Freight Train Boogie Podcast #109

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #109 features the new album by MALCOLM HOLCOMBE entitled To Drink the Rain.  Also new music from HAYES CARLL, SUSAN JAMES and 6 DAY BENDER.  The full playlist is posted below.  Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ’em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts.  Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here’s the direct link to listen now!  And this is the RSS feed for non-iTunes listeners: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss

Show #109

MALCOLM HOLCOMBE – Behind the Number One To Drink The Rain
SUSAN JAMES – Airstream Girl Highways, Ghosts, Hearts & Home
D.B. RIELLY – One of These Days (You’re Gonna Realize) Love Potions and Snake Oil
NEIL GETZ – Bad Case Of Passion Factory Second
(mic break)
HAYES CARLL – Hard Out Here KMAG YOYO (& other American stories)
SEAN ASHBY – Shoulder Wide 24 Hours of Daylight
JOHANNA DIVINE – The Big Grab Mile-High Rodeo
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE – Those Who Wander To Drink The Rain
(mic break)
KIRSTEN JONES – I Don’t Wanna Live Like This The Mad Mile
KENNY OWENS – Sparks Still Fly Walking In St. James
ABBY OWENS – Rise and Shine Indiantown
6 DAY BENDER – Good Girl Blues E’ville Fuzz
(mic break)
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE – One Leg at a Time To Drink The Rain

(March 5th, 2011)
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #108

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #108 is a special show featuring artists who recently played at the International Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis, TN.  The full playlist is posted below.  Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads.  A few of these songs are unreleased or are only available from the artists.  Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts.  Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here’s the direct link to listen now!  And this is the RSS feed for non-iTunes listeners: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss

Show #108, Folk Alliance Special

ELEPHANT REVIVAL – Lexington Break in the Clouds (intro bed)
NEW COUNTRY REHAB – Angel of Death
LAIL ARAD – Reminds Me Of You Someone NEW
MATT THE ELECTRICIAN – Middle of a Little Country Road The Best of Times: Texas artists performing the music of Sara Hickman
RED JUNE – A Quiet Mind Remember Me Well
(mic break)
RACHAEL HARRINGTON – Little Pink Celilo Falls
ROD PICOTT & AMANDA SHIRES – Little Darlin‘ Sew Your Heart With Wires
POKEY LaFARGE – Plain Old Country Lad A Frowning World : An E.C. Ball Memorial Album
ROOSEVELT DIME – Diggin’ Song Steamboat Soul
(mic break)
THE BARN BIRDS –  Desert Rose (Jonathan Byrd & Chris Kokesh)
THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA – Hardship Acres You Left the Fire
MISS TESS –  I Don’t Need That Man Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade
DAVID MYLES – When It Comes My Turn Live at the Carlton
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN –  Time Changes Everything What Makes Bob Holler
(mic break)
PETER COOPER – The Champion Of The World The Lloyd Green Album

(Feb. 25th, 2011)
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #107

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #107 features the new album by GREG TROOPER called Upside-Down Town.  Also new music from TRACEY K. HOUSTON, EDDIE SPAGHETTI and THE FLYIN’ A’S.  The full playlist is posted below.  Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ’em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts.  Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here’s the direct link to listen now!  And this is the RSS feed for non-iTunes listeners: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss

Show #107

GREG TROOPER – Might Be A Train Upside-Down Town
THE FLYIN’ A’S – So Long ‘Til They Shut It Down
THE B STARS – Back Up Buddy Behind the Barn with The B Stars
EDDIE SPAGHETTI – Never Thought That I Would Sundowner
(mic break)
BOBBY LONG –  Who Have You Been Loving A Winter Tale
SHANNON WHITWORTH – I Can’t Look You In Your Eye Water Bound
THE WAYMORES – Can You See Me Now
GREG TROOPER – Nobody in The Whole Wide World Upside-Down Town
(mic break)
SHAUN CROMWELL –  Only If The Now Is Then Folk Worn Prose
JOHN McCUTCHEON – Glory Hallelujah Passage
BILL KIRCHEN – Valley of the Moon Word To The Wise
TRACEY K. HOUSTON – Cryin’ Over You Rockin’ Little Angel
(mic break)
GREG TROOPER – They Call Me Hank Upside-Down Town

(Feb. 18th, 2011)
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #106

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #106  features the new album by THE CIVIL WARS called Barton Hollow.  Also new music from JOHN SHIPE, CYNDI HARVELL and DAVID LOWERY.  The full playlist is posted below.  Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ’em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts. (frater@freighttrainboogie.com)
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Show #106

THE CIVIL WARS – I’ve Got This Friend Barton Hollow
TONY FURTADO – The Willows Cry Golden
KIM BEGGS – Maiden Heart Blue Bones
ROBERT LARISEY – 3 Squares A Day Nights Take Forever
(mic break)
THE LAWS – Try Love Try Love
CYNDI HARVELL – From The Echo From The Echo
THE WHITE BUFFALO – Oh Darlin’ Prepare for Black & Blue
THE CIVIL WARS – Forget Me Not Barton Hollow
(mic break)
JOHN SHIPE –  Lion Villain
DAN REEDER – Everybody Wants A Cookie This New Century
ELIZABETH McQUEEN – Lonely Madman The Laziest Girl in Town
DAVID LOWERY – The Palace Guards The Palace Guards
(mic break)
THE CIVIL WARS – 20 Years Barton Hollow

(Feb. 11th, 2011)
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #105

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #105  features the new album by GURF MORLIX called Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream.  Also new music from NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS,  LISA MORALES and CARRIE RODRIGUEZ & BEN KYLE.  The full playlist is posted below.  Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ’em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts. (frater@freighttrainboogie.com)
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Show #105

GURF MORLIX – Baby Can I Crawl Back To You Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream
LIBBY KOCH – Lonesome Bound The Shadow of This Town
ALLEN THOMPSON – All These Years 26 Years
BOW THAYER & PERFECT TRAINWRECK – Your Heart is Not Your First Car Bottom of the Sky
(mic break)
LISA MORALES – Beautiful Mistake Beautiful Mistake
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ & BEN KYLE – Your Lonely Heart We Still Love Our Country
WATERMELON SLIM – Good Ole Boys Never Change Ringers
GURF MORLIX – Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream
(mic break)
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS – How I Wish My Train Would Come Keys to the Kingdom
TONY DENIKOS – River Don’t Rise Already Gone
THE WHIPTAILS –  Perfect Drug The Whiptails
JIM ARMSTRONG – Dollars In His Wallet Junction Road
(mic break)
GURF MORLIX – If I Could Only Fly Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream

(Feb. 4th, 2011)
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Freight Train Boogie Podcast #104

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #104  features the new album by LORI McKENNA called Lorraine.  Also music from TERN ROUNDERS,  HAUNTED HEARTS and the late CHARLIE LOUVIN.  The full playlist is posted below.  Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ’em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts. (frater@freighttrainboogie.com)
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Show #104

LORI McKENNA – The Luxury Of Knowing Lorraine
PETE SINJIN –  Driving California Better Angels Radio
TYLER REEVE – Train Songs Whiskey Down
TERN ROUNDERS – Livin’ Tern Rounders
(mic break)
CALEB STINE – Doing Time in Baltimore I Wasn’t Built for a Life Like This
DEHLIA LOW – Take Me Back Tellico
HAUNTED HEARTS – (I Don’t Want To Live In A) Cardboard Box Howdy
LORI McKENNA – You Get A Love Song Lorraine
(mic break)
CHARLIE LOUVIN – Waiting For A Train Charlie Louvin
CHIP TAYLOR & CARRIE RODRIGUEZ – Your Name is On My Lips The New  Bye & Bye
FRONTIER RUCKUS – Ringbearer Deadmalls & Nightfalls
THE FABULOUS GINN SISTERS – Share Our Secrets You Can’t Take a Bad Girl Home
(mic break)
LORI McKENNA – Lorraine Lorraine

(Jan. 28th, 2011)
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Freight Train Boogie podcast #103

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #103  is a mix of great new music from EMORY QUINN, SALLY SPRING, and 77 EL DEORA. The full playlist is posted below.  Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ’em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts. (frater@freighttrainboogie.com) Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here’s the direct link to listen now!  And this is the RSS feed for non-iTunes listeners: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss

Show #103

77 EL DEORA – (I Just Dodged a) Bullet The Crown & The Crow’s Confession
 MARTIN ENGLAND – Do What The Man With The Gun Says Razed And Reconstructed
KATHRYN CAINE – Settlin Down Down Home Girl
 THE GREAT RECESSION ORCHESTRA –  Sadie Green Have You Even Heard of Milton Brown?
(mic break)
GLENNA BELL – Honky Tonk Man Perfectly Legal: Songs of Sex, Love and Murder
REVEREND FREAKCHILD – Sweet Sweet You God Shaped Hole
 SALLY SPRING – Made of Stars Made of Stars
MIKE + RUTHY – Be the Boss Million To One
 (mic break)
DEREK PRITZL – His Words Drifter
THESE UNITED STATES – Just This What Lasts
 EMORY QUINN – Hand In Hand See You At The Next Light JIM BYRNES – No Mail Blues Everywhere West
MARTI BROM – Forbidden Fruit Not For Nothin’
(mic break)
77 EL DEORA – Fire on the Mountain (Revisited) The Crown & The Crow’s Confession

(Jan. 21st, 2011)
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Freight Train Boogie podcast #102

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #102  features the new CD from JONATHAN BYRD called Cackalack.  Also great music from PHOSPHORESCENT, COYOTE GRACE, and THE STAGGER & SWAY. The full playlist is posted below.  Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ’em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts. (frater@freighttrainboogie.com)
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Show #102

JONATHAN BYRD – Chicken Wire Cackalack
RED JUNE – Run Around Remember Me Well
EMMA HILL – One Glass Too Many Clumsy Seduction
THE STAGGER & SWAY – Sam Bond’s Garage Break Til You Bend
(mic break)
COYOTE GRACE – Man in the Moon Ear to the Ground
THE BLACK LILLIES – Little Darlin’ Whiskey Angel
GREEN WHISKEY – Somewhere West of Thorndale Triple Shot High
JONATHAN BYRD – Cackalack! Cackalack
(mic break)
PHOSPHORESCENT – Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly) Here’s To Taking It Easy
ROSS BELLENOIT – Mysterious Child (oh god!) Eight Track Mind
BILLY ELI – Cheese Enchiladas Hell Yeah!
GIRL HOWDY – Eenie Meenie Miney Honky Tonk Hair
(mic break)
JONATHAN BYRD – I Was An Oak Tree Cackalack

(Jan. 13th, 2011)
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Freight Train Boogie podcast #101

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Bill Frater

FTB podcast #101 features the new CD from JESSE DAYTON called One For The Dancehalls.  Also new music from JD McPHERSON, MUSIKANTO, JOHANNA DIVINE.  The full playlist is posted below.  Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ’em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts.
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Show #101

JESSE DAYTON – One For The Dancehalls One for the Dance Halls
JOHANNA DIVINE – Done ’em In Mile-High Rodeo
JIMMY BALDWIN – Wake Me Up When You’re Gone Vivador
JD McPHERSON – Your Love (All That I’m Missing) Signs & Signifiers
(mic break)
DAVID OLNEY – Red Tail Hawk Dutchman’s Curve
BLUE GIANT – Lonely Girl Blue Giant
ANDREW AND NOAH VAN NORSTRAND – Where Should I Go All the Good Summers
JESSE DAYTON – Back To Back One for the Dance Halls
(mic break)
JAIME MICHAELS – Black River The Man With the Time Machine
ANGEL BAND – Didn’t See It Coming (When the Levee Broke) Bless My Soul
ESQUELA – Richie The Owl has Landed
MUSIKANTO – Misty Morning Ghost Pain
(mic break)
JESSE DAYTON – The Years One for the Dance Halls

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Freight Train Boogie podcast #100, The Best of 2010

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Bill Frater

FTB Show #100 features song selections from my Best of 2010 list.   My full in-order list is posted here.  Some of the CD’s on the bigger labels have not given me permission to use their music so they are not included here.  These artsits include JAMEY JOHNSON, CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS and ELVIS COSTELLO.  Your input is always encouraged and appreciated. Please email me with any questions or suggestions for the podcasts.  frater(at)freighttrainboogie.com

The full playlist is posted below.  Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ’em you heard the songs on the Freight Train Boogie podcast.  Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts.  Here’s the direct link to listen now!  And this is the RSS feed for non-iTunes listeners: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss

Also, starting the first of the year, all FTB podcast playlists with players and iTunes links will be posted at FTBpodcasts.com only.

Show #100 Best of 2010

JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE – Ain’t Waitin’ Harlem River Blues
YVETTE LANDRY – Growing Old Should Have Known
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND – Turn the Other Cheek Legacy
ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER – I Wish We Had Our Time Again  Master Sessions
(mic break)
SHELBY LYNNE – Old #7 Tears, Lies, and Alibis
WILLIE NELSON – House of Gold Country Music
ELIZABETH COOK – Yes To Booty Welder
WILL KIMBROUGH – Open to Love Wings
(mic break)
ZOE MUTH & THE LOST HIGH ROLLERS – The Running Kind Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers
ELLIOT RANDALL – Chasing My Tail Caffeine & Gasoline
SHINYRIBS – East TX Rust Well After Awhile
ROMAN CANDLE – Eden Was a Garden Oh Tall Tree in the Ear
(mic break)
PATTY GRIFFIN – Never Grow Old Downtown Church

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