Here's a fun fact that I learned while planning my show this week: when our hero Dolly Parton was about 5 years old, she wrote a song called "Life Doesn't Matter Much to Me." Yep.

Here's what I played on this week's Memphis Mystery Train with all of the local tracks marked with an asterisk:

R.E.M. - Exhuming McCarthy
The Egyptians - Party Stomp
*Wendy Rene - Bar-B-Q
Sweet Serenades - Mona Lee
Young Fresh Fellows - Taco Wagon
Black Keys - Have Love, Will Travel
Rosemary Clooney - It Had Better Be Tonight
Best Coast - Our Deal
*Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely
Amanda Palmer - Leeds United
Bishop Allen - The News From Your Bed
Jens Lekman - I Saw Her at the Anti-War Demonstration
Gino Washington - Come Monkey With Me
The Decemberists - Song for Myla Goldberg
Camera Obscura - I Need All the Friends I Can Get
Ray Charles - Unchain My Heart
Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want to Get Over You
Neko Case - Rated X
Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait

Devo - Whip It
Sondre Lerche - She's Fantastic
The Fabulettes - Try the Worryin' Way
St. Vincent - Marry Me
Spoon - The Way We Get By
Violent Femmes - Kiss Off
*Reigning Sound - Tennessee
She and Him - Riding in My Car
Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
Those Darlins - Night Jogger
Anna Karina - Roller Girl
Homer and Jethro - Hernando's Hideaway
Frightened Rabbit - Living in Color
Why - Sanddollars
Dolly Parton - Dumb Blonde
Harvey Danger - Happiness Writes White
*Compulsive Gamblers - Stop and Think It Over
Ween - Stay Forever
The Vaccines - Wetsuit

The Memphis Mystery Train airs every Thursday morning from 8 a.m. through 10 a.m. on WEVL, Memphis' only volunteer radio station. If you missed the Mystery Train this morning, you can catch it when it re-airs tomorrow from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. on 89.9 WEVL Memphis or online at wevl.org.