The witching hour. The darkest moment in our day where the bell tolls another in the heart of the ancient wood. A muse for poets, writers, and songsmiths over the ages….midnight. Deeper Roots highlights the midnight muse with a delightful blend of the celebratory and the soulful sounds of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Waits, Merle Travis, Big Joe Turner, and Lowell Fulson.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Midnight Special
Chronicle: Volume Two
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Big Bill Broonzy
Midnight Special
An Introduction To Big Bill Broonzy
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The Louvin Brothers
Midnight Special
Long Play Collection
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Big Joe Turner
Midnight Special Train
Big Joe Turner: The Definitive Blues Collection [[Disc 2]]
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Big Joe Turner
Midnight Cannonball
Big Joe Rocks
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Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
Big Midnight Special
Country Music's 2 Guitar Greats Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
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The Delmore Brothers
Midnight Train
Sand Mountain Blues
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Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
Ridin' That Midnight Train
The Three Pickers
10
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Midnight Train to Georgia
The Buddah Box Disc 3
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Maria Muldaur
Midnight at the Oasis
Maria Muldaur
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Patsy Cline
Intro Walkin' After Midnight
The Arthur Godfrey Show
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Patsy Cline
Walkin' After Midnight
12 Greatest Hits
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Ray Charles
The Midnight Hour
The Birth of Soul Disc 1
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Wilson Pickett
In the Midnight Hour
Red, White & Rock Disc 2
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J.J. Cale
After Midnight
The Very Best of J.J. Cale
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Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Midnight Shift
Lost In The Ozone
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The Mills Brothers
Long About Midnight
The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 4
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Larry Campbell
Midnight Highway
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
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Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson
Midnight In Milpitas
Quah [Bonus Tracks]
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Lucinda Williams
Howlin' at Midnight
Happy Woman Blues
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Tom Waits
Midnight Lullabye
The Early Years
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Lowell Fulson
Midnight Showers Of Rain
Juke Box Blues 1946-1948
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Cowboy Copas
Midnight In Heaven
Songs That Made Him Famous
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Tony Rice Unit
Midnight on the Stormy Deep
Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records
Our weekly show celebrates (albeit somewhat belatedly) Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday by tipping our caps not with his performances but with a collection of by others’ tribute pieces. We’ll hear songs written by Bob through the years and tell you the history of many of them at the same time. Tracks from Bobby Bare, Mavis Staples, Solomon Burke, Hazel Dickens, and Bill Frisell make this an eclectic journey on a Friday evening in Sonoma County. Be sure to tune in!
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Old Crow Medicine Show
Wagon Wheel
O.C.M.S.
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Sarah Jarosz
Simple Twist of Fate
Build Me Up From Bones
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Joan Baez
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
Baez Sings Dylan
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Bette Midler
I Shall Be Released
Bette Midler
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Bobby Bare
Farewell Angelina
Darker Than Light
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Marshall Crenshaw
My Back Pages
Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village In The 60's
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Flatt & Scruggs
Nashville Skyline Rag
Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends/Nashville Airplane
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Hazel Dickens
Only a Hobo
It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song
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New Riders of the Purple Sage
Farewell Angelina
The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage
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Peter Case
Long Time Gone
HWY 62
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Stephen Stills
The Ballad Of Hollis Brown
Stills Alone
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Joan Osborne
Man in the Long Black Coat
Relish
14
R.L. Burnside
Everything Is Broken
Tangled Up In Blues
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Susan Tedeschi
Lord Protect My Child
Hope and Desire
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Julie London
Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)
Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks, Pt. 1
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Solomon Burke
What Good Am I?
Make Do With What You Got
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Sounds Of Blackness
Solid Rock [Album Version]
Gotta Serve Somebody – The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan
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Mavis Staples
Gotta Serve Somebody
Tangled Up In Blues
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The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver
Every Grain Of Sand
I'll Find A Way
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Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins
Handle With Care
Rabbit Fur Coat
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The Byrds
All I Really Want to Do
The Byrds [Box Set] Disc 1
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The Turtles
It Ain't Me Babe
20 Greatest Hits
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Antony With Bryce Dessner
I Was Young When I Left Home
Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation [Disc 1]
Mark Hogan’s in Grass Valley this week gearing up for the 41st Annual Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival which opens this coming Thursday, June 16th. Dave Stroud will be sitting in for Mark and will feature new releases, old standards, and vintage country sounds from the likes of Doug Sahm, Chris Smither, The Hackensaw Boys, and Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers….not to mention a good helping of Bill Monroe recordings from 1960.
Coming up on our last live show of May, what better way but to dig just a little bit deeper into some of the field recordings of the first half of the 20th century that found popularity in the country, blues, and popular charts. Some of these songs had the ‘right’ rhythm or struck a chord with the message they sent. While most were traditional pieces by the time the musicologists had arrived with their primitive recording machines, others were original and told just the right story. We’ll hear Eric Clapton, Aaron Copland, B.B. King, and Tom Waits right alongside the originals done by Smith Casey, Gwen Foster, Belton Reese, and Ora Dell Graham.
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Warner Williams With Jay Summerour
Worried Life Blues
Blues Highway
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Thomas "Jaybird" Jones
Worried Life Blues
Field Recordings, Vol. 3: Mississippi (1936-1942)
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David Edwards
Worried Life Blues
Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection
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Eric Clapton & B.B. King
Worried Life Blues
Riding With The King
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Agustus "Track Horse" Haggerty
Hattie Green
Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939
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George Hamilton IV
Abilene
Classic Country
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Rouse Brothers
My Family Circle
Classic Field Recordings
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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics
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Ace Johnson w/L. W. Gooden
Mama Don't Low No Swingin' Out In Here
Field Recordings Vol. 6: Texas (1933-1958)
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Doc Watson
Mama Don't Allow No Music
Memories
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W. M. Stepp
Bonapartes Retreat
Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 1]
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Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra & William Warfield
Rodeo – Four Dance Episodes (Instrumental): IV. Hoedown
Copland Conducts Copland (Expanded Edition)
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Dock Reed
Down on Me
Field Recordings, Vol. 4: Mississippi & Alabama (1934-1942)
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Big Brother & the Holding Company
Down on Me
Rock: Train Kept a Rollin' Disc 1
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Ozella Jones
Prisoner Blues
Field Recordings, Volume 7 : Florida
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Fiona Apple
Criminal
Tidal
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Smith Casey
East Texas Rag
Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939
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Tom Waits
The Soul Of A Man
God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
Not only was Merle Haggard an accomplished country performer but he was also one of the more prolific songwriters of the past century whose songs were aimed at the heart of ‘everyman’. In losing Merle Haggard, America lost a neighbor, the guy next door who was there when you needed him. We’ll share a number of sets of Merle’s music: some performed by Merle, others performed by contemporaries including George Jones, Emmylou Harris, and Charlie Louvin. We’ll also feature a number of duets including performances by Merle with Jimmie Davis, Marty Stuart, and Willie Nelson.
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Merle Haggard And Johnny Cash
I'm Leavin' Now
Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
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Del McCoury
Fireside Chat, Part 1 (feat. Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Moneyland
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Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
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Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard
Farmer's Blues
Compadres: An Anthology of Duets
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Dwight Yoakam
Holding Things Together
Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Disc 2
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Charlie Louvin
I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
The Battles Rage On
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Merle Haggard
Okie From Muskogee
Capitol Collector's Series
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Dale Watson
Mama Tried
More Great Moments of Vinyl History
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Willie Nelson
Ramblin' Fever
Remember Me, Vol. 1
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Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
It's All Going to Pot
Django and Jimmie
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George Jones
I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
Jones Sings Haggard, Haggard Sings Jones: Kickin' Out the Footlights…Again
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Workin' Man Blues
A Half Century Of Hits ([Disc 2] of Box Set)
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Ray Charles & Merle Haggard
Little Hotel Room (w/Merle Haggard)
The Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 [Disc 4]
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Merle Haggard
Kern River Blues
Kern River Blues – Single
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Dave Alvin
Kern River
West of the West
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Iris DeMent
Big City
Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
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Emmylou Harris
Bottle Let Me Down
Pieces Of The Sky
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Lorrie Morgan
I Threw Away The Rose
Mama's Hungry Eyes: A TributeTo Merle Haggard
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Merle Haggard & Carl Jackson
Must You Throw Dirt In My Face?
Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers
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Clint Black
I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
Mama's Hungry Eyes: A TributeTo Merle Haggard
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Carrie Rodriguez
I Started Loving You Again
Love and Circumstances
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Merle Haggard
The Fightin' Side Of Me
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
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The Seldom Scene
Mama Tried
Scenechronized
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Kevin Russell
Mama's Hungry Eyes
Plain Dirt Fashion
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Merle Haggard
Sing Me Back Home
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
