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Let’s Live – KOWS Nov 5, 2015

Let's Live
Let’s Live

We’ll be bringing another eclectic blend of music from the past for an evening set kicks off with sounds of New Orleans beginning with a medley from the Bayou Maharajah, James Booker and closing with Irma Thomas. In addition to our usual run of bluegrass, jazz, and blues…we’ll prepare some piping hot biscuits from the country shack with Alan Lomax, Flatt & Scruggs, Pappy O’Daniel and the Hillbilly Boys, and Kacey Musgraves. There will also be a rare piece of early blues piano work from Ollie Shepard and the early century jazz band sounds of Enric Madriguera, Jimmie Lunceford, and Fletcher Henderson. Two full hours of Deeper Roots on weekday evening…carrying us over the midweek hump so that it’s all downhill from there…

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Aaron Neville Let's Live Treacherous [Disc 1] Amazon
3James Booker Medley: Tico Tico / Papa Was A Rascal / So Swell When You're Well Classified Amazon
4Dr. John Traveling Mood The Ultimate Dr. John Amazon
5Fats Domino The Girl I Love [Version 2] This Is Gold Disc 1 Amazon
6Aaron Neville My True Story My True Story Amazon
7Irma Thomas While the City Sleeps Time Is on My Side: The Best of Irma Thomas, Vol. 1 Amazon
8Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie I'm Wild About My Stuff Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944 Amazon
9Blind Boy Fuller Trucking My Blues Away No. 2 (take 2) Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order – Volume 2 (29 April to 12 July 1937) Amazon
10Ollie Shepard King Of All Evil Vol. 2-1939-41 Amazon
11Angelic Gospel Singers with the Dixie Humming Birds One Day When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51 Amazon
12Rory Block Lord, I Feel Just Like Goin' On I Belong To The Band: A Tribute To Rev. Gary Davis Amazon
13Ethel Waters and Her Jazz Band Ev'rybody Mess Aroun Tight Women and Loose Bands 1921-1931 Amazon
14Cleo Brown Boogie Woogie Picking the Blues – Compiled By John Mayall – Boogie Woogie Pioneers Amazon
15Benny Carter (With Lionel Hampton Orchestra) I'm in the Mood for Swing RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's Amazon
16Coleman Hawkins Body and Soul RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's Amazon
17Alan Lomax How Many Biscuits Can You Eat? Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co Amazon
18W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys Please Pass The Biscuits Pappy Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938 Amazon
19Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs 'How Many Biscuits' 1953-X6-XX Grand Old Opry Amazon
20NRBQ Hot Biscuits and Sweet Marie Kick Me Hard Amazon
21Kacey Musgraves Biscuits Pageant Material Amazon
22Kenny Baker Monroe's Hornpipe Plays Bill Monroe Amazon
23Jack Guthrie No Need to Knock on My Door Oklahoma Hills Amazon
24Merle Travis Missouri The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 11 Amazon
25Kentuckians Journey's End Keep on Going: The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings Amazon
26Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Better Times A' Comin' Mark Twain: Words & Music [Disc 1] Amazon
27Mac Wiseman It's Mighty Dark To Travel Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
28Johnny Cash Thanks a Lot The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 1 Amazon
29Jim Silver Each Season Changes You Country Boy's Dream Amazon
30Jimmy Wakely Moon Over Montana Vintage Collections Amazon
31Leon Redbone Sweet Lorraine Any Time Amazon
32Dr. John I Love It at the Top 20 Dates Amazon
33Jimmie Lunceford/Sy Oliver, Vocal Time's A-Wastin' Jimmie Lunceford Amazon
34Sam Cooke Bring It on Home to Me Greatest Hits Amazon

Night Time – KOWS Oct 28, 2015

Night Time
Night Time

No more alternating Saturday mornings for Deeper Roots. We’re a weekly publication now…every Wednesday evening at 7 Pacific!. We’re going to settle into our new KOWS time-slot tonight with music that celebrates our new day of the week and we’ll also roam east, south, west and north in our pursuit of the best from the last 100 years of American music. Join us right after Robert Feuer’s Blues Up the River for some ‘down river’ sounds including Johnny Horton, Tom Rush, Riley Puckett, and some John Lee Hooker. Because the night time is the right time. 

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Nappy Brown Just a Little Love Night Time Is the Right Time [Disc 1] Amazon
3John Lee Hooker Night Time Is The Right Time Boogie Chillun Amazon
4Ray Charles Night Time Is the Right Time Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 1 Amazon
5James Brown Night Train 20 All Time Greatest Hits! Amazon
6Billy Jones When It's Night Time in Italy, It's Wednesday over Here The Silly Songs (1922 to 1934) Amazon
7Riley Puckett Wednesday Night Waltz Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
8Josh White Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Vol. 3-(1935-40) Amazon
9Misisipi Mike Wolf Calling the Shots The Cold Hard Facts of Mike Amazon
10Kevin Russell Head South Trouble In Mind Amazon
11Asleep at the Wheel South of the Border (with George Strait) Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Amazon
12Willie Nelson South (Featuring Paul Shaffer & Vince Gill) Willie and the Wheel Amazon
13Cleo Brown I'll Take The South (You Take The East, Take The West, Take The North) Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935) Amazon
14Kinky Friedman Girl From The North Country The Loneliest Man I Ever Met Amazon
15Doyle Lawson/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver The Northern Lights School of Bluegrass Disc 1 Amazon
16Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel Northern Lights Freight Train Boogie Amazon
17Johnny Horton North to Alaska Magic Moments Amazon
18David Luning Northern California Just Drop On By Amazon
19Bill Monroe And Doc Watson East Tennessee Blues Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2 Amazon
20June Carter Cash East Virginia Blues Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 2 Amazon
21Grandpa Jones East Bound Freight Train 16 Greatest Hits Amazon
22Tom Rush East of Eden What I Know Amazon
23Jerry Reed East Bound And Down The Essential Jerry Reed Amazon
24Geraint Watkins Go West Dial 'W' for Watkins Amazon
25Chris Isaak Western Stars Silvertone Amazon
26Les Paul East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
27The Benny Goodman Sextet East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) Benny Goodman Sextet Amazon
28Whitt Denson "One Voice Quartette" New Morning Sun 436 I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings Amazon
29Ruthie Foster Brand New Day Promise of a Brand New Day Amazon
30Nappy Brown Little By Little Night Time Is the Right Time Amazon
31Chris Hillman/Herb Pedersen Invitation to the Blues Way Out West Amazon
32Willie Nelson/Lukas Nelson My Window Faces The South Heroes Amazon

Songs of the Dust Bowl

Songs of the Dust Bowl
Songs of the Dust Bowl

Our story is one that we’ve covered before, previously focusing on the Great Depression and the music of Woody Guthrie. This episode pulls in the theme of that tragic chapter of a drought that uprooted nearly 60 percent of the population from the affected region of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. With the soil lacking a firm root due to poor farm practices, the plains winds would pick up the loose topsoil and create the dust clouds that ravaged farm and city alike. The music we’ll hear tonight brings us the stories, including those of Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Bob Gibson, Lane Hardin, Vernon Dahlart, and The Morrison Two Brothers String Band.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Ramblin' Jack Elliott Talking Dust Bowl Hard Travelin' Amazon
3Ramblin' Jack Elliott Dust Storm Disaster Hard Travelin' Amazon
4Woody Guthrie Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder] Amazon
5Woody Guthrie Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road (Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad) Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder] Amazon
6Alison Krauss Dust Bowl Children Paper Airplane Amazon
7Peter Rowan Tumbleweed Dust Bowl Children Amazon
8Bob Gibson Pastures of Plenty Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson Amazon
9Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards Pasture of Plenty Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
10Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards So Long It's Been Good to Know You Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
11The Byrds Pretty Boy Floyd Sweetheart of the Rodeo Amazon
12Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards Do Re Mi Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
13Cisco Houston The Great American Bum Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2] Amazon
14Mac "Harry" McClintock Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Remastered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
15Billy Bragg I Ain't Got No Home Tooth & Nail Amazon
16Michelle Shocked Woody's Rag Arkansas Traveler Amazon
17Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries gimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
18Leo Reisman And His Orchestra;Milton Douglas Brother, Can You Spare a Dime (From The Musical Review "Americana") [Remastered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
19Woody Guthrie Talking Dust Bowl Blues Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder] Amazon
20Woody Guthrie Dust Pneumonia Blues Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder] Amazon
21Lane Hardin California Desert Blues [Remastered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
22Red Allen Deep Elem Blues The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983 Amazon
23Prairie Ramblers Deep Elem Blues White Country Blues (1926-1938) Amazon
24Joe Stone It's Hard Time Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
25Vernon Dalhart The Farm Relief Song Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
26The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band Dry and Dusty Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
27Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Dealing With The Devil Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2] Amazon
28Jack Guthrie Oklahoma Hills Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
29Bruce Springsteen I Ain't Got No Home Folkways: A Vision Shared-A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly Amazon
30Ry Cooder Vigilante Man Into The Purple Valley Amazon
31Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards Tom Joad Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
32Jimmy Lafave Dust Bowl Okies The Night Tribe Amazon

In The Gloaming – KOWS Oct 24, 2015

In The Gloaming
In The Gloaming

Our Saturday morning show opens with some caffeine-driven music…literally… songs about the magic bean, that morning beverage that starts the day for some of us. We’ve got swamp pop from Randy & The Rockets, some jumpin’ jive from Cab Calloway, twilight reflections from Jonatha Brooke and The Sons of The Pioneers, and some Chet Atkins, David Lindley, and Eilen Jewell. KOWS community radio studios will be moving before the end of the year to a very central West County location that will bring us in closer contact with our listeners…and our Deeper Roots. And some exciting news! Deeper Roots moves to weekly broadcasts on KOWS.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Randy & the Rockets Lets Do the Cajun Twist Swamp Gold, Volume 1 Amazon
3Curtis Gordon Caffeine And Nicotine Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1] Amazon
4Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Caffeine Patrol Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
5Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Forty Cups of Coffee Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
6Frank Sinatra The Coffee Song Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan Amazon
7Carmen McRae/Previn Trio Coffee Time Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers [Disc 2] Amazon
8Annette Hanshaw You're the Cream in My Coffee The Personality Girl, Vol. 4: 1928 Amazon
9The Manhattan Transfer Java Jive Swing Amazon
10Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Coffee Pot Blues Middle of Everywhere Amazon
11Cab Calloway The Jumpin' Jive Best Of The Big Bands Amazon
12Tiny Davis & Her Orchestra How About That Jive Jumpin' The Blues:MCA Label(ACE CD) Amazon
13Johnny Mercer G.I. Jive Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 1 – The Birth Of A Label – 1942-43 Amazon
14Ella Fitzgerald Five O'Clock Whistle Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 Amazon
15Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys The Prettiest Flowers Will Be Blooming Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Disc One Amazon
16Sons of the Pioneers In the Gloaming Songs of the Prairie – CD4 Amazon
17Jonatha Brooke In the Gloaming Live Amazon
18John Prine With Emmylou Harris I Know One In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
19Porter Wagoner Fool Like Me Wagonmaster Amazon
20Chet Atkins Levee Walking My Favorite Guitars – It's A Guitar World Amazon
21The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Blue Grass Favorites Amazon
22Eilen Jewell That's Why I'm Walkin Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades Amazon
23Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Walk Right In, Walk Right Out (The Walking Blues) One Hour Mama Amazon
24Eddie Jefferson Start Walkin' Stop Talkin' The BeBop Singers Amazon
25Dinah Washington Walkin' And Talkin' Gold Amazon
26Peggy Lee Talkin' To Myself About You The Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
27David Lindley Talk to the Lawyer Win This Record Amazon
28David Lindley & El Rayo-X Talkin' to the Wino Too Very Greasy Amazon
29David Lindley and Wally Ingram Oh Death Twango Bango II Amazon
30Pepe Ahlqist Moonshine Babe Raw Blues Amazon
31Perline Ellison Razor Totin' Mama Document Shortcuts Vol. 1 "God Don't Like It" Amazon
32Jackson Browne & David Lindley El Rayo X (Intro) Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
33Jackson Browne & David Lindley El Rayo X Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
34Mark Knopfler Who's Your Baby Now Sailing to Philadelphia Amazon

Free Form – October 2015

Free Form - October 2015
Free Form – October 2015

Free form with just a dose of playlist themes…R&B and sugar from Chuck Willis, some sweeter country from Bob Wills, more of the same with a moonlight-based theme from Tommy Duncan, Dale Evans, and Elton Britt. We’ve also got a mix of early century jazz from Satchmo and blues from Tampa Red, Charley Patton, and Blind Blake. Tune into community radio locally on KWTF 88.1 on the FM dial or catch us streaming on TuneIn, RadioBox, or from our web site at kwtf.net/listen.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Seasick Steve Dark Man from Another Time (Bonus Version) Amazon
3Wild Tchoupitoulas Meet De Boys On The Battlefront Treacherous [Disc 1] Amazon
4The Neville Brothers Yellow Moon Yellow Moon Amazon
5Emmylou Harris; Rodney Crowell Old Yellow Moon Old Yellow Moon Amazon
6Bill Neely Big Yellow Moon Over Texas Texas Law & Justice Amazon
7Tommy Duncan Texas Moon Texas Moon Amazon
8Elton Britt Blue Texas Moonlight The RCA Years Amazon
9Dale Evans Under a Texas Moon The Rage of the Sage Amazon
10Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Sugar Moon Take Me Back to Tulsa 4 – The End Of The Line Amazon
11k.d. lang Sugar Moon Shadowland Amazon
12Merle Travis Too Much Sugar For A Dime Hot Pickin' [Disc 2] Amazon
13Chuck Willis Sugar Sugar I Remember Chuck Willis / The King Of The Stroll Amazon
14Muddy Waters Sugar Sweet The Anthology [Disc 2] Amazon
15The Mills Brothers Sweeter Than Sugar The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 3 Amazon
16Earl Bostic Sweet Lorraine Earl Bostic Flamingo Amazon
17Dave Van Ronk Sweet And Lowdown Sweet & Lowdown Amazon
18Chuck Berry Sweet Little Sixteen The Chess Box Disc 1 Amazon
19Blind Blake Sweet Papa Low Down Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker Amazon
20Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Sweet Potato Blues Riverboat Soul Amazon
21Warner Williams With Jay Summerour Digging Potatoes Blues Highway Amazon
22Nat King Cole Solid Potato Salad Chronological Classics: Nat King Cole 1945 Amazon
23Hunter & Jenkins Meat Cuttin' Blues Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops Amazon
24Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven Potato Head Blues The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
25Fats Waller & His Rhythm All That Meat And No Potatoes 100 Ans De Jazz Amazon
26The Swallows It Ain't The Meat Risque Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B Amazon
27Memphis Minnie Pig Meat On The Line [Album Version] Queen Of The Blues Amazon
28Tampa Red;Georgia Tom Dead Cats On The Line Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard Amazon
29Bob Brozman Dead Cat On The Line Blues Reflex Amazon
30Charley Patton Mean Black Cat Blues Primeval Blues, Rags and Gospel Songs Amazon
31Harry Reser Cat And Dog Banjo Crackerjax 1922-1930 Amazon
32Bob Brozman Dog and Cat Hello Central, Give Me Dr. Jazz! Amazon
33Joe Venuti's Blue Four Beatin' the Dog Wild Cats Amazon
34Dr. John How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come 'Round) Goin' Back To New Orleans Amazon
35Nat King Cole Open Up The Doghouse (Two Cats Are Coming In) (1992 Digital Remaster) Nat King Cole [Disc 3] Amazon

No Parking Here – KOWS October 10, 2015

No Parking Here
No Parking Here

Saturday mornings are root-bound…in the very best sense of the phrase. Tune into KOWS for an eclectic blend of gospel from Jimmy Murphy and The Loyal Five, early century pop from Cliff Edwards and Emmett  Miler, R&B from Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and Dr. John, country from Red Foley and Jimmy Littlejohn, and more of the sounds that matters from the past century of American music.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Gene Autry Rhythm Of The Range Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 3] Amazon
3Cliff Edwards Hang on to Me The Collection Amazon
4Emmett Miller (I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way Minstrel Man From Georgia Amazon
5Sons of the Pioneers Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown Songs of the Prairie – CD3 Amazon
6Arthur Smith Follow Me Boogie (Instrumental) The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands Amazon
7Johnny Cash Calilou (The Rambler) Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 4] Amazon
8Dr. John How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come 'Round) Goin' Back To New Orleans Amazon
9Bobby "Blue" Bland I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me) Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill / MCA Recordings Amazon
10Piano Red Ain't Goin To Be Your Low Down Dog No Blues, Blues, Blues Amazon
11Pee Wee King Dog House Blues Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown (1 of 2) Amazon
12Neko Case John Saw That Number Fox Confessor Brings The Flood Amazon
13The Loyal Five John The Revelator Heaven Bound Train Amazon
14Jimmy Murphy John the Baptist [Live] Electricity Amazon
15Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys Get Up John Bill Monroe: Anthology Amazon
16Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Private Property (No Tresspassing) One Guy Named Louis: The Complete Aladdin Sessions Amazon
17Jimmy Littlejohn No Parking Here The World Is A Monster Amazon
18Woody Guthrie Riding in My Car (Car Song) Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection Amazon
19Billy Murray The Little Old Ford Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure Amazon
20Vince Gill Love Bug Bradley Barn Sessions Amazon
21Little Jimmy Dickens When That Love Bug Bites You Country Boy [Disc 2] Amazon
22Jimmy Edwards Love Bug Crawl Foot Tappin' & Dance At Screamin' Festival Vol. 5 Amazon
23Red Foley & Minnie Pearl Love Bug Itch Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3] Amazon
24The Mills Brothers The Love Bug Will Bite You Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats Amazon
25Vera Lynn The Love Bug Will Bite You A Tribute, Volume II: It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow Amazon
26Doc & Merle Watson Corrina, Corrina Then And Now/Two Days In November Amazon
27Spade Cooley Crazy' Cause I Love You Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley Amazon
28The Weavers Meet the Johnson Boys The Weavers at Home Amazon
29Clifton Chenier Ride 'Em Cowboy Bogalusa Boogie Amazon
30Huey "Piano" Smith We I'll Be John Brown ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 40 Amazon
31Junior Brown & Red Simpson Nitro Express Rig Rock Deluxe Amazon
32Red Simpson Truck Drivin' Man The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer Amazon
33Tex Ritter Dear John Have I Stayed Away Too Long Amazon
34Ray Charles You Don't Know Me Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection Amazon
35Dr. John The Night Tripper Mama Roux The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974 Amazon

Wild Men and Wild Women

Wild Men and Wild Women
Wild Men and Wild Women

It’s theme time once again and we’re going to find ourselves among the wild and crazy men as well as the wild, woolly women. Round town girls celebrate, burning that candle, and Keely Smith will jump, jive, and wail with Louis Prima. Red Ingle and His Natural Seven will join the Sons of the Pioneers in spreading the word about ‘cigareets, whuskey, and wild, wild women”. Mae West, Julia Lee, Ernie Ford, and Jerry Lee Lewis will keep the party going and Deeper Roots will keep the lights on ’till 11pm sharp (that’s Pacific Time, of course). Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of a century of America’s music on KWTF, 88.1 FM, community radio for Bodega Bay.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Mary Ford Running Wild 100 Jazz Guitar Favorites Amazon
3Garland Jeffreys Wild in the Streets Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]] Amazon
4The Jive Bombers Bad Boy Cry-Baby Amazon
5Donnie Elbert Wild Child (Deluxe 6156) R&B Humdingers Volume 11 Amazon
6Johnny Carroll Wild Wild Women Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks Amazon
7Jerry Lee Lewis Real Wild Child (Wild One) A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
8Carl Mann Born To Be Bad Midnight Cryin' Time: Teen Angst Classics From The Rock 'n' Roll Era Amazon
9Charline Arthur Burn That Candle Welcome To The Club Amazon
10Wanda Jackson Hard Headed Woman There's A Party Goin' On Amazon
11Wanda Jackson Let's Have A Party Queen Of Rockabilly Amazon
12Tennessee Ernie Ford I'm A Bad Man Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2] Amazon
13The Dave & Deke Combo Wild Woman Hollywood Barndance Amazon
14Freda & the Firedogs Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad Freda & The Firedogs Amazon
15The Sons Of The Pioneers Cigareetes, Whusky And Wild, Wild Women Country Legends Amazon
16Red Ingle & His Natural Seven Cigareets, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women (Smoking) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
17Wanda, Ruth Neal Round Town Girls Flowers In The Wildwood Amazon
18King James Wild Wooly Woman Stompin' 25 Amazon
19Julia Lee Do You Want It? Burlesque – 100 Classics Amazon
20Eunice Davis Let's Have A Party Stompin' 25 Amazon
21Little Richard The Girl Can't Help It Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2 Amazon
22Keely Smith/Louis Prima/Sam Butera & the Witnesses Jump, Jive, An' Wail Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1 Amazon
23Carmen MacRae Whatever Lola Wants Burlesque – 100 Classics Amazon
24Mae West I'm No Angel The Mae West Collection Amazon
25Billy Jones With The Little Ramblers Don't Bring Lulu The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2 Amazon
26Cecil Gant Little Baby You're Running Wild The Cecil Gant Collection Amazon
27Wynonie Harris Young And Wild Playful Baby Amazon
28Rudy Greene Wild Life Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1] Amazon
29Memphis Nighthawks Wild Man Stomp Document Shortcuts Vol. 3 – My Babe Amazon
30Memphis Minnie I'm A Bad Luck Woman Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937) Amazon
31Champion Jack Dupree Bad Whiskey And Wild Women Two Classic Albums Plus Singles Amazon
32JB Hutto & The Hawks Wild Wild Woman Masters Of Modern Blues Amazon
33Albert King Wild Women Door To Door Amazon
34Little Jimmy King Wild Woman Little Jimmy King and the Memphis Soul Survivors Amazon
35Amy Helm Wild Girl Didn't It Rain Amazon
36John Hammond Wild Man On The Loose Trouble No More Amazon
37Louis Armstrong & The Hot 7 Wild Man Blues The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon

Pickin’ Time – KOWS Oct 5, 2015

Deeper Roots Old Time Hour
Deeper Roots Old Time Hour

Dave Stroud will be sitting in tonight for Mark Hogan once again at 6pm Pacific. He’s got another episode of Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. In this episode, he’ll be following along Mark’s theme of old time and bluegrass, old and new. The playlist this evening will include bluegrass from James King, Mac Wiseman, David Grisman and Bill Monroe. He’ll also be sharing new tracks from Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas, Kinky Friedman, The Dustbowl Revival (fresh from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this past weekend), and a couple of tracks fromLowell Levinger From The Youngbloods’s new album “Get Together – Youngblood Classics”. Tune in for some Eddy Arnold tribute pieces, music about the married life, and a couple of fine recordings of the great guitar pioneer Riley Puckett.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers Smokey Mountain Rag With The Travelin Blues Amazon
3Merle Travis Freight Train (Instrumental) The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands Amazon
4Dallas Smith My Home Across the Blue Ridge Mountains Still Pickin' Amazon
5James King Things Have Gone to Pieces Three Chords & The Truth Amazon
6Red Allen I Heard My Mother Call My Name Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings Amazon
7Neko Case Wayfaring Stranger Live From Austin, TX Amazon
8Kinky Friedman Pickin Time The Loneliest Man I Ever Met Amazon
9Ricky Skaggs Walls Of Time Bluegrass Today [Disc 2] Amazon
10David Grisman Wicked Path of Sin (feat. Old & In The Way) Dawg Plays Big Mon Amazon
11Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Wicked Path Of Sin All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4] Amazon
12Solitaire Miles You Can't Break My Heart Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas Amazon
13Kacey Musgraves You're From Texas Wanted: One Good Cowboy Amazon
14Pokey LaFarge Lovebug Itch You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold Amazon
15Well Worn Soles Worried Country/Folk Amazon
16Frank Black Don't Rob Another Man's Castle You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold Amazon
17Don Henley Feat. Mick Jagger & Miranda Lambert Bramble Rose Cass County (Deluxe) Amazon
18Traveling Show Hillbilly Wedding Day Songs From The Road Band Amazon
19Charlie Haden Single Girl, Married Girl Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
20Robbie Fulks Act Like A Married Man 13 Hillbilly Giants Amazon
21John Prine With Lucinda Williams Wedding Bells / Let's Turn Back The Years In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
22Nikki Lane Wild One All or Nothin' (Deluxe) Amazon
23Lowell Levinger Sugar Babe Get Together- Youngblood Classics Amazon
24Lowell Levinger Euphoria Get Together- Youngblood Classics Amazon
25Riley Puckett It's A Sin To Tell A Lie Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
26Riley Puckett Cindy Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
27Mac Wiseman Dust On The Bible Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
28Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers To Hear Doc Watson Play Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions Amazon
29Doc Watson Make Me a Pallet Memories Amazon
30Amy Helm Roll Awy Didn't It Rain Amazon
31The Dustbowl Revival Lampshade On With a Lampshade On Amazon
32Charlie Gracie Just A Closer Walk With Thee Angel on My Shoulder Amazon

Deeper Hoagy Carmichael

Deeper Hoagy Carmichael
Deeper Hoagy Carmichael

Our show explores the music of the great Hoagy Carmichael, the American songwriter who would pair up with some of the great lyricists of the early century to produce a body of work that, while it generally is written about another time in the south, endures for it’s soft-spoken charm, inventiveness, and sophistication.  He worked his way through law school by performing in his own three-piece band but a couple of his early songs, “Riverboat Shuffle” and “Stardust” made it clear that songwriting was the inevitable vocation for this would-be lawyer. Although the Great Depression almost put him back with the bar, it was the song “Stardust” that would convince him that he could make a go of it. And he did. He was a font of music, teaming with Johnny Mercer and numerous other great lyricists to pen songs that maintain a fresh face to this day…and Deeper Roots will have the vintage sounds of Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and The Mills Brothers alongside the contemporary interpretations of Carmichael’s standards including Linda Ronstadt, Norah Jones, and Junior Brown. Join Dave Stroud as he queues up the timeless work of Hoagy Carmichael.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Willie Nelson Ole Buttermilk Sky Revolutions of Time: The Journey 1975-1993 Disc 3 Amazon
3Nat King Cole Stardust 30 Greatest Hits Disc 1 Amazon
4Benny Goodman & His Orchestra Sing Me A Swing Song (And Let Me Dance) Hoagy Carmichael & Friends: Stardust Melody Amazon
5Glenn Miller, Ray Eberle Blue Orchids Hoagy Carmichael. Stardust – 51 Original Mono Recordings 1924-1957 Amazon
6Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 2] Amazon
7Kate Smith Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 2] Amazon
8Mildred Bailey Rockin' Chair Rockin' Chair Amazon
9Louis Armstrong Rockin' Chair Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3] Amazon
10Ethel Waters Old Man Harlem Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 1] Amazon
11Ethel Waters Georgia On My Mind Smithsonian Songbook Series: Hoagy Carmichael Amazon
12Django Reinhardt Georgia On My Mind The Classic Early Recordings In Chronological Order [Disc 4] Amazon
13The Mills Brothers Lazybones Sweeter Than Sugar Amazon
14Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra Moon Country (Is Home To Me) Hoagy Carmichael & Friends: Stardust Melody Amazon
15Dinning Sisters The Old Music Master Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 2] Amazon
16Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra The Old Music Master Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 1 – The Birth Of A Label – 1942-43 Amazon
17Linda Ronstadt Skylark Round Midnight With Nelson Riddle And His Orchestra [Disc 1] Amazon
18Norah Jones The Nearness of You Come Away With Me Amazon
19Jo Stafford Ivy Candy Amazon
20Willie Nelson Stardust Stardust [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
21Ray Charles Georgia On My Mind Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection Amazon
22Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra Ev'ntide Heart Full Of Rhythm / Volume 2 (1936-38) Amazon
23Bing Crosby Moonburn [Single Version] Bing Crosby And Some Jazz Friends Amazon
24Dinning Sisters I Get Along Without You Very Well Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 2] Amazon
25Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra Sing It Way Down Low Hoagy Carmichael & Friends: Stardust Melody Amazon
26Hoagy Carmichael A Tune For Humming Hoagy Carmichael. Stardust – 51 Original Mono Recordings 1924-1957 Amazon
27Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra Come Easy, Go Easy Love Stardust & Much More Amazon
28Hoagy Carmichael Huggin & Chalkin 47 Your Hit Parade Amazon
29Johnny Mercer Memphis In June Smithsonian Songbook Series: Hoagy Carmichael Amazon
30The Mills Brothers Lazy River Best of the Decca Years Amazon
31Louis Prima Lazy River Capitol Collectors Series Amazon
32Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra Small Fry Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 1] Amazon
33Junior Brown Hong Kong Blues Semi-Crazy Amazon
34Hoagy Carmichael Hong Kong Blues Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 2] Amazon
35The Boswell Sisters Charlie Two Step The Boswell Sisters Volume 2 Amazon

Combing the Archives

Combing the Archives
Combing the Archives

Some of the most revealing music I listen to hints at what’s in store for humankind by expressing its own historical presence through dialect and direct purpose. It is done in the artistry of music, something that the children’s author Hans Christian Andersen opined that “where words fail, music speaks”.  Music is an essential component of our humanity and is an art like no other in that it is the most direct of all art forms. So I find that what’s old to some may be new to me.

Finding music from the early 20th century is an exercise. Sometimes it is found buried in the wells of collector’s catalogs that are priced beyond anyone’s reach or in carefully curated and targeted anthologies. It can also be found on public domain sites curated by educational entities including the Library of Congress. Rest assured, it is no small effort to sit down early on a Sunday morning and browse these sites, including www.archive.org and Juneberry for items that, while sometimes poor in quality, reveal from behind that ‘gauze of static’ as faces long-since passed. But my Sunday mornings are rarely lacking reward whether that be a King Oliver jazz recording, rough blues from Blind Lemon Jefferson, or even an early century pop from an Annette Hanshaw.

When I think that I’ve heard it all, something new grabs my ear and imagination and drives me to later fulfill my curiosity by reading more about the artist, songwriter, or song. And that is what my show is about: sharing what I discover with the listener. My show is Deeper Roots: A Century of America’s Music and airs on KOWS.fm on even Saturday mornings from 9-11 and on even Sunday and Monday nights from 10-midnight. For more information about my shows I’d encourage you to visit my web site at www.deeperrootsradio.com. The site also features links to my Facebook page as well as archives of over a hundred past shows.

Looking ahead, and speaking of musical archives, there are a handful of record labels that are indispensable to those who equally cherish the ephemera, no matter the luster, of American (as well as world) music. Join me on Deeper Roots over the coming months as I highlight these labels, not least of which are Document Records, The Dust-to-Digital label, The Numero Group, Tompkins Square, veterans Arhoolie and Yazoo, Old Hat, and Bear Family.