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Who We Lost 2021

January 1, 2022 Dave

New Year’s Eve will bring a look back at those we’ve lost this past year. 2021 was another year of COVID-19 with a couple of variants slipping into and out of the world. We wait patiently, for the most part, for vaccines and adult behavior to work. Unfortunately, there is a selfishness about our species that cannot be denied. This year’s losses have no boundaries musically: everyone from Biz Markie to Stephen Sondheim, Vicente Fernandez to Nanci Griffith, Lloyd Price to Stonewall Jackson. Performers of our lifetime. We go into 2022 having hope. Join Dave Stroud for a musical look back.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Monkees	Some of Shelly's Blues	Listen to the Band Disc 4
3	The Marvelettes	Don't Mess With Bill	Malt Shop Memories: All I Have To Do Is Dream (Disc 2)
4	Teddy Bears	To Know Him Is to Love Him	Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 1
5	The Everly Brothers	So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)	Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers on Warner Bros. Disc 1
6	Jimmie Rodgers	Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again	40 All-Time Favorites [Disc 1]
7	Gerry & The Pacemakers	Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying	The Classic 60's Collection: 1964
8	Lloyd Price	Just Because	Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
9	B.J. Thomas	Hooked On A Feeling	20 Greatest Hits
10	Nanci Griffith	Late Night Grande Hotel	Late Night Grande Hotel
11	Rusty Young	Down Home	Waitin' For The Sun
12	Aretha Franklin	Chain Of Fools (Roger Hawkins)	Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings [Disc 1]
13	Maddox Brothers and Rose	Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die	1950-1951 (Warped 5076F)
14	Joe Maphis & Rose Lee	Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
15	Dan Crary, Byron Berline & John Hickman	Old Time Medley	Chambergrass
16	J.D. Crowe & The New South	Old Home Place	Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics
17	The Osborne Brothers	Rocky Top	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]
18	Tom T. Hall	Ballad of Forty Dollars	The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall
19	Stonewall Jackson	I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water (Columbia 1964)	Singles
20	Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson	Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys(Ed Bruce)	RCA Country Legends [Disc 2]
21	Taj Mahal	Cakewalk Into Town (Howard Johnson on Tuba)	Putumayo Presents: American Blues
22	Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen	Lost In The Ozone	Lost In The Ozone
23	Gram Parsons	Ooh Las Vegas (DRUMMER – RONNIE TUTT)	G.P. / Grievous Angel
24	The Kingsmen	Louie, Louie	Louie Louie
25	The Rolling Stones	Honky Tonk Women	Forty Licks [Disc 1]
26	ZZ Top	Gimme All Your Lovin'	Greatest Hits
27	Johnny Ventura	Filete	Presentando a.. Mi Nuevo Cosecha
28	Vicente Fernandez	Volver Volver	The Rose & The Briar
29	Johnny Pacheco	El Esencia Del Guaguanco	Ritmo Caliente – Salsa Greats
30	The Gap Band	Oops Upside Your Head (I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up An	Pure Disco
31	Dave Frishberg	Van Lingle Mungo	Baseball's Greatest Hits
32	Jill Corey	Love Me to Pieces	Your Hit Parade – The '50s
33	The McGuire Sisters	Sincerely	The Sisters Anthology [Disc 2]
34	Claude Bolling	It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing	Bolling Plays Ellington, Vol. 1
35	The Tokens	The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)	Wimoweh!!! – The Best Of The Tokens
36	Jay & The Americans	Cara Mia	Come A Little Bit Closer – The Best of Jay and The Americans
37	The Supremes	When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through (Mary Wilson)	Gold Disc 1
38	Lee "Scratch" Perry	I Am the Upsetter	Trojan Reggae
39	Biz Markie	Just a Friend	Biz's Baddest Beats: The Best of Biz Markie
40	Original Cast	Tonight	Ultimate Broadway [Disc 1]
41	Chuck E. Weiss	Anthem for Old Souls	Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
42	Pat Martino	Just Friends	Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar [Disc 3]
43	Peter, Paul and Mary	Have You Been to Jail for Justice?	In These Times
44	Patrick Sky	Many A Mile	Best Of The Troubadours
45	Chick Corea and Return to Forever	Captain Marvel	Light as a Feather (Disc 1)
46	New York Dolls	Puss 'n' Boots	Sophisticated Boom Boom: The Shadow Morton Story
47	The Ramones	Baby, I Love You	End of the Century

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Old Devil Time

December 11, 2021 Dave

In an encore episode from 2015, we listen in as Dave explores the multi-generational sounds of not only bluegrass with Dillard and Clark and The Hackberry Ramblers, but we’ll also cross the genres (as we are wont to do) with Cowboy Copas, Clara Ward, Otis Spann, and Doris Day. There’s a couple of different threads that run through the show today, one being that of the ‘devil’ and the other being of ‘new mornings’. Tune in at a special time and see what’s in store on a late-fall morning in West County. And please, donate to community radio: kwtf.net.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	BR5-49	The Devil In Me	Dog Days
3	Bob Dylan	Talkin' Devil	It Could Even Be A Myth
4	Pete Seeger	Old Devil Time (Live)	Singalong Demonstration Concert (Live)
5	Gillian Welch	The Devil Had a Hold of Me	Hell Among the Yearlings
6	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	The Devil Has Thrown Him Down	The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3]
7	Doris Day	The Deevil, Devil, Divil	Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2]
8	Pokey LaFarge	The Devil Ain't Lazy	Pokey LaFarge
9	Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama	The Devil Ain't Lazy	Reinventing the Wheel
10	Hackberry Ramblers	Old Pipeliner (Rodney Crowell-vocal) {1992-06 (org.1946) Flying Fish FF-70629 CD}	Cajun Boogie (1992-06)
11	Cowboy Copas	Don't Shake Hands with the Devil	Settin' Flat On Ready
12	Little Jimmy Dickens	I'm Little But I'm Loud	The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
13	Spade Cooley & His Orchestra; Vocal By Tex Williams	Hide Your Face	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
14	Dillard & Clark	I Bowed My Head And Cried Holy	The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
15	Rory Block	I Am In the Heavenly Way	Confessions of A Blues Singer
16	Bukka White	I Am the Heavenly Way	The Sonet Blues Story
17	Clara Ward	In That Great Judgement Morning	Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 1]
18	The Dixie Hummingbirds	In The Morning	Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds
19	Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers	He's So Wonderful	The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3]
20	Slim & Slam	Early In The Morning	Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 2)
21	Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet	Carolina In The Morning	Vol. 1-(1937-38)
22	Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson	Where Dreams Come to Die	Django and Jimmie
23	John Lee Hooker	I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive [Album Version]	Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett
24	Otis Spann	Must Have Been The Devil	The Blues Never Die
25	Cleo Brown	You're A Heavenly Thing	Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935)
26	Benny Goodman	You're a Heavenly Thing	Music Hall Rag
27	Big Joe Turner	Morning Noon And Nite	Big Joe Turner: Rhythm & Blues Years
28	Tampa Red	Worried Devil Blues	The Bluebird Recordings (1934-1936)
29	Ralph Stanley	John The Revelator	A Mother's Prayer
30	Sherman Tedder	Untitled [Album Version]	Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
31	Elvis Presley	(You're The) Devil In Disguise	Elvis 30 #1 Hits
32	Ella Fitzgerald	Ol' Devil Moon	75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2]
33	Ella Fitzgerald	Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea	75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2]

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When You Dance

November 29, 2021 Dave

It’s Black Friday here in Sonoma County and we don’t really know what to expect. Worn out from the ongoing pandemic, we’re still moderating here but we very much need music to help us light the way. We like to make that possible on Friday mornings on KOWS when we find another free form collection full of small themes and nuggets. With a sprinkling of classic Carole King, Sonny Bono and Brill Building sounds, we’ll move forward into the holidays with hand clapping gospel, soul stew from Booker T., some Leon Russell, Paul Simon, Gene Pitney, and The Cookies. The playlist this morning will circle back to celebrating all the things that matter in musical themes including true love, change, and (most of all) dance. Join us this week once again for some great sounds .

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Cuff Links	Guided Missiles	The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 2
3	The Highway Q.C.'s	Pray	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
4	The Staple Singers	Hammer and Nails	Hammer and Nails
5	Patsy Cline	Life's Railway To Heaven	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
6	Paul Simon	Slip Slidin' Away	Sounds of the Seventies: 1977
7	Jakob Dylan & Jade Castrinos	Go Where You Wanna Go	Echo In The Canyon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
8	The Mamas & the Papas	Do You Wanna Dance	Greatest Hits
9	Bobby Freeman	Do You Wanna Dance	MaltShop Memories Save the Last Dance for M
10	The Drifters	Dance With Me	The 50's – A Decade to Remember: Do You Wanna Dance
11	Billy Bland	Let the Little Girl Dance	One Hit Wonders
12	Dash And Dot	Dance With Me Henry	Forgotten Duos of Rock Volume 1
13	The Diatones	Oh Baby, Come Dance With Me	Bandera Doo Wop
14	Billy Storm	When You Dance	Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 4] – Group Revival
15	Marvin Gaye	Stubborn Kind of Fellow	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Marvin Gaye, Vol. 1
16	The O'Jays	Back Stabbers	The O'Jays Greatest Hits
17	Ann Cole	Have Fun	Birth Of Soul: 1
18	James Brown	Lost Someone	Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures – Vol. 3
19	Booker T. & the MG's; The MG's	Time Is Tight	Classic Rock: 1969 – The Beat Goes On
20	Redbone	Come And Get Your Love	Sounds of the Seventies Pop Nuggets: Early '70s
21	Phoebe Snow	Shakey Ground	The Best Of Phoebe Snow
22	Percy Sledge	True Love Travels On A Gravel Road	Cold Cold Heart – Where Country Meets Soul Volume 3
23	The Cookies	Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)	The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
24	Leon Russell	I Believe To My Soul	Best Of Hank Wilson
25	Ray Charles	Greenbacks	Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) (1 of 8)
26	Gene Pitney	Every Breath I Take	Anthology: 1961-1968
27	The Raindrops	The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget	The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
28	Jackie DeShannon	Needles And Pins	The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
29	Nancy Sinatra	Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)	Kill Bill, Vol. 1
30	Amy Winehouse	Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?	Lioness: Hidden Treasures
31	Laura Nyro	165-Stoned Soul Picnic	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
32	The Mavericks	Dance the Night Away	Collection [2003]

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Sugar Moon

November 19, 2021 Dave

We’ll be settling into some classic country sounds from the golden age alongside some contemporary sounds that stay steadfast in a sound that rings true and authentic. We’ll hear some classics from Wynn Stewart, Buck Owens, Waylon Jennings, Webb Pierce and others. There will be plenty of original sounds from BR5-49 and Chuck Mead, k.d. lang, Don Edwards, and The Mavericks to remind us of the clear line between authentic and what’s attempting to pass for country these days. Tune in for a mix of swing, story songs, love songs, and foot-tappin’ treasures on Deeper Roots this week on Sonoma County Community radio where the music will always take you somewhere other than the main stream. We seldom venture there.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Willie Nelson	Sugar Moon	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
3	k.d. lang & the Reclines	Big Boned Gal	Absolute Torch and Twang
4	k.d. lang	Western Stars	Recollection CD 1
5	Charley Crockett	Over There That's Frank	10 for Slim: Charley Crockett Sings James Hand
6	Asleep At The Wheel	You're From Texas	Ride With Bob
7	Johnny Cash	I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar	Silver
8	Charley Crockett	Music City USA	Music City USA
9	Ferlin Husky	Detour	Vintage Collections Series
10	Carl Smith	(When You Feel Like Youre in Love) Dont Just Stand There	Golden Age of Country Volume 3: Crazy Arms [Disc 1]
11	Carl Smith	Hey Joe!	Columbia Country Classics Volume 2: Honky Tonk Heroes
12	Ray Price	Invitation To The Blues	Columbia Country Classics Volume 2: Honky Tonk Heroes
13	Buck Owens	Above And Beyond	Buck Owens
14	John Fogerty	I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)	The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
15	Webb Pierce	I Ain't Never	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Webb Pierce
16	The Tractors	The Tractors-Pick Me Up On Your Way Down	Trade Union
17	Wynn Stewart	It's Such A Pretty World Today	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
18	George Strait	Big Ball's in Cowtown w/Asleep at the Wheel	Strait Out of the Box [Disc 4]
19	Asleep At The Wheel	Across The Alley From The Alamo	Tribute To The Music Of Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
20	Don Edwards	Texas Plains	West of Yesterday
21	Willie Nelson	This Old House	Remember Me, Vol. 1
22	BR5-49	Cherokee Boogie	BR5-49
23	BR5-49	The Devil In Me	Dog Days
24	The Mavericks	One Step Away	Music for All Occasions
25	Little Jimmy Dickens	When They Get Too Rough (They're Just Right For Me)	Four Classic Albums Plus Singles 1954-1962
26	Wynn Stewart	Big City	California Country
27	Dwight Yoakam	Train in Vain	Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Disc 2
28	Waylon Jennings	Sweet Dream Woman	The Essential Waylon Jennings [2007] Disc 1
29	Old Crow Medicine Show	Wagon Wheel	Americana
30	Marty Robbins	Devil Woman [Album Version]	Columbia Country Classics – Volume 4: The Nashville Sound
31	Asleep At The Wheel	Bob Wills Is Still The King	Ride With Bob
32	Bob Wills	Goin' Away Party	For the Last Time
33	Charley Crockett	Skip A Rope	Music City USA

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Wild Ones

November 13, 2021 Dave

Wild in the streets…well, we’re also wild in the bars, the dance halls, the backyards, and everywhere else for that matter. We’ll be revisiting the crazy ones…the excitable ones…the hot clubs where the bad boys and bad girls are burning the candle. Tune in for some fairly wild doin’s with Mabel Scott, The Louvins, Clarence Palmer and the Jive Bombers, Johnny Horton, and a couple dozen others as we take on that theme of wild men and wild women once more on Community Radio. Dave Stroud puts the metal to the pedal with jazz vocals, rockabilly romps, early century innuendos, and rhythm and blues on a Friday morning in Sonoma County. Oh…and don’t forget to visit kowsfm.com and click on that Donate Now button to support all volunteer Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Garland Jeffreys	Wild in the Streets	Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]
3	Billy Jones With The Little Ramblers	Don't Bring Lulu	The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
4	Mae West	I'm No Angel	The Mae West Collection
5	Mae West	My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)	Bombshells
6	Mabel Scott	Yes	Destination Lust – Chicksville U.S.A.
7	Lizabeth Scott	A Deep Dark Secret	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
8	Monica Lewis	Do It Again	Bombshells
9	Kenni Huskey	Wild Man Tamer	Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music CD [Disc 2, "Arkansas Masters"]
10	Donnie Elbert	Wild Child (Deluxe 6156)	R&B Humdingers Volume 11
11	Red Ingle & His Natural Seven	Cigareets, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women (Smoking)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
12	Johnny Horton	The Wild One	Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (1 of 2)
13	Carl Mann	Born To Be Bad	Midnight Cryin' Time: Teen Angst Classics From The Rock 'n' Roll Era
14	Jerry Lee Lewis	Real Wild Child (Wild One)	A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
15	Tennessee Ernie Ford	I'm A Bad Man	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
16	The Dave & Deke Combo	Wild Woman	Hollywood Barndance
17	Charline Arthur	Burn That Candle	Welcome To The Club
18	The Louvin Brothers	You're Running Wild	Capitol Country Music Classics
19	The Hot Club of Cowtown	I Can't Tame Wild Women	Tall Tales
20	Wanda Jackson	Let's Have A Party	Queen Of Rockabilly
21	Carmen MacRae	Whatever Lola Wants	Burlesque – 100 Classics
22	The Jive Bombers	Bad Boy	Cry-Baby
23	The Trenier Twins	Hey! Sister Lucy (What Makes Your Lips So Juicy?)	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
24	Rudy Greene	Wild Life	Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1]
25	Wynonie Harris	Young And Wild	Playful Baby
26	Champion Jack Dupree	Bad Whiskey And Wild Women	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
27	King James	Wild Wooly Woman	Stompin' 25
28	Eunice Davis	Let's Have A Party	Stompin' 25
29	Julia Lee	Do You Want It?	Burlesque – 100 Classics
30	Little Richard	The Girl Can't Help It	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
31	John Hammond	Wild Man On The Loose	Trouble No More
32	Louis Prima & Keely Smith	Barnacle Bill The Sailor	Breaking It Up!
33	Little Willie John	Fever	Burlesque – 100 Classics
34	Albert King	Wild Women	Door To Door
35	Wanda Jackson	Hard Headed Woman	Queen Of Rockabilly
36	Iggy Pop	Real Wild Child	Blah Blah Blah
37	Vince Taylor	Brand New Cadillac	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 4

The Year in Music 1948

October 25, 2021 Dave

The year 1948 saw the price of a first class stamp at three cents and unemployment in post-war America was at a low 3.9%. The Hollywood Ten were jailed for contempt of Congress when they refused to disclose Communist affiliations. And Columbia Records introduced the 33 1/3 LP at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The LP is still the standard by which physical listening is measured with album sales booming, with LPs sold rising 108% in the first six months of 2020. But we’re going to be sharing the music of 1948 this week: Eddy Arnold, Peggy Lee, Dick Haymes, Louis Jordan, Blue Lu Barker and Mahalia Jackson are just but a few we’ll be hearing from in this week’s episode on KOWS Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Mahalia Jackson	Move On Up A Little Higher	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances, Vol. 1: Black Gospel
3	Lonnie Johnson	Tomorrow Night	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
4	Blue Lu Barker	A Little Bird Told Me	From The Vaults, Vol 2. 1943-1944
5	Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends	King Size Papa	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 3 – Capitol Jumps – 1944-53
6	Amos Milburn	Chicken-Shack Boogie	Down The Road Apiece -The Best Of Amos Milburn
7	Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five	Run, Joe	Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five / 1947 – 1949
8	Bull Moose Jackson	I Love You Yes I Do	Bad Man Jackson
9	Bull Moose Jackson	I Can't Go On Without You	Bull Moose Jackson 1947-1950
10	Wynonie Harris	Good Rockin' Tonight	Complete Jazz Series 1947 – 1949
11	Hal Singer	Cornbread	Living The Blues – Jump Blues & Boogie
12	Eddy Arnold	Bouquet Of Roses	Artist's Choice: Willie Nelson: Music That Matters To Him
13	Eddy Arnold	Then I Turned And Slowly Walked Away	Eddy's Song: Bouquet of Roses
14	Eddy Arnold	Just A Little Lovin' (Will Go A Long, Long Way)	Eddy's Song: Bouquet of Roses
15	Eddy Arnold	What A Fool I Was	Eddy's Song: Bouquet of Roses
16	Floyd Tillman	I Love You So Much It Hurts	Columbia Country Classics Volume 2: Honky Tonk Heroes
17	Jimmy Wakely	One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)	Country & Western Hit Parade 1948
18	Tex Williams & His Western Caravan	Don't Telephone, Don't Telegraph, Tell A Woman	That's What I Like About The West
19	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Bubbles in My Beer	Legends of Country Music Disc 4
20	Hank Thompson	Humpty Dumpty Heart	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys – Oakie Boogie [Disc 4]
21	Roy Rogers & The Sons Of The Pioneers	Blue Shadows On The Trail (From Walt Disney's "Melody Time")	Country Legends
22	Dinah Shore	Buttons and Bows	Your Hit Parade – 1948
23	Nat King Cole	Nature Boy	Nat King Cole [Disc 1]
24	Doris Day	Love Somebody (With Buddy Clark)	The Vintage Years (Part One)
25	Peggy Lee	Manana	Your Hit Parade – 1948
26	Art Mooney	I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover	Your Hit Parade – 1948
27	Evelyn Knight & The Stardusters	Powder Your Face With Sunshine	Good Old Summertime
28	Frankie Yankovic And His Yanks	Just Because	Greatest Hits
29	Dick Haymes & Gordon Jenkins	Little White Lies	Your Hit Parade – 1948
30	Jo Stafford, The Pied Pipers	My Happiness	Capitol Collectors Series
31	Doris Day	It's Magic	Your Hit Parade: 1948
32	The Andrews Sisters	Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka)	Your Hit Parade – 1948
33	Bing Crosby	Now is the Hour	Your Hit Parade – 1948

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Remembering John Prine

October 17, 2021 Dave

This week, we pay a long overdue tribute to John Prine while celebrating the 75th year of his birth which came up on the calendar this week. One of the losses that reverberates among us all is the loss of John Prine to COVID in April, 2020, at the beginning of this long and painful pandemic. We’re paying our tributes at the same time that a his label Oh Boy Records releases Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows, Volume 2, a collection of Prine covers that hits the marks and follows the first volume, released over ten years ago. Our show will feature a chronological look back at the legacy of this national treasure, a songwriter whose bite followed along on the arc of his storytelling that looked into matters of the human heart. We’ll hear covers from Nanci Griffith, Yarn, and a few others but we’ll follow the path along John’s career in performances especially selected for a two hour journey of John’s music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Joan Baez	Hello In There	Diamonds & Rust
3	Justin Townes Earle	Far From Me	Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine
4	Sturgill Simpson	Paradise	Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2
5	John Prine	Donald And Lydia	John Prine Live
6	John Prine	Sweet Revenge	Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1
7	John Prine	The Great Compromise	Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1
8	John Prine	He Was in Heaven Before He Died	Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1
9	John Prine	If You Don't Want My Love	Bruised Orange
10	Yarn	Christmas in Prison	Stray Dog Christmas Compilation
11	John Prine	The Sins of Memphisto	The Missing Years
12	Nanci Griffith	Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness	Winter Marquee [Live]
13	John Prine	Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian	German Afternoons
14	John Prine	Lulu Walls	German Afternoons
15	John Prine	Lake Marie	Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings
16	John Prine	In Spite Of Ourselves	In Person & On Stage
17	John Prine	Dear John (I Sent Your Saddle Home)	In Spite Of Ourselves
18	John Prine	Glory of True Love	Fair & Square
19	John Prine	Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out (Featuring Iris Dement)	For Better, Or Worse
20	John Prine	Summers End	The Tree of Forgiveness
21	John Prine	The Lonesome Friends Of Science	The Tree Of Forgiveness
22	John Prine	Caravan Of Fools	The Tree Of Forgiveness
23	John Prine	When I Get To Heaven	The Tree Of Forgiveness
24	Fiona Prine/John Prine	My Happiness	For Better, Or Worse
25	John Prine	I Remember Everything	I Remember Everything
26	Bonnie Raitt	Angel from Montgomery	Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2

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Guitar Routes

October 4, 2021 Dave

It’s a deep dive we’re taking today into the digital dustbin of the past century with the focus being on fretwork, string bending, bottlenecks and tripping the lap steel fantastic. That’s right…a collection of fascinating tonal embellishments that cross the genres of country, jazz, blues, folk and pop. Our show this morning will feature some Lonnie Johnson, Les Paul, Chet Atkins, John Fahey, Grady Martin and a few others. It’s a trip with a few well knowns but more not so much and you’ll just have to make room in your day because the sounds can’t be ignored. We’ll hear standards like Guitar Rag, Riders in the Sky, Black Mountain Rag, Indiana March, and a special playlist highlighting the work of Grady Martin in both country and rock. We’re once again hoping for the best as October and November approach.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Truett & George	Ghost Dance	Diabolical Hoodoo: Vintage Songs Of Devilry, Doom & Hellfire 1920-1952
3	Lonnie Johnson	Swing Out Rhythm	Complete Recorded Works, Vol:1
4	Blind Lemon Jefferson	See That My Grave Is Kept Clean	Black Swan Sampler
5	Blind Blake	Southern Rag	Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey
6	Robert Johnson	Stop Breakin' Down Blues	The Complete Recordings [Columbia] Disc 2
7	Robert Lockwood, Jr.	Little Queen Of Spades	Blues Routes: Heroes And Tricksters
8	Les Paul Trio	Guitar Boogie	Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2]
9	Roy Smeck and His Paradise Serenaders	Indiana March	Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
10	Slim Gaillard	Minuet In Vout	Hittin' On All Six: New Guitar Concepts
11	Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band	Blue Guitar Stomp	Hillibilly Boogie!
12	Merle Travis	Guitar Rag	The Guitar Picker CD2 (1947-51)
13	Les Paul	Hip Billy Boogie (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered]	100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
14	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Railroadin'	Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
15	Chet Atkins	Carolina Shout	Guitar Legend – RCA Years (Disc 2)
16	Richard Thompson	New-Fangled Flogging Reel/Kerry Reel	Strict Tempo!
17	Richard Thompson	Rockin' in Rhythm	Strict Tempo!
18	John Fahey	I'm Gonna Do All I Can for My Lord	The Legend of Blind Joe Death
19	John Fahey	Requiem for John Hurt	Essential John Fahey
20	Bert Jansch	On The Edge Of A Dream [Rock Baby Rock Remix]	Running From Home – An Introduction to Bert Jansch
21	Leo Kottke	Little Martha	Instrumentals: Best of the Chrysalis Years
22	Roy Clark	Riders in the Sky	The Roy Clark Anthology
23	Doc Watson	Dill Pickle Rag	The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968
24	Doc Watson	Black Mountain Rag	American Roots Music (Disc One-Country)
25	Jorma Kaukonen	There's A Table Sitting In Heaven	Stars In My Crown
26	Red Foley	Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
27	Marty Robbins	El Paso	All-Time Greatest Hits
28	Loretta Lynn	Coal Miner's Daughter	Coal Miner's Daughter
29	Marty Robbins	Devil Woman	All-Time Greatest Hits
30	Elvis Presley	(You're The) Devil in Disguise	Artist of the Century Disc 2
31	Johnny Burnette Rock n Roll Trio	Honey Hush	Tear It Up
32	Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble	Texas Flood	Texas Flood
33	Gary Moore	Parisienne Walkways	While My Guitar Gently Weeps [Disc 2]

Watching The River Flow

September 24, 2021 Dave

September is waning as we share our last show of the month. Join Dave Stroud live at 9 Pacific from the KOWS studios in downtown Santa Rosa for a free form stream of sounds as we make our way across to visit an eclectic collection of sounds. This week we’ll share a little bit of soul with Sugar Pie DeSanto and The Four Tops, some throwback sixties sounds from The Marvelettes and Sam The Sham, seventies deep cuts from Steve Miller, Jesse Colin Young and John Prine, and a host of your favorites from under that great Americana sideshow tent including Ry Cooder, Willie Nelson, and Los Lobos. Yes, it’s a free form show once again as we celebrate recent improvements to our streaming presence as we have signed on for Live365 hosting. Big things come in little, community bound packages. Tune in, unwrap and unwind on a Friday morning.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Marty Robbins	Running Gun	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
3	Sugar Pie DeSanto	Here You Come Running	Go Go Power: The Complete Chess Singles (1961-1966)
4	The Four Tops	You Keep Running Away	The Ultimate Collection
5	Sam Cooke	I'll Come Running Back To You	Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
6	Roy Orbison	Running Scared	Your Hit Parade – Into the '60S
7	Juke Boy Bonner	Running Shoes	Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll Volume 2 [Disc 8]
8	Aretha Franklin	Spanish Harlem	30 Greatest Hits [Disc 2]
9	Jesse Colin Young	Morning Sun	Jesse Colin Young Classics Volume 1
10	Marshall Crenshaw	Starless Summer Sky	Miracle of Science
11	Marie Knight	His Eye Is On The Sparrow	Hallelujah What A Song!
12	Taj Mahal	Let the Four Winds Blow	Phantom Blues
13	Los Lobos	I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday	El Cancionero: Mas y Mas (1 of 4)
14	Fats Domino	My Girl Josephine	Very Best of Fats Domino [Phantom] (Disc 1)
15	Chris Kenner	I Like It Like That Part 1	Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky 2-2 1957-
16	Solomon Burke	Everybody Needs Somebody To Love	Very Best of Solomon Burke (Reis)
17	Leon Russell	Watching The River Flow	Tangled Up In Blues
18	Bob Dylan	Knockin' On Heaven's Door	Greatest Hits Volume 3
19	Warren Zevon	Keep Me in Your Heart	The Wind
20	Steve Miller Band	Living In The U.S.A.	Sailor
21	Steve Miller Band	Quicksilver Girl	Sailor
22	John Prine	There She Goes	Bruised Orange
23	John Prine	Please Don't Bury Me	Souvenirs
24	Willie Nelson	Bring Me Sunshine ("Naked" Version)	Naked Willie
25	Ry Cooder w/Sam Samudio	No Quiero	The Border/Alamo Bay
26	Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs	Wooly Bully	Red, White & Rock Disc 2
27	The Marvelettes	Don't Mess With Bill	Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 Disc 2
28	Alive 'N Kickin'	Tighter, Tighter	Alive 'N Kickin'
29	Bo Diddley	Say Man	Go Bo Diddley
30	Joe Ely	Fingernails	Live Shots
31	Duane Eddy	Rebel Rouser	Rebel Rouser
32	Jackson Browne & David Lindley	Mercury Blues (Intro)	Love Is Strange [Disc 1]
33	Jackson Browne & David Lindley	Mercury Blues	Love Is Strange [Disc 1]

Americana, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Fifties Country, Oldies, Rockabilly, Theme Time

Country Boogie Woogie

September 12, 2021 Dave

While the origin of the term is in debate, there are numerous stories that almost make sense but cannot be verified. However, 20^th century blues, country and rock and roll were rife with the reference and it turned into a guitar lick, a piano run, and a salty reference on the standup. Deeper Roots will be spending time with the country versions, inherited (nee appropriated) from the rhythm and blues form … and a little bit of history as well. We’ve got the classic country sounds of Sheb Wooley, Johnny Tyler, and The Delmore Brothers paired up with higher octane country Americana from Dale Watson, Robert Gordon, and Asleep at the Wheel. Chuck Berry once said “It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm & blues…it’s called rock now”. You can quote me in enlightening that observation by calling it “one nascent stream that emptied into a swift river.” Tune in Friday evenings here on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Merrill Moore	Nola Boogie	Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1]
3	Al Dexter & His Troopers	Saturday Night Boogie	Hillibilly Boogie!
4	Hardrock Gunter	Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night	Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B
5	Vance Morris & His Alabama Playboys	Crazy About The Boogie	Hillbilly Boogie Box [Disc 4]
6	Hank Snow	Rhumba Boogie	Hillbilly Boogie Box [Disc 4]
7	Johnny Tyler	Oakie Boogie	Southern Belle [Disc 1]
8	Sheb Wooley	Mule Boogie	Country & Western Nuggets
9	Johnny Bond	Alabama Boogie Boy	Put Me To Bed
10	Bob Newman	Hangover Boogie	Crossroads In Cowtown
11	Skeets McDonald	The Southland Boogie	Skeets McDonald – One Classic Album & Singles Collection
12	Dale Watson	Texas Boogie	Cheatin' Heart Attack
13	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Stratosphere Boogie	Stratosphere Boogie
14	Merle Travis	Merle's Boogie Woogie	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
15	Les Paul	Guitar Boogie	Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2]
16	Kate Mackenzie	Pan American Boogie	Steel Rails: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 1
17	Doc Watson	Freight Train Boogie	Songs From Home
18	Red Foley	Hobo Boogie	The Essential Recordings
19	The Delmore Brothers	Peach Street Boogie	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 15
20	Sonny Burgess	We Wanna Boogie	Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music 2009
21	Grady Martin & His Slewfoot Five	Wooly Boogie	The Very Best Of
22	Sleepy Labeef	Shot-Gun Boogie (Overdub)	Sleepy Rocks
23	Webb Pierce	Teenage Boogie	All Hits! [Disc 2]
24	Robert Gordon and Link Wray	Rock Billy Boogie	Too Fast to live… Too Young to Die
25	Asleep at the Wheel	08 Boogie Back to Texas	10
26	Tiny Hill	Milk Bucket Boogie	Country Music On the Mercury Label
27	Little Jimmy Dickens	You Better Not Do That	Four Classic Albums Plus Singles 1954-1962
28	Little Jimmy Dickens	Buddy's Boogie	Four Classic Albums Plus Singles 1954-1962
29	Porky Freeman	Boogie Woogie Boy	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
30	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Blackberry Boogie	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 1]
31	Tennessee Ernie Ford	False Hearted Girl	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3]
32	Asleep at the Wheel	Choo Choo Ch'Boogie	The Best of Asleep at the Wheel
33	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Shot-Gun Boogie	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3]

A Century of America's Music