The influence of gospel, blues, country, and tradition has always informed the music of Elvis…and while we’re not digging too far into the later works, we’ll go sit with Elvis on the sofa with our ears to the Victrola and the crackling of WDIA Memphis and the smattering of black blues and gospel over the air. We’ll hear The Carters, Jimmy Reed, Smiley Lewis, Little Junior Parker, Mahalia Jackson, and a couple dozen more in this episode. Keep an ear out for some rare recordings including those whose meager popularity evaporated once Elvis went on to cover them. Names like Joe Dowell, The Eagles (not the LA band), Deacon Tom Foger, and Charlie Blackwell bely their contributions to the Elvis catalog.
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Big Mama Thornton
Hound Dog
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2]
3
Bill Monroe And His Bluegrass Boys
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Columbia Country Classics Volume 1: The Golden Age
4
Ernest Tubb
I Love You Because
The Texas Troubadour ([Disc 2] – Slippin' Around (The Hits Vol.2)
5
Gene Austin
Love Letters In The Sand
A Time To Relax
6
Eddy Arnold
It's a Sin
Country & Western Hit Parade 1947
7
Red Foley
Old Shep
Tennessee Saturday Night
8
The Lone Star Cowboys
Just Because
East Virginia Blues (When The Sun Goes Down Series)
9
The Carter Family
I'm Working On A Building
The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5]
10
Deacon Tom Foger & The Camp Meeting Choir
Working On The Building
Powerhouse Gospel
11
Kokomo Arnold
Milk Cow Blues
Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1]
12
Arthur Gunter
Baby Let's Play House
The Best Of Excello Records
13
Jimmy Reed
Big Boss Man
The Very Best of Jimmy Reed
14
Jimmy Reed
Baby What You Want Me To Do
The Very Best of Jimmy Reed
15
Arthur Big Boy Crudup
So Glad You're Mine
Rock Me Mama (The Blues Collection Vol.47)
16
Arthur Big Boy Crudup
So Glad You're Mine
Rock Me Mama (The Blues Collection Vol.47)
17
Little Junior Parker
Mystery Train
Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
18
Little Richard
Long Tall Sally
Specialty Profiles: Larry Williams
19
Chuck Berry
Promised Land
The Chess Box Disc 2
20
Lloyd Price
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
21
The Eagles
Trying To Get To You
Mercury R+B '46-'62 [Disc 1]
22
Smiley Lewis
One Night
I Hear You Knocking: 1947-1962 Disc 3
23
Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
Money Honey
Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four
24
Roy Brown
Good Rockin' Tonight
Gettin' Funky [Disc 3] – The Hitmakers
25
Ivory Joe Hunter
I Need You So
The Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter : 1947 – 1950
26
Billy Bunn & His Buddies
That's When Your Heartaches Begin
Money Honey – Rise of the Black Vocal Group 51-53
27
Charlie Blackwell
The Girl of My Best Friend
Gems from the Warner Brothers Vault (Pt. 1)
28
Big Joe Turner
Shake, Rattle & Roll
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1
29
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
I Believe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
30
The Golden Gate Quartet
Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho (1946)
Vol. 5 (1945-1949) (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 5, 1939-1949)
31
Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers
Peace In The Valley
The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 1]
32
Mahalia Jackson
How Great Thou Art
Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns, Vol.2 [Disc 1]
33
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Precious Memories
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4)
34
Joe Dowell
Wooden Heart
Easy Listening Gold 1960-1961
35
Glen Gray & The Casa Lorne Orchestra
Blue Moon
Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
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.
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Artist
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Mary Ford
Running Wild
100 Jazz Guitar Favorites
3
Garland Jeffreys
Wild in the Streets
Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]
4
The Jive Bombers
Bad Boy
Cry-Baby
5
Donnie Elbert
Wild Child (Deluxe 6156)
R&B Humdingers Volume 11
6
Johnny Carroll
Wild Wild Women
Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks
7
Jerry Lee Lewis
Real Wild Child (Wild One)
A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
8
Carl Mann
Born To Be Bad
Midnight Cryin' Time: Teen Angst Classics From The Rock 'n' Roll Era
9
Charline Arthur
Burn That Candle
Welcome To The Club
10
Wanda Jackson
Hard Headed Woman
There's A Party Goin' On
11
Wanda Jackson
Let's Have A Party
Queen Of Rockabilly
12
Tennessee Ernie Ford
I'm A Bad Man
Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
13
The Dave & Deke Combo
Wild Woman
Hollywood Barndance
14
Freda & the Firedogs
Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
Freda & The Firedogs
15
The Sons Of The Pioneers
Cigareetes, Whusky And Wild, Wild Women
Country Legends
16
Red Ingle & His Natural Seven
Cigareets, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women (Smoking)
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
17
Wanda, Ruth Neal
Round Town Girls
Flowers In The Wildwood
18
King James
Wild Wooly Woman
Stompin' 25
19
Julia Lee
Do You Want It?
Burlesque – 100 Classics
20
Eunice Davis
Let's Have A Party
Stompin' 25
21
Little Richard
The Girl Can't Help It
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
22
Keely 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
23
Carmen MacRae
Whatever Lola Wants
Burlesque – 100 Classics
24
Mae West
I'm No Angel
The Mae West Collection
25
Billy Jones With The Little Ramblers
Don't Bring Lulu
The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
26
Cecil Gant
Little Baby You're Running Wild
The Cecil Gant Collection
27
Wynonie Harris
Young And Wild
Playful Baby
28
Rudy Greene
Wild Life
Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1]
29
Memphis Nighthawks
Wild Man Stomp
Document Shortcuts Vol. 3 – My Babe
30
Memphis Minnie
I'm A Bad Luck Woman
Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937)
31
Champion Jack Dupree
Bad Whiskey And Wild Women
Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
32
JB Hutto & The Hawks
Wild Wild Woman
Masters Of Modern Blues
33
Albert King
Wild Women
Door To Door
34
Little Jimmy King
Wild Woman
Little Jimmy King and the Memphis Soul Survivors
35
Amy Helm
Wild Girl
Didn't It Rain
36
John Hammond
Wild Man On The Loose
Trouble No More
37
Louis Armstrong & The Hot 7
Wild Man Blues
The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3]
Another beautiful winter Saturday morning in West Sonoma County and it’s time for a collection of hot blues, country gospel, early rock, early century pop, and swinging country on Deeper Roots… everything from Eddie Cantor’s 1922 song about a trapeze and Blind Willie McTell covering Jimmie Rodgers around mid-century, to a track from 2014 from a new band out of New Orleans called Hurray For The Riff Raff…another reason our tag line reads “A Century of America’s Music”. Join Dave Stroud on a brisk Saturday morning from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, California.
Deeper Roots takes the theme route in our next KWTF episode, featuring jazz, gospel, country, blues, rock, and R&B that all share the road with stories of that twentieth century cultural icon (and muse): the automobile. We’ll hear songs of Mercurys, Cadillacs, Fords, and Chevrolets that run the gamut of old and new and tell stories of love in the backseat, first car nostalgia, tragedy on the road, and racing in the streets. Performers in this show includeDavid Lindley, K. C. Douglas, Mink DeVille, Kevin Russell and others who will follow a theme that is one of the more common to come out of our age of assembly lines and the rust belt.
Every now and then Deeper Roots will take a step back and look at the unknowns, not for their anonymity as much for their stories and why their music is so important to the American story. A documentary was recently released entitled “Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker”, http://www.bayoumaharajah.com/ directed by Lily Keber. It tells the story of the classically trained session man and we’re going to also explore the contributions that Booker made to the music of others, his quirky yet brilliant talent in performances of his own, and we’ll also share some of the stories of James Booker’s celebrated ups and tragic lows.
Join us for some unbridled passion featuring ducktails, attitude, and rocking rhythm…all in the tradition of the north, west, east, and south. We speak of that genre that keeps on churning: rockabilly. It’s a genre that’s seen more revivals than a traveling preacher in the Midwest and South during the late 1930s. The recordings were pretty rustic: a bass, some driving percussion, and excitable guitar riffs and the vocals often phrased by rebel yells. We’ll be tearing it up with some of the very best including Johnny Burnette’s Rock ‘n Roll Trio, Billy Lee Riley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis…and those were just the top drawer stars. We’ll also hear from the ladies: Wanda Jackson, Charline Arthur, and Janis Martin as well as the more obscure sounds of Bobby Lord, Hoyt Stevens, and Roy Hall.
Deeper Roots digs into the early sounds of rock in another episode that explores the songwriters…this time focusing on the talents of the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, During the first decade of a rock ‘n roll, they brought the R&B music they loved to the pop mainstream, producing a catalog of enduring, influential, and spirited musical pieces. The two grew up on the East Coast, Leiber in Baltimore and Stoller in Queens, but met in Los Angeles in 1950 where they began a sixty year collaboration, Leiber serving as the sharp-witted lyricist, while the classically trained but jazz-and R&B-loving Stoller wrote the music. Join Dave Stroud in a show first broadcast on KWTF in 2014 as he’ll share the duo’s songwriting talents featuring the music of LaVern Baker, Big Mama Thornton, Bull Moose Jackson, Brian Setzer, and many, many others.
Take a trip with Deeper Roots as we visit a Saturday Night Fish Fry featuring Eddie Williams and His Brown Buddies, Cab Calloway’s “Everybody Eats When They Come To My House”, Duke Ellington’s tribute to the “Saturday Night Function”, and songs of house rent parties, Saturday evenings, and Fats Waller will tell us about “Functionizing”. It has always been about blowing off steam after a long week…and swinging, rocking, and having a ball.
Deeper Roots looks at one of the many precursors to rockabilly and rock ‘n roll. Hillbilly boogie is a term used to describe an early pop music fad that blended early 20th century boogie woogie piano style, popular black music of the time, and western swing. Now many will say that it started with Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith but we’ll hear the swing and boogie woogie sounds that predated Smith. And the word was “boogie”. Boogie Woogie Baby, New Broom Boogie, Birthday Cake Boogie, Cherokee Boogie…well, you get the idea. We’ve got all of those and more with performances from Tex Williams, Hank Penny, Johnny Bond, Rose Maddox, and many more. Join Dave Stroud for another journey through a century of America’s music here on listener-supported community radio for Bodega Bay!
It’s all about the roots of rockin’ and rollin’….including those songs that lyrically broached the subject as early as the 1920s. We follow the thread into the 1930s and 40s where a wellspring of American music, both traditional as well as experimental, inspired the sounds that would fuse into the sound that we know of as rock ‘n roll. Tonight at 9, Deeper Roots take a trip down a very wide path in an episode called “Early Rocking”…venturing into early blues, country swing, jazz, and R&B. We’ll hear from Blind Blake, Jack McVea, Stick McGhee, Hardrock Gunter, Les Paul, and others that may raise an eyebrow or two. Muddy Waters once stated that “The blues had a baby and they called it rock ‘n roll…” but there is so much more to it than just the blues…and we’ll find out what.
