The second compilation I organized, Someday Coming Down: A Deviant Twang Sampler, was released in 2004 and focused largely on underground country, folk, and cowpunk from the West Coast.  It featured the Devil Makes Three, the Diamond Star Halos (featuring Emily Jane White), Two Gallants, and tons more bands. Even though it was largely put together while I brefly lived in Southern California, the kind folks at the Metro Santa Cruz (where I later became a contributor) called it “one of the most important compilation albums for the young local scene in years.”

Someday Coming Down: A Deviant Twang Sampler (zip file)

Track List:

1. The Devil Makes Three – Ain’t Nobody’s Business
2. The Chop-Tops – Hey Baby
3. The Puffin’ Billies – Bhune the Sheepherder
4. Mule Train – Bait & Switch
5. Boaz Vilzony – Working Man
6. The Diamond Star Haloes – Red, White and Blue
7.  Ten Gallon – White Freightliner
8. Hobo Jazz- Rocking Chair
9. The Waiting Man – Driving Nails in My Coffin
10. Two Gallants – Cocaine Blues
11. Blackstrap – St. James Infirmary Blues
12. The Blue Lady Quintet – Porcelain
13. Ladytown - Easy Come, Easy Go
14. Brown Recluse – Desire
15. Muleskinner Jones – Pretty Polly
16. Steven Griswold Trucking Project – Drink it Away
17. The Younger Brothers – Mid November