Hello from TGN Headquarters, where we’ve just finished crunching the numbers on The Gourds’ 2nd Quarterly Report! In this quarter (8-28-09 to 11-27-09), Country Love & Haymaker maintain their stranglehold on the top song & album spots, while eight studio tracks get dusted off for the first time since we started counting back in May (Ringing Dark & True, Boil My Strings, Fine Leather Truck, Rugged Roses, Flamenco Cabaret, High Highs and Low Lows, Meat off the Bone, and Moon Gone Down). On the downside, as if to make room for those eight songs, 10 others that we saw in the 1st quarter have since disappeared (Piss & Moan Blues, Cold Bed, Pushed Her Down, Up on High, Layin Around the House, Arapaho, Shake the Chandelier, Kicks in the Sun, A Few Extra Kilos, and Spivey). Of course, we don’t know if any of this information is actually useful…but that doesn’t mean we plan on stopping any time soon. Oh, and before we forget again, TGN wishes a belated “Happy Holidays” to all of our readers in the United States, Belgium, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Russian Federation, the Netherlands, Australia, France, the Philippines, Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea!
Songs Played Live This Quarter That Are On The Gourds' Studio Albums (N = 438) Here, the total number of times a song was played during the 2nd quarter is followed by the song title, The Gourds album on which the song appears, and the number of times it was played compared with the 1st quarter. For example, the song Country Love from the album Haymaker was played 25 times this quarter, which is 2 more times than it was played during the 1st quarter:
25 = Country Love / Haymaker (+2)
20 = Blanket Show / Haymaker (+5 )
18 = Tex-Mex Mile / Haymaker (+7)
18 = Burn the Honeysuckle / Heavy Ornamentals (-1)
13 = Mister Betty / Heavy Ornamentals (+1)
12 = Ants on the Melon / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (+9)
11 = El Paso / Bolsa de Agua (+3)
11 = Luddite Juice / Haymaker (-5)
11 = New Dues / Haymaker (-3)
11 = Plaid Coat / Stadium Blitzer (+3)
10 = All in the Pack / Noble Creatures (-6)
10 = All the Labor / Dem’s Good Beeble (+5)
10 = Blankets / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (+/-0)
10 = Pine Island Bayou / Stadium Blitzer (+1)
10 = “Stab” / Heavy Ornamentals (-2)
09 = Cranky Mulatto / Noble Creatures (+5)
09 = The Gyroscopic / Noble Creatures (+1)
08 = Lower 48 / Blood of the Ram (-7)
08 = My Name is Jorge / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (+1)
07 = Bean Bowl / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+6)
07 = Hey Thurman / Haymaker (+/-0)
07 = Red Letter Day / Noble Creatures (-15)
07 = Trampled by the Sun / Dem’s Good Beeble (+1)
07 = Web Before You Walk into It / Dem’s Good Beeble (+2)
06 = Flavor on yer Tung / Noble Creatures (+3)
06 = Magnolia / Stadium Blitzer (+3)
06 = Steeple Full of Swallows / Noble Creatures (+3)
05 = Bridgett / Haymaker (+/-0)
05 = County Orange / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+4)
05 = Hellhounds / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (+/-0)
05 = Hooky Junk / Heavy Ornamentals (+3)
05 = I Like Drinking / Stadium Blitzer (+4)
05 = Illegal Oyster / Blood of the Ram (+2)
05 = Out on the Vine / Noble Creatures (-1)
05 = Pill Bug Blues / Heavy Ornamentals (-7)
05 = Shreveport / Haymaker (+2)
04 = All the Way to Jericho / Haymaker (-4)
04 = Bottle & a Dime / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (+3)
04 = Caledonia / Dem’s Good Beeble (+1)
04 = Cracklins / Blood of the Ram (+/-0)
04 = Do 4 U / Blood of the Ram (-3)
04 = Fine Leather Truck / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+4) *
04 = High Highs and Low Lows / Bolsa de Agua (+4) *
04 = How Will U Shine / Noble Creatures (-4)
04 = Jesus Christ with Signs Following / Ghosts of Hallelujah (-2)
04 = Ladies Choice / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+1)
04 = (the new way of) Grievin’ & Smokin’ (+/-0)
03 = Country Gal / Haymaker (-1)
03 = Fossil Contender / Haymaker (-1)
03 = Right in the Head / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (-5)
03 = The Way You Can Get / Haymaker (+1)
03 = When Wine Was Cheap / Dem’s Good Beeble (+1)
02 = Clear Night / Dem’s Good Beeble (+/-0)
02 = Declineometer / Heavy Ornamentals (-4)
02 = Gangsta Lean / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+1)
02 = God’s House / Stadium Blitzer (-6)
02 = Hallelujah Shine / Bolsa de Agua (-1)
02 = LGO / Stadium Blitzer (+/-0)
02 = Maria / Stadium Blitzer (+/-0)
02 = O Rings / Bolsa de Agua (+/-0)
02 = Pair of Goats / Ghosts of Hallelujah (-1)
02 = Promenade / Noble Creatures (-1)
02 = Ringing Dark & True / Dem’s Good Beeble (+2) *
02 = Roll & Tumble / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (+/-0)
02 = Rugged Roses / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+2) *
02 = Spanky / Blood of the Ram (+1)
02 = Tearbox / Bolsa de Agua (-1)
02 = Tighter / Haymaker (+1)
02 = TTT Gas / Blood of the Ram (-5)
01 = Blood of the Ram / Blood of the Ram (+/-0)
01 = Boil My Strings / Stadium Blitzer (+1) *
01 = Collections / Heavy Ornamentals (-2)
01 = Dying of the Pines / Dem’s Good Beeble (+/-0)
01 = Escalade / Blood of the Ram (-1)
01 = Flamenco Cabaret / Bolsa de Agua (+1) *
01 = I Come Up / Dem’s Good Beeble (-2)
01 = Lament / Stadium Blitzer (-1)
01 = Lowlands / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+/-0)
01 = Meat off the Bone / Bolsa de Agua (+1) *
01 = Moon Gone Down / Noble Creatures (+1) *
01 = New Roommate / Heavy Ornamentals (+/-0)
01 = Valentine / Haymaker (-2)
00 = Piss & Moan Blues (-1), Jenny Brown, Sweet Li'l, Money Honey, Honduras, Pinetar Ramparts, Makes Me Roll [Dem's Good Beeble]; Stadium Blitzer, Coppermine, Raining in Port Arthur, Dyin' Diamond, When the Money Comes Rolling In, I Ate the Haggis, Cold Bed (-1), Pushed Her Down (-1) [Stadium Blitzer]; Up on High (-3), Ghosts of Hallelujah, January 6, My Time Your Time, Son of Bum, The Flat Baritone, [Ghosts of Hallelujah]; Big Santiago Bust, Receipts and Fevers, Pickles, Bugs, Waterbag, Layin Around the House (-2), Turn My Head [Bolsa de Agua]; 1st in Line, Foggy Blossom (Mechanical Bride), The Bridge, Ham-Fisted Box of Gloves, The Prayer That Fell Upon the Mirror, Best of Me, Sweet Nutty, Ceiling's Leaking, Smoke Bend [Cow Fish Fowl or Pig]; Arapaho (-2), Wired Ole Gal, On Time, Let Him In, Turd in my Pocket [Blood of the Ram]; Shake the Chandelier (-1), Weather Woman, Our Patriarch, The Education Song, Pick and Roll [Heavy Ornamentals]; Kicks in the Sun (-2), A Few Extra Kilos (-4), Last Letter, Spivey (-1) [Noble Creatures]; N/A [Haymaker]
*Not played during the 1st quarter
Songs Played Live This Quarter That Are Not On The Gourds' Studio Albums (N = 180) Here, the total number of times a song was played during the 2nd quarter is followed by the song title, the author/authors of the song, and the number of times it was played compared with the 1st quarter. For example, the song Gin and Juice by Calvin Broadus, et al., was played 13 times this quarter, which is 3 more times than it was played during the 1st quarter:
07 = Web Before You Walk into It / Dem’s Good Beeble (+2)
06 = Flavor on yer Tung / Noble Creatures (+3)
06 = Magnolia / Stadium Blitzer (+3)
06 = Steeple Full of Swallows / Noble Creatures (+3)
05 = Bridgett / Haymaker (+/-0)
05 = County Orange / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+4)
05 = Hellhounds / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (+/-0)
05 = Hooky Junk / Heavy Ornamentals (+3)
05 = I Like Drinking / Stadium Blitzer (+4)
05 = Illegal Oyster / Blood of the Ram (+2)
05 = Out on the Vine / Noble Creatures (-1)
05 = Pill Bug Blues / Heavy Ornamentals (-7)
05 = Shreveport / Haymaker (+2)
04 = All the Way to Jericho / Haymaker (-4)
04 = Bottle & a Dime / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (+3)
04 = Caledonia / Dem’s Good Beeble (+1)
04 = Cracklins / Blood of the Ram (+/-0)
04 = Do 4 U / Blood of the Ram (-3)
04 = Fine Leather Truck / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+4) *
04 = High Highs and Low Lows / Bolsa de Agua (+4) *
04 = How Will U Shine / Noble Creatures (-4)
04 = Jesus Christ with Signs Following / Ghosts of Hallelujah (-2)
04 = Ladies Choice / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+1)
04 = (the new way of) Grievin’ & Smokin’ (+/-0)
03 = Country Gal / Haymaker (-1)
03 = Fossil Contender / Haymaker (-1)
03 = Right in the Head / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (-5)
03 = The Way You Can Get / Haymaker (+1)
03 = When Wine Was Cheap / Dem’s Good Beeble (+1)
02 = Clear Night / Dem’s Good Beeble (+/-0)
02 = Declineometer / Heavy Ornamentals (-4)
02 = Gangsta Lean / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+1)
02 = God’s House / Stadium Blitzer (-6)
02 = Hallelujah Shine / Bolsa de Agua (-1)
02 = LGO / Stadium Blitzer (+/-0)
02 = Maria / Stadium Blitzer (+/-0)
02 = O Rings / Bolsa de Agua (+/-0)
02 = Pair of Goats / Ghosts of Hallelujah (-1)
02 = Promenade / Noble Creatures (-1)
02 = Ringing Dark & True / Dem’s Good Beeble (+2) *
02 = Roll & Tumble / Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (+/-0)
02 = Rugged Roses / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+2) *
02 = Spanky / Blood of the Ram (+1)
02 = Tearbox / Bolsa de Agua (-1)
02 = Tighter / Haymaker (+1)
02 = TTT Gas / Blood of the Ram (-5)
01 = Blood of the Ram / Blood of the Ram (+/-0)
01 = Boil My Strings / Stadium Blitzer (+1) *
01 = Collections / Heavy Ornamentals (-2)
01 = Dying of the Pines / Dem’s Good Beeble (+/-0)
01 = Escalade / Blood of the Ram (-1)
01 = Flamenco Cabaret / Bolsa de Agua (+1) *
01 = I Come Up / Dem’s Good Beeble (-2)
01 = Lament / Stadium Blitzer (-1)
01 = Lowlands / Ghosts of Hallelujah (+/-0)
01 = Meat off the Bone / Bolsa de Agua (+1) *
01 = Moon Gone Down / Noble Creatures (+1) *
01 = New Roommate / Heavy Ornamentals (+/-0)
01 = Valentine / Haymaker (-2)
00 = Piss & Moan Blues (-1), Jenny Brown, Sweet Li'l, Money Honey, Honduras, Pinetar Ramparts, Makes Me Roll [Dem's Good Beeble]; Stadium Blitzer, Coppermine, Raining in Port Arthur, Dyin' Diamond, When the Money Comes Rolling In, I Ate the Haggis, Cold Bed (-1), Pushed Her Down (-1) [Stadium Blitzer]; Up on High (-3), Ghosts of Hallelujah, January 6, My Time Your Time, Son of Bum, The Flat Baritone, [Ghosts of Hallelujah]; Big Santiago Bust, Receipts and Fevers, Pickles, Bugs, Waterbag, Layin Around the House (-2), Turn My Head [Bolsa de Agua]; 1st in Line, Foggy Blossom (Mechanical Bride), The Bridge, Ham-Fisted Box of Gloves, The Prayer That Fell Upon the Mirror, Best of Me, Sweet Nutty, Ceiling's Leaking, Smoke Bend [Cow Fish Fowl or Pig]; Arapaho (-2), Wired Ole Gal, On Time, Let Him In, Turd in my Pocket [Blood of the Ram]; Shake the Chandelier (-1), Weather Woman, Our Patriarch, The Education Song, Pick and Roll [Heavy Ornamentals]; Kicks in the Sun (-2), A Few Extra Kilos (-4), Last Letter, Spivey (-1) [Noble Creatures]; N/A [Haymaker]
*Not played during the 1st quarter
Songs Played Live This Quarter That Are Not On The Gourds' Studio Albums (N = 180) Here, the total number of times a song was played during the 2nd quarter is followed by the song title, the author/authors of the song, and the number of times it was played compared with the 1st quarter. For example, the song Gin and Juice by Calvin Broadus, et al., was played 13 times this quarter, which is 3 more times than it was played during the 1st quarter:
13 = Gin and Juice (Calvin Broadus, et al.) (+3)
11 = Omaha (Billy Joe Shaver/Hillman Hall) (+5)
09 = I Fought the Law (Sonny Curtis) (-3)
09 = Waxy's Dargle (trad.) (+5)
06 = Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way (Waylon Jennings) (+6) *
06 = Gravity Talks (Dan Stuart/Chris Cacavas) (+/-0)
05 = Everybody’s Missing the Sun (Nils Lofgren) (+3)
05 = I'm Troubled (trad.) (+4)
05 = Oh Sister (Bob Dylan) (+2)
04 = Shamrock Bound (Kevin Russell) **
04 = Surrender (Rick Nielson) (-2)
04 = Yoli Found a Possum (Kevin Russell) ***
03 = The Tinys Variety Hour (Claude Bernard/Matt Cook/Travis Garaffa) (-2) ****
03 = Cupid (Sam Cooke) (-3)
03 = Daytime Friends (Ben Joseph Peters) (+3) *
03 = Life During Wartime (D. Byrne/C. Frantz/J. Harrison/T. Weymouth) (+3) *
03 = My Name is John Johanna (trad.) (+3) *
03 = Old Man from the Mountain (Merle Haggard) (+/-0)
03 = Take Me Back to Tulsa (Bob Wills/Tommy Duncan) (+/-0)
03 = The Wait (Chrissie Hynde/Pete Farndon) (+3) *
03 = Up on Cripple Creek (Robbie Robertson) (+1)
03 = Whiskey in the Jar (trad.) (+2)
02 = Balinese (Billy Gibbons/Dusty Hill/Frank Beard) (+2) *
02 = Dooley (trad.) (-3)
02 = Hate & War (Joe Strummer/Mick Jones) (+2) *
02 = Midnight Rider (Gregg Allman/Robert Payne) (+/-0)
02 = Miss You (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) (+1)
02 = Nitty Gritty (Doug Sahm) (+1)
02 = Pressure Drop (Toots Hibbert) (+1)
02 = Psycho Killer (David Byrne/Chris Frantz/Tina Weymouth) (+2) *
02 = (Somebody Bring Me a Flower) I'm A Robot (Kevin Russell) (+/-0) ****
02 = The Eyes of Texas (John Sinclair) (+/-0)
02 = The Good Ol' Boys (Waylon Jennings) (+2) *
02 = You Really Got Me (Ray Davies) (+2) *
01 = 54-46 That's My Number (Toots Hibbert) (+1) *
01 = 911 is a Joke (William Drayton/Eric Sadler/Hank Shocklee) (+1) *
01 = Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love (E. & A. Van Halen/D. Lee Roth/M. Anthony) (+1) *
01 = Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Fred Rose) (-1)
01 = Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk) (+1) *
01 = Breakdown (Tom Petty) (+1) *
01 = Cissy Strut (Art Neville/Ziggy Modeliste/Leo Nocentelli/George Porter Jr.) (-4)
01 = Cotton-Eyed Joe (trad.) (-3)
01 = Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Angus Young/Malcolm Young/Bon Scott) (+1) *
01 = Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough (Michael Jackson) (-1)
01 = Emotional Rescue (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) (+1) *
01 = Fannin Street (Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan) (+1) *
01 = Fat Bottomed Girls (Brian May) (+/-0)
01 = Feelin' on Yo Booty (R. Kelly) (-1)
01 = Fortunate Son (John Fogerty) (+1) *
01 = Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment (Dee Dee Ramone/Johnny Ramone) (+1) *
01 = Goodbye San Francisco, Hello Amsterdam (Doug Sahm) (+1) *
01 = Hang Fire (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
01 = How Great Thou Art (Stuart K. Hine from a poem by Carl Gustav Boberg) (+1) *
01 = I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Nash) (-2)
01 = I've Been Working on the Railroad (trad.) (=1) *
01 = Let's Get Married (Al Green) (+1) *
01 = Lonesome On'ry and Mean (Steve Young) (=1) *
01 = Long Gone Like a Turkey thru the Corn (Lightnin' Hopkins) (+1) *
01 = Louie Louie (Richard Berry) (+1) *
01 = Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) (B. Emmons/C. Moman) (+1) *
01 = Mexican Blackbird (Billy Gibbons/Dusty Hill/Frank Beard) (+1) *
01 = No Sleep till Brooklyn (Mike D/MCA/Ad-Rock/Rick Rubin) (+1) *
01 = Red Barchetta (Neil Pert/Alex Lifeson/Geddy Lee) (+1) *
01 = Rock & Roll (Lou Reed) (+1) *
01 = Rock Is My Life, and This Is My Song (Randy Bachman) (+1) *
01 = Rocky Top (Felice Bryant/Boudleaux Bryant) (+1) *
01 = Take Me to the River (Al Green/Mabon "Teenie" Hodges) (+/-0)
01 = The Titanic (trad.) (+1) *
01 = The Spirit of Radio (Neil Pert/Alex Lifeson/Geddy Lee) (+1) *
01 = Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down (Merle Haggard) (+1) *
01 = Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother (Ray Wylie Hubbard) (+/-0)
01 = We're in the Same Boat, Brother (Lead Belly) (+1) *
01 = What Goes On (Lou Reed) (+1) *
01 = Whiter Shade of Pale (Gary Brooker/Keith Reid/Matthew Fisher) (+1) *
01 = Wild and Blue (John Scott Sherrill) (+1) *
01 = You Can't Always Get What You Want (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) (+1) *
01 = (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) (Mike D/MCA/Ad-Rock/R. Rubin) (+1) *
*Not played during the 1st quarter
**Written by Kevin Russell and recorded in the studio by The Gourds, this song was not included with the studio album statistics because it appears on a movie soundtrack
***Written by Kevin Russell, this song does not appear on any studio album to date
****Written by a member of The Gourds, this song appears on a studio album from one of their side projects
Special thanks to all the TGN field reporters who helped keep track of these tunes and to Vince in the graphics department for baking us another lovely pie.
say whut now??
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ReplyDeleteSounds like a celebration to me!
ReplyDeleteThanks, d3- how are u with taxes??? Catarina
you know...the amount of time spent on this pie chart and the calculations associated with it...you probably could've written a grad school dissertation on comparative psychological theory by now.
ReplyDeletei mean...if you wanted to.
Lies all lies
ReplyDeletethe pie never lies, russell! not why don't you just go and mine some of them double zeros in the 3rd quarter and make everybody happy? I'll settle for a money honey or a ham-fisted...c'mon!
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ReplyDeleteKelly Norton
For those of you more visually inclined - I present to you plays by album: http://www.tuesdaynight.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/songs-by-album.png
ReplyDeleteGood post thanks
ReplyDeleteglad you enjoyed it, gov't grants.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the belated holiday wishes...but you forgot Australia and Ivars!!
ReplyDeleteCheers, L