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Something in the Air

March 22, 2025 Dave Leave a comment

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

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Something in the Air	Greatest Hits
3	Marshall Crenshaw	Who Stole That Train	Miracle of Science
4	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
26	Wayne Hancock	Life's Lonesome Road	A-Town Blues
27	Steve Forbert	Lonesome Cowboy Bill	Young Guitar Days
28	Levon Helm	Move Along Train	Electric Dirt
29	Tom Petty	I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better	Full Moon Fever
30	Patsy Montana	My Poncho Pony	Cowgirl's Best

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Echoes of Blues Greats

March 15, 2025 Dave Leave a comment

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.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Graham Parker	Poor Me	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
3	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
29	Muddy Waters	Don't Go No Farther	His Best, 1956 To 1964
30	Muddy Waters	Got My Mojo Working	Chess Blues Disc 3
31	Muddy Waters	The Same Thing	The Definitive Collection
32	Big Daddy Wilson	Couldn't Keep It to Myself	Deep in My Soul

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Rock Meets Country

January 25, 2025 Dave Leave a comment

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.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Gram Parsons	Streets Of Baltimore	G.P. / Grievous Angel
3	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

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Over The Hill

January 12, 2025 Dave

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.

No.
1	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	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)
27	Hank Williams	My Bucket's Got A Hole In It	Low Down Blues
28	Waylon Jennings	Hank Williams Syndrome	Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank
29	Odetta	Alabama Bound	Sings Ballads And Blues
30	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	99 1/2 Won't Do	Gospel Train
31	Buddy Greene	Big Daddy's Alabama Bound	A Tribute to John D. Loudermilk
32	Bob Dylan	Lay Lady Lay	Nashville Skyline
33	Bob Dylan	I Threw It All Away	Nashville Skyline

Time

December 21, 2024 Dave

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.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	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]
26	Irma Thomas	Time Is On My Side	Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Volume 4
27	The Chambers Brothers	Time Has Come Today	Time Has Come: The Best Of The Chambers Brothers
28	Booker T. & the MG's; The MG's	Time Is Tight	Classic Rock: 1969 – The Beat Goes On
29	The Blind Boys Of Alabama	The Last Time	Spirit Of The Century
30	Marvin Rainwater	The Last Time	Whole Lotta Woman

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Heaven and Hell

December 13, 2024 Dave

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.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	David Lindley and Wally Ingram	Oh Death	Twango Bango II
3	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

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Rain Theme

September 28, 2024 Dave

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.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Sons of the Pioneers	Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Remastered)	Anthology: The Definitive Collection (Remastered)
3	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]
26	Roy Orbison	Leaving Makes The Rain Come Down	One of the Lonely Ones
27	The Everly Brothers	Crying in the Rain	Singles / EP's /Radio / Live
28	Merle Travis	Rainy Day Feeling	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
29	Grandpa Jones	It's Raining Here This Morning (Remake)	Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56
30	The Birmingham Sunlights	It's Gonna Rain	Folk Masters
31	Simon & Garfunkel	Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall	Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
32	Percy Sledge	I Wish It Would Rain	Blue Night
33	Nick Lowe	Raining Raining	Nick's Knack

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Ride Away

September 9, 2024 Dave

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.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	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
21	Willie Nelson	Blue Hawaii	Honeymoon in Vegas
22	Chet Atkins/Mark Knopfler	Tahitian Skies	Neck and Neck
23	Jason Wilber	Your Destiny	Lazy Afternoon
24	John Prine & Mac Wiseman	Old Cape Cod	Standard Songs for Average People
25	Bill Frisell	Poem For Eva	Good Dog, Happy Man
26	Kevin Russell	Lay Down Your Burden	You Don't Know Me
27	Mississippi John Hurt	Since I've Laid My Burden Down	Immortal
28	Irma Thomas	River Is Waiting	Simply Grand
29	Willie Nelson	House Of Gold	Country Music
30	Calvin Cooke	Since I Laid My Burden Down	The Best Of Sacred Steel
31	Emmylou Harris	Mister Sandman	Profile II: The Best Of Emmylou Harris

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Meeting Up Yonder

August 31, 2024 Dave

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.

No.
1	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
31	Sister O.M. Terrell	I'm Going To That City	Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues
32	Professor Johnson & His Gospel Singers	Where Shall I Be	1950s Gospel Classics

Americana, Country, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition

Country Swing Pioneers

August 16, 2024 Dave

Join Dave Stroud for two hours of the very best of country swing music on Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. He’ll excavate the archives for a show from over eight years ago, reminding us that the west had been long-settled when a new sound exploded. It blasted its way out of the dance halls and barn-dance venues of the Midwest with an 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. Drop in and celebrate this classic fusion of America’s best

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

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