Franklin Onn12

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Member Since: 4/2/2002
Total Mixes: 95
Total Feedback: 360

Greetings from the Cowboy Motel

Artist Song
...  "I wanna buy that motel ..." 
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys  You're from Texas 
Tex Williams & His Western Caravan  I Got Texas in My Soul 
Chuck Guillory  Big Texas 
Pat Green  I Like Texas 
Gary P. Nunn  Can't Get the Hell Out of Texas 
Kinky Friedman & His Texas Jewboys  We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You 
Ray Wylie Hubbard  Screw You, We're from Texas 
Terry Allen  Amarillo Highway 
Steve Earle  Home to Houston 
Asleep at the Wheel  Boogie Back to Texas 
Gene O'Quin  Texas Boogie 
Wayne 'the Train' Hancock  Hill Country Hillbilly Girl 
Don Walser  Rolling Stone from Texas 
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys featuring the McKinney Sisters  Texas Plains 
Gary P. Nunn  Guadalupe Days 
Guy Clark  Uncertain, Texas 
Willie Nelson  Texas 
Waylon Jennings  Bob Wills is Still the King (live) 
Joe Ely  Dallas (live) 
Delbert McClinton  Thank You Baby (live) 
The Hollisters  East Texas Pines 
Sir Douglas Quintet  Texas Tornado 
Ernest Tubb & Willie Nelson  Waltz Across Texas 
Lyle Lovett  That's Right (You're Not from Texas) 
Brave Combo  Denton, Texas (edit) 

Comment:

"You can teach me lots of lessons, you can bring me lots of gold,/ but you just can't live in Texas if you don't have a lotta soul."
- Doug Sahm, "At the Crossroads"
2-3 - What better way to start than with some Western Swing, the national music of Texas. As Waylon said, "Makes me proud to be from Texas/ where Bob Wills is still the King." In fact, he says that further on down the mix.
4 - A song drenched in that swampy SE Texas and Louisiana Cajun sound, heavy on the fiddle with a solid dose of steel. This is the 1949 version of Chuck's big song.
5-8 - A few songs illustrating my love/hate relationship with Texas. It's easy to love Texas; it's just as easy to hate it. Either way, it's hard to get out. Ray Wylie feels the same way ... sure we have corrupt politicians and corporations, but hell, we've also got Willie, Robert Earl, Stevie Ray, and was there ever a band "cooler than the 13th Floor Elevators"? And I have to mention that the Kinkster is running for governor of Texas!! His slogan ... "How Hard Could It Be?" (Yes, he's serious. And he's accepting contributions. Buy some stuff, send some cash.)
9 - Terry Allen: Renaissance man and Lubbock contemporary of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock ... all bastard sons of Buddy Holly. This rollicking little ditty finds Terry high rollin' down ol' 87.
10 - Drivin' for Halliburton. Even Houston's better than this.
11-13 - A little Texas boogie: Gene O'Quin played hopped-up hillbilly music in the days before rockabilly was born... a real rockabilly godfather. Wayne the Train's hardcore honky tonk-rockabilly voice sounds like he's Gene's own boy. And speaking of godfathers, would there be an AATW without Bob Wills? Nope.
14 - Local legend Don Walser shows off his yodeling chops. Tragically for all those in love with the classic Western Swing, honky-tonk, and Texas country songs that Don spent his career promoting and preserving, poor health has forced him to retire from performing. Man, he was the real deal.
15 - Some right purty yodeling from sisters Dean & Evelyn.
16-17 - A good Texas mix always needs a song or two about floating down rivers, which, next to driving a pickup at excessive speeds after guzzling a six pack of Lone Star, is the national pastime of Texas. Besides, you can drink a lot more beer while floating than driving.
18 - Another Willieode to Texas. Some beautiful guitar work by Willie and some sentiments I can relate to .... on a good day anyway.
19-21 - And now for the live portion of our show.... "Bob Wills" is from "Waylon Live", one of the great live albums, recorded during the height of the outlaw country movement. Joe Ely does a rockin' version of Jimmie Dale's "Dallas" recorded at Antone's, Austin's home of the blues. And speaking of rockin', this is a favorite Delbert concert rave-up ... rockin' Texas R&B in the finest roadhouse tradition.
22 - Good ol' honest-to-goodness East Texas honky-tonk hillbilly rock. Hot damn!
23 - Sir Doug was the ultimate Texas music melting pot. Country, blues, R&B, Tex-Mex, Conjunto, Norteño, Cajun, jazz, Texas swing, British Invasion, garage rock, psychedelic -- if a style of popular music was played in Texas, Doug played it too ... and always made it sound like he'd invented it. We still miss him.
24 - Two legends doing ET's legendary song. "Like a storybook ending, I'm lost in your charms."
25 - Another Texas boy made good, even if he is an Aggie. Let Lyle show you how to wear your hat and buy your pants.
26 - Hard to imagine that Denton could produce polka and world-fusion icons like Brave Combo. I guess funny things were happening at North Texas State in the late 70s.
"Well if you ain't never been there then I guess you ain't been told/ That you just can't live in Texas unless you got a lotta soul"
- Waylon Jennings

Feedback:

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Nest of Vipers
Date: 3/11/2005
Don't know any of this; your notes have got me curious.
Beautiful picture!
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Franklin Onn12
Date: 3/11/2005
oops, forgot to credit valis for sending the wonderful cover pic... thanks pardner! (It was hard enough getting the liner notes under the "4000 character" limit. grrrrrr)
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hemizen
Date: 3/11/2005
All I can say is please lets trade!
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sport !
Date: 3/11/2005
Great mix, great picks!
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Mixxer
Date: 3/11/2005
This looks really fantastic. Good to see Chuck Guillory making one of his rare appearances. Love that Hollisters track (as well as the original version by Libbi Bosworth). Now if that cow-dude doesn't fall off the sign we'll be OK. Great work Franklin.
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Saaf
Date: 3/11/2005
This mix seems bigger than usual for some reason.
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SMoss
Date: 3/11/2005
Oh Man, Steve! I got my ticket punched - lived in the big D for two years. Up for another trade? (so you digitally added the three birds, right?)
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Mo Twang!
Date: 3/11/2005
Great stuff. "Amarillo Highway" is a particular favorite but everything here is first rate.
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McDonald12
Date: 3/11/2005
wonderful stuff, as ever, Steve. Still diggin' the last batch you sent me, and this looks like a must-have.
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Thomas_Mohr
Date: 3/11/2005
Excellent stuff all round. Te tracklist alone puts a little Texas in MY soul . . .
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p the swede
Date: 3/12/2005
fine
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Sean Lally
Date: 3/12/2005
this is wonderful.
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steelkillie
Date: 3/12/2005
Looks good.I'd really like to hear this.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 3/12/2005
Very cool. I sooooo love that Doug Sahm quote/song that you invoke in your liner notes--so much so, in fact, that (as you know) I titled my Doug Sahm mix using that line. :-)
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no borders
Date: 3/12/2005
Excellent. Nice flow too. And thanks for all the liner notes!
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joey de vivre
Date: 3/12/2005
Hot damn indeed! Must be something about Texas, all that funky donkey honky tonky music. Still, if I can continue to live in California & get my Texas music fix by trading you something for this, I think I'll have the best of both worlds . . . This is one motel mix I'd like to check into.

But, damn! Don Walser's had to retire!? That is truly a big loss.
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FLWB
Date: 3/12/2005
There's so much to love about this mix. and Bob Wills is still the King!!!
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Muzag
Date: 3/13/2005
Looks wonderful! Great notes & cover image.
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Salman1
Date: 3/13/2005
Yeah, ditto Muzag. Very fine mix.
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The Misfit
Date: 3/13/2005
A definite winner!
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12vman
Date: 3/13/2005
This is outstanding - I know & love many of the tracks & would love to hear the rest.
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G-Sphere
Date: 3/14/2005
This looks awesome. Great notes too.
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Media Vixen: Radio Sally
Date: 3/14/2005
To quote someone not from Texas but with a whole lotta soul "You leave me breathless!" Always always a treat to see your thoughtful and tuneful mixes!
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valis
Date: 3/15/2005
Got this motha' in the mail a week ago; finally heard it Friday night whilst getting my arse handed to me by Stacie at cribbage. Fantastic! (I knew it would be popular here as my own Texan kept it in her truck since we got it.., and the first night she came in singing: "Screw YOU! We're from TEXAS!") Thank you FO!
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Siobhan
Date: 3/16/2005
To echo Sally, your mixes are always a real treat, and this is no exception - looks really fantastic.
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hemizen
Date: 4/1/2005
This mix has been getting extended play in Michigan and going over great. I "stole" Boogie Back To Texas to put on a recent mix of mine. Many Thanks....