Howdy, As I've said previously, I pick the featured artist of the week, based on what I'm currently enjoying in my own disc player at home. Sometimes the audience goes for it, sometimes they scratch their heads and begin to wonder if they can still catch Prairie Home Companion on the other channel. Actually, I doubt I ran people off with my choice this week, but the phone was noticably quieter. Although one drunken caller (here's an idea: Don't drink and dial...) did make it his mission to harass me most of the night that I didn't play enough "classic country." I never could tell if he thought I didn't play enough classic country on Tennessee Saturday Night of if he was just upset that I'd shifted gears and moved on to the Fringe. That being said, he didn't go for my argument that John Wesley Harding's finely crafted little album featured the ultimate in "classic" country-- centuries-old ballads reworked by Nic Jones. (Or it could have been the Cheap Trick that set him off...) Eventually, I got a bit cranky and told him to quit calling me until he was sober. That should keep him off the line for a year or two. The rest of the audience, I presume, was enjoying the featured album in quiet reflection...or gone fishing. Nonetheless, I enjoyed featuring what I consider to be one of the finest albums released this year (to date). Artists making their Fringe debut included: Willie P. Bennett, Johnny Carroll, Cheap Trick, Counting Crows, Damnations TX, The Eagles, Gary Floyd, Hot Club of Cowtown, The Cornell Hurd Band, Jones and Leva, Roy Kasten, Otis Redding, and Third Tyme Out. Contact info., etc., follows... Fringe -- Episode #31 -- April 24, 1999 WDVX-FM -- Clinton/Knoxville, TN -- 9 PM to 12 PM Crazy Train -- The Flatirons -- Prayer Bones -- Checkered Past Casino Queen -- Wilco -- A.M. -- Reprise (4/28@Tennessee Theatre) Certain Kind of Fool -- Eagles -- Desperado -- Asylum William and Nancy's Parting -- John Wesley Harding -- Trad. Arr. Jones -- Zero Hour Breaking Glass -- Nick Lowe -- Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe -- Columbia Guilty -- Alejandro Escovedo -- Bourbonitis Blues -- Bloodshot Hard to Handle -- Black Crowes -- Shake Your Money Maker -- Def American The Singer's Request -- John Wesley Harding -- Trad. Arr. Jones -- Zero Hour Fat Man in the Bathtub -- Little Feat -- Dixie Chicken -- Warner Brothers Car Wheels on a Gravel Road -- Lucinda Williams -- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road -- Mercury (4/29@Tennessee Theatre) William Glenn -- John Wesley Harding -- Trad. Arr. Jones -- Zero Hour Sin City -- Flying Burrito Brothers -- Heroes of Country Music, Vol. 5 -- Rhino More Than a Lifetime -- Gary Floyd -- Back Door Preacher Man -- Innerstate Napoleon -- Scott Miller -- Bubbapalooza, Vol. 1 -- Sky (Scott Miller's Mule Train, 4/30@Bird's Eye) Dirt Track Date -- Southern Culture on the Skids -- Dirt Track Date -- DGC Time and Time Again -- Counting Crows -- August and Everything After --- DGC I'm Not Crazy Yet -- The Cornell Hurd Band -- Texas Fruit Shack -- Behemoth Little Musgrave -- John Wesley Harding -- Trad. Arr. Jones -- Zero Hour Take Me Back -- Julie Miller -- Blue Pony -- Hightone Folding Money -- Radney Foster -- See What You Want to See -- Arista/Austin The Bonny Bunch of Roses -- John Wesley Harding -- Trad. Arr. Jones -- Zero Hour Blue Island, Illinois -- Roy Kasten -- Edges from the Postcard2 -- (Independent) Teenage Sweetie -- Johnny Carroll -- Texabilly -- Rollin' Rock/HMG Only You -- Third Tyme Out -- Letter to Home -- Rounder (5/1@Carter High School) The Golden Glove -- John Wesley Harding -- Trad. Arr. Jones -- Zero Hour Whiskey in the Jar -- Hazeldine -- Orphans -- All Swoll The Back of Your Hand -- Jones and Leva -- Light Enough to Find My Way -- Rounder Lookout -- Cheap Trick -- Cheap Trick -- Epic (5/2@Moose's Music Hall) Shake -- Otis Redding -- The Very Best of Otis Redding -- Rhino Sunset Pendulum -- Willie P. Bennett w/Tony Trischka -- Heartstrings -- BNatural Master Kilby -- John Wesley Harding -- Trad. Arr. Jones -- Zero Hour Black Widow -- Damnations TX -- Half Mad Moon -- Sire If Anyone Ought to Know -- Merle Haggard -- 1996 -- MCG/Curb Lovin' the Bottle -- Heather Myles -- Points West: New Horizons in Country Music -- Hightone Annachie Gordon -- John Wesley Harding -- Trad. Arr. Jones -- Zero Hour Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight -- Hot Club of Cowtown -- Swingin' Stampede -- Hightone Arianne -- The V-Roys -- All About Town -- E-Squared (5/2@Moose's Music Hall) Annan Water -- John Wesley Harding -- Trad. Arr. Jones -- Zero Hour Wild Places -- James Intveld -- James Intveld -- Innerworks So It Goes -- Nick Lowe -- Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe -- Columbia You Don't Know What Lonesome Is -- The Sundowners -- For a Life of Sin -- Bloodshot Time Flies -- Duke Daniels -- Help Is on the Way -- E Pluribus No Sign of Water -- Damnations TX -- Half Mad Moon -- Sire ...and that's another night wasted listening to the Fringe. Hey, if you've got just the music I need to take this show to the next level, why don't you send it my way? I may be reached at: Shane Rhyne 208 W. Glenwood Avenue, #2 Knoxville, TN 37917 As always, I also invite you to contact me or WDVX if you're going to be in the area. The Fringe...It's What's for Dinner. 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
