the texas chainsaw occasional

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Location: Eugene, OR

All you need to know for now is that "the texas chainsaw acoustic hour" officially debuted in 1997 after a brief transition from KWVA's first acoustic program "Dogs Run Free, which I co-hosted in its second incarnation.

Sunday, October 23, 2005

playlist: 22 October, 2005

the texas chainsaw acoustic hour
Saturday 0900-1100
KWVA, 88.1, Eugene, OR
listen: while I'm still on the air
contact: your congressperson and complain

(www.kwvaradio.org/chainsaw881@comcast.net)

blogalicious at www.chainsaw881.blogspot.com
(hoping for real content this week)

the program for 22 October, 2005

What do you want to know? That the phones didn't work? That the guest was
running behind schedule? That I lack the proper emotion to be affected by these
circumstances?

chapter one: Theme song of the week

Milt Jackson/The Spirit Feel/Plenty Plenty Soul

Chapter two: One for the censors

Todd Snider/Double Wide Blues/That Was Me

chapter three: Colin Makes it Happen...

Recently received Colin's latest release...A most pleasant surprise.
Wonderfully underproduced and with more than one winner--many of you folks
should get the disc just for "Cornbread" (trust me, it's the kind of thing that
works in "folk" radio).

Anyway, Colin also turned me on to the Nels Andrews disc (more full production
but still several closer-to-acoustic numbers)...listened to this one on the
freeway to Portland, not to be confused with the Highway to Hell (and you
thought I couldn't work an AC-DC reference in here), although the trip did have
a more than slightly hellish theme (speaking of themes, my new one: Nearly all
people suck)...where was I? Oh, yeah, anyway Nels' lyrics really created a lot
of images and gloriously irrelevant (to the song) associations (in case you are
wondering, that's a good thing). Colin also says that Hisaw is cool, but I
already knew that.

***I'll be happy to forward contact information to anyone who made it through
the
previous two paragraphs

Eric Hisaw/Speaking With No Grace/Thing About Trains
Colin Brooks/Blood in the Water/Blood and Water
Nels Andrews/Jesse's Mom/Sunday Shoes

chapter four: And it's up against the wall...

Still hard to hear Grierson's songs without thinking about the loss...Make what
you will of the song selection in this set. Just one question: what if Ray
Wylie had written a song about Pflugerville???

Ray Wylie Hubbard/Resurrection/Dangerous Spirits
Ray Wylie Hubbard/The Messenger/Loco Gringo's Lament
Ray Wylie Hubbard/Conversation with the Devil/Crusade of the Restless Knights

chapter five: We now return you, if only temporarily, to our regularly
scheduled programming

Hobart Smith/John Brown's Body/In Sacred Trust
Mike Seeger y Robert Zimmerman/The Ballad of Hollis Brown/Third Annual
Farewell Reunion

chapter five: Shameless plugging 101

Alison is in town this week

Alison Brown/The Wonderful Sea Voyage(0f Holy St. Brenda)/Replay
Alison Brown/Etouffee Brutus?/Look Left

chapter six: It's what I do best, remembering, of course, that best is, at best
in
this case, a relative term

Am in the process of developing the lobbying strategy for getting a jazz
program on another station...Seems like much of the jazz programming I hear is
too "programmed." Sets like these are my "bop' excursions, or, to put it closer
to the folk leanings of this list, my David Rawlings guitar solos.

It is also the stall, waiting for my radio guest to arrive

Sharon Isbin/La Catedral: iil Alegro Solemne/La Guitara
Baden Powell/Bach's Jesus Alegria dos Homens/Live a Bruxelles
Patty Larkin/Bound Brook/La Guitara
Simpson, Krishnan, Hildago y Srinivasen/The Running Kind/Kambara Music...
Ravi/Shantiseven/Afro-Indian Project
Badi Assad/Preludio e Toccatina/La Guitara
Amalia Rodrigues/Povo Que Lavas No Rio/The Art of Amalia

chapter seven: Let us speak of Comoros

An interview with Nawal, the first female professional singer of Comoros. She's
a good talker and I did enough research to launch three good threads.
Programmers who have "world music" leanings should check her out at

www.nawali.com

We were also joined by one of her musicians, a former KWVA programmer.

songs featured during the chat include:

Nawal/Al Djalilu/Kweli
Nawal/Hima/Voice of the Comoros

Friday, October 21, 2005

playlist: 15 October, 2005

the texas chainsaw acoustic hour
Saturday 0900-1100 (Pacific)
KWVA, 88.1, Eugene, OR
listen: it's cheaper than cable
contact: went to SMU, then on to the NBA ...wait. that was Koncak.

(www.kwvaradio.org chainsaw881@comcast.net)
blogalicious at www.chainsaw881.blogspot.com
(soon to be more than just playlists, I sorta promise)

Way too much work of late...no time to think, time only to react. Maybe
that's why the programs have been good as of late.

From the department of poetic coincidence: As this list is being keyed, I am
watching the White Stripes on Charlie Rose...

The program for 15 October, 2005

Chapter One: You Can't Keep Those Northwest Roots From Showing

Todd Snider/Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues/compilation
Mary Lou Lord/His Indie World/Self-titled

Chapter Two: Charity For the Old Folks...I have never been big on
album reviews, but I played this disc for a Neil fan and received the
most succinct and accurate review I have seen in years: "SAPPY."
To be fair, there are a couple of interesting vocal arrangements
and the horns sorta work...

Neil Young/Prairie Wind/Prairie Wind

Chapter Three: Not the Dreaded "A-word" even if it looks like it...The
Scott disc has a certain charm, the West disc deserves consideration,
and this is probably my fave Veirs disc. Some suggest a theme in the
song selection; I am not so sure.

Tim O'Brien/House of the Rising Sun/Cornbread Nation
Wayne Scott/My Last Bottle of Wine/This Weary Way
Joe West/The Human Cannonball/The Human Cannonball
Laura Veirs/Midnight Singer/Troubled by the Fire

Chapter Four: Concert Previews come a little early this year...Alison's
coming to town soon but I may be pre-empted or de-evolved next
week so I wanted to be sure to put in the push.

Alison Brown/The Devil Went Down to Berkeley/Fair Weather
Alison Brown/Hello Mendocino/Quartet
Alison Brown/The Dalai Camel/Look Left

Chapter Five: Variations on the extended guitar solo...From what I am
told, this is what I do best: improvisations for those with drug
dependence issues. A caller checked in to tell me that, because of this
set, his wife forgave me for all my past radio transgressions. Me?
The idea of a fifty minute uninterrupted set is too much.

Staatsorchester Stuttgart/Arvo Part's Cantus in Memory of
Benjamin Britten/Tabula Rasa
Rachel's/First Self-Portraits/Music for Egon Schiele
Keith Jarrett/Handel's Suite in Gminor HWV 440/Suites for Keyboard
Pascal Roge/Satie's Nocturne #3/After the Rain
Kronos Quartet y Asha Bhosle/Mehbooba Mehbooba/You've Stolen My Heart
Nawal/Salama/The Voice of the Camoros
Kronos Quartet y Asha Bhosle/Koi Aaya Aune Bhi De/You've Stolen My Heart
Tang Liangxing/Meihua San Long/High Mountain Flowing Water
Anoushka Shankar/Solea/Rise
Nawal/Ces Gens-la/Kweli

Chapter Last: another concert preview...the handoff host loved it.

Yuri Yunakov/Balada/Balada

acoustic junction playlist

This is the once-a-month edition of KRVM's Acoustic Junction. You can listen on-line to this nonsense (much less adventurous a program in an effort to marginally match the station's demographic) too.

Downhill Bluegrass Band/She's Gone Gone Gone/That One Straight Line
Alador/Mandoloony Tune/Self-titled
Mary Flower/Terminal Rag/Bywater Dance
Tim O'Brien y Darrell Scott/Walk Beside Me/Real Time
Wayne Scott/I Wouldn't Live in Harlan/This Weary Way
Darrell Scott/You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive/Aloha From Nashville
Dar Williams Radio Special
Buzz Turner/Canterbury Hill/Finally Home
Pat Donahue/Jazz Name/Profile
Frank Vignola/Gypsy Playland/Tone Poets
Tony Williamson/Cherokee/Tone Poets
Martin Taylor/I Thought About You/tTone Poets
Yuri Yunikov/Lost in Thrace/Roma Variations

playlist: 8 October

the texas chainsaw acoustic hour
Saturday 0900-1100
KWVA, 88.1, Eugene, OR
listen: it won't kill you
contact: the authorities if you hear of anyone listening
(okay...www.kwvaradio.org and chainsaw881@comcast.net)
(I swear the grand opening will happen eventuall...more than likely in concert with the first anniversary edtion)
Editor's Note: This is the playlist that wasn't meant to be...First, my copy was printed on paper already full of stuff, rendering it close to unreadable. Second, I have had to submit away from the home base, meaning I can't look up stuff if I am unsure of the details. Next, my previous submitted version did the e-mail Bermuda Triangle impression and was totally lost. Not a big thing EXCEPT, I finally wrote a line I was proud of and I am unable to recreate it. Finally, I am not totally sure this program existed in the first place.
(oh yeah, there was a pretty strange True Stories R Us too)
That being said, this program is a candidate for my top ten ever...
The program for 8 October, 2005
Chapter One: The Blues Aint Nuthin But...
Paul Geremia/Bad Dream Blues/Love, Murder and Mosquitoes
Mary Flower/Hudson River Rag/Bywater Dance
Pat Donahue/Blues for Two/Profile
David Jacobs-Strain/Old Man Dancing/Stuck On the Way Back
Freddy King/Dust My Broom/Live at the Electric Ballroom
Chapter Two: If You Like An Album, Why Not Build A Set Around One of the Tracks?
Pat Donahue/Jazz Name/Profile
Dan Hicks y The Acoustic Warriors/Up Up Up/Shootin' Straight
Ritt Henn/Born to Hold You in My Arms/Goin' Back
Dan Hicks y His Hot Licks/I Feel Like Singing/Alive and Lickin'
Chapter Three: Was previewing this disc in the mobile office (read: stuck in traffic on
Coburg Road)...While listening to the Moore track, I says to myself, "Self, a tango would
fit nicely after this track...then the Forsyth cut follows. Saved me a bit o' work.
Will Taylor (Eliza G)/Easy Riders/Collaborations
Will Taylor (Ian Moore)Cinnamon/Collaborations
Will Taylor (Guy Forsyth)/New Monkey King
Chapter Four: Found this in the in-box at the station. Most singless, stringlike, sorta alt songs
(if that ends up in their press kit we are all in trouble). I'll probably wind up listening to the
rest of the disc (there's another one for the press kit).
Alador/A Minor Infraction/self-titled
Alador/Mandaloony/self-titled
Chapter Five: A Nod of the Cap to the British Isles
Shirley Collins/Adieu Old England
Dick Gaughan/When I 'm Gone/Outlaws and Dreamers
Nick Drake/Cello Song/Way to Blue
June Tabor/Rhosyn Wyn/Rosa Munde
Shelly Phillips/Newcastle/The Butterfly
Skyedance/The Skeydance Reels/Way Out to Hope Street
Chapter Six: I Played I Set For Me (sung to the tune of He Played Real Good For Free)
Dock Boggs/Country Blues/Primitive American Folk Music
Hobart Smith/Bangin' Breakdown/In Sacred Trust
Hobart Smith/Wayfaring Stranger/In Sacred Trust
David+Bill+Billy Ray Johnson/Going Down the Road Feeling Bad/Classic Old Time Music
Norman Blake/Uncle/Old Ties
Chapter Seven: A listen called in to request some swing music. Didn't have much available but
the set still turned out on the okay side from the spinning side of the speakers
King Oliver/Sweet Lovin' Man/High Society
Bessie Smith/Mean Old Bed Bug Blues/High Society
Bennie Goodman/Alexander's Ragtime Band/Swing Dance
Charlie Barnett/Cherokee/Big Bands

Sunday, October 02, 2005

playlist: 1 October 2005

the texas chainsaw acoustic hour
Saturday 0900-1100
KWVA, 88.1, Eugene, OR
listen: to the rhythm of the falling rain
contact: is being regulated in the NHL this year. Who knew?

(okay...www.kwvaradio.org chainsaw881@comcast.net)

Rumours of the grand opening of the www.chainsaw881.blogspot.com are greatly
exaggerated. Actually, the grand opening is greatly exaggerated. Went to the
store but they were all out of hoopla. Does anyone know how began the practice
of having the grand opening after the _________(fill in the blank with your own
favorite) has been open for a while?

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Fact o' the week: Frank Gosar's (KLCC) ceramics make wonderful holiday season
gifts (no, I haven't started to sell time in the occasional, I just owe him
one).

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The program for 1 October, 2005

Really need to rethink these radio specials...with limited air time, it's hard
to paint the pictures I see in my head...I salivate thinking what they would
look like if I took my medication...

The First Part: A touch of the spoken word and a David Wiffin tribute...

Wayne Scott/The Writer/This Weary Way
Ray Wylie Hubbard/Drivin' Wheel/Delirium Tremolos

The Next Part: The Wayne Scott disc is darn near precious. If I ever have a
picking party, I want him there. (editor's note: it's also nice to have some of
the best players around playing with you). Son Darrell gets equal time.

Wayne Scott/Sinner/This Weary Way
Scott, Thompson, Malone/With a Memory Like Mine/Live in NC

The Part after the Next Part: Conflicted...the Browne disc was a discovery at
the station thing...As I am told that I am still skewing older, this play makes
sense. I just don't know about dragging out this stuff. The Cooper track
received some interesting listener response...I am more conflicted about this
disc than I was before I tracked this cut.

Jackson Browne/These Days/Solo Acoustic, Volume 1
Cary Cooper/All Her Angels/Yellow

The Main Part:

Johnny Cash radio special: Man in Black, part III

The Part for People in Maine: More conflict. The instrumental tracks on this
disc are so cool. The arrangements on the other tracks are fun and of merit. I
just am not quite behind the vocals. (editor's note: this means that all the
rest of you out in folkdj-l land should rush out and play the stuffing out of
this disc because you will like it bigtime.

Mary Flower/Raise the Devil/Bywater Dance
Mary Flower/La grippe/Bywater Dance
Mary Flower/Terminal Rag/Bywater Dance

The Part Following the Last Part: I have a source who indicates that Buzz would
appreciate me playing this track. It's a nice album of instrumental guitar
music.

Buzz Turner/Afternoon in Chiapas

The Part ending the Audience Torture for Another Week:

By the time I completed the plugging the next program chatter, there wasn't time
for the track I had selected. Doesn't matter. Everything on this Acoustic Disc
release is a winner.

Jody Stecher y Mike Seeger/Constant Lowdown/Tone Poets