Artist	Song
Joe Ely	I Ain't Been Here Long
Toni Price	Edge of the Night
Jimmie Dale Gilmore	Defying Gravity
Colin Gilmore	Sunset
Vince Bell	Frankenstein
Roky Erickson	Starry Eyes
Kelly Willis & Kevin Welch	That'll Be Me
Doug Sahm	My Dearest Darling (live at Antone's)
Jerry Jeff Walker	I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight (live at Gruene Hall)
Jimmy LaFave	How It Must Remain (live at the Chicago House)
Robert Earl Keen	Five Pound Bass (live at Floore's Country Store)
Don Walser	Rolling Stone from Texas
Rosie Flores	West Texas Plains
James McMurtry	Outskirts
Guy Clark	Instant Coffee Blues
Terry Allen	Highplains Jamboree
Tish Hinojosa	In the Night
Townes Van Zandt	Blaze's Blues
Lucinda Williams	Drunken Angel
Calvin Russell	I Should Have Been Home with You
Blaze Foley	Getting Over You
Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard	If I Could Only Fly

Comment:

More Texas music. Sort of a follow up to the Texas Top 40 disc, except most of these artists are not destined for Top 40 Radio (which is usually not a bad thing). Nor is this as eclectic as the Top 40 disc since this one ended up as mostly a singer-songwriter/Americana mix. (Maybe sometime I'll do a Texas rock or Texas blues mix. Ahh, so much music, so little time.) I decided not to repeat artists from the Top 40 disc, but I made an exception for Sir Doug Sahm, perhaps the only artist who can be said to have embodied all of Texas music -- rock, country, blues, R&B, soul, Tex-Mex, Tejano. (We miss you Dougie.) And for all of you (me too!) bemoaning the fact that the great & enigmatic Roky Erickson didn't make the Top 40 disc, here he is! The disc ends with a tribute to the late Austin songwriter Blaze Foley: Townes & Lucinda doing their tributes, Blaze himself, and Calvin, Willie and Merle doing a couple of his songs. Oops ... I guess that means Willie made both discs too. The live music sampler in the middle is from a few of the fine live music venues in the Austin-San Antonio area (although, sadly, the Chicago House is no more). Gruene Hall (pronounced "Green" by the locals) is my neighborhood bar (when the river's not over the bridge). Come join me for a cold longneck.

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