Category Archives: Country

Two Glasses Joe

We’re heading on over to the Alibi Room, or Red’s Recovery Room, or whatever your local watering hole might be named and we’ll be doing so with the idea that the hair of the dog is what’s in order this Friday morning, recalling if we can the previous night’s bar hop celebrating country music’s favorite songs of cigareets, whiskey and wild wild women. Songs about whiskey and the glasses on the bar where stories and faces go from long to bright as the jukebox fires up. We’ll hear some classic songs from Webb Pierce, George Jones, Roger Miller and Merle Haggard alongside some contemporary sounds from the late Bill Staines, Chris Stapleton, and Dale Watson, all celebrating Johnnie Walker, Jim Beam, and Maker’s Mark…alongside a little bit of scotch and rye…neat or on the rocks. The honky tonk joints we’ll visit will likely have sawdust on the floor and a well-worn bar. Tune for the very best from the past century with your host, Dave Stroud, on KOWS Community Radio.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Cal Smith The Lord Knows I'm Drinking 20 Hits Amazon
3Ernest Tubb Two Glasses Joe Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection Amazon
4[dialogue] …People Condemn Whiskey… Heartworn Highways Amazon
5Johnny Bush Whiskey River Country USA 1972 Amazon
6Dale Watson Whiskey or God Blackjack Amazon
7Merle Haggard The Bottle Let Me Down The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1] Amazon
8Bill Staines Rye Whiskey Joe Just Play One Tune More Amazon
9Misisipi Mike Wolf Whiskey Warm and Mellow The Cold Hard Facts of Mike Amazon
10Marty Stuart/Travis Tritt The Whiskey Ain't Workin' Compadres: An Anthology of Duets Amazon
11Willie Nelson Whiskey River Shotgun Willie Amazon
12Chris Stapleton Tennessee Whiskey Traveller Amazon
13Tex Ritter Rye Whiskey High Noon Amazon
14Merle Haggard I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink 20 Hits Amazon
15Webb Pierce There Stands The Glass 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Webb Pierce Amazon
16Jerry Garcia & David Grisman Whiskey in the Jar Shady Grove Amazon
17Blue Mountain Little Stream Of Whiskey Roots Amazon
18Osborne Brothers Hey Hey Bartender 1963-1965 (Warped 6361) Amazon
19Dale Watson Hair Of The Dog A Collection Of Drinking Songs Amazon
20Dale Watson Wine Don't Lie A Collection Of Drinking Songs Amazon
21Roger Miller Chug A Lug 20 Hits Amazon
22Hank Thompson Scotch And Soda A Collection Of Drinking Songs Amazon
23George Jones Tennessee Whiskey Legendary Country Singers Amazon
24Hayes Carll Knockin' Over Whiskeys Trouble In Mind Amazon
25The Bootleg Honeys Little Whiskey Paint It Red Amazon
26Emmylou Harris Bottle Let Me Down Pieces Of The Sky Amazon
27Joe Ely Whiskey And Women And Money To Burn New Country January 1995 Amazon
28Red Ingle & His Natural Seven Cigareets, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women (Smoking) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
29Jerry Lee Lewis It Was The Whiskey Talkin' (Not Me) A Half Century Of Hits: Rockin' My Life Away [Disc 3] Amazon
30David Luning Whiskey Bottle Just Drop On By Amazon
31Hank Williams Jr. Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound Contemporary Country: The Late '70s Pure Gold Amazon
32Asleep at the Wheel Chug-A-Lug (feat. Huey Lewis) King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller Amazon
33Chris Stapleton Whiskey Sunrise Starting Over Amazon

Saved!

We go back to the church for a rousing celebration for the converted and soon-to-be-faithful. That’s right, we’re in the pews and joining in the hymnal, at least for this two hours, as Sunday morning forgiveness will always follow Saturday night’s sinner’s baptismal. We’re going to hear the echoes of the past century’s gospel songs with a general theme of being saved and born again…and there is certainly plenty to go around whether that’s southern Baptist, Appalachian harmonies or classic African American celebratory gospel. We’ve got it this morning including The Dixie Hummingbirds, Hank Williams, Carl Story, Lonnie Farris, and some contemporary selections from Shannon McNally, Bob Dylan and Solomon Burke. Let’s join in, you the faithful congregation of Deeper Roots from the past century of America’s music, for two hours celebrating that incredible wellspring of gospel sounds.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2LaVern Baker Saved Soul On Fire: Thes Best Of LaVerne Baker Amazon
3The Mighty Clouds Of Joy Saved [Album Version] Gotta Serve Somebody – The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan Amazon
4The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir I Want To Ride That Glory Train Shakin' The Rafters Amazon
5The Dixie Hummingbirds You Don't Have Nothing Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds Amazon
6The Dixie Hummingbirds I've Been Born Again Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds Amazon
7The Original Gospel Harmonettes Get Away Jordan Good News (Vol 3) Get Away Jordan Amazon
8The Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi Soul You Save I'll Make It Alright Amazon
9Nina Simone Save Me Silk and Soul (Expanded Edition) Amazon
10Louis Armstrong I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music Rhythm Saved The World Amazon
11Rev. Lonnie Farris I'm So Happy And Free The Lord Saved Me Electric / Slide Guitar Gospel Amazon
12The Staple Singers Somebody Saved Me Uncloudy Day Amazon
13The Blind Boys Of Alabama Just Wanna See His Face Spirit Of The Century Amazon
14Marty Stuart Somebody Saved Me Souls' Chapel Amazon
15Carl Story God Saved My Soul 1951-1952 (Warped 5158) Amazon
16Wilburn Brothers Don't Go Home Unsaved 1962-1963 (Warped 6302) Amazon
17Hank Williams Wealth Won't Save Your Soul I Saw The Light Amazon
18Buck Owens Jesus Saved Me Dust On Mother's Bible Amazon
19Brenda Lee Saved Brenda Lee Sings Country Vol 2 Amazon
20Bobby Charles Save Me, Jesus (mono single version) Bobby Charles Amazon
21Solomon Burke Wealth Won't Save Your Soul Make Do With What You Got Amazon
22Chip Taylor Carrie Rodriguez Him Who Saved Me The New Bye & Bye Amazon
23Bob Dylan Saved Saved Amazon
24Eugene Smith Saved The Great Gospel Men: 27 Classic Performances By The Greatest Gospel Men Amazon
25Shannon McNally Save Me Jesus Small Town Talk Amazon
26The Staple Singers Good News Uncloudy Day Amazon
27The Band Saved Moondog Matinee Amazon
28Aretha Franklin Save Me 30 Greatest Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
29Five Blind Boys of Mississippi Save a Seat for Me 20th Century Masters – The Best Of Amazon

Flying Home

A fine blend of vintage sounds on the show today, all driving down a free form track. The blend mixes gospel from Mavis Staples, some classic mid-century rock from Little Feat and Rick Nelson, all dressed up alongside to lounge and cool jazz sounds of Frank Sinatra, Lionel Hampton, Pearl Bailey, and a some classic and contemporary tunes featuring the late, great Tony Bennett. We’ve got Zydeco, classic and contemporary country, some alternative sounds from E and the Eels to share as well. We enjoy sharing a mix of the very best in a free form show every month or so and today will not disappoint. There will also be some recent tracks from Sarah Jarosz, Charley Crockett and The Brother Brothers to measure up against the throwback sounds. We’d be glad to have you once again; just dial-up your internet browser to kowsfm.com/listen or, if you’re on the run, take us with you on your mobile device by installing the KOWS app from the Google Play store or Apple App Store.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Lionel Hampton Flying Home Flying Home (His 48 Finest) Amazon
3Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots I'm Making Believe R&B Jukebox Hits 1944 Amazon
4The Ink Spots Whispering Grass BMG Vol. 01 Disc 01 1937-1958 Amazon
5Dinah Washington Manhattan Bob Dylan: Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 5 [Disc 4] Amazon
6Herb Jeffries and Shades Of Rhythm At Least You Could Save Me A Dream Hot Harmony Groups 1941-1949: Vol 3: When the Old Gang Amazon
7Buddy & Ella Johnson (Gotta Go) Upside Your Head Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
8Wynonie Harris I Feel That Old Age Coming On (12-19-48) Complete Jazz Series 1947 – 1949 Amazon
9Pearl Bailey I Can't Rock And Roll To Save My Soul The Rough And Rowdy Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. 8 Amazon
10The Amazing Rhythm Aces Third Rate Romance Stacked Deck Amazon
11Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson Swinging Doors Django and Jimmie Amazon
12Whitney Rose Honky Tonk in Mexico Rosie Amazon
13Little Feat Willin' Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat (1 of 4) Amazon
14Sarah Jarosz Simple Twist of Fate Build Me Up From Bones Amazon
15Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding John Wesley Harding Amazon
16The Brother Brothers That's How I Got To Memphis Cover to Cover Amazon
17The Everly Brothers A Brand New Heartache Bob Dylan: Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 5 [Disc 4] Amazon
18Levon Helm Stuff You Gotta Watch Electric Dirt Amazon
19Charley Crockett Just Like Honey The Man from Waco Amazon
20John Prine Summers End The Tree of Forgiveness Amazon
21Eels Summer In The City (Live At Kexp Seattle/2011) Wonderful, Glorious (Deluxe Version) Amazon
22Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur 99 Year Blues Penny's Farm Amazon
23Rick Nelson Garden Party Garden Party Amazon
24Tony Bennett I Wanna Be Around The Essential Tony Bennett [Columbia/Legacy] Disc 1 Amazon
25Tony Bennett & B.B. King Let The Good Times Roll Playing With My Friends Amazon
26Frank Sinatra & Tony Bennett New York, New York Duets Amazon
27Julie London Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) Mad Men: Music From the Series, Vol. 1 Amazon
28Gene Phillips & The Rhythm Aces My Mama Told Me Swinging The Blues Amazon
29The Gaylords Ma Ma Ma Marie Rare Songs Played on Radio, Vol. 1 Amazon
30Rosemary Clooney Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina) Tenderly Amazon
31The David Thom Band Windy City That Old Familiar Amazon

O Brother Revisited

Roots music found commercial success in 2000 with the release of the movie O Brother Where Art Thou, a finely crafted but outrageous tale of Depression-era America with fantastical imagery of hair wax, baptisms, and chain gangs woven into a tapestry built from Homer’s Odyssey. The music, assembled by T-Bone Burnett, was a major component of the film and recorded before the film even began with Burnett working with the Coen brothers while the script was in its working phases. It would become an effort that elevated a genre at the turn of the century called Americana. This week’s show will share some of the period-specific music that helped to propel the notion that blues, jazz, bluegrass, country, and gospel could be used to put that time and a ghostly familiar culture into focus. We’ll use O Brother’s musical sensibilities to take us somewhere quite familiar (and at the same time quite terrifying) as we pay homage with Americana roots, featuring sounds from The Carters, Jesse Fuller, Dan Tyminski, Jimmie Rodgers, W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys, among others.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Estil C. Ball Lonesome Valley Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals Amazon
3The Carter Family With Special Guest Johnny Cash Lonesome Valley Keep On The Sunny Side Amazon
4Harry McClintock Big Rock Candy Mountain O Brother, Where Art Thou? Amazon
5Jimmie Davis With Charles Mitchell's Orchestra You Are My Sunshine Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 1] Amazon
6Alison Krauss Down To The River To Pray A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection Amazon
7Peasall Sisters Fair and Tender Ladies Home to You Amazon
8Roberta Martin Singers The Old Ship of Zion Halleluja Gospel & Prayers Amazon
9The Stanley Brothers A Life Of Sorrow Stanley Brothers & Clinch Mountain Boys Amazon
10Dan Tyminski/Soggy Bottom Boys Man of Constant Sorrow O Brother, Where Art Thou? Amazon
11W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys Please Pass The Biscuits Pappy Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938 Amazon
12Country Gentlemen I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) 1963 (Warped 6305) Amazon
13The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys Clinch Mountain Backstep Constant Sorrow: Bluegrass From Root To Flower [Disc 3] Amazon
14The Whites Keep on the Sunny Side O Brother, Where Art Thou? Amazon
15Chuck Wagon Gang I'll Fly Away 1941-1948 (Warped 4128) Amazon
16Hannah Peasall/Leah Peasall/Sarah Peasall/The Peasall Sisters In the Highways O Brother, Where Art Thou? Amazon
17Ralph Stanley Oh, Death (Featuring Gillian Welch) Clinch Mountain Sweethearts Amazon
18Jesse Fuller Amazing Grace 15 Down Home Gospel Classics Amazon
19The Statler Brothers Statler Brothers – Amazing Grace Bless This House [Disc 3] Amazon
20The Stanley Brothers Angel Band O Brother, Where Art Thou? Amazon
21Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Cryin' Holy Unto My Lord Constant Sorrow: Bluegrass From Root To Flower [Disc 2] Amazon
22Doc Watson In the Jailhouse Now Memories Amazon
23Robert Johnson They're Red Hot ABC Of The Blues Vol 18 Amazon
24Lefty Frizzell My Rough And Rowdy Ways Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers Amazon
25Jimmie Rodgers Frankie And Johnnie Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 2] Amazon
26Peerless Four Trouble in My Way Southern Journey Vol 8 (Velvet Voices: Eastern Shores Choirs, Quartets, and Colonial Era Music) Amazon
27Chuck Wagon Gang/Jack Greene Family Bible 70th Anniversary Amazon
28J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers Goin' Down To The River Of Jordan Take Me To The Water Amazon
29The Carter Family River Of Jordan Can The Circle Be Unbroken Amazon
30W. Lee O'Daniel O'Daniel radio show sign off Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938 Amazon
31The Carter Family Can The Circle Be Unbroken Can The Circle Be Unbroken Amazon
32John Hartford Indian War Whoop [Instrumental] O Brother, Where Art Thou? Amazon

Soothe Me

We’re digging into the archives. Deep down into the wells…for a collection of rhythm & blues, country, gospel, and tradition with performances from Patsy Cline, Sonny Boy Williamson, Marty Stuart, Dinah Washington and nearly three dozen others. Friday morning inspiration from the courtroom bench, the gospel pew, and from the piano bench…as we bring you another episode of the very best of the past 100 years to the stream. There’s trouble and some double entendre from Julia Lee, some rousing sanctified call and response from Eugene Smith and The Roberta Martin Singers, as well as a bootleg Dylan piece that we’ll share with you. Join Dave Stroud this coming Friday morning for the very best of America’s music from the past century.
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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Bob Dylan I Want You (Take 4, Alternate Take) The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12 (Sampler) Amazon
3Eugene Smith And The Roberta Martin Singers Satisfied How Sweet it Was Amazon
4Marie Knight Satisfied With Jesus Hallelujah What A Song! Amazon
5Spiritual Five Satisfied With Him I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983 [Disc 3] Amazon
6Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers I Have A Friend Above All Others The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
7Johnnie Taylor/The Soul Stirrers Walk With Me 20 Gospel Greats Amazon
8Sam Cooke Trouble In Mind The Rhythm And The Blues Amazon
9Steve Forbert Devil (Here She Comes Now) Compromised Amazon
10Shorty Long Devil With a Blue Dress On Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 Disc 1 Amazon
11Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels Devil with the Blue Dress On /Good Golly Miss Molly Detroit Breakout! 1 Amazon
12Julia Lee Trouble In Mind Kansas City Star [Disc 1] Amazon
13Julia Lee Lotus Blossom Kansas City Star [Disc 1] Amazon
14Wynonie Harris Good Morning Judge All She Wants To Do Is Rock Amazon
15Chuck Berry Have Mercy Judge The Chess Box Disc 3 Amazon
16Carl Martin Good Morning, Judge Carl Martin, Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan, Willie "61" Blackwell — Complete Recorded Works Amazon
17Sonny Boy Williamson Your Funeral And My Trial His Best: Sonny Boy Williamson – The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection Amazon
18Hugh Laurie Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair Didn't It Rain (Deluxe) Amazon
19Dinah Washington Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair The Bessie Smith Songbook Amazon
20Johnny Otis Court Room Blues Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1] Amazon
21Jorma Kaukonen Judge, I'm Not Sorry The Land Of Heroes Amazon
22The Country Gentlemen The Sentence The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
23Ernest Tubb Dear Judge Last Sessions: All Time Greatest Hits Disc 2 Amazon
24Patsy Cline A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye Live at the Opry Amazon
25Washboard Sam Bucket's Got a Hole in It [Remastered 2002] That's Chicago's South Side (When the Sun Goes Down series) Amazon
26Hank Williams My Bucket's Got A Hole In It The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 18 Amazon
27Louis Armstrong & All His Stars My Bucket's Got A Hole In It The Ultimate Collection [Disc 2] Amazon
28Page & Plant My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy Of Sun Records Amazon
29Joe Ely Rock Me My Baby Musta Notta Gotta Lotta [rem] (1981) Amazon
30Marty Stuart A Satisfied Mind Country Music Amazon
31Tennessee Ernie Ford Cool, Cool Kisses Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3] Amazon
32Bea Foote Weed The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
33Sam & Dave Soothe Me The Best Of Sam & Dave Amazon
34The Persuasions Soothe Me Good News Amazon

Summer Sun

Summer’s here and you know what that means…we’ll be running through a bit of theme, this time with the focus on all that we celebrate in summer. With the Fourth of July coming up we’ll turn our attention to barbecues, baseball, ice cream treats, the warmth of the sun, swimming holes, and everything summer. Tune in for some terrific tracks from Dean Martin, Johnny Rivers, The Four Preps, Walter Wanderly and a whole lot more. It took us six months for the days to get longer and now it’s another six months of diminished daylight but that’s what make three other seasons something to relish…I guess. So whether you’re shipping kids off to summer camp, planning for this year’s visit to the Fair, or planning a trip to a ballpark or beach, know that it’ll be warmer than colder and we’re here to play the background music here on Sonoma County Community Radio, KOWS-LP, 92.5 FM Occidental, streaming to all over this big blue marble on kowsfm.com/listen.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Beach Boys All Summer Long All Summer Long Amazon
3The Donkeys Theme From The Endless Summer Theme From The Endless Summer [single] Amazon
4Jack Nitzsche The Lonely Surfer Cowabunga! The Surf Box Disc 2 Amazon
5The Beach Boys Keep An Eye On Summer Summer Love Songs Amazon
6Nat King Cole That Sunday, That Summer 30 Greatest Hits Disc 1 Amazon
7The Four Preps 26 Miles (Santa Catalina) Banana Split for My Baby Amazon
8The Grand Southern The Boys of Summer Don't Say Anything Amazon
9Terry Cashman Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey & "The Duke") 61* [Box Set] Disc 1 Amazon
10John Fogerty Centerfield Sing America Amazon
11Sister Wynona Carr The Ball Game Baseball Anthems Amazon
12Betty Bonney & Les Brown and His Orchestra Joltin' Joe Dimaggio Baseball Anthems Amazon
13Ronnie Isle and the Blisters Bad Sunburn Banana Split for My Baby Amazon
14Dean Martin w. Dick Stabile Orchestra In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening Good Old Summertime Amazon
15The Four Mints Night Air Good Old Summertime Amazon
16Jo Ann Campbell Beach Comber Banana Split for My Baby Amazon
17Frank Triolo and the Shipmates Orchestra Ice Cream Baby Banana Split for My Baby Amazon
18The Pearls Ice Cream Baby Another Banana Split, please Amazon
19Leslie Uggams and Hugo Peretti Orchestra Ice Cream Man Banana Split for My Baby Amazon
20Fred Waring; Pennsylvanians I Scream, You Scream (We All Scream for Ice Cream) The Silly Songs (1922 to 1934) Amazon
21Walter Wanderley Summer Samba Instrumental Favorites- Latin Rhythms Amazon
22Johnny Rivers Summer Rain Anthology: 1964-1977 [Disc 2] Amazon
23Santo & Johnny Summertime Sleepwalk – The First Two Albums Amazon
24Les Paul & Mary Ford In The Good Old Summertime The Best Of The Capitol Masters: 90th Birthday Edition Amazon
25Loudon Wainwright III The Swimming Song Attempted Mustache Amazon
26Bobby Bare They Covered Up the Old Swimming Hole Memories – RCA Singles 1962 – 1969 Amazon
27Tennessee Ernie Ford and Cliffie Stone's Music Sunday Barbecue Banana Split for My Baby Amazon
28Robert Earl Keen Barbeque Gringo Honeymoon Amazon
29Buzz Cason Barbeque Hats Off To Hank Amazon
30Wendy Waldman Long Hot Summer Nights Love Is The Only Goal: The Best Of Wendy Waldman Amazon
31Plains Summer Sun I Walked With You A Ways Amazon
32Robin Ward Wonderful Summer Vintage Collectors Series Music, Volume 11 & 12 Amazon
33Don Henley The Boys Of Summer Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits Amazon

Songs About The Telephone

A theme show once again, this week with the telephone as our muse. Songs about the most important of communication devices which has fused with social media to the benefit, and equal detriment, of all mankind. From the early call from Bell to Watson to the proverbial football that our fearless leader carries around to make the one call to eradicate or, better yet, save mankind. This week we’ll visit the long lost guide known as the “operator” and the equally antiquated term “dial” with music from country, pop, soul, and rock archives of yesterday. Kick back and be entertained by the sounds of Brenda Lee, Sister Wynona Carr, Stonewall Jackson, Loretta Lynn & Ernest Tubb, and Bill Fury in a collection of the very best from multiple genres here on Sonoma County Community Radio, broadcasting in West County on 92.5 FM and streaming to all mankind on kowsfm.com/listen. Drop in why don’t you?

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Laurel And Hardy Long Distance Laurel & Hardy – Songs and Sketches from the Hal Roach Films Amazon
3The Manhattan Transfer Operator The Manhattan Transfer Amazon
4Sister Wynona Carr Operator, Operator Dragnet For Jesus Amazon
5The Spirit Of Memphis Quartet Atomic Telephone The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
6The Golden Gate Quartet I Just Telephone Upstairs Vol. 6 (1949-1952) Amazon
7Selah Jubilee Singers Royal Telephone Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 (1939-1941) Amazon
8Burl Ives Royal Telephone Greatest Hits Amazon
9The Carter Family Hello Central! Give Me Heaven The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5] Amazon
10Doc Watson No Telephone In Heaven My Dear Old Southern Home Amazon
11Stuart Hamblen When My Lord Picks Up The Phone Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2 Amazon
12Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn Answer The Phone (w/ Loretta Lynn) A Tribute To A Legend Amazon
13Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone Honky Tonk Girl: The Loretta Lynn Collection [Disc 3] Amazon
14Stonewall Jackson Can't Hang Up the Phone Singles Amazon
15Guy Mitchell with Jimmy Carroll & his Orchestra Call Rosie On The Phone The Best Of Guy Mitchell Amazon
16Dusty Owens Hello Operator Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2 Amazon
17Tom T. Hall Jesus On the Radio (Daddy On the Phone) The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall Amazon
18George Jones Wrong Number Star Creek Promotions 4 Amazon
19Hank Penny Hold The Phone Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2 Amazon
20Lattie Moore The Jukebox And The Phone Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2 Amazon
21The Grateful Dead Operator American Beauty Amazon
22Billy Fury Phone Call Talking On The Telephone Vol. 3 – Rock & Roll and Teen Pop Amazon
23Brenda Lee Ring-A-My-Phone Talking On The Telephone Vol. 3 – Rock & Roll and Teen Pop Amazon
24Mickey & Sylvia Can't Get You On The Phone Rock With A Sock Amazon
25Lew Williams Teenager's Talkin' On The Phone Talking On The Telephone Vol. 3 – Rock & Roll and Teen Pop Amazon
26The Big Bopper Chantilly Lace Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 3 Amazon
27Boozoo Chavis Telephone Won't Ring The Lake Charles Atomic Bomb (Original Goldband Recordings) Amazon
28Cecil Gant Long Distance Call Talking On The Telephone Vol.1 – Blues, R&B And Gospel Amazon
29Johnny "Guitar" Watson Telephone Boogie ABC Of The Blues Vol 49 Amazon
30Jimmy McCracklin What's Your Phone Number Talking On The Telephone Vol.1 – Blues, R&B And Gospel Amazon
31Floyd Dixon Telephone Blues The Cocktail Combos [Disc 3] Amazon
32The Treniers Long Distance Blues Talking On The Telephone Vol.1 – Blues, R&B And Gospel Amazon
33Marvelettes Beechwood 4-5789 The Soul of Detroit – Disc 1 Amazon
34The Orlons Don't Hang Up Malt Shop Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 2) Amazon
35Mary Wells Operator The Soul of Detroit – Disc 2 Amazon
36Tommy Sands Ring My Phone Talking On The Telephone Vol. 3 – Rock & Roll and Teen Pop Amazon
37Paul Anka Kissin' On The Phone Talking On The Telephone Vol. 3 – Rock & Roll and Teen Pop Amazon
38Glenn Miller & His Orchestra Pennsylvania 6-5000 The Centennial Collection Disc 1 Amazon
39Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys Maybe She'll Write Me, Maybe She'll Phone Maybe She'll Write Me, Maybe She'll Phone Me Whoopee Hey Hey! Amazon

Sass & Gas

An eclectic episode full of sass, gas and plenty of brass. We’re going the free form route today and there’ll be plenty of embellishments to the morning as we take a blindfolded trip through a hall of mirrors with some classy vocals from Frankie, Peggy Lee and Helen Forrest; some honky tonk whiskey-in-the-bottle twangin’ from George Jones, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee; rocking rhythm passion from Tina Turner, The Marquees, and Elmore James; and much more including some little known nuggets from Bob Dylan, Merle Travis, and Daddy Cleanhead. We’re going to set the morning on fire with plenty of fuel from the deeper wells of the past century of America’s music. You don’t want to miss out. Join Dave Stroud for another Friday morning selection of wild tune-age on KOWS Community Radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Hank Penny Hold The Phone Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2 Amazon
3Ike & Tina Turner It's Gonna Work Out Fine Birth Of Soul: 3 Amazon
4Marshall Crenshaw Blues Is King Downtown Amazon
5Daddy Cleanhead Something's Goin' On In My Room Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 2] Amazon
6The Marquees Hey Little Schoolgirl OKeh Rhythm & Blues Amazon
7The Delta Rhythm Boys Dry Bones The Best Of 1940-50 Amazon
8James Taylor Coming Back To You Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen Amazon
9Bob Dylan Braggin' Triplicate Amazon
10Frank Sinatra I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 2] Amazon
11Peggy Lee I'm Beginning To See The Light Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four Amazon
12Glen Gray & The Casa Lorne Orchestra Blue Moon Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals Amazon
13The Artie Shaw Orchestra Feat. Helen Forrest Deep In A Dream The Essential Artie Shaw [Disc 2] Amazon
14Buddy Emmons Deep In The Heart Of Texas Buddy Emmons Sings Bob Wills Amazon
15Geraint Watkins Deep in the Heart of Texas Aide Memoire Amazon
16Carl Perkins Matchbox Original Sun Greatest Hits Amazon
17Jimmie Dale Gilmore Train of Love Come on Back Amazon
18Slim Whitman Down In The Valley Wagon Wheels [Disc 2] Amazon
19The Handsome Family Down In the Valley of Hollow Logs Through the Trees Amazon
20The Louvin Brothers The Wreck On The Highway Sing the Great Roy Acuff Songs Amazon
21George Jones Just One More The Best Of George Jones: 1955-1967 Amazon
22Geraint Watkins Heart of Stone Rush of Blood Amazon
23Merle Travis I Used To Work In Chicago The Guitar Picker CD1 – Divorce Me C. O. D. Amazon
24Webb Pierce California Blues Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Second Series Amazon
25The Carlisles Nine Have Tried (and None Have Died) (Second Countdown) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
26Hank Williams No, No Joe Beyond The Sunset Amazon
27Charlie Louvin Katy Dear Charlie Louvin Sings Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs Amazon
28Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Cadillac in Model "A" Legends of Country Music Disc 4 Amazon
29Jerry Lee Lewis End of the Road 25 All-Time Greatest Sun Recordings Amazon
30Everly Brothers I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail Classic Everly Brothers – Vol. 2 Amazon
31Johnny Cash Train Of Love His Sun Years: Down South Amazon
32T-Bone Burnett I'm Coming Home Truth Decay Amazon
33Bob Dylan Ring Them Bells Oh Mercy Amazon
34Steve Allen This Could Be The Start Of Something Big Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 2] Amazon

Imperial Rhythm & Rockabilly

The Imperial label will be the subject of this week’s Deeper Roots show. Founded in 1947 by Lew Chudd, it’s early years featured some of the very best rhythm and blues and early rock you could find. Their lineup included some of the big names of early rock, not least of which was Roy Brown, Fats Domino, Frankie Ford and Ricky Nelson. They would dabble in country and jazz but also looked to strike while the iron was hot when Elvis hit with a blend of country and rhythm and blues in the mid-50s. They did so by looking for new names with ducktails and driving combos in the rockabilly era. This episode focuses primarily on the 1950s with a future episode taking us further into the label’s sale to Liberty Records in 1963 but not before Lew Chudd purchased Aladdin and Minit Records, bringing over even more of the R&B talent that they would be known for. It’s another Deeper Roots Friday morning on KOWS.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Fats Domino The Fat Man Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Piano Blues – A Film By Clint Eastwood Amazon
3Smiley Lewis Tee-Nah-Nah I Hear You Knocking 1947-1962 Disc 1 Amazon
4Guitar Slim and His Band Bad Luck Is On Me [Woman Troubles] Louisiana Swamp Blues Amazon
5Big Jay McNeely All That Wine Is Gone Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 1] Amazon
6T-Bone Walker Cold Cold Feeling Best Of Black & White & Imperial Years Amazon
7Fat Man Matthews & the Four Kittens Later Baby Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 3 Amazon
8Fats Domino Goin' Home Rock And Rollin Amazon
9Lil' Son Jackson Get High Everybody Vol. 2 1950-1952 Amazon
10Smiley Lewis Big Mamou I Hear You Knocking 1947-1962 Disc 2 Amazon
11Hawks I-Yi Money Honey – Rise of the Black Vocal Group 51-53 Amazon
12Pee Wee Crayton Win-O Pee Wee's Blues – The Complete Aladdin And Imperial Recordings Amazon
13Joe Houston Orchestra All Night Long Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 4 Amazon
14The Pelicans Ain't Gonna Do It Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 2 Amazon
15The Spiders I Didn't Want To Do It Sound Of The City, The – New Orleans [UK] Disc 1 Amazon
16Dave Bartholomew Another Mule 1952-1955 Amazon
17James "Sugar Boy" Crawford She Gotta Wobble (When She Walks) (Imperial 5424) R&B Humdingers Volume 12 Amazon
18Bobby Mitchell with Dave Bartholomew's Orch.' Try Rock And Roll Blowing The Fuse: 1956 Amazon
19Lew Williams Cat Talk Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks Amazon
20Lew Williams Gone Ape Man Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
21Merle Kilgore Ernie Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
22The Strikes Baby I'm Sorry Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
23Bob Luman Red Hot Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
24Ricky Nelson Stood Up Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
25Ricky Nelson Boppin' The Blues Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
26Ricky Nelson Waitin' In School Legacy [Disc 1] Amazon
27Dennis Herrold Hip Hip Baby Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
28Weldon Rogers So Long, Good Luck & Goodbye Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
29Dorsey & Johnny Burnette My Honey Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
30Dorsey & Johnny Burnette Warm Love Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
31Slick Slavin Speed Crazy Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
32Bill Allen Please Give Me Something Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
33Jackie Walker Only Teenagers Allowed Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
34Billy Eldridge Let's Go Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story Amazon
35Faye Adams Keeper Of My Heart Crescent City Soul Amazon
36Roy Brown Let the Four Winds Blow The Complete Imperial Recordings Amazon
37Ricky Nelson My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Legacy [Disc 1] Amazon

Covers Time

Another morning of covers, from country to soul and a little bit of rhythm and roll in store. This week’s show celebrates the songwriters and performers who found themselves honored with tributes and covers that honor the sense of a piece. We’ll hear covers of Tom T. Hall, Arthur Alexander, Robert Hunter, Derek Martin, Hank Snow and JJ Cale in the show today. The idea is to find a cover worth noting and put it up alongside the original. Just over a dozen songs to pick from in our two hours this morning featuring covers by Shannon McNally, Charley Crockett, Amy Black and Teddy Thompson. Join Dave Stroud for another episode from those dusty digital bins and turn up the volume for straight interpretations and a few wild takes in another covers show on a Friday morning from the KOWS studio in downtown Santa Rosa, California. 

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Everly Brothers Bowling Green Heartaches & Harmonies [Disc 3] Amazon
3Neko Case Bowling Green The Virginian Amazon
4Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels Devil With a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly Red, White & Rock Disc 3 Amazon
5Bill Kirchen Devil With The Blue Dress (Album Version) Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods Amazon
6Willie Nelson Busted I Don't Know A Thing About Love Amazon
7Ray Charles Busted Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3 Amazon
8Red Foley Midnight Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3] Amazon
9Kevin Russell Midnight Plain Dirt Fashion Amazon
10Elvis Presley It's Now Or Never Elvis 30 #1 Hits Amazon
11Chris Isaak It's Now or Never Beyond the Sun (Deluxe Version) Amazon
12Elvis Presley Don't Be Cruel Elvis' Golden Records (Volume 1) Amazon
13The Mavericks Don't Be Cruel Play the Hits Amazon
14Derek Martin Daddy Rollin' Stone Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
15The Blasters Daddy Rollin' Stone 4-11-44 Amazon
16Wilson Pickett In the Midnight Hour Red, White & Rock Disc 2 Amazon
17James Taylor In The Midnight Hour Other Covers Amazon
18Bob Luman Let's Think About Living Gems from the Warner Brothers Vault (Pt. 1) Amazon
19Teddy Thompson Let's Think About Living Up Front And Down Low Amazon
20Tom T. Hall I Hope It Rains At My Funeral Tom T. Hall – Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher Amazon
21Charley Crockett I Hope It Rains At My Funeral Lil G.L. Presents: Jukebox Charley Amazon
22The Impressions Gypsy Woman Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
23Aaron Neville Gypsy Woman My True Story Amazon
24Arthur Alexander You Better Move On The Greatest Hits Amazon
25Amy Black You Better Move On The Muscle Shoals Sessions Amazon
26Hank Snow I'm Moving On The Essential Hank Snow Amazon
27Willie Nelson I'm Movin' On Remember Me, Vol. 1 Amazon
28John Martyn Don't Want to Know Solid Air Amazon
29Dr. John I Don't Wanna Know Anutha Zone Amazon
30Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Sugar Moon Legends of Country Music Disc 4 Amazon
31k.d. lang Sugar Moon Shadowland Amazon