Thursday, March 27 @Midnite on KOWS
Bad Road to the River
We take you back almost a year to an encore episode that too our regular breather from genre-focused explorations, theme, retrospectives and artist-inspired shows. There will be all of that found in the mix this morning. Interspersed between some fresh sounds from the likes of Dylan LeBlanc, Charley Crockett, and a newly revealed Johnny Cash nugget, we’ll be sharing everything from Dave Brubeck to Los Indios Tabajaras, Marvin Rainwater, and Johnny Thunder in our show today. From a pair of Memphis Minnie covers, some country classics from Patsy Cline, swinging rhythm from Louis Jordan, and straight-ahead rock from The Doobie Brothers and The Georgia Satellites…it’s a Friday morning full of Duane Eddy tributes and we’ve even got Slim Whitman…just for you on Sonoma County Community Radio, broadcasting on the FM airwaves out of Occidental, California, and streaming to the whole wide world on kowsfm.com/listen. KOWS-LP 92.5 FM is “Free Speech. No Bull” Community Radio.
Thursday, March 27 @9am on KOWS
Saturday, March 29 @3am on KOWS
Episode 502
Music and celebration. Americana sounds once again rolling into West County on a cool March morning here in the land of redwoods, wine, and coastal winds. In this week’s show we’ll have a little bit of a retrospective, sharing fond memories of Sonoma County in the late sixties and early seventies when a sound, embodied by an anthem written by Chet Powers and delivered by a band called The Youngbloods. We lost one of it’s founding members this past week. Jesse Colin Young was both a social and environmental warrior; and it just so happened he was quite the troubadour. His was the music of many of us. Join us for some of his music alongside a classic Dylan tome, some new Charley Crockett and Willie Nelson, Howlin’ Wolf, Lydia Mendoza, and another new track from the upcoming Alison Krauss and Union Station album Arcadia. Thursday mornings kick off with Americana here on KOWS. Drop in; consider yourself welcome.
Friday, March 28 @9am on KOWS
Also Rans 1960 Pt. I
We’re at it again! Excavations below the crust of some pretty simple-minded teenage pap that seemed to occupy the Billboard Top 100 in the year 1960. Marketers had found the right blend of country, rhythm, pop, sentimentality and rock and this led to a churning out of as much and as they could as fast was possible. The result was a mixed bag: quantity over quality in most cases. We call it spit-balling these days. We’ll dig into the substrate of popular music that did not make the Top 40, and in some cases, the Top 100. We’ll hear from Wanda Jackson, Billy Bland, Donnie Brooks, Johnny Preston, Esther Phillips, and a few dozen others in this week’s show. Not withstanding what we do here, we have to consistently remind ourselves of the classic Tony Soprano quote: “’Remember when’ is the lowest form of conversation.” So, we’re mining for the ones we don’t necessarily remember. And the big news? It’s a rare two-parts-over-two-weeks extravaganza. Hope you can join in
Saturday, March 29 @9am on KOWS
Let’s Duet
In our encore presentation this week, we’ll be leaning on the country duet genre…if the term ‘genre’ makes sense. Country duets have been a hallmark of the genre and this week we’ll spend a couple of hours sampling some old, some new, some sappy and some without peer. From Rose and Buck to George and Tammy, we’ll be spending time with some real down home pairings singing songs of loose talk, booze, suspicion, holding on to what you’ve got and a whole lot more. There’s a range of topics beyond that and most involve cheatin’, lovin’ and fightin’…just what you’d expect from the base. The pairings are not necessarily all husband and wife as we’ve got a few that go beyond that rail like Dwight and Buck, the Hanks, and Waylon and Willie. Tune in Friday morning for a countrified, if not rarified, journey with some classic country duets.