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Freight Train Boogie Best of 2012 podcast

Posted on December 29, 2012 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #192 is a “Best Music of 2012” show featuring songs from CHRIS KNIGHT, CORB LUND, SAM LEWIS, IRIS DeMENT & others. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB prodcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. Freight Train Boogie podcasts also air weekly on RootHog Radio on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm CST and again Friday mornings at 10:00 am CST and on Rob Ellen’s Flyinshoes Review. And you can purchase the Freight Train Boogie Americana App for Android from Amazon for only $1.99.

Show 192 (Best of 2012)

IRIS DeMENT – The Night I Learned How Not to Pray Sing The Delta
SAM LEWIS – Southern Greek Tragedy Sammy Sings Songs
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE – In Your Mercy Down The River
BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE – I Lost My Job Of Loving You Buddy & Jim
(mic break)
DARRELL SCOTT – You’ll Be With Me All the Way Long Ride Home
THE TRISHAS – Liars & Fools High, Wide & Handsome
MOOT DAVIS – Day The World Shook My Hand Man About Town
CORB LUND – Bible On The Dash Cabin Fever
CHRIS KNIGHT – You Lie When You Call My Name Little Victories
(mic break)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS – No Man’s Mama Leaving Eden
DEREK HOKE – Lonely Street Waiting All Night
PHIL MADEIRA featuring SHAWN MULLINS Give God The Blues Mercyland – Hymns For The Rest Of Us
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE – Memphis In the Rain Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
JP HARRIS AND THE TOUGH CHOICES – Take It Back I’ll Keep Calling
(mic break)
WORLD FAMOUS HEADLINERS – Ding Dong World Famous Headliners

You can also listen to my Spotify Best Americana songs of 2012 playlist with many of my favorite tunes from the year.

(Dec. 28th, 2012)
Bill Frater
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Freight Train Boogie 2012 Christmas Show

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #191 is the 5th annual Christmas Show featuring THE SWEETBACK SISTERS‘ Country Christmas Sing-Along Spectacular and new holiday tunes from BLACK PRAIRIE, JD McPHERSON and THE FAREWELL DRIFTERS and others. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss.

FTB 2012 Christmas Show

THE SWEETBACK SISTERS – It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
The Sweetback Sisters’ Country Christmas Sing-Along Spectacular (intro bed)
THE SWEETBACK SISTERS – The Christmas Boogie Country Christmas Sing-Along Spectacular
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL – Feliz Navidad Merry Texas Christmas Y’all
JD McPHERSON – Twinkle (Little Christmas Lights)
(mic break)
CHARLIE ROTH – Christmas (At the Fallen Angel Lounge) Tartan Cactus Heart
TERRI HENDRIX – Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men
RONNIE FAUSS – Everybody Deserves A Merry Christmas!
BLACK PRAIRIE featuring SALLIE FORD – (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man with the Bag Holidays Rule
THE SWEETBACK SISTERS – The Nine Days of Christmas Country Christmas Sing-Along Spectacular
(mic break)
THE FAREWELL DRIFTERS – Just Like Christmas Just Like Christmas
LAST TRAIN HOME – Home For Christmas Yuletide from the Other Side
T BONE BURNETT – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Acoustic Christmas
ANTSY McCLAIN – Frank the Christmas Turkey Christmas at the Trailer Park
FARON YOUNG – I’m Gonna Tell Santa Claus on You Hillbilly Holiday
ELIZABETH COOK – A Kiss for Christmas Yuletide from the Other Side
XTC – Thanks for Christmas Just Say Noel
(mic break)
THE SWEETBACK SISTERS – Beautiful Star of Bethlehem Country Christmas Sing-Along Spectacular

(Dec. 20th, 2012)
Bill Frater
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #190

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #190 is a “one-shot” show featuring new music from DYLAN LeBLANC, McCRARY SISTERS, THE DAHLS, and THE DEPARTED. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. Freight Train Boogie podcasts also air weekly on RootHog Radio on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm CST and again Friday mornings at 10:00 am CST and on Rob Ellen’s Flyinshoes Review. And you can purchase the Freight Train Boogie Americana App for Android from Amazon for only $1.99.

Show #190 (One Shots)

KELLY JOE PHELPS – Spit Me Outta The Whale Brother Sinner & The Whale (intro bed)
THE WELLDIGGERS – Lord of the Big House (and the grave) Hope and Fear
THE SPARKLERS – Gingham Crying At The Low Bar
KATY BOYD – Happy Single Mothers Day Paper Hearts
SEVEN HANDLE CIRCUS – Georgia Man Whiskey Stills & Sleeping Pills
THE GOTHAM ROOTS ORCHESTRA – Mississippi Bound The Gotham Roots Orchestra
(mic break)
BILLY MARLOWE – Never Figured You For Gone Show Me The Steps
THE DAHLS – Where Are You Going Midnight Picnic
SAUL CONRAD – Whiskey Eggs Poison Packets
MIDDAY FARM REPORT – Golf MidDay Farm Report
TIM O’BRIEN & DARRELL SCOTT – Climbin’ Up A Mountain We’re Usually A Lot Better Than This
(mic break)
DYLAN LeBLANC – Innocent Sinner Cast The Same Old Shadow
McCRARY SISTERS – Bless ‘Em All Ya’ll Our Journey
THE DEPARTED – Cold Hard Fact Adventus
PATTERSON BARRETT – Hot Potato When I Was Your Age
(mic break)
ED PETTERSEN – The Beautiful People I Curse The River of Time

(Dec. 14th, 2012)
Bill Frater
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #189

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #189 features the new album from NELS ANDREWS entitled Scrimshaw. Also new music from DAVID OLNEY, KEVIN DEAL and ANGEL SNOW. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. Freight Train Boogie podcasts also air weekly on RootHog Radio on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm CST and again Friday mornings at 10:00 am CST and on Rob Ellen’s Medicine Show. And you can purchase the Freight Train Boogie Americana App for Android from Amazon for only $1.99.

Show #189

NELS ANDREWS – Starboard Scrimshaw
ANGEL SNOW – Civil Things Angel Snow
JONAH TOLCHIN – Mr. Devil Criminal Mind
JUNIOR BROWN – Hang Up And Drive Volume Ten
(mic break)
DAVID OLNEY – My Family Owns This Town Robbery & Murder
ANNIE LOU – Grandma’s Rules for Drinking Grandma’s Rules for Drinking
WALT WILKINS – Ain’t It Just Like Love Plenty
RICH MAHAN – Favorite Shirt Blame Bobby Bare
NELS ANDREWS – Tridents Scrimshaw
(mic break)
BUFORD POPE – Faces Don’t Smile Matching Numbers
SCOTT CHISM & THE BETTER HALF – Hand Me Down Blues Long Haul Steady
THE HOLLYFELDS – Mama got a DUI Title Stealers
KEVIN DEAL – There Goes The Neighborhood There Goes The Neighborhood
(mic break)
NELS ANDREWS – Lost Year (Off Track Betting) Scrimshaw

(Dec. 7th, 2012)
Bill Frater
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #188

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #188 features the new album from MISS TESS & THE TALKBACKS called Sweet Talk. Also new music from ANDREW BIRD, JAMES HAND and DANGERMUFFIN. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. Freight Train Boogie podcasts also air weekly on RootHog Radio on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm CST and again Friday mornings at 10:00 am CST and on Rob Ellen’s Medicine Show. And you can purchase the Freight Train Boogie Americana App for Android from Amazon for only $1.99.

Show #188

MISS TESS – I Never Thought I’d Be Lonely Sweet Talk
JAMES HAND – Wish You Would Miss Me Mighty Lonesome Man
JOHN DOE AND EXENE CERVENKA – It Just Dawned On Me Singing and Playing
DANGERMUFFIN – Back In The Pines Olly Oxen Free
(mic break)
RAYNA GELLERT – The Platform Old Light: Songs From My Childhood & Other Gone Worlds
MADISON VIOLET – If I Could Love You The Good In Goodbye
BILLY DON BURNS – Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way Nights When I’m Sober- Portrait of a Honky Tonk Singer
TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS – Wrecked Goodbye Normal Street
MISS TESS – People Come Here For Gold Sweet Talk
(mic break)
OCEAN CAROLINA – Don’t Break Your Promise All The Way Home
VANDELLA – Spring Refrain Fire In The Desert
BILL MALLONEE – Bring You Around The Power & The Glory
BROTHER SLADE – Walk Your Dog Good Rooster’s Reunion
ANDREW BIRD – Three White Horses Hands of Glory
(mic break)
MISS TESS – If You Wanna Be My Man Sweet Talk

(Nov. 29th, 2012)
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #187

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #187 features the new album from GREG BROWN called Hymns to What is Left. Also new music from ROSIE FLORES, SKYLINE DRIVE and JIM LAUDERDALE. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. Freight Train Boogie podcasts also air weekly on RootHog Radio on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm CST and again Friday mornings at 10:00 am CST and on Rob Ellen’s Medicine Show. And you can purchase the Freight Train Boogie Americana App for Android from Amazon for only $1.99.

Show #187

GREG BROWN – Arkansas Hymns to What Is Left
LILLY HIATT & THE DROPPED PONIES – Young Black Rose Let Down
JOE PUG – The Great Despiser Great Despiser
SCOTT MacLEOD – Out of Line Right As Rain
(mic break)
JIM LAUDERDALE – Can I Have This Dance Carolina Moonrise
BONNIE & THE CLYDES – Rocky Mtn Town Wrong Side Up
MAYNARD AND THE MUSTIES – Miles of Broadway Cheap Cigar
TIF GINN – Over You Tif Ginn
GREG BROWN – Fatboy Blues Hymns to What Is Left
(mic break)
SKYLINE DRIVE – The Switch Topanga Ranch Motel
CHRIS ROSS – Maybe It’s Me Halfway To Wonderland
GENE BUTLER BAND – Two More Shots Of Doubles That Light Is Always On
ROSIE FLORES – Working Girls Guitar Working Girls Guitar
GUNS OF NAVARONE – Don’t Shoot The Messenger Prize and Battlefield
(mic break)
GREG BROWN – End of the Party Hymns to What Is Left

(Nov. 16th, 2012)
Bill Frater
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #186

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #186 features the new album from LINDI ORTEGA called Cigarettes & Truckstops. Also new music from DON GALLARDO, BONNIE BISHOP and KEVIN BOWE & THE OKEMAH PROPHETS. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now!

Show #186

LINDI ORTEGA – Cigarettes & Truckstops Cigarettes & Truckstops
KEVIN BOWE & THE OKEMAH PROPHETS – Waitin’ For The Wheel Natchez Trance
THE WIYOS – Yellow Lines Twist
HANS THEESSINK & TERRY EVANS – How Come People Act Like That Delta Time
(mic break)
SHOEBOX LETTERS – The Start of Falling Apart Nowadays
TIM CHAISSON – Beat This Heart The Other Side TROUBADOUR KINGS – Everybody Heartache Town LINDI ORTEGA – The Day You Die Cigarettes & Truckstops (mic break)
TODD BURGE – Jesus Night Light Building Characters JOHN FULLBRIGHT – All The Time In The World From The Ground Up
BONNIE BISHOP – Keep Using Me Free
CHRIS SMITHER – What They Say Hundred Dollar Valentine
CAHALEN MORRISON & ELI WEST – A Lady Does Not Often Falter Our Lady of The Tall Trees
DON GALLARDO & THE HOW FAR WEST – Sinking Ships The Art of Troublesome Times
(mic break)
LINDI ORTEGA – Murder of Crows Cigarettes & Truckstops

Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. Freight Train Boogie podcasts also air weekly on RootHog Radio on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm CST and again Friday mornings at 10:00 am CST and on Rob Ellen’s Medicine Show. And you can purchase the Freight Train Boogie Americana App for Android from Amazon for only $1.99.

(Nov. 9th, 2012)
Bill Frater
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #185

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #185 features the new album from MALCOLM HOLCOMBE called Down The River. Also new music from THE BURNS SISTERS, THE DIRTY RIVER BOYS and IAN SIEGAL & THE MISSISSIPPI MUDBLOODS. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. Freight Train Boogie podcasts also air weekly on RootHog Radio on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm CST and again Friday mornings at 10:00 am CST and on Rob Ellen’s Medicine Show. And you can purchase the Freight Train Boogie Americana App for Android from Amazon for only $1.99.

Show #185

MALCOLM HOLCOMBE – Gone Away At Last Down The River
IAN SIEGAL & THE MISSISSIPPI MUDBLOODS – I Am The Train Candy Store Kid
LEE ANN WOMACK – Momma’s on a Roll Kin: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell
RONNIE FAUSS – The Night Before The War I Am The Man You Know I’m Not
(mic break)
BIRDS OF CHICAGO – Cannonball Birds of Chicago
THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS – Walks Like A Duck   The Promise of Friday Night
YARN – I’ve Seen the Difference Almost Home
THE LUMINEERS – Flowers In Your Hair The Lumineers
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE – Trail O’ Money Down The River
(mic break)
JAMES JUSTIN & CO. – Forever and a Day   Places
THE BURNS SISTERS – Your Kiss  The Hills of Ithaca
ROBERT ELLIS – All Men Are Liars Lowe Country: The Songs of Nick Lowe
J.W.W. & THE PROSPECTORS – It’s High Past Time It’s High Past Time
THE DIRTY RIVER BOYS – Riverbed Wildflowers Science of Flight
(mic break)
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE – Down The River Down The River

(Nov. 2nd, 2012)
Bill Frater
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #184

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #184 features the new album from ROSCO BANDANA called Time To Begin. Also new music from THE KENNEDYS, JOHN HIATT, and THE COAL PORTERS. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. Freight Train Boogie podcasts also air weekly on RootHog Radio on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm CST and again Friday mornings at 10:00 am CST and on Rob Ellen’s Medicine Show. And you can purchase the Freight Train Boogie Americana App for Android from Amazon for only $1.99.

Show #184

ROSCO BANDANA – Time To Begin Time To Begin
TREVOR ALGUIRE – Tell Me It Ain’t So Till Sorrow Begins To Call
GRAINNE – Colours Of You Looking For Sunshine
LIAM FITZGERALD & THE RAINIEROS – What Would You Do Last Call!
(mic break)
SERA CAHOONE – Naked Deer Creek Canyon
ARTHUR ALLIGOOD – Darkness To Light One Silver Needle
THE COAL PORTERS – Barefoot On The Courthouse Lawn Find The One
POSSOM JENKINS – Copper Coin Carolinacana
ROSCO BANDANA – Black ‘Ol Water Time To Begin
(mic break)
BEN SOLLEE – Slow Down Half Made Man
JOHN HIATT – Blues Can’t Even Find Me Mystic Pinball
STEVE AZAR – Gonna Be Good Luvin’ U Delta Soul, Vol. 1
THE KENNEDYS – Big Star Song Closer Than You Know
CASEY McCOY CAINAN – Mustang Wrong Turns
(mic break)
ROSCO BANDANA – Tender Time To Begin

(Oct. 26th, 2012)
Bill Frater
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #183

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #183 features the new album by IRIS DeMENT called Sing the Delta. Also new music from JIMMY LaFAVE, CHARLIE PEACOCK and GORDON TENTREES. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. Freight Train Boogie podcasts also air weekly on RootHog Radio on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm CST and again Friday mornings at 10:00 am CST and on Rob Ellen’s Medicine Show.