Steel Belted Radio – Roots Rock Weirdoes

Steel Belted Radio’s last hoorah! We kicked things off on September 11, 2003, and with the help of some great co-hosts and amazing guests, we managed to keep rolling until June 1, 2017. It was a hell of a lot of fun. On this, the last episode, the longest-serving co-hosts, T-Bar & KK made a surprise appearance, and just like the old days, we played some new music, classics from back-in-the-day, some out there T-Bar picks, and heard a pile of T-Bar’s jokes. Thanks to everyone who tuned in to this episode or any of the 650 or so that came before it. We were blessed to have some amazing support and encouragement over the years. We wish Skippy all the best as he takes over and makes Thursdays his own.

Artist – Title – Album

Mike Plume Band – Steel Belted Radio – Steel Belted Radio
Robbie Fulks – Roots Rock Weirdoes – The Very Best of
Mercy John – Back Home – This Ain’t New York
Richmond Fontaine – Wake up Ray – You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing to Go Back To
Birds of Chicago – Dim Star of the Palisades – Real Midnight
Abigail Lapell – Night Bird and Morning Bird – Hide nor Hair
Dana Sipos – Old Sins – Roll Up the Night Sky
Oh Susanna – Tickets on the Weekend – A Girl in Teen City
Leeroy Stagger – Enemy Inside – Love Versus
Bruce Knauer – Allnight Breakfast Special – Allnight Breakfast Special
The Cash Brothers – Night Shift Guru – How Was Tomorrow
Dori Freeman – Ain’t Nobody – Dori Freeman
Henry Wagons – King Hit – After What I Did Last Night…
Kaleo – Automobile – A/B
James McMurtry – Choctaw Bingo – Live in Aught-Three

I started dreaming of having a radio show as a kid, when I’d pick a song that I felt like listening to, then wait and see what that song made me think of, and travel down the line from there. Now that I am actually on the radio, I usually do that on air. Sometimes, it can lead us off on some strange tangents, like tonight. I make no apologies and no promises that it won’t happen again because it surely will! To finish things off a little more sensibly, we previewed some exciting shows coming up this weekend.

Artist – Title – Album

Joe Nolan – Did Somebody Call the Cops – Tornado
John Bottomley – Long Way to Go – Blackberry
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Summertime’s Over – South
Colin Linden – Big Mouth – Big Mouth
Lester Quitzau – Rollin’ & Tumblin’ – So Here We Are
Carlos del Junco – Yul Brynner – Big Boy
Alejandro Escovedo – The End – Thirteen Years
Iain Matthews – Like Dominoes – Pure and Crooked
Chalk Circle – My Artificial Sweetner – Mending Wall
Sons of Freedom – USA Long Distance – Gump
Midnight Oil – Truganini – Earth and Sun and Moon
Corey Hart – Eurasian Eyes – Boy in the Box
JP Hoe – Run Away from Me – Hideaway
D. Rangers – We Stay High and Lonesome – We Stay High and Lonesome
Pat Temple and the High Lonesome Players – Stone Boat – Stone Boat
Shotgun Jimmie – Georgia OK – Field of Trampolines
The Burning Hell – Fuck the Government, I Love You – Public Library

Tonight some great classics, a new favourite, and a some upcoming concerts, including the return of Scott Cook, who joins us for a quick chat in advance of his concert this weekend!

Artist – Title – Album

Scott Cook – When We’re Back Around – One More Time Around
Corin Raymond – Morning Glories – Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams
Scott Nolan – The Last One – Silverhill
William Prince – Breathless – Live from the Junos 2017
Scott Cook – Careful with my Heart – Further down the Line
Scott Cook – Your Sweet Time – Further down the Line
Scott Cook – If He Showed up Now – Further down the Line
Scott Cook – Dogs and Kids – Further down the Line
Will Courtney – The Days When Bands could Make you Cry (Live in the Studio) – Planning Escapes (Deluxe)
Patty Griffin – The Cape – This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark
Matthew Ryan – Devastation – Concussion
Lucinda Williams – Lake Charles – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Steve Earle – Once you Love – Copperhead Road

Scott Cook interview

Tonight we’ve got some new music, exciting shows to preview, some Steel Belted classics, and a tribute to the late, great John Bottomley who left us on this day back in 2011.

Leeroy Stagger – I Want It All – Love Versus
Leeroy Stagger – Living in America – Dream It All Away
Dustin Bentall & The Smokes – Every Chord that Rings – You Are an Island
The Lowest of the Low – For the Hand of Magdalena – Shakespeare my Butt…
Rheostatics – Song of Flight – Music From The Motion Picture Whale Music
Kayla Howran – Spare Parts – Spare Parts
Express and Company – Carry Me Along – Ontario
Melissa Payne – Don’t Say – Melissa Payne
William Prince – Breathless – Earthly Days
William Prince – 7 – single
The Watchmen – Must to Be Free – McLaren Furnace Room
The Watchmen – Soft Parade – Slomotion
John Bottomley – Tomorrow – The Mountain Hammered, Vol. 2-unreleased songs, live songs, demos.
John Bottomley – Ring Like Gold – The Mountain Hammered, Vol. 2-unreleased songs, live songs, demos.
John Bottomley – Long Way to Go – Blackberry
John Bottomley – Candle in the Dark – Blackberry
John Bottomley – The Healing Dream – The Healing Dream

Tonight, an out-of-the-blue James McMurtry feature, some amazing upcoming shows happening next week (on the same damn night!), and we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with some songs about the Emerald Isle and, of course, whiskey!

Artist – Title – Album

James McMurtry – Peter Pan – live recording
James McMurtry – No More Buffalo – Americana Master Series: Best of The Sugar Hill Years
James McMurtry – Childish Things – Childish Things
Curtis McMurtry – Wrong Inflection – The Hornet’s Nest
Thompson Wilson – Without You – Homewood Tapes
Bill & Joel Plaskett – The Next Blue Sky – Solidarity
Joel Plaskett – Credits Roll – The Park Avenue Sobriety Test
Joel Plaskett – Come On Teacher – Emergencys, False Alarms, Shipwrecks, Castaways, Fragile Cre
Joel Plaskett Emergency – Penny For Your Thoughts – Ashtray Rock
Lindi Ortega – Til the Goin’ Gets Gone – Til the Goin’ Gets Gone
Chris Stapleton – Traveller – Traveller
Chris Stapleton – Parachute – Traveller
Lindi Ortega – Jimmy Dean – Little Red Boots
Butch Walker and The Black Widows – Dublin Crow – The Spade
Butch Walker – Irish Exit – Stay Gold
Bill Chambers – The Whiskey Isn’t Working – Sleeping with the Blues
Guy Terrifico – Whiskey, You Can Save Me – Bring It Back Home
Drive-By Truckers – Women Without Whiskey – Southern Rock Opera / Act II
Scott H Biram – Only Whiskey – Nothin’ But Blood