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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!

Songs of Cindy Walker

March 3, 2016 Dave

Enduring and prolific…country and pop songwriter Cindy Walker’s name is not as familiar to many but her music certainly is. She wrote early western-flavored pop and country swing pieces for performers like Bing Crosby and Bob Wills, composing hits for Hank Snow, Gene Autry, Al Dexter, Eddy Arnold, and others…almost owning the country charts in the 1940s. Her music endured well into the sixties and seventies, covered by Roy Orbison, Ray Charles, and dozens more. Her custom was to rise early and write songs, typing her lyrics on a pink-trimmed manual Royal typewriter while her mother, Oree Walker, would work out the melodies to her daughter’s words. They would station themselves in Nashville five months out of the year to help market the music, returning home to Mexia, Texas where Cindy would live out her life. Join us on a special run of Americana: the songs of Cindy Walker.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Asleep at the Wheel/Leon Rausch	Sugar Moon	It's A Good Day
3	Willie Nelson	Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
4	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Dusty Skies	Take Me Back to Tulsa [Disc 2] (Cherokee Maiden)
5	Bob Wills	Cherokee Maiden	Columbia Historic Edition
6	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Blue Bonnet Lane	Legends of Country Music Disc 4
7	Eddy Arnold	Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me	The Essential Eddy Arnold
8	George Morgan	In the Misty Moonlight	Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection
9	Dean Martin	In The Misty Moonlight	The Great Dean Martin
10	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Blue Canadian Rockies	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
11	Jim Reeves	Distant Drums	Essential Jim Reeves
12	Ray Charles	You Don't Know Me	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
13	Gene Autry	Silver Spurs (On the Golden Stairs)	Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1]
14	Gene Autry	I Was Just Walking Out the Door	Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 3]
15	Ernest Tubb	Two Glasses Joe	Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection
16	The Del McCoury Band	The Bluegrass Country	Del And The Boys
17	The Byrds	Blue Canadian Rockies	Sweetheart of the Rodeo
18	Merle Haggard	Goin' Away Party	Unforgettable
19	Ricky Skaggs	I Don't Care	The Essential Ricky Skaggs
20	Roy Orbison	Shahdaroba	The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument]
21	Roy Orbison	Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)	The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument]
22	Willie Nelson	Not That I Care	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
23	k.d. lang	Sugar Moon	Shadowland
24	Les Paul	Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me (Remastered)	100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
25	Bob Wills	Miss Molly	For the Last Time
26	Asleep at the Wheel	It's All Your Fault (with Katie Shore)	Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
27	Solitaire Miles	I Hear You Talkin'	Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
28	Solitaire Miles	Me & the Man In the Moon	Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
29	Hank Thompson	Triflin' Gal	Seven Decades
30	Willie Nelson	Dusty Skies	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
31	Merle Haggard	Cherokee Maiden	Capitol Collector's Series

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Higher Power Country Gospel

February 4, 2016 Dave

We visit the classic sounds of country and bluegrass with thematic overtones of gospel. The love of country music often had its roots in a performer’s childhood memories of community church and the sound that would evolve from country and bluegrass provided a tone that grew from those memories…with a tenor that could easily echo the word’. The greatest of them elevated their popularity with their flock by invoking the name of that higher power of God and church in the community of bluegrass: The Stanley Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Ricky Skaggs, Doyle Lawson, and even country groups like the The Louvin Brothers and The Whitstein Brothers made gospel a core of their repertoire.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Louvin Brothers	There's A Higher Power	Satan Is Real
3	The Whitstein Brothers	Way Up On The Mountain	Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins
4	Fern Jones	I Do Believe	The Glory Road
5	Kitty Wells	I Heard My Saviour Call	Dust on the Bible (1959)
6	Kitty Wells	(I've Got My) One-Way Ticket to the Sky	Dust on the Bible (1959)
7	Milton Estes	Hish! Somebody's Calling My Name	Favorite Sacred Songs
8	Brother Claude Ely	Fare You Well	Satan Get Back
9	King's Sacred Quartette	Turn Your Radio On	Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
10	J.E. Mainer	Workin' On A Building	Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
11	The Carter Family	God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
12	The Carter Family	On My Way To Canaan's Land	Take Me To The Water
13	The Delmore Brothers	The Wrath Of God	Favorite Sacred Songs
14	The Stanley Brothers	Over the Glory Land	16 Greatest Gospel Hits
15	The Stanley Brothers	My Lord's Going To Set Me Free	Hymns & Sacred Songs
16	Mac Wiseman	I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map	Grassroots To Bluegrass
17	Mac Wiseman	Dust On The Bible	Grassroots To Bluegrass
18	Ricky Skaggs	Hallelujah I'm Ready	Family And Friends
19	The Johnson Mountain Boys	Springtime in Glory	Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music
20	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	Jesus Gave Me Water	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
21	George Jones & Tammy Wynette	Let's All Go Down To The River	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
22	Moore & Napier	Gathering In The Sky	Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
23	Elvis Presley	I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs	He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 1
24	Willie Nelson	Sweet Bye and Bye	Old Time Religion
25	Johnny Cash	Unclouded Day	Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South
26	Chuck Wagon Gang/The Jordanaires	Down the Road	70th Anniversary
27	The Corley Family	Way To Glory Land (1929)	Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936
28	The Corley Family	Give The World A Smile	Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
29	Anonymous (Knight Home-recording Disc)	Beautiful Mansions of Gold	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
30	Ex-Governor Alf. Taylor's Old Limber Quartet	Brother Noah Built an Ark	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
31	Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives	Long Walk to Heaven	Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
32	Elvis Presley	Working on the Building	Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
33	Willie and Bobbie Nelson	I'll Fly Away	Farther Along
34	Buddy Holly	True Love Ways	From the Original Master Tapes

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Guitar Theme

January 23, 2016 Dave

Once considered in its earliest forms a noble instrument, the history of the guitar can be traced back over forty centuries (yes, that’s 4000 years). While we won’t got back quite so far in our exploration, we will explore the popular form of this instrument in song this week. We’re not going after the genius as much as we go after the topic with songs whose theme is that of the guitar. It seems that there has always been a personal connection between the instrument and the player, sometimes as a confidant and others as a foil. Our show will feature yodeling guitars, lonely guitars, Bo’s guitar, long-legged pickers, amigos, and a number of performances about ‘one’s first guitar’. Join Dave Stroud for plenty in a guitar themed journey.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Steve Earle	Guitar Town	Just an American Boy Disc 1
3	Walter Hurdt	Fiddle And Guitar Running Wild	Classic Field Recordings
4	Jimmie Rodgers	You And My Old Guitar	Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 1]
5	Jorma Kaukonen	More Than My Old Guitar	River Of Time
6	Jimmy Murphy	That First Guitar of Mine	1951-1956 (Warped 5101)
7	The Seldom Scene	Grandpa Getcha Guitar	Like We Used To Be
8	The Louvin Brothers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Long Play Collection
9	Byron Parker & His Mountaineers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Byron Parker & His Mountaineers
10	Hardrock Gunter	Guitar on the Mountain	Gonna Rock 'n' Roll, Gonna Dance All Night
11	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Steel Guitar Rag	Legends of Country Music Disc 1
12	Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers	Telling' My Troubles to My Old Guitar	Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years
13	Frank Crumit	Plink Plonki Pluck My Guitar	Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit
14	The Brown Bombers of Swing	Guitar Swing	If You Take Me Back
15	George Morgan	Mr Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man)	Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection
16	Jerry Byrd	Hilo Steel Guitar	Stars Of The Steel Guitar
17	Les Paul	Lonely Guitar (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered]	100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
18	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Yodeling Guitar	Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
19	Duane Eddy	Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar	Dance With The Guitar Man
20	Bo Diddley	Bo's Guitar	Go Bo Diddley
21	Johnny Powers	Me and My Rhythm Guitar	The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2
22	Johnny Cash	I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar	The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 3
23	Johnny Cash & June Carter	Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man	Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter
24	Kitty Wells	Amigo's Guitar	Greatest Songs
25	Waylon Jennings	Guitars That Won't Stay in Tune	Clean Shirt
26	Willie Nelson	Guitar In the Corner	Band of Brothers
27	George Jones	Best Guitar Picker	The Complete United Artists Solo Singles
28	Robert Earl Keen, Jr.	Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)	Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
29	Merle Haggard	Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)	Capitol Collector's Series
30	Freddie King	Me And My Guitar	Texas Cannonball
31	Tony Rice	Me and My Guitar	Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
32	Lucinda Williams	Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings	World Without Tears
33	Guy Clark	The Guitar	Somedays the Song Writes You
34	Neil Young	This Old Guitar	Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank

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Folk Songs of North America

January 2, 2016 Dave

Folk Songs of North America was first published in 1960. Compiled by Alan Lomax (with melodies transcribed by Peggy Seeger), it featured traditional music organized by locale and topic. The anecdotes provided by Lomax and others were culled from both the oral and transcribed traditions of those who listened and performed. Deeper Roots goes deeper and features sets organized by topical pieces outlined in the book. Performers of the early century are featured including Dock Boggs, David McCarn, Gid Tanner, the Carolina Tar Heels, and The Bently Boys. We’ll also feature a handful of mid-to-late century performers to cap things off. Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of the last century of America’s music on Sonoma County’s newest member-supported radio voice, KWTF 88.1 FM, streaming to the world on kwtf.net.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Alan Lomax	Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair	Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co
3	Dock Boggs	Cumberland Gap	Bound For Glory
4	Kelly Harrell	I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again	Archive.org
5	Pat Carrolls	Single Girl	Songcatcher
6	The Haden Triplets	Single Girl	The Haden Triplets
7	Jimmie Driftwood	Rattlesnake Song	Americana, Vol. 1
8	Joan Baez	John Riley [*]	Joan Baez [Bonus Tracks]
9	The Stonemans	Shady Grove	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – Best Of Bluegrass
10	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Sally Goodin	Bill Monroe: Anthology
11	Andy Griffith	Cindy	Shouts The Blues And Old Timey Songs
12	Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt	Cripple Creek	The Essential Earl Scruggs (2 of 2)
13	Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers	Cripple Creek	And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 1
14	Coot Grant and Socks Wilson	Uncle Joe (Pm 12833, 349-A)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
15	The Bently Boys	Down On Penny's Farm	Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads
16	David McCarn	Cotton Mill Colic	Gastonia Gallop – Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931
17	Jimmy Martin	Roll on Buddy, Roll On	First Time Together
18	Lonzo and Oscar	Last Ole Dollar	1947-1950 (Warped 4741)
19	Darby & Tarlton	Birmingham Jail	compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com
20	Slim Whitman	Down In The Valley	Country Greats #2
21	Darby & Tarlton	Rising Sun Blues	Darby & Tarlton [Disc 3]
22	Don Reno/Red Smiley	Mule Skinner Blues	Together Again
23	Merle Travis	Dark As A Dungeon	Hot Pickin' [Disc 1]
24	Bill Morrissey	Pay Day	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
25	Carolina Tar Heels	Peg And Awl	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 2
26	Etta Baker & Taj Mahal	Johnson Boys	Etta Baker With Taj Mahal
27	Kossoy Sisters Featuring Erik Darling	The Wagoner's Lad	Bluegrass Roots
28	Richard Hawley	Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?	Coles Corner
29	The Whitstein Brothers	I'm Troubled	Old Time Duets
30	Rosanne Cash	Fair And Tender Ladies	Songcatcher
31	Flatt & Scruggs	On Top of Old Smokey	Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends/Nashville Airplane
32	Kelly Harrell & The Virginia String Band	Charles Giteau	Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads
33	Bobby Bare	Tom Dooley	Darker Than Light
34	Carolina Chocolate Drops	Tom Dula	Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind
35	Doc Watson	Omie Wise	The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968
36	Ernest V. Stoneman & Sweet Brothers	John Hardy	My Rough And Rowdy Ways: Early American Rural Music. Badman Ballads and Hellraising Songs, Vol. 1

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Songs of A.P. Carter

November 14, 2015 Dave

He grew up with music, learning to plan violin at a young age in Poor Valley, Virginia (now known as Maces Springs), sang in a church choir and helped his uncle, Flanders Bays, who ran a mobile music school in Scott County. He would go on to form one of the seminal country music groups of the day with his wife Sara and her cousin Maybelle. Their musicianship was remarkable but the song-writing was what set them apart, the compositions by A. P. Carter representing a treasury of classic folk, sentimental pop, cowboy songs, gospel favorites, and original love songs. While there may be little doubt as to whether all songs that carried his name were original, his treatment (and that of the Carter Family group) were without peer. Tune in this Friday night for music featuring performers covering A.P. Carter songs, including The Delmore Brothers, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, Charlie Louvin, Ashley Monroe, and a host of others.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Ralph Stanley	Worried Man Blues [Album Version]	A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
3	Rosanne Cash	The Winding Stream	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
4	John Prine	Lulu Walls	German Afternoons
5	The Carter Family	Lulu Walls	Can The Circle Be Unbroken
6	The Carter Family	My Texas Girl	Can The Circle Be Unbroken
7	Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter	Foggy Mountain Top	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
8	Osborne Brothers	You Are My Flower	Hillbilly Fever
9	Flatt & Scruggs	You Are My Flower [Album Version]	'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered: The Essential Flatt & Scruggs
10	Charlie Haden	Oh Take Me Back	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
11	Ricky Skaggs & The Whites	Will My Mother Know Me There	Strings And Things: The Best in Bluegrass Vol. 1
12	Ashley Monroe	The Storms Are On The Ocean	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
13	The Delmore Brothers	The Storms are on the Ocean	Classic Cuts CD D – Atlanta 1940, New York 1940-41
14	Gene Autry	I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blues Eyes	The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
15	Red Allen	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family
16	Mac Wiseman	Jimmy Brown The Newsboy	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]
17	Roy Clark	Jimmy Brown, the Newsboy	The Roy Clark Anthology
18	Charlie Louvin	My Texas Girl	Charlie Louvin Sings Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs
19	Ralph Stanley	Distant Land To Roam [Album Version]	A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
20	The Carter Family	A Distant Land To Roam	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 2]
21	Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men	Engine 143	Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land
22	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Wabash Cannonball	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
23	The Carter Family	Hello Central! Give Me Heaven	The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5]
24	Sister Bessie Griffin w/Brownie McGee	Heaven's Radio	Powerhouse Gospel
25	The Swan Silvertones, The Staple Singers, The Pilgrim Travelers	Will The Circle Be Unbroken	The Swan Silvertones 1946-1951
26	George Jones/Staples, Pop And Mavis	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	My Very Special Guests [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
27	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Will The Circle Be Unbroken	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
28	The Carter Family	Beautiful Brown Eyes & Sweet Fern	On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1
29	Jorma Kaukonen	Sweet Fern	Ain't In No Hurry
30	Loretta Lynn	Wildwood Flower	Anchored In Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash
31	Norman & Nancy Blake	The Sunny Side of Life	Strings And Things: The Best in Bluegrass Vol. 1
32	Norman Blake	Fifty Miles of Elbow Room	Old Ties
33	Emmylou Harris	Hello Stranger (Remastered LP Version)	Luxury Liner [Remaster]

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Let’s Live – KOWS Nov 5, 2015

November 5, 2015 Dave

We’ll be bringing another eclectic blend of music from the past for an evening set kicks off with sounds of New Orleans beginning with a medley from the Bayou Maharajah, James Booker and closing with Irma Thomas. In addition to our usual run of bluegrass, jazz, and blues…we’ll prepare some piping hot biscuits from the country shack with Alan Lomax, Flatt & Scruggs, Pappy O’Daniel and the Hillbilly Boys, and Kacey Musgraves. There will also be a rare piece of early blues piano work from Ollie Shepard and the early century jazz band sounds of Enric Madriguera, Jimmie Lunceford, and Fletcher Henderson. Two full hours of Deeper Roots on weekday evening…carrying us over the midweek hump so that it’s all downhill from there…

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Aaron Neville	Let's Live	Treacherous [Disc 1]
3	James Booker	Medley: Tico Tico / Papa Was A Rascal / So Swell When You're Well	Classified
4	Dr. John	Traveling Mood	The Ultimate Dr. John
5	Fats Domino	The Girl I Love [Version 2]	This Is Gold Disc 1
6	Aaron Neville	My True Story	My True Story
7	Irma Thomas	While the City Sleeps	Time Is on My Side: The Best of Irma Thomas, Vol. 1
8	Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie	I'm Wild About My Stuff	Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944
9	Blind Boy Fuller	Trucking My Blues Away No. 2 (take 2)	Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order – Volume 2 (29 April to 12 July 1937)
10	Ollie Shepard	King Of All Evil	Vol. 2-1939-41
11	Angelic Gospel Singers with the Dixie Humming Birds	One Day	When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51
12	Rory Block	Lord, I Feel Just Like Goin' On	I Belong To The Band: A Tribute To Rev. Gary Davis
13	Ethel Waters and Her Jazz Band	Ev'rybody Mess Aroun	Tight Women and Loose Bands 1921-1931
14	Cleo Brown	Boogie Woogie	Picking the Blues – Compiled By John Mayall – Boogie Woogie Pioneers
15	Benny Carter (With Lionel Hampton Orchestra)	I'm in the Mood for Swing	RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's
16	Coleman Hawkins	Body and Soul	RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's
17	Alan Lomax	How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?	Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co
18	W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys	Please Pass The Biscuits Pappy	Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938
19	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	'How Many Biscuits'	1953-X6-XX Grand Old Opry
20	NRBQ	Hot Biscuits and Sweet Marie	Kick Me Hard
21	Kacey Musgraves	Biscuits	Pageant Material
22	Kenny Baker	Monroe's Hornpipe	Plays Bill Monroe
23	Jack Guthrie	No Need to Knock on My Door	Oklahoma Hills
24	Merle Travis	Missouri	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 11
25	Kentuckians	Journey's End	Keep on Going: The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings
26	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	Better Times A' Comin'	Mark Twain: Words & Music [Disc 1]
27	Mac Wiseman	It's Mighty Dark To Travel	Grassroots To Bluegrass
28	Johnny Cash	Thanks a Lot	The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 1
29	Jim Silver	Each Season Changes You	Country Boy's Dream
30	Jimmy Wakely	Moon Over Montana	Vintage Collections
31	Leon Redbone	Sweet Lorraine	Any Time
32	Dr. John	I Love It at the Top	20 Dates
33	Jimmie Lunceford/Sy Oliver, Vocal	Time's A-Wastin'	Jimmie Lunceford
34	Sam Cooke	Bring It on Home to Me	Greatest Hits

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In The Gloaming – KOWS Oct 24, 2015

October 24, 2015 Dave

Our Saturday morning show opens with some caffeine-driven music…literally… songs about the magic bean, that morning beverage that starts the day for some of us. We’ve got swamp pop from Randy & The Rockets, some jumpin’ jive from Cab Calloway, twilight reflections from Jonatha Brooke and The Sons of The Pioneers, and some Chet Atkins, David Lindley, and Eilen Jewell. KOWS community radio studios will be moving before the end of the year to a very central West County location that will bring us in closer contact with our listeners…and our Deeper Roots. And some exciting news! Deeper Roots moves to weekly broadcasts on KOWS.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Randy & the Rockets	Lets Do the Cajun Twist	Swamp Gold, Volume 1
3	Curtis Gordon	Caffeine And Nicotine	Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
4	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Caffeine Patrol	Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
5	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Forty Cups of Coffee	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
6	Frank Sinatra	The Coffee Song	Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan
7	Carmen McRae/Previn Trio	Coffee Time	Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers [Disc 2]
8	Annette Hanshaw	You're the Cream in My Coffee	The Personality Girl, Vol. 4: 1928
9	The Manhattan Transfer	Java Jive	Swing
10	Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three	Coffee Pot Blues	Middle of Everywhere
11	Cab Calloway	The Jumpin' Jive	Best Of The Big Bands
12	Tiny Davis & Her Orchestra	How About That Jive	Jumpin' The Blues:MCA Label(ACE CD)
13	Johnny Mercer	G.I. Jive	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 1 – The Birth Of A Label – 1942-43
14	Ella Fitzgerald	Five O'Clock Whistle	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
15	Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys	The Prettiest Flowers Will Be Blooming	Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Disc One
16	Sons of the Pioneers	In the Gloaming	Songs of the Prairie – CD4
17	Jonatha Brooke	In the Gloaming	Live
18	John Prine With Emmylou Harris	I Know One	In Spite Of Ourselves
19	Porter Wagoner	Fool Like Me	Wagonmaster
20	Chet Atkins	Levee Walking	My Favorite Guitars – It's A Guitar World
21	The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers	Hand Me Down My Walking Cane	Blue Grass Favorites
22	Eilen Jewell	That's Why I'm Walkin	Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades
23	Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers	Walk Right In, Walk Right Out (The Walking Blues)	One Hour Mama
24	Eddie Jefferson	Start Walkin' Stop Talkin'	The BeBop Singers
25	Dinah Washington	Walkin' And Talkin'	Gold
26	Peggy Lee	Talkin' To Myself About You	The Capitol Collector's Series
27	David Lindley	Talk to the Lawyer	Win This Record
28	David Lindley & El Rayo-X	Talkin' to the Wino Too	Very Greasy
29	David Lindley and Wally Ingram	Oh Death	Twango Bango II
30	Pepe Ahlqist	Moonshine Babe	Raw Blues
31	Perline Ellison	Razor Totin' Mama	Document Shortcuts Vol. 1 "God Don't Like It"
32	Jackson Browne & David Lindley	El Rayo X (Intro)	Love Is Strange [Disc 1]
33	Jackson Browne & David Lindley	El Rayo X	Love Is Strange [Disc 1]
34	Mark Knopfler	Who's Your Baby Now	Sailing to Philadelphia

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

Pickin’ Time – KOWS Oct 5, 2015

October 6, 2015 Dave

Dave Stroud will be sitting in tonight for Mark Hogan once again at 6pm Pacific. He’s got another episode of Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. In this episode, he’ll be following along Mark’s theme of old time and bluegrass, old and new. The playlist this evening will include bluegrass from James King, Mac Wiseman, David Grisman and Bill Monroe. He’ll also be sharing new tracks from Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas, Kinky Friedman, The Dustbowl Revival (fresh from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this past weekend), and a couple of tracks fromLowell Levinger From The Youngbloods’s new album “Get Together – Youngblood Classics”. Tune in for some Eddy Arnold tribute pieces, music about the married life, and a couple of fine recordings of the great guitar pioneer Riley Puckett.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers	Smokey Mountain Rag	With The Travelin Blues
3	Merle Travis	Freight Train (Instrumental)	The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
4	Dallas Smith	My Home Across the Blue Ridge Mountains	Still Pickin'
5	James King	Things Have Gone to Pieces	Three Chords & The Truth
6	Red Allen	I Heard My Mother Call My Name	Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings
7	Neko Case	Wayfaring Stranger	Live From Austin, TX
8	Kinky Friedman	Pickin Time	The Loneliest Man I Ever Met
9	Ricky Skaggs	Walls Of Time	Bluegrass Today [Disc 2]
10	David Grisman	Wicked Path of Sin (feat. Old & In The Way)	Dawg Plays Big Mon
11	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Wicked Path Of Sin	All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4]
12	Solitaire Miles	You Can't Break My Heart	Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
13	Kacey Musgraves	You're From Texas	Wanted: One Good Cowboy
14	Pokey LaFarge	Lovebug Itch	You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
15	Well Worn Soles	Worried	Country/Folk
16	Frank Black	Don't Rob Another Man's Castle	You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
17	Don Henley Feat. Mick Jagger & Miranda Lambert	Bramble Rose	Cass County (Deluxe)
18	Traveling Show	Hillbilly Wedding Day	Songs From The Road Band
19	Charlie Haden	Single Girl, Married Girl	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
20	Robbie Fulks	Act Like A Married Man	13 Hillbilly Giants
21	John Prine With Lucinda Williams	Wedding Bells / Let's Turn Back The Years	In Spite Of Ourselves
22	Nikki Lane	Wild One	All or Nothin' (Deluxe)
23	Lowell Levinger	Sugar Babe	Get Together- Youngblood Classics
24	Lowell Levinger	Euphoria	Get Together- Youngblood Classics
25	Riley Puckett	It's A Sin To Tell A Lie	Country Music Pioneer vol 1
26	Riley Puckett	Cindy	Country Music Pioneer vol 1
27	Mac Wiseman	Dust On The Bible	Grassroots To Bluegrass
28	Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers	To Hear Doc Watson Play	Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions
29	Doc Watson	Make Me a Pallet	Memories
30	Amy Helm	Roll Awy	Didn't It Rain
31	The Dustbowl Revival	Lampshade On	With a Lampshade On
32	Charlie Gracie	Just A Closer Walk With Thee	Angel on My Shoulder

High Noon

September 26, 2015 Dave

It’s a new morning…as it always is…and was when we celebrated another Saturday morning in Occidental with Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music with host Dave Stroud. This twice-monthly show opens with a mule kicking in the stall, some barnyard rhythm and then moves swiftly into a blend of 1950s country and big band. Ray Charles, Frankie Laine, Chick Webb, Otis Spann, and Merle Travis are just a sampling of performers we’ll hear from. West County living deserves roots music wafting over the airwaves on a Saturday morning in early autumn. Let’s set the airwaves stage with some Otis Spann.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Nellie Lutcher	He's A Real Gone Guy	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
3	Nellie Lutcher	There's Another Mule In Your Stall	Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 1]
4	Otis Spann	Mule Kicking In My Stall	Cryin' Time
5	Louis Jordan	Barnyard Boogie	Jivin' With Jordan
6	Joe Liggins	Rhythm In The Barnyard	Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
7	The Andrews Sisters	A Man is a Brother To a Mule	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
8	Charlie Poole With Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon	Man that Rode the Mule Around the World	You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2]
9	Ralph Stanley	I've Got A Mule To Ride	Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection
10	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Mule Train (1996 Digital Remaster)	Vintage Collections
11	Frankie Laine	That Lucky Old Sun [Album Version]	Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits
12	Ray Charles	That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
13	Merle Travis & Joe Maphis	High Noon	Country Guitar Giants
14	Frankie Laine	Rawhide	Country Greats #2
15	Chick Webb and his Orchestra	Don't Be That Way	from CD; orig. Decca 483
16	Ella Fitzgerald	Melinda the Mousle	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
17	Annette Hanshaw	Who's That Knocking At My Door	The Twenties Sweetheart
18	Brother Grady Coffee	I'm Working on a Building	This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
19	Elvis Presley	Working on the Building	Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
20	Murry Hammond	In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
21	John & Jamie Hartford	When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland	Hartford & Hartford
22	June Carter Cash	Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?	Wildwood Flower
23	George Jones	Worried Man Blues	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
24	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
25	David Lindley and Wally Ingram	Coot From Tennessee	Twango Bango Deluxe
26	Ole Ramussen	Sleepy Eyed John	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
27	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Oozlin' Daddy Blues	Legends of Country Music Disc 2
28	Cliff Hobbs;Bill Cox	Oozlin' Daddy Blues [Album Version]	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
29	Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen	Big Mamou	We've Got a Live One Here!
30	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Big Mamou	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
31	Bonnie Guitar	Noon Train	Affair
32	Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips	If I Had My Way	Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips

A Century of America's Music