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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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There She Goes – KOWS 12/16/15

December 17, 2015 Dave

West County has seen it’s first consistent (and consecutive) days of rain and boy did we need it. El Nino looks to be making some waves. We’ll be making some waves this week on our Wednesday night foray into the past century of America’s music. We’ll hear new music from the Oxford American Georgia music issue, as well as a good share of early country, some Stephen Foster (by the Hamilton County Ramblers), and some Jelly Roll Morton. There will be a few local performers to sweeten the mix: Kevin Russell, Carl Hendel & Eddie Meisse, and an alumni of Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa…Dan Hicks. Tune in for music that keeps on giving.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Tommy Duncan	Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)?	Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B
3	Oklahoma Wranglers (Willis Bros)	Invitation to the Blues	Hillbilly Rhythm
4	T. Texas Tyler	Red Light	Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B
5	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	My Galveston Gal	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin'
6	Carl Hendel & Eddie Meisse	Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age	Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
7	Tut Taylor feat. Norman Blake	Sweet Picking Time in Toomsboro, Ga.	The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia)
8	Precious Bryant	Georgia Buck	The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia)
9	The Band & Emmylou Harris	Evangeline	A Musical History [Disc 5]
10	John Prine	There She Goes	Bruised Orange
11	Jerry Jeff Walker	Viva Luckenbach	Gypsy Songman: A Life In Song
12	Carl Smith	Are You Teasing Me	The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956)
13	The Louvin Brothers	Are You Teasing Me	Close Harmony [Disc 3]
14	Carolina Chocolate Drops	Hello Stranger	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
15	Maria Muldaur	Me And My Chauffeur Blues	Richland Woman Blues
16	Black Bottom McPhail	John	Jack Newman & Others
17	Jimmy Strange	Yas Yas Yas	Swingin' the Blues: 1931-1939
18	Lightnin' Hopkins	Speedin' Boogie	Po' Lightnin'
19	Pete Johnson	Boogie Woogie	Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration
20	Kate & Anna McGarrigle	Hard Times Come Again No More	Songs Of The Civil War
21	Robert Shaw Chorale	Nelly Bly	Stephen Foster Songbook
22	Grandpa Jones	Nelly Bly	An American Original
23	Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks	I Scare Myself	The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973
24	Larry Jon Wilson	Ohoopee River Bottomland [from the film Heartworn Highways]	The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia)
25	Carl Perkins	Don't Stop The Music	Go Cat Go
26	Jake Xerxes Fussell	Raggy Levy	The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia)
27	Dirty Dozen Brass Band	Jelly Roll's Misgiving	Jelly (The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Plays Jelly Roll Morton
28	Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers	The Pearls	The Pearls
29	Ry Cooder	The Pearls/Tia Juana	Jazz
30	Dr. John	Wild Honey	City Lights
31	John Fred	Shirley	Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
32	Red Saunders & His Orchestra	Honky Tonk Train Blues	Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration
33	Freddie Slack With The Will Bradley Trio	Down The Road A Piece	Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration

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Country Strings

November 28, 2015 Dave

Our show this week revisits the great country guitar innovators and talents who contributed both session time to classic hits as well as original performances of their own. Whether they were pedal steel, Fender or Gibson electric magicians, or country pickers, we won’t discriminate. Tune in for Leon McAuliffe, Joe Maphis, James Burton, Albert Lee, Doc Watson and others on another Friday night on KWTF 88.1, Bodega Bay, listener-supported community radio for Sonoma County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Lovin' Spoonful	Nashville Cats	Greatest Hits [Buddha]
3	Leon McAuliffe	Take It Away, Leon	Country Boy's Dream
4	Bob Wills	Twin Guitar Boogie	For the Last Time
5	Joe Maphis	Randy Lynn Rag [Album Version]	Fire On The Strings
6	Joe Maphis – duet with Larry Collins	Flying Fingers [Album Version]	Fire On The Strings
7	James Burton And Ralph Mooney	Sneaky Strings	Corn Pickin' And Slick Slidin'
8	James Burton & Ralph Mooney	Moonshine	James Burton – The Early Years 1957-1969
9	Little Jimmy Dickens	Buddy's Boogie (Instrumental)	Country Boy [Disc 5]
10	Buddy Emmons w. Nashville session men	Four Wheel Drive	Almost To Tulsa: The Instrumentals
11	Hank Garland & His Sugar Footers	Sugarfoot Rag (feat. Red Foley)	Guitar Magic 1949-1957
12	Hank Garland & His Sugar Footers	Hillbilly Express	Guitar Magic 1949-1957
13	Red Foley, Grady Martin	Pinball Boogie	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 4]
14	Red Foley	Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
15	Lefty Frizzell	Saginaw, Michigan (Grady Martin)	Classic Country
16	Marty Robbins	El Paso	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
17	Johnny Horton	I'm Coming Home	Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (1 of 2)
18	Chet Atkins	Tennesse Ray/Beaumont Rag	The Essential Chet Atkins [RCA]
19	Chet Atkins	I Know That You Know	Mister Guitar – Workshop
20	Chet Atkins & Les Paul	Lover Come Back To Me	Chester & Lester
21	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Bryant's Bounce	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
22	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Frettin' Fingers	Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
23	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Old Joe Clark	Stratosphere Boogie
24	Jerry Reed	Guitar Man	The Essential Jerry Reed
25	Roy Clark	Riders in the Sky	The Roy Clark Anthology
26	Albert Lee	Rainbows All Over Your Blues	The Big E: A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons
27	Marty Stuart	Hollywood Boogie	Nashville Vol. 1: Tear The Woodpile Down
28	The Hellecasters	Orange Blossom Special	The Return Of The Hellecasters
29	Junior Brown	Where Has All the Money Gone?	Down Home Chrome
30	Doc Watson/Merle Watson	Smoke, Smoke, Smoke	Black Mountain Rag
31	Doc Watson/Merle Watson	Down Yonder	Black Mountain Rag
32	Peter Rowan, Don Edwards, Tony Rice & Norman Blake	Trail to Mexico	Strings And Things: The Best in Bluegrass Vol. 1
33	Norman Blake	Eastbound Freight Train	America Roots Songbook – Americana
34	Tony Rice	Stoney Point	The Bluegrass Guitar Collection
35	Tony Rice	He Rode All the Way to Texas	Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
36	Merle Travis	Nine Pound Hammer	Hot Pickin' [Disc 1]
37	Merle Travis	Done Rovin'	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]

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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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No Parking Here – KOWS October 10, 2015

October 11, 2015 Dave

Saturday mornings are root-bound…in the very best sense of the phrase. Tune into KOWS for an eclectic blend of gospel from Jimmy Murphy and The Loyal Five, early century pop from Cliff Edwards and Emmett Miler, R&B from Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and Dr. John, country from Red Foley and Jimmy Littlejohn, and more of the sounds that matters from the past century of American music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Gene Autry	Rhythm Of The Range	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 3]
3	Cliff Edwards	Hang on to Me	The Collection
4	Emmett Miller	(I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way	Minstrel Man From Georgia
5	Sons of the Pioneers	Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown	Songs of the Prairie – CD3
6	Arthur Smith	Follow Me Boogie (Instrumental)	The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
7	Johnny Cash	Calilou (The Rambler)	Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 4]
8	Dr. John	How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come 'Round)	Goin' Back To New Orleans
9	Bobby "Blue" Bland	I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me)	Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill / MCA Recordings
10	Piano Red	Ain't Goin To Be Your Low Down Dog No	Blues, Blues, Blues
11	Pee Wee King	Dog House Blues	Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown (1 of 2)
12	Neko Case	John Saw That Number	Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
13	The Loyal Five	John The Revelator	Heaven Bound Train
14	Jimmy Murphy	John the Baptist [Live]	Electricity
15	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Get Up John	Bill Monroe: Anthology
16	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Private Property (No Tresspassing)	One Guy Named Louis: The Complete Aladdin Sessions
17	Jimmy Littlejohn	No Parking Here	The World Is A Monster
18	Woody Guthrie	Riding in My Car (Car Song)	Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
19	Billy Murray	The Little Old Ford	Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure
20	Vince Gill	Love Bug	Bradley Barn Sessions
21	Little Jimmy Dickens	When That Love Bug Bites You	Country Boy [Disc 2]
22	Jimmy Edwards	Love Bug Crawl	Foot Tappin' & Dance At Screamin' Festival Vol. 5
23	Red Foley & Minnie Pearl	Love Bug Itch	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
24	The Mills Brothers	The Love Bug Will Bite You	Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats
25	Vera Lynn	The Love Bug Will Bite You	A Tribute, Volume II: It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow
26	Doc & Merle Watson	Corrina, Corrina	Then And Now/Two Days In November
27	Spade Cooley	Crazy' Cause I Love You	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
28	The Weavers	Meet the Johnson Boys	The Weavers at Home
29	Clifton Chenier	Ride 'Em Cowboy	Bogalusa Boogie
30	Huey "Piano" Smith	We I'll Be John Brown	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 40
31	Junior Brown & Red Simpson	Nitro Express	Rig Rock Deluxe
32	Red Simpson	Truck Drivin' Man	The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
33	Tex Ritter	Dear John	Have I Stayed Away Too Long
34	Ray Charles	You Don't Know Me	Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
35	Dr. John The Night Tripper	Mama Roux	The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974

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Wild Men and Wild Women

October 10, 2015 Dave

It’s theme time once again and we’re going to find ourselves among the wild and crazy men as well as the wild, woolly women. Round town girls celebrate, burning that candle, and Keely Smith will jump, jive, and wail with Louis Prima. Red Ingle and His Natural Seven will join the Sons of the Pioneers in spreading the word about ‘cigareets, whuskey, and wild, wild women”. Mae West, Julia Lee, Ernie Ford, and Jerry Lee Lewis will keep the party going and Deeper Roots will keep the lights on ’till 11pm sharp (that’s Pacific Time, of course). Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of a century of America’s music on KWTF, 88.1 FM, community radio for Bodega Bay.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Mary Ford	Running Wild	100 Jazz Guitar Favorites
3	Garland Jeffreys	Wild in the Streets	Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]
4	The Jive Bombers	Bad Boy	Cry-Baby
5	Donnie Elbert	Wild Child (Deluxe 6156)	R&B Humdingers Volume 11
6	Johnny Carroll	Wild Wild Women	Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks
7	Jerry Lee Lewis	Real Wild Child (Wild One)	A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
8	Carl Mann	Born To Be Bad	Midnight Cryin' Time: Teen Angst Classics From The Rock 'n' Roll Era
9	Charline Arthur	Burn That Candle	Welcome To The Club
10	Wanda Jackson	Hard Headed Woman	There's A Party Goin' On
11	Wanda Jackson	Let's Have A Party	Queen Of Rockabilly
12	Tennessee Ernie Ford	I'm A Bad Man	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
13	The Dave & Deke Combo	Wild Woman	Hollywood Barndance
14	Freda & the Firedogs	Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad	Freda & The Firedogs
15	The Sons Of The Pioneers	Cigareetes, Whusky And Wild, Wild Women	Country Legends
16	Red Ingle & His Natural Seven	Cigareets, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women (Smoking)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
17	Wanda, Ruth Neal	Round Town Girls	Flowers In The Wildwood
18	King James	Wild Wooly Woman	Stompin' 25
19	Julia Lee	Do You Want It?	Burlesque – 100 Classics
20	Eunice Davis	Let's Have A Party	Stompin' 25
21	Little Richard	The Girl Can't Help It	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
22	Keely Smith/Louis Prima/Sam Butera & the Witnesses	Jump, Jive, An' Wail	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1
23	Carmen MacRae	Whatever Lola Wants	Burlesque – 100 Classics
24	Mae West	I'm No Angel	The Mae West Collection
25	Billy Jones With The Little Ramblers	Don't Bring Lulu	The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
26	Cecil Gant	Little Baby You're Running Wild	The Cecil Gant Collection
27	Wynonie Harris	Young And Wild	Playful Baby
28	Rudy Greene	Wild Life	Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1]
29	Memphis Nighthawks	Wild Man Stomp	Document Shortcuts Vol. 3 – My Babe
30	Memphis Minnie	I'm A Bad Luck Woman	Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937)
31	Champion Jack Dupree	Bad Whiskey And Wild Women	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
32	JB Hutto & The Hawks	Wild Wild Woman	Masters Of Modern Blues
33	Albert King	Wild Women	Door To Door
34	Little Jimmy King	Wild Woman	Little Jimmy King and the Memphis Soul Survivors
35	Amy Helm	Wild Girl	Didn't It Rain
36	John Hammond	Wild Man On The Loose	Trouble No More
37	Louis Armstrong & The Hot 7	Wild Man Blues	The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3]

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Hillbilly Fever

September 19, 2015 Dave

The sound was simple, fun, and certainly influential. It evolved from ancestral celebrations…finding its groove by the mid 1930s and playing itself out as a popular voice well through the early days of what was termed the Golden Age of Country Music, the 1950s. The entertainment industry collectively shunned the hillbilly term by the mid-50s, choosing the more sedate “Country and Western” moniker and certainly the even more narcoleptic sound of Nashvile going into the coming decade and beyond. Hillbilly music lives today only as splinter and special edge-case Americana. Listen and find out.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Delmore Brothers	Hillbilly Boogie	26 All-Time Country Classics
3	Sons of The Ozarks	Plantation Blues	Hillbilly Blues
4	The Lone Star Cowboys	Deep Elm Blues	Hillbilly Blues
5	Ernest Tubb & Red Foley	Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 2]
6	Bill Carlisle	Bell Clappin' Mama	Hillbilly Blues
7	Al Dexter	Hi-De-Ho Boogie On A Saturday Night	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag)
8	Al Dexter	Pistol Packin' Mama	Pistol Packin' Mama
9	Curly Williams	Southern Belle	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 5]
10	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	Bring It On Home To Grandma	Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1]
11	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	I Was A Gambler In Texas	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag)
12	Faron Young	If You Aint Lovin' (You Aint Livin')	Hillbilly Fever – Vol. 3: Legends Of Nashville
13	W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys	There'll Be Some Changes Made	Okeh Western Swing
14	Clyde Moody	08 – Nobody's Business	The Hillbilly Waltz King
15	Little Jimmy Dickens	Hillbilly Fever	Roughneck Blues 1949 – 1956
16	Grandpa Jones	It's Raining Here This Morning (Remake)	Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56
17	Ocie Stockard & His Wanderers	Bass Man Jive	Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947
18	Joe Maphis & Rose Lee	Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
19	Hank Penny	Hadacillin Boogie	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
20	Hank Penny	Hillbilly Jump	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
21	Billy Jack Wills & His Western Swing Band	Troubles (Those Lonesome Kind)	Hillbilly Fever! Vol. 1: Legends Of Western Swing
22	Redd Stewart	Brother Drop Dead (Boogie)	Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56
23	Charlie Gore	I Put My Britches On Just Like Everybody Else	Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56
24	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Bryant's Bounce	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
25	Red Foley	Choc'late Ice Cream Cone	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 2]
26	The Light Crust Doughboys	Little Hillbilly Heart Throb	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp)
27	Skeets McDonald	Scoot Git And Begone	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
28	Jimmy Bryant	Jelly Beans Daddy	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
29	Luke Wills	Four Or Five Times	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
30	Rose Maddox & Her Brothers	Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
31	Robbie Fulks	We Live A Long Time To Get Old	13 Hillbilly Giants
32	The Ranch Girls & Their Ragtime Wranglers	Hillbilly Jive With a Boogie Beat	Can You Hear It?
33	Larry Nolen & The Bandits	Hillbilly Love Affair	Bear Family "Perfect for Parties" Highlight Album
34	The Osborne Brothers	Hillbilly Fever	World's Hottest Bluegrass
35	Bill Kirchen	Hillbilly Truck Drivin' Man	Tied to the Wheel
36	Junior Brown	Hillbilly Hula Gal	12 Shades of Brown
37	BR5-49	Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)	BR5-49
38	BR5-49	Cherokee Boogie	BR5-49

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Dark Moon

August 22, 2015 Dave

We’re going to go pretty deep this coming Saturday morning here in Western Sonoma County. It’s a mix of old time and tradition with a few themed sets including social sciences, the labor blues, calypso rhythm, minstrelsy, and some special sounds from Ira and Charlie Louvin. Performers this week include Darby & Tarlton, Riley Puckett, Fern Jones, Arizona Dranes, and a pair each from Ry Cooder and Harry Belafonte. It’s a “Great Dream From Heaven” for KOWS listeners on an August morning in Occidental. Broadcast on KOWS 107.3 FM on August 22, 2015.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Little Jimmy Dickens	May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose	Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
3	Ry Cooder	Great Dream From Heaven	Into The Purple Valley (Remaster 2013)
4	Del McCoury	Fireside Chat, Part 1 (feat. Franklin D. Roosevelt)	Moneyland
5	Bob Miller	The Rich Man And The Poor Man [Rematered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
6	Frank Crumit	A Tale of the Ticker [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
7	Uncle Dave Macon	All In Down And Out Blues [2003 Remastered]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
8	Ry Cooder	Denomination Blues	Into The Purple Valley
9	Washington Phillips	Denomination Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
10	Arizona Dranes	God's Got A Crown	He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes
11	Elvis Presley	Swing Down Sweet Chariot	His Hand In Mine
12	Fern Jones	By And By	The Glory Road
13	Dave Van Ronk	That'll Never Happen No More	Sunday Street
14	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Dark As A Dungeon	Best Of The Vanguard Years
15	Emmett Miller	That's The Good Old Sunny South	Minstrel Man From Georgia
16	Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers	Lovesick Blues	Minstrel Man From Georgia
17	Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard	Coal Miner Blues	Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
18	Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins	Hawkins Rag	Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3]
19	Darby & Tarlton	Lonesome Frisco Line	Lonesome Whistle – An Anthology Of American Railroad Song
20	Lead Belly	Black Betty	Lead Belly's Last Sessions
21	Odetta	Shame And Scandal	Sings Ballads And Blues
22	Harry Belafonte	Mama, Look at Boo Boo	Harry Belafonte: Greatest Hits
23	Harley Allen & Dierks Bentley	I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby	Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers
24	The Louvin Brothers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Close Harmony [Disc 5]
25	The Louvin Brothers	Keep Watching The Sky	Close Harmony [Disc 8]
26	Bonnie Guitar	Dark Moon	Hard to Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics
27	Skeeter Davis	The One You Slip Around With	The Essential Skeeter Davis
28	Wanda Jackson	Savin' My Love	Rockin' With Wanda [US Bonus Tracks]
29	Webb Pierce	I Ain't Never	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Webb Pierce
30	The Allen Brothers	Skipping and Flying	Lead Kindly Light
31	Bascom Lamar Lunsford	Kidder Cole	The Cornshucker's Frolic Vol. 1: Downhome Music And Entertainment From The American Countryside
32	The Weavers	Bring Me Li'l Water Sylvia	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
33	Little Jimmy Dickens	I'm In Love Up To My Ears	Country Boy [Disc 1]
34	Rosie Flores & The Jordanaires	I Ain't Never	Caught in the Webb
35	Dale Watson & The Jordanaires	In The Jailhouse Now	Caught In the Webb
36	Los Indios Tabajaras	Maria Elena	Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's, Vol. 1

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Back to Bakersfield

August 22, 2015 Dave

Deeper Roots heads down the long hot stretch of 99 to California’s Central Valley to visit the country sound that blew in from every direction…starting with the Dust Bowl. Bakersfield was a first step, a way station, for migrant workers coming into California to escape hard times in the Midwest; their treatment by the small minds of fearful communities being little different than those migrants we think of today. “In the years following World War II, Bakersfield had plentiful honky-tonks including the soon-to-be-famous Blackboard Cafe. People drank, danced, and even fought to Western swing music.” The sound of Nashville began to become watered down, losing its appeal to some who thought it had lost a reverence for the heart and soul of working class Country. We’ll hear from Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart, Tommy Collins, and Billy Mize and tip our cap to a great book on the subject of the Bakersfield sound and the history of Country Music: Workin’ Man Blues written by local author and Central Valley native, Gerald Haslam.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Merle Haggard	Workin' Man Blues	Capitol Collector's Series
3	Hank Thompson	Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart	Most Of All
4	Slim Whitman	Song Of The Old Water Wheel	Vintage Collections
5	Billy Barton	Blues in the Blue of Night	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
6	Fuzzy Owen	Arkie's Got Her Shoes On	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
7	Tommy Collins	Untied	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
8	Tommy Collins	You Better Not Do That	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
9	Tommy Collins	Ernest Tubb 78s	One More Record Please
10	Billy Mize	Solid Sender	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
11	Bonnie Blue Bell & Leon Reach & Chic Adams Band	Let's Go	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
12	Bill Woods	Go Crazy Man	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
13	Buck Owens	Hot Dog (with Danny Dedmon)	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
14	Buck Owens	Take Me Back Again	Buck Owens
15	Buck Owens	Act Naturally	The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) [Disc 1]
16	Buck Owens	Down, Down, Down	Buck 'Em: The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
17	Wynn Stewart	Big Big Love	California Country
18	Wynn Stewart	Another Day, Another Dollar	Come On – Gonna Shake This Shack
19	Wynn Stewart	You're That Someone Else	Come On – Gonna Shake This Shack
20	Merle Haggard	The Roots Of My Raising	Capitol Collector's Series
21	Merle Haggard And The Strangers	Today I Started Loving You Again (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
22	Merle Haggard; Ray Price; Vince Gill; Willie Nelson	Heartaches by the Number	Last of the Breed Disc 1
23	Jean Shepard	A Dear John Letter	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
24	James Burton And Ralph Mooney	I'm A Lonesome Fugitive	Corn Pickin' And Slick Slidin'
25	Ferlin Husky	Heart of Stone	1949-1950 (Warped 498F)
26	Ferlin Husky	Freckles and Polliwog Days	Ferlin Husky Singles
27	Connie Smith	Ain't Had No Lovin'	The Essential Connie Smith
28	Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens	Streets Of Bakersfield	The Best Of Classic Country 80's
29	Dwight Yoakam	The Sad Side of Town	Tomorrow's Sounds Today
30	Dwight Yoakam	Guitars, Cadillacs	Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Disc 1
31	The Blasters	Blue Shadows	Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2)
32	The Blasters	Hey, Girl	Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2)
33	The Blasters	American Music	Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2)
34	Dave Alvin	California's Burning	Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women
35	Dave Alvin	Out in California	Interstate City
36	Merle Haggard And The Strangers	The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
37	Wynn Stewart	Wishful Thinking	Golden Age of Country Volume 2: Hard-to-Find Hits [Disc 2]
38	Buck Owens	The Band Keep's Playin' On	Buck 'Em: The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967)

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Home on the Range

May 9, 2015 Dave

Generations of youth over the last century grew up with the images of cowpokes, rustlers, bad guys, and ranching through dime novels, radio, television and, of course, the music. In this episode of Deeper Roots, we focus on the legacy of the ‘cowboy crooners’ and country balladeers who sang about life on the trail alongside the grub wagon on the lone prairie where the imagination could take you anywhere it pleased…and often did. We’ll hear the earliest ‘cowboy songs’ by Vernon Dalhart and Carl Sprague; and we’ll also find ourselves being serenaded (quite gently) by Tex Ritter and Gene Autry who reached out for the generic, mass appeal. The music was full of tradition as well and we’ll hear some contemporary reflections from David Wilkie And Cowboy Celtic, Jim Lauderdale, and (of course) Waylon, Willie, Merle, and Johnny.

A Century of America's Music