WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from April 8, 2016

Listener comments!
	12:02pm Uncle Michael: Am I Live?
	12:03pm Stevel: Not dead yet.
	12:03pm mauri: UM is live
	12:03pm SeanG: LETS DO THIS
	12:03pm holland oats: & well
	12:04pm Lizardner Dave: You're on the air.
	12:04pm Parq: Lunch brought. Workload stacked. Lav visited. Bring it, baby!
	12:04pm annie: i'm here, i can give you half an hour, meeting soon.
	12:05pm ndbob: afternoon UM and everyone!
	12:05pm Doug Schulkind: Oildale to Bakersfield: 3.4 miles.
	12:06pm Uncle Michael: Greetings my friends. Thanks for you patience.
	12:06pm bobdoesthings: @unlce michael -- found this via a comedy podcast and thought to share it with you for obvious reasons - www.youtube.com...
	12:07pm Alex In Illinois: The complex that machinery, the more susceptible it is to failure. The more intelligent the technology, the likelier it is to find an excuse not to work.
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Bob...I'll check out that link after the show.
	12:08pm Parq: I'm just grateful to have finally found out what he learned in a hobo jungle.
	12:09pm Uncle Michael: I had Valley Fever when I was a kid in Tucson.
	12:09pm Lane Gray: Good morning, y'all!
	12:11pm Uncle Michael: Hiya Lane.
	12:12pm chromaphone: Morning. Don't know much Merle so this will be educational.
	12:12pm chromaphone: I mean afternoon.
	12:13pm Parq: Chrom, it's morning in America.
	12:13pm Lane Gray: Probably the best of Lefty's kids.
	12:14pm Uncle Michael: Good moanin'
	12:16pm Lane Gray: That is a strange and haunting effect Norm was using behind the end of the verse. Not even sure whether it was steel or Dobro
	12:17pm Uncle Michael: It's beautiful.
	12:21pm Jeff g.: Got my Hinky hankie at the ready. Bon jour all. And congrats, Mike East!
	12:21pm Lane Gray: Indeed.
	12:22pm Uncle Michael: Hi Jeff...hi everyone that came in while I was wrestling with the gear.
	12:27pm Doug Schulkind: Remember when Merle said this, in 2010, about President Obama: "It's really almost criminal what they do with our president," Haggard said. "There seems to be no shame or anything. They call him all kinds of names all day long, saying he's doing certain things that he's not. It's just a big old political game that I don't want to be part of."
	12:31pm Mike East: Thanks Jeff G! Another child born into a house where they are forced to listen to WFMU...if I do my job right, a future Swag for Lifer!
	12:33pm Parq: Oh God, not another "New York sucks" song.
	12:33pm Doug Schulkind: New York "values," Parq.
	12:34pm ndbob: congrats Mike East!
	12:35pm Parq: I hate the suburbs like poison, but you don't hear me going around singing about it.
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: Because you can't?
	12:36pm Mike East: Thanks, ndbob :)
	12:37pm Parq: That, my dear Midwestern friend, is a matter of debate. There are Youtube videos on point, but I'm at work and can't access them.
	12:38pm Uncle Michael: We'll bear up.
	12:38pm Lane Gray: Put a VPN on your machine?
	12:47pm doctorjazz: Hi all.
	12:51pm SeanG: i need some more beer
	12:51pm Lane Gray: Surprised that you didn't choose Millie. Or maybe not since she was last week
	🛒 12:52pm Brian in UK: Hello Uncle @Lane here is a link from one of FMUs other resources Ubuweb. Saw this and thought of you. www.ubu.com...
	12:52pm SeanG: my fave Merle tune is "Wishing all these old things were new" --epic
	12:52pm Dean: There are no guilty pleasures, but I have a guilty pleasure: suburbs. And dying malls. Bracket the racial dynamic that populated the suburbs in the first place--impossible to bracket, I know--and I get a warm cozy feeling from nondescript, generic, regimented streets, strip malls, parks, and such. But I wouldn't complain if Merle sang "Covina Blues."
	12:56pm Parq: What I love most about "I Wonder" is how you don't find out until the bridge that he's a POW and not a drifter.
	1:01pm Uncle Michael: Lane, I played the Millie Jackson cover just in the last few weeks.
	1:01pm holland oats: great show um / all hail merle (& understated fuzz guitar stabs)
	1:02pm Alex In Illinois: It depends on the suburb or type of suburb. At some point, they started making some suburbs without any sidewalks or crosswalks or places to walk or ride a bike, so that one needs to use a car just to get across the street. By now, someone must have set some words of discontent about such an environment to music. If not, then it is about time someone does.
	1:03pm Uncle Michael: Alex, those would be the suburbs full of "snout houses."
	1:04pm Lane Gray: Topeka is a nice size. Big enough to have what you need, and KC is just over the hill if you need a city
	1:07pm Parq: "Sing Me Back Home" packs an emotional wallop that would knock a guy right off his feet.
	1:08pm Lane Gray: Was expecting deeper catalog stuff, but it's early yet....
	1:08pm Alex In Illinois: Yes, Uncle Michael, miles of snout houses, that is the picture! I don't think I can recall that phrase in a song though. Someone must have used it by now. though.
	1:08pm ndbob: I have no problem with suburbs - Bloomington is about the right size for me. Jamestown a little too small
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: Lane, you might be disappointed today.
	1:09pm Lane Gray: Never. I love his hits.
	1:12pm doctorjazz: If there are enough versions of Mama Tried, I would be fine with a whole show of it.
	1:13pm still b/p: Merle's name always puts me in mind of PPL's "I'll Fix Your Flat Tire Merle," which I encountered a LOT in college. Somehow familiarity with his own big hit-making output eluded me then and ever since -- except for Okie From Musgokee, and even at that, in those same college days the knock-off Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother was heard -- on jukebox or drunk-sung by party circles -- farrrr far more often.
	1:18pm Lane Gray: All the talk of New York distracted. Him. A song so nice he played it twice
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: still b/p that's a Big Brother & the Holding Co. cover. Nick Gravenites wrote it.
	1:18pm Lane Gray: MOON!!
	1:19pm Parq: I'll admit, I had the impression throughout my youth that "Okie From" was tongue in cheek. It seemed so popular with the very people it was attacking that, to me, it just didn't seem plausible that it was in earnest. Even the Beach Boys covered it (which Spazz played last night), and I can remember watching a TV concert taped in Central Park, seeing longhairs happily singing along with the Beachmen on it. It took me a while to accept that he had been dead serious, and now I know that, by then, his own view was already becoming more nuanced.
	1:22pm Alex in Illinois: I don't have a problem with all suburbs. I live in one.
	🛒 1:22pm Brian in UK: I think Merle was grown up enough to be able to change his point of view. The thing I can count on is my fingers. Quality.
	1:24pm SeanG: this song is the best
	1:25pm still b/p: Thanks, UM. Had to just give the Big Brother version a listen. I like it.
	1:26pm Uncle Michael: Me too. I put it on Facebook last night.
	🛒 1:26pm Brian in UK: Strangers, Drifting Cowboys. The greats knew how to name their bands.
	1:30pm Uncle Michael: Snuff Garrett and John Durrill song...Misery & Gin
	1:35pm Lane Gray: Brian, not all. My gig tomorrow night has a member of the Brazos Valley Boys on bass. I hope we'll get some Hank T in...
	1:37pm doctorjazz: Have to say, when Okie came out, I thought it was tongue in cheek as well. The interviews I've read with him the past few days show him to have thought about it quite a bit afterwards, and, of course, to change his thinking on it.
	🛒 1:37pm Brian in UK: @Lane did you see my comment at 12:52?
	1:39pm Rich in Washington: The 80s were a terrible time for country music. I recall working in a cafe/restaurant/lounge as a teen that was run by shitkickers. The music played incessantly on the jukebox was awful. Whenever I could, I would punch in a bunch of older country or the few rock n' roll tunes to try to dilute the (then) contemporary country pap they'd play.
	1:39pm Lane Gray: Indeed. Stay Here And Drink needed the early attitude... Brian I saw it. Haven't looked at it yet (deejay is talking over Moon. Glad I grew up listening to am radio. I can hear background content...)
	1:41pm SeanG: i'm with you UM! all the way
	1:41pm Lane Gray: Damn. Must look that up. I bet it was cool
	🛒 1:41pm KevinfromBayRidge: Shit Yeah, Unc!
	1:42pm chromaphone: I have had to take a few Merle breaks but still good show. The vocals on this one are amazing!
	🛒 1:45pm Brian in UK: There are some Merle vocal nuances that Chip Taylor has on his early Warner country albums. Love them. Two great song writers.
	1:47pm Uncle Michael: A fair amount of unintended irony in good times..
	1:51pm Mike East: thanks for the Merleducation, UM. Enjoying the tribute today.
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Mike.
	1:55pm Lane Gray: Was Jerry Reed involved in this? Has his griove
	1:56pm doctorjazz: Have to say, I'm a Merle ignoramus, just know the big tunes, but I'm enjoying hearing him today, fine show.
	🛒 1:58pm KevinfromBayRidge: As with many in my age "tranche", "Okie" was my Merle intro.However, realizing the Dead's "Mama Tried" was written by one and the same made things a whole lot better.
	1:58pm Parq: One of the many (many) reasons I'm a devoted FMU fan is that, when we lose someone like Merle, I can always count on FMU to bring me a perspective (or usually, several) that I never had before on that artist -- whether it's someone like Bowie whose work I know well or someone like Merle where (like the Doc) I am mostly a dilettante.
	1:59pm Lane Gray: Has anyone else noticed that Workingman Blues shares the same sixteen bar (slightly rarer) progression as Big Boss Man?
	2:00pm chromaphone: This has probably already been mentioned but did Merle write all of these tunes?
	2:01pm Lane Gray: No. Many. He knew when to grab a professionally wrote song
	2:02pm Parq: The blog version -- allow me: muleskinner.blogspot.com...
	2:03pm chromaphone: There was a great interview with Deke a few months ago in Tape Op magazine (not about Merle). someone really interesting perspectives on music recording.
	2:04pm Sam Segal: Beautiful tribute, @UM! I've been lurking in the shadows for the last hour or so.
	2:06pm ndbob: A Johnny Rodriguez song
	2:08pm Dungaroos Kipawah: Where's that version of "That's the Way Love Goes" from not the '83 version. Is that on one of those Bear Fam. boxes? A demo? Very different vibe, very cool.
	2:09pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Sam.
	2:11pm Uncle Michael: I'm not sure what the nature of my mistake was, Dungaroos!
	2:12pm Parq: "I kept the wine but threw away the rose" -- wow, what a superb, eloquent summation of that tipping point when it comes to drinking.
	2:14pm Uncle Michael: Hank Cochran, Glenn Martin wrote this one...It's Not Love
	2:18pm Lane Gray: Ndbob, if you mean That's The Way Love Goes, that's not Johnny Rodriguez, it's Lefty. At least Lefty different it first
	2:18pm Dungaroos Kipawah: Just a different version of the hit single--never heard it before and really liked it. The hit version from '83 more somber and resigned. Just wondering if version was pulled from the actual record or a compilation. Definitely not a mistake--the cut was fabulous, just different. This was the '83 hit version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhaju2pwrJg
	🛒 2:18pm Brian in UK: Guess Merle did not really travel across the water here. Not to say that he was not popular, just did not resonate as he did with so many folks over your way.
	2:19pm hyde: hmmm, i missed a lot of Merle. on the bright side, I've got lots more Merle for later.
	2:19pm Lane Gray: Yup. Cowrote by Lefty and Whitey Shafer, the same team that did I Never Go Around Mirrors
	🛒 2:20pm Brian in UK: Got to hit the kitchen Three hours barely scratches the surface, Uncle.
	🛒 2:20pm KevinfromBayRidge: I'm thinking 50 minutes slow here but I guess Merle didn't have a version of "Ghostriders"?
	2:21pm Uncle Michael: I don't think so, Kevin.
	2:23pm Doug Schulkind: Here's a double-bill I wished I'd seen: Merle Haggard and The Stranglers
	2:26pm hyde: the day Merle died I was at work + did the Youtube thing, and I tell ya I heard some re-records that were kind of shabby
	2:27pm Lane Gray: Took me three times to see what you did there. (as a dyslexic, I subconsciously correct errors to fit contextually)
	2:31pm hyde: that was a great story
	2:32pm Lizardner Dave: That is a fantastic story.
	2:34pm 67tele: ah the love songs...he should know, he was married 5 times
	2:34pm Parq: @Doug, 2:23 - I've been thinking much the same thing for an hour now.
	2:38pm Uncle Michael: He loved well and often, Tele.
	2:39pm ndbob: quite a story there UM
	2:39pm Uncle Michael: We're going significantly long today.
	2:39pm Lane Gray: There's a perfect username for a Hag discussion, Tele.
	2:41pm ndbob: a song about Tommy Collins I think?
	2:41pm Uncle Michael: That's correct.
	2:45pm Uncle Michael: Damn..."Leonard" still really moves me.
	2:45pm 67tele: its the little red one w/the white pick guard in the corner
	2:45pm Mr C: Lovely tribute Michael..
	2:45pm 67tele: <--- that one - wow i used my internet skills
	2:48pm chromaphone: White Line Fever makes me think of Gram Parsons' version. He was the opposite of poor as a child apparently.
	2:48pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Mr. C.
	2:50pm Lane Gray: I have an orange partscaster, but I play steel better. Did Emmitt Miller write I ain't Got Nobody? Love the western swing set. As opposed to the Western swingset
	2:51pm Parq: Asleep at the Wheel did their own Wills tribute, which included a version of "Corrina" that, I think, also had Johnny Gimble on fiddle.
	2:51pm Lane Gray: Much better than the Brooks and Dunn abomination, with the swing removed
	2:52pm 67tele: the western swingsets are a bitch...it takes a long time to hitch up the horses and they dont like it so much
	2:57pm hyde: woo hoo, bonus set!
	2:58pm Lane Gray: No knock on Merle or Willie, but Emmylou did THE version, IMO
	2:59pm doctorjazz: Not Townes?
	2:59pm Dean: Yeah, I'm partial to Townes' live version from Houston.
	3:00pm Uncle Michael: I can't disagree, Lane. And this is the wrong version of this, dammit.
	3:00pm Parq: What Lane said.
	3:00pm Wilson K: I definitely heard this on the radio in the 80s before I ever heard of TVZ...
	3:01pm Lane Gray: I had a huge crush on Emmylou AND hers was the first I heard. And Albert Lee and Hank DeVito? What's not to love.
	🛒 3:01pm KevinfromBayRidge: Awlright! UM in OT. is that Double-Time for Merle?
	3:01pm Wilson K: Nice Townes fingerpick version on that extremely sad documentary about his life
	3:01pm Dungaroos Kipawah: Well no knock on Emmy, but no human sang "Pancho needs your prayers, it's true" like Hag. Just as good as singing gets. And his verse makes this version
	3:02pm Uncle Michael: No, not double...I'm not the man Kurt G. is.
	3:03pm Lane Gray: Today's safety tip: get a vehicle professionally inspected after a deer strike, even a minor one. Five days and fthree thousand miles after a deer strike, my tie rod fell apart. Because of the deer..
	3:05pm Uncle Michael: The semi?
	3:05pm Dean: "Doe!"
	3:06pm 67tele: that'll cost ya some 'bucks'...sorry
	3:06pm chromaphone: Key to the Highway chords.
	3:06pm hyde: i kind of credit Merle Haggard with getting me personally into country music. I tangentially liked some stuff, but for many years wasn't that into it. Then I went through a period where I'd get CD's out of the public library, and one day I took home an I'm a Lonesome Fugitive/Branded Man double compilation. That was a real whoa moment.
	3:06pm Lane Gray: Yup. It fell apart in the yard. The strain of a hard cut on a stationary tire pulled it right out
	🛒 3:07pm KevinfromBayRidge: Thanks Lane. Not too much of an issue in Brooklyn. I'm always on the the watch for Jumbo rats, though!
	3:08pm ndbob: wow never knew Merle recorded this
	🛒 3:11pm KevinfromBayRidge: Ain't no garbage today! Wunnerful tribute. I learned a helluva lot...And delayed doing my taxes at the same time-Win-Win!
	3:12pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Kevin...two songs left...
	3:13pm hyde: @Lane. oof. damn those rats with hooves.
	3:14pm ndbob: Excellent show UM!
	3:15pm Uncle Michael: click the gif and make Merle smile
	3:15pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Bob.
	3:17pm Alex In Illinois: Ever notice that deer have very narrow heads? Even though their bodies are several times the size of that of my dog, there just does not seem to be as much brain room in the deer's head as in the dog's head.
	3:19pm Parq: Ended as we started.
	3:20pm hyde: thanks UM! looking forward to catching up with the 2 hours i missed.
	3:24pm Parq: Yoiks, that was some seg back to the feed!
	3:25pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone.

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from April 8, 2016

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April 8, 2016: SPECIAL (Merle Haggard tribute): I'll fix your flat tire, Merle.

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Artist	Track	Album
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am	Pride In What I Am (Capitol - 1969)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Tulare Dust	Someday We'll Look Back (Capitol - 1971)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	They're Tearin' The Labor Camps Down	Let Me Tell You About A Song (Capitol - 1972)
Merle Haggard	Hungry Eyes "Hungry Eyes" by "Merle Haggard"	A Portrait Of Merle Haggard (Capitol - 1969)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)	Let Me Tell You About A Song (Capitol - 1972)
Merle Haggard	Kern River "Kern River" by "Merle Haggard"	Kern River (Epic - 1985)
Music behind DJ: Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Stealin' Corn	Introducing My Friends The Strangers (Capitol - 1970)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)	Same Train, A Different Time (Capitol - 1978)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	New York City Blues	It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) (Capitol - 1972)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	The Sidewalks Of Chicago	Hag (Capitol - 1971)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Skid Row	I'm A Lonesome Fugitive (Capitol - 1967)
Merle Haggard	Big City "Big City" by "Merle Haggard"	Big City (Epic - 1981)
Merle Haggard	Sing A Sad Song "Sing A Sad Song" by "Merle Haggard"	single (b/w You Don't Even Try) (Tally - 1963)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	If We Make It Through December	If We Make It Through December (Capitol - 1974)
Music behind DJ: Merle Haggard's Strangers	Tennessee Flat Top Box	Instrumental Sounds of Merle Haggard's Strangers (Capitol - 1969)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me	I Wonder If They Ever Think Of (Capitol - 1973)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	I'm A Lonesome Fugitive	I'm A Lonesome Fugitive (Capitol - 1967)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Running Kind	A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today (Capitol - 1976)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Branded Man	Branded Man (Capitol - 1967)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Sing Me Back Home	Sing Me Back Home (Capitol - 1968)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Mama Tried	Mama Tried (Capitol - 1968)
Music behind DJ: Merle Haggard's Strangers	Mama Tried	Instrumental Sounds of Merle Haggard's Strangers (Capitol - 1969)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Drink Up and Be Somebody	I'm A Lonesome Fugitive (Capitol - 1967)
Merle Haggard and George Jones	C.C. Waterback	single (b/w After I Sing All My Songs) (Capitol - 1984)
Merle Haggard	(My friends are gonna be) Strangers	Strangers (Capitol - 1965)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Swinging Doors	Swinging Doors (Capitol - 1966)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	The Bottle Let Me Down	Swinging Doors (And The Bottle Let Me Down) (Capitol - 1966)
Merle Haggard	Misery and Gin "Misery and Gin" by "Merle Haggard"	Back To The Barrooms (MCA - 1980)
Merle Haggard	I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink	Back To The Barrooms (MCA - 1980)
Music behind DJ: Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star	Introducing My Friends The Strangers (Capitol - 1970)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Is This the Beginning of the End?	The Legend Of Bonnie & Clyde (Capitol - 1968)
Merle Haggard	Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)	Big City (Epic - 1981)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	The Fightin' Side Of Me	single (b-side to Every Fool Has A Rainbow) (Capitol - 1970)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Okie From Muskogee	single (b/w If I Had Left It Up To You) (Capitol - 1969)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	I'm A White Boy	A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today (Capitol - 1976)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	White Man Singin' The Blues	Presents His 30th Album (Capitol - 1974)
Merle Haggard	Workin' Man Blues "Workin' Man Blues" by "Merle Haggard"	single (b/w Silver Wings) (Capitol - 1965)
Music behind DJ: Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Workin' Man Blues	Introducing My Friends The Strangers (Capitol - 1970)
Merle Haggard	That's The Way Love Goes That's	The Way Love Goes (Epic - 1983)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Things Aren't Funny Anymore	Presents His 30th Album (Capitol - 1974)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	I Threw Away the Rose	Branded Man (Capitol - 1967)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)	It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) (Capitol - 1972)
Merle Haggard	I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can	single (b/w Falling For You) (Capitol - 1965)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Today I Started Loving You Again	single (b-side to The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde (promo)) (Capitol - 1968)
Merle Haggard	I Had a Beautiful Time	A Friend In California (Epic - 1986)
Music behind DJ: Merle Haggard's Strangers	Somebody Stole My Gal	Instrumental Sounds of Merle Haggard's Strangers (Capitol - 1969)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Silver Wings	single (b-side to Workin' Man Blues) (Capitol - 1969)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Kentucky Gambler	Kentucky Gambler (Capitol - 1975)
Merle Haggard	A Friend in California	A Friend In California (Epic - 1986)
Merle Haggard	Leonard "Leonard" by "Merle Haggard"	Back To The Barrooms (MCA - 1980)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	White Line Fever	prev. unr. (Capitol - 1969?) (From: Down Every Road)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me)	prev. unr. (Capitol - 1970?) (From: Hag: The Studio Recordings 1969-1976)
Merle Haggard	Corrine Corrina "Corrine Corrina" by "Merle Haggard"	A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World (Capitol - 1970)
Music behind DJ: Merle Haggard's Strangers	San Antonio Rose	Instrumental Sounds of Merle Haggard's Strangers (Capitol - 1969)
Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson	Pancho And Lefty	Pancho & Lefty (Epic - 1982)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde	The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde (Capitol - 1968)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Trouble in Mind	Hag (bonus track) (prev. unr. - 1970)
Merle Haggard	Garbage Man "Garbage Man" by "Merle Haggard"	Haggard Like Never Before (Hag Records Inc. - 2003)
Merle Haggard	Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Star	single (b/w I Don't Have Any Love Around) (Epic - 1987)
Merle Haggard	Roses In the Winter	Serving 190 Proof (MCA - 1979)
Merle Haggard	If I Could Only Fly	If I Could Only Fly (ANTI-/Epitaph - 2000)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"	single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) (Blue Horizon - 1968)

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Listener comments!
	12:02pm Uncle Michael: Am I Live?
	12:03pm Stevel: Not dead yet.
	12:03pm mauri: UM is live
	12:03pm SeanG: LETS DO THIS
	12:03pm holland oats: & well
	12:04pm Lizardner Dave: You're on the air.
	12:04pm Parq: Lunch brought. Workload stacked. Lav visited. Bring it, baby!
	12:04pm annie: i'm here, i can give you half an hour, meeting soon.
	12:05pm ndbob: afternoon UM and everyone!
	12:05pm Doug Schulkind: Oildale to Bakersfield: 3.4 miles.
	12:06pm Uncle Michael: Greetings my friends. Thanks for you patience.
	12:06pm bobdoesthings: @unlce michael -- found this via a comedy podcast and thought to share it with you for obvious reasons - www.youtube.com...
	12:07pm Alex In Illinois: The complex that machinery, the more susceptible it is to failure. The more intelligent the technology, the likelier it is to find an excuse not to work.
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Bob...I'll check out that link after the show.
	12:08pm Parq: I'm just grateful to have finally found out what he learned in a hobo jungle.
	12:09pm Uncle Michael: I had Valley Fever when I was a kid in Tucson.
	12:09pm Lane Gray: Good morning, y'all!
	12:11pm Uncle Michael: Hiya Lane.
	12:12pm chromaphone: Morning. Don't know much Merle so this will be educational.
	12:12pm chromaphone: I mean afternoon.
	12:13pm Parq: Chrom, it's morning in America.
	12:13pm Lane Gray: Probably the best of Lefty's kids.
	12:14pm Uncle Michael: Good moanin'
	12:16pm Lane Gray: That is a strange and haunting effect Norm was using behind the end of the verse. Not even sure whether it was steel or Dobro
	12:17pm Uncle Michael: It's beautiful.
	12:21pm Jeff g.: Got my Hinky hankie at the ready. Bon jour all. And congrats, Mike East!
	12:21pm Lane Gray: Indeed.
	12:22pm Uncle Michael: Hi Jeff...hi everyone that came in while I was wrestling with the gear.
	12:27pm Doug Schulkind: Remember when Merle said this, in 2010, about President Obama: "It's really almost criminal what they do with our president," Haggard said. "There seems to be no shame or anything. They call him all kinds of names all day long, saying he's doing certain things that he's not. It's just a big old political game that I don't want to be part of."
	12:31pm Mike East: Thanks Jeff G! Another child born into a house where they are forced to listen to WFMU...if I do my job right, a future Swag for Lifer!
	12:33pm Parq: Oh God, not another "New York sucks" song.
	12:33pm Doug Schulkind: New York "values," Parq.
	12:34pm ndbob: congrats Mike East!
	12:35pm Parq: I hate the suburbs like poison, but you don't hear me going around singing about it.
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: Because you can't?
	12:36pm Mike East: Thanks, ndbob :)
	12:37pm Parq: That, my dear Midwestern friend, is a matter of debate. There are Youtube videos on point, but I'm at work and can't access them.
	12:38pm Uncle Michael: We'll bear up.
	12:38pm Lane Gray: Put a VPN on your machine?
	12:47pm doctorjazz: Hi all.
	12:51pm SeanG: i need some more beer
	12:51pm Lane Gray: Surprised that you didn't choose Millie. Or maybe not since she was last week
	🛒 12:52pm Brian in UK: Hello Uncle @Lane here is a link from one of FMUs other resources Ubuweb. Saw this and thought of you. www.ubu.com...
	12:52pm SeanG: my fave Merle tune is "Wishing all these old things were new" --epic
	12:52pm Dean: There are no guilty pleasures, but I have a guilty pleasure: suburbs. And dying malls. Bracket the racial dynamic that populated the suburbs in the first place--impossible to bracket, I know--and I get a warm cozy feeling from nondescript, generic, regimented streets, strip malls, parks, and such. But I wouldn't complain if Merle sang "Covina Blues."
	12:56pm Parq: What I love most about "I Wonder" is how you don't find out until the bridge that he's a POW and not a drifter.
	1:01pm Uncle Michael: Lane, I played the Millie Jackson cover just in the last few weeks.
	1:01pm holland oats: great show um / all hail merle (& understated fuzz guitar stabs)
	1:02pm Alex In Illinois: It depends on the suburb or type of suburb. At some point, they started making some suburbs without any sidewalks or crosswalks or places to walk or ride a bike, so that one needs to use a car just to get across the street. By now, someone must have set some words of discontent about such an environment to music. If not, then it is about time someone does.
	1:03pm Uncle Michael: Alex, those would be the suburbs full of "snout houses."
	1:04pm Lane Gray: Topeka is a nice size. Big enough to have what you need, and KC is just over the hill if you need a city
	1:07pm Parq: "Sing Me Back Home" packs an emotional wallop that would knock a guy right off his feet.
	1:08pm Lane Gray: Was expecting deeper catalog stuff, but it's early yet....
	1:08pm Alex In Illinois: Yes, Uncle Michael, miles of snout houses, that is the picture! I don't think I can recall that phrase in a song though. Someone must have used it by now. though.
	1:08pm ndbob: I have no problem with suburbs - Bloomington is about the right size for me. Jamestown a little too small
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: Lane, you might be disappointed today.
	1:09pm Lane Gray: Never. I love his hits.
	1:12pm doctorjazz: If there are enough versions of Mama Tried, I would be fine with a whole show of it.
	1:13pm still b/p: Merle's name always puts me in mind of PPL's "I'll Fix Your Flat Tire Merle," which I encountered a LOT in college. Somehow familiarity with his own big hit-making output eluded me then and ever since -- except for Okie From Musgokee, and even at that, in those same college days the knock-off Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother was heard -- on jukebox or drunk-sung by party circles -- farrrr far more often.
	1:18pm Lane Gray: All the talk of New York distracted. Him. A song so nice he played it twice
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: still b/p that's a Big Brother & the Holding Co. cover. Nick Gravenites wrote it.
	1:18pm Lane Gray: MOON!!
	1:19pm Parq: I'll admit, I had the impression throughout my youth that "Okie From" was tongue in cheek. It seemed so popular with the very people it was attacking that, to me, it just didn't seem plausible that it was in earnest. Even the Beach Boys covered it (which Spazz played last night), and I can remember watching a TV concert taped in Central Park, seeing longhairs happily singing along with the Beachmen on it. It took me a while to accept that he had been dead serious, and now I know that, by then, his own view was already becoming more nuanced.
	1:22pm Alex in Illinois: I don't have a problem with all suburbs. I live in one.
	🛒 1:22pm Brian in UK: I think Merle was grown up enough to be able to change his point of view. The thing I can count on is my fingers. Quality.
	1:24pm SeanG: this song is the best
	1:25pm still b/p: Thanks, UM. Had to just give the Big Brother version a listen. I like it.
	1:26pm Uncle Michael: Me too. I put it on Facebook last night.
	🛒 1:26pm Brian in UK: Strangers, Drifting Cowboys. The greats knew how to name their bands.
	1:30pm Uncle Michael: Snuff Garrett and John Durrill song...Misery & Gin
	1:35pm Lane Gray: Brian, not all. My gig tomorrow night has a member of the Brazos Valley Boys on bass. I hope we'll get some Hank T in...
	1:37pm doctorjazz: Have to say, when Okie came out, I thought it was tongue in cheek as well. The interviews I've read with him the past few days show him to have thought about it quite a bit afterwards, and, of course, to change his thinking on it.
	🛒 1:37pm Brian in UK: @Lane did you see my comment at 12:52?
	1:39pm Rich in Washington: The 80s were a terrible time for country music. I recall working in a cafe/restaurant/lounge as a teen that was run by shitkickers. The music played incessantly on the jukebox was awful. Whenever I could, I would punch in a bunch of older country or the few rock n' roll tunes to try to dilute the (then) contemporary country pap they'd play.
	1:39pm Lane Gray: Indeed. Stay Here And Drink needed the early attitude... Brian I saw it. Haven't looked at it yet (deejay is talking over Moon. Glad I grew up listening to am radio. I can hear background content...)
	1:41pm SeanG: i'm with you UM! all the way
	1:41pm Lane Gray: Damn. Must look that up. I bet it was cool
	🛒 1:41pm KevinfromBayRidge: Shit Yeah, Unc!
	1:42pm chromaphone: I have had to take a few Merle breaks but still good show. The vocals on this one are amazing!
	🛒 1:45pm Brian in UK: There are some Merle vocal nuances that Chip Taylor has on his early Warner country albums. Love them. Two great song writers.
	1:47pm Uncle Michael: A fair amount of unintended irony in good times..
	1:51pm Mike East: thanks for the Merleducation, UM. Enjoying the tribute today.
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Mike.
	1:55pm Lane Gray: Was Jerry Reed involved in this? Has his griove
	1:56pm doctorjazz: Have to say, I'm a Merle ignoramus, just know the big tunes, but I'm enjoying hearing him today, fine show.
	🛒 1:58pm KevinfromBayRidge: As with many in my age "tranche", "Okie" was my Merle intro.However, realizing the Dead's "Mama Tried" was written by one and the same made things a whole lot better.
	1:58pm Parq: One of the many (many) reasons I'm a devoted FMU fan is that, when we lose someone like Merle, I can always count on FMU to bring me a perspective (or usually, several) that I never had before on that artist -- whether it's someone like Bowie whose work I know well or someone like Merle where (like the Doc) I am mostly a dilettante.
	1:59pm Lane Gray: Has anyone else noticed that Workingman Blues shares the same sixteen bar (slightly rarer) progression as Big Boss Man?
	2:00pm chromaphone: This has probably already been mentioned but did Merle write all of these tunes?
	2:01pm Lane Gray: No. Many. He knew when to grab a professionally wrote song
	2:02pm Parq: The blog version -- allow me: muleskinner.blogspot.com...
	2:03pm chromaphone: There was a great interview with Deke a few months ago in Tape Op magazine (not about Merle). someone really interesting perspectives on music recording.
	2:04pm Sam Segal: Beautiful tribute, @UM! I've been lurking in the shadows for the last hour or so.
	2:06pm ndbob: A Johnny Rodriguez song
	2:08pm Dungaroos Kipawah: Where's that version of "That's the Way Love Goes" from not the '83 version. Is that on one of those Bear Fam. boxes? A demo? Very different vibe, very cool.
	2:09pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Sam.
	2:11pm Uncle Michael: I'm not sure what the nature of my mistake was, Dungaroos!
	2:12pm Parq: "I kept the wine but threw away the rose" -- wow, what a superb, eloquent summation of that tipping point when it comes to drinking.
	2:14pm Uncle Michael: Hank Cochran, Glenn Martin wrote this one...It's Not Love
	2:18pm Lane Gray: Ndbob, if you mean That's The Way Love Goes, that's not Johnny Rodriguez, it's Lefty. At least Lefty different it first
	2:18pm Dungaroos Kipawah: Just a different version of the hit single--never heard it before and really liked it. The hit version from '83 more somber and resigned. Just wondering if version was pulled from the actual record or a compilation. Definitely not a mistake--the cut was fabulous, just different. This was the '83 hit version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhaju2pwrJg
	🛒 2:18pm Brian in UK: Guess Merle did not really travel across the water here. Not to say that he was not popular, just did not resonate as he did with so many folks over your way.
	2:19pm hyde: hmmm, i missed a lot of Merle. on the bright side, I've got lots more Merle for later.
	2:19pm Lane Gray: Yup. Cowrote by Lefty and Whitey Shafer, the same team that did I Never Go Around Mirrors
	🛒 2:20pm Brian in UK: Got to hit the kitchen Three hours barely scratches the surface, Uncle.
	🛒 2:20pm KevinfromBayRidge: I'm thinking 50 minutes slow here but I guess Merle didn't have a version of "Ghostriders"?
	2:21pm Uncle Michael: I don't think so, Kevin.
	2:23pm Doug Schulkind: Here's a double-bill I wished I'd seen: Merle Haggard and The Stranglers
	2:26pm hyde: the day Merle died I was at work + did the Youtube thing, and I tell ya I heard some re-records that were kind of shabby
	2:27pm Lane Gray: Took me three times to see what you did there. (as a dyslexic, I subconsciously correct errors to fit contextually)
	2:31pm hyde: that was a great story
	2:32pm Lizardner Dave: That is a fantastic story.
	2:34pm 67tele: ah the love songs...he should know, he was married 5 times
	2:34pm Parq: @Doug, 2:23 - I've been thinking much the same thing for an hour now.
	2:38pm Uncle Michael: He loved well and often, Tele.
	2:39pm ndbob: quite a story there UM
	2:39pm Uncle Michael: We're going significantly long today.
	2:39pm Lane Gray: There's a perfect username for a Hag discussion, Tele.
	2:41pm ndbob: a song about Tommy Collins I think?
	2:41pm Uncle Michael: That's correct.
	2:45pm Uncle Michael: Damn..."Leonard" still really moves me.
	2:45pm 67tele: its the little red one w/the white pick guard in the corner
	2:45pm Mr C: Lovely tribute Michael..
	2:45pm 67tele: <--- that one - wow i used my internet skills
	2:48pm chromaphone: White Line Fever makes me think of Gram Parsons' version. He was the opposite of poor as a child apparently.
	2:48pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Mr. C.
	2:50pm Lane Gray: I have an orange partscaster, but I play steel better. Did Emmitt Miller write I ain't Got Nobody? Love the western swing set. As opposed to the Western swingset
	2:51pm Parq: Asleep at the Wheel did their own Wills tribute, which included a version of "Corrina" that, I think, also had Johnny Gimble on fiddle.
	2:51pm Lane Gray: Much better than the Brooks and Dunn abomination, with the swing removed
	2:52pm 67tele: the western swingsets are a bitch...it takes a long time to hitch up the horses and they dont like it so much
	2:57pm hyde: woo hoo, bonus set!
	2:58pm Lane Gray: No knock on Merle or Willie, but Emmylou did THE version, IMO
	2:59pm doctorjazz: Not Townes?
	2:59pm Dean: Yeah, I'm partial to Townes' live version from Houston.
	3:00pm Uncle Michael: I can't disagree, Lane. And this is the wrong version of this, dammit.
	3:00pm Parq: What Lane said.
	3:00pm Wilson K: I definitely heard this on the radio in the 80s before I ever heard of TVZ...
	3:01pm Lane Gray: I had a huge crush on Emmylou AND hers was the first I heard. And Albert Lee and Hank DeVito? What's not to love.
	🛒 3:01pm KevinfromBayRidge: Awlright! UM in OT. is that Double-Time for Merle?
	3:01pm Wilson K: Nice Townes fingerpick version on that extremely sad documentary about his life
	3:01pm Dungaroos Kipawah: Well no knock on Emmy, but no human sang "Pancho needs your prayers, it's true" like Hag. Just as good as singing gets. And his verse makes this version
	3:02pm Uncle Michael: No, not double...I'm not the man Kurt G. is.
	3:03pm Lane Gray: Today's safety tip: get a vehicle professionally inspected after a deer strike, even a minor one. Five days and fthree thousand miles after a deer strike, my tie rod fell apart. Because of the deer..
	3:05pm Uncle Michael: The semi?
	3:05pm Dean: "Doe!"
	3:06pm 67tele: that'll cost ya some 'bucks'...sorry
	3:06pm chromaphone: Key to the Highway chords.
	3:06pm hyde: i kind of credit Merle Haggard with getting me personally into country music. I tangentially liked some stuff, but for many years wasn't that into it. Then I went through a period where I'd get CD's out of the public library, and one day I took home an I'm a Lonesome Fugitive/Branded Man double compilation. That was a real whoa moment.
	3:06pm Lane Gray: Yup. It fell apart in the yard. The strain of a hard cut on a stationary tire pulled it right out
	🛒 3:07pm KevinfromBayRidge: Thanks Lane. Not too much of an issue in Brooklyn. I'm always on the the watch for Jumbo rats, though!
	3:08pm ndbob: wow never knew Merle recorded this
	🛒 3:11pm KevinfromBayRidge: Ain't no garbage today! Wunnerful tribute. I learned a helluva lot...And delayed doing my taxes at the same time-Win-Win!
	3:12pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Kevin...two songs left...
	3:13pm hyde: @Lane. oof. damn those rats with hooves.
	3:14pm ndbob: Excellent show UM!
	3:15pm Uncle Michael: click the gif and make Merle smile
	3:15pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Bob.
	3:17pm Alex In Illinois: Ever notice that deer have very narrow heads? Even though their bodies are several times the size of that of my dog, there just does not seem to be as much brain room in the deer's head as in the dog's head.
	3:19pm Parq: Ended as we started.
	3:20pm hyde: thanks UM! looking forward to catching up with the 2 hours i missed.
	3:24pm Parq: Yoiks, that was some seg back to the feed!
	3:25pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone.

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from April 8, 2016

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