Freight Train Boogie Podcasts
A bi-weekly Americana music show featuring mostly new releases from the best indie roots artists. Permission has been granted for all of the tracks played on the Freight Train Boogie podcasts.
 
Freight Train Boogie podcast #51 Podcast # 51 is a Best of '09 show featuring songs from many of my picks from my Top 20 CD releases of the year, (see previous post.)   The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe to or download the show and here's the direct download link to listen right now on your computer.  Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.


Show #51
(Best of 2009)


DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN- River Under The Road Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women
PAUL BURCH - Waiting For My Ship Still Your Man
EILEN JEWELL - Rain Roll On Sea Of Tears
RED STICK RAMBLERS - Goodbye To The Blues My Suitcase Is Always Packed
(mic break)
RED ROOSTER - Borrowed Money Walk
SLAID CLEAVES - Black T-Shirt Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
DADDY - I Want To Be Clean For A Second Time
ROSIE FLORES & THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS - This Cat's In The Doghouse Girl of the Century
(mic break)


DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE - Ruby A Friend of a Friend
CAROLYN MARK & NQ ARBUCKLE - The 2nd Time Let's Just Stay Here
THE BAND OF HEATHENS - L.A. County Blues One Foot in the Ether
THE GOURDS - All the Way to Jericho Haymaker!
(mic break)
SARA WATKINS - Will We Go Sara Watkins

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Freight Train Boogie

Direct download: ftb-51.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:47am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #49 Show #49 features a hodgepodge of recent independent Americana releases,   Artists include DAVID WILCOX, NELL ROBINSON, THE O'S, and JUDY TAMPA & BUNKO SQUAD. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe to or download the show and here's the direct download link to listen right now on your computer.  Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #49

AMERICAN GUN - Girl In Texas Devil Showed Me His Hand
JUDY TAMPA & BUNKO SQUAD - Blindsided Tainted
ANDY FRIEDMAN & THE OTHER FAILURES- Road Trippin' Daddy Weary Things
THE SHANKS - Oh, Oakland Russian River Songs
(mic break)
DAVID WILCOX - Modern World Open Hand
PEGGY WHITE - Still The One Falling
WINK KEZIAH - Country Comes To Town Hard Times
LODA DIMES - I Got Drinkin' To Do 10¢ Instant Rebate
(mic break)


NELL ROBINSON - Misty Moonlight Loango
THE O'S -  We've Had Everything We Are the O's
KELLY MANIX - Precious Emerald City
ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS -   Volkswagen Thing God's Favorite Band
(mic break)
KATHRYN WILLIAMS and NEILL MacCOLL - Armchair Two

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Freight Train Boogie

Direct download: ftb-49.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:40pm PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #48 Show #48 features the new CD by CHIP TAYLOR called Yonkers NY.  Also new releases from  STAN MARTIN and WRINKLE NECK MULES. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.


Show #48


CHIP TAYLOR - Hey Jonny (Did You Feel That Movie) Yonkers, NY
BARNEY BENTALL -  Hold My Heart The Inside Passage
MANDY MARIE AND THE COOL HAND LUKES - This Old Tattoo $600 Boots
WRINKLE NECK MULES - One Hand In The Furnace Let the Lead Fly
(mic break)
CAROLINE HERRING- See See Rider Golden Apples of the Sun
ISRAEL NASH GRIPKA - Let Me Down New York Town
JAY SIMS - Rest Of The Way Half Souls and Heals
CHIP TAYLOR - Barry Go On (Put Yourself On The Mountain) Yonkers, NY
(mic break)


TRAMPLED BY TURTLES - Empire Duluth
SHOTGUN PARTY - Paints A Yates Mean Old Way
STAN MARTIN - Missing You Blues Love Ain't That Tough
TOM CATMULL AND THE CLERICS - After I'm Gone Glamour Puss
(mic break)
CHIP TAYLOR - Bastard Brothers Yonkers, NY

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Direct download: ftb-48.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:19am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #47 Show #47 features the new CD by DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE called A Friend of a Friend.  Also new releases from  CORRINNE WEST and STEVEN CASPER & COWBOY ANGST. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.  Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

 

Show #47


DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE - How's About You A Friend of a Friend
DOUG & TELISHA WILLIAMS -  Kitchen Light Ghost of the Knoxville Girl
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS - Still Lost Channels
CHRIS SMITHER - I Told You So Time Stands Still
(mic break)
CORRINNE WEST - Lily Ann The Promise
JOHNSON'S CROSSROAD - Those Lonesome Blues Blood in Black and White
MATT URMY - Renaissance Rodeo New Season Comin' (East Nashville, Volume 3)
DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE - Sweet Tooth A Friend of a Friend
(mic break)

STONE RIVER BOYS - Bluebonnet Blue (EP)
BETTY SOO - Get Clean Heat Sin Water Skin
THE COALMEN - Houston Memory Kids With Songs
STEVEN CASPER & COWBOY ANGST - Takes Me Back Topanga Ranch Motel
(mic break)
DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE - Bells Of Harlem A Friend of a Friend


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Wolfgang's Vault - Posters
Direct download: ftb-47.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:00am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #46 Show #46 features the new CD by SHELLEY KING called Welcome Home ... and she's backed by the subdudes. Also new releases from  REBECCA TURNER, CHUCK PROPHET and LEEANN ATHERTON. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #46

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SHELLEY KING - Everything's All Right Welcome Home
CHUCK PROPHET - What Can A Mother Do Let Freedom Ring!
NORTON BUFFALO - Lovin' in the Valley of the Moon Lovin' in the Valley of the Moon
THE DIXIE BEE-LINERS - Heavy - Susanville
(mic break)
LEEANN ATHERTON - Daily Blues Heart Traveled Road
ERNEST TROOST - Real Music Resurrection Blues
DeSOTO RUST - Six Appeals Highway Gothic
SHELLEY KING - How You Make Me Feel Welcome Home
(mic break)

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REBECCA TURNER -Listen Slowpokes
ALLEN THOMPSON - All These Years 26 Years
THE ALLENDALES - Drunkard's Dream of Immortality Low Morals & High Standards
ANGELA EASTERLING - Big Wide World Blacktop Road
(mic break)
SHELLEY KING - Welcome Home Welcome Home

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Freight Train Boogie
Direct download: ftb-46.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:28pm PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #45 The new CD by DANNY BARNES called Pizza Box is featured on Show #45... it's released with backup vocals and full support of "big star" DAVE MATTHEWS. Also new releases from MATT HARLAN, JO SERRAPERE and ROSIE FLORES. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #45

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DANNY BARNES - Caveman Pizza Box
JO SERRAPERE - Gotham Hotel Love Going South
JOHNSMITH - Jay Bird Gravity of Grace
GREG TROOPER - Angel The Williamsburg Affair
(mic break)
ROSIE FLORES & THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS - Halfway Home Girl of the Century
MATT HARLAN - Elizabethtown Tips & Compliments
THE BLUSHIN' ROULETTES - That Dream I Had Took to the Country
DANNY BARNES - Broken Clock Pizza Box
(mic break)

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ERIC ROBERTSON & THE BOSTON BOYS - You and Me Listen
STEVIE COYLE - She Ain't Got Me Ten in One
PORTERDAVIS - Smack You Back Porterdavis
SUSAN GIBSON -  Perfect World New Dog, Old Tricks
(mic break)
DANNY BARNES - Overdue Pizza Box

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Freight Train Boogie

Direct download: ftb-45.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:29pm PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #44 GEOFF MULDAUR & THE TEXAS SHEIKS have a new CD that is featured on Show #44... it's full of jug-band-country-blues played by an all-star band. Also new releases from EMMITT-NERSHI BAND, BRANDI CARLILE and TOM GILLAM. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #44
GEOFF MULDAUR & THE TEXAS SHEIKS - The World is Going Wrong Texas Sheiks
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN - What You Meant to Me  Wishful Thinking
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION Always Have My Love WPA
TOM GILLAM - Ride Had Enough

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(mic break)
CRACKER - Friends (w/Patterson Hood)  Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
GRANT PEEPLES - Real Country Pawnshop
AMANDA SHIRES- Angels And Acrobats West Cross Timbers
GEOFF MULDAUR & THE TEXAS SHEIKS - Blues In The Bottle Texas Sheiks
(mic break)
EMMITT-NERSHI BAND - New Country Blues New Country Blues
HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH - Root Of The Industry The Holy Open Secret
THE FAMOUS - Spooky Spooky Time
BRANDI CARLILE - Dying Days Give Up The Ghost
TOM LAVERACK - Coney Island Heart Cave Drawings
(mic break)
GEOFF MULDAUR & THE TEXAS SHEIKS - Please, Baby Texas Sheiks

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Freight Train Boogie

Direct download: ftb-44.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:51pm PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #43 The new CD by SAM BUSH entitled Circles Around Me is featured on Show #43. Also new releases from MALCOLM HOLCOLME, ELLIOTT BROOD and EXENE CERVENKA. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #43

SAM BUSH - You Left Me Alone Circles Around Me
MALCOLM HOLCOLME - Leonard's Pigpen For The Mission Baby
SONS OF BILL - Broken Bottles One Town Away
EXENE CERVENKA - Trojan Horse Somewhere Gone
(mic break)

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RED ROOSTER - Black Point Road Walk
SAMANTHA CRAIN - Scissor Tales Songs in the Night
GUY CLARK - Wrong Side Of The Tracks Somedays The Song Write You
SAM BUSH - Circles Around Me Circles Around Me
(mic break)
SARA PETITE - Doghouse Rose Doghouse Rose
OWEN TEMPLE - Making a Life Dollars and Dimes
THE ROSELINE - Profit Lust for Luster
ELLIOTT BROOD - Without Again Mountain Meadows
(mic break)
SAM BUSH - The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle Circles Around Me

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Direct download: ftb-43.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:48am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #42 TOM RUSSELL's a new CD called Blood And Candle Smoke  is featured on Show #42. Also new releases from REBECCA PRONSKY and CORB LUND. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the  direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #42

TOM RUSSELL - East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam Blood And Candle Smoke
REBECCA PRONSKY - The Best Game In Town The Best Game In Town
JUBAL LEE YOUNG - I Refuse The Last Free Place in America
WINK KEZIAH - Sometime You Win Hard Times

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(mic break)
KATE MacLEOD - The Day Is Mine Blooming
PETER COOPER - Mission Door Mission Door
CORB LUND - Devil's Best Dress Losin' Lately Gambler
TOM RUSSELL - Mississippi River Runnin' Backwards Blood And Candle Smoke
(mic break)
JASON EADY - God Fearing Blues When The Money's All Gone
KIM RICHARDSON - Devil On A Sunday True North
ADAM HOOD - Varnado Different Groove
MICHAEL FORD, JR. & THE APACHE DERBY -   Sweet Louisianne 1988
(mic break)
TOM RUSSELL - Nina Simone Blood And Candle Smoke

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Freight Train Boogie

Direct download: ftb-42..mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:28am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #41 Kitchen Radio, the debut CD from TERI JOYCE that is featured on Show #41. Also new releases from MARIA MULDAUR and GRANT DAVIDSON. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the  direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #41


TERI JOYCE - Don't Look For Me 'Til You See Me Comin' Kitchen Radio
MIKE AMABILE & RUN OVER TWICE - John and Marianne Better Side Of Me
GRIFFIN HOUSE - Let Me In Flying Upside Down
AMY SPEACE - Dog Days The Killer In Me

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(mic break)
AMY FARRIS - Let It Go Anyway
YARN - 5 Guitars Empty Pockets
GRANT DAVIDSON - Fool Of Me Tired Limbs For Ashes
TERI JOYCE - I Can't Help Myself Kitchen Radio
(mic break)

 

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BLUE MOTHER TUPELO -  Tupelo Heaven and Earth
MARIA MULDAUR - Shake Hands And Tell Me Goodbye Garden of Joy
AJ DOWNING - Up North River of Life
TWO TONS OF STEEL - Wanna Dance Not That Lucky
(mic break)
TERI JOYCE - The Party After The Party Kitchen Radio

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Freight Train Boogie

Direct download: ftb-41.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:37am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #40 MARK STUART AND THE BASTARD SONS have a new CD called One Bend in the Road that is featured on Show #40. Also new songs from AMELIA CURRAN and SHE SWINGS, SHE SWAYS. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the  direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #40

MARK STUART AND THE BASTARD SONS - When Love Comes A Callin' Bend In The Road
REVEREND HORTON HEAT- Drinkin' And Smokin' Cigarettes Laughin' and Cryin'
IMELDA MAY - Johnny Got A Boom Boom Love Tattoo
ARTY HILL & THE LONG GONE DADDYS- Church On Saturday Night Montgomery On My Mind
(mic break)

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AMELIA CURRAN - You Won't Find Me War Brides
ROB LUTES - Bread Truth & Fiction
THE WIYOS- Green Bottle #8 Broken Land Bell
MARK STUART AND THE BASTARD SONS - Restless, Ramblin' Man Bend In The Road
(mic break)

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DOOP & THE INSIDE OUTLAWS - Getting What You Want Everett Belcher
TODD SNIDER - Greencastle Blues The Excitement Plan
CAROLYN MARK & NQ ARBUCKLE - Too Sober To Sleep Let's Just Stay Here
SHE SWINGS, SHE SWAYS - He Loves Me Wasted Love Songs
(mic break)
MARK STUART AND THE BASTARD SONS -Fireflies & Corn Liquor Bend In The Road

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Freight Train Boogie

Direct download: ftb-40.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:39pm PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #39 THE BAND OF HEATHENS new CD One Foot in the Ether is featured on Show #39. Also new songs from HONEY DON'T, AMANDA PEARCY and ETHYL & THE REGULARS. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the  direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #39

THE BAND OF HEATHENS - You're Gonna Miss Me One Foot in the Ether
ALLEN THOMPSON - Forgive Me
26 Years
AMANDA PEARCY - Casino Waitin' On Sunday
ROBERT EARL KEEN - Rose Hotel Rose Hotel
(mic break)

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HONEY DON'T - Who Took The Jukebox Honey Don't
SHOTGUN PARTY - Mean Old Way Mean Old Way
ETHYL & THE REGULARS - Trouble Fill 'Er Up with Ethyl and the Regulars
THE BAND OF HEATHENS - What's This World One Foot in the Ether
(mic break)
BONNIE BISHOP - Lucky Ones Things I Know
SONS OF BILL - Broken Bottles One Town Away
MICHAEL ONEILL - Ain't Leavin' Your Love Ain't Leavin' Your Love
THE GREENCARDS- Fascination Fascination
(mic break)
THE BAND OF HEATHENS- Shine A Light One Foot in the Ether

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Direct download: ftb-39.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:23am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast #38 Show #38 features the new CD by the SAM BAKER called Cotton. Also new songs from BEARFOOT, ANGELA EASTERLING and 8 BALL AITKEN. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the  direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #38

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SAM BAKER - Cotton Cotton
THE CORDUROY ROAD - The Tree Bends Love Is A War
ANGELA EASTERLING
- One Microphone
Blacktop Road
8 BALL AITKEN - Cowboy Movie
Rebel With A Cause
(mic break)
PORTERDAVIS - Carter's Tune Porterdavis
RITA HOSKING - Precious Little Come Sunrise
JASON PAUL JOHNSTON - Vines Willows Motel
SAM BAKER - Mennonite Cotton
(mic break)

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THE GIVING TREE BAND -   Peace On The Mountain Great Possessions
BEARFOOT - Heaven Doors & Windows
THE KIERAN RIDGE BAND - Somewhere on the Edge of Town Already Gone
(mic break)
SAM BAKER - Who's Gonna Be Your Man Cotton

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Freight Train Boogie
Direct download: ftb-38.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:14am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #37 Show #37 features the new CD by the HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN called Wishful Thinking. Also new songs from MADISON VIOLET, CAM PENNER and FLOUNDERS WITHOUT EYES. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the  direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #37

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CATIE CURTIS - Be Sixteen With Me Hello, Stranger
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN - If You Leave Me Wishful Thinking
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE- Poor Fool Midnight At The Movies
OLD CALIFORNIO - Mother Road Westerning Again
(mic break)
CAM PENNER - Trouble & Mercy Trouble&Mercy
KERRI POWERS - Nobody Minds My Drinking Faith In the Shadows
ARTY HILL & THE LONG GONE DADDYS - Hankin' Around Bar Of Gold
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN - Columbus Stockade Blues Wishful Thinking
(mic break)

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MADISON VIOLET- No Fool For Trying No Fool For Trying
FLOUNDERS WITHOUT EYES - Set a Place What's the Rush
DAVE TEICHROEB- Lone Pine Lost Horizon
PATTERSON HOOD - Belvedere Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
(mic break)
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN - What You Meant to Me  Wishful Thinking

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Direct download: ftb-37.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:06pm PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #36 Show #36 features the new CD by PAUL BURCH called I'm Your Man. Also new songs from BETH WOODTWO TONS OF STEEL and THE BOTTLE ROCKETS. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show 36

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PAUL BURCH - Still Your Man Still Your Man
THE COALMEN - Almost Kids With Songs
SHELLEY KING - Summer Wine Welcome Home (advance single)
TWO TONS OF STEEL- Cryin' Eyes Not That Lucky
(mic break)
THESE UNITED STATES - The Secret Door Everything Touches Everything
BETH WOOD - Our New Century Beachcomber's Daughter
THE DEVIL MAKES THREE- Aces and Twos Do Wrong Right
PAUL BURCH - Like A Train Still Your Man
(mic break)

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BUSKIN & BATTEAU - Red Shoes and Golden Hearts Red Shoes and Golden Hearts
DAVID SERBY - Permanent Position Honkytonk and Vine
DANIELLE TALAMINI - Pack My Bags The Road Rises
THE BOTTLE ROCKETS -
Get On The Bus Lean Forward
(mic break)
PAUL BURCH - Little Bells Still Your Man

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Direct download: ftb-36.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:27am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #35 Show #35  features the new CD by KIERAN KANE called Somewhere Beyond The Roses. Also new songs from GUY CLARKKATE REDGATE and STILLHOUSE HOLLOW. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #35

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KIERAN KANE - More To It Than This Somewhere Beyond the Roses
AMANDA SHIRES - Keep Them Dogs From Barkin' West Cross Timbers
LOY SIMMERS - Hardlife Westward Bound
LEO RONDEAU - No Friend To Louisiann Down At The End Of The Bar
(mic break)
GUY CLARK - All She Wants Is You Somedays The Song Write You
STILLHOUSE HOLLOW -Whiskey Dakota
KELLEIGH McKENZIE - Call It A Day Chances
KIERAN KANE - Don't Try To Fight It Somewhere Beyond the Roses
(mic break)

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SCOTT WARREN - Before You Say Goodbye Quick Fix Bandage
KATE REDGATE - Last To Know Nothing Tragic
OWEN TEMPLE -Making a Life Dollars and Dimes
WEBB WILDER - More Like Me More Like Me
(mic break)
KIERAN KANE - Unfaithful Heart  Somewhere Beyond the Roses

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Direct download: ftb-35.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:44pm PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #34 Show #34  features the new CD from RICK SHEA called Shelter Valley Blues. Also new songs from BETTY SOOJUBAL LEE YOUNG and THE WIYOS. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #34


RICK SHEA - No Good Time for Leavin' Shelter Valley Blues
THE WIYOS - Roll On Down The Road Broken Land Bell
TERRI HENDRIX - Hole In My Pocket Left Over Alls
JOHNSMITH - Ring that Bell Gravity of Grace
(mic break)
SHARON ALLEN - Do-Si-Do Along The Way
SONS OF BILL - In the Morning One Town Away
JOHN DOE AND THE SADIES- Husbands and Wives Country Club
RICK SHEA - Steady Drivin' Man Shelter Valley Blues
(mic break)

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JUBAL LEE YOUNG - The Last Free Place in America The Last Free Place in America
BETTY SOO- Still Small Voice Heat Sin Water Skin
GRANT LANGSTON- Shiner Bock and Vicodin Stand Up Man
(mic break)

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RICK SHEA - Sweet Little Pocha Shelter Valley Blues

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Direct download: ftb-34.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:25am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #33 Show #33  features the new CD from GINA VILLALOBOS called Days On Their Side. Also new songs fromTOM LAVERACK, MICHAEL ONEILL and HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #33

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GINA VILLALOBOS - Sun in My Eyes Days On Their Side
JASON PAUL JOHNSTON - Traveling Map Willows Motel
NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE - Last Lonely Eagle New Riders of the Purple Sage
TOM LAVERACK - Precious Little Cave Drawings
(mic break)
KATHRYN WILLIAMS and NEILL MacCOLL - Before It Goes Two
DANNY SCHMIDT- Swing Me Down Instead The Forest Rose To Sing
MICHAEL ONEILL - Pay The Bill Ain't Leavin' Your Love
GINA VILLALOBOS - Ring Around My Room Days On Their Side
(mic break)

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STEVIE COYLE - Train on the Brain Ten in One
JOE PAQUIN- Little Winnebago Only Human
HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH - You and All of Us The Holy Open Secret
(mic break)
GINA VILLALOBOS - Take A Beating Days On Their Side

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Direct download: ftb-33.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:32am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #32 Show #32  features the new CD from CHARLIE ROBISON called Beautiful Day. Also new songs fromRITA HOSKING, TODD SNIDER and GEOFF UNION. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #32

CHARLIE ROBISON - Beautiful Day Beautiful Day
SAMANTHA CRAIN - Rising Sun Songs in the Night
CLINT OSMUS AND THE BUSHMILLS - Sweet Alicia Clint Osmus and the Bushmills
THE JAYHAWKS - Stone Cold Mess Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology
(mic break)

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RITA HOSKING - Let 'Em Run Come Sunrise
TODD SNIDER - Slim Chance The Excitement Plan
ROBIN DEAN SALMON - Ready Now Come On Home
CHARLIE ROBISON - Feelin' Good Beautiful Day
(mic break)
THE FELICE BROTHERS - -All When We Were Young Yonder Is The Clock
RHYTHM ANGELS - If I Had A Gun Girls Like Us
PHIL LEE - Where A Rat's Lips Have Touched So Long, It's Been Good To Know You
GEOFF UNION - Econoline Song Big Sky Tonight
(mic break)
CHARLIE ROBISON - If the Rain Don't Stop/Middle of the Night Beautiful Day

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie
Direct download: ftb-32.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:41pm PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #31 Show #31  features Alright Dynamite, the 2nd CD from KENDALL CARSON. Also new songs from PATTERSON HOOD and THE KIERAN RIDGE BAND. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #31

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KENDAL CARSON - Belt Buckle Alright Dynamite
ADAM HOOD - Different Groove Different Groove
BUCKTOWN KICKBACK - Country Party Rock Fiction Pickin'
THE BELIEVERS - Ring, Ring, Ring Lucky You
(mic break)
PATTERSON HOOD - Granddaddy Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
ADAM CARROLL - Black Flag Blues Old Town Rock n Roll
ISRAEL NASH GRIPKA - You Were Right New York Town
KENDAL CARSON - Seven Shadows on My Golden Roses Alright Dynamite
(mic break)

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THE KIERAN RIDGE BAND - Life Is Hard & Love's Unfair Already Gone
THE REFUGEES - Unbound Unbound
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY - Cherokee Fiddle Buckaroo Blue Grass
THE LOOSE ACOUSTIC TRIO - New Seeds Sorrow Be Gone
(mic break)
KENDAL CARSON - Oh Baby Lie Down Alright Dynamite

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie
Direct download: ftb-31.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:35am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #30 Show #30  features For A Second Time, the new CD from DADDY, featuring Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack. Also new songs from TAYLOR MARTIN and CATHERINE MacLELLAN. The full playlist is posted below.  Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast.Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #30

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DADDY - Nobody From Nowhere For A Second Time
CHUCK MEAD -I Wish It Was Friday Journeyman's Wager
CATHERINE MacLELLAN - Take A Break Water In The Ground
BOZ SCAGGS - Midnight Dream The Man of Somebody's Dreams- A Tribute to the Songs of Chris Gaffney
(mic break)
TAYLOR MARTIN - Country? Engine
JENNY REYNOLDS - Whiskey & Pie Next to You
BEN MALLOTT - Midnight and Broke Look Good, Feel Good
DADDY - He Ain't Right For A Second Time
(mic break)

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PHILIP MASORTI - Father's Eyes Father's Eyes
ANDY FRIEDMAN & THE OTHER FAILURES - Weary Apology Weary Things
AMY SPEACE - Better The Killer In Me (due June 30th)
DADDY - Love in a Bottle For A Second Time
(mic break)
DADDY - Redemption is the Mother's Only Son For A Second Time

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie
Direct download: ftb-30.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:48am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #29 Show #29  features the new CD by DAVE ALVIN AND THE GUILTY WOMEN, featuring Christy McWilson, Cindy Cashdollar, Nina Gerber, Laurie Lewis, Amy Farris, Sarah Brown and Lisa Pankratz. Also new songs from WEINLAND, OWEN TEMPLE and LIL' MO AND THE MONICATS. The full playlist is posted below. Please feel free to check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download page. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #29

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DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN - California's Burning Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women
OWEN TEMPLE - Broken Heart Land Dollars and Dimes
THE DERAILERS - Bad, Bad Girl Guaranteed to Satisfy
LIL' MO AND THE MONICATS - I Could Get Used To This On The Moon
(mic break)
DAVID LUTES - Love In The Hard Times Big Top: Volumes 1 & 2
THE GREENCARDS - Outskirts of Blue Fascination
DAVID GRISSOM - True Love Don't Work That Way 10,000 Feet
DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN - Marie, Maire Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women

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(mic break)
DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN- Potter's Field Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women
BUDDY & JULIE MILLER - Ellis County Written In Chalk
GRANT LANGSTON - 30 Days Stand Up Man
WEINLAND - Hardly Worth Saving Breaks in the Sun
(mic break)
DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN - These Times We're Living In Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie
Direct download: ftb-29.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:02pm PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #28 Show #28  features the new CD by the RED STICK RAMBLERS, they're from Louisiana and play Cajun, Country, Swing and much more. Also new songs from COLIN LINDEN, WESTERLY and JESSICA STILES. The full playlist is posted below. Please feel free to check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download page. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #28

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RED STICK RAMBLERS - Drinkin' To You  My Suitcase Is Always Packed
TOM CATMULL AND THE CLERICS - The New One  Glamour Puss
JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT - Streetlights  Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
MISSY RAINES & THE NEW HIP - Basket of Singing Birds  Inside Out
(mic break)
COLIN LINDEN - From The Water  From The Water
THE HOLLYFELDS
- Hey 52  Black Heart Blue
WAYNE HANCOCK - Throwin' Away My Money  Viper Of Melody
RED STICK RAMBLERS - My Suitcase Is Always Packed  My Suitcase Is Always Packed
(mic break)

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JESSICA STILES - Carousel  EP
RICHARD SHINDELL - State of the Union  Not Far Now
WESTERLY - Every Word  This Lonesome Town
SON VOLT - Down To The Wire  American Central Dust (due July 7th)
(mic break)
RED STICK RAMBLERS - Lay Down in the Grass  My Suitcase Is Always Packed

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie
Direct download: ftb-28.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:32am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #27 On Show #27 we're featuring the new CD's by JOHN AMOS and SUSAN CATTANEO. Also new songs from DAVID SERBY, BETTY SOO and THE DEVIL MAKES THREE. The full playlist is posted below. Please feel free to check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download page. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

 

Show #27

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JOHN AMOS  - Holding on to Letting Go Invisible Boy
SUSAN CATTANEO
- Love Takes What It Takes Brave and Wild
JAY BENNETT & EDWARD BURCH - Shakin' Sugar The Palace At 4am (Part I)
DAVID SERBY -Chasin' You Honky Tonk And Vine
(mic break)
BETTY SOO
- Whisper My Name Heat Sin Water Skin
ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER - I Know A Bird You Don't Have to Like Them Both
HANG JONESMexico Line The Ballad of Carlsbad County
THE DEVIL MAKES THREE - All Hail Do Wrong Right
(mic break)

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GYPSY DAVE AND THE STUMPJUMPERS - Dreamin' A Bucketful of Ghosts
JOHN DOE AND THE SADIESBefore I Wake Country Club
ROD PICOTT & AMANDA SHIRES - Drive That Devil Out Sew Your Heart With Wires
JOHN AMOS - Holy Land Invisible Boy
(mic break)
SUSAN CATTANEO - Get Back The Longing Brave and Wild


Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie

Direct download: ftb-27.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:12am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #26 We got a swingin' new album by THE BELLEVILLE OUTFIT called Time To Stand and it's the featured CD on Show #26. Also new songs from CHUCK MEAD and MARK JUNGERS AND THE WHISTLING MULES. The full playlist is posted below. Please feel free to check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download page. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

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Show #26

BELLEVILLE OUTFIT - Nothing's Too Good For My Baby Time To Stand
THE MYSTIX
- Get Right Down To The Shore
THE JOHN HENRYS - No More Rock N Roll Sweet as the Grain
THE DOERFELS - The Chocolate Song What I'm Looking For
(mic break)
CHUCK MEAD - Gun Metal Gray Journeyman's Wager
OLD CALIFORNIO - City Lines Westerning Again
BUCKTOWN KICKBACK- Not Enough Dollars Fiction Pickin'
BELLEVILLE OUTFIT
- Time to Stand Time To Stand
(mic break)

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BRUCE COCKBURN - Pacing The Cage Slice O' Life: Live Solo
MARK JUNGERS & THE WHISTLING MULES - Won't Be Long Whistle This
CYNDI HARVELL- Some Words On Moving On The Night Turned to Song
CHUCKANUT DRIVE - Closer to Me Fidelity Grange
(mic break)
BELLEVILLE OUTFIT
- Safe Time To Stand

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie

Direct download: ftb-26.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:11am PDT

Freight Train Boogie podcast show #25

SLAID CLEAVES has a new album called Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away and it's the featured CD on Show #25. Also new songs from THE BLUEFLOWERS, STAR ANNA & THE LAUGHING DOGS, and WAZ E JAMES. The full playlist is posted below. Please feel free to check the artist's websites and order their CD's or downloads and tell 'em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Here's the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here's the link to the direct download page. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #25

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SLAID CLEAVES - Cry Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
THE RESENTMENTS - Roselight Roselight
STEPHEN BRUTON - Waiting For A Long Time What It Is
STAR ANNA & THE LAUGHING DOGS - Lonely Ride Home The Only Thing That Matters
(mic break)
WAZ E JAMES - Back Again Watermelon
THE HOLLYFELDS - Bad Timing  Black Heart Blue
DEANO WACO
- Workin' For The Devil
  Deano Waco Meats The Purveyors
SLAID CLEAVES Hard to Believe  Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
(mic break)

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THE CROOKED JADES - Kingdom Calling  Shining Darkness
MARSHALL CRENSHAW -  Jaggedland  Live and Learn
THE BLUEFLOWERS -Watercolor Ghost Town  Watercolor Ghost Town
(mic break)
SLAID CLEAVES - Beyond Love  Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away


Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie

Direct download: ftb-25.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:19am PDT