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United States of Americana for February 17, 2013

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February 17, 2013

This time I featured a bunch of tunes for Presidents Day, which is the reason you might be in the midst of a 3 day weekend!

Also had the usual dose of new music and I played you a track from a new collection of some vintage Townes Van Zandt tunes from his prolific period of the early 70's. Did you know he's an alum of Shattuck St. Mary's?

Segments

If A Song Could Be President
Over the Rhine
The Trumpet Child

Border Radio
Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison
Cheaters Game

Please Help Me, I'm Falling
Hank Locklin

President
Six Mile Grove

Keep Your Head Up
Ben Howard
Every Kingdom

Stand By Your Man
Lyle Lovett

White House Blues
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers

All I Can Do
The Whiskey Sisters
The Whiskey Sisters

President (35)
Elliott Brood

You Know Darn Well
Disaster Bird
Til the Stars Give Up

Always Late (With Your Kisses) [VINYL]
Lefty Frizzell

Burning Up the Sky
The Parson Redheads
Yearling

Faraway Eyes
The Rolling Stones
Some Girls

Tracks
Trapper Schoepp and the Shades
Run, Engine Run

Jimmy Carter
Blue Mountain
Dog Days

It's A Hard Life/Abraham, Martin & John (Live)
Emmylou Harris

Right Down the Line
Bonnie Raitt
Slipstream

Tongue Behind My Teeth
The Staves
Dead and Born and Gone

Blue
First Aid Kit
The Lions Roar

You Never Need Nobody
The Lone Bellow
The Lone Bellow

Lake Harriet
Carrie Rodriguez
Give Me All You Got

Mercy
Ben Kyle
Ben Kyle

Goodbye
Mary Gauthier
The Foundling

Ride
Wayne Hancock
Ride

Waitin' In Your Welfare Line
Buck Owens

My Sweet Lord
The Slide Brothers
Robert Randolph Presents The Slide Brothers

Christ for President
Billy Bragg and Wilco
Mermaid Avenue

When I'm President
Ian Hunter
When I'm President

White Freight Liner Blues
Townes Van Zandt
Sunshine Boy