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Dead Roots

January 7, 2018 Dave

While the lyrics and music of Robert Hunter took the Grateful Dead into remarkable directions, codifying their place among the bands of the latter half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, by the time they reached their peak their roots were already firmly established. Their early music was clearly anchored in the sounds of tradition, reaching from the Appalachians to the Texas Gulf Coast. We’ll hear early (and contemporary) performances that inspired the band with songs of Blind Willie Johnson, Red Allen, The Mississippi Sheiks, Henry Thomas and Obray Ramsey. The landscape we’ll traverse includes blues, gospel, hillbilly, and folk…no Dead music, only music that served to inspire. This week on Sonoma County Community radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	David Grisman/Jerry Garcia	Been All Around This World	Been All Around This World
3	Dave Van Ronk	Hang Me, Oh Hang Me	Dave Van Ronk
4	Obray Ramsey	Rain And Snow	Best Of The Troubadours
5	Vince Martin & Fred Neil	I Know You Rider	Tear Down The Walls/Bleecker & MacDougal
6	Henry Thomas	Dont Ease Me In	Ragtime Texas Complete Recorded Works 1927-29
7	The Memphis Jug Band	On The Road Again	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
8	The Memphis Jug Band	Stealin' Stealin'	Memphis Jug Band Vol. 2 (1928-1929)
9	Cannon's Jug Stompers	Viola Lee Blues	First Time I Met the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down series)
10	Hammie Nixon	Viola Lee Blues	Living Country Blues: An Anthology Disc 3
11	The Monroe Brothers	Rosa Lee McFall	Early Blue Grass Music
12	Prairie Ramblers	Deep Elem Blues	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
13	Mississippi Sheiks	Sittin' On Top of the World	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
14	Roscoe Holcomb	Sittin' On Top of the World	Classic Piedmont Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
15	Dillard Chandler	Rain and Snow	Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
16	The Chieftains	Rain And Snow	Down The Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions
17	Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers	Minglewood Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
18	Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, et. al.	New Minglewood Blues	Jug Band Extravaganza
19	Blind Willie Johnson	Nobody's Fault But Mine	Various Artists: Bob Dylan – Cover To Cover – The Originals VOL. 2 [Disc 3]
20	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Nobody's Fault But Mine	The Great Gospel Women
21	Rev. Pearly Brown	Nobody's Fault But Mine	You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
22	Lightnin' Hopkins	See That My Grave Is Kept Clean	The Real Blues Brothers Vol. 2
23	Lightnin' Hopkins	One Kind Favor	Jake Head Boogie
24	Memphis Slim	Next Time You See Me	The Greatest Hits Of
25	Bob Dylan	Jack-A-Roe	World Gone Wrong
26	Joan Baez	Jack-A-Roe	Rare, Live & Classic [Box] (3 of 3)
27	The Sunshine Boys	What's the Matter With Deep Elem	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys – Oakie Boogie [Disc 4]
28	Red Allen	Deep Elem Blues	The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983
29	The Light Crust Doughboys	Sittin' On Top Of The World	1936-1941
30	Dock Walsh	In The Pines	In The Pines – Tar Heel Folk Songs And Fiddle Tunes – Old-Time Music Of North Carolina 1926-1936
31	John Sebastian	Minglewood Blues	Chasin' Gus' Ghost

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Back on the Farm

December 2, 2017 Dave

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.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard	Farmer's Blues	Country Music
3	Freeman Stowers	Sunrise On The Farm	Sinners and Saints: Complete Recorded Works 1926-1931
4	Bill Frisell	Farmer	Disfarmer
5	Levon Helm	Poor Old Dirt Farmer	Dirt Farmer
6	Bill Neely	Black Land Farmer	16 Down Home Country Classics
7	James King	Thirty Years of Farming	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
8	Junior Sisk with Becky Isaacs Bowman and Sonya Isaacs Yeary	The Wheat Crop	Mac Wiseman – I Sang The Song
9	Lemuel Jones	Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers)	Field Recordings, Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941)
10	Peter Rowan	Let the Harvest Go To Seed	Bluegrass Boy
11	Carolina Tar Heels	Got The Farm Land Blues	Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads
12	Cisco Houston	Farmer's Lament	The Folkways Years: 1944-1961
13	J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers (With Morris Herbert)	17 Living On The Farm	The Legendry J.E. Mainer, Volume 4
14	Walter Brennan	Old Rivers	Old Rivers
15	The Bently Boys	Down On Penny's Farm	Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads
16	Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur	Down on Penny's Farm	Penny's Farm
17	The Four Wanderers	Farmer's Life For Me	Black Vocal Groups Vol. 9 (1929-1942)
18	Ben & Ellen Harper	Farmer's Daughter	Childhood Home
19	Bobby Bare	The Farmer Feeds Us All	Hard Time Hungrys
20	Porter Wagoner	The Farmer and the Lord	20 All-Time Greatest Hits
21	Paula Brown	Farm Hollers	Hollerin'
22	Warren 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
23	Bubby Bishop	I Want To Go Back To The Farm	The Great Vintage Country
24	Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)	On A Little Two Acre Farm	Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58
25	Goose Island Ramblers	I Worked For a Farmer	Polkabilly
26	Buster Carter & Preston Young	A Lazy Farmer Boy	Before The Blues Vol. 3
27	Rosetta Howard	Plow Hand Blues [Album Version]	Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
28	Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys	I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven	King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail
29	Fiddlin' 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
30	Ray Wylie Hubbard	After the Harvest	Crusades of the Restless Nights
31	Dry Branch Fire Squad	Devil, Take The Farmer	481 Bluegrass Class of 1990
32	Glen Campbell	Arkansas Farmboy	Adios
33	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	When It's Harvest Time, Sweet Angeline	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin'
34	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs With Mother Maybelle Carter	The Homestead On The Farm [Album Version]	Songs Of The Famous Carter Family

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Below the Mason-Dixon Line

November 25, 2017 Dave

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.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Jimmie Rodgers	Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line	Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5]
3	Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton	Down In Florida On A Hog	Darby & Tarlton – Disc A (Atlanta 1927-29)
4	Muddy Waters	Deep Down In Florida #2	King Bee
5	Claire Lynch	My Florida Sunshine	Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1
6	The Swe-Danes	Georgia Camp Meeting	New Discgems From Warner Brothers
7	Dave Van Ronk	Georgia Camp Meeting	Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers
8	Alex Campbell, Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby	Bringing in the Georgia Mail	Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
9	Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers	Georgia Boogie	Travellin' Boogie
10	Guy Clark	Virginia's Real	Texas Cookin'
11	The Carter Family	Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 3]
12	Al Bowlly	My Sweet Virginia	Just A Bowl Of Cherries
13	Ethel Waters	I'm Coming Virginia	On Stage And Screen 1925 – 1940
14	Hazel Dickens	West Virginia, My Home	Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records [Disc 1]
15	Louis Jordan	Salt Pork, West Virginia	The Chronological Louis Jordan 1945-1946
16	Dr. Horse	South Poke West Virginia	Harlem Rock N' Blues
17	Mance Lipscomb	Alabama Bound	Ash Grove 12/6/1964
18	Evan Marshall	The Alabama Jubilee	Mandolin Magic
19	The Louvin Brothers	Alabama	Hand-Picked
20	Neil Young/Stray Gators	Alabama	Harvest
21	Jimmie Driftwood	Arkansas Traveler	Americana, Vol. 1
22	Carolina Cotton	Three Miles South Of Cash (In Arkansas)	Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music CD [Disc 2, "Arkansas Masters"]
23	Bill Kirchen	Arkansas Diamond (Album)	Word To The Wise
24	Taj Mahal	Texas Woman Blues	The Essential [Disc 1]
25	Asleep at the Wheel	Miles and Miles of Texas	The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970
26	Tommy Duncan	Texas Moon	Texas Moon
27	Tony Rice	He Rode All the Way to Texas	Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
28	Waylon Jennings	Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)	The Essential Waylon Jennings [2007] Disc 2
29	Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown	Going Back To Louisiana	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
30	Doug Kershaw	Louisiana Man	Diggy Diggy Lo
31	Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three	Mississippi Girl	Middle of Everywhere
32	Nina Simone	Mississippi Goddam	Anthology Disc 1
33	Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	Mississippi Mud	Paper Moon
34	The Andrew Sisters	When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabama	Double Goldies [CD1]

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High Water Everywhere

August 19, 2017 Dave

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

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That High Lonesome Sound

May 13, 2017 Dave

There can be no room for more rain here in Sonoma County. Spring is here and summer’s only a festival away….so we’ll celebrate the warmer side of Spring with an exploration of the bluegrass sounds of Bill Monroe and others, all tunes being selected for their ability to express what became to be known as that ‘high lonesome sound’. Included in the mix will be Del McCoury, Jimmy Martin, Peter Rowan, Ralph Stanley, and a many others on a night that celebrates that ‘voice from on high’ and discourages the direction down that ‘wicked path of sin’. All for you on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Ricky Skaggs & Joan Osborne	On The Old Kentucky Shore	Big Mon – The Songs of Bill Monroe
3	Bill Monroe	A Voice From On High	Cover to Cover: The Originals, Vol. 2 [Disc 1]
4	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Wicked Path Of Sin	All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4]
5	The Stanley Brothers	Hills of Roan County	16 Greatest Hits
6	Vern And Ray	Cabin On a Mountain	Cabin On A Mountain
7	Ralph Stanley	The Old Crossroad	Poor Rambler [Disc 2]
8	The David Thom Band	Memories Of Mother And Dad	The Thief
9	Peter Rowan, Greg Garing	Letter From My Darling	True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
10	Bill Monroe/Ralph Stanley	Letter from My Darling	Saturday Night & Sunday Morning Disc 1
11	The Stanley Brothers	Meet Me By the Moonlight	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
12	Del McCoury	Bluest Man in Town	Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 2)
13	Blue Highway	Wicked Path Of Sin	Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1
14	Martin, "King" Jimmy/Marty Stuart	The Mississippi Mudcat and Sister Sheryl Crow	Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best
15	Jimmy Martin	On and On	Don't Cry To Me
16	Jimmy Martin & Ralph Stanley	Old Cross Road	First Time Together
17	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	My Little Georgia Rose	Bill Monroe: Anthology
18	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Get Down On Your Knees and Pray	Bill Monroe: Anthology
19	Tim O'Brien	Highway Of Sorrow	Legend Lives on-a Tribute to Bill Monroe
20	Bill Monroe	Highway of Sorrow	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 3]
21	Del McCoury	High On the Mountain	Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 2)
22	Del McCoury	On the Lonesome Wind	The Family
23	Alan O'Bryant, Del McCoury	Get Down On Your Knees And Pray	True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
24	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	True Life Blues	Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys live recordings 1956-1969
25	Bill Monroe And Doc Watson	Memories of You	Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2
26	Ricky Skaggs	Remember the Cross	Soldier of the Cross
27	The Seldom Scene	Little Georgia Rose	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
28	Bill Monroe	With Body and Soul	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
29	Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys	I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling	Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1
30	Mac Wiseman	It's Mighty Dark To Travel	Grassroots To Bluegrass
31	Don Reno & Red Smiley	I Know You're Married But I Love You Still	God Old Country Ballds
32	Danny Paisley, Ryan Paisley, T.J. Lundy	My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains	Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
33	Old and in the Way	High Lonesome Sound	That High Lonesome Sound
34	Charlie Haden	A Voice From On High	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy

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Arlo Guthrie Special

April 22, 2017 Dave

Arlo’s music has been a mix of the traditional and sixties counterculture in it’s mood and dimension. His recent tour looks back at his albums that also struck an Americana chord including “Running Down The Road” and “Washington County” albums. We’ll be covering Arlo’s music, original versions, songs from Ramblin’ Jack and Woody, Holly Near, and those Americana inspirations. Join us!

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant Pt 1	The Best of Arlo Guthrie
3	Arlo Guthrie	Highway In the Wind	Alice's Restaurant
4	Arlo Guthrie	Coming Into Los Angeles	Running Down the Road (remastered 2004)
5	Arlo Guthrie	Miss The Mississippi and You	Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004)
6	Jimmie Rodgers	Miss The Mississippi And You	Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5]
7	Arlo Guthrie, Lunenberg Travelers, Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee	You Must Have That True Religion	A Tribute to Leadbelly
8	Georgia Yellow Hammers	Mary Don't You Weep	Lead Kindly Light
9	Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger	Oh Mary Don't You Weep	H.A.R.P. A Time To Sing Disc 1
10	Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger	This Old Car	If I Had A Song: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2
11	Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant Pt 2	The Best of Arlo Guthrie
12	Arlo Guthrie	1913 Massacre	Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics
13	Woody Guthrie	1913 Massacre	Classic Labor Songs From Smithsonian Folkways
14	Woody Guthrie	The Grand Coulee Dam	Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
15	Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant Pt 3	The Best of Arlo Guthrie
16	Arlo Guthrie	City Of New Orleans	All Over the World
17	Steve Goodman	City Of New Orleans	Steve Goodman
18	Arlo Guthrie	Oklahoma Hills	Running Down the Road (remastered 2004)
19	Jack Guthrie	Oklahoma Hills	Oklahoma Hills
20	Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant Pt 4	The Best of Arlo Guthrie
21	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Riding Down The Canyon (w/Arlo Guthrie)	Friends of Mine
22	Rex Allen	Ridin' Down the Canyon V-3	Riding All Day
23	Arlo Guthrie, Lunenberg Travelers, Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee	Redbird	A Tribute to Leadbelly
24	Arlo Guthrie	Lovesick Blues	Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004)
25	Hank Williams	Lovesick Blues	24 Greatest
26	Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger	Wimoweh (Mbube)	H.A.R.P. A Time To Sing Disc 1
27	Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant Pt 5	The Best of Arlo Guthrie

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Clouds & Silver Linings

February 18, 2017 Dave

The past few months have been brutal for democracy. There is no silver lining in sight but this week’s music will nonetheless feature some songs of hope: our theme is one of clouds and silver linings. It’s meant to give a two hour break (if that’s at all possible) to the malevolent stewing cauldron that is brewing in the most sacred halls of our democracy. We’ll discard with the political music this week and simply ride a topical wave featuring a blend of jazz, country, gospel, rock, and pop. Tune in for music from Van Morrison, The Sons of the Pioneers, George Gershwin, Dave Van Ronk, and Pops Staples…to name but a few…this week on Sonoma County community radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Jimmy Martin	Pray The Clouds Away	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 2]
3	Bill Cox	The Clouds Gwine Roll Away	78s
4	Doc & Merle Watson	The Clouds Are Gwine to Roll Away	On Stage
5	Hylo Brown	Clouds Gonna Roll Away	Legends & Tall Tales
6	Delmore Brothers	God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds	Hillbilly Boogie Best
7	Dave Van Ronk	Clouds (From Both Sides Now)	A Chrestomathy [Disc 1]
8	George Gershwin	Kickin' The Clouds Away	The Platinum Collection
9	Annette Hanshaw	There Must Be a Silver Lining	The Personality Girl, Vol. 3, 1926-1928
10	Jim Hall	Look for the Silver Lining	Complete Jazz Guitar
11	Dave Brubeck	Look For The Silver Lining	Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective
12	Marion Harris	Look For The Silver Lining	50 #1 Hits Of The '20s & '30s
13	Django Reinhardt	Clouds	The Classic Early Recordings In Chronological Order [Disc 1]
14	Django Reinhardt	Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)	1944-1946
15	Maurice Chevalier	Sweeping the Clouds Away	Maurice Chevalier: The Greatest Hits
16	Johnny Hamp And His Kentucky Serenaders	Up In The Clouds	Johnny Hamp at Archive
17	The Louvin Brothers	You'll Meet Him In The Clouds	Close Harmony [Disc 6]
18	Alison Krauss	Cloudy Days	Every Time You Say Goodbye
19	Sons of the Pioneers	Cottage in the Clouds	1941 vol 1 (Warped 4108)
20	Johnny Ray	The Little White Cloud That Cried	Magic Moments
21	Red Norvo Trio, George Shearing Quintet	Midnight on Cloud 69	Midnight on Cloud 69
22	The Blind Boys Of Alabama	God Put A Rainbow In The Cloud	I'll Find A Way
23	Pops Staples	Hope in a Hopeless World	Father Father
24	Moonalice	Silver Lining	Dave's Way Vol 4
25	First Aid Kit	My Silver Lining	Stay Gold
26	Simon & Garfunkel	Cloudy	Old Friends Disc 2
27	Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick	Flying Cloud	Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray
28	Hank Snow	The Boogie Woogie Flying Cloud	Southern Cannonball
29	Bonnie Raitt	Silver Lining [Radio Edit Version]	The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003 [US]
30	Rilo Kiley	Silver Lining	The Craft of Music, Vol. 2
31	Bunch Of Kids/Eddie Hodges/Frank Sinatra	High Hopes	Sinatra 80th: All the Best Disc 2

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Celebrating the Circle

October 1, 2016 Dave

This week, Dave Stroud revisits the seminal release of 1972 that brought together multiple generations of musicians, introducing a new generation of listeners to their music and, in some cases, to each other. Will The Circle Be Unbroken was a concept made real by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, then a “bunch of long-haired West Coast boys” (as Roy Acuff would describe them) and the talent that they were able to muster would influence country, bluegrass, and rock for decades to come. In addition to the big names of decades before them like Roy Acuff, Maybelle Carter, and Jimmy Martin, the Dirt Band would bring together lesser known names like Vassar Clements, Norman Blake, and Oswald Kirby to make an album that is as fresh and listenable today as it was then. We’ll feature tracks from the album alongside some of the original performances by these legendary masters.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
3	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
4	Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter	Fair and Tender Ladies	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
5	Maybelle Carter	The Storms are on the Ocean	Friends Of Old Time Music [Disc 1]
6	Mother Maybelle & The Carter Sisters	WIldwood Flower	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
7	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Wreck on the Highway	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
8	Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys	Wreck On The Highway	The Essential Roy Acuff
9	Roy Acuff	Pins & Needles (In My Heart)	King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail
10	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Pins and Needles (In My Heart)	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
11	Jimmy Martin	Sunny Side Of The Mountain	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3]
12	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Sunny Side of the Mountain	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
13	Jimmy Martin	You Don't Know My Mind	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 2]
14	Jimmy Martin	Ocean Of Diamonds	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 1]
15	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Nine Pound Hammer	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
16	Merle Travis	Nine Pound Hammer	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music [Disc 3]
17	Merle Travis	Dark As a Dungeon	Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
18	Merle Travis	I Am A Pilgrim	The Best of Merle Travis
19	Doc Watson/Merle Watson	Black Mountain Rag	Black Mountain Rag
20	Doc Watson/Merle Watson	Down Yonder	Black Mountain Rag
21	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Down Yonder	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
22	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Lonesome Fiddle Blues	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
23	Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt	Nashville Skyline Rag	The Essential Earl Scruggs (2 of 2)
24	Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys	Earl's Breakdown [78rpm Version]	16 Biggest Hits
25	Hank Williams	Wait For The Light To Shine	Lost Highway December 1948 – March 1949
26	Leon Payne	Lost Highway	Country & Western Hit Parade 1948
27	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Lost Highway	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
28	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I Saw the Light	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
29	Hank Williams	I Saw The Light	Hank Williams – A Country Legend (3)
30	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Honky Tonk Blues	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
31	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Orange Blossom Special	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2

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Country Roots

September 3, 2016 Dave

Deeper Roots revisits the deeper roots…focusing on old-timey sounds of some of the great performers playing the classic standards. Country music roots go back into the European melodies and folk tunes and their instruments called to a celebration of the Diasporas. This week: Gid Tanner, Vernon Dalhart, Al Hopkins, Jimmie Rodgers, Bradley Kincaid, Charlie Poole, and many others provide us a glimpse at where it all began. Join us for another roots-infused evening here in Sonoma County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Vernon Dalhart	The Wreck Of The Old '97	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 1]
3	Vernon Dalhart	The Prisoner's Song	Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's
4	Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers	Pass Around The Bottle And We'll All Take A Drink	And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 1
5	Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers	I Don't Love Nobody	And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 1
6	Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers	You Ain't Talkin' to Me	You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2]
7	The Carter Family	Single Girl, Married Girl	The Bristol Sessions 1927-1928 [Disc 3]
8	Riley Puckett	Little Brown Jug	Country Music Pioneer vol 1
9	Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters	Roll On the Ground	Lead Kindly Light
10	Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters	Georgie Buck	Hill Billies / Al Hopkins & Buckle Busters Vol. 3
11	Frank Blevins	Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
12	Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers	Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues	You Ain't Talkin' To Me, The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 1]
13	Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers	Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues	You Ain't Talkin' To Me, The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 1]
14	The Allen Brothers	Chattanooga Blues	Allen Brothers Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1
15	The Allen Brothers	Ain't That Skippin' And Flyin'	Allen Brothers Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1
16	Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters	Old Dan Tucker	Hill Billies / Al Hopkins & Buckle Busters Vol. 3
17	Harry McClintock	Jesse James	When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2
18	Bradley Kincaid	Froggie Went A-Courting	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
19	Bradley Kincaid	Sourwood Mountain	The Story That the Crow Told Me Vol 2
20	Bascom Lamar Lundsford	Lost John Dean	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
21	The Lonely Eagles	Been On The Job Too Long	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
22	Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers	The Burial Of Wild Bill	When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2
23	The Happy Hayseeds	The Tail Of Haley's Comet	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
24	Buell Kazee	The Cowboy Trail	When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2
25	Paul Hamblin	The Strawberry Roan	When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2
26	Jimmie Rodgers	Mississippi Delta Blues	Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5]
27	Jimmie Davis	Cowboy's Home Sweet Home	When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2
28	Red Foley	Single Life Is Good Enough For Me	Smoke on the Water / Hillbilly Fever
29	Gene Autry	The Yellow Rose Of Texas	The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
30	Gene Autry	Tumblin' Tumbleweeds	The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
31	Powder 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

Americana, Bluegrass, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition

Bluegrass & Old Time Hour Special

June 14, 2016 Dave

Mark Hogan’s in Grass Valley this week gearing up for the 41st Annual Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival which opens this coming Thursday, June 16th. Dave Stroud will be sitting in for Mark and will feature new releases, old standards, and vintage country sounds from the likes of Doug Sahm, Chris Smither, The Hackensaw Boys, and Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers….not to mention a good helping of Bill Monroe recordings from 1960.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Nashville Bluegrass Band	Up Above My Head	My Native Home
3	The Nashville Bluegrass Band	Monroebilia	My Native Home
4	Emmylou Harris	Get Up John	Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems Disc 2
5	Adkins & Loudermilk	Georgia Mountain Man	Adkins & Loudermilk
6	Tony Rice	Thunderclouds Of Love	Bluegrass Today [Disc 2]
7	John Hartford	Gumtree Canoe	Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
8	Bill Monroe	Flowers Of Love	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
9	Bill Monroe	Time Changes Everything	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
10	David Grisman	Watson Blues (feat. Tony Rice)	Dawg Plays Big Mon
11	Tony Rice	He Rode All the Way to Texas	Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
12	Charlie Haden	Ocean Of Diamonds	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
13	Cyndi Lauper	Walkin' After Midnight	Detour
14	Old Crow Medicine Show	8 Dogs 8 Banjos	Remedy
15	Dale Watson	Fly Away	Blessed Or Damned
16	Jefferson Ross	Dogwood Cats	Dogwood Cats
17	Hackensaw Boys	Cmon Baby Dont Bet Against Me	Charismo
18	Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice	Longneck Blues	Poor Boy's Pleasure
19	Josh Williams	Girl From The Canyon	Modern Day Man
20	Hamilton County Ramblers	Standing On the Mountain	Hamilton County Ramblers
21	Traveling Show	Token Of Love	Songs From The Road Band
22	Asleep at the Wheel	Don't Ask Me Why (I'm Going to Texas)	Swing Time
23	Texas Tornados	Wasted Days and Wasted Nights	Live from the Limo, Vol. 1
24	Doug Sahm	Faded Love	Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1
25	Doug Sahm	(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone	Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1
26	Guy Clark	To Live Is To Fly	Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt
27	Guy Clark	My Favorite Picture of You	Oxford American Southern Music Texas
28	Kelly Joe Phelps	Beggars Oil (Album Version)	Beggars Oil EP
29	Chris Smither	Frankie & Albert	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
30	Bill Monroe	Darling Corey	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 2]
31	IIIrd Time Out	John & Mary	Bluegrass Today [Disc 2]
32	Dreadful Snakes	Blue Yodel #4	Snakes Alive!

A Century of America's Music