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United States of Americana for May 17, 2015

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May 17, 2015

This time I featured a couple tracks from a new albums by Milk Carton Kids & Bhi Bhiman.

Americana gig list:

Ivan & Alyosha - Tuesday - 7th st. Entry
Red Molly - Wednesday 5/20 - The Dakota
Real Phonic Radio Hour feat. Stevie Ann - Thursday 5/21 - James J Hill Library
Joe Ely - Friday 5/22 - The Dakota
Butch Walker - Friday 5/22 - The Cedar
Old Crow Medicine Show / The Devil Makes Three - Vetter Stone Amphitheatre, Mankato - 5/28
Murder By Death - 5/29 - Turf Club
The Last Revel / Dead Horses / Pistol Whippin' Party Penguins - The Cedar - 5/30
Mandolin Orange - 5/31 - 7th St. Entry
Kris Delmhorst - 6/5 - BLB
Marc Cohn / Shawn Colvin - 6/6 - MN Zoo
Lucinda Williams - 6/9 - MN Zoo
Lucy Kaplansky & Richard Shindell - 6/11 - The Cedar
Blue Ox Festival - June 11, 12, & 13 - Eau Claire, Wi (Justin Townes Earle, Pokey Lafarge, Pert Near Sandstone etc)
The Blasters - 6/17 - Lee's
Spirit Family Reunion 6/18 - Triple Rock
Tedeschi Trucks Band / Sharon Jones - 6/19 -Somerset Amphitheatre
Bodeans - 6/19 - MN Zoo
Trombone Shorty - 6/23 - Cabooze Plaza
Wayne Hancock - 6/24 - Lee's
An Evening with Erik Koskinen Band & Friends - Friday 6/26 - Turf Club
Dale Watson - 6/27 - Lee's
Somebody's Darling - 7/2 - Lee's Liquor Lounge
Kacey Musgraves - 7/9 - MN Zoo
Jon Dee Graham - 7/9 - Lee's
Trampled By Turtles - 7/11 - Bayfront Park, Duluth
Dawes / Lake St. Dive /The Lone Bellow - 7/14 - Cabooze Plaza
Dwight Yoakam - 7/17 - Lakefront Music Fest in Prior Lake
The Blind Boys of Alabama - 7/18 - The Dakota
The Mavericks - 7/21 - MN Zoo
Blackberry Smoke - 7/24 - MN Zoo
Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors 7/24 - Cabooze Plaza
Mason Jennings / S Carey - 7/25 - MN Zoo
AA Bondy - 7/28 - The Turf
Brandi Carlile / Iron and Wine / Anderson East - 8/2 - Cabooze Plaza
Billy Joe Shaver - 8/5 - The Dakota
Charlie Daniels Band - 8/21 - Vetter Stone Amphitheatre
Robert Randolph & the Family Band - 9/3 - MN Zoo
Merle Haggard / Kris Kristofferson / Sturgill Simpson - 9/7 - MN State Fair
John Prine rescheduled date - Orpheum 9/19
Festival Palomino - 9/19 - Canterbury Park
Milk Carton Kids - 11/2 - Fitzgerald Theatre
John Gorka - 11/21 - The Cedar

Weekly gigs
The Roe Family Singers - Monday's - 331
Liquor Pigs - Fridays 7-9pm - Palmer's

Segments

The Battle of New Orleans
Johnny Horton

The City of Our Lady
Milk Carton Kids

America
Simon & Garefunkel

Annabelle
Red Molly

Bring It On Home to Memphis
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell

Live Forever
Joe Ely

There Goes the Neighborhood
Bhi Bhiman

I Believe In Love
Stevie Ann

Six Blocks Away
Lucinda Williams

Reasons
Pleasure Horse

Route 66
Asleep at the Wheel

Faded Love
Bob Wills

Desperate Times
Will Hoge

Traveller
Chris Stapleton

My Heart Skips a Beat
Buck Owens

I Can't Imagine
Shelby Lynn

Why Can't He Be You
Patsy Cline

Moving to Brussels
Bhi Bhiman

High Hopes
MIlk Carton Kids

Bird on A Wire
Johnny Cash

La Belle Fleur Sauvage
Lord Huron

Most in the Summertime
Rhett Miller

All this Wandering Around
Ivan & Alyosha

Red Red Rose
Deep Dark Woods

All Night Long
The Mavericks

Still Sober (After All These Beers)
Banditos

Point Breeze
Marah

The Perfect Parts
Shakey Graves

Empty the Chamber
Sadies

Everyday I Have the Blues
BB King