Category Archives: Americana

Free Form – Roll Like a Big Wheel

We mix it up once again. Nothing like ending the week on a high note, a low note, and just the right mix of jazz, pop, rock, country, bluegrass, and R&B. You know it won’t stop there because if it’s one thing we do well is find all that is good in between the boards. Join Dave Stroud for music featuring tracks from The Boswell Sisters, Red Foley, Julia Lee, The Prisonaires, Mose Allison, and John Prine. Friday mornings in West County … where we kick off the weekend on the stream our hearts out!

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Joan Osborne Roll Like A Big Wheel Bring It On Home Amazon
3The Mills Brothers Cherry (L. Armstrong) The Mills Brothers Golden G'ts(3) Amazon
4Les Paul & The Andrews Sisters Rumors Are Flying (Single Version) Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2] Amazon
5Louis Jordan Hungry Man Jivin' With Jordan Amazon
6Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra Shout, Brother, Shout – (featuring The Five Tones) Not So Quiet Please Amazon
7The Prisonaires Just Walking in the Rain Sun Ballads 1953-62 Amazon
8Mose Allison Lost Mind Allison Wonderland Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
9Dinah Washington Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Verve Unmixed Amazon
10Julia Lee When Jennie Does That Lowdown Dance Kansas City Star [Disc 5] Amazon
11Nellie Lutcher Let Me Tell You 'Bout The Guy Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 4] Amazon
12Boswell Sisters Put That Sun Back In the Sky Boswell Sisters Amazon
13Red Foley & The Andrews Sisters I Want To Be With You Always Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3] Amazon
14The Andrews Sisters Pistol Packin' Mama Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 1] Amazon
15Junior Brown Where Has All the Money Gone? Down Home Chrome Amazon
16Merle Haggard Mama Tried The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1] Amazon
17Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Down In Mexico Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
18Santiago Jimenez Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 2] Amazon
19Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars Havana Moon Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars Amazon
20Levon Helm Tennessee Jed Electric Dirt Amazon
21Grateful Dead Dire Wolf Workingman's Dead Amazon
22Graham Parker Sugaree Your Country Amazon
23Jim Lauderdale The Night The Moon Fell Down Carolina Moonshine Amazon
24Jimmy Martin 20/20 Vision Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 1] Amazon
25Hank Williams Cold, Cold Heart 24 Greatest Amazon
26John Prine Summers End The Tree of Forgiveness Amazon
27Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday Ken Burns Jazz Amazon
28Lula Reed I'll Drown In My Own Tears The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
29Effie Smith Water, Water The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
30Mildred Jones Mr. Thrill Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett Amazon
31T-Bone Walker Cold Cold Feeling Electric Blues – Part 1: Beginnings 1939-1954 Amazon
32Jo Stafford Shrimp Boats Your Hit Parade – 1951 Amazon
33Louis Armstrong The Music Goes Round And Around [Single Version] Rhythm Saved The World Amazon

Deeper Mississippi John Hurt

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

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

Truck Drivin’ Songs

White line fever…that endless gray ribbon…asphalt mixed with bennies…and a whole lot of attitude around semis, mile markers, county mounties, and bobtail returns. Terminology you won’t hear too much on our show…except for this show which shares the songs of the long-haulers. Bill Kirchen, Red Simpson, Buck Owens, and Merle Haggard are just a sample of the performers joining in the fun where Cliff Bruner & His Boys introduce us to the first truck driving song “Truck Driver Blues” right up to that bad boy honky tonkin’ guitar trucker Dale Watson. You can’t escape the 18 wheel energy on Sonoma County Community Radio…straight from the Bakersfield asphalt to yours.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Dick Curless A Tombstone Every Mile (1) A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD4 (1950-1969) Amazon
3Red Simpson Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer Amazon
4Lyle Lovett The Truck Song Anthology, Vol. 1: Cowboy Man Amazon
5Joe Ely White Line Fever Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard Amazon
6Marty Stuart Truck Drivers' Blues Nashville Vol. 1: Tear The Woodpile Down Amazon
7Bill Kirchen Hillbilly Truck Drivin' Man Tied to the Wheel Amazon
8The Sons Of The Pioneers Diesel Smoke Country Legends Amazon
9Burl Ives With Grady Martin & His Slew Foot Five Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves Roughneck Blues 1949 – 1956 Amazon
10Bill Neely I'm A Truck Drivin' Daddy Texas Law & Justice Amazon
11Bob Ensign Midnight Trucker Front Porch Pickin': Bluegrass Instrumentals ('60s) Amazon
12Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun Semi-Truck Rig Rock Deluxe Amazon
13Red Simpson Happy Go Lucky Truck Driver The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer Amazon
14Jimmy Martin Truck Driving Man Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3] Amazon
15Buck Owens Truck Drivin' Man Buck 'Em: The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967) Amazon
16Norton Buffalo Eighteen Wheels Lovin' In The Valley Of The Moon Amazon
17Dale Watson Been A Long Truckin Day The Trucking Sessions Vol 3 Amazon
18Merle Haggard Truck Driver's Blues Working In Tennessee Amazon
19Buck Owens Will There Be Big Rigs In Heaven Rig Rock Deluxe Amazon
20Dave Dudley Six Days On The Road Classic Country Amazon
21Bill Kirchen Mama Hated Diesels Seeds and Stems Amazon
22Cliff Bruner & His Boys Truck Driver's Blues (1939) The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Tobacco State Swing [Disc 3] Amazon
23Jess Willard Truck Driver's Boogie Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
24Jimmy Martin Truck Driver's Queen Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3] Amazon
25Parker Millsap Truck Stop Gospel Parker Millsap Amazon
26Asleep at the Wheel/Leon Rausch Truck Driver's Blues It's A Good Day Amazon
27Jim Lauderdale Diesel, Diesel, Diesel The Other Sessions Amazon
28Leon Russell Truck Drivin' Man Hank Wilson's Back [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
29BR5-49 18 Wheels And A Crowbar Big Backyard Beat Show Amazon
30Bill Kirchen Roll Truck Roll Tied to the Wheel Amazon
31Dale Watson Jack's Truck Stop & Cafe I Hate These Songs Amazon
32Little Willies Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves For the Good Times Amazon

The Old Chisholm Trail

Songs about moonlight on the trail this week. We revisit songs about Old Paint, cowpokes, outlaws, and the wide expanse of the range in this week’s show. Tradition, temperance, and memories of the Red River Valley with Michael Martin Murphey, Jimmie Driftwood, Rex Allen, Powder River Jack (featuring Kitty Lee), and many more cowboys from Hollywood and the old Navajo Trail. Storytelling and nostalgic novelties, most elevating the hardscrabble life of the West to a Disney featurette. Right here on Sonoma County community radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Norman Luboff Choir Shenandoah Songs of the South and Songs of the Sea Amazon
3Gene Autry Tumbling Tumbleweeds Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1] Amazon
4Gene Autry Back In the Saddle Again Don't Fence Me In:Western Music Early Golden Era Amazon
5The Western Flyers Along The Navajo Trail Wild Blue Yonder Amazon
6Marty Robbins The Strawberry Roan Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Amazon
7Duane Eddy Streets of Laredo Rebel Rouser Amazon
8Ernest Tubb The Yellow Rose Of Texas Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours Amazon
9Gene Autry & Jimmy Long The Yellow Rose Of Texas American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2] Amazon
10Marty Robbins Red River Valley All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
11Johnny Bond Red River Valley History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 9 Amazon
12Roy Rogers & Dale Evans The Old Chisholm Trail 16 Great Songs Of The Old West Amazon
13Ken Curtis & The Sons of the Pioneers Home On The Range The Cowboy Album Amazon
14Ken Maynard Home On The Range When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
15Judy Canova Along The Navajo Trail (Radio) Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1 Amazon
16The Sons Of The Pioneers Along The Santa Fe Trail Sons Of The Pioneers Amazon
17Rex Allen Riding Down To Mexico The Last of The Great Singing Cowboys Amazon
18Johnny Bond Goodbye Old Paint Standard Transcriptions Amazon
19Cisco Houston I Ride An Old Paint The Folkways Years: 1944-1961 Amazon
20Michael Martin Murphey I Ride An Old Paint/Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo/Git Along Little Doggies Cowboy Songs Amazon
21Eddy Arnold Cattle Call Stampede! Western Music's Late Golden Era Amazon
22Roy Rogers & The Sons Of The Pioneers Blue Shadows On The Trail (From Walt Disney's "Melody Time") Country Legends Amazon
23Ken Maynard Lone Star Trail Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots Amazon
24Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) Strawberry Roan Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58 Amazon
25Wilmer Watts And The Lonely Eagles Sleepy Desert Gastonia Gallop – Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931 Amazon
26Carson Robison's Buckaroos Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots Amazon
27Crowder Brothers Wild West Rambler When I Was A Cowboy: Early American Songs Of The West, Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's. Vol. 1 Amazon
28Powder River Jack, Kitty Lee Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail When I Was A Cowboy: Early American Songs Of The West, Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's. Vol. 1 Amazon
29Jimmie Driftwood Billy The Kid Americana, Vol. 2 Amazon
30Don Edwards Sam Bass Saddle Songs (1 of 2) Amazon
31The Light Crust Doughboys Oh Susannah Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp) Amazon
32Tex Ritter My Darling Clementine Have I Stayed Away Too Long Amazon
33Tex Ritter Chisholm Trail High Noon Amazon
34Roy Rogers & Dale Evans The Streets Of Laredo 16 Great Songs Of The Old West Amazon
35Roy Rogers & Dale Evans With Frank Worth & His Orchestra Happy Trails Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3] Amazon

Songs of John Hiatt

From the ‘pink bedroom’ and edgy alternative to blues and country, R&B and everything in between…John Hiatt’s catalog of recordings is only surpassed by the library of his songs penned over the past fifty years. We’ll take a look back, primarily focusing on covers from his contemporaries; names like Rosanne Cash, Iggy Pop, Bonnie Raitt, Carrie Rodriguez, and Buddy Guy are but just a small sampling of the performers we’ll hear from on another Friday evening on Sonoma County community radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2John Hiatt Crossing Muddy Waters Crossing Muddy Waters Amazon
3Buddy Guy Feels Like Rain Feels Like Rain Amazon
4Emmylou Harris Icy Blue Heart Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
5Rosanne Cash The Way We Make a Broken Heart Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
6Jo-El Sonnier I'll Never Get Over You Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
7Flaco Jiminez Across The Borderline featuring John Hiatt (Album Version) Partners Amazon
8Terrance Simien It Hasn't Happened Yet Rollin' into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
9Carrie Rodriguez Big Love Love and Circumstances Amazon
10Rosanne Cash It Hasn't Happened Yet Retrospective Amazon
11John Hiatt Cry Love Walk On Amazon
12Kelly Willis Drive South Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
13Bonnie Raitt Lover's Will [Radio Edit Version] The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003 [US] Amazon
14Commander Cody Commander Cody-Tennessee Plates Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers Amazon
15Gregg Allman Memphis in the Meantime Searching for Simplicity Amazon
16Marshall Crenshaw Someplace Where Love Can't Find Me Good Evening Amazon
17Nick Lowe She Don't Love Nobody Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
18Dave Edmunds I Got Your Number Closer to the Flame Amazon
19Iggy Pop Something Wild Brick by Brick Amazon
20Mitch Ryder Where Is the Next One Coming From? Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
21Asleep at the Wheel This Is the Way We Make a Broken Heart Pasture Prime Amazon
22Rodney Crowell She Loves the Jerk Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
23Rosanne Cash Pink Bedroom Retrospective Amazon
24John Hiatt Your Love Is My Rest Walk On Amazon
25Joe Cocker Have a Little Faith in Me Ultimate Collection Amazon
26John Hiatt Real Fine Love Stolen Moments Amazon
27The Band Bound By Love Jubilation Amazon
28John Hiatt Master of Disaster [2005] Master of Disaster Amazon

Back on the Farm

The farmer, the farm, and songs of farming are at the core of this week’s theme show. Whether the songs’ focus is that of the hard-working folk of the farm, the raw materials, or the nostalgic reminders of life on the farm, we’ll push forward the playlist plough and take you to the barn for an early morning celebration with performers including bluegrass from James King, gritty Americana from Levon Helm and Bill Neely, core country from Bobby Bare and Porter Wagoner, or maybe some field recordings from the 20s featuring the likes of the Carolina Tar Heels…all of this music going Back On The Farm.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard Farmer's Blues Country Music Amazon
3Freeman Stowers Sunrise On The Farm Sinners and Saints: Complete Recorded Works 1926-1931 Amazon
4Bill Frisell Farmer Disfarmer Amazon
5Levon Helm Poor Old Dirt Farmer Dirt Farmer Amazon
6Bill Neely Black Land Farmer 16 Down Home Country Classics Amazon
7James King Thirty Years of Farming Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
8Junior Sisk with Becky Isaacs Bowman and Sonya Isaacs Yeary The Wheat Crop Mac Wiseman – I Sang The Song Amazon
9Lemuel Jones Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers) Field Recordings, Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941) Amazon
10Peter Rowan Let the Harvest Go To Seed Bluegrass Boy Amazon
11Carolina Tar Heels Got The Farm Land Blues Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
12Cisco Houston Farmer's Lament The Folkways Years: 1944-1961 Amazon
13J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers (With Morris Herbert) 17 Living On The Farm The Legendry J.E. Mainer, Volume 4 Amazon
14Walter Brennan Old Rivers Old Rivers Amazon
15The Bently Boys Down On Penny's Farm Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
16Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur Down on Penny's Farm Penny's Farm Amazon
17The Four Wanderers Farmer's Life For Me Black Vocal Groups Vol. 9 (1929-1942) Amazon
18Ben & Ellen Harper Farmer's Daughter Childhood Home Amazon
19Bobby Bare The Farmer Feeds Us All Hard Time Hungrys Amazon
20Porter Wagoner The Farmer and the Lord 20 All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
21Paula Brown Farm Hollers Hollerin' Amazon
22Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers McDonald's Farm (1928) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 Amazon
23Bubby Bishop I Want To Go Back To The Farm The Great Vintage Country Amazon
24Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) On A Little Two Acre Farm Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58 Amazon
25Goose Island Ramblers I Worked For a Farmer Polkabilly Amazon
26Buster Carter & Preston Young A Lazy Farmer Boy Before The Blues Vol. 3 Amazon
27Rosetta Howard Plow Hand Blues [Album Version] Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950 Amazon
28Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail Amazon
29Fiddlin' John Carson Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All [Remastered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
30Ray Wylie Hubbard After the Harvest Crusades of the Restless Nights Amazon
31Dry Branch Fire Squad Devil, Take The Farmer 481 Bluegrass Class of 1990 Amazon
32Glen Campbell Arkansas Farmboy Adios Amazon
33Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies When It's Harvest Time, Sweet Angeline Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin' Amazon
34Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs With Mother Maybelle Carter The Homestead On The Farm [Album Version] Songs Of The Famous Carter Family Amazon

Below the Mason-Dixon Line

Songs that highlight the states below the ‘line’ of intransigence. Portions are better known as Dixie, others (like Florida and Texas) appear as appendages or after-market expanses. The music this evening will explore songs of Louisiana from Doug Kershaw, Texas from Asleep at the Wheel, Alabama from Mance Lipscomb, and West Virginia featuring Louis Jordan. There’s a whole lot more including Taj Mahal, Bill Kirchen, The Louvin Brothers and Pokey LaFarge; all on a journey through a collection of states that two surveyors by the name of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, in an attempt to resolve a dispute, attached their names to in the late 18th century.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Jimmie Rodgers Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5] Amazon
3Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton Down In Florida On A Hog Darby & Tarlton – Disc A (Atlanta 1927-29) Amazon
4Muddy Waters Deep Down In Florida #2 King Bee Amazon
5Claire Lynch My Florida Sunshine Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1 Amazon
6The Swe-Danes Georgia Camp Meeting New Discgems From Warner Brothers Amazon
7Dave Van Ronk Georgia Camp Meeting Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers Amazon
8Alex Campbell, Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby Bringing in the Georgia Mail Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line Amazon
9Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers Georgia Boogie Travellin' Boogie Amazon
10Guy Clark Virginia's Real Texas Cookin' Amazon
11The Carter Family Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 3] Amazon
12Al Bowlly My Sweet Virginia Just A Bowl Of Cherries Amazon
13Ethel Waters I'm Coming Virginia On Stage And Screen 1925 – 1940 Amazon
14Hazel Dickens West Virginia, My Home Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records [Disc 1] Amazon
15Louis Jordan Salt Pork, West Virginia The Chronological Louis Jordan 1945-1946 Amazon
16Dr. Horse South Poke West Virginia Harlem Rock N' Blues Amazon
17Mance Lipscomb Alabama Bound Ash Grove 12/6/1964 Amazon
18Evan Marshall The Alabama Jubilee Mandolin Magic Amazon
19The Louvin Brothers Alabama Hand-Picked Amazon
20Neil Young/Stray Gators Alabama Harvest Amazon
21Jimmie Driftwood Arkansas Traveler Americana, Vol. 1 Amazon
22Carolina Cotton Three Miles South Of Cash (In Arkansas) Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music CD [Disc 2, "Arkansas Masters"] Amazon
23Bill Kirchen Arkansas Diamond (Album) Word To The Wise Amazon
24Taj Mahal Texas Woman Blues The Essential [Disc 1] Amazon
25Asleep at the Wheel Miles and Miles of Texas The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970 Amazon
26Tommy Duncan Texas Moon Texas Moon Amazon
27Tony Rice He Rode All the Way to Texas Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection Amazon
28Waylon Jennings Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) The Essential Waylon Jennings [2007] Disc 2 Amazon
29Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Going Back To Louisiana Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans Amazon
30Doug Kershaw Louisiana Man Diggy Diggy Lo Amazon
31Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Mississippi Girl Middle of Everywhere Amazon
32Nina Simone Mississippi Goddam Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
33Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra Mississippi Mud Paper Moon Amazon
34The Andrew Sisters When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabama Double Goldies [CD1] Amazon

The Hangman’s Rope

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.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Johnny Cash I Hung My Head American IV: Man Comes Around Amazon
3Gurf Morlix Theyre Hangin Me Tonight The Executioner's Last Songs, Volume 3 Amazon
4Johnny Bond At Dawn I Die The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
5Marty Robbins The Hanging Tree All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
6Peter, Paul & Mary Hangman See What Tomorrow Brings Amazon
7Marty Stuart Hangman Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions Amazon
8Ralston Bowles and May Erlewine-Bernard Hangman Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie Amazon
9Cowboy Copas Hangman Boogie Hillbilly Boogie Box [Disc 4] Amazon
10The Pine Valley Cosmonauts & Puerto Muerto The Hangman's Song The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. 1 Amazon
11Al Dean Hangman The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
12Leadbelly Gallows Pole Too Late, Too Late – Vol. 12 – 1917-48 Amazon
13Furry Lewis Judge Harsh Blues Furry Lewis 1927 – 1929 Amazon
14Brownie McGhee Hangman's Blues The Folkways Years (1945-1959) Amazon
15Blind Lemon Jefferson Hangman's Blues Complete Recordings Vol. 3 Amazon
16Blind Lemon Jefferson Electric Chair Blues Images Presents 1920's Blues Classics, Vol. 13 Amazon
17Lonesome Johnny Death Row The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
18Jimmy Minor Death Row The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
19Porter Wagoner (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
20Dave Alvin Sonora's Death Row West of the West Amazon
21Lee Hazelwood The Girl On Death Row Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2 Amazon
22Johnny Cash The Mercy Seat American III: Solitary Man Amazon
23Bessie Smith Send Me To The Lectric Chair Empress Of The Blues Volume 2: 1926-1933 (CD A, 1926-1928) Amazon
24Booker T. & the MG's Hang 'Em High The Very Best of Booker T. & the MG's Amazon
25Hoyle Miller Twelve Years On Death Row The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
26Steve Earle Walking Down Death Row If I Had A Song: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2 Amazon
27The Blue Sky Boys Story Of The Knoxville Girl Absolutely Bluegrass Amazon
28Bob Dylan Seven Curses The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 [Disc 2] Amazon
29Joan Baez Geordie The First 10 Years Amazon
30The Pine Valley Cosmonauts & Dean Schlabowske Gary Gilmore's Eyes The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. 1 Amazon

High Water Everywhere

And the topic of this episode will be natural disasters. Namely…floods. Timeless events and timeless music. Dave Stroud will share in-depth blues about rising waters, country music about the terror brought to us by Mother Nature, featuring Dave Alvin, James McMurtry, Whispering Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, and Lonnie Johnson…to mention but a few. Our show will focus on music that tells a story, because that’s what we find best in the tradition of Americana roots.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Johnny Cash Five Feet High And Rising Songs Of Our Soil Amazon
3Charley Patton High Water Everywhere Part 1 People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature Amazon
4Bob Dylan High Water (For Charley Patton) Love and Theft Amazon
5Ramblin' Jack Elliott Rising High Water Blues A Stranger Here Amazon
6Blind Lemon Jefferson Rising High Water Blues (Pm 12487, 4491-5) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) Amazon
7Tom Rush Galveston Flood The Very Best Of Tom Rush: No Regrets Amazon
8Whispering Smith Storm in Texas aka Texas Flood Swamp Blues Amazon
9Lonnie Johnson Broken Levee Blues Hot Fingers Amazon
10Lonnie Johnson Flood Water Blues Tomorrow Night Amazon
11Sippie Wallace The Flood Blues ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 48 Amazon
12Bessie Smith Back Water Blues Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 1] Amazon
13Ruby Gowdy Florida Flood Blues Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 6 Amazon
14Carl Martin High Water Flood Blues Carl Martin, Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan, Willie "61" Blackwell — Complete Recorded Works Amazon
15Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe When The Levee Breaks 24 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's 2015 Amazon
16Robert Hicks Mississippi Heavy Water Blues People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature Amazon
17Fiddlin' John Carson Storm That Struck Miami People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature Amazon
18Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys Flood Of '57 Classic Bluegrass Amazon
19Happy Traum Crash on the Levee Down in the Flood (feat. Justin Guip, Adam Traum & Byron Isaacs) Just For the Love Of It Amazon
20James McMurtry Hurricane Party Just Us Kids Amazon
21Charlie Haden Is This America? (Katrina 2005) Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
22Dave Alvin Southern Flood Blues Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy Amazon
23Roomful Of Blues Texas Flood The First Album Amazon
24Larry Davis Texas Flood Bob Dylan: Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 5 [Disc 4] Amazon
25Randy Newman & The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra With Members Of The New York Philharmonic Louisiana 1927 Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album Amazon
26Davell Crawford Gather By The River Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album Amazon
27The Tex-I-An Boys Wasn't That A Mighty Storm? Classic American Ballads From Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
28Johnny Cash Big River Get Rhythm [Sun] Amazon
29Leon Russell A Mighty Flood A Mighty Flood Amazon

Free Form – June 2017

We’re going to mix it up this week on Deeper Roots in a regular free form show featuring music that runs the gamut. We’ll hear from Doug Sahm and Arthur Alexander, John Fogerty and Betty Wright, Memphis Minnie and Guy Lombardo, as well as a track from the late Gregg Allman. The topics will range anywhere from bad blood and bad boys to good news and bad news on a fresh collection of the vintage, on KOWS radio: Free Speech. No Bull. Community Radio for West Sonoma County.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Gregg Allman I Believe I'll Go Back Home Low Country Blues Amazon
3Betty Wright He's Bad Bad Bad The Best of Betty Wright Amazon
4Derailers Bad, Bad Girl Guaranteed to Satisfy Amazon
5Doug Sahm Bad Boy The Last Real Texas Blues Band Feat. Doug Sahm Amazon
6Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Bad Blood Cripple Creek Amazon
7Blind Lemon Jefferson Bad Luck Blues Classic Sides Disc 1 Amazon
8John Fogerty Bad Moon Rising The Long Road Home: Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection Amazon
9Johnny Cash Bad News The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 2 Amazon
10Amy Helm Good News Didn't It Rain Amazon
11Cris Cuddy Good Bad News Sally's Waltz Amazon
12Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Good News Saturday Night / Sunday Morning Amazon
13George Olsen Good News Beyond The Blue Horizon Amazon
14Fats Domino Bad Luck and Trouble Fats Domino Out of New Orleans Amazon
15Sister Rosetta Tharpe What's That News The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3] Amazon
16Marvin Gaye What's The Matter With You Baby Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
17Memphis Minnie What's The Matter With The Mill? 21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10 Amazon
18Frank Stokes What's The Matter Blues Broke, Black & Blue [Disc 1] : Up Country Blues Amazon
19The Sunshine Boys What's the Matter With Deep Elem The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys – Oakie Boogie [Disc 4] Amazon
20Joe Liggins What's The Reason (1949) The Chronological Joe Liggins 1948 – 1950 Amazon
21Guy Lombardo What's The Reason (I'm Not Pleasin' You) Enjoy Yourself: The Hits Of Guy Lombardo Amazon
22The Mills Brothers What's The Reason (I'm Not Pleasin' You?) The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 3 Amazon
23Johnny Burnette With The Johnny Mann Singers You're The Reason 25 Greatest Hits Amazon
24Arthur Alexander You're The Reason The Greatest Hits Amazon
25Willie Nelson Reasons To Quit One Hell Of A Ride Amazon
26Tim Hardin Reason To Believe Best Of The Troubadours Amazon
27Django Reinhardt Believe It, Beloved The Classic Early Recordings In Chronological Order [Disc 1] Amazon
28Fern Jones I Do Believe The Glory Road Amazon
29Dan Hicks You Gotta Believe [Album Version] The Most Of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
30John Stewart She Believes In Me California Bloodlines Amazon
31The Louvin Brothers Making Believe Close Harmony [Disc 3] Amazon
32The Haden Triplets Making Believe The Haden Triplets Amazon
33Matt Urmy We Must Believe in Magic (feat. Cowboy Jack Clement) Out of the Ashes Amazon
34Neil Young I Believe in You After the Gold Rush Amazon
35Rick Nelson Believe What You Say Legacy [Disc 1] Amazon