Playlist 1/13/07

Song - Artist - Album

• Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
• Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
• Heartache Boulevard - Eilen Jewell - Letters From Saints & Strangers
• (r) Rebound - Hacienda Brothers - What's Wrong With Right
• A Man On The Run - Tim Carroll - Edges From The Postcard Vol. 4

Special Heroes Segment on Ken Nelson (read a bit about him below the playlist)

• I've Got A Tiger By The Tail - Buck Owens - Greatest Hits
• My Front Door Is Open - Hank Thompson - Hank World
• I Gotta Know - Wanda Jackson - Queen Of Rockabilly
• Mama Tried - Merle Haggard - Essential
• A Dear John Letter - Ferlin Husky - Historic Country & Western
• Shindig In The Barn - Tommy Collins - Best Of
• Single Girl - Rose Maddox - Rose Of The West Coast

Back to the rest of the show:

• High Shelf Booze - Eilen Jewell - Letters From Saints & Strangers
• Old Fire - Cliff Wagner & The Old #7 - My Native Land
• (r) Rockhouse Boogie - Rockhouse Ramblers - Edges From The Postcard Vol. 4
• Gone Gone Gone - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

Ken Nelson -passed away on January 6, 2008. Former head of country A&R for Capitol Records and a member of the Country Music Hall Of Fame. Credited with helping to define the "Bakersfield Sound" (most commonly associated with Buck Owens). During the 50s & 60s some of the greats he produced include Hank Thompson, Buck Owens, Ferlin Husky, Wanda Jackson, Tommy Collins, Wynn Stewart, Merle Haggard and Rose Maddox. Tonight's Heroes segment features songs from some of these artists that Ken Nelson worked with.