Fellow Travelers: Margo Price, Willie Nelson & Friends
We’re on the road again, dialed into high-flying honky-tonk as we cruise through Texas cotton patches and Midwestern pastures of plenty. Starting in Illinois farm country, we meet up with Margo Price, who followed her dreams of songwriting to Nashville, Tennessee. She put her name on the map with songs about growing up in rural America and has since dug in her heels while singing about a landscape of gender and economic inequities. Then, we look in the rearview mirror to our 2000 in-studio performance and interview with Willie Nelson, who reminisces about his hometown of Abbott, Texas, and the “opera of voices” he heard in its fields. Plus, songs from Muhlenberg County, Butcher Hollow, New Orleans’ 9th Ward, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, and Hendrix’s Both Sides of the Sky.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Honky-Tonk Angels Buddy Emmons
The Steel Guitar and Dobro Sounds of Shot Jackson and Buddy Emmons, Nashville Records
A Real Country Song Dale Watson
Blackjack, Dale Watson
Coal Miner's Daughter Loretta Lynn
Greatest Hits Vol. 2, MCA
9 Pound Hammer John Prine
Sweet Revenge, Atlantic
Knockin' on Your Screen Door John Prine
The Tree of Forgiveness , Oh Boy
Tennessee Jed Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead Europe '72, Warner
Instrumental: West Coast Blues Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
Country Music's Two Guitar Greats: Merle Travis & Joe Maphis, Capitol
SEGMENT: Margo Price
Tennessee Arrested Development
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of, Capitol
Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine Margo Price
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Instrumental: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Merle Travis
Strictly Guitar, Capitol
Pastures of Plenty Michael Hurley and Jon Neufeld
Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs, Smithsonian Folkways
Outlaw Blues Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Marcia Ball
Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight/I'll Be Doggone, Capitol
Walkin' to New Orleans Fats Domino
The Legendary Imperial Recordings, Capital/EMI
Louisiana Percy Mayfield
Percy Mayfield: Lost Love the Singles A's and B's, Jasmine
Closing Bed: Careless Love Seva Venet
New Orleans Banjo, Vol. 1: Musieu Bainjo, Seva Venet
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills
For the Last Time, Liberty
Wild, Wild Young Men Ruth Brown
Miss Rhythm: Greatest Hits and More, Atlantic
Back in Business Beverly "Guitar" Watkins
Back in Business, Music Makers
SEGMENT: Margo Price pt. 2
Instrumental: Down Yonder Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
SEGMENT: Willie Nelson
Instrumental: Sweet Angel Jimi Hendrix
Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy
Lonesome Road Blues Cryin' Sam Collins
Before the Blues Vol. 1, Yazoo
Johnny 99 Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen
On the Road Again Canned Heat
Boogie with Canned Heat, Liberty
Things I Used to Do Jimi Hendrix
Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy
On My Way Luke Winslow King
I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always, Bloodshot
Closing bed: Jungle Jimi Hendrix
Both Sides of the Sky, Columbia Legacy