Back Home Playlist for June 27, 2006 THEME: Southern Capital Cities The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - 3:33 from 1969's The Band Faces - Richmond - 3:04 from 1971's Long Player Little Feat - Oh Atlanta - 4:09 from 1978's Waiting for Columbus Lucinda Williams - Jackson - 3:42 from 1998's Car Wheels On A Gravel Road John Prine - Angel from Montgomery - 3:43 from 1971's John Prine Lou Reed - Baton Rouge - 4:54 from 2000's Ecstasy Steve Earle - South Nashville Blues - 2:30 from 1996's I Feel Alright Iron & Wine - Southern Anthem - 3:54 from 2004's Our Endless Numbered Days FEATURED ARTIST: Ry Cooder Serving as a sessions musician then branching out on a solo career, virtuoso guitarist Ry Cooder dabbles in rock, blues, country, raggae, folk and gospel. Born in Los Angeles in 1947, he graced the recordings of Taj Mahal, Captain Beefheart, Randy Newman, Little Feat, Van Dyke Parks, the Rolling Stones (Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers), and Gordon Lightfoot. In 1992, Cooder joined Jim Keltner, John Hiatt, and Nick Lowe to form Little Village, which recorded one album. Ry has released at least a score of album beginning with 1970's self titled compostion. A few of his well deserved appellations are "The Musician's Musician." "The Master of the Eclectic." "King of the Slide Guitar." The Bourgeois Blues (Leadbelly) - 3:22 from 1976's Chicken Skin Music Crow Black Chicken (Lawrence Wilson) - 2:14 from 1972's Boomer's Story Little Sister (Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman) - 3:45 from 1979's No Nukes The Dark End of the Street (Dan Penn/Chips Moman) - 3:25 from 1972's Boomer's Story The Girls from Texas (Cliff Chambers/Jimmy Holiday/James Lewis) - 4:40 from 1980's Borderline Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins) - 5:18 from 1982's The Slide Area Crazy 'Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know) (Billy "The Kid" Emerson) - 5:03 from 1980's Borderline Chris Livesay/Sheelagh Harka - Jackson - 4:02 from 2000's Americana: Tribute to Johnny Cash John Hiatt - Drive South - 3:55 from 1988's Slow Turning The Allman Brothers Band - Southbound - 5:10 from 1973's Brothers and Sisters Taj Mahal - Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue - 3:38 from 2005's The Essential Taj Mahal Canned Heat - Going Up the Country - 2:50 from 1968's Living The Blues Neil Young - Southern Man - 5:41 from 1970's After The Gold Rush FEMALE VOCALIST SET Eliza Gilkyson - Richmond Boy - 3:02 from 2002's Lost and Found Jenai - Lyin' to My Heart - 2:42 from 2002's Cool Me Down Bonnie Raitt - Write Me A Few Of Your Lines/Kokomo Blues - 4:34 from 1973's Takin My Time Kasey Chambers - Southern Kind of Life - 3:59 from 2000's The Captain Rory Block - Mississippi Bottom Blues - 3:26 from 1996's Tornado Joy Lynn White - Girls With Apartments in Nashville - 3:43 from 2005's One More Time Dave Van Ronk - Down South Blues - 4:20 from 2004's ...and the tim pan bended, and the story ended... Dock Boggs - Bright Sunny South - 3:40 from 2004's Back Roads to Cold Mountain |