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Episode #6 "All Music"

Welcome back to the blog, folks. Philly here, kicking back in front of the computer enjoying an “all music” version of the podcast. Our team of burly ogres ran into some technical difficulties during our weekly recording of the podcast, which forced our hand into providing you with a shenanigans-free episode. I’m sure this will come as a welcome relief to many of you, and hey, it’s all about the music, right?

Well, expect us back in all our vulgar glory soon. But for now, let’s enjoy some great music. This week’s playlist has tons of terrific stuff local to our scene here in Portland, plus lots of cool songs both new and old from the world of alt-country. So let’s get started, shall we.

Here’s this week’s playlist:

That Much Further West (show theme), Lucero
Chinatown, James Sasser
Whisky Bottle, Pat Macdonald
Soul Salvation, Ron Rogers & The Wailing Wind
Katherine Belle, American Aquarium
Tell The Ones I Love, Steep Canyon Rangers
16 Days, Whiskeytown
Brazil, Drunken Prayer
Somewhere In My Heart, The Volebeats
Pastor of the Pines, Root Jack
Bloody 98, Blue Mountain
Roll On The Rusted Days, Howlin Rain
Stopping By, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Walking Out The Door, John Doe
Everybody Run, Digger Barnes
Where They Say You Been Livin’, Tom VandenAvond
Troubadour, Arliss Nancy
Bikeriders, Lucero
My Great Gatsby, Two Cow Garage
Looks Like I’m Up Shit Creek Again, Nora O’Connor
Hurricane, Possessed By Paul James
Doreen, Old 97s
Watch Me Fall, Uncle Tupelo
Perfect Day, Lou Reed

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Austin Lucas

Episode #5 with Austin Lucas interview

Back in the saddle after a week away. For this week’s podcast, we’re celebrating the birth of Eric and Jean’s beautiful baby girl, Ruby, and cranking up some great music to share with you all.

Nice to think we were able to rally back after missing just one week; it’s like it never happened! And right up to the moment Ruby arrived, Eric was busting his ass to bring you a great interview with Austin Lucas while Mike and I were hitting some key shows around town, including the Harmed Brothers CD release show at Mississippi Studios here in beautiful Portland.

We reconvened last week in The Helm to crank out Episode #5 and raise a glass to the wee one and her rock star mother. So, let’s see what we came up with.

Here’s the playlist for this week:

That Much Further West (show theme), Lucero

Stubborn Blood, Mulehead

Starting All Over Again, The Sadies

Go West, Austin Lucas

I Need You To Tell Me Who I Am, John Moreland

I Made A Mess Of This Town, Scott Miller & The Commonwealth

Mantle In ’56, Two Cow Garage

Mexican Blanket, Scotland Barr & The Slow Drags

Dealth Of The Life Of The Party, Drag The River

Change The Locks, The Silos

Colorado Cool-Aid, Johnny Paycheck

There’s a Heartache Going ‘Round, John Paul Keith

TRIO BRAVO (three songs picked by Daisy Fulgham, supercool wife of Jackrabbit singer Tony Fulgham)

Can’t Make It Through the Night, Deadstring Brothers

You Can’t Be Told, Valerie June

I Am Your Man, The Ganges River Band

Interview with Austin Lucas

Top Dollar, Whiskeytown

Jesus Was A Wino, Lydia Loveless

Sweet But Bitter Life, Possessed By Paul James

When You See Me, The Harmed Brothers

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Kurtis Marschke

Episode#4 with Kurtis from the Deadstring Brothers

Greetings folks! It’s Philly again, back with your weekly dose of info and thoughts on the latest podcast. This one features a ton of great music including a Trio Bravo from listener Chris Green and a sweet interview and performance by Kurtis Marschke of Deadstring Brothers, who Eric, Mike and I pinned down for an interview at last summer’s Wildwood Music Festival.

Just a quick note to say thank you all for the great input we’ve received about the podcast and blog so far. Feedback mostly has centered on the Flash-based website and the inability to view it and play the podcast or blog on mobile devices. We’re taking steps to solve these problems so the podcast can be a more enjoyable experience for more folks. Big changes in the works. Stay tuned.

Also, we unsuccessfully tweaked our recording levels for this podcast, which may require you to ride your volume knob throughout the podcast. Hey, it’s interactive! Hah! Sorry about that. Plus, our file was a little too large to be served well on a Firefox browser. Oh well, more things to fix.

Rocktober continues with tons more great shows here in Portland over the next few weeks, so look for us out and about. We’re hitting as many as we can and will report back to you of our comings and goings.

Here’s a look at this week’s playlist:

Playlist for Podcast No. 4 (recorded 10-9-13)

That Much Further West (Demo; show theme), Lucero

Drunken Poet’s Dream, Ray Wylie Hubbard

Concrete And Barbed Wire, Lucinda Williams

Cowboys Are My Weakness, Kate Mann

Reba, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires

You Can Have The Crown, Sturgill Simpson

Love Like This, Drive-By Truckers

Drunk & Single (for George Jones), Joe Fletcher & The Wrong Reasons

Tulsa County Rail, Rubella Graves

Whiskey Rain, Railbenders

Good For You, Truckstop Darlin’

TRIO BRAVO (three songs picked by superfan Chris Green)

Blues Of Sin/Babylove, Pat Macdonald

She Don’t Care, White Trash Blues Revival

Somebody Take Me Home (LLRS Live), Phillip Roebuck

Interview with Kurtis Marschke from Deadstring Brothers.

Let Me In, Austin Lucas

She’s A Lot Like Texas, The Derailers

Meanest Jukebox In Town, Whitey Morgan and the 78s

Daddy Raised A Boy, Scott Miller & The Commonwealth

I Can’t Believe I’ve Fallen, Copper & Coal

Money Back, The Resolectrics

Pappy, Ugly Valley Boys

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Matt Woods

Episode # 3 with the Matt Woods interview

And off we go with Episode #3 and a big couple of weeks of live music staring us in the face. It’s me, Philly again, sharing some notes and thoughts from our latest podcast, taped live last week at The Helm, our secret hideout in North Portland.

A little late with the blog this week because I’ve been buried in live shows all weekend, including Sunday night’s TMFWP team-building field trip to the Lucero show at Mississippi Studios. I’m sure you’ll be hearing more about this grand event in our next episode. To say the least, the show was a little disappointing. It was Lucero’s second show of the day, it started really late, and frontman Ben Nichols was admittedly too drunk to sing or play. Mike and Eric were pretty bummed because they both love Lucero and they wanted the show to kick my ass. Needless to say, it didn’t, though I can see how I probably would have liked it had Nichols been able to keep it together. Alas . . . best team-building moment came when some smacked-out twerp idiot threatened to punch me in the face (for reasons still unknown to me) only to have big Mike step in and explain his options: back off, or die. Eric played peace maker. It was all pretty funny. Spent the rest of the show waiting for a brawl to break out, and hoping I could avoid it. It was one of those nights . . . super drunk crowd . . . you had to have your antennae up.

Anyways, back to this week’s show. We got some really great new music, a cool interview with the great singer and songwriter Matt Woods, and a Trio Bravo from our buddy Bryan Childs of Ninebullets.net. Here’s the playlist:

Playlist for Podcast No. 3 (recorded 10-2-13)

That Much Further West (show theme song), Lucero

Iron Road, Old 97’s with Waylon Jennings

The Very Best, The Harmed Brothers

Unhinged, The Drams

Hopeless, Riviera

The Travelin’ Kind, Tom VandenAvond

My Rolling Wino, Whiskey Folk Ramblers

Murphy Bed, Matthew Lindley

Gin, Smoke, Lies, The Turnpike Troubadours

Louisiana Beauty Queen, American Aquarium

Postcards and Apologies, I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House

Interview with Matt Woods

TRIO BRAVO (three songs picked by Bryan Childs of Ninebullets.net)

Zip City, Drive-By Truckers

Feed The Family, Possessed By Paul James

Amy’s In The Kitchen, Left Lane Cruiser

Used To It Now, Hearts Of Oak

Jail Free, Rich West Blatt & The Once In A While Sky

Recovery, Frank Turner

For Awhile, The Swearengens

Blood On My Hands, Old Man Markley

Birmingham, Shovels & Rope

Hot Denver #1, Denver

Joe Hill’s Ashes, Otis Gibbs

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Willy Vlautin

Episode #2 with the Willy Vlautin interview

Back in a blaze of glory, welcome to the blog supplement to our second podcast!

It’s me again, Philly, sharing some more info from our latest show. We’re very excited to announce that we have a name for our secret hideout, the bar in North Portland where we tape the show. Thanks to the brilliance of the lovely, talented and very pregnant Jean Kotila (Eric’s bride), our new home has been dubbed “The Helm.” Considering there’s a framed portrait of Levon Helm perched proudly on the back of the bar, among several bottles of whiskey, I’d say that Jean hit a home run with this one. Thanks Jean!!!

Which reminds me . . . we need to start posting some photos. I promise to get on that.

Now, brace yourself for another fun and sometimes vulgar thrill ride on the back roads of Americana music and an interview with author Willy Vlautin, leader of one of our favorite bands, Richmond Fontaine.. Here’s the playlist:

Playlist for Podcast No. 2 (recorded 9-25-13)

That Much Further West (show theme song), Lucero

Late In The Night, Heartless Bastards

Just Like a Gillian Welch Song, Split Lip Rayfield

We Welcome You Home, Possessed by Paul James

Last Song About Satan, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club

Way To Kansas, Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy

Truck Driver, Scott H. Biram

Something Changed, Chris Knight

A Killer’s Dream, Rachel Brooke

Always On The Ride, Richmond Fontaine

Interview With Willy Vlautin of Richmond Fontaine

TRIO BRAVO (three songs picked by Derek Phillips of Riviera)

American Dreamer, Gene Clark

North Star, Magnolia Electric Co.

Fast Escape, The Don Of Division Street

C’mon Quinn, Tim Barry

Tow Truck, The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit

Down The Highway, Son Volt

Bad Luck Man, Delaney Davidson

Ain’t No Grave, Drunken Prayer

Tears Don’t Matter Much, Lucero

Sweetness, That’s Your Cue, Slobberbone

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Kris Stuart

Episode #1 with Kris Stuart from Root Jack

Welcome to the first post for the new That Much Further West Podcast blog. It’s me, Phil Favorite, the newly added producer and co-host, sharing some thoughts, insights and information as a supplement to the podcast. I heartily accepted an invitation from Eric Kotila and Mike Lee to join the team, and it’s been a blast so far. I worked with the boys at the Wildwood Music Festival in July corralling and conducting interviews of the many bands who played the event, and now have survived our first show as a trio!

We’ve decided to change the format from an internet radio show to a podcast to give us the flexibility to gather interviews, present guests and share music on our own schedule. Also, we expect to change the format from time to time: our first show was set up in the standard fashion, a two-hour blast of rollicking music and silly humor with friends and guests joining in. At times, we’ll also be doing shorter podcasts that will focus on single themes such as big concerts, new releases, special guests and maybe even the local Portland shows that will be presented under our TMFWP flag. On that note, expect to hear a lot about our regular monthly showcase at the Alberta Street Pub in Portland, happening on the second Thursday of every month and featuring bands that fit the TMFWP profile, meaning they’re tangy, twangy, raucous and rockin’.

You’ll also be hearing a lot about our new digs: we’ll be holed up in a private bar in North Portland and outfitted with the essentials: a cold keg of Rainier and enough bourbon to kill an elephant. You may notice the direct effects of this new arrangement in the second hour of this first show. It’s sloppy from the start, but gets better (for the most part) as we go on.

One thing definitely remains the same from the old show. We’re gonna share it with you warts and all. All the tapings will be live with no editing, so our many gaffes will be there for you to mock and enjoy. We launch the first show with a pretty good whopper, but our ears were pinned and there was no turning back.

So let’s get started, eh? Here’s the playlist from the first show:

Playlist for Podcast No. 1 (9-18-13)

That Much Further West (show theme song), Lucero
Long Lonely Ride, Deadstring Brothers
Stars & Gutters, Two Cow Garage
Get Up Jake, The Band
War With Hell, The Hooten Hallers
Alone in Memphis, Austin Lucas
Traveling Alone, Jason Isbell
What Do I Know, Jackrabbit
Let’s Go Burn Ole Nashville Down, Jello Biafra (with Mojo Nixon)
The Very Beginning, The Sadies

Kris Stuart of Root Jack (solo acoustic)
Barlights
Interview
Think Too Much
Johnny Ray Dupree, Matt Woods

3:59am, John Moreland

TRIO BRAVO (three songs picked by Kip Lindig of WhistlePunk!)
Come Pick Me Up, Ryan Adams
Black Rose, Waylon Jennings
No Sense In Lovin’,  Uncle Tupelo

Another Fine Mess, Have Gun, Will Travel
Mr. Fly, Mike Coykendall
I Think I’ll Stay Here And Drink, Merle Haggard
Bastard Child, Hellbound Glory
Lost In The Trees, Richmond Fontaine