The Back Country brings you the traditional sounds and styles of country music from the 1920s to the contemporary artists who infuse their music with that tradition. The Back Country has Jimmie Rodgers and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Wayne Raney and Wayne Hancock, Cousin Emmy and Emmylou Harris. Celebrate birthdays, milestones in country music history and themed shows. For the best in today's progressive country music ride The Back Country with Jeff Corbin.
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Texas Troubadors |
Another Story, Volume 2 |
Bear Family |
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| That's What You Get For Loving Me |
Waylon Jennings |
Nashville Rebel, Volume 1 |
RCA/Legacy 2006 + |
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| Seven Spanish Angels |
Ray Charles & Willie Nelson |
Friendship |
Sony 1984 + |
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| It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long |
The Notorious Cherry Bombs |
The Notorious Cherry Bombs |
Universal South 2004 + |
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| Greensboro Woman |
Townes Van Zandt |
A Far Cry From Dead |
Arista 1999 |
| John TOWNES VAN ZANDT was born on March 7, 1944 in Fort Worth, TX. He was the son of a wealthy oil family whose ancestors had helped found his birth city. He spent a short part of his teenage years in a mental hospital diagnosed with manic-depression, now called bipolar disorder. He was influenced musically by Houston-based blues legend Sam “Lightning” Hopkins, Hank Williams and Bob Dylan. In 1968 he went to Nashville and made his first album, For The Sake Of The Song. He recorded mainly on smaller labels and combined with Townes’ erratic lifestyle, commercial success never came. However, artistic success “seemed to walk beside him”, as Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett and Rodney Crowell, among others, have cited Townes as a major songwriting influence. He released fifteen albums in his lifetime, the last being 1995’s No Deeper Blue, and several albums of material have been released posthumously, including a tribute album called Poet. Townes Van Zandt died of a heart attack on New Year’s Day 1997 in Mt. Juliet, TN at the age of 52. |
| Tecumseh Valley |
Townes Van Zandt |
Rear View Mirror |
Sugar Hill 1997 |
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| White Freightliner Blues |
Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
Fair And Square |
Hightone 1989 |
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| Pancho And Lefty |
Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard |
The Essential Merle Haggard: The Epic Years |
Legacy 2004 (originally recorded in 1982 on Epic) |
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| I'll Break Out Tonight |
Redd Volkaert |
Reddhead |
Telehog 2008 |
| Former lead guitarist for Merle Haggard’s Strangers and self-confessed Teleholic Justin “REDD” VOLKAERT was born on March 5, 1958 in British Columbia, Canada and was 52 years old yesterday. |
| Goin' Steady |
Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers |
Shades Of The Past |
Sugar Hill 1998 |
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| Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves |
Red Simpson |
Truck Drivin' Fool |
Sundazed (originally recorded in 1967 on Capitol) |
| Joseph Cecil “RED” SIMPSON was born on March 6, 1934 in Higley, AZ, raised in Bakersfield, CA and is 76 years old today. |
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| Orphan Annie |
Norman Blake |
Back Home In Sulphur Springs |
Rounder 1995 (originally recorded in 1972) |
| NORMAN BLAKE was born on March 10, 1938 in Chattanooga, TN and will be 72 years old on Wednesday. In addition to his own works, among the seminal albums on which Norman has been featured in his stellar career are Steam Powered Aereo Plain and Will The Circle Be Unbroken. Norman is also one of the most gifted songwriters around. |
| Jerusalem Ridge |
Norman Blake |
Blackberry Blossom |
Rounder 2000 (originally recorded in 1977 on Flying Fish) |
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| Green Light On The Southern |
Norman Blake & Tony Rice |
Blake & Rice |
Rounder 1987 |
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| The Old Brown Case |
Norman Blake |
Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robbins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns |
HDS 1975 |
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| Why I'm Walking |
The Gordons |
Wasn't Born To Follow |
self-produced |
| THE GORDONS are on the bill at The Focal Point next Friday, March 12th along with Tom Irwin. The Focal Point is at 2720 Sutton in Maplewood, a block south of Manchester. Show time is 8PM. |
| Hey Doll Baby |
Cumberland Gap |
Circle The Wagons |
Wildstone 2004 |
| CUMBERLAND GAP plays a house concert tonight outside of Edwardsville. For more information on this and future house concerts call Mike at 618-531-1810 or email him at loghouseconcerts@yahoo.com. |
| With Care From Someone |
Doug Dillard & Gene Clark |
The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark |
A & M 1968 |
| DOUGLAS FLINT DILLARD was born March 6, 1937 in East St. Louis, IL and is 73 years old today. |
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| Stompin' At The Savoy |
Country All Stars |
Jazz From The Hills |
Bear Family 1994 (originally recorded in 1952 on RCA) |
| Kenneth C. “JETHRO” BURNS was born March 10, 1920 in Conasauga, TN, outside Knoxville. At age 12 he and his brother entered a talent contest to be broadcast on WNOX but didn’t win. However they, along with Henry D. Haynes and another lad were chosen to form a station band called the String Dusters. Henry eventually became Homer and Kenneth became Jethro, forming one of the great comedic teams in music history. After WWII they recorded on the King label for several years. They signed with RCA a had a big hit parody with June Carter, Baby It’s Cold Outside, with author and composer Frank Loesser insisting that the label include “with apologies to Frank Loesser”. They became known as “the Song Butchers”, and moved in 1950 to Red Foley’s new Ozark Jubilee, out of Springfield, MO. Are you old enough to remember the mid-60s TV and radio spots for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, featuring Homer & Jethro and the tag line, “Ooh, that’s corny”? Jethro was Chet Atkins’ brother-in-law and they recorded as part of the Country All Stars in the 50s and as part of the Nashville String Band in the early 70s. Jethro experienced a second career when, following Homer’s death in 1971 from a heart attack, he teamed up with the late Steve Goodman for almost a dozen years until Goodman’s death in 1984. Jethro died February 4, 1989 and he and Homer Haynes were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. |
| Take Me Out To The Ballgame |
Steve Goodman & Jethro Burns |
No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology, Volume 1 |
Red Pajamas 1994 (originally recorded ca. 1982) |
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| The Lady Is A Tramp |
Jethro Burns |
Tribute To Steve Goodman, Volume 1 |
Red Pajamas 1985 |
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| They Don't Make 'Em Like I Like |
Texas Tornados |
Esta Bueno! |
Bismeaux 2010 * |
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| Nashville Moon |
The Texas Sapphires |
As He Wanders... |
Ike Records 2010 * |
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| Turn Around |
Miss Leslie |
Wrong Is What I Do Best |
Zero 2010 * |
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| Great American Trainwreck |
Eleven Hundred Springs |
This Crazy Life |
Smith Entertainment 2010 * |
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| Understand Your Man |
Dwight Yoakum |
Dwight's Used Records |
Koch 2004 + |
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| Smoke Along The Track |
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers |
At The Ryman |
Warner 1992 + |
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| Passing Of The Train |
Rhonda Vincent |
Back Home Again |
Rounder 2000 + |
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| Will The Circle Be Unbroken |
Willie Nelson |
The Troublemaker (with bonus tracks) |
Sony 2004 (originally recorded ca. 1973 on Atlantic) |
| Willie Nelson and Family will be at The Pageant next Thursday evening for an 8PM show. |
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