Category Archives: Bluegrass

Higher Power Country Gospel

Higher Power
Higher Power

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.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Louvin Brothers There's A Higher Power Satan Is Real Amazon
3The Whitstein Brothers Way Up On The Mountain Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins Amazon
4Fern Jones I Do Believe The Glory Road Amazon
5Kitty Wells I Heard My Saviour Call Dust on the Bible (1959) Amazon
6Kitty Wells (I've Got My) One-Way Ticket to the Sky Dust on the Bible (1959) Amazon
7Milton Estes Hish! Somebody's Calling My Name Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
8Brother Claude Ely Fare You Well Satan Get Back Amazon
9King's Sacred Quartette Turn Your Radio On Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
10J.E. Mainer Workin' On A Building Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
11The Carter Family God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
12The Carter Family On My Way To Canaan's Land Take Me To The Water Amazon
13The Delmore Brothers The Wrath Of God Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
14The Stanley Brothers Over the Glory Land 16 Greatest Gospel Hits Amazon
15The Stanley Brothers My Lord's Going To Set Me Free Hymns & Sacred Songs Amazon
16Mac Wiseman I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
17Mac Wiseman Dust On The Bible Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
18Ricky Skaggs Hallelujah I'm Ready Family And Friends Amazon
19The Johnson Mountain Boys Springtime in Glory Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music Amazon
20Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Jesus Gave Me Water Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
21George Jones & Tammy Wynette Let's All Go Down To The River Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
22Moore & Napier Gathering In The Sky Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
23Elvis Presley I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 1 Amazon
24Willie Nelson Sweet Bye and Bye Old Time Religion Amazon
25Johnny Cash Unclouded Day Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South Amazon
26Chuck Wagon Gang/The Jordanaires Down the Road 70th Anniversary Amazon
27The Corley Family Way To Glory Land (1929) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 Amazon
28The Corley Family Give The World A Smile Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937 Amazon
29Anonymous (Knight Home-recording Disc) Beautiful Mansions of Gold …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
30Ex-Governor Alf. Taylor's Old Limber Quartet Brother Noah Built an Ark …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
31Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Long Walk to Heaven Saturday Night / Sunday Morning Amazon
32Elvis Presley Working on the Building Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1 Amazon
33Willie and Bobbie Nelson I'll Fly Away Farther Along Amazon
34Buddy Holly True Love Ways From the Original Master Tapes Amazon

Guitar Theme

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.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Steve Earle Guitar Town Just an American Boy Disc 1 Amazon
3Walter Hurdt Fiddle And Guitar Running Wild Classic Field Recordings Amazon
4Jimmie Rodgers You And My Old Guitar Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 1] Amazon
5Jorma Kaukonen More Than My Old Guitar River Of Time Amazon
6Jimmy Murphy That First Guitar of Mine 1951-1956 (Warped 5101) Amazon
7The Seldom Scene Grandpa Getcha Guitar Like We Used To Be Amazon
8The Louvin Brothers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Long Play Collection Amazon
9Byron Parker & His Mountaineers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Byron Parker & His Mountaineers Amazon
10Hardrock Gunter Guitar on the Mountain Gonna Rock 'n' Roll, Gonna Dance All Night Amazon
11Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Steel Guitar Rag Legends of Country Music Disc 1 Amazon
12Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers Telling' My Troubles to My Old Guitar Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years Amazon
13Frank Crumit Plink Plonki Pluck My Guitar Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit Amazon
14The Brown Bombers of Swing Guitar Swing If You Take Me Back Amazon
15George Morgan Mr Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man) Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection Amazon
16Jerry Byrd Hilo Steel Guitar Stars Of The Steel Guitar Amazon
17Les Paul Lonely Guitar (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
18Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Yodeling Guitar Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
19Duane Eddy Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar Dance With The Guitar Man Amazon
20Bo Diddley Bo's Guitar Go Bo Diddley Amazon
21Johnny Powers Me and My Rhythm Guitar The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2 Amazon
22Johnny Cash I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 3 Amazon
23Johnny Cash & June Carter Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter Amazon
24Kitty Wells Amigo's Guitar Greatest Songs Amazon
25Waylon Jennings Guitars That Won't Stay in Tune Clean Shirt Amazon
26Willie Nelson Guitar In the Corner Band of Brothers Amazon
27George Jones Best Guitar Picker The Complete United Artists Solo Singles Amazon
28Robert Earl Keen, Jr. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard Amazon
29Merle Haggard Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
30Freddie King Me And My Guitar Texas Cannonball Amazon
31Tony Rice Me and My Guitar Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection Amazon
32Lucinda Williams Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings World Without Tears Amazon
33Guy Clark The Guitar Somedays the Song Writes You Amazon
34Neil Young This Old Guitar Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank Amazon

Folk Songs of North America

Folk Songs of North America
Folk Songs of North America

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.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Alan Lomax Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co Amazon
3Dock Boggs Cumberland Gap Bound For Glory Amazon
4Kelly Harrell I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again Archive.org Amazon
5Pat Carrolls Single Girl Songcatcher Amazon
6The Haden Triplets Single Girl The Haden Triplets Amazon
7Jimmie Driftwood Rattlesnake Song Americana, Vol. 1 Amazon
8Joan Baez John Riley [*] Joan Baez [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
9The Stonemans Shady Grove 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – Best Of Bluegrass Amazon
10Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys Sally Goodin Bill Monroe: Anthology Amazon
11Andy Griffith Cindy Shouts The Blues And Old Timey Songs Amazon
12Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt Cripple Creek The Essential Earl Scruggs (2 of 2) Amazon
13Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers Cripple Creek And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 1 Amazon
14Coot Grant and Socks Wilson Uncle Joe (Pm 12833, 349-A) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932) Amazon
15The Bently Boys Down On Penny's Farm Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
16David McCarn Cotton Mill Colic Gastonia Gallop – Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931 Amazon
17Jimmy Martin Roll on Buddy, Roll On First Time Together Amazon
18Lonzo and Oscar Last Ole Dollar 1947-1950 (Warped 4741) Amazon
19Darby & Tarlton Birmingham Jail compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
20Slim Whitman Down In The Valley Country Greats #2 Amazon
21Darby & Tarlton Rising Sun Blues Darby & Tarlton [Disc 3] Amazon
22Don Reno/Red Smiley Mule Skinner Blues Together Again Amazon
23Merle Travis Dark As A Dungeon Hot Pickin' [Disc 1] Amazon
24Bill Morrissey Pay Day Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
25Carolina Tar Heels Peg And Awl The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 2 Amazon
26Etta Baker & Taj Mahal Johnson Boys Etta Baker With Taj Mahal Amazon
27Kossoy Sisters Featuring Erik Darling The Wagoner's Lad Bluegrass Roots Amazon
28Richard Hawley Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? Coles Corner Amazon
29The Whitstein Brothers I'm Troubled Old Time Duets Amazon
30Rosanne Cash Fair And Tender Ladies Songcatcher Amazon
31Flatt & Scruggs On Top of Old Smokey Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends/Nashville Airplane Amazon
32Kelly Harrell & The Virginia String Band Charles Giteau Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
33Bobby Bare Tom Dooley Darker Than Light Amazon
34Carolina Chocolate Drops Tom Dula Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind Amazon
35Doc Watson Omie Wise The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968 Amazon
36Ernest V. Stoneman & Sweet Brothers John Hardy My Rough And Rowdy Ways: Early American Rural Music. Badman Ballads and Hellraising Songs, Vol. 1 Amazon

Songs of A.P. Carter

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

Let’s Live – KOWS Nov 5, 2015

Let's Live
Let’s Live

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

In The Gloaming – KOWS Oct 24, 2015

In The Gloaming
In The Gloaming

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.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Randy & the Rockets Lets Do the Cajun Twist Swamp Gold, Volume 1 Amazon
3Curtis Gordon Caffeine And Nicotine Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1] Amazon
4Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Caffeine Patrol Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
5Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Forty Cups of Coffee Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
6Frank Sinatra The Coffee Song Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan Amazon
7Carmen McRae/Previn Trio Coffee Time Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers [Disc 2] Amazon
8Annette Hanshaw You're the Cream in My Coffee The Personality Girl, Vol. 4: 1928 Amazon
9The Manhattan Transfer Java Jive Swing Amazon
10Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Coffee Pot Blues Middle of Everywhere Amazon
11Cab Calloway The Jumpin' Jive Best Of The Big Bands Amazon
12Tiny Davis & Her Orchestra How About That Jive Jumpin' The Blues:MCA Label(ACE CD) Amazon
13Johnny Mercer G.I. Jive Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 1 – The Birth Of A Label – 1942-43 Amazon
14Ella Fitzgerald Five O'Clock Whistle Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 Amazon
15Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys The Prettiest Flowers Will Be Blooming Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Disc One Amazon
16Sons of the Pioneers In the Gloaming Songs of the Prairie – CD4 Amazon
17Jonatha Brooke In the Gloaming Live Amazon
18John Prine With Emmylou Harris I Know One In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
19Porter Wagoner Fool Like Me Wagonmaster Amazon
20Chet Atkins Levee Walking My Favorite Guitars – It's A Guitar World Amazon
21The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Blue Grass Favorites Amazon
22Eilen Jewell That's Why I'm Walkin Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades Amazon
23Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Walk Right In, Walk Right Out (The Walking Blues) One Hour Mama Amazon
24Eddie Jefferson Start Walkin' Stop Talkin' The BeBop Singers Amazon
25Dinah Washington Walkin' And Talkin' Gold Amazon
26Peggy Lee Talkin' To Myself About You The Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
27David Lindley Talk to the Lawyer Win This Record Amazon
28David Lindley & El Rayo-X Talkin' to the Wino Too Very Greasy Amazon
29David Lindley and Wally Ingram Oh Death Twango Bango II Amazon
30Pepe Ahlqist Moonshine Babe Raw Blues Amazon
31Perline Ellison Razor Totin' Mama Document Shortcuts Vol. 1 "God Don't Like It" Amazon
32Jackson Browne & David Lindley El Rayo X (Intro) Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
33Jackson Browne & David Lindley El Rayo X Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
34Mark Knopfler Who's Your Baby Now Sailing to Philadelphia Amazon

Pickin’ Time – KOWS Oct 5, 2015

Deeper Roots Old Time Hour
Deeper Roots Old Time Hour

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.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers Smokey Mountain Rag With The Travelin Blues Amazon
3Merle Travis Freight Train (Instrumental) The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands Amazon
4Dallas Smith My Home Across the Blue Ridge Mountains Still Pickin' Amazon
5James King Things Have Gone to Pieces Three Chords & The Truth Amazon
6Red Allen I Heard My Mother Call My Name Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings Amazon
7Neko Case Wayfaring Stranger Live From Austin, TX Amazon
8Kinky Friedman Pickin Time The Loneliest Man I Ever Met Amazon
9Ricky Skaggs Walls Of Time Bluegrass Today [Disc 2] Amazon
10David Grisman Wicked Path of Sin (feat. Old & In The Way) Dawg Plays Big Mon Amazon
11Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Wicked Path Of Sin All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4] Amazon
12Solitaire Miles You Can't Break My Heart Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas Amazon
13Kacey Musgraves You're From Texas Wanted: One Good Cowboy Amazon
14Pokey LaFarge Lovebug Itch You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold Amazon
15Well Worn Soles Worried Country/Folk Amazon
16Frank Black Don't Rob Another Man's Castle You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold Amazon
17Don Henley Feat. Mick Jagger & Miranda Lambert Bramble Rose Cass County (Deluxe) Amazon
18Traveling Show Hillbilly Wedding Day Songs From The Road Band Amazon
19Charlie Haden Single Girl, Married Girl Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
20Robbie Fulks Act Like A Married Man 13 Hillbilly Giants Amazon
21John Prine With Lucinda Williams Wedding Bells / Let's Turn Back The Years In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
22Nikki Lane Wild One All or Nothin' (Deluxe) Amazon
23Lowell Levinger Sugar Babe Get Together- Youngblood Classics Amazon
24Lowell Levinger Euphoria Get Together- Youngblood Classics Amazon
25Riley Puckett It's A Sin To Tell A Lie Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
26Riley Puckett Cindy Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
27Mac Wiseman Dust On The Bible Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
28Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers To Hear Doc Watson Play Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions Amazon
29Doc Watson Make Me a Pallet Memories Amazon
30Amy Helm Roll Awy Didn't It Rain Amazon
31The Dustbowl Revival Lampshade On With a Lampshade On Amazon
32Charlie Gracie Just A Closer Walk With Thee Angel on My Shoulder Amazon

High Noon

High Noon - KOWS September 12, 2015
High Noon – KOWS September 12, 2015

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.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Nellie Lutcher He's A Real Gone Guy Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53 Amazon
3Nellie Lutcher There's Another Mule In Your Stall Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 1] Amazon
4Otis Spann Mule Kicking In My Stall Cryin' Time Amazon
5Louis Jordan Barnyard Boogie Jivin' With Jordan Amazon
6Joe Liggins Rhythm In The Barnyard Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers Amazon
7The Andrews Sisters A Man is a Brother To a Mule Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4] Amazon
8Charlie 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] Amazon
9Ralph Stanley I've Got A Mule To Ride Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection Amazon
10Tennessee Ernie Ford Mule Train (1996 Digital Remaster) Vintage Collections Amazon
11Frankie Laine That Lucky Old Sun [Album Version] Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits Amazon
12Ray Charles That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3 Amazon
13Merle Travis & Joe Maphis High Noon Country Guitar Giants Amazon
14Frankie Laine Rawhide Country Greats #2 Amazon
15Chick Webb and his Orchestra Don't Be That Way from CD; orig. Decca 483 Amazon
16Ella Fitzgerald Melinda the Mousle Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 Amazon
17Annette Hanshaw Who's That Knocking At My Door The Twenties Sweetheart Amazon
18Brother Grady Coffee I'm Working on a Building This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982 Amazon
19Elvis Presley Working on the Building Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1 Amazon
20Murry Hammond In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music Amazon
21John & Jamie Hartford When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland Hartford & Hartford Amazon
22June Carter Cash Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? Wildwood Flower Amazon
23George Jones Worried Man Blues The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music Amazon
24The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
25David Lindley and Wally Ingram Coot From Tennessee Twango Bango Deluxe Amazon
26Ole Ramussen Sleepy Eyed John Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
27Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Oozlin' Daddy Blues Legends of Country Music Disc 2 Amazon
28Cliff Hobbs;Bill Cox Oozlin' Daddy Blues [Album Version] White Country Blues (1926-1938) Amazon
29Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Big Mamou We've Got a Live One Here! Amazon
30Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Big Mamou Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
31Bonnie Guitar Noon Train Affair Amazon
32Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips If I Had My Way Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips Amazon

Beautiful Dreamer – KOWS August 3, 2015

Deeper Stephen Foster
Beautiful Dreamer

Mark Hogan’s Bluegrass and Old-Time Hour is on hiatus for two weeks while Mark is back in Galax, Virginia checking out the summer activities including a Fiddler’s Convention. And we’re going to honor his muse this week, the first of two Monday episodes where Deeper Roots fills his spot in the schedule on KOWS. We’ve got plenty of bluegrass in the first hour featuring new music from Trout Steak Revival and classics from Bill Monroe and Mac Martin. Our second hour rolls out a run of Stephen Foster covers done by Jack Clement, Jonathan Edwards, The Sons of the Pioneers, and others.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers Home In Tennessee With The Travelin Blues Amazon
3Ashley Monroe The Storms Are On The Ocean Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
4Emmylou Harris Bury Me Beneath The Willow Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
5The Church Sisters Where We'll Never Grow Old Orthophonic Joy Amazon
6John Reischman & The Jaybirds Booth Shot Lincoln John Reischman And The Jaybirds Amazon
7Mike Auldridge Drivin' Nails In My Coffin Cool Blue & Lonesome: Bluegrass for Broken Amazon
8Trout Steak Revival Brighter Every Day Brighter Every Day Amazon
9Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblerss Get Up John Live at the Ryman Amazon
10Bill Monroe Big River Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1] Amazon
11Ricky Skaggs Uncle Pen Country Gentleman: The Best Of Ricky Skaggs Amazon
12The Stanley Brothers Angel Band Angel Band: The Classic Mercury Recordings Amazon
13Red Allen Deep Elem Blues The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983 Amazon
14Blue Grass Boogiemen Goin' Up Caney Who's Afraid of the Boogiemen? Amazon
15Joe Maphis Twin Banjo Special Absolutely Bluegrass Amazon
16Grandpa Jones Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia Pickin' & A-Grinnin' Amazon
17Reno & Smiley The Talk Of The Town Absolutely Bluegrass Amazon
18Del McCoury, Doc Watson & Mac Wiseman I Wonder Where You Are Tonight Mac Doc Del Amazon
192nd South Carolina String Band Angelina Baker/Angeline the Baker In High Cotton Amazon
20Phil and Vivian Williams Nelly Bly Pioneer Dance Tunes of the Far West Amazon
21Grandpa Jones Nelly Bly An American Original Amazon
22Timothy Seaman & Friends I Hear Those Gentle Voices Calling (Old Black Joe) (feat. Bill Gurley & Ann Robinson) Tenting On the Old Camp Ground Amazon
23Jerry Lee Lewis Old Black Joe Old Tyme Country Music Amazon
24Anna McGarrigle Gentle Annie Transatlantic Sessions – Series 1: Volume Three Amazon
25Sons of the Pioneers Gentle Annie Songs of the Prairie – CD5 Amazon
26Jonathan Edwards Hard Times Tomorrow's Child Amazon
27Nanci Griffith Hard Times (Come Again No More) Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) Amazon
28John Prine My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight Beautiful Dreamer – The Songs of Stephen Foster Amazon
29Cowboy Jack Clement Beautiful Dreamer Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War Amazon
30BR5-49 Don't Bet Money on the Shanghai Beautiful Dreamer – The Songs of Stephen Foster Amazon
31Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick Oh! Susanna Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray Amazon
32Noam Pikelny Old Folks at Home / The Girl I Left Behind Me Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War Amazon

Fair and Warmer – KOWS May 23, 2015

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

The show kicks off with some mid-century country fiddlin’ courtesy of Curly Fox but makes a quick left turn with a set about liars, tattlers, and some straight-forward testifying from Sister Rosetta Tharpe. We’ll also be entertained with some classic roots from the Dallas String Band, Lead Belly, E. C. Ball, and a tribute set to Sam Cooke.