The Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) produced a list a few years back that they called the “Songs of The Century”. It was concocted based on a questionable set of sampling and was to represent and “promote a better understanding of America’s musical and cultural heritage.” The voting pool was a strange mixture elected officials, school students and teachers, as well as industry professionals. The respondent pool was about 200. The list is woefully inadequate but certainly worth discussing. Deeper Roots will spend this week exploring the top 30 (of 365) and follow up with its own list in a second episode next week. Listen in as we stretch the imagination.
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John Lennon
Imagine
Imagine
3
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Midnight Train To Georgia
Singers And Songwriters: 1973-
4
The Beatles
I Want to Hold Your Hand [Stereo]
The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 Disc 1
5
Chuck Berry
Johnny B. Goode
Johnny B. Goode-His Complete 50's Chess Recordings
6
Lena Horne
Stormy Weather (From "Stormy Weather")
The Essential Lena Horne – The RCA Years
7
Ben E. King
Stand By Me
Malt Shop Memories Save the Last Dance for Me
8
The Beach Boys
Good Vibrations
Endless Summer
9
Tony Bennett
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
The Essential Tony Bennett [Columbia/Legacy] Disc 1
10
Otis Redding
(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
The Very Best of Otis Redding, Vol. 1
11
Marvin Gaye
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Motown: The Classic Years Disc 2
12
John Philip Sousa
Stars And Stripes Forever
The March King: John Philip Sousa Conducts His Own Marches and Other Favorites (An Historical Recording)
13
Kate Smith With Orchestra
God Bless America
Nippers 30's-Vol.1
14
Fats Domino
Blueberry Hill
Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 4
15
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Take The "A" Train
Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3]
16
The Rolling Stones
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Singles Collection: The London Years Disc 1
17
Bobby Darin
Mack The Knife
Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3)
18
Jimmie Davis
You Are My Sunshine
Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
19
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
When The Saints Go Marching In
Pete Fountain Presents The Best Of Dixieland: Louis Armstrong
20
Bill Haley & His Comets
(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock (Single Version)
Rock Around The Clock
21
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
In the Mood
The Centennial Collection Disc 1
22
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
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23
The Righteous Brothers
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
Malt Shop Memories: All I Have To Do Is Dream (Disc 2)
24
Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
www.allaoijr.com
25
Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story Overture
West Side Story
26
The Andrews Sisters
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection – The Best Of The Andrews Sisters
27
Don McLean
American Pie
American Pie [Bonus Tracks]
28
Aretha Franklin
Respect
30 Greatest Hits [Disc 1]
29
Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land
This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1
30
Bing Crosby
White Christmas
Bing Crosby's Greatest Hits
31
Judy Garland
Over The Rainbow
That's Entertainment! The Best Of The MGM Musicals
It’s a joy to queue up a century of America’s music every other Saturday morning in West County…live from the heart and voice of West Sonoma County’s KOWS studios in downtown Occidental. A common theme will run through this morning’s show and it’s all about waking up: gospel’s Mahalia Jackson and When I Wake Up in Glory, Roy Milton and the Wake Up Blues, James Brown’s Get Up Offa That Thing … and more!
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Junior Brown
Gotta Get Up Every Morning
Semi-Crazy
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Buck Owens
I've Got A Tiger By The Tail
The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1
4
Dwight Yoakam
Little Sister
Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years (1 of 4)
5
The Mavericks
All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down
Music for All Occasions
6
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers
Get Up John
At The Ryman [Live]
7
The Band
Get Up Jake
A Musical History [Disc 3]
8
James Brown
Get Up Offa That Thing
20 All Time Greatest Hits!
9
Lavern Baker
Get Up Get Up (You Sleepy Head)
London American Label Year By Year 1956
10
Jimmy Murphy
Wake Me up Sweet Jesus
Electricity
11
Mahalia Jackson
When I Wake Up In Glory
The World's Greatest Gospel Singer
12
Bill Landford And The Landfordaires
Trouble Of This World [Album Version]
The Gospel Tradition: The Roots And The Branches, Vol. 1
13
Reverend CL Franklin
Wings Of Faith
Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
14
Clara Ward Singers
Packing Up
Somebody Bigger Than You & I
15
Charlie & His Orchestra
You're Driving Me Crazy
Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
16
Bob Brozman
You're Driving Me Crazy
Devil's Slide
17
Big Joe Turner
Lipstick, Powder and Paint
Big Joe Rocks
18
Smiley Lewis
Hook Line & Sinker
Smiley Lewis Vol 1
19
Merrill Moore
Yes Indeed (EP Version)
Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1]
20
The Carlisles
Nine Have Tried (and None Have Died) (Second Countdown)
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
Mark Hogan’s Bluegrass and Old-Time Hour is on hiatus for two weeks while Mark is back in Galax, Virginia checking out the summer activities including a Fiddler’s Convention. And we’re going to honor his muse this week, the first of two Monday episodes where Deeper Roots fills his spot in the schedule on KOWS. We’ve got plenty of bluegrass in the first hour featuring new music from Trout Steak Revival and classics from Bill Monroe and Mac Martin. Our second hour rolls out a run of Stephen Foster covers done by Jack Clement, Jonathan Edwards, The Sons of the Pioneers, and others.
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Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers
Home In Tennessee
With The Travelin Blues
3
Ashley Monroe
The Storms Are On The Ocean
Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
4
Emmylou Harris
Bury Me Beneath The Willow
Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
5
The Church Sisters
Where We'll Never Grow Old
Orthophonic Joy
6
John Reischman & The Jaybirds
Booth Shot Lincoln
John Reischman And The Jaybirds
7
Mike Auldridge
Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
Cool Blue & Lonesome: Bluegrass for Broken
8
Trout Steak Revival
Brighter Every Day
Brighter Every Day
9
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblerss
Get Up John
Live at the Ryman
10
Bill Monroe
Big River
Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
11
Ricky Skaggs
Uncle Pen
Country Gentleman: The Best Of Ricky Skaggs
12
The Stanley Brothers
Angel Band
Angel Band: The Classic Mercury Recordings
13
Red Allen
Deep Elem Blues
The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983
14
Blue Grass Boogiemen
Goin' Up Caney
Who's Afraid of the Boogiemen?
15
Joe Maphis
Twin Banjo Special
Absolutely Bluegrass
16
Grandpa Jones
Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia
Pickin' & A-Grinnin'
17
Reno & Smiley
The Talk Of The Town
Absolutely Bluegrass
18
Del McCoury, Doc Watson & Mac Wiseman
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
Mac Doc Del
19
2nd South Carolina String Band
Angelina Baker/Angeline the Baker
In High Cotton
20
Phil and Vivian Williams
Nelly Bly
Pioneer Dance Tunes of the Far West
21
Grandpa Jones
Nelly Bly
An American Original
22
Timothy Seaman & Friends
I Hear Those Gentle Voices Calling (Old Black Joe) (feat. Bill Gurley & Ann Robinson)
We take another trip down the roots rabbit hole with the usual selections of blues, bluegrass, country, gospel, and tradition in a show that follows a thread that begins with The Del McCoury Band’s bluegrass cover of Mama’s Hungry Eyes and winds its way to conclusion down the endless black ribbon. In between we’ve got kind words and last words, chain gangs and jailers, and songs about bird dogs and mockingbirds. The show is a special ‘stream of musical roots consciousness’ called “Connections”.
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Del McCoury
Mama's Hungry Eyes (feat. Emmylou Harris)
Moneyland
3
Merle Haggard
Mama Tried
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
4
Sugar Pie DeSanto
Mama Didn't Raise No Fool
Down In The Basement
5
Rodney Crowell
Famous Last Words of a Fool in Love
Tarpaper Sky
6
David Johansen
The Last Kind Words
Shaker
7
Rhiannon Giddens
Last Kind Words
Tomorrow Is My Turn
8
Geeshie Wiley
Last Kind Words
Mississippi Masters
9
Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas
Pick Poor Robin Clean
Mississippi Masters
10
Gennett Sound Effects
Mocking Bird
…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
11
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Listen To The Mockingbird
Stars And Stripes Forever
12
Doc Watson
Bird Dog
Docabilly
13
The Everly Brothers
I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
14
Steve Earle & The V-Roys
In The Jailhouse Now
The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute
15
Johnny Cash
I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now
American V: A Hundred Highways
16
Wynona Sweet
Please Mr. Jailer
Cry-Baby
17
Johnny Tillotson
Jailer Bring Me Water
The Tillotson Touch
18
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Jesus Gave Me Water
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
19
Elvis Presley
Bosom of Abraham
He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 2
20
The Golden Gate Quartet
Rock My Soul
Rock My Soul & Other Gospel Favorites
21
Louis Armstrong
Rock My Soul
Louis And The Good Book
22
Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited
Highway 61 Revisited
23
Band Of Ruhks
Lost Highway
Band Of Ruhks
24
Hank Williams
Lost Highway
Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
Hot summer days…cool West County nights. Deeper Roots finds the right balance on Saturday mornings in Occidental this week with music about ramblers and gamblers featuring Ralph Stanley, Tom Russell, and Sturgill Simpson. We’ll also find ourselves in the crosshairs of country, blues, and southern gospel with songs of light and life featuring Hank Williams, Gary Davis, and Marty Stuart. Riley Puckett, The Sons of the Pioneers, and the Selah Jubilee Singers also join in on another Saturday morning filled with roots music on KOWS 107.3-LP FM. Tune in on TuneIn!
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Fats Domino
The Fat Man
Imperial Singles Collection
3
Nathan Glantz & His Orchestra (v: Chick Straun)
Don't Bring Lulu [1925]
The Charleston Era
4
Roy Acuff
Bang Away My Lulu
DON'T BRING LULU was a 20's hit song
5
Spade Cooley & His Orchestra; Vocal By Tex Williams
You'll Rue The Day
Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
6
Tommy Duncan
Please Come Back Home
Texas Moon
7
Lucinda Williams
Memphis Pearl
Sweet Old World
8
Hank Williams
I Saw The Light
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
9
Selah Jubilee Singers
I Saw the Light
Gospel Quartets 1921-1942 Vol. 2
10
Reverend Gary Davis
I Am The Light Of This World
Harlem Street Singer
11
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
This Little Light of Mine
Gospel Bluegrass Home Coming, Vol. 1
12
Sam Cooke
Having a Party
The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (3 of 4)
13
Clyde McPhatter
A Lovers Question
Atlantic and Mercury Sessions – Disc 2
14
Kay Starr
Night Train
Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
15
Ike Turner
Do Right Baby
Classic Early Sides
16
Slim Harpo
I Love the Life I'm Living
The Excello Singles Anthology Disc 1
17
John Sebastian
Ain't Nowhere to Hobo Anymore
I Want My Roots
18
The Blue Sky Boys
Wild And Reckless Hobo
Presenting The Blue Sky Boys
19
Grandpa Jones
Hobo Bill
Makes The Rafters Ring
20
Bob Dylan
Only A Hobo
It Could Even Be A Myth
21
Elana James
Hobo's Lullaby
Black Beauty
22
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Poor Rambler
Classic Bluegrass
23
Sturgill Simpson
Poor Rambler
High Top Mountain
24
Tom Russell
Rambler, Gambler
Song Of The West – The Cowboy Collection
25
Jimmie Skinner
Don't Give My Heart to a Rambler
One Dead Man Ago
26
Grayson & Whitter
I've Always Been a Rambler
Music from the Lost Provinces
27
Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins
Ragged But Right
Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3]
West County is the place to be in summer. The inland heat is pulling in the right amount of tempered cool from the coast…and Deeper Roots sounds will ride the wave on a Saturday morning. Join us for music from Arlo Guthrie, Chubby Newsome, Jimmie Revard, Mahalia Jackson, and more. The sounds we’ll hear come from country, country swing, classic gospel, mountain tradition, and just a little bit of the blues so please join us as we fill the airwaves with classic roots music on a Saturday morning, live from the KOWS studios in Occidental.
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Johnny Burnette
Let's Think About Living
The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD 3
3
Roy Rogers
My Chickashay Gal
Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
4
Hank Snow
Music Makin' Mama From Memphis
The Essential Hank Snow
5
Asleep at the Wheel
What's the Matter With the Mill (with Pokey LaFarge)
Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
6
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Back Home In Indiana (LP Version)
Tiffany Transcriptions& Vol. 9
7
Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor
Coming Back Home
The Return of the Formerly Brothers
8
Jimmie Revard
Dirty Dog
Western Swing: 40 Bootstompers
9
Jimmie Revard
Holdin' The Sack
Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 9]
10
The Louvin Brothers
I'm Ready To Go Home
Satan Is Real
11
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Little Birdie
Ralph Stanley 1971-1973
12
Doc & Merle Watson
Corrina, Corrina
Then And Now/Two Days In November
13
Jimmie Driftwood
Soldier's Joy
Americana, Vol. 1
14
The Rice Brothers
Soldier's Joy
The Rice Brothers
15
Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Django and Jimmie
16
Willie Nelson & the Offenders
A Moment Isn't Very Long
Me and the Drummer
17
Red Simpson
Don't Fall Asleep At The Wheel
Lonesome Highway Songs
18
Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards
So Long It's Been Good to Know You
Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
19
Johnny Cash
Hey Porter
The Mystery Of Life
20
Elvis Presley
Memphis Tennessee
Artist of the Century Disc 2
21
Floyd Dixon
Oooh Little Girl
Marshall Texas Is My Home
22
Bob Dylan
It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry (take 9)
No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Ser [UK] Disc 2
23
Chubby Newsome
Toodle Luddle Baby
Rock 'n' Roll Mamas Vol 3
24
Anthony Butler
Judgement's Coming Soon
Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats
25
Mahalia Jackson
Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho
Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns, Vol.2 [Disc 1]
26
Mahalia Jackson
I'm On My Way
The Promised Land – Original Soundtrack [Disc 1]
27
Howlin' Wolf
Moanin' For My Baby
Blues From Hell
28
Tampa Red
Crying Won't Help You
ABC Of The Blues Vol 38
29
Hadda Brooks
He's Coming Home
Jump Back Honey:Complete OKeh Sessions
30
The Four Lads
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Around the World 1)
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
It’s ‘theme time’ in this episode as we find a muse that songwriters have been looking to since it’s appearance in the 19th century: the telephone. Join us for operators, dial tones, party lines, busy signals, and hang-ups…just a few of the topics in a show featuring gospel from the Selah Jubilee Singers and Sister Wynona Carr, sixties soul from The Marvelettes and The Orlons, tradition from Bill Monroe and Wade Mainer, and more.
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The Manhattan Transfer
Operator
The Manhattan Transfer
3
The Golden Gate Quartet
I Just Telephone Upstairs
Vol. 6 (1949-1952)
4
The Spirit Of Memphis Quartet
Atomic Telephone
The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
5
Selah Jubilee Singers
Royal Telephone
Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 (1939-1941)
6
Burl Ives
Royal Telephone
Greatest Hits
7
Sister Wynona Carr
Operator, Operator
Dragnet For Jesus
8
Bill Monroe
When The Phone Rang
Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
9
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
The Phone Call
More Behind the Picture Than the Wall
10
Wade Mainer
God's Radio Phone
I'm Not Looking Backward
11
Doc Watson
No Telephone In Heaven
My Dear Old Southern Home
12
The Carter Family
No Telephone In Heaven
The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 2]
13
The Carter Family
Hello Central! Give Me Heaven
The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5]
14
Orville Reed
The Telephone Girl
Lead Kindly Light
15
Bonnie Guitar
Hello, Hello, Please Answer The Phone
Only The Moon Man Knows: Rare Recordings 1951-1957
16
George Jones
Wrong Number
Star Creek Promotions 4
17
Aaron Neville
Wrong Number (I Am Sorry, Goodbye)
Treacherous [Disc 1]
18
Irma Thomas
Sorry Wrong Number
If You Want It, Come and Get It
19
Mickey & Sylvia
Can't Get You On The Phone
Rock With A Sock
20
The Orlons
Don't Hang Up
Malt Shop Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 2)
21
Marvelettes
Beechwood 4-5789
The Soul of Detroit – Disc 1
22
Tony & Tyrone
Please Operator
After Hours 3 – More Northern Soul Masters
23
Mary Wells
Operator
The Soul of Detroit – Disc 2
24
Jorma Kaukonen
Operator
River Of Time
25
The Grateful Dead
Operator
American Beauty
26
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
Pennsylvania 6-5000
The Centennial Collection Disc 1
27
Hank Penny
Hold the Phone
King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
28
Stonewall Jackson
Can't Hang Up the Phone
Original Greatest Hits
29
Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn
Answer The Phone With Loretta Lynn
A Tribute To A Legend
30
Tom T. Hall
Jesus On the Radio (Daddy On the Phone)
The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall
31
Pee Wee Crayton
Phone Call From My Baby
ABC Of The Blues Vol 7
32
Pee Wee Crayton
The Telephone Is Ringing
ABC Of The Blues Vol 7
33
Floyd Dixon
Call Operator 210
The Aladdin Story (Pt. 2)
34
Floyd Dixon
Telephone Blues
The Cocktail Combos [Disc 3]
35
Eddie Gorman And His Group
Telephone Blues
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
Saturday morning in West County…our first week of summer with Deeper Roots and we’ve got an early set of New Orleans swamp classics followed by shreds of rockabilly and sounds from The Killer. There’s also gospel with The Staple Singers, high octane early century pop from The Boswell Sisters and Johnny Hamp and the Orchestra. We’ll sum the day up with folk, pop, and R&B…and everything in between.
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Bobby Marchan
Chicken – Wah – Wah
The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 1]
3
Lazy Lester
I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter
Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
4
Irma Thomas
Ruler of My Heart
Soul Queen of New Orleans
5
Aaron Neville
Get Out Of My Life
Brother To Brother ([Disc 1]: Aaron)
6
Fats Domino
What a Price
Fats Domino Out of New Orleans
7
Shirley Gunter
Oop Shoop
Shirley Gunter
8
Jerry Lee Lewis
Let's Talk About Us
A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
9
Wanda Jackson
Man, We Had A Party
Queen Of Rockabilly
10
JD McPherson
Fire Bug
Signs & Signifiers
11
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Two Little Fishes Five Loaves Of Bread
Gospel Train
12
Sam Cooke
Touch The Hem Of His Garment
The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke
13
The Staple Singers
Pray On
The Best of the Vee-Jay Years
14
Dorothy Love Coates
You Better Run
The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes
15
Andy Mosely & Hogman Maxey
Brother Mosely Crossed The Water
Angola Prison Spirituals
16
Blind Willie Johnson
Jesus Is Coming Soon
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (Disc 1)
17
Lena Horne
Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather
18
Johnny Hamp And His Kentucky Serenaders
If I Had A Talking Picture Of You
Johnny Hamp at Archive
19
The Boswell Sisters
Shuffle Off To Buffalo
The Object Of My Affection
20
George Olsen & His Music (v: Fran Frey)
The Varsity Drag [1927]
The Charleston Era
21
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
Shreveport Stomp
Jelly Roll Morton – Vol. V
22
Louis Armstrong
On Treasure Island
Rhythm Saved The World
23
Django Reinhardt & Stiphane Grappelli
It Don't Mean A Thing
Quintesential
24
Dinah Washington
Teach Me Tonight
Gold [Disc 2]
25
Ray Charles
Drown in My Own Tears
The Birth of Soul Disc 2
26
Chuck Jackson
Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)
Chuck Jackson The Great Recordings [Disc 1]
27
Frank Sinatra
Just in Time
Come Dance with Me!
28
Sarah Vaughan
The Nearness Of You
Great American Songbook
29
Charlie Spand & Blind Blake
Hastings Street
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
30
Pine Ridge Boys
Farther Along
Classic Field Recordings
31
David Bromberg
I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning
The Player: A Retrospective
32
Doc Watson
Steel Guitar Rag
Memories
33
The Country Gentlemen
One Morning in May
The Complete Vanguard Recordings
34
The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys
This Weary Heart You Stole Away
Appalachian Stomp
35
The Stripling Brothers
The Lost Boy
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
The story of women in country music begins in the early century with The Carters and the lesser known names of Roba Stanley, Louisiana Lou, and Patsy Montana. If the music was not about heaven and sinners, then it was about being a single girl or a cowboy’s sweetheart. But there was a sea change in post-war country music with the strength of Kitty Wells’ and the assertive independent sounds of Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton. To quote an online source, “the story of gender in post-war country music is largely the story of how women, in song and on stage, came to represent themselves in full.”
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Patsy Montana And The Prairie Ramblers
I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart
26 All-Time Country Classics
3
Lulu Belle & Scotty
Wish I Was A Single Girl Again
Flowers In The Wildwood
4
Patsy Montana
My Poncho Pony
Flowers In The Wildwood
5
Maddox Brothers and Rose
Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down
1948 (Warped 4872)
6
Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter
He's Solid Gone
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
7
Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes
I'm Leaving You
Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967
8
Kitty Wells
My Cold, Cold Heart Is Melted Now
Country Music Hall Of Fame
9
Kitty Wells
Password
Greatest Songs
10
Kitty Wells
Makin' Believe
Greatest Songs
11
The Davis Sisters
I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
The Essential Skeeter Davis
12
Skeeter Davis
(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too
The Essential Skeeter Davis
13
Charline Arthur
Welcome To The Club
Welcome To The Club
14
Wanda Jackson
Makin' Believe
Daydreamin'
15
Wanda Jackson
Don't Ask Me Why
Before The Music Died – Wanda Jackson: The Complete Recordings 1954-1962 [Disc 3]
16
Patsy Cline
Leavin' on Your Mind
12 Greatest Hits
17
Patsy Cline
How Can I Face Tomorrow
The Patsy Cline Collection [Disc 2]
18
Ferlin Husky & Jean Shephard
A Dear John Letter
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
19
Loretta Lynn
Dont Come Home A-Drinkin (With Lovin on Your Mind)
Golden Age of Country Volume 1: Waltz Across Texas [Disc 2]
20
Goldie Hill
It's A Lovely Lovely World
I Got A Woman : Gems From The Decca Vaults [Disc 2]
21
Connie Smith
Once A Day
The Essential Connie Smith
22
June Carter Cash
Strange Woman
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
23
June Carter Cash
How Did You Get Away from Me
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
24
Tammy Wynette
Stand By Your Man
Super Hits
25
Tammy Wynette
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Country Legends
26
Brenda Lee
Johnny One Time
The Brenda Lee Story: Her Greatest Hits
27
Norma Jean
The Gambler And The Lady
The Best of Country
28
Margie Singleton
Old Records
One More Record Please
29
Dottie West
Paper Mansions
The Essential Dottie West
30
Jessi Colter
I'm Looking for Blue Eyes
Wanted! The Outlaws [Bonus Tracks]
31
Sammi Smith
Help Me Make It Through The Night
Sammi Smith early 60's the Best Of (varese sarabande 96)
We are sitting in for Mark Hogan’s Bluegrass and Old Time Hour this week while Mark is far afield, attending the 40th Anniversary Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley. Our show will explore the multi-generational sounds of not only bluegrass with Dillard and Clark and The Hackberry Ramblers, but we’ll also cross the genres (as we are wont to do) with Cowboy Copas, Clara Ward, Otis Spann, and Doris Day. There’s a couple of different threads that run through our show today, one being that of the ‘devil’ and the other being ‘new mornings’. Tune in at a special time and see what’s in store on a summer afternoon in West County.
No.
1
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
2
BR5-49
The Devil In Me
Dog Days
3
Bob Dylan
Talkin' Devil
It Could Even Be A Myth
4
Pete Seeger
Old Devil Time
Singalong: Live At Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980 (2 of 2)
5
Gillian Welch
The Devil Had a Hold of Me
Hell Among the Yearlings
6
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Devil Has Thrown Him Down
The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3]
7
Doris Day
The Deevil, Devil, Divil
Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2]
8
Pokey LaFarge
The Devil Ain't Lazy
Pokey LaFarge
9
Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Devil Ain't Lazy
Reinventing the Wheel
10
Hackberry Ramblers
Old Pipeliner (Rodney Crowell-vocal) {1992-06 (org.1946) Flying Fish FF-70629 CD}
Cajun Boogie (1992-06)
11
Cowboy Copas
Don't Shake Hands with the Devil
Settin' Flat On Ready
12
Little Jimmy Dickens
I'm Little But I'm Loud
The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
13
Spade Cooley & His Orchestra; Vocal By Tex Williams
Hide Your Face
Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
14
Dillard & Clark
I Bowed My Head And Cried Holy
The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
15
Rory Block
I Am In the Heavenly Way
Confessions of A Blues Singer
16
Bukka White
I Am the Heavenly Way
The Sonet Blues Story
17
Clara Ward
In That Great Judgement Morning
Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 1]
18
The Dixie Hummingbirds
In The Morning
Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds
19
Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers
He's So Wonderful
The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3]
20
Slim & Slam
Early In The Morning
Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 2)
21
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
Carolina In The Morning
Vol. 1-(1937-38)
22
Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
Where Dreams Come to Die
Django and Jimmie
23
John Lee Hooker
I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive [Album Version]
Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett
