Another Friday morning of sounds from the deeper wells, the archives of Americana, featuring the very best of early century pop, southern gospel, bluegrass, jazz, and swamp seasoned blues. Tune in at 9am for a fresh blend of performances that span the genres: Charles Sheffield to Ernest Tubb, The Dells to Mildred Bailey, and Jimmie Rodgers to John Prine. Dave Stroud will be sharing sounds from the Excello vaults, new Americana from recent years, classic gospel from The Soul Stirrers and the Southern Stars. You can only hear the variety and depth of selection on community radio. So be sure you listen in Friday mornings on KOWS and Friday evenings on KWTF.
It’s a free form collection that knows no boundaries. Dynamic sounds from the past century of America’s music including tracks from Kinky Friedman, Hank Snow, Clara Ward, The Charioteers, and a host of others from every corner. We’ll be sharing The Old Spinning Wheel, a parlor song; songs about a baseball and silver screen legend; and gospel from the deeper wells. Join Dave Stroud for another Deeper Roots evening on KOWS Community Radio.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Beat Me, Daddy, Eight To The Bar
Get Happy
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El Pauling & Royal Abbit
Send Me Somebody
The Complete Singles 1952-1962
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Freddie King
Please Send Me Someone To Love
King Of The Blues
5
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Gonna Send You Where I Got You From
Mercury B&R Story '45-'55 – [Disc 1]: Midwest Blues V1
6
Nina Simone
Children Go Where I Send You
The Amazing Nina Simone/Nina Simone At Town Hall
7
The Charioteers
Walk Together Children
Good News, Vol. 2: Wade In The Water
8
The Original Gospel Harmonettes
Just To Behold His Face
Good News (Vol 3) Get Away Jordan
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Clara Ward And The Ward Sisters
You Must Have Good Religion
Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 2]
10
Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue
Plastic Jesus
Set Two
11
Wanda Jackson
No Wedding Bells For Joe (2002 Digital Remaster)
Wanda Jackson
12
John Prine/Iris Dement
In Spite of Ourselves
In Spite of Ourselves
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Laura Nyro
Wedding Bell Blues
Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro (1 of 2)
14
The Del-Vikings
I Hear Bells (Wedding Bells)
Hit The Road Jack- The ABC-Paramount Story
15
Kinky Friedman
Marilyn and Joe
Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman
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Simon & Garfunkel
Mrs. Robinson
The Essential Simon & Garfunkel [Disc 2]
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Blackjack Wayne
Holding Hands For Joe
I Got A Woman : Gems From The Decca Vaults [Disc 1]
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Hank Williams
No, No Joe
Beyond The Sunset
19
Ernie K-Doe
Popeye Joe
Absolutely the Best
20
The Howlin' Brothers
World Spinning Round
Trouble
21
Hank Snow
The Old Spinning Wheel (Chet Atkins)
The Singing Ranger Disc 1 of 4
22
The Beau Hunks
The Old Spinning Wheel
The Beau Hunks Play The Original Laurel & Hardy Music [Disc 2]
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C.W. Stoneking
I'm The Jungle Man
Gon' Boogaloo
24
Duke Ellington
Jungle Jamboree
The Jungle Band – The Brunswick Era Vol 2 (1929-31)
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Eddie Cantor
Hungry Women
grimriper2u@yahoo.com
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Dwight Yoakam
Send Me the Pillow
Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room
27
Fatso Bentley
June-teenth Jamboree
The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
28
Duke Ellington
Mood Indigo
The Jungle Band – The Brunswick Era Vol 2 (1929-31)
There are a handful of record labels that subscribe to the ‘deeper roots’ dogma. And our show tries to cover all of them. But East Bay’s own Arhoolie, whose catalog was recently acquired by Smithsonian Folkways is a very special example, maybe the premiere example, of what it means to dig deeper. Founded in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz, a German transplant who moved to the States in 1947, Arhoolie was founded on the principle that the best music could be found by traveling the backroads. And that is precisely how it got started, with a recording device in his trunk and an ear for the sublime. Join us this Friday evening as we explore just a hint of the music you’ll find on a landmark roots label.
We are remembering what happened here in Sonoma County last October when the firestorm hit, devastating communities and lives. Over 5000 homes and dozens of lives were lost. Disaster struck overnight and our music today reflects back with songs of disaster, songs of burning hell, and music that reminds us that Mother Nature will have its way. Blues from John Lee Hooker and Howlin’ Wolf, traditional country gospel from Bill Neely and Kitty Wells, and more in a Friday evening remembrance.
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The David Thom Band
California's Burning
That Old Familiar
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Under The Radar
Ride These Flames
Beyond The Niche
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Kitty Wells
He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
Dust on the Bible (1959)
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Kilby Snow, Mike Seeger
He Will Set Your Fields On Fire
Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967
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Clyde Moody
06 – Where There's Smoke (There's Bound to Be Fire)
The Hillbilly Waltz King
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Bill Neely
Satan's Burning Hell
Texas Law & Justice
8
Howlin' Wolf
The Natchez Burning
Blues From Hell
9
John Lee Hooker
Burning Hell
The Ultimate Collection 1948-1990 [Disc 2]
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John Lee Hooker
The Motor City Is Burning
The Definitive Collection
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Otis Spann
Burning Fire
The Great Blues Men
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Bob Brozman
American House Fire Blues
Fire in the Mind
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Dave Alvin
Barn Burning
King Of California
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Dave Alvin
California's Burning
Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women
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John Mellencamp
Eden Is Burning
John Mellencamp
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Dixon Brothers
The School House Fire
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
A few years back we celebrated the record, the radio, and disc jockeys on a couple of themed shows. We’re going to rev that theme up once again, but with a bit of a twist. This morning’s show pays tribute to that nickel, dime, and quarter evaporator known as the jukebox. We’ll also extend the music selections to include sounds of record hops, soda fountains, and the healthiest way to partake in any or all of the festivities. Tune in for new and old, including country sounds from Kitty Wells, Buck Owens, and Bill Walker; R&B from Shirley & Lee, Charles Bronw, and The Marigolds; and pop straightaways from Gale Storm, Dodie Stevens, and Brook Benton. All this on a Friday evening on KWTF community radio.
This morning’s show finds a festive free form summer set featuring the usual suspects and a whole lot of fine sounds from the deeper wells. We’ll be sharing country classics from George Jones, Floyd Tillman, and Pee Wee King as well as some sweet upbeat R&B from Clyde McPhatter, Big Maybelle, and Ivory Joe. Taj Mahal, some doo wop pioneers, and the great Ella Fitzgerald will round things out in a free form fest on Sonoma County Community Radio. Tune in at 9am Pacific at www.kows.fm/listen.
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Taj Mahal
Diddy Wah Diddy
Maestro
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Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends
Oh Chuck It (In a Bucket)
Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 2
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Hank Williams
My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 18
5
Hank Williams
I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Living
The History Of Country & Western Music (Disc 19)
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Johnny Cash
The Night Hank Williams Came To Town
Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town & Water From The Wells Of Home
A notorious theme in our world today. But it’s not like there is a thin line between truth and lies in the end. The line is clearly defined and yet people would rather imagine anything but what is clearly painted before them. Our show today looks at what the worst often looks like. Dirty lies, white lies, poison lies, and all of those falsehoods made in earnest or in self promotion. There are those who proudly wear the color of lies and hate to remind us that vigilance is more important now than ever. Call out the lies. This week, we look at it through the gospel lens with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, swim into the rock oldies pool with The Knickerbockers, swing soft and winsome country with Carl Smith and The Carters, and we’ll also bring in some contemporary sounds including tracks from Mavis Staples, David Olney, and Robert Ellis. I don’t know about you but I’m sick about what’s happening.
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Mavis Staples
We Go High
If All I Was Was Black
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Fats Domino
Telling Lies
Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 4
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
No Room In the Church for Liars
Precious Memories
5
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Let That Liar Alone
ABC Of The Blues Vol 43
6
Reverend A. Johnson
Let That Liar Pass On By
1950s Gospel Classics
7
Radio Yesterday
Lights Out
Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
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Martha Fields
Southern White Lies
Southern White Lies
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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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The Carter Family
You Better Let That Liar Alone
Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 3)
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David Olney
No Lies
One Tough Town
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Rosalie Allen
Hitler Lives
Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
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Carl Smith
Wicked Lies
Kisses Don't Lie
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The Nashville Bluegrass Band
The Biggest Liars in Town
Home of the Blues
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Flatt & Scruggs
Poison Lies
The Stanley Brothers: Selected Sides 1947-1953 [Disc 2]
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Les Paul & Mary Ford
Lies
Bye Bye Blues/Les and Mary
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Cyndi Lauper
Lies
A Hat Full Of Stars
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The Roosevelts
Tell Only Lies
The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn
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Ian Gomm
Dirty Lies
Summer Holiday
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The Castaways
Liar, Liar
Good Morning Vietnam [Soundtrack]
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The Knickerbockers
Lies
Nuggets Sampler 1965-1968
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Tex Grande & His Range Riders
Hitler's Reply to Mussolini
Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
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Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers
Tellin' Lies
The Eyes of Texas
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John Hartford
Politic
Hamilton Ironworks
25
Mimi & Richard Farina
House Un-American Blues Activity Dream
Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics
26
Dar Williams/Doug Wainoris/G.E. Smith/Steve Holley/T-Bone Walk
All Men Are Liars
Labour of Love: The Music of Nick Lowe
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J.J. Cale
Lies
The Very Best of J.J. Cale
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Frankie Boots And The County Line
Pack Of Lies
Frankie Boots And The County Line
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Neko Case
Lonely Old Lies
The Virginian
30
Johnnie Taylor
Running Out Of Lies
Lifetime: A Retrospective Of Soul, Blues & Gospel 1956- 1999 [Disc 3]
It’s a free form episode that follows the American songbook stream of musical consciousness from the early twentieth century right up through some contemporary sounds. A river of rhythm and song…. doo wop shoo wops, the 88 key bounce of boogie woogie, master jelly roll bakers, and sweet confections for you on a warm summer Friday morning from the West County studios of KOWS radio. Performances will include Les Paul, Peggy Lee, Levon Helm, The Adderly Brothers, Jesse Winchester, and a couple dozen more of your favorites. Settle in for a free form collection of memories and musical gems from the past century with your host, Dave Stroud.
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Mavis Staples
We Go High
If All I Was Was Black
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Fats Domino
Telling Lies
Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 4
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
No Room In the Church for Liars
Precious Memories
5
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Let That Liar Alone
ABC Of The Blues Vol 43
6
Reverend A. Johnson
Let That Liar Pass On By
1950s Gospel Classics
7
Radio Yesterday
Lights Out
Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
8
Martha Fields
Southern White Lies
Southern White Lies
9
Laurie Lewis And The Right Hands
Let That Liar Alone (Featuring Tom Rozum, Patrick Sauber, Harley Eblen & Andrew Conklin)
The Hazel and Alice Sessions
10
The Carter Family
You Better Let That Liar Alone
Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 3)
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David Olney
No Lies
One Tough Town
12
Rosalie Allen
Hitler Lives
Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
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Carl Smith
Wicked Lies
Kisses Don't Lie
14
The Nashville Bluegrass Band
The Biggest Liars in Town
Home of the Blues
15
Flatt & Scruggs
Poison Lies
The Stanley Brothers: Selected Sides 1947-1953 [Disc 2]
16
Les Paul & Mary Ford
Lies
Bye Bye Blues/Les and Mary
17
Cyndi Lauper
Lies
A Hat Full Of Stars
18
The Roosevelts
Tell Only Lies
The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn
19
Ian Gomm
Dirty Lies
Summer Holiday
20
The Castaways
Liar, Liar
Good Morning Vietnam [Soundtrack]
21
The Knickerbockers
Lies
Nuggets Sampler 1965-1968
22
Tex Grande & His Range Riders
Hitler's Reply to Mussolini
Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
23
Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers
Tellin' Lies
The Eyes of Texas
24
John Hartford
Politic
Hamilton Ironworks
25
Mimi & Richard Farina
House Un-American Blues Activity Dream
Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics
26
Dar Williams/Doug Wainoris/G.E. Smith/Steve Holley/T-Bone Walk
All Men Are Liars
Labour of Love: The Music of Nick Lowe
27
J.J. Cale
Lies
The Very Best of J.J. Cale
28
Frankie Boots And The County Line
Pack Of Lies
Frankie Boots And The County Line
29
Neko Case
Lonely Old Lies
The Virginian
30
Johnnie Taylor
Running Out Of Lies
Lifetime: A Retrospective Of Soul, Blues & Gospel 1956- 1999 [Disc 3]
We’ve got another free form collection of sounds for a Friday in Sonoma County. The July heat has us moving a little slower as everything around us appears to move at breakneck speed. So the idea is to help us find our center and we do that with sounds from the islands with Joe Keawe and Arthur Lyman, soul from the heart by Solomon Burke and Betty Everett, and some tradition with a mix of Johnny Cash, Ry Cooder, and Bob Wills. We find our muse throughout with David Lindley and El Rayo-X. Join us.
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Dave Van Ronk
Tell Old Bill
Down In Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
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K.C. Douglas
Mercury Blues
Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways
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Jackson Browne & David Lindley
Mercury Blues
Love Is Strange [Disc 1]
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Warren Zevon
Gorilla, You're A Desperado
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (An Anthology) [Disc 1]
6
Billy Butler & The Enchanters
I Can't Work No Longer
Kent's Cellar Of Soul: Volume 2
7
The Temptations
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
Anthology, Vol. 2 [Disc 2]
8
Chris Barber's Jazz Band
Petite Fleur (Little FLower)
Your Hit Parade -1959
9
Joanie Sommers
Johnny Get Angry
Gems from the Warner Brothers Vault (Pt. 1)
10
Arthur Lyman Group
Maui Chimes
The Best of the Arthur Lyman Group
11
Sol K. Bright's Hollywaiians
Tomi Tomi
Vintage Hawaiian Music: The Great Singers 1928 – 1934
12
Joe Keawe
My Little Grass Shack
Hapa-Haole Hawaiian Hula Classics – Vintage Hawaiian Treasures: Vol. I
13
Dave Van Ronk
My Little Grass Shack (In Kealakekua, Hawaii)
A Chrestomathy [Disc 2]
14
Ry Cooder
Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
Jazz (Remaster 2013)
15
Rhiannon Giddens
Up Above My Head
Tomorrow Is My Turn
16
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Singing in My Soul
The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3]
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Etta James
Something's Got a Hold on Me
Chess Blues Disc 4
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Betty Everett
You're No Good
Something's Got A Hold On Me
19
Solomon Burke
If You Need Me
Very Best of Solomon Burke (Reis)
20
The Impressions
Gypsy Woman
Hit The Road Jack: The ABC-Paramount Story
21
Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns
Tu-Ber-Cu-Lucas And The Sinus Blues
Having A Good Time with Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns – The Very Best Of, Volume 1
22
Wild Tchoupitoulas
Brother John
Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan – Season 3 [[Disc 2]]
23
Nappy Brown
Goody Goody Gum Drop
Night Time Is the Right Time [Disc 1]
24
Johnny Cash
Understand Your Man
16 Biggest Hits
25
Johnny Cash
Cindy[w. Nick Cave]
Unearthed Vol 3 – Redemption Songs
26
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Get Along Home, Cindy
Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 8
27
The Louvin Brothers
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
Close Harmony [Disc 3]
28
Jimmy Dean
Big Bad John (Uncensored Version)
Best of Answer Songs vol 3
29
Big Brother & the Holding Company/Janis Joplin
Bye Bye Baby
Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits
30
Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers
Get Along Home, Miss Cindy
Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
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.
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Zora Layman & The Hometowners
When The Curtains Of The Night Are Pinned Back By The Stars
