EPISODE 10 – Wasted Days & Wasted Nights w/guest host Steve Kerwin

Our apologies for this long overdue installment. We’ll spare the excuses and assuming folks haven’t forgotten about us, hope the wait was worth it. Our inevitable classic country theme this time around is booze. We feel having a few while spinning some country tunes is always best with some company so we invited Andrew’s brother Steve (s)Kerwin along as guest host and drinking partner. Steve has been a fan of both country music and the bottle for quite sometime, probably longer than the two of us despite him being the younger brother. While taking the theme quite literally, we had a lot of fun doing this one. Both are probably apparent as you hear the show roll along. We truly feel a drink is not needed to enjoy these songs (hell, we even got a fella with O’Keefe for a last name singing a tune called “I’m Sober”) but on the other hand it don’t hurt to relate either. Bottoms up, thanks for your patience, and we’ll try to be back sooner than later…

p.s. Due to new rules & regulations that pertain to our host, our shows (including the archives) are not available for download at the moment. We apologize for this inconvenience and plan to remedy the situation asap. In the meantime stream away!

1. Merele Haggard – Heaven Was A Drink Of Wine (off 1979′s “Serving 190 Proof”)

2. Lee Clayton – Lonesome Whiskey (off 1973′s “S/T”)

3. Stonewall Jackson – Booze Plus Booze (Means I Loose) (off 1972′s “The Lonesome In Me”)

4. Joh Prine – Yes I Guess They Oughta Name A Drink After You (off 1972′s “Diamonds In The Rough”)

5. Sid Linard – The Undertaker’s Gonna Have A Hard Time (Wiping This Smile Off My Face) (off 1976′s “Jukebox Angel”)

6. Jerry Lee Lewis – What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me) (off 1968′s “Another Place Another Time”)

7. Johnny Paycheck – Colorado Cool-Aid (off 1977′s “Take This Job And Shove It”)

8. Michael Hurley – Uncle Bob’s Corner (off 1972′s “Hi-Fi Snock Uptown”)

9. Tom T. Hall – Pay No Attention To Alice (off 1973′s “For The People In The Last Hard Town”)

10. Tex Ritter – Rye Whiskey (1945, taken from a “Best Of…” LP)

11. Danny O’Keefe – I’m Sober Now (off 1972′s “O’Keefe”)

12. Cast King – Faded Rose (off 2005′s “Saw Mill Man”)

EPISODE 9 – A Whole Cast Of Characters

For our ninth program we’ve chosen to operate without a theme, meaning that the tracks we’re bringing you this time around are both old favorites and new discoveries.  As a result the show has a little of everything we’ve been bringing you in the past couple of months; the old guard, hipster country rockers, and so on.  Sit back and enjoy.

1.  Josie – Kris Kristofferson (Off 1972′s “Borderlord”)

2.  Less of Me – Everly Brothers (Off 1968′s “Roots”)

3.  The Good Things (That You Are) – Bill Billington (Off 1974′s “Sex, Drugs, And Country Music”)

4.  Moody River – Kitty Wells (Off 1962′s “Queen of Country Music”)

5.  Kaw-Liga – Del Shannon (Off 1964′s “Del Shannon Sings Hank Williams”)

6.  Tribute to Hank Williams – Tim Hardin (Off 1967′s “2″)

7.  Pinto Pony – Paul Siebel (Off 1971′s “Jack Knife Gypsy”)

8.  Running From the Rain – Henson Cargill (Off 1972′s “On The Road”)

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P.S.

Stay tuned for our 10th episode coming soon…here’s a little hint of where we’re going:

Djing

Tomorrow night we’ll be spinning some cosmic american classics at the make out room for the casual dolphins/waiting room show.  3225 22nd street, SF, Ca.  Come on down!

EPISODE 8 – BLAZE’S BLUES w/ guest host Greg Gardner from Secret Seven Records

Well its been awhile since we posted our last show but we are glad and proud to be back with what we consider a very special program.  This time around we’ve opened the floor for our dear friend, and first guest host, Greg Gardner of Secret Seven Records.  This week Secret Seven will release “Clay Pigeons”, a collection of rare and wonderful Blaze Foley recordings available for the first time on vinyl.  Blaze is an artists we both recently discovered this year, a songwriting ace with a truly heartbreaking story.  For the show we chose a couple of songs off the new record, a version of John Prine doing a Foley tune, and a couple of tributes written and recorded post-humously in Blaze’s honor.  To pat things out Greg brought along a couple of tracks from other Secret Seven releases as well as a personal favorite of his that we think fits right in there with the kind of tracks we’ve been posting all along.  Be sure to check below the track list and sound cloud for a link to Secret Seven Records where you can find the “Clay Pigeons” lp.  We’re exited to say all this happens to be just in time for “Blaze Foley Day”, which was just declared on Nov. 4th in Blaze’s hometown of  Malvern, Arkansas!  Hope you enjoy and we’ll be back with more tunes before you know it…

1.  Oval Room – Blaze Foley (Off 2011′s “Clay Pigeons”)

2.  Clay Pigeons – John Prine (Off 2007′s “Fair and Square”)

3.  If I Could Only Fly – Blaze Foley (Off 2011′s “Clay Pigeons”)

4.  Drunken Angel – Lucinda Williams (Off 1998′s “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road”)

5.  Blaze’s Blues – Townes Van Zandt (Off 1997′s “Documentary”)

6.  Prisoner’s Song – Tiny Tim (Off 2011′s “Lost and Found: 1963-1974″)

7.  Automatic Slim and the Fatboys – Michael Hurley (Off 2011′s “Fatboy Spring”)

8.  Omaha – Don Everly (Off 1970′s “S/T”)

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SECRET SEVEN RECORDS where you can find the featured BLAZE FOLEY, MICHAEL HURLEY & TINY TIM LPs!

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

While it may seem that we’ve been neglecting our duties as of late, we promise more shows are on the way. We’ve recently become more concerned about bringing you a technically satisfying show, which boils down to better equipment on our end. It has begun to bother us that certain stereo records are compromised when imported into the “machine”. We’ve lost some tasty pedal steel licks along the way and we can’t have that for crying out loud! We’ve also been slowed down due to other folks’ schedules as we are planning on having a couple guest hosts make an appearance. As we work out our equipment situation and figure out schedules hang tight and enjoy these John Prine videos, showing off both sides of one of our fav songwriters:

Updates-AKA The Abyss

I know that it seems like we keep bringing up James Cameron movies on the show but I just watched the Abyss for the first time last night and I thought I would share the best scene with you.  Is Cameron a country fan just like us?

 

 

In other news we have been working out the kinks on putting together our first show to be recorded live and to feature a guest host.  Stay tuned, its gonna get loose…..

EPISODE 7 – Back To The Future: Country Music In The 1980′s

The 1980′s often get a hard shake from serious audiophiles and collectors as an era when many of the greats lost themselves entirely in the advent of digital recording, producing embarrassing and misguided work.  Of course this stereotype holds little if any water as many of the previous decades artist’s continued to write great tunes and evolve with the times, and as with any new age a new group of songwriters and groups came new to carve their own impressive legacies.  With the seventh episode of Astral Maps we aim to bring you a little of both.  For this program we’re presenting songs both by 70′s stalwarts such as Townes Van Zandt, Butch Hancock, and Alex Chilton as well as the new class of songwriters such as Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, The Jayhawks and others.

 

1.  It Won’t Hurt – Dwight Yoakam (Off 1986′s “Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc.”)

2. Let The Critics Wonder – The Jayhawks (Off 1986′s “The Jayhawks”, aka “The Bunkerhouse Album”)

3. Sad Lovers Waltz – Camper Van Beethoven (Off 1986′s “II & III”)

4. Sleep Enough To Dream – True Believers (Off 1986′s “True Believers”)

5. Guitar Town – Steve Earle (Off 1986′s “Guitar Town”)

6. At My Window – Townes Van Zandt (Off 1987′s “At My Window”)

7. Her Lover Of The Hour – Butch Hancock (Off 1980′s “Diamond Hill”)

8. Waltz Across Texas – Alex Chilton (Off 1979/80′s “Like Flies On Sherbet”)

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Let The Critics Wonder…

Our next episode is currently in the works but in the meantime here is a hint of things to come. Guess what? The Jayhawks used to be great!

 

Updates

Another reminder: Following in the new routine episode three “Old timers getting weird” will now be available under the archives page.  In other news we have started to spin records out and about, last week at Amoeba Music SF on Haight St. and tonight at the Independent in SF for Two Gallants’ homecoming show.  If you’re planning on going expect some country tunes before, after, and between sets.  Hopefully we’ll see you there!

Another Place, Another Time…

Well, here we are, getting organized as we speak to start taping what will ultimately become the program posted next week.  Its our goal to update this thing once a week, hopefully bringing you a radio show at least twice a month.  While we’re putting the pieces  of next week’s show together please enjoy this incredible Jerry Lee Lewis vid which, while we’re not positive, appears to be from an episode of Buck Owens’ Hee Haw.  Stare into the eyes of the Killer!