There was some devastating new this past week…nothing new; and certainly, it seems, not in Mississippi. The Mississippi John Hurt Museum, a small sanctuary of tribute located on the Mississippi Blues Trail, burned down last week. While authorities in Carroll County try to determine the cause, we mourn the loss of John Hurt’s home, a small house that had just been given landmark status on the national historical registry just hours before. Join Dave Stroud this week on Deeper Roots as he combines notes from a 2018 tribute to Mississippi John Hurt with some of the news of the day and keep with the sounds of his contemporaries (of which there are few), Taj Mahal, Ben Harper, Chris Smither and Rory Block. All paying tribute with songs of Avalon, Creole Belle, Spike Driver Blues, and Mermaids. Tune in on Radio Rethink radio or KOWSFM.COM.
Our theme of ‘returning home’ explores not just the physical place but also a reflection of our identities, memories, and the tension between the past and the present. Returning to one’s roots is often fraught with challenges and our understanding of home is deeply intertwined with our personal growth and the changing world around us. This week we’ll be pouring through memories and nostalgia to try to find the meaning of home. Thomas Wolfe’s “You Can’t Go Home Again” introduces characters who yearn for their pasts and the comforts of home, but the reality often falls short of their memories and would serve as a guidepost for our theme today. We’ll share gospel from the Gospel Hummingbirds, classic Americana from John Prine, country tradition from Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie, and the likes of Howlin’ Wolf, Big Maybelle, and Bruce Springsteen. We’re heading down that road to home in today’s show.
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John Prine
My Darlin' Hometown
Fair & Square
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John Fogerty
Goin' Back Home
Eye Of The Zombie
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Gospel Hummingbirds
I'm Going Home
Taking Flight
5
Bill Kirchen
Somebody's Going Home
Transatlanticana
6
Big Maybelle
Going Home Baby
The Very Best Of Big Maybelle
7
Howlin' Wolf
Going Back Home
Blues From Hell
8
Charles Brown & Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
I Want To Go Home
Sunny Road
9
Charles Brown
Homesick Blues
The Cocktail Combos [Disc 2]
10
Mickey & Sylvia
I'm Going Home
The Best of King Curtis (1952-1961) (Disc 2)
11
Mississippi John Hurt
Avalon, My Home Town
Best Of Mississippi John Hurt [Live]
12
Jack Guthrie
Oklahoma Hills
American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music [Disc 3]
13
Woody Guthrie
I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore
Hard Travelin' (The Asch Recordings Vol. 3)
14
Hank Williams
I'm Going Home
Lost Highway December 1948 – March 1949
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Hazel Dickens
West Virginia, My Home
Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records [Disc 1]
16
Bruce Springsteen
My Oklahoma Home
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1
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Maria Muldaur
My Tennessee Mountain Home
Maria Muldaur
18
John Prine
My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight
Beautiful Dreamer – The Songs of Stephen Foster
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Jimmy Martin
Homesick
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 5]
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The Louvin Brothers
I'm Ready To Go Home
Satan Is Real
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Dolly Parton
Tennessee Homesick Blues
I Will Always Love You – The Essential Dolly Parton Vol. 1
It’s theme time on a Friday morning in Sonoma County on Deeper Roots and we’ll take you pretty deep today, exploring songs of jubilation and celebration. Our theme revolves around the term ‘jubilee’ and it’s meaning, at least over the past century. While its etymology is centuries deep, with roots in the Old Testament and the Hebrew word ‘yobhel’ which refers to the ram’s horn which was sounded on the Day of Atonement, there are also the jubilee references to the freeing of slaves well into the 19th century. it speaks to anniversaries, rejoicing, and freedom. We could go much deeper but what better way to celebrate than with music, and there are plenty of Americana examples that tell of jubilees. We’ll hear from country favorites like The Sons of the Pioneers, Tyler Childers, and Joe Maphis alongside early century rhythm jazz and rhythm greats like Dinah Washington, Ivie Anderson, and Benny Goodman in this week’s show. Join us
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Roy Clark
Alabama Jubilee
Swing West – vol 2 – Guitar Slingers
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Benny Carter
Jubilee Program Intro
Big Band Jazz, The Jubilee Sessions, 1943 to 1946
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Benny Carter
Jubilee Jump
Big Band Jazz, The Jubilee Sessions, 1943 to 1946
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Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
Jubilee
The Ultimate Collection [Disc 1]
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Big Joe Turner
Jumpin' At The Jubilee
Big, Bad & Blue: Anthology [Disc 2]
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The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Patty Griffin
Jubilee
I'll Find A Way
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Dinah Washington
There'll Be a Jubilee (from "In the Land of Hi-Fi")
Dinah Washington: Eight Classic Albums
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Helen Humes
Jubilee
He May Be Your Man
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The Andrews Sisters
There'll Be a Jubilee
Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
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Ivie Anderson
Let's Have a Jubilee
Cocktail Hour
12
Mildred Bailey With Benny Goodman & His V-Disc All Stars
There'll Be A Jubilee
The Women of WW2 [V 4]
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Ashley Monroe & The Americans
Jubilee
American Epic: The Sessions [Disc 2]
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Kathy Mattea and Friends
Jubilee
Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie
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Dave Alvin
Jubilee Train
Romeo's Escape
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The Blasters
Jubilee Train
Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2)
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The Devil Makes Three
There'll Be A Jubilee
Redemption & Ruin
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Riders in the Sky
Cowboy Jubilee
Best of the West
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Sons of the Pioneers
Cowboy Jubilee
The Lost Masters
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Sons of the Pioneers
Barnyard Jubilee
Songs of the Prairie – CD4
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Joe Maphis
Nashville Jubilee
Country Guitar Thunder
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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Sam Bush, Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Hanna
From the cold grey light of dawn to some gospel coverage from Luther Dickinson, George Jones and The Golden Gate Quartet, Deeper Roots this week takes another pull at the thread of tapestry of the past century, once again celebrating America’s music. We’re in fine form, no doubt, because the players this week move from the ‘king of boogie’, John Lee Hooker, to one of the great contemporary songwriters, Iris DeMent. We’ll share a track from her latest album, one that ventures into the dark corners of this country’s recent history with her brilliant eight minute soliloquy “Goin’ Down To Sing In Texas”. We’ll share songs about liars, feeling good, 99 year blues, and that last train to Memphis. Join Dave Stroud for two hours from America’s songbooks, from church to steeple to songs about its people. We’ll be coming to you live from the Cherry Street Historic District of Santa Rosa, California.
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Louis Armstrong
Go Down Moses
Louis And The Good Book
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Iris DeMent
Goin' Down To Sing In Texas
Workin' On A World
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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Texas Flood
Texas Flood
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George Jones
Take The Devil Out Of Me
George Jones The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection
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The Golden Gate Quartet
Let That Liar Alone
Negro Spirituals, Vol. 1
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Laurie Lewis And The Right Hands
Let That Liar Alone (Featuring Tom Rozum, Patrick Sauber, Harley Eblen & Andrew Conklin)
The Hazel and Alice Sessions
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Luther Dickinson
Ain't No Grave (feat. Mavis Staples)
Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook) Volumes I & II
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Lucinda Williams
Hot Blood
Sweet Old World
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Dave Alvin
I Feel So Good
Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy
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Taj Mahal
Good Morning Little School Girl
Giant Step & De Ole Folks At Home
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Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur
99 Year Blues
Penny's Farm
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Emily Scott Robinson
Delta Line
Up South The Great Migration Of Southern Sound, Oxford American Southern Music Issue Volume 23
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Eric Clapton
So Tired
Back Home
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John Lee Hooker
Don't Look Back Ft. Van Morrison
King Of The Boogie
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Van Morrison
Streamline Train
Moving On Skiffle
17
Blues Image
Parchman Farm
Open
18
Mose Allison
The Seventh Son
Allison Wonderland Anthology [Disc 1]
19
Little Feat
Two Trains
Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat (1 of 4)
Roots music found commercial success in 2000 with the release of the movie O Brother Where Art Thou, a finely crafted but outrageous tale of Depression-era America with fantastical imagery of hair wax, baptisms, and chain gangs woven into a tapestry built from Homer’s Odyssey. The music, assembled by T-Bone Burnett, was a major component of the film and recorded before the film even began with Burnett working with the Coen brothers while the script was in its working phases. It would become an effort that elevated a genre at the turn of the century called Americana. This week’s show will share some of the period-specific music that helped to propel the notion that blues, jazz, bluegrass, country, and gospel could be used to put that time and a ghostly familiar culture into focus. We’ll use O Brother’s musical sensibilities to take us somewhere quite familiar (and at the same time quite terrifying) as we pay homage with Americana roots, featuring sounds from The Carters, Jesse Fuller, Dan Tyminski, Jimmie Rodgers, W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys, among others.
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Estil C. Ball
Lonesome Valley
Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals
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The Carter Family With Special Guest Johnny Cash
Lonesome Valley
Keep On The Sunny Side
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Harry McClintock
Big Rock Candy Mountain
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Jimmie Davis With Charles Mitchell's Orchestra
You Are My Sunshine
Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 1]
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Alison Krauss
Down To The River To Pray
A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection
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Peasall Sisters
Fair and Tender Ladies
Home to You
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Roberta Martin Singers
The Old Ship of Zion
Halleluja Gospel & Prayers
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The Stanley Brothers
A Life Of Sorrow
Stanley Brothers & Clinch Mountain Boys
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Dan Tyminski/Soggy Bottom Boys
Man of Constant Sorrow
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys
Please Pass The Biscuits Pappy
Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938
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Country Gentlemen
I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)
1963 (Warped 6305)
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The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Clinch Mountain Backstep
Constant Sorrow: Bluegrass From Root To Flower [Disc 3]
We’re digging into the archives. Deep down into the wells…for a collection of rhythm & blues, country, gospel, and tradition with performances from Patsy Cline, Sonny Boy Williamson, Marty Stuart, Dinah Washington and nearly three dozen others. Friday morning inspiration from the courtroom bench, the gospel pew, and from the piano bench…as we bring you another episode of the very best of the past 100 years to the stream. There’s trouble and some double entendre from Julia Lee, some rousing sanctified call and response from Eugene Smith and The Roberta Martin Singers, as well as a bootleg Dylan piece that we’ll share with you. Join Dave Stroud this coming Friday morning for the very best of America’s music from the past century.
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Bob Dylan
I Want You (Take 4, Alternate Take)
The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12 (Sampler)
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Eugene Smith And The Roberta Martin Singers
Satisfied
How Sweet it Was
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Marie Knight
Satisfied With Jesus
Hallelujah What A Song!
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Spiritual Five
Satisfied With Him
I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983 [Disc 3]
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Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers
I Have A Friend Above All Others
The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 2]
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Johnnie Taylor/The Soul Stirrers
Walk With Me
20 Gospel Greats
8
Sam Cooke
Trouble In Mind
The Rhythm And The Blues
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Steve Forbert
Devil (Here She Comes Now)
Compromised
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Shorty Long
Devil With a Blue Dress On
Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 Disc 1
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Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
Devil with the Blue Dress On /Good Golly Miss Molly
Detroit Breakout! 1
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Julia Lee
Trouble In Mind
Kansas City Star [Disc 1]
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Julia Lee
Lotus Blossom
Kansas City Star [Disc 1]
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Wynonie Harris
Good Morning Judge
All She Wants To Do Is Rock
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Chuck Berry
Have Mercy Judge
The Chess Box Disc 3
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Carl Martin
Good Morning, Judge
Carl Martin, Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan, Willie "61" Blackwell — Complete Recorded Works
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Sonny Boy Williamson
Your Funeral And My Trial
His Best: Sonny Boy Williamson – The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
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Hugh Laurie
Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
Didn't It Rain (Deluxe)
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Dinah Washington
Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
The Bessie Smith Songbook
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Johnny Otis
Court Room Blues
Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1]
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Jorma Kaukonen
Judge, I'm Not Sorry
The Land Of Heroes
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The Country Gentlemen
The Sentence
The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2]
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Ernest Tubb
Dear Judge
Last Sessions: All Time Greatest Hits Disc 2
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Patsy Cline
A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye
Live at the Opry
25
Washboard Sam
Bucket's Got a Hole in It [Remastered 2002]
That's Chicago's South Side (When the Sun Goes Down series)
We’ll be covering the covers once more this week but this time we’ll be burrowing into a cross section of genres to get to the heart of the matter. It’s country songs with rhythm & blues interpretations, all from the decades of the fifties and sixties. We’ll hear from a few familiars rhythm rockers including The Coasters, Fats Domino, King Curtis and Ruth Brown as they take on the very best of country and tradition with a style all their own. But there’s also the surprises and unknowns like Thin Man Watts, Piney Brown, and The Ray-o-Vacs to fill out the show this morning. From Jambalaya to Tumbling Tumbleweeds, we’ve got some fine soul and R&B interpretations for you. Tune in and find out.
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The Ray-O-Vacs
Take Me Back To My Boots And Saddle
Rhythm & Western Volume 1 – When Two Worlds Collide
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Piney Brown
Ooh You Bring Out The Wolf In Me
Rhythm & Western Volume 4 – I Hang My Head and Cry
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Joe Liggins
Whiskey, Women And Loaded Dice
Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
5
Billy Ward & The Dominoes
Lonesome Road
Vol. 4-21 Hits
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The Hurricanes
Pistol Packin' Mama
Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 1]
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Scatman Crothers
Ghost Riders In The Sky
Rhythm & Western Volume 1 – When Two Worlds Collide
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Andre Williams
You Are My Sunshine
Rhythm & Western Volume 3 – Lovesick Blues
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Jimmy Ricks
Do You Promise
Rhythm & Western Volume 3 – Lovesick Blues
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Thin Man Watts
Walking The Floor Over You
Rhythm & Western Volume 3 – Lovesick Blues
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Mickey & Sylvia
To The Valley
Rhythm & Western Volume 4 – I Hang My Head and Cry
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The Coasters
Sorry But I'm Gonna Have To Pass
Rhythm & Western Volume 1 – When Two Worlds Collide
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Clyde McPhatter
I'm Movin' On
More Dirty Laundry: The Soul Of Black Country
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Little Junior Parker
Walking The Floor
More Dirty Laundry: The Soul Of Black Country
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Guitar Jr
Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
Rhythm & Western Volume 1 – When Two Worlds Collide
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Ruth Brown
I Burned Your Letter
Rhythm & Western Volume 2 – Your Cheatin' Heart
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Fats Domino
Don't Come Knockin'
A Lot Of Dominos
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Varetta Dillard
A Little Bitty Tear
The Lovin' Bird
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Bobby Hebb
Night Train To Memphis
Rhythm & Western Volume 2 – Your Cheatin' Heart
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Esther Phillips
Release Me
Your Hit Parade – The Early '60S
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King Curtis
Your Cheatin' Heart
Rhythm & Western Volume 2 – Your Cheatin' Heart
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King Curtis
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Rhythm & Western Volume 3 – Lovesick Blues
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The Marvellettes
Love Letters
Rhythm & Western Volume 3 – Lovesick Blues
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Damita Jo
Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
Rhythm & Western Volume 2 – Your Cheatin' Heart
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Travis Ricks
No Need To Cry
Rhythm & Western Volume 4 – I Hang My Head and Cry
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Little Mack
Let Hootenanny Blues
Rhythm & Western Volume 2 – Your Cheatin' Heart
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Joe Hinton
Lovesick Blues
Rhythm & Western Volume 3 – Lovesick Blues
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Big Maybelle
Cold Cold Heart
Rhythm & Western Volume 4 – I Hang My Head and Cry
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Fats Domino
Your Cheatin' Heart
Very Best of Fats Domino [Phantom] (Disc 2)
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Ray Charles
I've Got A Tiger By The Tail (Swingova)
Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 [Disc 2]
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Esther Phillips
Am I That Easy To Forget (LP Version)
Country Side Of Esther
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Esther Phillips
I've Forgotten More Than You'll Ever Know About Him (LP Version)
Country Side Of Esther
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O. C. Smith
The Son Of Hickory Holler Tramp
More Dirty Laundry: The Soul Of Black Country
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Ray Charles
When I Stop Dreamin'
Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 [Disc 2]
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Little Richard
Settin' the Woods on Fire
King of Rock and Roll [Collectors' Choice Music]
36
Little Richard
Joy, Joy, Joy (Down In My Heart)
Rhythm & Western Volume 6 – I'm Moving On
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Koko Taylor
Honky Tonky
Rhythm & Western Volume 1 – When Two Worlds Collide
Tune in Friday morning for a finger pickin’ helping of Americana and beyond as our show revisits some guitar masters from blues, country blues, folk and tradition. We’ll take a spin across the landscape of steel and gut string tradition with a collection that features tracks from Stefan Grossman, Mississippi John Hurt, Leo Kottke, Merle Travis and over a dozen others. As February wraps up, we’ll be completing our February journey out of winter’s doldrums and into the sweet breezes of Spring. Let this show be a warmup for your good life and times. So put your feet up and drop in. We’d love to have you.
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Leo Kottke
Buckaroo
Essential
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Chet Atkins
Wheels
Mr Atkins-Guitar Picker
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Doc Watson
Windy and Warm
The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968
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Doc Watson
Moody River
Memories
6
Doc Watson
Doc's Guitar [#]
The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968
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Jefferson Airplane
Embryonic Journey
Walk on the Moon
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Jorma Kaukonen
Fur Peace Rag
Stars In My Crown
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John Fahey
Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home
The Legend of Blind Joe Death
10
Davy Graham
Angi
3/4 Ad – Single
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Davy Graham
Davy's Train Blues
3/4 Ad – Single
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Reverend Gary Davis
Candy Man
Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways
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Stefan Grossman
Police Dog Blues
How To Play Blues Guitar
14
Blind Blake
Diddie Wa Diddie
Roots of Rock
15
Lonnie Johnson
Untitled
Steppin' On The Blues
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Blind Willie McTell
Statesboro Blues
Roots of Rock
17
Riley Puckett
Fuzzy Rag
Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 6 : Origins of American Primitive Guitar
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Etta Baker
One Dime Blues
Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways
19
Merle Travis
Freight Train (Instrumental)
The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
20
Bob Brozman
Hano Hano Hanalei [Album Version]
Blue Hula Stomp [Remastered]
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Merle Travis
Li'l Liza Jane (Instrumental)
The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
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Jorma Kaukonen
There's A Table Sitting In Heaven
Stars In My Crown
23
Leo Kottke
Wonderland By Night
Peculiaroso
24
John Fahey
Layla
Rain Forests, Oceans And Other
25
Leo Kottke
Little Martha
Instrumentals: Best of the Chrysalis Years
26
Dave Van Ronk
Green, Green Rocky Road
Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk
27
David Bromberg
Come All You Fair and Tender Maidens
Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records
Our show this week features sweet dreams, swamp pop, Americana, doo wop, and all that makes the past century of America’s music a delight to dream on. We’ll touch on the new album from a legend who is most deservedly having his moment right now with a new album and where a one hit wonder once existed. Tommy McLain’s new album is a revelation and reminds us that music, when carried and shared with a passion like his, will always bring a bright light even in the darkest of times. This week’s show is a free form romp featuring Tommy, Mark Knopfler, Robert Plant, Bill Kirchen, Corb Lund, Bob Wills, Paul Thorn, and a couple dozen others. Some fiery rock and roll blended with country, doo wop, pop and lots of circumstance. Please join in…we’d be delighted to spend a Friday morning with you on Sonoma County Community Radio.
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Solomon Burke/Zucchero
Diavolo in Me (A Devil in Me)
Zucchero & Co.
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Tommy McLain
I Ran Down Every Dream (feat. Elvis Costello)
I Ran Down Every Dream
4
Tommy McLain
Sweet Dreams
Swamp Gold, Volume 1
5
Tommy McLain
Before I Grow Too Old
The Essential Collection
6
Tommy McLain
Before I Grow Too Old
I Ran Down Every Dream
7
Chet Atkins/Mark Knopfler
I'll See You in My Dreams
Neck and Neck
8
Mark Knopfler
Devil Baby
The Ragpicker's Dream
9
Chris Isaak
Speak of the Devil
Speak of the Devil
10
Earl-Jean
I'm Into Something Good
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
11
Marvin & Johnny
Cherry Pie
Art Laboe's Memories Of El Monte/The Roots Of L.A.'s Rock And Roll
12
Don Gardner & DeeDee Ford
I Need Your Loving
Soul Gold Oldies
13
Ernie Maresca
Shout Shout (Knock Yourself Out)
The Best Jukeboxhits [Disc 1]
14
Jesse Powell & The Caddies
Ain't You Gonna
Roulette Rock & Roll, Vol. 2
15
The Chiffons
One Fine Day
One Fine Day And Other Favorites
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Corb Lund
Devil's Best Dress
Americana Music Awards Sampler
17
Gillian Welch
The Devil Had a Hold of Me
Hell Among the Yearlings
18
Bill Kirchen
Devil With The Blue Dress (Album Version)
Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods
19
Paul Thorn
Don't Let The Devil Ride
Don't Let The Devil Ride
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Bob Wills
The Devil Ain't Lazy
Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 3] It Ain't Far To The Bar)
21
Scott H. Biram
Gotta Get To Heaven
Sold Out To The Devil: Select Gospel Cuts By The Reverend Scott H. Biram
22
Robert Plant
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Band Of Joy
23
Levon Helm
Stuff You Gotta Watch
Electric Dirt
24
Ella Mae Morse & Her Boogie Woogie Seven
Down The Road Apiece
Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
25
Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters – Greatest Hits
26
Michael Nesmith
Silver Moon
Listen To The Band [UK]
27
Louis Jordan
Stone Cold Dead in the Market – Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan, Tympany Five
We’ll be spending two hours on a century of hard work, little pay, striking it rich as well as failing to do so. Songs about working the mines, panning in the mother lode, welfare and pittance wages, as well as the country sounds of Merle’s Working Man Blues. Plenty to keep us reflecting on a lifetime of keeping afloat knowing full well that you can’t take it with you. Not necessarily money for nothing and kicks for free but we’ve also got songs about blowing it all on a Saturday night. Join us for music from Johnny Horton, Wynn Stewart, Tex Ritter, Merle, Hazel Dickens, Roy Orbison and a cast of the very best of performances from the past century here on Sonoma County Community Radio.
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Tex Williams
Money
Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
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Howard Vokes
The Miner
Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
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Tex Ritter
A Working Man's Prayer
Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
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Doc Watson
Dream of the Miner's Child
1964-1965 (Warped 6411F)
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Loretta Lynn
Coal Miner's Daughter
Coal Miner's Daughter
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Merle Haggard And The Strangers
Workin' Man Blues (2006 Digital Remaster)
Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
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Lyle Lovett
Working Too Hard
My Baby Don't Tolerate
9
Slaid Cleaves
Working Stiff
Unsung
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Perry Tonightus And The Heart Burn
Living On The Welfare Check
Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
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Buck Owens
Waitin' In Your Welfare Line
The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1
12
Johnny Paycheck
Take This Job And Shove It
Superstars Of Country: Easy Loving [Disc 1]
13
Roy Orbison
Working for the Man
The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument]
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Brennen Leigh
North To Alaska
Too Thin To Plow
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Mudcrutch
Six Days On the Road
Mudcrutch
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Wynn Stewart
Another Day, Another Dollar
California Country
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The Westport Kids
You Kaint Take It With You
Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
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Billy Parker
It Takes A Lot Of Money
Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
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Bobby Barnett
Workin' Man
Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
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Arlie Duff
Money Hungry
Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
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Faron Young
I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night
1953-1956 (Warped 5455)
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Al Clauser & His Oklahoma Outlaws
I Ain't Lazy Baby I'm Just Tired
The Best Of Western Swing
23
Jim Nesbitt
Working All My Life
Cash-A-Likes
24
Marty Stuart
Hard Working Man
Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions
25
Dick Curless
I've Been Working On the Railroad
A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD3 (1950-1969)
26
John Prine & Mac Wiseman
Saginaw Michigan
Standard Songs for Average People
27
Dolly Parton
9 To 5
Dolly [Disc 4]
28
Laurie Lewis And The Right Hands
Working Girl Blues (Featuring Andrew Conklin, Alice Gerrard, Tom Rozum & Patrick Sauber)
The Hazel and Alice Sessions
29
Tom Waits
Heigh Ho
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [Disc 3]
30
Lee Dorsey
Working In A Coal Mine
Soul Mine
31
Johnny Horton
North To Alaska
Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
32
The Dwarf Chorus
Heigh-Ho
Classic Disney, Vol. II: 60 Years Of Music Magical
33
Adriana Caselotti
Whistle While You Work
Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 2]