Show #205 – Gettin’ Down to Basics

After several shows with a theme and a fair amount of songs in that theme that strayed musically from even the beyond, we were back on track tonight with a solid Bakersfield & Beyond set.  We spun vinyl and CDs – the CDs at a much higher speed than the 33 1/3 rpm records.

Artist	Cut	Album	Label
Tim Hus	Bakersfield Music	Bushpilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
Wynn Stewart	Sing a Sad Song	The Songs of Wynn Stewart	Capitol Records
Gram Parsons	We’ll Sweep Out the Ashes In the Morning	GP	Reprise
Merle Haggard	Skid Row	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 – 1950S & 60S Boppers and Rockers from ‘Nashville West’	Bear Family Records GmbH
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Sittin’ and Thinkin’	Almost Blue	Elvis Costello Catalog
RJ Jones	Ozark Mountain Lullaby	self	Self Produced
Merle Haggard & The Strangers	I’m an Old, Old Man (Tryin’ to Live While I Can)	If We Make It Through December	Capitol
Dave Gleason’s Wasted Days	Downside of Life	Midnight, California	Well Worn Records
Buck Owens	Cryin’ time	Buck Em! The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)	OMNIVORE RECORDINGS (OMN)
Buck Owens	I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail	Buck ‘Em! The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)	Omnivore Recordings
Waylon Jennings	Bridge over troubled water	Cedartown, Georgia	RCA
Dave Edmunds	The Race is On	The Best of Dave Edmunds	swan song
Bonnie Owens	Stop the world	Bonnie Owens: Don’t Take Advantage of Me	Capitol Records
Sonny James	Young Love	Sonny James 20 All-Time Greatest Hits	Tee-Vee Records
Robert Gordon	Under Your Spell Again	I’m Coming Home	Lanark
Wanda Jackson	Rockabilly Fever (feat. Dave Alvin)	Heart Trouble	CMH Records
Clarence White	Tango for a Sad World	Tuff & Stringy/Sessions 1966-68	ace
Darrell Cotton	If We Could Read	Tuff & Stringy/Sessions 1966-68	Ace Records
Ferlin Husky	Money Greases the Wheel	Greatest Hits of Ferlin Husky	Gusto Records
Rank And File	Amanda Ruth	Sundown	Slash Records
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Rolly Polly	The Essential Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Capitol
Claude King	Tiger Woman	Tiger Woman	Columbia
Rosie Flores and Albert Lee	Heartbreak Train	A Town South of Bakersfield	enigma
Sal Sage & His Sage Gang	Cattle Cal	Songs of the Old West	self
Buck Owens	Don’t Ever Tell Me Goodbye	Buck Owens and his Backaroos, Your Tender Loving Care	Capitol Records
Joe Carson	Take Me in Your Arms	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 2 1950S & 60S Boppers and Rockers from ‘Nashville West’	Bear Family Records GmbH
Lone Justice	Soap, Soup and Salvation	This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983	Omnivore Recordings
Billy Mize	Planet Named Desire	The Other Side of Bakersfield: 1950’s &60’s Boppers and Rockers from ‘Nashville West’ Vol. 2	Bear Family Records GmbH
The Spencers	King & Queen of Fools	Bakersfield Rebels	Ace Records
The Flying Burrito Brothers	Sin City	The Gilded Palace of Sin	4 Men With Beards
Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers	Make it Last	North of Bakersfield	Dionysus

Show #204 – International Worker’s Day

May 1 is International Workers Day and a theme for the show emerged. It was an opportunity to mix some classic Bakersfield Sound tunes in with some “beyond” songs for a fun mix of music celebrating work, the worker, not working or evoking some task. There are a lot of tunes about working, this is merely the tippy top of the iceberg. Of course Merle Haggard’s “Working Man’s Blues,” is one of the classics and likely the genesis for this theme. You can listen to the archive here for the next 14 days.

Artist	Cut	Album	Label
Tim Hus	Bakersfield Music	Bushpilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
Elvis Costello	Welcome to the Working Week	My Aim Is True	Columbia
Isley Brohers	Work to Do	Work To Do	Motown
Randy Newman	Mr. President, Have Pity On the Working Man	Forrest Gump Soundtrack	Sony
Johnny Cash	Oney	The Man In Black	Sony Music
Tom Russell	Tulare Dust/They’re Tearing The Labor Camps Down	Tulare Dust, A Songwriter’s Tribute To Merle Haggard	Hightone Records
Justin Townes Earle	Workin’ for the MTA	Harlem River Blues	Bloodshot Records
Devo	Working in a Coal Mine	Greatest Hits	Warner Bros.
Glenn Campbell	Witchita Lineman	Golden Age of Country Music – “The Wild Side of Life”, Disc 1	StarVista
Bill Kirchen	Working Man	Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods	Proper American Recordings
The Clash	Julie’s Been Working for the Drug Squad	The Essential Clash	Epic Records
Tennesee Ernie Ford	sixteen tons	Pure Country Classics	Universal Music Enterprises/UTV Records
Peter Case	A Working Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today	Tulare Dust: A Songwriter’s Tribute to Merle Haggard	Hightone Records
77 El Deora	workin’	Sirens	Western Independent Recordings
Bachman-Turner Overdrive	Takin’ Care of Business	BTO’s Greatest	Island Def Jam
Gilbeau & Parsons	Workin’ on a Tugboat	Louisiana Rain	Big Beat
Loverboy	Working for the Weekend	Get Lucky	Columbia
Merle Haggard	Working Man’s Blues	Working In Tennessee	Vanguard
Buck Owens	Who’s Gonna Mow Your Grass?	40 Greatest Hits	Double Platinum
Donna Summer	She Works Hard for the Money	80’s Forever	Helicon Music
Ike Reilly	Good Work (if You Can Get It)	Am I Still The One For You	Rock Ridge Music
Red Simpson	Truck Drivin’ Man	Best of Truck Driving Favorites	Omnivore
Ian & Sylvia	Taking Care of Business	Country & West Coast The Birth of Country Rock	Big Beat
Johnny Paycheck	Take This Job and Shove It	Take This Job and Shove It	Epic
Dave Alvin	Gary, Indiana 1959	Eleven Eleven	Yep Roc
Tom Russell	Who’s Gonna Build Your Wall?	The Wounded Heart Of America	Shout! Factory
R.E.M.	Finest Work Song	Document	I.R.S./A&M
Lone Justice	Working Late	Lone Justice	Geffen Records
Cowboy Junkies	Working on a Building	The Trinity Session	RCA Records Label
Tom Waits	What’s He Building In There	Mule Variations	Anti/Epitaph
Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers	Make it Last	North of Bakersfield	Dionysus