Gilded Palace Radio Show: Drag The River, Austin Lucas, Cory Branan

A week late (so apologies that some tour alerts sound a little dated) but still worth two hours of your time: God knows it took me longer than that to edit the interview with Drag The River, Austin Lucas (& Chloe Manor) and Cory Branan. Worth the effort though! In the end the neglected guitars (left in van as it sped off after dropping the guys) were not missed as Austin and Chloe belted out a tremendous a capella murder ballad, (Cruel Brothers). You also get a listen to Austin/Cory's tour-only seven (thanks to Elmer at Hometown Caravan) and tracks from DTR's brand new release 2010 Demons: available digitally from the band (name-your-price), and on vinyl (while limited stocks last!) from Hometown Caravan and Suburban Home. Yeah, Christmas is coming, but don't wait that long...

... and this Cory Branan fella? Holy 'moly! The upstart almost stole the show! Proceed without delay to www.corybranan.com to get hold of his two solo records: The Hell You Say and 12 Songs - should be a new one along shortly... expect it to be as good as this...

Cory Branan: The Wreck Of The Sultana:


Radio show's here: Gilded Palace Radio Show, Oct 29th 2010 (playlist below):

1. Drive By Truckers - Get Downtown (New West) (tour November 2010, w...)
2. Danny & The Champions Of The World - People Here (Shine A Light) (Loose) (tour 2010, DBT's support!)
3. Rachel Harrington - Here In My Bed (Skinny Dennis)
4. Damien Jurado - Rachel & Cali (Secretly Canadian)
5. Joe Cassady & The West End Sound - Broken Down (Avenue A Records)
6. Stephen Simmons - Drink Ring Jesus (Me & My Americana/Rounder Europe)
7. Ben Rogers - The Dealer (myspace.com/benrogersmusic)(NEW tour dates added for Nov '10)
8. Doghouse Roses - Trouble Gathering (Yellow Room Music)
9. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Pilgrim Road (Loose) (ON TOUR UK/EUROPE NOVEMBER 2010)
10. Southern Tenant Folk Union - Don’t Take No Notice (Johnny Rocks)
11. Charlie Roth - Long Haul (Charlie Roth Music)
12. Charlie Parr & The Black Twig Pickers - Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down (House Of Mercy)
13. Charlie Parr - Mastodon (Nero’s Neptune (US))
14. Drag The River - Because Its My Heart (Hometown Caravan)
15. Jon Snodgrass & Cory Branan - Solo In Soho/Wild One (Phil Lynott/Thin Lizzy cover) (Suburban Home)
16. Cory Branan - Crackerjack Heart (Madjack)
17. Austin Lucas & Chloe Manor - Cruel Brothers (a capella, live in studio) www.austinlucas.com
18. Austin Lucas - Sleep Well (Hometown Caravan/Suburban Home)
19. Cory Branan - The Wreck of The Sultana (Hometown Caravan/Suburban Home)
20. Drag The River - The Other Side Of OK (Hometown Caravan)
21. The Wrights - Could You Ever Imagine (Tour)
22. Steven L Smith - I Stole The Bible (Vinyl Record Co.)
23. Otis Gibbs - Joe Hill’s Ashes (Wanamaker Recording Co.)

http://www.totallyradio.com/show_pages/shows.php?show=66

Gilded Palace Radio Show: until Oct 22nd 2010

I'll add links and what-not later, but for now here's the playlist for the new show. The highlight has to be our interview with Barton Carroll, during which he plays three songs 'live'. His new record, Together You & I on Skybucket Records, is currently on heavy rotation at Gilded Towers: properly engaging lyrics (listen to Shadowman in the session: incredible, up there with The Master)...

Listen here: http://www.totallyradio.com/show_pages/shows.php?show=66

Playlist:
Ian Siegal - The Silver Spurs (Nugene)
Two Cow Garage - Sally I’ve Been Shot (Suburban Home)
Charlie Parr - Come Along And See (Misplaced Music)
The Scuffers - High & Low (Miracle Town Records)
Tony Joe White - Long Way From The River (Munich)
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - The New Bye & Bye (Train Wreck)
Chatham County Line - Crop Comes In (Yep Roc)
Damien Jurado - And Now That I’m In Your Shadow (Secretly Canadian)
Mark Olson - Beehive (Ryko)
Tensheds - Road Movie (White Wail Records)
Crooked Fingers - You Threw A Spark (Matador)
Barton Carroll - Shadowman (live) (www.bartoncarroll.com)
Barton Carroll - Past Tense (live) (www.bartoncarroll.com)
Barton Carroll - Those Days Are Gone And My Heart Is Breaking (live) - (www.bartoncarroll.com)
Dolorean - These Slopes (Partisan/Fargo)
Horse Feathers - Starving Robins (Kill Rock Stars)
The Snakes - What Have I Done To You? (Red Eye Music)
Redlands Palomino Company - Wasted On You (Laughing Outlaw)
Jenee Halstead - Nick Drake (Continental Song City)
Drag The River - Beautiful & Damned (Suburban Home)
Deadstring Brothers - Unbroken (Times Beach Records)
South San Gabriel - All Night Long (Lionel Richie cover!) (www.centromatic.com)

Barton Carroll: Those Days Are Gone And My Heart Is Breaking:

Gilded Palace Radio Show: October 1st 2010

Seeing as the current Gilded Palace radio show will run for another week, and seeing as I didn't blog on the playlist in the first place, here's the gen: the show will be live (i.e. free) for another week before it goes into the archive (i.e. paid).
If you listen even irregularly to the show you can't have failed to hear the name Suburban Home Records mentioned: a little label out of Denver, Colorado that has for the past few years been putting out some of our favourite records. To my knowledge they still don't have distribution in the UK/EU, but hook-ups with like-minded souls at Hometown Caravan (Austin Lucas) and Gunner Records (Ninja Gun) mean it has been easier to get hold of some of their releases more locally. So, once you've enjoyed the first hour of non-SH new releases and other belters (Elf Power's new album!), grab a cold one (can you get PBR over here?!) and enjoy an hour of Sub. Home's finest (and I'll try and be clever and post links to all the releases in the playlist so you can pick them up yourself - or listen to the albums in their entirity thanks to the nifty 'players' on their site).

Show's available (still) until October 8th...

1. Elf Power - Boots Of Lead - Orange Twin
2. Wovehand - Raise Her Limbs - Glitterhouse
3. Salter Cane - Sorrow - www.saltercane.com (Oct. 21st - 100 Club, London!)
4. Caitlin Rose - For The Rabbits - Names (*still* touring - working her socks off!)
5. Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues - Bloodshot (*not* touring Nov '10!)
6. Ben Weaver - Maiden Cliff (pre-release) - Bloodshot (tour in Jan/Feb '10)
7. The RG Morrison - Becket - Loose
8. Mark Erreli & Jeffrey Foucault - Johnny 99 (Springsteen cover) – Continental Song City
9. Kevin Welch - Patch Of Blue Sky - Music Road
10. Po'Girl - Kathy - Pogirl Music
11. Barton Carroll - Past Tense - Skybucket (touring Oct '10)
12. Dolorean - Thinskinned - Fargo/Partisan (tour planned Feb '11!)
13. Two Cow Garage - Lydia - Suburban Home
14. Two Cow Garage - Montgomery Park (Richmond Fontaine cover!) - Suburban Home
15. Austin Lucas - Somebody Loves You - Suburban Home/Hometown Caravan (touring Oct '10)
16. Austin Lucas & The Takers - Keeps Me In Heartache - Suburban Home
17. The Takers - St Johns Son - Suburban Home
18. Chad Price - Cursed - Suburban Home
19. Drag The River - Smokefinger - Suburban Home/Hometown Caravan (touring Oct '10)
20. Cory Branan & Jon Snodgrass - Yeah So What? - Suburban Home
21. I Can Lick Any SOB In The House - Hotter Hell - Suburban Home
22. Josh Small - My Confessions - Suburban Home
23. Tim Barry - Bus Driver - Suburban Home
24. Ninja Gun - Eight Miles Out - Suburban Home/Gunner Records(peach splatter vinyl!)
25. Sparks – Suburban Homeboys – Artful Records ;-)

New edition of the Gilded Palace radio show went 'live' this weekend. Playlist below...

Hot stuff? Brand new Charlie Parr, who - by the time his tour is done - I will have missed completely :-(. Doubly depressing as he's now met up with the mighty Black Twig Pickers. If you're anywhere near their shows, don't miss what promises to be an incredible bill.

Charlie Parr: Far Cry From Fargo (Electric Picnic session 2009):


Black Twig Pickers: Don't Drink Nothin' But Corn (Chapel Hill, 2009):


Very excited about Irish band, The Dinah Brand (ex-Stars Of Heaven), whose frankly gorgeous new album is released by the same boutique label who brought us The Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock, so there's more than one reason to check it out.

Incidentally if you're pining for Stars Of Heaven, you can get both their albums (FREE! and LEGAL!) here: http://www.independentrecords.ie/starsofheaven.shtml (scroll down to the heading Download Free Albums)

Gilded Palace Radio Show: Playlist until 18th Sept 2010:
1) Black Twig Pickers - Don't Drink Nothing But Corn - Thrill Jockey (UK tour Sept 2010)
2) Charlie Parr - I Dreamed I Saw Jesse James Last Night - Tin Angel (UK tour Sept 2010)
3) The Dinah Brand - What's Required Of A Person - Transduction
4) Dylan Leblanc - Paupers Field - Rough Trade/Beggars USA
5) Mark Olson - Many Colored Kite - Ryko (UK tour, Dec 2010)
6) Devon Sproule - Come Comet Or Dove - Tin Angel
7) Caleb Klauder - Pieces On The Floor - West Sound
8) James Hand - Floor To Crawl - Rounder
9) Panama Red - Wyoming County Catamount - www.panamaredmusic.com
10) Malcolm Holcombe - Hardcore Dollar - Echo Mountain
11) Damien Jurado - Pear - Secretly Canadian (UK/EU tour Sept/Oct 2010)
12) Wolf People - Sillbury Sands - Jagjaguwar
13) Furnace Mountain - Graveyard/John Brown's Dream - www.furnacemountain.com (UK tour Sept/Oct 2010)

Chatham County Line - 30+ minute 'live' session/interview

Mooching around the web to see how the press has received their new album, Wildwood, I chanced across this 35-minute video session & interview with the wonderful Chatham County Line.



I'm starting to realise that this is their most accomplished album yet. At first, yes, I still missed the bluegrass stylings of earlier releases (felt the same about IV on first listen), but there's so much more going on in these songs that flashy, hundred-note solos (though John and Chandler get to bust out a few of those too!). Listen to Crop Comes In played here: more to the point, *watch* them perform it - there are more parts than a Meccano set, and no nuts left over at the end! The banjo at the start of Alone In New York already sounds like a classic intro a la Mcguinn on Mr Tambourine Man.



SEVEN songs performed in this session - that's almost two-thirds of the new album! I don't remember the last time I saw a band afforded that luxury in any press engagement. Respect to MyNC.com for give them the time - and to the boys for having the chops to take the challenge. Enjoy this and see them 'live' in a couple of weeks (European dates below)...

... Chatham County Line – European Tour, September 2010
17th - De Roma, Antwerp (BE)
18th – Take Root Festival, Groningen (NL) - 2 shows
19th – Paradiso., Amsterdam (NL)
20th - Tunnels, Bristol
21st – Garage, London
22nd - The Cluny, Newcastle
23rd – Errigle Inn, Belfast
24th – Cleeres, Kilkenny
25th – Crawdaddy, Dublin
26th – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

Gilded Palace Radio Show: September 3rd 2010

Another (tardy) edition of The Gilded Palace Radio Show has just gone 'live' at www.totallyradio.com. A one-hour show, for one week only: time was tight (just back from tour, kids back to school, etc.) so another one-hour show will follow next week... that equals two hours for the fortnight. All good. Playlist below... link to show at the end of this post.

1) Caitlin Rose - Fetzer's Blues (Spare Me) - Names
2) Ginny Hawker - Wall Of Bottles - Rounder
3) Carrie Rodriguez - Steal Your Love - Ninth Street Opus
4) Eilen Jewell - You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man - Signature
Sounds/ Continental Record Service
5) Barton Carroll - The Poor Boy Can't Dance - Skybucket
6) Chatham County Line - The Ghost of Woody Guthrie - Yep Roc
7) Michael Weston King - Cops Of The World - Valve
8) Dios - Epileptic Tunnel Visions - Buddyhead
9) The Sadies - Another Day Again - Yep Roc
10) Water Tower Bucket Boys - Fromage - watertowerbucketboys.com
11) Danny & The Champions Of The World - Henry The Van - Loose
12) Elliott Brood - Second Son - Sixshooter

The Caitlin Rose album is very good: a couple of killer tracks and growing on me every play. Ginny Hawker really deserves to get the same kind of attention afforded Diana Jones (deserved though it is: both are exceptional). Finally, if you're reading this any time before Sunday afternoon and you're in the south-east of England, there's still time to get over to Winchester for this unmissable line-up... Danny and Bruntnell on the same bill? God, I hope Elliott Brood and Pete get together for a version of Powderfinger :-D More info at SXSC's Myspace

Peter Bruntnell: False Start:



Danny & The Champions Of The World: These Days:

Gilded Palace Radio Show: August 10th 2010

The new edition of the Gilded Palace Radio show is now up at Totally Radio. Playlist below.

You can listen any time over the next two weeks (next show should go up on 27th August). New releases from Mark Olson (touring in December!), Chatham County Line (touring in September!) and covers of Neil Young, Sam Cooke (yes, Sam Cooke) and Prince (yes, Prince).

Also airing recent tracks from Kris Kristofferson and Natalie Merchant, both of whom were ace at Cambridge Folk Festival. No Youtube videos (not that kind of crowd, I guess: no phones in the air... they get het-up about people using high-backed chairs!) so here's another performance from Ms. Merchant:



While I did get Kristofferson to sign an album, I'm afraid I 'bottled' approaching Natalie. Ooooh... ahem, anyway; that playlist...


1. Natalie Merchant - Calico Pie (Nonesuch)
2. STFU - No Work Today (Johnny Rocks)
3. Deer Tick - Choir Of Angels (Partisan/Fargo)
4. Yarn - I Wanted To Get High (Yarn Music)
5. Mark Erelli & Jeffrey Foucault - Powderfinger (Continental Song City)
6. Kris Kristofferson - The Wonder (New West)
7. Abner Jay - I'm So Depressed (Mississippi)
8. Drag The River - Having a Party (Suburban Home)
9. David Celia - I'm Not Texan (XXI)
10. Tom Clelland - I Wish That I Could Write Like Old Guy Clark (Spit & Polish)
11. John Grant - Where Dreams Go To Die (Bella Union)
12. Salter Cane - The Angel Choir (saltercane.com)
13. Mark Wynn - Factory Girls (Little Num Num)
14. Mark Olson - Many Colored Kite (Rykodisc)
15. The Jayhawks - Old Woman From Red Clay (American)
16. Zoe Muth - Wasting My Time (www.myspace.com/zoemuth)
17. Patty Larkin (feat. Roseanne Cash) - The Closest Thing (Signature Sounds)
18. Emil Frijs - Everything's Ruined (Emil Frijs)
19. Hayward Williams - This Bed Ain't Mine (Continental Song City)
20. Chatham County Line - Out Of The Running (Yep Roc)
21. Hillbilly Voodoo - Straight To The Sun (Stone House Records)
22. The Bowmans - Far From Home (Continental Song City)
23. Anders Parker - Tell It To The Dust (Baryon)
24. Will Johnson - Catherine Dupree (Munich Records)
25. Jonas Shandel - Drinking The Water (Nowhere Town)
26. Danny Schmidt - Serpentine Cycle of Money (Red House)
27. Okra Allstars - Purple Rain (Okra)