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

Saturday, May 6, 2017 | 12:00 to 14:00 | Specialty

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Loretta Lynn Fist City Full Circle Legacy 2016; Get well, Loretta
Joe Ely The Road Goes On Forever Live at Antone's Rounder 2000
Jimmie Dale Gilmore White Freight Liner Blues Don't Look for a Heartache Hightone 2004
Lyle Lovett That's Right (You're Not From Texas) Live in Texas MCA 1999
* Nikki Lane Forever Lasts Forever Highway Queen New West 2017
Lucinda Williams Lonely Girls Essence Lost Highway 2001
* Malcolm Holcombe Crippled Point O'View Pretty Little Troubles self-released 2017
David Childers Gates of Hell A Good Way to Die Single Wing 2001
Sarah Shook and the Disarmers Dwight Yoakam Sidelong self-released 2015; Triangle release by request -- thanks! Recently reissued by Chicago's Bloodshot Records!!
The Backsliders High Fashion Queen From Raleigh, North Carolina Mammoth 1996
Mount Moriah Honey, We Don't Need That Much Mount Moriah Holidays for Quince 2011
Hiss Golden Messenger Brother, Do You Know the Road? Southern Grammar Merge 2015
* Jake Xerxes Fussell Canyoneers What in the Natural World Paradise of Bachelors 2017
Nathan Bowles Moonshine is the Sunshine Whole & Cloven Paradise of Bachelors 2016
Eugene Chadbourne I Wouldn't Live in New York City Country Music in the World of Islam Fundamental 1989; Buck Owens Cover
Megafaun The Longest Day Gather, Form & Fly Hometapes 2009
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang Troublesome Houses The Wonder Show of the World Drag City 2010
* Joan Shelley Isn't That Enough Joan Shelley No Quarter 2017
Doug Paisley Song My Love Can Sing Strong Feelings No Quarter 2014
Zachary Cale Dear Shadow Blue Rider All Hands Electric 2013
* Wooden Wand Sacrificial Clipper Ship Three Lobed 2017
Mississippi John Hurt Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight The Complete Studio Recordings Vanguard 2000
* R.L. Boyce R.L.'s Boogie Roll and Tumble Waxploitation 2017
* Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Let Your Light Shine Front Porch Sessions Thirty Tigers/Family Owned 2017
* Valerie June The Front Door The Order of Time Concord 2017
Buck Owens Close Up the Honky Tonks Live in San Francisco 1989 RockBeat 2015