Steel Belted Radio – Roots Rock Weirdoes

The bulk of today’s show is made up of new, new-to-me, and new-again music, plus one exciting show to look forward to and an annual ritual.

Artist – Title – Album

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings – Live by the Song (with Rodney Crowell) – Kings and Kings
Buddy Miller – Just Someone I Used to Know (with Nikki Lane) – Camayo Sessions at Sea
Drive-By Truckers – Guns of Umpqua – American Band
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez – Who’s Gonna Build That Wall – single
Tom Russell – Who’s Gonna Build your Wall – Wounded Heart of America
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – single
Joe Purdy – Who Will Be Next? – Who Will Be Next?
LP – Muddy Waters – Death Valley
Liz Longley – Swing – Weightless
Amanda Shires – Pale Fire – My Piece of Land
Dar Williams – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – My Better Self
The Rockin’ Highliners – Don’t Jump Back – Oh My!
The Rockin’ Highliners – That’s My Life – What Were You Thinking?
The Rockin’ Highliners – Valentine – Chicks, Suits & Cadillacs
The Inbreds – Any Sense of Time – Kombinator
The Inbreds – North Window – It’s Sydney or the Bush
The Inbreds – Is It the Right Time? – Winning Hearts
Matthew Ryan – 3rd of October – East Autumn Grin

Tonight we recap some huge Sunset Saloon news, spin a pile of great new music, and set ourselves up for a weekend road trip.

Artist – Title – Album

Rueben deGroot – (So Long) Charlotte – Rocket Surgery
Rocket Surgery – Ain’t Thinking About That Right Now – Live At The Toucan
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – Goodbye Blue Sky – Rebuild The Wall
Luther Wright & The Wrongs – The Parking Lot Song – Hearts and Lonely Hunters
Tony Furtado – Astoria – The Bell
Tony Furtado – These Chains – These Chains
William Prince – Earthly Days – Earthly Days
Stephen Fearing – Blowhard Nation – Every Soul’s a Sailor
Joe Purdy – Maybe We’ll All Get Along Someday – Who Will Be Next?
Joe Purdy – Who Will Be Next? – Who Will Be Next?
C.R. Avery – Hollywood Movie Blues – All the Angels didn’t Scare Me
Lisa LeBlanc – City Slickers and Country Boys – Why You Wann Leave, Runaway Queen?
Aoife O’Donovan – Boulder to Birmingham – Man In A Neon Coat: Live From Cambridge
Jon Dee Graham – Dan Stuart’s Blues – Knoxville Skyline
Dan Stuart – The Greatest – Can o’ Worms
Mike June – Jon Dee’s Blues – Poor Man’s Bible
Lydia Loveless – Midwestern Guys – Real
Drive-By Truckers – Filthy and Fried – American Band
Drive-By Truckers – The Righteous Path – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark

We kick things off with a three-fer-Thursday where we heard 3 songs from 3 great artists with eagerly-awaited brand new music, then we talk upcoming shows and end things off with a female set designed to lead into Venus Envy, which follows us!

Alex Dezen – Randolph Tonight – II
Alex Dezen – A Little less like Hell – Alex Dezen
Alex Dezen – California – California b/w Iowa (That’s Who We Are)
John K Samson – Postdoc Blues – Winter Wheat
John K Samson – When I Write my Master’s Thesis – Provincial
The Weakerthans – Night Windows – Reunion Tour
Jaxon Haldane – Twenty One – Hectic
Jaxon Haldane – Hectic – Hectic
Jaxon Haldane – They Don’t Build Shit to Last – Hectic
Scott Cook and the Long Weekends – I Live Down Here (with Raghu Lokanathan) – Go Long
Wax Mannequin – Volcano God – Festival Man
Supersuckers – Listen Up – Get It Together!
Chris Isaak – Go Walking Down There – Forever Blue
Chris Stapleton – Parachute – Traveller
Lindi Ortega – I Want You – Tin Star
Lissie – When I’m Alone – Catching a Tiger
Little Green Cars – My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me – Absolute Zero
Chloe Albert – Where Did I Go Wrong? – Dream Catcher

I don’t know what it is, but over the course of the next week there are 6 days where there are painful concert conflicts. We’ll weigh all of the matches on this episode and decide where we should be, if we can!

Artist – Title – Album

Sturgill Simpson – Life Ain’t Fair and the World Is Mean – High Top Mountain
Jim Bryson – Impaler – The Occasionals
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – Metal Girls – The Falcon Lake Incident
Jim Bryson – Breathe – Somewhere We Will Find Our Place
The 24th Street Wailers – Rock Step – Where Evil Grows
The Small Glories – Had I Paid – Wondrous Traveler
Slow Leaves – Neighborhood Watch – Beauty Is So Common
Rheostatics – One More Colour – Introducing Happiness
Martin Tielli and Jane Siberry – A Long Time Love Song – Kick At The Darkness (Songs Of Bruce Cockburn)
Jane Siberry – The Waitress – A Collection 1984-1989
The Wailin’ Jennys – Calling All Angels – Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House
K D lang And The Siss Boom Bang – Perfect Word – Sing It Loud
Serena Ryder – Blown Like The Wind At Night – Is It O.K.
Whitehorse – Emerald Isle – Whitehorse
Wintersleep – New Inheritors – New Inheritors
Weird Al Yankovic – You Don’t Love Me Anymore – The Essential Weird Al Yankovic
Jaxon Haldane – Talking Hit N’ Run Blues – Down In Oklahoma
Jaxon Haldane – Bald Headed Sally v2 – 2015 album outtake
Red Moon Road – Hypothetical Girl – Red Moon Road

We’ve got plenty of shows past and future to discuss, as well as a new fundraising campaign that I’m excited to support!

Artist – Title – Album

Robbie Fulks – Roots Rock Weirdoes – The Very Best Of
The Sadies – American Pageant (with Jon Langford) – In Concert Volume One
The Tallest Man on Earth – Burden of Tomorrow – The Wild Hunt
The Lowest of the Low – Bloodline – Shakespeare My Butt
The Lowest of the Low – New Westminster Taxi Squad – Nothing Short of a Bullet
The Lowest of the Low – The Dogs of February – Hallucigenia
The Grapes of Wrath – Good to See You – High Road
The Grapes of Wrath – Mexico – High Road
Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers – I Believe in Love – live recording
Brock Zeman – Little Details – Pulling your Sword out of the Devil’s Back
Brock Zeman – Push them Stones – Me then You
Brock Zeman – Picture of You – $100 Difference
William Prince – 7 – single
Danny Michel – Fireworks – In the Belly of a Whale
The JD Edwards Band – This House Will Stand – Roads and Roads
The Sweet Alibi – I’ll Wait – We’ve Got to
JP Hoe – Nothing’s Gonna Harm You – Mannequin