This is the first of what I hope will be three our four 9b compilations a year. Between AIV and myself we picked one song from each album currently on the Essential Listening list and put them together for our loyal readers. I like to think of this as one way we can say “Thank you!” to our readers and to the community ’round these parts. I suppose I could type out a lot of words that may mean something or may not like I usually do but this time I figure it’s all about the music…

Track Listing:
01. Kasey Anderson – Leavin’ Kind – Nowhere Nights
02. Elliot Randall & The Deadmen – Caffeine & Gasoline
03. Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Tom Waits – Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing – Preservation
04. Otis Gibbs – The Ballad Of Johnny Crooked Tree – Joe Hill’s Ashes
05. Seasick Steve – Never Go West – Man From Another Time
06 . Joe Pug – Unsophisticated Heart – Messenger
07. The .357 String Band – Rags To Rags – Lightning From The North
08. Eleven Hundred Springs – Honky Tonk Angels (Don’t Happen Overnight) – This Crazy Life
09. Grayson Capps – Ike – Live At The Paradiso
10. Ray Wylie Hubbard – Pots and Pans – A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is no C)
11. Black Diamond Heavies – Bidin’ My Time – Alive As Fuck
12. The Brothers Comatose – Pine Box – Songs From The Stoop
13. Drive-By Truckers – After The Scene Dies – The Big To-Do
14. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Port Authority Band – Buried Behind The Barn
15. Tim Barry – Bozeman – 28th & Stonewall
16. The Fox Hunt – It Suits Me – Long Way To Go
17. Glossary – The Sweet Forever – Feral Fire
18. Bourbon Crow – In The Mood For A Drinking Song – Long Way To The Bottom






Good list…but the latest “Black Keys” is, in my mind, absolutely Essential.
I personally missed using the “Essential Listening” tag in couple of reviews. But hindsight is 20/20. The one I really regret not having on here is Dirty Bourbon River Show but I am going to make sure that I use the tag in the future so I don’t leave out any music that should have made the cut. I would definitely have a track from DBRS on here, Ruffian Since Birth, since that whole album is Essential Listening. I am still getting used to using the phrase so this my trying to make up for not using with those cats.
FWIW: TBK are most def. essential listening but posting mp3′s by them has burnt 9B before….so, nothing.
Understood Autopsy.