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Joey Ryan is best known as the taller member of The Milk Carton Kids. The group has been nominated for three GRAMMY Awards: Best Folk Album in 2013 (The Ash & Clay); Best American Roots Performance in 2015 (“The City of Our Lady”); and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, in 2018 (All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do). In this episode, Matt talks to Joey about what touring feels like after 2 years of Covid-19, the band's Sad Songs Summer Camp, and what to do about the obligatory encore. They also reminisce about the time Matt gave Joey banjo lessons so he could accompany Robert Plant on tour.
Show #437 Reed Foehl - Stealing Starlight (Lucky Enough) Amy McCarley - Ain't Life Funny (Meco) Ben Bostick - Work, Sleep, Repeat (Hellfire) Danny Burns - Human Heart (North Country) (mic break) Eric Brace, Peter Cooper & Thomm Jutz - River City (Riverland) Alice Wallace - Santa Ana Winds (Into The Blue) The Milk Carton Kids - Younger Years (All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do) Reed Foehl - Wish I Knew (Lucky Enough) Amy McCarley - A Clue (Meco) (mic break) Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen - Crave (If You Can't Stand the Heat) Flatland Cavalry - Come Back Down (Homeland Insecurity) Lori McKenna - Young and Angry Again (The Tree) Shoebox Letters - Bender (Bender) Matt Campbell - That's The Way (The Man With Everything) (mic break) Amy McCarley -High Wire (Meco) Reed Foehl - Takes A Long Time To Make Old Friends (Lucky Enough)
Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis: I Just Lived A Country Song (Wild Wild Wild,Bloodshot Records)John Hiatt: Poor Imitation of God (The Eclipse Sessions,New West)Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats: Still Out There Running (Tearing At The Seams,Caroline International P&D)Ethan Johns with The Black Eyed Dogs: Leaving It All Behind (Anamnesis,Three Crows)Lori McKenna: You Can't Break a Woman (The Tree,CN Records)Eliza Gilkyson: Down By The Riverside (feat. Jimmy LaFave) (Secularia,Red House Records)Kendel Carson: Yankee Boy (Lost Tapes of Suzanna Hamilton (with The Calgary Sessions),Train Wreck)Jimmy LaFave: When The Thought Of You Catches Up With Me (Peace Town,Music Road Records)Rodney Crowell: Please Remember Me (Acoustic Classics,RC1 Records)The Milk Carton Kids: I've Been Loving You (All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do,Anti/Epitaph)Jim Lauderdale: If The World's Still Here Tomorrow (Time Flies,Yep-Roc)Lera Lynn: Almost Persauded (feat. John Paul White) (Plays Well With Others,Single Lock (Red))Mandy Barnett: Lock, Stock and Teardrops (King Of The Road: A Tribute To Roger Miller,BMG)Kevin Welch: Dust Devil (Dust Devil,Dead Reckoning)Malcolm Holcombe: October Mornin' (Come Hell or High Water,Gypsy Eyes Music)Jeffrey Foucault: Little Warbler (Blood Brothers,self-released)JP Harris: Runaway (Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing,Free Dirt Records)Matt Campbell: Trading Teardrops (The Man With Everything,Flour Sack Cape Records)Jamie Lin Wilson: Eyes For You (Jumping Over Rocks,self-released)Jesse Macht: Every Mile (I Was Born,Mock'd Entertainment)Dan Webster: Haul Away (Devil Sky,Paper Plane)Betty LaVette: Person to Person (Strange Angels: In Flight with Elmore James,Sylvan Songs)Colin James: One More Mile (acoustic) (Miles to Go,True North)Kelly Willis: We'll Do It For Love Next Time (Back Being Blue,Premium Records)Kim Richey: Pin a Rose (Edgeland,Yep-Roc)Ellen Starski: Taken By The Breeze (The Days When Peonies Prayed For The Ants,Flying Machine)John Smith: Hummingbird (Hummingbird,Commoner Records)Ruston Kelly: Just For The Record (Dying Star,New Rounder)Romantica: Love In The Winter (Outlaws,La Traviata Records)Martha L. Healy: Woman With No Shame (Keep The Flame Alight,Frogeye Records)
Neal Casal: These Days With You (Fade Away Diamond Time,BMG)Jim Cuddy: Lonely When You Leave (Constellation,Warner Canada)Blue Rodeo: 1000 Arms (1000 Arms,Warner Canada)Justin Rutledge: Kapuskasing Coffee (Valleyheart,Outside Music)Kate Campbell: The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Damn Sure Blue,Large River Music)Will Kimbrough: It Ain't Cool (Wings,Daphne Records)Rodney Crowell: When The Fat Guy Tries The Chimney On For Size (Christmas Everywhere,New West)John Hiatt: Poor Imitation of God (The Eclipse Sessions,New West)The Steeldrivers: Drinkin' Dark Whiskey (The Steeldrivers,Rounder)The Gary Douglas Band: Devil In Her Soul (Deep In The Water,self-released)John Mellencamp: Sugarhill Mountain (Sad Clowns and Hillbillies,Universal-Island Records Ltd)Kendel Carson: Lilly (Lost Tapes of Suzanna Hamilton (with The Calgary Sessions),Train Wreck)Mo Stroemel: The Day That I Found You (Thousand Pounds of Ice,long tree music)Jesse Macht: Suitcase Heart (Suitcase Heart,self-released)Paper Aeroplanes: Race You home (Joy,My First Records)Patty Griffin: Christina (Flaming Red,A&M)Emerson Hart: Engine, Engine #9 (feat. Jon Randall) (King Of The Road: A Tribute To Roger Miller,BMG)Nudie: If A Heart Could Tell (feat. Molly Rankin) (Remember This,self-released)The Milk Carton Kids: Big Time (All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do,Anti/Epitaph)Kevin Welch: Dust Devil (Dust Devil,Dead Reckoning)Jimmy LaFave: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome (Peace Town,Music Road Records)Peter Bruntnell: One Drink Away (Live In The Firth,Domestigo Records)Phosphorescent: I Gotta Get Drunk (To Willie,Dead Oceans)Willie Nelson: One For My Baby (And One For The Road) (My Way,Legacy)Hot Club of Cowtown: Emily (Best of The Hot Club of Cowtown,Shout Factory)D.B. Rielly: I'll Remind You Every Day (Live From Chester,Shut Up and Play)Simon Todd: And I Get Weak (Half Empty/Half Full,Ginger Tom Music)Dan Webster: Anyway (Devil Sky,Paper Plane)Jim Wyly: I Don't Wanna Be There (The Artisan,Texas Fanfair)Mindy Smith: Jolene (Just Because I'm A Woman: The Songs of Dolly Parton,Sugar Hill)
Dale Watson: A Real Country Song (Blessed or Damned,Hightone)Tim Carroll: Every Kind Of Music But Country (If I Could,Spit & Polish)Dallas Wayne: Crank The Hank (I'm Your Biggest Fan,Koch)Fred Eaglesmith: Dancin On The Bar (Falling Stars & Broken Hearts,A Major Label)Hank Williams: (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle (40 Greatest Hits,Polydor)Hank Williams III: Broke, Lovesick and Driftin' (Lovesick Broke & Driftin',Curb)Faron Young: Foolish Heart (Young at Heart,Jasmine Records)Margo Price: Hurtin' (On The Bottle) (Midwest Farmer s Daughter,Third Man Records)Elizabeth Cook: What Do I Do (Balls,31 Tigers Records)Kayla Ray: Hell Of A Day To Drink All Night (Yesterday and Me,self-released)Eilen Jewell: Heartache Boulevard (Letters From Sinners and Strangers,Signature Sounds)Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis: Boogie Woogie Country Girl (Wild Wild Wild,Bloodshot Records)Robbie Fulks: All You Can Cheat (Georgia Hard,Yep-Roc)Jim Lauderdale: Honky Tonk Haze (Other Sessions,Dualtone)Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Ray Price: Still Water Runs The Deepest (Last of the Breed,Virgin)Willie Nelson: The Warm Red Wine (You Don't Know Me: Songs of Cindy Walker,Mercury)Wandering Eyes: Me & Mr Jones (LV Kelly Willis) (Sing Songs of Forbidden Love,Lazy SOB Records)The Time Jumpers: Table For Two (Kid Sister,Rounder)Cale Tyson: Fool of the Year (Introducing Cale Tyson,Clubhouse Records)Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale: Looking For A Heartache Like You (Buddy and Jim,New West)Marty Stuart: Sundown in Nashville (Country Music,Columbia)Connie Smith: Long Line of Heartaches (Long Line of Heartaches,EMI)George Jones: A Good Old Fashioned Cry (The Complete United Artists Solo Singles,Omnivore Recordings)Vince Gill: Sad One Comin' On (A Song For George Jones) (Down To My Last Bad Habit,Wrasse)Roger Miller: Heartaches By The Number (King of the Road,Country Stars)Don Walser: Tomorrow Is A Million Miles Away (Texas Legend,Varese Sarabande)Slaid Cleaves: Rolling Stone From Texas (Sorrow and Smoke,Music Road Records)Western Centuries: Wild You Run (Songs From The Deluge,Free Dirt Records)Karen Jonas: Mama's First Rodeo (Butter,self-released)Whitney Rose: Wake Me In Wyoming (Rule 62,Six Shooter Records)Heather Myles: No One Is Gonna Love You Better (feat. Merle Haggard) (Highways and Honky Tonks,Decca)The Milk Carton Kids: A Sea of Roses (All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do,Anti/Epitaph)Erin Enderlin: Ain't It Just Like A Cowboy (Whiskeytown Crier,Blue Slate Records)The Dixons: Broken Hearted, Lovesick and Blue (Still Your Fool,Cow Island Records)Arty Hill and the Long Gone Daddys: Take These Chains From My Heart (Montgomery On My Mind: Hank EP,Cow Island Records)Dale Watson: Nashville Rash (Cheatin' Heart Attack,Hightone)
Hipsway: The Broken Years (Hipsway,Mercury)Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard: Old Friends (King Of The Road: A Tribute To Roger Miller,BMG)David Olney: I Spy (This Side Or The Other,Black Hen Music)Malcolm Holcombe: Old North Side (Come Hell or High Water,Gypsy Eyes Music)Kendel Carson: Paint Me a Cowboy (Lost Tapes of Suzanna Hamilton (with The Calgary Sessions),Train Wreck)Callaghan: The Other Side (Callaghan,Green Town Music)Eilidh Patterson: Do I Really Know You? (Sunshine,self-released)Trampled by Turtles: We All Get Lonely (Life is Good on the Open Road,Banjodad Records)Romantica: Lost In The Cosmos (Outlaws,La Traviata Records)Amos Lee: Hang On Hang On (My New Moon,Dualtone)Vanessa Peters: Foxhole Prayers (Foxhole Prayers,Idol Records)Martha L. Healy: Livin' Someone Else's Dream (Keep The Flame Alight,Frogeye Records)Annie Oakley: Good Things (Words We Mean,Horton Records)Longstay: Summerton (Calling Me Home,Gold Rush Records)Tom Van Stockum: Into My Eyes (Trebuchet,self-released)Daniel Meade: One Is All I Need (Shooting Stars and Tiny Tears,self-released)Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis: Round Too Long (Wild Wild Wild,Bloodshot Records)Martha Fields: Hillbilly Bop (Dancing Shadows,self-released)Ruston Kelly: Cover My Tracks (Dying Star,New Rounder)Dan Webster: Sand (Devil Sky,Paper Plane)Ben De La Cour: Tupelo (The High Cost of Living Strange,Flour Sack Cape)Jimmy LaFave: It Makes No Difference (Peace Town,Music Road Records)The Milk Carton Kids: I've Been Loving You (All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do,Anti/Epitaph)Glen Phillips: Baptistina (Swallowed By The New,Compass)Mike Blakely: The Ballad of Josiah Wilbarger (The Outside Circle,self-released)Ray Wylie Hubbard: Tell The Devil I'm Getting There As Fast As I Can (Tell The Devil I'm Getting There As Fast As I Can,Bordello Records)Lachlan Bryan: Careless Hearts (Some Girls (Quite) Like Country Music,self-released)Aaron Lee Tasjan: If Not Now, When (Karma For Cheap,New West)
Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Downey to Lubbock,Yep-Roc)Richard Thompson: My Rock My Rope (13 Rivers,Proper Records)Aaron Lee Tasjan: Heart Slows Down (Karma For Cheap,New West)Malcolm Holcombe: October Mornin' (Come Hell or High Water,Gypsy Eyes Music)Kathy Mattea: Pretty Bird (The Official Americanafest 2018 Mixtape,Noisetrade)Dolly Parton and Alison Krauss: The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me (King Of The Road: A Tribute To Roger Miller,BMG)Mandolin Orange: Lonesome Whistle (Blindfaller,Yep-Roc)Jim Lauderdale: When I Held The Cards (Time Flies,Yep-Roc)The Milk Carton Kids: You Break My Heart (All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do,Anti/Epitaph)Rosanne Cash: From The Ashes (The Wheel,Columbia)Jason Isbell: If We Were Vampires (The Nashville Sound,Southeastern Records)John Prine: God Only Knows (The Tree of Forgiveness,Oh Boy)Tyler Childers: Tattoos (Purgatory,Hickman Holler Records)Besides Daniel: Apologize (TEEMING,Hubbub Music)Ben Kunder: Night Sky (Better Human,Comino Music / Fontana North)Chris and Thomas: Bound To The Ocean (Bound To The Ocean,self-released)Dawn Landes: Traveling (Meet Me At The River,Yep-Roc)Kelly Willis: Only You (Back Being Blue,Premium Records)Ellen Starski: Separated By Time (The Days When Peonies Prayed For The Ants,Flying Machine)Jimmy LaFave: My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away) (Peace Town,Music Road Records)Martha Fields: Oklahoma On My Mind (Dancing Shadows,self-released)Jaywalkers: What Do I Know? (Time To Save The World,self-released)Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis: Memphis Never Falls From Style (Wild Wild Wild,Bloodshot Records)Wesley Randolph Eader: Sorrows For A Song (Highway Winds,self-released)Various Artists feat. on A Tribute to Roger Miller: King of The Road (King Of The Road: A Tribute To Roger Miller,BMG)Lori McKenna: The Way Back Home (The Tree,CN Records)Lera Lynn: What Is Love (feat. Dylan LeBlanc) (Plays Well With Others,Single Lock (Red))Jeffrey Foucault: Little Warble (Blood Brothers,self-released)Bob Collum and The Welfare Mothers: Blue Sky Rain (Pay Pack and Carry,Harbour Song Records)Ben Glover: Wildfire (feat. Ricky Ross) (Shorebound,Proper Records)Kevin Gordon: Rest Your Head (Tilt and Shine,Crowville Media)The Pine Hearts: Window Up Above (Carousel,self-released)
Singer-songwriters Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan aka The Milk Carton Kids return along with improvisers Mary Holland, Seth Morris, and Horatio Sanz for a special musical improv4humans! The Milk Carton Kids bring the whole band to play songs from their newest album “All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do,” inspiring scenes about learning to love in a weird way, a man who is depressed because he's been masturbating wrong his whole life, and a teen that desperately wants to have an adult epiphany. Plus, they test out creepy pickup lines and a father deals with his addiction to mustache rides.
Singer-songwriters Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan aka The Milk Carton Kids return along with improvisers Mary Holland, Seth Morris, and Horatio Sanz for a special musical improv4humans! The Milk Carton Kids bring the whole band to play songs from their newest album “All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do,” inspiring scenes about learning to love in a weird way, a man who is depressed because he's been masturbating wrong his whole life, and a teen that desperately wants to have an adult epiphany. Plus, they test out creepy pickup lines and a father deals with his addiction to mustache rides.
Jim Lauderdale: It Blows My Mind (Time Flies,Yep-Roc)Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis: I Just Lived A Country Song (Wild Wild Wild,Bloodshot Records)Kayla Ray: Once A Week Cheaters (Yesterday and Me,self-released)Kelly Willis: I'm A Lover (Not A Fighter) (Back Being Blue,Premium Records)Oliver The Crow: Bury Me Beneath The Willow (Oliver The Crow,OTC Records)No Coward Soul: Belly of the Whale (The Almanac,self-released)Marla and David Celia: Where Are You (Daydreamers,Elite Records)Malcolm Holcombe: It Is What It Is (Come Hell or High Water,Gypsy Eyes Music)Wesley Randolph Eader: Eliza (Saint of Flower Mountain) (Highway Winds,self-released)Blaze Foley: Clay Pigeons (Wanted More Dead Than Alive,Waddell Hollow Records)Lera Lynn: Almost Persauded (feat. John Paul White) (Plays Well With Others,Single Lock (Red))Rodney Crowell: Please Remember Me (Acoustic Classics,RC1 Records)Dan Webster: Haul Away (Devil Sky,Paper Plane)Del Amitri: This Side Of The Morning (Waking Hours,A&M)John Mellencamp: Hard Times For An Honest Man (Lonesome Jubilee,Mercury)Blue Rose Code: It's Never Too Late To Be Alone (Pasted Beyond Recognition,SBH Scotland)Jimmy LaFave: When The Thought Of You Catches Up With Me (Peace Town,Music Road Records)Eliza Gilkyson: Conservation (Secularia,Red House Records)Ben Glover: Kindness (Shorebound,Proper Records)Byrds: My Back Pages (Greatest Hits,Warner Bros)Bob Collum and The Welfare Mothers: Catherine Row (Pay Pack and Carry,Harbour Song Records)Romantica: Love In The Winter (Outlaws,La Traviata Records)The Milk Carton Kids: Unwinnable War (All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do,Anti/Epitaph)Lindi Ortega: Lovers In Love (Liberty,Shadowbox Music Inc.)Lori McKenna: You Can't Break A Woman (The Tree,CN Records)Drew Morrison and The Darkwood: Like We Used To Do (Electric-Notes Wild,Storm Cloud Agency Records)Jim Patton and Sherry Brokus: Drunk In Baltimore (The Hard Part Of Flying,Berkalin Records)Callaghan: I Don't Know How To Lose You (Callaghan,Green Town Music)Trampled by Turtles: I'm Not There Anymore (Life is Good on the Open Road,Banjodad Records)Tim Carroll: I Love You Anyway (Keeping Time,594509 Records DK)
Show #424 Yvette Landry & The Jukes - Dadddy Daddy (Louisiana Lovin') Leftover Salmon - Show Me Something Higher (Something Higher) Rod Picott - Store Bought (Out Past the Wires) Cody Jinks - Lifers (Lifers) (mic break) Lori McKenna - People Get Old (The Tree) Andrew Duhon - Comin Around (False River) The Contenders - Call Me The Lucky One (Laughing with the Reckless) Speedbuggy USA - Shaky Town (Kick Out the Twang) Yvette Landry & The Jukes - Take It Easy Greasy (Louisiana Lovin') (mic break) The Milk Carton Kids - Big Time (All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do) Bill Bloomer - Can't See It From Here (Jubilee) Darling West - Loneliness (While I Was Asleep) Dan Israel - Someday You'll Say (You’re Free) (mic break) Emma Hill - Am I Talking To You? (Am I Talking To You?) John Oates - Anytime (Arkansas) James Scott Bullard - Evil Lovin' (Full Tilt Boogie) (mic break) Yvette Landry & The Jukes - Three Chords And The Truth (Louisiana Lovin') Donate to FTB podcasts via PayPal here!