Michele K-tel rolls out her blanket in anticipation of this weekend’s free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass fest in the park. Mostly the young’uns + new Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Lucinda Williams, Sun Kil Moon + more songs about trains. Meet you at the Arrow stage.

Playlist 10.2.14

The Bootleggers (f/Ralph Stanley/Emmylou Harris) “Fire in the Blood / Snake Song” “Lawless” Soundtrack (Sony)
Lucinda Williams “Something Wicked This Way Comes” Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (Highway 20)
Steve Earle “The Truth” Jerusalem (Artemis)
T-Bone Burnett “Tear This Building Down” The Criminal Under My Own Hat (Sony)

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down “You Can Have It All” The Feeling Kind EP
Yo La Tengo “Move To California” Fade Deluxe Bonus Disc (Matador)
Conor Oberst “Sausalito” Conor Oberst (Merge)
Hurray for the Riff Raff “The New SF Bay Blues” Small Town Heroes (ATO)
Built To Spill “Kicked It In The Sun [Live acoustic]” Carry The Zero EP
Justin Townes Earle “Single Mothers” Single Mothers (Vagrant)
Sun Kil Moon “I Love My Dad” Benji (CALDO VERDE)

Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Mindlessness” Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tongues (Drag City)
Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Milk Train” What The Brothers Sang (Drag City)
Faun Fables “Train” Mother Twilight (Drag City)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore + the Flatlanders “Waiting for a Train” Unplugged (Sun)
Buddy Miller “Freight Train” The Majestic Silver Strings (Nonesuch)
John Prine “New Train” Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings (Oh Boy!)

Sharon Van Etten “Every Time the Sun Comes Up” Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
Shearwater and Sharon Van Etten “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” 7″
Tweedy “I’ll Sing It” sukierae (Anti)
Jessica Hernandez “Deceptacon” (Antiquiet Session)
Waxahatchee “Grass Stain” American Weekend (Don Giovanni)
Rosanne Cash “A Feather’s Not A Bird” Live @ KCRW

Mavis Staples “Freedom Highway (Live)” Hope At the Hideout (Anti)
Deltron 3030 “Pay The Price” City Rising From The Ashes
Cibo Matto w/ Nels Cline “Housekeeping Hotel” Valentine (Virtual Label)