Texas. It's a big state. And it's got a lot of great music. Host David Furst tries to cram in as much as possible on Sunday Night Session every week. If you're a musician and you lived in Texas for at least some part of your career – you're fair game. And remember, SNS always sounds better when dipped in a little barbeque sauce.
David Furst began working as an announcer on KPAC in 1996, shortly after a move to San Antonio. Soon after that, his love for Texas Music led him to take over the reins of Sunday Night Session. David left Texas in 1997, but still produces Sunday Night Session from his current home base of Washington, D.C., where he also works full time as the host of Metro Connection on WAMU. Born and raised in New Jersey, David plays with a seven-piece rock/blues/soul band in his spare time, listens to a lot of Tom Waits and enjoys sleeping late. He’s also worked as a reporter for Dow Jones Telerate and as Head Engineer for Ocean Recording Studios in New Jersey. He is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and the owner of what is EASILY the messiest desk at WAMU.
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Playlist for August 30, 2009
Lightnin' Hopkins - Backwater Blues (The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins) (Tradition)
Chris Smither - Can't Shake These Blues (Live As I'll Ever Be) (Hightone)
Uncle Walt's Band - As The Crow Flies (An American in Texas, Revisited) (Sugar Hill)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown (live at the Cibolo Creek Country Club) (recorded by KSTX)
Lynn Morris - Wrong Road Again (You'll Never Be The Sun) (Rounder)
Bo Reynolds - Going Back To Houston (Out In Texas) (Boma Records)
Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind (Besides) (Rykodisc)
Patty Griffin - Every Little Bit (Living With Ghosts) (A&M)
Peter Keane - Everything's About The Same (Another Kind of Blue) (Broken White)
Asylum Street Spankers - I Don't Wanna (Hot Lunch) (Cold Spring)
The Meat Purveyors - I'd Rather Be Your Enemy (Pain By Numbers) (Bloodshot)
Jon Dee Graham - Best (First Bear on the Moon) (Freedom)
Townes Van Zandt - No Plavce To Fall (Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, TX) (Fat Possum)
Elliott Smith - Between The Bars (Either/Or) (Kill Rock Stars)
Steve Earle - I'm Nothing Without You (Train a' Comin') (Warner Bros.)
Guy Clark - She Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Keepers) (Sugar Hill)
Sue Foley - Every Road I Take (Every Road I Take: The Best of Comtemporary Acoustic Blues) (Shanachie)
Playlist for August 23, 2009
Patty Griffin - Truth #2 (KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 11) (KGSR)
Elliott Smith - Pictures of Me (Either/Or) (Kill Rock Stars)
Elliott Smith - Oh Well, OK (XO) (DreamWorks)
The Lymbic System - Astrology Days (Love Your Abuser) (Psywarp)
Spoon - Everything Hits At Once (Girls Can Tell) (Merge)
Beaver Nelson - East 11th Street (Big Sweet Life: The Songs of Jon Dee Graham) (Freedom)
Bruce Robison - Bed of Ashes (Country Sunshine) (Boar's Nest)
Texas Tornados - She Never Spoke Spanish To Me (Texas Tornados) (Reprise)
Shake Russell - Out Of Control (Deep In The West) (Jalapeno)
The Faces - Ooh La La (Ooh La La) (Warner Bros.)
The Mean Purveyors - Heartbreaker (Pain By Numbers) (Bloodshot)
Travis County Pickin' - Danny's Boogie (Country Jazz Guitar Austin, TX Style) (HMG)
Kenny and the Kasuals - Journey To Tyme (Texas Music Vol. 3 - Garage Bands and Psychedelia) (Rhino)
Steve Miller Band - Space Cowboy (SMB box) (Capitol)
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Rock n' Roll Is A Vicious Game (Growl) (Philo)
Allison Moorer - Work To Go (Getting Somewhere) (Sugar Hill)
James McCurtry and Jules Shear - Safeside (Columbia Records Radio Hour, Vol. 1) (Columbia)
Playlist for August 9, 2009
Kelly Willis - Nobody Wants To Go To The Moon Anymore (KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 15) (KGSR)
Lyle Lovett - She's Leaving Me Because She Really Wants To (Joshua Judges Ruth) (Curb)
Buddy and Julie Miller (with Robert Plant) - What You Gonna Do Leroy? (Written In Chalk) (New West)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Ball of Twine (The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins) (Tradition)
Walter Hyatt - Motor City Man (Some Unfinished Business Vol. 1) (King Tears)
Bobby Blue Bland - Cry Cry Cry (Two Steps From The Blues) (MCA)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Honey Bee (Couldn't Stand The Weather) (Epic)
Pete Mayes - I'm Ready (Antones 20th Anniversary) (Antone's)
Terri Hendrix - Bottom of the Hill (The Spiritual Kind) (Wilory)
James McMurtry - Just Us Kids (Just Us Kids) (Lightning Rod)
Tish Hinojosa - Building #9 (Best of the Sandia) (Watermelon)
Clandestine - Peggy (To Anybody At All) (Candletime)
George Jones - I'm Ragged But I'm Right (Cup of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years) (Mercury)
Playlist for August 2, 2009
Terri Hendrix - Jim Thorpe's Blues (The Spiritual Kind) (Wilory Records)
Rainravens - Rose of Jericho (Best of the Rainravens) (Blue Rose)
South Austin Jug Band - Turn Around (South Austin Jug Band) (no label)
Bad Livers - Counting the Crossties (Hogs on the Highway) (Sugar Hill)
Alejandro Escovedo - Too Little Too Late (Keep Your Soul - a Tribute to Doug Sahm) (Vanguard Records)
Alejandro Escovedo - 1968 (Man of Somebody's Dreams - a Tribute to Chris Gaffney) (YepRoc Records)
Joe "King" Carrasco & Texas Tornados - Adios Mexico (Keep Your Soul - a Tribute to Doug Sahm) (Vanguard Records)
Flaco Jimenez with the West Side Horns - Ta Bueno Compadre / It's OK Friend (Keep Your Soul - a Tribute to Doug Sahm) (Vanguard Records)
Boz Scaggs - Midnight Dream (Man of Somebody's Dreams - a Tribute to Chris Gaffney) (YepRoc Records)
Jimmie Vaughan - Why, Why, Why (Keep Your Soul - a Tribute to Doug Sahm) (Vanguard Records)
Freddy Fender - The Gardens (Man of Somebody's Dreams - a Tribute to Chris Gaffney) (YepRoc Records)
Delbert McClinton - Texas Me (Keep Your Soul - a Tribute to Doug Sahm) (Vanguard Records)
James McMurtry - Fight (Tonight's The Night) (Man of Somebody's Dreams - a Tribute to Chris Gaffney) (YepRoc Records)
Shawn Sahm - Mendocino (Tonight's The Night) (Man of Somebody's Dreams - a Tribute to Chris Gaffney) (YepRoc Records)
Joe Ely - Lift Your Leg (Man of Somebody's Dreams - a Tribute to Chris Gaffney) (YepRoc Records)
July 26, 2009
The San Antonio band Buttercup released their latest full-length album, The Weather Here, this week. Produced by Salim Nourallah (The Old 97’s), The Weather Here was recorded mostly live. The album hangs together well; the songs are about the emotional connections we have to people and places.
The disc is available in San Antonio at Hogwild Records, Half Price Books, and Music Town, and in Austin at Waterloo Records. You can also find it online at Buttercup’s official website, www.buttercult.com.
Extended Interview with members of Buttercup, Erik Sanden, Joe Reyes, Jamie Roadman, and Odie:
Upcoming shows:
July 30 – Houston @ Rudyard’s w/ Salim Nourallah and the Constellations, and The Deathray Davies
July 31 – Austin @ the Mowhawk w/ Salim Nourallah and the Constellations, and The Deathray Davies
August 1 – San Antonio @ the Limelight w/ The Blowing Trees, Salim Nourallah and the Constellations, and The Deathray Davies
Buttercup performs "It's in the Way" in the Texas Public Radio studios:
Buttercup performs "Betta No Better" in the Texas Public Radio studios:
Buttercup performs "Superior" in the Texas Public Radio studios:
Download songs from Buttercup's TPR studio session:
W.C.Clark and porterdavis - Soldier's Plea (Voices of a Grateful Nation, Part One) (Icehouse Music)
Steve James - Viola Lee Blues (Art and Grit) (Antone's Records)
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis - My Bucket's Got A Hole In It (Two Men With The Blues) (Blue Note)
Albert and Gage - Cuttin' A Rug (Dakota Lullaby) (Moon House Records)
Sue Foley - Stupid Girl (Where The Action Is) (Shanachie Entertainment Corp.)
Jesse Dayton - Jumped Head First (Tall Tales) (Bullet Records)
T Bone Burnett - Kill Zone (Tooth of Crime) (Nonesuch)
Roy Orbison - The Only One (Mystery Girl) (Virgin Records)
The Gourds - Ziggy Stardust (gogityershinebox) (Watermelon / Sire)
Austin Lounge Lizards - The Drugs I Need (The Drugs I Need) (Blue Corn Music)
Albert and Gage - True Love Knows (Dakota Lullaby) (Moon House Records)
Flatlanders - The Way We Are (Hills And Valleys) (New West Records)
The Handsome Family - The Forgotten Lake (Singing Bones) (Carrot Top Records)
Darden Smith - Mill Creek (Circo) (Dualtone)
Albert and Gage - If I Die Tomorrow (Dakota Lullaby) (Moon House Records)
Playlist for July 12, 2009
Bob Wills - My Window Faces The South (Anthology: 1935-1973) (Rhino)
Robbie Fulks - Across the Alley from the Alamo (The Pine Valley Cosmonauts Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills) (Bloodshot)
Don Walser - The Party Don't Start Till The Playboys Get Here (Rolling Stone From Texas) (Watermelon)
Bob Wills - Cadillac in Model "A" (Anthology: 1935-1973) (Rhino)
Joel Hamilton - Oreo Swing (Travis County Pickin') (HMG)
Wayne Hancock & Hank Williams III - Juke Joint Jumpin' (For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records) (Bloodshot)
Ted Roddy - Honkytonk Hell (Austin Country Nights) (Watermelon)
Lynn Morris - If Teardrops Were Pennies (You'll Never Be The Sun) (Rounder)
Norah Jones - The Grass Is Blue (Just Because I'm A Woman: The Songs of Dolly Parton) (Sugar Hill)
Los Super 7 - The El Burro Song (Heard It On The X) (Telarc)
The Highwaymen - The Road Goes On Forever (The Road Goes On Forever) (Liberty)
Michael Fracasso - Tell Mary (When I Lived In The Wild) (Bohemia Beat)
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Three Days Straight (Eternal and Lowdown) (Philo)
Tish Hinojosa - Taste of Sying Summer (Sign of Truth) (Rounder)
Boz Scaggs - What's New (But Beautiful) (Gray Cat)
Kelly Willis - He Don't Care Bout Me (Fading Fast) (A&M)
Texas Tornados - Baby, Heaven Sent Me You (Texas Tornados) (Reprise)
Playlist for July 5, 2009
The Texmaniacs - Marina (Borders Y Bailes)
Albert & Gage - Hell or High Water (Dakota Lullaby)
Ben Kweller - Fight (Changing Horses)
The Krayolas - All I Do Is Try (Best Riffs Only)
The Krayolas - Hurtin' Me Baby (live at TPR)
The Krayolas - Little Fox (live at TPR)
The Krayolas - Catherine (live at TPR)
The Krayolas - Marie Laveau (live at TPR)
The Krayolas - Corrido Twelve Heads in a Bag (live at TPR)
The Krayolas - Alamo Dragway (Best Riffs Only)
The San Antonio-based band The Krayolas toured the state in the 1970s and 1980s, recording a string of regional hits in the process. But after a time, the band dissolved, and the various members moved on to other projects. Now, with the help of Texas Music legend Augie Myers, after a 20-year hiatus, The Krayolas are back with a new album, Long Leaf Pine (No Smack Gum).
Texas Public Radio’s Nathan Cone brought the band into our studios recently to play some tunes, and talk about how the effort to preserve their recorded past brought them back to the present.
Extended interview with Hector and David Saldaña of the Krayolas:
The Krayolas Perform "Marie Leveau" in the Texas Public Radio Studios:
Sometimes, songwriting talent runs in the family. Case in point – the Earle clan.
Running down the family tree... there’s Texas music icon Steve Earle. Then there's his talented sister Stacey Earle… AND his son, Justin Townes Earle, who released an impressive new CD called "Midnight At The Movies." Justin’s middle name comes courtesy of Townes Van Zandt. And daddy STEVE Earle just released a collection of TVZ covers - a new album simply titled “Townes.” Confused? Hopefully it will all make sense by the end of the hour.
Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty (Rear View Mirror)
Steve Earle - Colorado Girl (Townes)
Justin Townes Earle - Mama's Eyes (Midnight at the Movies)
Stacey Earle - Is It Enough (Dancin' With Them That Brung Me)
Steve Earle - Tecumseh Valley (Train a Comin')
Steve Earle - Where I Lead Me (Townes - deluxe edition)
Lyle Lovett - If I Needed You (Step Inside This House)
Townes Van Zandt - For The Sake of the Song (Townes Van Zandt)
Justin Townes Earle - Can't Hardly Wait (Midnight at the Movies)
Steve Earle with the Del McCoury Band - I Still Carry You Around (El Corazon)
Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart - When She's Having Fun (Never Gonna Let You Go)
Steve Earle - Loretta (Townes)
Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies (Midnight at the Movies)
Townes Van Zandt - Rex's Blues (Flyin' Shoes)
Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark - I Ain't Ever Satisfied (Together at the Bluebird Cafe)
Playlist for May 31, 2009
Guitarist, producer, singer, songwriter, actor and Texas music historian, Stephen Bruton, died this month at the age of 60. He passed away in Los Angeles after a 2½ year long battle with throat cancer on May 9th. We remember Stephen Bruton with music and conversation. We’ll play highlights from a solo acoustic performance he recorded for Sunday Night Session back in 1997 and hear excerpts from our backstage interview. We’ll also hear some of his best work in the Producer’s Chair; with the likes of Alejandro Escovedo, Chris Smither and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
Stephen Bruton - Bigger Wheel (From The Five)
Stephen Bruton - I Don't Wanna Hurt That Bad (KSTX Live at the Cibolo Creek Country Club, 1997)
Stephen Bruton - Day Drinking (KSTX Live at the Cibolo Creek Country Club, 1997)
Stephen Bruton - Bluebonnet Blue (KSTX Live at the Cibolo Creek Country Club, 1997)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore - My Mind's Got A Ming Of Its Own ("After Awhile")
Alejandro Escovedo - One More Time (Gravity)
Chris Smither - Can't Shake These Blues (Up On The Lowdown)
Stephen Bruton - The Facts of Life (KSTX Live at the Cibolo Creek Country Club, 1997)
Stephen Bruton - Ain't What It Used To Be (KSTX Live at the Cibolo Creek Country Club, 1997)
Stephen Bruton - That's Love (Nothing But The Truth)
Stephen Bruton - The Face Of Love (KSTX Live at the Cibolo Creek Country Club, 1997)
Stephen Bruton - Getting Over You (KSTX Live at the Cibolo Creek Country Club, 1997)
Playlist for May 24, 2009
The San Antonio band Girl in a Coma is releasing their second album on Blackheart Records on June 2. Trio B.C. is chock full of the punk sounds they’re known for, along with such disparate influences as 1950s and 1960s girl groups, 1980s New Wave, and the influence of band favorite, Morrissey. They stopped by the TPR studios this week for an interview and performance. The band’s San Antonio release show is May 29 at Jack’s Patio.
Patty Griffin - Truth No. 2 (KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 11)
Elliott Smith - Pictures of Me (Either/Or)
Elliott Smith - Oh Well, Okay (XO)
The Lymbyc System - Astrology Days (Love Your Abuser)
Spoon - Everything Hits At Once (Girls Can Tell)
Beaver Nelson - East 11th Street (Big Sweet Life: The Songs of Jon Dee Graham)
Bruce Robison - Bed of Ashes (Country Sunshine)
Texas Tornados - She Never Spoke Spanish To Me (Texas Tornados)
Shake Russell - Out of Control (Deep In The West)
Faces - Ooh La La (Ooh La La)
Meat Purveyors - Heartbreaker (Pain By Numbers)
Travis County Pickin' - Danny's Boogie (Country-Jazz Guitar, Austin, Texas Style)
Kenny & the Kasuals - Journey to Tyme (Texas Music Vol. 3: Garage Bands and Psychedelia)
Steve Miller Band - Space Cowboy (SMB Box Set)
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Rock and Roll is a Vicious Game (Growl)
Allison Moorer - Work To Do (Getting Somewhere)
James McMurtry w/ Jules Shear - Safeside (Columbia Records Radio Hour, Vol. 1)
Playlist for May 10, 2009
Not available.
Playlist for May 3, 2009
Alejandro Escovedo - Sister Lost Soul (Live Animal - EP)
Steve Miller Band - My Dark Hour (SMB Box Set)
Lucinda Williams - Words (West)
The Handsome Family - The Winding Corn Maze (Honey Moon)
Shearwater - Rooks (Rook)
Willie Nelson - I've Just Destroyed The World (Teatro)
Townes Van Zandt - You Are Not Needed Now (High Low And In Between)
Sara Hickman - Birdhouse (Motherlode)
Rainravens - Good Luck Charm (Garden Rocket)
The Handsome Family - Little Sparrow (Honey Moon)
Kelly Willis - One More Night (Kelly Willis)
Don Walser - Big Ball's In Cowtown (The Horse Whisperer soundtrack)
Norah Jones - Sinkin' Soon (Not Too Late)
The Handsome Family - The Loneliness of Magnets (Honey Moon)
Daniel Lanois - Here Is What Is (KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 16)
Playlist for April 26, 2009
The Wooden Birds - The Other One (Magnolia)
T Bone Burnett - Humans From Earth (20-20: The Essential)
Austic Lounge Lizards - The Golden Triangle (Creatures From The Black Saloon)
Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen - I'm Coming Home (Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas)
Van Morrison - Muleskinner Blues (Live at Austic City Limits Festival)
Athens v Sparta - The Persian Satrap (live at KSTX)
Athens v Sparta - The Archidamian War (live at KSTX)
Athens v Sparta - The Sicilian Disaster (live at KSTX)
Guy Clark - Soldier's Joy, 1864 (The Dark)
Charles Brown - You Gave Me Everything But Love (In A Grand Style)
Kelly Willis - Nobody Wants To Go To The Moon Anymore (KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 15)
Lyle Lovett - She's Leaving Me Because She Really Wants To (Joshua Judges Ruth)
Buddy & Julie Miller - What You Gonna Do Leroy (Written In Chalk)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Ball of Twine (The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins)
Kris Kristofferson - Me & Bobby McGee (Kristofferson)
Walter Hyatt - Motor City Man (Some Unfinished Business, Vol. 1)
Brave Combo - Louie Louie (The Exotic Rocking Life)
Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Cry Cry Cry (Two Steps From The Blues)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Honey Bee (Couldn't Stand The Weather)
Pete Mayes - I'm Ready (Antone's 20th Anniversary)
Terri Hendrix - Bottom Of A Hill (The Spiritual Kind)
James McMurtry - Just Us Kids (Just Us Kids)
Tish Hinojosa - Building #9 (The Best of the Sandia: Watermelon 1991-1992)
Clandestine - Peggy (To Anybody At All)
George Jones - I'm Ragged But I'm Right (Cup Of Lonliness: The Classic Mercury Years)
Playlist for April 12, 2009
Not available.
Playlist for April 5, 2009
Ben Kweller - Penny On The Train Track (Ben Kweller)
Loose Diamonds - Stonewalls and Steel Bars (Freso Fiasco)
Lyle Lovett and Al Green - Funny How Time Slips Away (Rhythm County and Blues)
Patty Griffin - Heavenly Day (KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 15)
Rodney Crowell - Glasgow Girl (The Outsider)
Christine Albert - The French Song (Paris Texafrance)
Marcia Ball - Watermelon Time (Peace Love & Barbeque)
Wayne Hancock - Walking The Dog (Swing Time)
The Meat Purveyors - Without Love (All Relationships Are Doomed To Fail)
The Flatlanders - My Wildest Dreams Grow Wilder Every Day (Now Again)
James McMurtry - Ruins of the Realm (Just Us Kids)
T Bone Burnett - Kill Zone (Tooth of Crime)
Tish Hinojosa - Taste of Dying Summer (Sign of Truth)
The Handsome Family - Your Great Journey (Last Days of Wonder)
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Joy Ride (Eternal and Lowdown)
Playlist for March 29, 2009
The Flatlanders - She Had Everything - More a Legend Than A Band (Rounder)
The Flatlanders - Homeland Refugee - Hills and Valleys (New West)
The Flatlanders - Wishing For A Rainbow - Hills and Valleys (New West)
Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Ramblin' Man - Two Roads: Live in Australia (Caroline)
The Flatlanders - Right Where I Belong - Now Again (New West)
The Flatlanders - Dallas - More A Legend Than A Band (Rounder)
The Flatlanders - Borderless Love - Hills and Valleys (New West)
The Flatlanders - I Had My Hopes Up High - Sundogs Barkin: Flatlanders in Conversation (New West)
The Flatlanders - The Way We Are - Hills and Valleys (New West)
Joe Ely - Hold On - Musta Notta Gotta Lotta (MCA)
The Flatlanders - Baby Do You Love Me Still - Wheels of Fortune (New West)
The Flatlanders - Bhagavan Decreed - More A Legend Than A Band (Rounder)
The Flatlanders - Sowing On The Mountain - Hills and Valleys (New West)
The Flatlanders - Down on Filbert's Rise - Now Again (New West)
The Flatlanders - I'm Gonna Strangle You Shorty - Wheels of Fortune (New West)
The Flatlanders - After The Storm - Hills and Valleys (New West)
The Krayolas - "Your Doorway Darlin’"
Texas. It's a big state. And it's got a lot of great music. Host David Furst tries to cram in as much as possible on Sunday Night Session every week. If you're a musician and you lived in Texas for at least some part of your career – you're fair game. And remember, SNS always sounds better when dipped in a little barbeque sauce.
The San Antonio band Buttercup released their latest full-length album, The Weather Here, this week. Produced by Salim Nourallah (The Old 97’s), The Weather Here was recorded mostly live. The album hangs together well; the songs are about the emotional connections we have to people and places. 
The San Antonio-based band The Krayolas toured the state in the 1970s and 1980s, recording a string of regional hits in the process. But after a time, the band dissolved, and the various members moved on to other projects. Now, with the help of Texas Music legend Augie Myers, after a 20-year hiatus, The Krayolas are back with a new album, 
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Guitarist, producer, singer, songwriter, actor and Texas music historian, Stephen Bruton, died this month at the age of 60. He passed away in Los Angeles after a 2½ year long battle with throat cancer on May 9th. We remember Stephen Bruton with music and conversation. We’ll play highlights from a solo acoustic performance he recorded for Sunday Night Session back in 1997 and hear excerpts from our backstage interview. We’ll also hear some of his best work in the Producer’s Chair; with the likes of Alejandro Escovedo, Chris Smither and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
Athens v. Sparta: The History of the Peloponnesian War
Extended interview with Athens v. Sparta