Category Archives: American Popular

Songs About Telephones

July 11, 2015 Dave

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

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Jazz, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition, Gospel

Grapes on the Vine

June 14, 2015 Dave

Raising the roof once more on KOWS in West Sonoma County on a bright Saturday morning. And we make it count with an opening salvo of some country swing from Bob Wills, W. Lee O’Daniel, The Light Crust Doughboys, and Willie Nelson. Not to be outdone, we’ve got bluegrass from The Rice Brothers and our own David Thom, gospel from the Hummingbirds, and a special set celebrating the “Poet of the Blues” Percy Mayfield. We’ll also feature blues from Texas and, if we find the time, early century pop from Frank Crumit and Cliff Edwards. Tune in Saturday morning at 9 on KOWS for a dose of roots sounds from the past century of America’s music with Dave Stroud.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Asleep at the Wheel/Johnny Gimble	Big Balls in Cowtown	The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970
3	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	I Had Someone Else Before I Had You	Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5
4	The Light Crust Doughboys	Blue Guitars	Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947
5	Skeets McDonald	Fuss and Fight	Skeets McDonald – Heart Breakin' Mama (Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight)
6	W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys	Congratulate Me	Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938
7	Willie Nelson	Cherokee Maiden	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
8	Warren Smith	Got Love If You Want It	The Sun Country Box CD4 So Long, I'm Gone
9	Bobby Hicks & Del McCoury	We're Steppin' Out Tonight	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
10	Ralph Stanley	Are You Washed In The Blood	A Mother's Prayer
11	Ralph Stanley	Dad's Old Rocky Field	Old Songs & Ballads
12	The Rice Brothers	Grapes On the Vine	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
13	The David Thom Band	The Little White Church	That Old Familiar
14	Selah Jubilee Singers	I Saw the Light	Gospel Quartets 1921-1942 Vol. 2
15	The Selah Singers	I'll Be Satisfied	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
16	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Christian's Automobile	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds
17	Nina Simone	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free	Forever Young, Gifted & Black: Songs Of Freedom And Spirit
18	Aretha Franklin	River's Invitation	Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings [Disc 2]
19	Percy Mayfield	Strange Things Happening	ABC Of The Blues Vol 28
20	Ray Charles	Hit the Road Jack	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 2
21	Buddy Miller	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Midnight And Lonesome
22	Freddie King	Look On Yonder Wall	Woman Across the River
23	The Mississppi Mud Mashers	Bring It On Home To Grandma	Flashbacks #3 CopulationBlues 1926-1940
24	Texas Alexander	The Risin' Sun	As Good As It Gets: Country Blues [Disc 2]
25	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Easy Rider Blues	Classic Sides Disc 2
26	Ishman Bracey	Woman Woman Blues (Pm 12970, L-239-2)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
27	Charlie Spand	Ain't Gonna Stand For That (Pm 12856, 15454–)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
28	Jean Brady and Big Bill Broonzy	Knocking Myself Out	Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944
29	Lightnin' Hopkins	Buddy Brown's Blues (98 Degree Blues)	The Complete Prestige-Bluesville Recordings [Disc 2]
30	Frank Crumit	There's No One With Endurance	grimriper2u@yahoo.com FRANK CRUMIT
31	Cliff Edwards	K-K-K-Katy & When You Wore A Tulip	CLIFF EDWARDS grimriper2u@yahoo.com
32	Herbert Payne	Smoke Clouds	Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944
33	Al Jolson	Toot, Toot Tootsie (Goo'bye)	50 #1 Hits Of The '20s & '30s
34	Billy Joe Shaver	Hill Country Love Song	Oxford American Southern Music Texas
35	Marty Robbins	The Strawberry Roan	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Free Form, Gospel

Deep Elem Blues

May 9, 2015 Dave

Get up sleepy heads! West Sonoma County rolls out of bed on a Saturday morning at 9 with LaVern Baker in another episode of Deeper Roots featuring the music of Don Edwards, Jorma Kaukonen, The Boswell Sisters, and Mahalia Jackson (to name but a few). KOWS radio is also propelling itself in an important campaign to extend its broadcast signal to a larger audience across Sonoma County and is in it’s last month of its Indiegogo campaign where we’re asking our listeners to jump into with both feet. Please visit http://tinyurl.com/pom5kkq to donate. You can tune into KOWS on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month to get your regular dose of roots music. And there’s more to discover by visiting our Deeper Rootsweb site.

Songs About Work

March 8, 2015 Dave

We return once more to a theme. In this episode of Deeper Roots, we visit the ‘salt mines’ where we toil for our daily bread or made to work off our sins. The old addage, attributed to Thomas Edison: “There is no substitute for hard work.” left out the other side of the coin…that of paydays on Friday and working for the weekend…which, of course, we’ll cover in great detail in a show whose theme is ‘work’. Tune in for roots music from Doc Watson and Flatt & Scruggs, both wicked and lovely R&B from Marva Whitney and Fats Domino, and rebellious rocking from Eddie Cochran and Bo Diddley.

Country Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition

Deeper Roots on KOWS – February 28, 2015

February 28, 2015 Dave

Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards — Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards

We have yet another free form fest of roots music emanating from the bright sun of a Saturday along the Bohemian Highway, live from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, California. We both start and wrap up the show with Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards, sharing country, blues, and new Americana in between. We’ll hear from Flaco Jimenez pair up with Dwight Yoakum, the essence of Randy Newman’s portrait of the South, western swing with Willie and Spade, and new music that fits our roots sensibilities from Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen, Jr., and Jorma Kaukonen. Tune in for two hours of classic roots music.

Muscle Shoals Studios

February 7, 2015 Dave

This week’s edition of Deeper Roots visits the towns of Florence and Sheffield, Alabama, specifically the Fame Records and Muscle Shoals studios, to revel in the production talent that was important to the growth of rock, soul, pop, and gospel in the latter half of the 20th century. You may not be familiar with the history, and that can be easily remedied by watching the fine documentary of the same name “Muscle Shoals” which premiered at Sundance in January, 2013. Or you can tune in to our two hour episode to get a taste of the music (which you, no doubt, know) that was the soundtrack of a lifetime for at least two generations. When you consider that “Love Me Like A Rock”, “Wild Horses”, “Katmandu”, and “Gotta Serve Somebody” are just the tip of the iceberg, then you’ll want to know more about the four (yes, four) session musicians that crafted the very distinct sound that made the music as compelling as any other in the last century of America’s music.

African American Gospel, Bluegrass, Country Gospel, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Early Rock, Mountain Music, Rhythm and Blues

Deeper Roots on KOWS – January 10, 2015

January 10, 2015 Dave

Deeper Roots on KOWS - January 2015 — Deeper Roots on KOWS – January 2015

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.

Americana’s Best – 2014

January 10, 2015 Dave

Celebrating a recent push into promoting Americana music by KWTF, Sonoma County, Dave Stroud will look back at 2014’s collection of outstanding Americana. The playlist for the evening covers those ‘long in the tooth’ including Willie Nelson and Billy Joe Shaver, a posthumous piece by Johnny Cash, and one of the more energetic throwbacks to 70s outlaw sounds you’ll hear from a songwriter by the name of Sturgill Simpson. There are also the newcomers: Lydia Loveless, Shovels and Rope, and Parker Millsap. Join us in a show that celebrates new music that digs into the roots of the past century of America’s music.

Blue Light Christmas Special – 2014

December 20, 2014 Dave

It’ s a yuletide blues, country, rock, and pop extravaganza. Deeper Roots celebrates the holidays with a selection of holiday hits from the past century. And we don’t necessarily stop there. You’ll also be entertained by some very special blues and R&B numbers selected from the past, featuring selected tracks from an incredible assortment of holiday tracks featured on the Document Records releases “Blues Blues Christmas”, Volumes 1 through 4.

Join Dave Stroud for music from Louis Armstrong, Butterbeans & Susie, Darlene Love, John Prine, and many, many more.

Deeper Roots on KOWS – December 13, 2014

December 13, 2014 Dave

Our KOWS weekend show airs live every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month, direct from the KOWS studios in Occidental. In this episode we feature the usual blend of roots music including the country sounds of Joe Maphis, The South Georgia Highballers, Lead Belly, The Levon Helm Band, and we’re going to be entertained by Emmy Oro and her 1950 piece “A Fish House Function (For a Cross Eyed Cat Named Sam)”. And, as usual, it’s so much about the personalities, the stories that the songs tell, as well as the stories behind the music itself. Join Dave Stroud for all of this and more.

A Century of America's Music