Words - Steve Earle

Sounds of the South in words and music: The Tennessee Williams Festival...add your voice to the Stella-calling contest (friends and family of Marlon Brando are prohibited from participating). Also, a talk with country singer Steve Earle with his life and the writer's craft.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Our Love is Here to Stay: Ella and Louis Sing Gershwin, Verve

Why Baby Why George Jones
Super Hits, Epic

Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues Skip James
Complete Early Recordings, Yazoo

People Are Strange The Doors
Strange Days, Elektra

Cotton Eyed Joe Adolph Hofner
South Texas Swing, Arhoolie

Uncle Bud Boozoo Chavis
Zydeco Trail Ride, Maison de Soul

Big Bad John Jimmy Dean
Classic Country Music, Smithsonian Collection of Recordings

John Henry The Johnson Mountain Boys
At the Old Schoolhouse, Rounder

Instrumental: Stella By Starlight Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet, Columbia/Legacy

I Could Write A Book Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington, Mercury

Write Me a Few Lines Fred McDowell
Delta Blues, Arhoolie

The Letter Box Tops
Billboard Top Rock 'n' Roll Hits - 1967, Rhino

INTERVIEW: Steve Earle

Guitar Town Steve Earle
Ain't Ever Satisfied - The Steve Earle Collection, Hip-O

Hometown Blues Steve Earle
Train a Comin', Winter Harvest

You Know the Rest Steve Earle
El Corazon, E-Squared/Warner Brothers

Taney Town Steve Earle
El Corazon, E-Squared/Warner Brothers

Telephone Road Steve Earle
El Corazon, E-Squared/Warner Brothers

Instrumental: Pepper Returns Art Pepper
Jazz Profile: Art Pepper, Blue Note

San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) Jack Kerouac
Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation, Verve

Dot's Groovy Chet Baker
Jazz Profile: Chet Baker, Blue Note

Hit the Road Jack Ray Charles
The Genius Hits the Road, Rhino

Words of Advice Material & William S. Burroughs
Hallucination Engine, Axiom

End Bed: Guitar Boogie Shuffle The Ventures
Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar -Rock: The ‘50s, Vol. 1, Rhino

HOUR TWO

Stella By Starlight Johnny Hartman
All Of Me, Bethlehem

Ooo Baby Baby Smokey Robinson
The Best of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Motown

Hallelujah Leonard Cohen
Various Positions, Columbia

I Want a Lavender Cadillac The Wolverines with Bea Baker
OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957, Epic/OKeh/Legacy

One Piece at a Time Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash, Columbia

Pass You By Gillian Welch
Revival, Almo

Instrumental: Chicago Stomp Pinetop Perkins
Portrait of a Delta Bluesman, Omega

Buddy Bolden's Blues Jelly Roll Morton
Last Sessions - The Complete General Recordings, Commodore

Birmingham Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Reprise

Alabama Song Marianne Faithful
20th Century Blues, RCA

912 Greens Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Me & Bobby McGee, Rounder

Johnny Be Good Chuck Berry
The Chess Box, MCA/Chess

Instrumental: Hydroplane Ben Vaughan
Instrumental Stylings, Bar/None

(don't go back to) Rockville REM
Reckoning, I.R.S.

Tangled Up In Blue Bob Dylan
Blood On the Tracks, Columbia

End Bed: Vaseline Machine Gun Leo Kottke
Standing In My Shoes, Private Music

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