Best of 2008: Steel Belted Radio Playlist #187 (December 30, 2008)

Song
Artist
Album

Love Me or Leave Me
Lady Dottie and the Diamonds
S/T

Caldonia
Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis
Two Men with the Blues

Woodward Avenue
Elliott Brood
Mountain Meadows

Sweetcorn
Fred Eaglesmith
Tinderbox

What Do You Do When You're Lonesome
Justin Townes Earle
The Good Life

I'm Gonna Settle My Accounts With You
Matthew Barber
Ghost Notes

Tears of Joy
Lucinda Williams
Little Honey

He Needs Me
Ndidi Onukwulu
The Contradictor

Hold On
Emmylou Harris
All I Intended to Be

I Want You #35
Rodney Crowell
Sex and Gasoline

Proof of Love
Old Man Luedecke
Proof of Love

Just Like a River
Old Man Luedecke
Proof of Love

Once in a While
Kasey Chambers/Shane Nicholson
Rattlin’ Bones

Sweetest Waste of Time
Kasey Chambers/Shane Nicholson
Rattlin’ Bones

Steel Belted Radio Playlist #186 (December 23, 2008)

Song
Artist
Album

Drink to Me, Babe, Then
A.C. Newman
The Slow Wonder

When I Go, I’m Gone
The Supersuckers
Get It Together

I Don’t Like It
Daddy
At the Women’s Club

Highway Patrol
Junior Brown
Guit With It

Clyde
Waylon Jennings
Live from Austin, TX

Long Time Mama
The Breakmen
When You Leave Town

Another Tear
Bluegrass Diamonds
We’ll Meet Again

Write This Down
Concession 23
The Walls Around Us

Blind Fiddler
Hoyt Axton
Southbound

Paid in Advance
Hoyt Axton
Fearless

Parts Unknown
Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys
Swingin’ West

That’ll Be the Day
Chloe Albert
Dedicated State

Keep Me in Mind, Sweetheart
Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan
Sunday at Devil Dirt

Van Lear Rose
Loretta Lynn
Van Lear Rose

Wednesday’s Child
Claire Lynch
Silver and Gold

Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
Live from Austin, TX

Merry Christmas, Baby
Otis Redding
Christmas in Soulsville

Who Took the Merry out of Christmas
The Staples Singers
Christmas in Soulsville

Steel Belted Radio Playlist #185 (December 16, 2008)

Song
Artist
Album

The Sunday Song
Amelia Curran
War Brides

I’m a Mountain
Sarah Harmer
I’m a Mountain

Oh, Lonesome Me
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Tribute to Tradition

Gospel Barroom
Greg Hobbs
Threats and Promises

What’s the Use
Thad Cockrell
Warmth & Beauty

Rosalita
The Western States
S/T

Ramblin’ Fever
Merle Haggard
Live from Austin, TX

Deep Water
Red Meat
13

Drivin’ Nails in My Coffin
Hank Thompson
Vintage Collection

Della and the Dealer
Hoyt Axton
A Rusty Old Halo

Wink
Blue Mountain
Dog Days

Over You
David Francey
The Waking Hour

There’s a Reason
A. A. Bondy
American Hearts

Trouble
Ray LaMontagne
Trouble

For Emma
Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago

Good Hearted Woman
Waylon Jennings
Live from Austin, TX

Steel Belted Radio Playlist #184 (December 2, 2008)

Song
Artist
Album

Great Lakes
Rae Spoon
Superior You Are Inferior

Everybody Loves You
Herald Nix
Everybody Loves You

So Help Me
Raging Slab
Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert

Half Asleep and Drunk
Jerry Leger
You, Me, and the Horse

If the Creeks Don’t Rise
Sunparlour Players
Hymns for the Happy

Ain’t Leavin’ Your Love
Townes Van Zandt
At My Window

26 Oz. of Gin
The Swiftys
Ridin’ High

Pick Up the Change
Wilco
A.M.

Fishing in the Morning
Dar Williams
The Beauty of the Rain

I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train
Billy Joe Shaver
Old Five and Dimers Like Me

Hotel Yorba
The White Stripes
White Blood Cells

Satchel Paige Said
The Baseball Project
Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails

Love in a Trashcan
The Raveonettes
Pretty in Black

Sacred Ground
Rodney DeCroo
Mockingbird Blues

Once in a While
Kasey Chambers/Shane Nicholson
Rattlin’ Bones

Devilment
Paul Reddick
Sugar Bird