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1) The explosive year of Los Lonely Boys. Vamonos!
2) Fan Fair Friday - KGSR listeners come through again for Family Eldercare.
3) The whole ACL Fest experience: Spearhead, REM, dancin' with my wife to Al Green and rockin' out with Chris Thiele of Nickel Creek to Drive By Truckers: "These dudes are kickin' my ass!"
4) SXSW Week at the Four Seasons, yielding the beautiful "Love Is Everywhere" by Bob Schneider and the Tosca Strings, my favorite song on broadcasts v.11.
5) "Lubbock Lights," the documentary film by Amy Maner.
6) Willie Nelson calling in so we could sing him Happy Birthday on his 70th.
7) Another year of great shows every month at the Saxon Pub. Thanks David Cotton.
8) All my Aussie mates: Kasey and Bill Chambers, Russell Crowe and Austin's best new band, The Greencards.
9) Accompanying Mayor Gus Garcia to give the Dixie Chicks keys to the City of Austin. "Free Natalie!"
10) Getting my brother Danny back and knowing he's listening on kgsr.com |
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1) Returning to Austin and KGSR
2) Interviews with Ziggy Marley and Judy Collins
3) Seeing Los Lonely Boys for the first, second, third, fourth & fifth times
4) Meeting the immortal Mavis Staples
5) Austin's Holy Trinity: Whole Foods/Book People/Waterloo
6) The Austin City Limits Music Festival
7) New Albums from Ziggy, Warren Zevon, Al Green, Fountains of Wayne
8) Personal Trainer Jesse Retherford
9) And the two biggest reasons for my trainer: Austin Java's Lemon Pucker and Quack's Salty Oak Cookies
10) Working on my book, "Raising the Roof: White America's Obsession with Black Music," set for publication in January 2005. |
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Willie's Picnic - interviewing Bob Wier
Every minute of the ACL Festival, except the walk home
Japanese night at SXSW
Movies - Pirates of the Caribbean and Kill Bill
Meeting Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Wavy Gravy
Our new kitchen door, floor, oven, new AC unit, garbage disposal, and bathroom - feels like a new house!
My love and my life with the Fabulous Judy |
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Ry Cooder / Manuel Galban "Mambo Sinuendo"
Various Artists "Verve Remixed 2"
Yo La Tengo "Summer Sun"
Joni Mitchell "Travelogue"
Josh Rouse "1972"
Buddy Guy "Blues Singer"
Johnny Cash "Artists's Choice"
Steve Winwood "About Time"
Matthew Ryan "Regret Over The Wires"
Fountains of Wayne "Welcome Interstate Managers"
Ziggy Marley "Dragonfly"
honorable mention - Outkast |
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1) Yoko Ono's 70th Birthday Party
2) Lennon Legend DVD / Concert for George DVD / "Ringo Rama Deluxe Edition" Box
3) Austin City Limits Festival
4) Loudon Wainwright duet @ KGSR's 13th!
5) California Tie: Visiting Joan Baez's home in Northern California Interviewing Steely Dan in Santa Monica
6) Concert: Bruce Cockburn @ La Zona Rosa
7) Bob Dylan: "Masked & Anonymous" movie / Backyard concerts / Reissues
8) CD: Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban - "Mambo Sinuendo"
9) Song: (Tie) Rosanne & Johnny Cash - "September When It Comes"/ Warren Zevon - "Keep Me In Your Heart"
10) First Los Lonely Boys show I saw @ Stubbs' Being a part of the KGSR team and community, and, my wife, family, friends and cats: numberless. |
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Rodney Crowell "Fate's Right Hand"
Warren Zevon "The Wind"
Lucinda Williams "World Without Tears"
Bruce Springsteen "Rising"
Los Lonely Boys "Los Lonely Boys"
Nickel Creek "This Side" |
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Warren Zevon "The Wind"
Bruce Cockburn "Youve Never Seen Everything"
Neil Young "Greendale"
The Resentments "The Resentments"
Lucinda Williams "World Without Tears"
Rodney Crowell "Fate's Right Hand"
Van Morrison "What's Wrong With This Picture"
Loudon Wainwright III "So Damn Happy"
Rickie Lee Jones "The Evening of My Perfect Day"
Steely Dan "Everything Must Go" |
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Alexi Murdoch "Four Songs" EP
The ACL Festival
Roseanne Cash "Rules of Travel"
Moxie and the Compound
Luka Bloom "Amsterdam"
The birds in our beautiful yard
Patty Griffin's version of "Take It Down"
Paul Brady live Chris Smither "Train Home"
My newest tattoo from Mom's |
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KGSR Program Director Jody Denberg has hosted a Sunday new music program in Austin since 1981! Here are the artists and CDs featured on "The KGSR Sunday Night News Best of 2003 Part I," featuring his favorite compilations, reissues, archival releases, live albums, soundtracks, tribute albums, concept albums, remasters, remixes, director's cuts…of 2003 - or at least as many as could be fit into a 2 hour program! These are in the order aired; more picks are below...
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Robert Johnson - Martin Scorsese Presents * The Best of The Blues
Muddy Waters - Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live
The Allman Brothers Band -
- Live At The Atlanta International Pop Festival
The Sir Douglas Band - Doug Sahm * The Original Texas Groover
II
Rank And File - The Slash Years
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Bruce Springsteen - The Essential Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan - Masked And Anonymous
Music From The Motion Picture
III
Jeff Lynne & Anoushka Shankar - Concert For George
The Beatles - Let It Be…Naked
Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Get Happy!!
IV
Jeff Buckley - Live At Sin E
Beth Orton - Pass In Time
R.E.M. - In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988- 2003
Television - Marquee Moon
V
Marvin Gaye - I Want You (Deluxe Edition)
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live At The Roxy
Nina Simone - Four Women: The Nina Simone
Count Basie's & His Orchestra - America's #1 Band
VI
Randy Newman - The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1
Loudon Wainwright III - So Damn Happy
Billy Bragg - Must I Paint You A Picture: The Essential Billy Bragg
Greg Brown - If I Had Known-Essential Recordings 1980-1996
VII
David Grisman and Friends - Life Of Sorrow
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Friends - Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III
Johnny Cash - Unearthed
The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Go Tell It On The Mountain
- i.e. compilations/reissues/archival discs I'd have played if my show was longer (in no particular order) :
Jeff Buckley - Grace EPs
Jeff Buckey & Gary Lucas
Lou Reed - RCA Reissues
The Paul Brady Songbook
The Paul Simon Collection
Thelonious Monk reissue series
Al Kooper/Mike Bloomfield/Steven Stills - Super Session
Steve Forbert - The Geffen Years
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Doc Watson - Trouble In Mind
Delaney & Bonnie
Cream - The BBC Sessions
The Who - Tommy, Who's Next (Deluxe Editions)
Only The Strong Survive
Elvis Presley - 2nd To None
Joni Mitchell - The Geffen Years
Willie Nelson - 70th Birthday Reissue Series
James Brown - 50th Anniversary Collection
The Grateful Dead - The Closing Of Winterland
Ringo Rama - Deluxe Edition
Bob Dylan - 15 CD Reissue Box
Alejandro Escovedo - With These Hands
Neil Young - On The Beach/American Stars & Bars/Hawks & Doves/Reactor
Steve Earle - Just An American Boy
Delbert McClinton - Live
Patty Griffin - A Kiss In Time
Beautiful: A Tribute To Gordon Lightfoot
Just Because I'm A Woman: The Songs of Dolly Parton
The Byrds - Sweetheart of The Rodeo (Legacy Edition)
Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked (2 CD version)
Tori Amos - Tales of A Librarian
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson (Box Set)
Sir Douglas Quintet - 1+1+1=4/In The Dark
New Riders of The Purple Sage - Live
Peter Gabriel - Hit
Sinatra Sings Gershwin, Porter
Joan Baez - The A&M Years
Aaron Neville - Nature Boy
Marianne Faithfull: The Millenium Collection |
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Robinella & The CC String Band - Robinella & The CC String Band
The Mavericks - The Mavericks
Marcia Ball - So Many Rivers
Al Green - I Can't Stop
II
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Greendale
Rodney Crowell - Fate's Right Hand
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Growl
III
Joseph Arthur - Redemption's Son
Emmylou Harris - Stumble Into Grace
Steely Dan - Everything Must Go
Bruce Cockburn - You've Never Seen Everything
IV
Daniel Lanois - Shine
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
Lisa Germano - Lullaby For Liquid Pig
Jeff Beck - Jeff
V
Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban - Mambo Sinuendo
Ibrahim Ferrer - Buenos Hermanos
Peter Rowan - Reggaebilly
The Derek Trucks Band - Soul Serenade
VI
Richard Buckner - Impasse
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - The Trouble With Humans
Elvis Costello - North
Warren Zevon - The Wind
Rosanne Cash - Rules Of Travel
- ie, CDs I'd have played if I had more than a two-hour show!
Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don't Tolerate
Joan Baez - Dark Chords On A Big Guitar
Doyle Bramhall - Fitchburg Street
Sonny Landreth - The Road We're On
Ron Sexsmith - Cobblestone Runway
Ringo Starr - Ringo Rama
Calexico - Feast of Wire
John Hiatt - Beneath This Gruff Exterior
The White Stripes - Elephant
Richard Thompson - The Old Kit Bag
The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
Lou Reed - The Raven
Chris Whitley - Hotel Vast Horizon
Annie Lennox - Bare
Grandaddy - Sumday
Steve Winwood - About Time
Buddy Guy - Blues Singer
Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
Los Lonely Boys - Los Lonely Boys
Shelby Lynne - Identity Crisis
Edie Brickell - Volcano
Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
Rickie Lee Jones - The Evening Of My Best Day
Robert Earl Keen - Farm Fresh Onions
The Waterboys - Universal Hall
North Mississippi All Stars - Polaris
David Lindley & Wally Ingram - Twango Bango III
Van Morrison - What's Wrong With This Picture?
Josh Rouse - 1972
David Sylvian - Blemish
Paul Westerberg - Come Feel Me Tremble
Joe Strummer - Streetcore
Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man -
Cassandra Wilson - Glamoured
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1) Los Lonely Boys - Heaven
2) Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky
3) Robinella & The CC String Band - Man Over
4) The Mavericks - I Wanna Know
5) The Jayhawks - Save It For A Rainy Day
6) Ben Harper - Diamonds On The Inside
7) Joseph Arthur - Honey & The Moon
8) Ziggy Marley - True To Myself
9) Kacy Crowley - Kind Of Perfect
10) David Gray - Be Mine
11) Johnny Cash - Hurt
*12) Patty Griffin - Long Ride Home
13) Patty Griffin - Take It Down
14) Coldplay - Clocks
15) Nickel Creek - Smoothie Song
16) Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don’t Tolerate
17) Los Lonely Boys - Real Emotion
*18) Dixie Chicks - Truth No. 2
19) Ziggy Marley - Dragonfly
20) Lucinda Williams - Righteously
21) Toni Price - Nothing But Heartache
22) Ray Wylie Hubbard - Screw You, We’re From Texas
*23) Dixie Chicks - A Home
24) Damien Rice - Volcano
*25) Steve Earle - Jerusalem
26) Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart
27) Van Morrison - Once In A Blue Moon
28) Sarah McLachlan - Fallen
29) Rodney Crowell - Earthbound
30) Rosanne Cash - Rules Of Travel
31) Pete Yorn - Crystal Village
32) Warren Zevon - Dirty Life and Times
33) Lucinda Williams - Real Live Bleeding Fingers And Broken Guitar Strings
34) R.E.M. - Bad Day
*35) Dixie Chicks - Traveling Soldier
36) Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban - Mambo Sinuendo
37) Jayhawks - Tailspin
38) Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
39) John Hiatt - Circle Back
40) Josh Rouse - Comeback (Light Therapy)
41) Robert Earl Keen - All I Have Is Today
42) Widespread Panic - Thin Air (Smells Like Mississippi)
43) Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - Don’t Speak In English
44) Kathleen Edwards - Six O’ Clock News
45) Loudon Wainwright III - You Never Phone
*46) Beck - Lost Cause
47) Patty Griffin - Fly (Live)
48) Rodney Crowell - Fate’s Right Hand
49) Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest
50) John Eddie - If You’re Here When I Get Back
51) The Wallflowers - How Good It Can Get
52) Joan Osborne - Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?
53) North Mississippi All Stars - Conan
54) Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will
55) Jack Johnson - The Horizon Has Been Defeated
56) Raul Malo - I See You (Live)
57) Robert Earl Keen - Out Here In The Middle |
58) Neil Young - Bandit
59) Sonny Landreth - Hell At Home
60) Joss Stone - The Chokin’ Kind
61) Gillian Welch - Wayside/Back In Time
*62) Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
63) Bruce Cockburn - Open
*64) Coldplay - In My Place
*65) Beth Orton - Concrete Sky
66) James McMurtry - Valley Road
*67) Bruce Springsteen - Lonesome Day
68) Bob Schneider - Love Is Everywhere
69) Marcia Ball - Foreclose On The House Of Love
70) Steve Winwood - Different Light
71) Willie Nelson/Norah Jones- Lonestar
72 Counting Crows - She Don’t Want Nobody Near
73) Allman Brothers - Old Before My Time
74) Derailers - The Way To My Heart
75) Fleetwood Mac - Peacekeeper
76) John Hiatt - My Baby Blue
*77) Patty Griffin - Rain
78) Coldplay - God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
79) Tom Petty - I Need You
80) Doyle Bramhall - Life By The Drop
81) Shelby Lynne - 10 Rocks
82) Ray Wylie Hubbard - Rock And Roll Is A Vicious Game
83) Coldplay - The Scientist
84) Robert Cray - Up In The Sky
85) Paul Brady - The Hawana Way
86) Los Lonely Boys - Senorita
87) Dave Matthews - Oh
88) Lyle Lovett - Wallisville Road
89) Emmylou Harris - Here I Am
90) Ben Harper - When It’s Good
91) Steve Earle - Amerika V. 6.0
*92) Elvis Costello - 45
93) Widespread Panic - Don’t Wanna Lose You
94) Loudon Wainwright III - So Damn Happy
95) Marcia Ball - Honeypie
96) East Mountain South - You Dance
*97) Buddy Miller - When It Comes To You
*98) Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun
99) Joe Ely - Streets Of Sin
100) Bob Schneider - Honeybomb
*101) Susan Tedeschi - Alone
102) The Thorns - I Can’t Remember
*103) Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer
104) Chris Smither - Train Home
*105) Nickel Creek - This Side
106) Al Green - Play To Win
107) Robert Earl Keen - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? |
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1) Los Lonely Boys - Los Lonely Boys
2) Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
*3) Dixie Chicks - Home
4) The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
5) Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
6) Warren Zevon - The Wind
7) Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don’t Tolerate
8) The Mavericks - The Mavericks
*9) Wilco - Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
10) Robert Earl Keen - Farm Fresh Onions
11) Ben Harper - Diamonds On The Inside
12) Jack Johnson - On And On
13) The White Stripes - Elephant
14) Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
15) Pete Yorn - Day I Forgot
*16) David Gray - A New Day At Midnight
17) Various Artists - broadcasts vol. 11
18) Patty Griffin - A Kiss In Time
19) Ziggy Marley - Dragonfly
20) Rodney Crowell - Fate’s Right Hand
21) Damien Rice - O
22) Ray Wylie Hubbard - Growl
*23) Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
*24) Nickel Creek - This Side
25) Alexi Murdoch - Four Songs
26) Various Artists - Concert For George
*27) Beck - Sea Change
28) John Hiatt - Beneath This Gruff Exterior
29) Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will
30) Rosanne Cash - Rules Of Travel
31) Joseph Arthur - Redemption’s Son
32) Toni Price - Born To Be Blue
*33) Steve Earle - Jerusalem
*34) Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
*35) James McMurtry - Saint Mary Of The Woods
36) Neil Young - Greendale
37) The Derailers- Genuine
38) Kacy Crowley - Moodswing
39) R.E.M. - In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003
40) Robinella & The CC String Band - Robinella & The CC String Band
41) Rufus Wainwright - Want One
42) Kathleen Edwards - Failer
43) Willie Nelson - Stars & Guitars
44) Annie Lennox - Bare
45) Van Morrison - What’s Wrong With This Picture?
46) Various Artists - It’ll Come To You: The Songs of John Hiatt
47) Widespread Panic - Ball
48) Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
49) Dave Matthews - Some Devil
50) Chip & Carrie - The Trouble With Humans
51) The Greencards - Movin’ On
52) The Beatles - Let It Be …Naked
53) Bruce Cockburn - You’ve Never Seen Everything
*54) Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses
55) Del Castillo - Vida |
56) Emmylou Harris - Stumble Into Grace
57) Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
58) Reckless Kelly - Under The Table And Above The Sun
59) Shelby Lynne - Identity Crisis
60) Allman Brothers - Hittin’ The Note
61) Joe Ely - Streets Of Sin
62) Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow
*63) Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home
64) Josh Rouse - 1972
65) Steve Winwood - About Time
66) Bob Schneider - I Have Seen The End Of The World And It Looks Like This
67) Al Green - I Can’t Stop
68) Various Artists - Just Because I’m A Woman: The Songs of Dolly Parton
*69) Tom Petty - The Last DJ
70) John Eddie - Who The Hell Is John Eddie?
71) Carolyn Wonderland - Bloodless Revolution
72) The String Cheese Incident - Untying The Not
73) Buddy Guy - Blues Singer
74) Counting Crows - Films About Ghosts
*75) Beth Orton - Daybreaker
76) Ray Benson - About Time
77) Steely Dan - Everything Must Go
*78) The Wallflowers - Red Letter Days
79) Joan Baez - Dark Chords On A Big Guitar
80) Robert Cray - Time Will Tell
81) Sheryl Crow - The Very Best Of Sheryl Crow
82) Daniel Lanois - Shine
*83) Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live
84) Sonny Landreth - The Road We’re On
*85) Peter Gabriel - Up
86) Rickie Lee Jones - The Evening of My Best Day
87) Doyle Bramhall - Fitchburg Street
88) Various Artists - Lonesome, On’ry And Mean
89) Sting - Sacred Love
90) Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
91) Loudon Wainwright III - So Damn Happy
92) Bruce Springsteen - The Essential Bruce Springsteen
93) Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Unclassified
94) Marcia Ball - So Many Rivers
95) Richard Thompson - The Old Kit Bag
96) Peter Malick Group f/Norah Jones - New York City
97) Randy Newman - The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1
98) Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban - Mambo Sinuendo
99) Chris Smither - Train Home
*100) David Baerwald - Here Comes The New Folk Underground
101) The Resentments - The Resentments
102) Jay Farrar - Terroir Blues
103) Delbert McClinton - Live
104) The Thorns - The Thorns
*105) Mark Knopfler - The Ragpicker’s Dream
*106) Susan Tedeschi - Wait For Me
107) Elvis Presley - 2nd To None |
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1) Austin City Limits Music Festival
2) KGSR’s 13th Anniversary Concert
3) The Dixie Chicks at the Erwin Center
TIE:
4) Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic
4) David Gray at The Backyard
5) Los Lonely Boys at Blues On The Green |
KEVIN CONNOR'S PICKS 
