American Standard Time Presents: The Sojourners @ FolkLife This Monday:

The latest song from The Sojourners, an American gospel vocal group living in Vancouver, BC. They will perform as part of our showcase event this Memorial Day at the Seattle Center with The Slide Brothers, The Sumner Brothers, and Crow Quill Night Owls from 4-7pm. 

The Sojourners will impress with their vocal chops, song selection, and spiritual vibes. But don't hesitate, as they're also dabble in roosty blues and soul folk too. They're impressive backing band lays it down and the The Sojourners pick it with grace and style. 

And then there's always the chance of the Slide Brothers possibly joining them on stage for some high-church goodness and heavenly jamming, right? Who knows!

Be there!

The Sojourners: "Death Have No Mercy"

See The Supergroup Of Sacred Steel:The Slide Brothers @ FolkLife on Monday!

This is going to be somthin'!

This Memorial Day Monday at NW FolkLife at the Seattle Center, The Slide Brothers will perform as part of the American Standard Time showcase event. It's free and other performers include The Sojourners, The Sumner Brothers, and Crow Quill Night Owls. It'll be quite a display of American traditional music from old-timey jass and blues to the modern-day church of The House Of God. 

For more on the Southern sacred steel tradition and steel guitar in general, listen to the American Routes edition of Men Of Steel & Soul. It's a good listen as always. Thanks Nick Spitzer

See you Monday at FolkLife!

Listen To Roadhouse Radio NOW: 05/22/13: NW Festival Time! Townes LOVE Too

This show kicks off with tragic troubadour Townes Van Zandt. Then in the third hour, a whole set of Townes songs by others, like Wily Mason (w/ Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell), Steve Earle, Vetiver, The Sumner Brothers, including a Jagger/Richards tune as done by Townes. It's pretty killer as Townes is a beloved figure in American music, songwriter circles, and those who are open to broken heartedness.

In the second hour, it's a festival preview for Sasquatch and Northwest FolkLife. I played rootsy choices from artists performing at both fests, including the Slide Brothers, a sacred steel supergroup who will be playing our American Standard Time stage at FolkLife on Monday at 5pm. Don't miss this! If you're unfamiliar with sacred steel music, check out Nick Spitzer's "Men Of Steel And Soul" edition of American Routes in which he features this gospel steel tradition from Florida's House Of God. It's pretty amazing stuff

Lot's of other rootsy, churchy, and heart-breaking music in the rest of this 3-hour radio show!

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)

Time	Artist	Song	Album	Label
6:00	Townes Van Zandt	Black Jack Mama	In the Beginning...	TVZ Records
	DJ Comments: Shane Tutmarc and friends doing this song at the Tractor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmTDenDJzNw
6:03	Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	Fault Line	Howl	RCA Records
	DJ Comments: This song live in Portland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywtgRmIyYV8
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6:07	The Cave Singers	When the World	Naomi	Jagjaguwar
	DJ Comments: Fri 6/7 @ Elkfest in Spokane ; http://thecavesingers.com/
6:11	Pickwick	Lady Luck	Can't Talk Medicine	self-released
	DJ Comments: Also at Elkfest in Spokane, on Sun 6/9 ; http://wedonthaveone.com/the-elk/elkfest/ ; https://www.facebook.com/pickwickmusic
6:15	Fred Eaglesmith	Shallow	Cha Cha Cha	Lonesome Day
	DJ Comments: http://www.fredeaglesmith.com/
6:19	The Mynabirds	What We Gained in the Fire	What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood	Saddle Creek Records
	DJ Comments: Laura from Mynabirds is part of Postal Service's touring band! http://themynabirds.com/ ; http://postalservicemusic.net/ ; hear their 2012 KEXP appearance: http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rId=34083
6:24	Rodriguez	Street Boy	Coming From Reality	Light in the Attic Records
	DJ Comments: 1971 reissue ; He's touring Europe and UK tour this summer ; live video from his 2009 KEXP appearance at the Triple Door: http://blog.kexp.org/2009/07/15/live-video-rodriguez-at-the-triple-door/ ; http://sugarman.org/
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6:31	Dusty Springfield	That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho)	Dusty in Memphis	Atlantic
	DJ Comments: This song was a B-side of a 1969 Philips single
6:34	Bobbie Gentry	Okolona River Bottom Band	The Delta Sweete	Capitol
	DJ Comments: This song live on TV in 1969: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8HiMwiW5IM
6:36	Tony Joe White	High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish	The Best of Tony Joe White (feat. Polk Salad Annie)	Warner Bros. Records
	DJ Comments: This song live back in the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uBU6Slx_ss ; and in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFHm8qcGNVA ; http://www.tonyjoewhite.com/
6:41	Joe South	Walk A Mile In My Shoes	Games People Play	Pickwick
	DJ Comments: 1970 single ; Bryan Ferry recorded a version on his 1974 album "Another Time, Another Place"
6:44	Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret	Victims of the Night	The Cowboy & the Lady	LHI
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We LOVE Monkeys! Gravel Road Too...

These Seattle blues rockers are known for touring and recording with T-Model Ford (Marty's writin' a book!) as much as their sometimes scary approach to hill-country style electric blues. Word has it, the new album will drop any day now on Knick Knack records!

This is what Joe from Knick Knack says, “GravelRoad, Seattle's own Deep Blues trio are set to release their second album on Knick Knack Records this summer. Following closely on a successful 2012 that saw two record releases: Psychedelta, a critically acclaimed album, and their 7" Pedernales, named for Willie Nelson's studio in Texas. T-Model Ford's backing band will release The Bloody Scalp of Burt Merlin in June 2013. While you wait for that slab of heavy brain melting groove, please enjoy the video for the first single of the album, filmed by No Brow Productions. Here is...Monkey With a Wig.”

We're ready! Monkeys!

Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Jim James Had a Baby = Louisiana Fairytale

For fifty years the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has played to keep the traditions of New Orleans jazz alive, both at home and on tour around the world. Along the way, they have brought in collaborators of all musical stripes to play, honor and reinterpret America's first true art form.

In Louisiana Fairytale, director Danny Clinch documents their collaboration with American rock band My Morning Jacket, showing a legendary group of New Orleans musicians passing on traditions and inspiring a new generation. Produced by Clinch and Preservation Hall band leader Ben Jaffe, the film features an intimate performance by both bands in the French Quarter's historic Preservation Hall.

PHJB is playing Sasquatch this weekend! Really...? yes! Saturday May 25th 

Danny Clinch : Louisiana Fairytale Trailer from Levine / Leavitt on Vimeo.

Listen To Roadhouse Radio NOW: 05/15/13: Pokey LaFarge In-Studio

It was great to have Pokey Lafarge back in The Roadhouse!

Pokey LaFarge is a 29 year-old with an old soul. He’s been playin’ and livin’ old-time for ever increasing audience over the past few years, and his 3^rd full-length LP is coming out this June 4^th on Third Man Records. He’s been living in St Louis and is well acquainted with the Mississippi River, floods, and nicely pressed slacks. I weakly asked for some Jack White inside gossip, but Pokey's too professional.

Jump directly to KEXP's archive page here and listen to the whole 30-minute session now. It starts at 6:15pm

On the rest of the show there's music from Old Cow Medicine Show who's Ketch Secor produced the new Pokey LaFarge record, Baby Gramps from Pickathon 2002, a Gramps disciple Kit Stymie Stovepipe's old band Inkwell Rhythm Makers, and everyone's freak folk masters The Holy Modal Rounders, and the unofficial 1975 album from The Unholy Moldal Rounders which is really a Michael Hurley record minus the main Rounders (Stapfle & Weber) called Have Moicy!

There's a set of bands playing the American Standard Time stage at FolkLife Monday Memorial Day May 27th, like The Slide Brothers (check the video link of them on Conan O'Brien in the playlist below) and The Sojorner's, Vancouver's excellent gospel vocal group. There's also new music from the Howlin' Brothers, but it's mostly older stuff from the White Stripes, Son House, Josh White, Nina Simone, Fairport Convention, Richard & Mimi Farina, and an obscure late 60's band from the Bay Area called Joy Of Cooking (classic name!).

Check the music by clicking the link!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)

Time	Artist	Song	Album	Label
6:01	Bobby Mitchell	I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday	The Rock 'n' Roll Era: The New Orleans Sound
6:03	Willie Nix	Baker Shop Boogie	The Complete Sun Singles, Volume 1 (disc 1)	Bear Family Records
	DJ Comments: 1953 Sun single ; http://www.wirz.de/music/nixfrm.htm
6:06	Washboard Sam	Bucket's Got a Hole in It	When the Sun Goes Down, Volume 3: That's Chicago's South Side
6:09	Muddy Waters	Corrina Corrina	Live Sessions
6:12	Lightnin' Hopkins	Shaggy Dad	Mojo Hand: The Anthology	Rhino
	DJ Comments: Originally released on 1967 self-titled album on Verve-Folkways
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6:16	Pokey LaFarge	Central Time	Live @ KEXP 2013-05-15	KEXP
	DJ Comments: Right here in The Roadhouse! See 'em Fri 5/17 @ Tractor! http://www.pokeylafarge.net/
6:20	Pokey LaFarge	What the Rain Will Bring	Live @ KEXP 2013-05-15	KEXP
	DJ Comments: All new songs, from their upcoming album on Third Man Records! Video of this song (in the rain): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrD-VujFprY
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6:30	Pokey LaFarge	Close the Door	Live @ KEXP 2013-05-15	KEXP
	DJ Comments: On NPR (including a Tiny Desk Concert): http://www.npr.org/artists/128958878/pokey-lafarge-and-the-south-city-three ; http://www.pokeylafarge.net/
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6:39	Pokey LaFarge	Day After Day	Live @ KEXP 2013-05-15	KEXP
	DJ Comments: Thanks to Pokey LaFarge for stopping by The Roadhouse! Catch them Fri in Seattle @ Tractor ; Sat in Spokane @ Bing Crosby Theater ; here's video from their 2011 appearance in The Roadhouse: http://blog.kexp.org/2011/08/10/live-video-pokey-lafarge-and-the-south-city-three/
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