Category Archives: Country

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Rock, Theme Time

Hot Summer Days

August 20, 2016 Dave

As we make it over the summer hump, we’ll take time to celebrate all the things we love about the summer heat. Those stunning summer skies, sea breezes, backyard barbecues, and the lift of a summer rain. We’ve got the beach sounds of the sixties, Hawaiian medleys from the islands, sophisticated sass from Buster Poindexter, hot kissin’ from H-Bomb Ferguson, the summer rain, the summer sky, and the Summer Wind from Frank Sinatra. Rock, zydeco, country, pop, bluegrass, rock, and so much of what comes from the in-between this week on Deeper Roots.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The David Thom Band	California's Burning	That Old Familiar
3	Dave Alvin	California's Burning	Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women
4	Sol K. Bright's Hollywaiians	Heat Wave	Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
5	Bob Brozman	Hawaiian Heat Waves Medley	Hello Central, Give Me Dr. Jazz!
6	Mr. Sad Head	Hot Weather Blues	Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
7	Teddy Bunn	Summertime	100 Jazz Guitar Favorites
8	Buckwheat Zydeco Ils Sont Partis Band	In the Summertime	100% Fortified Zydeco
9	Sly & the Family Stone	Hot Fun in the Summertime	Rock Artifacts, Vol. 1
10	Martha Reeves & The Vandellas	(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave	Malt Shop Memories: All I Have To Do Is Dream (Disc 2)
11	The Lovin' Spoonful	Summer in the City	Greatest Hits [Buddha]
12	The Beach Boys	The Warmth of the Sun	Endless Summer
13	It's a Beautiful Day	Hot Summer Day	It's a Beautiful Day
14	Buster Poindexter	Hot Hot Hot	Buster Poindexter
15	Ann Miller	Too Darn Hot	The Big Picture: Great Music from Films You Love
16	Ella Fitzgerald	Too Darn Hot	Music & Moonlight
17	Eilen Jewell	Too Hot To Sleep	Letters From Sinners & Strangers
18	Kid Bangham, Dan McKinney, Bill Melcher & Dave Ferrara	Some Summer Day	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
19	Willie Nelson	Summer Of Roses [Album Version]	One Hell Of A Ride
20	H-Bomb Ferguson	Hot Kisses	Big City Blues
21	Judy Collins	In The Heat Of The Summer	Forever: [Disc 2]
22	Sam Cooke	Summertime	Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
23	The Donkeys	Theme From The Endless Summer	Theme From The Endless Summer [single]
24	Marshall Crenshaw	Starless Summer Sky	Miracle of Science
25	Johnny Burnette	What a Summer Day	The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD 6
26	Johnny Rivers	Summer Rain	Best Of Johnny Rivers
27	Frank Sinatra	Summer Wind	The Reprise Collection [Disc 3]
28	Randy Newman	Burn On	Sail Away
29	Charlie Parker	Summertime	Charlie Parker With Strings: The Master Takes
30	Nanci Griffith	Summer Wages	Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful)
31	Bob Dylan	Summer Days	Love and Theft

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition, Theme Time

Time is Passing

August 13, 2016 Dave

Theme time this week! We are going to dip into a sometimes raucous, other times wistful, blend of country, blues, jazz, and what-not…to celebrate (or is it bemoan) the passing of time in our show this week. The clock is ticking, the calendar flipping, and the little blue orb keeps spinning around that big bright one. And all the while we live our lives celebrating the luminous sounds on Deeper Roots; this week featuring Johnny Otis, Fenton Robinson, Bob Dylan, Texas Jim Lewis, Roy Acuff, and so many others. Time may be passing and we may like to reminisce and wax nostalgic, but we press on…driven by music from the past century (among other things).

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Hank Thompson	The Older The Violin, The Sweeter The Music	The Best Of Hank Thompson 1966-1979
3	Alfred G. Karnes	Where We'll Never Grow Old (1927)	Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936
4	The Church Sisters	Where We'll Never Grow Old	Orthophonic Joy
5	The Carter Family	Darling, We Are Growing Older/The Old Texas Trail – Anita Carter	On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1
6	Dick Curless	Rock of Ages	A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD3 (1950-1969)
7	Jerry Lee Lewis	Middle Age Crazy	The Definitive Collection
8	Doc Watson	Grandfather's Clock	My Dear Old Southern Home
9	Texas Jim Lewis	Way Back in Grandpa's Day	Free at Archive.org
10	Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys	Old Age Pension Cheque	King of Country Music [[Disc 2]: "Beautiful Brown Eyes: 1939-'41" Proper Records, 2004]
11	Tom Russell	Wayfarin' Stranger (Passage of Time)	The Man From God Knows Where
12	Dar Williams	You're Aging Well	The Honesty Room
13	Stonewall Jackson	Gettin' Older	Waterloo Box Set
14	Bob Dylan	Time Passes Slowly	New Morning
15	Bob Dylan	My Back Pages	All I Really Want To Do
16	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Time Is A Passin'	One Guy Named Louis: The Complete Aladdin Sessions
17	Johnny Otis / Jimmy Rushing	Round The Clock	The R&B Years – 1942-45 [Disc 4]
18	Tiny Bradshaw & His Orchestra	Take the Hands off the Clock	Stompin' at the Savoy: Harlem Nocturne, 1944 – 1947
19	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Five O'Clock Whistle	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
20	The Original Memphis Five	Four O'clock Blues	The Original Memphis Five Collection Vol. 1 – 1922-1923
21	Fenton Robinson	As The Years Go Passing By	Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2]
22	Big Bill Broonzy	Getting Older Every Day	Great Blues Guitarsists: String Dazzlers
23	Howlin' Wolf	Getting Old & Gray	Howlin' Wolf – 52 Essential Tracks
24	Victoria Spivey	Grow Old Together	Black Snake Blues – The Best Of
25	JL Stiles	Never To Grow Old	Solo Sessions
26	David Johansen	My Grandpa Is Old Too	Shaker
27	Ricky Skaggs	In Heaven We'll Never Grow Old	Rising Star
28	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	All the Good Times Are Passed and Gone	All The Classic Releases1937-1949 [Disc 2]
29	Harry Reser & His Orchestra	The Clock and the Banjo	Trainin' The Fingers
30	Ivory Joe Hunter	Time Has Passed	Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter (1950-1951)
31	Tom Lehrer	When You Are Old And Gray	Song & More Songs
32	Ray Wylie Hubbard	After All These Years	Eternal & Lowdown
33	The Carter Family	Where We'll Never Grow Old	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 4]

Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!

July 23, 2016 Dave

Songs from the past century will fill the air with second hand music smoke…all songs that reflect either the hawkish or ‘dove-ish’ opinions in words and music. We have two hours of country, jazz, blues, pop, and all those adventurous styles in between that use nicotine for their muse. Country from k.d. lang to The Sons of The Pioneers, R&B from the likes of Lucky Millender to Benny Spellman, some doo-wop, some Sam Cooke soul, and a little bit of sweet big band sounds from Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians. Maybe we won’t celebrate the habit…just the music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Jimmy Martin	I Can't Quit Cigarettes	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 4]
3	Otis Redding	Cigarettes And Coffee	Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology [Disc 1]
4	Sam Cooke	Smoke Rings	The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (3 of 4)
5	The Mills Brothers	Smoke Rings	The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 2
6	The Larks	Coffee, Cigarettes And Tears	Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
7	The Platters	Smoke Gets In Your Eyes	All-Time Greatest Hits
8	The Corsairs	Smokey Places (1962 #12)	Greatest Hit Singles Collection
9	Lillian Leach/The Mellows	Smoke from Your Cigarette	The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 1
10	The Drake Sisters	Smoke From Your Cigarette	Vocal Group Harmony Vol 8
11	k.d. lang & The Reclines	Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray	Angel With A Lariat
12	Patsy Cline	Three Cigarettes In A Ashtray	Country Greats #2
13	k.d. lang	I'm Down to My Last Cigarette	Shadowland
14	Merle Travis	Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)	Ash Grove 12/9/1966
15	Willie Nelson	Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette	Just One Love
16	Benny Spellman	Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)	Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
17	Reverend Horton Heat	Drinkin' and Smokin' Cigarettes	Best Of Yep Roc Singles
18	Manassas	Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)	Pieces
19	Lefty Frizzell	Cigarettes and Coffee Blues	Life's Like Poetry (Disc 5)
20	Jimmie Dolan	Nicotine Fits	Juke Box Boogie
21	Curtis Gordon	Caffeine And Nicotine	Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
22	Red Ingle & The Natural Seven	Cigarettes, Whuskey And Wild, Wild Women	Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Second Series
23	The Sons Of The Pioneers	Cigareefes, Whusky	Country Hits Vol. 6
24	Kris Kristofferson	I May Smoke Too Much	Spooky Lady's Sideshow/Shake Hands with the Devil
25	Dale Watson	Smokey Old Bar	El Rancho Azul
26	Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians	A Cigarette, Sweet Music & You	Cigar Classics 1: The Standards
27	Nina Simone	Don't Smoke in Bed	The Ultimate Nina Simone
28	Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra	Chew Tobacco Rag	Foot Tappin' And Dance At The Screamin' Festival Vol.4
29	The Bottle Rockets	Smokin' 100's Alone	24 Hours a Day
30	Ry Cooder	Fool For A Cigarette/Feelin' Good	Paradise And Lunch
31	Bo Carter	Cigarette Blues	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
32	Tex Williams & His Western Caravan	Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
33	Georgia White	The Stuff Is Here	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs

Americana, Country Gospel, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition

Johnny Cash Tribute

July 16, 2016 Dave

Johnny Cash, like so many others, followed on the heels and inspiration of Elvis at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. But while others (save for possibly Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis) would fight for the scraps from this ‘new sound’, Johnny less-than-obligingly would ignore all the best advice. He began with the simplest of songs delivered in a farm boy’s tone and, with the Tennessee Three in tow, grew the sound into an identity. Our show this week will lean on his own recordings as well as music from performers he was inspired by…we’ll also include music from contemporaries and those who he inspired.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Johnny Cash	Ring Of Fire	Columbia Country Classics – Volume 4: The Nashville Sound
3	The Chuck Wagon Gang	After The Sunrise [Album Version]	Columbia Country Classics Volume 1: The Golden Age
4	Brother Claude Ely	There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down	Favorite Sacred Songs
5	Gene Autry	I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blues Eyes	The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
6	Gene Autry	High Steppin' Mama	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2]
7	Bob Wills	Faded Love	For the Last Time
8	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	San Antonio Rose	The Country Music Hall Of Fame
9	The Carter Family	Anchored In Love	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 1]
10	Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash – Cowboy's Prayer	Johnny Cash Interviews
11	Goebel Reeves	Cowboy's Prayer	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
12	The Chuck Wagon Gang	We Are Climbing	Flowers In The Wildwood
13	Johnny Cash	Big River	His Sun Years: Down South
14	Johnny Cash	Hey Porter	The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 1]
15	Johnny Cash	Five Feet High And Rising	Songs Of Our Soil
16	Johnny Cash	Pickin' Time	The Fabulous Johnny Cash
17	Johnny Cash/The Carter Family	Keep on the Sunny Side	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
18	Johnny Cash	I Walk The Line	Classic Country
19	June Carter Cash	Oh, Susannah	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
20	Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter	Fair and Tender Ladies	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
21	Johnny Cash & June Carter	Jackson	Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter
22	Rosanne Cash	I Still Miss Someone	Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
23	Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan	Girl From The North Country	Nashville Skyline
24	Johnny Cash	Man in Black	16 Biggest Hits
25	Johnny Cash	Ain't No Grave	American VI: Ain't No Grave
26	Johnny Cash	Tear Stained Letter	American IV: Man Comes Around
27	Johnny Cash	Folsom Prison Blues	At Folsom Prison
28	George Jones/Johnny Cash	I Got Stripes	My Very Special Guests [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
29	Rosanne Cash	Tennessee Flat Top Box	King's Record Shop
30	Emmylou Harris; The Milk Carton Kids	Apache Tears	Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited
31	Bruce Springsteen	Give My Love To Rose	Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
32	Johnny Cash	Wanted Man	The Mystery Of Life
33	Bob Dylan	Train Of Love	Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
34	Dwight Yoakam	Understand Your Man	Dwight's Used Records

Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition, Free Form, Rhythm and Blues

Free Form – June 2016

July 9, 2016 Dave

Deeper Roots goes free form and our two hours will be filled with an eclectic blend of blues, gospel, tradition, and early century jazz. We’ll feature songs about vapor vipers, snakes, preachers, and a whole lot more. Join us for another summer evening in West Sonoma County, California with performances from Charley Patton, Josh White, Jimmie Driftwood, Noble Sissle, and Jumpin’ Bill Carlisle.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Madam Ernestine Washington And The Milleraires	Holding On — Part 2	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
3	Stuffy Smith & His Onyx Club Boys	You're a Viper	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
4	Miss Marcy & Her Texas Sugardaddy's	If You're A Viper	Deep Ellum
5	Noble Sissle/Sidney Bechet	Viper Mad	Sweet and Lowdown
6	Fats Waller	Viper's Drag [Piano Solo]	The Joint Is Jumpin'
7	Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks	'Long Come A Viper	Last Train To Hicksville… The Home Of Happy Feet
8	David Grisman Quintet	Rattlesnake	Dgq-20
9	Jumpin' Bill Carlisle	Rattlesnake Daddy	Bear Family "Perfect for Parties" Highlight Album
10	Champion Jack Dupree	Rattlesnake Boogie	Classic Sounds of New Orleans
11	Jaydee Short	Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake (Pm 13043, L-468-1)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
12	Luella Miller	Rattle Snake Groan	24 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920_Vol 11 [ Blues Images ]
13	Charley Patton	Rattlesnake Blues	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 2]
14	Chris Smither	Rattlesnake Preacher	Honeysuckle Dog
15	Mac Wiseman	Old Rattler	Songs From My Mother's Hand
16	Jimmie Driftwood	Rattlesnake Song	Americana, Vol. 1
17	Jimmie Driftwood	The Battle Of New Orleans	Vanguard: Roots Of Folk [Disc 1]
18	Jimmie Driftwood	Bunker Hill	Americana, Vol. 1
19	Jimmie Driftwood	Country Boy	Americana, Vol. 1
20	Jonatha Brooke	In the Gloaming	Live
21	Ed Lewis & Group	I Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down	Sounds of the South [Disc 1] – Blue Ridge Mountain Music
22	Josh White	When I Lay Down And Die	In Chronological Order, Volume 5 (1944)
23	Straight Street Holiness Group	Victory Shall Be Mine	Fire In My Bones : Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007
24	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	My Journey to the Sky	Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats
25	Johnnie Morisette	Meet Me at the Twisting Place	Sam Cooke's Sar Records Story 59-65 CD2
26	William Bell	The Three Of Me	This Is Where I Live
27	The Sweet & Lowdown	Violent Love	Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades
28	Art Neville	That Old Time Rock And Roll	His Specialty Recordings
29	Marvin Johnson & His Orchestra	Hey Lawdy Mama	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
30	Johnny Otis	Baby Baby Blues	Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Stars
31	Robins	My Baby Done Told Me	Money Honey – Rise of the Black Bocal Group 51-53)
32	Rose Marie McCoy	Dippin' In My Business	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
33	Junior Brown	Venom Wearin' Denim	Semi Crazy

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Rhythm and Blues, Theme Time

The Midnight Hour

June 25, 2016 Dave

The witching hour. The darkest moment in our day where the bell tolls another in the heart of the ancient wood. A muse for poets, writers, and songsmiths over the ages….midnight. Deeper Roots highlights the midnight muse with a delightful blend of the celebratory and the soulful sounds of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Waits, Merle Travis, Big Joe Turner, and Lowell Fulson.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Creedence Clearwater Revival	The Midnight Special	Chronicle: Volume Two
3	Big Bill Broonzy	Midnight Special	An Introduction To Big Bill Broonzy
4	The Louvin Brothers	Midnight Special	Long Play Collection
5	Big Joe Turner	Midnight Special Train	Big Joe Turner: The Definitive Blues Collection [[Disc 2]]
6	Big Joe Turner	Midnight Cannonball	Big Joe Rocks
7	Merle Travis & Joe Maphis	Big Midnight Special	Country Music's 2 Guitar Greats Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
8	The Delmore Brothers	Midnight Train	Sand Mountain Blues
9	Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder	Ridin' That Midnight Train	The Three Pickers
10	Gladys Knight & the Pips	Midnight Train to Georgia	The Buddah Box Disc 3
11	Maria Muldaur	Midnight at the Oasis	Maria Muldaur
12	Patsy Cline	Intro Walkin' After Midnight	The Arthur Godfrey Show
13	Patsy Cline	Walkin' After Midnight	12 Greatest Hits
14	Ray Charles	The Midnight Hour	The Birth of Soul Disc 1
15	Wilson Pickett	In the Midnight Hour	Red, White & Rock Disc 2
16	J.J. Cale	After Midnight	The Very Best of J.J. Cale
17	Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen	Midnight Shift	Lost In The Ozone
18	The Mills Brothers	Long About Midnight	The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 4
19	Larry Campbell	Midnight Highway	Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
20	Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson	Midnight In Milpitas	Quah [Bonus Tracks]
21	Lucinda Williams	Howlin' at Midnight	Happy Woman Blues
22	Tom Waits	Midnight Lullabye	The Early Years
23	Lowell Fulson	Midnight Showers Of Rain	Juke Box Blues 1946-1948
24	Cowboy Copas	Midnight In Heaven	Songs That Made Him Famous
25	Tony Rice Unit	Midnight on the Stormy Deep	Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records
26	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Midnight On the Stormy Deep	Bill Monroe: Anthology
27	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Midnight at Woody Creek	Welcome to Woody Creek
28	B.B. King	Blues at Midnight	King of the Blues [Box] Disc 1
29	Peetie Wheatstraw	Midnight Blues	The Devil's Son-In-Law
30	Howlin' Wolf	Moanin' at Midnight	Chess Blues Disc 1
31	Bob Dylan	Soon After Midnight	Tempest
32	Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen	Midnight In Moscow	Easy Listening Gold 1962-1963
33	Kenny Burrell	Midnight Blue	Midnight Blue

Americana, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Rock

Dylan Covers

June 18, 2016 Dave

Our weekly show celebrates (albeit somewhat belatedly) Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday by tipping our caps not with his performances but with a collection of by others’ tribute pieces. We’ll hear songs written by Bob through the years and tell you the history of many of them at the same time. Tracks from Bobby Bare, Mavis Staples, Solomon Burke, Hazel Dickens, and Bill Frisell make this an eclectic journey on a Friday evening in Sonoma County. Be sure to tune in!

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Old Crow Medicine Show	Wagon Wheel	O.C.M.S.
3	Sarah Jarosz	Simple Twist of Fate	Build Me Up From Bones
4	Joan Baez	I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine	Baez Sings Dylan
5	Bette Midler	I Shall Be Released	Bette Midler
6	Bobby Bare	Farewell Angelina	Darker Than Light
7	Marshall Crenshaw	My Back Pages	Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village In The 60's
8	Flatt & Scruggs	Nashville Skyline Rag	Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends/Nashville Airplane
9	Hazel Dickens	Only a Hobo	It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song
10	New Riders of the Purple Sage	Farewell Angelina	The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage
11	Peter Case	Long Time Gone	HWY 62
12	Stephen Stills	The Ballad Of Hollis Brown	Stills Alone
13	Joan Osborne	Man in the Long Black Coat	Relish
14	R.L. Burnside	Everything Is Broken	Tangled Up In Blues
15	Susan Tedeschi	Lord Protect My Child	Hope and Desire
16	Julie London	Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)	Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks, Pt. 1
17	Solomon Burke	What Good Am I?	Make Do With What You Got
18	Sounds Of Blackness	Solid Rock [Album Version]	Gotta Serve Somebody – The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan
19	Mavis Staples	Gotta Serve Somebody	Tangled Up In Blues
20	The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver	Every Grain Of Sand	I'll Find A Way
21	Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins	Handle With Care	Rabbit Fur Coat
22	The Byrds	All I Really Want to Do	The Byrds [Box Set] Disc 1
23	The Turtles	It Ain't Me Babe	20 Greatest Hits
24	Antony With Bryce Dessner	I Was Young When I Left Home	Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation [Disc 1]
25	Rod Stewart	Only A Hobo	Gasoline Alley
26	Sophie Zelmani	Most Of The Time	Masked & Anonymous

Americana, Bluegrass, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition

Bluegrass & Old Time Hour Special

June 14, 2016 Dave

Mark Hogan’s in Grass Valley this week gearing up for the 41st Annual Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival which opens this coming Thursday, June 16th. Dave Stroud will be sitting in for Mark and will feature new releases, old standards, and vintage country sounds from the likes of Doug Sahm, Chris Smither, The Hackensaw Boys, and Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers….not to mention a good helping of Bill Monroe recordings from 1960.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Nashville Bluegrass Band	Up Above My Head	My Native Home
3	The Nashville Bluegrass Band	Monroebilia	My Native Home
4	Emmylou Harris	Get Up John	Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems Disc 2
5	Adkins & Loudermilk	Georgia Mountain Man	Adkins & Loudermilk
6	Tony Rice	Thunderclouds Of Love	Bluegrass Today [Disc 2]
7	John Hartford	Gumtree Canoe	Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
8	Bill Monroe	Flowers Of Love	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
9	Bill Monroe	Time Changes Everything	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
10	David Grisman	Watson Blues (feat. Tony Rice)	Dawg Plays Big Mon
11	Tony Rice	He Rode All the Way to Texas	Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
12	Charlie Haden	Ocean Of Diamonds	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
13	Cyndi Lauper	Walkin' After Midnight	Detour
14	Old Crow Medicine Show	8 Dogs 8 Banjos	Remedy
15	Dale Watson	Fly Away	Blessed Or Damned
16	Jefferson Ross	Dogwood Cats	Dogwood Cats
17	Hackensaw Boys	Cmon Baby Dont Bet Against Me	Charismo
18	Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice	Longneck Blues	Poor Boy's Pleasure
19	Josh Williams	Girl From The Canyon	Modern Day Man
20	Hamilton County Ramblers	Standing On the Mountain	Hamilton County Ramblers
21	Traveling Show	Token Of Love	Songs From The Road Band
22	Asleep at the Wheel	Don't Ask Me Why (I'm Going to Texas)	Swing Time
23	Texas Tornados	Wasted Days and Wasted Nights	Live from the Limo, Vol. 1
24	Doug Sahm	Faded Love	Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1
25	Doug Sahm	(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone	Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1
26	Guy Clark	To Live Is To Fly	Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt
27	Guy Clark	My Favorite Picture of You	Oxford American Southern Music Texas
28	Kelly Joe Phelps	Beggars Oil (Album Version)	Beggars Oil EP
29	Chris Smither	Frankie & Albert	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
30	Bill Monroe	Darling Corey	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 2]
31	IIIrd Time Out	John & Mary	Bluegrass Today [Disc 2]
32	Dreadful Snakes	Blue Yodel #4	Snakes Alive!

Country Blues, Folk and Tradition, Mountain Music

Field Recording Covers

June 9, 2016 Dave

Coming up on our last live show of May, what better way but to dig just a little bit deeper into some of the field recordings of the first half of the 20th century that found popularity in the country, blues, and popular charts. Some of these songs had the ‘right’ rhythm or struck a chord with the message they sent. While most were traditional pieces by the time the musicologists had arrived with their primitive recording machines, others were original and told just the right story. We’ll hear Eric Clapton, Aaron Copland, B.B. King, and Tom Waits right alongside the originals done by Smith Casey, Gwen Foster, Belton Reese, and Ora Dell Graham.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Warner Williams With Jay Summerour	Worried Life Blues	Blues Highway
3	Thomas "Jaybird" Jones	Worried Life Blues	Field Recordings, Vol. 3: Mississippi (1936-1942)
4	David Edwards	Worried Life Blues	Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection
5	Eric Clapton & B.B. King	Worried Life Blues	Riding With The King
6	Agustus "Track Horse" Haggerty	Hattie Green	Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939
7	George Hamilton IV	Abilene	Classic Country
8	Rouse Brothers	My Family Circle	Classic Field Recordings
9	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Will The Circle Be Unbroken	Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics
10	Ace Johnson w/L. W. Gooden	Mama Don't Low No Swingin' Out In Here	Field Recordings Vol. 6: Texas (1933-1958)
11	Doc Watson	Mama Don't Allow No Music	Memories
12	W. M. Stepp	Bonapartes Retreat	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 1]
13	Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra & William Warfield	Rodeo – Four Dance Episodes (Instrumental): IV. Hoedown	Copland Conducts Copland (Expanded Edition)
14	Dock Reed	Down on Me	Field Recordings, Vol. 4: Mississippi & Alabama (1934-1942)
15	Big Brother & the Holding Company	Down on Me	Rock: Train Kept a Rollin' Disc 1
16	Ozella Jones	Prisoner Blues	Field Recordings, Volume 7 : Florida
17	Fiona Apple	Criminal	Tidal
18	Smith Casey	East Texas Rag	Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939
19	Tom Waits	The Soul Of A Man	God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
20	Johnnie Barfield	Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby	Classic Field Recordings
21	Carl Perkins	Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby	Dixie Fried
22	Gwen Foster	How Many Biscuits Can I Eat?	Classic Field Recordings
23	Mac Wiseman	How Many Biscuits Can You Eat	Sings Old Time Country Favorites
24	Belton Reese	Bile Dem Cabbages Down	Field Recordings – Vol 9 – Georgia, SC, NC,Virginia, Kentucky (1924-39)
25	Doc Watson	Boil Them Cabbage Down	Milestones
26	Smith Casey	West Texas Blues	Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939
27	John Jackson	West Texas Blues	Front Porch Blues
28	Ora Dell Graham	Shortenin' Bread	Field Recordings, Vol. 3: Mississippi (1936-1942)
29	Lee Dorsey	Shortnin' Bread	The Ep Collection…Plus
30	John Dudley	Cool Drink Of Water Blues	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
31	Vassar Clements	Cool Drink of Water	Livin' with the Blues
32	Capitol City Laundry Quartet	Ezekiel Saw The Wheel	Field Recordings Vol. 12: Virginia & South Carolina (1936-1940)
33	Louis Armstrong	Ezekiel Saw De Wheel	Louis And The Good Book
34	Doyle Lawson/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	Ezekiel Saw the Wheel	School of Bluegrass Disc 1
35	James Shorty, Viola James, And Congregation	Jesus On The Main Line	Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals
36	Ry Cooder	Jesus On The Mainline	Paradise And Lunch (Remaster 2013)

Americana, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Fifties Country

Merle Haggard Tribute

June 6, 2016 Dave

Not only was Merle Haggard an accomplished country performer but he was also one of the more prolific songwriters of the past century whose songs were aimed at the heart of ‘everyman’. In losing Merle Haggard, America lost a neighbor, the guy next door who was there when you needed him. We’ll share a number of sets of Merle’s music: some performed by Merle, others performed by contemporaries including George Jones, Emmylou Harris, and Charlie Louvin. We’ll also feature a number of duets including performances by Merle with Jimmie Davis, Marty Stuart, and Willie Nelson.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Merle Haggard And Johnny Cash	I'm Leavin' Now	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
3	Del McCoury	Fireside Chat, Part 1 (feat. Franklin D. Roosevelt)	Moneyland
4	Robert Earl Keen, Jr.	Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)	Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
5	Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard	Farmer's Blues	Compadres: An Anthology of Duets
6	Dwight Yoakam	Holding Things Together	Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Disc 2
7	Charlie Louvin	I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me	The Battles Rage On
8	Merle Haggard	Okie From Muskogee	Capitol Collector's Series
9	Dale Watson	Mama Tried	More Great Moments of Vinyl History
10	Willie Nelson	Ramblin' Fever	Remember Me, Vol. 1
11	Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson	It's All Going to Pot	Django and Jimmie
12	George Jones	I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink	Jones Sings Haggard, Haggard Sings Jones: Kickin' Out the Footlights…Again
13	Jerry Lee Lewis	Workin' Man Blues	A Half Century Of Hits ([Disc 2] of Box Set)
14	Ray Charles & Merle Haggard	Little Hotel Room (w/Merle Haggard)	The Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 [Disc 4]
15	Merle Haggard	Kern River Blues	Kern River Blues – Single
16	Dave Alvin	Kern River	West of the West
17	Iris DeMent	Big City	Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
18	Emmylou Harris	Bottle Let Me Down	Pieces Of The Sky
19	Lorrie Morgan	I Threw Away The Rose	Mama's Hungry Eyes: A TributeTo Merle Haggard
20	Merle Haggard & Carl Jackson	Must You Throw Dirt In My Face?	Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers
21	Clint Black	I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am	Mama's Hungry Eyes: A TributeTo Merle Haggard
22	Carrie Rodriguez	I Started Loving You Again	Love and Circumstances
23	Merle Haggard	The Fightin' Side Of Me	The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
24	The Seldom Scene	Mama Tried	Scenechronized
25	Kevin Russell	Mama's Hungry Eyes	Plain Dirt Fashion
26	Merle Haggard	Sing Me Back Home	The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
27	Merle Haggard	The Downside	Like Never Before
28	Jimmie Davis/Merle Haggard	Hang on to the Memories	The Peer Sessions
29	Albert E. Brumley, Jr./Merle Haggard	Everybody Knows	Two Old Friends
30	Rosanne Cash Featuring Rufus Wainwright	Silver Wings (Feat. Rufus Wainwright)	The List
31	Merle Haggard	Silver Wings	The Complete '60s Captiol Singles
32	Peter Case	A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today	Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
33	Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson	Alice in Hulaland	Django and Jimmie

A Century of America's Music