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.
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Artist
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Album
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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
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.
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Artist
Title
Album
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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]
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.
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.
The Golden Age of Country. That’s our theme. Join Dave Stroud, host of Deeper Roots, as he takes you through the sound of popular Country music of the 1950s and early 1960s, a time often referred to as “Classic Country”. It was one of the bridges to popular country today, hardly recognizable now from the sounds that were to one day compete with a new form of popular music known as rock ‘n roll. But this classic country sound was itself a sound that was hard to connect to the 1920s hillbilly and Appalachian sounds from which it had evolved. Its sound was an amalgam of 1940s country swing, middle-of-the road pop music, and elements of almost every form of American music. It was a more familiar , safe, and palatable place on the radio dial for those middle American values of the time. We’ll hear the classic sounds of Lefty Frizzell, “Little” Jimmy Dickens, Hank Snow, Kitty Wells, and many others in this episode of Deeper Roots: A Century of America’s Music
Deeper Roots looks at one of the many precursors to rockabilly and rock ‘n roll. Hillbilly boogie is a term used to describe an early pop music fad that blended early 20th century boogie woogie piano style, popular black music of the time, and western swing. Now many will say that it started with Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith but we’ll hear the swing and boogie woogie sounds that predated Smith. And the word was “boogie”. Boogie Woogie Baby, New Broom Boogie, Birthday Cake Boogie, Cherokee Boogie…well, you get the idea. We’ve got all of those and more with performances from Tex Williams, Hank Penny, Johnny Bond, Rose Maddox, and many more. Join Dave Stroud for another journey through a century of America’s music here on listener-supported community radio for Bodega Bay!
This week’s Deeper Roots show revisits country swing. Join Dave Stroud tonight at 9 for the sounds of Tex Williams, The Sons of the West, Spade Cooley, Hank Penney, and a host of others whose sounds attracted huge crowds to the dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma, and California during the thirties and forties. With its basis in jazz and ‘gypsy jazz’, its sound is an upbeat amalgamation of rural, cowboy, polka, folk, blues, and Dixieland jazz, all played by the hot string bands who gave it a distinctive sound with amplified steel guitars, stand-up bass, fiddle, as well as an occasional accordion or brass accompaniment. It’s still alive today…you just need to look.
Deeper Roots: A Century of America’s Music shares the music from a selection of the great 20th century country guitar masters…those Nashville Cats in our latest episode.
The electric guitar has been around in some form since the late 1920’s. In fact, an early group named The Vagabonds experimented with guitar amplification on the Grand Ole Opry in the early days of the show. But the first real amplified guitars were steel guitars. In 1936, Gibson introduced their ES-150 electric guitars and while most southeastern country musicians rejected them, Western swing bands coming out of the Southwest were quick to adopt and the sound became a standard. The sounds of the steel guitar went well beyond swing since the lap and pedal steel guitars both became associated with the development of the country and Western swing genres.
In tonight’s show, we’ve got a mix of session men and solid guitar impresarios to share with you. We’ll hear from The Delmore Brothers, Bob Wills and Leon McAuliffe, Merle Travis, Buddy Emmons, and the great Hank Garland…”setting the woods on fire” as the saying goes.
In a show we broadcast in May of 2013, we explore classic Country music with performers ranging from Hank Williams and Johnny Cash to Hank Snow and Webb Pierce. With the format of the genre becoming watered down into a more mainstream format by the late 1970s, the sound of Country music of the fifties and sixties (considered by many to be the ‘Golden Age of Country Music’) has found its own niche and listening audience. The move to digital, it turns out, has made the genre more accessible, beyond the familiar rural audiences who shunned the pop mainstream that found them alienated from their music. Join Dave Stroud as he shares two hours of Classic Country on Deeper Roots: A Century of America’s Music.
This episode will be posted to Mixcloud in the near future.
