Today The Rev is joined on the show by his son, Jude and Jude's friend, William, both of whom just finished up middle school and are on to high school in the fall! Tracks played on Ep. 98:

School's Out-Alice Cooper; Blame Texas-Cody Johnson; Too Good, Too Bad-Jason Scott & High Heat; Can't Go There Anymore-Storyville; Record Exec-Cross Canadian Ragweed; You Don't Know the Half of It-Kathleen O'Keefe; Daddy's Farm-Shooter Jennings

On today's episode The Rev spins ten tracks from this week's Texas Country Music Chart Top 50. Artists played from this week's chart were: Charley Crockett, Kayla Jane, Silverada, Paul Cauthen, Sandee June, Kin Faux, Flatland Cavalry, Shane Smith & the Saints, Cameron Allbright, and Hudson Westbrook. Also played: SRV & Double Trouble Scuttle Buttin' (from their sophomore album Couldn't Stand the Weather, released OTD in 1984), College Town off of Joel Hofmann's new album Loud & Lonesome, and Old School Friends from Foscoe Jones' 2004 album A Song Like This.

On today's episode, The Rev focuses on spinning tracks from the recorded output of Dustin Welch. The Rev spins a few songs from each of Dustin's 3 records--Whisky Priest, Tijuana Bible, and Amateur Theater--and as an added treat, Dustin himself showed up to KZSM studios during the broadcast along with HWY 261 co-host Sterling Finlay (who has been out on medical rehab assignment since January) and Sterling's youngest daughter, Iona. In addition to Dustin Welch tracks, The Rev played John Wayne Cowboy by The Trishas--one of whose members, Savannah Welch, is Dustin's sister--and a brand new track from Joel Hofmann Band w/ Bonnie Whitmore, All Because of You.

The Rev has Missoula Slim in as guest co-host on today's episode, and they spent some time talking about how the new KZSM show Live from Cheatham Street Warehouse: Kent Finlay's Songwriters Circle came to be and how it's recorded and produced before being broadcast every Monday and Friday afternoon on KZSM-LP. Prerecorded tracks on this episode were Evil Mind-Missoula Slim; Bang Bang-Sour Bridges; 6s to 7s-Ava Renn; Her Legs Keep Crossing My Mind-Missoula Slim; Oye Mamacita-Los Lonely Boys)

Episode 94: This week on HWY 261 The Rev welcomes Bill Palmer into the KZSM broadcast booth. Bill is currently part of the band Mule Ears based in Terlingua, TX, and he has been a major part of two of The Rev's all time favorite local bands, The Sharecroppers (aka Good Medicine Band) and Hundred Year Flood. On this episode Bill is joined by Ava Renn, whose latest record was produced by Bill. They discuss art, the recording process, what it's like working with your heroes, and why it's really important to stop the planned border wall through the Big Bend region. Prerecorded tracks on this episode were all written by Bill Palmer, including I Don't Wanna by Good Medicine Band and a handful of songs from Mule Ears (This Time, Kansas, and The Border).

Today on HWY 261 The Rev spends half the show playing newly released tracks (mid-2025 through today). Track list for 03-27-26 episode:

Rules of Baseball~Nichole Wagner; Full of Stars~Josh Dodds; Kyoto (Phoebe Bridges cover)~The Trips; Chasm~Jana Pochop; Hill Country Rhapsody~George Ensle; The Color of Night~James McMurtry; Wild Card~HalleyAnna Finlay; Black Rock Desert Blues~Dallas Burrow; Drifter~Good Medicine Band; Auntie Alice~Okkervil River; City Market~Bill Whitbeck; Farmer's Tan~The Texas Sapphires; Neon of Nashville~The Flatlanders

Today on HWY 261 The Rev does something a little bit different. We've played covers of songs by Texas artists or artists w/ Texas connections, but this week we're featuring one artist (Lyle Lovett) doing a series of cover songs by Texas or Texas connected artists released on the double CD Step Inside This House (1998).

Tracks played on this episode were: Bears (Steven Fromholz); Texas Trilogy: Daybreak, Train Ride, Bosque County Romance (Steven Fromholz); Step Inside This House (Guy Clark); Teach Me About Love (Walter Hyatt); Sleepwalking (Willis Alan Ramsey); West Texas Highway (Michael Martin Murphey & Boomer Castleman); More Pretty Girls Than One (Traditional, ft. Alison Krauss on background vocals); Lungs (Townes Van Zandt); Texas River Song (Traditional)

As a tip of the hat to both the successful benefit show held for Sterling on 2-28-26 at Cheatham St. Warehouse, and to the success of the latest KZSM show Live from Cheatham Street: Kent Finlay's Songwriters Circle, The Rev spins tracks from Texas artists, or tracks with some connection to Texas, that all come from live releases from the respective artists. Artists included in this episode include Asleep at the Wheel; Jerry Jeff Walker; Adam Carroll; Dallas Burrow; The (Dixie) Chicks; Delbert McClinton; Jamie Lin Wilson; Robert Earl Keen; Lightnin' Hopkins w/ Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, & Big Joe Williams; Pearl Jam; Foscoe Jones.

This week marks the 90th live broadcast of HWY 261, so The Rev celebrates with a playlist of Texas-connected tunes that were all released between 1990-1999. Tracklist:

Hello, I'm Gone* (1990)-Kevin Welch; Concrete and Steel (1990)-ZZ Top; Spanish Moon (1992)-Arc Angels; Highway Patrol (1993)-Junior Brown; Levelland (1995)-James McMurtry; Airways Motel (1997)-Jack Ingram (w/ Todd Snider); Blue on Black (1997)-Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band; g.o.d. (good old days) (1998)-Fastball; Sister's Apartment (1998)-Terri Hendrix; Darkness on the Face of the Earth (1998)-Willie Nelson; Devil's Full Moon (1999)-Nathan Hamilton

*-first few seconds of song were cut off of this week's podcast recording...apologies to KW and fans of the album!

The Rev takes a deep dive into the early career of Texas songwriting legend Townes Van Zandt by way of the Texas Troubadour Box Set, which collects every studio and live album TVZ released on the Poppy and Tomato record labels between 1968-1978.