Best of Bottomless Pit w/ Marshall Crenshaw #224 “Americana” - from Mar. 12, 2016

Most of what I played over the years could be describes as Americana of one kind or another- on this show we get into the “Americana”, genre, with Kurt Vile, Porter Wagoner, Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, et. al.

PORTER WAGONER- RUBBER ROOM

CHESTER AND LESTER- I’M YOUR GREATEST FAN

KURT VILE- I’M AN OUTLAW

SALLY FORD AND THE SOUND OUTSIDE- AGAINST THE LAW

ERIC “ROSCOE” AMBEL- MISS OHIO

SAMANTHA MARTIN- WHEN YOU WALK AWAY

CHARLES LLOYD AND THE MARVELS- LA LLARONA 

SAMANTHA MARTIN- MY CROWN

CHARLES LLOYD AND THE MARVELS- OF COURSE OF COURSE

RED SIMPSON- ROLL TRUCK ROLL

RED SIMPSON- JACKKNIFE

RED SIMPSON- HIGHWAY PATROL

ERIC “ROSCOE” AMBEL- DON’T MAKE ME BREAK YOU

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THE BOTTOMLESS PIT

I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.)

I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand. 

It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me. 

I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!..

MC