Deeper Roots will spend time with a variety of blues styles this week with no focus but the roots of feeling blue, themes about being blue, junker’s blues, bar fly blues, cold rainy day blues, and the dark and somber blues. We’ll feature the urban sounds of Lowell Fulson and Bobby Blue Bland, the smooth sounds of T-Bone Walker, and we’ll also pick on some early jazz and blues vocals including Bertha “Chippie” Hill, Hattie McDaniels, and Memphis Minnie.
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Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band
In the Wee Wee Hours
Hoodoo Man Blues
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R.L. Burnside
Poor Black Mattie
From Mississippi To Chicago
4
Lowell Fulson
Black Widow Spider Blues
Juke Box Blues 1946-1948
5
Sweet Papa Tadpole
Black Spider Blues
Too Late, Too Late, More Newly Discovered Titles And Alternate Takes. Vol. 4
6
Jimmy Witherspoon
Bar Fly Blues
Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Stars
7
John Hammond
Evolution Blues
Found True Love
8
Eddie Lang
You Got to Crawl Before You Walk
Juke Joint Blues 1950's-1960's
9
Muddy Waters
Good Morning School Girl
Folk Singer
10
Rory Block
Cypress Grove Blues
Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James
11
Kansas City Kitty (Thelma Holmes)
Double Trouble Blues
Four Women Blues – The Victor / Bluebird Recordings Of Memphis Minnie, Mississippi Matilda, Kansas City Kitty and Miss Rosie Mae Moore
12
Berha 'Chippie' Hill
Some Cold Rainy Day
Heartbreakers Blue & Lonely
13
Hattie McDaniels
Boo Hoo Blues
Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 12
14
Memphis Minnie;Kansas Joe
Don't Want No Woman (Have T' Give My Money To) [2002 Remastered]
First Time I Met the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down series)
15
Victoria Spivey & Lonnie Johnson
I Got The Blues So Bad
Idle Hours
16
Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends
Tonight's the Night
Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 1
17
Hadda Brooks
Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
I've Got News For You [Disc 1]
18
Bobby "Blue" Bland
I Pity The Fool
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Road To Memphis
Songs from the past century will fill the air with second hand music smoke…all songs that reflect either the hawkish or ‘dove-ish’ opinions in words and music. We have two hours of country, jazz, blues, pop, and all those adventurous styles in between that use nicotine for their muse. Country from k.d. lang to The Sons of The Pioneers, R&B from the likes of Lucky Millender to Benny Spellman, some doo-wop, some Sam Cooke soul, and a little bit of sweet big band sounds from Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians. Maybe we won’t celebrate the habit…just the music.
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Jimmy Martin
I Can't Quit Cigarettes
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 4]
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Otis Redding
Cigarettes And Coffee
Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology [Disc 1]
4
Sam Cooke
Smoke Rings
The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (3 of 4)
5
The Mills Brothers
Smoke Rings
The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 2
6
The Larks
Coffee, Cigarettes And Tears
Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
7
The Platters
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
All-Time Greatest Hits
8
The Corsairs
Smokey Places (1962 #12)
Greatest Hit Singles Collection
9
Lillian Leach/The Mellows
Smoke from Your Cigarette
The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 1
10
The Drake Sisters
Smoke From Your Cigarette
Vocal Group Harmony Vol 8
11
k.d. lang & The Reclines
Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray
Angel With A Lariat
12
Patsy Cline
Three Cigarettes In A Ashtray
Country Greats #2
13
k.d. lang
I'm Down to My Last Cigarette
Shadowland
14
Merle Travis
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
Ash Grove 12/9/1966
15
Willie Nelson
Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette
Just One Love
16
Benny Spellman
Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)
Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
17
Reverend Horton Heat
Drinkin' and Smokin' Cigarettes
Best Of Yep Roc Singles
18
Manassas
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)
Pieces
19
Lefty Frizzell
Cigarettes and Coffee Blues
Life's Like Poetry (Disc 5)
20
Jimmie Dolan
Nicotine Fits
Juke Box Boogie
21
Curtis Gordon
Caffeine And Nicotine
Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
22
Red Ingle & The Natural Seven
Cigarettes, Whuskey And Wild, Wild Women
Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Second Series
23
The Sons Of The Pioneers
Cigareefes, Whusky
Country Hits Vol. 6
24
Kris Kristofferson
I May Smoke Too Much
Spooky Lady's Sideshow/Shake Hands with the Devil
25
Dale Watson
Smokey Old Bar
El Rancho Azul
26
Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians
A Cigarette, Sweet Music & You
Cigar Classics 1: The Standards
27
Nina Simone
Don't Smoke in Bed
The Ultimate Nina Simone
28
Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra
Chew Tobacco Rag
Foot Tappin' And Dance At The Screamin' Festival Vol.4
29
The Bottle Rockets
Smokin' 100's Alone
24 Hours a Day
30
Ry Cooder
Fool For A Cigarette/Feelin' Good
Paradise And Lunch
31
Bo Carter
Cigarette Blues
Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
32
Tex Williams & His Western Caravan
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
Johnny Cash, like so many others, followed on the heels and inspiration of Elvis at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. But while others (save for possibly Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis) would fight for the scraps from this ‘new sound’, Johnny less-than-obligingly would ignore all the best advice. He began with the simplest of songs delivered in a farm boy’s tone and, with the Tennessee Three in tow, grew the sound into an identity. Our show this week will lean on his own recordings as well as music from performers he was inspired by…we’ll also include music from contemporaries and those who he inspired.
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Johnny Cash
Ring Of Fire
Columbia Country Classics – Volume 4: The Nashville Sound
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The Chuck Wagon Gang
After The Sunrise [Album Version]
Columbia Country Classics Volume 1: The Golden Age
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Brother Claude Ely
There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
Favorite Sacred Songs
5
Gene Autry
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blues Eyes
The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
6
Gene Autry
High Steppin' Mama
American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2]
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Bob Wills
Faded Love
For the Last Time
8
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
San Antonio Rose
The Country Music Hall Of Fame
9
The Carter Family
Anchored In Love
The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 1]
10
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash – Cowboy's Prayer
Johnny Cash Interviews
11
Goebel Reeves
Cowboy's Prayer
…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
12
The Chuck Wagon Gang
We Are Climbing
Flowers In The Wildwood
13
Johnny Cash
Big River
His Sun Years: Down South
14
Johnny Cash
Hey Porter
The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 1]
15
Johnny Cash
Five Feet High And Rising
Songs Of Our Soil
16
Johnny Cash
Pickin' Time
The Fabulous Johnny Cash
17
Johnny Cash/The Carter Family
Keep on the Sunny Side
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
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Johnny Cash
I Walk The Line
Classic Country
19
June Carter Cash
Oh, Susannah
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
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Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter
Fair and Tender Ladies
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
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Johnny Cash & June Carter
Jackson
Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter
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Rosanne Cash
I Still Miss Someone
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
23
Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan
Girl From The North Country
Nashville Skyline
24
Johnny Cash
Man in Black
16 Biggest Hits
25
Johnny Cash
Ain't No Grave
American VI: Ain't No Grave
26
Johnny Cash
Tear Stained Letter
American IV: Man Comes Around
27
Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison Blues
At Folsom Prison
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George Jones/Johnny Cash
I Got Stripes
My Very Special Guests [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
29
Rosanne Cash
Tennessee Flat Top Box
King's Record Shop
30
Emmylou Harris; The Milk Carton Kids
Apache Tears
Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited
31
Bruce Springsteen
Give My Love To Rose
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
32
Johnny Cash
Wanted Man
The Mystery Of Life
33
Bob Dylan
Train Of Love
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
Deeper Roots goes free form and our two hours will be filled with an eclectic blend of blues, gospel, tradition, and early century jazz. We’ll feature songs about vapor vipers, snakes, preachers, and a whole lot more. Join us for another summer evening in West Sonoma County, California with performances from Charley Patton, Josh White, Jimmie Driftwood, Noble Sissle, and Jumpin’ Bill Carlisle.
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Madam Ernestine Washington And The Milleraires
Holding On — Part 2
Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
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Stuffy Smith & His Onyx Club Boys
You're a Viper
Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
4
Miss Marcy & Her Texas Sugardaddy's
If You're A Viper
Deep Ellum
5
Noble Sissle/Sidney Bechet
Viper Mad
Sweet and Lowdown
6
Fats Waller
Viper's Drag [Piano Solo]
The Joint Is Jumpin'
7
Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
'Long Come A Viper
Last Train To Hicksville… The Home Of Happy Feet
8
David Grisman Quintet
Rattlesnake
Dgq-20
9
Jumpin' Bill Carlisle
Rattlesnake Daddy
Bear Family "Perfect for Parties" Highlight Album
10
Champion Jack Dupree
Rattlesnake Boogie
Classic Sounds of New Orleans
11
Jaydee Short
Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake (Pm 13043, L-468-1)
The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
12
Luella Miller
Rattle Snake Groan
24 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920_Vol 11 [ Blues Images ]
13
Charley Patton
Rattlesnake Blues
The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 2]
14
Chris Smither
Rattlesnake Preacher
Honeysuckle Dog
15
Mac Wiseman
Old Rattler
Songs From My Mother's Hand
16
Jimmie Driftwood
Rattlesnake Song
Americana, Vol. 1
17
Jimmie Driftwood
The Battle Of New Orleans
Vanguard: Roots Of Folk [Disc 1]
18
Jimmie Driftwood
Bunker Hill
Americana, Vol. 1
19
Jimmie Driftwood
Country Boy
Americana, Vol. 1
20
Jonatha Brooke
In the Gloaming
Live
21
Ed Lewis & Group
I Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down
Sounds of the South [Disc 1] – Blue Ridge Mountain Music
22
Josh White
When I Lay Down And Die
In Chronological Order, Volume 5 (1944)
23
Straight Street Holiness Group
Victory Shall Be Mine
Fire In My Bones : Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007
24
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
My Journey to the Sky
Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats
25
Johnnie Morisette
Meet Me at the Twisting Place
Sam Cooke's Sar Records Story 59-65 CD2
26
William Bell
The Three Of Me
This Is Where I Live
27
The Sweet & Lowdown
Violent Love
Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades
28
Art Neville
That Old Time Rock And Roll
His Specialty Recordings
29
Marvin Johnson & His Orchestra
Hey Lawdy Mama
Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
30
Johnny Otis
Baby Baby Blues
Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Stars
31
Robins
My Baby Done Told Me
Money Honey – Rise of the Black Bocal Group 51-53)
It’s a two hour Robert Johnson tribute on Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. Legend has it…yes, we have all heard the story. But it is the music that makes us want to believe. In a short recording career where he recorded less than thirty tracks over two sessions, the songs are all his by identification. When you hear the Stones’ cover of “You Got to Move”, or virtually any that Johnson recorded…you overlook their lineage somewhat because their heritage began in the hotel room where he recorded them. We’ll hear from Rory Block, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Nigel Watson & Peter Green, and Bob Brozman as Deeper Roots celebrates the music of Robert Johnson.
