X-Roads schenkt wöchentlich eine Stunde lang den missverstandenen Poeten, den einsamen Cowboys, den gescheiterten Baumwollpflückern, den heiseren Protestsängern und den betrunkenen Alleinunterhaltern Gehör.

X-Roads: Jeden Sonntag von sechs bis sieben auf Radio X.

Playlist

Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2010

Howe Gelb im Parterre

Ein erstes Konzerthighlight im noch jungen Jahr:
Howe Gelb, der Sänger von Giant Sand, kommt am 3. Februar solo ins Parterre.
X-Roads verlost zu gegebener Zeit natürlich noch Tickets. Wer kein Gambler ist, der gehe auf http://www.parterre.net. Auf jeden Fall Reinhören unter http://www.myspace.com/howegelb.

Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010

Sendung vom 3.1.2010 - Best of the Rest



- Shreveport - The Gourds (Haymaker)
- Roll On - J.J. Cale (Roll On)
- Simply Must Move On - Steve Forbert (The Place and the Time)
- Jimmy Martin - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Speed of Life)
- So Miles of Elbow Room - Dale Ann Bradley (Don't Turn Your Back)
- Nights Like These - Tortilla Flat (A Trainload Full of Stout)
- J'arrive pas à dormir - Mama Rosin (Black Robert)
- Tumbleweed Stew - Slaid Cleaves (Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away)
- Crossroads - Gurf Morlix (Last Exit to Happyland)
- Cold War Country Blues - Bap Kennedy (Howl On)- Border Reiver - Mark Knopfler (Get Lucky)- Remember Me - Rickie Lee Jones (Balm in Gilead)
- 300 Miles - Watermelon Slim (Escape from the ChickenCoop)
- George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues - Drive-By Truckers (The Fine Print: A Collection of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008)

Dienstag, 29. Dezember 2009

Sendung vom 27.12.2009 - Best of 2009


- May It Always Be - Bonny Billy and The Picket Line (Funtown Comedown)
- Changing Partners - Elvis Costello (Secret, Profane and Sugarcane)
- Hesitation Blues - Willie and the Wheel (Willie and the Wheel)
- Winter Wonderland - Bob Dylan (Christmas in the Heart)
- New Stranger Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliot (A Stranger Here)
- Heaven's Just A Sin Away - John Fogerty (The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again)
- Leap - The Cave Singers (Welcome Joy)
- Be Real - Freda & The Firedogs (Keep Your Soul - A Tribute to Doug Sahm)
- Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone - Tanya Tucker (My Turn)
- Der weisse Hai - Element of Crime (Immer da wo du bist bin ich nie)
- Sag Bescheid - Max Herre (Ein geschenkter Tag)
- Heartaches by the Number - Rosanne Cash (The List)
- Walk On By - Heather Myles (In the Wind)
- To Ohio - The Low Anthem (Oh My God, Charlie Darwin)
- Dynamite - Son Volt (American Central Dust)
- Laughing River - Robert Earl Keen (The Rose Hotel)
- How's About You - Dave Rawlings Machine ( A Friend of a Friend)
- Thank God for the Road - The Flatlanders (Hills and Valleys)
- Turn Up the Bottle - Steep Canyon Rangers (Deep in the Shade)
- Concord Country Jubilee - Vic Chesnutt (At the Cut)
- Who's That Guy - Pierre Omer (See What's Hidden)
- Beyond Here Lies Nothing - Bob Dylan (Together Through Life)
- Lonesome Road Blues - Bluegrass Beans (Traditional Handmade)
- Somedays You Write the Song - Guy Clark (Somedays the Song Writes You)
- Goodbye Booze - Loudon Wainwright III (High, Wide & Handsome - The Charlie Poole Project)
- Closer to the Bone - Kris Kristofferson (Closer to the Bone)
- Fools Thin Air - Patty Loveless (Mountain Soul II)
- I'll Fight - Wilco (Wilco the Album)
- Carrière Zydeco - Beau Soleil (Alligator Purse)
- The End - Pearl Jam (Backspacer)

Dienstag, 22. Dezember 2009

Sendung vom 20.12.2009 - Merry Christmas


- Christmas Time's A-Coming - Bill Monroe (The Music of Bill Monroe from 1936 to 1994)
- Here Comes Santa Claus - Bob Dylan (Christmas in the Heart)
- Here Comes Santa Claus - The Ramsey Lewis Trio (Putumayo Presents: A Jazz and Blues Christmas)
- Santa Claus Is Comin' - The Tractors (Have Yourelf a Tractors Christmas)
- The Christmas Cannonball - Hank Snow (The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3)
- I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Johnny Cash (Christmas with Johnny Cash)
- Silver Bells - Dwight Yoakam (Come On Christmas)
- Must Be Santa - Bob Dylan (Christmas in the Heart)
- Away In A Manger - Louvin Brothers (Close Harmony)
- Bluegrass, White Snow - Patty Loveless (Bluegrass and White Snow)
- St. Nicholas - Sheryl Cormier (Putumayo Presents: Christmas Around the World)
- Colorado Christmas - Steve Goodman (Unfinished Business)
- Christmas in Vegas - Dale Watson (Christmas Time in Texas)
- Jingle Bells - The Blue Hawaiians (Christmas on Big Island)
- Christmas Island - Bob Dylan (Christmas in the Heart)
- There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays - Leon Redbone (Christmas Island)
- Merry Christmas from the Family - Robert Earl Keen (Gringo Honeymoon)
- Silent Night All Day Long - John Prine (A John Prine Christmas)

Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2009

Sendung vom 13.12.2009

fiel wegen einem technischen Defekt leider ins Wasser...

Dienstag, 8. Dezember 2009

Sendung vom 6.12.2009 - Leadbelly


- Black Betty - Leadbelly (The Definitive)
- Packing Trunk Blues - Leadbelly (The Definitive)
- Bottle Up and Go - John Lee Hooker (Boom Boom)
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Leadbelly (The Definitive)
- In the Pines - The Osbourne Brothers (1958-1968)
- When the Boys Were Out On the Western Plains - Leadbelly (The Definitive)
- The Bourgeois Blues - Ry Cooder (Chicken Skin Music)
- Pick a Bale of Cotton - Leadbelly (The Definitive)
- Alabammy Bound - Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan & Chris Barber (The Skiffle Sessions)
- Rock Island Line - Leadbelly (The Definitive)
- Swing Low Sweet Chariot - Jim and Jesse (Bluegrass and More)
- Morning Dove - Steep Canyon Rangers (Deep In the Shade)
- Happy On the Mississippi Shore - Beverly Smith and Carl Jones (Somewhere Over Yonder)
- Girl That You Can't Fool - The Toy Hearts (When I Cut Loose)
- Rock of Ages - Jim and Jesse (Bluegrass and More)
- TB Blues - Leadbelly (The Definitive)
- Midnight Special - Cisco Houston (Cisco Houston Sings American Folk Songs)
- Blue Tail Fly - Leadbelly (The Definitive)
- Good Night Irene - The Weavers (Good Night Irene)

Montag, 30. November 2009

Sendung vom 29.11.2009 – Reasons to Vote


- Masters of War - Bob Dylan (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
- Gun Sale at the Church - Beat Farmers (Best of the Beat Farmers)
- 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six - John Hammond (Wicked Grin)
- The Devil's Right Hand - Steve Earle (Copperhead Road)
- Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash (The Essential)
- When Mussolini Laid His Pistol Down - Merle Travis (Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past, Vol. I)
- My Daddy (Flies a Ship in the Sky) - Woody Guthrie (Woody's Greatest Hits)
- I'll Fly Away - Gove Scrivenor (Solid Gove)
- Expecting to Fly - Buffalo Springfield (Neil Young Archives Vol I)
- I Never Did Like Planes - Robbie Fulks (Georgia Hard)
- Leaving on a Jetplane - Björk feat. Jewel (Unknown Album)
- To Live Is to Fly - Guy Clark (Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt)
- Tower Song - Townes Van Zandt (Texas Troubadour)
- Working on a Building - Bill Monroe (The Music of Bill Monroe)
- Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen (The Essential)

Dienstag, 24. November 2009

Sendung vom 22.11.2009 – Further Down The Road - The Northwest


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Oregon Trail - Joni Harms (Let's Put the Western Back in the Country)
- Oregon Hill - Cowboy Junkies (Black Eyed Man)
- Portland Oregon - Loretta Lynn feat. Jack White (Van Lear Rose)
- Portland Woman - New Riders of the Purple Sage (New Riders of the Purple Sage)
- Portland Town - Arlo Guthrie (Banjoman - A Tribute ot Derroll Adams)
- Talking Columbia - Woody Guthrie (This Machine Kills Fascists)
- Grand Coulee Dam - Rambin' Jack Elliot (Ramblin' Jack Elliot Sings Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rodgers and Cowboy Songs)
- South Tacoma Way - Neko Case and her Boyfriends (Furnace Roam Lullaby)
- Richland, Washington - James Talley (Ain't It Something)
- Mt. St. Helens - Jim and Jennie and the Pinetops (Rivers Roll On By)
- Seattle Town - Flatt and Scruggs (Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, 1964-1969, plus)
- The Last One to Leave Seattle - Waylon Jennings (Lonesome, On'ry and Mean)
- Spokane Motel Blues - Tom T. Hall (The Rhymer and Other Five and Dimers)
- Idaho - Eddy Arnold (Have Guitar, Will Travel)
- Big City - Iris DeMent (Tulare Dust: A Songwriters's Tribute to Merle Haggard)
- Monatana Cowgirl - Emmylou Harris (At the Ryman)
- Two Rivers in Montana - Gove Scrivenor (Sold Gove)

Dienstag, 17. November 2009

Sendung vom 15.11.2009 - Tex Mex

- At the crossroads - Sir Douglas Quintet (The Best of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet)
- Is Anybody Going to San Antone - Texas Tornados (Zone of Our Own)
- Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Doug Sahm (The Return of Wayne Douglas)
- Why Don't Cha - Shawn Sam (Shawn Sam)
- Across the Borderline - Flaco Jimenez feat. John Hiatt (Partners)
- Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio - Don Santiago Jimenez Sr. (40th Anniversary Collection 1960-2000)
- Borderless Love - The Flatlanders (Hills and Valleys)
- Rendez-vous - Bob Livingston (Original Spirit)
- Don't Call Me - Heather Myles feat Willie Nelson (In the Wind)
- My Brother the Gun - Mariachi El Bronx (Marichi El Bronx)
- No Compro Amores - Mariachi Los Gavilanes De Oakland (15 Regional Musix Classics of Mexico)
- The El Burro Song - Los Super 7 (Heard It on the X)
- Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender (The Collection)
- Little Bit Is Better Than Nada - Texas Tornados (4 Aces)
- Adios Mexico - Joe "King" Carrasco & Texas Tornados (Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm)

Montag, 9. November 2009

Sendung vom 8.11.2009 - Bonnie, Kris & Rosanne


- Give It Up Or Let It Go - Bonnie Raitt (Give It Up)
- Papa Come Quick - Bonnie Raitt (Luck of the Draw)
- I'm in the Mood - John Lee Hooker feat. Bonnie Raitt (The Healer)
- Nightbirds - The Minus 5 (Got No Chains)
- Night Between Stations - Chris and Carla (Got No Chains)
- Sister Sinead - Kris Kristofferson (Closer to the Bone)
- Good Morning John - Kris Kristofferson (Closer to the Bone)
- This Old Road - Kris Kristofferson (This Old Road)
- Bury Me Beneath the Willow - Rosanne Cash (The List)
- He Stopped Loving Her Today - Johnny Cash (Unearthed III: Redemption Songs)
- Highway Patrolman - Johnny Cash (Johnny 99)
- Loving Him Was Easier - Rosanne Cash (The Pilgrim: A Tribute to Kris Kristofferson)
- Satisfied Mind - The Walkabouts (Satisfied Mind)