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Playlist for April 13, 2004

Corrina co-hosted with me again and we opened a giant mailbag and spun new releases from Joel Mabus, Bruce Molsky, Adrienne Young, Sam Bush, and Jon Langford. There were many, many other interesting CDs that we split up to review over the coming weeks, so stay tuned for truckloads of new music over the coming weeks on Progressive Torch and Twang! 

Format is:
Artist – Song
Album/Label

Link Wray – Rawhide (T&T Theme)
Walkin’ with Link/Epic

Mindy Smith – Hard to Know
One Moment More/Vanguard

Townes Van Zandt – Sanitarium Blues
A Far Cry From Dead/Arista

Ryan Adams (w/Emmylou Harris) – Oh My Sweet Carolina
Heartbreaker/Bloodshot

Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum – Willie Poor Boy
Guest House/Hightone

Lynn Morris Band – Good Love
Shape of a Tear/Rounder

Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers – Pinetree Boogie
Cockadoodledon’t/Blooshot

Old Crow Medicine Show – Tell It To Me
Self-titled/Nettwerk America

Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods – Shake ‘Em On Down
Mama Says I’m Crazy/Fat Possum-Epitaph

Hazeldine – Double Back
Double Back/Okra-Tone

Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys – Heavy Traffic Ahead
The Essential Earl Scruggs/Columbia

Jen Sygit – Pretty Boys
Here to There/Road Kill

Wayne Hancock – Thunderstorms and Neon Signs (request)
Thunderstorms and Neon Signs/Deja Disc

Graham Parker – Nation of Shopkeepers
Your Country/Bloodshot

Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and Ricky Skaggs with Alison Krauss – Banks of Ohio
Three Pickers/Rounder

Hickory Nuts – Louisville Burglar
Man of Constant Sorrow and other Timeless Mountain Ballads/Yazoo

Emry Arthur – Man of Constant Sorrow
Man of Constant Sorrow and other Timeless Mountain Ballads/Yazoo

Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss – Didn’t Leave Nothing But the Baby
O’ Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack/Mercury

k.d. lang – My Last Cigarette (request)
Drag/Warner Brothers

Rhonda Vincent and Alison Krauss – One Step Ahead of the Blues
One Step Ahead/Rounder

Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder – A Voice From On High (request)
Soldier of the Cross/Skaggs Family Records

Bruce Molsky – Knoxville Blues
Contented Must Be/Rounder

Bruce Molsky – Someone I Love
Contented Must Be/Rounder

Bruce Molsky – Johnson City Rag
Contented Must Be/Rounder

Adrienne Young & Little Sadie – Leather Britches
Plow to the End of the Row/Addie Belle Music

Adrienne Young & Little Sadie – Sadie’s Song
Plow to the End of the Row/Addie Belle Music

Adrienne Young & Little Sadie – Lonesome Road Blues
Plow to the End of the Row/Addie Belle Music

Paul Burch and The WPA Ballclub – Sage Advice
Pan-American Flash/Checkered Past

Dale Watson – A Real Country (request)
Blessed or Damned/Hightone

Buddy Miller – Love Match
Cruel Moon/Hightone

Lyle Lovett – San Antonio Girl
My Baby Don’t Tolerate/Curb – Lost Highway

Over The Rhine – Faithfully Dangerous
Good Dog, Bad Dog:  The Home Recordings/Self-Released

Tom Waits – Temptation
Frank’s Wild Years/Island

Over The Rhine – Jack’s Valentine
Good Dog, Bad Dog:  The Home Recordings/Self-Released

Dan Kahn – Den of Thieves
River Mouth/Self-Released

Steppin’ In It – Vernadines
Hidden in the Lowlands/Hippo Coop

Steppin’ In It – Old Friends
Hidden in the Lowlands/Hippo Coop

Greg Brown – I Believe I’ll Go Back Home (request)
Honey in the Lion’s Head/Trailer Recs

Hank Williams III – Atlantic City (request)
Lovesick, Broke and Driftin’/Curb

Johnny Cash – I’m On Fire
Badlands:  A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska/Sub Pop

Raul Malo – Downbound Train
Badlands:  A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska/Sub Pop

Alison Krauss – Oh, Atlanta
Now That I’ve Found You/Rounder

Seth Bernard – Scratch Feed
Hello Fellow Travelers/Earthwork

Sam Bush – Puppies N’ Knapsacks
King of My World/Sugar Hill

Split Lip Rayfield – Outlaw
self-titled/Bloodshot

The Crooked Jades – Lonely Grave
The Unfortunate Rake, Vol. 1/Copper Creek

J.D. Crowe and the New South – Old Home Place
self-titled/Rounder

Gillian Welch – Orphan Girl
Revival/Almo Sounds

Slaid Cleaves – Wishbones
self-titled/Philo

Joel Mabus – Spoon River and You
Golden Willow Tree/Fossil

Mindy Smith with Dolly Parton – Jolene (bonus track)
One Moment More/Vanguard

Loretta Lynn – Rated X
All-Time Greatest Hits/Decca

Jo Serrapere and the Willie Dunns – Jesus Wears Red
The Hot Unsigned (& Unsung) Americana Compilation/Catamount

Bobby Bare Jr.’s Young Criminal Starvation League – Bullet Through My Teeth
self-titled/Bloodshot

Johnny Cash – Lead Me Gently Home
Life/Columbia