Nick Gusman and The Coyotes perform live at 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis. Recorded April 12, 2022. Hosted by Jon Valley for Local Harvest. Sound by Ryan Voelkel and Josh Melvin. 

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Nick Gusman and The Coyotes "Natchez Queen" Live at KDHX 4-12-22

The Road

Abby the Spoon Lady (one of the few professional musical spoon players in the country) and Banjo Ben perform their outstanding version of the folk-music standard "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" in downtown Asheville, NC.

Abby The Spoon Lady and Ben Shirley - "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss"

GOD MIGHT

by Jayne Sachs, Bob Morrison, & Sharon Spivey

VS 1:
Five years old packin’ a bag 
Had to get away from mom and dad
Grabbed some Oreos, threw in a coke
On the way to the door..Dad sad, “Don’t go”

‘Cause you know your mama, she'd be cryin' and prayin'
Sit yourself down, son, and hear what I’m sayin’

CHORUS:
Escapin’ seems easy, till you think it through
Make sure you know where you’re goin’ to
And, if you end up lost, head straight for the light
Just remember, if you don’t have the answer
God might....God might

VS. 2:
His words that day sank in like truth
But they couldn’t stop me from my rebel youth
Breakin’ rules and bones and hearts on the path
I ran towards trouble and away from love fast

And I knew that one girl could have been my wife
And I should have listened to my old man’s advice

CHORUS: Repeat

BRIDGE:
So I prayed on it for the first time in years
When she picked up the first ring, I broke down in tears
And it was all so clear what we were meant to do
When she told me she’d been prayin’ on it too

CHORUS: Repeat
				


CONTACT: Sharon Spivey twodice2@yahoo.com

WEBSITE: https://sharonspiveysongs.com/

GOD MIGHT

When going back to your hometown hurts because of the memories

Comin Back.mp3

I fell in love with the blond Two Rows Back from the stage

Two Rows Back

The Marcus King Band performs in Studio Z on Oct. 3rd, 2016.

The Marcus King Band - Rita Is Gone

Recorded at Severance Hall on September 21, 1997, JOHN PRINE performs LAKE MARIE.

John prine - lake marie (cleveland 9/21/97)

Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is Todd Snider’s inspirational album.

“I want to inspire people,” Snider says. “I want to inspire them to leave home, to do things traditionally considered wrong. If you listen to my record and vandalize your school, godspeed. If you listen to my record and punch your stepdad, thank you, you’ve made me feel better about
what I do. I don’t believe in the American dream, and family values can suck my asshole’s balls.”

Snider says this while smiling, because he says most things while smiling, because he knows family values are unlikely to do such a thing, and because he’s on the happy back end of happy hour at a favorite East Nashville bar. He’s laughing but not necessarily kidding, and Agnostic
Hymns & Stoner Fables is anything but a nice, folk/Americana troubadour album. It’s not a nice anything.

It is jagged, leering, lurching and howling, and filled with unhappy endings both experienced and intimated: “It ain’t the despair that gets you, it’s the hope,” he sings in the album-closer, “Big Finish.” That Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is also roaringly funny is tribute to Snider’s unique sensibilities, and to his standing as what Rolling Stone magazine calls “America’s sharpest musical storyteller.” Anguish without laughter is boring, like intensive care without morphine, and Snider has never been within 100 miles of boring. Also, he didn’t earn the
attention, friendship and fandom of American musical giants like Kris Kristofferson and John Prine by writing mopey protest songs.

Anyway, these aren’t protest songs. They’re inspirational. We’ve covered that already, right? It’s populated mostly by losers in the midst of losing, with a couple of spotlight appearances from the humbly anointed 1 percent. The result is something disconcerting, cracked and wholly original. It’s something that stands apart from the music of Snider’s heroes, and from Snider’s own, much-celebrated past. Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is Snider’s 12th album (14th, if we count a “best of” set and a collection of B-sides and demos.

Snider doesn’t talk around the vulnerable part, or the angry part, or the part about how everything we’re taught about goodness and righteousness and capitalism, about God and family values winds up exploding into violence and chaos, wonder and longing. He doesn’t talk around how the whole deal is enough to make you vandalize your school, punch your stepdad, or make lewd suggestions as to just what family values might do in their spare time. And he doesn’t talk around the part about how he doesn’t know any more than you do about any of these things, or the part about how he might be wrong. It’s just that nothing has been delivered yet, nothing revealed. It is, as he sings, too soon to tell.

Here are 10 new songs for the waiting room. They’re here to inspire.

06 In Between Jobs

The devil makes three- Tow

Fresh from the Oh Boy Archives, here is an early studio version of the song "Lake Marie." It dates to 1993 and features just John Prine on guitar and vocals.

John Prine - Lake Marie (Early Studio Solo Version)

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