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May Podcast Picks

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Portland’s Golden Promise (l to r): Erik Clampitt, Scott Pettitt, Lucas Jones, Jason Fleming and Sean Burke. Photo by Joel Gaddis

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New albums from several of our favorite national artists (Caleb Caudle, Jason Isbell, Western Centuries, etc.) have helped sustain us through the past few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, but nothing can replace the joy of watching our favorite local bands tear it up in our favorite local bars.

The podcast’s first pandemic casualty happened nearly two months ago, when a scheduled podcast episode featuring local honky tonk band Golden Promise had to be cancelled. Talk about bad timing — Golden Promise’s debut album, Long Days, Sleepless Nights, hit the streets just as local Portland bars and businesses were closing and social distancing measures firmly put in place.

So for our May Podcast Picks, we kick it off with a handful of our favorite local bands. Batting leadoff is “I Ain’t Drunk” from Golden’s Promise’s debut. It’s designed to launch you with style into a weekend of isolation drinking.

We also have great new songs from former Podcast guests Chuck Westmoreland and the Harmed Brothers, tunes from local faves Jenny Don’t & The Spurs, Roselit Bone and Richmond Fontaine as well as great new songs from Lucinda Williams, American Aquarium, Jaime Wyatt, John Baumann, Whitney Rose and John Anderson.

We also share another stunner from Tanya Tucker’s award-winning record from last year, While I’m Living; we pay tribute to the late John Prine; and eventually wrap things up with a classic from the one-off album from 15 years ago by The Drams.

So if you can, take The Drams advice — get “Unhinged” this weekend and crank up our May Podcast Picks! Here’s the playlist:

I Ain’t Drunk, Golden Promise
The Serpent and The Swan, Chuck Westmoreland
All The Same, The Harmed Brothers
Nobody’s Crying Over You, Jenny Don’t & The Spurs
Laughlin, NV, Roselit Bone
You Can’t Rule Me, Lucinda Williams
$87 and a Guilty Conscience That Gets Worse The Longer I Go, Richmond Fontaine
1000 Cities Failing (Part 1), The Sadies
A Better South, American Aquarium
By Your Side, Jaime Wyatt
Lightning On The Mountain, Kyle Nix
This Country Doesn’t Sound The Same, John Baumann
In A Rut, Whitney Rose
Ghost Town, Sarah Shook & The Devil
I’m Still Hanging On, John Anderson
Illegal Smile, John Prine
The Wheels of Laredo, Tanya Tucker
Here’s To You, The Silos
Unhinged, The Drams

TMFWP Special: Wildwood MusicFest Preview

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The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers: Don’t try to categorize them. Just listen. Photo by Emilie Elizabeth
J. Moses and The Ragged Sunday are set to make their Wildwood debut.

Heading to next weekend’s Wildwood MusicFest & Campout in Sheridan, OR, U.S.A.? Our podcast team will be there in full force and ready to party.

To help you (and us) get ready, we’ve put together this modest playlist of songs by some of the artists who will grace the big stage at Roshambo Art Farm during the event, which kicks off Friday, July 19 and runs through mid-afternoon on Sunday, July 21. (Get your tickets here.)

We’re excited that many of our close friends and podcast veterans are on this year’s bill, including Drunken Prayer, Mike Coykendall, Anita Lee Elliott and Silver Lake 66. We’re also super stoked to see J. Moses & The Ragged Sunday make their Wildwood debut — featuring the sweet vocal stylings of Jason Morgan, the Ragged Sunday is one of the hottest new bands on our local roots scene in Portland. Be sure to get up front early Friday and prepare to rock out with Jason and the lads.

We’re also looking forward to catching up with a few of our longtime friends, including the great Willy Tea Taylor and our old pal Matt Woods, who will have copies of his fabulous new album and will perform with his full band, the Natural Disasters. Matt is a one-man storm of talent, so seeing him with a full band will truly be a sight (and sound) to behold.

And of course, we’re really excited to be turned on to lots of new talent. From the world class music of Jerry Joseph, Sallie Ford and Sammy Brue to some of the exciting acts such as the True Loves and Tennessee Stiffs who are just coming on our radar, the lineup at Wildwood is once again sure to set our musical hearts floating happily into the night.

So dig right into this special edition of That Much Further West Podcast — it’s all right here for you. Here’s the playlist:

Momma Told Me, The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
Dirty Dollar Bill, J. Moses and The Ragged Sunday
Mayflies, The Sam Chase and The Unconditional
Cordelia, Drunken Prayer
Screw Up, Sallie Ford
Shattering Sun, Mike Coykendall
Peacocks and Blackhawks, Jerry Joseph
The Catch, Sammy Brue
The Dirty, True Loves
Molly Rose, Willy Tea Taylor
Deadman’s Blues, Matt Woods
Where Our Cast Light Doubles, Roselit Bone
The Sound of Bells, Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters
Backwater Lullaby, Tennessee Stiffs
No Lonesome Tune, Anita Lee Elliott
Young Fools, Small Million
Hobo’s Lament, Malachi Henry and the Lights
Bright Light Midnight, The Hackles
Brown Sugar, The Colin Trio
Pinball, West Valley Shakers
Faded Tattoo, Silver Lake 66

TMFWP Special: An American Forrest

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Forest Van Tuyl in his natural habitat — the mountains of Eastern Oregon. Photo by Ben Herndon

When you give up the paved highways of the West for the horse trails of Eastern Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains, life slows down. Nature’s beauty reveals itself more subtly, as do the people who take to life in the backcountry.

Forrest VanTuyl is one of those people. A few years back he decided to pursue the life of a horseman and settled in the tiny town of Joseph, OR, a remote place in Northeastern Oregon that serves as a gateway to some of the most beautiful landscape in the world.

And as he’s learning the packing skills and tack of a mountain trail outfitter, he continues to apply his keen eye for detail to his poetry and the songwriting that he shares as An American Forrest — an insightful blend of Western folk and country music that has drawn praise from fans and critics alike.

Podcast co-host Phil Favorite caught up with Forrest during his recent stop in Portland to play one of 20-or-so shows his band is playing in support of the new An American Forrest record, “Oh Bronder, Yonder Donder?” Landmark Saloon in SE Portland seemed an appropriate meeting place for the interview, it being just blocks from where “Oh Bronder” was recorded by Mike Coykendall at his Blue Room Studio.

Over the course of this special episode, Forrest talks about his life as a horseman in Eastern Oregon, his connection to the tradition of cowboy poetry and music, life on the road with his talented singer-songwriter wife Margo Cilker, and the mining of inspiration from his many hours spent in the backcountry. Also we share a number of tunes from the new album (listed below).

An American Forrest will be playing the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle this weekend and will be at Fort George Brewery in Astoria, OR, on Sunday, May 26. Also, be sure to check out the video below offering an intimate look inside the making of “Oh Bronder.”

Sam’s House
Yonder Mountain
Rawhide
Pendleton Overcoat