Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday November 13th, 2006. Seeing as next Sunday will be the 33rd anniversary of Gram Parsons untimely death I did a bit of a tribute...

I'm Finding it harder to be a Gentleman - White Stripes
Have Mercy - Lorretta Lynn
Lonesome, On'ry and Mean - Waylon Jennings
Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard
Bales of Cocaine - Reverend Horton Heat

--- Gram Parsons Tribute ---
Life in Prison - The Byrds
Dim Lights - The Flying Burrito Brothers
Hot Burrito #1 - The Flying Burrito Brothers
We'll Sweep out the Ashes - Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels
Return of the Grevious Angel - Gram Parsons
Ooh Las Vegas - Gram Parsons
Love Hurts - Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
Sin City - Beck and Emmylou Harris

Lonely Girls - Lucinda Williams
Highway 61 Revisited - Dave Alvin
World of Hurt - Drive-by Truckers
Girl in the War - Josh Ritter
Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case
Don't Worry Baby - Los Lobos
She's My Baby - Wayne "the Train" Hancock
Baby Let the Bad Times Be - Junior Brown
It's Your Baby - Sunnyland Slim
Flapping Your Broken Wings - the Handsome Family
The World is Waiting for a Sunrise - Jon Rauhouse
Let It Roll - Willard Grant Conspiracy
Movin' to Virginia - Split Lip Rayfield
Iron Girl - The Lisa Marr Experiment
Magnolia Mountain - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Cocksucker Blues - The Rolling Stones

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday October 23rd, 2006. Started off following the special BOBcast for Labour Day weekend - 3 hours of Santana. While I didn't have any Santana on me I started out with a couple of peices that were in a similar vein.

Corazon - Los Lobos
Cat Walk - Flaco Jimenez and Leroy Parnell
Slightest Shift in the Weather - The Phoenix Foundation
Poor Places - Wilco
I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow - Soggy Bottom Boys
Easy Plateau - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Soulful Shade of Blue - Neko Case
Two Broken Hearts - Richmond Fontaine
5 Hearts Breaking - Alejandro Escovedo
Satisfaction - Cat Power
Cocksucker Blues - The Rolling Stones
Old Blue - Ramblin' Jack Elliot
We Kill Evil - The Meat Purveyors
World of Hurt - Drive-By Truckers
Hello to Everybody - The Waco Brothers
When I Was Drinking - Hem
Flapping Your Broken Wings - The Handsome Family
Harbour Bridge - Don McGlashan
Rookie - Grand Prix
Travel By Sea - I Won't Let You Down
Twilight - Elliot Smith
Beautiful Fish - Steve Abel
Drink Lotsa Whiskey - Split Lip Rayfield
Cocaine - Dick Justice
All Systems Red - Calexico
So Strange - Freakwater
Sin City - Beck and Emmylou Harris
This Heat, This Heat - The Boxcar Guitars
Gunsale at the Church - The Beat Farmers

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Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday October 10th, 2006. Started off following another BOBcast on the word, "free".

Freeborn Man - Junior Brown
Set Me Free (Rosa Lee) - Los Lobos
Freedom Hangs Like Heaven - Iron & Wine
The Game of Triangles - Ted Roddy & Rosie Flores
Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Williams
Cheatin' Traces - Ted Roddy
Cheating at Solitaire - Mike Ness
Cold Roses - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
The Wolfman of Del Rio - Terry Allen
Blue Hotel - Chris Isaak
There's A Black Horse - John Doe
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall
Buckets of Oil - Freakwater
Jagged - Old 97s
The End - Buick Mackane
Folsom Prison Blues (Live) - Johnny Cash
Harbour Bridge - Don MacGlashan
My Love is Blue - The Boxcar Guitars
Ripple - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Arthritis Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Ultra Violet and Infrared - Tom Glazier & Dottie Evans
White Riot - Cracker
Pennies - Jackpot
The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism - the New Pornographers
Bloody Mother F***king A**hole - Martha Wainwright
I'm Lonely (But I Ain't that Lonely Yet) - The White Stripes
Hawks Got A Chiken and Flew Into the Woods - The Wilders
Notes On Air - Alejandro Escovedo
Ring of Fire - This Kid Named Miles

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday October 2ndth, 2006. Started off following another BOBcast on the word, "time". Usually I just play a couple of follow-on songs from Bob but with so many songs with the word "time" in them on my playlist I continued on for another hour.

All the Time in Airports - The Handsome Family
A Matter of Time - Los Lobos
Baby Let the Bad Times Be - Junior Brown
Cry One More Time - Gram Parsons
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Chris Thomas King
Honky Tonk Night Time Man - Merle Haggard
Pretty Woman Won't Give Me the Time of Day - National Grain
Time Changes Everything - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Right in Time - Lucinda Williams
Time of Your Life - Pickin' on Green Day
Hard Times - Waco Brothers
On Time - Soledad Brothers
Funny How Time Slips Away - Elvis
Just Passin' Time - Dwight Yoakum
Big City Good Time Girl - Wayne "the Train" Hancock
One More Time - Alejandro Escovedo
Hi Ho Silver - Freakwater
Dumb Blonde - Dolly Parton
Japanese Cowboy - Ween
People Learn Things When I Drink - Ron White
Nashville Radio - Jon Langford
Tornadoes - Drive-by Truckers
Driving Nails in my Coffin - Ramblin Jack Elliot
O Death - Ralph Stanley
Kiss of Death - Split Lip Rayfield
Star Witness - Neko Case
Winter in the Hamptons - Josh Rouse
I Feel Just Like A Child - Devendra Banhart
Wine Don't Lie - Dale Watson
Ain't Life Hell - Hank Cochran and Willie Nelson
Donkey Ride Straight to Hell - Michael Sheehy

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday September 18th, 2006. Started off following another BOBcast on the word, "rain". Thanks to Kiwi Country Chris for filling in for me last week.

Red Rain - the White Stripes
South Central Rain - Hem
Rainbirds - The Willard Grant Conspiracy
Lie to Me - Chris Isaak
Cry Cry Cry - Robbie Fulks
Browns Ferry Blues - Robbie Fulks
Wave - Alejandro Escovedo
All I Have to do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
All the time in Airports - The Handsome Family
The Heart Bionic - Bobby Bare Jnr's Young Criminals Starvation League
Three Good Reasons - Dwight Yoakam
Jackpot - The Derailers
Hold On - John Spencer Blues Explosion
Have Mercy on Me - The Black Keys
Aint No Easy Way - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Jewel - Freakwater
Lonely Girls - Lucinda Williams
Beautiful Fish - Steve Abel
Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone - Bonny Prince Billy
Jean Harlow - Ramblin Jack Elliot
Toenail Moon - Wee Hairy Beasties
Shit Creek - The Bad Livers
Little White Pills - The Meat Purveyors
Bales of Cocaine - The Reverend Horton Heat
Cocaine - Dick Justice
A Little More Cocaine Please - Split Lip Rayfield
Nothin' But A Heartache - The Now Time Delegation
Hold On - Neko Case
Advance Cassette - Spoon
Oppenheimer - The Old 97's
The Decline of Country and Western Civilization - Lambchop

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday September 4th, 2006. The first four songs I played were dedicated to Steve Irwin "The Crocodile Hunter" who was tragically killed by a stingray today!

We're Going To Be Friends - The White Stripes
The Tigers Have Spoken - Neko Case
Cage that Tiger - The Soledad Brothers
Old Blue - Ramblin' Jack Elliott
One Too Many Mornings #2 - Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan
Heah! - Dale Watson
Sin City - Beck and Emmylou Harris
All the Time in Airports - Handsome Family
Hey, Bin Laden - Red "suitcase" Simpson
Cemetary Row - The Minus 5
Ashes of American Flags - Wilco (Live)
Beautiful Fish - Steve Abel
Jack the Knife - Freakwater
Knoxville Girl - Louvin Brothers
Where the Wile Roses Grow - Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue
An Island - Devendra Banhart
This Heat This Heat - The Boxcar Guitars
One By One - Noel Parlane
Fleas on the Tail of Time - Jackpot
Everything Beatiful is Far Away - Grandaddy
Waltz #2 (XO) - Elliot Smith
Van Lear Rose - Lorretta Lynn
It Won't Be Long (and I'll be hating you) - The Meat Purveyors
My Babys Strangest Ways - Southern Culture on the Skids
Arizona Rose - The Waco Brothers
Gangsta of Love - Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Bush War Blues - Billy Bragg
Blood and Oil - The Old Ceremony
Been Down Too Long - Scott H Biram
King of Sleaze - The Beat Farmers

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday August 28th, 2006.

El Paso/Out on the Weekend - Giant Sand
Stubborn Beast - Jolie Holland
Ruination Day Part II - Gillian Welch
Needle in the Hay - Elliot Smith
I Won't Let You Down - Travel by Sea
Old Blue - Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Spit and Tears - Damnations
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover) - Ray Lamontagne
I've Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
I Wish I Was Crazy Again - Dale Watson
Crazy - Willie Nelson
No Fun - The Black Keys (Stooges cover)
Lowdown Streamline - The Soledad Brothers
Bush War Blues - Billy Bragg
Hospice for Destitute Lovers - Steve Abel
Your Loves Not In Vain - Broken Heartbreakers
Nest Egg - Phoenix Foundation
Broken Hills - the Boxcar Guitars
Surfer Girl - Beach Boys (rehearsal version, 1967)
Bamboo Swing - Bill Sevesi Team
The World is Waiting for a Sunrise - Jon Rauhouse
Sap - Freakwater
Bowling Alley Bar - The Handsome Family
Aftermath USA - Drive-by Truckers
The Hand that Throws the Bottle Down - The Waco Brothers
Venom Wearing Denom - Junior Brown
Roka - Calexico
The Ladder - Alejandro Escovedo
Por Las Parrandas - Flaco Jimenez*
When I Was Drinking - Hem

* I was sort of right about Parrandas ... they're Puerto Rican / Cuban form of Christmas carolling.

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Many thanks to Cowboy Bob for filling in for me last week as I was laid up w/ the leurgy ... he did a great show and even posted the playlist... cher! I followed his latest monday BOBcast with a couple of Sunday songs myself which was his theme this week. Not sure if i'll get time to really write up a highlight but I'm thinking that something on the Freakwater CD that I've progressively been playing is in order.

Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johhny Cash
Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day - Frank Black
Country Mike's Theme Song - Beastie Boys
Hong Kong Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Come On In - R.L. Burnside
My Mind is Ramblin - The Black Keys
Flapping Your Broken Wings - The Handsome Family
Panic Open String - Calexico
When I Was Drinking - Hem
Double Clutch - Freakwater
Blacklisted - Neko Case
Dear Head on the Wall - Alejandro Escovedo
Lonely I Be - Steve Abel
Walkin on Hells Roof Looking at the Flowers - The Waco Brothers
High Places - Los Lobos
Let It Roll - The Willard Grant Conspiracy
Girl In the War - Josh Ritter
White Center - Damien Jurado
The Beatles - Devendra Banhart
Gray Stables - Iron & Wine
Arthritis Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Hobo Blues - John Lee Hooker
Righteously - Lucinda Williams
These Golden Jewels - The Handsome Family
Strange Weather - Tom Waits
Waiting for a Sign - Jon Dee Graham
Salvador Sanchez - Sun Kil Moon

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday August 7th, 2006.

Ten Little Kids - the Jayhawks
Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine - the White Stripes
Portland, Oregon - Loretta Lynn
Arthritis Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliot (w/ David Hidalgo)
Elvis Presley Blues - Gillian Welch
Blue Moon of Kentucky - the King
Cathy Ann - Freakwater
That Teenage Feeling - Neko Case
Neverending Math Equation - Sun Kil Moon
All the Time in Airports - the Handsome Family
Graviy/Falling Down Again - Alejandro Escovedo
Starry Night - Mazen Kerbaj/Sax, Israeli Airforce/Percussion
Time of the Preacher - Johnny Cash
Three Days - L7
Made in Japan - Buck Owens
The Lost and Found - the Derailers
Don't Worry Baby - Los Lobos
Aftermath USA - Drive-by Truckers
Blinding Sun - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
My Mind is Ramblin - The Black Keys
Woody's Last Ride - Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Everything Beautiful is Far Away - Grandaddy
The Madonna Trilogy - The Meat Purveyors
My Grey and Fading Dream - Jim and Jenny and the Pinetops
He Lays the Reins - Iron and Wine | Calexico
Lived in Bars - Cat Power
Stubborn Beast - Jolie Holland

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday July 31st, 2006.

After chucking in my two "9" songs following Bob's weekly 'bobcast' I did an small run of war songs and got on just a little bit of a soapbox about what's happening in Lebanon. There's a lot that could go in here obviously, but I was afraid it might get a bit much so just did a handfull or so. War songs in the country vein seem to line up along a sort of trad / alt line with the traditional musicians often presenting a kind of pro-war / american nationalism / "support our boys over there" type of sentiment vs the alt-country conscious anti-war message, best reflected in this small set by Steve Earle and the one by Wilco. Might have another crack at this later in the month. Here's the playlist ...

Nine by Nine - John Dummers Famous Music Band
Nineteen - Old 97's
Country Mike's Theme - Beastie Boys
See Willy Fly By - the Waco Brothers
Rest of our Lives - Mike Ness
Long Walk Back to San Antone - Junior Brown
Revolution Starts ... - Steve Earle
Girl in the War - Josh Ritter
Centre for Holy Wars - the New Pornographers
The War Between the States - Austin Lounge Lizards
Condi Condi - Steve Earle
War on War - Wilco
Warrior - Steve Earle + Gettysburg Address - Johnny Cash
Slightest Shift in the Weather - Phoenix Foundation
Song of the Shrimp - Frank Black
Franks Wild Years - Tom Waits
Hello Walls - Willie Nelson
Hungry Eyes - Merle Haggard
Loserville - Freakwater
One Morning - Gillian Welch
Swallows - Knife in the Water
3.2 Flu - Split Lip Rayfield
Gravitys Gone - Drive-by Truckers
Hidden Superstition - Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Black Horse & the Cherry Tree - K T Tunstall
Long Haired Child - Devendra Banhart
Evita's Lullaby - Alejandro Escovedo
I Hate These Songs - Dale Watson & His Lonestars
Hold On Hold On - Neko Case
1,000,001 - Kelly Hogan
The Maker - Martha Wainwright
Lonely I Be - Steve Abel

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday July 24th, 2006.

Much better show this week than my thumb infested attempt last week. Songs tonight really seemed to flow together; here's what I played ...

Country Mike's Theme - The Beastie Boys
Eight More Miles to Louisville - The Hillbilly Boogiemen
New Delhi Freight Train - Terry Allen
Snowball - The Handsome Family
I Love You Two Blues - Dale Watson and his Lonestars
She Loves Everything that Swings - Redd Volkaert
The Race is On - George Jones
Star Witness - Neko Case
Twilight - Elliot Smith
Cripple Crow - Devendra Banhart
So Strange - Freakwater
Heavy Rain - Darcy Perry Blues Band
Messin' with the Kid - Junior Wells
Aftermath USA - Drive-By Truckers
There's Gonna Be A Showdown - The Johnnys
Laredo - Jon Dee Graham
Up On High - The Gourds
One Time One Night - Los Lobos
Hot Rail - Calexico
Ghost Riders in the Sky - Johhny Cash
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree - K T Tunstall
Paradise - Alejandro Escovedo
Stubborn Beast - Jolie Holland
Crazy - Willie Nelson
I Want To Be A Cowboys Sweetheart - Rosalie Allen
Far Away - John Doe
Niagra, Niagra - The Lisa Marr Experiment
Plane Wreck at Los Gatos - Los Super Seven
One Time - The Soledad Brothers
Ball and a Biscuit - The White Stripes

Sometimes you just get in a groove that can fill 2 hours easily, and sometimes you struggle with it. I guess thats really what I like about it.

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday July 17th, 2006.

Wasn't really on my game tonight, kept cutting stuff off and basically just making a bit of a balls-up of a lot of my show. Got into the swing of it a little later; oh well, these things happen. Lot's of nice posts about shows over on the Beach Radio Blog lately.

Seven Steps - The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
Eight More Miles to Louisville - The Hillbilly Boogiemen
Turn that Airplane Around - I See Hawks in LA
Lived in Bars - Cat Power
Glenn Tipton - Sun Kil Moon
Poor Places - Wilco
Gravity's Gone - Drive-By Truckers
Joey - Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Black Horse & the Cherry Tree - K.T. Tunstall
Arizona Rose - The Waco Brothers
Arizona - Alejandro Escovedo
Bamboo Swing - Bill Sevesi Team
He'eia - Gabby Pahinui
The Bluebird Spindle - Janet Bean and Concertina Wire
Buckets of Oil - Freakwater
Blood & Oil - The Old Ceremony
Change My Mind - Cassette
Broken Hills - The Boxcar Guitars
Shuffle Your Feet - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
God Isn't Real - Robby Fulks
Get It Right With God - Lucinda Williams
A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze - Sufjan Stevens
Drug Store Truck Driving Man - Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels
Honky Tonk Night Time Man - Merle Haggard
Moonshiner - Jolie Holland
Trouble on the Line - Loretta Lynn
Ghost Wiring - Neko Case
Tattoos - Jackpot
Son of Sam - Elliot Smith
The Beatles - Devendra Banhart
Giant Sand - El Paso/Out on the Weekend

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday July 10th, 2006.

From a Buick 6 - Richmond Fontaine
Bottle of Blues - 6 String Drag
16 Track Scratch - Calexico
Keep Your Hands Off Her - The Black Keys
Sons of Dogs - Soledad Brothers
Been Down Too Long - Scott H. Biram
A Blessing and a Curse - Drive-By Truckers
No Man Among Men - Slobberbone
Big Little Baby - Reverend Horton Heat
You Are What You Love - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
Your Loves Not In Vain - Broken Heartbreakers (demo)
Eternity Behind the Wheel - Grand Prix
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? - Uncle Tupelo and Joe Ely
How Can I Be So Thirsty Today - The Meat Purveyors
Cash on the Barrelhead - Gram Parsons
Thin Blue Flame - Josh Ritter
Joy - Lucinda Williams
I'm Leavin Now - Giant Sand
La Playa - Los Lobos
Que Problemas - Flaco Jimenez
Thirteen Years - Ruben Ramos
Springtime Can Kill You - Jolie Holland
Cricket vs Ant - Freakwater
John Saw that Number - Neko Case
I Want to be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart - White Stripes
Gravity's Gone - Drive-by Truckers
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis
My Friend Lucifer - Lisa Marr Experiment
Got To Be Someone - Waco Brothers
Bukowski - Modest Mouse
sorry about not posting playlists for the last couple of weeks ... lame! I've posted a highlight about Scott H. Biram and some links to free MP3s over on the Beach Radio Blog.

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday June 12th, 2006.

Split Myself in Two - Meat Puppets
Tornadoes - Drive-By Truckers
Thunderstorms & Neon Signs - Wayne "the Train" Hancock
Outlaw - Split Lip Rayfield
The Elucidator - The Soledad Brothers
Walkin' on Hells Roof - The Waco Brothers
Sacramento and Polk - Alejandro Escovedo
That Teenage Feeling - Neko Case
Jesse James - Almeda Riddle
Twin Brother - John Doe
Monster Ballads - Josh Ritter
Sweetheart - Steve Abel
Factory - Martha Wainwright
Have Mercy on Me - The Black Keys
(Pardon Me) I've Got Someone to Kill - Johnny Paycheck
I'll Never Get Out of this World Alive - Jimmin Dale Gilmore
Truckin' Queen - Dale Watson
Intentional Heartache - Dwight Yoakum
Black Horse & the Cherry Tree - K.T. Tunstall
Country Feedback - R.E.M
Cemetary Row - The Minus 5
South Central Rain - Hem
Everybody Loves Me - Charlie Musselwhite
Let it Roll - Willard Grant Conspiracy
God is in the House - Nick Cave
Mammas Don't Let Your Babys Grow up to be Cowboys - Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
Silver Wings - Merle Haggard
King of California - Dave Alvin
Burn that Broken Bed - Iron & Wine | Calexico
Notes on Air - Alejandro Escovedo

Some great new posts have been going up on the Beach Radio Blog. If you get a change take a listen in to Beach Radio next week from Sunday at 6pm for the Counting the Beat special on New Zealand place names.

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday June 5th, 2006.

One Too Many Mornings #1 - Cash & Dylan
Margaret vs. Pauline - Neko Case
Far Away - Martha Wainwright
Act Naturally - Buck Owens
Workin' Man Blues - Merle Haggard
Dead Stray Dog - Louisiana Red
Birdland - Jerry Douglas
Blood & Oil - The Old Ceremony
Arizona - Alejandro Escovedo (The Boxing Mirror)
Pyramid of Tears - Lucinda Williams
Red Right Hand - Giant Sand
Jack the Ripper - Link Wray and his Ray Men
Your Loves Not in Vain - the Broken Heartbreakers
Love Song for One - Aubrey Debauchery
Dempsey Nash - The Meat Purveyors
Gun Sale at the Church - The Beat Farmers
Highway Patrol - Junior Brown
The Ladder - Alejandro Esvcovedo (The Boxing Mirror)
He Lays in the Reins - Iron & Wine | Calexico
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys
Mexicali Rose - Gene Autrey
Okie from Muskogie - Merle Haggard
Sin City - Flying Burrito Brothers
Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case
Cemetary Row - the Minus 5
Ten Second News - Son Volt
Keep on Pushing - 6 String Drag
Dark as a Dungeon - Freakwater
The Boxing Mirror - Alejandro Escovedo (The Boxing Mirror)

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday May 29th, 2006.

One Cigarette Away - Supersuckers
One More Time in the Cabin - Jim & Jenny and the Pinetops
Song of a Hundred Toads - The Handsome Family
Black Road - Richmond Fontaine
Alabama Train - Louisiana Red
Let it Roll - Willard Grant Conspiracy
Chicago Bound - Jimmie Rogers (live @ Antone's, Austin, Texas)
Keep Your Hands Off Her - The Black Keys
Get it Right with God - Lucinda Williams
My Life is in Storage - Frank Black
Stuff - Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
Kings Highway - Joe Henry
Fading Love is on Decline - Boxcar Guitars
Monster Ballads - Josh Ritter
Just Like a Gillian Welch Song - Split Lip Rayfield
I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan
History of Lovers - Calexico | Iron & Wine
Someone Elses Problem - The Derailers
Cheatin Traces - Ted Roddy
Line Forms on the Right - The Ex-Husbands
The Fightin Side of Me - Merle Haggard
A Real Country Song - Dale Watson
Blade - Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
La Morena - Los Super Seven
Way Down in the Hole - Jon Dee Graham
High Places - Los Lobos
Lake of Fire - Meat Puppets (Live)
Little Sadie - Clarence Ashley
Little Sadie - The Sadies
Wayfaring Stranger - Neko Case
Duet (Lonely I Be) - Steve Abel

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday May 22nd, 2006.

Laminated Cat - Loose Fur
The Great Atomic Power - The Louvin Brothers
I Wanna Destroy You - Uncle Tupelo (Gun 7")
The Late Greats - Wilco (Live from the London Apollo)
Tear Stained Eye - Son Volt
In the Dark - Josh Ritter
La Cienega Just Smiled - Ryan Adams
Charlies Shoes - Billy Walker
Bruno's Last Ride - The Warratahs
Love Song for No One - Aubrey Debauchery
Bloody Motherfucking Asshole - Martha Wainwright
Blood & Oil - The Old Ceremony
Nine by Nine - John Dummers Famous Music Band
Burn that Broken Bed - Calexico & Iron and Wine
The Road Goes on Forever - Joe Ely
Gravity's Gone - Drive-By Truckers
Black Snake Moan - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Matchbox - Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan
Swamp Root - Harmonica Frank Floyd
Choireboy and Blowtorch - Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores
Far From Any Road - The Handsome Family
Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case
Used to Be - Split Lip Rayfield
Handle Song - The Soledad Brothers
Dope Fiend Blues - Mike Ness
Revolution Blues - the Waco Brothers
Secret Meeting - The National
Thin Blue Flame - Josh Ritter

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday May 15th, 2006.

Cold Lonesome Wind - Wayne "the Train" Hancock
Cold Cold Night - the White Stripes
Winter's Come and Gone - Gillian Welch
Victoria - Old 97's
Miss Williams Guitar - the Jayhawks
California Stars - Billy Bragg and Wilco
Funny How Time Slips Away - Willie Nelson
The Lowdown - Roger Wallace
Star Witness - Neko Case (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)
Pancho Villa - Sun Kil Moon
First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes
Idaho - Josh Ritter
Jackson - Lucinda Williams
Gospel Song - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
South Island Town - Broken Heartbreakers
Slightest Shift in the Weather - Phoenix Foundation
My Love is Blue - Boxcar Guitars
Little Death - Steve Abel
Eternity Behind the Wheel - Grand Prix
The Day Marty Robbins Died - The Johnnys
Midnight Sun - The Warratahs
Meet Me In The City - The Black Keys
Stupid Blues - Junior Brown
Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case
Wave - Alejandro Escovedo
Family Tree - Loretta Lynn
Do Right Woman - the Flying Burrito Brothers
Cemetary Row - the Minus 5

Lot's of DJs are now posting lists, etc on the Beach Radio Blog
My highlight for the night was the new Neko Case CD "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"; i've posted about it over on the Beach Radio Blog, here.

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday May 8th, 2006.

Nashville Radio - Jon Langford
Nashville Rash - Dale Watson
Ball & Biscuit - White Stripes
Beer - The Reverend Horton Heat
Go Out Smokin' - Texas Meat Purveyors
Broken Hills - The Boxcar Guitars
Girl in the War - Josh Ritter
Your Loves Not In Vain (demo) - The Broken Heartbreakers
Carmelita - Dwight Yoakum and Flaco Jimenez
Maria - The Gourds
One Too Many Mornings #2 - Cash & Dylan
South Central Rain - Hem
Ooh Las Vegas - Cowboy Junkies
Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case
Sin City - Beck & Emmylou Harris
Black Horse & the Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall (Eye in the Telescope)
Gravity's Gone - Drive-By Truckers
Cowpoke - Supersuckers
My Mind is Ramblin' - The Black Keys
Dust My Broom - Elmore James
Honky Tonk Blues - Hank Williams
The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Cold Cold Ground - Tom Waits (live)
Swallows - Knife in the Water
Close Behind - Calexico
Narcos Corridos - La Fiesta de los Perrones
Kiss of Death - Split Lip Rayfield
Driving Rain - Jim and Jenny and the Pinetops
Wreck on the Highway - Waco Brothers
Ashes of American Flags - Wilco (live)

Check out my Hauraki Hoedown Hightlight on the Beach Radio Blog.

Neil Young's "Living With War"

Only Neil Young could go into a studio and three weeks later come out with an anti-war record. Not only that he's streaming the entire album from his web site. The album is due in stores early May for those of us without a lot of extra bandwidth to stream ... oh wait! that's most of New Zealand.

Neko Case - Live MP3

National Public Radio from the US has posted this awesome live Neko Case set. Case is on tour for her latest CD, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, and played Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club on April 9th. Also available from the same site is a live Martha Wainwright set who open up for Case the same night! Damn, that's good eatin.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5325695

Contrast Podcast #4

The theme of this podcast was "quadraped" and your's truly submitted a rockin' bluesy little number by the Soledad Brothers called "Cage that Tiger" off of the "Voice of Treason" album. This podcast looks like it's going to be a great listen - all these songs about animals ... see that Matt from the Earfarm picked "Crocodiles" by Echo and the Bunnymen! one of my fav songs. To check out the podcast head over to Tim Youngs site and start downloading.

Soledad Brothers music dowloads: http://www.makeascene.net/band/soledadbrothers/music

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday April 24th, 2006.

My Mind is Ramblin - The Black Keys (Chulahoma)
The Elucidator - Soledad Brothers (Voice of Treason)
Gin and Juice - The Gourds
Nashville Radio - Jon Langford
Ring of Fire - This Kid Named Miles
Warrior - Steve Earle
War Between the States - Austin Lounge Lizards
War on War - Wilco (Live from Brixton Academy)
Girl in the War - Josh Ritter (The Animal Years)
Drunken Angel - Lucinda Williams (Car Wheels on a Gravel Road)
Sin City - Beck & Emmylou Harris
Popcorn & Wine - Danny Barnes
Paradise - Alejandro Escovedo (Gravity)
Cape Turnagain - The Warratahs
Convenient Parking - Sun Kil Moon
Dry Bones - Handsome Family
Gravity's Gone - Drive-By Truckers
Far Away - Martha Wainwright
Cemetary Row - The Minus 5
Lonely Be I - Steve Abel
Grey and Fading Dreams - Jim & Jenny and the Pinetops
Split Myself in Two - Meat Puppets (Meat Puppets II)
Go Out Smokin' - The Meat Purveyors (Sweet in the Pants)
I Wanna Holler (But the Town's Too Small) - Detroit Cobras (Baby)
Lily White Mama & Jet Black Daddy - Andre Williams and Star Tabernacle
I Was Drunk - The Minus 5

The Black Keys - Chulahoma

Chulahoma is a brand new 6 song ep from the Akron, OH two-piece The Black Keys on the Fat Possum label. All songs were written by the late Junior Kimbrough the first artist to record for Fat Possum. Kimbrough was friend of the late R.L. Burnside - another Fat Possum label mate who sadly passed away earlier this year. The Keys stripped down drum and guitar sound pays excellent homage to this North Mississippi Hill Country sound that seems to finally be finding it's place.

Download: Meet Me in the City

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Easter Monday, April 17th, 2006. I was a little late starting because the station was locked when I got there - guess they didn't realise that Country Mike was an agnostic.

The Fox - Waco Brothers
Love in a Fowl House - Garner Wayne
Thief - Split Lip Rayfield
This Old Road - Kris Kristofferson
The Restraining Order Song - Jon Dee Graham
Elvis Presley Blues - Gillian Welch
Star Witness - Neko Case
Nine-by-Nine - John Dummers Famous Music Band
Across the Alley from the Alamo - Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
Cemetary Row - The Minus 5
Museum of Love - The Meat Purveyors (Lyrics: Daniel Johnson)
Gray Stables - Iron & Wine
Cowpoke - Supersuckers
Longhorn Suburban - Dale Watson
Knee Deep in the Blues - The Derailers
The Ghost of God - Steve Abel
The Janitor - Richmond Fontaine
Dark End of the Street - Frank Black
Bury Me / Hard Road - Alejandro Escovedo (Live)
Your Loves Not in Vain - Broken Heartbreakers (Live Demos)

The Perfect 3 minutes - Contrast Podcast #3

Contrast Podcast #3 is up and includes a track from yours truly along side some other amazing tracks from folks from all over this weird planet that we're on. If you don't know about the Contrast Podcast the idea is pretty simple; a theme is set and people from all over submit one song that somehow matches up with the theme. The theme for #3 was "the perfect 3 minutes". My contribution was an exactly 3 minute bluegrass ditty by Jim and Jenny and the Pinetops off of their CD "One More in the Cabin".

Country Mike's Hauraki Hoedown Playlist

Here is the playlist for Country Mike’s Hauraki Hoedown on Beach Radio for Monday April 10th, 2006.

We've Been Had - Uncle Tupelo (Anodyne)
Hundred Dollar Bill - Split Lip Rayfield (Should Have Seen it Coming)
Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel #9) - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Little Sparrow - Dolly Parton
Jolene - the White Stripes
Hospice for Destitute Lovers - Steve Abel (Little Death)
Down to Rest - O'Death (Head Home)
The Maker - Martha Wainwright
Lost - Meat Puppets
This Old Road - Chris Christopherson
There's A Black Horse - John Doe
Johnny Hit and Run Pauline - Giant Sand (w/ PJ Harvey)
Star Witness - Neko Case
Cemetary Row - The Minus 5
Memory Lane - Elliot Smith (From a Basement on a Hill)
My Grey and Fading Dreams - Jim and Jenny and the Pinetops
The Madonna Trilogy - The Meat Purveyors
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams (Live)
Rosalie - Alejandro Escovedo
Gravity's Gone - Drive-By Truckers
Irene Goodnight - Mississippi John Hurt
Nine by Nine - The John Dummer Famous Music Band
Dramamine - Sun Kil Moon (Tiny Cities)
La Pistola Y El Corazon - Los Lobos
When the Man Comes Around - Knife in the Water
Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits
Girl in the War - Josh Ritter
In Time - Kelly Hogan
Unemployment Line - Lisa Marr Experiment
Lowdown Streamline - Soledad Brothers (Voice of Treason)
Lonely Be I - Steve Abel