We’re taking a trip up into hill country to celebrate a true Americana sound. From it’s simple roots rolling out of Appalachia, celebrating music and culture going back even further, bluegrass music evolved from many different corners with a combination of many styles, including old-time mountain music, square dance fiddling, blues, gospel, jazz, and popular music. You can count on high energy, fast tempos and a most distinctive sound. This week’s show has the syncopated rhythms moving along like a freight train, those nostalgic remembrances, and heel-kicking improvisations…not to mention those high lonesome vocals. We’ve got Blue Highway, Bill Monroe, Mac Wiseman, Earl Scruggs, The Rice Brothers and a couple dozen others in a Friday morning bluegrass extravaganza, sharing both classic and contemporary performers. If you’re close by, tune into KOWS 92.5 FM or, better yet, stream us almost anywhere on planet Earth at kowsfm.com/listen.
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Morris Brothers
Salty Dog Blues
Legends Of Bluegrass [Disc 3]
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Bill Monroe
I'm Travelin' On and On
1947-1949 (Warped 4988)
4
Bill Monroe
Crossing the Cumberlands
Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 4]
5
Jimmy Martin
Footprints in the Snow
First Time Together
6
The Dillards
Dooley
There Is A Time: 1963-70
7
Rhonda Vincent
Lonesome Wind Blues
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
8
The Gentlemen of Bluegrass
Old Old House
Carolina Memories
9
John Hartford
Skippin' In The Mississippi Dew
Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
10
John Hartford
Take Me Back To My Mississippi River Home
Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
11
Blue Highway
Riding the Danville Pike
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
12
The David Thom Band
Home Is Where The Heart Is
That Old Familiar
13
The David Thom Band
The Little White Church
That Old Familiar
14
Alison Krauss & Union Station
So Long So Wrong
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
15
Ricky Skaggs
I Hope You've Learned
Ricky Skaggs
16
Ralph Stanley
Dad's Old Rocky Field
Old Songs & Ballads
17
The Rice Brothers
Grapes On the Vine
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
18
Hazel Dickens
I Can't Find Your Love Any More
O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
19
Del McCoury
A Far Cry
Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 4)
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
As Long As the World Stands
The Hard Game of Love
21
Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt
Randy Lynn Rag
The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2)
22
The Johnson Mountain Boys
Duncan & Brady
Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records
23
The Johnson Mountain Boys
Orange Blossom Special
Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2]
24
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
Dusty Miller
Bill Monroe: Anthology
25
Mac Wiseman
I Wonder How The Old Folks Are
Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2]
26
Steep Canyon Rangers
As I Go
Nobody Knows You
27
Laurie Lewis
Tall Pines
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
28
Jim Lauderdale
Old Time Angels
Old Time Angels
29
Jim & Jesse
Nine Pound Hammer
Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]
30
The Seldom Scene
Muddy Water
Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]
31
Bobby Hicks & Del McCoury
We're Steppin' Out Tonight
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
32
Lynn Morris Band
The Bramble and the Rose
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
Roots music found commercial success in 2000 with the release of the movie O Brother Where Art Thou, a finely crafted but outrageous tale of Depression-era America with fantastical imagery of hair wax, baptisms, and chain gangs woven into a tapestry built from Homer’s Odyssey. The music, assembled by T-Bone Burnett, was a major component of the film and recorded before the film even began with Burnett working with the Coen brothers while the script was in its working phases. It would become an effort that elevated a genre at the turn of the century called Americana. This week’s show will share some of the period-specific music that helped to propel the notion that blues, jazz, bluegrass, country, and gospel could be used to put that time and a ghostly familiar culture into focus. We’ll use O Brother’s musical sensibilities to take us somewhere quite familiar (and at the same time quite terrifying) as we pay homage with Americana roots, featuring sounds from The Carters, Jesse Fuller, Dan Tyminski, Jimmie Rodgers, W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys, among others.
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Estil C. Ball
Lonesome Valley
Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals
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The Carter Family With Special Guest Johnny Cash
Lonesome Valley
Keep On The Sunny Side
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Harry McClintock
Big Rock Candy Mountain
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Jimmie Davis With Charles Mitchell's Orchestra
You Are My Sunshine
Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 1]
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Alison Krauss
Down To The River To Pray
A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection
7
Peasall Sisters
Fair and Tender Ladies
Home to You
8
Roberta Martin Singers
The Old Ship of Zion
Halleluja Gospel & Prayers
9
The Stanley Brothers
A Life Of Sorrow
Stanley Brothers & Clinch Mountain Boys
10
Dan Tyminski/Soggy Bottom Boys
Man of Constant Sorrow
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
11
W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys
Please Pass The Biscuits Pappy
Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938
12
Country Gentlemen
I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)
1963 (Warped 6305)
13
The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Clinch Mountain Backstep
Constant Sorrow: Bluegrass From Root To Flower [Disc 3]
We’ll revisit the Carter Family this week on Deeper Roots with a collection of covers by their family’s inheritors, classic country and bluegrass favorites, as well as contemporary Americana artists. Aside from being a key ingredient in the ‘big bang’ of country music that occurred at the Bristol, Tennessee recordings in 1927, they would establish a rich catalog of songs and a monument to what American country music would hold as a torch for generations to come. The gathering of the elements of prose, poetry, passages and melodies that A. P. Carter gathered over his years of wandering predates the Lomax era and crossed the threshold when the 1927 encounter with Ralph Peer made history. We’ll hear from The Carters, but also Johnny Cash, Ashley Monroe, Loretta Lynn, Red Allen, and Emmylou Harris (among others) in our show today. Tune in for some of the classics from the family Carter.
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Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
Keep on the Firing Line
Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
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Jorma Kaukonen
Sweet Fern
Ain't in No Hurry
4
Sheryl Crow
No Depression In Heaven
The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
5
Emmylou Harris
Hello Stranger (Remastered LP Version)
Luxury Liner [Remaster]
6
June Carter Cash
The Road to Kaintuck
Wildwood Flower
7
June Carter
Worried Man Blues
At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight (Disc 17)
8
Johnny Cash
23 Worried Man Blues [Live at The Carousel Ballroom San Fancisco CA – April 1968]
Live At The Carousel Ballroom
9
Bobby Bare
Worried Man Blues 1963
1962-1964 (Warped 6291)
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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns – The Soundtrack [Disc 1]
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Johnny Cash
The Winding Stream [#]
Personal File Disc 1
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Johnny Cash
I Love You Sweetheart
It's All in the Family
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June Carter Cash
Ring of Fire
Press On
14
Ashley Monroe
The Storms Are On The Ocean
Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
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Ralph Stanley
Storms Are On The Ocean [Album Version]
A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
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Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter
Fair and Tender Ladies
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
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The Carter Family
On the Sea of Galilee
On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1
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Emmylou Harris & The Peasall Sisters
On The Sea Of Galilee
The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
19
The Carter Family
Wildwood Flower
East Virginia Blues (When The Sun Goes Down Series)
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Loretta Lynn
Wildwood Flower
Anchored In Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash
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Johnny Cash/The Carter Family
Keep on the Sunny Side
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
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Frank & Allie Lee
You Are My Flower
Treat A Stranger Right
23
Charlie Haden
Single Girl, Married Girl
Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
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Hylo Brown
Lulu Wall
I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family
25
Antique Persuasion
Lonesome for You
Don't Forget Me Little Darling – Remembering the Carter Family
26
Mac Wiseman
Hold Fast To The Right
Beside The Still Waters
27
Red Allen
I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family
28
June Carter Cash
Anchored In Love ( featuring Janette Carter, Joe Carter, and Dale Jett)
In an encore episode from 2015, we listen in as Dave explores the multi-generational sounds of not only bluegrass with Dillard and Clark and The Hackberry Ramblers, but we’ll also cross the genres (as we are wont to do) with Cowboy Copas, Clara Ward, Otis Spann, and Doris Day. There’s a couple of different threads that run through the show today, one being that of the ‘devil’ and the other being of ‘new mornings’. Tune in at a special time and see what’s in store on a late-fall morning in West County. And please, donate to community radio: kwtf.net.
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BR5-49
The Devil In Me
Dog Days
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Bob Dylan
Talkin' Devil
It Could Even Be A Myth
4
Pete Seeger
Old Devil Time (Live)
Singalong Demonstration Concert (Live)
5
Gillian Welch
The Devil Had a Hold of Me
Hell Among the Yearlings
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Devil Has Thrown Him Down
The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3]
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Doris Day
The Deevil, Devil, Divil
Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2]
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Pokey LaFarge
The Devil Ain't Lazy
Pokey LaFarge
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Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Devil Ain't Lazy
Reinventing the Wheel
10
Hackberry Ramblers
Old Pipeliner (Rodney Crowell-vocal) {1992-06 (org.1946) Flying Fish FF-70629 CD}
Cajun Boogie (1992-06)
11
Cowboy Copas
Don't Shake Hands with the Devil
Settin' Flat On Ready
12
Little Jimmy Dickens
I'm Little But I'm Loud
The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
13
Spade Cooley & His Orchestra; Vocal By Tex Williams
Hide Your Face
Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
14
Dillard & Clark
I Bowed My Head And Cried Holy
The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
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Rory Block
I Am In the Heavenly Way
Confessions of A Blues Singer
16
Bukka White
I Am the Heavenly Way
The Sonet Blues Story
17
Clara Ward
In That Great Judgement Morning
Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 1]
18
The Dixie Hummingbirds
In The Morning
Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds
19
Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers
He's So Wonderful
The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3]
20
Slim & Slam
Early In The Morning
Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 2)
21
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
Carolina In The Morning
Vol. 1-(1937-38)
22
Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
Where Dreams Come to Die
Django and Jimmie
23
John Lee Hooker
I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive [Album Version]
Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett
The music of Bill Monroe is the theme of our show today. We’ll be featuring some classic tunes from the Monroe catalog including some traditional tunes as well as those written by the master himself. The performers include those from all walks: Ray Charles, Elvis, Doc Watson, Bruce Hornsby, and a collection of bluegrass favorites including Jim & Jessie McReynods, Ricky Skaggs, The Seldom Scene and a couple dozen others; all of them covering Bill Monroe’s music with some loyal to the arrangements while others putting their own spin on it. Join Dave Stroud once again for a collection of sounds from those dusty digital bins, those deeper wells, here on Sonoma County Community’s own community radio. Free Form. Free Speech. No Bull. Your alternative radio station in the North Bay.
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Elvis Presley
Working On The Building
Amazing Grace – His Greatest Sacred Performances (Disc 1)
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Ray Charles
Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Swingova)
Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 [Disc 2]
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John Fogerty
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Songs of Bill Monroe
5
Leon Russell
Uncle Pen
Hank Wilson's Back [Bonus Tracks]
6
The Louvin Brothers
What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul
Close Harmony [Disc 8]
7
The Devil Makes Three
What Would You Give (In Exchange for Your Soul)
Redemption & Ruin
8
Jerry & Tammy Sullivan
Wicked Path Of Sin
Legend Lives on-a Tribute to Bill Monroe
9
Jim & Jesse McReynolds
Wicked Path Of Sin
Music Among Friends
10
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers
Walls Of Time
At The Ryman [Live]
11
The Johnson Mountain Boys
Walls Of Time
Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 2
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Hazel And Alice
True Life Blues
Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 2
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Bruce Hornsby & Ricky Skaggs
Toy Heart (Live)
Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby: Cluck Ol' Hen (Live)
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Red Allen
Sweetheart, You Done Me Wrong
The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983
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The Million Dollar Quartet
Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
The Million Dollar Quartet: 50th Anniversary Special Edition
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Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Six White Horses
1957-1959 (Warped 5722)
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The Bluegrass Band
Six White Horses
2nd Cut
18
Doc Watson
The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band
Good Deal!
19
Mac Wiseman
The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band
Great Folk Ballads
20
Doc Watson/Merle Watson
Roll on Buddy
Doc Watson on Stage (Featuring Merle Watson)
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Roll On Buddy
The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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Doc Watson
My Rose of Old Kentucky
Memories
23
Dwight Yoakam
Rocky Road Blues
Big Mon – The Songs of Bill Monroe
24
Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
Rocky Road Blues
The Forgotten 45s 1957-1959 (CD2)
25
Doc & Merle Watson
New River Train
Remembering Merle – Live Recordings 1976-1979
26
The Seldom Scene
Little Georgia Rose
Act 3
27
Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt
Molly and Tenbrooks (The Race Horse Song)
The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2)
28
Don Reno & Bill Harrel With The Tennessee Cut-Ups
Molly And Tenbrooks
20 Bluegrass Favorites
29
Tony Rice Unit
Midnight on the Stormy Deep
Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records
More influential gospel sounds this morning on Deeper Roots. We take a dip into the country, bluegrass, and folk extensions whose roots are buried in 19th and early 20th century European American musical traditions. It’s a mixed bag with contributions from the Protestant, Baptist, and Black Gospel hymnals and songbooks. And don’t forget the quiet bubbling influences of popular music, the logical extension of selling the message…a kind of backroads Madison Avenue. We’re focused on country gospel today with the usual giants of country music: George Jones, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, and The Louvins…but we’ll also hear from the bluegrass contingent including Ricky Skaggs, Bill Monroe, and Flatt and Scruggs. A heavenly time where we share music that would weave its way into the fabric of America’s music including rock, soul, country, and Americana. Tune in on Friday mornings.
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Ernest Carter And The Hymn Trio
The Gospel Train
Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Rapture
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Kitty Wells
(I've Got My) One Way Ticket to the Sky
Lonely Street/Dust On the Bible
4
The Louvin Brothers
The Gospel Way
Close Harmony [Disc 1]
5
Sons of the Pioneers
The Gospel Train
Songs of the Prairie – CD4
6
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
On That Gospel Ship
All The Classic Releases1937-1949 [Disc 2]
7
The Nashville Bluegrass Band
Gospel Plow
Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music
8
Ricky Skaggs
Children Go
Country's 20 Classic Gospel Songs of the Century
9
George Jones & Tammy Wynette
Let's All Go Down To The River
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
10
Carl Story
Old Country Baptizing
1957-1959 (Warped 5891F)
11
The Oak Ridge Boys
That Old Country Church
Gospels & Spirituals: The Gold Collection [Disc 2]
12
Johnny Cash
In The Sweet By And By
Gospel Glory
13
Kitty Wells
Lonesome Valley
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
14
Red Foley
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
15
King's Sacred Quartette
Turn Your Radio On
Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
16
Buck Owens
Pray Every Day
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
17
Merle Haggard & The Carter Family
Precious Memories
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
18
Connie Smith
Over the Next Hill We'll Be Home
Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South
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Don Gibson
Canaan's Land
The Complete Recordings 1952-1962
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Flatt & Scruggs
I'm On My Way To Canaan's Land
Foggy Mountain Gospel
21
The Bluegrass Band
Lord Build Me A Cabin In Glory
Shine Hallelujah Shine Vol 1
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Doyle Lawson/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
I'm Finding Joy in My Savior's Love
Gospel Radio Gems
23
The Whitstein Brothers
The Christian Life
Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins
24
The Louvin Brothers
Preach The Gospel
Love and Wealth: The Lost Recordings
25
Johnny Cash
Unclouded Day
Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South
26
Hazel Dickens
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music
27
Martha Carson
Satisfied
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
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Hank Williams Sr.
I Saw the Light
Country's 20 Classic Gospel Songs of the Century
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Cowboy Copas
Four Books In The Bible
Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
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Grandpa Jones
Come and Dine
Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
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The Cox Family
There Will Be Singing
Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout – Bluegrass Gospel From The Pen Of Rick Lang
32
The Delmore Brothers
Gospel Cannonball
Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 1]
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Brother Claude Ely
There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
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Ernest Martin And His Gospel Melody Makers
When The Wrath Of God Comes Down
Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Rapture
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.
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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
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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
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.
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Bobby Bare
That Mean Old Clock
The Chronogical Classics 1956-1961
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Bonnie Owens
Where We'll Never Grow Old
1968-1971 (Warped 6947)
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The Church Sisters
Where We'll Never Grow Old
Orthophonic Joy
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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)
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Ivory Joe Hunter
Time Has Passed
Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter (1950-1951)
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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]
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Aaron Neville
The Ticks Of The Clock
Brother To Brother ([Disc 1]: Aaron)
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Carl Stalling
Variation On Grandfather's Clock
The Carl Stalling Project, Vol. 2: More Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1929-1957
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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
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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
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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
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.
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Bonus Track
CB Radio Chatter
Eighteen Wheelers! Twisted Tales from the Truckstops
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Johnny Darrell
It's A Rough Old Road To Travel
The Beginning Of The End – The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972)
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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)
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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)
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!
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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)]
