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Hope you'll enjoy the reviews section. 

  You can read some of my Reviews, some of them have been published by Hans Settler too.
There are reports on the Take Root Festival in Assen 2001 and Assen 2003 with some pictures too.
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PLAYLISTS 2003

Playlists from 2007, Playlists from 2006, Playlists from 2005, Playlists from 2004, Playlists from 2003, Playlists from 2002, Playlists from 2001, Playlists from 2000


I do a regular show on "EMS-VECHTE-WELLE", 95,6 Mhz, Wednesdays between 7 - 8pm.
The show runs in a 2 weeks term (10-11pm)
Playlist "ROOTS"
LIVE ROOTS
some from:
Orange Blossom Special 02

January: Alejandro Escovedo (Bramsche, Dec8th, 2002, incl. interview)
February: Pleasant Grove (OBS)
March: Johnny Dowd (OBS)
April: Sadies (with Jon Langford)
May: Calexico (Strassbourg 2003)
June: Duane Jarvis in Leer (April 2003)
July: Steve Wynn (OBS 2001)
August: Kim Carson (OBS 2003)
September: Bill Frisell Special
October: St. Thomas / Ai Phoenix (OBS 2002)
December: Jon Dee Graham (OBS 2002)

  

December 24, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Waco Brothers: Folsom Prison Blues
Jon Langford & His Sadies: Mayor of the moon
Emmylou Harris: Evangeline
Bottle Rockets: ID Blues
Bonnie Prince Oldham: Joy and jubilee
Three Pickers: Foggy mountain top
Legendary Shack Shakers: Help me from my brain
Bozulich, Carla: Time of the preacher
O'Brien, Tim: Kelly Joe's shoes
Pine Valley Cosmonauts: Death row (Rico Bell)
Calexico: Sunken waltz
Frisell, Bill: Good old people
Danny Barnes: Dirt on the angel



December 10 , 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Bloodshot news:

Legenary Shack Shakers: Pinetree boogie
Paul Burch: Lovesick Blues Boy
Trailer Bride: Mach 1
Sundowners: Something / Things
LSS: Blood on the bluegrass
Paul Burch: Time to cry
Bobby Bare jr.: Valentine
Dollar Store: The new country
Jud Newcomb: Love is real
Steve Earle: Copperhead Road
Bottle Rockets: Man of constant anxiety
Emmylou Harris: Little Bird

Plus: ROOTS LIVE

JD Graham, Beverungen 19.5.02:
01 Something Moves / 02 Waydown In The Hole / 03 One Moment / 04 Volver / 05 Faithless / 06 I Go To / 07 October / 08 Big Sweet Life / 09 Laredo ( Small Dark Something ) / 10 When A Woman Cries / 11 Wave Goodbye / 12 Lonesome Valley / 13 Black Box / 14 Waiting For A Sign

November 26 , 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Chip Taylor: All the rain
Handsome Family: Far from any road
Gilian Welch: No one knows my name
Carter Family: The mountains of Tennessee
ISB: Log cabin home in the sky
Carter Family: Black Jack David
Bob Dylan: Black Jack Davy
Robin Williamson: Return no more
Reverend Gary Davis: Buck dance
Big Mama Thornton: Hound dog
Missipppi John Hurt: Make me a pallet on your floor
Gilian Welch: Make me a pallet on the floor
Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart: Lay down
Buffy Saint-Marie: Soulfoul shade of blue
ISB: Air

November 12 , 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

cancelled because of live broadcast

October 29 , 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Danny Barnes:Life in the country
DB: Face to face
DB: Kitchen floor waltz
Willie Nelson: Red headed stranger
Carla Bozulich: I couldn't believe it was you
CB: Denver/O'er the waves
CB: Can I sleep in your arms
Gilian Welch: I had a good father and mother
Palace brothers: I had a good father and mother
Three Pickers: Who will sing for me
Handsome Family: Dry bones
Neil Young: Through my sails
Roy Orbison: Rockhouse
plus:
ROOTS Live
AiPhoenix /St. Thomas at OBS 2002

October 15, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Assen: Take-Root-Festival, Review:

Kelly Pardekooper: House of mud
Teddy Morgan: Strobe lights
Mia Todd: Digital
Resentments: Way down in the hole
Resentments: My heart breaks
Vic Chesnutt: 2nd floor
Grey deLisle: Home wrecker

Handsome Family: Gail with the golden hair
My Morning Jacket: Golden
Jason Walker: Dissatisfaction
Jason Walker: Dead leaves
Terry Allen: Ain’t no top 40 song


October 1st, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Assen: Take-Root-Festival, Preview:

Grey DeLisle: 'Twas her hunger
The Walkabouts: Rebecca Wild
Vic Chesnutt: Zippy Morocco
Kelly Pardekooper: Kin
David Olney:Theresa Maria
Jon Dee Graham: Airplane
Resentments: Johnny Be Goode

New:
Forresters: The way you do
My Morning Jacket: Bermuda Highway
My Morning Jacket: Just because I do
Forresters: What you want

In memory:
Skip Battin: Cobras
Byrds: Welcome back home

September 17th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m
Johnny Cash: I'm so doggone lonesome
Johnny Cash: I won't back down
Swinging Steaks: Long Ride
Bob Dylan: Dixie
Skip Battin: Ballad of Dick Clark
Bill Kirchen: Buckaroo
Les Paul: In the mood
Lightning Hopkins: I've had my fun if I don't get well no more.
Swinging Steaks: Anna Lee
Gina Lee: Hard headed
Michael Johnathon:Homestead
Fink: Shuffle & kompott
Fink: Sonne nicht gesehn
Los Lobos: On a night like this
Johnny Cash: Wayfaring stranger

Plus
Roots Special: BILL FRISELL
Bill Frisell: Pleased to meet you, Racoon cat (Gone, Just Like A Train)
Big Shoe, Shenandoah, (Good Dog, Happy Man)
Go Jake, Will Jesus wash the bloodstains from your hands (Nashville)
Outlaws (blues dream)
Moon river (with Dave Holland, Elvin Jones)
John Hardy, Cold cold heart (The Willies)
Baba drame, Procissao (Intercontinentals)


September 03rd, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Ad Vanderveen: Take it on faith
Neil Young: Bandit
NY: Be the rain (Dublin)
Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch: Table top dancer
Tim O'Brien: Forty-Nine keep on talkin
Mark Erelli: The drinking gourd
Wayne Hancock: Route 66
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup: Hey mama everything's all right
Pearl Jam: The kids are alright
Joe Ely: That's why I love you like I do
Cowboy Nation: Way out west
Neil Young: Grandpa's interview (Dublin)

August 20th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Caitlin Cary: Please don’t hurry your heart
Fred Neil: Fools are a long time comin
Fred Neil: Everybody’s talking
Baptist Generals: Sweet red wine
Brute: Westport ferry
Big Al Downing: Hometown America
Waco Brothers: The lie
Billy Joe Shaver: Good ol USA
Terry Allen: The burden
TA: Let freedom ring
Bill Frisell: Single girl, married girl
Bambi Molesters: Ice and pinewood trees (w Chris Eckman)

Plus
Roots Live:
Kim Carson, OBS, Beverungen 06.06.2003

Just Like A Man, No One To Blame, Eighteen Westbam Blues, Not A Big Deal, Neon Hailer, Fool For You, Honky Tonk Girl, Burned By An Old Flame, Johnny Get Home, Long Gone, I´m Going To Heaven, Just Because You´re Gone, Made It Through The Rain, Round Lakeside, Going Back To Lousiana, Cajun Moon

August 6th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash: Distance between
Steve Wynn: Dying ambers
Steve Wynn: Definitely clean
Green On Red: Broken Radio
Chuck Prophet: Battered and bruised
Steve Wynn: Here come the miracles
Ray Wylie Hubbard: Bones
RWH: Screw you we’re from Texas
John Mellencamp: Gambling barrom blues
Norah Jones: Cold cold heart
Bascam Lamar Lunsford: I wish
Michael Hall: I wish I was a mole in the ground

July 23rd, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Billy Joe Shaver: White freightliner blues
Gourds: Ballad of John and Yoko
Grateful Dead: Dark hollow
Laura Cantrell: Yonder comes the freight train
Eric Andersen: Foghorn
Country Joe McDonald: Starship ride
Country Joe and the Fish: Section 43
Jay Farrar: Hard is the fall
Calexico: The ride (pt.2)
Rev. JM Gates: Oh death where is thy sting
Bob Dylan: Lay down your weary tune

Plus
Roots Live:

Steve Wynn: Orange Blossom, Special 2003, Beverungen :
Shades of blue, Sustain, Younger, Sunset to the sky, Death valley rain, The way you punish me, Out of this world, Crawling misanthropic blues, Good and bad, Southern California Line, Burn, Halloween, Smasj yourself to bits, There will come a day

July 9th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Rolling Stones: You got the silver
Neil Young: Dead Man
Go To Blazes: Bloody Sam
Bob Dylan: Billy 4
Calexico: Ballad of Cable Hogue
Laura Cantrell: Early years
X: Los Ángeles
Gourds: Save the last dance for me
Johnny Woods: Blue moon (Down home - Delta Experimental Projects)
John Prine: Loretta
Lucinda Williams: Real live fingers and broken guitar strings
Jon Langford: Youghal
Bob Dylan: Brownsville Girl

June 25th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Vic Chesnutt: Stay inside
VC: In my way, yes
Dave Alvin: Louis Collins
Hank Williams: Angel of death
Tom Greenhalgh: Angel of death

Reckless Kelly: Everybody
Jay Farrar:California
Jay Farrar: No rolling back II

Laughing Outlaw Records
Mike Carpenter: King’s Road
Hired Guns: Rusting wire
Karl Broadie: Nowhere now here
KB: Devil by my side
Hazlewoods: Adios amigo

Reckless Kelly: Everybody
Jay Farrar:California
Jay Farrar: No rolling back II

ROOTS LIVE, Leer Taraxacum:
Cindy Bullens
Duane Jarvis

June 11th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Uncle Tupelo: Sin City
UT: No Depression
Roy Acuff: Crash on the highway
Waco Brothers: Wreck on the highway
Gurf Morlix: Hanging me tonight
Tim Rutili: Gallow's pole
Nick Cave: Carnival is over
Gibson Brothers: Beautiful brown eyes
Mark Eitzel: Gary's song
Lovin Spoonful: Blues in the bottle
Cindy Bullens: Sensible shoes
Duane Jarvis: Coulda shoulda woulda
UT: Suzie Q


May 28th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Jolly Ranchers: Gunslinger
Audrey Auld: Our lady of sorrows
Audrey Auld: Harmony (w. Kieran Kane)
Kieran Kane: Mountain song
Be good tanyas: In my time of dying
Sid Selvidge: Long tall mama
Doc Watson: Memphis Blues
Richard Dobson: woody went down in the deep hold
Bob Dylan: Million dollar bash
Bob Dylan: Ragged and dirty
Plainsong: Milarepa's song
Plainsong: Sloth

plus

Roots Live:

Calexico: La Laiterie Strassbourg, April 6th 2003, pt. 1

May 14th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Calexico: Quattro
Bonnie Prince Billy: Wolf among wolves
Bonnie Prince Billy: Hard life
Lucinda Williams: Righteously
Lucinda Williams: Those three days
Rhett Miller: Dang me
Sweet William: Cowboys in Coney Island
Sweet William: Sally Ann
Setters: She's got
Michael Hall: Heaven no how
Silos: Sangre y lagrimas
Byron Berline Band: I feel a whole lot better
Richard Thompson: One door opens
Mark McKay: Ready for the show
Mark McKay: Constantine gardens


April 30th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Two Cow Garage: Been so long
Duane Jarvis: Prodigal daughter
Brick Road Ramblers: Ragged but right
Ashtray Hearts: Disaster
Ashtray Hearts: Still shaking
Janet Bean: Cutters, dealers, cheaters
Catherin Irwin: Cry our little hearts out
Freakwater: Cheap watch
Janet Bean: My little brigadoon
Eleventh Dream Day: Writes a letter home
Seatrain: Marblehead messenger
Bob Dylan: Boogie woogie country girl
Duane Jarvis: I miss you already
Eleni Mendel: Iowa City

plus Roots Live:
Sadies, Abbey Pub, Chicago, January 23 2003


April 16th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Dashboard Saviours: Shotgun travel through time
Sadies: Lay down your arms
Sadies: The story's often told
Country Joe Mc Donald: Agent orange song
Mekons: Hate is the new love
Greg Trooper: Lucky that way
Billy Joe Shaver: Hold on to yours
Shaver: Wild cow gravy
Handsome Family: Water into wine
Kate and Ann McGarrigle: Foolish you
Kate and Ann McGarrigle:Be my baby
Watzloves: You're the reason our kids are ugly
Willie Nelson: Are you sure
Plainsong: Yo yo man
Plainsong: Pilgrims
Jon Langford and his Sadies: Joshua gone Barbados


April 2nd, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Fink: Bagdad Blues
Minus 5: Daggers drawn
Minus 5: Family gardener
Go-Betweens: Poison in the walls
Go-Betweens: Love goes on
John Prine: am Stone
Iris DeMent: There's a wall in Washington
Last Train Home: Quater to 3
Last Train Home: See what love can do
Cow: Selling what she used to give away
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Rollin in my sweet baby's arm Jim lauderdale / Ralph Stanley: She's looking at me
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: There is a time
Fink: Bagdad Blues (live)


March 19th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Sonny Landreth: Fallin for you
Letterpress Opry: One of these days
Kenny Butterill: Canadian road trip
Kenny Butterill: a couple of lines
Randy Howard: Ain't no part of nothin
Jeff Talmadge: Interstate blues
Jeff Talmadge: Inside the brackets
Calexico: Si tu disais
Notting Hillbillies: One way gal
Blue Rodeo: Better off as we are
Wayne Hancock. Wine spodiodie
Stratochief: Where's my moses
Pinetop Seven: Think about you at odd times
plus

ROOTS live:

Johnny Dowd, Orange Blossom Special, Beverungen, May 19th 2002:
Big Wave / Death comes knockin / Heavenly feast / vengenace is mine / Pawnbroker's wife / Worried mind / Lost Avenue / We Three (Ink Spots) / I love you / Monkey Run / Vietnam / No woman's flesh


March 5th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Jon Langford:Hank signs his contract
Sally Timms: Randwick bells
Calexico: Across the wire
Calexico. Dub Latina
Letterpress Opry: I hear the Hudson calling
Letterpress Opry. Jerusalem
Moonshine Willy: Burn in hell
Jim and Jennie and the Pinetops: Who's your daddy little girl
Lee Hazlewood: My baby cried all night
Lee Hazlewood: When a fool loves a fool
Alex Chilton: No more shines the moon on Lorena
Carter Family: The birds were singing of you
Lee Hazlewood's Woodchucks: Muchacho
Nanci Griffith: What's that I hear
Beausoleil: Blues a bebe
Dewey Balfa: La jolie blonde


February 19th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Neko Case & Sadies: Rated X
Ryan Adams: Goodbye honey
3D: In einem angesagten club (In a hip club)
Fugs: If you want to be president
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash: Where I found you
Jonathan Richmond: Since she started to ride
Byrds: Old Blue
Mark Olson & Creekdippers: December's child
Jon Langford and his Sadies: Up to my neck in this
Jon Langford and his Sadies: Solitaire song
Nick Luca Trio: Little town
Bluff City Backsliders: Pony Blues
Solomon Burke: None of us are free

 

plus: Pleasant Grove, OBS 2002


February 5th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Waco Brothers: Interstellar Overdrive
Phil Ochs: One more parade
Jay Farrar: Gather (Slaughter Rule soundtrack)
Pernice Brothers: Stars in my crown (SR)
Campfire: Late Sunday
Jon Langford: Alone and forsaken
Gourds: My name is Jorge
Stephen Jones & Luke Scott: We all make the little flowers grow (Total Lee)
James Luther Dickinson: Asshole
James Luther Dickinson: O how she dances
Phil Ochs: I ain't marching anymore
Camper van Beethoven:Hoe yourself down
Bill Frisell: One of these days
CvB: Interstellar Overdrive

January 22nd, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Mississippi John Hurt: Frankie
Taj Mahal: My creole Belle
MJH: Coffee blues
MudBoy and the Neutrons: Split pea shell
James Luther Dickinson: The ballad of Billy and Oscar
JLD: Home sweet home
JLD& Chuck Prophet: Across the borderline
Kentucky Colonels:Hard hearted
Alejandro Escovedo: 13 years
Interview
AE: Pale blue eyes
Castanets
Rosalie

Roots live:

Alejandro Escovedo: Bramsche, Dec8th, 2002 plus interview
Wave
5 hearts breaking
Rhapsody
Everybody loves me
Sexbeat
Crooked frame
Follow you down
I don't need you
Pissed off 2 am

January 08th, 2003
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Camper van Beethoven: Where the hell is Bill
Dusty Gray:Howlin for my darling
Dag King: Leaving this town
Foghorn Stringband: Roving Gambler/Jaybird in the ashbrook
Gourds: Hellhounds
Linda Tompson: Nine stone rig
Linda Thompson: Weary life
Hearts and Flowers: The view from ward 3
Hearts and Flowers: When I was a cowboy
Bob Dylan. Love minus zero / NO limit
Bob Dylan: Sara
Camper van Beethoven: Border ska
Camper van Beethoven: Take the skinheads bowling
Susan Alcorn: Amazing Grace