The Concrete Cowboy Rides Again
This showed aired on 11-26-2015. What a lot of fun playing classic country! Some great history contained in this show. The Tenneva Ramblers? Who are they? They were a band that was backing up up Jimmie Rogers in the Asheville, NC area until they all arrived in Bristol prior to the famous Bristol Sessions...in Bristol Jimmie and the band broke up before any of them recorded. The Ramblers recorded "The Longest Train I Ever Saw" which has become one of our most enduring songs while Jimmie went on to record his Blue Yodel and became "The Father of Country Music." No matter what I say on this recording, Jimmie DOES NOT sing or appear on this recording. My research was not complete enough at the time and I seem to imply Jimmie was on this recording.
My friend Bob Lanphier appears on this show playing the Patsy Cline classic "He's Got You" with the gender flipped. We recorded this track in the attic of a house I was renting. Used an old National lap steel for the slide part. Always liked that recording.
Lately I have been obsessed with a song called "The Hills of Roane County" which is a murder ballad with a twist. It was written by the actual killer! Please read this great article about the history of this song, which I think this is my favorite version by Mac Wiseman.
Enjoy the tunes...
Dale Watson -- A Real Country Song
Guy Clark -- Last Gunfighter Ballad
Tenneva Ramblers -- The Longest Train I Ever Saw
Emmylou Harris -- Blue Kentucky Girl
The Johnson Mountain Boys -- Misery Loves Company
Merle Haggard -- Skid Row
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers -- Big Balls In Town
The Flying Burrito Brothers -- High Fashion Queen
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys -- Right or Wrong (1946)
Bob Lanphier -- He's Got You
Maddox Brothers and Rose -- I'll Never Do It Again
Elizabeth Cotton -- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Wynn Stewart -- The Tourist
Reno and Smiley -- Love, Please Come Home
George Strait -- Any Old Time
Marty Stuart -- Branded
Mac Wiseman -- Hills of Roane County
Jimmy Martin -- 20/20 Vision
Hank Williams -- Why Should Try Anymore
Lefty Frizzell -- No One to Talk to But the Blues
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant -- Stratosphere Boogie
Blue Ridge Playboys -- Give Me My Money
Moon Mullican -- Triflin' Woman Blues
Buck Owens -- Take Me Back Again
Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys -- You Know I'll Be Lonesome
Dolly Parton -- Living on Memories of You
Ernest Tubb and Red Foley -- Too Old to Cut the Mustard
George Jones -- The Warm Red Wine
Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys -- It's Mighty Dark to Travel
Gary Stewart -- Drinking Thing
Jim Horn and the Green Mountain Boys -- Wicked Path of Sin
James Talley -- Do Re Mi
Willie Nelson -- This Cold War With You
Tom T. Hall -- The Last Country Song
Wanda Jackson -- Let's Have a Party
Dwight Yokam -- Nothing's Changed Here Without You
Ron Stewart (Banjo) -- Pike County Breakdown
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