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The Clever Innocence

Saturday, March 31, 2012

A Brighter Day


a brighter day
is a-coming
to know the meaning
to understand
freedom
to stand like a man
to accept another
beliefs
creeds
color


it's easy to think
every man is a racist
we are capable
of those thoughts
we have a choice
we have a chance
to change
to show dignity
to show respect


closure
departure
the things
I once knew
I go around
with this world
with the people
in it

Closure- Songs from Jessie Lynn


  1. LaVern Baker- Soul On Fire [Angel Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  2. Bruce Springsteen- The Brokenhearted
  3. Regina Spektor- Laughing With
  4. Pat MacDonald- Love Me at a Distance
  5. Jolie Holland- Ghostly Girl
  6. Liam Warfield- Refusing To Get Dressed
  7. Jason Wilber- Lost In Your Hometown
  8. World/Inferno Friendship Society- Charming Side Of Drunk
  9. Lucinda Williams- Everything Has Changed
  10. Morphine- Kerouac
  11. The Fox Hunt- Getting Drunk (By Yourself)
  12. The Tossers- Dancin' Shoes
  13. Anais Mitchell feat. Justin Vernon, Ani DiFranco and Ben Knox Miller- Way Down Hadestown
  14. 16 Horsepower- Wayfaring Stranger
  15. Piners- Smoke Along the Track
  16. Cat Power- Colors And The Kids
  17. Peggy Lee- Is That All There Is?
  18. Son Volt- Streets That Time Walks
  19. Mischief Brew- Departure Arrival
  20. Tom Waits- A Little Rain




Thursday, March 29, 2012

Holden Caulfield : Blue As Hell


I am the protagonist in this mix. I can relate with these feelings of dejection. I can see through these feelings and go back to my childhood and find a familiar mind in Holden. This is for all the HC's who grew up with this book in the back of their minds. Enjoy!


  1. Neil Young- Comes A Time
  2. Chet Baker- I've Never Been in Love Befor
  3. Grateful Dead- Touch of Grey
  4. Allen Ginsberg- America
  5. Tom Waits- Kentucky Avenue
  6. Big Star- I'm In Love With A Girl
  7. Sarah Lee Guthrie- Young Girl's Mind
  8. Bright Eyes- Waste Of Paint
  9. Bing Futch- I Cried For Days
  10. Beck- Guess I'm Doing Fine
  11. The Velvet Underground- Oh! Sweet Nuthin' (Early Version)
  12. Richard Lindgren- On The Nickel
  13. Simon Joyner- Fool's Gold On Main Street
  14. Patrick Sky- Nectar Of God
  15. Leonard Cohen- Hallelujah
  16. Joan Baez- God Is God
  17. Sammy Walker- Catcher In The Rye




Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Classic Appalachian Blues from Smithsonian Folkways


Sticks McGhee- My Baby's Gone
Big Chief Ellis with Cephas and Wiggins- Louise Blues
Doc Watson- Sitting on Top of the World
John Jackson- Railroad Bill
Bill Williams- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
Pink Anderson- You Don't Know My Mind
J.C. Burris- Blues Around My Bed
Reverend Gary Davis- Hesitation Blues
Brownie McGhee- Pawn Shop Blues
Archie Edwards- The Road is Rough and Rocky
Martin, Bogan and Armstrong- Hoodoo Blues
Lesley Riddle- Red River Blues
Peg Leg Sam Jackson- Walking Cane
Etta Baker- One Dime Blues
Roscoe Holcomb- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Josh White- Outskirts of Town
Baby Tate- See What You Done Done
Marvin and Turner Foddrell- I Got a Woman
John Tinsley- Girl Dressed in Green
E.C. Ball- Blues in the Morning
Sticks McGhee- Wine Blues (Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee)


Tom Waits - Night hawks on the radio NY 12-14-1976



Tom Waits- Emotional Weather Report
Tom Waits- A Sight For Sore Eyes
Tom Waits- Step Right Up
Tom Waits- Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)
Tom Waits- Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and The Mug and Artie)
Tom Waits- Diamonds On My Windshield
Tom Waits- San Diego Seranade
Tom Waits- Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)
Tom Waits- New Coat Of Paint
Tom Waits- The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King)
Tom Waits- I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)


Sunday, March 25, 2012

Unsullen Sounds (of Thinking)

I sit righteous, drinking the tea
my silence is my being
I am philosophy
parts of knowledge
personal truths
rational thinking


what do I know?
man can't live on good faith
I know it
man can't live on bread alone
I know that too
the certainty & awareness of man
in the name of a virtue
is not a godliness of man


unsullen sounds
from inside my consciousness
I know my own existence
I hear the voice of my heart
I dig the oneness of my soul
thoughts & emotions
carry me away, to & fro
into & out of
this waking life


Saturday, March 24, 2012

Nothing Can Bring You Down Like Your Hometown


Tribute to Doowad Jones

When I make a mix and I only get two comments I don't take it personal because, in my mind it's not a reflection of the content of the mix. For years now most of you are talking about something you don't know when you comment on my mixes. That's why mixcloud is a revolution. Because, it gives you are real chance to talk about the music it's self. I think I would like to be right and march into hell, rather than follow a bunch of fools into heaven.


I still live in my hometown. doowad once said to me "Nothing Can Bring You Down Like Your Hometown", I think it's from a Steve Earle song. But, there has never been a truer statement in my mind. So doowad remember a posted mix is a lesson in humility. The music speaks for it's self.


  1. Elliott Smith- Twilight
  2. Lou Reed- Set the Twilight Reeling
  3. Joni Mitchell- See You Sometime
  4. Bruce Springsteen- Spirit in the Night
  5. Mary Gauthier- Camelot Motel
  6. Tom Petty- Last Dance With Mary Jane [Live in Minneapolis MN, 1999]
  7. Mason Jennings- Amphetamine Girl
  8. Catherine Ann Irwin- Cry Our Little Eyes Out
  9. Bob Dylan- Marchin' to the City (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
  10. Leonard Cohen- Crazy to Love You
  11. Joan Baez- I Am A Wanderer
  12. Donovan- Lalena
  13. Lucinda Williams- Tryin To Get To Heaven
  14. Emiliana Torrini- I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
  15. Jessica Lea Mayfield- Nervous Lonely Night
  16. Bob Neuwirth- Just Like You
  17. Eric Bibb- A Good Woman
  18. Blaze Foley- Clay Pigeons
  19. Amy Rigby- Just Someone I Had in Mind
  20. Beck- rowboat


Friday, March 23, 2012

What Is Poetry?


to me a easy feeling
to say what I need to express
thoughtful emotions revealed
for you to see
the reality of me
simplistic of commonplace
things I would say to your face
I find a freedom in poetic expression
a magic by meaning
artistic pleasure in feelings
words from my imagination
intelligence of a human being
sharing the understanding
the things I write, I say
asking the question first
to myself
thinking how to come across
thinking how to convey
thinking about what I need to say
exciting pleasure by beauty
said in an ordinary way



Thursday, March 22, 2012

Good People

Good People


I'm not a raised right man
I can't change the past
my parents neglected the family
I can't change the past
my parents didn't teach me
I can't change the past
I suffered, I was in need without maturity to know
I can't change the past
I never knew to respect
I never was respected
in a poorly developed stateless mind
a moral bankrupt
weary of who to trust
I had great friends
who taught me how to be my own best friend
since my family never showed me love
I was without strength
I was incapable of love
I didn't know nothing about love
those memories of my first few friends
haunt me now about how it ends
how I could have been a better person
I could have lived by the golden rule
how I could have given them the best
of myself, I could have loved them
well from what I have taught myself about love
trouble is, I know what it's like to be loved from them
I know that the goodness in the human spirit
is something to live by
to give into & be apart of
to learn from
good people stay with you
all of your life
in your conscience
in your loving memories
in your soul



Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Golden Bob Dylan


[doowad] Bob Dylan- Like A Rolling Stone
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Motorpsycho Nitemare
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- I Shall Be Free
[doowad] Bob Dylan- I Shall Be Free No. 10
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan's Blues
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Temporary Like Achilles
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- One Too Many Mornings
[doowad] Bob Dylan- She Belongs To Me
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Spanish Harlem Incident
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Visions Of Johanna
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan's Dream
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Boots Of Spanish Leather
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Love Minus Zero/No Limit
[doowad] Bob Dylan- 4th Time Around
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Corrine, Corrina
[doowad] Bob Dylan- I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Just Like A Woman

[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Chimes Of Freedom
[doowad] Bob Dylan- The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Ballad Of A Thin Man
[doowad] Bob Dylan- One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
[doowad] Bob Dylan- The Ballad Of Hollis Brown
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Oxford Town
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Only A Pawn In Their Game
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Gates of Eden
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- When The Ship Comes In
[doowad] Bob Dylan- Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
[Texas Hobart] Bob Dylan- Mama, You Been On My Mind
[doowad] Bob Dylan- To Ramona
[doowad] Bob Dylan- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue







Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Black Eyed Peas & Stewed Tomatoes


The Charming Seasick Steve

Fine doghouse music for your listening pleasure!

  1. Seasick Steve & the Level Devils- Hobo Blues
  2. Seasick Steve- Whiskey Ballad
  3. Seasick Steve- Hobo Low
  4. Seasick Steve- Man From Another Time
  5. Seasick Steve- The Jungle
  6. Seasick Steve- Thunderbird
  7. Seasick Steve- Happy Man
  8. Seasick Steve- St. Louis Slim
  9. Seasick Steve & the Level Devils- Xmas Prison Blues
  10. Seasick Steve- The Banjo Song
  11. Seasick Steve- Dog House Boogie
  12. Seasick Steve- Levy Camp Blues
  13. Seasick Steve- 8 Ball
  14. Seasick Steve- Treasures
  15. Seasick Steve- Last Po' Man (Stylus Rex Remix)
  16. Seasick Steve- My Donny
  17. Seasick Steve & the Level Devils- Sorry Mr Jesus
  18. Seasick Steve- Have Mercy On The Lonely
  19. Seasick Steve- One True
  20. Seasick Steve- Just Because I Can (CSX)
  21. Seasick Steve- It's A Long Long Way



Dehlia


  1. Maria Muldaur- It's a Blessing
  2. Lucinda Williams- Stop Breaking Down
  3. David Johansen- Last Kind Deal
  4. Junior Kimbrough- Meet me in the City
  5. Blind Willie McTell- Delia
  6. Tim Howe- Dehlia,Dehlia
  7. Patrick Sky- Payday
  8. Rory Block- Gone Woman Blues
  9. Marc Ribot- Dark was the night,Cold was the ground
  10. Alan Lomax Collection- Diamond Joe
  11. Guy Davis- You don't know my mind
  12. Essie Mae Brooks- Rain In Your Life
  13. Lightnin' Hopkins- All I Got is Gone
  14. King Ernest- House where Nobody Lives
  15. Mississippi Fred McDowell- Drop Down Mama
  16. John Jackson- Nobody's Businness if I Do
  17. Abigail Washburn- Nobody's Fault But Mine
  18. Lil Son Jackson- Gambler Blues
  19. David Bromberg- Dehlia
  20. Gillian Welch- Make me a pallet on your floor
  21. Keb'Mo- I'm so lonesome I Could Cry
  22. Happy and Art Traum- I Bid you Goodnight





Monday, March 19, 2012

Thank You, Kathy, Your Friend, George


The Balance of Existence

I love talking... Intellectual stimulation is key to the balance of existence. I would like to sit and drink tea with everyone on ZeRO. To look into your eyes the windows of your soul watch & observe your expressions. You don't get that from computer relations. So this is a thank you mix or a conversation piece to you Kathy for your kindness towards me on my birthday. A birthday is a lesson in humility. To be humble and observe how the people in your life treat you. I love my friends. Enjoy!

  1. George Waldrop- An Interwoven Man and Woman Talked (Carl Sandburg)
  2. Grateful Dead- Jack Straw
  3. Rory Block- The Spirit Returns
  4. Seasick Steve- Cut My Wings
  5. Carol Elizabeth Jones & Laurel Bliss- Tryin' To Get To You
  6. Ween- You Were the Fool
  7. Eric Bibb- Sunrise Blues
  8. The Vipers Skiffle Group- I Know the Lord Laid His Hands on Me
  9. Bob Dylan/Blind Boy Grunt- Train A-Travelin'
  10. Leadbelly- Nobody in This World Is Better Than Us
  11. Josh White- Blind man stood on the road and cried
  12. Keb' Mo'- Life Is Beautiful
  13. Parliament- Come in Out of the Rain
  14. Donna The Buffalo- In Another World
  15. Maria Muldaur- Soul Of A Man
  16. Dave Van Ronk- Would You Like to Swing on a Star?
  17. Essie Mae Brooks- Rain In Your Life
  18. Eric Bibb- Spirit I Am





Saturday, March 17, 2012

Easy Feeling


  1. Donna The Buffalo- No Place Like The Right Time
  2. Donna The Buffalo- Revolution
  3. Donna The Buffalo- Front Porch
  4. Donna The Buffalo- Way Back When
  5. Donna The Buffalo- Movin' On
  6. Donna The Buffalo- It's A New Day
  7. Donna The Buffalo- Voice In My Head
  8. Donna The Buffalo- Riddle of the Universe
  9. Donna The Buffalo- Family Picture
  10. Donna The Buffalo- The Ones You Love
  11. Donna The Buffalo- Positive Friction
  12. Donna The Buffalo- I Wish You Love
  13. Donna The Buffalo- Blue Skies
  14. Donna The Buffalo- Life's A Ride
  15. Donna The Buffalo- Rock of Ages
  16. Donna The Buffalo- In Another World
  17. Donna The Buffalo- Off To Dreamland
  18. Donna The Buffalo- These Are Better Days
  19. Donna The Buffalo- When Love Comes Around
  20. Donna The Buffalo- Your Way Home



The Country Blues RBF 9 Smithsonian folk ways


  1. Texas Alexander- Levee Camp Moan
  2. Peg Leg Howell- Tishamingo Blues
  3. Henry Townsend- Mistreated Blues
  4. Eddie Kelly's Washboard Band- Poole County Blues
  5. Papa Charlie Jackson- Papa's Lawdy Lawdy Blues
  6. Georgia Bill- Scarey Day Blues
  7. Luke Jordon- Church Bells Blues
  8. Bo Carter- I'm an Old Bumble Bee
  9. Charlie Lincoln- Jealous Hearted Blues
  10. Bukka White- Strange Place Blues
  11. Blind Boy Fuller with Sonny Terry- Bye Bye Baby Blues
  12. Charlie Pickett- Let me Squeeze your Lemon
  13. Brownsville Son Bonds- Weary Worried Blues
  14. Big Maco with Tampa Red- Red-Maceo's 32-20




Bob Dylan- Train A-Travelin' (Recorded 1963)


There’s an iron train a-travelin’ that’s been a-rollin’ through the years
With a firebox of hatred and a furnace full of fears
If you ever heard its sound or seen its blood-red broken frame
Then you heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name

Did you ever stop to wonder ’bout the hatred that it holds?
Did you ever see its passengers, its crazy mixed-up souls?
Did you ever start a-thinkin’ that you gotta stop that train?
Then you heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name

Do you ever get tired of the preachin’ sounds of fear
When they’re hammered at your head and pounded in your ear?
Have you ever asked about it and not been answered plain?
Then you heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name

I’m a-wonderin’ if the leaders of the nations understand
This murder-minded world that they’re leavin’ in my hands
Have you ever laid awake at night and wondered ’bout the same?
Then you’ve heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name

Have you ever had it on your lips or said it in your head
That the person standin’ next to you just might be misled?
Does the raving of the maniacs make your insides go insane?
Then you’ve heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name

Do the kill-crazy bandits and the haters get you down?
Does the preachin’ and the politics spin your head around?
Does the burning of the buses give your heart a pain?
Then you’ve heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name



Friday, March 16, 2012

Postcards of the Hanging- The Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan



  1. Grateful Dead- When I Paint My Masterpiece
  2. Grateful Dead- She Belongs to Me
  3. Grateful Dead- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
  4. Grateful Dead- Maggie's Farm
  5. Grateful Dead- Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
  6. Grateful Dead- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
  7. Grateful Dead- Ballad of a Thin Man
  8. Grateful Dead- Desolation Row
  9. Grateful Dead- All Along the Watchtower
  10. Grateful Dead- It's All over Now, Baby Blue
  11. Grateful Dead- Man of Peace
  12. Grateful Dead- Queen Jane Approximately
  13. Grateful Dead- Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)




March 17, 1974

I have my place in the world
a place to be
to know where I come from
to know where I'll be
I have a dream
there is only one me
in my life
the steps I take
welcoming the change
in my life
it's about the journey
stages of develoment
what I know about how I grow
I have felt the intimacy
from the lives I've touched
the music I've shared
the souls that have been stirred
taking the space between other human beings
I have felt the isolation
thoughts & memories divested of emotions
lonesome day-time hours
incomplete feelings of unexpressed emotion
emptiness, chronical loneliness & apart from it
the IT is apart of what everything is
preserving the good vibes
emanating the optimism from a human source
you never know how you look through other people's eyes
feelings guiding your actions
feelings of modivation to act
the meaning in front of you
and the pain, oh the pain
behind every beautiful thing
so on this day of my birth
enlightening myself for what it's worth
sharing my writing apart from me
I am making this for me
I am alive
a life to live
life is a pleasure I have found
I live for others
people make me who I am
I am good
I know, the best is yet to come
I know where I've been
back to I know where I'll be
a place to be
my place in the world

a kiss and a song are fleeting things


Tex Hobart & Jessie Lynn's Tossers' Mix!

I am turning 38 years old tomorrow! I wanted to kick St. Patty's day off right with this Tossers' mix Jessie Lynn & I made a couple of years ago. "...behind every beautiful thing there is some kind of pain...": Bob Dylan

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Y'all!!!


  1. The Tossers- Monday Morning
  2. The Tossers- Hunger Strike/Harmony
  3. The Tossers- Not Alone
  4. The Tossers- A Night On Earth
  5. The Tossers- I've Pursued Nothing
  6. The Tossers- Never Enough
  7. The Tossers- Whiskey Makes Me Crazy
  8. The Tossers- A Fine Lass You Are
  9. The Tossers- Claddagh
  10. The Tossers- Drinking In The Day
  11. The Tossers- Aye Sir
  12. The Tossers- The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death
  13. The Tossers- Chicago
  14. The Tossers- Phoenix Park
  15. The Tossers- Johnny I
  16. The Tossers- Everything's Bad
  17. The Tossers- Movin' On
  18. The Tossers- The Rocky Road to Dublin
  19. The Tossers- The Parting Glass (Live Bonus) [Gloatin and Showboatin' Live On St. Patrick's Day]



Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Music From Angola Prision Early 60's



Angola Prisoners Blues

1. Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams
2. Stagolee - Hogman Maxey
3. Electric Chair Blues - Guitar Welch
4. Black Night Is Fallin' - Hogman Maxey
5. Some Got Six Months - Robert Pete Williams
6. I'm Gonna Leave You Mama - Guitar Welch
7. I'm Lonesome Blues - Robert Pete Williams
8. Angola Bound - A Capella Group
9. Worried Blues - Hogman Maxey
10. Josephine - Guitar Welch
11. Soldier's Plea - Clara Young
12. The Moon Is Rising - Odea Mathews
13. I'm Still In Love With You - Thelma Mae Joseph
14. I Miss You So - Vocal Group
15. Hello, Sue - Butterbeans
16. Fast Life Woman - Hogman Maxey
17. Careless Love - Otis Webster
18. Have You Ever Heard The Church Bells Tone - Roosevelt Charles/Otis Webster
19. 61 Highway - Guitar Welch
20. Strike At Camp I - Roosevelt Charles




Angola Prison Spirituals


1. I'm On My Way - Robert Pete Williams
2. Church On Fire With The Word Of God - Robert Pete Williams
3. What Shall I Do - Robert 'Guitar' Welch
4. Brother Norah - Ollie Brown
5. Little School Song - Robert Pete Williams
6. Dyin' Soul - Robert Pete Williams
7. Let My People Go - Rosevelt Charles
8. So Much Is Happenin' In The News - Robert Pete Williams
9. Dig My Grave With A Silver Spade - Robert Pete Williams
10. Brother Mosely Crossed The Water - Andy Mosely
11. I'm Stranded On The Banks Of Ole Jordan - Roosevelt Charles
12. I'm Goin' Back With Him When He Comes - Robert Pete Williams
13. The Old Ship Of Zion - Rev. Benjamin E. Osborne
14. When I Lay My Burden Down - Robert Pete Williams
15. See How They Done My Lord - Angola Quartet (Six) From Camp A
16. Be With Me Jesus - Angola Quartet (Six) From Camp A
17. Rise And Fly - Angola Vocal Group
18. I Know I Got Religion - Andy Mosely
19. Jesus - Andy Mosely
20. I Take Jesus (Do Lord, Remember Me) - Angola Choir
21. Each Day (Life's Evening Sun) - Angola Choir
22. Steal Away To Jesus - Angola Choir









The Balance of Existence


  1. The Beatles- In My Life
  2. Donna the Buffalo- Front Porch
  3. Bob Marley- Pass It On
  4. Ween- Push th' Little Daisies
  5. Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon- Sweet Emotion
  6. Grateful Dead- Ripple
  7. The Rolling Stones- Loving Cup
  8. Phish- Sample In A Jar
  9. Old Crow Medicine Show- Wagon Wheel
  10. Victoria Williams- Summer Of Drugs
  11. The Lovin' Spoonful- Do You Believe in Magic?
  12. Kieran Kane- Shadows on the Ground
  13. Nirvana- All Apologies [Unplugged in New York]
  14. Donovan- Atlantis
  15. Simon & Garfunkel- The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
  16. Shel Silverstein- The Great Smoke Off




Tuesday, March 13, 2012

You May Leave,But This Will Bring You Back


  1. Delmore Bros.- Blues Stay Away From Me
  2. Pink Anderson & Simmee Dooley- Gonna Tip Out Tonight
  3. Memphis Jug Band- You May Leave, But This Will Bring You Back
  4. Prince Albert Hunt- Blues In A Bottle
  5. Johnny & Jack- My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
  6. Fleming & Townsend- Gonna Quit Drinking When I Die
  7. Mississippi Sheiks- Jake Leg Blues
  8. Grant Bros.- Tell It To Me(Cocaine Blues)
  9. Tex Morton- Big Rock Candy Mountain
  10. Uncle Dave Macon- Rockabye My Sara Jane
  11. Wilburn Bros. with Webb Pierce- Sparkling Brown Eyes
  12. Cliff Carlisle- That Nasty Swing
  13. Uncle Earl- Rubber Dolly
  14. Roy Evans- Syncopated Yodelin' Man
  15. Uncle Dave Macon- Worthy Of Estimation
  16. Chicken Chokers- Worthy Of Estimation
  17. Sibling Bros.- Desire & Curiosity
  18. Callahan Bros.- Gonna Quit My Rowdy Ways
  19. Mississippi Sheiks- Grinding Old Fool
  20. Oscar Ford- A Race Between A Ford & A Chevrolet
  21. Jimmie Rodgers- Waiting For A Train
  22. Cannon's Jug Stompers- Money Never Runs Out
  23. Allen Bros.- New Salty Dog
  24. Bad Livers- Shufflin' Off To Memphis
  25. Bailey Bros.- Take Me Back To Happy Valley
  26. the Gourds- Hallelujah Shine




Texas Hobart's Doc Watson Mix


This was the first single-artist mix posted on ZeRO. Now, I give you this mix with a chance to listen, enjoy & appreciate Doc Watson. Doc is a icon in country music. A direct link to the old-timey days. These are my favorite songs of his. I hope you will take the time to listen. & Enjoy!

  1. Doc Watson- Country Blues
  2. Doc Watson- Southbound
  3. Doc Watson- Ramblin' Hobo
  4. Doc Watson- Blues Stay Away From Me
  5. Doc Watson- Walk On Boy
  6. Doc Watson- Worried Blues
  7. Doc Watson- Never No Mo' Blues
  8. Doc Watson- You Don't Know My Mind Blues
  9. Doc Watson- In The Jailhouse Now
  10. Doc Watson- Sitting On Top of the World
  11. Doc Watson- Weary Blues
  12. Doc Watson- Honey Babe Blues
  13. Doc Watson- Deep River Blues
  14. Doc Watson- Rising Sun Blues
  15. Doc Watson- Memphis Blues
  16. Doc Watson- Matchbox Blues
  17. Doc Watson- T for Texas [Blue Yodel No.1]
  18. Doc Watson- Three Times Seven
  19. Doc Watson- Lost John
  20. Doc Watson- Blue Railroad Train
  21. Doc Watson- White House Blues
  22. Doc Watson- Gambler's Yodel
  23. Doc Watson- St. James Hospital
  24. Doc Watson- Stackolee
  25. Doc Watson- Day Break Blues
  26. Doc Watson- Solid Gone




Sunday, March 11, 2012

Soon Our Pilgrimage Will Cease


Soon Our Pilgrimage Will Cease Disc 1


[Texas Hobart] Leon Pinson- What A Friend We Have In Jesus
[Doowad] The Hee Haw Gospel Quartet- Shall We Gather At The River
[Funky Ratchet] Flatt & Scruggs- I'm Going To Make Heaven My Home
[Texas Hobart] James Shorter w/ Jessie Mae Hemphill- Search Me Lord #2
[Doowad] Viola James,Lonnie Young & Ed Young- On That Rock
[Funky Ratchet] Rev. Gary Davis- Lord,I Looked Down The Road
[Texas Hobart] The Pascall Brothers- God Said He Would Move/On The Right Road Now
[Doowad] Big Bill Broonzy- Hush, Somebody's Calling Me
[Funky Ratchet] Mahalia Jackson- Didn't It Rain
[Texas Hobart] Hank Williams- Thank God
[Doowad] The Carter Family- Way Down Yonder In The Cumberland Mountains/Let The Church Roll On
[Funky Ratchet] Cast King- Saved
[Texas Hobart] Leadbelly- I'm Thinking of a Friend
[Doowad] June Carter Cash- Church In The Wildwood/Lonesome Valley
[Funky Ratchet] Various Artists- Jesus was Here On Business
[Texas Hobart] Boxcar Peachers- What Are They Doing In Heaven Today
[Doowad] John Fahey- I'm Gonna Do All I Can For My Lord
[Funky Ratchet] Roy Acuff- This World Is Not My Home
[Texas Hobart] Jimmy Driftwood- My Church
[Doowad] The Pilgrim Travelers- Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb
[Funky Ratchet] The Mighty Sons- Jesus Delivered Daniel
[Texas Hobart] Louvin Brothers- Satan Is Real
[Doowad] Mississippi Fred McDowell- Jesus Is On The Mainline
[Funky Ratchet] Blind Joe Taggart- Lord Don't Drive Me Away

Soon Our Pilgrimage Will Cease Disc 2

[Funky Ratchet] Ralph Stanley- Calling You
[Doowad] Bill Monroe- What Would You Give In Exchange for Your Soul
[Texas Hobart] Lesley Riddle- Step By Step
[Funky Ratchet] Memphis Sanctified Singers- He Got Better Things for You
[Doowad] Heavenly Gospel Singers- I Want Jesus To Walk With Me
[Texas Hobart] Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi- Swing Low Sweet Chariot
[Funky Ratchet] Ernest V. Stoneman- He Was Nailed To The Cross for Me
[Doowad] Roy Acuff- Great Speckled Bird
[Texas Hobart] Joe Thompson- Oil In My Vessel
[Funky Ratchet] Edwards' Sanctified Singers- Since I Laid My Burden Down
[Doowad] Bessie Smith- On Revival Day(A Rhythmic Spirtual)
[Texas Hobart] Hobart Smith- Uncloudy Day
[Funky Ratchet] Ernest Phipps- Shine On Me
[Doowad] Bukka White- I Am in the Heavenly Way
[Texas Hobart] Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins- I Am A Pilgrim
[Funky Ratchet] The Blue Sky Boys- Dust On The Bible
[Doowad] Jimmy Martin- Prayer Bells of Heaven
[Texas Hobart] Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver- Where The Shades of Love Lie Deep
[Funky Ratchet] Mississippi John Hurt- Oh Mary Don't You Weep
[Doowad] James Shorty, Viola James- This Little Light of Mine
[Texas Hobart] Bill Monroe- Wayfaring Stranger
[Funky Ratchet] Fisk University Jubilee Quartetette- The Bang of Gideon
[Doowad] Bob Dylan- Gospel Plow
[Texas Hobart] Five Blind Boys of Alabama- Way Down In The Hole






Friday, March 9, 2012

A Conversation with Gus Cannon


Mixing for Dom Flemons

I would like to talk to Gus Cannon over a cup of tea & cigarettes. Oh, if life could be like that. Luckily I got the music and a conscientious mind to make a mix for a stranger. I wonder what it would be like to sit and have a cup of tea with Dom Flemons. The internet allows me to share this mix with people I appreciate. Making music is a wonderment. Every time I listen to the Carolina Chocolate Drops I become part of the music because, I study old-time music, collect 78's & read books about the people & things that stir my soul. Enjoy, Dom!


  1. Derroll Adams- Mr. Rabbit
  2. Little Hat Jones- Kentucky Blues
  3. Rosa Henderson- Can't Be Bothered With No Sheiks
  4. Washboard Rhythm Kings- Call of The Freaks
  5. Al Miller- No Fish For Me
  6. Jimmie Rodgers & The Louisville Jug Band- My Good Gal's Gone Blues
  7. Bob Dylan- Roll On John
  8. Mississippi Slim- Try doin' it right
  9. Georgia Yellow Hammers- Tennessee Coon
  10. Gus Cannon- Kill It
  11. Georgia Washboard Stompers- I Can't Dance (I Got Ants In My Pants)
  12. Jack Elliott- Talking Blues
  13. Henry Williams & Eddie Anthony- Lonesome Blues
  14. Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Derroll Adams- Ain't It a Shame [Comic Version]
  15. Leadbelly- Relax Your Mind
  16. Chris Bouchillon- New Talking Blues
  17. Larry Sparks- Blue Virginia Blues
  18. Georgia White- Was I Drunk?
  19. Fairfield Four- These Bones
  20. Hobart Smith- Uncloudy Day
  21. Kid Prince Moore- Sign Of Judgement
  22. The Paschall Brothers- Ease My Troublin' Mind
  23. Etta Baker- Rainbow
  24. Geeshie Wiley- Last Kind Words
  25. Texas Hobart- Where Is Your Soul,Geeshie?




Thursday, March 8, 2012

Go Back and Fetch It(Revisited)


This mix was made for Dom Flemons of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. He says he still listens to it.



James Guitar Slim Stephens- Wildwood Blues Speak
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin- Old Country Stomp
Ben Curry (Blind Bogus Ben Covington)- Boodle-De-Bum Blues
Sanford L. Collins- Buckdance
J.D. Dillingham- Old Mother Hippletoe
"Big Sweet" Lewis Hairston- Bile Them Cabbage Down
Joe Thompson- It Ain't Gonna Rain No More
Jim Kweskin, The Jug Band- Morning Blues
Uncle Dave Macon- Hill Billie Blues
Tom Paley- Little Rabbit
Algia Mae Hinton- Buckdance
The Carolina Chocolate Drops- Cindy Gal
Joe Patterson- Catfish
Elester Anderson- Out On The Farm
Dom Flemons- Po' Black Sheep-Gwine Dig A Hole
Thelma, Beatrice and Irene Scruggs- Oh Blue
Ed Young & Bessie Jones- Fife Tune with clapping
Henry Thomas- Old Country Stomp
Dent Wimmer- Roustabout
Uncle Homer Walker- Sugar Hill
Elizabeth Babe Reid- Corinna
Isaac "Uncle Boo" Curry- Casey Jones
Buge Cage & Willie B. Thomas- Whoa Mule
Austin Harmon- Bonnie blue eyes
Elizabeth Cotten- Medley- Here Old Rattler Here-Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow
Ted Boyd & Charlie Woods- Dineo
Mike Seeger- Sail Away Ladies
E.C. Ball- Bobby Halsey
Mike Seeger- Old Gray Mare
Archie Edwards- Sitting on Top of the World
Etta Baker- Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
The New Lost City Ramblers- Free Little Bird




Wednesday, March 7, 2012

(Finding Your Place) Beyond The Strange Empty Space


Mixing for Betsy Brown

Life, to me has always been about the journey, getting from here to there not about where I will end up. Thinking about my friends and finding the right songs to fill up that strange & empty space. Taking a song to heart helps open the spaces between yourself and others. These types of mixes are heart-felt because songs can say so much. People make me feel less lonely when I take the time to listen and make them apart of my journey, my life. Enjoy!



  1. Nick Drake- Place To Be
  2. Mary Gauthier- Empty Spaces
  3. Josh White Jr.- Delicate Balance
  4. Joni Mitchell- The Circle Game
  5. Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs- Old Before Your Time
  6. Bob Dylan- My Back Pages
  7. Iris Dement- Sweet Is The Melody
  8. Jeremy Casella- Recovery
  9. Jolie Holland- Little Birds
  10. Emiliana Torrini- I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
  11. Amos Lee- Learned A Lot
  12. Beck- End of the Day
  13. Edie Brickell- Once In A Blue Moon
  14. Tracy Chapman- All That You Have Is Your Soul
  15. Holly Figueroa- One
  16. Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan- Something To Believe
  17. Richard & Linda Thompson- I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
  18. Carolina Chocolate Drops- Leaving Eden