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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

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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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Lonely Avenue

June 30, 2018 Dave

Blues from a lonely place. From blues to doo wop to southern soul…from behind prison walls to that singular window in that singular room looking out from a high-rise hotel onto a busy street in urban anywhere, America. Today’s music is all about being alone. Our show explores songs written with the lonesome muse on the shoulder. Ray Charles, Joe Liggins, Earl King, and Champion Jack Dupree join in as we ponder lonesome times from the heart of the solitary blues.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Booker T. & The MG's	Lonely Avenue	Green Onions
3	Ray Charles	Lonely Avenue	Doc Pomus: Singer And Songwriter [Disc 2]
4	Mel Walker	Feelin' Mighty Lonesome	Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2
5	Johnny Ace	So Lonely	Memorial Album
6	Smiley Turner	Lonely Boy Blues	Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 5]: West Coast Blues V1
7	Julia Lee	Have You Ever Been Lonely	Kansas City Star [Disc 2]
8	Irma Thomas	Woman Left Lonely	My Heart's in Memphis: The Songs of Dan Penn
9	Maxine Sullivan	Kind'a Lonesome	Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 1]
10	T-Bone Walker	Blue Mood	Best Of Black & White & Imperial Years
11	Shakey Jake	Gimme A Smile	The Bluesville Years Volume 10: Country Roads, Country Days
12	The Holmes Brothers	I'm So Lonely	Simple Truths
13	Joe Liggins	Blues For Tanya	Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
14	Sam Cooke	Lonely Island	The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (1 of 4)
15	Eddie Burns	Lonely Man Plea	Delmark: 50 Years Of Jazz & Blues: Blues [Disc 1]
16	James Winfield	Lonely, Lonely, Nights	Lonely Lonely Nights
17	Champion Jack Dupree	Lonely Road Blues	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
18	Chris Kenner	I'm Lonely, Take Me	Land of 1000 Dances
19	Earl King	Those Lonely Lonely Nights	Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
20	Eddie Boyd	Got Lonesome Here	Third Degree (The Blues Collection Vol.58)
21	Johnny Bragg	Hurt & Lonely	The Johnny Bragg Story
22	Violet Hall	(All Alone) I Sit And Cry	The Mercury Blues Story (1945-1955) – Southwest Blues, Vol. 2
23	Fats Domino	I'm Alone Because I Love You	Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 8
24	Clarence "Frogman" Henry	Lonely Street	Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry
25	Freddie King	Lonesome Whistle Blues	Ultimate Collection
26	Lowell Fulson	Everyday I Have The Blues	Trying to Find My Baby
27	Smiley Lewis	Lonesome Highway	ABC Of The Blues Vol 25
28	Nappy Brown	I'm Getting Lonesome	Down In The Alley – The Complete Savoy Singles A's & B's
29	Little Richard	Lonesome And Blue	The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection
30	Ray Charles & Betty Carter	Alone Together	Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated To You
31	Ella Fitzgerald	I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
32	Lillie Mae Kirkman	Lonesome	Female Blues – The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 (1938-1949)
33	Julia Lee	Back Street (06-13-47)	1947

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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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The Hangman’s Rope

November 18, 2017 Dave

Songs about one of the most controversial of mankind’s attempt to balance the scales: the death penalty. Studies point to the fact that at least one in 25 people sentenced to the death penalty in the U.S. are innocent and yet the death penalty is legal in 32 states. In China, corporate fraud can be punishable by death…if it were the case here, our government would probably be on the straight and narrow. But I digress. The music this week will explore the long walk to eternity through the eyes of the condemned; the knowledge of the eventuality of the executioner’s song is clarity. And we’ve got country from a whole host of obscure characters, some blues and boogie, along with just a little bit of folk and bluegrass. A hundred years of the hangman’s rope in reflection.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Johnny Cash	I Hung My Head	American IV: Man Comes Around
3	Gurf Morlix	Theyre Hangin Me Tonight	The Executioner's Last Songs, Volume 3
4	Johnny Bond	At Dawn I Die	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
5	Marty Robbins	The Hanging Tree	All-Time Greatest Hits
6	Peter, Paul & Mary	Hangman	See What Tomorrow Brings
7	Marty Stuart	Hangman	Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions
8	Ralston Bowles and May Erlewine-Bernard	Hangman	Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie
9	Cowboy Copas	Hangman Boogie	Hillbilly Boogie Box [Disc 4]
10	The Pine Valley Cosmonauts & Puerto Muerto	The Hangman's Song	The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. 1
11	Al Dean	Hangman	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
12	Leadbelly	Gallows Pole	Too Late, Too Late – Vol. 12 – 1917-48
13	Furry Lewis	Judge Harsh Blues	Furry Lewis 1927 – 1929
14	Brownie McGhee	Hangman's Blues	The Folkways Years (1945-1959)
15	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Hangman's Blues	Complete Recordings Vol. 3
16	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Electric Chair	Blues Images Presents 1920's Blues Classics, Vol. 13
17	Lonesome Johnny	Death Row	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
18	Jimmy Minor	Death Row	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
19	Porter Wagoner	(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
20	Dave Alvin	Sonora's Death Row	West of the West
21	Lee Hazelwood	The Girl On Death Row	Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2
22	Johnny Cash	The Mercy Seat	American III: Solitary Man
23	Bessie Smith	Send Me To The Lectric Chair	Empress Of The Blues Volume 2: 1926-1933 (CD A, 1926-1928)
24	Booker T. & the MG's	Hang 'Em High	The Very Best of Booker T. & the MG's
25	Hoyle Miller	Twelve Years On Death Row	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
26	Steve Earle	Walking Down Death Row	If I Had A Song: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2
27	The Blue Sky Boys	Story Of The Knoxville Girl	Absolutely Bluegrass
28	Bob Dylan	Seven Curses	The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 [Disc 2]
29	Joan Baez	Geordie	The First 10 Years
30	The Pine Valley Cosmonauts & Dean Schlabowske	Gary Gilmore's Eyes	The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. 1

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Bad Luck Blues

September 16, 2017 Dave

We’re exploring the blues this week on Deeper Roots. And it’s all about bad luck blues…when the dice roll snake eyes, when the crops won’t make the rent, when your woman asks for money and all you got is the dust in your pockets…when you ain’t got no money. Join Dave Stroud for a collection of the very best including Big Joe Williams’ Jinx Blues, bad luck stories from Dinah Washington and Memphis Minnie, piano moaning from Leroy Carr and Ivory Joe, as well as further tales of gambling, dice, and no luck from Clifford Gibson and Black Boy Shine. Friday evening blues….what more?

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Little Milton	Bad Luck	Delmark: 50 Years Of Jazz & Blues: Blues [Disc 1]
3	Rory Block	Jinx Blues	Blues Walkin' Like a Man: A Tribute To Son House
4	Son House	The Jinx Blues	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 41
5	Big Joe Williams	Jinx Blues	Classic Delta Blues
6	Black Boy Shine	Gamblin' Jinx Blues	Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 2]
7	Memphis Minnie	I'm A Bad Luck Woman	Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937)
8	Mel Walker	Unlucky Man	Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2
9	Nat King Cole Trio	Chant Of The Blues (Dog-Gone Unlucky Blues)	The Nat King Cole Trio: The Complete Capitol Transcription Sessions [Disc 1]
10	Dinah Washington	Bad Luck	Dinah Washington Sings The Blues
11	Jimmy Lewis/Ray Charles	If It Wasn't for Bad Luck	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 4
12	Robert Belfour	Bad Luck	What's Wrong with You
13	Muddy Waters	Mother's Bad Luck Child	Can't Get No Grindin'
14	Lightnin' Slim	Bad Luck Blues	The Best Of Excello Records
15	Lightnin' Hopkins	Bad Luck And Trouble	Blues Kingpins
16	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Bad Luck Blues	Classic Sides Disc 1
17	Cliifford Gibson	Bad Luck Dice	Complete Recorded Works
18	Guitar Welch	Bad Luck Blues	Southern Prison Blues (Digitally Remastered)
19	Kokomo Arnold	Bad Luck Blues	Complete Recorded Works Volume 4 (1937-1938)
20	Ivory Joe Hunter	No Money, No Luck Blues	The Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter 1947
21	Bill Gaither	Bad Luck Child's Request	When The Sun Goes Down 1934-1941
22	Leroy Carr	Bad Luck All The Time	Sloppy Drunk [Disc 2]
23	Champion Jack Dupree	Bad Luck Bound To Change	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
24	Fats Domino	Bad Luck and Trouble	Fats Domino Out of New Orleans
25	John Mayall	Bad Luck Time	Room To Move 1969-1974 [Disc 2]
26	Tommy Castro And The Painkillers	Bad Luck	Method To My Madness
27	Larry Campbell	Bad Luck Charm	Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
28	The Harlem Hamfats	Bad Luck Man	Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936
29	Charlie Musselwhite	If I Should Have Bad Luck	Deluxe Edition – Charlie Musselwhite

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Beer Thirty

March 11, 2017 Dave

One of the more popular topics that follows the Americana and roots landscape (aside from love, death, and the gospel) is the topic of ice cold beer. Beer in the morning, beer in the evening, beer at suppertime. And our show this week is a sampler of 30 plus tracks of (mostly) country, rockabilly, rock, some blues, and we’ll be including some vintage television commercials that celebrate the suds. So kick back with a cold one and tune that dial to Deeper Roots on KWTF with your host Dave Stroud this Friday evening at 9 Pacific as he steps up to the bar and shares a wild assortment of songs about a cold brew or two…and we’re not talkin’ boojie coffee.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Amos Milburn	One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer	Amos Milburn Rocks
3	Smiley Maxedon	Give Me A Red Hot Mama And An Ice Cold Beer [Album Version]	Hillibilly Boogie!
4	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Bubbles In My Beer	Take Me Back to Tulsa 4 – The End Of The Line
5	Willie Nelson	Bubbles In My Beer	One Hell Of A Ride
6	Andy Reynolds	Beer Bottle Mama	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 9]
7	Garth Brooks/George Jones	Beer Run	God's Country: George Jones and Friends Disc 1
8	George Jones	Beer, Bait And Ammo	All Gone Fishin'
9	Derailers	Cold Beer, Hot Women & Cool Country Music	Soldiers of Love
10	Dale Watson	Honkiest Tonkiest Beer Joint	The Best of the HighTone Years
11	Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers	Drink the Beer Barrel Dry	Swing With Bill Boyd's Cowboy Rambers
12	Various	If You've Got The Time Miller Beer	BigKevNastyCD
13	Tom T. Hall	I Like Beer	The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall
14	Bob Woodruff	Hard Liquor, Cold Women, Warm Beer	Dreams & Saturday Nights
15	Asylum Street Spankers	Beer	Spanker Madness
16	Johnny Russell	Red Necks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer	20 Hits
17	Whitney Rose	There's A Tear In My Beer	Heartbreaker of the Year
18	Stray Cats	Lookin' Better Every Beer	Runaway Boys: A Retrospective '81-'92
19	John Lee Hooker	One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer	His Best Chess Sides (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection)
20	Warner Williams With Jay Summerour	Hey Bartender, There's A Big Bug In My Beer	Blues Highway
21	Various	Bob Uecker Lite Beer Commercial	BigKevNastyCD
22	Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim	Beer Drinking Woman	Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways
23	Floyd Dixon	Hey Bartender	Marshall Texas Is My Home
24	Bessie Smith	Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer [Album Version]	The Essential Bessie Smith
25	Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon	Gimme A Pig's Foot And A Bottle Of Beer	Barbecue Any Old Time – Blues From The Pit 1927-1942
26	Luke Wills' Rhythm Busters	Shut Up And Drink Your Beer	Western Swing 40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 2]
27	Various Artists	Falstaff Beer	1960s Psychedelic Radio Commercials
28	Tommy Duncan	Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)?	Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B
29	Johnny Bond	Bartender's Blues	Put Me To Bed
30	Merrill Moore	Bartender's Blues	Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1]
31	The Texas Tornados	In Heaven There Is No Beer	!Esta Bueno!
32	Washboard Hank	Beer Cans Down The Trans Can	Human Beans
33	Reverend Horton Heat	Beer Holder	Laughin & Cryin
34	Eddie Noack	Beer Drinkin' Blues	Psycho
35	James Mask	Beer Drinking Blues	Foot Tappin' And Dance At The Screamin' Festival Vol.4

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Evil Blues

December 17, 2016 Dave

It’s the story of evil told in the voice of the blues. All things evil are explored in the voices of gospel, country blues, urban blues, and the folk blues. Evil ways, bad blood, fear, and the depths to which the evil in man’s heart can go are the themes tonight in a show that features the likes of Otis Spann, Elmore James, Henry Truvillion, The Golden Gate Quartet, and many others. All of this coming to you on a cold December evening in Sonoma County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Howlin' Wolf	Evil	Blues From Hell
3	The Golden Gate Quartet	Atom And Evil (1946)	Vol. 5 (1945-1949) (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 5, 1939-1949)
4	The Golden Gate Quartet (Willie Johnson, baritone/William Langford, tenor/Henry Owens, tenor/Arlandus Wilson, Bass) (Aka "Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet")	The Devil With The Devil	Vol. 3, 1939 (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 3, 1939)
5	Chris Smither	The Devil's Real	A Little On The Cd Side Volume 11
6	Noah Lewis	Devil In The Wood Pile	When The Sun Goes Down: Walk Right In – The Secret Story Of Rock & Roll
7	Don Byas's Swig Seven, Albinia Jones	Evil Gal Blues	Savoy Blues 1944-1994 [Disc 1]
8	Dinah Washington	Evil Gal Blues	Gold
9	T-Bone Walker	Evil Hearted Woman (Alt. Take)	The Complete Imperial Recordings: 1950-1954 [Disc 1]
10	Champion Jack Dupree	Evil Woman	Blues from the Gutter
11	Doctor Gaddy	Evil Man Blues	Shoutin' Out The Blues (R&B CD 2005-2)
12	Otis Spann	Evil Ways	Essential Blues Hits Disc 2
13	Washboard Sam	Evil Blues	Vol. 6 1941 – 1942
14	Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe	Evil Devil Woman Blues	Vol 4 (1933-34)
15	Moreland & Arbuckle	Mean And Evil	Promised Land Or Bust
16	B.B. King	Mean And Evil	There Is Always One More Time
17	Elmore James	Mean And Evil	Let's Cut It: The Very Best Of Elmore James
18	Lightnin' Hopkins	Mean and Evil Blues	Texas Guitar Killers Disc 1
19	Blind Boy Fuller	Worried and Evil Man Blues	Blind Boy Fuller Vol. 3 1937
20	Reverend Gary Davis	Cross And Evil Woman Blues	Southern Country Blues: Down In Boogie Alley [Disc 2]
21	Lowell Fulson	Don't Be So Evil	Juke Box Blues 1946-1948
22	Gatemouth Moore	Evil Gal's Jockey	Hey Mr. Gatemouth – Complete King Recordings
23	Albert King	I Get Evil	More Big Blues
24	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	Bad Blood	Sportin' the Blues Disc 2
25	Ramona Hicks	Evil and Blue	Swingin' the Blues: 1931-1939
26	Ollie Shepard	King Of All Evil	Vol. 2-1939-41
27	Walter Brown	What Evil Have I Done?	Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 2
28	Alice Moore	Black And Evil Blues	Black Swan Sampler
29	Koko Taylor	Evil	The Best of Koko Taylor
30	Ella Fitzgerald	Necessary Evil	The Chronological Ella Fitzgerald – 1951
31	Eartha Kitt/Henri René & His Orchestra	I Want to Be Evil	Purr-Fect: Greatest Hits
32	Aretha Franklin	Evil Gal Blues	Aretha Sings The Blues

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Early Blues Women

November 5, 2016 Dave

We’ll take you to the early century when jazz was bubbling up in every urban quarter…Chicago, New York, New Orleans, Kansas City, and beyond. Our focus will be on the fringes where blues women would establish themselves with stories of cheating, stealing, and mean mistreating. The economy of the early twenties generated the disposable income for Victrolas, radios, and shellac recordings and the Great Migration from the south brought with it a culture that would affect the American music landscape forever. The ladies of the blues are featured on our show this week, including Lucille Bogan, Bessie Smith, Victoria Spivey, Gertrude Saunders, and an opening piece about a razor-totin’ mama from Perline Ellison.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Perline Ellison	Razor Totin' Mama	Female Blues – The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 (1938-1949)
3	Mamie Smith	Mean Daddy Blues	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2
4	Ida Cox	How Long Daddy, How Long (Pm 12325, 2287-1)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927)
5	Unknown Artist	Mama Likes To Do It	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 14
6	Ma Rainey	Black Eye Blues	Black Swan Sampler
7	Ethel Waters	My Handy Man	Copulation Blues 1926 – 1940 H
8	Dorothy Everetts	Fat Mouth Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 6
9	Josephine Byrd	Mosquito Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 3
10	Christina Gray	The Reverend Is My Man	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 7
11	Gertrude Saunders	You Can't Have It Unless I Give It To You	Female Blues Singers Vol. 13 R/S (1921-1931)
12	Lucille Bogan	Coffee Grindin' Blues	Vol. 1-1923-30
13	Sippie Wallace	A Man For Every Day In The Week	Complete Recorded Works
14	Mamie Smith	Goin' Crazy With The Blues	Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1]
15	Victoria Spivey	Murder In The First Degree	Black Snake Blues – The Best Of
16	Betty Gray	Mean Old Bed Bug Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 6
17	Bessie Smith	Mean Old Bed Bug Blues	Empress Of The Blues Volume 2: 1926-1933 (CD A, 1926-1928)
18	Bessie Smith	Jail House Blues	ABC Of The Blues Vol 39
19	Sara Martin	Death Sting Me Blues	The Blues: Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Blues Singers [Disc 1]
20	Lucille Bogan	Sloppy Drunk Blues	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
21	Billie Young	When They Get Lovin' They's Gone	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 14
22	Lucille Bogan	Tired As I Can Be [Album Version]	Shave 'Em Dry: The Best Of Lucille Bogan
23	Billie Holiday	My Last Affair	Billie Holiday: The Legacy Box 1933-1958 Disc 2
24	Memphis Minnie	Dirty Mother For You	Memphis Minnie – Queen Of Country Blues, 1932 – 1935 [Disc 3]
25	Memphis Minnie	He's In The Ring (Doing The Same Old Thing)	Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Volume Four
26	Alberta Hunter	You Can't Tell The Difference After Dark	Flashbacks #3 CopulationBlues 1926-1940
27	Wea Bea Booze	These Young Men Blues	Female Blues – The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 (1938-1949)
28	Albert Ammons & His Rhythm Kings w/ Sippie Wallace	Bedroom Blues	The Boogie Woogie Man
29	Blu Lu Barker	Buy Me Some Juice (Alternate Take)	Don't You Feel My Leg
30	Dinah Washington	Jailhouse Blues	The Bessie Smith Songbook
31	LaVern Baker	Pig Latin Blues	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
32	Bonnie Raitt w/ Sippie Wallace	Women Be Wise	Bonnie Raitt Collection
33	Ida Cox & Her Allstar Band	Four Day Creep	Blues From The Vocalion Vaults

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Mix of the Blues

July 30, 2016 Dave

Deeper Roots will spend time with a variety of blues styles this week with no focus but the roots of feeling blue, themes about being blue, junker’s blues, bar fly blues, cold rainy day blues, and the dark and somber blues. We’ll feature the urban sounds of Lowell Fulson and Bobby Blue Bland, the smooth sounds of T-Bone Walker, and we’ll also pick on some early jazz and blues vocals including Bertha “Chippie” Hill, Hattie McDaniels, and Memphis Minnie.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band	In the Wee Wee Hours	Hoodoo Man Blues
3	R.L. Burnside	Poor Black Mattie	From Mississippi To Chicago
4	Lowell Fulson	Black Widow Spider Blues	Juke Box Blues 1946-1948
5	Sweet Papa Tadpole	Black Spider Blues	Too Late, Too Late, More Newly Discovered Titles And Alternate Takes. Vol. 4
6	Jimmy Witherspoon	Bar Fly Blues	Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Stars
7	John Hammond	Evolution Blues	Found True Love
8	Eddie Lang	You Got to Crawl Before You Walk	Juke Joint Blues 1950's-1960's
9	Muddy Waters	Good Morning School Girl	Folk Singer
10	Rory Block	Cypress Grove Blues	Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James
11	Kansas City Kitty (Thelma Holmes)	Double Trouble Blues	Four Women Blues – The Victor / Bluebird Recordings Of Memphis Minnie, Mississippi Matilda, Kansas City Kitty and Miss Rosie Mae Moore
12	Berha 'Chippie' Hill	Some Cold Rainy Day	Heartbreakers Blue & Lonely
13	Hattie McDaniels	Boo Hoo Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 12
14	Memphis Minnie;Kansas Joe	Don't Want No Woman (Have T' Give My Money To) [2002 Remastered]	First Time I Met the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down series)
15	Victoria Spivey & Lonnie Johnson	I Got The Blues So Bad	Idle Hours
16	Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends	Tonight's the Night	Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 1
17	Hadda Brooks	Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl	I've Got News For You [Disc 1]
18	Bobby "Blue" Bland	I Pity The Fool	Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Road To Memphis
19	Big Mama Thornton	How Come	Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings
20	Little Sylvia	Everything I Need But You	Jubilee Jezebels
21	T-Bone Walker	Feeling The Blues	I Want A Little Girl
22	Little Walter	My Babe	His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection)
23	Jimmy Reed	Boogie In The Dark	I'm Jimmy Reed (Original Vee-Jay Album)
24	Professor Longhair	Mean Old World	Fess: The Professor Longhair A
25	Memphis Slim	Panic Street	Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration
26	Champion Jack Dupree	Junker Blues	Gettin' Funky [Disc 1] – Piano Power
27	Floyd Dixon	Please Don't Go	Marshall Texas Is My Home
28	Otis Taylor	My Soul's In Louisiana	I Heard It On NPR: Shake These Blues
29	Lightnin' Hopkins	One Kind Favor	Jake Head Boogie
30	Frankie Jones	Bring Your Mud and Let's Dob	Jack Newman & Others
31	Precious Bryant	Blues All Around My Bed	Fool Me Good
32	Freddie King	I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man	King Of The Blues

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