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.
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Album
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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
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June Carter Cash
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
Wildwood Flower
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George Jones
Worried Man Blues
The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
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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Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers
Home In Tennessee
With The Travelin Blues
3
Ashley Monroe
The Storms Are On The Ocean
Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
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Emmylou Harris
Bury Me Beneath The Willow
Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
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The Church Sisters
Where We'll Never Grow Old
Orthophonic Joy
6
John Reischman & The Jaybirds
Booth Shot Lincoln
John Reischman And The Jaybirds
7
Mike Auldridge
Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
Cool Blue & Lonesome: Bluegrass for Broken
8
Trout Steak Revival
Brighter Every Day
Brighter Every Day
9
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblerss
Get Up John
Live at the Ryman
10
Bill Monroe
Big River
Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
11
Ricky Skaggs
Uncle Pen
Country Gentleman: The Best Of Ricky Skaggs
12
The Stanley Brothers
Angel Band
Angel Band: The Classic Mercury Recordings
13
Red Allen
Deep Elem Blues
The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983
14
Blue Grass Boogiemen
Goin' Up Caney
Who's Afraid of the Boogiemen?
15
Joe Maphis
Twin Banjo Special
Absolutely Bluegrass
16
Grandpa Jones
Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia
Pickin' & A-Grinnin'
17
Reno & Smiley
The Talk Of The Town
Absolutely Bluegrass
18
Del McCoury, Doc Watson & Mac Wiseman
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
Mac Doc Del
19
2nd South Carolina String Band
Angelina Baker/Angeline the Baker
In High Cotton
20
Phil and Vivian Williams
Nelly Bly
Pioneer Dance Tunes of the Far West
21
Grandpa Jones
Nelly Bly
An American Original
22
Timothy Seaman & Friends
I Hear Those Gentle Voices Calling (Old Black Joe) (feat. Bill Gurley & Ann Robinson)
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.
We’ve got ‘songs of the sauce’, so to speak. Our show will feature a century of America’s music with stories of moonshine, rye whiskey, bubbles in the beer, bartenders, and hangovers going as far back as 1928. But we’ve also got a Bob Wills tribute piece from a new Asleep at the Wheel release, indie rockabilly from new Austinians Tammy Lynn & Myles High, R&B truckers The Harlem Hamfats, and local favorite David Luning. Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of a century of America’s Music on KWTF, member-supported community radio for Bodega Bay and all of Sonoma County.
It’s our regular (well, even Saturday mornings) show featuring an early country and bluegrass set featuring new sounds from Steve Earle and Robert Earl Keen, Jr. alongside the classic sounds of Buck Owens, Leon Chappell and The Louvins. We’ve got gospel and blues as well as a rare set of sounds from the second omnibus of “The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records”, classic late twenties country and blues. Stay tuned for your morning dose of brew d’Roots and American Roots Breakfast Tea on a spring Saturday morning in West Sonoma County.
We’re sitting in for KOWS’ astrologer Matt Savinar in a show that swings with the jive to open things up and then heads down the path of tradition, New Orleans and zydeco spicing, country swing, and an assortment of gospel classics. In particular, we’ve got sets that are a precursor to our Friday and Sunday night specials about Blind Willie McTell, country swing that opens with the magical guitar work of Les Paul, and we remind everyone that Mardi Gras is just around the corner, with a set featuring Professor Longhair, Eddie Bo, and Snooks Eaglin. Join us in this special two hour ‘stand in’ show.
The railroad is the muse for the morning here in Occidental as the show uses the theme of the railroad: the stories of those who built it, the promise of the golden sunrise that awaits at our destination, the sorrow of a love taken away by rail, and the lonesome whistle from some far away valley. As an aside, did you know that Occidental itself was once a bustling community where the train would haul off the timber and bring tourists from San Francisco and cities beyond?
Join us for the sacred and the secular, including Peter Rowan, ELVIS PRESLEY, Kevin Russell, Paul Warmack & His Gully Jumpers, Furry Lewis, and many others as we explore the genres of bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country, and so much more. #rootsmusic#railroad#Americana
Another beautiful winter Saturday morning in West Sonoma County and it’s time for a collection of hot blues, country gospel, early rock, early century pop, and swinging country on Deeper Roots… everything from Eddie Cantor’s 1922 song about a trapeze and Blind Willie McTell covering Jimmie Rodgers around mid-century, to a track from 2014 from a new band out of New Orleans called Hurray For The Riff Raff…another reason our tag line reads “A Century of America’s Music”. Join Dave Stroud on a brisk Saturday morning from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, California.
In this episode of Deeper Roots, produced especially for Sonoma County’s newest member-supported community radio station, KWTF, we go Deep In Tradition. The playlist today features just over a dozen songs whose their roots go back beyond the 20th century. Songs in the show include Ida Red, Cotton Eyed Joe, Back Up And Push, River of Jordan, and Arkansas Traveler. Performers include Doc Watson, The Carter Family, Ricky Skaggs, and Jimmie Driftwood. You’ll hear the songs and their stories in this first broadcast of 2015. Please join us for more than just the past century of America’s music from Sonoma County, California.
Lots of early sounds mixed with the new this weekend. Stay tuned for music from the medicine shows, lost provinces, gospel tents, swamps, bandstands, and digital playgrounds. We’ve got Sam Samudio, Shorty Godwin, The Seldom Scene, Shel Silverstein, and Tom Russell in our bi-weekly show broadcast live from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, a hamlet tucked into the redwoods along the Bohemian Highway in west Sonoma County. The drought is being beat down and, while we would welcome more rain, we’re hoping that it’s dispersed so that our neighbors can manage without threat of flooding. So we’ll flood you all with a fine collection of performances from the last century of America’s music.
