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Songs of the Century

Songs of the Century
Songs of the Century

The Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) produced a list a few years back that they called the “Songs of The Century”. It was concocted based on a questionable set of sampling and was to represent and “promote a better understanding of America’s musical and cultural heritage.” The voting pool was a strange mixture elected officials, school students and teachers, as well as industry professionals. The respondent pool was about 200. The list is woefully inadequate but certainly worth discussing. Deeper Roots will spend this week exploring the top 30 (of 365) and follow up with its own list in a second episode next week. Listen in as we stretch the imagination.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2John Lennon Imagine Imagine Amazon
3Gladys Knight & The Pips Midnight Train To Georgia Singers And Songwriters: 1973- Amazon
4The Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand [Stereo] The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 Disc 1 Amazon
5Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode Johnny B. Goode-His Complete 50's Chess Recordings Amazon
6Lena Horne Stormy Weather (From "Stormy Weather") The Essential Lena Horne – The RCA Years Amazon
7Ben E. King Stand By Me Malt Shop Memories Save the Last Dance for Me Amazon
8The Beach Boys Good Vibrations Endless Summer Amazon
9Tony Bennett I Left My Heart in San Francisco The Essential Tony Bennett [Columbia/Legacy] Disc 1 Amazon
10Otis Redding (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay The Very Best of Otis Redding, Vol. 1 Amazon
11Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through the Grapevine Motown: The Classic Years Disc 2 Amazon
12John Philip Sousa Stars And Stripes Forever The March King: John Philip Sousa Conducts His Own Marches and Other Favorites (An Historical Recording) Amazon
13Kate Smith With Orchestra God Bless America Nippers 30's-Vol.1 Amazon
14Fats Domino Blueberry Hill Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 4 Amazon
15Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Take The "A" Train Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3] Amazon
16The Rolling Stones (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Singles Collection: The London Years Disc 1 Amazon
17Bobby Darin Mack The Knife Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3) Amazon
18Jimmie Davis You Are My Sunshine Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals Amazon
19Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra When The Saints Go Marching In Pete Fountain Presents The Best Of Dixieland: Louis Armstrong Amazon
20Bill Haley & His Comets (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock (Single Version) Rock Around The Clock Amazon
21Glenn Miller & His Orchestra In the Mood The Centennial Collection Disc 1 Amazon
22Scott Joplin The Entertainer compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
23The Righteous Brothers You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' Malt Shop Memories: All I Have To Do Is Dream (Disc 2) Amazon
24Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet Take Me Out To The Ball Game www.allaoijr.com Amazon
25Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Overture West Side Story Amazon
26The Andrews Sisters Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection – The Best Of The Andrews Sisters Amazon
27Don McLean American Pie American Pie [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
28Aretha Franklin Respect 30 Greatest Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
29Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 Amazon
30Bing Crosby White Christmas Bing Crosby's Greatest Hits Amazon
31Judy Garland Over The Rainbow That's Entertainment! The Best Of The MGM Musicals Amazon
32George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's Amazon

Wake Up! – KOWS August 8, 2015

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

It’s a joy to queue up a century of America’s music every other Saturday morning in West County…live from the heart and voice of West Sonoma County’s KOWS studios in downtown Occidental. A common theme will run through this morning’s show and it’s all about waking up: gospel’s Mahalia Jackson and When I Wake Up in Glory, Roy Milton and the Wake Up Blues, James Brown’s Get Up Offa That Thing … and more!

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Junior Brown Gotta Get Up Every Morning Semi-Crazy Amazon
3Buck Owens I've Got A Tiger By The Tail The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1 Amazon
4Dwight Yoakam Little Sister Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years (1 of 4) Amazon
5The Mavericks All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down Music for All Occasions Amazon
6Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers Get Up John At The Ryman [Live] Amazon
7The Band Get Up Jake A Musical History [Disc 3] Amazon
8James Brown Get Up Offa That Thing 20 All Time Greatest Hits! Amazon
9Lavern Baker Get Up Get Up (You Sleepy Head) London American Label Year By Year 1956 Amazon
10Jimmy Murphy Wake Me up Sweet Jesus Electricity Amazon
11Mahalia Jackson When I Wake Up In Glory The World's Greatest Gospel Singer Amazon
12Bill Landford And The Landfordaires Trouble Of This World [Album Version] The Gospel Tradition: The Roots And The Branches, Vol. 1 Amazon
13Reverend CL Franklin Wings Of Faith Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
14Clara Ward Singers Packing Up Somebody Bigger Than You & I Amazon
15Charlie & His Orchestra You're Driving Me Crazy Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell Amazon
16Bob Brozman You're Driving Me Crazy Devil's Slide Amazon
17Big Joe Turner Lipstick, Powder and Paint Big Joe Rocks Amazon
18Smiley Lewis Hook Line & Sinker Smiley Lewis Vol 1 Amazon
19Merrill Moore Yes Indeed (EP Version) Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1] Amazon
20The Carlisles Nine Have Tried (and None Have Died) (Second Countdown) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
21Roy Milton Waking Up Blues ABC Of The Blues Vol 30 Amazon
22Ike & Tina Turner Wake Up Don't Play Me Cheap Amazon
23The Everly Brothers Wake Up Little Susie 5 Classic Albums Amazon
24Roy Orbison Ride Away The Soul of Rock and Roll Amazon
25Hank Garland Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) Move! – The Guitar Artistry of Hank Garland Amazon
26The Knockouts Darling Lorrane The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 3 Amazon
27Bobby "Blue" Bland Poverty The Definitive Collection Amazon
28Townes Van Zandt Snowin' On Raton (with James McMurtry) Texas Rain Amazon
29Jonathan Edwards Mole Tomorrow's Child Amazon
30Elvis Presley Somebody Bigger Than You and I Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1 Amazon
31Kim McLean Somebody Bigger Than You and I Boots Too Big to Fill: Tribute to Gene Autry Amazon
32J.J. Cale Money Talks The Very Best of J.J. Cale Amazon
33Roy Zimmerman The Faucet's On Fire The Faucet's On Fire Amazon

Beautiful Dreamer – KOWS August 3, 2015

Deeper Stephen Foster
Beautiful Dreamer

Mark Hogan’s Bluegrass and Old-Time Hour is on hiatus for two weeks while Mark is back in Galax, Virginia checking out the summer activities including a Fiddler’s Convention. And we’re going to honor his muse this week, the first of two Monday episodes where Deeper Roots fills his spot in the schedule on KOWS. We’ve got plenty of bluegrass in the first hour featuring new music from Trout Steak Revival and classics from Bill Monroe and Mac Martin. Our second hour rolls out a run of Stephen Foster covers done by Jack Clement, Jonathan Edwards, The Sons of the Pioneers, and others.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers Home In Tennessee With The Travelin Blues Amazon
3Ashley Monroe The Storms Are On The Ocean Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
4Emmylou Harris Bury Me Beneath The Willow Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
5The Church Sisters Where We'll Never Grow Old Orthophonic Joy Amazon
6John Reischman & The Jaybirds Booth Shot Lincoln John Reischman And The Jaybirds Amazon
7Mike Auldridge Drivin' Nails In My Coffin Cool Blue & Lonesome: Bluegrass for Broken Amazon
8Trout Steak Revival Brighter Every Day Brighter Every Day Amazon
9Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblerss Get Up John Live at the Ryman Amazon
10Bill Monroe Big River Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1] Amazon
11Ricky Skaggs Uncle Pen Country Gentleman: The Best Of Ricky Skaggs Amazon
12The Stanley Brothers Angel Band Angel Band: The Classic Mercury Recordings Amazon
13Red Allen Deep Elem Blues The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983 Amazon
14Blue Grass Boogiemen Goin' Up Caney Who's Afraid of the Boogiemen? Amazon
15Joe Maphis Twin Banjo Special Absolutely Bluegrass Amazon
16Grandpa Jones Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia Pickin' & A-Grinnin' Amazon
17Reno & Smiley The Talk Of The Town Absolutely Bluegrass Amazon
18Del McCoury, Doc Watson & Mac Wiseman I Wonder Where You Are Tonight Mac Doc Del Amazon
192nd South Carolina String Band Angelina Baker/Angeline the Baker In High Cotton Amazon
20Phil and Vivian Williams Nelly Bly Pioneer Dance Tunes of the Far West Amazon
21Grandpa Jones Nelly Bly An American Original Amazon
22Timothy Seaman & Friends I Hear Those Gentle Voices Calling (Old Black Joe) (feat. Bill Gurley & Ann Robinson) Tenting On the Old Camp Ground Amazon
23Jerry Lee Lewis Old Black Joe Old Tyme Country Music Amazon
24Anna McGarrigle Gentle Annie Transatlantic Sessions – Series 1: Volume Three Amazon
25Sons of the Pioneers Gentle Annie Songs of the Prairie – CD5 Amazon
26Jonathan Edwards Hard Times Tomorrow's Child Amazon
27Nanci Griffith Hard Times (Come Again No More) Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) Amazon
28John Prine My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight Beautiful Dreamer – The Songs of Stephen Foster Amazon
29Cowboy Jack Clement Beautiful Dreamer Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War Amazon
30BR5-49 Don't Bet Money on the Shanghai Beautiful Dreamer – The Songs of Stephen Foster Amazon
31Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick Oh! Susanna Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray Amazon
32Noam Pikelny Old Folks at Home / The Girl I Left Behind Me Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War Amazon

Songs of Protest

Songs of Protest
Songs of Protest

This week’s show on KWTF runs down a century’s worth of protest music. We’ve got some of the familiars, but we’ve also got some of the not-so-familiars.  Out playlists will focus on a couple of the major issues of half century ago that we find ourselves embroiled in today. We’ll hear civil rights anthems and performances from some of the more emphatic musical voices of the sixties that were railing against a war. You’ll also hear topics of union organizing and social justice including the sounds of Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Pete Seeger, the SNCC Freedom Singers, Marvin Gaye, and many others.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Pete Seeger Waist Deep In The Big Muddy The Essential Pete Seeger Amazon
3Joseph Crawford and unidentified vocalist There's A Meeting Here Tonight 2- The Long Road To Freedom : An Anthology Of Black Music Amazon
4Sncc Freedom Singers We Shall Overcome Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles) Amazon
5Billie Holiday Strange Fruit Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 2] Amazon
6Josh White Strange Fruit Josh White – The Remaining Titles (1941-1947) Amazon
7Mavis Staples We Shall Not Be Moved (Cd) We'll Never Turn Back Amazon
8Hollis Watkins Oh Freedom Voices Of the Civil Rights Movement Amazon
9Aaron Neville Oh Freedom I Know I've Been Changed Amazon
10SNCC Freedom Singers; Reagon, Cordell Which Side Are You On? Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles) Amazon
11Phil Ochs I Ain't Marching Anymore Farewells & Fantasies [Disc 1] Amazon
12The Almanac Singers Which Side Are You On Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2] Amazon
13Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions People Get Ready Akeelah And The Bee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
14Jean Ritchie Black Waters Troubadours: Folk And The Roots Of American Music 4: 11 The South Amazon
15Bob Dylan Blowin' In The Wind Folk, Gospel & Blues Will The Circle Be Unbroken Disk 2 Amazon
16Bruce Springsteen Eyes on the Prize We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 Amazon
17Barry McGuire Eve Of Destruction Eve Of Destruction Amazon
18Tom Paxton Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation Best Of Tom Paxton: I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Amazon
19Buffalo Springfield For What It's Worth Retrospective – The Best of Buffalo Springfield Amazon
20Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son 36 All – Time Greatest Hits 3 CD Set (Disk 3) Amazon
21Marvin Gaye Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) The Promised Land – Original Soundtrack [Disc 2] Amazon
22Sam Cooke A Change Is Gonna Come Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 Amazon
23Nina Simone I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Silk and Soul (Expanded Edition) Amazon
24Ethel Waters What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? Ethel Waters 1929 -1939 (feat. Duke Ellington & Benny Goodman) Amazon
25Peter, Paul & Mary Where Have All The Flowers Gon Peter, Paul & Mary Amazon
26Odetta Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child 7 Classic Albums Plus Bonus Radio Tracks Amazon
27Paul Robeson No More Auction Block Classic Folk Music From Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
28Southern Sons Lift Every Voice And Sing (1942) 1940's Vocal Groups: Southern Sons (1941-44) & Richmond's Harmonizing Four (1943) Amazon
29Bruce Cockburn If I Had A Rocket Launcher Waiting For A Miracle: Singles 1970-1987 Amazon
30Pete Seeger & The Almanac Singers Union Maid American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 4] Amazon
31Bob Dylan Masters of War Biograph Disc 1 Amazon
32Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Ohio So Far Amazon
33Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 Amazon

Connections II

Connections II
Connections II

We take another trip down the roots rabbit hole with the usual selections of blues, bluegrass, country, gospel, and tradition in a show that follows a thread that begins with The Del McCoury Band’s bluegrass cover of Mama’s Hungry Eyes and winds its way to conclusion down the endless black ribbon. In between we’ve got kind words and last words, chain gangs and jailers, and songs about bird dogs and mockingbirds. The show is a special ‘stream of musical roots consciousness’ called “Connections”.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Del McCoury Mama's Hungry Eyes (feat. Emmylou Harris) Moneyland Amazon
3Merle Haggard Mama Tried The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1] Amazon
4Sugar Pie DeSanto Mama Didn't Raise No Fool Down In The Basement Amazon
5Rodney Crowell Famous Last Words of a Fool in Love Tarpaper Sky Amazon
6David Johansen The Last Kind Words Shaker Amazon
7Rhiannon Giddens Last Kind Words Tomorrow Is My Turn Amazon
8Geeshie Wiley Last Kind Words Mississippi Masters Amazon
9Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas Pick Poor Robin Clean Mississippi Masters Amazon
10Gennett Sound Effects Mocking Bird …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
11The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Listen To The Mockingbird Stars And Stripes Forever Amazon
12Doc Watson Bird Dog Docabilly Amazon
13The Everly Brothers I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail Songs Our Daddy Taught Us Amazon
14Steve Earle & The V-Roys In The Jailhouse Now The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute Amazon
15Johnny Cash I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now American V: A Hundred Highways Amazon
16Wynona Sweet Please Mr. Jailer Cry-Baby Amazon
17Johnny Tillotson Jailer Bring Me Water The Tillotson Touch Amazon
18Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Jesus Gave Me Water Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
19Elvis Presley Bosom of Abraham He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 2 Amazon
20The Golden Gate Quartet Rock My Soul Rock My Soul & Other Gospel Favorites Amazon
21Louis Armstrong Rock My Soul Louis And The Good Book Amazon
22Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited Highway 61 Revisited Amazon
23Band Of Ruhks Lost Highway Band Of Ruhks Amazon
24Hank Williams Lost Highway Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals Amazon
25Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) Down The Road Pt II The Low Highway [+digital booklet] Amazon
26Tiny Harris Endless Black Ribbon Lonesome Highway Songs Amazon
27Nat King Cole A Little Yellow Ribbon Chronological Classics: Nat King Cole 1949 Amazon
28Sonny James & Taylor*Karla Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree Classic Country Duets Amazon
29Connie Smith Ribbon Of Darkness The Essential Connie Smith Amazon
30Willie Nelson Scarlett Ribbons Stardust [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
31Grateful Dead Scarlet Begonias Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel Amazon
32Gillian Welch Scarlet Town The Harrow & The Harvest Amazon
33David Olney One Tough Town One Tough Town Amazon
34Fats Waller Lulu's Back In Town Honeysuckle Rose Amazon
35Nathan Glantz & His Orchestra (v: Chick Straun) Don't Bring Lulu [1925] The Charleston Era Amazon

Ragged But Right – KOWS July 25, 2015

Ragged But Right
Ragged But Right

Hot summer days…cool West County nights. Deeper Roots finds the right balance on Saturday mornings in Occidental this week with music about ramblers and gamblers featuring Ralph Stanley, Tom Russell, and Sturgill Simpson. We’ll also find ourselves in the crosshairs of country, blues, and southern gospel with songs of light and life featuring Hank Williams, Gary Davis, and Marty Stuart. Riley Puckett, The Sons of the Pioneers, and the Selah Jubilee Singers also join in on another Saturday morning filled with roots music on KOWS 107.3-LP FM. Tune in on TuneIn!

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Fats Domino The Fat Man Imperial Singles Collection Amazon
3Nathan Glantz & His Orchestra (v: Chick Straun) Don't Bring Lulu [1925] The Charleston Era Amazon
4Roy Acuff Bang Away My Lulu DON'T BRING LULU was a 20's hit song Amazon
5Spade Cooley & His Orchestra; Vocal By Tex Williams You'll Rue The Day Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley Amazon
6Tommy Duncan Please Come Back Home Texas Moon Amazon
7Lucinda Williams Memphis Pearl Sweet Old World Amazon
8Hank Williams I Saw The Light Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
9Selah Jubilee Singers I Saw the Light Gospel Quartets 1921-1942 Vol. 2 Amazon
10Reverend Gary Davis I Am The Light Of This World Harlem Street Singer Amazon
11Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives This Little Light of Mine Gospel Bluegrass Home Coming, Vol. 1 Amazon
12Sam Cooke Having a Party The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (3 of 4) Amazon
13Clyde McPhatter A Lovers Question Atlantic and Mercury Sessions – Disc 2 Amazon
14Kay Starr Night Train Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
15Ike Turner Do Right Baby Classic Early Sides Amazon
16Slim Harpo I Love the Life I'm Living The Excello Singles Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
17John Sebastian Ain't Nowhere to Hobo Anymore I Want My Roots Amazon
18The Blue Sky Boys Wild And Reckless Hobo Presenting The Blue Sky Boys Amazon
19Grandpa Jones Hobo Bill Makes The Rafters Ring Amazon
20Bob Dylan Only A Hobo It Could Even Be A Myth Amazon
21Elana James Hobo's Lullaby Black Beauty Amazon
22Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys Poor Rambler Classic Bluegrass Amazon
23Sturgill Simpson Poor Rambler High Top Mountain Amazon
24Tom Russell Rambler, Gambler Song Of The West – The Cowboy Collection Amazon
25Jimmie Skinner Don't Give My Heart to a Rambler One Dead Man Ago Amazon
26Grayson & Whitter I've Always Been a Rambler Music from the Lost Provinces Amazon
27Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins Ragged But Right Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3] Amazon
28Sons of the Pioneers Blue Ridge Mountain Home Songs of the Prairie – CD1 Amazon
29Hurray for the Riff Raff Blue Ridge Mountain Small Town Heroes Amazon
30The Carter Family My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 4) Amazon
31The Country Gentlemen Blue Ridge Mountains Turning Green Sugar Hill Collection Amazon
32Nick Lowe I'll Be There The Impossible Bird Amazon
33Willie Nelson & Ray Price I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) San Antonio Rose [Expanded Edition] Amazon
34Willie Nelson Sweet Jennie Lee Willie and the Wheel Amazon

Ladies of Gospel

Ladies of Gospel
Ladies of Gospel

The influence of gospel music on the forms of rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, and soul are fairly well documented. The elements of early black gospel music arose from a tradition of work songs, anthems, spirituals, hollers, and the stylized performance of hymns. The evolution of the form, particularly in the Church of God In Christ (COGIC), reveals a freedom of expression that made its listeners ‘move with the spirit’. We’ll hear from the ladies from the COGIC as well as the traditionalists that could bring in the masses to the church with their uplifting, sometimes roaring voices including Sister Ernestine Washington, Edna Gallmon Cooke, Sister Goldia Haynes, Mahalia Jackson, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Clara Ward Singers When The Saints Go Marching In Somebody Bigger Than You & I Amazon
3Sister Ernestine Washington Jesus Is All The World To Me Sister Ernestine Washington (1943-1948) Amazon
4Sister Ernestine Washington I Know The Lord Will Make A Way Sister Ernestine Washington Vol. 2 (1954-c.1958) Amazon
5Sister Rosetta Tharpe Teach Me To Be Right Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record Amazon
6Sister Rosetta Tharpe Cain't No Grave Hold My Body Down Gospel Train Amazon
7Marie Knight Marie Knight – Tharpe and Singing Interview Amazon
8Marie Knight Gospel Train Hallelujah What A Song! Amazon
9Mahalia Jackson Move On Up A Little Higher Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances, Vol. 1: Black Gospel Amazon
10Mahalia Jackson I Have A Friend Legend: The Best Of Mahalia Jackson [Disc 2] Amazon
11Mahalia Jackson & Della Reese Della Reese Interview Amazon
12Della Reece And The Meditations Hard To Get Along Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958 Amazon
13Cora Martin Didn't It Rain The Great Gospel Women Amazon
14Madam Edna Gallmon Cooke & The Mount Vernon Men's Choir Angels, Angels, Angels Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
15Edna Gallmon Cooke And The Radio Four Somebody Touched Me How Sweet it Was Amazon
16Sister Goldia Haynes This Old World The Great Gospel Women Amazon
17Lucy Smith O What A Time The Great Gospel Women Amazon
18Shirley Caesar I'd Rather Serve Jesus Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
19Mary Deloatch The Lord's Gospel Train Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
20Jessie Mae Renfro I Must Tell Jesus The Great Gospel Women Amazon
21Sister Lucille Barbee Where Could I Go Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
22Sister Emily Bram Each Day Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
23Bessie Griffin And The Caravans Let Us Run Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
24Candi Staton & The Jewel Gospel Trio Jesus Is Listening Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
25Marion Williams – The Stars Of Faith When I Lay This Body Down Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958 Amazon
26Clara Ward Singers Packing Up Somebody Bigger Than You & I Amazon
27Roberta Martin And The Roberta Martin Singers Rock My Soul Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958 Amazon
28Clara Ward (With Unidentified Group) Peace In The Valley Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 2] Amazon
29Evelyn Freeman And The Exciting Voices Chorus Didn't It Rain Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958 Amazon
30Dorothy Love Coates No Hiding Place The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes Amazon
31Albertina Walker Albertina Walker Interview Interview Amazon
32Albertina Walker Put a Little Love In Your Heart Platinum Gospel-Albertina Walker Amazon
33Albertina Walker & The Caravans How Do You Feel Precious Lord Gospel Gold Amazon
34Marion Williams He's A High Class Physician How Sweet it Was Amazon
35Thomas A. Dorsey with Marion Williams If We Never Needed The Lord Before [Album Version] Precious Lord Recordings Of The Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey Amazon
36Bunk Johnson/Ernestine Washington Where Could I Go Smithsonian Folkways: Classic African American Gospel Amazon

Dirty Dog – KOWS July 11, 2015

KOWS - July 11, 2015
KOWS – July 11, 2015

West County is the place to be in summer. The inland heat is pulling in the right amount of tempered cool from the coast…and Deeper Roots sounds will ride the wave on a Saturday morning. Join us for music from Arlo Guthrie, Chubby Newsome, Jimmie Revard, Mahalia Jackson, and more. The sounds we’ll hear come from country, country swing, classic gospel, mountain tradition, and just a little bit of the blues so please join us as we fill the airwaves with classic roots music on a Saturday morning, live from the KOWS studios in Occidental.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Johnny Burnette Let's Think About Living The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD 3 Amazon
3Roy Rogers My Chickashay Gal Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
4Hank Snow Music Makin' Mama From Memphis The Essential Hank Snow Amazon
5Asleep at the Wheel What's the Matter With the Mill (with Pokey LaFarge) Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Amazon
6Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Back Home In Indiana (LP Version) Tiffany Transcriptions& Vol. 9 Amazon
7Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor Coming Back Home The Return of the Formerly Brothers Amazon
8Jimmie Revard Dirty Dog Western Swing: 40 Bootstompers Amazon
9Jimmie Revard Holdin' The Sack Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 9] Amazon
10The Louvin Brothers I'm Ready To Go Home Satan Is Real Amazon
11Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys Little Birdie Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Amazon
12Doc & Merle Watson Corrina, Corrina Then And Now/Two Days In November Amazon
13Jimmie Driftwood Soldier's Joy Americana, Vol. 1 Amazon
14The Rice Brothers Soldier's Joy The Rice Brothers Amazon
15Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson Don't Think Twice, It's Alright Django and Jimmie Amazon
16Willie Nelson & the Offenders A Moment Isn't Very Long Me and the Drummer Amazon
17Red Simpson Don't Fall Asleep At The Wheel Lonesome Highway Songs Amazon
18Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards So Long It's Been Good to Know You Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
19Johnny Cash Hey Porter The Mystery Of Life Amazon
20Elvis Presley Memphis Tennessee Artist of the Century Disc 2 Amazon
21Floyd Dixon Oooh Little Girl Marshall Texas Is My Home Amazon
22Bob Dylan It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry (take 9) No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Ser [UK] Disc 2 Amazon
23Chubby Newsome Toodle Luddle Baby Rock 'n' Roll Mamas Vol 3 Amazon
24Anthony Butler Judgement's Coming Soon Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats Amazon
25Mahalia Jackson Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns, Vol.2 [Disc 1] Amazon
26Mahalia Jackson I'm On My Way The Promised Land – Original Soundtrack [Disc 1] Amazon
27Howlin' Wolf Moanin' For My Baby Blues From Hell Amazon
28Tampa Red Crying Won't Help You ABC Of The Blues Vol 38 Amazon
29Hadda Brooks He's Coming Home Jump Back Honey:Complete OKeh Sessions Amazon
30The Four Lads Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Around the World 1) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
31Ivie Anderson I Got It Bad The Collection Amazon
32Memphis Minnie What's The Matter With The Mill Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1] Amazon
33Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band Chevrolet Greatest Hits Amazon
34John Hiatt Memphis in the Meantime Bring the Family Amazon

Songs About Telephones

Songs About The Telephone
Songs About The Telephone

It’s ‘theme time’ in this episode as we find a muse that songwriters have been looking to since it’s appearance in the 19th century: the telephone. Join us for operators, dial tones, party lines, busy signals, and hang-ups…just a few of the topics in a show featuring gospel from the Selah Jubilee Singers and Sister Wynona Carr, sixties soul from The Marvelettes and The Orlons, tradition from Bill Monroe and Wade Mainer, and more.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Manhattan Transfer Operator The Manhattan Transfer Amazon
3The Golden Gate Quartet I Just Telephone Upstairs Vol. 6 (1949-1952) Amazon
4The Spirit Of Memphis Quartet Atomic Telephone The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
5Selah Jubilee Singers Royal Telephone Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 (1939-1941) Amazon
6Burl Ives Royal Telephone Greatest Hits Amazon
7Sister Wynona Carr Operator, Operator Dragnet For Jesus Amazon
8Bill Monroe When The Phone Rang Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1] Amazon
9Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver The Phone Call More Behind the Picture Than the Wall Amazon
10Wade Mainer God's Radio Phone I'm Not Looking Backward Amazon
11Doc Watson No Telephone In Heaven My Dear Old Southern Home Amazon
12The Carter Family No Telephone In Heaven The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 2] Amazon
13The Carter Family Hello Central! Give Me Heaven The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5] Amazon
14Orville Reed The Telephone Girl Lead Kindly Light Amazon
15Bonnie Guitar Hello, Hello, Please Answer The Phone Only The Moon Man Knows: Rare Recordings 1951-1957 Amazon
16George Jones Wrong Number Star Creek Promotions 4 Amazon
17Aaron Neville Wrong Number (I Am Sorry, Goodbye) Treacherous [Disc 1] Amazon
18Irma Thomas Sorry Wrong Number If You Want It, Come and Get It Amazon
19Mickey & Sylvia Can't Get You On The Phone Rock With A Sock Amazon
20The Orlons Don't Hang Up Malt Shop Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 2) Amazon
21Marvelettes Beechwood 4-5789 The Soul of Detroit – Disc 1 Amazon
22Tony & Tyrone Please Operator After Hours 3 – More Northern Soul Masters Amazon
23Mary Wells Operator The Soul of Detroit – Disc 2 Amazon
24Jorma Kaukonen Operator River Of Time Amazon
25The Grateful Dead Operator American Beauty Amazon
26Glenn Miller & His Orchestra Pennsylvania 6-5000 The Centennial Collection Disc 1 Amazon
27Hank Penny Hold the Phone King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2] Amazon
28Stonewall Jackson Can't Hang Up the Phone Original Greatest Hits Amazon
29Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn Answer The Phone With Loretta Lynn A Tribute To A Legend Amazon
30Tom T. Hall Jesus On the Radio (Daddy On the Phone) The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall Amazon
31Pee Wee Crayton Phone Call From My Baby ABC Of The Blues Vol 7 Amazon
32Pee Wee Crayton The Telephone Is Ringing ABC Of The Blues Vol 7 Amazon
33Floyd Dixon Call Operator 210 The Aladdin Story (Pt. 2) Amazon
34Floyd Dixon Telephone Blues The Cocktail Combos [Disc 3] Amazon
35Eddie Gorman And His Group Telephone Blues Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1 Amazon
36Elana James Telephone Man Black Beauty Amazon

Ruler Of My Heart – KOWS July 27, 2015

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

Saturday morning in West County…our first week of summer with Deeper Roots and we’ve got an early set of New Orleans swamp classics followed by shreds of rockabilly and sounds from The Killer. There’s also gospel with The Staple Singers, high octane early century pop from The Boswell Sisters and Johnny Hamp and the Orchestra. We’ll sum the day up with folk, pop, and R&B…and everything in between.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Bobby Marchan Chicken – Wah – Wah The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 1] Amazon
3Lazy Lester I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound Amazon
4Irma Thomas Ruler of My Heart Soul Queen of New Orleans Amazon
5Aaron Neville Get Out Of My Life Brother To Brother ([Disc 1]: Aaron) Amazon
6Fats Domino What a Price Fats Domino Out of New Orleans Amazon
7Shirley Gunter Oop Shoop Shirley Gunter Amazon
8Jerry Lee Lewis Let's Talk About Us A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
9Wanda Jackson Man, We Had A Party Queen Of Rockabilly Amazon
10JD McPherson Fire Bug Signs & Signifiers Amazon
11Sister Rosetta Tharpe Two Little Fishes Five Loaves Of Bread Gospel Train Amazon
12Sam Cooke Touch The Hem Of His Garment The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke Amazon
13The Staple Singers Pray On The Best of the Vee-Jay Years Amazon
14Dorothy Love Coates You Better Run The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes Amazon
15Andy Mosely & Hogman Maxey Brother Mosely Crossed The Water Angola Prison Spirituals Amazon
16Blind Willie Johnson Jesus Is Coming Soon The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (Disc 1) Amazon
17Lena Horne Stormy Weather Stormy Weather Amazon
18Johnny Hamp And His Kentucky Serenaders If I Had A Talking Picture Of You Johnny Hamp at Archive Amazon
19The Boswell Sisters Shuffle Off To Buffalo The Object Of My Affection Amazon
20George Olsen & His Music (v: Fran Frey) The Varsity Drag [1927] The Charleston Era Amazon
21Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers Shreveport Stomp Jelly Roll Morton – Vol. V Amazon
22Louis Armstrong On Treasure Island Rhythm Saved The World Amazon
23Django Reinhardt & Stiphane Grappelli It Don't Mean A Thing Quintesential Amazon
24Dinah Washington Teach Me Tonight Gold [Disc 2] Amazon
25Ray Charles Drown in My Own Tears The Birth of Soul Disc 2 Amazon
26Chuck Jackson Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) Chuck Jackson The Great Recordings [Disc 1] Amazon
27Frank Sinatra Just in Time Come Dance with Me! Amazon
28Sarah Vaughan The Nearness Of You Great American Songbook Amazon
29Charlie Spand & Blind Blake Hastings Street Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937 Amazon
30Pine Ridge Boys Farther Along Classic Field Recordings Amazon
31David Bromberg I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning The Player: A Retrospective Amazon
32Doc Watson Steel Guitar Rag Memories Amazon
33The Country Gentlemen One Morning in May The Complete Vanguard Recordings Amazon
34The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys This Weary Heart You Stole Away Appalachian Stomp Amazon
35The Stripling Brothers The Lost Boy Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937 Amazon