This week‘s show brings us echoes of resistance from the past because there’s a storm brewing, stirring from the louder voices of people recognizing that fascism has settled in. People in this country are getting organized around a common anger that democracy and freedom is being taken from them. The political fortification led by Republican leadership co-opted by white nationalism and support for the gestapo tactics must be held in check and the voices of the ballot box will be the final determination; that is, if there is time. Music this week features Roy Zimmerman, Billy Bragg, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and a whole host of sounds from the past century whose musical voices raged when fascism and autocracy attempted to take hold. Money is the root of this evil, make no mistake. There is always hope, however, and we need to be here for each other while practicing self-care with family and friends. The storm clouds are now above us and it’s up to all of us. Now. Not later.
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Gene "Mighty Flea" Conners & McCrarys
We Shall Overcome
Gospel Caravan
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Allen Toussaint
Yes We Can Can
Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album
4
Pete Seeger
Which Side Are You On
Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits
5
John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band
Power To The People
Gimme Some Truth [Disc 1]
6
Buffalo Springfield
For What It's Worth
Buffalo Springfield
7
Molly Brandt
Revolution on the Horizon
American Saga
8
Tracy Chapman
Talkin' Bout a Revolution
Tracy Chapman
9
Woody Guthrie
Tear the Fascists Down
My Dusty Road
10
Alan Lomax
All Of You Fascists Bound To Lose
Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co
11
The Tillers
All You Fascists Bound to Lose
The Tillers
12
Marc Ribot
Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) (feat. Tom Waits)
Songs of Resistance 1942 – 2018
13
Garland Jeffreys
Wild in the Streets
Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]
14
Jefferson Airplane
Volunteers
Volunteers
15
Public Enemy
Fight The Power
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
16
Perla Batalla
The Partisan
A Letter to Leonard Cohen
17
Isley Brothers
Fight the Power EDIT
FunkGASM
18
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
This Land is Your Land (Digital Album Exclusive)
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Is In)
19
Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
Crawl into the Promised Land
Crawl Into the Promised Land (Single)
20
Nanci Griffith
Hell No (I'm Not Alright)
Occupy This Album
21
Bruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A.
Chapter & Verse
22
Nina Simone
Revolution
Anthology Disc 2
23
R.B. Morris
That's How Every Empire Falls
Singing Through the Wall. Songs for Western Sahara
24
Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land (Alternate Version)
Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
25
Dropkick Murphys
All You Fonies
This Machine Still Kills Fascists
26
Gil Scott-Heron
Whitey On The Moon
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
27
Lou Christie
Self Expression (The Kids on the Street Will Never Give In)
Enlightnin'ment: The Best of Lou Christie
28
John Fogerty
Fortunate Son
The Long Road Home: Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection
29
Billy Bragg & Wilco
All You Fascists
Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2
30
Marvin Gaye
What's Going On
Singers And Songwriters 1970-1971 [Disc 1]
31
Marc Ribot
How To Walk In Freedom (feat. Sam Amidon & Fay Victor)
Spring is knock-knock-knocking…and our Supreme Court is push-push-pushing back on the idea of Emperor Grandpa McFuddlepants. And why not? They created it. But here, we’re busy painting the town with hope and there’s a sense that there’s something in the air as this week’s show leans on the fabric of Americana sounds to get us through yet another week of hate speech from Pennsylvania Avenue. We’ll apply an salve of sweet sounds from Jerry Garcia, Jackie Wilson, Townes Van Zandt, Billie Holiday, and that late local luminary and bard about town Dan Hicks in this week’s show. It’s a free form dance we’re taking on so I hope you make time or, if you can’t catch us live on KOWS, you can catch up on our archives posted on Podomatic at https://deeperroots.podomatic.com
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Something in the Air
Greatest Hits
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Marshall Crenshaw
Who Stole That Train
Miracle of Science
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Them
Baby Please Don't Go
Them Featuring Van Morrison
5
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
Anyway The Wind Blows
Anyway The Wind Blows
6
John Hiatt
Radio Girl
Slug Line
7
Townes Van Zandt
(Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria
Townes Van Zandt
8
Charley Crockett
Jamestown Ferry
Lonesome Drifter
9
Ray Charles
Take These Chains from My Heart
Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
10
Jackie Wilson
I Just Can't Help It
The Jackie Wilson Story [Sony]
11
Little Jimmy Dickens
I Can't Help It
The Old Country Church/Raisin' The Dickens
12
James Hunter Six
Can't Help Myself
Nick of Time
13
Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra
Big Mamou
Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
14
David Lindley
Your Old Lady
El Rayo-X
15
Aereo-Plain Band/John Hartford
Keep on Truckin'
Steam Powered Aereo-Takes
16
Hot Tuna
Keep On Truckin'
Burgers
17
Jorma Kaukonen
Big River Blues
Blue Country Heart
18
Maria Muldaur
It Ain't The Meat, It's The Motion
Maria Muldaur
19
Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande)
The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973
20
Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Canned Music
The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973
21
Jerry Garcia
Deal
Garcia
22
The Youngbloods
Grizzly Bear
Get Together: The Essential Youngbloods
23
Sonny James
Innocent Lies
Singles
24
Billie Holiday
God Bless the Child
Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
25
Jackson Browne
These Days
The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne
There’s an echo in the well of Americana and it reverberates from tradition and some of the early songsmiths and blues masters who delivered the blues proper through the depths of the past century of America’s music. We’ll be pulling some of the classic blues covers of songs composed by just a small collection of the great blues masters: Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Blake and beyond in this week’s episode. There is seldom enough time to make a dent in only two hours but we’ll do our best with covers from some of the inheritors like BB King, Carl Perkins, Bob Dylan, Jorma Kaukonen and a couple dozen others. We’re excavating some deeper roots this week and then tilling the airwaves with freshly turned songs of the earth; a landscape of blues cutting a deep swath across the musical landscape of the past 100 years. Celebrating blues and those who brought it home this week on KOWS Community Radio.
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Graham Parker
Poor Me
Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
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Rising Sons
By And By (Poor Me) [Album Version]
Rising Sons
4
Charlie Musselwhite
Pea Vine Blues
Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
5
Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson
Police Dog Blues
Quah [Bonus Tracks]
6
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Black Snake Moan
Braver Newer World
7
Bo Diddley
Diddy Wah Diddy
Bo Knows Bo
8
Bob Dylan
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Bob Dylan
9
Andy Fairweather Low
Matchbox
The Invisible Bluesman
10
Carl Perkins
Matchbox
Dixie Fried
11
Sam Price and his Texas Blusic
Match Box Blues
1929-1941
12
B.B. King
Tomorrow Night
Reflections
13
Lonnie Johnson, John Hughes, Roy Coulter
Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow Night
14
John Sebastian
I Found A Dream – (Live At Winterland)
Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings – Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings [Disc 3]
15
Lonnie Johnson
I Found A Dream
Blues & Ballads (With Elmer Snowden) (Reissued 1990)
16
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Rambler's Blues
A Stranger Here
17
Elmore James
Call It Stormy Monday
Greatest Blues Legends
18
Roomful of Blues
I Know Your Wig Is Gone
That's Right
19
Boz Scaggs
T-Bone Shuffle
Come On Home
20
Peter Wolf
Rollin' & Tumblin'
A Tribute To Muddy Waters – King Of The Blues
21
Shannon McNally
The Stuff You Gotta Watch
Black Irish
22
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Cross My Heart
Chess Blues Guitar / Two Decades Of Killer Fretwork, 1949-1969
23
Johnny Winter
Help Me
The Progressive Blues Experiment
24
Dr. John/John Hammond, Jr./Michael Bloomfield
Last Night
Triumvirate
25
Tommy Castro And The Painkillers
Bad Luck
Method To My Madness
26
Dinah Washington
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
Verve Unmixed
27
Louis Jordan
Caldonia
Number Ones
28
B.B. King
Jack, You're Dead!
Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan
It was without question a natural progression. All of the attributes that country inherited from gospel, blues, and jazz resulted in what amounted to competition in the charts (and in some mid-century cultural clashes). Although The Beatles had suggested a kinship with mid-sixties tributes to Buck Owens and Chet Atkins, the only comfortable way to make the marriage work was to have it come from other directions…specifically from cultural prods of Nudie suits, coupled with folk and country nudges, and the inevitable respect for the music. Gram Parsons’ influence on the late sixties rise of something they called ‘country rock’ is easy to find but Dylan’s John Wesley Harding album from 1968, The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo, and Leon Russell’s alter-ego Hank Wilson opened the doors to a sound that swept the charts. We’ll hear some originals, covers, and a whole lot more in this week’s Deeper Roots. Hope y’all can join us.
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Gram Parsons
Streets Of Baltimore
G.P. / Grievous Angel
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Gram Parsons
The New Soft Shoe
G.P. / Grievous Angel
4
The Beatles
Act Naturally
Help! [UK]
5
Buck Owens
Act Naturally
Remember the Titans: An Original Walt Disney Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000 Film)
6
The Byrds
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns – The Soundtrack [Disc 2]
7
The Byrds
The Christian Life
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
8
The Louvin Brothers
The Christian Life
Long Play Collection
9
Tex Ritter
Blue Canadian Rockies
Have I Stayed Away Too Long
10
The Byrds
Blue Canadian Rockies
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
11
Bob Dylan
John Wesley Harding
John Wesley Harding
12
Leon Russell
She Thinks I Still Care
Hank Wilson's Back [Bonus Tracks]
13
Leon Russell
I'll Sail My Ship Alone
Hank Wilson's Back [Bonus Tracks]
14
Leon Russell
Uncle Pen
Hank Wilson's Back [Bonus Tracks]
15
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
Uncle Pen
Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 2]
16
Moon Mullican
I'll Sail My Ship Alone
The Very Best Of
17
George Jones
She Thinks I Still Care
Swingers [Original Soundtrack]
18
Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons
Love Hurts
Duets
19
The Louvin Brothers
The Angels Rejoiced Last Night
Close Harmony [Disc 4]
20
Emmylou Harris/Gram Parsons
The Angels Rejoiced Last Night
Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems Disc 1
21
Hank Williams
Half as Much
24 Greatest
22
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers
Half As Much
At The Ryman [Live]
23
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers
Cattle Call
At The Ryman [Live]
24
Tex Owens
Cattle Call
Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
25
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers
Get Up John
At The Ryman [Live]
26
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
Get Up John
Bill Monroe: Anthology
27
Neil Young
Oh, Lonesome Me
After the Gold Rush
28
Various Artists
Don Gibson – Oh Lonesome Me
Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 7
29
Jackson Browne
Red Neck Friend (LP Version)
For Everyman
30
Eagles
Take It Easy
Selected Works 1972-1999: The Early Years
31
Bob Dylan
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
John Wesley Harding
32
Linda Ronstadt
I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol. 4
33
Asleep at the Wheel
Ida Red
A Tribute To The Music Of Bob Wills (Dance Versions)
34
George Jones
You're Still On My Mind
Complete Collection 1960-1962 [Disc 4] individual albums
While we often touch on the contemporary songs of our own and subsequent generations in the show, we also like to drill into the performers and sounds that contributed to our musical heritage. The foundation of America’s music is not just a single flavor. It is a melting pot of many from all corners: the British Isles, the African continent, the islands of the Caribbean, and points south and north. The resulting harmonies, topics, and musical celebrations have further woven themselves into the fabric of our culture. This week’s show leans on some pieces that were suggested by a listener and this allowed me to take liberties when digging a bit deeper for the show. We’ll hear from Pete Seeger, The Million Dollar Quartet, Buck Owens, Alison Krauss and Mississippi Fred McDowell. We’ll also take in the American Songbag’s In The Pines and then proceed down the river and over the hill in the show this week.
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Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
99-1/2 Won't Do [Live]
The Gospel Music Of Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives [Live]
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Annie Mae & Fred McDowell
I'm Going Over The Hill
The Essential Guide To Gospel
4
Stringbean
Going Over the Hill
Layin' Low
5
John Martyn
Over the Hill
Couldn't Love You More
6
Mahalia Jackson
Just Over the Hill
Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting with Mahalia Jackson
7
Buck Owens
Goin' Down To The River
Buck Owens Four Classic Albums [Disc 4]
8
Alison Krauss
Down To The River To Pray
Oxford American Southern Sampler 2000
9
Ray Charles
I'm Going Down To The River
Ain't That Fine
10
Suzy Boggus
It All Falls Down To The River w/ McCrary Sisters
Prayin' For Sunshine
11
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Going Down The River
The First Recordings
12
Etta Baker & Taj Mahal
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
Etta Baker With Taj Mahal
13
Bobby Bare
Going Down the Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way) fcc warning
Darker Than Light
14
Down Like Silver
To the River
Light That Match – Single
15
Lead Belly
Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
Best Of Leadbelly
16
The Browns
In the Pines
Classics 1960 (Warped 6062)
17
Dave Van Ronk
In the Pines
The Folkway Years: 1959-1961
18
Robert Johnson
Crossroads Blues
Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
19
Elmore James
Standing At The Crossroads
Let's Cut It: The Very Best Of Elmore James
20
The Million Dollar Quartet
Great Speckled Bird
The Million Dollar Quartet: 50th Anniversary Special Edition
21
Buzz Cason
Hats Off to Hank
Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank
22
Hank Williams & Hank Williams, Jr.
There's A Tear In My Beer
Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 10
23
Hank Williams, Jr.
Tee Tot Song
Almeria Club
24
Dallas Wayne
Crank the Hank
Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank
25
Pat Johnson
Hank And Tee Tot
Acoustic Rainbow Roots Volume 48
26
Washboard Sam
Bucket's Got a Hole in It [Remastered 2002]
That's Chicago's South Side (When the Sun Goes Down series)
Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future…and it’s tickin’ tickin’ tickin’, too. Steve Miller certainly summed it up and our theme this week is all about the passing of time, events that take place in time, biding our time, and recalling a time. We’ll be making a swing through a number of genres and performers including Little Joe, Booker T., Bobby Bare, Evie Sands, Tom Waits and Harry James. But there’s plenty more including classic country, mid-to-late century rock n’ roll, folkie business, and the sweet torch songs that take us back. We’ve chosen to forego the Christmas celebrations because, for the most part, we can hear it elsewhere and the season is a short one with some desperation on the doorstep. Tune in for a journey through the past century of America’s music on community radio for West Sonoma Country, streaming to all of planet Earth at the same time on kowsfm.com/listen. We’d love to have you.
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Steve Miller Band
Fly Like An Eagle (2006 Digital Remaster)
Fly Like An Eagle – 30th Anniversary
3
Little Joe Cook
It's Been a Long Time
Peanuts and Other Delicacies: The Little Joe Cook Story (1951-1962)
4
Steve Forbert
It's Been a Long Time
Young Guitar Days
5
Harry James & His Orchestra
Its Been A Long Long Time
The Women of WW2 [V 4]
6
Ella Mae Morse
A Long Time Ago
Barrelhouse, Boogie, And The Blues [Disc 5]
7
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Long Time Gone
Crosby, Stills & Nash
8
Tom Waits
Time
Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
9
Mick Lloyd
A Long Long Time Ago
…Next Stop Is Vietnam – The War On Record, 1961-2008
10
Los Lobos Feat. Dave Alvin
Somewhere In Time
The Ride
11
Charley Crockett
Time of the Cottonwood Trees
The Man from Waco
12
Connie Smith
Plenty of Time
1970-1971 (Warped 7108F)
13
Evie Sands
Untill It's Time For You To Go
Any Way That You Want Me
14
Junior Brown
Baby Let The Bad Times Be
12 Shades of Brown
15
The Louvin Brothers
Are You Wasting My Time
Long Play Collection
16
Don Williams
Tulsa Time
The Definitive Collection
17
Bobby Bare
One Day at a Time (1965)
All American Boy – CD 4
18
Willie Nelson
Healing Hands of Time
Willie and the Boys: Willie's Stash vol. 2
19
Danny Dill
He's Biding His Time
Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2
20
Bob Dylan
Time Passes Slowly
Biograph Disc 3
21
Dwight Yoakam
Just Passin' Time
Blame The Vain
22
The Sweetback Sisters
King Of Killing Time
King Of Killing Time
23
Harry Nilsson
As Time Goes By
All-Time Greatest Hits
24
Dooley Wilson & Elliot Carpenter
As Time Goes By
Somewhere Over The Rainbow: The Golden Age Of Hollywood Musicals [Disc 1]
25
The Platters
Twilight Time
Pure R&B: Vol. 2- Somethings Got a Hold on Me [Disc 2]
On this Friday the 13th, our show takes on the constructs of heaven and hell as its chosen theme. Songs that explore the debatable and sometimes fantastical concepts that, while they vary significantly across cultures and tradition, still remain human constructs rather than universal truths. Or are they? I sure don’t know and I doubt that you do. They have no doubt been formed as symbolic or metaphorical ideas formulated to help humankind find a straight path to that ‘great morning’…or something like that anyway. We’re not here to practice heresy or blasphemy, only to observe…and there’s plenty of music to call this theme one of mixed metaphors. Tune in for some Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Eric Clapton, Solomon Burke, Bill Neely and a whole crowd of other sinners and saints pounding out the concepts of heaven and hell in song with melodies both fierce and solemn. Tune in for quite the time.
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David Lindley and Wally Ingram
Oh Death
Twango Bango II
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John Lee Hooker & Ben Harper
Burnin' Hell
The Best Of Friends
4
Dr. John
Party Hellfire
Anutha Zone
5
Miss Rhapsody & Orchestra
The Night Before Judgement Day
Blues Women
6
Eric Clapton
If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
Sessions For Robert J
7
The Louvin Brothers
The Great Judgement Morning
Close Harmony [Disc 8]
8
Johnny Cash
Redemption
American Recordings
9
Joe Strummer/Mescaleros
Redemption Song
Streetcore
10
Vera Hall
Death, Have Mercy
Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals
11
Jimmy Reed
Going By The River (Pt. 1)
ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 37
12
Hank Williams
The Angel Of Death
Lost Highway December 1948 – March 1949
13
Dave Van Ronk
St. James Infirmary
Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk
14
Ralph Stanley
The Death Of John Henry [Album Version]
Ralph Stanley
15
David Johansen & The Harry Smiths
Oh Death
David Johansen and the Harry Smiths
16
Solomon Burke
The Judgement
Don't Give Up on Me
17
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Beams of Heaven
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4)
18
The Zion Harmonizers
Old Time Religion
Ultimate Gospel Fest
19
Camille Howard
When I Grow Too Old to Dream
Brown Gal
20
The Cats & The Fiddle
When I Grow Too Old To Dream
The Very Best Of
21
John Prine & Mac Wiseman
Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
Standard Songs for Average People
22
Red Foley
Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age
Tennessee Saturday Night
23
Bill Neely
Satan's Burning Hell
The Essential Guide To Gospel
24
Sheryl Crow
Go Tell It On The Mountain
Home For Christmas
25
Iris DeMent
I've Got That Old Time Religion (In My Heart)
Lifeline
26
Patsy Cline
Life's Railway To Heaven
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
27
Grandpa Jones
Open Up Them Pearly Gates For Me
An American Original
28
Carl Story
When the Pearly Gates Swing Open
1951-1952 (Warped 5158)
29
The Golden Gate Quartet
No Restricted Signs (Up In Heaven) (1946)
Vol. 5 (1945-1949) (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 5, 1939-1949)
30
Flatt & Scruggs
The Drunkard's Hell
The Stanley Brothers: Selected Sides 1947-1953 [Disc 2]
31
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' In My Room)
Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 1]
32
Fannie Bell Chapman
He's My Rock, My Sword, My Shield
Fire In My Bones : Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007
Seven years after our community was ravaged by three different wildfires, we’re going to focus on the theme of rain in our show today. Call it a rain dance if you must but we’re hoping that not only will the weather give us one more year of respite from the flaming torrent of climate change-induced wildfires but also make it two years in a row with reservoir replenishment. So why not a theme that promotes rainy weather? We’ll go to every genre corner in the show today: gospel, jazz, country, rock ‘n roll, soul and rhythm & blues. Tune in for a themed collection this morning that includes the likes of Glenn Yarbrough, Percy Sledge, Leon Russell, Lonnie Johnson and Billy “The Kid” Emerson. There’s a whole lot more so join in and find out. A sunny September morning leads us to our rain dance…or whatever you call it.
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Sons of the Pioneers
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Remastered)
Anthology: The Definitive Collection (Remastered)
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Buddy Guy
Feels Like Rain
Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy
4
Hugh Laurie
Didn't It Rain
Didn't It Rain (Deluxe)
5
Sons Of South
Didn't It Rain Children
The Best Of Nashboro Gospel
6
Lew Childre
It Don't Do Nothing but Rain
…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
7
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Buy for Me the Rain
Dirt, Silver & Gold Disc 1
8
Sir Douglas Quintet
The Rains Came
Best Of Sir Douglas Quintet
9
Eddie Rabbitt
I Love A Rainy Night
Superstars Of Country
10
Albert Lee
Rainbows All Over Your Blues
The Big E: A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons
11
Buddy Holly
Raining in My Heart
The Definitive Collection
12
The Cascades
Rhythm of the Rain
Teen Ballads Disc 2
13
Lonnie Johnson
Pouring Down Rain
Complete Folkways Recordings
14
John Hammond, Jr.
Little Rain Falling
Country Blues
15
Billy "The Kid" Emerson
When It Rains, It Pours
Living The Blues: Blues Classics 1955-1956
16
Big Maybelle
Rain Down Rain
The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55
17
Leon Russell
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Leon Russell And The Shelter People [Bonus Tracks]
18
Irma Thomas
It's Raining
Time Is on My Side: The Best of Irma Thomas, Vol. 1
19
Irma Thomas
I Think It's Going to Rain Today
Simply Grand
20
Madeleine Peyroux
California Rain
Half The Perfect World
21
Billie Holiday
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Billie's Best
22
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Have You Ever Seen The Rain
Rock Steady 1971: Celebrating Starbucks 35th Anniversary
23
The Mavericks
Here Comes the Rain
Music for All Occasions
24
The Serendipity Singers
Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)
My Music Original Masters Folk Rewind [Disc 2]
25
Glenn Yarbrough
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Pop Memories of the 60s: Vol. 4- Blue Velvet [Disc 1]
It’s a mellow, laid back collection of sounds from the past century for you this morning. The “ember” months have arrived and we’re winding our way through the last sunsets of summer. So lay down your burdens and join us on another Deeper Roots Friday morning as we share some sweet sounds from near and far, all anchored in an American landscape of dreams and waning nights of warmth. And warmth is what we’ll focus on…from JJ Cale and Leon Russell to Leo Reisman’s Orchestra, Sam Cooke, Randy Newman and Levon Helm. All of this and more, as they say, as we approach the final two months of election promises. I’m hoping that everyone’s placed a high value on truth and goodness because the hate, the lies, the gutter talk all need to be evaporated at long last. Send the vermin back into their holes of hate and let’s get on with the business of making our lives better. Because it’s not politicians that can do that. It’s us.
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John Prine
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
German Afternoons
3
Roy Orbison
Ride Away
Classic "MGM" Roy Orbison 1965 – 68
4
Dire Straits
Ticket To Heaven
On Every Street
5
Eddie Lang
Blue Guitars
Jazz Guitar Virtuoso
6
Bobby "Blue" Bland
Stormy Monday Blues
Legends of Guitar – Electric Blues (Vol. 1)
7
Ray Charles with Norah Jones
Here We Go Again
…Featuring Norah Jones
8
Ray Charles
Crying Time
Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
9
Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars
You Got Me
Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars
10
Leon Russell
Lady Blue
Retrospective
11
J.J. Cale
Magnolia
The Very Best of J.J. Cale
12
Louis Armstrong
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
The Ultimate Collection [Disc 3]
13
Hoagy Carmichael
Lazy Bones
Hoagy Carmichael & Friends: Stardust Melody
14
Leo Reisman & His Orchestra
Lazy Lullaby
Society Swing
15
Santo & Johnny
Lazy Day
Santo & Johnny: Collection [Disc 2]
16
Charlie McCoy
Walkin' After Midnight
Classic Country
17
Randy Newman
Baltimore
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2
18
Sam Cooke
Bring It on Home to Me
Greatest Hits
19
Etta James
I'd Rather Go Blind
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
20
The Arthur Lyman Group
Yellow Bird
Music For a Bachelor's Den More Of The Best Of The Arthur Lyman Group: 6
Some dynamite gospel this week that leans heavily on the influencers, but we won’t let that lock us in. We’ll be cutting a broad swath across the Americana landscape, with deeper gospel tracks from some of the greats like the Selah Jubilee Singers, the rollicking Reverend Robert Ballinger, The Bronzeman, and some other greats you may or may not know. But we’ll also share tracks from the next generation secular branding with just a taste of gospel in their music: Johnny Taylor, Edwin Hawkins, and Curtis Mayfield. We’ll also share a couple of Marty Stuart gospel tracks in another look at the deepest roots from the past century. So grab the headphones and get ready for a revival without beating you about the head with any false fundamentalism. All for our favorite listeners, beaming down from the ether on KOWS Community Radio.
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Artist
Title
Album
Buy
2
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
99-1/2 Won't Do [Live]
The Gospel Music Of Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives [Live]
3
Mighty Mo Rodgers
Blues Is My Wailin' Wall
Lovely Jazz Gospel & Blues
4
R.H. Harris & His Gospel Paraders
Wait On Jesus
Sam Cooke's SAR Records Story: 1959 – 1965 [Disc 1]
5
Johnnie Taylor/The Soul Stirrers
Walk With Me
20 Gospel Greats
6
The Impressions
Meeting Over Yonder
Gospel
7
Johnnie Taylor
Soul Heaven
Lifetime: A Retrospective Of Soul, Blues & Gospel 1956- 1999 [Disc 3]
8
Gospel Hummingbirds
Don't Move the Mountain
Blind Pig Records 20th Aniversary Collection [disk 1]
9
The Staple Singers
Hammer and Nails
Hammer and Nails
10
The Staple Singers
New-Born Soul
Hammer and Nails
11
Skylarks
My Life Is In His Hands
I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983 [Disc 3]
12
Sammy Price Trio/Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Singing in My Soul
The Gospel of Blues
13
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
God's Mighty Hand
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel, Vol. 2
14
Mahalia Jackson
I Will Move On Up A Little Higher
Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
15
The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir
I Want To Ride That Glory Train
Shakin' The Rafters
16
The Edwin Hawkins Singers
Jesus, Lover Of My Soul
Oh Happy Day: The Best Of The Edwin Hawkins Singers
17
Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir
Jesus, Lover Of My Soul
Do Not Pass Me By Vol. II
18
Reverend Robert Ballinger
So Glad
1950s Gospel Classics
19
Reverend Robert Ballinger
Walking The Road
1950s Gospel Classics
20
Spirit Of Memphis
Atomic Telephone
Talking On The Telephone Vol.1 – Blues, R&B And Gospel
21
Selah Jubilee Singers
Royal Telephone
Talking On The Telephone Vol.1 – Blues, R&B And Gospel
22
The Golden Nuggets
Gospel Train
Oxford American Music Issue #13-Mississippi
23
Samuel Patterson
This Train
Americana Roots Songbook: Gospel
24
The Bronzemen
De Gospel Train
The Bronzemen – Radio Transcriptions (1939)
25
Ernest Carter And The Hymn Trio
The Gospel Train
Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Rapture
26
Soul Stirrers
Last Mile Of The Way
Gospel Music
27
Elizabeth King & The Gospel Souls
Living in the Last Days
Living in the Last Days
28
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
Just A Little Talk With Jesus [Live]
The Gospel Music Of Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives [Live]
29
R.H. Harris & His Gospel Paraders
Wait On Jesus
Sam Cooke's SAR Records Story: 1959 – 1965 [Disc 1]
30
Clefs of Harmony
Baptized
This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
