Roots music found commercial success in 2000 with the release of the movie O Brother Where Art Thou, a finely crafted but outrageous tale of Depression-era America with fantastical imagery of hair wax, baptisms, and chain gangs woven into a tapestry built from Homer’s Odyssey. The music, assembled by T-Bone Burnett, was a major component of the film and recorded before the film even began with Burnett working with the Coen brothers while the script was in its working phases. It would become an effort that elevated a genre at the turn of the century called Americana. This week’s show will share some of the period-specific music that helped to propel the notion that blues, jazz, bluegrass, country, and gospel could be used to put that time and a ghostly familiar culture into focus. We’ll use O Brother’s musical sensibilities to take us somewhere quite familiar (and at the same time quite terrifying) as we pay homage with Americana roots, featuring sounds from The Carters, Jesse Fuller, Dan Tyminski, Jimmie Rodgers, W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys, among others.
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Estil C. Ball
Lonesome Valley
Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals
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The Carter Family With Special Guest Johnny Cash
Lonesome Valley
Keep On The Sunny Side
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Harry McClintock
Big Rock Candy Mountain
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Jimmie Davis With Charles Mitchell's Orchestra
You Are My Sunshine
Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 1]
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Alison Krauss
Down To The River To Pray
A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection
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Peasall Sisters
Fair and Tender Ladies
Home to You
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Roberta Martin Singers
The Old Ship of Zion
Halleluja Gospel & Prayers
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The Stanley Brothers
A Life Of Sorrow
Stanley Brothers & Clinch Mountain Boys
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Dan Tyminski/Soggy Bottom Boys
Man of Constant Sorrow
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys
Please Pass The Biscuits Pappy
Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938
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Country Gentlemen
I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)
1963 (Warped 6305)
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The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Clinch Mountain Backstep
Constant Sorrow: Bluegrass From Root To Flower [Disc 3]
The music of Bill Monroe is the theme of our show today. We’ll be featuring some classic tunes from the Monroe catalog including some traditional tunes as well as those written by the master himself. The performers include those from all walks: Ray Charles, Elvis, Doc Watson, Bruce Hornsby, and a collection of bluegrass favorites including Jim & Jessie McReynods, Ricky Skaggs, The Seldom Scene and a couple dozen others; all of them covering Bill Monroe’s music with some loyal to the arrangements while others putting their own spin on it. Join Dave Stroud once again for a collection of sounds from those dusty digital bins, those deeper wells, here on Sonoma County Community’s own community radio. Free Form. Free Speech. No Bull. Your alternative radio station in the North Bay.
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Elvis Presley
Working On The Building
Amazing Grace – His Greatest Sacred Performances (Disc 1)
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Ray Charles
Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Swingova)
Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 [Disc 2]
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John Fogerty
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Songs of Bill Monroe
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Leon Russell
Uncle Pen
Hank Wilson's Back [Bonus Tracks]
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The Louvin Brothers
What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul
Close Harmony [Disc 8]
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The Devil Makes Three
What Would You Give (In Exchange for Your Soul)
Redemption & Ruin
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Jerry & Tammy Sullivan
Wicked Path Of Sin
Legend Lives on-a Tribute to Bill Monroe
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Jim & Jesse McReynolds
Wicked Path Of Sin
Music Among Friends
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Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers
Walls Of Time
At The Ryman [Live]
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The Johnson Mountain Boys
Walls Of Time
Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 2
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Hazel And Alice
True Life Blues
Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 2
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Bruce Hornsby & Ricky Skaggs
Toy Heart (Live)
Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby: Cluck Ol' Hen (Live)
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Red Allen
Sweetheart, You Done Me Wrong
The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983
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The Million Dollar Quartet
Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
The Million Dollar Quartet: 50th Anniversary Special Edition
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Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Six White Horses
1957-1959 (Warped 5722)
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The Bluegrass Band
Six White Horses
2nd Cut
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Doc Watson
The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band
Good Deal!
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Mac Wiseman
The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band
Great Folk Ballads
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Doc Watson/Merle Watson
Roll on Buddy
Doc Watson on Stage (Featuring Merle Watson)
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Roll On Buddy
The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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Doc Watson
My Rose of Old Kentucky
Memories
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Dwight Yoakam
Rocky Road Blues
Big Mon – The Songs of Bill Monroe
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Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
Rocky Road Blues
The Forgotten 45s 1957-1959 (CD2)
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Doc & Merle Watson
New River Train
Remembering Merle – Live Recordings 1976-1979
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The Seldom Scene
Little Georgia Rose
Act 3
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Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt
Molly and Tenbrooks (The Race Horse Song)
The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2)
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Don Reno & Bill Harrel With The Tennessee Cut-Ups
Molly And Tenbrooks
20 Bluegrass Favorites
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Tony Rice Unit
Midnight on the Stormy Deep
Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records
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!
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Roy Acuff
Night Train To Memphis
Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
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Stonewall Jackson
Old Showboat (Live at the Grand Ole Opry 1970)
Singles
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Hank Snow
I've Been Everywhere
Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
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Bobby Bare
Detroit City
Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
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The Osborne Brothers
Take This Hammer
Bluegrass at the Opry
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George Hamilton IV
Abilene
Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
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Patsy Cline
Walkin' After Midnight
Live at the Opry
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Hank Williams
I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living
Grand Ole Opry Time
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Dave Dudley
Six Days On The Road
Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics
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Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
The Last Thing On My Mind
Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
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Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
Jackson
Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets
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Patsy Cline
Just A Closer Walk With Thee [Live (Ryman Auditorium)]
We had so much fun with our first installment a few months back that we thought it was worth a second installment…well, that and the depth and breadth of the American Songbag certainly lends itself to doing so. It doesn’t hurt either that it fits our deeper roots sensibilities so well. This installment finds us meandering about those classic songs whose topics include mellow blues ballads, hobo songs, Mexican border songs (how appropriate), tarnished love tales, and the ‘road to heaven’. Helping us through our sets we’ll be featuring an interesting collection of performers: Dave Van Ronk, Dock Boggs, Rosanne Cash, and Peter Case. A host of others will join in the fun on Community Radio for Sonoma County.
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Dave Van Ronk
Willie The Weeper
Down In Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Willie the Weeper
Dirt, Silver & Gold Disc 1
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Dan Zanes
Roll The Chariot
Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
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Josh White
Barbara Allen
Best Of Josh White
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Delmore Brothers
Frozen Girl
Brown's Ferry Blues
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Dock Boggs
Pretty Polly
Country Blues
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The Carter Family
My Sweetheart Is a Poor Working Girl/Waves of the Sea (Instrumental)
On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1
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Tony Rice
House Carpenter
Church Street Blues
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Hylo Brown
Pretty Fair Maiden
Legends & Tall Tales
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Ola Belle Reed, John Miller, Burl Kilby
The Orphan Girl
Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
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David Rawlings
Midnight Train
Poor David's Almanack
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Arlo Guthrie
Gypsy Davy
Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004)
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Peter Case
Roving Gambler
Sings Like Hell
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Rosanne Cash
Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
The List
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Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra & William Warfield
Old American Songs (Set One): Zion's Walls
Copland Conducts Copland (Expanded Edition)
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Louis Armstrong
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
Louis And The Good Book
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Things That I used to do (and I Don't Do No More)
The Gospel Truth
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The Robinson Children
I Ain't Gwine Study About War No More
Swinging Gospel Sounds (1935-1942)
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The Bronzemen
Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again
The Bronzemen – Radio Transcriptions (1939)
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Septeto Habanero
Cielito Lindo
Cuba. Por La Musica
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Los Panchos
La Cucaracha – La Adelita
Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
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Dan Zanes
Lo Que Digo
Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
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Kathy Reid-Naiman
Pretty Betty Martin
Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie
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Laurie Lewis
Weevily Wheat
Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals
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Dan Zanes
Cuckoo Waltz
Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
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Tom Paxton
Times A-Getting Hard, Boys
Seeds – The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 (Disc 2 Of 2 – Friends Of Pete)
The music of Albert E. Brumley resides in a shadowy corner of country gospel, but when it’s given the light of day, the glow is blinding. He was a shape note music composer and publisher whose southern gospel pieces are familiar to many. There’s not a lot of information about Albert but the musical legacy of his “I’ll Fly Away”, “Rank Strangers”, and “Turn Your Radio On” are masterpieces of the genre made popular by everyone from The Carters to Bill Monroe and Aretha Franklin to Alan Jackson and Kanye West. We’ll spend time with his music today, sharing numerous interpretations for you on a Friday morning in Sebastopol, live from KOWS studio at the UMC in the heart of town.
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Chuck Wagon Gang/George Jones
Turn Your Radio On
70th Anniversary
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The Dillards
Introduction
There Is A Time: 1963-70
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The Dillards
I'll Fly Away
There Is A Time: 1963-70
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The Humbard Family
I'll Fly Away [Album Version]
Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
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Stamps-Baxter Quartet
When We Sing Around The Throne Eternal
Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel Music
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The Del McCoury Band
The Lord Is Writing Down Names
The Promised Land
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The Del McCoury Band
It's Surprising What The Lord Can Do
The Promised Land
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Clinch Mountain Boys/Jim Lauderdale/Ralph Stanley
This World Is Not My Home
I Feel Like Singing Today
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Fern Jones
This World Is Not My Home
The Glory Road
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Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
The Prettiest Flowers Will Be Blooming
Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Disc One
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The Louvin Brothers
He Set Me Free
Close Harmony [Disc 6]
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Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Standing By the River
Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Disc 4
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The Country Gentlemen
Rank Strangers To Me
The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 3]
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Ricky Skaggs
Rank Stranger
Bluegrass Rules!
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Leon Redbone
If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven
Double Time
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Elvis Presley
If We Never Meet Again
He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 1
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Doc Watson
I'll Meet You In The Morning
Milestones [Disc 2]
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Albert E. Brumley, Jr./Merle Haggard
I'll Meet You in the Morning
Two Old Friends
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Johnnie and Jack
I Heard My Name on the Radio
1947-1950 (Warped 4720)
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Coon Creek Girls
Flowers Blooming In The Wildwood
Flowers In The Wildwood
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Rangers Quartet
I've Found A Hiding Place
Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel Music
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Marty Stuart
Lord, Give Me Just a Little More Time
Souls' Chapel
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Mac Wiseman
By the Side of the Road
Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South
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Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
By The Side Of The Road
Beyond The Shadows
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The Del McCoury Band
I'll Put On A Crown And Walk Around
The Promised Land
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The Del McCoury Band
It's An Unfriendly World
The Promised Land
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Merle Travis
If We Never Meet Again
Hot Pickin' [Disc 1]
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The Kingsmen
I'd Rather Be An Old-Time Christian
Crossroads: Southern Roots
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Jimmie Davis
'Twill Be Sweet When We Meet
Nobody's Darlin' But Mine
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Carl Story
I've Found a Hiding Place
Country & Western Hit Parade 1947
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Wade Bowen
I'll Fly Away
Then Sings My Soul: Songs for My Mother
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Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch
I'll Fly Away
Down From The Mountain: Live Concert Performances By The Artists & Musicians Of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
We are remembering what happened here in Sonoma County last October when the firestorm hit, devastating communities and lives. Over 5000 homes and dozens of lives were lost. Disaster struck overnight and our music today reflects back with songs of disaster, songs of burning hell, and music that reminds us that Mother Nature will have its way. Blues from John Lee Hooker and Howlin’ Wolf, traditional country gospel from Bill Neely and Kitty Wells, and more in a Friday evening remembrance.
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The David Thom Band
California's Burning
That Old Familiar
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Under The Radar
Ride These Flames
Beyond The Niche
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Kitty Wells
He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
Dust on the Bible (1959)
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Kilby Snow, Mike Seeger
He Will Set Your Fields On Fire
Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967
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Clyde Moody
06 – Where There's Smoke (There's Bound to Be Fire)
The Hillbilly Waltz King
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Bill Neely
Satan's Burning Hell
Texas Law & Justice
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Howlin' Wolf
The Natchez Burning
Blues From Hell
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John Lee Hooker
Burning Hell
The Ultimate Collection 1948-1990 [Disc 2]
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John Lee Hooker
The Motor City Is Burning
The Definitive Collection
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Otis Spann
Burning Fire
The Great Blues Men
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Bob Brozman
American House Fire Blues
Fire in the Mind
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Dave Alvin
Barn Burning
King Of California
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Dave Alvin
California's Burning
Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women
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John Mellencamp
Eden Is Burning
John Mellencamp
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Dixon Brothers
The School House Fire
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
Published in 1927, populist poet Carl Sandburg’s anthology of American folksongs was in print for over 70 years. It influenced generations of musicians and is a cornerstone in the foundation of American folk and tradition. Sandburg himself described it as a “ragbag of stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth…rich with the diversity of the United States.” Today’s show pulls samples from the book featuring performances by Dan Zanes, Bob Dylan, The Weavers, The Blue Sky Boys, and David Rawlings. True Americana from the deeper wells of America’s music.
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Zora Layman & The Hometowners
When The Curtains Of The Night Are Pinned Back By The Stars
A wayfaring lot…music that touches on seafaring tragedies, punctuated by the loss of that most famous of them all: the HMS Titanic. This week’s show will focus on music that commemorated the ships that were lost at sea; tragedies that were headlines around the world; songs of the seafaring life and the sailors and crew that were a part of it. The stories are told in songs from the wells of tradition. We’ll hear from Frank Hutchison, Papa Harvey Hull, Pink Anderson, The Dillards and Dan Zanes. We’ll also hear some classic maritime music from the Smithsonian catalogs. Blues, country, folk, and so much more…all celebrating those ships upon the sea and the ones we lost along the way.
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Bob Gibson
Titanic
Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson
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Rory Block
Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down)
Confessions of A Blues Singer
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Pink Anderson
The Ship Titanic
Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs
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Charley Jordan
Titanic Blues
Charley Jordan Volume 2 1931-1934
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Hi Henry Brown
Titanic Blues
21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10
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Bessie Jones And Group
The Titanic
Alan Lomax Collection Sampler
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Papa Harvey Hull & "Long Cleve" Reed
Sinking Of The Titanic
Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
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Richard (Rabbit) Brown
Sinking Of The Titanic
Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
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Lead Belly
Titanic
The Definitive Leadbelly [Disc 3] – Leaving Blues
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Frank Hutchison
The Last Scene Of The Titanic
If You Take Me Back
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Clyde Spencer And Harry Fannin
The Sinking Of The Titanic
Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 [Disc 1]
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Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton
After The Sinking Of The Titanic
On The Banks Of A Lonely River
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Roy Acuff
The Great Titanic
compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com
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Woody Guthrie
When That Great Ship Went Down
This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1
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Ralph Stanley
Storms Are On The Ocean [Album Version]
A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
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Gordon Lightfoot
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Songbook [Box Set] Disc 3
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Jimmie Driftwood
The Ship That Never Returned
Americana, Vol. 3
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Little Jimmy Dickens
When The Ship Hit The Sand
The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
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Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards
The Sinking of the Ruben James
Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
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June Carter Cash
Sinking in the Lonesome Sea
Wildwood Flower
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Ashley Monroe
The Storms Are On The Ocean
Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
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Cowboy Copas
A Thousand Miles of Ocean
Settin' Flat On Ready
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Red Allen
Out on the Ocean
Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings
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The Country Gentlemen
Take Me In A Lifeboat
The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2]
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Dan Zanes
Across The Western Ocean
Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
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The Dicey Doh Singers
The Sloop John B.
Classic Maritime Music
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Sam Eskin
Clear Away the Track and Let the Bullgine Run
Classic Maritime Music
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Henry Morrison & St. Simon's Island Singers
I'm Gonna Sail Like A Ship On The Ocean
Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals
While the lyrics and music of Robert Hunter took the Grateful Dead into remarkable directions, codifying their place among the bands of the latter half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, by the time they reached their peak their roots were already firmly established. Their early music was clearly anchored in the sounds of tradition, reaching from the Appalachians to the Texas Gulf Coast. We’ll hear early (and contemporary) performances that inspired the band with songs of Blind Willie Johnson, Red Allen, The Mississippi Sheiks, Henry Thomas and Obray Ramsey. The landscape we’ll traverse includes blues, gospel, hillbilly, and folk…no Dead music, only music that served to inspire. This week on Sonoma County Community radio.
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David Grisman/Jerry Garcia
Been All Around This World
Been All Around This World
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Dave Van Ronk
Hang Me, Oh Hang Me
Dave Van Ronk
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Obray Ramsey
Rain And Snow
Best Of The Troubadours
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Vince Martin & Fred Neil
I Know You Rider
Tear Down The Walls/Bleecker & MacDougal
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Henry Thomas
Dont Ease Me In
Ragtime Texas Complete Recorded Works 1927-29
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The Memphis Jug Band
On The Road Again
Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
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The Memphis Jug Band
Stealin' Stealin'
Memphis Jug Band Vol. 2 (1928-1929)
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Cannon's Jug Stompers
Viola Lee Blues
First Time I Met the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down series)
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Hammie Nixon
Viola Lee Blues
Living Country Blues: An Anthology Disc 3
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The Monroe Brothers
Rosa Lee McFall
Early Blue Grass Music
12
Prairie Ramblers
Deep Elem Blues
White Country Blues (1926-1938)
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Mississippi Sheiks
Sittin' On Top of the World
Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
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Roscoe Holcomb
Sittin' On Top of the World
Classic Piedmont Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
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Dillard Chandler
Rain and Snow
Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
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The Chieftains
Rain And Snow
Down The Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions
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Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers
Minglewood Blues
Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
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Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, et. al.
New Minglewood Blues
Jug Band Extravaganza
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Blind Willie Johnson
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Various Artists: Bob Dylan – Cover To Cover – The Originals VOL. 2 [Disc 3]
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Nobody's Fault But Mine
The Great Gospel Women
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Rev. Pearly Brown
Nobody's Fault But Mine
You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
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Lightnin' Hopkins
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
The Real Blues Brothers Vol. 2
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Lightnin' Hopkins
One Kind Favor
Jake Head Boogie
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Memphis Slim
Next Time You See Me
The Greatest Hits Of
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Bob Dylan
Jack-A-Roe
World Gone Wrong
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Joan Baez
Jack-A-Roe
Rare, Live & Classic [Box] (3 of 3)
27
The Sunshine Boys
What's the Matter With Deep Elem
The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys – Oakie Boogie [Disc 4]
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Red Allen
Deep Elem Blues
The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983
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The Light Crust Doughboys
Sittin' On Top Of The World
1936-1941
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Dock Walsh
In The Pines
In The Pines – Tar Heel Folk Songs And Fiddle Tunes – Old-Time Music Of North Carolina 1926-1936
Get your morning cuppa roots sounds with a look at the record label whose catalog is overflowing with some of the most important recordings of the 20th century. From the birth of the blues to the birth of jazz; from the earliest gospel jubilee sounds of the deep South to the the electrifying sacred steel sounds of the late century; from the hillbilly string bands to the hokum sounds of the urban South…it’s all there. Document Records has amassed one of the world’s most revered collections of Americana out there and you can tune into Sonoma County community radio for a sampler of the music that has survived the century’s shift in technology , infiltrated our culture, and influenced performers to this day.
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Frank Hutchison
Stackalee [Vocal]
Worried Blues [Disc 1]
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Frank Hutchison
The Deal
Old Time Music From West VI : Old-Time Music From West Virgi
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The Allen Brothers
Skipping And Flying
Allen Brothers Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1
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Sam McGee
Buck Dancer's Choice
Complete Recorded Works 1926-34
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Georgia Yellow Hammers
White Lightning
The Georgia Yellow Hammers And Associates Vol. 4 "White Lightning – 1929-1931
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Kirk & Sam McGhee
Brown's Ferry Blues
Complete Recorded Works 1926-34
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Charley Jordan
Just A Spoonful
Charley Jordan Volume 1 1930-1931
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Blind Willie McTell
Searching The Desert For The Blues
Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1]
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Peetie Wheatstraw
Kind-Hearted Blues
Too Late, Too Late, More Newly Discovered Titles And Alternate Takes. Vol. 4
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Barbecue Bob
Barbecue Blues
Barbecue Any Old Time – Blues From The Pit 1927-1942
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Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon
Come On Mama, Do That Dance
Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1]
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Blind Arvella Gray
Have Mercy, Mr. Percy
Blues From Maxwell Street
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Charlie Spand
Ain't Gonna Stand For That (Pm 12856, 15454–)
The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
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Leroy Carr
Don't Start No Stuff
1934-1941
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Laura Rucker
St. Louis Blues
Female Blues Singers Vol. 13 R/S (1921-1931)
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Rosa Henderson
Don't Advertise Your Man (Take A)
Vol. 2-Vocal Blues & Jazz
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Memphis Mose
Hear Me Beefin' at You
Georgia Tom – Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 (September 1928 – 5 February 1930)
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Butterbeans and Susie
Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama
Please Warm My Weiner (Old Time Hokum Blues)
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Big Maceo
Won't Be A Fool No More
Big Maceo Vol. 2 "Big City Blues" (1945 – 1950)
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Tampa Red
Let Me Play With Your Poodle
Rude Dudes
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Nora and Delle
Get Away From My Window
Jazzin' The Blues Vol. 3
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W.C. Handy
St. Louis Blues
Jazzin' the Blues
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Cleo Brown
I'll Take The South (You Take The East, Take The West, Take The North)
Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935)
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The Harlem Hamfats
She's Trickin' Me
Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936
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Babe Wallace
Git It ('Cause I Love To See You Wid It)
Jazzin the Blues Vol. 5 (1930 – 1953)
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Rev. Lonnie Farris
A Closer Walk To Thee
Electric / Slide Guitar Gospel
28
Rev. Utah Smith
I Got Two Wings
Electric / Slide Guitar Gospel
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Sister O. M. Terrell
The Bible's Right
Country Gospel 1946-1953
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
My Journey to the Sky
Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats
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Sister Goldia Haynes
Traveling
Great Gospel Performers: Complete Recording Sessions in Chronological Order, 1937-1950
