Roadhouse; 2838; Son Volt (recorded 2009-07-22)

And we'll go into a song, we'll go into two songs without interruption, then we'll chat and then one song, and we're out, OK. Yeah, on three, one, two, three. Jay Ferris here from Central. Welcome to KXB. Hey, good to be here. This is a song of the new record called Doesn't do the light, doesn't do the light. Everyone has their idols, they'll always be a story to tell. Search goes on, balance in the final stage. When you're lost and falling, I will look in the worst way. You can go

as a fun, and you stumble every step you make. You can go stop daylight, as you die, and takes you away. You move as a fun, and you stumble every step you make. We were lost and falling so fully hours of the day. We're a waste of odds, trouble in a build bonds, been fun, friends with Israel. Time to leave now. It's not a pack of all that you leave

now. We'll contest here, we'll be judged just the same. When you're lost and falling, you stumble every step you make. You can go stop daylight, as you die, and you make you away. You move as a fun, and you stumble every step you make. You move as a fun, and you stumble every step you make. Next song, this one's dynamite.

When we go, the heart breaks away, my hold's back. This loose turn, pouring rain, which we does not free, and everyone must pay the price. There were diamonds that was golden in your eyes, not just silence, but the world's on the side, the turnies never die, the way alone. And this low, it was like celebrating, full of July with dynamite, full of July with dynamite, oh, there's no right way, only the way to keep your mind free.

Every moment you count in the living judgment day, life to live shall not be a burden, here you don't show there's a long mystic trial. Dreams need the dust, no blues are coming down this time. And this low, it was like celebrating, full of July with dynamite, full of July with dynamite, the slow, it was like celebrating, full of July with dynamite, full of

dynamite, full of dynamite, full of dynamite. All right, J4R is here with a member of Sunfault, of course, he's solo and acoustics virtual treat for us here tonight in the Roadhouse. He's playing tonight with the band at the Woodland Park Zoo's early show and welcome to the early show. Yeah. You're going to leave straight from here and go out there. Yeah.

We play at 730. OK. And you're with the cowboy junkies and you're kind of rotating this headliner throughout the tour in this area of the world, is that right? So tonight you're headlining. Yeah. Yeah. It's been good, you know? There's that sense of camaraderie where you see the same people every day and you get to check into work like normal people every day, you know? Hey, Sam, how's it going? Yeah. Well, all right. Good to see you, Bob. Good day to come out. It's beautiful out today. Yeah. Do you enjoy this part of the world? The Northwest? I do. I also, you know, every time that it's zoo, there's always a couple of things I want to try to check out like the fox bat is always one of them because it has this fox's head on this giant bat. Is that right? Then the sloth is the other one. You better get out there quick. Oh, I've already seen it. Oh, you've been there. OK. Good. So the new records fantastic. I think it's going to make a lot of sunfall fans happy as a great record. Now you're on rounder records now. And the label, I guess I was reading that, you know, you like the fact that rounder has a good history of folk and blues and the late night and glad to be there.

Yeah. I've shown a long-term commitment to their ideals and their artists that they have. So it feels like a good home. Yeah. Now Joe Henry's part of the record. I think you recorded the record in your home studio and then you did Joe finish it and mix it at the end. Yeah. You know, I've known Joe Henry since the early 1990s, you know, and we shared some bills together. I was in Uncle Tupelo and he was out doing solo records. But, you know, we sort of kept in touch over the years and then, you know, I came across that Salomon Burke record that it worked on. I thought it was great, you know, attention to detail on that. He's been doing so much good work with artists. They did the Carolina Trucker Trucker. I guess he's working on that now. Oh, yeah. Ramblin' Jack Elliott record now. Alan Tissant record just came out and like you say, he knows how to record it. You know, he knows how to just put the right salt and pepper in there. So he did a good job on this record. You have a song in here about the Mary Time Disaster in Memphis in 1865, Saltan. What's that all about?

That sounds a good interesting story. You know, Olivia in St. Louis where I do, you know, sometimes you can look over the river pluffs there and when the river's low, there's sand bars that pop up and sometimes in the sand bars, you'll see what appear to be old shipwrecks, you know, in the sand. And I guess that just sort of stoked my imagination to find out if there wasn't anything like that around, you know, and in that process of looking for that, I came across Saltan, which has actually happened down around Memphis, but it just struck me as a, you know, just the name of the ship itself. Saltan was kind of sadly powerful and the incident was tragic beyond proportion. Yeah, I feel like the Titanic story of the Mississippi. Right. So more people lost their lives on the Saltan than the Titanic. Right. I just have a song about Keith Richards. Is that true? The cocaine and ashes tune is about the myth or the, the urban legend that Keith Richards is built around the quote that Keith Richards made, yeah, the press that he had mixed

cocaine with his father's ashes. And, you know, it just struck me as kind of idiosyncratic Keith, but also kind of honest and, you know, at least to me, I felt like it was an honest statement and a very real statement, you know, that just kind of cuts through the chaff that often is out there in the media. Do you enjoy being on the road? Uh, it's been good, you know, we've, we've had all kinds of extreme weather. I think we were talking earlier about the 111 degree days and in the desert, but yeah, it's been good. Favorite places out there, awesome Texas is always one Seattle's always one San Francisco, but it's good to be here. Yeah. Jay Ferris here, he's with some Volta playing the Whittle and Park Zoo tonight and with the cowboy junkie. You just hear a solo and acoustic live for us on KXP in the roadhouse. This is, uh, Down to the Wire.

Wake up to the middle street, whoos, can't shake the news all the way to the big dome that they're trying to try to, and treats to the new roads and the believers, we have to laugh, share the same gamblers, pages, cobblestone streets on three sovereign flags, they raise their glasses, the conquest and they show, still pawns playing out the legacy, long set industry, titans and haters and men, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the

wire. Last April's relaxed, fly from trees, rough symbols of a cavalier progress. Memories and landscapes and triage, disappearing averages, proven changes, no cure will have a final save, and we only know who's the jury is guilty, face with no plan at all,

just a trigger smile, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the wire.

Translator, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the wire, feelin' down to the wire. Got it. I love that song. You sound great, Jay. Thanks for being here. SunVolt's going to be at the Woodland Park Zoo tonight, and then Spokane tomorrow and

then down to Idaho. Thank you so much. Down to Idaho. Thanks for having me. Alright, K-X-P with the Music Matters. Check it out for you. All four seasons, they're pretty much the same. It's actually better. It's actually better than Los Angeles. Yeah. Okay, Jay, whenever you're ready. Chrome Crisp Coating. We know of a remote farm in Lincolnshire. Well, Mrs. Buckley lives. I think I'm worried about it now. Thanks. This is Jay from SunVolt. You're listening to the Roadhouse with Greg Vandy on K-E-X-P 90.3 FM. One take good. Thank you. I'm a huge way to guess. I do. I've done a show a number of times as kind of reefing out of all the Columbia River songs. Because there's a new... Oh, yeah. Right.

Because the whole thing is about us, you know. He's also got some new stuff coming out on Round Road. I don't know if there's anything about that person. So, he's signed this before. I don't even think basically we get permission to use it on a podcasting or you can use it out. And it's also going to get the outside of the community. So, what do you want to do? All right. So, yeah, I did this show about all the Columbia River songs and that whole story because he was hired an appointment in 41 and about all the songs about Grant Felidam and basically about our neck that was out here. And no one seems to realize that. Yeah. It was commissioned. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, you're like one month. So, you're about all the classic songs in one month. So, you can take that over into the evening right now. Do you want to hang out for a while? Well, you're going to lean pretty soon. But, yeah, I'll forget. Yeah.

I just wanted to offer J. I don't know if you're just going to need a picture. Oh. Okay. No, that's nice, actually. I'll give you an email. Sure. Sure. Thank you. All right. Have a good one. Have a good one. Thank you. It's so new. Cool. Yeah. Thank you. Nice and nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice.

Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. I think it was just a period. Nice. There you go. Down to the water. Yes, it's okay, cool. I can't be sure you can see where I'm at. I can't be sure you can see where I'm at. I'm still in there, but I think this transfers the thought of it all the sudden brain. Oh yeah, this is my daughter Grace. All right. So that's, oh, oh, this is still.

I just got probably half a dozen shots or something on film up there. Good job, Eugene. All right. Appreciate it. Thanks. Thanks for your help. Yes. My pleasure. Thank you. I think I care. I love it. Me too. How are you? What's your? Here. Really. Very interesting. A lot of town and southern middle of Illinois. Peking. Yeah. And that they're their mascot up until 1980 was the peeking chicks. And these referred to it in high school as E-K-K-I-M.

Nice. Yeah. Well, that was a place over in Richmond. The Tri-Cities here. Well, they was going there. The mascot was the bomber. It was going to be mushroom cloud. Like the warley 70s. And the regional bombers. Mushroom cloud. Yeah. See, I didn't mean to go there. I just wanted to say it. Hey, Jen, come in here. Yeah. Come in here and throw center. Oh, no way around. And off everything goes to hell. Nice. You can see it. It's got the blooming. Oh, yeah. I lived the same building. Yeah. Susan, here to run. Oh, really? Okay. So, right on. I'm going to say hello. Hello. Ellen, I travel. All right. Have we shown that in the building? Didn't we? Yeah. That's you. That's you. That's you. That's you. That's you. That's you. That's you. That's you. That's you. That's you. All right. Thank you. Bye.

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