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Freight Train Boogie Show #278

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #278 features the album by The Stray Birds called Best Medicine. Also new music from Lyra Lynn, Kelly Pardekooper and Big John Mills. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!

Show #278

THE STRAY BIRDS – Best Medicine Best Medicine
REED FOEHL – Caroline Lost in The West
BRUCE ROBISON & KELLY WILLIS – Motor City Man Our Year
CHRISTIAN LOPEZ BAND – Will I See You Again Pilot
(mic break)
LOUISE MOSRIE – I’ll Take You In Lay It Down
KELLY PARDEKOOPER – I Still Cry Milk in Sunshine
FLOYD DOMINO & MARYANN PRICE – Everybody’s Talking About The Same Thing Upfront
THE DIRTY RIVER BOYS – Didn’t Make The Cut The Dirty River Boys
THE STRAY BIRDS – The Bells Best Medicine
(mic break)
LYRA LYNN – Out To Sea The Avenues
STURGILL SIMPSON – Turtles All the Way Down   Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
BIG JOHN MILLS – Till Death Do Us Part (Give Me a Gun) Honkytonkology
ELI BARSI – He’ll Be Back Again Portrait Of A Cowgirl
NQ ARBUCKLE – Red Wine   The Future Happens Anyway
(mic break)
THE STRAY BIRDS – Simple Man   Best Medicine

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(Nov. 7th, 2014)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #277

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #277 features the new album by Shakey Graves called And The War Came. Also new music from Andrew Delaney, Angaleena Presley and Hot Rize. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!

Show #277

SHAKEY GRAVES – Dearly Departed And The War Came
LIZ COOPER & THE STAMPEDE – Thieves Monsters
RADNEY FOSTER – Whose Heart You Wreck (Ode to the Muse) Everything I Should Have Said
NEW AMERICAN FARMERS – Down At the Pharmacy The Farmacology Sessions
(mic break)
JOAN SHELLEY – River Low Electric Ursa
HOT RIZE – Blue Is Falling  When I’m Free
TREVOR ALGUIRE – Rusty Old Strings Miles Away
LUKE WINSLOW-KING  – Everlasting Arms Everlasting Arms
SHAKEY GRAVES – Big Time Nashville Star And The War Came
(mic break)
KEVIN LEE FLORENCE – Alone & Everything Given
BRIGITTE DeMEYER – Honey Hush   Savannah Road
ANDREW DELANEY – Not In My House  Stricken, Smitten & Afflicted
ANGALEENA PRESLEY – American Middle Class American Middle Class
(mic break)
SHAKEY GRAVES – Only Son And The War Came

Here’s the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. You can buy the Freight Train Boogie Americana Android App from Amazon for only $1.99.

(Oct. 31st, 2014)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #276

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #276 features the new album by Hal Ketchum called I’m the Troubadour. Also new music from Pieta Brown, Marty Stuart and Canebreakers. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!

Show #276

HAL KETCHUM – I’m The Troubadour I’m the Troubadour
EILEEN ROSE – Just Ain’t So Be Many Gone
JAY BOY ADAMS – Judgement Day Let It Go
MARTY STUART – Rough Around the Edges Saturday Night/Sunday Morning
(mic break)
KEELEY VALENTINO – Little Things Keeley Valentino
AARON NEWMAN – Winter Blues Aaron Newman & the OK Caravan
GRANT FARM -Waitin’ Plowin’ Time
HAL KETCHUM – Midnight Works for Me I’m the Troubadour
(mic break)
CANEBREAKERS – Promised Land Frame and Floor
PIETA BROWN – Flowers of Love Paradise Outlaw
JOSEPH HUBER – Same River Twice The Hanging Road
JONATHAN BYRD – A Big Truck Brought It You Can’t Outrun the Radio
(mic break)
DEREK THOMAS & SKYLINE DRIVE Roll On Beyond The Trestles
T SISTERS – Seduction of Spring Kindred Lines
JESSE WINCHESTER – All That We Have Is Now Reasonable Amount of Trouble
(mic break)
HAL KETCHUM – Days Like This I’m the Troubadour

Here’s the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. You can buy the Freight Train Boogie Americana Android App from Amazon for only $1.99.

(Oct. 24th, 2014)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #275

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #275 features the new album by Lucinda Williams called Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone. Also new music from Sons Of Bill, Rose’s Pawn Shop and John Cowan. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!

Show #275

LUCINDA WILLIAMS – Something Wicked This Way Comes Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
LACHLAN BRYAN AND THE WILDES – 309 Black Coffee
MOOT DAVIS – Goin’ In Hot Goin’ In Hot
CAROLINE ROSE – Blood On Your Bootheels I Will Not Be Afraid
(mic break)
JOHN COWAN – The Things I Haven’t Done Sixty
STEVE CASPER & COWBOY ANGST – Rattlesnake Road Endless Sky
LUTHER DICKINSON – Goin Country Rock ‘n Roll Blues
LUCINDA WILLIAMS – This Old Heartache Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
(mic break)
SONS OF BILL – Big Unknown Love & Logic
THE PSYCHO SISTERS – Never Never Boys Up On The Chair, Beatrice
THE WILHELMS – Little Stream of Whiskey Film at 11
ELI CONLEY – When God Sets His Sights On You At The Seams
ROSE’S PAWN SHOP – Stay All Night Gravity Well
(mic break)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS – Stand Right by Each Other Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

Here’s the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. You can buy the Freight Train Boogie Americana Android App from Amazon for only $1.99.

(Oct. 17th, 2014)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #274

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #274 features the new album by JP Harris and the Tough Choices entitled Home Is Where The Hurt Is. Also new music from Curtis McMurtry, Laney Jones and Greensky Bluegrass. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!

Show #274

JP HARRIS AND THE TOUGH CHOICES – A Breaking Heart Home Is Where The Hurt Is
CHRISTA GNIADEK – It’s Not Right Leaving Boston
EDWARD DAVID ANDERSON – The Next Melody Lies & Wishes
PETER ROWAN – Raven Dharma Blues
(mic break)
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – The Four If Sorrows Swim
JERRY CASTLE – Write My Own Ending South Holston
LANEY JONES – Black Coffee Golden Road
JP HARRIS AND THE TOUGH CHOICES – Old Love Letters Home Is Where The Hurt Is
(mic break)
CURTIS McMURTRY – Foxhole Respectable Enemy
FRONT COUNTRY – One Kind Word Sake Of The Sound
THE DEADFIELDS – Often Wrong, Never In Doubt Often Wrong, Never In Doubt
MIKE FARRIS – Real Fine Day Shine For All The People
(mic break)
DAVID MAYFIELD – The Man I’m Trying To Be Strangers
BRETT LARSON – My Broken Heart One Of These Roads
KATHRYN CAINE – Beatle Song Kathryn Caine And The Small Band
(mic break)
JP HARRIS AND THE TOUGH CHOICES – Young Women and Old Guitars Home Is Where The Hurt Is

Here’s the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. Freight Train Boogie podcasts also air weekly on RootHog Radio and on Rob Ellen’s Flyinshoes Review. You can buy the Freight Train Boogie Americana Android App from Amazon for only $1.99.

(Oct. 10th, 2014)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #273

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #273 features 2 new albums, Justin Townes Earle’s Single Mothers and I Can’t Wait by Fayssoux. Also new music from Jubal Lee Young, Phoebe Hunt and Calico the Band. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!

Show #273

FAYSSOUX – I Can’t Wait I Can’t Wait
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE – White Gardenias Single Mothers
GRADY KELNECK – I’ll Shoot You Down Take My Hand
CALICO THE BAND – San Andreas Shake Rancho California
(mic break)
JUBAL LEE YOUNG – Careful With Your Heart On A Dark Highway
PHOEBE HUNT & THE GATHERERS – Darkness Walk With Me
DEL BARBER – Living With A Long Way To Go Prairieography
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE – My Baby Drives  Single Mothers
(mic break)
WALTER SALAS-HUMARA – Curve and Shake Curve and Shake
FAYSSOUX – The Last Night of the War  I Can’t Wait
THE STATESBORO REVUE – Lil Mary’s Last Stand Ramble on Privilege Creek
MISTER ROPER – Sit Down, Katie Mister Roper
(mic break)
JEN MIZE – Biscuits & Gravy Fear, Pride & a Few Stubborn Angels
ALIAS MEANS – Sleeves Light Matte
CAMPFIRES AND CONSTELLATIONS – Movin’ Carolina Homegrown
(mic break)
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE – Wanna be A Stranger Single Mothers
FAYSSOUX– My Brain   I Can’t Wait

(Oct. 3rd, 2014)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #272

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #272 features 2 fine new albums, Beautiful Defeat, from Sarah Leveque and Jeffrey Martin‘s Dogs in the Daylight. Also new music from Israel Nash, Christine Albert and Shovels & Rope. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!

Show #272

JEFFREY MARTIN – The Middle Dogs in the Daylight
SARAH LEVECQUE – Back Of My Hand Beautiful Defeat
WYATT EASTERLING – Somebody Prayed Goodbye Hello
DAVID CHILDERS – First Mile Serpents of Reformation
(mic break)
CHRISTINE ALBERT – Old New Mexico Everything’s Beautiful Now
ISRAEL NASH – Through the Door Israel Nash’s Rain Plans
BAP KENNEDY – Heart Trouble Let’s Start Again
SARAH LEVECQUE – Come Along For The Ride Beautiful Defeat
(mic break)
JEFFREY MARTIN – Coal Fire Dogs in the Daylight
FEARING & WHITE – We Came Together Tea and Confidences
CASEY BERRY – No Chance At All Long Way Down
GAL HOLIDAY AND THE HONKY TONK REVUE -Broke Down and Broke Last to Leave
SHOVELS & ROPE – Save The World Swimmin’ Time
shovels-rope-2 (150x150) (mic break)
JEFFREY MARTIN –Down at the Bottom Dogs in the Daylight
SARAH LEVECQUE – Village Idiot Beautiful Defeat

(Sept. 25th, 2014)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #271

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #271 features the new album from Otis Gibbs called Souvenirs Of A Misspent Youth. Also new music from Cory Branan, Melissa Ruth, John Cowan and Parsonsfield. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!

FTB #271

OTIS GIBBS – Ghosts of Our Fathers Souvenirs Of A Misspent Youth
MARK ERELLI – Milltowns Milltowns
SIMONE FELICE – Gettysburg Strangers
MELISSA RUTH & THE LIKELY STORIES – Tell Me Riding Mercury
(mic break)
PARSONSFIELD – Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me Afterparty EP
TATTLETALE SAINTS – Fell Upon the Fields  How Red Is The Blood
DANIELLE WOODROW – Can’t Keep Leaving You Turning
OTIS GIBBS – The Darker Side Of Me Souvenirs Of A Misspent Youth
(mic break)
JOHN COWAN – Devil Woman Sixty
DULCIE TAYLOR AND FRIENDS – Take A Chance Only Worn One Time
WILLIAM PILGRIM & THE ALL GROWS UP – Metaphor For America Epic Ending
cowen-j-sixty (150x131) ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES – Half the City   Half the City
CORY BRANAN – The No-Hit Wonder The No-Hit Wonder
(mic break)
OTIS GIBBS  – No Rust On My Spade Souvenirs Of A Misspent Youth

(Sept. 12th, 2014)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #270

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #270 features Cahalen Morrison & Country Hammer and their album called The Flower Of Muscle Shoals. Also new music from Paul Thorn, Peter Himmelman and Puss N Boots. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!

Show #270

CAHALEN MORRISON & COUNTRY HAMMER – Sorrow Lines The Highway of Regret The Flower of Muscle Shoals
CAROLINE ROSE – Blood On Your Bootheels I Will Not Be Afraid
MICHAEL ONEILL – Raise A Glass I Like It Like That
PAUL THORN – Mediocrity Is King Too Blessed To Be Stressed
(mic break)
CHRIS SMITHER – What They Say Still on the Levee
GRIFTERS & SHILLS – The Evil I Know Watershed
AARON BURDETT – Fruits of My Labor Fruits of My Labor
CAHALEN MORRISON – San Luis The Flower of Muscle Shoals
(mic break)
PETER HIMMLEMAN – The Boat That Carries Us The Boat That Carries Us
LOWELL LEVINGER – Just Can’t Quit The Blues Down to the Roots
NRBQ – Fightin’ Back Brass Tacks
PUSS N BOOTS – Don’t Know What It Means No Fools, No Fun
(mic break)
MATT HILLYER – If These Old Bones Could Talk If These Old Bones Could Talk
AMELIA WHITE – Big Blue Sun Old Postcard
TED Z AND THE WRANGLERS – Heaven’s Rent Like a King
(mic break)
CAHALEN MORRISON – The Flower Of Muscle Shoals The Flower of Muscle Shoals

(Sept. 5th, 2014)
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Freight Train Boogie Show #269

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #269 features Billy Joe Shaver‘s Long in the Tooth and new music from Flatt Lonesome, Melanie Devaney and the Ben Miller Band. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!