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.

High Noon

High Noon - KOWS September 12, 2015
High Noon – KOWS September 12, 2015

It’s a new morning…as it always is…and was when we celebrated another Saturday morning in Occidental with Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music with host Dave Stroud. This twice-monthly show opens with a mule kicking in the stall, some barnyard rhythm and then moves swiftly into a blend of 1950s country and big band. Ray Charles, Frankie Laine, Chick Webb, Otis Spann, and Merle Travis are just a sampling of performers we’ll hear from. West County living deserves roots music wafting over the airwaves on a Saturday morning in early autumn. Let’s set the airwaves stage with some Otis Spann.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Nellie Lutcher He's A Real Gone Guy Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53 Amazon
3Nellie Lutcher There's Another Mule In Your Stall Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 1] Amazon
4Otis Spann Mule Kicking In My Stall Cryin' Time Amazon
5Louis Jordan Barnyard Boogie Jivin' With Jordan Amazon
6Joe Liggins Rhythm In The Barnyard Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers Amazon
7The Andrews Sisters A Man is a Brother To a Mule Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4] Amazon
8Charlie Poole With Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon Man that Rode the Mule Around the World You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2] Amazon
9Ralph Stanley I've Got A Mule To Ride Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection Amazon
10Tennessee Ernie Ford Mule Train (1996 Digital Remaster) Vintage Collections Amazon
11Frankie Laine That Lucky Old Sun [Album Version] Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits Amazon
12Ray Charles That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3 Amazon
13Merle Travis & Joe Maphis High Noon Country Guitar Giants Amazon
14Frankie Laine Rawhide Country Greats #2 Amazon
15Chick Webb and his Orchestra Don't Be That Way from CD; orig. Decca 483 Amazon
16Ella Fitzgerald Melinda the Mousle Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 Amazon
17Annette Hanshaw Who's That Knocking At My Door The Twenties Sweetheart Amazon
18Brother Grady Coffee I'm Working on a Building This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982 Amazon
19Elvis Presley Working on the Building Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1 Amazon
20Murry Hammond In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music Amazon
21John & Jamie Hartford When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland Hartford & Hartford Amazon
22June Carter Cash Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? Wildwood Flower Amazon
23George Jones Worried Man Blues The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music Amazon
24The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
25David Lindley and Wally Ingram Coot From Tennessee Twango Bango Deluxe Amazon
26Ole Ramussen Sleepy Eyed John Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
27Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Oozlin' Daddy Blues Legends of Country Music Disc 2 Amazon
28Cliff Hobbs;Bill Cox Oozlin' Daddy Blues [Album Version] White Country Blues (1926-1938) Amazon
29Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Big Mamou We've Got a Live One Here! Amazon
30Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Big Mamou Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
31Bonnie Guitar Noon Train Affair Amazon
32Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips If I Had My Way Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips Amazon

The Dust-to-Digital Label

Dust-to-Digital Label
Dust-to-Digital Label

Our weekly KWTF show is about a label whose chief purpose is the resurrection of that curious mix of ephemera, folklore, ancestry, and musicianship that reveals itself as folk music: whether it be pre-Monroe bluegrass, gospel, blues, or early pop. The label I speak of is Dust-To-Digital and we’ll scratch the surface of some of the great work that they’ve issued since 1999, the year Lance Ledbetter and his wife April open shop in Atlanta, Georgia.Their mission is the same as it was then: to produce high quality cultural artifacts.

Pitchfork magazine put it this way: “Although the folklorists lugging around tape recorders (and the performers carrying on ancient traditions) are worthy of much heralding, it’s equally astounding how essential Lance Ledbetter’s work at Dust-to-Digital has been to the preservation of traditional American folksong. It’s easy to buy and appreciate these sets without realizing that the bulk of the material might have been lost — or, at the very least, tethered to archives, readily accessible only to curious faculty, paper-writing students, and bespectacled researchers — without Ledbetter’s interference.”

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Jimmy Murphy We Live A Long Time To Get Old Desperate Man Blues Amazon
3Tennesee Messarounds Mandolin Blues Desperate Man Blues Amazon
4Lonnie Johnson Death Valley is Just Half Way To My Home Desperate Man Blues Amazon
5Chubby Parker Bib-a-lollie-boo …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
6Ernest Thompson In the Baggage Coach Ahead …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
7Roy Smeck Trio Reaching for the Moon …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
8Lew Childre It Don't Do Nothing but Rain …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
9Sara Martin & Sylvester Weaver I've Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
10Sister O.M. Terrell The Bible's Right Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2] Amazon
11Mahalia Jackson God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares Goodbye, Babylon – Introduction [Disc 1] Amazon
12The North Carolina Cooper Boys Daniel In The Den Of Lions Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2] Amazon
13Moses Williams The Train Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1] Amazon
14Emmett Murray She's a Fool, She Ain't Got No Sense Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1] Amazon
15Rev. Johnny L. Jones Huff Construction Company (Radio Commercial) The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta Amazon
16Rev. Johnny L. Jones I Love the Lord The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta Amazon
17Dorothy Lee You Got to Give an Account (feat. Norma Jean, Shirley Marie Johnson & Robert nighthawk Johnson) Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music Amazon
18Babe Stovall When the Circle Be Unbroken Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music Amazon
19Robert nighthawk Johnson Cant No Grave Hold My Body Down Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music Amazon
20Henagar Union Sacred Harp Convention Save, Lord, or We Perish 224 I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings Amazon
21Denson's Sacred Harp Singers of Arley, Alabama Ninety-Fifth 36B I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings Amazon
22Brother Claude Ely Send Down The Rain Satan Get Back Amazon
23Uncle Eck Dunford and Ernest Stoneman Barney McCoy Lead Kindly Light Amazon
24The Allen Brothers Skipping and Flying Lead Kindly Light Amazon
25Georgia Yellow Hammers Mary Don't You Weep Lead Kindly Light Amazon
26Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright Man Who Wrote the Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man Lead Kindly Light Amazon
27Loveless Twins Quartet Lead Kindly Light Lead Kindly Light Amazon
28The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band Ozark Waltz Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
29Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers Just Give Me the Leavings Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
30Wonder State Harmonists Turnip Greens Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
31Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers Jaw Bone Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
32Clarence Alexander Disability Boogie Woogie Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
3322 & Group The Prettiest Train I Ever Saw Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
34Henry Ratcliff Look For Me In Louisiana Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
35Willie Washington My Jack Dont Drink No Water Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
36The David Thom Band Windy City That Old Familiar Amazon

Modern Americana in Tradition

Modern Americana in Tradition
Modern Americana in Tradition

We revisit tradition and roots with a number of contemporary performers who honor the American musical heritage with new arrangements, new interpretations, and songs whose lyrics might take on a different meaning in a new time. What was ripe for picking in the first part of the century might not mean all of the same in our world today. We’ll hear songs of love, death, destitution, prostitution, farmer’s work, the sky above and the sea below… You’ll hear Americana releases from as far back as 1971 and we’ll include a number of tracks from this year…the year 2015…with the one thing in common being that the songs performed have stories that go further back and, in most cases, go so far back that they are considered traditional.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Van Dyke Parks/Mondrian Sail Away Lady The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 2 Amazon
3The Wailin' Jennys Long Time Traveller Firecracker Amazon
4Rosanne Cash Motherless Children The List Amazon
5Cyd Cassone/Ruthie Foster Death Came a Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes) Stages Amazon
6Steve Martin Sweet Heaven When I Die Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
7Pharis and Jason Romero Goodbye Old Paint A Wanderer I'll Stay Amazon
8Spuyten Duyvil Stewball The Social Music Hour Vol. 1 Amazon
9Alison Krauss Cluck Old Hen Every Time You Say Goodbye Amazon
10Robert Earl Keen, Jr. East Virginia Blues Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions Amazon
11Adkins & Loudermilk Swing Low Sweet Chariot Adkins & Loudermilk Amazon
12She & Him Swing Low Sweet Chariot Volume One Amazon
13Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again There Will Be a Light Amazon
14Allen Toussaint St. James Infirmary The Bright Mississippi Amazon
15Ashley Monroe The Storms Are On The Ocean Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
16Uncle Tupelo No Depression No Depression Amazon
17Band Of Ruhks Lost Highway Band Of Ruhks Amazon
18Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men What Does the Deep Sea Say? Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land Amazon
19Mudcrutch Shady Grove Mudcrutch Amazon
20Dwight Yoakam/The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Some Dark Holler Dwight's Used Records Amazon
21Rhiannon Giddens Round About the Mountain Tomorrow Is My Turn Amazon
22Leo Kottke Cripple Creek Mudlark Amazon
23David Johansen Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me Shaker Amazon
24David Johansen & The Harry Smiths Richland Woman David Johansen and the Harry Smiths Amazon
25The Boxmasters Knoxville Girl The Boxmasters Disc 2 Amazon
26Bruce Springsteen Shenandoah We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 Amazon
27Bruce Springsteen O Mary Don't You Weep We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 Amazon
28Charlie Haden Old Joe Clark Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
29The Duhks Banjo Roustabout Beyond the Blue Amazon
30Kate & Anna McGarrigle Green Green Rocky Road High On A Mountain Amazon
31Emmylou Harris Bury Me Beneath The Willow Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon

A Century of America's Music