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Radio Programs The Back Country
Radio Programs The Back Country
The Back Country
with Jeff Corbin and Bluegrass Bob
Tuesday at 8:00AM
The Back Country spans 50 years worth of hard-core country and western music, by both paying reverence to the founders and highlighting the artists making great music today. You'll hear lots of new releases by today's best groups and singers while enjoying the music from those who inspired them and invented it all.
Whether it is country laments, shuffles, blues or boogies, honky-tonk favorites, Western Swing or Bakersfield classics, The Back Country follows the advice of that great C/W philosopher Ernest Tubb each Tuesday from 8am to 10am- "Keep It Country, Son!"
Archived playlists for The Back Country: |
- May 6, 2008 | - April 29, 2008 | - April 15, 2008 | - April 8, 2008 | - View full archive |
Playlist for The Back Country on May 13th, 2008.
| Song Title | Artist | Album | Label |
| Buddy's Boogie (intro) | Texas Troubadors | Another Story, Volume 2 | Bear Family |
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| What Is Life Without Love | Eddy Arnold | Eddy's Song, Volume 1 | Proper 2003 (originally recorded in 1947 on RCA) |
| Eddy Arnold died last Thursday, May 8, 2008. Richard Edward “Eddy” Arnold was born on May 15, 1918 in Henderson, TN and he passed away last Thursday, May 8th. Upon his father’s death at age 11 the family became sharecroppers on the eve of The Great Depression. However, the family did acquire an old wind-up gramophone the same year and Eddy began listening to Gene Autry records. He performed anywhere he could as a teenager—school and church choir, candy pulls and socials—on his Silvertone guitar. He became part of a popular but short-lived radio show on WMPS in Memphis, after which he and band member, Speedy NcNutt headed to St. Louis. They found work on KWK as the Tennessee Harmony Lads and later on KXOK. He joined Pee Wee King’s Golden West Cowboys in 1940. He was part of the Camel Caravan entertaining GIs throughout the early part of World War II before he left Pee Wee King and formed his own group, the Tennessee Ploughboys. He signed with RCA in 1942 but found he couldn’t record anything due to the AFM recording ban. During this time he continued to tour and in Florida he met a promoter named Colonel Tom Parker. Parker became Eddy’s agent and both men benefited immensely from the relationship, which ended in the early ‘50s, with Eddy deciding to change his sound to a more polished and orchestrated sound and the Colonel becoming the promoter for a kid out of Sun Studios in Memphis, Elvis Presley. Eddy Arnold’s new career direction resulted in numerous hits, regularly placing songs high on the charts through the 1960s and scoring Top Ten hits into the 1980s. Eddy Arnold was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966. | |||
| The Cattle Call | Eddy Arnold | Eddy's Song, Volume Three | Proper 2003 (originally recorded on April 12, 1944 in the WSM studio in Nashvill |
| Texarkana Baby | Eddy Arnold | Eddy's Song, Volume 1 | Proper 2003 (originally recorded in 1948 on RCA) |
| Chained To A Memory | Eddy Arnold | Eddy's Song, Volume 2 | Proper 2003 (originally recorded in 1946 on RCA) |
| Anytime | Eddy Arnold | Eddy's Song, Volume 1 | Proper 2003 (originally recorded in 1948 on RCA) |
| Will The Circle Be Unbroken | Eddy Arnold | Eddy's Song, Volume Three | Proper 2003 (originally recorded in 1947 on RCA) |
| Softly And Tenderly | Eddy Arnold | Eddy's Song, Volume 4 | Proper 2003 (originally recorded in 1949 on RCA) |
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| Pancho And Lefty | Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard | The Essential Merle Haggard: The Epic Years | |
| Pancho And Lefty | Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard | The Essential Merle Haggard: The Epic Years | Legacy 2004 (originally released in 1983 on Epic) + |
| What About You? | Johnny And Jack | For Old Times Sake | Bear Family 2003 (originally recorded in 1949 on RCA) |
| Johnny Robert Wright, Jr. was born on May 13, 1914 in Mount Juliet, TN and is 94 years old today. His longtime musical partner, Jack Anglin, was born on this same day in 1916 in Franklin, TN. Jack died on March 7, 1963 | |||
| Truck Drivin' Man | Terry Fell | Truck Driver's Boogie: Big Rig Hits, Volume 1, 1939-1969 | Audium 2001 (originally recorded in 1954 on RCA) |
| Terry Fell was born on May 13, 1921 in Dora, AL. This was Terry’s biggest hit and has been covered many times. Some reports say he died in 1998 but I’ve been unable to confirm that. | |||
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| Lazy John/The Bucking Mule | Bruce Molsky | Soon Be Time | Compass 2006 + |
| Nashville Blues | Earl Scruggs et. al. | Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 1 | EMI 1972 + |
| Shady Grove | Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein | 2:10 Train | Rebel 2008 * |
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| Mandy Jane | Open Road | ...In The Life | Rounder 2004 + |
| Freight Train Boogie | Don Reno & Red Smiley & The Tennessee Cut-Ups | The Talk Of The Town: the Definitive '50s Masters | Gusto (originally recorded in 1959 on King) |
| Arthur Lee “Red” Smiley was born on May 17, 1925 in Asheville, NC. Together with banjo great Don Reno, they and they’re Tennessee Cutups were one of bluegrass’s hottest acts in the 1950s. Red Smiley died on January 2, 1972. | |||
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| Doin' What Comes Easy To A Fool | Junior Brown | Guit With It | Curb 1993 |
| Junior Brown returns to St. Louis this Saturday, May 17th, for a show at Beale on Broadway. Scott Kay and the Continentals kick things off at 9PM. | |||
| Guitar Man | Junior Brown | Mixed Bag | Curb 2001 |
| Gotta Get Up Every Morning | Junior Brown | The Austin Experience: Recorded LIve At The Continental Club | Telarc 2005 |
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| When The Bloom Is On The Sage | Cow Bop | Route 66 | Tru Jazz 2008 * |
| Bruce Forman, guitarist and founder of Cow Bop, kindly called in to talk with The Back Country about his appearances tomorrow night in Edwardsville at the Stagger Inn and Thursday night at Fazio's Frets and Friends in Ellisville. | |||
| Back In The Saddle Again | Cow Bop | Route 66 | Tru Jazz 2008 * |
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| A Nickel For The Fiddler | Guy Clark | The Essential Guy Clark | BMG 1997 (originally recorded in 1975 on RCA) + |
| Rocket 88 | Eleven Hundred Springs | Country Jam | Palo Duro 2008 * |
| Rockabilly Rhythm | Brittany Reilly | Good Old Country Song | self-produced 2008 * |
| Home For Sale | Dwight Yoakum | Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Years, Volume 2 | + |
| Home For Sale | Dwight Yoakum | Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Years, Volume 2 | Rhino 2002 + |
| Georgia Boogie (outro) | Jimmy Bryant | Frettin' Fingers: The Lightning Guitar Of Jimmy Bryant, Volume 2 | Sundazed |
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