Music Groupsourcing Request

This is a terrific Grateful Dead jam. I play it all the time.

 

Byrds: Pretty Boy Floyd or the Christian Life

Gary P Nunn: London Homesick Blues

Rodney Crowell: Leavin' Louisiana in the Broad Daylight

Emmylou: Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia

Graham Parsons: Grievous Angel or Wheels

Burritos: My Uncle

Marshall Chapman: Been Rode Hard and Put up Wet

Since you're on Martha's, too bad you can't play Menemsha by Carly Simon

 

“The Last Resort” - Eagles

 

Great song. Early Henley at his best.

Co-writer Glenn Frey, from Wiki: "I have to give all the credit for 'The Last Resort' to (Don) Henley. It was the first time that Don, on his own, took it upon himself to write an epic story. We were very much, at that time, concerned about the environment and doing anti-nuclear benefit (concerts). It seemed the perfect way to wrap up all of the different topics we had explored on the Hotel California album. Don found himself as a lyricist with that song, kind of outdid himself...We're constantly screwing up paradise and that was the point of the song and that at some point there is going to be no more new frontiers. I mean we're putting junk, er, garbage into space now. There's enough crap floating around the planet that we can't even use so it just seems to be our way. It's unfortunate but that is sort of what happens."

 

I forgot (I Ain't Ever) Satisfied, by Steve Earle.

 

Late to the party. Some good stuff listed. I'll throw out:

Emmylou - Two More Bottles of Wine or C'est la Vie, You Never Can Tell

Little Feat - Willing, Spanish Moon, All That You Dream

Joe Ely - Dallas, Hard Livin'

Los Lobos - Don't Worry Baby, Come On, Let's Go

Commander Cody - Hot Rod Lincoln, Mama Tried

Jackson Brown - Redneck Friend, Old 55

J. J. Cale - Crazy Mama, Call Me The Breeze

Eddie Cochran - 20 Flight Rock

Tom Rush - Who Do You Love?

 

Urban Struggle, The Vandals

 

Hot Rod Lincoln is on the list, although I don't know if I'll use the Cody version or the Johnny Bond original. This list and most of the other suggestions show the problem I've got -- too much material. I mean, if I'm limited to one, two at the most, Hank Williams tune(s), which do I pick? Every time I put a song in, I'm tortured by the idea I'm eliminating five others. Obviously, I wouldn't have lasted through two commercial breaks as a real DJ. I'd just sit there staring at the tapes.

 

I could see by what I read that I was, as I said, late to the party. If it were me, I'd do the Cody from Ozone, their first album in '71, but you can't go wrong with the original.

You could scan the list and take the shorter tracks to get more in. There have to be a bunch of 2 1/2 to 3 minute songs in there.

 

Yeah, I'm already thinking about that. I have 54 minutes of music. So 20-plus tunes and an entire genre of American music to scan. By way of contrast, one of the DJs on the station has a five times a week nightly hour of blues, and he hasn't repeated much in my experience (it's my wife's favorite station, so I hear it a lot). Station also plays a large amount of Grateful Dead, so I don't think I'll use any of their work.

 

Why play music that people have heard thousands of times? Educate your listeners.

 

A fair point, but I have no idea what the listeners to this station listen to except the station's playlist, and country ain't on it. No sin in the basics. If somebody already knows Patsy Cline, they won't object to a song. If they don't, they'll get educated.