Texas Tornado, Doug Sahm was a true Texas rebel. Probably most famous for his late 80's early 90's band The Texas Tonadoes with Freddy Fender, this is the song that band took their name from.
18. Asshole From El Paso - Kinky Friedman
Off 1976's Lasso From El Paso album, Kinky is probably most famous now for his bid for governership of texas this past election. Shame he didn't win.
19. Gettin’ By - Jerry Jeff Walker
Off the essential 1973 live album Viva Terlingua!, just a good song.
20. Ride Me Down Easy - David Allan Coe
Off his 1977 album with controversial cover art Texas Moon. This is a Billy Joe Shaver song, but I love what DAC has done with it.
21. The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma - Terry Allen
Another song off his 1979 "Lubbock (On Everything)" album. I love it when he gets to the part about her sitting in a french chair naked.
22. Let Him Roll - Guy Clark
Another one off Guy's 1975 album "Old No. 1", I just really like this song so I put it on here.
23. Rake - Townes Van Zandt
Off 1971's Delta Momma Blues, another song I really like and thought it was a fitting end to this collection.

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ATS06 - The Sound of Texas 1970-1979

A Truer Sampler 05 - Scott Miller (with The V-Roys & The Commonwealth)

Allright, now Scott Miller is another of my favorites. Been following his career for a long, long time. I first heard him was on the Bubbapalooza CD which I had bought strictly for the SCOTS live song on it. Scott Miller was a pleasent surprise to find on that album. Then a year or so later I picked up the first V-Roys album "Just Add Ice" and instantly fell in love with it. The V-Roys were the pride of Knoxeville, TN and the first band signed to Steve Earle's record label (E-Squared). Truth be told, the only reason I picked the album up in the first place was cause I saw Steve Earle's name on the back of the case as producer. It wasn't until I started reading through the liner notes that I figured out this was the same guy from the Bubbapalooza CD.

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The V-Roys still remain one of my favorite bands from that era and it's a shame they broke up, but luckily Scott persevered and has had a fruitful solo career since the V-Roys. I remember when I picked up his first solo album "Thus Always To Tyrants" and finally figured out that he was from VA....that made me like him even more. All of his solo album have been pretty good, but his shows....that's where he really shines. I'm hoping to catch him this coming august. If you can't catch him, go out and buy his newest album (which is a live album) "Reconstruction"

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Buy His Stuff Here

http://www.thescottmiller.com/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Miller_(musician)

http://www.w3st.com/vroys/

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ATS05 - Scott Miller

They call her Mother Hubbard cause that's what and who she is

I'm almost speechless here, we have recieved a high profile visitor to our humble little site on the interweb. None other than Mother Hubbard, that's right, Ray Wylie Hubbard's wife...known colloquially as Mother Hubbard. She threw down her polecat, kicked the banjo back under the bed, turned off Reservoir Dogs and made a nice little visit to this here blog.....at least that's how I'm gonna imagine it :)

Here is the comment she left for us with the Ray Wylie Hubbard Sampler post:

blackwidow00 said...
Thanks for the kind words...I will pass them on to the Wylie Llama. Just want to remind everyone if you like the stuff and want to order CD's please do so off the artists websites. We never see the money from the record label when you order off the other sites...amazon, etc. This way we can buy milk for the baby, guitars for the poet and for mom...pay the pool guy:)Love,PeaceMother Hubbard

Mother Hubbard, tell Ray Wylie I've been turnin' people left and right onto his music in VA and he has a small contingency of hardcore fans in these here mountains. Tell him can't wait for his new album to come out either.....has he thought about doing a DVD, would love to see something like that.

Thanks for pointing out that we should be ordering music off the artists websites. I wasn't aware that was the best way to do it. Lord knows in these days of wild west music distribution, I want as much of my money going to a deserving artist as possible.

I have went and changed all the links I had made to amazon to now point to the artist's direct store, and will do so with all future links. Thanks for the info, and thanks for leaving a comment....you really made my day.

A Truer Sampler 04 - Drive By Truckers

Now this one was incredibly hard to whittle down, they have so many good songs. And I don't want to hear any crap about the artwork either....I tried and tried and that's the best I could come up with...I just went for the cheese factor like their early album covers :P......besides, you can print it out and color it if you want. So I talk about DBT alot on here, they are one of my absolute favorite bands, they are actually THE band that restored my faith in new music. See I had kind of lost faith in new music sometime around '98/'99. I just couldn't find anything that excited me, that is until I discovered the mighty Drive-By Truckers.

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But before I get into that let me talk about the local record shop (RIP) I used to frequent. This is the same shop I would go buy all the SCOTS & Old 97's albums and they had a killer section for this type of music that didn't have a label on it because that was before anyone had settled on a proper name. Well anyway, this section on the CD rack was only about 4 rows of CD's but it was all killer stuff, and sometimes I would just buy something from there to see what it sounded like. Well one of the CD's they had in there that I must have picked up a gazilion times to look at but for some reason never bought was a CD called "Gangstabilly" by a group called "Drive-By Truckers". Now I never bought it cause I thought it would be some cheesy cheesy music....novelty music. This is one of the biggest mistakes I have ever made concerning a music purchase. It wasn't until years later that I heard about this strange band called Drive-By Truckers again....I had read a few reviews in a couple magazines of their album "Southern Rock Opera" which was highly spoken of. So I downloaded a few tracks (this was in Napster's heyday) and was just blown away by songs like "Zip City" and "Ronnie and Neil". I went out and bought "Southern Rock Opera" the next day. Now this was right before "Decoration Day" came out. When it did come out, I ran out and bought that too.....the day it was released.....which I have done with every one of their albums since. They were the first band I was genuinly excited about in years.....I felt like I was a young'n again just discovering music.....and they opened the door for me to dig deeper into new music and I started discovering all kinds of stuff I was not even aware was out there. And I'm still excited about music now, their's in particular....and for that I would like to thank them.

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I had to cut alot of good songs from this, some of my faves too like: Nine Bullets, Ronnie and Neil, One of These Days, Company I Keep, Sounds Better In A Song, Sinkhole, Where The Devil Don't Stay, Cottenseed, Danko/Manual, Goddamn Lonely Love.....just too many to list that I had to cut, I could have easily made this a double discer.....but I would encerouge each and everyone of you, if you don't already own them to go out and get everyone of their albums. If you only got the bread for a couple albums, then definitely at least get "Decoration Day" and "The Dirty South". Those two are essential. After that get the DVD "Live at the 40 Watt", then "Southern Rock Opera", "Pizza Deliverance", "Gangstabilly", the amazing early live album "Alabam Ass Whoopin" & Patterson Hood's solo album "Killers & Stars"....then if you like all that get "Blessing and a Curse".

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Buy Their Albums Here

http://www.drivebytruckers.com/

http://www.ninebullets.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-By_Truckers

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ATS04 - Drive By Truckers

A Truer Sampler 03 - Ray Wylie Hubbard

OK, this one was really hard to whittle down to 80 minutes. But I think what I came up with is a good overview of an artist I can only describe as a lyrical genius. Ray Wylie Hubbard is my latest musical obsession, download this sampler to find out why. Nasty grooves, gruff vocals, killer slide guitar, and some of the best damn lyrics you're likely to ever hear. Now on this disc I had to leave out his most famous song (made famous by Jerry Jeff Walker in the 70's) "Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother" but you can find a killer version of it on the Stingaree bootleg I previously posted. I also did not put a song off his first album after his reinvention as, what I like to describe as "a mystic troubador", 1992's "Lost Train of Thought". Though It has some good songs on it, the flow was better without them.

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Now I seriously love Ray Wylie Hubbard....I think he is the best artist out there performing and recording right now. I first heard of him a long time ago....with the aforementioned song "Redneck Mother". I kind of thought he just faded into obscurity during the 70's never to be heard from again. Fast forward to a couple of years ago, I hear the song "Choctaw Bingo" on a DBT station I created on Pandora.com. "Holy Shit, this song is amazing" I thought, so I did a little research and found out that he had in fact faded into obscurity & drug addiction during the 70's and 80's, only to clean himself up and be "musically reborn" in the early 90's. He took his first guitar lessons, and learned to play the blues like Lightnin' Hopkins....and man he can play it too. Then he started putting out killer album after killer album....I went out and bought them all (well I had to order most of them). Every album was fantastic, I especially like "Eternal and Lowdown". I would call that his masterpiece, it's just a perfect album from start to finish. And "Choctaw Bingo" though it's a James McMurtry song, is in my top 10 of greatest songs ever....it's a song I wish would never end....I just want to hear more and more, and when Ray Wylie sings it you believe every last word of it

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Buy His Stuff Here

http://www.raywylie.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Wylie_Hubbard

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ATS03 - Ray Wylie Hubbard

Ray Wylie Hubbard - Stingaree Music Festival - April 13th, 2007

I've made no secret of my love for Ray Wylie Hubbard, I will get to that in more detail in my RWH sampler post. But first here is a killer bootleg from the Stingaree Music Festival, or as Ray calls it "Hayesapalooza". This was the first stingaree festival, the brainchild of Hayes Carll (I love that guy too) to showcase some of his friends and favorite artists and held in his "base camp" town of Crystal Beach, Texas. And man what a lineup they had....I would have loved to have gone: Todd Snider, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Hayes Carll, Corb Lund, The Dedringers....man talk about a killer line up. This is the first of what I hope is many bootlegs from this festival.

And what a great one it is too....Ray Wylie puts on one hell of a show and has some of the best banter you will hear. This also contains probably THE BEST version of "Wanna Rock And Roll" I have heard to date.

http://www.stingareemusicfestival.com/

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Hayes Carll & Ray Wylie Hubbard - Chickens (Live from Stingaree) (Video Clip)

Two of my absolute favorites together

A Truer Sampler 02 - Old 97's

OK, so here's the second of the planned Samplers......which I'm calling "A Truer Sampler" (clever eh). Now the Old 97's were my second musical obsession after I got burnt out on SCOTS. I first heard them on some sampler CD that came with some long out of print magazine...it was the song "Time Bomb" off their 1997 masterpiece album "Too Far To Care". Now I'm not one of those "indie cred" types that pretend they were into every band before they got popular, I think that is about as douchebag as it gets, so I don't have any problem admitting I was late to the game on them....as Too Far To Care was that one thing all those aforementioned indie douchebags hate to see....a MAJOR LABEL DEBUT (oh the horror). But I digress....I seem to have gotten off track.

So after hearing this song "Time Bomb" I went out to my favorite local record store (RIP) and picked up Too Far To Care.....sounded like heaven to my ears. Then I did what I always do with a band I get obsessed with, I dug through their back catalouge....which was pretty easy cause the only older album still in print was "Wreck Your Life", which is also a masterpiece.

Then out comes "Fight Songs" and I rush out to my local record store (RIP) to pick it up, jam it in my discman and the first song is "Jagged"..."holy shit! this is good" I thought. Then the others songs played on, but I wasn't as excited about them cause they weren't as "twangy" as I thought they should be....but it was still a damned good album. Then "Early Tracks" came out which was a collection of early singles....THIS was the old 97's that I loved, they even had a Johnny Cash cover on it, and it was a NEW Johnny Cash song...unheard of....but great!

Around this same time I was waiting for the much fabled "Ranchero Brothers" album (Rhett Miller & Ken Bethae acoustic) but I'm still waiting for that, as I'm sure alot of Old 97's fans are. What they did give us was Satellite Rides. Now I know alot of people out there love this album....but to me, all I could think was "what happened to my favorite band", "where did the twang go". This was the album where they really went downhill for me, and even the newest one didn't really do much for me....Rhett Miller's solo stuff REALLY didn't do it for me. But I still hold a dear place in my heart for those first three albums (I eventually got their out of print first album) and the "Early Tracks" EP.

So anyway, here is my collection of songs for you guys to check them out with....you'll notice that the tracks lean towards the early stuff, but like always I try to include at least one song from each album (and the later albums weren't all bad anyway). Really there is not a bad track on "Too Far To Care" though, I could have put that whole album on here. Rhett Miller really knew how to turn a phrase too, those early albums hold some of my favorite lyrics ever. I hope you guys enjoy this, cause I enjoyed compiling it.

Buy Their Stuff Here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_97

http://www.old97s.com/

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ATS02 - The Old 97's

A Truer Sampler 01 - Southern Culture On The Skids

Ok, so here's the first sampler.....one of my favorite groups....Southern Culture On The Skids, or as the fans call them SCOTS. Now let me just preface this by saying that when I was around 12 or 13 I used to steal my sister's hair metal tapes, and tape over them with my boom box that sat in the headboard of my bed. Now I would always just tape stuff off the radio that I thought was cool, and typically I would end up taping stuff off the local college station. This was always late at night too and if you've ever listened to college radio you know that they play some pretty weird stuff, especially late at night. Well I had a bunch of these tapes, and my favorite was a taped over Night Ranger tape that had this bad ass song about a mexican wrestler who was also a super hero at night.

Fast forward a few years, and I had completely forgotten about those tapes. I hear this cool song on the radio (different station this time) about little debbie cakes and snack crackers. So I search it out and find out it's a group called Southern Culture On The Skids. I go buy the CD "Dirt Track Date" and loved the hell out of it...used to cruise around to it in my old LTD with the discman plugged into the tape deck. Naturally I start collecting their back catalouge....and find stuff that just keeps getting better and better....songs about wrestling bears & eatin' biscuits and chicken shit. Then I get a newly released EP of some early tracks, it was called Viva Del Santo....I walk out of the local record shop (RIP) plop it in my discman...and holy shit! it's that song I taped off the radio about the mexican wrestler! Pretty Cool I thought.

They became one of my all time favorite bands, and if you've never seen them live you really need to, one of the (if not the) best shows I've ever seen.

Now the way I'm gonna do these samplers is to try my best to put at least one song from every album an artist or group has. On this one though I did not include a song from their very very early first album (from 1985) cause they weren't really the same band then, and I didn't include one from the "Zombified" EP cause well....I kinda ran out of room and the songs weren't as strong as others. Also, the songs I pick are based purely on my tastes, and nothing else.....so if you think something is missing or don't like what I picked, well.....they are just songs I like and think other people should hear.

Buy There Stuff Here

http://www.scots.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Culture_on_the_Skids

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ATS01 - Southern Culture On The Skids

Drive-By Truckers - Rare Tracks

OK, so we'll get to the sampler's shortly. First I wanted to post this, it's a little "EP" I worked up of some rare DBT tracks. Now half of these are from the "Blessing and a Curse" bonus disc....which I've already posted, but I felt they deserved to be on here. The real gems of course (unless you haven't heard the bonus disc either) are the cover of Skynyrd's "Every Mother's Son" and the Dirty South outtake "Great Car Dealer War". This actually makes a nice little cohesive EP and has satisfied me as something new to listen to until a new DBT album comes out (they are in the studio RIGHT NOW!)

Some other DBT news: They are currently doing their "Dirt Underneath Tour" where they are road testing their new songs. I also read there is some kind of documentary coming out possibly sometime this year.....HOLY SHIT, I cannot wait for that.

1. Outfit - from "Austin City Limits Music Festival: 2003 Collection"


2. Every Mother's Son - from "Under The Influence: A Jam Band Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd"


3. Great Car Dealer War - Outake from "The Dirty South", from "Comes With A Smile Vol. 16" (Comes With A Smile is a British magazine)


4. When The Well Runs Dry - from "Blessing and a Curse" Bonus Disc


5. Like A Rolling Stone - from "Blessing and a Curse" Bonus Disc


6. Careless (Live) - from "Blessing and a Curse" Bonus Disc


7. Marry Me (Live) - from "Blessing and a Curse" Bonus Disc


8. Dress Blues (Live) - from the official Drive-By Truckers website

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I'm gonna do a few "samplers" of certain artists, here's what I have planned:

Southern Culture On The Skids (by request)
Old 97's (almost by request)
Ray Wylie Hubbard (my favorite guy)
Drive By Truckers (my other favorite)
Scott Miller/V-Roys (another favorite)
70's Texas Music (by request)


there's a few others I could do, but I'll leave it at that for now....If anybody has any requests for one of these samplers, I'll try my best to fulfill it.

It don't matter who's in Austin,Bob Wills is still the king

A gift from Eek! The Cat from Twilightzone: What do you get when you cross big city jazz music with hillbilly music.....why Bob Wills of course, who pioneered the sound in the 30's.

Read about him here

Eek! The Cat Presents:

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Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
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I grew up listening to Bob Wills as he was one of my father's all time favorite musicians. Back in the early '60's, we lived in Texas, and Mr. wills would play in a lot of the local venues. My Dad would always be there, and he (Dad) used to tell stories about buying drinks (vodka straight up) for Mr. Wills all night, and with each drink, Dad would write a couple of song requests on the napkin served with the drink, and Bob Wills would play them all! They actually got to be pretty fair friends. Dad said if Mr. Wills heard someone in the audience refer to his music as "Country," he would get "fightin' mad," and his band would have to talk him out of going out into the audience to "have a talk with the gentleman." :>}

This album has most of my favorites (with the exception of "Bubbles In My Beer" and "Take Me Back To Tulsa"). If there's enough response, I have MUCH more.

Anyway, I still love Bob Wills' brand of Western Swing. The way he interacts and kids around with his musicians while they are playing has always been one of my favorite aspects of his music. Lines like, "I told you, Sheriff, 'shoot low, she's ridin' shotgun!'" and "A man after my own heart ... with a razor!" always make me smile no matter how many times I hear them. "Come here ... no ... stay there. Play! Waaaaah!"

Haaawww!

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Adam's House Cat - Town Burned Down (Out of Print Pre-DBT album)

Adam's House Cat was Patterson Hood's and Mike Cooley's first band together, pre-DBT circa 1985-1991. This album as yet still unreleased was recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1990. It features early versions of "Lookout Mountain" & "Nine Bullets" and a slew of other kickass songs. One of my favorites off this is "Runaway Train". It nice to hear some early work of Patterson & Cooley....and this album is a nice glimpse of the genius work that was to come.

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