Hour
Artist
Song
1
Hubby Jenkins
Cumberland Gap/Last Chance
Shake “Em on Down
The Cuckoo Bird
Parchman Farm
Banjo Jam
Julie Adams
*Shame Shame Shame*
John R. Miller & The Engine Lights
Holy Dirt
Red Eyes
Faustina
Comin’ Down
Whale Party
Alela Diane
Albatross
White as Diamonds
*Never Easy*
My Epitaph
Song for Sandy
2
Amy Helm
Mandolin Wind
Stones That I Throw
Michigan
Yes We Can Can
Bob Thompson
*Here, There, and Everywhere*
Bottle Rockets
Bit Logic
Highway 70 Blues
Lo-Fi
Maybe Tomorrow
*Way Down South*
Doomsday Letter
Stovall’s Grove
Silver Ring
Larry Groce & Company
Nothing Lasts Forever
*Podcast Only*
Recorded on October 21, 2018
*Podcast audio due November 20, 2018.
Formed nearly 30 years ago, the Bottle Rockets helped forge a now-popular subgenre—small-town, middle-class, Midwest American roots rock—part right-to-the-gut poetry, part rock ‘n’ roll, all truth. Bit Logic is a different sort of album for the St. Louis natives and shows them at their most self-aware, self-challenging, and socially alert.
Recorded in St. Louis at Sawhorse Studios, engineered by Mario Viele and produced by longtime studio collaborator Eric “Roscoe” Ambel (The Del-Lords, Steve Earle), the Bottle Rockets’ 13th album has them looking at their unique stylistic blend through a different lens. While one of the group's earmarks is constructing blue-collar anthems, Bit Logic has the quartet focusing outside themselves, at how change and adaptation affects the bigger picture.
“This music is about motherhood,” Alela Diane says of her highly anticipated fifth album Cusp. “Even just by saying that, it feels like people will write you off. It’s like you’ve suddenly lost the charm of being youthful and even attainable––you’ve been commoditized as available. There is not a big place in the music industry for 30-something women with kids making music.” She laughs as she pauses, then adds, “Maybe we can create that space.”
John R Miller grew up in Hedgesville, a small town in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia where the mountains meet Interstate 81. A co-founding member of hard-traveling bands Prison Book Club and The Fox Hunt, and crafting a unique-and-familiar blend of country blues & folk, he has performed music in nearly all 50 states, Canada, Ireland, the UK, Japan, and much of Europe. He has twice appeared on NPR's Mountain Stage with The Fox Hunt. He has also been a featured songwriter and performer on the Travelin' Appalachians Revue. John can often be found performing solo, alongside fiddle player Chloe Edmonstone, or with his band The Engine Lights. New album The Trouble You Follow is available now via Emperor Records.
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