Freight Train Boogie Show #434 (Best Music of 2018)

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #434 features some of my favorite albums and songs from 2018. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Direct link to listen now!

Show #434  (Best of 2018 Show)

John Prine – No Ordinary Blue   The Tree of Forgiveness
Cordovas – Standin’ On The Porch  That Santa Fe Channel
Kelly Willis – I’m a Lover (not a Fighter)   Back Being Blue
Western Centuries – Own Private Honky Tonk  Songs from the Deluge
(mic break)
Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis – On The Jericho Road   Wild! Wild! Wild!
Charley Crockett – If Not The Fool Child  Lonesome as a Shadow
The War & Treaty – One and the Same  Healing Tide
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers  – Years  Years
Bottle Rockets – Bad Time To Be An Outlaw  Bit Logic
(mic break)
Brent Cobb – Ain’t A Road Too Long  Providence Canyon
Rosanne Cash – The Only Thing Worth Fighting For  She Remembers Everything
Motel Mirrors – Paper Doll  In the Meantime
Cliff Westfall – It Hurt Her To Hurt Me  Baby You Win
(mid break)
Birds of Chicago – Try  Love In Wartime
Ruston Kelly –  Jericho   Dying Star
(mic break)
Ry Cooder – Everybody Ought To Treat A Stranger Right  Prodigal Son

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(Jan. 4th, 2019)
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Freight Train Boogie Christmas Show, 2018 edition

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Bill Frater

FTB #433 is the 10th annual Christmas show with brand new tunes from holiday albums by The Mavericks, Rodney Crowell, Otis Gibbs, The Old 97’s, Shinyribs and more. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Direct link to listen now!
Have a great holiday season! Also, here’s the links to some past FTB Christmas shows… 2012… 2014… 2016…2017

Show #433…  (2018 Christmas show)

Shinyribs – Linus & Lucy  The Kringle Tingle  (intro bed)
Rodney Crowell – Christmas Everywhere feat. Lera Lynn  Christmas Everywhere
JD McPherson – Every Single Christmas   Socks
Tom MacLear – Light Love & Joy 
The Mavericks – Hey! Merry Christmas!  Hey! Merry Christmas!
(mic break)
Molly Tuttle – Old Toy Trains
Otis Gibbs – Crap For Christmas  Once I Dreamed Of Christmas   
Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers – Over the River and Through the Woods  A Rambler Christmas
Old 97’s – Love The Holidays  Love The Holidays 
(mic break)
Joshua Hedley – I Miss Spending Christmas With You
Paula Boggs Band – Mistletoe and Shiny Guitars
Shinyribs – Santa Comes To Atlanta  The Kringle Tingle
Rodney Crowell – Christmas Makes Me Sad  Christmas Everywhere
(mic break)
JD McPherson – Socks   Socks
Matt Campbell – Christmas In Nashville   The Man With Everything
The Mavericks – One More Christmas   Hey! Merry Christmas!
Whitehorse – Merry Xmas, Baby (I Hope You Get What You Deserve)
(mic break)
Otis Gibbs – Carl And Mavis  Once I Dreamed Of Christmas 
Amy Helm & The Wood Brothers – Christmas Must Be Tonight

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(Dec. 19th, 2018)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #432

Posted on November 30, 2018 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #432 features 2 new albums,  Hard Times and White Lines by Whitey Morgan and the 78’s and Carousel by Carson McHone.  Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Direct link to listen now!


Show #432

Carson McHone – Sad  Carousel   
Whitey Morgan and the 78’s – Carryin’ On  Hard Times and White Lines  
The Hens – What She Sees In Him  Chicon 
Adam Hood – She Don’t Love Me  Somewhere in Between
(mic break)
Lauren Morrow – I Don’t Think About You at All  Lauren Morrow
The Gibson Brothers – Travelin’ Day  Mockingbird
The Mulligan Brothers – Possession In G Minor  Songs For The Living And Otherwise
Carson McHone – Good Time Daddy Blues  Carousel
Whitey Morgan – What Am I Supposed to Do   Hard Times and White Lines
(mic break)
Jonathan Byrd – Pickup Cowboy  Jonathan Byrd & the Pickup Cowboy
Edward David Anderson – Harmony  Chasing Butterflies
Blackberry Smoke – Seems So Far  Find A Light  
Rosanne Cash – 8 Gods Of Harlem  She Remembers Everything  
(mic break)
Whitey Morgan – Fiddler’s Inn   Hard Times and White Lines
Carson McHone – Spider Song  Carousel


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(Nov. 30th, 2018)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #431

Posted on November 17, 2018 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #431 features 2 new albums, Kelly Pardekooper‘s 50-Weight and  Malice, Mercy, Grief & Wrath by Belle Plaine.  Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Direct link to listen now!


Show #431

Belle Plaine – Golden Ring  Malice, Mercy, Grief & Wrath
Kelly Pardekooper – Bloody Gasoline  50-Weight  
Will Stewart – Dark Halls  County Seat   
Carter Sampson – Lucky  Lucky
(mic break)
The Brother Brothers – Frankie  Some People I Know 
Sugarcane Jane – Southern State of Mind  Southern State of Mind
Birds of Chicago – Love In Wartime  Love In Wartime
Kelly Pardekooper – Tell Me Mama  50-Weight
Belle Plaine – Is It Cheating  Malice, Mercy, Grief & Wrath
(mic break)
Meadow Mountain – Celestial Navigation  Meadow Mountain
William Elliott Whitmore –  Run Johnny Run  Kilonova  
Coco O’Connor  – Crenshaw County  This Ol’ War  
Ray Bonneville – Until Such A Day At King Electric
John Hiatt – Poor Imitation of God  The Eclipse Sessions
(mic break)
Belle Plaine – Radio Dreams  Malice, Mercy, Grief & Wrath
Kelly Pardekooper – Long Goodbye  50-Weight

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(Nov. 17th, 2018)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #430

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #430 features the new album from Kevin Welch called Dust Devil.  Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Direct link to listen now!


Show #430

Kevin Welch – Blue Lonesome  Dust Devil
Melanie Brulee – Whiskey & Whine  Fires, Floods & Things We Leave Behind  
Jackson Emmer – Hot Mess  Jukebox  
The Bottle Rockets – Highway 70 Blues  Bit Logic
(mic break)
Colter Wall – Saskatchewan In 1881  Songs of the Plains  
Amy Ray – Tonight I’m Paying The Rent  Holler 
American Aquarium – I Gave Up The Drinking (Before She Gave Up On Me)  Things Change 
Tom Buller – When a Country Boy Gets the Blues   When a Country Boy Gets the Blues
Kevin Welch – Brother John   Dust Devil
(mic break)
Mandy Barnett – More Lovin’  Strange Conversation  
Jeff Mamett – Poor House Road   Carry Me Back
Jason Boland & The Stragglers – I Don’t Deserve You  Hard Times Are Relative  
Tony Joe White – Bad Mouthin’  Bad Mouthin’
(mic break)
Kevin Welch – Dust Devil  Dust Devil

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(Nov. 2nd, 2018)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #429

Posted on October 20, 2018 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #429 features four different new releases. So, we have 2 songs each from JP Harris, Grand Old Grizzly, Missy Raines and Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band! Here’s the iTunes link  to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Direct link to listen now!


Show #429

Missy Raines – Swept Away   Royal Traveller
Grand Old Grizzly – Took A Little Trip   Pure Country Pyrite  
JP Harris – JP’s Florida Blues #1   Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing   
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – You Can’t Steal My Shine  Poor Until Payday
(mic break)
Amy Helm – Odetta   This Too Shall Light  
Sam Lewis – When Come the Morning  Loversity  
John R. Miller and The Engine Lights – Ghosts  The Trouble You Follow  
Clarence Bucaro – Where I Live  Passionate Kind 
 The Devil Makes Three – Chains Are Broken  Chains Are Broken  
(mic break)
The Stray Birds – In My Time  Let It Pass  
Wild Rivers – I Won’t Be Back   Eighty-Eight
Erin O’Dowd – Trick Pony  Old Town   
The Stryker Brothers  – Throwing Shade   Burn Band  
(mic break)
JP Harris – Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing  Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing
Grand Old Grizzly – Took A Little Trip  Pure Country Pyrite
Missy Raines – Goodbye Virginia   Royal Traveller
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Church Clothes  Poor Until Payday

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(Oct. 19th, 2018)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #428

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #428 features the new album by Malcolm Holcombe entitled Come Hell Or High Water.   Here’s the iTunes link  to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Direct link to listen now!


Show #428

Malcolm Holcombe – I Don’t Wanna Disappear  Come Hell Or High Water  
Shemekia Copeland – Great Rain  America’s Child   
Buffalo Gospel – 18 Wheeler  On the First Bell  
Asleep At The Wheel – Pencil Full of Lead  New Routes
(mic break)
David Olney – This Side Or The Other  This Side Or The Other
The Jellyman’s Daughter –  I Hope  Dead Reckoning  
The Naked Sun – War with Shadows  War with Shadows  
Chad Elliott And The Redemptions – Hills Of Tennessee  Rest Heavy
Malcolm Holcombe – -It Is What It Is  Come Hell Or High Water
(mic break)
Kristina Murray – Made In America  Southern Ambrosia
Don Gallardo –  The Bitter End   Still Here
Lyman Ellerman – Bigger Plans  I Wish I Was a Train
Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters –  Big Hat, No Cattle  Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters
(mic break)
Malcolm Holcombe – Left Alone   Come Hell Or High Water

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Freight Train Boogie Show #427

Posted on September 22, 2018 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #427 is another great “one shot” show featuring new music from Jason Eady, Marcia Ball, Ruston Kelly and Lucero.   Here’s the iTunes link  to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Direct link to listen now!


Show #427

Kathy Mattea – Chocolate On My Tongue  Pretty Bird 
Ryan Culwell – The Last American  The Last American   
Whiskey Wolves of the West – Lay That Needle Down  Country Roots
Lucero – Long Way Back Home Among the Ghosts  
(mic break)
Ruston Kelly –  Mockingbird    Dying Star  
Hot Buttered Rum – Country Tunes & Love Songs  Lonesome Panoramic
Hardened and Tempered – My Wildest Ride  The Trailer Sessions 
Jason Eady – Calaveras County   I Travel On
(mic break)
Benjamin Jason Douglas – Raggedy Andy Williams  First World Blues
Jamie McLean Band – Yesterday’s Champagne  One and Only  
Marcia Ball – Shine Bright  Shine Bright  
The Band Of Heathens – Hey Mister A Message From The People Revisited
(mic break)
Richard Thompson  – The Dog In You  13 Rivers

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(Sept. 21st, 2018)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #426

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #426 features the new album by Austin Lucas called  Immortal Americans.   Here’s the iTunes link  to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Direct link to listen now!

Show #426

Austin Lucas – Killing Time  Immortal Americans
Dawn Landes – Traveling   Meet Me at the River 
6 String Drag – I Wish You Would   Top of the World   
Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis – Wild Wild Wild  Wild! Wild! Wild!   
(mic break)
Tyler Childers –  Charleston Girl  Live on Red Barn Radio I & II
Dawn and Hawkes – Ordinary Day The Other Side  
The National Reserve – I’ll Go Blind  Motel La Grange
Amanda Shires – Leave It Alone  To the Sunset
Austin Lucas – Monroe County Nights  Immortal Americans
(mic break)
Glorietta – Easy Come Easy Go  Glorietta 
Caleb Caudle – Love That Wild  Crushed Coins
Nancy Cassidy – Fishin’ River’s Rising
Shooter Jennings – I’m Wild & My Woman Is Crazy  Shooter
(mic break)
Sister Sadie – No Smoky Mountains  Sister Sadie II
Joshua Hedley – Let Them Talk  Mr. Jukebox  
Bill & The Belles – Preacher And The Bear Dreamsongs, Etc.   
(mic break)
Austin Lucas – The Shadow And Marie  Immortal Americans


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(Sept. 6th, 2018)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #425

Posted on August 25, 2018 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #425 features 3 great debut albums by Cordovas, Folk Soul Revival and The War And Treaty.   Here’s the iTunes link  to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Direct link to listen now!

Show #425

The War and Treaty – Here is Where the Loving is At  Healing Tide
Cordovas –  I’m The One Who Needs You Tonight  That Santa Fe Channel   
Folk Soul Revival – That’s Life  Folk Soul Revival  
(mic break)
Jim Lauderdale – Time Flies  Times Flies  
Rhyan Sinclair – Retrograde  Barnstormer  
Red Shahan – Water Bill  Culberson County  
Kevin Galloway – Don’t It Feel Good To Smile  The Change  
Israel Nash – Lucky Ones   Lifted  
(mic break)
Eliza Gilkyson – Lifelines  Secularia  
Ed Romanoff –  Less Broken Now  The Orphan King   
The Del McCoury Band – Hot Wired  Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers  – Damned If I Do, Damned If I Don’t  Years
(mic break)
Folk Soul Revival – Workin’ Man  Folk Soul Revival
Cordovas –  This Town’s A Drag   That Santa Fe Channel
The War and Treaty – Are You Ready To Love Me? Healing Tide 

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(Aug. 25th, 2018)
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