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  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 2006

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 10 - 11pm.
The show runs in a 2 weeks term

Playlist "ROOTS"

Starting with Oct. 11 2006 I publish my playlist in my new weblog. It has improved service incl. download and theof course you can write comments.

Zum Weblog


20 Dezember 2006

Waco Brothers: Folsom Prison Blues
Top Ten 2006:
Bonnie ’Prince’ Billy: Big Friday (The letting go)
Avett Brothers: Distraction #4 (Four thieves gone)
Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin: Heaven now (Lost John Dean)
Scritti Politti: The boom boom bap (White bread, black beer)
Mark Pickerell: You’ll be mine (Snake on the radio)
Wee Hairy Beasties: Cuttlefish bone (Animals crackers)
Sadies: Evangeline (In concert)
Alejandro Escovedo: The ladder (The boxing mirror)
Bob Dylan: The levee’s gonna break (Modern times)
Ali Farka Toure: Yer Bounda fara (Savane)

Dave Sheehan: Zinnia (Summer flowers)
Lantana: The juice ain’t worth the squeeze (Unbridled)
Pere Ubu: Flames over Nebraska ( Why I hate women)
Jon Langford: Return of the golden guitarist (Nashville radio)


06 Dezember 2006

Clinic: Family (Visitations)
Blues Magoos: Santa Claus is coming to town (Electric comic book)
Sadies: Lucifer Sam (In Concert)
Moods: Rockin santa Claus (Sarg)
Captain Beefeart; There ain’t no Santa Claus (Spotlight Kid)
Buddy & The huddle: Santa Claus lives in your phonograph
Pee Wee King: Rootin Tootin Santa Claus
Ian and Sylvia: CC Rider (The complete Vanguard Studio Recordings, CD 1)
Great Speckled Bird: Disappearing woman
Wee Hairy Beasties: Road safety song (Animal crackers)
Be Good Tanyas: A thousand tiny pieces (Hello love)
Willie Nelson: Overtime ( It always will be)
Blues Magoos: Jingle bells (Electric comic book)
Neil Young: Cowgirl in the sand (Fillmore West)

22 November 2006

Sadies: The side track (Tales of the Rat Fink)
Paul Burch: Daddy Rhythm guitar (East to West)
Bobby Bare jr.: The heart bionic (The longest meow)
Paul Burch: John Peel (East to West)
Peanuts Wilson: Cast iron arm (John Peel and Sheila: The pig’s big 78’s)
Wee Hairy Beasties: Cyril, the Karaoke squirrel (Animal Crackers)
Handsome Family: After we shot the grizzly (Last days of wonder)
Wayne Hancock: Drinkin blues (Tulsa)
Hellwood: The good die young (Chainsaw of life)
John Doe w/Jim and Jennie & The Pinetops: Call of the wrecking ball (For a decade of sin)
Sadies w/Blue Rodeo: Stories often told (In concert)
Sadies w/ Good Family: Higher Power (In concert)
Beirut: Scenic World (Gulag Orchestra)
Legendary Stardust Cowboy: Paralysed
Beirut: Prenzlaurberg (Gulag Orchestra)

08 November 2006

T-Bone Burnett: Quicksand (Truth Decay)
T-Bone Burnett: Euromad (The Talking Animals)
T-Bone Burnett: Humans from earth (The Criminal Under My Own Hat)
T-Bone Burnett: Fear country (The True False Identity)
Bob Dylan: It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry (The Rolling Thunder Revuw: Live 1975)
Gillian Welch: I’m not afraid to die (Hell among the yearlings)
Elvis Costello: Don’t let me be misunderstood (King of America)
Cox Family: Will there be any stars in my crown (Down from the mountain)
Pernice Brothers: Will there be any stars in my crown (Slaughter rule)
Townes van Zandt: Dead Flowers (Big Lewbowski)
Alison Krauss: The Scarlet Tide (Cold Mountain)
Los Lobos. A matter of time (How will the wolf survive?)

October 25 2006


T-Bone Burnett: Palestine Texas (The true false identity)
TV on the Radio: Wolf like me (Return to Cookie Mountain)
James Russell: I had five long years (VA: In Prison - Trikont Records)
Solomon Burke: Valley of tears (Nashville)
Robyn Hitchcock: Everybody needs love (Spooked)
Halfway: Billy Joe and the bullymen (Remember the river)
Avett Brothers: The fall (The Robbinsville Sessions)
Moussu T e lei Jovents: Quand tu n’as que des bons amis (Forever polido)
David Eugene Edwards: Wayfaring stranger (Searching for the wrong-eyed jesus)
Jim Lauderdale: I shouldn’t want you so bad (Bluegrass)
The Duhks: Down to the river (Migrations)
T-Bone Burnett: Shaken, rattled and rolled (The true false identity)
Mercan Dede: Ney (Nar)

 


October 11 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

My Morning Jacket: Dancefloors (Okonokos)
Nina Nastasia: Lee (On leaving)
Corb Lund Band: All I wanna do is play cards (Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer)
Maria Muldaur: On a night like this (Heart of mine)
Bob Dylan: Beyond the horizon (Modern times)
Raconteurs: Intimate secreatry (Broken boy soldier)
Damnwells: Kung Fu Grip Kiss (Air Stereo)
Cerys Matthews: Morning Sunshine (Never Said Goodbye)
Hellwood: Thank you, Lord (Chainsaw of life)
Hellwood: Man in the plaid suit
Jim White: God was drunk when he made me (No such place)
Johnny Dowd: Murder (Wrong side of Memphis)
Ryan Adams: Magnolia mountain (Cold roses)



September 27 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Chad Vangaalen: Flower gardens (Skelliconnection)
Ray Lamontagne: Lesson learned (Till the sun turns black)
Ray Lamontagne: Three more days (Till the sun turns black)
Los Lobos: Hold on (The town and the city)
Richard Buckner: Window (Meadow)
The Duhks: Mountains o'things (Migrations)
Jefferson Pepper: Interstate Highway (Christmas in Fallujah)
M Ward: To go home (Post War)
Guy Clark: Worry B. Gone (Workbench songs)
Bonnie Prince Billy: No bad news (The letting go)
Carrie Rodriguez: Seven angels on a bicycle (Seven angels on a bicycle)
Blood Meridian: (Kick up the dust)
Madeleine Peyroux: Summer wind (Half the perfect world)
Los Lobos: Chucos Cumbia (The town and the city)



September 13 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Take Root Festival Special

Ryan Adams: Magnolia mountain (Cold roses)
Johnny Dowd: Johnny B. Goode (Cruel words)
Jim White: Alabama chrome (Drill a hole in the substrate and tell me what you see)
Luka Bloom: Gypsy Music (Innocence)
Hobotalk: Book of life (Notes on sunset)
Kelly Stoltz: Ever thought of coming back (Below the branches)
Teitur: Rough around the edges (Poetry and aeroplanes)
Neal Casal: Too far to fall (No wish to reminisce)
Neal Casal: Saw stars(No wish to reminisce)
Ryan Adams: Easy plateau(Cold roses)
Colin Linden: Blackbird
Krista Detor: Mudshow (Mudshow)
Jim White: Heaven in my heart (Wrong eyed Jesus)



August 30 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Neil Young: No wonder (Prairie Wind)
Johnny Cash: Like the 309 (Hundred highways)
Johnny Cash: Further on (up the road) (Hundred highways)
Bob Dylan: Rollin and tumbling (Modern times)
Bob Dylan: Thunder on the mountain (Modern times)
Kris Kristofferson: Chase the feeling (This old road)
Ali Farka Toure: Soya (Savane)
Hazlewood, Lee: The Old Man And His Guitar (These Boots Are Made For Walkin' )
Austin Lounge Lizards: Forty Years Old And I'm Livin' In My Mom's Garage ( Never An Adult Moment)
Louvin, Charlie: I Wanna Die Young (At A Very Old Age) (The Longest Train)
Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch with Fats Kaplin: Till I'm Too Old To Die Young (You Can't Save Everbody)
Neil Young: This old guitar (Prairie Wind)



August 16 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Love: Everlasting First (False start)
Love: Message to Pretty (1st album)
Love: 7 & 7 is (Da capo)
Urge Overkill: Robert Montgomery ( We're all normal and we want our freedom)
Calexico: Alone again or
Rich Hopkins: Signed DC ( Tinitus)
Go-Betweens: Cattle and cane
Mark Pickerell: Graffiti girl ( Snake in the radio)
Go-Betweens: Something for myself (Bright yellow, bright orange)
Mekons: Ghosts of American astronauts (So good it hurts)
Ryan Aadms: A kiss before I go (Jacksonville City Nights
RA: The hardest part
Golden Smog: Listen Joe (Another fine day)
Love: Live and let live (Forever Changes)



August 2 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

James Hunter: Riot in my heart (People gonna talk)
Deadstring Brothers: Sacred Heart (Starving Winter report)
Kris Kristofferson: Wild american (This old road)
North Mississippi All Stars: Deep blue sea ( Blue watermelon)
Sam Bush: White bird (Laps in seven)
Kevin Johansen: Milonga tropical (City Zen)
Chico Buarque: Duran a queda ( Carioca)
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate: Kala (In the heart of the moon)
Gotan Project: Amor Porteno (Lunatico)
Golden Smog: You make it easy (Another fine day)
Golden Smog: Corvette
Anoushka Shankar: Naked (Rise)



July 19 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Jim Dickinson: Red neck, blue collar (Jungle Jim)
Nils Lofgren: Comfort your love brings (Sacred weapon)
Jolie Holland: Moonshiner (Springtime can kill you)
Mike Runnels: Misty marie
Sean Watkins: Run away girl (Blinders on)
Blind Robins: Panorama Valley (Panorama Valley)
Jim Reid: And your bird can sind (Revolver reloaded)
Scritti Politti: Road to ne regret (White bread, brown beer)
Lila Downs: Tu recuerdo y yo (La cantina)
Lila Downs:La Relampago
Paul Burch & Ralph Stanley: Little glass of wine (For a decade of sin)
Jim Dickinson: White silver sands (Jungle Jim)
Move: The last thing on my mind (Shazam)



July 5 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Jim Dickinson: Red neck, blue collar (Jungle Jim)
Nils Lofgren: Comfort your love brings (Sacred weapon)
Jolie Holland: Moonshiner (Springtime can kill you)
Mike Runnels: Misty marie
Sean Watkins: Run away girl (Blinders on)
Blind Robins: Panorama Valley (Panorama Valley)
Jim Reid: And your bird can sind (Revolver reloaded)
Scritti Politti: Road to ne regret (White bread, brown beer)
Lila Downs: Tu recuerdo y yo (La cantina)
Lila Downs:La Relampago
Paul Burch & Ralph Stanley: Little glass of wine (For a decade of sin)
Jim Dickinson: White silver sands (Jungle Jim)
Move: The last thing on my mind (Shazam)



June 24 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Nine Pound Hammer: I'm yer huckleberry ((For a decade of sin)
Bottle Rockets: Mountain to climb ( Zoysia)
Mark Pickerel: A town too fast for the blues (Snake on the radio)
Meat Purveyors: Don't be sorry (Someday soon things will be much worse)
Scott Biram: Going Home ( Graveyard Shift)
Cordero: La piedra (En este momento)
Meat Purveyors: Hanged Man
Alecia Nugent: I cried all the way to Kentucky ( A little girl .. a big four lane)
Tom Russell: Ash Wednesday ( Love and fear)
Kane, Welch, Kaplin: Mr. Bones ( (Lost John Dean)
Kane, Welch, Kaplin: Them wheels don't roll anymore ( (Lost John Dean)
Wayne Hancock & Hank Williams III: Juke joint jumping (For a decade of sin)
Mark Pickerel: Ask the wind, ask the dust ( (Snake in the radio)



June 10 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Alejandro Escovedo: Arizona (The boxing mirror)
Howe Gelb: Robes of bible black ('sno angel)
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris: Red staggerwing (All the roadrunning)
Bob Dylan: Mocambique (Desire)
Emmylou Harris: C'est la vie ( Luxury Liner)
Ry Cooder: He'll have to go (Chicken skin music)

Orange Blossom Special:
Jeb Loy Nichols: Bad fruit (Now then)
Washington: Walking Man (A new order rising)
Okkerville River: Song of our so-called friend (Black sheep boy)
Robert Fisher: From a distant shore (Six acoustic songs)
Broken Social Scene: Handjobs for the holidays (Broken social scene)
Mofro: Ten thousand islands (Lochloosa)
Jason Collet: Almost summer (Idols of Exile)



May 24 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

SPECIAL: FATHERS

Cary Swinney: Fatherless child (Big shots)
Kate Wolf: I never knew my father (Lines on the paper)
Creekdippers: My father knows foes (Political manifest)
Joe Ely: Grandfather Blues Live at Liberty Lunch)
John Prine: Unwed Fathers (Great Days: The JP Antholgy
Robbie Fulks: Brenda's new steppfather (Couples in trouble)
Palace Brothers: I had a good mother and father (There is noone what will take care of you)
Hayseed: Father's Lament (Melic, Watermelon Records)
Brian Wilson: Child is father of the man (Smile)
Oak Ridge Quartett: My heavenly father
Bob Dylan: Father of night (New morning)
Tim Buckley: Father song Works in progress)
Alejandro Escovedo: Silence (By the hand of the father)
Alejandro Escovedo: Evita's lullaby (The boxing mirror)



May 10 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Be Good Tanyas: Reuben (Chinatown)
Johnny Dowd: Johnny B. Goode (Cruel Words)
Sean Watkins: No lighted windows (Blinders on)
Steve Earle: Down the road (Guitar Town)
Mekons: King Arthur (Edge of the world)
Jayhawks: Let the last night be the longest (Bunkhouse)
Calexico: Deep down (Garden ruin)
Amparanoia: Nada (La vida te da)
Lou Rhodes: Tremble (Beloved one)
Minus Five: With a gun (Gun album)
Puerto Muerte: Yeah (Muerto County)
Puerto Muerto: Walking (Muerto County)
Avett Brothers Gimmeakiss (Four thieves gone)
Avett Brothers: Matrimony (Four thieves gone)
Jeb Loy Nichols: Painted my dream house blue (Now then)



April 26 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Avett Brothers: Matrimony (Four thieves gone)
Avett Brothers: The fall (Four thieves gone)
Big In Iowa: Hamiltucky Honkly Tonk Hero (Gezzil Pete!)
Big In Owa: Two Lane Highway (Banging and Knockin)
Olly Oakley: The jovial huntsman (The Pig's Big 78s)
Sonny Terry: Rif and harmonica jump (The Pig's Big 78s)
Johnny Dowd: Praise god (Cruel words)
Johnny Dowd: Drunk (Cruel words)
Wilco: Red eyed and blue (Being there)
Sloberbone: Shoot you dead (Crow pot pie)
Honeydogs: Kandiyohi (Everything,. I bet you)
Scott Miller: 8 miles a gallon (Citation)
Calexico: Roka (Garden ruin)
Calexico: Panic Open string (Garden ruin)
Avett Brothers: The lowering (Four thieves gone)



April 12 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Blood on the saddle: Ballad of the Alamo (Flesh and blood)


BLUE HIGHWAYS FESTIVAL UTRECHT SPECIAL:
Scott Miller: Wild things (Citation)
Be Good Tanyas: Waiting around to die (Chinatown)
Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell: Please break my heart (Begonias)
Guy Clark: Men will be boys (Cold dog soup)
Dar Williams: Closer to me ( The beauty of the rain)
Joy Lynn White: If you want my heart (One more time)
Marah: Poor people (If you didn't laugh you'd cry)
Hayes Carll: Chickens ( Little rock)
Scott Miller: On a roll (Citation)

Sean Watkins: Happy new year (Blinders on)
Karen Taylor-Good: God's refrigerator (How many women)
Curt Kirkwood: Snow (Snow)
Sean Watkins: Not that Bad / Blinders on (Blinders on)



March 29 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Buck Owens: Buckaroo (Collection)
Jackie Greene: I'm so gone (American Myth)
Josh Ritter: Good Man (Animal years)
Josh Turner: White noise (Your man)
Jon Langford: Dollar dress (Nashville Radio)
Jon Langford: Ugly band
Teddy Thompson: I should get up (Separate ways)
Loose Fur: Econimical matter (Born again in the usa)
Silver Saddle: Tunes you played (Northern skyline)
Margo Guryan: What can I give you? (Take a picture)
Linda Perhacs: POrcelain baked cast iron wedding (Parallelograms)
Lou Rhodes: Fortress (Beloved One)
Uncle Earl: Sullivan's hollow ( She waits for night)
Minus 5: Cigarettes, coffee and booze (The gun album)
Lou Rhodes: Beloved One (Beloved One)



March 15 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Band of Horses: The great salt lake (Everything all the time)
Meat Puppets: Shine (Too high to die)
Curt Kirkwood: Here comes forever (Snow)
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabete: Monsieur le maire de Niafunké ( In the heart of the moon)
Markus Rill: Carry my load
Uncle Earl: Sugar Babe ( She waits for night)
Markus Rill: My love runs to you
Merz: Butterfly (Loveheart)
Kris Kristofferson: Pilgrim's progress ( This old road)
Kris Kristofferson: Final attraction ( This old road)
Little Willies: Best of all possible worlds
Shawn Mullins: Homemade wine ( 9th ward pickin parlor)
Rocky Votolato: Uppers aren't necesssary (Makers)
Marisa Yeaman: Didn't mean to fall in love ( (Pure motive)
Two Gallants: Age of assassins ( What the toll tells)



March 01 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Two Gallants: Las Cruces Jail ( What the toll tells)
Geezers: Folsom Prison Blues (Rockabilly Psychosis and the garage disease)
North Mississippi Allstars: Horseshoe (Electric Blue watermelon)
Otis Taylor: Hands on your stomach (Respect the dead)
Whiskey Tango: Stranger's heart (Fresh Crop)
Deadstring Brothers: Moonlight only knows ( Starving winter report)
Two Gallants: Steady rollin (What the toll tells)
Neko Case: Hold on, hold on (Fox confessor brings the flood)
Danya Kurtz: It's the day of atonement, 2001 (Another black feather)
Darren Hume: Proud warrior (Lightning woman)
Beth Orton: Rectify ( Comfort of strangers)
Rhett Miller: Delicate (The believer)
Hank Williams III: Dick in Dixie (Straight to hell)
John Martyn: I'd rather be the devil (Solid air)



February 15 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Joaquin Phoenix: Get rhythm
Johnny Cash: As longs as the grass shall grow (with June Carter)
Joaquin Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon: It ain't me babe
Handsome Family: Far from any road (Singing Bones)
Christy Moore: Peace in the valley again (Burning Times
Mekons: Neglect ( Journey through the night)
Patty Hurst Shifter: When you lie ( Too crowded on the losing end)
Elliott Brood: Wolfgang (Ambassador)
Elliott Brood: Jackson
JJ Baron: Now I know(Brand new stranger)
Babyshambles: Pentonville (Down in Albion)
Babyshambles: La belle et la bete
Clarence Ashley: House Carpenter (Anthology)
Pentangle: House Carpenter (Basket of lights)
Ry Cooder: She's leaving the bank (Paris Texas)



February 01 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Smokestack Lightning: I take a lot of pride in what I am (Home cooking)
Peasall Sisters: Rushing around (Home to you)
Duhks: Rock of ages (Your daughters and your sons)
Flook: Gone fishing
Minor Majority: Whish you knew(Up for you and I)
Washington: Walking man (a new order rising)
Jon Langford: Tall ships (Gold brick)
Jon Langford: Anything can happen
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Ramblin man Ballad of the broken seas)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: False husband
Cat Power: Empty shell (The greatest)
Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy: Pancho (The brave and the bold)
Souad Massi: Ilham (Mesk Elil)
Boozoo Bayou: (Dust my broom)
Konono No 1: Ungudi wele wele (Congotronics 1)



January 18 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Kevin Devine: No one else's problem ( Split the country, split the street)
Patrick Wolf: Tristan ( Wind in the wires)
Alejandro Escovedo: Velvet guitar (Room of songs)
Calexico: What's a little wait ( The book and the canal)
Hayes Carll: Good friends (Little rock)
Link Wray: Run chicken run (The original rumble)
James Blood Ulmer: The evil one (Birthright)
Otis Taylor: Feel like lightning ( Below the fold)
Betty LaVette: Little sparrow(I've got my own hell to raise)
James Blood Ulmer: Take my music back to the church (Birthright)
Otis Taylor: Government lied (Below the fold)
Hubert von Goisern: Meraner (Ausland)
Attwenger: Wüst (Dog)
Attwenger: Eam



January 04 2006
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m

Matt Mays & El Torpedo: Ain't so heavy
Alejandro Escovedo: Gift for the crow
Steve Wynn: Killing me (tick tick tick)
Jeb Loy Nicholes: Sometimes shooting stars (Now then)
Jenny Lewis: Rabbit fur coat ( Rabbit fur coat)
Elected: The band and trust (Sun, Sun, Sun)
Rilo Kiley: Portions for foxes (More adventures)
Marissa Nadler: Mr. John Lee(The saga of Mayxflower May)
Idaho Falls: Lipstick Eagle ( Concrete prairie)
Washington: Walking man (A new order rising)
Charlie Sexton: Once in a while (Cruel and gentle things)
Calexico: Ghostwriter ( The book and the canal)
Eddie Spaghetti: All along (Old No. 2)
Ryan Adams: The sadness (29)


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