Country sweethearts...

Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go

Jo Dee Messina - You're Not In Kansas Anymore

Coal Miner's Daughter ~ Loretta Lynn , Sheryl Crowe, & Miranda Lambert (from A Tribute To)

Today the postie delivered "The Complete Introduction To Northern Soul" box set complete with booklet about Wigan Casino etc. really well put together and well worth the £20 for 100 soul tracks, each more wonderful than the last. Some real gems on these, quite a lot of them new to me.

I'm indebted to Frank in Denny who kicked my interest off with a shout for Frank Wilson's 'Do I Love You (Indeed I Do), the other week. I was interested in Frank Wilson because of his later production/arrangement work for Motown ( Keep On Truckin' etc). I think Northern Soul may be my campaign for this year, and I commend this box set to the blogotariat.

Hopefully this post won't get moderated.

regardez youse

henri

Prior shouts for this crew have gone unanswered... so howzaboot

Petty Booka with the Meat Purveyors ~ How Can I Be So Thirsty Today?

Well, this is really Mr Git's territory but I'll throw my tuppence worth in:

The Rhythm Of The Blues - Mary -Chapin Carpenter a mystery why this has never been played on GIO. The ultimate country song about the living death phase of a dead relationship.

My First Night Alone Without You - Bonnie Raitt Absolutely luminous rendition of Ray Charles's beautiful song of post relationship lonliness, wonderful, mystery why never palyed on GIO.

and now the blindingly obvious:

Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle love it.

maybe more to follow.

regardez youse

henri

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Almost Home
Roseanne Cash - Sea of Heartache
Carla Olson - The DRifter
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Iris DeMent - Let The Mysatery Be
Nanci Griffith - The Loving Kind
Trisha Yearwood - Believ Me Baby I Lied
Lucinda Williams - Drunken Angel
Alison Kraus - Killing The Blues
Jennifer Nettles in Sugarland - All I Want To Do
Kim Richey - Chinese Boxes
Patricia Hardin w Tom Russel - Joshua Tree
Tift Merrit - Good Hearted Man or Morning Is My Destitantion
Maria McKee - Ophelius (Sweet Relief)
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Indigo Girls - Gallileo or Power of Two
Emmylou Harris - Tragedy
Kathy Mattea - Nobodys Gonna Rain On Our Parade
Ani Difranco-Mariachi
Shawn Colvin - One Cool Remove
kd lang - Last Cigarette
Madison Violet - Cindy Cindy
Dar Williams - Iowa
Caitlin Rose - Learning To Ride
Gretchen Peters - Saint Francis

Oh and I forgot...

Sleeping By The Fryis River - Ane Brun strictly speaking the wrong nationality, but undoubtedly completely deserving to be included among the greatest of her peers.

k d lang - Perfect word/ heaven/ helpless and many others..

regardez youse

henri

Piney Gir Country Roadshow - I Was Born In A Thunderstorm

Oh and I like

Different Drum - the Stone Pony's

regardez youse

henri

Happy to second anything from Norrie's great list. Plus:

Oklahoma sky - Miranda Lambert
Easier to forget - Allison Moorer

Joe
Linlithgow

Outstanding list Norrie, reckon you'll have topped Scotch in quantity ;-0








P.S. You missed one...

The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore ~ June Carter

Joe you remind me:

Buddy and Judy Miller with Patti Griffin - Chalk

Gillian Welch - The Way That It Goes

thanks for your kind remark!

oh and...

Bobby Gentry.. I'll Never Fall In Love Again .. obvious, but great.

regardez youse

henri

PS bet Patrick Mccafferty doesn't come up with such a knowledgeable list, Norrie.well done!

Great to hear THE PHLORESCENT LEECH AND EDDIE on GIO tonight.

Thanks Bryan!

No seriously, well done Norrie! If you ever fancy some Insurgent Country get yourself onto www.bloodshotrecords.com

Tennessee Waltz ~ Sally Timms

Gary Gilmour's Eyes ~ Sally Timms with Dean Schablowske

Homicide ~ Sally Timms with Skid Marks

Green Green Grass Of Home ~ Kelly Hogan & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts








ps Who's Patrick McCafferty?

pps Who's Henri Hannah?

If ever there was a theme.....and yet its sung by a man So might not count

A song about a guy who has to raise his daughter snd look after his old horse as his wife goes off to be a rodeo star

Everything that glitters is not gold / England Dan Seals

Whoops... I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive ~ Rosie Flores

Great list Norrie...and 'Chalk' is a wonderful song...love it!

Devon Sproule - 'Plea For A Good Night's Rest'
Carlene Carter - 'Every Little Thing' or 'Unbreakable Heart'
Eliza Gilkyson - 'Borderline'
Suzy Bogguss - 'Part Of You' or 'I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart'
The Ditty Bops - great harmonies and guitar playing on 'Wishful Thinking'
Mindy Smith - 'It's Amazing'
Asleep At The Wheel's Elizabeth McQueen's cover of Graham Parker's 'Local Girls.

#18...I meant Suzy Bogguss - 'Part Of ME'

Ach, we can't forget the First Lady of Rockabilly...

Funnel Of Love ~ Wanda Jackson with The Cramps >8-0

WEDNESDAY


An embassment of riches richt enough! What a great theme!!!


One's on the Way - Loretta Lynn


He's a Good Ole Boy - Chely Wright


Don't Tell Me What to Do - Pam Tillis


God May Forgive You (But I Won't) - Rosie Flores


Does My Ring Burn Your Finger? - Lee Ann Womack


Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That? - Dolly Parton



...and massive support for Norrie (see #6)

I'm Down to My Last Cigarette - kd lang


:o)

Does Country Girl fit the theme?

In State - Kathleen Edwards
New Favorite - Alison Krauss

That Kathleen Edwards track is superb ericinelgin I am going to look her up. Well her cd's it is a bit early in our relationship for stalking.....

#12 - Norrie, you reminded me: Mary by Patty Griffin
#23 - Eric - Kathleen Edwards is a great suggestion (but I'd prefer "back to me")

Also:
I've been loved by you - Kimmie Rhodes
God's acre - Gillian Welch


Joe
Linlithgow

#3 well done Henri. Ive had the Frank Wildon track on as well, the most expensive vinyl single sold at auction. The most fascinating thing about the whole northern soul scene to me was the way the DJs owned the records. They would go out and find rare soul songs or b sides and turn them into favourites on the motthern soul scene. However they would often cover up the labels so nobody knew what the song was or who it was by so mo other DJ could go out and get it. O ce I am on my laptop tomorrow night if I remember I will post you some interesting links.

And when i get back onto a decent sized keypad i promise my spelling will improve as well

Try this Henri if it works on my phone

https://www.chrishunt.biz/features05.html

I commend you all, and norrie in particular, on your knowledgeability of a genre I know absolutely zero about.

Wouldn't mind being the sweetheart of the rodeo though.






Think of all the lovely horses.

I Like Trucks - Kendel Carson - Great fun

Sound familiar?

Think this'll be a busy show tonight, hopefully with BB being allowed to use his knowledge of the genre to pick good (not just the best-known) tracks to play.

HH/Paolo...no surprise that I'd be more than happy for more Northern Soul to be played. Keep plugging away and I'll 'keep on keepin' on' with my occasional NS requests. Don't you just love when you go to a party where there's dancing and see the most of unlikely of middle-aged people who know how to do proper Northern Soul dancing? Used to have a particularly 'mumsy'-looking neighbour...never looked in the least bit energetic...who amazed us all at a party by getting up to dance only once during the evening but she danced as if she was at an all-nighter at Wigan Casino! She was great! Shouldn't judge a book...blahbedy-blah etc etc...

I salute your optimism Bloggers!

#32 How do you define a "busy show", JFE? Bryan often says this and I assume he means when there is an increase in request traffic. For us the listener though would a "busy show" mean more records played? Not sure thats true because in general the same amount of records are played every night (one or two less when Babs is on). Of course a "busy show" for Bryan should mean a less "busy show" for us coz he needs to spend more time giving mentions and less time playing music.



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#30

Ripped off from this, shurely!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lmCpIzhFo

Hello all bloggers, contributors and listeners....
Sadly I will be busy from 630 tonight...Chairing a Meeting...... and will only be able to listen to the prog in the car til then......blah blah blah.......

my usual ladies of the americana are :

MCC......Passionate Kisses
Shut up and Kiss Me
Stones in the Road

Suzy Bogguss.....Drive South
Outbound Plane

My favourite and not much heard on the radio is DAR WILLIAMS :

The melancholic....February
or
Upbeats.......WHen I was a Boy
AS COOL AS I AM

Sure that the programme will be as great as usual.......

DRT

#32. I meant that there would be a high number of requests.

You're probably right...but I hadn't thought that much about it.

#36
Well then, I would disagree with you there.
I'm not so sure that this theme will generate a high number of requests from the wider GIO audience..... but lets see.

A "busy" show is one where initial requests do not fit the playlist (approved at the monthly meeting) and some effort is then required to find the missing ones.

haha! They're asking for Ryanetta Adams and Grammy-Lou Parsons via facebook!

#35

You should get a radio for your house.

Tonight's show will be busy enough, no doubt, but it will be the show's hard core supporters doing the requesting.

Not that it's going to be under subscribed or anything, but I suspect lots of multiple requests for the same artists/s - so in that sense, it might not be that busy.Once you've played an MCC track, that wipes a couple of dozen requests.

Big article in the Herald today about my old hero, Jack Bruce, who's doing a gig with Lau at Celtic Connections - that'll be plain weird.

We'll see,

regardez youse

henri

Hey Henri, a wee birdie told me that someone made that Krankies comment over on the Dark Side.
Is there no Moderation on F***book??

I'm worried about my popularity on Facebook. My five friends have now dwindled to three (no, two of them aren't The Krankies).

#42

Well, to be fair, I didn't mention the Krankies. I think I got moderated for speculating on how the meaning of words changes over time -it was all quite innocent stuff really - but perhaps my descriptions were too racy for the moderator to believe the blogotariat could cope with them.

regardez - youse

henri

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo is a great album. He said randomly. Especialyy the Legacy re-release with more Gram Parsons lead vocals.....

#43 I will always be your friend Eric.

#39 see what you mean, Julie - it's even worse than when everyone on the blog was asking for drummers ;0)

there aren't that many different names altogether so far are there?

here's my only contribution, guaranteed to make the die-hards scream and tear their hair out

Country Strong - Gwyneth Paltrow

Norrie, won't it be confusing for eric if you're his friend eric?

classic vintage

'there's poison in your heart'........................kitty wells

cheers frae the dale

DEAD FLOWERS by MIRANDA LAMBERT

If this was on the playlist, it bain't now - yeeha!

do you think we could do a soul week?

Mon: Motown

Tues: Northern Soul

Wed: Southern Soul ( Stax/Atlantic)

Thurs: Philly

Fri: Disco

Just a thought...

regardez youse

henri

#50
Well me and Pablo would back you there HH, however some might think it all a bit samey for a week.

#46 #47

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

#50, #51


The Blues night was spoiled by too much soul music. We should get a Blues week by way of compensation.