Freight Train Boogie Show #570

Posted on February 16, 2026 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #570 features the new album John Craigie entitled I Swam Here. Also new music from Steve Poltz, Emily Scott Robinson, Clay Street Unit and Big Richard. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here is the direct link to listen now!

Show #570

John Craigie – Fire Season I Swam Here
Natalie Del Carmen – El Cortez Pastures  
Cordovas – Step Outside Back to Life
Steve Poltz– Love a Little Bigger JoyRide
(mic break)
Emily Scott Robinson – Dirtbag Saloon Appalachia
Sammy Brue – Love At A Glance The Journals
Keegan McInroe – Neon John Neon John 
John Craigie – I Remember Nothing  I Swam Here
(mic break)
Clay Street Unit – Drive Sin & Squalor
Big Richard – Millionaire  Pet
Terry Klein – Try  Hill Country Folk Music
Melissa Carper & Theo Lawrence – Thank You, But No Thank You Havin’ A Talk 
Garrett Boys – Back Home feat. Steve Earle It Runs Deep
(mic break)
John Craigie – Edna Strange I Swam Here
Vince Gill – March On March On 50 Years From Home: Secondhand Smoke

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(Feb. 15th, 2026)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #569

Posted on January 25, 2026 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #569 features the album Circle and Square by Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz. Also new music from Tommy Womack, Lucinda Williams, Cordovas and the Sam Grisman Project. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here is the direct link to listen now!

Show #569


Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz – 10 to 4 Circle and Square
Eric & The Soo – Motel Blues Phoenix
Solid Air – Dusty Road The West is on Fire
Jesper Lindell – Pretend I Never Happened  3614 Jackson Highway
(mic break)
David Huckfelt – Anything I Was Born But…
The Lowest Pair – The Uncertain Seas Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be
Owen Temple –  Ain’t We Lucky  (single)
Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz – Thomas Hart Benton Circle And Square
(mic break) 
The Mammals – Do Good Touch Grass Vol. 2
Tommy Womack – I Guess We’re at that Age Live A Little
Lucinda Williams – The World’s Gone Wrong feat. Brittney Spencer World’s Gone Wrong
Cordovas – Step Outside  Back to Life
Sam Grisman Project – Long Hard Year feat. Max Flanburg  Sam Grisman Project
(mic break)
Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz – Life of the Mind  Circle and Square

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Freight Train Boogie #568 (Best of 2025 Show)

Posted on January 9, 2026 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #568 features my favorite album from 2025 including James McMurtry, Jesse Welles, The Shootouts and the late Joe Ely. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here is the direct link to listen now!

Show #568

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Slipnote Serenade  Space Junk (intro bed)
Hayes Carll – Good People (Thank Me) We’re Only Human 
The Shootouts – Half a World Away Switchback
Margo Price – Wild At Heart Hard Headed Woman
Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It Let’s Party About It 
(mic break)
Ken Pomeroy – Wrango Cruel Joke   
Jason Isbell – Wind Behind The Rain Foxes in the Snow
Willi Carlisle – Wildflowers Growin’ Winged Victory
James McMurtry – Back to Coeur d’Alene The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy  
(mic break)
Jesse Welles –  Don’t Go Giving Up Devil’s Den
Brennen Leigh – You’re Finally Hurtin’ Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love
John Cowan and Andrea Zonn – Rollin’ Down the Hill  The HercuLeons
Tyler Childers – Bitin’ List  Snipe Hunter 
(mic break)
Seth Walker – The Same Love That Made Me Laugh  Why The Worry
Suzy Thompson – Any Day Woman  Suzy Sings Siebel
Rodney Crowell – Louisiana Sunshine Feeling Okay Airline Highway  
(mic break)
Joe Ely – Honky Tonk Masquerade Honky Tonk Masquerade

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(Jan. 8th, 2026)
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Freight Train Boogie #567 (2025 Christmas Show)

Posted on December 14, 2025 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #567 features mostly new holiday songs from recent releases from artists like Wild Earp, Melissa Carper, Old Crow Medicine Show and the late Raul Malo. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here is the direct link to listen now!

Show #567

Sam Bush – Sleigh Ride (intro bed)
Melissa Carper – Plug In The Tree   A Very Carper Christmas 
The Doohickeys – Merry Happy Whatever  Merry Happy Whatever
Province of Thieves – Santa’s Reel  At Christmas Time
Old Crow Medicine Show – Corn Whiskey Christmas  OCMS XMAS
(mic break)
Willie Nelson – Christmas Love Song  single
Ryanhood – I Can Tell It’s Christmas  On Christmas
Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen – Daddy’s Drinking Up Our Christmas Hillbilly Holiday
Grey DeLisle & Les Green – I Don’t Want Nothin’ single
The Mavericks – Santa Does   Hey! Merry Christmas!
(mic break)
Ron Pope – It Ain’t Christmas single
Dan Penn – One Blue Light single
Rachael & Vilray – Just Me This Year single
Louis Armstrong – ‘Zat You, Santa Claus?  (Hipsters Holiday)
 The Shootouts – Christmas Eve Without You  (single)
(mic break)
Old Sap – Christmas in Prison  single
Old Crow Medicine Show – Jolly Man  OCMS XMAS
Wild Earp – Sick on Christmas single
Melissa Carper  – Cruisin’ In Santa’s Sleigh  A Very Carper Christmas
(mic break)
Raul Malo – Pretty Paper To Kate

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(Dec. 14th, 2025)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #566

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #566 features single songs from great recent releases from artists like Shawn Camp, Meredith Moon, John Gorka and the late Todd Snider. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here is the direct link to listen now!

Show #566

Kurt Lee Wheeler – Portland  Lathemtown
Colter Wall – 1800 Miles  Memories and Empties
Meghan Clarisse –  Strong Shadows of a Ghost Town  
Joshua Hedley – Fresh Hot Biscuits   All Hat
(mic break)
John Gorka – Particle & Wave (Goodness In The World)  unentitled
William Prince –  All the Same  Further From the Country
Meredith Moon – East City Blues  From Here To The Sea
The Far West – Happy Now Everything We Thought We Wanted 
Luke Bell – Dark House Of Fools The King Is Back
(mic break)
Joshua Ray Walker  – Stuff  Stuff
Jeremy Pinnell – Barabbas  Decades
Shawn Camp – Old Hillbilly Hand-Me-Down The Ghost of Sis Draper
Melissa Carper – Made With Love  A Very Carper Christmas
(mic break)
Todd Snider – While We Still Have A Chance High, Lonesome and Then Some.
Todd Snider – Play A Train Song  East Nashville Skyline

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(Nov. 23nd, 2025)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #565

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #565 features single songs from great recent releases from artists like Josh Ritter, Nicki Bluhm, Robbie Fulks, West Texas Exiles and more! Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here is the direct link to listen now!

Show #565

Brennen Leigh – A Reason To Drink Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love 
Dallas Burrow – When The Cowboy Rides The Way The West Was Won
West Texas Exiles – Division feat. Kelly Willis 8000 Days
Forrest VanTuyl – Mercury Comet Old Trails
 (mic break)
Alison Brown & Steve Martin – Dear Time feat. Jackson Browne  Safe, Sensible And Sane
Nicki Bluhm – Cumberland Banks Rancho Deluxe 
Jeff Berkley – People A Buffalo Trace
Clover County – Good Game Finer Things
Otis Gibbs – Unloved Flower The Trust of Crows 
(mic break)
Chaparelle and Sierra Ferrell – When It Snows In Texas
Josh Ritter – The Throne I Believe in You, My Honeydew
Jesse Welles – Will The Computer Love The Sunset Pilgrim
Dar Williams – Hummingbird Highway Hummingbird Highway
(mic break)
Robbie Fulks – Workin’ No More Blues  Now Then
Poi Rogers – You’re All That I Need Twilight Blues
Paul Burch – One If By Land Cry Love
(mic break)
Margo Price – Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down Hard Headed Woman

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(Oct. 30th, 2025)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #564

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #564 features single songs from great recent releases from artists like Hayes Carll, Briscoe, Carla Gover, Jubal Lee Young and more! Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here is the direct link to listen now!

Show #564

Cole Quest & The City Pickers – She Talks A Lot (And I Like It) Homegrown
Emily Lubitz – Big Time Two Black Horses
Of Good Nature – Hold Me feat. G. Love & Special Sauce (single)
Brent Cobb & The Fixin’s – Bad Feelin’ Ain’t Rocked in a While
(mic break)
Briscoe – Roughnecks  Heat of July
Sunny Sweeney – Traveling On Rhinestone Requiem
Gary Nicholson – We Don’t Talk About It Common Sense
The Wood Brothers –  Pray God Listens Puff of Smoke
Jubal Lee Young – Squirrels Squirrels
(mic break)
Hot Club of Cowtown – Lily Dale Limelight
Stillhouse Junkies – Lord Have Mercy The Ballad of Charlie Avalon
Nathan Evans Fox – Hillybilly Hymn (Okra and Cigarettes) (single)
Carla Gover – Hug More Necks  Kentucky Queen
Hayes Carll – May I Never  We’re Only Human
(mic break)
Flaco Jimenez – Across The Borderline feat, John Hiatt Partners


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(Aug. 18th, 2025)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #563

Posted on August 16, 2025 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #563 features single songs from great recent releases from artists like Tami Neilson, Vincent Cross, BettySoo, The Wildmans and more! Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here is the direct link to listen now!

Show #563

Willi Carlisle – Work Is Work Winged Victory
Amy Lashley – Bearded Iris Flatland Blossoms
Vincent Cross – Water Under The Bridge A Place Where Songs Come to Live
John Jenkins – Cruel Wind Restless Hearts
(mic break)
Eli West – Rocks and Trees The Shape of a Sway
The Wildmans –  Sometimes Longtime Friend
Patty Griffin – Back at the Start  Crown Of Roses
Peter Bruntnell – Out of the Pines Houdini & The Sucker Punch  
Grayson Jenkins – Good Times Go  Country Parables
(mic break)
Mose Wilson – That’s Love  That’s Love
BettySoo –  What Do You Want From Me Now  If You Never Go Away
Haystack Slim & The Broken Arrow – Bad Behavior Whiskey Rainbow
Tami Neilson – Heartbreak City, USA Neon Cowgirl
(mic break)
Ketch Secor – What Nashville Was Story The Crow Told Me

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(June 19th, 2025)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #561

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #561 features single songs from great recent releases from artists like Eliza Gilkyson, Chaparelle, Eric Schmitt, Leftover Salmon and more! Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here is the direct link to listen now!

Show #561

The Faux Paws – Night  No Bad Ideas
Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert – Short Con  Volume 4
Shinyribs – Leaving Time Leaving Time
Turnpike Troubadours – Searching For A Light Price of Admission   
(mic break)
C. Daniel Boling – What Could Possibly Go Wrong feat. Tom Paxton – It Matters
Eliza Gilkyson – Times Like These  Dark Ages 
Mark Rubin – Dog Whistle Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad
Chaparelle – Inside The Lines Western Pleasure
Horsebath – Hard To Love Another Farewell 
(mic break)
The Wildwoods – I Will Follow You to Willow Dear Meadowlark
Adam Hood, Brent Cobb – Four On The Floor (single)
Mattie Schell – Coast To Coast Everything Means Nothing
Eric Schmitt – One Of These Days  Wait For The Night
Leftover Salmon –  Good Dog Let’s Party About It
(mic break)
Kinky Friedman – See You Down The Highway Poet of Motel 6 
Jill Sobule – A Good Life

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(May 12th, 2025)
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