Early Morning Gumbo
A spicy mix of folk and acoustic music, much of which is connected to the American south, including (but not limited to) acoustic blues, Texas folk, Cajun, string band & Texas swing
Playlists
Early Morning Gumbo playlist for 09/07/2010
Program name:
Early Morning Gumbo
Air date:
09/07/2010 * recent release or reissue
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL / New San Antonio rose / Ride With Bob (Dreamworks)
JIMMIE DALE GILMORE / Georgia rose / One Endless Night (Windcharger)
BILL & BONNIE HEARNE / Sweet desert rose / Diamons in the Rough (Warner Western)
THE KENNEDYS / Gypsy Rose / Songs of the Open Road (Appleseed)
LINDA RONSTADT / Love is a rose / Best of (Elektra)
ERNIE HAWKINS / Whinin' boy / Whinin' Boy (Corona)*
MICHAEL FRACASSO / Back to Oklahoma / Back to Oklahoma (India)
RICHARD THOMPSON / Les flames d'enfer / Evangeline Made (Vanguard) various artists
SLAID CLEAVES / Working stiff / Unsung (Rounder)
GILLIAN WELCH / In tall buildings / A Tribute to John Hartford: Live at Mountain Stage (Blue Plate) various artists
ALISON KRAUSS / 9 to 5 / Just Because I'm a Woman (Sugar Hill) various artists
JOHN GORKA / Land of the bottom line / Land of the Bottom Line (Windham Hill)
NATALIE MERCHANT / Which side are you on / House Carpenter's Daughter (Myth America)
FERRON / Our purpose here / Boulder (Short Story)
LEVON HELM / Wide river to cross / Dirt Farmer (Vanguard)
IRIS DEMENT / Let the mystery be / Infamous Angel (Philo)
BEAUCOUP BLUE / Mystery train / Out of the Woodwork (http://www.beaucoupblue.com)
BUDDY MILLER / A showman's life / Midnight & Lonesome (Hightone)
MOLLIE O'BRIEN / The important part of fishing / Fishing Music (Snake River) various artists
GREG BROWN & BILL MORRISSEY / Fishing with Bill / Friend of Mine (Philo)
PHIL ROUND / Lazy river / Fishing Music (Snake River) various artists
STEVE JAMES / Fisherman's reel / Fast Texas (Burnside)
KILBRIDE / Tom Edwards/.... / The Rough Guide to the Music of Wales
Roses, post labor-day, fishing etc, ending with a brief nod to the North American Festival of Wales (in Portland last weekend)
Early Morning Gumbo playlist for 08/31/2010
Program name:
Early Morning Gumbo
Air date:
08/31/2010 * recent release or reissue
MARTIN SIMPSON / You win again / Special Agent (Fledg'ling)
EILEN JEWELL / Another man love me last night / Butcher Holler (Signature)*
ORVILLE JOHNSON / Ghost picker / Southern Filibuster:A Tribute To Tut Taylor (E1 Music)* various artists
ROBERT EARL KEEN / Front porch song / No Kinda Dancer (Philo)
ELIZABETH COTTEN / Freight train / Freight Train and Other... (Smithsonian Folkways)
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND f/ANI DIFRANCO / Freight train / Preservation (Preservation Hall Recordings)
FRED EAGLESMITH / I Like trains / Freight Train Blues (Rounder) various artists
HUGH MOFFATT / Slow moving freight train / Steel Rails (Rounder) various artists
LUCINDA WILLIAMS / Passionate kisses / Lucinda Williams (Rough Trade)
ANN SAVOY & HER SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS / Getting some fun out of life / If Dreams Come True (Memphis International)
ERIC BIBB f/MAMADO DIABATE / Lovin' in my baby's eyes / Friends (Telarc)
KATE WOLF / Green eyes / Weaver of Visions (Rhino)
JOHN PRINE f/IRIS DEMENT / We're not the jet set / In Spite of Ourselves (Oh Boy)
CEDRIC WATSON & COREY LEDET / Let the good times roll / Goin' Down to Louisiana (Valcour)
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN / Draggin' the bow / Tall Tales (Hightone)
MOLLIE O'BRIEN & RICH MOORE / Keep it clean / Saints & Sinners (Remington Road)*
EDEN BRENT / Why don't you do right / Mississippi Number One (Yellow Dog)
MARY FLOWER / Can't sleep for dreaming / Rosewood & Steel (Bluesette)
CHRIS SMITHER / Killing the blues / Newport Folk Festival:Turn of the Decade (Red House) various artists
SLAID CLEAVES / Another kind of blue / Unsung (Rounder)
JAMES HILL & ANNE DAVISON / Oh! Susanna / True Love Don't Weep (Borealis)l
OTIS TAYLOR f/KEB' MO' / The way it goes / Recapturing the Banjo (Telarc)
MICHAEL JEROME BROWN / Rising river blues / Double (Borealis)
Early Morning Gumbo playlist for 08/24/2010
Program name:
Early Morning Gumbo
Air date:
08/24/2010 * recent release or reissue
MERLE HAGGARD / Oil tanker train / I Am What I Am (Vanguard)*
RICK FIELDING / Last freight train / Acoustic Workshop (Borealis)
THE WAYBACKS / The last steam engine train / Devolver (Fiddling Cricket)
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL / My baby thinks she's a train / Freight Train Blues (Rounder) various artists
BROWNIE MCGHEE / Freight train blues / Classis Railroad Songs (Smithsonian Folkways) various artists
PROFESSOR LONGHAIR / How long has this train been gone / 'Fess Gumbo (Stony Plain)
CHAMP HOOD & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE / Waiting for a train / Threadgill's Supper Session (Watermelon)
KELLY JOE PHELPS / Train carried my girl from town / Shine Eyed Mister Zen (Ryko)
KATE RUSBY / Canaan's land / Little Lights (Compass)
IRIS DEMENT / The shores of Jordan / My Life (Warner Bros)
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER / I was a bird / The Age of Miracles (Zoe)*
JUNE TABOR & THE OYSTER BAND / Night comes in / Freedom & Rain (Ryko)
JOHN GORKA / Night into day / So Dark You See (Red House)
ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS / Dark was the night, cold was the ground / God's Favorite Band (Yellow Dog)
CROOKED STILL / Undone in sorrow / Still Crooked (Signature)
SHARON SHANNON & FRIENDS (featuring JACKSON BROWNE) / A man of constant sorrow / The Diamond Mountain Sessions (Compass)
PETER KEANE / Pack up your sorrows / Walkin' Around (Flying Fish)
NATALIE MERCHANT / The janitor's boy / Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)*
TED HAWKINS / Biloxi / The Next Hundred Years (DGC)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS / Cresent city / Lucinda Williams (Rougn Trade)
RAY BONNEVILLE / I am the big easy / Goin' By Feel (Red House)
HANS THEESSINK / Katrina / Slow Train (Blue Groove)
Early Morning Gumbo playlist for 08/17/2010
Program name:
Early Morning Gumbo
Air date:
08/17/2010 * recent release or reissue
SID SELVIDGE / That's how I got to Memphis / I Should Be Blue (Archer)*
LAURA LOVE & ORVILLE JOHNSON / Nobody's fault but mine / The Sweeter the Juice (Octoroon)*
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE / Everytime I feel the spirit / Lost & Found Series Vol 1 (Blues Legacy)
KEN WHITELEY / Everybody has the blues / One World Dance (Borealis)
RORY BLOCK / Stand by me / Shout Sister Shout (MC) various artists
JOHN PRINE (featuring EMMYLOU HARRIS) / Angel from Montgomery / In Person & On Stage (Oh Boy)*
IAN & SYLVIA / Some day soon / Northern Journey (Vanguard)
QUARTETTE / Cowboys & rodeos / Quartette (Round Tower)
RON HYNES / The valley green / Get Back Change (Borealis)
GORDON LIGHTFOOT / Red velvet / The Gift (Stony Plain) various artists
EVA CASSIDY / Early morning rain / Imagine (Blix Street)
KATHY MATTEA & TIM O'BRIEN / Gentle on my mind / Tribute to John Hartford Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate) various artists
JOHN HARTFORD / Big rock candy mountain / Down From the Mountain (Lost Highway) various artists
SWEETBACK SISTERS / Red shoes blues / Chicken Ain't Chicken (Signature)
TOWNES VAN ZANDT / Flying shoes / Rear View Mirror (Sugar Hill)
JESSE WINCHESTER / Sweet little shoe / Gentleman of Leisure (Sugar Hill)
DEL REY / We both are feelling good right now / About Comin' My Way (Black Hen)* various artists
PO' GIRL / Gone in pawn / Po' Girl (Hightone)
JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND / Ripple / Almost Acoustic (Consensus Reality)
MISTY RIVER / Black muddy river / Stories (http://www.mistyriver.com)
ALICE STUART / Take it slow & easy / All the Good Times (Arhoolie)
TRACY SCHWARTZ / Les haricots sont pas sales / Marimac Anthology (Rounder) various artists
JAMES HILL & ANNE DAVISON / Duke's alley rag / True Love Don't Weep (Borealis)
Early Morning Gumbo playlist for 08/10/2010
Program name:
Early Morning Gumbo
Air date:
08/10/2010 * recent release or reissue
RAINDOGS / Selling my porkchops / Hair of the Dog (http://www.kcraindogs.com)
SUZY THOMPSON & DEL REY / Grandma & grandpa blues / Hen Party (Hobemian)*
GEOFF & MARIE MULDAUR / Me & my chauffeur blues / Pottery Pie (Hannibal)
MOLLIE O'BRIEN & RICH MOORE / In my girlish days / 900 Baseline (http://www.mollieobrien.com)
RED MOLLY / The end of the line / James (http://www.redmolly.com)*
WILLIE NELSON / Freight train boogie / Country Music (Rounder)*
COURTNEY GRANGER / Casey Jones / Un Bal Chez Balfa (Rounder)
CEDRIC WATSON & BIJOU CREOLE / J'suis gone a la Blue Moon / L'Esprit Creole (Valcour)*
KATIE GEDDES (featuring MARY MCCASLIN) / Hello stranger / We Are Each Others Angels (Katydid)*
JIM RINGER & MARY MCCASLIN / Rank strangers / The Band of Jesse James (Philo)
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT / New stranger blues / A Stranger Here (Anti-)
SAM BUSH & DAVID GRISMAN / Wayfaring stranger / 100% Handmade Music, Vol V (Acoustic Disc) various artists
IRIS DEMENT / Pretty Saro / Songcatcher (Vanguard) various artists
JOHN PRINE (featuring JOSH RITTER) / Mexico home / In Person & On Stage (Oh Boy)*
NANCI GRIFFITH / Desperadoes waiting for a train / Other Voices, Too (Elektra)
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER / We traveled so far / The Age of Miracles (Zoe)*
SPENCER BOHREN / Beulah land / Carry the Word (Last Call)
OTIS TAYLOR / Deep blue sea / Recapturing the Banjo (Telarc)
ROBERT EARL KEEN / No kinda dancer / No Kinda Dancer (Sugar Hill)
KEB' MO' / She just wants to dance / Keb' Mo' (OKeh/Epic)
DAVID BROMBERG / Save the last dance for me / Sideman Seranade (Sugar Hill)
GUY CLARK / That old time feeling / Keepers (Sugar Hill)
LE VENT DU NORD / Petit Reve V / La Part du Feu (Borealis)
Early Morning Gumbo playlist for 08/03/2010
Program name:
Early Morning Gumbo
Air date:
08/03/2010 * recent release or reissue
LUCINDA WILLIAMS / The ballad of Lucy Jordan / Twistable Turnable Man (Sugar Hill)* various artists
ERIC BOGLE / If wishes were fishes / Scraps of Paper (Flying Fish)
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON / Me and Bobby McGee / The Austin Sessions (Atlantic)
BILL BOURNE / Summer at the circus / Sally's Dream (Ragged Pup)
RACHEL HARRINGTON with ZAK BORDON / Under the big top / In the Woods:Live in the Netherlands (Skinny Dennis)
NANCI GRIFFITH / Roseville Fair / One Fair Summer Evening (MCA)
STEVIE COYLE / Penny wishes / Ten in One (Tuna Mine)
WILLIE NELSON / Pistol packin' mama / Country Music (Rounder)*
CEDRIC WATSON & BIJOU CREOLE / C'est la vie / L'Esprit Creole (Valcour)*
BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS / St Louis Blues / Anthology 1935-1973 (Rhino)
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ / Steal you love / Love & Circumstance (Ninth Street Opus)
THE BAND / Ophelia / To Kingdom Come (Capitol)
BEAUCOUP BLUES / Mean old world / Out of the Woodwork (http://www.beaucoupblues.com)
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS / Why don't you do right? / Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch)*
BEAUSOLIEL avec MICHAEL DOUCET / Les oignons / Alligator Purse (Yep Roc)
DANA ROBINSON / Sadie / Midnight Salvage (Alcazar)
DARRELL SCOTT / The open door / A Crooked Road (Full Light)*
DAVE CARTER & TRACY GRAMMER / Farewell to Bitterroot Valley / Tanglewood Tree (Signature)
DAVE VAN RONK / Buckets of rain / ...and the tin pan bended, and the story ended... (SmFolkways)
CROOKED STILL / New railroad / Shaken By a Low Sound (Signature)
STEVE RILEY & THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS / Aussi toute seule que moi / Bon Reve (Rounder)
RED STICK RAMBLERS / Je t'aime pas mieux / My Suitcase is Always Packed (Sugar Hill)
Early Morning Gumbo playlist for 07/27/2010
Program name:
Early Morning Gumbo
Air date:
07/27/2010 * recent release or reissue
JACKSON BROWNE & DAVID LINDLEY / I'm alive / Love is Strange (Inside Records)*
RED HORSE / I am a child / Red Horse (Red House)*
MERLE HAGGARD / I've seen it go away / I Am What I Am (Vanguard)*
STEVE YOUNG / Little birdie / Primal Young (Appleseed)
JUNE TABOR & THE OYSTER BAND / Mississippi / Freedom & Rain (Rykodisc)
POPS STAPLES / Down in Mississippi / Peace to the Neighborhood (Pointblank)
RORY BLOCK / Mississippi bottom blues / One More Song (Philo) various artists
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS / Mississippi delta blues / Visions of Love (Sugar Hill)
GREG BROWN / Mississippi Seranade / The Iowa Waltz (Red House)
ALLEN TOUSSAINT / Bright Mississippi / The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
ROY BOOK BINDER / Mississippi blues / Bookeroo! (Rounder)
PAUL GEREMIA / Mosquito moan / Love, Murder & Mosquitos (Red House)
MARTIN SIMPSON / The Devil's partiality / Righteousness & Humidity (Red House)
LAURA LOVE & ORVILLE JOHNSON / We shall not be moved|Stayed on freedom / The Sweeter the Juice (Octoroon)*
ERIC BIBB (featuring HARRY MANX) / Needed time / Friends (Telarc)
PATTY GRIFFIN / If I had my way / Downtown Church (Credential)*
MARTHA SCANLON / Went to see the gypsy / The West is Burning (Sugar Hill)
RED STICK RAMBLERS / Some of these days / Made in the Shade (Sugar Hill)
FEUFOLLET / Prends courage / Cow Island Hop (Valcour)
MELLO JOY BOYS / Fais pas ca / Une Tasse Cafe (Swallow)
SID SELVIDGE (featuring AMY SPEACE) / Catch the wind / I Should Be Blue (Archer)*
KATIE GEDDES / I've just seen a face / We Are Each Other's Angels (Katydid)*
Early Morning Gumbo playlist for 07/20/2010
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Early Morning Gumbo
Air date:
07/20/2010 DARRELL SCOTT / A crooked road / A Crooked Road (Full Light)*
RED MOLLY / You'll never leave Harlan alive / James (http://www.redmolly.com)*
ROSANNE CASH / Silver wings / The List (Manhattan)
ROSIE FLORES / My own kind of hat / Tulare Dust (Hightone) various artists
JORMA KAUKONEN / More than my old guitar / River of Time (Red House)
JOHN PRINE / This guitar is for sale / Twistable Turnable Man (Sugar Hill)* various artists
ERIC BIBB / Booker's guitar / Booker's Guitar (Telarc)
CHERYL WHEELER / Mrs Pinocci's guitar / Mrs Pinocci's Guitar (Philo)
NATALIE MERCHANT / The janitor's boy / Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)
LEON REDBONE / Polly wolly doodle / Live, the Olympia Theater (Rounder)
TOM RUSH / Silly little diddle / What I Know (Appleseed)
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND w/ANDREW BIRD / Shake it, break it / Preservation (Preservation Hall Recordings)*
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL / Corine Corina / Live from Austin TX (New West)
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN / Can't go on this way / Wishful Thinking (Gold Strike)
CAROLINE HERRING / Midnight on the water / Lantana (Signature)
EMMYLOU HARRIS / All that you have is your soul / All I Intended To Be (Nonesuch)
CEPHAS & WIGGINS / Going down the road feeling bad / Richmond Blues (Smithsonian Folkways)
CREOLE BELLES / Johnnie Billy Goat / Creole Belles (Arhoolie)
SAVOY FAMILY BAND / You're so easy to live / Turn Loose But Don't Let Go (Arhoolie)
SWEETBACK SISTERS / You done me wrong / Chicken Ain't Chicken (Signature)
KELLY CARMICHAEL / Richland woman blues / Queen Fareena (Dogstreet)
RACHEL HARRINGTON / Louis Collins / The Bootlegger's Daughter (skinny dennis)
TOM PAXTON / Did you hear John Hurt / Live in the UK (Pax)
SARA WATKINS / All this time / Sara Watkins (Nonesuch)
Early Morning Gumbo playlist for 07/13/2010
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Early Morning Gumbo
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07/13/2010 SARAH JAROSZ w/BLACK PRARIE / Queen of the Silver Dollar / Twistable, Turnable Man (Sugar Hill)* various
TOWNES VAN ZANDT / Ain't leavin' your love / A Far Cry from Dead (Arista)
DAVE CARTER & TRACY GRAMMER / Crocodile Man / Tanglewood Tree (Signature)
GUY CLARK / Tornado time in Texas / Workbench Songs (Dualtone)
ERIC VON SCHMIDT / Wasn't that a mighty storm / Troubadours of the Folk Era, Vol one (Rhino) various
SUZY THOMPSON & DEL REY / Water rose up / Hen Party (Hobemian)*
JOE ELY & JOEL GUZMAN / Wind's gonna blow you away / Live Cactus! (Rack 'em)
ARCHIE EDWARDS / The road is rough & rocky / Classic Appalachian Blues (SmFolkways)* various
KATE CAMPBELL / Lay back the darkness / Blues & Lamentations (Large River)
JACKSON BROWNE & BONNIE RAITT / Kisses sweeter than wine / Where Have All the Flowers Gone: the Songs of Pete Seeger (Appleseed) various
GILKYSON, GORKA, KAPLANSKY / Blue chalk / Red Horse (Red House)*
EILEN JEWELL / So long blues / Boundary County (http://www.eilenjewell.com)
PINE LEAF BOYS / I'm not lonesome anymore / La Musique (Arhoolie)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN / Froggie went a courtin' / We Shall Overcome: the Seeger Sessions (Columbia)
JORMA KAUKONEN / Those gambler's blues / Blue Country Heart (Columbia)
MOLLIE O'BRIEN / Gambling man / Big Red Sun (Sugar Hill)
MICHAEL JEROME BROWNE / Gambling blues / Double (Borealis)
CEDRIC WATSON et BIJOU CREOLE / Gardes la-bas / L'Esprit Creole (Valcour)*
RED STICK RAMBLERS / That's what I like about the south / Right Key, Wrong Keyhole (Memphis International)
WILLIE NELSON / Man with the blues / Country Music (Rounder)*
TEXAS TORNADOS / She never spoke Spanish to me / Texas Tornados (Reprise)
NORMAN BLAKE / Southern Railroad blues / The Fields of November (Flying Fish)
CEDRIC WATSON et BIJOU CREOLE / J'suis parti au Texas (Valcour)*
Early Morning Gumbo playlist for 07/06/2010
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Early Morning Gumbo
Air date:
07/06/2010 THE CHIEFTAINS / La iguana / San Patricio (Hear)*
SINEAD LOHAN / Sailing by / A Woman's Heart 2 (Dara) various
SHARON SHANNON (w/JOHN PRINE) / Love Love Love / The Diamond Mountain Sessions (Compass)
THE CHIEFTAINS (w/DON WILLIAMS) / Wild Mountain Thyme / Further Down the Old Plank Road (Victor)
NATALIE MERCHANT / Adventures of Isabel / Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)*
MARY GAUTHIER / Another day borrowed / The Foundling (Razor & Tie)*
JOHN GORKA / The water is wide / Where Have All the Flowers Gone (Appleseed) various
RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON / Dimming of the day / Watching the Dark (Hannibal)
KAT EGGLESTON / How can I tell you / In My Room (LML)* various
BRUCE COCKBURN / Last night of the world / Live Solo (Rounder)
KATE WOLF / Back Roads / Weaver of Visions (Rhino)
GOVE SCRIVENOR / Minuet for the backroads / Solid Gove (Flying Fish)
SHAWN COLVIN / Tennessee / Shawn Colvin|Live (Nonesuch)
STEVE EARLE / Tennessee Blues / Washington Square Serenade (New West)
JOHN JACKSON / The year Clayton Delaney died / Rappahanock Blues (SmFolkways)*
JEROME MILLS / Moonshine whiskey / Tribute to James "Yank" Rachell (Yanksville) various
LAUREN SHEEHAN / Drunk man blues / Two Wings (Wilson River)
MARTIN SIMPSON / Down where the drunkards roll / The Definitive Collection (Highpoint)
COURTNEY GRANGER / The drunkard's waltz / Un Bal Chez Balfa (Rounder)
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND (w/DEL MCCOURY) / After you're gone / Preservation (Preservation Hall Recordings)
PATTY GRIFFIN / Move up / Downtown Church (Credential)
SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE / Worried life blues / Lost & Found Series Vol 1 (Blues Legacy)
Comments
"Safety Joe"
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 10:39pm.
I loved the "Safety Joe" song :"...you better loosen up your buckle and start to chuckle......". You played right about at 6am. Can you give out info about artist please?
Thanks,
a happy listener...
12/09/08 Early Morning Gumbo
Submitted by David Cordero (not verified) on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 11:17pm.
Thanks Diane for another excellent program.
I really enjoyed this morning's show.
Made my day!
David
Show of 2/2/2010
Diane,
First time listening to your show. Now, I am a fan for life. Thanks for the great lineup of tunes. Starting my day off right.
Del