All Said And Done

Down The Road, Doin Fine

Reckoning Blues

Hit The Road Son

The Country Singer

Stayin Wayward

The Ballad Of Juan Flores

In 1923, Dr. John R. Brinkley built himself a radio station in Milford, Kansas to hawk his signature impotence cure between Bible-thumping and shows like the Shut-In Program for Invalids and Roy the Lonesome Cowboy. When the US government became leery of his goat testicle implant operations, the good doctor picked up and moved just south of the Texas border to Villa Acuna, Mexico. In this dusty Chihuahuan desert outpost, Dr. Brinkley set up XERA-AM, a “border blaster” radio station with the power to broadcast to every corner of the United States. To help him get in good with the small town folks he hoped would buy his snake oil, he hired groups like the Carter family to move down from the Virginia hills and play good, old-fashioned hillbilly music. It’s been said that while these broadcasts were blazing away inside the studio, a nearby iron gate could be angled just right to pick up that high lonesome sound. I’d like to sound something like that gate.

WAYWARD WALKER

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