Miscellaneous Live Radio Broadcasts

Here are some live radio broadcasts that appear on limited release compilations.  The first recording comes from KBCO and features Emmylou Harris on harmony vocals for Willie’s own “Everywhere I Go.”  It sounds like the version Willie recorded for the “Teatro” album.  Next we have “Don’t Call Me,” a duet with Heather Myles from the “In the Wind” album.  It’s a rousing number with accordion that harkens back to Willie’s old Czech Polka band days.  Sounds like something Dwight Yoakam would do.  Rockabilly, I guess.  A version of “What a Difference a Day Makes” (written by Maria Grever and Stanley Adams) comes live from the Imus Ranch Record.  These lyrics fit perfectly into Willie’s Proustian oeuvre:

  

What a difference a day made

Twenty-four little hours

Brought the sun and the flowers

Where there used to be rain

My yesterday was blue, dear

Today I'm part of you, dear

My lonely nights are through, dear

Since you said you were mine

What a difference a day makes

There's a rainbow before me

Skies above can't be stormy

Since that moment of bliss, that thrilling kiss

It's heaven when you find romance on your menu

What a difference a day made

And the difference is you

What a difference time makes.  The healing hands of time.  What a difference Willie’s phrasing makes.  What a difference meter makes.  I haven’t found these last two songs on any other Willie albums.  What a difference memory makes.  What a difference our minds make, our attitudes about time.  Here Willie shapes the weather and the skies with his mind.  Time is on his side.  “Ou Es Tu, Mon/I Never Cared for You” comes from 107.1 KGSR Radio Austin Broadcasts vol. 7. (1999), again right around the time of “Teatro.”  “Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way” comes from KGSR as well, volume 9 (2001).  Sounds very similar to the version on the 2001 album “Rainbow Connection” (the only other place I can find this song).  Both versions are exactly 1:57, but this version seems to have a more prominent harmonica, especially at the end.  “It Always Will Be” comes from KGSR vol. 13 (2005).  This is the only version I can find besides the title track from the album of the same name (2004).  “We Don’t Run” comes from KGSR vol. 4 (1996), around the time of “Spirit.”  It has a graceful fiddle solo that could be Johnny Gimble.  “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” comes from vol. 10 (2002).  Trigger and Mickey Raphael’s harmonica help make this spare recording one of the best of the half dozen versions I have of this song.  I wonder how many more of these rare tracks are floating around out there in the ether?