I sat in for my pal Flap Jones this past weekend hosting Not Necessarily Nashville on Little Rock Public Radio’s KUAR-FM 89.1. It’s always a joy selecting an hour of music to play and discuss.
With only a few days before the Wednesday, March 19 screening of the Arkansas PBS documentary Unveiled: Daisy Bates and Johnny Cash at Robinson Center in Little Rock, followed a week later by Bob Dylan performing at the same venue on Wednesday, March 26, I played two songs Cash and Dylan recorded together. These versions of “Guess Things Happen That Way” and “I Still Miss Someone” were recorded during two days in a Nashville studio in February 1969 and were eventually released a half-century later in 2019 as part of Dylan’s The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15, Travelin’ Thru.
Not Necessarily Nashville, March 8, 2025, 7 p.m. on Little Rock Public Radio’s KUAR-FM 89.1.
I also played a couple of songs from an album by Mary Chapin Carpenter and Scottish musicians Lulie Fowlis and Karine Polwart. Looking for the Thread was released in January and has been a relaxing escape during my work commutes over the last few weeks.
Not Necessarily Nashville playlist, March 8, 2025, Little Rock Public Radio
Buck Owens and the Buckaroos – “Johnny Be Goode” (Buck Owens in London)
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart “Satellite” (Looking For The Thread)
Jim Lauderdale “Delta Blue” (Can’t Steal My Fire: The Songs of David Olney)
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash – “Guess Things Happen That Way” (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15: Travelin’ Thru, 1967-1969)
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash – “I Still Miss Someone” (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15: Travelin’ Thru, 1967-1969)
Glen Campbell – “These Days” (Meet Glen Campbell)
Kinky Friedman – “See You Down the Highway” (Poet of Motel 6)
Ray Charles and Willie Nelson – “It Was a Very Good Year” (Genius Loves Company)
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood – “Some Velvet Morning” (Movin’ with Nancy)
Alison Krauss & Union Station – “Looks like The End of the Road” (Arcadia)
Sam Moore and Conway Twitty – “A Rainy Night in Georgia”
Ringo Star – “Time on my Hands” (Look Up)
Tom T. Hall – “I Miss a Lot of Trains”
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart “Looking for the Thread” (Looking For The Thread)
Director of Public Affairs at Arkansas PBS, 36-year broadcasting veteran, photographer, interested in radio, TV and railroad history, author and host of the book and podcast series Rock Island Railroad in Arkansas.
