Category Archives: Country

Summer of Broken Hearts

September 14, 2024 Dave

The debate is over; what’s say we have ourselves another. There’s certainly no debating democracy at work. Today’s Deeper Roots show will find us circulating through the connective tissue of song: themes that connect with one another. A little bit of eclectic free form fused with all the delightful sounds of country, pop, rock and tradition. Our guiding light will be the truth and the American way. Yes, there’s always bubble gum, apple pie, and Sunday church but then we also have the bats**t crazies who will blame all the good, the bad and the ugly on those who don’t resemble themselves or their own views. So take a break with us on this summer of broken hearts and we’ll share country from Don Gibson to Rosanne Cash, rock and roll from The Stray Cats to Fats Domino, and a little bit of sass and blues from Etta James and Charles Brown. Summer’s almost over and election day is fast approaching. So make sure you vote.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Sarah Vaughan	Broken Hearted Melody	Ultimate Sarah Vaughan (Selected by Dee Dee Bridgewater)
3	Chris Isaak	Lonely With A Broken Heart	San Francisco Days
4	k.d. lang & the Reclines	Trail of Broken Hearts	Absolute Torch and Twang
5	Rosanne Cash	The Way We Make A Broken Heart [Album Version]	King's Record Shop
6	Al Green	How Can You Mend A Broken Heart	The Virgin Suicides
7	Don Williams	Some Broken Hearts Will Never Mend	The Definitive Collection
8	Don Gibson	I Can Mend Your Broken Heart	The Complete Recordings 1952-1962
9	Charles Brown & Johnny Moore's Three Blazers	My Heart Is Mended	Sunny Road
10	Gram Parsons	Hearts On Fire	G.P. / Grievous Angel
11	Kelly Dalton	I'm On Fire	Home – EP
12	Nikki Lane	Love's On Fire	All or Nothin' (Deluxe)
13	Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys	Settin' The Woods On Fire	Back At The Quonset Hut
14	Fats Domino	I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire	This Is Gold Disc 2
15	Leon Redbone	Settin' By The Fire	Whistling In The Wind
16	Etta James	Let's Burn Down The Cornfield	Enduring Soul
17	Etta James	Jump Into My Fire	Seven Year Itch
18	The Brothers Four	Greenfields	Best Of The Folk Era
19	Peter Wolf	The Green Fields Of Summer [with Neko Case]	Midnight Souvenirs
20	Nanci Griffith	Fields Of Summer	Late Night Grande Hotel
21	Stray Cats	Lonely Summer Nights	Runaway Boys: A Retrospective '81-'92
22	The Four Preps	Lazy Summer Night	Dancin' & Romancin' In The '50s And 60s [Disc 3]
23	Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta	Summer Nights	Grease
24	Steve Forbert	Steve Forbert's Midsummer Night's Toast	The Best of Steve Forbert: What Kinda Guy?
25	The Beach Boys	Your Summer Dream	Surfer Girl
26	Link Wray & The Wraymen	Summer Dream	Destination Beach: 30 Tunes For Dancing In The Sand
27	Rodney Crowell	Voila, An American Dream	Collection
28	Hayes Carll	American Dream	What It Is
29	Elvis Presley	An American Trilogy	Fifty Years Of Hits
30	Willie Nelson	By the Rivers of Babylon	Gospel Favorites

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Ride Away

September 9, 2024 Dave

It’s a mellow, laid back collection of sounds from the past century for you this morning. The “ember” months have arrived and we’re winding our way through the last sunsets of summer. So lay down your burdens and join us on another Deeper Roots Friday morning as we share some sweet sounds from near and far, all anchored in an American landscape of dreams and waning nights of warmth. And warmth is what we’ll focus on…from JJ Cale and Leon Russell to Leo Reisman’s Orchestra, Sam Cooke, Randy Newman and Levon Helm. All of this and more, as they say, as we approach the final two months of election promises. I’m hoping that everyone’s placed a high value on truth and goodness because the hate, the lies, the gutter talk all need to be evaporated at long last. Send the vermin back into their holes of hate and let’s get on with the business of making our lives better. Because it’s not politicians that can do that. It’s us.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	John Prine	Speed of the Sound of Loneliness	German Afternoons
3	Roy Orbison	Ride Away	Classic "MGM" Roy Orbison 1965 – 68
4	Dire Straits	Ticket To Heaven	On Every Street
5	Eddie Lang	Blue Guitars	Jazz Guitar Virtuoso
6	Bobby "Blue" Bland	Stormy Monday Blues	Legends of Guitar – Electric Blues (Vol. 1)
7	Ray Charles with Norah Jones	Here We Go Again	…Featuring Norah Jones
8	Ray Charles	Crying Time	Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
9	Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars	You Got Me	Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars
10	Leon Russell	Lady Blue	Retrospective
11	J.J. Cale	Magnolia	The Very Best of J.J. Cale
12	Louis Armstrong	When It's Sleepy Time Down South	The Ultimate Collection [Disc 3]
13	Hoagy Carmichael	Lazy Bones	Hoagy Carmichael & Friends: Stardust Melody
14	Leo Reisman & His Orchestra	Lazy Lullaby	Society Swing
15	Santo & Johnny	Lazy Day	Santo & Johnny: Collection [Disc 2]
16	Charlie McCoy	Walkin' After Midnight	Classic Country
17	Randy Newman	Baltimore	The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2
18	Sam Cooke	Bring It on Home to Me	Greatest Hits
19	Etta James	I'd Rather Go Blind	Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
20	The Arthur Lyman Group	Yellow Bird	Music For a Bachelor's Den More Of The Best Of The Arthur Lyman Group: 6
21	Willie Nelson	Blue Hawaii	Honeymoon in Vegas
22	Chet Atkins/Mark Knopfler	Tahitian Skies	Neck and Neck
23	Jason Wilber	Your Destiny	Lazy Afternoon
24	John Prine & Mac Wiseman	Old Cape Cod	Standard Songs for Average People
25	Bill Frisell	Poem For Eva	Good Dog, Happy Man
26	Kevin Russell	Lay Down Your Burden	You Don't Know Me
27	Mississippi John Hurt	Since I've Laid My Burden Down	Immortal
28	Irma Thomas	River Is Waiting	Simply Grand
29	Willie Nelson	House Of Gold	Country Music
30	Calvin Cooke	Since I Laid My Burden Down	The Best Of Sacred Steel
31	Emmylou Harris	Mister Sandman	Profile II: The Best Of Emmylou Harris

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Meeting Up Yonder

August 31, 2024 Dave

Some dynamite gospel this week that leans heavily on the influencers, but we won’t let that lock us in. We’ll be cutting a broad swath across the Americana landscape, with deeper gospel tracks from some of the greats like the Selah Jubilee Singers, the rollicking Reverend Robert Ballinger, The Bronzeman, and some other greats you may or may not know. But we’ll also share tracks from the next generation secular branding with just a taste of gospel in their music: Johnny Taylor, Edwin Hawkins, and Curtis Mayfield. We’ll also share a couple of Marty Stuart gospel tracks in another look at the deepest roots from the past century. So grab the headphones and get ready for a revival without beating you about the head with any false fundamentalism. All for our favorite listeners, beaming down from the ether on KOWS Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives	99-1/2 Won't Do [Live]	The Gospel Music Of Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives [Live]
3	Mighty Mo Rodgers	Blues Is My Wailin' Wall	Lovely Jazz Gospel & Blues
4	R.H. Harris & His Gospel Paraders	Wait On Jesus	Sam Cooke's SAR Records Story: 1959 – 1965 [Disc 1]
5	Johnnie Taylor/The Soul Stirrers	Walk With Me	20 Gospel Greats
6	The Impressions	Meeting Over Yonder	Gospel
7	Johnnie Taylor	Soul Heaven	Lifetime: A Retrospective Of Soul, Blues & Gospel 1956- 1999 [Disc 3]
8	Gospel Hummingbirds	Don't Move the Mountain	Blind Pig Records 20th Aniversary Collection [disk 1]
9	The Staple Singers	Hammer and Nails	Hammer and Nails
10	The Staple Singers	New-Born Soul	Hammer and Nails
11	Skylarks	My Life Is In His Hands	I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983 [Disc 3]
12	Sammy Price Trio/Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Singing in My Soul	The Gospel of Blues
13	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	God's Mighty Hand	Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel, Vol. 2
14	Mahalia Jackson	I Will Move On Up A Little Higher	Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
15	The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir	I Want To Ride That Glory Train	Shakin' The Rafters
16	The Edwin Hawkins Singers	Jesus, Lover Of My Soul	Oh Happy Day: The Best Of The Edwin Hawkins Singers
17	Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir	Jesus, Lover Of My Soul	Do Not Pass Me By Vol. II
18	Reverend Robert Ballinger	So Glad	1950s Gospel Classics
19	Reverend Robert Ballinger	Walking The Road	1950s Gospel Classics
20	Spirit Of Memphis	Atomic Telephone	Talking On The Telephone Vol.1 – Blues, R&B And Gospel
21	Selah Jubilee Singers	Royal Telephone	Talking On The Telephone Vol.1 – Blues, R&B And Gospel
22	The Golden Nuggets	Gospel Train	Oxford American Music Issue #13-Mississippi
23	Samuel Patterson	This Train	Americana Roots Songbook: Gospel
24	The Bronzemen	De Gospel Train	The Bronzemen – Radio Transcriptions (1939)
25	Ernest Carter And The Hymn Trio	The Gospel Train	Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Rapture
26	Soul Stirrers	Last Mile Of The Way	Gospel Music
27	Elizabeth King & The Gospel Souls	Living in the Last Days	Living in the Last Days
28	Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives	Just A Little Talk With Jesus [Live]	The Gospel Music Of Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives [Live]
29	R.H. Harris & His Gospel Paraders	Wait On Jesus	Sam Cooke's SAR Records Story: 1959 – 1965 [Disc 1]
30	Clefs of Harmony	Baptized	This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
31	Sister O.M. Terrell	I'm Going To That City	Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues
32	Professor Johnson & His Gospel Singers	Where Shall I Be	1950s Gospel Classics

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Little Bit O’ Bad

August 25, 2024 Dave

A little bit of good, a little bit of bad, and a whole lot of Americana classics. This morning’s Deeper Roots show runs the gamut from boogie Woogie to country ballads, classic rock, soul, blues, gospel and everything but the kitchen sink. Dave Stroud will be featuring songs that celebrate the band of gold, bad boys, bad girls, schooldays nostalgia, and the silly notion that black cats are no more than a warning when, in fact, they are a sign from on high of the very best being yet to come. Tune in for the likes of Stephen Stills, Johnny Cash, Cleo Brown, NRBQ and…yes, Billie Eilish as we celebrate America’s roots from then until now where no ocean is wider nor mountain is high. Celebrate a free form extravaganza with us as we push our way through August, well past the dog days and into the breezy, cool nights of summer’s waning. All for you and the neighborhood on KOWS Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	NRBQ	A Little Bit Of Bad	Message For The Mess Age
3	Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs	Stay	Street Corner Symphonies (Disc 2)
4	Ronnie Hawkins	Matchbox	Duane Allman: An Anthology, Vol. 2 [Disc 1]
5	The Hunt Sisters	Elvis Is Rocking Again	Dirty Boogie:The Fortune Records Story
6	Elvis Presley	Dirty Dirty Feeling	Elvis Is Back!
7	Cleo Brown	Boogie Woogie	Picking the Blues – Compiled By John Mayall – Boogie Woogie Pioneers
8	Big Joe Turner	Boogie Woogie Country Girl	Big, Bad & Blue: Anthology [Disc 3]
9	Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis	Boogie Woogie Country Gal	Wild! Wild! Wild!
10	The Drifters	Let The Boogie Woogie Roll	The Definitive Drifters [Disc 1]
11	Robert Plant	Let The Boogie Woogie Roll	More Friends
12	Ella Mae Morse & Her Boogie Woogie Seven	Down The Road Apiece	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
13	Billie Eilish	Bad Guy	When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
14	Robert Gordon	Bad Boy	Bad Boy
15	The Jive Bombers	Bad Boy	Cry-Baby
16	Slim Rhodes Band	Bad Girl	Sun Ballads 1953-62
17	The Miracles	Bad Girl	The 35th Anniversary Collection
18	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kin…	Mama Don't Like My Man	I Learned the Hard Way (Bonus Version)
19	Johnny Cash	I Will Rock And Roll With You	The Legend: Old Favorites And New [Disc 2]
20	Willie Nelson	Bring Me Sunshine ("Naked" Version)	Naked Willie
21	Roy Orbison	Dream Baby	The Monument Singles: A-Sides (1960 – 1964) [Disc 1]
22	Roy Orbison	She Wears My Ring	Crying
23	Greg Brown	Band of Gold	Down in There
24	Don Cherry	Band Of Gold	Rockin' & Rollin' Wedding Songs, Vol. 1
25	Elvis Presley	Wear My Ring Around Your Neck	50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records – Volume 2
26	Rev. Emmett Dickinson	A Black Cat Has Crossed Your Path	Apple Bobbing Mix Vol. 2
27	Johnny Winter	Black Cat Bone	The Progressive Blues Experiment
28	Memphis Minnie	Black Cat Blues – Take 1	Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937)
29	Johnny Cash	Mean Eyed Cat	The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 1]
30	Johnny Cash	Ring Of Fire	Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns – The Soundtrack [Disc 1]
31	Roy Orbison	Rock House	Three Classic Albums+Singles and Sessions 1956-1962 [Disc 1]
32	Pixies	Havalina	Bossanova
33	BR5-49	I'm Going Down	Dog Days
34	Stephen Stills	Acadienne	Man Alive!
35	Louis Jordan	Boogie Woogie Blue Plate	Number Ones
36	Marty Wilde	Bad Boy	The Epic Story 1960

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Country Swing Pioneers

August 16, 2024 Dave

Join Dave Stroud for two hours of the very best of country swing music on Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. He’ll excavate the archives for a show from over eight years ago, reminding us that the west had been long-settled when a new sound exploded. It blasted its way out of the dance halls and barn-dance venues of the Midwest with an upbeat blend of jazz, hillbilly, and down-home blues. The arrangements blended strings, guitar, fiddle and bass, with the rhythmic sounds of urban jazz to reveal something catchy and danceable…and marketable. Before the beat was modernized into the mass market country blandness that paralleled mainstream pop, there were the pioneers including Milton Brown, Bob Wills, Adolph Hofner, Spade Cooley, Light Crust Doughboys, and a host of others. Drop in and celebrate this classic fusion of America’s best

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Tex Williams & His Western Caravan	Artistry In Western Swing	Country Hits Vol. 8
3	W. Lee & His Light Crust Doughboys	When They Baptized Sister Lucy Lee	Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938
4	Prairie Ramblers	Deep Elem Blues	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
5	Prairie Ramblers	Deep Elem Blues	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
6	Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers	I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
7	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	In El Rio Grande	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol.1 : Brownies Stomp
8	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	Easy Ridin' Papa	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 3 : Easy Ridin' Papa
9	Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers	Barn Dance Rag	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – The Eyes of Texas [Disc 1]
10	Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers	I Want to Go Back	The Golden Age Of Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers
11	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	Bring It On Home To Grandma	Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1]
12	Hank Penny	Oh Yes? Take Another Guess	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1]
13	Hank Penny	Sweet Talkin' Mama	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1]
14	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Twin Guitar Special	Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947
15	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Stay A Little Longer	Take Me Back to Tulsa 3 – Just A Plain Old Country Boy
16	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Take Me Back To Tulsa	Tiffany Transcriptions& Vol. 2
17	Tex Williams	Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon?	Vintage Collections
18	Leon McAuliffe	Mr. Steel Guitar	Tulsa Straight Ahead
19	Leon McAuliffe	Rag Mop	Tulsa Straight Ahead
20	Johnny Lee Wills	Rag Mop	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 16
21	Tommy Duncan	Stars Over San Antone	Beneath a Neon Star in a Honky Tonk
22	Tommy Duncan	Take Me Back to Tulsa	Texas Moon
23	Merle Haggard	Roly Poly	Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player
24	Adolph Hofner	Alamo Rag	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 8
25	Adolph Hofner	Alamo Rag	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 8
26	Ted Daffan's Texans	Because	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 2] Tulsa Twist)
27	Ted Daffan's Texans	Down Hi Lo Way	Kings Of Western Swing, Vol. 2
28	Moon Mullican	Cherokee Boogie	Moon Mullican Sings His All-Time Hits
29	Moon Mullican	I'll Sail My Ship Alone	The Very Best Of
30	Spade Cooley & His Orchestra	Shame On You (Tex Williams & Smokey Rogers)	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
31	Spade Cooley	Troubled Over You	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
32	Spade Cooley	You Can't Break My Heart	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
33	Smokey Rogers	I Can't Help The Way You Feel	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
34	Tex Williams	Let's Live A Little (Radio)	Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1
35	Cliffie Stone & His Orchestra with Judy Hayden	He's A Real Gone Oakie	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53

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Bluegrass, Newgrass

August 10, 2024 Dave

We’re taking a trip up into hill country to celebrate a true Americana sound. From it’s simple roots rolling out of Appalachia, celebrating music and culture going back even further, bluegrass music evolved from many different corners with a combination of many styles, including old-time mountain music, square dance fiddling, blues, gospel, jazz, and popular music. You can count on high energy, fast tempos and a most distinctive sound. This week’s show has the syncopated rhythms moving along like a freight train, those nostalgic remembrances, and heel-kicking improvisations…not to mention those high lonesome vocals. We’ve got Blue Highway, Bill Monroe, Mac Wiseman, Earl Scruggs, The Rice Brothers and a couple dozen others in a Friday morning bluegrass extravaganza, sharing both classic and contemporary performers. If you’re close by, tune into KOWS 92.5 FM or, better yet, stream us almost anywhere on planet Earth at kowsfm.com/listen.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Morris Brothers	Salty Dog Blues	Legends Of Bluegrass [Disc 3]
3	Bill Monroe	I'm Travelin' On and On	1947-1949 (Warped 4988)
4	Bill Monroe	Crossing the Cumberlands	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 4]
5	Jimmy Martin	Footprints in the Snow	First Time Together
6	The Dillards	Dooley	There Is A Time: 1963-70
7	Rhonda Vincent	Lonesome Wind Blues	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
8	The Gentlemen of Bluegrass	Old Old House	Carolina Memories
9	John Hartford	Skippin' In The Mississippi Dew	Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
10	John Hartford	Take Me Back To My Mississippi River Home	Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
11	Blue Highway	Riding the Danville Pike	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
12	The David Thom Band	Home Is Where The Heart Is	That Old Familiar
13	The David Thom Band	The Little White Church	That Old Familiar
14	Alison Krauss & Union Station	So Long So Wrong	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
15	Ricky Skaggs	I Hope You've Learned	Ricky Skaggs
16	Ralph Stanley	Dad's Old Rocky Field	Old Songs & Ballads
17	The Rice Brothers	Grapes On the Vine	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
18	Hazel Dickens	I Can't Find Your Love Any More	O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
19	Del McCoury	A Far Cry	Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 4)
20	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	As Long As the World Stands	The Hard Game of Love
21	Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt	Randy Lynn Rag	The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2)
22	The Johnson Mountain Boys	Duncan & Brady	Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records
23	The Johnson Mountain Boys	Orange Blossom Special	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2]
24	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Dusty Miller	Bill Monroe: Anthology
25	Mac Wiseman	I Wonder How The Old Folks Are	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2]
26	Steep Canyon Rangers	As I Go	Nobody Knows You
27	Laurie Lewis	Tall Pines	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
28	Jim Lauderdale	Old Time Angels	Old Time Angels
29	Jim & Jesse	Nine Pound Hammer	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]
30	The Seldom Scene	Muddy Water	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]
31	Bobby Hicks & Del McCoury	We're Steppin' Out Tonight	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
32	Lynn Morris Band	The Bramble and the Rose	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
33	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys	Hit Parade of Love	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys
34	Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers	Get Up John	At The Ryman [Live]

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AKA Blind Boy Grunt

August 4, 2024 Dave

It’s a cover show. It’s a celebration. It’s a reconnaissance regarding a renaissance. To what do we owe this week’s offering? The answer is clearly the songs of Bob Dylan who, at one time recorded under the non de plume Blind Boy Grunt and we’ve got a track from the Broadside Ballads collection to prove it. But this week’s show will focus primarily on covers of Dylan tracks going back to Sam Cooke live at the Copa to an oddball cover by The Grass Roots. We’ll also share some fresh takes from Eric Clapton, Raul Malo, Audra Mae & The Forest Rangers, and a lovely cover of a rare but popular piece called Walkin’ Down The Line. We’re celebrating a multi-generational master of his dominion where his words and melodies honor the past and carve a well-defined path leading into the future of America’s songwriting craft. Tune into Community Radio for Sonoma County on another Friday morning…via the stream at kowsfm.com/listen.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bob Dylan	Corrina, Corrina [Album Version]	The Future Is Unwritten
3	Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan)	Ballad Of Donald White	Selections From The Best Of Broadside 1962-1988
4	Eilen Jewell	Walking Down the Line	Letters From Sinners & Strangers
5	New Riders of the Purple Sage	Farewell Angelina	The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage
6	Sweethearts of the Rodeo	One More Night	Beautiful Lies
7	Joan Baez	The Walls Of Redwing	Any Day Now
8	The Highwaymen	One Too Many Mornings	Live – American Outlaws
9	Johnny Cash	Mama, You've Been On My Mind [Album Version]	Orange Blossom Special
10	Johnny Cash	Wanted Man	The Mystery Of Life
11	Jessi Colter	Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 [Album Version]	Out Of The Ashes
12	Sam Cooke	Blowin' In The Wind	Sam Cooke At the Copa
13	Nappy Brown	Tonight Ill Be Staying Here With You	Tore Up
14	Jerry Lee Lewis	Rita May	A Half Century Of Hits: Rockin' My Life Away [Disc 3]
15	The Grass Roots	Mr Jones (A Ballad of a Thin Man)	Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 Disc 1
16	Eric Clapton	I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine	I Still Do
17	Raul Malo	You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go	The Nashville Acoustic Sessions
18	Waylon Jennings	Don't Think Twice, It's Alright	Dylan Country
19	Shirley Caesar	Gotta Serve Somebody	Masked & Anonymous
20	The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver	Every Grain Of Sand	I'll Find A Way
21	The Mighty Clouds Of Joy	Saved [Album Version]	Gotta Serve Somebody – The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan
22	Audra Mae & The Forest Rangers	Forever Young	Songs Of Anarchy: Music From Sons Of Anarchy Seasons 1-4
23	Hazel Dickens	Only a Hobo	It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song
24	Bob Dylan	Tell Ol' Bill [Album Version]	North Country – Music From The Motion Picture
25	Karl Shiflett	Walking Down The Line	Sho Nuff Country
26	The Band	I Shall Be Released	Yesterday's Gone [Disc 2]
27	The Byrds	You Ain't Going Nowhere	Sweetheart of the Rodeo

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Americana Roundup

July 26, 2024 Dave

Looking back over the past fifty-or-so years, we find a large gathering assembled under a large, all-inclusive tent, called Americana. There’s hardly a definition that’s been assigned and it’s hardly what we’d term ‘a genre’. It is, rather, a mood of the music and a narrative of the storytelling defines it. Like the dozens of genres that line it’s walls, we’ve come to know what we’re listening to: blues, gospel, folk and tradition, jazz, and everything in between. This week we’ll be stepping into that tent to congregate and celebrate that ‘sound we know’ called Americana. The digital bins will take us only so far back, celebrating the music of Bob Dylan, Buddy Miller, Gillian Welch, Joe Ely, Old Crow Medicine Show and a couple dozen others. Just what’s needed and built on playlists worthy of the very best of the Americana Hours broadcast each morning here on KOWS Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Old Crow Medicine Show	Wagon Wheel	O.C.M.S.
3	Bob Dylan	Hard Times	Good As I Been To You
4	Keb' Mo'	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute
5	Sheryl Crow	No Depression In Heaven	The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
6	Rosanne Cash	Motherless Children	The List
7	Ray Wylie Hubbard	Tell The Devil I'm Gettin' There As Fast As I Can	Tell The Devil I'm Getting There As Fast As I Can
8	Buddy Miller & Julie Miller	Forever Has Come To An End	Buddy & Julie Miller
9	Lyle Lovett	If I Had a Boat	Anthology, Vol. 1: Cowboy Man
10	Guy Clark	Fort Worth Blues	Cold Dog Soup
11	Lucinda Williams	Lake Charles	Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
12	The Texas Tornados	The Gardens	4 Aces
13	Buddy Miller	That's How I Got To Memphis	Your Love And Other Lies
14	The Flatlanders	Dallas	More a Legend Than a Band
15	Joe Ely	If You Were A Bluebird	Joe Ely
16	Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	Killing The Blues	Raising Sand
17	Alison Krauss & Union Station	The Lucky One	New Favorite
18	Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris	All The Roadrunning	All The Roadrunning
19	Steve Earle	Copperhead Road	Copperhead Road
20	Blaze Foley	Clay Pigeons	Wanted More Dead Than Alive
21	Justin Townes Earle	Harlem River Blues	Harlem River Blues [Explicit]
22	Gillian Welch	Red Clay Halo	Time (The Revelator)
23	Gillian Welch	Caleb Meyer	Hell Among the Yearlings
24	Van Morrison	Till I Gain Control Again	Pay The Devil
25	First Aid Kit	Emmylou	The Lion's Roar (Bonus Track Version)
26	John Hiatt	Drive South	Slow Turning

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Dirty Money

July 19, 2024 Dave

We’ve heard them all, the quotes about money being the root of all evil, you can’t take it with you, money can’t buy happiness…but there’s this one little thing that is seldom expanded on and that is the story of ‘dirty money’. There’s plenty of fodder in that area…from the banker CEO to the coal company CEO…there’s never an effort to help raise all boats, only the yachts. Capitalism is our theme. No, wait, is it bank robbing? No, most likely the working man trying to put bread on the table. Hold on, I know. It’s runaway inflation and the blame game. In any event, we’ll be all over the board in today’s show, bringing you music about money cravin’ folks from Blind Alfred Reed, working down on Maggie’s Farm and we’ll also have ourselves a hint of a fireside chat to make us feel better. We’ll also head down to coal country and Bonnie and Clyde, Woody Guthrie, and “Voila! An American Dream” from Rodney Crowell. Tune in. Should be fun.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	David Rawlings	Money Is the Meat in the Coconut	Poor David's Almanack
3	The Andrews Sisters	Money is The Root of All Evil	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 2]
4	Randy Newman	It's Money That Matters	Land of Dreams
5	Rodney Crowell	Voila, An American Dream	Collection
6	Bob Brozman	Follow The Money	Post-industrial Blues
7	Eartha Kitt/Henri René & His Orchestra	Just an Old Fashioned Girl	Purr-Fect: Greatest Hits
8	Dr. John	(Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away	The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974
9	Ry Cooder	No Banker Left Behind	Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
10	Woody Guthrie	The Jolly Banker (Woody Guthrie)	Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection [Disc 2]
11	Jake Xerxes Fussell	All in Down and Out	Jake Xerxes Fussell
12	Roy Zimmerman	Joel Osteen	Rize Up
13	Bob Dylan	Maggie's Farm	The Essential Bob Dylan [Disc 1]
14	Blind Alfred Reed	Money Cravin Folks	Complete Recorded Works 1927-29
15	Barbecue Bob	We Sure Got Hard Times Now	Bankers Blues – A Study in the Effects of Fiscal Mischeif
16	Bo Carter	Times Is Tight Like That	Bankers Blues – A Study in the Effects of Fiscal Mischeif
17	Betty O' Brian	Money Honey	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
18	The O'Jays	For The Love Of Money	Funk Explosion
19	Solomon Burke	Honey Where's The Money Gone	Nashville
20	John Lee Hooker	I Need Some Money	That's My Story ( Sings the Blues)
21	SNCC Freedom Singers; Reagon, Cordell	Which Side Are You On?	Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles)
22	Bruce Springsteen	The Ghost of Tom Joad	Chapter & Verse
23	Wray Family	(Dark As A Dungeon Way) Down In The Mine	Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
24	Band Of Ruhks	Coal Mining Man featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley	Band Of Ruhks
25	Buddy Durham	Sixteen Tons	Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
26	Justin Townes Earle	Down In The Valley	Coal Country Music
27	Stan Farlow	1040 Blues	Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
28	Rex Allen	Money, Marbles And Chalk	The Versatile Rex Allen [Disc 2]
29	Merle Haggard And The Strangers	The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
30	Merle Haggard	Working Man Blues	Merle Haggard Country Legend-Disc 1
31	Ferlin Husky	22 – Money Greases the Wheels	Ferlin Husky Singles
32	J.J. Cale	Money Talks	The Very Best of J.J. Cale
33	Kronos Quartet	Which Side Are You On	Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger

Americana, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Oldies, Theme Time

Tell Me a Story

July 13, 2024 Dave

Storytelling in song is not new. It’s mankind’s way of conveying, in both accuracy and reflection, the narrative from one perspective. Embellishments and hooks have long been the best way to make the story easy to digest and, if need be, to get a point (likely sociopolitical) across. We’ll be doing just that in this Friday’s episode: stories based in war, natural disasters, national tragedies and personal conflict. We’ll take a hundred year tour of storytelling from Bessie Smith to the Drive-by Truckers, from Memphis Minnie and The Tex-I-An Boys to Calexico, The Staple Singers and Marty Robbins. There are floods, murders, environmental catastrophes, bombings, and some wartime solemnity to be shared today. Tune into KOWS Community Radio every Friday morning for some fresh musical linens, curated by the outdoors and streaming to all of planet Earth on KOWSFM.COM/listen

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Mac Wiseman	Wreck Of The Old '97	Sings Old Time Country Favorites
3	Jimmie Driftwood	The Battle of New Orleans	Six Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles
4	Marty Robbins	Ballad Of The Alamo	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
5	Johnny Horton	Sink The Bismark	Classic Country Great Story Songs [Disc 2]
6	Calexico	Victor Jara's Hands	Carried To Dust
7	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Ohio	So Far
8	Joni Mitchell	Woodstock	Hits
9	Grateful Dead	New, New Minglewood Blues	What a Long Strange Trip It's Been Disc 1
10	Grateful Dead	New Speedway Boogie	What a Long Strange Trip It's Been Disc 1
11	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	Ludlow Massacre	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
12	Tom Petty	Jefferson Jericho Blues	Mojo (Extra Mojo Version)
13	Randy Newman	Burn On	Sail Away
14	Charlie Haden	Is This America? (Katrina 2005)	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
15	Johnny Cash	Five Feet High And Rising	Songs Of Our Soil
16	Kansas Joe And Memphis Minnie	When the Levee Breaks	People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature
17	Sin-Killer Griffin	Wasn't That A Mighty Storm	Field Recordings, Vol. 5: Louisiana, Texas, Bahamas (1933-1940)
18	The Tex-I-An Boys	Wasn't That A Mighty Storm?	Classic American Ballads From Smithsonian Folkways
19	Bessie Smith	Backwater Blues	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
20	Rory Block	Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down)	Confessions of A Blues Singer
21	Chill Pill Dancers	Zoot Suit Riot	Swing: Next Generation
22	Mimi & Richard Fariqa	Birmingham Sunday	Troubadours: Folk And The Roots Of American Music 4: 10 The West Coast
23	Archie Shepp	Blues for Brother George Jackson	Verve Unmixed, Vol. 2
24	Drive-By Truckers	What It Means	American Band
25	Will And Jehnean	Trail of Tears	Song of America
26	Don McLean	American Pie	Songs For The Open Road [Platinum Legends]

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