Last night's Wylie & The Wild West show at the Tractor was like most twang shows in Seattle nowadays -- packed, with a line outside. If any Northwesterners are planning on going to the Golden Smog/Hazeldine show at the Showbox on Saturday, I'd suggest getting a ticket ASAP. And if you haven't yet checked out Wylie live, you really oughta -- the man's gotta golden voice and a rock-solid country band. Wylie's a hell of an entertainer, and he really knows his stuff -- his sublime version of Elton Britt's "Cowpoke" last night silenced a packed club. Last night's Swingin' Doors featured the usual mix of new and old, and included a tribute to the late Leon Pappy Selph: Leon McAuliffe - Blue Man's Blues Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys - I've Got A New Road Under My Wheels Hadacol - Better Than This Bare Jr. - Love-less Steve Earle - Someday (request) Fred Eaglesmith - Water In The Fuel (2/18 at the Tractor) Kelly Willis - What World Are You Living In? Johnny Paycheck - Motel Time Again (request) Johnny Bush - What A Way To Live Charley Pride - Just Between You and Me Porter Wagoner - Banks Of The Ohio J.D. Crowe and the New South - Back To The Barrooms Jeff White - Old Plank Road Here Today - Lonesome River Red Allen - Beautiful Blue Eyes Deke Dickerson - Feelin' Low (1/23 at the Tractor) Hank Thompson - A Broken Heart and a Glass Of Beer Jimmy Wakely - Walkin' The Sidewalks Of Shame Lefty Frizzell - Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Saturday) Glenn Owens - Don't Tell My Wife I'm Here Blue Ridge Playboys - Swing Baby Swing Blue Ridge Playboys - Gimme My Dime Back Blue Ridge Playboys - Keep Your Nose Out Of Daddy's Business Leon Pappy Selph & his Blue Ridge Playboys - Florene Leon Pappy Selph & his Blue Ridge Playboys - Polecat Stomp The Countrypolitans - Come Rollin' In Golden Smog - Looking Forward To Seeing You (1/16 at the Showbox) Beaver Nelson - Landed In The Mud Lucinda Williams - Greenville (2/14 at the King Cat) Marty Robbins - San Angelo Wylie & the Wild West - Big Sky Lullaby (last night at the Tractor) Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call Slim Whitman - I'm Casting My Lasso In The Sky Shaver - Mother Trucker (2/11 at the Tractor) Derailers - Can't Stop A Train Merle Haggard - California Cottonfields Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time Nashville Bluegrass Band - Backtrackin' Bad Livers - I'm Goin' Back To Mom and Dad (2/13 at the Tractor) Tom T. Hall - Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On Roger Miller - Dang Me (request) Don Gibson - Oh Lonesome Me David Olney - JT's Escape Bottle Rockets - Skip's Song Hazeldine - Wild and Blue (1/16 at the Showbox w/ Golden Smog) Dave Alvin - Kern River Hot Club of Cowtown - Ida Red (2/4 at the Tractor) Johnnie Lee Wills - Lazy John Bob Skyles & his Sky Rockets - Jive and Smile Hartman's Heartbreakers - Give It To Me Daddy Norma Jean - Put Your Arms Around Her Buck Owens - Act Naturally (request) Loretta Lynn - A Man I Hardly Know (request) Wynn Stewart - Playboy Swingin' Doors can be heard Thursdays from 6-9pm on KCMU 90.3FM in Seattle. Email me if you have any questions about the music played.--don
