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Norbert Knape
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49744 Geeste
Germany

  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 2004

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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"


December 22, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Geezers: Folsom Prison Blues (Rockabilly psychosis & the garage disease)
Pine Valley Cosmonauts: Barn Dance Favorites
Jon Rauhouse: Wishin (Steel guitar rodeo)
Creekdippers: Poor GW (Political Manifest)
Loretta Lynn: Trouble on the line (Van Lear Rose)
Sally Timms: Sentimental marching song (World of him)
John Cale: She doesn't live here anymore (Por Vida)
Jim Lauderdale: Crazy Peg and Darby Doyle (Headed for the hills)
I See Hawks In LA: Hitchhiker
Shins: Mine's not a high horse
Jim White: If Jesus drove a motor home (Drill a whole)
Ralston: Grace (Carwreck conversations)
Mekons: What (Punk Rock)
Cracker / Leftover Salmon: Low (Oh Cracker where art thou?)




December 8, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Kevin Coyne & Pine Valley Cosmonauts: Saviour
Kevin Coyne: Singing the blues
Los Lonely Boys: Heaven
Mekons: Hole in the ground (Honky tonkin)
Jesse Sykes: Weary Blues (Wanda Jackson Tribute: Hard headed woman)
Trailer Bride: Fujijama Mama (Hard headed woman)
Bottle Rockets: Kickin our hearts around (Hard headed woman)
Gourds: Lower 48
Gourds: TTT Gas (Blood on the ram)
Richard Buckner: A chance counsel
Hank Williams: Ramblin Man
FSK: Ramblin Man




November 24, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Sadies Interview plus:

Helldorado: The snake girl song (director’s cut)
Tony Joe White: High sheriff of Calhoun Parish (Country got soul)
Jesse Sykes: Oh my girl (Oh my girl)
Sadies: Song of the chief musician (Favourite colours)
Sadies: Only you and your eyes (Favourite colours)
Sadies: Dying is easy (1st)
Andre Williams & Sadies: Weapon of massdestruction
Jason Ringenberg: Chief Joseph’s last dream (empire builders)
New Pornographers: All for swinging you around
Corn Sister: No more for you (The other women)
Tony Joe White: Ice cream man (The heroines)
Tom Waits: Blind love
Heinrich: Norwegian wood
John Fogerty: Sugar Sugar (Déjà vu all over again)




November 10, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

John Peel Special

Undertones: Teenage Kicks
Bridget St. John: To b without a hitch
Liverpool Scene: Percy Parslow's hamster farm
T.Rex: 20th century boy
Jimi Hendrix: Radio One Theme
FSK: Don't pass me by
Mekons: Sophie
Laura Cantrell: Early years
Blood On the saddle: Single girl again
Blaine Reininger: El Paso
Jon Wayne: Texas Wine
Billy Bragg: New England
Silicon Teens: Memphis Tennessee
Neko Case: South Tacoma way
Culture: Lion Rock




October 27, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Foghorn Stringband: Best Timber (Reap what you sow)
FSB:Dying Hobo
Eleni Mandell:Just a dream (Afternoon)
Nels Andrews: Jesse's Mom (Sunday shoes)
Cadillac Hitmen: Two in the hat (Two in the hat)
Mekons: Ghosts of american astronauts (The very best of)
Mekons: Big Zombie
Amelia White: Black doves (Candy heart)
Steve Mayone: The sweetest thing (Bedroom rockstar)
Shawn Colvin: Single Girl, married girl (Unbroken circle)
Brass Monkey: Maid and the Palmer (The complete Brass Monkey)
Darden Smith: Late train to London (Circo)





October 13, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Buddy Miller: Don't wait (Universal united house of prayer)
Markus Rill: Heartbreak town (Hobo Dream)
Last Train Home: Quarter to 3 (Time and water)
Patty Loveless: You'll never leave Harlan alive
Steve Earle: Harlan Man
Marty Stuart: Harlan county
Gillian Welch:Revelator
Steve Earle: Rich man's war (Revolution starts now)
Buddy Miller: Higher Power (Universal united house of prayer)
Mississippi John Hurt: C C Rider
Mitch Ryder: CC Rider
Markus Rill: Rose's song(Hobo Dream)




September 29, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

ASSEN: Takeroot-Festival:
Sadies: Lay down your arms (Stories often told)
Cowboy Junkies: My wild child (One soul now)
Giant sand: Down on town (Valley of rain)
Band of Blacky Ranchette: The wrong man (1st)
Johnny Dowd: Vengeance is mine (Temporary shelter)
Legendary Shack Shakers: Wild wild lover (Cockadoodledon’t)
Sadies: Tiger Tiger

Psychedelic Cowboys: Hippie girls and sipping whiskey (Tragic songs and hop-a-longs)
Psychedelic Cowboys: California Country Scene
Beachwood Sparks: Old Manatee (Once we were trees)
I See Hawks In LA: I stayed away (Grapevine)
I See Hawks In LA: Still want you
Lauran Sheehan: C C Rider (Some old lonesome day) 2003




September 15, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Steve Earle: Seeker (Revolution now)
Sally Timms: 139 Hermansler Gürtel (The world of him)
Steve Earle: Rich man's war (Revolution now)
Sally Timms: Bomb (The world of him)
Buddy Miller: With god on our side
Waco Brothers: I fought the law (Uncut - Clash Tribute Sampler)
Gurf Morlix: Were you lyin down (Cut n shoot)
Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch: Hillbilly Blue (You can't save everybody)
Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch: Just like that (You can't save everybody)
Teenage Fanclub: Gene Clark (13)
Vogues: Five o'clock world (Greatest hits)
Loudon Wainwright III: Housework (Grown man)
Emmylou Harris: Hard times (At the Ryman)




September 01, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Dave Alvin: Ashgrove (Ashgrove)
Knitters: Silver wings (Poor little critter on the road - 1985)
Dave Alvin: Everett Ruess (Ashgrove)
Tex Ritter: Rye Whiskey
Blue Mountain: Rye Whiskey (Roots)
Meat Purveyors: Cold hard rain (Pain by numbers)
Meat Purveyors: Amanda Ruth (Pain by numbers)
Los Loneley Boys: Castanets (Por vida)
Jayhawks: Last to Know (Por vida)
Bob Neuwirth: Rosalie (Por vida)
Wilco: Hummingbird (Ghost)
Emmylou Harris: Cajun born (Luxury liner)
Tres Chicas: Heartbeat (Sweetwater)




August 18, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Dave McCann: Timber Road (Country medicine)
Sacred Harp Singers: I'm going home (Cold mountain)
Tim Eriksen: Am I born to die (Cold mountain)
Robert Belfour: My baby's gone (Big bad love)
Kenny Brown: Boxcar blues (Big bad love)
Split Lip Rayfield: Promise not to tell (Should have seen it coming)
Split Lip Rayfield: Union man
Bobby Bare jr.: Let's rock n roll (From the end of your leash)
Nora O'Connor: Ok with me (Til the dawn)
Nora O'Connor: Bottoms(Til the dawn)
Kasey Chambers: Pony (Wayward angel)
Kasey Chambers: Follow you home (Wayward angel)
Rosie Flores: Aromatherapy cowgirl (Single rose)
Dave McCann: Locomotive breath (Country medicine)
Bobby Bare jr.: Hidden track (From the end of your leash)


August 04, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Rolling Stones. Salt of the earth (Beggar's Banquet)
Bob Dylan: Man in me (Big Lebowski)
Townes van Zandt: Dead flowers (Big Lebowski)
T-Bone Burnett: The murder weapon (Proof through the night)
Jack White: Wayfaring stranger (Cold mountain)
Allison Krauss: You will be my ain true love (Cold mountain)
Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon: Atomic power (Prairie home invasion)
Rank and File: Rank and file (Tut's Chicago, 5.5.83)
Redlands Palomino Co: Get on the train (By the time you hear this)
Redlands Palomino Co: Devil in my head (By the time you hear this)
Califone: Slow right hand (Roomsound)
Sacred Harp Singers: Iduema (Cold Mountain)
Cordelia's Dad: Idumea (How can I sleep?)



July 21, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Skip Spence: Cripple Creek (Oar)
Michael Nesmith: Silver moon (Loose salute)
Skip Spence: Little hands (Oar)
Skip Spence: Dixie peach promenade (Oar)
Jay Farrar: Weighted down (the prison song) (more oar)
Beck: Halo of gold (more oar)
Michael Nesmith: Texas morning (Nevada fighter)
Michael Nesmith: Two different roads (And the hits just keep on comin)
Scott McKnight: Sunny girlfriend(Pap Nez)
Western Electric: Sweet young thing (Pap Nez)
Mark Sheehy: The demise of Eric Johnson (Rock paper Jesus)
Mark Sheehy: you and me (Rock paper Jesus)
Michael Carpenter: You and me (Rolling ball)
Michael Carpenter: Emily says (Rolling ball)




July 07, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Garcia/Grisman: Stealin (Shady Grove)
Old and in the way: Lonesome LA Cowboy (That high lonesome sound)
Phish: Water in the sky (The story of the ghost)
String Cheese Incident: Shenandoah Breakdown (Carnival 99)
Leftover Salmon: Are you sure Hank done it that way (Nashville)
Sam Bush: Spirit ist he journey (King of my world)
Donna the Buffalo: Life is strange (Rockin in the weary land)
Jim Lauderdale & Donna the Buffalo: Different kind of lightning
Jim Lauderdale: We really shouldn't be doing this ( Onward through it all)
Jim Lauderdale & Ralph Stanley: Another siner's prayer ( Feel like singing today)
Jim Lauderdale & Robert Hunter: Head for the sun (Headed for the hills)
Railroad Earth: Storms (The good life)
Band of Blacky Ranchette: Play an old guitar



June 23, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Loretta Lynn: Coal miner's daughter
Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose (Van Lear Rose)
Loretta Lynn: Portland Oregon
Jim Lauderdale: Sandy Ford (Headed for the hills)
Grateful Dead: Dire wolf
Jim White: Borrowed wings (Drill a whole)
Keith Blocker: She's hangin it up
Creekdippers: End of the highway (Political manifest)
Slaid Cleaves: Sinners prayer
Stands: Here she comes again
Shins: Mine's not a high horse
Sam Bush: 8 more miles to Louisville (King of my world)

Roots live: Resentments, OBS Beverungen 2004



June 9, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Tarbox Ramblers: Already gone
Ad Vanderveen: Lottery of love
Markus Rill: Hobo Dream
Resentments: Rich man's war
Creekdippers: Portrait of a sick America
Barb Waters: Further down the line
Beasts of Bourbon: the day Marty Robbins died
Marty Robbins: ballad of the Alamo
Jim White: Combing my hair in a brand new style
Lisa O'Kane: Settle down / Little white lies
Beck: I'm so glad
Big Lou: Is anything better than beer (Dogs playing polka)




May 26, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m
Flatlanders: Whistle blues (Wheels of fortune)
Josh Ritter: You don't make it easy baby (hell starling)
PVC: I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart (Barn Dance Favorites)
Cracker/Leftover Salmon: Teen Angst
Nancy Sinatra: Bang bang
PVC: Dixie Cannonball (Barn Dance Favorites)
Big Lou: Two guitars/Dark eyes (Dogs playing polka)
Tanya Dennis: He feels guilty (Apartment #9)
Brick Road Ramblers: Friend of the devil (Live at lock 3)
Barb Waters: Make it count (Rosa duet)
Dayna Kurtz: Somebody leave a light on (Postcards from downstairs)
DK: Satisfied
Gypsy Moths: The funk
Jerry Jeff Walker: May music be your wings (Gypsy songman)



April 28, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Tarbox Ramblers: No night there
Eddie Spaghetti: Sea of heartbreak
Duchess of Hazard: Muzukasjii, baby
Adrienne Young: Nibber's corner
Adrienne young: Conestoga
Creekdippers: Betsy Dupree
Franz Ferdinand: 40ft
Sammy Sadler: That ole gravel road
Three Johns: The world of the workers
Uncle Dave & waco Brothers: Table for one
Bonnie Prince Billy: Horses
Norah Jones: The long way home
Flatlanders: Indian Cowboy
Tarbox Ramblers: Ashes to ashes



April 13, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m
Graham Parker: Fairground (Your country)
Graham Parker: Cruel Lips
Dollar Store: Enemy
Dollar Store: Believe
Meat Purveyors: Whiskey before breakfast (Beans n sweepins)
Meat Purveyors: Working on a building
Jon Rauhouse: Smoke rings (w. Kelly Hogan) (Steel guitar rodeo)
Jon Rauhouse: Indian love call
Lisa Redford: Turn away (Slipstream)
Korby Lenker: Right this time (Bellingham)
Rodney Crowell: Ridin out the storm (Fate’s right hand)
Victoria Williams: I’m old fashioned
Tish Hinojosa: Taos to Tennessee (Taos to Tennessee)
Drive By Truckers: Panties in your purse (Gangstabilly)


March 31, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Ronnie Lane: How come
Paula Frazer: The hand (A place where I know)
Anny Celsi: Summer fling (Little black dress)
Country Joe: Starship Ride (Superstitious Blues)
Barry Melton: The sun is shining
Korby Lenker: Angels rejoiced last night (Bellingham)
Tammy Rogers & Don Heffington: Flaco's farewell (In the red)
Korby Lenker: Shed a little light
Blacks: How he cried
Asylum Street Spankers: Antifeeze
Jon Langford: Sputnik 57
Gram Parsons: Christian Life (Sweetheart of the rodeo)
Louvin Brothers: You're running wild (When I stop dreaming)
Multiboy: Someone always dies (Land of the kantrie giants)




March 17, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m
Greg Brown: Who woulda thunk it (If I had known)
Tennessee Boltsmokers: Carry me away ( Songs from the floor)
Jon Langford: Constanz (all the fame of lofty deeds)
Hank Quillen: Looking through American glass blues (Wings of freedom)
Bob Livingston: Mahatma Ghandi and Sitting Bull
Beatles: Tell me what you see (Help)
White Stripes: Don't know what to do with myself (Elephant)
Catherine Irwin: (Cut yourself a switch)
Elvis Presley: I don't care if the sun don't shine (Complete 50s masters)
Gillian Welch: One monkey (Soul journey)
Victoria Williams: As time goes by (sings some ol songs)
Eleventh Dream Day: Tarantula(Prairie School Freakout)
Greg Brown: Downtown (If I had known)
Paul Burch: Last time I fell (Fol for love)


March 3, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m
Tennessee Boltsmokers: Never be mine ( Songs from the floor)
Rodney Crowell: Fate's right hand (Fate's right hand)
Billy Joe Shaver: Try and try again (Try and try again)
Colin Gilmore: 2150 (The day the world stopped and spun the other way)
Peter Holsapple: Still be around (For anyone - Uncle Tupelo tribute)
Duane Jarvis & Dave Coleman: New Madrid (For anyone - Uncle Tupelo tribute)
Johnny Cash: Flesh and blood (Unearthed)
Barnes Boogie Train: Rumble in Brighton (st)
Jessica Blake: Thank you for the ride (Take your time)
Shania Twain & Alison Krauss: Coat of many colours (Just because I'm a woman)
Joan Osborne Do I ever cross your mind (Just because I'm a woman)
Toni Price: Black and blue heart ( Born to be blue)
Jenny Queen: Between the riverbank and the highway (Girls who cry need cake)
Jimmy and Jennmy Eaves: Beer on the bar (Listening to the bluebird sing)



February 18, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m

Ryan Adams: Wish you were here
RA: Afraid not scared,
Johnny Cash. Where the soul of man never dies
JC: Pocahontas
JC: Devil's right hand
JC: Redemption song
Erdmöbel: In den Schuhen von Audrey Hepburn,
Erdmöbel: Dreierbahn
Drive By Truckers: My sweet Annette,
DBT: Careless
Fugs: Septuagenarian in Love
Fugs: Miriam
Fugs: Ultimate things
Iain Matthews.
Frank Blevins & his Tar Heel rattlers: Sally Ann

Roots Live: Jancee Pornick Casino, MTc Köln, January 16 2004



February 4, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

TERRY ALLEN SPECIAL:

Amarillo Highway (Lubbock on everything)
Randy Thompson: The lovin shown (That's not me)
Trip Rogers: Spank the plank (Mainline)
Cantina Carlotta (Juarez)
Oui (Lubbock on everything)
Gimme a ride to heaven boy (Bloodlines)
Wayne Hancock: Back to black (Chippy)
Amerasia, Swanlake, Display woman-Displaced man (Amerasia)
I love Germany (Silent majority - greatest missed hits)
What of Alicia (Human remains)
Crisis Site 13 (Hr)
Red leg boy (Salivation)



January 21, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m
Gourds: Are you ready for the country? (live)
Rick Shea: Summerwine (Our Shangri-La)
Eagle-Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid & James Blood Ulmer: Down in Mississippi ((VA. The soul of a man)
Richard Dobson: A river will do (a river will do)
Richard Dobson: Homemade kites (a river will do)
Magokura Bothers: My back pages (Masked and anonymous)
Kathy Louvin/Pamela Brown: I wish you knew (Livin lovin losin - Louvin Brothers tribute
Hank Williams: Hey good looking (Box)
Charlie Rich: Hey god looking (Country got soul)
Del McCoury: Hillcrest drive (It's just the night)
Resentments: Rhumba Boogie (Sunday night line-up)
Jayhawks: All the right reasons (Rainy day music)
Bingo: Twinkle, twinkle (The cicada and other stories)

Roots Live: 7.6.03 Beverungen Vic Chesnutt



January 7, 2004
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Scott Miller: Second chance (Upside downside)
Eric Westbury: Wise man watching (Burnt Tongues and blue truths)
Joan Baez: Caleb Meyer (Dark chords on a big guitar)
Steve Earle: Christmas in Washington (Just an american boy)
Great Speckled Bird: Long long time to get old / Rio grande (same title – 1969)
DM Bob and the Deficits: Name game (Cajun Creole Hot nuts)
South San Gabriel: Ninety secretaries down (Songs/Music)
Mekons: Work all week / The building / Never been in a riot (Punk Rock)
Anna Fermin’s Trigger Gospel: White birch (Oh the stories we hold)
David Childers: Room#23 (Room #23)
Missouri: Every single day ( it’s a glow-in-in-the-dark good time)


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