Howdy, A bonus playlist this week, because I was asked at the last minute yesterday evening to guest host another WDVX show, "Country Card Party." The show normally airs on Mondays from 7 to 11 and is hosted by Mark Arnold. Mark was, I believe working at the Bare Jr. in-store appearance and the Brian Setzer/Bare Jr. concert and, since I have no social life at all, I agreed to fill in. The show mostly features a mix of classic country, honky tonk, and alt.country (sort of a merging of my shows-- Tennessee Saturday Night and The Fringe), but since I only had time to grab one of my CD cases on the way to the station, my version of the show carried a definite Fringe flavor to it, although I did have some good opportunities to mix in the classic sounds. Audience response was interesting to say the least. The first caller during the Bare Jr. tune asked, "This *is* the *Country* Card Party, right? What the heck is this stuff?" Followed immediately by another caller who said, "I *love* this." Me? I'm still undecided on Bare Jr. myself. I like his Daddy fine, though. I got a chance to play some cuts from another recent CD discovery -- Jim Croce: The 50th Anniversary Collection. Not enough talk around here about Mr. Croce, if you ask me. Anyway, here's the playlist: Country Card Party -- guest host -- 8 February 1999 WDVX-FM 89.9 FM -- Clinton/Knoxville, TN I'm Branded -- Link Wray -- Rumble! The Best of Link Wray -- Rhino The Most -- Bare Jr. -- Boo-Tay -- Immortal Bang Bang Bang -- Al Anderson -- Pay Before You Pump -- Imprint Send My Body -- Randy Travis -- Storms of Life -- Warner Brothers The Salt in My Tears -- Dolly Parton -- Hungry Again -- Decca Smokin' 100s Alone -- The Bottle Rockets -- 24 Hours a Day -- Atlantic Wilder Than Her -- Fred Eaglesmith -- Drive-In Movie -- Vertical You're the Reason -- John Fogerty -- The Blue Ridge Rangers -- Fantasy The Ballad of Davy Crockett -- Doug Sahm -- SDQ 98 -- Watermelon Copperhead Road -- Steve Earle -- Ain't Ever Satisfied -- Hip-O Bluebell -- Greg Trooper -- Popular Demons -- Koch Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy) -- Jim Croce -- The 50th Anniversary Collection -- Saja Tears'll Be Pouring -- The Countrypolitans -- Tired of Drowning -- Ultrapolitan (The Jim Croce song above in celebration of the opening of NASCAR's 1999 season. Go, D.W.!!!) Love's Gonna Live Here -- Buck Owens -- The Very Best of Buck Owens, Vol. 2 -- Rhino Sad Singin' and Slow Ridin' -- Jean Sheppard -- Honky Tonk Heroine -- Country Music Foundation Three Days -- Willie Nelson -- Teatro -- Island The Wurlitzer Prize -- Waylon Jennings -- The Essential Waylon Jennings -- RCA Rock-A-Hula Baby -- Junior Brown -- Long Walk Back -- Curb Tom Bodett -- Mark David Manders & Nuevo Tejas -- Tales from the Couch -- Blind Nello You Shook Me All Night Long -- Hogwaller Ramblers -- Hogwaller Ramblers -- Mea Culpa No One Is Gonna Love You Better -- Heather Myles w/Merle Haggard -- Highways and Honky Tonks -- Rounder Bury Me -- Dwight Yoakum w/Maria McKee -- Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. -- Reprise Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key -- Billy Bragg & Wilco w/Natalie Merchant -- Mermaid Avenue -- Elektra Then Came Lo Mein -- Robert Earl Keen w/Margo Timmins -- Picnic -- Arista/Austin Push Comes to Love -- Gerry Devine & the Hi-Beams -- Gadfly Pie -- Gadfly Candy Kisses -- Greasetrap -- Bubbapalooza, Vol. 1 -- Sky Big Plans -- Ignitors -- Ghost Train -- Hayden's Ferry You Don't Want My Love -- Roger Miller -- King of the Road -- Bear Family I'm Gonna Live Some Before I Die -- Faron Young -- Live Fast, Love Hard -- Country Music Foundation Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad -- Tammy Wynette -- 20 Greatest Hits -- TeeVee Carrie Brown -- Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band -- The Mountain -- E-Squared Runnin' on E -- Duke Daniels -- Help Is on the Way -- E Pluribus I'm In -- Radney Foster w/Abra Moore -- See What You Want to See -- Arista/Austin Good Til Now -- Gillian Welch -- Hell Among the Yearlings -- Almo (My great-grandmother's name, not that you care, was Carrie Brown. She lived to be a 101 and had a reputation as a younger woman for being involved in more than a few love triangles. So, Steve Earle's song makes me smile.) Honey Hush -- Elvis Costello & the Attractions -- Almost Blue -- Rykodisc When Will I Be Loved -- The Everly Brothers -- Cadence Classics: Their 20 Greatest Hits -- Rhino She Left Me Cold -- The Derailers -- Jackpot -- Watermelon Huggin' and Kissin' -- Cadillac Cowgirl with Her Back Door Men -- High on the Hog -- Sur It Ain't Easy Being Me -- Chris Knight -- Chris Knight -- Decca Applejack -- Dolly Parton -- Heartsongs -- Blue Eye My Baby Don't Dance to Nothing But Ernest Tubb -- Junior Brown -- 12 Shades of Brown -- Curb Don't Toss Us Away -- Lone Justice -- This World Is Not My Home -- Geffen Soap, Soup and Salvation -- Lone Justice -- Lone Justice -- Geffen The Train -- Lone Justice -- This World Is Not My Home -- Geffen (This Saturday's featured artist on The Fringe will be Lone Justice. I indulged in a little shameless self-promotion here.) Pontiac -- Fred Eaglesmith -- Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline -- Razor & Tie Pauline -- Kevin Gordon -- Cadillac Jack's #1 Son -- Shanachie That's How I Got to Memphis -- Kelly Willis -- Real: The Tom T. Hall Project -- Sire Lawdy, What A Gal -- Merle Travis -- The Best of Merle Travis -- Rhino Fat Man in the Bathtub -- Little Feat -- Dixie Chicken -- Warner Brothers She's Hot to Go -- Lyle Lovett -- Pontiac -- MCA/Curb Across the Alley from the Alamo --Pine Valley Cosmonauts w/Robbie Fulks -- Salutes the Majesty of Bob Wills -- Bloodshot A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business -- Jim Croce -- 50th Anniversary Collection -- Saja San Antonio Rose -- Pine Valley Cosmonauts w/Alejandro Escovedo & Jon Langford -- Salutes the Majesty of Bob Wills -- Bloodshot Lock, Stock and Teardrops -- Roger Miller -- King of the Road -- Bear Family Help Wanted -- Buddy Miller -- Poison Love -- Hightone Keep This House Rockin' -- Billy Bremner -- A Good Week's Work -- Gadfly Rave On -- Buddy Holly -- Greatest Hits -- MCA Amy88 -- V-Roys -- All About Town -- E-Squared Oh Lonesome Me -- Don Gibson -- RCA Nashville Classics: The 50s -- RCA My Baby's In Love with Another Guy -- Mike Morgan & the Crawl -- Ain't Worried No More -- Black Top I Wouldn't Put It Past Me -- Dwight Yoakum -- A Long Way Home -- Reprise Jack the Ripper -- Link Wray -- Rumble! The Best of Link Wray -- Rhino Sittin' On Top of the World -- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee -- Hometown Blues -- Mainstream Whew. That was a long show. And then I had to go to bed and get up at 5 this morning for a television interview. I'm sleepy. Must work... must find caffeine... Take care, Shane Rhyne Knoxville, TN [EMAIL PROTECTED] NP: Link Wray, The Best of Link Wray
