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Over The Hill

January 12, 2025 Dave Leave a comment

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 Leave a comment

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 Leave a comment

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

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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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Bluegrass, Newgrass

August 10, 2024 Dave

We’re taking a trip up into hill country to celebrate a true Americana sound. From it’s simple roots rolling out of Appalachia, celebrating music and culture going back even further, bluegrass music evolved from many different corners with a combination of many styles, including old-time mountain music, square dance fiddling, blues, gospel, jazz, and popular music. You can count on high energy, fast tempos and a most distinctive sound. This week’s show has the syncopated rhythms moving along like a freight train, those nostalgic remembrances, and heel-kicking improvisations…not to mention those high lonesome vocals. We’ve got Blue Highway, Bill Monroe, Mac Wiseman, Earl Scruggs, The Rice Brothers and a couple dozen others in a Friday morning bluegrass extravaganza, sharing both classic and contemporary performers. If you’re close by, tune into KOWS 92.5 FM or, better yet, stream us almost anywhere on planet Earth at kowsfm.com/listen.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Morris Brothers	Salty Dog Blues	Legends Of Bluegrass [Disc 3]
3	Bill Monroe	I'm Travelin' On and On	1947-1949 (Warped 4988)
4	Bill Monroe	Crossing the Cumberlands	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 4]
5	Jimmy Martin	Footprints in the Snow	First Time Together
6	The Dillards	Dooley	There Is A Time: 1963-70
7	Rhonda Vincent	Lonesome Wind Blues	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
8	The Gentlemen of Bluegrass	Old Old House	Carolina Memories
9	John Hartford	Skippin' In The Mississippi Dew	Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
10	John Hartford	Take Me Back To My Mississippi River Home	Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
11	Blue Highway	Riding the Danville Pike	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
12	The David Thom Band	Home Is Where The Heart Is	That Old Familiar
13	The David Thom Band	The Little White Church	That Old Familiar
14	Alison Krauss & Union Station	So Long So Wrong	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
15	Ricky Skaggs	I Hope You've Learned	Ricky Skaggs
16	Ralph Stanley	Dad's Old Rocky Field	Old Songs & Ballads
17	The Rice Brothers	Grapes On the Vine	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
18	Hazel Dickens	I Can't Find Your Love Any More	O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
19	Del McCoury	A Far Cry	Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 4)
20	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	As Long As the World Stands	The Hard Game of Love
21	Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt	Randy Lynn Rag	The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2)
22	The Johnson Mountain Boys	Duncan & Brady	Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records
23	The Johnson Mountain Boys	Orange Blossom Special	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2]
24	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Dusty Miller	Bill Monroe: Anthology
25	Mac Wiseman	I Wonder How The Old Folks Are	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2]
26	Steep Canyon Rangers	As I Go	Nobody Knows You
27	Laurie Lewis	Tall Pines	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
28	Jim Lauderdale	Old Time Angels	Old Time Angels
29	Jim & Jesse	Nine Pound Hammer	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]
30	The Seldom Scene	Muddy Water	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]
31	Bobby Hicks & Del McCoury	We're Steppin' Out Tonight	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
32	Lynn Morris Band	The Bramble and the Rose	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
33	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys	Hit Parade of Love	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys
34	Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers	Get Up John	At The Ryman [Live]

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AKA Blind Boy Grunt

August 4, 2024 Dave

It’s a cover show. It’s a celebration. It’s a reconnaissance regarding a renaissance. To what do we owe this week’s offering? The answer is clearly the songs of Bob Dylan who, at one time recorded under the non de plume Blind Boy Grunt and we’ve got a track from the Broadside Ballads collection to prove it. But this week’s show will focus primarily on covers of Dylan tracks going back to Sam Cooke live at the Copa to an oddball cover by The Grass Roots. We’ll also share some fresh takes from Eric Clapton, Raul Malo, Audra Mae & The Forest Rangers, and a lovely cover of a rare but popular piece called Walkin’ Down The Line. We’re celebrating a multi-generational master of his dominion where his words and melodies honor the past and carve a well-defined path leading into the future of America’s songwriting craft. Tune into Community Radio for Sonoma County on another Friday morning…via the stream at kowsfm.com/listen.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bob Dylan	Corrina, Corrina [Album Version]	The Future Is Unwritten
3	Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan)	Ballad Of Donald White	Selections From The Best Of Broadside 1962-1988
4	Eilen Jewell	Walking Down the Line	Letters From Sinners & Strangers
5	New Riders of the Purple Sage	Farewell Angelina	The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage
6	Sweethearts of the Rodeo	One More Night	Beautiful Lies
7	Joan Baez	The Walls Of Redwing	Any Day Now
8	The Highwaymen	One Too Many Mornings	Live – American Outlaws
9	Johnny Cash	Mama, You've Been On My Mind [Album Version]	Orange Blossom Special
10	Johnny Cash	Wanted Man	The Mystery Of Life
11	Jessi Colter	Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 [Album Version]	Out Of The Ashes
12	Sam Cooke	Blowin' In The Wind	Sam Cooke At the Copa
13	Nappy Brown	Tonight Ill Be Staying Here With You	Tore Up
14	Jerry Lee Lewis	Rita May	A Half Century Of Hits: Rockin' My Life Away [Disc 3]
15	The Grass Roots	Mr Jones (A Ballad of a Thin Man)	Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 Disc 1
16	Eric Clapton	I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine	I Still Do
17	Raul Malo	You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go	The Nashville Acoustic Sessions
18	Waylon Jennings	Don't Think Twice, It's Alright	Dylan Country
19	Shirley Caesar	Gotta Serve Somebody	Masked & Anonymous
20	The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver	Every Grain Of Sand	I'll Find A Way
21	The Mighty Clouds Of Joy	Saved [Album Version]	Gotta Serve Somebody – The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan
22	Audra Mae & The Forest Rangers	Forever Young	Songs Of Anarchy: Music From Sons Of Anarchy Seasons 1-4
23	Hazel Dickens	Only a Hobo	It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song
24	Bob Dylan	Tell Ol' Bill [Album Version]	North Country – Music From The Motion Picture
25	Karl Shiflett	Walking Down The Line	Sho Nuff Country
26	The Band	I Shall Be Released	Yesterday's Gone [Disc 2]
27	The Byrds	You Ain't Going Nowhere	Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Americana, Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Oldies

Dirty Money

July 19, 2024 Dave

We’ve heard them all, the quotes about money being the root of all evil, you can’t take it with you, money can’t buy happiness…but there’s this one little thing that is seldom expanded on and that is the story of ‘dirty money’. There’s plenty of fodder in that area…from the banker CEO to the coal company CEO…there’s never an effort to help raise all boats, only the yachts. Capitalism is our theme. No, wait, is it bank robbing? No, most likely the working man trying to put bread on the table. Hold on, I know. It’s runaway inflation and the blame game. In any event, we’ll be all over the board in today’s show, bringing you music about money cravin’ folks from Blind Alfred Reed, working down on Maggie’s Farm and we’ll also have ourselves a hint of a fireside chat to make us feel better. We’ll also head down to coal country and Bonnie and Clyde, Woody Guthrie, and “Voila! An American Dream” from Rodney Crowell. Tune in. Should be fun.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	David Rawlings	Money Is the Meat in the Coconut	Poor David's Almanack
3	The Andrews Sisters	Money is The Root of All Evil	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 2]
4	Randy Newman	It's Money That Matters	Land of Dreams
5	Rodney Crowell	Voila, An American Dream	Collection
6	Bob Brozman	Follow The Money	Post-industrial Blues
7	Eartha Kitt/Henri René & His Orchestra	Just an Old Fashioned Girl	Purr-Fect: Greatest Hits
8	Dr. John	(Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away	The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974
9	Ry Cooder	No Banker Left Behind	Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
10	Woody Guthrie	The Jolly Banker (Woody Guthrie)	Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection [Disc 2]
11	Jake Xerxes Fussell	All in Down and Out	Jake Xerxes Fussell
12	Roy Zimmerman	Joel Osteen	Rize Up
13	Bob Dylan	Maggie's Farm	The Essential Bob Dylan [Disc 1]
14	Blind Alfred Reed	Money Cravin Folks	Complete Recorded Works 1927-29
15	Barbecue Bob	We Sure Got Hard Times Now	Bankers Blues – A Study in the Effects of Fiscal Mischeif
16	Bo Carter	Times Is Tight Like That	Bankers Blues – A Study in the Effects of Fiscal Mischeif
17	Betty O' Brian	Money Honey	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
18	The O'Jays	For The Love Of Money	Funk Explosion
19	Solomon Burke	Honey Where's The Money Gone	Nashville
20	John Lee Hooker	I Need Some Money	That's My Story ( Sings the Blues)
21	SNCC Freedom Singers; Reagon, Cordell	Which Side Are You On?	Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles)
22	Bruce Springsteen	The Ghost of Tom Joad	Chapter & Verse
23	Wray Family	(Dark As A Dungeon Way) Down In The Mine	Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
24	Band Of Ruhks	Coal Mining Man featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley	Band Of Ruhks
25	Buddy Durham	Sixteen Tons	Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
26	Justin Townes Earle	Down In The Valley	Coal Country Music
27	Stan Farlow	1040 Blues	Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
28	Rex Allen	Money, Marbles And Chalk	The Versatile Rex Allen [Disc 2]
29	Merle Haggard And The Strangers	The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
30	Merle Haggard	Working Man Blues	Merle Haggard Country Legend-Disc 1
31	Ferlin Husky	22 – Money Greases the Wheels	Ferlin Husky Singles
32	J.J. Cale	Money Talks	The Very Best of J.J. Cale
33	Kronos Quartet	Which Side Are You On	Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger

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