Episode 035 · · 42 tracks
Big House with a Yard
42 tracks from behind bars. Folsom Prison, Jailhouse Rock, cell blocks, chain gangs, and great escapes -- doing hard time from Was (Not Was) until They Might Be Giants finally get Out of Jail.
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Playlist
- Was (Not Was) Dad I'm in Jail
- Ben Vaughn Big House with a Yard
- Paul Kelly How to Make Gravy
- John Prine Christmas in Prison
- Richard Thompson I Feel So Good
- Brandy Clark Stripes
- Johnny Cash and George Jones I Got Stripes
- Brandi Carlile Folsom Prison Blues
- The Clash Stay Free
- Joan Baez Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
- Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock
- The Soggy Bottom Boys In the Jailhouse Now
- Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
- The Afghan Whigs What Jail Is Like
- Big Mama Thornton Jail
- Primal Scream Jailbird
- Lucinda Williams & Elvis Costello Jailhouse Tears
- The Black Crowes 30 Days in the Hole
- Grateful Dead Tom Dooley
- Social Distortion 99 to Life
- Edith Frost Sing Me Back Home
- Merle Haggard I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
- Todd Snider Tillamook County Jail
- Miranda Lambert and Maren Morris Way Too Pretty for Prison
- Bruce Springsteen Working on the Highway
- Margo Price Weekender
- John Hiatt Tennessee Plates
- Richard & Linda Thompson Hokey Pokey
- Jackie Greene About Cell Block #9
- Wanda Jackson Riot in Cell Block Number Nine
- Bob Dylan Hurricane
- Raphael Saadiq Rikers Island
- Dolly Parton Banks of the Ohio
- Steve Earle Ellis Unit One
- Gin Blossoms, Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors Indiana Wants Me
- Sam Cooke Chain Gang
- Calexico, Iron & Wine Prison on Route 41
- Billy Strings Dust in a Baggie
- Bonnie Raitt Prison Bound Blues
- The Byrds Life in Prison
- Tom Waits Fish in the Jailhouse
- They Might Be Giants Out of Jail
Appendix
Movies and TV Shows
- Raising Arizona
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Down by Law
- The Watchman
- Oz
- Dead Man Walking
- The Lowdown
- The Longest Yard
- Rolling Thunder Revue
Concerts
- Magnolia Johnson Co.
🍺 Imbibements
- Spirit of the West IPA – Westbound & Down (CO)
- 2019 Bourbon County bba Café de Olla Stout – Goose Island (IL)
- Every Fragment Still Knows the Shape of the Whole IIPA – Parish/Burial (LA/NC)
- The Best Citra IPA – Weldwerks/Hop Butcher to the World (CO/IL)