Freight Train Boogie Podcast #45

The new CD by DANNY BARNES called Pizza Box is featured on Show #45… it’s released with backup vocals and full support of “big star” DAVE MATTHEWS. Also new releases from MATT HARLAN, JO SERRAPERE and ROSIE FLORES. The full playlist is posted below.  Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here’s the direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ‘em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #45

DANNY BARNES – Caveman Pizza Box
JO SERRAPERE – Gotham Hotel Love Going South
JOHNSMITH - Jay Bird Gravity of Grace
GREG TROOPER – Angel The Williamsburg Affair
(mic break)
ROSIE FLORES & THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS – Halfway Home Girl of the Century
MATT HARLAN – Elizabethtown Tips & Compliments
THE BLUSHIN’ ROULETTES – That Dream I Had Took to the Country
DANNY BARNES – Broken Clock Pizza Box
(mic break)
ERIC ROBERTSON & THE BOSTON BOYS – You and Me Listen
STEVIE COYLE – She Ain’t Got Me Ten in One
PORTERDAVIS - Smack You Back Porterdavis
SUSAN GIBSON -  Perfect World New Dog, Old Tricks
(mic break)
DANNY BARNES - Overdue Pizza Box

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie

Freight Train Boogie podcast #38

Show #38 features the new CD by the SAM BAKER called Cotton. Also new songs from BEARFOOT, ANGELA EASTERLING and 8 BALL AITKEN. The full playlist is posted below.  Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe or download the show and here’s the  direct download link to listen right now on your computer. Check the artist’s websites and order their CD’s or downloads and tell ‘em you heard the songs on the FTB podcast. Please email me with any questions, comments or suggestions for the podcasts.

Show #38

SAM BAKER – Cotton Cotton
THE CORDUROY ROAD – The Tree Bends Love Is A War
ANGELA EASTERLING – One Microphone Blacktop Road
8 BALL AITKEN – Cowboy Movie Rebel With A Cause
(mic break)
PORTERDAVIS - Carter’s Tune Porterdavis
RITA HOSKING - Precious Little Come Sunrise
JASON PAUL JOHNSTON - Vines Willows Motel
SAM BAKER – Mennonite Cotton
(mic break)
THE GIVING TREE BAND –   Peace On The Mountain Great Possessions
BEARFOOT – Heaven Doors & Windows
THE KIERAN RIDGE BAND - Somewhere on the Edge of Town Already Gone
(mic break)
SAM BAKER – Who’s Gonna Be Your Man Cotton

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie

Americana Releases for Sept. 1st, 2009

Leading into the Labor Day weekend in the U.S., here’s the list of new releases for the week of September 1st, 2009.  The artist’s names link to their websites or MySpace pages and the CD title links go to either Amazon or CD Baby for easy ordering.

SAM BAKER – Cotton (Music Road)
This brilliently sensative songwriter completes his trilogy of while albums. Cotton’s biggest shift is the fuller accompaniment that empowers Baker’s ballads, especially Steve Conn’s piano and the electric guitar growl of “Palestine I,” but his poignancy emerges best in the soft lullaby of “Moon” and unshakable loss of “Angel Hair.” Recommended.

CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED – Happiness And All The Other Things (Universal South)
Popular rockin’ band from Texas recorded their 6th album in L.A.

TIM EASTON – Porcupine (New West)
Easton’s last three albums were based in folk with a mostly acoustic palette and a lighter touch. This one’s got sharper sonic edges: serrated guitar licks, bristly vocals and roiling grooves. It’s the closest thing to a rock band he’s had behind him in a good long while.

RADNEY FOSTER -  Revival (Devil’s River)
Revival emerged when the Texas native plunged into the rolling waters of change–his father’s death and the end of his twelve-year, 5,000-mile separation from his son–and came up with renewed conviction. It’s his rockinest CD since his days with Foster & Lloyd.

REVEREND HORTON HEAT – Laughin’ and Cryin’ (Yep Roc)
“I really wanted to capture the feelings of recordings of the late ’50s, early ’60s,” The Rev said of the songs on the new record. It marks a detour from the hard driving punkabilly of the Rev’s last record, 2004’s Revival, this time tending toward honk… look for a record full of country-heavy tunes about bad habits, well-meaning but clueless husbands, ever-expanding beer-guts and, well, Texas.

PORTERDAVIS – Porterdavis (Roots ‘N’ Blues)
American Roots & Blues, as their label says This trio features Amped Harmonica,  Slide, Electric & Acoustic Guitar and Multi-Percussionist.

SHOTGUN PARTY – Mean Old Way (self released)
They swing old school jazz right on into old school  country, with rapturous results. The songs are all original, and they’re from Austin.

LINZAY YOUNG & JOEL SAVOY – Linzay Young & Joel Savoy (Valcour)
The two have been playing cajun music together for over 15 years. Having learned to fiddle side by side at the Savoy Music Center Saturday morning jam session they share a remarkable musical connection that is uncanny at times. In this recording, their first as a duo, they pay tribute to their musical heroes from around the Eunice, LA area where they grew up.

…coming soon: JASON EADY, JAMES HAND, TOM RUSSELL, THE BAND OF HEATHENS, CHRIS KNIGHT…  more new releases.

Here’s a link to this week’s Americana Music Association’s Americana Airplay Chart

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie