Hard Times and Honky Tonks: Dale Watson, David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
The sounds may seem old but the songs are not. This week on American Routes we visit with a few musicians who are known for crafting modern country music from old-time inspirations. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings share with us how they fit “an electric peg into an acoustic hole.” Then conversation with Austin’s king of the honky-tonks, Dale Watson, who literally wears his musical inspirations on his sleeve.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Rocky Run Jerry Stuart, Pete Kuykendall, Smiley Hobbs & Tom Gray
Classic Bluegrass, vol. 2, Smithsonian Folkways
Blame it All on Nashville Pee Wee King
Country Cowboy Classics, Goldenlane
Nashville Cats The Lovin' Spoonful
Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, Buddha
Blue The Louvin Brothers
Country Love Ballads, Capitol
Blues Stay Away From Me Doug Sahm and Band
Doug Sahm and Band, Atlantic
When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again Big Al Downing
Heavy Sugar: Pure Essence of New Orleans R&B, Fantastic Voyage
Instrumental: John Henry/ Worried Blues Doc and Merle Watson
Guitar Album, Flying Fish
SEGMENT: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Unknown Blues Tarter & Gay
The Bristol Sessions: The Big Bang of Country Music 1927-1928, Bear Family
Tennessee Jed The Grateful Dead
Europe '72, Warner Bros.
Instrumental: Hard Times Stanley Brothers
Friend of Old Time Music: The Folk Arrival 1961-1965, Folkways
Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
My Dusty Road, Rounder
Elvis Presley Blues Gillian Welch
Time the Revelator, Acony
When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again Elvis Presley
The King of Rock 'N' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, RCA
Hard Times Come Again No More Mavis Staples
Beautiful Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster, American Roots
Sugar Mountain Neil Young
Decade, Reprise
End Bed: One of these Days Bill Frisell
Nashville, Nonesuch
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Pedal Paddle Lloyd Green
The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, KOCH
Settin' the Woods on Fire Hank Williams
The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury
Around and Around Chuck Berry
His Best, Volume 1, MCA/ Chess
I Love to Rock n Roll Eddie Bo
Heavy Sugar: Pure Essence of New Orleans R&B, Fantastic Voyage
Moran Tonk Circa 1936 Jason Moran
Modernistic, Blue Note
Don't You Know Ray Charles
Genius and Soul: 50th Anniversary Collection, Rhino
Instrumental: Honky Tonk King Curtis
The Best of King Curtis, Capitol
Stomp and Holler Hayes Carll
KMAG YOYO & Other American Stories, Lost Highway
Maggie's Farm Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
Country Boy Johnny Cash
The Man in Black: 1954-1958, Sony
SEGMENT: Dale Watson
Instrumental: Honky Tonk Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
The Man, Verve
Everybody's Movin' Glen Glenn
Glen Rocks, Bear Family
Boogie Woogie Country Girl Big Joe Turner
Definitive Blues Collection, Rhino
Sister's Coming Home/ Down at the Corner Beer Joint Willie Nelson
Phases and Stages, Atlantic
Close Up the Honky Tonks Buck Owens
The Buck Owens Collection, Rhino
Paper Wings Gillian Welch
Revival, Almo Sounds
End Bed: Last Date Floyd Cramer
RCA Country Legends, Buddha