Howdy, I temporarily misplaced last week's playlist for the Fringe, so I am only just now getting around to posting it for your reading pleasure (at least I hope it's more of a pleasure than a burden). By way of an introduction of this week's featured Fringe artist, let me say that it should be fairly obvious that I select my featured artists based more on personal taste than anything else. It is my hope that along the way either of my two listeners will enjoy the selection, too. That being said, this week's album easily generated the most telephone response than any featured artist to date. I know next to nothing about the band itself, but I'm loving this album. The best compliment the show received all night was from a caller who said he'd just turned off Austin City Limits on the television so he could listen to the Fringe instead. So, now we have three listeners... At any rate, artists making their Fringe debut this week included: Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Stacey Earle, Farmer Tan, The Flatirons, Good Ol' Persons, Chris LeDoux, Martin's Folly, The Okra All-Stars, Poco, Stray Cats, Rick Trevino, and Tom Waits. Here's how the Fringe looks from a distance: Fringe -- Episode #30 -- April 17, 1999 WDVX-FM -- Clinton/Knoxville, TN -- 9 p.m. to Midnight Purple Rain -- The Okra All-Stars -- The Okra All-Stars -- Innerstate The Camel's Heart -- Dolly Parton -- Hungry Again -- Decca (4/18@Dollywood) Pickin' Up the Pieces -- Poco -- Heroes of Country Music, Vol. 5 -- Rhino High Lonesome Moon -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past You Win Again -- The Ditchdiggers -- Cow Patty Bingo -- Go Kat Go Working Man Blues -- Lone Justice -- This World Is Not My Home -- Geffen Sweetheart -- Cheri Knight -- The Northeast Kingdom -- E-Squared New Pair of Shoes -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past Track 5 Blues -- Martin's Folly -- Man, It's Cold -- Tar Hut She's Tough -- Chris LeDoux -- Rodeo Rock and Roll Collection -- Capitol (4/22@Cotton-Eyed Joe's) Heart's On Fire -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past Cadillac Ranch -- Rick Trevino -- NASCAR: Runnin' Wide Open -- Columbia Waiting -- Stacey Earle -- Simple Gearle -- Gearle Picking Up the Signal -- Son Volt -- Straightaways -- Warner Brothers (4/22@Sing Sing, Chattanooga) Last Night -- Mark David Manders & Neuvo Tejas -- Tales from the Couch Circuit -- Blind Nello My Life -- Iris DeMent -- My Life -- Warner Brothers When I Write the Book -- Nick Lowe -- Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe -- Columbia By Yourself -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past My Better Years -- Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard -- Hazel & Alice -- Rounder The One I Love Is Gone -- Good Ol' Persons -- Good N' Live -- Sugar Hill Heaven Help You -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past Highway Cafe -- Tom Waits -- Pearls in the Snow -- Kinkajou Local Girls -- Graham Parker -- Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 1 -- Rhino Three Coins -- Blue Mother Tupelo -- My Side of the Road (4/23@The Spot, 4/24@Sassy Ann's) Nothing -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past Slippin' and Slidin' -- Wanda Jackson -- Right or Wrong/There's a Party Goin' On -- TNT Laser These Hills -- Iris DeMent -- Infamous Angel -- Warner Brothers She Came Along to Me -- Billy Bragg & Wilco -- Mermaid Avenue -- Elektra (Wilco 4/28@Tennessee Theatre) These Days -- Sara Evans -- No Place That Far -- RCA Sexy + 17 -- Stray Cats -- Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 12 -- Rhino So Lonesome -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past Be Mine -- Kimmie Rhodes -- West Texas Heaven -- Justice Flyswatter/Ice Water Blues -- Lyle Lovett -- Joshua Judges Ruth -- Curb/MCA Jump Jim Crow/Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah -- Michelle Shocked -- Arkansas Traveler -- Polygram Crazy Train -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past Hangin' Round the Airport -- Farmer Tan -- Farmer Tan -- Foothill I Lost It -- Lucinda Williams -- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road -- Mercury (4/29@Tennessee Theater) Devil Lives in Dallas -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past No Ash Will Burn -- Mollie O'Brien -- Big Red Sun -- Sugar Hill Boogie -- John Hartford -- Aereo-Plain -- Rounder You Are the Light -- Lone Justice -- Lone Justice -- Geffen Napoleon -- Scott Miller -- Bubbapalooza, Vol. 1 -- Sky (Scott Miller's Mule Train 4/30@Bird's Eye View) I Never Heard You Say -- Kimmie Rhodes -- West Texas Heaven -- Justice Bad Seeds -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past William and Nancy's Parting -- John Wesley Harding -- Trad. Arr. Jones -- Zero Hour ...and that's our cue to end the Fringe this week. Next week the Fringe shifts course a bit as our featured artist/album is John Wesley Harding and his tribute to Nic Jones-- Trad. Arr. Jones Any comments, suggestions, discs for airplay consideration, compromising photos of notable local celebrities, etc., may be sent to my attention at: Shane Rhyne 208 W. Glenwood Avenue, #2 Knoxville, TN 37917 Also, if you're planning a tour through my neck of the woods and would like to visit the palatial camper that is the WDVX studios, please contact me. Got Fringe? Take care, Shane Rhyne Knoxville, TN [EMAIL PROTECTED] === WDVX-FM -- www.wdvx.com Tennessee Saturday Night -- Saturdays, 6 to 9 PM The Fringe -- Saturdays, 9 to Midnight _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
