The early fifties brought the dawn of a musical form that became popular with a younger crowd although it was simply a version of a vocal harmony form born in the early century, if not long before. The street corner harmonies were a big hit as this new form of rhythm called ‘doo-wop’ saturated the top 40 R&B (and mainstream) airwaves. But the influences themselves had huge followings. We’ll hear from some of the early gospel inspirations like the Heavenly Gospel Singers as well as the vocal groups who were dominant in the form’s lineage: The Ink Spots, The Mills Brothers, and The Ravens. We’ll also hear from the groups who introduced ‘doo wop’ as we know it in the early fifties.
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The Turbans
When You Dance
Dancin' & Romancin' In The '50s And 60s [Disc 2]
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Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
Golden Gate Gospel Train
Vol. 1-(1937-38)
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Heavenly Gospel Singers
The Prodigal Son
Halleluja Gospel & Prayers
5
The Heavenly Gospel Singers
When Was Jesus Born?
Goodbye, Babylon – Salvation [Disc 4]
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The Deep River Boys
Melody of Love
The Dark Ages: Our Music From The Beginning
7
The Charioteers
All God's Chillun Got Shoes
The Gospel Tradition: The Roots And The Branches, Vol. 1
8
The Mills Brothers
Paper Doll
Best of the Decca Years
9
The Mills Brothers with Duke Ellington & Orchestra
Diga, Diga, Do
The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 2
10
Lewis Bronzville Five
Low Down Gal Blues
Black Secular Vocal Groups Vol. 3
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The Ink Spots
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)
40 Your Hit Parade
12
The Ink Spots
My Prayer
Greatest Hits
13
The Cats & The Fiddle
I Miss You So
The Very Best Of
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The Cats & The Fiddle
We Cats Will Swing For You
The Very Best Of
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The Cats & The Fiddle
Killin' Jive
The Very Best Of
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The Delta Rhythm Boys
I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem
I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem
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The Delta Rhythm Boys
Do You Care
I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem
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Slim & Slam
The Flat Foot Floogie
Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 1)
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Five Red Caps
Mama Put Your Britches On (alt. Take)
Secular Vocal Groups Vol. 4 (1926-1947)
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The Cap-Tans
I'm So Crazy For Love
Vocal Group Harmony Vol 8
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The Ravens
Count Every Star
Doo Wop Box Disc 1
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The Ravens
My Baby's Gone
OKeh Rhythm & Blues
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The Ravens
Write Me A Letter
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
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The Moonglows
Sincerely
Doo Wop Box Disc 1
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The Toppers
If Money Grew on Trees
Stompin' at the Savoy: Harlem Nocturne, 1944 – 1947
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The Five Keys
The Glory of Love
The Aladdin Story (Pt. 1)
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The Orioles
It's Too Soon to Know
Doo Wop Box Disc 1
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The Orioles
You Belong to Me
Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
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The Cardinals
Wheel Of Fortune
Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 1]
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The Crows
Gee
Feelin Fine
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The Flamingos
Would I Be Crying
Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 3
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The Flamingos
Golden Teardrops
Doo Wop Box Disc 1
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The Five Satins
In The Still Of The Night
Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
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The Penguins
Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
Street Corner Symphonies (Disc 2)
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The Cadillacs
Speedo (Cadillac)
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
Mac Rebennack’s been around and the music, the culture, the people…they’ve embellished his art with a character like no other in roots music. He’s known them all: James Booker, Professor Longhair, Huey Smith, and Doc Pomus. He’s performed with them, composed for them, and broken bread with them. And when he takes the stage, whether that is in the traditional Indian celebratory garb or the frocked coat and hat, you can be certain that his performance will get your attention. He is coarse yet gentle, as punctual on the keys as he is laid back and lazy with them. This week’s show will sample a small set of his contributions to the American songbook including performances by Roland Stone, B.B. King, Charlie Rich, Solomon Burke, and Irma Thomas. And we’ll also hear plenty from the good Doctor himself.
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Dr. John
Right Place Wrong Time
Definitive Pop Collection
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Dr John/Mac Rebennack
Sahara (LP Version)
Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 1]
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Roland Stone [Dr. John]
Down The Road (LP Version)
Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 1]
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Mac Rebennack
Good Times
The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5]
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Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Long Lost And Worried
Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry
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Art Neville
What's Going On
His Specialty Recordings
8
Johnny Jenkins
Walk On Gilded Splinters
Duane Allman Anthology 2 [Disc 2]
9
Dr. John
Black Widow Spider
Definitive Pop Collection
10
Dr. John
(Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away
Destively Bonnaroo (US Release)
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Dr. John The Night Tripper
Wash Mama Wash
The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974
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Dr. John
Big Chief
The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974
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Irma Thomas
I Never Fool Nobody But Me
If You Want It, Come and Get It
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Delaney & Bonnie
When the Battle Is Over
The Best of Delaney & Bonnie
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Solomon Burke
Make Do With What You Got
Make Do With What You Got
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Dr. John
Hen Layin' Rooster
The Best Of The Parlophone Years
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Dr. John
Let the Good Times Roll
The Ultimate Dr. John
18
Dr. John
My Indian Red
Goin' Back To New Orleans
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Dr. John
Sweet Home New Orleans
The Best Of The Parlophone Years
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Dr. John
Memories Of Prof. Longhair
Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 2]
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Marianne Faithfull
Hello Stranger
A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology [Disc 2]
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Crescent City Gold
Kick It Raw
The Ultimate Session
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Bluesiana Triangle
Need To Be Loved
Bluesiana Triangle
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Charlie Rich
Pictures and Paintings
Pictures and Paintings
25
Dr. John
Eh Las Bas
N'awlinz: Dis, Dat Or D'Udda
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Dr. John
Old Settlers
Live at Magfest 2014
27
B.B. King & Dr. John
There Must Be A Better World Somewhere
Deuces Wild
28
Dr. John
Let's Make a Better World
The Ultimate Dr. John
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Dr. John
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
Our Saturday morning show opens with some caffeine-driven music…literally… songs about the magic bean, that morning beverage that starts the day for some of us. We’ve got swamp pop from Randy & The Rockets, some jumpin’ jive from Cab Calloway, twilight reflections from Jonatha Brooke and The Sons of The Pioneers, and some Chet Atkins, David Lindley, and Eilen Jewell. KOWS community radio studios will be moving before the end of the year to a very central West County location that will bring us in closer contact with our listeners…and our Deeper Roots. And some exciting news! Deeper Roots moves to weekly broadcasts on KOWS.
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Randy & the Rockets
Lets Do the Cajun Twist
Swamp Gold, Volume 1
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Curtis Gordon
Caffeine And Nicotine
Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
4
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
Caffeine Patrol
Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
5
Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra
Forty Cups of Coffee
Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
6
Frank Sinatra
The Coffee Song
Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan
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Carmen McRae/Previn Trio
Coffee Time
Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers [Disc 2]
8
Annette Hanshaw
You're the Cream in My Coffee
The Personality Girl, Vol. 4: 1928
9
The Manhattan Transfer
Java Jive
Swing
10
Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three
Coffee Pot Blues
Middle of Everywhere
11
Cab Calloway
The Jumpin' Jive
Best Of The Big Bands
12
Tiny Davis & Her Orchestra
How About That Jive
Jumpin' The Blues:MCA Label(ACE CD)
13
Johnny Mercer
G.I. Jive
Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 1 – The Birth Of A Label – 1942-43
14
Ella Fitzgerald
Five O'Clock Whistle
Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
15
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
The Prettiest Flowers Will Be Blooming
Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Disc One
16
Sons of the Pioneers
In the Gloaming
Songs of the Prairie – CD4
17
Jonatha Brooke
In the Gloaming
Live
18
John Prine With Emmylou Harris
I Know One
In Spite Of Ourselves
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Porter Wagoner
Fool Like Me
Wagonmaster
20
Chet Atkins
Levee Walking
My Favorite Guitars – It's A Guitar World
21
The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Blue Grass Favorites
22
Eilen Jewell
That's Why I'm Walkin
Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades
It’s theme time once again and we’re going to find ourselves among the wild and crazy men as well as the wild, woolly women. Round town girls celebrate, burning that candle, and Keely Smith will jump, jive, and wail with Louis Prima. Red Ingle and His Natural Seven will join the Sons of the Pioneers in spreading the word about ‘cigareets, whuskey, and wild, wild women”. Mae West, Julia Lee, Ernie Ford, and Jerry Lee Lewis will keep the party going and Deeper Roots will keep the lights on ’till 11pm sharp (that’s Pacific Time, of course). Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of a century of America’s music on KWTF, 88.1 FM, community radio for Bodega Bay.
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Mary Ford
Running Wild
100 Jazz Guitar Favorites
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Garland Jeffreys
Wild in the Streets
Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]
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The Jive Bombers
Bad Boy
Cry-Baby
5
Donnie Elbert
Wild Child (Deluxe 6156)
R&B Humdingers Volume 11
6
Johnny Carroll
Wild Wild Women
Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks
7
Jerry Lee Lewis
Real Wild Child (Wild One)
A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
8
Carl Mann
Born To Be Bad
Midnight Cryin' Time: Teen Angst Classics From The Rock 'n' Roll Era
9
Charline Arthur
Burn That Candle
Welcome To The Club
10
Wanda Jackson
Hard Headed Woman
There's A Party Goin' On
11
Wanda Jackson
Let's Have A Party
Queen Of Rockabilly
12
Tennessee Ernie Ford
I'm A Bad Man
Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
13
The Dave & Deke Combo
Wild Woman
Hollywood Barndance
14
Freda & the Firedogs
Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
Freda & The Firedogs
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The Sons Of The Pioneers
Cigareetes, Whusky And Wild, Wild Women
Country Legends
16
Red Ingle & His Natural Seven
Cigareets, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women (Smoking)
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
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Wanda, Ruth Neal
Round Town Girls
Flowers In The Wildwood
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King James
Wild Wooly Woman
Stompin' 25
19
Julia Lee
Do You Want It?
Burlesque – 100 Classics
20
Eunice Davis
Let's Have A Party
Stompin' 25
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Little Richard
The Girl Can't Help It
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
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Keely Smith/Louis Prima/Sam Butera & the Witnesses
Jump, Jive, An' Wail
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1
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Carmen MacRae
Whatever Lola Wants
Burlesque – 100 Classics
24
Mae West
I'm No Angel
The Mae West Collection
25
Billy Jones With The Little Ramblers
Don't Bring Lulu
The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
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Cecil Gant
Little Baby You're Running Wild
The Cecil Gant Collection
27
Wynonie Harris
Young And Wild
Playful Baby
28
Rudy Greene
Wild Life
Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1]
29
Memphis Nighthawks
Wild Man Stomp
Document Shortcuts Vol. 3 – My Babe
30
Memphis Minnie
I'm A Bad Luck Woman
Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937)
31
Champion Jack Dupree
Bad Whiskey And Wild Women
Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
32
JB Hutto & The Hawks
Wild Wild Woman
Masters Of Modern Blues
33
Albert King
Wild Women
Door To Door
34
Little Jimmy King
Wild Woman
Little Jimmy King and the Memphis Soul Survivors
35
Amy Helm
Wild Girl
Didn't It Rain
36
John Hammond
Wild Man On The Loose
Trouble No More
37
Louis Armstrong & The Hot 7
Wild Man Blues
The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3]
“Rhythm n’ Blues” and “Rock n’ Roll” were both born of a raw sound that was an amalgam of lyrical call-and-response, the upbeat bounce of barrelhouse and juke joint piano, traditional rhyme, and an abundance of musical brilliance from the many itinerant performers who plied their trade. This week on Deeper Roots we’ll go find the “Roots of R&B” and find a stage that we often visit, spending time with the performers that we seem to always find in its lights. Big Bill Broonzy, Roosevelt Sykes, Leroy Carr, Memphis Minnie, and Lonnie Johnson are just a sampling of the music we’ll bring you on our show produced especially for KWTF 88.1 FM, listener-supported community radio for Sonoma County.
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Mamie Smith
Crazy Blues
Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
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Tampa Red
It Hurts Me Too
Country Blues [Disc 1]
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Tampa Red
Anna Lou Blues
The Guitar Wizard (The Blues Collection Vol.51)
5
Leroy Carr
How Long-How Long Blues
Whiskey Is My Habit, Women Is All I Crave: The Best of Leroy Carr Disc 1
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Little Brother Montgomery
Vicksburg Blues (Pm 13006, L-502-1)
The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
7
Little Brother Montgomery
No Special Rider Blues (Pm 13006, L-501-1)
The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
8
Roosevelt Sykes
44 Blues
The Honey Dripper
9
Roosevelt Sykes
Night Time Is The Right Time
As Good As It Gets: Country Blues [Disc 2]
10
Georgia Tom
The Duck Yas-Yas-Yas
Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1]
11
Georgia Tom
Hear Me Beefin' at You
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1928-1930)
12
Tampa Red;Georgia Tom
Dead Cats On The Line
Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard
13
Blind Boy Fuller
Truckin' My Blues Away
Country Blues [Disc 1]
14
Bill "Jazz" Gillum
Key To the Highway [Remastered 2002]
That's Chicago's South Side (When the Sun Goes Down series)
15
Bill 'Jazz' Gillum
Go Back to the Country
Heartbreakers Blue & Lonely
16
Lonnie Johnson
6 / 88 Glide
Steppin' On The Blues
17
Lonnie Johnson
Furniture Man Blues Pt. 1 (w/Victoria Spivey)
Complete Recordings Vol. 4
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Memphis Minnie
Bumble Bee
Queen Of Country Blues
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Memphis Minnie
Me And My Chauffeur Blues
Blues Was Her Business
20
Roosevelt Sykes
Drivin' Wheel
Chicago Boogie
21
Bill "Jazz" Gillum W/ Big Bill Broonzy
Jockey Blues
Broke, Black & Blue [Disc 3] : Good Whiskey Blues
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Bill "Jazz" Gillum
Sarah Jane
Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
23
Washboard Sam
Bucket's Got a Hole in It [Remastered 2002]
That's Chicago's South Side (When the Sun Goes Down series)
24
Washboard Sam
Let Me Play Your Vendor
Vol. 6 1941 – 1942
25
Big Bill Broonzy
How You Want It Done
Blues From The Vocalion Vaults
26
Big Bill Broonzy
Key to the Highway
Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
27
Big Bill Broonzy
I Can't Be Satisfied
ABC Of The Blues Vol 5
28
Speckled Red
The Dirty Dozen
Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1]
29
Speckled Red
The Dirty Dozen Pt 2
Rude Dudes
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Speckled Red
You Got to Fix It [Remastered 2002]
That's Chicago's South Side (When the Sun Goes Down series)
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Speckled Red
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Classic Piano Blues
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Sunnyland Slim
Illinois Central [Remastered 2002]
That's All Right (When the Sun Goes Down series)
33
Arthur Crudup
Mean Old Frisco Blues
Lonesome Whistle – An Anthology Of American Railroad Song
34
Arthur Crudup
That's All Right Mama
Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
Saturday morning in West County…our first week of summer with Deeper Roots and we’ve got an early set of New Orleans swamp classics followed by shreds of rockabilly and sounds from The Killer. There’s also gospel with The Staple Singers, high octane early century pop from The Boswell Sisters and Johnny Hamp and the Orchestra. We’ll sum the day up with folk, pop, and R&B…and everything in between.
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Bobby Marchan
Chicken – Wah – Wah
The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 1]
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Lazy Lester
I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter
Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
4
Irma Thomas
Ruler of My Heart
Soul Queen of New Orleans
5
Aaron Neville
Get Out Of My Life
Brother To Brother ([Disc 1]: Aaron)
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Fats Domino
What a Price
Fats Domino Out of New Orleans
7
Shirley Gunter
Oop Shoop
Shirley Gunter
8
Jerry Lee Lewis
Let's Talk About Us
A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
9
Wanda Jackson
Man, We Had A Party
Queen Of Rockabilly
10
JD McPherson
Fire Bug
Signs & Signifiers
11
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Two Little Fishes Five Loaves Of Bread
Gospel Train
12
Sam Cooke
Touch The Hem Of His Garment
The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke
13
The Staple Singers
Pray On
The Best of the Vee-Jay Years
14
Dorothy Love Coates
You Better Run
The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes
15
Andy Mosely & Hogman Maxey
Brother Mosely Crossed The Water
Angola Prison Spirituals
16
Blind Willie Johnson
Jesus Is Coming Soon
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (Disc 1)
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Lena Horne
Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather
18
Johnny Hamp And His Kentucky Serenaders
If I Had A Talking Picture Of You
Johnny Hamp at Archive
19
The Boswell Sisters
Shuffle Off To Buffalo
The Object Of My Affection
20
George Olsen & His Music (v: Fran Frey)
The Varsity Drag [1927]
The Charleston Era
21
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
Shreveport Stomp
Jelly Roll Morton – Vol. V
22
Louis Armstrong
On Treasure Island
Rhythm Saved The World
23
Django Reinhardt & Stiphane Grappelli
It Don't Mean A Thing
Quintesential
24
Dinah Washington
Teach Me Tonight
Gold [Disc 2]
25
Ray Charles
Drown in My Own Tears
The Birth of Soul Disc 2
26
Chuck Jackson
Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)
Chuck Jackson The Great Recordings [Disc 1]
27
Frank Sinatra
Just in Time
Come Dance with Me!
28
Sarah Vaughan
The Nearness Of You
Great American Songbook
29
Charlie Spand & Blind Blake
Hastings Street
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
30
Pine Ridge Boys
Farther Along
Classic Field Recordings
31
David Bromberg
I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning
The Player: A Retrospective
32
Doc Watson
Steel Guitar Rag
Memories
33
The Country Gentlemen
One Morning in May
The Complete Vanguard Recordings
34
The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys
This Weary Heart You Stole Away
Appalachian Stomp
35
The Stripling Brothers
The Lost Boy
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
Just ahead of World War II, a sound began to bubble up through the floorboards. There was the new, brash, swinging sound of big bands, country swing had surfaced, and jazz was alive and well as an evident inspiration to both. But there was a raw, bluesy, expressive, jump sound coming from the barrooms and halls of the urban expanses of Chicago, Kansas City, New York City, and beyond; something that would become known as R&B and would later be the bedrock of rock and roll. Deeper Roots explores the sounds of Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Buddy Johnson and a host of others, including the ladies: Effie Smith, Nellie Lutcher, Julia Lee, and Viola Wells. This episode has them all and more…
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.
Lots of early sounds mixed with the new this weekend. Stay tuned for music from the medicine shows, lost provinces, gospel tents, swamps, bandstands, and digital playgrounds. We’ve got Sam Samudio, Shorty Godwin, The Seldom Scene, Shel Silverstein, and Tom Russell in our bi-weekly show broadcast live from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, a hamlet tucked into the redwoods along the Bohemian Highway in west Sonoma County. The drought is being beat down and, while we would welcome more rain, we’re hoping that it’s dispersed so that our neighbors can manage without threat of flooding. So we’ll flood you all with a fine collection of performances from the last century of America’s music.
We’ve got a special Monday episode of Deeper Roots. The show originally broadcast live from the KOWS studios in Occidental, California, opens with some Light Crust Doughboys, fires up some modern country gospel from the Watson Twins and Johnny Cash, then goes for the jugular with a collection of Baptist-flavored gospel from Moses Mason, Mother McCollum, and Madam Edna…and that just scratches the sacred surface. The show also features the secular: jump blues from Jesse Price, jazz from Lincoln Center and Willie “The Lion” Smith. Had enough? You won’t. Be sure to check it out.
