Category Archives: Bluegrass

Ships Upon the Sea

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.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Bob Gibson Titanic Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson Amazon
3Rory Block Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down) Confessions of A Blues Singer Amazon
4Pink Anderson The Ship Titanic Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs Amazon
5Charley Jordan Titanic Blues Charley Jordan Volume 2 1931-1934 Amazon
6Hi Henry Brown Titanic Blues 21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10 Amazon
7Bessie Jones And Group The Titanic Alan Lomax Collection Sampler Amazon
8Papa Harvey Hull & "Long Cleve" Reed Sinking Of The Titanic Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice Amazon
9Richard (Rabbit) Brown Sinking Of The Titanic Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
10Lead Belly Titanic The Definitive Leadbelly [Disc 3] – Leaving Blues Amazon
11Frank Hutchison The Last Scene Of The Titanic If You Take Me Back Amazon
12Clyde Spencer And Harry Fannin The Sinking Of The Titanic Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 [Disc 1] Amazon
13Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton After The Sinking Of The Titanic On The Banks Of A Lonely River Amazon
14Roy Acuff The Great Titanic compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
15Woody Guthrie When That Great Ship Went Down This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 Amazon
16Ralph Stanley Storms Are On The Ocean [Album Version] A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family Amazon
17Gordon Lightfoot The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Songbook [Box Set] Disc 3 Amazon
18Jimmie Driftwood The Ship That Never Returned Americana, Vol. 3 Amazon
19Little Jimmy Dickens When The Ship Hit The Sand The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens Amazon
20Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards The Sinking of the Ruben James Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
21June Carter Cash Sinking in the Lonesome Sea Wildwood Flower Amazon
22Ashley Monroe The Storms Are On The Ocean Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
23Cowboy Copas A Thousand Miles of Ocean Settin' Flat On Ready Amazon
24Red Allen Out on the Ocean Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings Amazon
25The Country Gentlemen Take Me In A Lifeboat The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
26Dan Zanes Across The Western Ocean Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag Amazon
27The Dicey Doh Singers The Sloop John B. Classic Maritime Music Amazon
28Sam Eskin Clear Away the Track and Let the Bullgine Run Classic Maritime Music Amazon
29Henry 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 Amazon
30Louis Prima & Keely Smith Barnacle Bill The Sailor Breaking It Up! Amazon

Dead Roots

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.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2David Grisman/Jerry Garcia Been All Around This World Been All Around This World Amazon
3Dave Van Ronk Hang Me, Oh Hang Me Dave Van Ronk Amazon
4Obray Ramsey Rain And Snow Best Of The Troubadours Amazon
5Vince Martin & Fred Neil I Know You Rider Tear Down The Walls/Bleecker & MacDougal Amazon
6Henry Thomas Dont Ease Me In Ragtime Texas Complete Recorded Works 1927-29 Amazon
7The Memphis Jug Band On The Road Again Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
8The Memphis Jug Band Stealin' Stealin' Memphis Jug Band Vol. 2 (1928-1929) Amazon
9Cannon's Jug Stompers Viola Lee Blues First Time I Met the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down series) Amazon
10Hammie Nixon Viola Lee Blues Living Country Blues: An Anthology Disc 3 Amazon
11The Monroe Brothers Rosa Lee McFall Early Blue Grass Music Amazon
12Prairie Ramblers Deep Elem Blues White Country Blues (1926-1938) Amazon
13Mississippi Sheiks Sittin' On Top of the World Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
14Roscoe Holcomb Sittin' On Top of the World Classic Piedmont Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
15Dillard Chandler Rain and Snow Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
16The Chieftains Rain And Snow Down The Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions Amazon
17Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers Minglewood Blues Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals Amazon
18Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, et. al. New Minglewood Blues Jug Band Extravaganza Amazon
19Blind Willie Johnson Nobody's Fault But Mine Various Artists: Bob Dylan – Cover To Cover – The Originals VOL. 2 [Disc 3] Amazon
20Sister Rosetta Tharpe Nobody's Fault But Mine The Great Gospel Women Amazon
21Rev. Pearly Brown Nobody's Fault But Mine You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion Amazon
22Lightnin' Hopkins See That My Grave Is Kept Clean The Real Blues Brothers Vol. 2 Amazon
23Lightnin' Hopkins One Kind Favor Jake Head Boogie Amazon
24Memphis Slim Next Time You See Me The Greatest Hits Of Amazon
25Bob Dylan Jack-A-Roe World Gone Wrong Amazon
26Joan Baez Jack-A-Roe Rare, Live & Classic [Box] (3 of 3) Amazon
27The Sunshine Boys What's the Matter With Deep Elem The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys – Oakie Boogie [Disc 4] Amazon
28Red Allen Deep Elem Blues The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983 Amazon
29The Light Crust Doughboys Sittin' On Top Of The World 1936-1941 Amazon
30Dock Walsh In The Pines In The Pines – Tar Heel Folk Songs And Fiddle Tunes – Old-Time Music Of North Carolina 1926-1936 Amazon
31John Sebastian Minglewood Blues Chasin' Gus' Ghost Amazon

Back on the Farm

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

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard Farmer's Blues Country Music Amazon
3Freeman Stowers Sunrise On The Farm Sinners and Saints: Complete Recorded Works 1926-1931 Amazon
4Bill Frisell Farmer Disfarmer Amazon
5Levon Helm Poor Old Dirt Farmer Dirt Farmer Amazon
6Bill Neely Black Land Farmer 16 Down Home Country Classics Amazon
7James King Thirty Years of Farming Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
8Junior Sisk with Becky Isaacs Bowman and Sonya Isaacs Yeary The Wheat Crop Mac Wiseman – I Sang The Song Amazon
9Lemuel Jones Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers) Field Recordings, Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941) Amazon
10Peter Rowan Let the Harvest Go To Seed Bluegrass Boy Amazon
11Carolina Tar Heels Got The Farm Land Blues Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
12Cisco Houston Farmer's Lament The Folkways Years: 1944-1961 Amazon
13J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers (With Morris Herbert) 17 Living On The Farm The Legendry J.E. Mainer, Volume 4 Amazon
14Walter Brennan Old Rivers Old Rivers Amazon
15The Bently Boys Down On Penny's Farm Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
16Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur Down on Penny's Farm Penny's Farm Amazon
17The Four Wanderers Farmer's Life For Me Black Vocal Groups Vol. 9 (1929-1942) Amazon
18Ben & Ellen Harper Farmer's Daughter Childhood Home Amazon
19Bobby Bare The Farmer Feeds Us All Hard Time Hungrys Amazon
20Porter Wagoner The Farmer and the Lord 20 All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
21Paula Brown Farm Hollers Hollerin' Amazon
22Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers McDonald's Farm (1928) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 Amazon
23Bubby Bishop I Want To Go Back To The Farm The Great Vintage Country Amazon
24Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) On A Little Two Acre Farm Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58 Amazon
25Goose Island Ramblers I Worked For a Farmer Polkabilly Amazon
26Buster Carter & Preston Young A Lazy Farmer Boy Before The Blues Vol. 3 Amazon
27Rosetta Howard Plow Hand Blues [Album Version] Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950 Amazon
28Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail Amazon
29Fiddlin' John Carson Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All [Remastered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
30Ray Wylie Hubbard After the Harvest Crusades of the Restless Nights Amazon
31Dry Branch Fire Squad Devil, Take The Farmer 481 Bluegrass Class of 1990 Amazon
32Glen Campbell Arkansas Farmboy Adios Amazon
33Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies When It's Harvest Time, Sweet Angeline Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin' Amazon
34Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs With Mother Maybelle Carter The Homestead On The Farm [Album Version] Songs Of The Famous Carter Family Amazon

Below the Mason-Dixon Line

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

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

High Water Everywhere

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

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

That High Lonesome Sound

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.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Ricky Skaggs & Joan Osborne On The Old Kentucky Shore Big Mon – The Songs of Bill Monroe Amazon
3Bill Monroe A Voice From On High Cover to Cover: The Originals, Vol. 2 [Disc 1] Amazon
4Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Wicked Path Of Sin All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4] Amazon
5The Stanley Brothers Hills of Roan County 16 Greatest Hits Amazon
6Vern And Ray Cabin On a Mountain Cabin On A Mountain Amazon
7Ralph Stanley The Old Crossroad Poor Rambler [Disc 2] Amazon
8The David Thom Band Memories Of Mother And Dad The Thief Amazon
9Peter Rowan, Greg Garing Letter From My Darling True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe Amazon
10Bill Monroe/Ralph Stanley Letter from My Darling Saturday Night & Sunday Morning Disc 1 Amazon
11The Stanley Brothers Meet Me By the Moonlight High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
12Del McCoury Bluest Man in Town Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 2) Amazon
13Blue Highway Wicked Path Of Sin Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1 Amazon
14Martin, "King" Jimmy/Marty Stuart The Mississippi Mudcat and Sister Sheryl Crow Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best Amazon
15Jimmy Martin On and On Don't Cry To Me Amazon
16Jimmy Martin & Ralph Stanley Old Cross Road First Time Together Amazon
17Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys My Little Georgia Rose Bill Monroe: Anthology Amazon
18Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys Get Down On Your Knees and Pray Bill Monroe: Anthology Amazon
19Tim O'Brien Highway Of Sorrow Legend Lives on-a Tribute to Bill Monroe Amazon
20Bill Monroe Highway of Sorrow Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 3] Amazon
21Del McCoury High On the Mountain Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 2) Amazon
22Del McCoury On the Lonesome Wind The Family Amazon
23Alan O'Bryant, Del McCoury Get Down On Your Knees And Pray True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe Amazon
24Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys True Life Blues Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys live recordings 1956-1969 Amazon
25Bill Monroe And Doc Watson Memories of You Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2 Amazon
26Ricky Skaggs Remember the Cross Soldier of the Cross Amazon
27The Seldom Scene Little Georgia Rose High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
28Bill Monroe With Body and Soul High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
29Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1 Amazon
30Mac Wiseman It's Mighty Dark To Travel Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
31Don Reno & Red Smiley I Know You're Married But I Love You Still God Old Country Ballds Amazon
32Danny 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 Amazon
33Old and in the Way High Lonesome Sound That High Lonesome Sound Amazon
34Charlie Haden A Voice From On High Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon

Arlo Guthrie Special

Arlo Guthrie Special
Arlo Guthrie Special

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!

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Pt 1 The Best of Arlo Guthrie Amazon
3Arlo Guthrie Highway In the Wind Alice's Restaurant Amazon
4Arlo Guthrie Coming Into Los Angeles Running Down the Road (remastered 2004) Amazon
5Arlo Guthrie Miss The Mississippi and You Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004) Amazon
6Jimmie Rodgers Miss The Mississippi And You Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5] Amazon
7Arlo Guthrie, Lunenberg Travelers, Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee You Must Have That True Religion A Tribute to Leadbelly Amazon
8Georgia Yellow Hammers Mary Don't You Weep Lead Kindly Light Amazon
9Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger Oh Mary Don't You Weep H.A.R.P. A Time To Sing Disc 1 Amazon
10Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger This Old Car If I Had A Song: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2 Amazon
11Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Pt 2 The Best of Arlo Guthrie Amazon
12Arlo Guthrie 1913 Massacre Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics Amazon
13Woody Guthrie 1913 Massacre Classic Labor Songs From Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
14Woody Guthrie The Grand Coulee Dam Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection Amazon
15Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Pt 3 The Best of Arlo Guthrie Amazon
16Arlo Guthrie City Of New Orleans All Over the World Amazon
17Steve Goodman City Of New Orleans Steve Goodman Amazon
18Arlo Guthrie Oklahoma Hills Running Down the Road (remastered 2004) Amazon
19Jack Guthrie Oklahoma Hills Oklahoma Hills Amazon
20Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Pt 4 The Best of Arlo Guthrie Amazon
21Ramblin' Jack Elliott Riding Down The Canyon (w/Arlo Guthrie) Friends of Mine Amazon
22Rex Allen Ridin' Down the Canyon V-3 Riding All Day Amazon
23Arlo Guthrie, Lunenberg Travelers, Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee Redbird A Tribute to Leadbelly Amazon
24Arlo Guthrie Lovesick Blues Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004) Amazon
25Hank Williams Lovesick Blues 24 Greatest Amazon
26Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger Wimoweh (Mbube) H.A.R.P. A Time To Sing Disc 1 Amazon
27Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Pt 5 The Best of Arlo Guthrie Amazon

Clouds & Silver Linings

Clouds & Silver Linings
Clouds & Silver Linings

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.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Jimmy Martin Pray The Clouds Away Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 2] Amazon
3Bill Cox The Clouds Gwine Roll Away 78s Amazon
4Doc & Merle Watson The Clouds Are Gwine to Roll Away On Stage Amazon
5Hylo Brown Clouds Gonna Roll Away Legends & Tall Tales Amazon
6Delmore Brothers God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds Hillbilly Boogie Best Amazon
7Dave Van Ronk Clouds (From Both Sides Now) A Chrestomathy [Disc 1] Amazon
8George Gershwin Kickin' The Clouds Away The Platinum Collection Amazon
9Annette Hanshaw There Must Be a Silver Lining The Personality Girl, Vol. 3, 1926-1928 Amazon
10Jim Hall Look for the Silver Lining Complete Jazz Guitar Amazon
11Dave Brubeck Look For The Silver Lining Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective Amazon
12Marion Harris Look For The Silver Lining 50 #1 Hits Of The '20s & '30s Amazon
13Django Reinhardt Clouds The Classic Early Recordings In Chronological Order [Disc 1] Amazon
14Django Reinhardt Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) 1944-1946 Amazon
15Maurice Chevalier Sweeping the Clouds Away Maurice Chevalier: The Greatest Hits Amazon
16Johnny Hamp And His Kentucky Serenaders Up In The Clouds Johnny Hamp at Archive Amazon
17The Louvin Brothers You'll Meet Him In The Clouds Close Harmony [Disc 6] Amazon
18Alison Krauss Cloudy Days Every Time You Say Goodbye Amazon
19Sons of the Pioneers Cottage in the Clouds 1941 vol 1 (Warped 4108) Amazon
20Johnny Ray The Little White Cloud That Cried Magic Moments Amazon
21Red Norvo Trio, George Shearing Quintet Midnight on Cloud 69 Midnight on Cloud 69 Amazon
22The Blind Boys Of Alabama God Put A Rainbow In The Cloud I'll Find A Way Amazon
23Pops Staples Hope in a Hopeless World Father Father Amazon
24Moonalice Silver Lining Dave's Way Vol 4 Amazon
25First Aid Kit My Silver Lining Stay Gold Amazon
26Simon & Garfunkel Cloudy Old Friends Disc 2 Amazon
27Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick Flying Cloud Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray Amazon
28Hank Snow The Boogie Woogie Flying Cloud Southern Cannonball Amazon
29Bonnie Raitt Silver Lining [Radio Edit Version] The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003 [US] Amazon
30Rilo Kiley Silver Lining The Craft of Music, Vol. 2 Amazon
31Bunch Of Kids/Eddie Hodges/Frank Sinatra High Hopes Sinatra 80th: All the Best Disc 2 Amazon

Celebrating the Circle

Celebrating the Circle
Celebrating the Circle

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.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle Be Unbroken Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
3The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
4Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter Fair and Tender Ladies Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1 Amazon
5Maybelle Carter The Storms are on the Ocean Friends Of Old Time Music [Disc 1] Amazon
6Mother Maybelle & The Carter Sisters WIldwood Flower The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music Amazon
7The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Wreck on the Highway Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1 Amazon
8Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys Wreck On The Highway The Essential Roy Acuff Amazon
9Roy Acuff Pins & Needles (In My Heart) King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail Amazon
10The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Pins and Needles (In My Heart) Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
11Jimmy Martin Sunny Side Of The Mountain Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3] Amazon
12The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Sunny Side of the Mountain Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1 Amazon
13Jimmy Martin You Don't Know My Mind Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 2] Amazon
14Jimmy Martin Ocean Of Diamonds Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 1] Amazon
15The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Nine Pound Hammer Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1 Amazon
16Merle Travis Nine Pound Hammer American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music [Disc 3] Amazon
17Merle Travis Dark As a Dungeon Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals Amazon
18Merle Travis I Am A Pilgrim The Best of Merle Travis Amazon
19Doc Watson/Merle Watson Black Mountain Rag Black Mountain Rag Amazon
20Doc Watson/Merle Watson Down Yonder Black Mountain Rag Amazon
21The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Down Yonder Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
22The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Lonesome Fiddle Blues Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
23Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt Nashville Skyline Rag The Essential Earl Scruggs (2 of 2) Amazon
24Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys Earl's Breakdown [78rpm Version] 16 Biggest Hits Amazon
25Hank Williams Wait For The Light To Shine Lost Highway December 1948 – March 1949 Amazon
26Leon Payne Lost Highway Country & Western Hit Parade 1948 Amazon
27The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Lost Highway Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
28The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band I Saw the Light Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1 Amazon
29Hank Williams I Saw The Light Hank Williams – A Country Legend (3) Amazon
30The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Honky Tonk Blues Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
31The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Orange Blossom Special Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon

Country Roots

Country Roots
Country Roots

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.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Vernon Dalhart The Wreck Of The Old '97 American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 1] Amazon
3Vernon Dalhart The Prisoner's Song Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's Amazon
4Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers Pass Around The Bottle And We'll All Take A Drink And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 1 Amazon
5Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers I Don't Love Nobody And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 1 Amazon
6Charlie 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] Amazon
7The Carter Family Single Girl, Married Girl The Bristol Sessions 1927-1928 [Disc 3] Amazon
8Riley Puckett Little Brown Jug Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
9Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters Roll On the Ground Lead Kindly Light Amazon
10Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters Georgie Buck Hill Billies / Al Hopkins & Buckle Busters Vol. 3 Amazon
11Frank Blevins Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
12Charlie 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] Amazon
13Charlie 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] Amazon
14The Allen Brothers Chattanooga Blues Allen Brothers Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 Amazon
15The Allen Brothers Ain't That Skippin' And Flyin' Allen Brothers Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 Amazon
16Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters Old Dan Tucker Hill Billies / Al Hopkins & Buckle Busters Vol. 3 Amazon
17Harry McClintock Jesse James When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
18Bradley Kincaid Froggie Went A-Courting …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
19Bradley Kincaid Sourwood Mountain The Story That the Crow Told Me Vol 2 Amazon
20Bascom Lamar Lundsford Lost John Dean Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
21The Lonely Eagles Been On The Job Too Long Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
22Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers The Burial Of Wild Bill When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
23The Happy Hayseeds The Tail Of Haley's Comet Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
24Buell Kazee The Cowboy Trail When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
25Paul Hamblin The Strawberry Roan When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
26Jimmie Rodgers Mississippi Delta Blues Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5] Amazon
27Jimmie Davis Cowboy's Home Sweet Home When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
28Red Foley Single Life Is Good Enough For Me Smoke on the Water / Hillbilly Fever Amazon
29Gene Autry The Yellow Rose Of Texas The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946 Amazon
30Gene Autry Tumblin' Tumbleweeds The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946 Amazon
31Powder River Jack, Kitty Lee Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail When I Was A Cowboy: Early American Songs Of The West, Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's. Vol. 1 Amazon