The folks at Razor and Tie were nice enough to send some extra copies of Dar Williams’ “The End of the Summer,” so we handed out a copy of that as well as tickets to a CD release party for the Riptones, a Chicago rockabilly band, on Aug. 14.  And we’ll be spending the next week putting together a suitable tribute to Mr. Presley for next Tuesday.

Playlist for August 5, 1997

Format is:
Artist - Song
Album/Label

Link Wray - Rawhide (Torch and Twang theme)
Walkin’ With Link/Epic-Legacy

Big Blue Hearts - Live Without Your Love
self-titled/Geffen

Friends of Dean Martinez - Nile Blues
Retrograde/SubPop

Giant Sand - The Inner Flame
The Inner Flame/Atlantic

Richard Thompson - Vincent Black Lightning 1952 (live)
Live three-song EP/Capitol

Greg Brown - Lord I Have Made You A Place In My Heart
The Poet Game/Red House

Blue Rodeo - Disappear
Tremolo/Sire

Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings
The Peel Sessions/Strange Fruit

Son Volt - Going, Going, Gone (request)
Switchback/Warner Bros.

Son Volt - Tear Stained Eye
Trace/Warner Bros.

Nineteen Wheels - Setting Sun
Six Ways From Sunday/Aware

Michelle Shocked - The L&N Don’t Stop Here Any More
Short, Sharp, Shocked/Mercury

Joe Henry - King’s Highway
Short Man’s Room/Mammoth

Old 97s - Goin’, Goin’, Gone
Wreck Your Life/Bloodshot

Dar Williams - Bought and Sold
The End of the Summer/Razor and Tie

kd lang - Theme From the Valley of the Dolls (request)
Drag/Warner Bros.

The Volebeats - The Dead of Winter
Sky and the Ocean/Safe House

The Waterboys - Fisherman’s Blues (request)
Dream With the Fishes soundtrack/Will Records
(I always liked this song and it’s funny to hear it so much again since it’s on this soundtrack)

The Wild Colonials - Spirit (request)
This Can’t Be Life/DGC

The Squirrel Nut Zippers - Flight of Passing Fancy
Hot/Mammoth

The Riptones - How Mean You Really Are
Extra Sauce/Bloodshot

The Riptones - Extra Sauce
Extra Sauce/Bloodshot

Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana (with Lee Rocker and Joe Ely) - I’m Gonna Strangle You Shorty
All The King’s Men/Sweetfish

The Deans - Midnight Train
Shindig At Newton’s/Kingpin

Ruthie and the Wranglers - Rockabilly Song #10
Wrangler City/Lasso

BR5-49 - Hillbilly Thang (request)
Live From Robert’s/Arista

Brian Hofeldt, et. al. - The Creeper
Travis County Pickin’/HighTone

Whiskeytown - 16 Days
Strangers Almanac/Outpost

John Prine - All The Best (request)
The Missing Years/Oh Boy

Richard Buckner - This Is Where (request)
Bloomed/Deja Disc

Blue Mountain - Last Words of Midnight Clyde (request)
Homegrown/Roadrunner

Blue Mountain - To A Toad
Wink/Roadrunner

Lyle Lovett - Just The Morning (request)
I Love Everybody/Curb-MCA

The Silos - Nobody But You (request)
Hasta la Victoria!/Watermelon

The Bottle Rockets - Indianapolis
24 Hours A Day/Atlantic

Claire Lynch - Thibodeaux (request)
Moonlighter/Rounder

Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver - I’m Not Afraid of Tomorrow
Kept and Protected/Sugar Hill

Hot Rize - If I Should Wander Back Tonight
Legacy: Tribute to the First Generation…/Sugar Hill

Richard Greene and the Grass Is Greener - Body and Soul
Sales Tax Toddle/Rebel

Dale Ann Bradley - The Day I Lose My Mind
East Kentucky Morning/Pinecastle

Sammy Shelor - I’m On To You
Leading Roll/Sugar Hill

Jason Carter - On The Move
On The Move/Sugar Hill

Jason Carter - Telluride
On The Move/Sugar Hill

Jason Carter - Daisy Mae
On The Move/Sugar Hill

Jason Carter - Back Up and Push
On The Move/Sugar Hill
(Jason Carter is the fiddle player for the Del McCoury Band and all of those folks join him on this, an excellent first solo recording)

Dave Alvin - Border Radio (request)
King of California/HighTone

Jason and the Scorchers - Hello Walls (request)
Reckless Country Soul/Mammoth

Big Sandy and His Fly Rite Boys - Backdoor Dan
Feelin’ Kinda Lucky/HighTone

Tim Carroll - Punk Rockin’ Honky Tonk Girl
Good Rock From Bad/Sound Asleep

Red Meat - Phone Tag
Meet Red Meat/Ranchero

Dale Watson - Hey Driver
I Hate These Songs/HighTone

Bill Kirchen - Nitro Express
Have Love, Will Travel/Black Top

Charlie Moore - Tombstone Every Mile
Truckin’ On/Starday

Red Sovine - Freightliner Fever
Truckin’ On/Starday

Brooks Williams - Hello Heartache
Seven Sisters/Green Linnet

Birddog - Uptown
The Trackhouse, The Valley, The Liquor Store And The Drive-Thru/Sugar Free

Robert Earl Keen - Levelland
Picnic/Arista Austin

Laurie Lewis - Restless Rambling Heart
Earth and Sky/Rounder

Dwight Yoakam - Train In Vain
Under The Covers/Reprise

Jimmy Martin - Rose of Old Kentucky
Got It Made In The Shade (If A Tree Don’t Fall)/Sunny Mountain Music

Ricky Skaggs - Hillbilly Highway
Life Is A Journey/Atlantic

Jack Lawrence - Stagger Mountain Tragedy
About Time/G-Run

Whiskeytown - Houses On The Hill
Strangers Almanac/Outpost