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"Close Up the Honky Tonks" with Michael D (archive)

Saturday, January 10, 2015 | 12:00 to 14:00 | Specialty

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Dwight Yoakam Close Up the Honky Tonks Dwight Sings Buck New West 2007
Drive-By Truckers Self Destructive Zones Brighter Than Creation's Dark New West 2008; At Cat's Cradle on 1/31
* Ryan Bingham Broken Heart Tattoos Fear and Saturday Night Axster Bingham 2015; At Cat's Cradle w/ Lucero on 2/18
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson Heaven and Hell Wanted! The Outlaws RCA 1976
Sturgill Simpson Railroad of Sin High Top Mountain High Top Mountain 2013
Billy Joe Shaver Sunbeam Special Long in the Tooth Lightning Rod 2014
Bobby Bare The Streets of Baltimore The Best of Bobby Bare Razor & Tie 1996
Jerry Reed Gator Both Barrels RCA 1976
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Wreck on the Highway Will the Circle Be Unbroken Capitol 1972
Tom Waits Downtown Train Rain Dogs Island 1985
Meat Puppets Climbing II SST 1984
Two Dollar Pistols Where Was Love (When You Needed Me) You Ruined Everything Yep Roc 2002
Emmylou Harris Guitar Town At the Ryman Reprise 1992; Steve Earle cover
Steve Earle White Freightliner Blues Townes New West 2009; Townes Van Zandt cover
Justin Townes Earle Wanna Be A Stranger Single Mothers Vagrant 2014
* The Holmes Brothers You've Got to Lose Brotherhood Alligator 2013; Rest in Peace Drummer Popsy Dixon
Joe Cocker The Letter Mad Dogs & Englishmen A&M 1971; Rest in Peace Joe Cocker
Chris Hillman Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues Morning Sky Sugar Hill 1982
Gene Clark Life's Greatest Fool No Other Asylum 1974
The Byrds One Hundred Years from Now Sweetheart of the Rodeo Columbia Legacy 2003
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman Two Soldiers Jerry Garcia / David Grisman Acoustic Disc 1999
Lucinda Williams Sweet Side World Without Tears Lost Highway 2003; Rest in Peace Miller Williams
Linda Perhacs Hey, Who Really Cares? Parallelograms The Wild Places 2003 remaster (originally 1970)
Joni Mitchell Free Man in Paris Court and Spark Asylum 1973
The Court & Spark Fireworks Bless You Absolutely Kosher 2001; former San Francisco act of Hiss Golden Messenger's MC Taylor
Little Jimmy Dickens I'm Little But I'm Loud The Best of The Best of Highland 1990; Rest in Peace Little Jimmy Dickens
Dale Watson Makin' Up Time The Truckin' Sessions Koch 1998
Jesse Winchester Brand New Tennessee Waltz Live from the Mountain Stage Blue Plate 2001; Rest in Peace Jesse Winchester, and thanks for the request
Palace Brothers No More Workhouse Blues Days in the Wake Drag City 1994
Magnolia Electric Co. Whip-poor Will Josephine Secretly Canadian 2009; Rest in Peace Jason Molina
Paleface Hank Williams from His Grave Paleface Polydor 1991