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June 12, 2020 Dave

While the Cheetoh-in-chief comes up with hateful and pitiful distraction after distraction in an attempt to have us take our eyes off of failure after profound failure of his…we celebrate the folks in gray and blue who not only bring us the bills but also the packages, ballots, and cheer from friends and relatives. That little white truck is more than an institution: it is part of our collective heritage and a constant that should be cherished. It’s been celebrated in music from every corner over the past century and we’re scouring those dusty digital bins for country, blues, rock, and rhythm that are burnished with the colors of the letter carrier in word and rhyme. Tune in for everyone from Roy Rogers to Memphis Slim, Smiley Lewis, and Tiny Bradshaw this week. Sonoma County Community Radio goes deep on another pandemic Friday morning.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Nat King Cole	I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself A Letter)	Just One Of Those Things (And More)
3	Jimmie Driftwood	The Pony Express (I've Got to Carry the Mail)	Six Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles
4	Bill Carter	Pony Express	Country & Western Nuggets
5	Pee Wee King	Postage Due	Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown (1 of 2)
6	Roy Rogers	The Mail Must Go Through	1939-1940 (Warped 3936)
7	Leon Rusk	Air Mail Special On The Fly	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 3] It Ain't Far To The Bar)
8	Ella Mae Morse	Hey, Mr Postman	Two Classic Albums And Singles CD2
9	Hank Thompson	Yesterday's Mail	1946-1949 (Warped 4660)
10	Cowboy Copas	The Postman Just Passes Me By	1949-1950
11	Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)	I'm Gonna Tear Down The Mailbox – 1955	Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58
12	Dinah Washington	Postman Blues	First Issue: The Dinah Washington Story [Disc 1]
13	Tiny Bradshaw & His Orchestra	Mailman's Sack (Mail)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
14	Tiny Mayberry	Mailman Blues	Jazzin' the Blues
15	Memphis Slim	A Letter Home (Mail)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
16	Smiley Lewis	No Letter Today	ABC Of The Blues Vol 25
17	The Ravens	Write Me A Letter	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
18	Andrew Tibbs & Cherokee Conyer's Orchestra	Mother's Letter	Boogie Uproar – Gems From The Peacock Vaults
19	The Marvelettes	Please Mr. Postman	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of The Marvelettes
20	Bob Rivers	Please Don't Shoot, Mr Postman	Best of Answer Songs vol 2
21	The Marvelettes	Twistin' Postman	Second Helpings: Sequels To The Songs That Left 'Em Hungry For More!
22	Buddy Holly	Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues	Buddy Holly And The R&R Giants
23	Buck Owens	Keys In The Mailbox	Hot Dog
24	Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson	No Mail Today	Quah [Bonus Tracks]
25	Suitcase Sam	Morning Mail	Goodnight Riverdale Park
26	Allan Sherman	Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)	Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time [Disc 1]
27	Ernest Tubb	Letters Have No Arms	Last Sessions: All Time Greatest Hits Disc 2
28	Champion Jack Dupree	Mail Order Woman	New Orleans R&B Outbreak
29	Big Joe Turner	Teen Age Letter	Big Joe Rocks
30	Slim Harpo	Mailbox Blues	The Excello Singles Anthology Disc 2
31	Arlene Smith	Letter Full Of Tears	Back To The Streets – Celebrating The Music Of Don Covay
32	Roosevelt Grier	The Mail Must Go Through	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
33	Gene Terry & The Downbeats	No Mail Today (Mail)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
34	Bobby Bare	A Dear John Letter	1964 (Warped 6425)
35	Stevie Wonder	Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours	You've Got Mail

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Papa Come Quick

May 22, 2020 Dave

Friday morning free form sounds from the Cherry Street Historic District of Santa Rosa, California. We’ve been doing this Deeper Roots thing for almost nine years and, if you’re a regular, you’ll know that Dave’s always itching for a free form collection of sounds to complement the targeted shows that are featured weekly. This week we’ll be rolling out some Bill Kirchen, Dave Van Ronk, Ricky Nelson, Annisteen Allen, and Ethel Merman…to name a few. Blues, country, doo wop, rhythm & blues, gospel, and jazz all bundled up for your late spring listening enjoyment while sequestered for health and safety. Tune in on your FM if you’re local at 92.5 or stream us at kowsfm.com/listen.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Geraint Watkins	Bring Me the Head of My So Called Lover	Dial 'W' for Watkins
3	Washboard Rhythm Kings, Washboard Rhythm Band	The Coming Home of Hi-De-Hoo	All Time Jazz: Washboard Rhythm Kings
4	C.W. Stoneking	Jungle Lullaby	Jungle Blues
5	Ethel Merman	Eadie Was A Lady	Ethel Merman Cocktail Hour [Disc 1]
6	Dave Van Ronk	Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out	Bound For Glory
7	Andrew Bird	Three White Horses	Hands of Glory
8	Peggy Lee	Old Devil Moon (Jump For Joy)	Jump For Joy (Four Classic Albums)
9	Jimmy Jones	Good Timin	Pure R&B: Vol. 2- Somethings Got a Hold on Me [Disc 2]
10	The Fiestas	I4m Your Slave	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
11	Cab Calloway	Jungle King (You Ain't Done A Doggone Thing)	Are You Hep To The Jive?
12	Top Note	Hearts Of Stone	Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 4] – Group Revival
13	Red Foley	Hearts Of Stone	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 4]
14	Doug Sahm	I Wanna Be Your Mama Again	Best of Sir Douglas 68-75
15	Annisteen Allen	Fujiyama Mama	Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 4]
16	Brenda Lee	(If I'm Dreaming) Just Let Me Dream	The Precious Years
17	Whitney Rose	Tied To The Wheel	Rule 62
18	Bill Kirchen	Tied to the Wheel	Tied to the Wheel
19	Bill Kirchen	Down to Seeds and Stems Again	Seeds and Stems
20	Louis Armstrong	This Train	Louis And The Good Book
21	Ricky Nelson	Glory Train	Legacy [Disc 2]
22	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	The Sinking of the Ruben James	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
23	Arlo Guthrie	Ukulele Lady	Hobo's Lullaby
24	Neil Young	Bound for Glory	Old Ways
25	Bonnie Raitt	Papa Come Quick (Jody and Chico)	Luck of the Draw
26	Leon Russell	Roll Away the Stone	Retrospective
27	Ike & Tina Turner	Its Gonna Work Out Fine	Pure R&B: Vol. 3- Let the Good Times Roll [Disc 2]
28	The Dovells	Bristol Stomp	Prom Night: Vol. 4- So Much In Love [Disc 2]
29	Warren Zevon	Keep Me in Your Heart	The Wind
30	Lucinda Williams	Price To Pay	Lucinda Williams

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Devil In Me

May 15, 2020 Dave

Dark days with the devil. Self-centered, morally lacking, and incapable of empathizing with human kind. Sound like someone you know? This morning’s show finds us down in the hole where Satan never sleeps and where darkness pervades. There’s a very wide range of topics in our show, including the harnessing of the atom, the soul of man, and the valley where Jordan slices across the heart. Hillbillies from hell, a trip to St. James Infirmary, the lion’s den, and the belly of the whale are all to be seen with tracks from Brother Claude, the Jordan River Boys, The Doors, El Radio Fantastique, and Otis Spann in a show that is certain to have you taking stock of yesterday, today, and tomorrow as we make this social distancing a not-so-transient fixture in our lives. Balance this theme against the sun shining bright on a Spring morning in Sonoma County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Harry S. Truman	Speeches, Truman, Harry S. The First Atomic Bomb Attack On Japan Aug 06, 1945	Great Speeches of The 20th Century – Volume 2 – the Changing World
3	The Louvin Brothers	The Great Atomic Power	Close Harmony [Disc 7]
4	El Radio Fantastique	Devil Inside Me	Waking the Dead
5	The Doors	Moonlight Drive [Version 1]	The Doors [Bonus Tracks]
6	Johnny Cash	The Man Comes Around[Early]	Unearthed Vol 3 – Redemption Songs
7	Jordan River Boys	When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time	When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51
8	John Fogerty	Goin' Back Home	Eye Of The Zombie
9	Timi Yuro	Satan Never Sleeps	I'm So Hurt
10	Louis Armstrong & All His Stars	St. James Infirmary (Gambler's Blues)	Satchmo Plays King Oliver
11	Hoyt Axton	The Devil	American Originals
12	Lead Belly	Black Betty	Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
13	Elvis Presley	Run On	Artist of the Century Disc 2
14	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Jonah	Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record
15	Elizabeth Cook And The Grascals	The Great Atomic Power	Song of America
16	The Louvin Brothers	River of Jordan	Long Play Collection
17	Brother Claude Ely	I Want To Go To Heaven	Satan Get Back
18	Ralph Stanley	Are You Washed In The Blood	A Mother's Prayer
19	George Jones	Please Take the Devil Out of Me	Heartbreak Hotel (Gonna Shake This Shack)
20	Tom Waits	The Soul Of A Man	God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
21	Eels	Fresh Blood	Hombre Lobo
22	Tom Waits	Way Down In The Hole	Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
23	Bill Jennings	Billy In The Lion's Den	Wailin' Vol. 1
24	Otis Spann	It Must Have Been The Devil	Walking The Blues
25	Jack Leonard	A Visit From The Devil	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
26	Anita Carter	Satan's Child	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
27	The Devil Makes Three	Down In The Valley	Redemption & Ruin
28	Julie Miller	The Devil Is an Angel	15 Years of American Music
29	The Youngbloods	Darkness, Darkness	Get Together: The Essential Youngbloods
30	Solomon Burke/Zucchero	Diavolo in Me (A Devil in Me)	Zucchero & Co.
31	Paul Thorn	Don't Let The Devil Ride	Don't Let The Devil Ride
32	Hank Williams	The Devil's Train	Lovesick Blues August 1947 – December 1948

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That Mean Old Clock

May 2, 2020 Dave

Watching that pendulum swinging to and fro, we share both our sorrows and our joy in this shelter-in-place situation we’ve found ourselves in. And music. We share music. There is also that ticking and tocking of the clock as time passes; slowly for some and too fast for others. As they say…the days pass slowly and the years just fly right by us…and that was before we found ourselves in isolation. This week’s Deeper Roots show is all about the time factor, specifically growing older with each breath and minute. But, it’s certainly better than the alternative. Join Dave Stroud for another Friday morning on Deeper Roots with music going as far back as 1932 (The Carter Family) and a more recent release from Orthophonic Joy and The Church Sisters…all reflecting on the passing of time and growing old. It’s a theme that is universal, crossing all generations, faiths, and political persuasions. Tune in for reflection on a Friday evening.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bobby Bare	That Mean Old Clock	The Chronogical Classics 1956-1961
3	Bonnie Owens	Where We'll Never Grow Old	1968-1971 (Warped 6947)
4	The Church Sisters	Where We'll Never Grow Old	Orthophonic Joy
5	Sunny Sweeney	Grow Old With Me	Trophy
6	John Prine & Mac Wiseman	Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age	Standard Songs for Average People
7	Grandpa Jones	Grandfather's Clock	An American Original
8	Mac Wiseman	I'd Rather Die Young	Keep On The Sunny Side
9	The Carter Family	Where We'll Never Grow Old	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 4]
10	JL Stiles	Never To Grow Old	Solo Sessions
11	Carl Butler	Watching the Clock	The Chronogical Classics 1954-1958 (Warped 5592)
12	Ivory Joe Hunter	Time Has Passed	Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter (1950-1951)
13	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Time Is A Passin'	One Guy Named Louis: The Complete Aladdin Sessions
14	Johnny Otis / Jimmy Rushing	Round The Clock	The R&B Years – 1942-45 [Disc 4]
15	Aaron Neville	The Ticks Of The Clock	Brother To Brother ([Disc 1]: Aaron)
16	Carl Stalling	Variation On Grandfather's Clock	The Carl Stalling Project, Vol. 2: More Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1929-1957
17	Count Basie & His Orchestra	One O'Clock Jump (1937 Version)	Swingsation: Swing That Music
18	Harry James	Two O'Clock Jump	Time-Life Swing Era – 1940-1941 [Disc 1]
19	Bert Kaempfert	Three O'Clock in the Morning	The Very Best of Bert Kaempfert
20	Gory Carter	Four O'Clock In The Morning	Further Mellow Cats'n'Kittens – Hot R&B And Cool Blues 1946-1951
21	Ivie Anderson	Five O'clock Whistle	Cocktail Hour
22	The Three Riffs	Five O'Clock Blues	Hot Harmony Groups 1932-1951: Vol 2: Viddle de Vop
23	John Prine	Six O'Clock News	Souvenirs
24	Simon & Garfunkel	7 O'Clock News/Silent Night	Old Friends Disc 2
25	Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty	From Seven To Ten	20 Greatest Hits
26	The Armstrong Twins	Eight Thirty Blues	16 Down Home Country Classics
27	Floyd Tillman	Each Night At Nine	Country Music Hall Of Fame
28	Harold Lee Wilson	Ten O'Clock Train	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
29	Bill Doggett	Eleven O'clock Twist	The King Records Story – Part 1
30	Frank Frost	Quarter To Twelve	Midnight Proler
31	B.B. King	In The Midnight Hour	Six Silver Strings
32	Howlin' Wolf	Getting Old and Grey	Chess Blues Disc 1

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Country Road Songs

April 10, 2020 Dave

A while back we explored road songs in the genres of blues and tradition. This week’s show complements the theme with a country flavor. Songs of the lonesome road, the lost highway, the wrong highway taken, as well as hitting the road with those classic country kings of the road and highway queens. We’ll hear some early Waylon Jennings, bluegrass from Bill Monroe, trucker laments from Red Simpson, and a tribute to the Carters on the Road to Kaintuck. We’ve battened down the hatches, closed shop, and are practicing social distancing as if our lives (and those of our neighbors) depended on it. Join Dave Stroud on a KWTF Friday evening remote production of Deeper Roots.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bonus Track	CB Radio Chatter	Eighteen Wheelers! Twisted Tales from the Truckstops
3	Johnny Darrell	It's A Rough Old Road To Travel	The Beginning Of The End – The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972)
4	Don Gibson	Lonesome Road	1961-1962
5	Jimmie Skinner	Lonesome Road Blues	1960-1962 (Warped 6188)
6	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Travelin' This Lonesome Road	All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4]
7	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Rocky Road Blues	All The Classic Releases, 1937-1949 [Disc 3]
8	The Carter Family	It's a Long Road to Travel Alone	Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 5)
9	Johnny Cash	Wide Open Road	Get Rhythm [Sun]
10	Johnny Cash	Hit The Road And Go (The Rambler)	Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 4]
11	Johnny Cash	Further on Up the Road	American V: A Hundred Highways
12	Billy Bob Thornton & The Peasall Sisters	Road To Kaintuck	Anchored In Love: A Tribute To June Carter Cash
13	Lefty Frizzell	Make That One for the Road a Cup of Coffee	1962-1965 (Warped 6382)
14	Wayne Hancock	Man Of The Road	A-Town Blues
15	Rig Rock Deluxe	Six Days On The Road	Rig Rock Deluxe
16	Red Simpson	Six Days on the Road	The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
17	Tiny Harris	Endless Black Ribbon	Lonesome Highway Songs
18	Billy Grammer	Gotta Travel On	Hard To Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics
19	Henson Cargill	A Very Well Traveled Man	Skip a Rope
20	Faron Young	Traveling On	This Is Faron Young / My Garden Of Prayer
21	Roger Miller	King Of The Road	Country Legends
22	Tom T. Hall	Once Upon a Road	Sings Dixie & Tom T.
23	Billy Walker	Headin' Down the Wrong Highway	Billy Walker – 1954-1957
24	Waylon Jennings	The Road	Love of The Common People
25	Dolly Parton	Traveling Man	1971
26	Nikki Lane	Highway Queen	Highway Queen
27	Johnny Horton	Lost Highway	Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (2 of 2)
28	Gibson Brothers	Highway	In The Ground
29	John Hartford	Wrong Road Again	Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
30	Rice, Rice, Hillmann & Pedersen	Somewhere on the Road Tonight	Out of the Woodwork
31	Ralph Stanley	I'm Going Down The Road [3/3/80]	Poor Rambler [Disc 1]
32	Grandpa Jones	Down The Old Plank Road	An American Original
33	Del McCoury/Marty Stuart	Let Us Travel, Travel On	Compadres: An Anthology of Duets
34	Steve Earle	Hillbilly Highway	Essential Steve Earle

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Night at the Opry & Ryman

March 28, 2020 Dave

All live recordings this week, all from the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman Auditorium. From its early years in a modest Insurance Building as the WSM Barn Dance, the Grand Ole Opry, for all its staid tradition, has become the capitol of country music. Selectively provincial from early on, it brought together country, gospel, and bluegrass radio listeners well into the Golden Age of Country. Deeper Roots digs into the dusty digital archives for recordings from those times in this week’s show plus brings you some new sounds that have grown from the early seeds sown by Uncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff and George Hay. We’ve got Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, and the Oak Ridge Quartet filling time alongside the Old Crow Medicine Show and Rhonda Vincent. Join in the revelry!

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Roy Acuff	Night Train To Memphis	Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
3	Stonewall Jackson	Old Showboat (Live at the Grand Ole Opry 1970)	Singles
4	Hank Snow	I've Been Everywhere	Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
5	Bobby Bare	Detroit City	Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
6	The Osborne Brothers	Take This Hammer	Bluegrass at the Opry
7	George Hamilton IV	Abilene	Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
8	Patsy Cline	Walkin' After Midnight	Live at the Opry
9	Hank Williams	I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living	Grand Ole Opry Time
10	Dave Dudley	Six Days On The Road	Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
11	Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton	The Last Thing On My Mind	Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
12	Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash	Jackson	Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
13	Patsy Cline	Just A Closer Walk With Thee [Live (Ryman Auditorium)]	The Patsy Cline Collection
14	Oak Ridge Quartet	Ole Time Religion	Grand Ole Opry Time
15	Oak Ridge Quartet	Lead Me to That Rock	Grand Ole Opry Time
16	Ronnie Dunn & Rebecca Lynn Howard	If I could Only Win Your Love	Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
17	Bill Monroe	Can You Hear Me Callin'	Bluegrass at the Opry
18	Mac Wiseman	Jimmie Brown The Newsboy	Bluegrass Legands – Live At The Ryman
19	Rhonda Vincent	Hit Parade Of Love	Bluegrass Legands – Live At The Ryman
20	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	Back Up and Push	1953-X6-XX Grand Old Opry
21	Ricky Skaggs & Emmylou Harris	Could You Love Me One More Time	Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
22	Glen Campbell & Steve Wariner	The Hand That Rocks The Cradle	Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
23	Jim & Jesse	Wild Georgia Boy	Bluegrass at the Opry
24	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Grand Ole Opry Song	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
25	Old Crow Medicine Show	Welcome To The Ryman	Live at the Ryman
26	Old Crow Medicine Show	Tell It To Me	Live at the Ryman
27	Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers	Smoke Along The Track	At The Ryman [Live]
28	Marty Stuart	Orange Blossom Special	Live at the Ryman
29	Band Of Horses	Everything's Gonna Be Undone (Live Acoustic)	Acoustic At The Ryman (Live)
30	Marty Stuart	Hillbilly Rock	Live at the Ryman
31	Levon Helm	No Depression In Heaven	Ramble at the Ryman
32	Minnie Pearl	Comedy	Grand Ole Opry Time
33	Levon Helm	Evangeline	Ramble at the Ryman

Sixties Folk Alley

March 13, 2020 Dave

The generation born from war and into war for the sake of war. There was bound to be an ideological plate shift and the epicenter could be found in and around New York City where a melting pot of sounds from Cafe Wa to Macdougall Street to Bleecker Street wafted across the country, westward on the mainstream. In our show today we’ll take a chronological run through the traditional folk that filled the decade of the Sixties. We’ll hear from The Kingston Trio, Trini Lopez, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Tom Paxton in our Friday morning show, coming to you from the heart of the Cherry Street Historic District in Santa Rosa, California. Join us for odes to little boxes, cotton fields, rain, sunshine, and windy city odes to the social and political scorn of the times.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Brothers Four	Greenfields	The Time Life Treasury Of Folk Music [Disc 2]
3	The Kingston Trio	Everglades	The History Of American Folk
4	The Highwaymen	Cotton Fields	Treasury of Folk Music Vol 2 [Disc 2]
5	The Limeliters	A Dollar Down	American Music Library: The Hits Of 1961
6	The Highwaymen	Michael	The Time Life Treasury Of Folk Music, Vol. 1 [Disc 1]
7	Kingston Trio	Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Your Hit Parade – The Early '60S
8	Burl Ives	A Little Bitty Tear	Golden Age of Country Volume 2: Hard-to-Find Hits [Disc 1]
9	Peter, Paul & Mary	If I Had A Hammer	Peter, Paul & Mary
10	Trini Lopez	If I Had A Hammer	Yesterday's Gone [Disc 1]
11	Bob Dylan	Blowin' in the Wind	Biograph Disc 1
12	The Kingston Trio	Greenback Dollar	The Folk Years: Simple Song Of Freedom [Disc 1]
13	The New Christy Minstrels	Green Green	Green, Green
14	The New Christy Minstrels	Saturday Night	Treasury Of Folk Music, Vol 3 [Disc 2]
15	The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire)	Dominique	The Folk Years [Disc 5]
16	Peter, Paul & Mary	Tell It On The Mountain	In the Wind
17	Pete Seeger	Little Boxes	Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 3]
18	The New Christy Minstrels	Today	Treasury of Folk Music Vol 2 [Disc 2]
19	Bob Dylan	The Times They Are A-Changin'	Artist's Choice: Johnny Cash
20	Tom Paxton	I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound	Best Of Tom Paxton: I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
21	Gale Garnett	We'll Sing In The Sunshine	Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's. Vol. 2
22	The Serendipity Singers	Don't Let The Rain Come Down	Best Of The Folk Era
23	The Serendipity Singers	Beans In My Ears	Time Life – The Folk Years – Reason To Believe [Disc 2]
24	Simon & Garfunkel	The Sound Of Silence	The Essential Simon & Garfunkel
25	Trini Lopez	Lemon Tree	Best Of The Folk Era
26	Barry McGuire	Eve Of Destruction	Singers & Songwriters: Troubadours [Disc 2]
27	Phil Ochs	I Ain't Marching Anymore	Mojo-2010-11-Journey to Love
28	Pozo-Seco Singers	Time	Time Life – The Folk Years – Reason To Believe [Disc 2]
29	We Five	You Were On My Mind	Dick Bartley Presents One Hit Wonders Of The '60s Vol. 1
30	Rooftop Singers	Walk Right In	Dick Bartley Presents One Hit Wonders Of The '60s Vol. 1
31	Bob Lind	Elusive Butterfly	Yesterday's Gone [Disc 2]
32	Bobby Darin	If I Were A Carpenter	Easy Listening Gold: 1966-1967
33	Judy Collins	Both Sides Now	Wildflowers / Who Knows Where The Time Goes (International Release)
34	The Irish Rovers	The Unicorn	The Time Life Treasury Of Folk Music, Vol. 1 [Disc 1]

New Moon

January 25, 2020 Dave

Deeper Roots goes extraterrestrial with a theme this morning. A ‘new moon’ is the phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and invisible from earth and, shortly thereafter, at a time when it appears as a slender crescent. This morning we honor this evening’s phase even though it’s one that has no face; the more celebratory of the moon’s visibility are full moons, half moons, and quarter moons. But that won’t stop us from celebrating with sounds from the deep past, the recent past, and what will someday be the past. Join Dave Stroud for the crooners (Crosby and Frankie), the 88 key boomers (Fats Waller and Ray Charles), and the songsmith tuners (Willie, Hank Snow, and Patsy Cline) as Friday morning takes to the night sky from Sonoma County’s own Valley of the Moon.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Traveling Wilburys	New Blue Moon	Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3
3	Del McCoury, Doc Watson & Mac Wiseman	New Moon Over My Shoulder	Mac Doc Del
4	Patsy Cline	Blue Moon Of Kentucky	The Patsy Cline Collection
5	Ray Charles	Dixie Moon	The Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 [Disc 4]
6	Rodney Crowell	Shame on the Moon	The Essential Rodney Crowell
7	k.d. lang & the Reclines	Full Moon Full of Love	Absolute Torch and Twang
8	Willie Nelson	Sugar Moon	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
9	Johnny Cash/Paul McCartney	New Moon Over Jamaica	Water from the Wells of Home
10	Gene Autry	There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder [Album Version]	Columbia Historic Edition
11	Hank Snow	Dark Moon	1964 (Warped 6406)
12	Fats Waller	Let's Pretend There's A Moon	Let's Pretend There's A Moon
13	Bing Crosby	Moonburn	Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 1]
14	Artie Shaw	There's A New Moon Over The Old Mill	Non-Stop Flight
15	Cliff Edwards	It's Only A Paper Moon	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
16	Boswell Sisters	I Thank You Mr. Moon	Boswell Sisters
17	The Modernaires	East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)	Singin' And Swingin'
18	Rosemary Clooney	Old Devil Moon	The Witching Hour
19	Frank Sinatra	Old Devil Moon	Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
20	Betty Carter	The Moon Is Low	Inside Betty Carter
21	Dean Martin	In The Misty Moonlight	The Great Dean Martin
22	Andy Williams	Moon River	Donna Reed's Dinner Party
23	Willie Nelson	Moonlight in Vermont	Stardust [Bonus Tracks]
24	Norton Buffalo	Lovin' In The Valley Of The Moon	Lovin' In The Valley Of The Moon
25	Neville Brothers	Yellow Moon	Uptown Rulin': The Best Of The Neville Brothers
26	The Dixie Cups	Gee The Moon Is Shining Bright (Mono Single)	The Complete Red Bird Recordings
27	The Marcels	Blue Moon	Street Corner Symphonies (Disc 1)
28	The Olympics	Dance By The Light Of The Moon	American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960
29	Little Richard	By The Light Of The Silvery Moon	The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection
30	The Capris	There's a Moon Out Tonight	Gems from the Columbia Vaults, Pt. 1
31	Jonathan King	Everyone's Gone To The Moon	Everyone's Gone To The Moon – Single
32	Les Paul & Mary Ford	How High The Moon	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
33	Rex Allen	Dreamy Montana Moon	Last of the Great Singing Cowboys

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Rock Island to James Alley

January 10, 2020 Dave

From the rail yard to back alleys of the urban south to St. James Infirmary, we explore that short life of trouble blending populist, folk, blues, and songs of the west. And we’ll hear contrasting sounds of new and old; stories of Gypsy Davie, Black Jack David, and hard gospel truths from the likes of Josh White, The Meat Purveyors, The Carters, Merrill Moore and Blind Willie Johnson. Deeper Roots’ first show of 2020 will inject the clarity of folk blues with traditional songs performed by contemporary artists alongside early century classics. Tune in every Friday morning at 9 on KOWS Community Radio for Deeper Roots. Streaming at kowsfm.com/listen.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Johnny Cash	Rock Island Line	His Sun Years: Down South
3	Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry	Rock Island Line	A Long Way from Home
4	Merrill Moore	Rock Island Line	Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 2]
5	Richard Rabbitt Brown	James Alley Blues	Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 3A: Songs
6	Laurie Lewis And The Right Hands	James Alley Blues (Featuring Aoife O'Donovan)	The Hazel and Alice Sessions
7	Bob Dylan	Black Jack Davey	Good As I Been To You
8	Ray Rhodes	Black Jack Davy (Child 200)	Art of Field Recording: Volume II – Disc 4: Unaccompanied Songs and Ballads
9	The Carter Family	Black Jack David	Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 5)
10	Woody Guthrie	Gypsy Davy	Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
11	Arlo Guthrie	Gypsy Davy	Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004)
12	Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men	A Short Life of Trouble	Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land
13	Buell Kazee	A Short Life Of Trouble	The Rose Grew Round The Briar
14	Clarence Ashley	Little Sadie	A Portrait of Dylan
15	Bob Dylan	Little Sadie	Self Portrait
16	The Meat Purveyors	John Hardy	The Executioners Last Songs, Volume 3
17	The Carter Family	John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man	Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads
18	Blind Joe Taggart	Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down	Vol. 2-(1929-34)
19	Robert Plant	Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down	Band Of Joy
20	Paul Thorn	Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed	Don't Let The Devil Ride
21	Blind Willie Johnson	Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed	The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (Disc 1)
22	Blind Willie Johnson	John The Revelator	Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 2B: Social Music
23	Irma Thomas	Another Man Done Gone	After the Rain
24	Carolina Chocolate Drops	Another Man Done Gone	Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind
25	Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys	This Train	Vintage Collections
26	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	This Train	Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1]
27	The Golden Gate Quartet	Blind Barnabas	Vol. 4 (1939-1943)
28	The Blind Boys Of Alabama	Old Blind Barnabas	Atom Bomb
29	Allen Toussaint	St. James Infirmary	The Bright Mississippi
30	Josh White	St. James Infirmary (mono)	The Elektra Years – disc 1
31	Betty Boop	St. James Infirmary Blues	Betty Boop
32	Merle Travis	Over In Gloryland	Hot Pickin' [Disc 1]
33	Tex Ritter	Sam Bass	Have I Stayed Away Too Long

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Country Leftovers

November 29, 2019 Dave

Turkey leftovers? No, country leftovers. “…and I fell asleep with a troubled dream and dreamed I road on the hellbound train.” Just one line from one track from our Friday morning Deeper Roots show which focuses on some country songs ‘from the edge’. An eclectic blend of sometimes morose and other times kitschy stories of mid-century country singers looking for the next “Big Bad John” with stories of engine mishaps, disturbances of mind and relationships, and the general consensus of lyrical country that ‘the world is a monster’. Hillbillies, rabble rousers, and would-be crooners give us those tormented testimonies of country music. Join Dave Stroud for a very unusual collection of sounds from the archives of the fifties and sixties, when country blossomed; the songs he’s going to feature had a hard time cracking the Top 100 because the stories told are ‘out there’, even for country music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Dick Flood	Hellbound Train	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
3	Bill Anderson	Goodbye Cruel World	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
4	Rocky Porter	The World Is A Monster	The World Is A Monster
5	Johnny Tyler	God's Gonna Turn Us To Dust	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
6	Buck Ritchey	The Slave	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
7	Anita Carter	Satan's Child	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
8	Art Kilmer & The Up-Town Four	The Devil's Twist	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
9	Roy And Georgia And The SO And SO's	Devil Get Away From Me	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Rapture
10	David Ingles	(Satan Has Been) Paralyzed	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
11	Jimmy Minor	Satan's Chauffeur	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
12	Steve Bledsoe	Bang, Bang You're Dead	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
13	The Looper Trio	Life Beyond Death	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Rapture
14	Danny Dill	The Eyes Of Death	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
15	Hank Williams	The Angel Of Death	Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5
16	Autry Inman	Six Rounds Of Love And Hate	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
17	Johnny Price	Marijuana, The Devil Flower	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
18	Don Bowman	Spanish Weed	1967 (Warped 6706)
19	Wendell Austin (And The Country Swings)	LSD	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
20	Bud Freeman & The Summa Cum Laude Orchestra	Please Tell The World (A Message From The Grave)	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
21	Red River Dave	California Hippie Murders	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
22	Mel Tillis	Loco Weed (Single Version)	The Best of Mel Tillis
23	Olin Bingham	They Wouldn't Listen To A Kid	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
24	Jack Cook	My Evil Mind	Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 1
25	Ray Sanders	Graveyard Dance	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
26	Bill Carter	Shot Four Times And Dyin'	Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2
27	Travelin' Texans	Beating On The Bars	Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2
28	Len Barrow	Hades Highway	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
29	Don Bailey	Fourteen Stories Down	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
30	Charlie Gore	Sin City	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
31	Eddie Noack	Ain't The Reaping Ever Done	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
32	Eddie Noack	Before You Use That Gun	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
33	Troy Hess	Please Don't Go Topless, Mother	Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5
34	Jimmy Dean	Big Bad John (Uncensored Version)	Best of Answer Songs vol 3
35	Wanda Jackson	Jesus Put A Yodel In My Soul	Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5

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