Category Archives: Fifties Country

Ya Got Trouble

April 17, 2020 Dave

We’re going the free form route today, celebrating an eclectic blend of gospel with the likes of Clara Ward and Patsy Cline, country greats from The Sons of the Pioneers and Skeets McDonald, doo wop street corner ballads from The Sheppards and The Royals, and vocals from Nat King Cole, Ethel Waters, and John Hiatt. Oh, in addition to a few choice show tunes, we’ll touch on topics of tears, loneliness, great speckled birds, and a visit to Treasure Island with Satchmo. Quarantine offers time for reflection but it also offers time for enjoying the sounds of deeper tracks. And that’s what you get day in and day out on Community Radio for Sonoma County. Join us.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Robert Preston & Company	Ya Got Trouble – The Music Man	Warner Bros.: 75 Years Of Film Music – Songs (3)
3	Clara Ward (Solo)	When We Get Up There	Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 2]
4	Gospel Hebrews	Jesus Is All Over Me	Boddie Recording Company: Cleveland, Ohio
5	The Blind Boys Of Alabama	He's Alright	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
6	Chosen Gospel Singers	Prayer for the Doomed	20 Gospel Greats
7	Patsy Cline	Life's Railway To Heaven	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
8	Elvis Presley	If We Never Meet Again	Amazing Grace – His Greatest Sacred Performances (Disc 1)
9	Nat King Cole	I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again	Chronological Classics: Nat King Cole 1949-50
10	Evie Sands	I'll Never Be Alone Again	Any Way That You Want Me
11	Roger McGuinn	If We Never Meet Again	Back from Rio
12	The Sons Of The Pioneers	One More River To Cross	Okeh Western Swing
13	Dale Watson	Cryin' to Cryin' Time Again	Dale & Ray
14	Ray Charles	Crying Time	Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
15	Willie Nelson	Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain	Artist's Choice: Sheryl Crow
16	Blue Mountain	I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes	Roots
17	Ralph Stanley	I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes [Album Version]	A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
18	Lucinda Williams	Great Speckled Bird	Ramblin'
19	The Louvin Brothers	The Great Speckled Bird	Close Harmony [Disc 8]
20	Mac Wiseman	The Wild Side Of Life	Most Requested
21	Skeets McDonald	Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes	Skeets McDonald – One Classic Album & Singles Collection
22	The Royals	Moonrise	Money Honey – Rise of the Black Vocal Group 51-53
23	The Sheppards	Pretend You're Still Mine	OKeh Rhythm & Blues
24	Louis Armstrong	On Treasure Island	Rhythm Saved The World
25	Eddie Cantor	Makin' Whoopee – The Eddie Cantor Story	Warner Brothers 75 Years of Film Music (2)
26	Judy Garland & The M-G-M Studio Chorus	The Trolley Song (from "Meet Me in St. Louis")	Somewhere Over The Rainbow: The Golden Age Of Hollywood Musicals [Disc 2]
27	The Rhythm Wreckers	Never No Mo' Blues	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
28	Ethel Waters	Buds Won't Bud	Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers [Disc 1]
29	Lena Horne	Stormy Weather	Lena Horne: A Musical Anthology
30	John Hiatt	Gone	Crossing Muddy Waters
31	Tony Bennett	I Left My Heart in San Francisco	The Essential Tony Bennett [Columbia/Legacy] Disc 1
32	The Treniers	Say Hey (the Willie Mays Song)	OKeh Rhythm & Blues
33	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Bad Moon Rising	The Classic Sixties: Late '60s

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Country Road Songs

April 10, 2020 Dave

A while back we explored road songs in the genres of blues and tradition. This week’s show complements the theme with a country flavor. Songs of the lonesome road, the lost highway, the wrong highway taken, as well as hitting the road with those classic country kings of the road and highway queens. We’ll hear some early Waylon Jennings, bluegrass from Bill Monroe, trucker laments from Red Simpson, and a tribute to the Carters on the Road to Kaintuck. We’ve battened down the hatches, closed shop, and are practicing social distancing as if our lives (and those of our neighbors) depended on it. Join Dave Stroud on a KWTF Friday evening remote production of Deeper Roots.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bonus Track	CB Radio Chatter	Eighteen Wheelers! Twisted Tales from the Truckstops
3	Johnny Darrell	It's A Rough Old Road To Travel	The Beginning Of The End – The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972)
4	Don Gibson	Lonesome Road	1961-1962
5	Jimmie Skinner	Lonesome Road Blues	1960-1962 (Warped 6188)
6	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Travelin' This Lonesome Road	All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4]
7	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Rocky Road Blues	All The Classic Releases, 1937-1949 [Disc 3]
8	The Carter Family	It's a Long Road to Travel Alone	Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 5)
9	Johnny Cash	Wide Open Road	Get Rhythm [Sun]
10	Johnny Cash	Hit The Road And Go (The Rambler)	Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 4]
11	Johnny Cash	Further on Up the Road	American V: A Hundred Highways
12	Billy Bob Thornton & The Peasall Sisters	Road To Kaintuck	Anchored In Love: A Tribute To June Carter Cash
13	Lefty Frizzell	Make That One for the Road a Cup of Coffee	1962-1965 (Warped 6382)
14	Wayne Hancock	Man Of The Road	A-Town Blues
15	Rig Rock Deluxe	Six Days On The Road	Rig Rock Deluxe
16	Red Simpson	Six Days on the Road	The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
17	Tiny Harris	Endless Black Ribbon	Lonesome Highway Songs
18	Billy Grammer	Gotta Travel On	Hard To Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics
19	Henson Cargill	A Very Well Traveled Man	Skip a Rope
20	Faron Young	Traveling On	This Is Faron Young / My Garden Of Prayer
21	Roger Miller	King Of The Road	Country Legends
22	Tom T. Hall	Once Upon a Road	Sings Dixie & Tom T.
23	Billy Walker	Headin' Down the Wrong Highway	Billy Walker – 1954-1957
24	Waylon Jennings	The Road	Love of The Common People
25	Dolly Parton	Traveling Man	1971
26	Nikki Lane	Highway Queen	Highway Queen
27	Johnny Horton	Lost Highway	Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (2 of 2)
28	Gibson Brothers	Highway	In The Ground
29	John Hartford	Wrong Road Again	Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
30	Rice, Rice, Hillmann & Pedersen	Somewhere on the Road Tonight	Out of the Woodwork
31	Ralph Stanley	I'm Going Down The Road [3/3/80]	Poor Rambler [Disc 1]
32	Grandpa Jones	Down The Old Plank Road	An American Original
33	Del McCoury/Marty Stuart	Let Us Travel, Travel On	Compadres: An Anthology of Duets
34	Steve Earle	Hillbilly Highway	Essential Steve Earle

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Night at the Opry & Ryman

March 28, 2020 Dave

All live recordings this week, all from the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman Auditorium. From its early years in a modest Insurance Building as the WSM Barn Dance, the Grand Ole Opry, for all its staid tradition, has become the capitol of country music. Selectively provincial from early on, it brought together country, gospel, and bluegrass radio listeners well into the Golden Age of Country. Deeper Roots digs into the dusty digital archives for recordings from those times in this week’s show plus brings you some new sounds that have grown from the early seeds sown by Uncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff and George Hay. We’ve got Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, and the Oak Ridge Quartet filling time alongside the Old Crow Medicine Show and Rhonda Vincent. Join in the revelry!

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Roy Acuff	Night Train To Memphis	Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
3	Stonewall Jackson	Old Showboat (Live at the Grand Ole Opry 1970)	Singles
4	Hank Snow	I've Been Everywhere	Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
5	Bobby Bare	Detroit City	Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
6	The Osborne Brothers	Take This Hammer	Bluegrass at the Opry
7	George Hamilton IV	Abilene	Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
8	Patsy Cline	Walkin' After Midnight	Live at the Opry
9	Hank Williams	I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living	Grand Ole Opry Time
10	Dave Dudley	Six Days On The Road	Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
11	Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton	The Last Thing On My Mind	Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
12	Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash	Jackson	Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
13	Patsy Cline	Just A Closer Walk With Thee [Live (Ryman Auditorium)]	The Patsy Cline Collection
14	Oak Ridge Quartet	Ole Time Religion	Grand Ole Opry Time
15	Oak Ridge Quartet	Lead Me to That Rock	Grand Ole Opry Time
16	Ronnie Dunn & Rebecca Lynn Howard	If I could Only Win Your Love	Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
17	Bill Monroe	Can You Hear Me Callin'	Bluegrass at the Opry
18	Mac Wiseman	Jimmie Brown The Newsboy	Bluegrass Legands – Live At The Ryman
19	Rhonda Vincent	Hit Parade Of Love	Bluegrass Legands – Live At The Ryman
20	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	Back Up and Push	1953-X6-XX Grand Old Opry
21	Ricky Skaggs & Emmylou Harris	Could You Love Me One More Time	Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
22	Glen Campbell & Steve Wariner	The Hand That Rocks The Cradle	Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
23	Jim & Jesse	Wild Georgia Boy	Bluegrass at the Opry
24	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Grand Ole Opry Song	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
25	Old Crow Medicine Show	Welcome To The Ryman	Live at the Ryman
26	Old Crow Medicine Show	Tell It To Me	Live at the Ryman
27	Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers	Smoke Along The Track	At The Ryman [Live]
28	Marty Stuart	Orange Blossom Special	Live at the Ryman
29	Band Of Horses	Everything's Gonna Be Undone (Live Acoustic)	Acoustic At The Ryman (Live)
30	Marty Stuart	Hillbilly Rock	Live at the Ryman
31	Levon Helm	No Depression In Heaven	Ramble at the Ryman
32	Minnie Pearl	Comedy	Grand Ole Opry Time
33	Levon Helm	Evangeline	Ramble at the Ryman

International Women’s Day ’20

March 9, 2020 Dave

Blues, folk, and plenty of tradition. Songs that celebrate sisters in a fight for equal rights. That’s right. This is still part of the conversation in the 21st century. The right to vote. The right to equal pay. And the right to choose. There is still exclusivity beyond measure and yet gender equality is still a topic, not a reality. This week’s show stands up for International Women’s Day, held this past Sunday, March 8th, around the world. Deeper Roots digs deep for soul from Aretha, Nina, and Betty Wright, blues from Lucille Bogan and Bessie Smith, and fresh sounds from Amy Rigby, TLC, and the Secret Sisters on a Friday morning in Sonoma County. Join us. #EachforEqual #IWD2020.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Betty Wright	Clean Up Woman	Funk Soul Sisters
3	Aretha Franklin	Respect	Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings [Disc 1]
4	Aretha Franklin	Chain Of Fools	30 Greatest Hits [Disc 1]
5	TLC	No Scrubs	Fanmail
6	Destiny's Child	Independent Woman, Part 1	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
7	Lauryn Hill	246-Doo Wop (That Thing)	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
8	Lesley Gore	You Don't Own Me	Dancing Queens [Disc 1]
9	The Secret Sisters	You Don't Own Me Anymore	You Don't Own Me Anymore
10	Billie Holiday	I Get Along Without You Very Well	Lady In Satin
11	Helen Reddy	I Am Woman	AM Gold 1970-1974
12	Dolly Parton	Just Because I'm A Woman	Just Because I'm A Woman
13	Dolly Parton	9 To 5	I Will Always Love You – The Essential Dolly Parton Vol. 1
14	Loretta Lynn	The Pill	Loretta Lynn Legendery Country Singer
15	Jeannie C. Riley	Harper Valley P.T.A.	Superstars of Country Easy Loving [Disc 2]
16	Kitty Wells	It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels	Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns – The Soundtrack [Disc 1]
17	Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard	Don't Put Her Down You Helped Put Her There	The Rounder Records Story
18	Peasall Sisters	I Never Will Marry	Home to You
19	Amy Rigby	Girls Got It Bad	Little Fugitive
20	The Miller Sisters	Ten Cats Down	Rockin' Memphis [Disc 3]
21	Viola Wells (Miss Rhapsody)	Were Sisters Under the Skin	Were Sisters Under the Skin – Female Blues & Boogie 1944 to 1949
22	Bessie Smith	Sam Jones Blues	ABC Of The Blues Vol 39
23	Georgia White	The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Woman Cryin' For Her Man	Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1]
24	Lucille Bogan	Women Won't Need No Men	Vol. 1-1923-30
25	Billie Holiday	You Let Me Down	Quintessential: Volume 1, 1933 – 1935
26	Nina Simone	Four Women	Anthology Disc 1
27	Bonnie Raitt	Women Be Wise	Bonnie Raitt
28	Aretha Franklin	Think	30 Greatest Hits [Disc 1]
29	Eric Bibb, Rory Block & Maria Muldaur	My Sisters And Brothers	Sisters & Brothers

Candy

February 29, 2020 Dave

Yes, there’s a theme this week and it’s about as sweet a theme as you’ll hear on Deeper Roots. It’s not surprising there’s a wealth of content to choose from given that it is one of the favorite attention- getters, no matter your age. Candy. Sweets. Whether that’s a nickel, a penny, or a quarter a dose. Our favorites from the convenience aisle near the cash register, there to lure you. This week’s show is not for the glucose intolerant as we walk the convenience aisle of 20th century pop, rhythm & blues, country, jazz, and vocal group odes to the sugar in all things, sweet and small, short and tall, and sticky with the syrup-sweet. We’ll hear from The Strangeloves, Elvis, Lee Dorsey, Eddie Holland, Red Foley, and Barbie Gaye in our exploration of the sugar rush.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	My Little Rock Candy Baby	Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years [Disc 2]
3	Doris Allen	Like Candy From A Baby	Sun Records Curated By Record Store Day, Vol. 6
4	Eddie Holland	Candy To Me	It Moves Me: The Complete Recordings
5	Sue Perrin	Candy Store Man	Original Sound Of Detroit – Vol 1
6	Art Neville	Little Girl From The Candy Store	Brother to Brother (Disc One:Art)
7	Charlie Walker	Tell Her Lies and Feed Her Candy	1952-1958 (Warped 5230)
8	Little Jimmy Dickens	Who Licked the Red Off Your Candy	Warped 6668 – Little Jimmy Dickens – 1965 – 1966
9	Red Foley	Candy Kisses	Tennessee Saturday Night
10	George Morgan	Candy Kisses	Classic Country Hits 'Your Cheatin Heart' Disc 2
11	George Jones	Candy Hearts	Complete Collection 1960-1962 [Disc 4] individual albums
12	Peter, Paul & Mary	Talkin' Candy Bar Blues	A Song Will Rise
13	The Chordettes	Lollipop	Red, White & Rock Disc 1
14	Barbie Gaye	My Boy Lollipop	American Roots of the British Invasion
15	Shirelles	A Teardrop and a Lollipop	The Shirelles
16	Billy Bletcher	The Lollipop Guild	The Wizard Of Oz
17	Shirley Temple	On The Good Ship Lollipop	America's Sweetheart
18	Alma(the Lollipop Mama) Mondy	Miss Lollipop's Confession	Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 3]: Southwest Blues V1
19	Champion Jack Dupree	Lollipop Baby	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
20	Wynonie Harris	Lollipop Mama	Complete Jazz Series 1947 – 1949
21	The Strangeloves	I Want Candy	Classic Rock: 1965 – Shakin' All Over
22	Elvis Presley	Cotton Candy Land	Elvis Double Features: It Happened at the World's Fair & Fun in Acapulco
23	Bow Wow Wow	I Want Candy	200 Cigarettes
24	Lola Albright	Candy	Bombshells
25	Dodie Stevens	Candy Store Blues	Ultimate Collection
26	Ray Charles	Candy	Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated To You
27	Roy Orbison	Candy Man	The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument]
28	Lee Dorsey	Candy Yam	Wheelin' And Dealin' – The Definitive Collection
29	Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons	Candy Girl	The Definitive Pop Collection Disc 1
30	Paolo Nutini	Candy	Sunny Side Up
31	Jo Stafford	Little Man With a Candy Cigar	For You
32	The Mills Brothers	Sweeter Than Sugar	Sweeter Than Sugar
33	The Real Tuesday Weld	Bathtime in Clerkenwell	I, Lucifer
34	Sammy Davis Jr. with The Mike Curb Congregation	The Candy Man	70s Music Explosion Escape
35	Al Hirt	Cotton Candy	Greatest Hits

Ants In My Pants

February 15, 2020 Dave

Whether it was Prohibition, the need for comic relief from the worst Depression our country has known, or the release from Victorian norms in the age of the flapper…something was afoot. The humor it portended is not something that we all understand in this age… but it’s worth looking at. Novelty ruled the day and every Victrola and Edison radio spilled a silly song, whether it worked from puns or light humor (pop music), corny songs that sometimes had hidden charms (country and folk), or right in your face real life naughty bits (the blues)…there was something for everyone to sample. We’ll hear from Lonzo and Oscar, Milton Brown, Frank Crumit, George Formby, and Lonnie Johnson in this week’s episode of Deeper Roots. A hoot and a holler by any other name on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Lonnie Johnson	She's Making Whoopee In Hell Tonight	Hot Fingers
3	Frank Crumit	My Little Bimbo Down on the Bimbo Isle (1920)	grimriper2u@yahoo.com
4	Billy Murray	I'll See You In C-U-B-A	Echoes From The 1920's Disc 1
5	Ozzie & Harriet Nelson	Oh Susanna, Dust off That Old Pianna	The Nelson Touch
6	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	Down By the O-H-I-O	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – The Eyes of Texas [Disc 1]
7	Roy Newman	I Can't Dance (I've Got Ants In My Pants)	The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
8	The Johnson Sisters	Hillbilly Soldier Joe	Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
9	Texas Jim Robertson	The Last Page of Mein Kampf	Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
10	Sweet Violet Boys	I Love My Fruit	Okeh Western Swing
11	The Happiness Boys: Billy Jones & Ernest Hare	I've Never Seen A Straight Banana	The Charleston Days
12	Hoosier Hot Shots	I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones)	Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure
13	Lonzo & Oscar	I'm My Own Grandpa	Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure
14	Lonzo and Oscar	Girls Don't Nag Your Husbands	1947-1950 (Warped 4741)
15	Six Jumping Jacks	I Do Not Chose to Run	Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure
16	Buddy Rogers	(I'd Like to Be) A Bee in Your Boudoir	The Big Broadcast vol. 6
17	Paul Specht	Shoo-Shoo-Boogie-Boo	Static Strut: Hot Dance Rarities 1922-1930
18	George Formby	Grandad's Flannelette Nightshirt	I'm The Ukulele Man
19	The Three Keys	Oh! By Jingo	The Big Broadcast, Volume 2: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s
20	Marx Brothers	I'm Against It/Horse Feathers	Horse Feathers / Animal Crackers
21	Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees	Lydia, The Tatooed Lady	gimriper2u@yahoo.com
22	Ben Selvin and his Orch (The Knickerbockers). v/ Dick Robertson	When Yuba Plays The Rhumba On the Tuba	orig. 78 rpm Columbia 2483-D
23	Ross & Sargent	Nellie the Nudist Queen	Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure
24	Ozzie Nelson	Avis Scaffin Fortintoo	Campus Swing
25	Frank Crumit	Crazy Words Crazy Tune	Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit
26	Frank Crumit	The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away	Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit
27	Frank Crumit	Song of the Prune	The Silly Songs (1922 to 1934)
28	Leslie Sarony with Harry Hudson & His Melody Men	My Wife Is On A Diet	The Charleston Days
29	Helen Kane with the Victor Orchestra directed by Leonard Joy	Dangerous Nan McGrew	Flappers, Vamps And Sweet Young Things
30	Helen Kane	I Taut I Taw a Puddy Kat	The Boop Boop a Doop Girls
31	Carmen Miranda	I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)	Anthology
32	Irving Aaronson and His Commanders	Oh! You Sweet Old Whatcha May Call It	The Big Broadcast vol. 9

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Stay on the Gospel Side

January 18, 2020 Dave

We’ll be taking a bit of a traditional free form exploration of gospel, blues, soul, and country, pairing up The Blind Boys of Alabama with James Carr and Bobby “Blue” Bland for a soul stew of the day. The fun doesn’t stop there; in face, it just gets started and we’ll be reaching into the dusty country bins for some Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers. And new sounds: a benefit piece, a cover of Tom Petty’s For Real performed by Willie Nelson and the Family…right alongside a new track from The James Hunter Six. Friday evenings on KWTF pushes the roots envelope every week. Join Dave Stroud at 9 Pacific.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Blind Boys of Alabama	Stay On the Gospel Side	Almost Home
3	The Norman Luboff Choir	Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen	Songs of the South and Songs of the Sea
4	Big Bill Broonzy	Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen	An Introduction To Big Bill Broonzy
5	Ryan Bingham	Nobody Knows My Trouble	Fear And Saturday
6	Elvis Presley	Swing Down, Sweet Chariot	Elvis Double Features: Live a Little, Love a Little + Charro! + The Trouble with Girls + Change of Habit
7	Bobby 'Blue' Bland	Turn On Your Love Light	Northern Soul – The Early Years – 100 Classic And Rare Tracks (CD3)
8	James Carr	These Ain't Raindrops	The Essential James Carr
9	Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir	I Shall Wear A Crown	Do Not Pass Me By Vol. II
10	Big Al Downing	The Story Of My Life	Northern Soul – The Early Years – 100 Classic And Rare Tracks (CD3)
11	The Bobby Fuller Four	Never To Be Forgotten	The Best Of The Bobby Fuller Four
12	Los Super Seven	Let Her Dance (ft. Joe Ely)	Heard It On The X
13	Buddy Holly	Rock Me Baby	Buddy Holly And The R&R Giants
14	John Hiatt	Crossing Muddy Waters	Here To Stay – Best Of 2000-2012
15	Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Micah Nelson, Jakob Dylan, Dhani Harrison & Amos Lee	For Real	For Real – Single
16	Maria Muldaur	Moonlight	Heart of Mine
17	The Everly Brothers	Devoted To You	Singles 1955-1959
18	The 5 Royales	Dedicated To The One I Love	Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Second Series
19	Wilson Pickett	Three-Time Loser	A Man & A Half: The Best Of Wilson Pickett [Disc 1]
20	The Showmen	The Wrong Girl	Birth Of Soul: 2
21	The James Hunter Six	I Can Change Your Mind	Nick of Time
22	The Sons Of The Pioneers	Wagon Wheels	Sons Of The Pioneers
23	Roy Rogers	Rock Me to Sleep in My Saddle	1942-1947 (Warped 4561)
24	Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers	Rock Me Roll Me	Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions
25	Chuck Wagon & the Wheels	Play That Country Music Cowboy	Off the Top Rope
26	Buck Owens	Hello Trouble	Buck 'Em: The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
27	Joe Ely	Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown	Honky Tonk Masquerade
28	Ernest Tubb	That Wild and Wicked Look in Your Eyes	Last Sessions: All Time Greatest Hits Disc 2
29	Frankie Miller	Lookin4 Around Downtown	Country & Western Nuggets
30	Buddy Miller	Does My Ring Burn Your Finger	Cruel Moon
31	The Staple Singers	Do You Know Him	Hammer and Nails
32	Freddie King	Yonder Wall	King Of The Blues
33	Howlin' Wolf	Oh! Red	Smokestack Lightning /The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960
34	Howlin' Wolf	Killing Floor	Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
35	Waring's Pennsylvanians	Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee	Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944

The Year 1952

December 6, 2019 Dave

A good year…if I do say so myself. We’re going to count down the top ten of the year 1952…in pop, country, and R&B. The music that year featured sounds that portended the birth of rock ‘n roll, the blossoming of the Golden Age of Country, and the droll mainstream charts couldn’t have been more ripe for steamrolling. Webb Pierce and Hank Williams dominated the country charts while the white bread pop charts found Al Martino, Johnny Ray, and Rosemary Clooney. But it was the R&B charts that mirrored the emerging energy of swing, rhythm and blues, and rock with the likes of The Clovers, Ruth Brown, and The Five Royales. The DOW Jones average closed at an all-time high of (a whopping) 269.86. Tune in for the countdown. 67 years in the rear-view on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Ella Fitzgerald	Goody, Goody	75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2]
3	Percy Faith	Delicado	16 Most Requested Songs
4	Willie Mabon	I Don't Know	Atlantic Blues: Piano
5	Eddy Arnold	A Full Time Job	Eddy's Song: A Full Time Job
6	Al Martino	Here In My Heart	Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Po
7	Ruth Brown	5-10-15 Hours	Ruth Brown: Mama He Treats Your Daugher Mean & Other Hits
8	Hank Williams	I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive	Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 5
9	Patti Page	I Went To Your Wedding	The Patti Page Collection: The Mercury Years, Volume 1
10	The 5 Royales	Baby Don't Do It	The Complete Singles 1952-1962
11	Webb Pierce	Back Street Affair	All Hits! [Disc 1]
12	Eddie Fisher	Wish You Were Here	The Great American Crooners [Disc 5]
13	Little Walter	Juke	Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2]
14	Carl Smith	(When You Feel Like You're in Love) Don't Just Stand There	The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956)
15	Rosemary Clooney	Half As Much	Tenderly
16	Fats Domino	Goin' Home	Rock And Rollin
17	Lefty Frizzell	Give Me More, More, More (of Your Kisses)	Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Sat. Night)
18	Vera Lynn	Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart	White Cliffs Of Dover [Disc 1]
19	Johnny Ace	My Song	Memorial Album
20	Webb Pierce	That Heart Belongs To Me	All Hits! [Disc 1]
21	Jo Stafford	You Belong To Me	Your Hit Parade – 1952
22	The Clovers	One Mint Julep	Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 1]
23	Slim Whitman	Indian Love Call	Golden Age of Country Volume 5: The Wild Side of Life
24	Johnny Ray	Cry	The Best Jukeboxhits
25	Jimmy Forrest	Night Train Mambo	Rumba Gone Mambo
26	Kitty Wells	It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels	Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 2]
27	Kay Starr	Wheel Of Fortune	Shutter Island [Disc 2]
28	Billy Ward & the Dominoes	Have Mercy Baby	Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 1
29	Webb Pierce	Wondering	All Hits! [Disc 1]
30	Leroy Anderson	Blue Tango	Instrumental Gold [Disc 1]
31	Lloyd Price	Lawdy Miss Clawdy	Sound Of The City, The – New Orleans [UK] Disc 1
32	Hank Williams	Jambalaya (On the Bayou)	24 Greatest
33	Bull Moose Jackson	Nosey Joe	Badman Jackson Thats Me
34	Nat King Cole	Unforgettable	Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3)

Americana, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Favorites, Fifties Country, Oldies

Country Leftovers

November 29, 2019 Dave

Turkey leftovers? No, country leftovers. “…and I fell asleep with a troubled dream and dreamed I road on the hellbound train.” Just one line from one track from our Friday morning Deeper Roots show which focuses on some country songs ‘from the edge’. An eclectic blend of sometimes morose and other times kitschy stories of mid-century country singers looking for the next “Big Bad John” with stories of engine mishaps, disturbances of mind and relationships, and the general consensus of lyrical country that ‘the world is a monster’. Hillbillies, rabble rousers, and would-be crooners give us those tormented testimonies of country music. Join Dave Stroud for a very unusual collection of sounds from the archives of the fifties and sixties, when country blossomed; the songs he’s going to feature had a hard time cracking the Top 100 because the stories told are ‘out there’, even for country music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Dick Flood	Hellbound Train	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
3	Bill Anderson	Goodbye Cruel World	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
4	Rocky Porter	The World Is A Monster	The World Is A Monster
5	Johnny Tyler	God's Gonna Turn Us To Dust	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
6	Buck Ritchey	The Slave	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
7	Anita Carter	Satan's Child	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
8	Art Kilmer & The Up-Town Four	The Devil's Twist	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
9	Roy And Georgia And The SO And SO's	Devil Get Away From Me	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Rapture
10	David Ingles	(Satan Has Been) Paralyzed	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
11	Jimmy Minor	Satan's Chauffeur	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
12	Steve Bledsoe	Bang, Bang You're Dead	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
13	The Looper Trio	Life Beyond Death	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Rapture
14	Danny Dill	The Eyes Of Death	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
15	Hank Williams	The Angel Of Death	Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5
16	Autry Inman	Six Rounds Of Love And Hate	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
17	Johnny Price	Marijuana, The Devil Flower	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
18	Don Bowman	Spanish Weed	1967 (Warped 6706)
19	Wendell Austin (And The Country Swings)	LSD	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
20	Bud Freeman & The Summa Cum Laude Orchestra	Please Tell The World (A Message From The Grave)	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
21	Red River Dave	California Hippie Murders	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
22	Mel Tillis	Loco Weed (Single Version)	The Best of Mel Tillis
23	Olin Bingham	They Wouldn't Listen To A Kid	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
24	Jack Cook	My Evil Mind	Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 1
25	Ray Sanders	Graveyard Dance	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
26	Bill Carter	Shot Four Times And Dyin'	Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2
27	Travelin' Texans	Beating On The Bars	Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2
28	Len Barrow	Hades Highway	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
29	Don Bailey	Fourteen Stories Down	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
30	Charlie Gore	Sin City	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
31	Eddie Noack	Ain't The Reaping Ever Done	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
32	Eddie Noack	Before You Use That Gun	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter
33	Troy Hess	Please Don't Go Topless, Mother	Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5
34	Jimmy Dean	Big Bad John (Uncensored Version)	Best of Answer Songs vol 3
35	Wanda Jackson	Jesus Put A Yodel In My Soul	Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5

Americana, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Rock, Fifties Country, Gospel, Oldies, Rock

Moon Baby

September 14, 2019 Dave

A laid back Friday morning in store as we celebrate a century of America’s music with classics from every corner. Dave Stroud hosts with a potpourri of doo wop, gospel, rock, R&B, soul, and country wrapped up just for Deeper Roots listeners out there. We’ll be hearing from Johnny Cash, The Ravens, Mike Farris, (more than one) Bo Diddley, and The Neville Brothers as we watch the trees turn their late summer umber under warm Sonoma County September skies. Tune in for the very best, including The Living Sisters and The Andrews Sisters, side by side, this one time. Only on Community Radio because all other $$$ stations fail to play with heart.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bo Diddley	Moon Baby	Bo Diddley Is A Lover
3	Johnny Cash	I'm Ragged But I'm Right	Life
4	Mike Farris	Tennessee Girl	Silver & Stone
5	Bruce Springsteen	Old Dan Tucker	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1
6	Bruce Springsteen	I Ain't Got No Home	Folkways: A Vision Shared-A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly
7	Eddie Money	Two Tickets to Paradise	Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money
8	Mudcrutch	Shady Grove	Mudcrutch
9	David Lindley and Wally Ingram	Pay Bo Diddley	Twango Bango Deluxe
10	Bo Diddley	Crackin' Up	Go Bo Diddley
11	John Fogerty	Blue Moon Nights	Blue Moon Swamp
12	John Hiatt	Dust Down a Country Road	Walk On
13	Johnny Cash	W. Lee O Daniel (And The Light Crust Dough Boys)	Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town & Water From The Wells Of Home
14	The Light Crust Doughboys	Loud Mouth	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Playboy Stomp [Disc 2]
15	Little Jimmy Dickens	Me And My Big Loud Mouth	Four Classic Albums Plus Singles 1954-1962
16	Sister Emily Bram	Each Day	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
17	Brother Joe May	Working On A Building	The Great Gospel Men: 27 Classic Performances By The Greatest Gospel Men
18	Ruthie Foster	Death Came A'Knockin'	Oxford American Southern Music Texas
19	The Neville Brothers	A Change Is Gonna Come	Yellow Moon
20	Ry Cooder	Waitin' For Some Girl	I, Flathead
21	Dan Penn	I'm Living Good	The Fame Recordings
22	The Redcaps	Just For You	The Dawn Of Doo-Wop Vol. 1
23	The Ravens	Careless Love	The Dawn Of Doo-Wop Vol. 2- Birdland
24	The Flamingos	Ko Ko Mo	The Best Of The Flamingos
25	The Cadillacs	Betty My Love	For Collectors Only (Disc 1)
26	Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five w/ Ella Fitzgerald	Stone Cold Dead In The Market	Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five / 1944 – 1946
27	The Andrews Sisters	Rum And Coca-Cola	20th Century Masters: Millenni
28	The Living Sisters	(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am	Love to Live
29	Aretha Franklin	Do Right Woman, Do Right Man [Stereo Version][*][Version]	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
30	Solomon Burke	Take Me (Just As I Am)	King Solomon / I Wish I Knew
31	The Ink Spots	When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano	The Dawn Of Doo-Wop Vol. 1
32	Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit	She Don't Love Nobody	The Rose of England
33	Hank Thompson	The King Of Western Swing	The Best Of Hank Thompson 1966-1979

A Century of America's Music