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Brothers in Harmony

April 1, 2019 Dave

Harmony. That blend of knowing how the instruments and vocals will reverberate against each other…and the Delmore Brothers introduced the tightest of harmonies combining the early sentiments of gospel, folk, and blues, becoming, in their time, the most popular act on the Grand Ole Opry. The Louvin Brothers were blessed with not only pure complementing vocal chops but an innate sense of timing. Others, like the Osbornes, the Stanleys, and the Monroes took the Appalachian folk sound of what would become bluegrass to another level, using their kinship as a vault that would surpass others whose symbiotic relationships would often lack the requisite DNA (not to mention timing). Deeper Roots explores a number of performers who leveraged that DNA to set themselves apart from others on the stage. It’s sibling country harmony this week on Sonoma County Community Radio. Join in the fun!

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Everly Brothers	Roving Gambler	Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
3	The Monroe Brothers	Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
4	The Monroe Brothers	Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy	Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 [Disc 1]
5	The Monroe Brothers	On The Banks Of The Ohio	What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul? Volume One
6	Bill Monroe	New River Train	The Essential Bill Monroe & The Monroe Brothers
7	The Delmore Brothers	Brown's Ferry Blues	Chicago 1933, New Orleans 1935 [Disc 1]
8	The Delmore Brothers	Hillbilly Boogie	Boogie Man Boogie
9	The Delmore Brothers	Lonesome Yodel Blues	Chicago 1933, New Orleans 1935 [Disc 1]
10	The Delmore Brothers	Southern Moon	Hillbilly Boogie Best
11	The Delmore Brothers	I've Got The Big River Blues	Chicago 1933, New Orleans 1935 [Disc 1]
12	The Stanley Brothers	Rank Strangers	Back Roads to Cold Mountain
13	The Stanley Brothers	I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow	Stanley Brothers & Clinch Mountain Boys
14	The Stanley Brothers	Let Me Be Your Friend	Stanley Brothers & Clinch Mountain Boys
15	The Stanley Brothers	Poor Ellen Smith	An Evening Long Ago: Live 1956
16	The Blue Sky Boys	Only One Step More	Something Got A Hold Of Me
17	Blue Sky Boys	I'm S-A-V-E-D	1939-1940 (Warped 3976)
18	The Blue Sky Boys	Mary Of The Wild Moor	East Virginia Blues (When The Sun Goes Down Series)
19	Blue Sky Boys	Story of the Knoxville Girl	The Chronological Classics 1937-1938 (Warped 3807)
20	The Louvin Brothers	Knoxville Girl	Capitol Country Music Classics
21	The Louvin Brothers	I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby	Capitol Country Music Classics
22	The Louvin Brothers	If I Could Only Win Your Love	Capitol Country Music Classics
23	The Louvin Brothers	Pitfall	Close Harmony [Disc 2]
24	Osborne Brothers	Take This Hammer	1963-1965 (Warped 6361)
25	Osborne Brothers	Charlie Cotton	1963-1965 (Warped 6361)
26	Osborne Brothers	My Sweet Love Ain't Around	1968-1974 Disc 2
27	Osborne Brothers	Gotta Travel On	1963-1965 (Warped 6361)
28	The Everly Brothers	Crying In The Rain	Heartaches & Harmonies [Disc 2]
29	The Everly Brothers	I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail	Heartaches & Harmonies [Disc 1]
30	The Everly Brothers	Down In The Willow Garden	Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
31	The Everly Brothers	Take a Message to Mary	A Portrait of Dylan
32	The Louvin Brothers	Cash On The Barrelhead	Capitol Country Music Classics
33	The Louvin Brothers	When I Stop Dreaming	Capitol Country Music Classics
34	The Louvin Brothers	The Great Atomic Power	Capitol Country Music Classics

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Time’s Getting Hard

April 1, 2019 Dave

Music this week that speaks to hard times. From the Dust Bowl and Great Depression to personal hardships, we’ll share some bluegrass sounds, tunes steeped in tradition, soothing notes of country gospel, and folk blues. We’ll hear from The Weavers, Mavis Staples, Bobby Bare, and Pearly “Grandma” Davis (a nugget from Mike Seeger’s Old Time Music series). There will be talk of failing crops, revolution, and Oklahoma dust this week. Deeper Roots goes a little bit deeper with more songs about hard times this week on KOWS Community Radio, broadcasting live from the Cherry Street Historic District of Santa Rosa, California, where our neighbors just experienced their own hard times from flood waters. Thinking about them.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bobby Bare	Going Down the Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way) fcc warning	Darker Than Light
3	Tracy Chapman	Talkin' Bout a Revolution	Tracy Chapman
4	Uncle Tupelo	No Depression	No Depression
5	Bob Dylan	Hard Times	Good As I Been To You
6	Dave Alvin	Waiting for the Hard Times to Go	Interstate City
7	Mavis Staples	Hard Times Come Again No More	Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster
8	The Byrds	Old Blue	The Byrds [Box Set] Disc 3
9	Peter Rowan	Seeds My Daddy Sowed	Dust Bowl Children
10	Jimmy LaFave	My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed away)	Peace Town
11	Pearly 'Grandma' Davis	It's These Hard Times	Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967
12	Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three	Hard Times Come and Go	Riverboat Soul
13	Eddie Dattel	Trickle Down Blues	Trickle Down Blues
14	Buck Owens	Waitin' In Your Welfare Line	The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1
15	Ryan Bingham	Hard Times	Mescalito
16	Ry Cooder	You Must Unload	The Prodigal Son
17	The Louvin Brothers	Preach The Gospel	The Family Who Prays: 26 Classic Tracks
18	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Never No More Hard Times-Blues	The King Of Western Swing-25 Hits 1935-1945
19	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Hard Times Have Been Here (But They've Gone)	1978-1979
20	Country Joe McDonald	Talkin' Dust Bowl	Vanguard Visionaries
21	The Weavers	Bring Me Li'l Water Sylvia	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
22	Josh White	Hard Times Blues	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 51
23	Sheryl Crow	No Depression In Heaven	The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
24	Country Joe McDonald	This Land Is Your Land	Vanguard Visionaries
25	R.B. Morris	That's How Every Empire Falls	Singing Through the Wall. Songs for Western Sahara
26	Bobby Bare	Times Are Gettin' Hard	1964 (Warped 6425)
27	The Tillers	All You Fascists Bound to Lose	The Tillers
28	Aiken County String Band	Hard Times Breakdown	78s
29	Eels	Rock Hard Times	Shootenanny!

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Deeper Charley Patton

March 21, 2019 Dave

This week we’ll explore the music of the legendary Charley Patton. We’ll be dipping our toes into the birth of the Delta blues featuring some classic tracks from the gravel-voiced masked wonder as well as some rich covers from contemporary performers. Listen in for music from Otis Taylor, David Johansen, Corey Harris, and Taj Mahal…just to drop a few names. We’ll also scratch the surface of Charley’s career including some reflections from a master’s thesis written by none other than the American musicologist and musician, John Fahey. Tune in Friday morning as we board ourselves a raft to roll down the waters in search of the rich and elusive legend of the Mississippi Delta blues that was Charley Patton.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bob Dylan	High Water (For Charley Patton)	Love and Theft
3	Charley Patton	I Shall Not Be Moved	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 2]
4	Paul Rishell & Anne Raines	I Shall Not Be Moved	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
5	Son House	The Pony Blues	Complete Library of Congress Sessions, The
6	Charley Patton	Pony Blues (Pm 12792, 15216–)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
7	Guy Davis, T-Bone Wolk, Mark Murphy & Levon Helm	Some of These Days	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
8	Charley Patton	Some Of These Days I'll Be Gone	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 2]
9	Charley Patton	Poor Me	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 3]
10	Rising Sons	By And By (Poor Me) [Album Version]	Rising Sons
11	Charlie Musselwhite	Pea Vine Blues	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
12	Otis Taylor	Stone Pony	Americana Roots Songbook: Modern Blues
13	Charley Patton	Stone Pony Blues	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 3]
14	McHouston Baker	High Sheriff Blues	Mississippi Delta Dues
15	David Johansen	High Sheriff	Shaker
16	Charley Patton	High Sheriff Blues	Pony Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.47)
17	Steve James & Mark Rubin	Elder Greene Blues	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
18	Charley Patton	Elder Greene Blues	The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 1]
19	Taj Mahal	High Water Everywhere, Part 2	American Epic: The Sessions [Disc 2]
20	Graham Parker	Poor Me	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
21	Corey Harris	Moon Going Down	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
22	Charley Patton	Moon Going Down	Pony Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.47)
23	Dave Van Ronk	Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
24	Robert Nighthawk	Mean Black Cat	Greatest Blues Licks
25	Charley Patton	Charley Patton – Mean Black Cat Blues	24 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920_Vol 11 [ Blues Images ]
26	Joe Louis Walker	Sugar Mama	Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
27	The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band	Some of These Days I'll Be Gone (Charley Version)	Peyton On Patton
28	Charley Patton	High Water Everywhere – Part 1	The Return Of The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Hello Operator

March 3, 2019 Dave

Long before we were graced with the voices of SAM, Siri, or Alexa, and before we could carry our smart devices around like a wallet or clutch…there were the women and men who served us from behind the receiver: the telephone operator. Maybe they didn’t have the answer to everything but they could connect us to about anyone anywhere in the world. But it usually cost more than we were willing to admit. This week’s Deeper Roots show takes on the theme of the telephone operator, the long distance connector, and the person with a soul…and usually a quick hangup if there were not enough coins to drop in the pay phone. It was the penalty for human interaction I guess. We’ll let Jorma, Johnny Otis, Wanda Jackson, and Eddie Floyd take us on a trip back to rotary dials and party lines in this week’s episode, live from the Santa Rosa studios at KOWS.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Mary Wells	Operator	Looking Back 1961-1964
3	Dusty Owens	Hello Operator	Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
4	Rusty McDonald	Call Operator 210	Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
5	Hank Snow	I Just Telephoned Upstairs	The Chronogical Classics 1951-1952 (Warped 5244)
6	Bonnie Guitar	Hello, Hello, Please Answer The Phone	Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
7	Wanda Jackson	Between The Window And The Phone	Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
8	The Blue Sky Boys	The Royal Telephone	Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
9	Johnny Burnette	Operator	The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD 9
10	Howard Crockett	Please Answer The Phone	Talking on the Telephone Vol. 2
11	Jorma Kaukonen	Operator	River Of Time
12	The Band	Long Distance Operator	A Musical History [Disc 2]
13	The Golden Gate Quartet	I Just Telephone Upstairs	Vol. 6 (1949-1952)
14	The Jordaniares	I Telephoned Upstairs	The Jordaniares Gospel
15	Selah Jubilee Singers	Royal Telephone	Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 (1939-1941)
16	Sister Wynona Carr	Operator, Operator	Dragnet For Jesus
17	Spirit Of Memphis Quartet	The Atomic Telephone	The Best Of King Gospel
18	Sister Wynona Carr	Don't Miss That Train	Dragnet For Jesus
19	Johnny Otis	Call Operator 210	Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2
20	Tony & Tyrone	Please Operator	After Hours 3 – More Northern Soul Masters
21	Gladys Knight & The Pips	Operator	Soul Grooves
22	The Marvelettes	Beechwood 4-5789	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of The Marvelettes
23	Eddie Floyd	634-5789	Stax Profiles – Eddie Floyd
24	Ry Cooder	634-5789	Borderline
25	Tommy Tutone	867-5309/Jenny	Radio Hits of the '80s
26	Rosanne Cash	Radio Operator	Black Cadillac
27	Jim Croce	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)	Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits
28	The Manhattan Transfer	Operator	Anthology – Down in Birdland [Disc 1]
29	The Grateful Dead	Operator	American Beauty
30	Bob Gaddy	Operator	The Classic Old Town Records
31	Effie Smith	Dial That Telephone (07-27-51)	1945-1953
32	Floyd Dixon	Call Operator 210	The Aladdin Story (Pt. 2)

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Western Sunsets

February 19, 2019 Dave

This week’s show has us revisiting the Old Chisholm Trail and prairie passages that resemble all things that follow those romantic icons whose life on the range was less than what their songs usually embellish. In the western sunsets where John Lomax first went out in search of the ‘cowboy song’, we’ll explore more enlightened performances from the silver screen to the deep folk traditions that have become so laminated with romance that it’s hard to see the images beneath. This week’s show will take us from Carl T. Sprague, the original cowboy crooner, to Johnny Horton, Fess Parker, Rex Allen, and Roy Rogers. The music is sometimes sappy (Rick Nelson’s My Rifle, My Pony, and Me), sometimes light (Roy Rogers’ My Chickashay Girl), and other times full of storytelling and history. So many performances to light up the evening sky…just before dusk…just before that ceiling of stars appears in the night sky. Join us for our first live show from our new KOWS studios in downtown Santa Rosa.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Rex Allen	The Covered Wagon	Riding All Day
3	Jimmie Rodgers	Prairie Lullaby	Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5]
4	Carl T. Sprague	O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
5	The Carter Family	Cowboy Jack	On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 2
6	Rhubarb Red	Little Green Valley (Radio)	Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1
7	The Riders Of The Purple Sage	Cool Water (Radio)	Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1
8	Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers	The Strawberry Roan	Saturday Night Rag 1934-1936 Vol. 1
9	Hank Snow	I Traded My Saddle for a Rifle	1942-1943 (Warped 4206)
10	Rex Allen	Dreaming of the Western Plains	Riding All Day
11	Roy Rogers	My Chickashay Girl	1942-1947 (Warped 4561)
12	Roy Rogers	Don't Fence Me In	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
13	Sons of the Pioneers	Moonlight On the Prairie	Songs of the Prairie – CD1
14	Sons of the Pioneers	Cool Water	Cool Water & 17 Western Favorites
15	Charlie Haden	Oh Shenandoah	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
16	Al Caiola & His Orchestra	Bonanza	TV Land presents Favorite TV Theme Songs
17	Various	The Virginian	Television's Greatest Hits Vol.II – 65 More TV Themes 50s and 60s
18	Johnny Western	The Ballad Of Paladin	Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
19	Johnny Cash	The Rebel Johnny Yuma	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
20	Lee Marvin	Wand'rin Star	Rare Songs Played on Radio, Vol. 1
21	Dean Martin	Rio Bravo	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
22	Rick Nelson	My Rifle My Pony And Me (w/ Dean Martin)	Legacy [Disc 1]
23	Marty Robbins	Ballad Of The Alamo	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
24	Frankie Laine	Rawhide	The Cowboy Album
25	Johnny Horton	Sleepy-Eyed John	Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (2 of 2)
26	Patsy Montana	My Dear Old Arizona Home	The Best Of Patsy Montana
27	Roy Rogers	Rock Me to Sleep in My Saddle	1942-1947 (Warped 4561)
28	Fess Parker	The Ballad Of Davy Crockett	The Cowboy Album
29	Vaughn Monroe	(Ghost) Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend)	The Cowboy Album
30	Johnny Cash	The Sons Of Katie Elder	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
31	Gene Autry	Red River Valley	The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
32	Johnny Bond	Twilight On The Trail	Country Hits Vol. 6
33	The Sons Of The Pioneers	O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie	Sons Of The Pioneers
34	The Cinema Sound Orchestra	High Noon	Western Film Themes
35	Willie Nelson	Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys [Album Version]	Willie Nelson's Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be)

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Carl Sandburg’s Songbag Pt 2

December 1, 2018 Dave

We had so much fun with our first installment a few months back that we thought it was worth a second installment…well, that and the depth and breadth of the American Songbag certainly lends itself to doing so. It doesn’t hurt either that it fits our deeper roots sensibilities so well. This installment finds us meandering about those classic songs whose topics include mellow blues ballads, hobo songs, Mexican border songs (how appropriate), tarnished love tales, and the ‘road to heaven’. Helping us through our sets we’ll be featuring an interesting collection of performers: Dave Van Ronk, Dock Boggs, Rosanne Cash, and Peter Case. A host of others will join in the fun on Community Radio for Sonoma County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Dave Van Ronk	Willie The Weeper	Down In Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
3	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Willie the Weeper	Dirt, Silver & Gold Disc 1
4	Dan Zanes	Roll The Chariot	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
5	Josh White	Barbara Allen	Best Of Josh White
6	Delmore Brothers	Frozen Girl	Brown's Ferry Blues
7	Dock Boggs	Pretty Polly	Country Blues
8	The Carter Family	My Sweetheart Is a Poor Working Girl/Waves of the Sea (Instrumental)	On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1
9	Tony Rice	House Carpenter	Church Street Blues
10	Hylo Brown	Pretty Fair Maiden	Legends & Tall Tales
11	Ola Belle Reed, John Miller, Burl Kilby	The Orphan Girl	Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
12	David Rawlings	Midnight Train	Poor David's Almanack
13	Arlo Guthrie	Gypsy Davy	Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004)
14	Peter Case	Roving Gambler	Sings Like Hell
15	Rosanne Cash	Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow	The List
16	Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra & William Warfield	Old American Songs (Set One): Zion's Walls	Copland Conducts Copland (Expanded Edition)
17	Louis Armstrong	Ezekiel Saw De Wheel	Louis And The Good Book
18	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Things That I used to do (and I Don't Do No More)	The Gospel Truth
19	The Robinson Children	I Ain't Gwine Study About War No More	Swinging Gospel Sounds (1935-1942)
20	The Bronzemen	Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again	The Bronzemen – Radio Transcriptions (1939)
21	Septeto Habanero	Cielito Lindo	Cuba. Por La Musica
22	Los Panchos	La Cucaracha – La Adelita	Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
23	Dan Zanes	Lo Que Digo	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
24	Kathy Reid-Naiman	Pretty Betty Martin	Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie
25	Laurie Lewis	Weevily Wheat	Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals
26	Dan Zanes	Cuckoo Waltz	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
27	Tom Paxton	Times A-Getting Hard, Boys	Seeds – The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 (Disc 2 Of 2 – Friends Of Pete)
28	Bobby Bare	Times Are Gettin' Hard	Memories – RCA Singles 1962 – 1969
29	Ronnie Gilbert	Lincoln And Liberty	Songs Of The Civil War
30	Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur	The Boll Weevil	Penny's Farm
31	Dave Van Ronk	Gamblers Blues	Dust Bowl Blues Essential American Folk

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The Arhoolie Label

October 27, 2018 Dave

There are a handful of record labels that subscribe to the ‘deeper roots’ dogma. And our show tries to cover all of them. But East Bay’s own Arhoolie, whose catalog was recently acquired by Smithsonian Folkways is a very special example, maybe the premiere example, of what it means to dig deeper. Founded in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz, a German transplant who moved to the States in 1947, Arhoolie was founded on the principle that the best music could be found by traveling the backroads. And that is precisely how it got started, with a recording device in his trunk and an ear for the sublime. Join us this Friday evening as we explore just a hint of the music you’ll find on a landmark roots label.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Big Mama Thornton	Wade in the Water	This Ain't No Mouse Music [Disc 1]
3	Mance Lipscomb	Sugar Babe	Texas Songster
4	Mance Lipscomb	Jack O' Diamonds	Texas Songster
5	Snooks Eaglin	Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes	Country Boy Down In New Orleans
6	K.C. Douglas	High Water Rising	Mercury Blues
7	Lightnin' Hopkins	Lightning Boogie	Gold Star Sessions, Vol. 1
8	Big Joe Williams	Shake Your Boogie	Shake Your Boogie
9	R.L. Watson & Johnny Woods	Praying On The Old Campground & Lonesome Blues	Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis
10	Paramount Singers	There's A Leak In This Old Building	15 Down Home Gospel Classics
11	The Campbell Brothers Feat. Katie Jackson	I Feel Good	15 Down Home Gospel Classics
12	Sonny Treadway	Don't Let The Devil Ride	Sacred Steel Guitar
13	Annie Mae & Fred McDowell	I'm Going Over The Hill	15 Down Home Gospel Classics
14	Sonny Treadway	Amazing Grace	Sacred Steel Guitar
15	Bill Neely	Satan's Burning Hell	Texas Law & Justice
16	Bill Neely	I'm A Truck Drivin' Daddy	Texas Law & Justice
17	Del McCoury	Hey, Hey Bartender	16 Down Home Country Classics
18	Kirk Sutphin	Yellow Rose Of Texas	Masters of the Banjo
19	Laurie Lewis & Dudley Connell	The Johnson Boys	Masters of the Banjo
20	The Hodges Brothers	Bogue Chito Fling Ding	16 Down Home Country Classics
21	Rose Maddox	Single Girl	16 Down Home Country Classics
22	Maddox Bros. and Rose	I Want to Live and Love	This Ain't No Mouse Music [Disc 1]
23	Adolph Hofner	Dirty Dog	South Texas Swing
24	Lydia Mendoza	Amor En Duda	First Queen Of Tejano Music
25	Lydia Mendoza	A Ti Madre	First Queen Of Tejano Music
26	Lydia Mendoza	Amor Bonito	First Queen Of Tejano Music
27	Don Santiago Jiminez, Sr.	La Duena de la Llave	Tex Mex Fiesta
28	Flaco Jiminez	Un Mojado Sin Licencia	This Ain't No Mouse Music disc 2
29	Clifton Chenier	Bogalusa Boogie	Bogalusa Boogie
30	Savoy Family Band	Two-Step de Amede	This Ain't No Mouse Music disc 2
31	Pine Leaf Boys	Pine Grove Blues	This Ain't No Mouse Music disc 2
32	HowellDevine	Can't Be Satisfied	Modern Sounds of Ancient Juju

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California’s Burning

October 20, 2018 Dave

We are remembering what happened here in Sonoma County last October when the firestorm hit, devastating communities and lives. Over 5000 homes and dozens of lives were lost. Disaster struck overnight and our music today reflects back with songs of disaster, songs of burning hell, and music that reminds us that Mother Nature will have its way. Blues from John Lee Hooker and Howlin’ Wolf, traditional country gospel from Bill Neely and Kitty Wells, and more in a Friday evening remembrance.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The David Thom Band	California's Burning	That Old Familiar
3	Under The Radar	Ride These Flames	Beyond The Niche
4	Kitty Wells	He Will Set Your Fields on Fire	Dust on the Bible (1959)
5	Kilby Snow, Mike Seeger	He Will Set Your Fields On Fire	Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967
6	Clyde Moody	06 – Where There's Smoke (There's Bound to Be Fire)	The Hillbilly Waltz King
7	Bill Neely	Satan's Burning Hell	Texas Law & Justice
8	Howlin' Wolf	The Natchez Burning	Blues From Hell
9	John Lee Hooker	Burning Hell	The Ultimate Collection 1948-1990 [Disc 2]
10	John Lee Hooker	The Motor City Is Burning	The Definitive Collection
11	Otis Spann	Burning Fire	The Great Blues Men
12	Bob Brozman	American House Fire Blues	Fire in the Mind
13	Dave Alvin	Barn Burning	King Of California
14	Dave Alvin	California's Burning	Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women
15	John Mellencamp	Eden Is Burning	John Mellencamp
16	Dixon Brothers	The School House Fire	Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
17	J. H. Howell	Burning Of Cleveland School	Classic Field Recordings
18	Max Steiner And The MGM Studio Orhestra	Atlanta in Flames	Gone With the Wind
19	Dixie Jubilee Singers & Bryant's Jubilee Quartet	What's You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire?	Dixie Jubilee Singers (1924-1928) & Bryant's Jubilee Quartet (1931)
20	Selah Jubilee Singers	I'm Tormented In The Flames	Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 (1939-1941)
21	Sisters Of Song	In God's House	Fire In My Bones : Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007
22	Mandolin Orange	Wildfire	Blindfaller
23	Lightnin' Hopkins	Burnin' in L.A.	Po' Lightnin'
24	D.L. Menard/Eddie LeJeune/Ken Smith	Les Flammes D'Enfer (The Flames of Hell)	The Best of Louisiana Music [Rounder]
25	Jude Taylor and His Burning Flames	Burnin Flames Special	Putomayo Presents Zydeco
26	Buckwheat Zydeco	Where There's Smoke There's Fire	Menagerie
27	Buddy Miller	Fire and Water	Universal United House Of Prayer
28	Janiva Magness	Your House Is Burnin'	Love Wins Again

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Deeper Merle Travis

August 26, 2018 Dave

Merle Travis’ influence on country music cannot be ignored. Along with a select few entertainers of the mid-century, he bridged the hillbilly and Appalachian folk institutions to the Golden Age of Country. His influences were not only the ‘picking style’, but also his keen sense of populist stories told from the front lines. We’ll hear from and early influence, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, as well as those he influenced. All songs written by Merle and some performed by Merle himself. Our show will also feature Merle Travis interview excerpts from the sixties. It’s a Friday morning collection of the very best of Merle Travis.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Merle Travis	I'll See You In My Dreams	The Guitar Picker CD3 (1951-53)
3	Joe Maphis & Merle Travis	Alabama Jubilee	Country Guitar Thunder (Joe Maphis & Merle Travis 1977-1981)
4	John McEuen	Merle Travis Story	Live in L.A.
5	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Cannonball Rag	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
6	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Dark as a Dungeon	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
7	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Doc Watson and Merle Travis: First Meeting	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
8	Willie Nelson	Dark As A Dungeon	Country Music
9	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Dark As A Dungeon	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
10	Willie Nelson	Sixteen Tons	Remember Me, Vol. 1
11	The Platters	Sixteen Tons	The Magic Touch: An Anthology
12	James & Bobby Purify	16 Tons	The Best Of
13	Hank Penny	Merle's Buck Dance	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
14	Merle Travis	Introduction / Nine Pound Hammer	Ash Grove 12/9/1966
15	The Kentucky Colonels	Nine Pound Hammer	Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics
16	The Country Gentlemen	I Am a Pilgrim	On the Road (And More)
17	Johnny Cash	Loading Coal [Album Version]	Ride This Train
18	Merle Travis	Start Even	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
19	Merle Travis	No Vacancy	The Guitar Picker CD1 – Divorce Me C. O. D.
20	Ernest Tubb	So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed	Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
21	Gid Tanner, Clayton McMichen, Riley Puckett, Lowe Stokes, Fate Norris	Possum Hunt on Stump House Mountain, Part 1	Lead Kindly Light
22	Bill Frisell	Cannonball Rag (Merle Travis)	Guitar In The Space Age
23	Johnny Bond	Divorce Me C.O.D.	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
24	Tex Ritter	Everybody Likes A Little Lovin'	High Noon
25	Tex Williams & His Western Caravan	Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
26	Spade Cooley & His Orchestra	Steel Guitar Rag	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
27	Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys With Merle Travis	Wildwood Flower	Swing West – vol 2 – Guitar Slingers
28	Merle Travis	Philosophy	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
29	Merle Travis	Too Much Sugar For A Dime	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
30	The Everly Brothers	Muskrat	Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers on Warner Bros. Disc 1
31	Doc Watson/Merle Watson	Smoke, Smoke, Smoke	Black Mountain Rag
32	Tennessee Ernie Ford	That's All	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3]
33	Ricky Skaggs	Sweet Temptation	Favorite Country Songs
34	Merle Travis	When My Baby Double Talks To Me	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
35	Merle Travis	When Rosie Riccoola Do The Hoola Ma Boola	The Guitar Picker CD1 – Divorce Me C. O. D.

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Tragic Country Tales

August 26, 2018 Dave

Tales of lonesome saddles, lost loves, broken hearts, and lonely rooms…a mood, a tone, and short vignettes so common among those themes of country music. We’ve got that and much more in this week’s episode of Deeper Roots. Performances from Grandpa Jones, The Stanley Brothers, Lefty Frizzell, Mel Tillis, and many others, will take us on a ride on a country road, drinking new wine from an old jug. That will also include stories of highway mishaps, the bottom of the bottle, and a mystery of the Tallahatchie Bridge. Friday solemn sounds from the past century on Sonoma County community radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bobbie Gentry	Ode To Billie Joe	Billboard Top Pop Hits: 1967
3	Elvis Presley	Don't Cry Daddy	Always on My Mind
4	Tammy Wynette	D-I-V-O-R-C-E	Country Legends
5	Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	24 Greatest
6	Bobby Bare	Jeannie4s Last Kiss (1963)	All American Boy – CD 2
7	Doc & Merle Watson	The Tragic Romance	Ballads From Deep Gap
8	David Grisman w/Alan O'Bryant	Tragic Romance	Life Of Sorrow
9	Grandpa Jones	Tragic Romance	Makes The Rafters Ring
10	The Stanley Brothers	Tragic Love	An Evening Long Ago: Live 1956
11	Lefty Frizzell	The Tragic Letter (& Wayne Raney) 1965	Life's Like Poetry (Disc 3)
12	Red Fox Chasers	Wreck On The Mountain Road	People Take Warning [Disc 1] – Man Vs. Machine
13	Esco Hankins	Wreck on the Highway	1947-1951 (Warped 4732)
14	Vernon Dalhart	The Wreck Of The Old '97	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 1]
15	Lefty Frizzell	Long Black Veil	Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
16	Mel Tillis	Life Turned Her That Way	36 All Time Greatest Hits
17	Mary Gauthier	Mercy Now	Mercy Now
18	Townes Van Zandt	Waiting Around to Die	Legend: The Very Best Of Townes Van Zandt
19	Vern Gosdin	Chiseled in Stone	Chiseled in Stone
20	Ray Charles & Willie Nelson	Seven Spanish Angels	The Many Sides Of Willie Nelson [Cd 3 "Duets"] (1992)
21	James King	He Stopped Loving Her Today	Three Chords & The Truth
22	Lucinda Williams	Sweet Old World	Sweet Old World
23	Dwight Yoakam	I Sang Dixie	Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room
24	Willie Nelson	Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain	Artist's Choice: Sheryl Crow
25	Merle Haggard	Sing Me Back Home	The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
26	Red Foley	Old Shep	Smoke on the Water / Hillbilly Fever
27	Walter Brennan	Old Rivers	Classic Country Great Story Songs [Disc 2]
28	Charlie Louvin	Wreck on the Highway	Charlie Louvin Sings Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs
29	Doc & Merle Watson	The Wreck of The Old #9	Ballads From Deep Gap
30	Faron Young	Hello Walls	Hello Walls / The Young Approach
31	Merle Haggard	If We Make It Through December (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
32	Johnny Cash	Hurt	Unearthed, Vol. 5, Best Of Cash On American

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