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Trains & Boats & Planes & Automobiles

Trains Planes Automobiles
Trains Boats Planes & Automobiles

Deeper Roots takes on a theme this week… one that has us on the road, the rails, the ocean deep, and soaring in the clouds. We speak, of course, of our modes and muse of transport in music.  There’s a variety of styling to be had including blues from Snooks Eaglin and Lightnin’ Hopkins, 50s country from Cowboy Copas and Bonnie Guitar,  pop sounds from Jo Stafford and the Modernaires, and a host of others that all support the theme of the day. Tune in for another roots-infused Wednesday evening on KOWS, the heart and voice of West Sonoma County, California.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Modernaires The Stanley Steamer The Complete Modernaires On Columbia Vol 2 (1946-1947) Amazon
3Kevin Russell Cadillacin' Model A You Don't Know Me Amazon
4Snooks Eaglin Model T And The Train Country Boy Down In New Orleans Amazon
5Rosco Gordon T Model Boogie Let's Get High (B) Amazon
6Lightnin' Hopkins Automobile Blues Lightnin' Amazon
7Ry Cooder Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know) Borderline (Remaster 2013) Amazon
8John Sebastian Got No Automobiles Chasin' Gus' Ghost Amazon
9The Dixie Hummingbirds Christian's Automobile 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds Amazon
10Mink Deville Lilly's Daddy's Cadillac Coup De Grace Plus Where Angels Fear To Tread Amazon
11Roger Miller (The Day I Jumped) From Uncle Harvey's Plane The Best Of : Vol 2 Amazon
12Peter, Paul & Mary Leaving On A Jet Plane Album 1700 Amazon
13Mother McCollum Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane Goodbye, Babylon – Salvation [Disc 4] Amazon
14Peter Case Waiting On A Plane HWY 62 Amazon
15Cowboy Copas Night Plane to Memphis Settin' Flat On Ready Amazon
16Dwight Yoakam 07 Trains and Boats and Planes Population: Me Amazon
17Doc Watson Blue Railroad Train The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968 Amazon
18J. H. Howell Howell's Railroad Classic Field Recordings Amazon
19Hank Williams California Zephyr Lost Highway December 1948 – March 1949 Amazon
20Chuck Berry Down Bound Train Lonesome Whistle – An Anthology Of American Railroad Song Amazon
21Jimmie Driftwood Sailing Away On The Ocean Americana, Vol. 3 Amazon
22Earl Scruggs My Ship Will Sail The Earl Scruggs Revue: Anniversary Special, Volumes One & Two Amazon
23The Boxmasters Goin' Home Modbilly Disc 1 Amazon
24Jake Xerxes Fussell Boat's up the River Jake Xerxes Fussell Amazon
25Jo Stafford Shrimp Boats You Belong To Me Amazon
26Al Hendrickson On A Slow Boat To China Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 3 – Capitol Jumps – 1944-53 Amazon
27Nick Lowe Christmas At The Airport Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection For All The Family Amazon
28Emmylou Harris & Willie Nelson Gulf Coast Highway Duets Amazon
29Patsy Cline Life's Railway To Heaven Mystery Train; Classic Railroad Songs, Volume 2 Amazon
30Tony Rice Unit Old Train Mystery Train; Classic Railroad Songs, Volume 2 Amazon
31Jimmie Driftwood I'm Leavin' On The Wagon Train Americana, Vol. 2 Amazon

American Novelties

American Novelties
American Novelties

It’s popular in just about every form…well, not so with gospel…but it’s tradition goes back to minstrelsy: the song that has a humorous hook or a running joke to share or maybe a bandleader who takes us into new a ridiculous territories. We’ve got a lot of novelty tunes of this nature to bring you this week on Deeper Roots… a bit of a departure from our normal fare but it’s all for the fun. We’ll hear country sounds from Johnny Cash and Roger Miller, tearjerkers and rock therapy from Mabel Scott, The Chips, and Tiny Hill, and some classic novelty sounds from Danny Kaye, Spike Jones (of course), and Fats Waller.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Cab Calloway The Scat Song Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure Amazon
3Slim & Slam Groove Juice Special Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 3) Amazon
4Slim & Slam Sploghm Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 2) Amazon
5The Ink Spots Mama Don't Allow Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure Amazon
6Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Dad Gum Ya Hide Boy The Aladdin Story (Pt. 1) Amazon
7Ella Mae Morse Milkman Keep Those Bottles Quiet The Morse Code [Disc 1] Amazon
8Danny Kaye Tchaikowsky (And Other Russians) Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure Amazon
9Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy Bed Strings Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure Amazon
10Jimmy Durante Inka Dinka Doo Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure Amazon
11The Chips Rubber Biscuit The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 2 Amazon
12Lonnie Johnson Wipe It Off Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops Amazon
13Tiny Hill and His Orchestra (Vocal Tiny Hill) Hot Rod Race (1951) Your Hit Parade..Golden Goofers [Time-Life] Amazon
14Ross & Sargent Nellie the Nudist Queen Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure Amazon
15Spike Jones Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai (Hawaiian War Chant) Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure Amazon
16Spike Jones Der Fuhrer's Face Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure Amazon
17Loudon Wainwright III Dead Skunk Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000: Disc 2 Amazon
18John Prine With Melba Montgomery We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
19John Prine/Iris Dement In Spite of Ourselves In Spite of Ourselves Amazon
20Roger Miller Chug A Lug 20 Hits Amazon
21Johnny Cash A Boy Named Sue At Madison Square Garden Amazon
22Red Ingle and the Natural Seven (Vocal 'Cinderella G. Stump' (Jo Stafford) & Red Ingle) Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) (1947) Your Hit Parade..Golden Goofers [Time-Life] Amazon
23Roy Newman I Can't Dance (I've Got Ants In My Pants) Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp) Amazon
24Freddie Jenkins' Harlem Seven I Can't Dance (I Got Ants In My Pants) Sounds Of Harlem Vol. 1 (Hep) Amazon
25Fats Waller Your Feet's Too Big The Joint Is Jumpin' Amazon
26Leon Redbone Your Feets Too Big Any Time Amazon
27Mabel Scott Catch Em Young Treat Em Rough Tell Em Nothing Blues Women Amazon
28Hank Penny Catch 'Em Young, Treat 'Em Rough, And Tell 'Em Nothin' Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions Amazon
29Hank Penny The Freckle Song Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes Amazon
30The Light Crust Doughboys Pussy Pussy Pussy Western Swing  40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 1] Amazon
31Eddie Cantor Hungry Women grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
32Arthur Godfrey\The Too Fat Trio Too Fat Polka Mairzy Doats-44 Wacky Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
33Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees When Yuba Plays The Rhumba on The Tuba gimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
34Cliff Edwards I'm No Fool The Collection Amazon
35Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly 20 Greatest Hits Amazon

 

Free Form – March 2016

Free Form March 2016
Free Form March 2016

We return to a free form collection of American music, featuring blues from Markus James, Blind Willie Johnson, and Dinah Washington; country from Porter Wagoner, Kitty Wells, and Leroy Van Dyke; pop memories from Frank Sinatra, Cliff Edwards, and Rusty Draper. The show will feature an expanded eclectic blend of bluegrass, gospel, rockabilly, and gospel and, in addition to Markus James, we’ll also feature a other local musical luminaries to ensure we’re reminded that our Sonoma County musical talent is a rich aquifer.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Robert Gordon and Chris Spedding Drivin' Wheel Too Fast to live… Too Young to Die Amazon
3Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks One More Cowboy (w/Willie Nelson) Selected Shorts Amazon
4Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris Donkey Town All The Roadrunning Amazon
5Joe Maphis & Rose Lee Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music) Various Artists: THEME TIME RADIO HOUR – SEASON 2/[Disc 2] Amazon
6Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards Somebody Loves Me With My Little Ukulele in My Hand (Disc 2) Amazon
7Sophie Tucker He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday Flashbacks #3 CopulationBlues 1926-1940 Amazon
8BR5-49 The Devil In Me Dog Days Amazon
9Laurie London The Gospel Train Sentimental Journey, Folge 3 – Last Train To San Fernando Amazon
10Rusty Draper The Train With The Rhumba Beat Sentimental Journey, Folge 3 – Last Train To San Fernando Amazon
11Leon Redbone Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll Any Time Amazon
12Mississippi John Hurt The Chicken Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan – Season 2 [[Disc 1]] Amazon
13Elizabeth Cotten And Brenda Evans Shake Sugaree Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1] Amazon
14Kitty Wells The Other Cheek I Got A Woman : Gems From The Decca Vaults [Disc 3] Amazon
15Leroy Van Dyke Walk On By Golden Age of Country Volume 1: Waltz Across Texas [Disc 1] Amazon
16Porter Wagoner The Cold Hard Facts Of Life Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan – Season 2 [[Disc 1]] Amazon
17Slim Gaillard How High The Moon Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 2] Amazon
18Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Orchestra Repeal The Blues Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944 Amazon
19Erwin Lehn Sentimental Journey Sentimental Journey, Folge 3 – Last Train To San Fernando Amazon
20Frank Sinatra Day In – Day Out Come Dance with Me! Amazon
21Jimmy Elledge Funny How Time Slips Away Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's. Vol. 2 Amazon
22The Rhythm Rangers I've Got a New Road Under My Wheels Not Out of the Woods Yet Amazon
23Kevin Russell Solid Wrong Plain Dirt Fashion Amazon
24Wendy DeWitt 29 Ways Getaway Amazon
25Markus James Head For The Hills Head For The Hills Amazon
26Markus James On a Mississippi Porch Head For The Hills Amazon
27Tom Waits The Soul Of A Man God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
28Blind Willie Johnson Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics Amazon
29Lucinda Williams God Don't Never Change God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
30Ralph Stanley John The Revelator A Mother's Prayer Amazon

Songs of Cindy Walker

Songs of Cindy Walker
Songs of Cindy Walker

Enduring and prolific…country and pop songwriter Cindy Walker’s name is not as familiar to many but her music certainly is. She wrote early western-flavored pop and country swing pieces for performers like Bing Crosby and Bob Wills, composing hits for Hank Snow, Gene Autry, Al Dexter, Eddy Arnold, and others…almost owning the country charts in the 1940s. Her music endured well into the sixties and seventies, covered by Roy Orbison, Ray Charles, and dozens more. Her custom was to rise early and write songs, typing her lyrics on a pink-trimmed manual Royal typewriter while her mother, Oree Walker, would work out the melodies to her daughter’s words. They would station themselves in Nashville five months out of the year to help market the music, returning home to Mexia, Texas where Cindy would live out her life. Join us on a special run of Americana: the songs of Cindy Walker.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Asleep at the Wheel/Leon Rausch Sugar Moon It's A Good Day Amazon
3Willie Nelson Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Amazon
4Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Dusty Skies Take Me Back to Tulsa [Disc 2] (Cherokee Maiden) Amazon
5Bob Wills Cherokee Maiden Columbia Historic Edition Amazon
6Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Blue Bonnet Lane Legends of Country Music Disc 4 Amazon
7Eddy Arnold Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me The Essential Eddy Arnold Amazon
8George Morgan In the Misty Moonlight Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection Amazon
9Dean Martin In The Misty Moonlight The Great Dean Martin Amazon
10Tennessee Ernie Ford Blue Canadian Rockies Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2] Amazon
11Jim Reeves Distant Drums Essential Jim Reeves Amazon
12Ray Charles You Don't Know Me Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3 Amazon
13Gene Autry Silver Spurs (On the Golden Stairs) Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1] Amazon
14Gene Autry I Was Just Walking Out the Door Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 3] Amazon
15Ernest Tubb Two Glasses Joe Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection Amazon
16The Del McCoury Band The Bluegrass Country Del And The Boys Amazon
17The Byrds Blue Canadian Rockies Sweetheart of the Rodeo Amazon
18Merle Haggard Goin' Away Party Unforgettable Amazon
19Ricky Skaggs I Don't Care The Essential Ricky Skaggs Amazon
20Roy Orbison Shahdaroba The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument] Amazon
21Roy Orbison Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument] Amazon
22Willie Nelson Not That I Care You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Amazon
23k.d. lang Sugar Moon Shadowland Amazon
24Les Paul Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me (Remastered) 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
25Bob Wills Miss Molly For the Last Time Amazon
26Asleep at the Wheel It's All Your Fault (with Katie Shore) Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Amazon
27Solitaire Miles I Hear You Talkin' Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas Amazon
28Solitaire Miles Me & the Man In the Moon Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas Amazon
29Hank Thompson Triflin' Gal Seven Decades Amazon
30Willie Nelson Dusty Skies You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Amazon
31Merle Haggard Cherokee Maiden Capitol Collector's Series Amazon

Deeper Roots Ragtime

Deeper Roots Ragtime
Deeper Roots Ragtime

Our theme this evening is ragtime and it’s impact on the past century of America’s music. Join Dave Stroud for a themed collection of early and mid-century ragtime beginning with Cliff Edwards and running all the way through to some modern sounds out of Hamilton County, Tennessee. We’ll explore the Tiger Rag, the Maple Leaf Rag, the Black Mountain Rag, and then settle in for some of the sounds of Deep Elem. Music embellished with the stories of the performers, the theme, the songs, and the time…something you can’t get but on community radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Cliff Edwards Ragtime Cowboy Joe grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
3The Hillbillies Ragtime Cowboy Joe Howdy! 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats Amazon
4Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks Ragtime Cowboy Joe Tangled Tales Amazon
5Blind Blake Diddie Wa Diddie Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker Amazon
6Sol Ho'opi'i Twelfth Street Rag Master of the Hawaiian Guitar Vol 1 Amazon
7Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins Hawkins Rag Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3] Amazon
8Sons of the Pioneers 'A' Rag Songs of the Prairie – CD5 Amazon
9Leon McAuliffe Twin Fiddle Rag Tulsa Straight Ahead Amazon
10Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang Feat. Tex Williams Down Home Rag Shame On You Amazon
11Les Paul & Mary Ford Tiger Rag The Best of the Capitol Masters: Selections From "The Legend and the Legacy" Box Set Amazon
12Pearl Bailey Johnson Rag Chronological Pearl Bailey (1947-1950) Amazon
13Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys Beaumont Rag Songs For Rounders Amazon
14David Miller Jailhouse Rag Old-Time Mountain Guitar Amazon
15The McCormick Brothers Bugle Call Rag Constant Sorrow: Bluegrass From Root To Flower [Disc 3] Amazon
16Merle Travis Guitar Rag Hot Pickin' [Disc 2] Amazon
17David Grisman Black Mountain Rag Early Dawg Amazon
18Doc Watson Black Mountain Rag Foundation: Doc Watson Guitar Instrumental Collection, 1964-1998 Amazon
19Chet Atkins Dill Pickle Rag Reflections with Doc Watson Amazon
20Duck Baker Maple Leaf Rag Advanced Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques Amazon
21Scott Joplin The Entertainer compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
22Gram Parsons Brass Buttons The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia) Amazon
23Hamilton County Ramblers Hard Times Hamilton County Ramblers Amazon
24Red Allen Deep Elem Blues The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983 Amazon
25Bill Neely Deep Elm Blues Texas Law & Justice Amazon
26Buddy Jones Rockin' Rollin' Mama (1940) The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Tobacco State Swing [Disc 3] Amazon
27Cliffie Stone Jump Rope Boogie Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
28Big Bill Broonzy Down by the Riverside Absolutely the Best Amazon
29Sammy Price Trio/Sister Rosetta Tharpe Down by the Riverside The Gospel of Blues Amazon
30Mance Lipscomb Darktown Strutters' Ball Ash Grove 12/6/1964 Amazon
31Fats Domino Darktown Strutters' Ball They Call Me the Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings Disc 3 Amazon
32The Davis Sisters Jesus Steps Right In Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 4] Amazon
33The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir You've Got To Bear The Consequence Shakin' The Rafters Amazon
34Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet Pure Religion Gospel Quartets 1921-1942 Vol. 2 Amazon
35Duke Robillard I'm Gonna Buy Me A Dog (To Take The Place Of You) The Acoustic Blues & Roots of Duke Robillard Amazon

Waltzes, Polkas, and Two-Steps

Waltzes, Polkas and Two-Steps
Waltzes, Polkas & Two-Steps

It’s all about the traditional and popular dance music celebrated in the song of the past century. The show opens with the recognition of folk dance’s lineage, those ancestral elements that inhabit a very large part of our need to communicate and celebrate as a society. Most of the early rhythms we’ll hear to start the show are a blend of ancestral folk but we’ll also share the sound of popular dance. Tune in for country, pop, and folk sounds including cajun sounds from Michael Doucet, old-timey guitar and fiddle sounds of Darby and Tarlton, Tejano polka from Flaco Jimenez, and plenty more waltzes, polkas, and two steps.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band Ozark Waltz Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
3Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton Alto Waltz Darby & Tarlton – Disc A (Atlanta 1927-29) Amazon
4Pee Wee King Tennessee Waltz Country & Western Hit Parade 1948 Amazon
5BeauSoleil Cajun Midnight Waltz The Mad Reel Amazon
6Texas Troubadours Gardenia Waltz Almost To Tulsa: The Instrumentals Amazon
7Ernest Tubb Waltz Across Texas Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection Amazon
8Junior Brown My Baby Don't Dance To Nothing But Ernest Tubb 12 Shades of Brown Amazon
9Louise Massey & The Westerners Squeeze Box Polka Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 5] Amazon
10Flaco Jiminez Tico Taco Polka Buena Suerte, Seqorita Amazon
11Merle Travis & Joe Maphis Beer Barrel Polka Country Guitar Giants Amazon
12Doyle Lawson/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Polka on the Banjo School of Bluegrass Disc 1 Amazon
13Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang Feat. Tex Williams Cowbell Polka Shame On You Amazon
14Arthur Smith Rock And Rye Polka Here Comes the Boogie Man Amazon
15The Collins Kids Rock And Roll Polka Hop, Skip & Jump [Disc 1] Amazon
16Buck Owens Buck's Polka Buck 'Em: The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967) Amazon
17The Hot Frittatas Il Pensiero Polka What's Next ? Amazon
18R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders La Gima Polka Singing In The Bathtub Amazon
19Chet Atkins New Spanish Two Step Guitar Legend – RCA Years (Disc 2) Amazon
20Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers Beau's Cajun Two Step Beau Jocque Boogie Amazon
21Doug Kershaw Mamou Two-Step The Best Of Doug Kershaw Amazon
22Byrd Moore Favourite Two Step Gennett Old Time Music 1927-34 Amazon
23Zydeco Force Shaggy Dog Two-Step Alligator Stomp 5: The Next Generation Amazon
24Clifton Chenier Louisiana Two Step Louisiana Blues and Zydeco Amazon
25Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra Charleston [1925] The Charleston Era Amazon
26Aiken County String Band Charleston Rag (1927) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 Amazon
27Sons of the Pioneers Square Dance Songs of the Prairie – CD4 Amazon
28Red Foley Sugarfoot Rag Square Dance Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3] Amazon
29Chet Atkins Cosmic Square Dance Chet Picks On The Grammys Amazon
30Johnnie Lee Wills Square Dance Boogie The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys – Oakie Boogie [Disc 4] Amazon
31Freeny's Barn Dance Band Mississippi Square Dance – Part 2 The Cornshucker's Frolic Vol. 1: Downhome Music And Entertainment From The American Countryside Amazon
32Wanda, Ruth Neal Round Town Girls Flowers In The Wildwood Amazon
33Blue Ridge Highballers Round Town Girls Lead Kindly Light Amazon
34Doc Watson/Merle Watson Guitar Polka Black Mountain Rag Amazon

Country Swing Pioneers

Country Swing Pioneers
Country Swing Pioneers

Join Dave Stroud for two hours of the very best of country swing music on Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. The west had been long-settled when a new sound exploded out of the dance halls and barn-dance venues of the Midwest that was to become popular for it’s 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.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Tex Williams & His Western Caravan Artistry In Western Swing Country Hits Vol. 8 Amazon
3W. Lee & His Light Crust Doughboys When They Baptized Sister Lucy Lee Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938 Amazon
4The Light Crust Doughboys Mean Mean Mama Western Swing  40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 1] Amazon
5Prairie Ramblers Deep Elem Blues White Country Blues (1926-1938) Amazon
6Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
7Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies In El Rio Grande Daddy of Western Swing, Vol.1 : Brownies Stomp Amazon
8Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies Easy Ridin' Papa Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 3 : Easy Ridin' Papa Amazon
9Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers Barn Dance Rag The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – The Eyes of Texas [Disc 1] Amazon
10Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers I Want to Go Back The Golden Age Of Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers Amazon
11Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers Bring It On Home To Grandma Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1] Amazon
12Hank Penny Oh Yes? Take Another Guess King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1] Amazon
13Hank Penny Sweet Talkin' Mama King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1] Amazon
14Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Twin Guitar Special Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947 Amazon
15Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Stay A Little Longer Take Me Back to Tulsa 3 – Just A Plain Old Country Boy Amazon
16Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Take Me Back To Tulsa Tiffany Transcriptions Vol. 2 Amazon
17Leon McAuliffe Mr. Steel Guitar Tulsa Straight Ahead Amazon
18Leon McAuliffe Rag Mop Tulsa Straight Ahead Amazon
19Johnny Lee Wills Rag Mop The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 16 Amazon
20Tommy Duncan Stars Over San Antone Beneath a Neon Star in a Honky Tonk Amazon
21Tommy Duncan Take Me Back to Tulsa Texas Moon Amazon
22Adolph Hofner Cotton Eyed Joe Western Swing  40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 2] Amazon
23Adolph Hofner Alamo Rag The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 8 Amazon
24Ted Daffan's Texans Because Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 2] Tulsa Twist) Amazon
25Ted Daffan's Texans Down Hi Lo Way Kings Of Western Swing, Vol. 2 Amazon
26Moon Mullican Cherokee Boogie Moon Mullican Sings His All-Time Hits Amazon
27Moon Mullican I'll Sail My Ship Alone The Very Best Of Amazon
28Spade 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 Amazon
29Spade Cooley Troubled Over You Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley Amazon
30Spade Cooley You Can't Break My Heart Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley Amazon
31Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang Feat. Tex Williams Sign Off Shame On You Amazon
32Smokey Rogers I Can't Help The Way You Feel Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
33Cliffie 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 Amazon
34Tex Williams Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon? Vintage Collections Amazon
35Hank Thompson Humpty Dumpty Heart 1946-1949 (Warped 4660) Amazon

Higher Power Country Gospel

Higher Power
Higher Power

We visit the classic sounds of country and bluegrass with thematic overtones of gospel. The love of country music often had its roots in a performer’s childhood memories of community church and the sound that would evolve from country and bluegrass provided a tone that grew from those memories…with a tenor that could easily echo the word’. The greatest of them elevated their popularity with their flock by invoking the name of that higher power of God and church in the community of bluegrass: The Stanley Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Ricky Skaggs, Doyle Lawson, and even country groups like the The Louvin Brothers and The Whitstein Brothers made gospel a core of their repertoire.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Louvin Brothers There's A Higher Power Satan Is Real Amazon
3The Whitstein Brothers Way Up On The Mountain Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins Amazon
4Fern Jones I Do Believe The Glory Road Amazon
5Kitty Wells I Heard My Saviour Call Dust on the Bible (1959) Amazon
6Kitty Wells (I've Got My) One-Way Ticket to the Sky Dust on the Bible (1959) Amazon
7Milton Estes Hish! Somebody's Calling My Name Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
8Brother Claude Ely Fare You Well Satan Get Back Amazon
9King's Sacred Quartette Turn Your Radio On Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
10J.E. Mainer Workin' On A Building Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
11The Carter Family God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
12The Carter Family On My Way To Canaan's Land Take Me To The Water Amazon
13The Delmore Brothers The Wrath Of God Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
14The Stanley Brothers Over the Glory Land 16 Greatest Gospel Hits Amazon
15The Stanley Brothers My Lord's Going To Set Me Free Hymns & Sacred Songs Amazon
16Mac Wiseman I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
17Mac Wiseman Dust On The Bible Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
18Ricky Skaggs Hallelujah I'm Ready Family And Friends Amazon
19The Johnson Mountain Boys Springtime in Glory Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music Amazon
20Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Jesus Gave Me Water Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
21George Jones & Tammy Wynette Let's All Go Down To The River Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
22Moore & Napier Gathering In The Sky Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
23Elvis Presley I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 1 Amazon
24Willie Nelson Sweet Bye and Bye Old Time Religion Amazon
25Johnny Cash Unclouded Day Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South Amazon
26Chuck Wagon Gang/The Jordanaires Down the Road 70th Anniversary Amazon
27The Corley Family Way To Glory Land (1929) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 Amazon
28The Corley Family Give The World A Smile Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937 Amazon
29Anonymous (Knight Home-recording Disc) Beautiful Mansions of Gold …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
30Ex-Governor Alf. Taylor's Old Limber Quartet Brother Noah Built an Ark …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
31Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Long Walk to Heaven Saturday Night / Sunday Morning Amazon
32Elvis Presley Working on the Building Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1 Amazon
33Willie and Bobbie Nelson I'll Fly Away Farther Along Amazon
34Buddy Holly True Love Ways From the Original Master Tapes Amazon

Back Country Blues

Back Country Blues
Back Country Blues

Our show features the sounds of the acoustic country blues. We’ll hear from early century greats like Jim Jackson, Luke Jordan, Geeshie Wiley, and Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers. There will also be a little help from some contemporaries who were their influence by this music. Get ready for some deeper sounds from Daddy Stovepipe, Papa Charlie Jackson, and Frank Stokes to round things out on a chilly evening in the North Bay on Sonoma County community radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Taj Mahal Fishin' Blues The Best Of Taj Mahal Amazon
3John Sebastian Jug Band Music Chasin' Gus' Ghost Amazon
4Cannon's Jug Stompers Bring it with You When You Come Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 Amazon
5Cannon's Jug Stompers Going To Germany The Rose Grew Round The Briar Amazon
6Dick Justice Little Lulie Old Time Music From West VI : Old-Time Music From West Virgi Amazon
7Dick Justice Brown Skin Blues Hillbilly Blues Amazon
8Geeshie Wiley Last Kind Words Mississippi Masters Amazon
9Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas Pick Poor Robin Clean Mississippi Masters Amazon
10Luke Jordan Pick Poor Robin Clean (Eng 16 Aout 1927 Charlotte) Rough Guide To The Blues Songsters Amazon
11Tommie Bradley Nobody's Business if I Do Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 Amazon
12Mississippi John Hurt Praying On The Old Camp Ground Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings Amazon
13Mississippi John Hurt Frankie Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings Amazon
14Mississippi John Hurt Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 1 (Disc 1) Amazon
15Frank Stokes How Long Before The Blues: Early American Black Music Scene (Vol. 2) Amazon
16Frank Stokes I Got Mine Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 Amazon
17Henry Thomas Bull Doze Blues Roots of Rock Amazon
18Luke Jordan Church Bell Blues Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1] Amazon
19Long "Cleve" Reed and Little Harvey Hull ' Down Home Boys Original Stack O' Lee Blues (BP 8030, BP8030B) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) Amazon
20Long "Cleve" Reed and Little Harvey Hull ' Down Home Boys Mama You Don't Know How (BP 8030, BP8030A) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) Amazon
21Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah Burleskin' Blues Blues From The Vocalion Vaults Amazon
22Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah The Spasm Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 19261937 Amazon
23Sweet Papa Stovepipe All Birds Look Like Chicken To Me Cluck Old Hen Amazon
24Pink Anderson He's In the Jailhouse Now Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs Amazon
25Will Bennett Railroad Bill Rough Guide To The Blues Songsters Amazon
26Henry Thomas " Ragtime Texas" Railroadin' Some Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 19261937 Amazon
27Rory Block Railroadin' Some Gone Woman Blues: The Country Blues Collection Amazon
28Papa Charlie Jackson Drop That Sack Papa Charlie Done Sung That Song – [Disc 2] Amazon
29Papa Charlie Jackson Skoodle-Um-Skoo Papa Charlie Jackson Vol. 3 (1928 – 1934) Amazon
30Jim Jackson I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 Amazon
31Jim Jackson Jim Jackson / Jim Jackson" Kansas City Blues, Pt. 1 Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1] Amazon
32Jim Jackson Love Sick Blues Jim Jackson Vol.2 Amazon
33Geeshie Wiley Skinny Leg Blues The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of [Disc 2] Amazon

Guitar Theme

Once considered in its earliest forms a noble instrument, the history of the guitar can be traced back over forty centuries (yes, that’s 4000 years). While we won’t got back quite so far in our exploration, we will explore the popular form of this instrument in song this week. We’re not going after the genius as much as we go after the topic with songs whose theme is that of the guitar. It seems that there has always been a personal connection between the instrument and the player, sometimes as a confidant and others as a foil. Our show will feature yodeling guitars, lonely guitars, Bo’s guitar, long-legged pickers, amigos, and a number of performances about ‘one’s first guitar’. Join Dave Stroud for plenty in a guitar themed journey.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Steve Earle Guitar Town Just an American Boy Disc 1 Amazon
3Walter Hurdt Fiddle And Guitar Running Wild Classic Field Recordings Amazon
4Jimmie Rodgers You And My Old Guitar Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 1] Amazon
5Jorma Kaukonen More Than My Old Guitar River Of Time Amazon
6Jimmy Murphy That First Guitar of Mine 1951-1956 (Warped 5101) Amazon
7The Seldom Scene Grandpa Getcha Guitar Like We Used To Be Amazon
8The Louvin Brothers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Long Play Collection Amazon
9Byron Parker & His Mountaineers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Byron Parker & His Mountaineers Amazon
10Hardrock Gunter Guitar on the Mountain Gonna Rock 'n' Roll, Gonna Dance All Night Amazon
11Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Steel Guitar Rag Legends of Country Music Disc 1 Amazon
12Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers Telling' My Troubles to My Old Guitar Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years Amazon
13Frank Crumit Plink Plonki Pluck My Guitar Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit Amazon
14The Brown Bombers of Swing Guitar Swing If You Take Me Back Amazon
15George Morgan Mr Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man) Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection Amazon
16Jerry Byrd Hilo Steel Guitar Stars Of The Steel Guitar Amazon
17Les Paul Lonely Guitar (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
18Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Yodeling Guitar Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
19Duane Eddy Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar Dance With The Guitar Man Amazon
20Bo Diddley Bo's Guitar Go Bo Diddley Amazon
21Johnny Powers Me and My Rhythm Guitar The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2 Amazon
22Johnny Cash I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 3 Amazon
23Johnny Cash & June Carter Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter Amazon
24Kitty Wells Amigo's Guitar Greatest Songs Amazon
25Waylon Jennings Guitars That Won't Stay in Tune Clean Shirt Amazon
26Willie Nelson Guitar In the Corner Band of Brothers Amazon
27George Jones Best Guitar Picker The Complete United Artists Solo Singles Amazon
28Robert Earl Keen, Jr. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard Amazon
29Merle Haggard Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
30Freddie King Me And My Guitar Texas Cannonball Amazon
31Tony Rice Me and My Guitar Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection Amazon
32Lucinda Williams Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings World Without Tears Amazon
33Guy Clark The Guitar Somedays the Song Writes You Amazon
34Neil Young This Old Guitar Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank Amazon