Country music is American music. Here in Episode 19 Of Blue Highway, we celebrate the manifest destiny of twang by playing the best country music of the Golden State. Pedal steel goes well with the wine and weed growing in California. Next stop, Bakersfield.Yee-Haw!!
PLAYLIST:
I’VE GOT A TIGER BY THE TAIL: BUCK OWENS (ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS, VOL 1)
GUITARS, CADILLACS: DWIGHT YOKUM (GUIUTARS, CADILLACS, ETC. ETC.)
WAYSIDE/BACK IN TIME: GILLIAN WELCH (SOUL JOURNEY)
MAMA TRIED: MERLE HAGGARD (SINGLE)
SECOND FIDDLE: JEAN SHEPARD (HONKY TONK HEROINE)
YOU BETTER NOT DO THAT: TOMMY COLLINS (THAT’S HIM!)
L.A. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: SUSAN RAYE (WILLY JONES)
LET’S SAY GOODNIGHT: LOS LOBOS (..AND A TIME TO DANCE)
DARK NIGH: THE BLASTERS (MANDATORY: THE BEST OF THE BLASTERS)
THE CALL OF THE WRECKIN’ BALL: THE KNITTERS (POOR LITTLE CRITTER IN THE ROAD)
LOUISIANA SWING: BUD HOBBS (DEFINING COUNTRY MUSIC: THE SOUNDS OF BAKERSFIELD)
A DECIL LIKE ME (NEEDS AN ANGEL LIKE YOU): KAY ADAMS AND DICK CURLESS (THE GIRL IN THE LITTLE PINK MACK)
WRONG SIDE OF HIS HEART: ROSIE FLORES (ROCKABILLY FILLY)
HEAD OVER BOOTS: JON PARDI (CALIFORNIA SUNRISE)
SOUTHERN STREAMLINE: JOHN FOGARTY (BLUE MOON SWAMP)
NOW STEP IT UP AND GO: THE MADDOX BROS & SISTER ROSE (COUNTRY MUSIC SOUNDTRACK)
IT’S SUCH A PRETTY WORLD TODAY: WYNN STEWART (LOST COUNTRY HITS OF THE 60S)
DIESEL SMOKE, DANGEROUD CURVES: RED SIMPSON (TRUCK DIVIN’ FOOL)
POLYNESIAN BABY: BOBBY AUSTIN (MY BOOK OF MEMORIES)
DRAGGIN’ THE RIVER: FERLIN HUSKEY (VINTAGE COLLECTIONS)
ECHOES: GENE CLARK & THE GOSDIN BROS. (GENE CLARK WITH THE GOSDIN BROTHERS)
YOU AINT GOIN NOWHERE: THE BYRDS (SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO)
CHRISTINE’S TUNE: THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS (THE GILDED PALACE OF SIN)
ROSE GARDEN: LYNN ANDERSON (ROSE GARDEN)
COWBOY’S BREAM NO. 19: DAN HICKS & HIS HOT LICKS (LAST TRAIN TO HICKSVILLE)
STREETS OF BAKERSFIELD: DWIGHT YOKUM & BUCK OWENS (BUENOS NOCHES FROM A LONELY ROOM)
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