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Political Science

July 28, 2018 Dave

The winds of social change become the storm from every direction when authoritarianism, tyranny, and facism begin to take shape. And music has always played a part when speaking truth to power. The most important role of an American citizen is to vote. There is no greater enemy than apathy. The songs we share on Deeper Roots today focus on Civil Rights, war for the cause of oil, voting as voice, and the fight for power in the New World Order. Tune in for performances from Phil Ochs, Ben Harper, Drive-By Truckers, Roy Zimmerman, and Iris DeMent on a show that explores some political science in harmony, vocals, and melodies to make a stand.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Roy Zimmerman	Real America	Real American
3	Jackson Browne	The Dreamer	The Dreamer
4	Steve Earle with Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark	16 Immigrant Eyes	Together at The Bluebird Cafe
5	Steve Earle	City Of Immigrants (With Forro In The Dark)	Washington Square Serenade
6	Roy Zimmerman	My Vote My Voice My Right	The Faucet's On Fire
7	Phil Ochs	I Ain't Marching Anymore	There But for Fortune
8	The Byrds	Draft Morning	The Notorious Byrd Brothers
9	Barry McGuire	Eve of Destruction	Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1965
10	Bruce Cockburn	If I Had A Rocket Launcher	Waiting For A Miracle: Singles 1970-1987
11	Randy Newman	Political Science	The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1
12	Joan Baez	The President Sang Amazing Grace	Whistle Down the Wind
13	Drive-By Truckers	What It Means	American Band
14	Drive-By Truckers	Guns Of Umpqua	American Band
15	Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals	Call It What It Is	Call It What It Is
16	Mavis Staples	We Go High	If All I Was Was Black
17	Sam Cooke	A Change Is Gonna Come	Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
18	C.O.R.E. Freedom Singers	Get Your Rights, Jack	Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles)
19	Nina Simone	To Be Young, Gifted And Black	Forever Young, Gifted & Black: Songs Of Freedom And Spirit
20	The Staple Singers	Freedom Highway	Freedom Highway
21	The Almanac Singers	Dear Mr. President	Woody Guthrie And American Folk Giants
22	Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land	American Roots Music [Disc 3]
23	Joan Baez	I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill	Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 4]
24	Marvin Gaye	Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Marvin Gaye, Vol. 2
25	Randy Newman	Every Man a King	Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1
26	Randy Newman	Rednecks	Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1
27	The Blind Boys of Alabama	Pray for Peace	Almost Home
28	Public Enemy	Fight The Power	Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music

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Tell Old Bill

July 14, 2018 Dave

We’ve got another free form collection of sounds for a Friday in Sonoma County. The July heat has us moving a little slower as everything around us appears to move at breakneck speed. So the idea is to help us find our center and we do that with sounds from the islands with Joe Keawe and Arthur Lyman, soul from the heart by Solomon Burke and Betty Everett, and some tradition with a mix of Johnny Cash, Ry Cooder, and Bob Wills. We find our muse throughout with David Lindley and El Rayo-X. Join us.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Dave Van Ronk	Tell Old Bill	Down In Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
3	K.C. Douglas	Mercury Blues	Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways
4	Jackson Browne & David Lindley	Mercury Blues	Love Is Strange [Disc 1]
5	Warren Zevon	Gorilla, You're A Desperado	I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (An Anthology) [Disc 1]
6	Billy Butler & The Enchanters	I Can't Work No Longer	Kent's Cellar Of Soul: Volume 2
7	The Temptations	Papa Was A Rollin' Stone	Anthology, Vol. 2 [Disc 2]
8	Chris Barber's Jazz Band	Petite Fleur (Little FLower)	Your Hit Parade -1959
9	Joanie Sommers	Johnny Get Angry	Gems from the Warner Brothers Vault (Pt. 1)
10	Arthur Lyman Group	Maui Chimes	The Best of the Arthur Lyman Group
11	Sol K. Bright's Hollywaiians	Tomi Tomi	Vintage Hawaiian Music: The Great Singers 1928 – 1934
12	Joe Keawe	My Little Grass Shack	Hapa-Haole Hawaiian Hula Classics – Vintage Hawaiian Treasures: Vol. I
13	Dave Van Ronk	My Little Grass Shack (In Kealakekua, Hawaii)	A Chrestomathy [Disc 2]
14	Ry Cooder	Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)	Jazz (Remaster 2013)
15	Rhiannon Giddens	Up Above My Head	Tomorrow Is My Turn
16	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Singing in My Soul	The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3]
17	Etta James	Something's Got a Hold on Me	Chess Blues Disc 4
18	Betty Everett	You're No Good	Something's Got A Hold On Me
19	Solomon Burke	If You Need Me	Very Best of Solomon Burke (Reis)
20	The Impressions	Gypsy Woman	Hit The Road Jack: The ABC-Paramount Story
21	Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns	Tu-Ber-Cu-Lucas And The Sinus Blues	Having A Good Time with Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns – The Very Best Of, Volume 1
22	Wild Tchoupitoulas	Brother John	Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan – Season 3 [[Disc 2]]
23	Nappy Brown	Goody Goody Gum Drop	Night Time Is the Right Time [Disc 1]
24	Johnny Cash	Understand Your Man	16 Biggest Hits
25	Johnny Cash	Cindy[w. Nick Cave]	Unearthed Vol 3 – Redemption Songs
26	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Get Along Home, Cindy	Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 8
27	The Louvin Brothers	I Wonder Where You Are Tonight	Close Harmony [Disc 3]
28	Jimmy Dean	Big Bad John (Uncensored Version)	Best of Answer Songs vol 3
29	Big Brother & the Holding Company/Janis Joplin	Bye Bye Baby	Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits
30	Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers	Get Along Home, Miss Cindy	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
31	David Lindley & El Rayo-X	Texas Tango	Very Greasy
32	David Lindley	Mercury Blues	El Rayo-X

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Carl Sandburg’s Songbag

July 7, 2018 Dave

Published in 1927, populist poet Carl Sandburg’s anthology of American folksongs was in print for over 70 years. It influenced generations of musicians and is a cornerstone in the foundation of American folk and tradition. Sandburg himself described it as a “ragbag of stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth…rich with the diversity of the United States.” Today’s show pulls samples from the book featuring performances by Dan Zanes, Bob Dylan, The Weavers, The Blue Sky Boys, and David Rawlings. True Americana from the deeper wells of America’s music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Zora Layman & The Hometowners	When The Curtains Of The Night Are Pinned Back By The Stars	Howdy! 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats
3	Johnny Cash	The Streets of Laredo	Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 2]
4	Sons of the Pioneers	Lone Star Trail	Songs of the Prairie – CD2
5	Tex Ritter	Whoopee Ti Yi Yo (Git Along Little Dogies)	Have I Stayed Away Too Long
6	The Weavers	Get Along Little Dogies	The Weavers Almanac
7	Woody Guthrie	Buffalo Skinners (traditional, arr. Woody Guthrie)	Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection [Disc 2]
8	Oscar Brand	The Tenderfoot	Pie In The Sky
9	The Blue Sky Boys	Trail To Mexico	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 1]
10	Marc Williams	The Little Old Sod Shanty On My Claim	Howdy! 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats
11	Mac Wiseman	Turkey In The Straw	Sings Old Time Country Favorites
12	The Blue Sky Boys	Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet	Presenting The Blue Sky Boys
13	Dan Zanes	I Was Born Almost Ten Thousand Years Ago	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
14	Dan Zanes	California	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
15	Hylo Brown	Sweet Betsy From Pike	Legends & Tall Tales
16	BR5-49	Sweet Betsy from Pike	Song of America
17	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot	This Lusty Land
18	Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers	The Old Gray Mare	And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 2
19	David Rawlings	Money Is the Meat in the Coconut	Poor David's Almanack
20	Kilby Snow	Chicken Reel (Folk)	Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp
21	The Everly Brothers	Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet	Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
22	Carolina Chocolate Drops	Sourwood Mountain	Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind
23	Molly Mason & Jay Ungar	The Lover's Lament	The Lovers' Waltz
24	Marty Robbins	Red River Valley	All-Time Greatest Hits
25	Dick Curless	Red River Valley	A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD2 (1950-1969)
26	The Doc Watson Family	One Morning In May	Tradition
27	Dave Van Ronk	Kentucky Moonshiner	Inside Dave Van Ronk
28	Otis Redding	Down In The Valley	Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology [Disc 1]
29	Slim Whitman	Down In The Valley	Country Greats #2
30	Bob Dylan	Froggie Went A-Courtin'	Good As I Been To You
31	Tex Ritter	Froggie Went A-Courtin'	Singing In The Saddle
32	Dan Zanes	The Monkey's Wedding	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
33	Doc Watson	The Ship That Never Returned	My Dear Old Southern Home
34	Hank Penny	It Ain't Gonna Rain No More	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1]

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Springtime in Alaska

June 2, 2018 Dave

Winsome sounds from every corner, opening with Johnny Horton and closing somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line with the soul of Barbara Lynn. Today’s show reaches into the jazz bins for something new and old…a Duke Ellington cover by Wynton Marsalis; gospel covers by Nick Lowe, tradition from Bill Monroe, and Johnny Cash along with a number of so-called Cash-a-likes. It’s a free form collection in our Friday morning show from West County. So what’s it all got to do with Alaska, you ask. Not much, only a great song name to suggest cool music and a Friday full of colorful music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Johnny Horton	When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)	Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (2 of 2)
3	Bobby Bare	Delia's Gone (1965)	All American Boy – CD 4
4	Josh White, Jr.	Delia's Gone	Classic African-American Ballads (Smithsonian Folkways)
5	David Johansen & The Harry Smiths	Delia	David Johansen and the Harry Smiths
6	Waylon Jennings	Cedartown Georgia	Singles
7	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	In The Pines	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – Best Of Bluegrass
8	Marty Robbins	Big Iron	All-Time Greatest Hits
9	John Prine	The Lonesome Friends Of Science	The Tree Of Forgiveness
10	Spuyten Duyvil	The Cruel War	Social Hour Music
11	Madam Edna Gallmon Cooke & The Mount Vernon Men's Choir	Angels, Angels, Angels	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
12	Nick Lowe	Children Go Where I Send Thee	Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection For All The Family
13	Sons Of South	Didn't It Rain Children	The Best Of Nashboro Gospel
14	Gospel Creators	I'm a Child of My God	This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
15	The Blind Boys Of Alabama	Atom Bomb	Atom Bomb
16	The Impressions with the Riley Hampton Orchestra	Shorty's Got To Go	Bandera Doo Wop
17	Ella Mae Morse	Smack Dab In The Middle	Best Of The Rockabilly Rockin' Years
18	Big Bill Broonzy	You've Changed	Four Classic Albums
19	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Junco Partner	Louis Jordan: Let the Good Times Roll – The Anthology 1938-1953
20	Dr. John	Somebody Changed The Lock	Definitive Pop Collection
21	Wynton Marsalis Septet	Creole Love Call	United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas
22	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Creole Love Call	Jazz in the Charts – Disc 7 – 1928
23	Carlos Zuleta Y Su Conjunto "El Abuelo"	Los Bomberos (Cha Cha Cha)	Vintage Cuba Selection from EPs Collectors
24	Johnny Cash	Waiting For A Train	Unearthed, Vol.1: Who's Gonna Cry
25	Johnny Doe	Devil Train	Cash-A-Likes
26	Bobby Wayne	Big Train	Cash-A-Likes
27	Dane Stinit	Muddy Ole River [Near Memphis Tennessee]	Original Sun Recordings
28	Fred Carter	(You'll Have To) Come And Get It	Boppin' By The Bayou – Baby Dolls & Drive-Ins
29	Elvis Presley	King Creole	2nd To None
30	Jean Wells	Your Lovin's Got The Best Of Me (John Morales Mix)	Soul On Soul – Deluxe Edition
31	Little Esther Phillips	Better Beware	Heart to Heart
32	The Chantels	Maybe	The Best of the Chantels
33	Barbara Lynn	Nice And Easy	A Good Woman: The Complete Tribe & Jet Stream Singles 1966-1979
34	Joan Baez	The President Sang Amazing Grace	Whistle Down the Wind

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Through the Bluegrass

May 5, 2018 Dave

Springtime sounds from classic corners this week. Now, we all know that real bluegrass is green but, like the music’s own origins which are steeped in gospel, blues, and tradition, we overlook the formalities and accept the generalities’. This week’s Deeper Roots will take a journey with the greats (Ralph Stanley, Ricky Skaggs, and The Monroe Brothers to name a few) while also tipping our hats to the new-grass sounds of David Thom, Sam Bush, Tony Furtado, and Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms. We offer different takes outside the lines including some Charlie Haden and Brennen Leigh. A Friday morning celebration of the old home place and the little white church where traditional rings … coming to you from Bodega Bay: KWTF Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Whites	Used To Be	Songs of Bill Monroe
3	Rhonda Vincent	Lonesome Wind Blues	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
4	Hazel Dickens	I Can't Find Your Love Any More	O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
5	Hazel Dickens, Carol Elizabeth Jones & Ginny Hawker	Love Me or Leave Me Alone	Heart of a Singer
6	Brennen Leigh	North To Alaska	Too Thin To Plow
7	Charlie Haden	Road Of Broken Hearts	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
8	The Rice Brothers	Grapes On the Vine	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
9	Ricky Skaggs	I Hope You've Learned	Bluegrass Rules!
10	Tony Furtado	Man of Constant Sorrow	Long Journey Home: Songs of the Stanley Brothers
11	The David Thom Band	The Little White Church	That Old Familiar
12	Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas	Big Mon	True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
13	David Grisman, Peter Rowan	Travelin' This Lonesome Road	True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
14	Bill Monroe & Kenny Baker	Jerusalem's Ridge	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
15	The Monroe Brothers	Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy	What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul? Volume One
16	Ralph Stanley	Dad's Old Rocky Field	Old Songs & Ballads
17	The Gentlemen of Bluegrass	Old Old House	Carolina Memories
18	Jim & Jesse	Long Journey Home	Long Journey Home: Songs of the Stanley Brothers
19	The David Thom Band	Home Is Where The Heart Is	That Old Familiar
20	David Grisman, John Hartford & Mike Seeger	The Old Home Place	Retrograss
21	Morris Brothers	Salty Dog Blues	Legends Of Bluegrass [Disc 3]
22	Kenny Baker/Bobby Osborne	Sally Ann	World's Greatest Country Fiddlers
23	Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt	Randy Lynn Rag	The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2)
24	Doc Watson	Shady Grove	The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968
25	Ralph Stanley	The Fields Have Turned Brown	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
26	Laurie Lewis	Tall Pines	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
27	Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms	Montana Cowboy	Innocent Road
28	Lynn Morris Band	The Bramble and the Rose	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
29	Alison Krauss & Union Station	So Long So Wrong	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
30	Ricky Skaggs	Lost And I'll Never Find The Way	Bluegrass Mountain Style
31	Don Stover	Paddy On The Turnpike	Things In Life
32	Grandpa Jones	Mountain Dew	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2]
33	Jimmy Martin	You Don't Know My Mind	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]

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Ships Upon the Sea

April 28, 2018 Dave

A wayfaring lot…music that touches on seafaring tragedies, punctuated by the loss of that most famous of them all: the HMS Titanic. This week’s show will focus on music that commemorated the ships that were lost at sea; tragedies that were headlines around the world; songs of the seafaring life and the sailors and crew that were a part of it. The stories are told in songs from the wells of tradition. We’ll hear from Frank Hutchison, Papa Harvey Hull, Pink Anderson, The Dillards and Dan Zanes. We’ll also hear some classic maritime music from the Smithsonian catalogs. Blues, country, folk, and so much more…all celebrating those ships upon the sea and the ones we lost along the way.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bob Gibson	Titanic	Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson
3	Rory Block	Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down)	Confessions of A Blues Singer
4	Pink Anderson	The Ship Titanic	Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs
5	Charley Jordan	Titanic Blues	Charley Jordan Volume 2 1931-1934
6	Hi Henry Brown	Titanic Blues	21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10
7	Bessie Jones And Group	The Titanic	Alan Lomax Collection Sampler
8	Papa Harvey Hull & "Long Cleve" Reed	Sinking Of The Titanic	Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
9	Richard (Rabbit) Brown	Sinking Of The Titanic	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
10	Lead Belly	Titanic	The Definitive Leadbelly [Disc 3] – Leaving Blues
11	Frank Hutchison	The Last Scene Of The Titanic	If You Take Me Back
12	Clyde Spencer And Harry Fannin	The Sinking Of The Titanic	Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 [Disc 1]
13	Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton	After The Sinking Of The Titanic	On The Banks Of A Lonely River
14	Roy Acuff	The Great Titanic	compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com
15	Woody Guthrie	When That Great Ship Went Down	This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1
16	Ralph Stanley	Storms Are On The Ocean [Album Version]	A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
17	Gordon Lightfoot	The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald	Songbook [Box Set] Disc 3
18	Jimmie Driftwood	The Ship That Never Returned	Americana, Vol. 3
19	Little Jimmy Dickens	When The Ship Hit The Sand	The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
20	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	The Sinking of the Ruben James	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
21	June Carter Cash	Sinking in the Lonesome Sea	Wildwood Flower
22	Ashley Monroe	The Storms Are On The Ocean	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
23	Cowboy Copas	A Thousand Miles of Ocean	Settin' Flat On Ready
24	Red Allen	Out on the Ocean	Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings
25	The Country Gentlemen	Take Me In A Lifeboat	The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2]
26	Dan Zanes	Across The Western Ocean	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
27	The Dicey Doh Singers	The Sloop John B.	Classic Maritime Music
28	Sam Eskin	Clear Away the Track and Let the Bullgine Run	Classic Maritime Music
29	Henry Morrison & St. Simon's Island Singers	I'm Gonna Sail Like A Ship On The Ocean	Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals
30	Louis Prima & Keely Smith	Barnacle Bill The Sailor	Breaking It Up!

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Devils and Angels

April 21, 2018 Dave

The devil is, indeed, an angel…albeit a fallen one. And the music we’ll be sharing this morning with our West County audience will take note of that fact with sounds that feature modern Americana as well as early to mid-century country sounds. Tune in to KOWS radio every Friday morning at 9 Pacific for the very best in roots sounds…and this week is no different: modern Americana from Rob Ickes and The Devil Makes Three, mid-century country from Cowboy Copas and Lefty Frizzell, as well as some wild-eyed worship pieces from The Sunshine Boys, Benny Joy, and Margie Singleton (who performs the infamous “Jesus is My Pusher”). Just for you. Just in time for a springtime April morning.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Sunshine Boys	We Need A Whole Lot More Of Jesus (And A Lot Less Rock And Roll)	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
3	Ray Wylie Hubbard	Lucifer And The Fallen Angels	Tell The Devil I'm Getting There As Fast As I Can
4	Bobby McMillon	The Devil Song (Child 275)	Art of Field Recording: Volume II – Disc 1: Survey
5	Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley	Friend Of The Devil	The Country Blues
6	Julie Miller	The Devil Is an Angel	Blue Pony
7	Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama	The Devil Ain't Lazy	Reinventing the Wheel
8	Cowboy Copas	Don't Shake Hands With The Devil	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
9	Powder River Jack, Kitty Lee	Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail	Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
10	James King	The Devil's Train	Three Chords & The Truth
11	Carrie Rodriguez	Devil In Mind	Give Me All You Got
12	Shemekia Copeland	Devil's Hand	Alligator Records 45th Anniversary Collection
13	Rory Block	Devil Got My Woman	Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James
14	The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band	Devils Look Like Angels	Between the Ditches
15	Merle Haggard	Dealing With The Devil	Rainbow Stew – Live
16	Benny Joy	Dark Angel	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
17	Ryan Cain And The Ables	Cupid And The Devil	Cupid And The Devil
18	Lee Ann Womack	Take The Devil Out Of Me	The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
19	Lefty Frizzell	From an Angel to a Devil	Life's Like Poetry (Disc 4)
20	The Devil Makes Three	What Would You Give (In Exchange for Your Soul)	Redemption & Ruin
21	Willie Nelson	Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down	Country Music
22	Robert Plant	Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down	Band Of Joy
23	Margie Singleton	Jesus Is My Pusher	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
24	Eddie Noack	Psycho	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
25	The Treniers	Devil's Mambo	They Rock! They Roll! They Swing!
26	Billy Barton	The Devil, My Conscience And I	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
27	Peter Rowan	Pulling The Devil By the Tail	Reggaebilly
28	Coleman Brothers	Get Away, Mr. Satan, Get Away	Hot Harmony Groups 1941-1949: Vol 3: When the Old Gang
29	Rev W. M. Clark and Sisters	Satan At Church (Pm 12559, 4792-1)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927)

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Free Form – Roll Like a Big Wheel

April 14, 2018 Dave

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.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Joan Osborne	Roll Like A Big Wheel	Bring It On Home
3	The Mills Brothers	Cherry (L. Armstrong)	The Mills Brothers Golden G'ts(3)
4	Les Paul & The Andrews Sisters	Rumors Are Flying (Single Version)	Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2]
5	Louis Jordan	Hungry Man	Jivin' With Jordan
6	Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra	Shout, Brother, Shout – (featuring The Five Tones)	Not So Quiet Please
7	The Prisonaires	Just Walking in the Rain	Sun Ballads 1953-62
8	Mose Allison	Lost Mind	Allison Wonderland Anthology [Disc 1]
9	Dinah Washington	Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?	Verve Unmixed
10	Julia Lee	When Jennie Does That Lowdown Dance	Kansas City Star [Disc 5]
11	Nellie Lutcher	Let Me Tell You 'Bout The Guy	Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 4]
12	Boswell Sisters	Put That Sun Back In the Sky	Boswell Sisters
13	Red Foley & The Andrews Sisters	I Want To Be With You Always	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
14	The Andrews Sisters	Pistol Packin' Mama	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 1]
15	Junior Brown	Where Has All the Money Gone?	Down Home Chrome
16	Merle Haggard	Mama Tried	The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
17	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Down In Mexico	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
18	Santiago Jimenez	Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio	Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 2]
19	Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars	Havana Moon	Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars
20	Levon Helm	Tennessee Jed	Electric Dirt
21	Grateful Dead	Dire Wolf	Workingman's Dead
22	Graham Parker	Sugaree	Your Country
23	Jim Lauderdale	The Night The Moon Fell Down	Carolina Moonshine
24	Jimmy Martin	20/20 Vision	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 1]
25	Hank Williams	Cold, Cold Heart	24 Greatest
26	John Prine	Summers End	The Tree of Forgiveness
27	Billie Holiday	Gloomy Sunday	Ken Burns Jazz
28	Lula Reed	I'll Drown In My Own Tears	The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
29	Effie Smith	Water, Water	The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
30	Mildred Jones	Mr. Thrill	Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett
31	T-Bone Walker	Cold Cold Feeling	Electric Blues – Part 1: Beginnings 1939-1954
32	Jo Stafford	Shrimp Boats	Your Hit Parade – 1951
33	Louis Armstrong	The Music Goes Round And Around [Single Version]	Rhythm Saved The World

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Deeper Mississippi John Hurt

April 7, 2018 Dave

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.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bruce Cockburn	Avalon, My Home Town	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
3	Jesse Colin Young	Creole Belle	Together
4	John Oates	Spike Driver Blues	Arkansas
5	Doc & Merle Watson	Got the Blues (Can't Be Satisfied)	Live & Pickin'
6	Bill Morrissey	Avalon Blues	The Essential Collection
7	Taj Mahal	Frankie And Albert	The Best Of Taj Mahal
8	John Hiatt	I'm Satisfied	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
9	David Johansen	Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me	Shaker
10	Dave Van Ronk	Spike Driver Blues	Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk
11	Rhiannon Giddens	The Angels Laid Him Away	Freedom Highway
12	JL Stiles	Trouble I Had All My Days	Solo Sessions
13	Taj Mahal	Satisfied 'N' Tickled Too	The Essential Taj Mahal
14	Chris Smither	Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt	Honeysuckle Dog
15	John Fahey	Requiem for John Hurt	Essential John Fahey
16	Big Bill Broonzy	Frankie And Johnny	Classic African-American Ballads (Smithsonian Folkways)
17	Ben Harper	Sliding Delta	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
18	Bettye LaVette	Nobody's Dirty Business	American Epic: The Sessions [Disc 2]
19	Mike Dowling	Blue Harvest Blues	The Blues Ain't News
20	Rory Block	Candy Man	Avalon: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
21	Lucinda Williams	Angels Laid Him Away	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
22	Dave Alvin With Dean Schlabowske	Louis Collins	The Executioners Last Songs, Volume 2
23	Mississippi John Hurt	Chicken	Best Of Mississippi John Hurt [Live]
24	John Oates	My Creole Belle	Arkansas
25	Doc & Merle Watson	Stack O'lee	Ballads From Deep Gap
26	Mississippi John Hurt	Avalon Blues	Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings
27	Spuyten Duyvil	Make Me A Pallet	Social Hour Music

Americana, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Fifties Country, Theme Time

Truck Drivin’ Songs

March 3, 2018 Dave

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.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Dick Curless	A Tombstone Every Mile (1)	A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD4 (1950-1969)
3	Red Simpson	Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves	The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
4	Lyle Lovett	The Truck Song	Anthology, Vol. 1: Cowboy Man
5	Joe Ely	White Line Fever	Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
6	Marty Stuart	Truck Drivers' Blues	Nashville Vol. 1: Tear The Woodpile Down
7	Bill Kirchen	Hillbilly Truck Drivin' Man	Tied to the Wheel
8	The Sons Of The Pioneers	Diesel Smoke	Country Legends
9	Burl Ives With Grady Martin & His Slew Foot Five	Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves	Roughneck Blues 1949 – 1956
10	Bill Neely	I'm A Truck Drivin' Daddy	Texas Law & Justice
11	Bob Ensign	Midnight Trucker	Front Porch Pickin': Bluegrass Instrumentals ('60s)
12	Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun	Semi-Truck	Rig Rock Deluxe
13	Red Simpson	Happy Go Lucky Truck Driver	The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
14	Jimmy Martin	Truck Driving Man	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3]
15	Buck Owens	Truck Drivin' Man	Buck 'Em: The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
16	Norton Buffalo	Eighteen Wheels	Lovin' In The Valley Of The Moon
17	Dale Watson	Been A Long Truckin Day	The Trucking Sessions Vol 3
18	Merle Haggard	Truck Driver's Blues	Working In Tennessee
19	Buck Owens	Will There Be Big Rigs In Heaven	Rig Rock Deluxe
20	Dave Dudley	Six Days On The Road	Classic Country
21	Bill Kirchen	Mama Hated Diesels	Seeds and Stems
22	Cliff Bruner & His Boys	Truck Driver's Blues (1939)	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Tobacco State Swing [Disc 3]
23	Jess Willard	Truck Driver's Boogie	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
24	Jimmy Martin	Truck Driver's Queen	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3]
25	Parker Millsap	Truck Stop Gospel	Parker Millsap
26	Asleep at the Wheel/Leon Rausch	Truck Driver's Blues	It's A Good Day
27	Jim Lauderdale	Diesel, Diesel, Diesel	The Other Sessions
28	Leon Russell	Truck Drivin' Man	Hank Wilson's Back [Bonus Tracks]
29	BR5-49	18 Wheels And A Crowbar	Big Backyard Beat Show
30	Bill Kirchen	Roll Truck Roll	Tied to the Wheel
31	Dale Watson	Jack's Truck Stop & Cafe	I Hate These Songs
32	Little Willies	Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves	For the Good Times

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