Playlist for November 2, 2004

Tonight’s program focused on the election and featured a good set of songs that were political in nature, whether in a very serious sense or in more light-hearted manner. These also included songs about key swing states and election themes. We also focused on upcoming shows by Jackie Greene and Chris Smither at the Ark in Ann Arbor on Nov. 5 and Nov. 6.

Format is:
Artist
- Song
Album/Label

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

Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
The Revolution Starts… Now/Artemis
-E-Squared

Steve Earle - Conspiracy Theory
Jerusalem/Artemis
-E-Squared

Lyle Lovett - Election Day
My Baby Don’t Tolerate/Curb
-Lost Highway

Ingham County Regulars - Pretty Lies
Self
-Titled/517-REC-ORDS

Rod Picott - Kerosene
Girl From
Arkansas/Welding Records

Hank Williams III - I’m The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised
Touch My Heart/Sugar Hill

The Ex-Husbands - The Line Forms on the Right
All Gussied Up/Tar Hut

Buddy Miller - 100 Million Little Bombs
Poison Love/Hightone

Pete Yorn - Splendid Isolation
Enjoy Every
Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon/Artemis

Uncle Tupelo - Coalminers (request)
March 16-20, 1992/Rockville

Wilco - Christ For President
Mermaid Ave/Elektra

Damien Jurado - Ohio
Rehearsals for Departure/Sub Pop

Scud Mountain Boys - Massachussetts
Massachusetts/Sub Pop

June Star - Ohio
Sugarbird/Toadfish
- Atomic Twang

Drive-By Truckers - The Day John Henry Died (request)
The Dirty South/New West

Reverend Horton Heat - Bales of Cocaine
The Full
-Custom Gospel Sounds of…/Sub Pop

Geraint Watkins - The Whole Night Through
Dial “W” for Watkins/Yep Roc

Jackie Greene - About Cell Block #9
Sweet Somewhere Bound/Digi Music

Jackie Greene - Seven Jealous Sisters
Sweet Somewhere Bound/Digi Music

Jackie Greene - Write a Letter
Sweet Somewhere Bound/Digi Music

Tom Waits - How’s It Gonna End?
Real Gone/Anti
-

Peter Case - Blind Luck
Who’s Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile?/Vanguard

Fred Eaglesmith - Time to Get A Gun (request)
Lipstick, Lies and Gasoline/Razor and Tie

Po’ Girl - Movin’ On
Vagabound Lullabies/Netwerk
America

Split Lip Rayfield - Truth and Lies
Should Have Seen It Coming/Bloodshot

Andre Williams and The Sadies - Weapons of Mass Destruction
Red Dirt/Bloodshot

Elvis Costello and the Imposters - The Judgement
The Delivery Man/Lost Highway

Jim White - Borrowed Wings
Drill A Hole in the Substrate and Tell Me What You See/Luaka Bop

John Langford - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
All The Fame of Lofty Deeds/Bloodshot

The V-Roys - No Regrets
Just Add Ice/E
-Squared

Chuck Prophet - Pin a Rose on Me
Age of Miracles/New West

Chris Smither - Let It Go
Train Home/Hightone

Chris Smither - Statesboro Blues
Another Way To Find You/Flying Fish

Chris Smither - Train Home
Train Home/Hightone

Moot Davis - Last Train Home
Self
-Titled/Lucky Dog

Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers - Misery Train
Believe/Yep Roc

Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers - All My Life to Kill
Believe/Yep Roc

Tony Joe White w/Emmylou Harris - Wild Wolf Calling Me
The Heroines/Sanctuary

Blaze Foley - Oral Room
Oval Room/Lost Art

Richard Buckner - A Chance Counsel
Dents and Shells/Merge

Richard Buckner - Straight
Dents and Shells/Merge

Richard Buckner - Rafters
Dents and Shells/Merge

Ramblin’ Jack Elliot - T for Texas
The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wright/Hightone

Johnny Cash - Where We’ll Never Grow Old
My Mother’s Hymn Book/American
- Lost Highway

King Wilkie - Goodbye So Long
Broke/Rebel

Johnny Bond & The Red River Valley Boys - When The Work’s All Done This Fall
Country and Western/Bloodshot Revival/Soundies

The Carter Family - Worried Man Blues
Worried Man Blues/Rounder

Scott Miller and the Commonwealth - Mess of This Town
RU w/Me?/Self
-Titled

Foghorn String Band - Sow “Em on the Mountain
Self
-Titled/Self-Released

Doc Watson and Frosty Morn - Court on High
‘Round The Table Again/Sugar Hill

Doc Watson and Frosty Morn - Nights in White Satin
‘Round The Table Again/Sugar Hill

K.D. Lang - The Air that I Breathe
Drag/Warner Bros.

Grant Lee Phillips - Calamity Jane
Virginia Creeper/Zoe

Jeffrey Foucault - Doubletree
Stripping Cane/Signature Sounds

Kaz Murphy - Castles Made of Sand
Devil in the Barn/Barnwall

Bobby Bare Jr.’s Young Criminal Starvation League - Stay in Texas
Self
-Titled/Bloodshot