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Back to Back Blues

June 21, 2019 Dave

We revisit the blues with some pairings of old and new. Join Dave Stroud for a selection of classic delta, Chicago, and folk blues from the likes of Robert Wilkins, Elmore James, Magic Slim, and Bukka White. The original classics pair up with updated versions from contemporaries like Sonny Landreth, Jeff Beck, The Allman Brothers, and Rory Block. Blues is the big muddy and the the tributaries flow through vast expanses of cleansing and clarifying. But, unlike those wide rivers like the Mississippi, the tributaries explode into new, deeper channels in the heart of the American landscape.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Turtle Island String Quartet	Crossroads	A Little on the CD Side
3	Muddy Waters	Trouble No More	Trouble No More: Singles (1955-1959)
4	The Jimmy Rogers All-Stars	Trouble No More (featuring Mick Jagger & Keith Richards)	Blues Blues Blues
5	Black Cats And The Kitten	Step It Up And Go [Album Version]	Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
6	Warner Williams With Jay Summerour	Step It Up And Go	Blues Highway
7	Robert Wilkins	That's No Way to Get Along	Roots of Rock
8	The Rolling Stones	Prodigal Son	Beggars Banquet
9	Elmore James	One Way Out	The Complete Fire And Enjoy Recordings [Disc 1]
10	John Hiatt	One Way Out	All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman
11	Howlin' Wolf	I Ain't Superstitious	Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
12	Jeff Beck	I Ain't Superstitious	Truth
13	Big Joe Williams	Baby Please Don't Go	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
14	Tom Rush	Baby Please Don't Go	Town and Country Blues
15	Elmore James	Dust My Broom	Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics
16	Sonny Landreth	Dust My Broom	Bound by the Blues
17	Howlin' Wolf	Back Door Man	Blues Masters Vol. 6 – Blues Originals
18	John Hammond	Backdoor Man	The Best Of
19	Koko Taylor	Wang Dang Doodle	Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
20	Dr. John	Wang Dang Doodle	The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974
21	Kansas Joe And Memphis Minnie	When the Levee Breaks	People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature
22	Magic Slim, Billy Branch & James Cotton	When The Levee Breaks, Pt. 1	Whole Lotta Blues: Songs Of Led Zeppelin
23	Bukka White	Parchman Farm Blues	Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 [Disc 1]
24	Rory Block	Parchman Farm Blues	Keepin' Outta Trouble: A Tribute to Bukka White
25	Blind Willie McTell	Statesboro Blues	RCA Record Label: The 1st Note In Black Music [Disc 1]
26	Taj Mahal	Statesboro Blues	The Best Of Taj Mahal
27	Robert Johnson	Stones in My Passway	The Complete Recordings [Columbia] Disc 2
28	Roy Rogers	Stones in My Passway	Slide of Hand
29	The Allman Brothers Band	Statesboro Blues	Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics
30	The Allman Brothers Band	Trouble No More	Stand Back: The Anthology Disc 1

Leon Redbone Tribute

June 8, 2019 Dave

“The only thing that interests me is history – reviewing the past and making something out of it”. A man after our own heart here at Deeper Roots, shining bright like that old harvest moon. We lost Leon this past week and his family lovingly announced his passing with the following prose deserving of the mysterious Mr. Redbone: “It is with heavy hearts we announce that early this morning, May 30th 2019, Leon Redbone crossed the delta for that beautiful shore at the age of 127. He departed our world with his guitar, his trusty companion Rover, and a simple tip of his hat. He’s interested to see what Blind Blake, Emmett, and Jelly Roll have been up to in his absence.” We’ll take some time to honor the music that so inspired this delightful entertainer who elevated the blues, early century pop, and country into a form that extracted the joy of life and bottled like fine wine over the past 40 years. We’ll even reach into the Redbone bins for a handful of delightful covers. A simple tip of our hat to Leon as he crosses to the other shore…

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Leon Redbone	If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven	Double Time
3	Merle Travis	If We Never Meet Again	Hot Pickin' [Disc 1]
4	Emmett Miller	I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll	Minstrel Man From Georgia
5	Red Nichols & His Five Pennies	The Sheik Of Araby	Saints Ramble & Sensation
6	Laurel and Hardy	Shine on Harvest Moon	The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999
7	Nat King Cole	Sweet Lorraine	The Cocktail Combos [Disc 1]
8	Billie Holiday Feat. Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra	Sugar	Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944 [Disc 05]
9	Hoagy Carmichael	Lazybones	Sometimes I Wonder….
10	Hoagy Carmichael	Lazy River	Sometimes I Wonder….
11	Lonnie Johnson	He's A Jelly-Roll Baker	Tomorrow Night
12	Peetie Wheatstraw	Shake That Thing	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 48
13	Dave Van Ronk	Shake That Thing	Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers
14	Elvis Presley	You're A Heartbreaker	Elvis – The King Of Rock 'N' Roll – The Complete 50's Masters (CD1)
15	Julia Lee	Breeze	Kansas City Star [Disc 3]
16	Cowboy Copas	Breeze	1954-1958
17	Leon Redbone	Breeze	Sugar
18	Rex Griffin	Sweet Mama Hurry Home	1935-1936 (Warped 3520)
19	Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy	Bouquet Of Roses	Hillbilly Fever – Vol. 3: Legends Of Nashville
20	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 2 : Brownie Special
21	Emmett Miller	Lovesick Blues	American Yodeling
22	Blind Blake	Diddie Wa Diddie (Pm 12888, 15459-A)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
23	Leon Redbone	Diddy Wa Diddie	Double Time
24	Shirley Temple	Polly Wolly Doodle	America's Sweetheart
25	Boswell Sisters	When I Take My Sugar to Tea	Boswell Sisters
26	Paul Specht	Sweet Lorraine	Static Strut: Hot Dance Rarities 1922-1930
27	Ruth Etting	Shine on, Harvest Moon	Art Deco: Lovely Ladies of Stage and Screen
28	Joe Keawe	My Little Grass Shack	Hapa-Haole Hawaiian Hula Classics – Vintage Hawaiian Treasures: Vol. I
29	Leon Redbone	My Little Grass Shack	Whistling In The Wind
30	Leon Redbone & Zooey Deschanel	Baby It's Cold Outside	Unknown
31	Al Jolson	Pretty Baby	The Very Best Of Al Jolson
32	Leon Redbone	Pretty Baby	Sugar
33	Bert Lown's Biltmore Hotel Orchestra	Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone	Bert Lown's Biltmore Hotel Orchestra
34	Leon Redbone	Lulu's Back In Town	On The Track

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Time’s Getting Hard

April 1, 2019 Dave

Music this week that speaks to hard times. From the Dust Bowl and Great Depression to personal hardships, we’ll share some bluegrass sounds, tunes steeped in tradition, soothing notes of country gospel, and folk blues. We’ll hear from The Weavers, Mavis Staples, Bobby Bare, and Pearly “Grandma” Davis (a nugget from Mike Seeger’s Old Time Music series). There will be talk of failing crops, revolution, and Oklahoma dust this week. Deeper Roots goes a little bit deeper with more songs about hard times this week on KOWS Community Radio, broadcasting live from the Cherry Street Historic District of Santa Rosa, California, where our neighbors just experienced their own hard times from flood waters. Thinking about them.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bobby Bare	Going Down the Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way) fcc warning	Darker Than Light
3	Tracy Chapman	Talkin' Bout a Revolution	Tracy Chapman
4	Uncle Tupelo	No Depression	No Depression
5	Bob Dylan	Hard Times	Good As I Been To You
6	Dave Alvin	Waiting for the Hard Times to Go	Interstate City
7	Mavis Staples	Hard Times Come Again No More	Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster
8	The Byrds	Old Blue	The Byrds [Box Set] Disc 3
9	Peter Rowan	Seeds My Daddy Sowed	Dust Bowl Children
10	Jimmy LaFave	My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed away)	Peace Town
11	Pearly 'Grandma' Davis	It's These Hard Times	Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967
12	Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three	Hard Times Come and Go	Riverboat Soul
13	Eddie Dattel	Trickle Down Blues	Trickle Down Blues
14	Buck Owens	Waitin' In Your Welfare Line	The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1
15	Ryan Bingham	Hard Times	Mescalito
16	Ry Cooder	You Must Unload	The Prodigal Son
17	The Louvin Brothers	Preach The Gospel	The Family Who Prays: 26 Classic Tracks
18	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Never No More Hard Times-Blues	The King Of Western Swing-25 Hits 1935-1945
19	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Hard Times Have Been Here (But They've Gone)	1978-1979
20	Country Joe McDonald	Talkin' Dust Bowl	Vanguard Visionaries
21	The Weavers	Bring Me Li'l Water Sylvia	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
22	Josh White	Hard Times Blues	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 51
23	Sheryl Crow	No Depression In Heaven	The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
24	Country Joe McDonald	This Land Is Your Land	Vanguard Visionaries
25	R.B. Morris	That's How Every Empire Falls	Singing Through the Wall. Songs for Western Sahara
26	Bobby Bare	Times Are Gettin' Hard	1964 (Warped 6425)
27	The Tillers	All You Fascists Bound to Lose	The Tillers
28	Aiken County String Band	Hard Times Breakdown	78s
29	Eels	Rock Hard Times	Shootenanny!

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Deeper Charley Patton

March 21, 2019 Dave

This week we’ll explore the music of the legendary Charley Patton. We’ll be dipping our toes into the birth of the Delta blues featuring some classic tracks from the gravel-voiced masked wonder as well as some rich covers from contemporary performers. Listen in for music from Otis Taylor, David Johansen, Corey Harris, and Taj Mahal…just to drop a few names. We’ll also scratch the surface of Charley’s career including some reflections from a master’s thesis written by none other than the American musicologist and musician, John Fahey. Tune in Friday morning as we board ourselves a raft to roll down the waters in search of the rich and elusive legend of the Mississippi Delta blues that was Charley Patton.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bob Dylan	High Water (For Charley Patton)	Love and Theft
3	Charley Patton	I Shall Not Be Moved	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 2]
4	Paul Rishell & Anne Raines	I Shall Not Be Moved	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
5	Son House	The Pony Blues	Complete Library of Congress Sessions, The
6	Charley Patton	Pony Blues (Pm 12792, 15216–)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
7	Guy Davis, T-Bone Wolk, Mark Murphy & Levon Helm	Some of These Days	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
8	Charley Patton	Some Of These Days I'll Be Gone	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 2]
9	Charley Patton	Poor Me	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 3]
10	Rising Sons	By And By (Poor Me) [Album Version]	Rising Sons
11	Charlie Musselwhite	Pea Vine Blues	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
12	Otis Taylor	Stone Pony	Americana Roots Songbook: Modern Blues
13	Charley Patton	Stone Pony Blues	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 3]
14	McHouston Baker	High Sheriff Blues	Mississippi Delta Dues
15	David Johansen	High Sheriff	Shaker
16	Charley Patton	High Sheriff Blues	Pony Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.47)
17	Steve James & Mark Rubin	Elder Greene Blues	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
18	Charley Patton	Elder Greene Blues	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 1]
19	Taj Mahal	High Water Everywhere, Part 2	American Epic: The Sessions [Disc 2]
20	Graham Parker	Poor Me	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
21	Corey Harris	Moon Going Down	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
22	Charley Patton	Moon Going Down	Pony Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.47)
23	Dave Van Ronk	Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
24	Robert Nighthawk	Mean Black Cat	Greatest Blues Licks
25	Charley Patton	Charley Patton – Mean Black Cat Blues	24 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920_Vol 11 [ Blues Images ]
26	Joe Louis Walker	Sugar Mama	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
27	The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band	Some of These Days I'll Be Gone (Charley Version)	Peyton On Patton
28	Charley Patton	High Water Everywhere – Part 1	The Return Of The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

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Carl Sandburg’s Songbag Pt 2

December 1, 2018 Dave

We had so much fun with our first installment a few months back that we thought it was worth a second installment…well, that and the depth and breadth of the American Songbag certainly lends itself to doing so. It doesn’t hurt either that it fits our deeper roots sensibilities so well. This installment finds us meandering about those classic songs whose topics include mellow blues ballads, hobo songs, Mexican border songs (how appropriate), tarnished love tales, and the ‘road to heaven’. Helping us through our sets we’ll be featuring an interesting collection of performers: Dave Van Ronk, Dock Boggs, Rosanne Cash, and Peter Case. A host of others will join in the fun on Community Radio for Sonoma County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Dave Van Ronk	Willie The Weeper	Down In Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
3	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Willie the Weeper	Dirt, Silver & Gold Disc 1
4	Dan Zanes	Roll The Chariot	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
5	Josh White	Barbara Allen	Best Of Josh White
6	Delmore Brothers	Frozen Girl	Brown's Ferry Blues
7	Dock Boggs	Pretty Polly	Country Blues
8	The Carter Family	My Sweetheart Is a Poor Working Girl/Waves of the Sea (Instrumental)	On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1
9	Tony Rice	House Carpenter	Church Street Blues
10	Hylo Brown	Pretty Fair Maiden	Legends & Tall Tales
11	Ola Belle Reed, John Miller, Burl Kilby	The Orphan Girl	Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
12	David Rawlings	Midnight Train	Poor David's Almanack
13	Arlo Guthrie	Gypsy Davy	Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004)
14	Peter Case	Roving Gambler	Sings Like Hell
15	Rosanne Cash	Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow	The List
16	Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra & William Warfield	Old American Songs (Set One): Zion's Walls	Copland Conducts Copland (Expanded Edition)
17	Louis Armstrong	Ezekiel Saw De Wheel	Louis And The Good Book
18	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Things That I used to do (and I Don't Do No More)	The Gospel Truth
19	The Robinson Children	I Ain't Gwine Study About War No More	Swinging Gospel Sounds (1935-1942)
20	The Bronzemen	Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again	The Bronzemen – Radio Transcriptions (1939)
21	Septeto Habanero	Cielito Lindo	Cuba. Por La Musica
22	Los Panchos	La Cucaracha – La Adelita	Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
23	Dan Zanes	Lo Que Digo	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
24	Kathy Reid-Naiman	Pretty Betty Martin	Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie
25	Laurie Lewis	Weevily Wheat	Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals
26	Dan Zanes	Cuckoo Waltz	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
27	Tom Paxton	Times A-Getting Hard, Boys	Seeds – The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 (Disc 2 Of 2 – Friends Of Pete)
28	Bobby Bare	Times Are Gettin' Hard	Memories – RCA Singles 1962 – 1969
29	Ronnie Gilbert	Lincoln And Liberty	Songs Of The Civil War
30	Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur	The Boll Weevil	Penny's Farm
31	Dave Van Ronk	Gamblers Blues	Dust Bowl Blues Essential American Folk

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Carl Sandburg’s Songbag

July 7, 2018 Dave

Published in 1927, populist poet Carl Sandburg’s anthology of American folksongs was in print for over 70 years. It influenced generations of musicians and is a cornerstone in the foundation of American folk and tradition. Sandburg himself described it as a “ragbag of stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth…rich with the diversity of the United States.” Today’s show pulls samples from the book featuring performances by Dan Zanes, Bob Dylan, The Weavers, The Blue Sky Boys, and David Rawlings. True Americana from the deeper wells of America’s music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Zora Layman & The Hometowners	When The Curtains Of The Night Are Pinned Back By The Stars	Howdy! 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats
3	Johnny Cash	The Streets of Laredo	Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 2]
4	Sons of the Pioneers	Lone Star Trail	Songs of the Prairie – CD2
5	Tex Ritter	Whoopee Ti Yi Yo (Git Along Little Dogies)	Have I Stayed Away Too Long
6	The Weavers	Get Along Little Dogies	The Weavers Almanac
7	Woody Guthrie	Buffalo Skinners (traditional, arr. Woody Guthrie)	Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection [Disc 2]
8	Oscar Brand	The Tenderfoot	Pie In The Sky
9	The Blue Sky Boys	Trail To Mexico	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 1]
10	Marc Williams	The Little Old Sod Shanty On My Claim	Howdy! 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats
11	Mac Wiseman	Turkey In The Straw	Sings Old Time Country Favorites
12	The Blue Sky Boys	Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet	Presenting The Blue Sky Boys
13	Dan Zanes	I Was Born Almost Ten Thousand Years Ago	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
14	Dan Zanes	California	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
15	Hylo Brown	Sweet Betsy From Pike	Legends & Tall Tales
16	BR5-49	Sweet Betsy from Pike	Song of America
17	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot	This Lusty Land
18	Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers	The Old Gray Mare	And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 2
19	David Rawlings	Money Is the Meat in the Coconut	Poor David's Almanack
20	Kilby Snow	Chicken Reel (Folk)	Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp
21	The Everly Brothers	Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet	Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
22	Carolina Chocolate Drops	Sourwood Mountain	Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind
23	Molly Mason & Jay Ungar	The Lover's Lament	The Lovers' Waltz
24	Marty Robbins	Red River Valley	All-Time Greatest Hits
25	Dick Curless	Red River Valley	A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD2 (1950-1969)
26	The Doc Watson Family	One Morning In May	Tradition
27	Dave Van Ronk	Kentucky Moonshiner	Inside Dave Van Ronk
28	Otis Redding	Down In The Valley	Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology [Disc 1]
29	Slim Whitman	Down In The Valley	Country Greats #2
30	Bob Dylan	Froggie Went A-Courtin'	Good As I Been To You
31	Tex Ritter	Froggie Went A-Courtin'	Singing In The Saddle
32	Dan Zanes	The Monkey's Wedding	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
33	Doc Watson	The Ship That Never Returned	My Dear Old Southern Home
34	Hank Penny	It Ain't Gonna Rain No More	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1]

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Naughty Blues

May 26, 2018 Dave

For goodness sake! We’re going to toss aside our puritan ethics (what ethics, you ask) and look towards the sideways glances and double entendres for our inspiration this week on Deeper Roots. Songs about Sam The Hot Dog Man, keyholes, sugar bowls, poodles, jockeys, and lemons…all subjects that find their way in and around the blues in an auspiciously direct route to the heart of the matter. We’ve got the naughty blues today…songs that will encourage a blush or two…or three. We’ve got The Swallows, Lil’ Johnson, Emma Barrett, Tampa Red, and a host of other blues greats on a Sonoma County spring morning. Be sure to tune in and find your own blush point…

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Delta Rhythm Boys	Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me	I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem
3	Crown Prince Waterford	Move Your Hand Baby	Vintage Sex Songs
4	Barrelhouse Annie	If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It	Vintage Sex Songs
5	Memphis Minnie	Dirty Mother For You	Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1]
6	Tampa Red	Let Me Play With Your Poodle	ABC Of The Blues Vol 38
7	Lightnin' Hopkins	Let Me Play With Poodle	Vintage Sex Songs
8	Hattie Hart	I Let My Daddy Do That	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
9	Emma Barrett	I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll	Sweet Emma
10	Butterbeans & Susie	I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll [Explicit]	Those Dirty Blues Volume 1 [Explicit]
11	Lil Johnson	Sam The Hot Dog Man	Vintage Sex Songs
12	Mabel Scott	Just Give Me A Man	Vintage Sex Songs
13	Connie Allen	Rocket 69	Vintage Sex Songs
14	The Swallows	It Ain't The Meat It's The Motion	Vintage Sex Songs
15	Julia Lee	My Man Stands Out	The Essential Julia Lee Vol 1
16	Julia Lee	King Size Papa	Kansas City Star [Disc 3]
17	Al Miller	I Found Your Keyhole	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
18	Charlie Pickett	Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon	Vintage Sex Songs
19	Bessie Smith	Kitchen Man	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
20	Bessie Smith	Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl	The Essential Bessie Smith
21	Hunter & Jenkins	Lollypop	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
22	Frankie Half Pint Jaxon and The Harlem Hamfats	Wet It [Explicit]	Those Dirty Blues Volume 1 [Explicit]
23	Victoria Spivey	How Do You Do It That Way?	Black Snake Blues – The Best Of
24	Madelyn James	Stinging Snake Blues	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
25	Lucille Bogan	Skin Game Blues [Album Version]	Shave 'Em Dry: The Best Of Lucille Bogan
26	Lil Johnson	Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts) [Album Version]	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
27	Lonnie Johnson	I Got The Best Jelly Rollin In Town	Dirty Blues [Disc 2]
28	Wynonie Harris	Hard Ridin Mama	Playful Baby
29	Bull Moose Jackson	Big Ten Inch Record	Badman Jackson Thats Me
30	Blu Lu Barker	Don't You Feel My Leg	Chronological Blue Lu Barker (1946-1949)
31	Blu Lu Barker	Buy Me Some Juice	Don't You Feel My Leg
32	Lillie Mae Kirkman	He's Just My Size	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
33	Lil Johnson & Black Bob	Press My Button, Ring My Bell	Flashbacks #3 CopulationBlues 1926-1940

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Ships Upon the Sea

April 28, 2018 Dave

A wayfaring lot…music that touches on seafaring tragedies, punctuated by the loss of that most famous of them all: the HMS Titanic. This week’s show will focus on music that commemorated the ships that were lost at sea; tragedies that were headlines around the world; songs of the seafaring life and the sailors and crew that were a part of it. The stories are told in songs from the wells of tradition. We’ll hear from Frank Hutchison, Papa Harvey Hull, Pink Anderson, The Dillards and Dan Zanes. We’ll also hear some classic maritime music from the Smithsonian catalogs. Blues, country, folk, and so much more…all celebrating those ships upon the sea and the ones we lost along the way.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bob Gibson	Titanic	Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson
3	Rory Block	Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down)	Confessions of A Blues Singer
4	Pink Anderson	The Ship Titanic	Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs
5	Charley Jordan	Titanic Blues	Charley Jordan Volume 2 1931-1934
6	Hi Henry Brown	Titanic Blues	21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10
7	Bessie Jones And Group	The Titanic	Alan Lomax Collection Sampler
8	Papa Harvey Hull & "Long Cleve" Reed	Sinking Of The Titanic	Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
9	Richard (Rabbit) Brown	Sinking Of The Titanic	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
10	Lead Belly	Titanic	The Definitive Leadbelly [Disc 3] – Leaving Blues
11	Frank Hutchison	The Last Scene Of The Titanic	If You Take Me Back
12	Clyde Spencer And Harry Fannin	The Sinking Of The Titanic	Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 [Disc 1]
13	Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton	After The Sinking Of The Titanic	On The Banks Of A Lonely River
14	Roy Acuff	The Great Titanic	compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com
15	Woody Guthrie	When That Great Ship Went Down	This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1
16	Ralph Stanley	Storms Are On The Ocean [Album Version]	A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
17	Gordon Lightfoot	The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald	Songbook [Box Set] Disc 3
18	Jimmie Driftwood	The Ship That Never Returned	Americana, Vol. 3
19	Little Jimmy Dickens	When The Ship Hit The Sand	The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
20	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	The Sinking of the Ruben James	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
21	June Carter Cash	Sinking in the Lonesome Sea	Wildwood Flower
22	Ashley Monroe	The Storms Are On The Ocean	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
23	Cowboy Copas	A Thousand Miles of Ocean	Settin' Flat On Ready
24	Red Allen	Out on the Ocean	Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings
25	The Country Gentlemen	Take Me In A Lifeboat	The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2]
26	Dan Zanes	Across The Western Ocean	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
27	The Dicey Doh Singers	The Sloop John B.	Classic Maritime Music
28	Sam Eskin	Clear Away the Track and Let the Bullgine Run	Classic Maritime Music
29	Henry Morrison & St. Simon's Island Singers	I'm Gonna Sail Like A Ship On The Ocean	Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals
30	Louis Prima & Keely Smith	Barnacle Bill The Sailor	Breaking It Up!

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Deeper Mississippi John Hurt

April 7, 2018 Dave

Join us as we peer into the music of Mississippi John Hurt, performed by contemporary artists with some bits and pieces of his own music. We’ll also feature some fragments from the original interview conducted by Tom Hoskins in 1963 after some simple sleuthing, in the town of Avalon not far from Hurt’s boyhood home of Teoc, Mississippi. The story of his rediscovery after the sixties folk revival (and Harry Smith’s original Anthology of American Folk Music) is legend. Sit back on a Friday morning and listen in for some of the great music of the minstrel from Teoc

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bruce Cockburn	Avalon, My Home Town	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
3	Jesse Colin Young	Creole Belle	Together
4	John Oates	Spike Driver Blues	Arkansas
5	Doc & Merle Watson	Got the Blues (Can't Be Satisfied)	Live & Pickin'
6	Bill Morrissey	Avalon Blues	The Essential Collection
7	Taj Mahal	Frankie And Albert	The Best Of Taj Mahal
8	John Hiatt	I'm Satisfied	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
9	David Johansen	Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me	Shaker
10	Dave Van Ronk	Spike Driver Blues	Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk
11	Rhiannon Giddens	The Angels Laid Him Away	Freedom Highway
12	JL Stiles	Trouble I Had All My Days	Solo Sessions
13	Taj Mahal	Satisfied 'N' Tickled Too	The Essential Taj Mahal
14	Chris Smither	Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt	Honeysuckle Dog
15	John Fahey	Requiem for John Hurt	Essential John Fahey
16	Big Bill Broonzy	Frankie And Johnny	Classic African-American Ballads (Smithsonian Folkways)
17	Ben Harper	Sliding Delta	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
18	Bettye LaVette	Nobody's Dirty Business	American Epic: The Sessions [Disc 2]
19	Mike Dowling	Blue Harvest Blues	The Blues Ain't News
20	Rory Block	Candy Man	Avalon: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
21	Lucinda Williams	Angels Laid Him Away	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
22	Dave Alvin With Dean Schlabowske	Louis Collins	The Executioners Last Songs, Volume 2
23	Mississippi John Hurt	Chicken	Best Of Mississippi John Hurt [Live]
24	John Oates	My Creole Belle	Arkansas
25	Doc & Merle Watson	Stack O'lee	Ballads From Deep Gap
26	Mississippi John Hurt	Avalon Blues	Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings
27	Spuyten Duyvil	Make Me A Pallet	Social Hour Music

African American Gospel, Blues, Country Blues, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Gospel

Early Gospel Blues

March 31, 2018 Dave

Gospel music informed much of the music from the early century and the blues took it’s soul and inspiration from many passages. Numerous street corner buskers promoted the scripture and many, like Blind Willie Johnson, Gary Davis, Oda Mae Terrell, and Mother McCollum were known as musical evangelists in addition to their place in the church. And the spirituals also informed the music of Blind Boy Fuller, Charley Patton, Barbecue Bob, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and so many early blues men and women. We’ll sample a few and take our Friday evening show with some reverence and grit.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Washington Phillips	Denomination Blues – Part 1	Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues
3	Mississippi John Hurt	Praying On The Old Camp Ground	Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings
4	Mother McCollum	Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane	Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951)
5	Mother McCollum	Oh Lord I'm Your Child	Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951)
6	Blind Lemon Jefferson	He Arose From The Dead	The Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Atlanta & Chicago 1926 [Disc 2]
7	Blind Joe Taggart And Joshua White	Scandalous And A Shame (Pm 12780, 20942-4)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
8	Sam Collins	I Want To Be Like Jesus In My Heart	Complete Recorded Works 1927-31
9	Barbecue Bob	When The Saints Go Marching In	Complete Recorded Works Vol 1
10	Blind Willie Johnson	I'm Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge	Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues
11	Charley Patton	Lord I'm Discouraged	Blues Images Presents: 1920's Blues Classics Vol.14
12	Bukka White	I Am In the Heavenly Way	Masters Of The Delta Blues: The Friends Of Charlie Patton
13	Bo Weavil Jackson (Sam Butler)	Heaven Is My View	Backwoods Blues (1926-1935)
14	Lil McClintock	Sow Good Seeds	21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10
15	Blind Nesbit Gussie	Pure Religion	Vol. 2-(1929-34)
16	Blind Gussie Nesbit	Canaan's Land	When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
17	Skip James	Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader	Complete Early Recordings
18	Blind Boy Fuller	Precious Lord	Heart Ease Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.55)
19	Blind Boy Fuller	Must Have Been My Jesus	Heart Ease Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.55)
20	Josh White	Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed	Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues
21	Josh White	Lord, I Want To Die Easy	Complete Recorded Works 1929-1940 Vol. 2
22	Blind Willie McTell	I Got Religion I'm So Glad (w/ Kate McTell)	The Classic Years: 1933 – 1935 New York " Chicago
23	Bull City Red	I Feel Like Shoutin'	Blues And Gospel From The Eastern States (1935-1944)
24	Memphis Minnie	Let Me Ride	Memphis Minnie – Queen of Country Blues, 1929 – 1937 [Disc 4]
25	Brownie McGhee	Done What My Lord Said	The Complete Brownie McGhee [Disc 2]
26	Jimpson & Group	No More My Lord	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
27	Sister O. M. Terrell	God's Little Birds	Country Gospel 1946-1953
28	Rev. Gary Davis	Get Right Church	Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs
29	Reverend Gary Davis	I Am The Light Of This World	Harlem Street Singer
30	Blind Willie McTell	Lord Have Mercy If You Please	Pig 'n Whistle Red
31	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Everybody's Gonna Have A Wonderful Time Up There	Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record
32	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Saviour Don't Pass Me By	Complete Recorded Works, 1938 – 1944; Volume 1
33	Big Joe Williams	King Jesus	Shake Your Boogie

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