Category Archives: Folk and Tradition

Songs of John Hiatt

From the ‘pink bedroom’ and edgy alternative to blues and country, R&B and everything in between…John Hiatt’s catalog of recordings is only surpassed by the library of his songs penned over the past fifty years. We’ll take a look back, primarily focusing on covers from his contemporaries; names like Rosanne Cash, Iggy Pop, Bonnie Raitt, Carrie Rodriguez, and Buddy Guy are but just a small sampling of the performers we’ll hear from on another Friday evening on Sonoma County community radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2John Hiatt Crossing Muddy Waters Crossing Muddy Waters Amazon
3Buddy Guy Feels Like Rain Feels Like Rain Amazon
4Emmylou Harris Icy Blue Heart Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
5Rosanne Cash The Way We Make a Broken Heart Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
6Jo-El Sonnier I'll Never Get Over You Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
7Flaco Jiminez Across The Borderline featuring John Hiatt (Album Version) Partners Amazon
8Terrance Simien It Hasn't Happened Yet Rollin' into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
9Carrie Rodriguez Big Love Love and Circumstances Amazon
10Rosanne Cash It Hasn't Happened Yet Retrospective Amazon
11John Hiatt Cry Love Walk On Amazon
12Kelly Willis Drive South Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
13Bonnie Raitt Lover's Will [Radio Edit Version] The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003 [US] Amazon
14Commander Cody Commander Cody-Tennessee Plates Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers Amazon
15Gregg Allman Memphis in the Meantime Searching for Simplicity Amazon
16Marshall Crenshaw Someplace Where Love Can't Find Me Good Evening Amazon
17Nick Lowe She Don't Love Nobody Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
18Dave Edmunds I Got Your Number Closer to the Flame Amazon
19Iggy Pop Something Wild Brick by Brick Amazon
20Mitch Ryder Where Is the Next One Coming From? Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
21Asleep at the Wheel This Is the Way We Make a Broken Heart Pasture Prime Amazon
22Rodney Crowell She Loves the Jerk Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
23Rosanne Cash Pink Bedroom Retrospective Amazon
24John Hiatt Your Love Is My Rest Walk On Amazon
25Joe Cocker Have a Little Faith in Me Ultimate Collection Amazon
26John Hiatt Real Fine Love Stolen Moments Amazon
27The Band Bound By Love Jubilation Amazon
28John Hiatt Master of Disaster [2005] Master of Disaster Amazon

Back on the Farm

The farmer, the farm, and songs of farming are at the core of this week’s theme show. Whether the songs’ focus is that of the hard-working folk of the farm, the raw materials, or the nostalgic reminders of life on the farm, we’ll push forward the playlist plough and take you to the barn for an early morning celebration with performers including bluegrass from James King, gritty Americana from Levon Helm and Bill Neely, core country from Bobby Bare and Porter Wagoner, or maybe some field recordings from the 20s featuring the likes of the Carolina Tar Heels…all of this music going Back On The Farm.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard Farmer's Blues Country Music Amazon
3Freeman Stowers Sunrise On The Farm Sinners and Saints: Complete Recorded Works 1926-1931 Amazon
4Bill Frisell Farmer Disfarmer Amazon
5Levon Helm Poor Old Dirt Farmer Dirt Farmer Amazon
6Bill Neely Black Land Farmer 16 Down Home Country Classics Amazon
7James King Thirty Years of Farming Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
8Junior Sisk with Becky Isaacs Bowman and Sonya Isaacs Yeary The Wheat Crop Mac Wiseman – I Sang The Song Amazon
9Lemuel Jones Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers) Field Recordings, Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941) Amazon
10Peter Rowan Let the Harvest Go To Seed Bluegrass Boy Amazon
11Carolina Tar Heels Got The Farm Land Blues Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
12Cisco Houston Farmer's Lament The Folkways Years: 1944-1961 Amazon
13J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers (With Morris Herbert) 17 Living On The Farm The Legendry J.E. Mainer, Volume 4 Amazon
14Walter Brennan Old Rivers Old Rivers Amazon
15The Bently Boys Down On Penny's Farm Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
16Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur Down on Penny's Farm Penny's Farm Amazon
17The Four Wanderers Farmer's Life For Me Black Vocal Groups Vol. 9 (1929-1942) Amazon
18Ben & Ellen Harper Farmer's Daughter Childhood Home Amazon
19Bobby Bare The Farmer Feeds Us All Hard Time Hungrys Amazon
20Porter Wagoner The Farmer and the Lord 20 All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
21Paula Brown Farm Hollers Hollerin' Amazon
22Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers McDonald's Farm (1928) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 Amazon
23Bubby Bishop I Want To Go Back To The Farm The Great Vintage Country Amazon
24Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) On A Little Two Acre Farm Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58 Amazon
25Goose Island Ramblers I Worked For a Farmer Polkabilly Amazon
26Buster Carter & Preston Young A Lazy Farmer Boy Before The Blues Vol. 3 Amazon
27Rosetta Howard Plow Hand Blues [Album Version] Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950 Amazon
28Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail Amazon
29Fiddlin' John Carson Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All [Remastered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
30Ray Wylie Hubbard After the Harvest Crusades of the Restless Nights Amazon
31Dry Branch Fire Squad Devil, Take The Farmer 481 Bluegrass Class of 1990 Amazon
32Glen Campbell Arkansas Farmboy Adios Amazon
33Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies When It's Harvest Time, Sweet Angeline Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin' Amazon
34Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs With Mother Maybelle Carter The Homestead On The Farm [Album Version] Songs Of The Famous Carter Family Amazon

Below the Mason-Dixon Line

Songs that highlight the states below the ‘line’ of intransigence. Portions are better known as Dixie, others (like Florida and Texas) appear as appendages or after-market expanses. The music this evening will explore songs of Louisiana from Doug Kershaw, Texas from Asleep at the Wheel, Alabama from Mance Lipscomb, and West Virginia featuring Louis Jordan. There’s a whole lot more including Taj Mahal, Bill Kirchen, The Louvin Brothers and Pokey LaFarge; all on a journey through a collection of states that two surveyors by the name of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, in an attempt to resolve a dispute, attached their names to in the late 18th century.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Jimmie Rodgers Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5] Amazon
3Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton Down In Florida On A Hog Darby & Tarlton – Disc A (Atlanta 1927-29) Amazon
4Muddy Waters Deep Down In Florida #2 King Bee Amazon
5Claire Lynch My Florida Sunshine Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1 Amazon
6The Swe-Danes Georgia Camp Meeting New Discgems From Warner Brothers Amazon
7Dave Van Ronk Georgia Camp Meeting Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers Amazon
8Alex Campbell, Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby Bringing in the Georgia Mail Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line Amazon
9Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers Georgia Boogie Travellin' Boogie Amazon
10Guy Clark Virginia's Real Texas Cookin' Amazon
11The Carter Family Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 3] Amazon
12Al Bowlly My Sweet Virginia Just A Bowl Of Cherries Amazon
13Ethel Waters I'm Coming Virginia On Stage And Screen 1925 – 1940 Amazon
14Hazel Dickens West Virginia, My Home Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records [Disc 1] Amazon
15Louis Jordan Salt Pork, West Virginia The Chronological Louis Jordan 1945-1946 Amazon
16Dr. Horse South Poke West Virginia Harlem Rock N' Blues Amazon
17Mance Lipscomb Alabama Bound Ash Grove 12/6/1964 Amazon
18Evan Marshall The Alabama Jubilee Mandolin Magic Amazon
19The Louvin Brothers Alabama Hand-Picked Amazon
20Neil Young/Stray Gators Alabama Harvest Amazon
21Jimmie Driftwood Arkansas Traveler Americana, Vol. 1 Amazon
22Carolina Cotton Three Miles South Of Cash (In Arkansas) Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music CD [Disc 2, "Arkansas Masters"] Amazon
23Bill Kirchen Arkansas Diamond (Album) Word To The Wise Amazon
24Taj Mahal Texas Woman Blues The Essential [Disc 1] Amazon
25Asleep at the Wheel Miles and Miles of Texas The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970 Amazon
26Tommy Duncan Texas Moon Texas Moon Amazon
27Tony Rice He Rode All the Way to Texas Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection Amazon
28Waylon Jennings Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) The Essential Waylon Jennings [2007] Disc 2 Amazon
29Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Going Back To Louisiana Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans Amazon
30Doug Kershaw Louisiana Man Diggy Diggy Lo Amazon
31Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Mississippi Girl Middle of Everywhere Amazon
32Nina Simone Mississippi Goddam Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
33Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra Mississippi Mud Paper Moon Amazon
34The Andrew Sisters When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabama Double Goldies [CD1] Amazon

Bad Luck Blues

We’re exploring the blues this week on Deeper Roots. And it’s all about bad luck blues…when the dice roll snake eyes, when the crops won’t make the rent, when your woman asks for money and all you got is the dust in your pockets…when you ain’t got no money.  Join Dave Stroud for a collection of the very best including Big Joe Williams’ Jinx Blues, bad luck stories from Dinah Washington and Memphis Minnie, piano moaning from Leroy Carr and Ivory Joe, as well as further tales of gambling, dice, and no luck from Clifford Gibson and Black Boy Shine. Friday evening blues….what more?

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Little Milton Bad Luck Delmark: 50 Years Of Jazz & Blues: Blues [Disc 1] Amazon
3Rory Block Jinx Blues Blues Walkin' Like a Man: A Tribute To Son House Amazon
4Son House The Jinx Blues ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 41 Amazon
5Big Joe Williams Jinx Blues Classic Delta Blues Amazon
6Black Boy Shine Gamblin' Jinx Blues Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 2] Amazon
7Memphis Minnie I'm A Bad Luck Woman Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937) Amazon
8Mel Walker Unlucky Man Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2 Amazon
9Nat King Cole Trio Chant Of The Blues (Dog-Gone Unlucky Blues) The Nat King Cole Trio: The Complete Capitol Transcription Sessions [Disc 1] Amazon
10Dinah Washington Bad Luck Dinah Washington Sings The Blues Amazon
11Jimmy Lewis/Ray Charles If It Wasn't for Bad Luck Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 4 Amazon
12Robert Belfour Bad Luck What's Wrong with You Amazon
13Muddy Waters Mother's Bad Luck Child Can't Get No Grindin' Amazon
14Lightnin' Slim Bad Luck Blues The Best Of Excello Records Amazon
15Lightnin' Hopkins Bad Luck And Trouble Blues Kingpins Amazon
16Blind Lemon Jefferson Bad Luck Blues Classic Sides Disc 1 Amazon
17Cliifford Gibson Bad Luck Dice Complete Recorded Works Amazon
18Guitar Welch Bad Luck Blues Southern Prison Blues (Digitally Remastered) Amazon
19Kokomo Arnold Bad Luck Blues Complete Recorded Works Volume 4 (1937-1938) Amazon
20Ivory Joe Hunter No Money, No Luck Blues The Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter 1947 Amazon
21Bill Gaither Bad Luck Child's Request When The Sun Goes Down 1934-1941 Amazon
22Leroy Carr Bad Luck All The Time Sloppy Drunk [Disc 2] Amazon
23Champion Jack Dupree Bad Luck Bound To Change Two Classic Albums Plus Singles Amazon
24Fats Domino Bad Luck and Trouble Fats Domino Out of New Orleans Amazon
25John Mayall Bad Luck Time Room To Move 1969-1974 [Disc 2] Amazon
26Tommy Castro And The Painkillers Bad Luck Method To My Madness Amazon
27Larry Campbell Bad Luck Charm Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams Amazon
28The Harlem Hamfats Bad Luck Man Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936 Amazon
29Charlie Musselwhite If I Should Have Bad Luck Deluxe Edition – Charlie Musselwhite Amazon

High Water Everywhere

And the topic of this episode will be natural disasters. Namely…floods. Timeless events and timeless music. Dave Stroud will share in-depth blues about rising waters, country music about the terror brought to us by Mother Nature, featuring Dave Alvin, James McMurtry, Whispering Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, and Lonnie Johnson…to mention but a few. Our show will focus on music that tells a story, because that’s what we find best in the tradition of Americana roots.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Johnny Cash Five Feet High And Rising Songs Of Our Soil Amazon
3Charley Patton High Water Everywhere Part 1 People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature Amazon
4Bob Dylan High Water (For Charley Patton) Love and Theft Amazon
5Ramblin' Jack Elliott Rising High Water Blues A Stranger Here Amazon
6Blind Lemon Jefferson Rising High Water Blues (Pm 12487, 4491-5) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) Amazon
7Tom Rush Galveston Flood The Very Best Of Tom Rush: No Regrets Amazon
8Whispering Smith Storm in Texas aka Texas Flood Swamp Blues Amazon
9Lonnie Johnson Broken Levee Blues Hot Fingers Amazon
10Lonnie Johnson Flood Water Blues Tomorrow Night Amazon
11Sippie Wallace The Flood Blues ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 48 Amazon
12Bessie Smith Back Water Blues Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 1] Amazon
13Ruby Gowdy Florida Flood Blues Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 6 Amazon
14Carl Martin High Water Flood Blues Carl Martin, Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan, Willie "61" Blackwell — Complete Recorded Works Amazon
15Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe When The Levee Breaks 24 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's 2015 Amazon
16Robert Hicks Mississippi Heavy Water Blues People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature Amazon
17Fiddlin' John Carson Storm That Struck Miami People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature Amazon
18Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys Flood Of '57 Classic Bluegrass Amazon
19Happy Traum Crash on the Levee Down in the Flood (feat. Justin Guip, Adam Traum & Byron Isaacs) Just For the Love Of It Amazon
20James McMurtry Hurricane Party Just Us Kids Amazon
21Charlie Haden Is This America? (Katrina 2005) Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
22Dave Alvin Southern Flood Blues Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy Amazon
23Roomful Of Blues Texas Flood The First Album Amazon
24Larry Davis Texas Flood Bob Dylan: Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 5 [Disc 4] Amazon
25Randy Newman & The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra With Members Of The New York Philharmonic Louisiana 1927 Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album Amazon
26Davell Crawford Gather By The River Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album Amazon
27The Tex-I-An Boys Wasn't That A Mighty Storm? Classic American Ballads From Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
28Johnny Cash Big River Get Rhythm [Sun] Amazon
29Leon Russell A Mighty Flood A Mighty Flood Amazon

The Document Label

Get your morning cuppa roots sounds with a look at the record label whose catalog is overflowing with some of the most important recordings of the 20th century. From the birth of the blues to the birth of jazz; from the earliest gospel jubilee sounds of the deep South to the the electrifying sacred steel sounds of the late century; from the hillbilly string bands to the hokum sounds of the urban South…it’s all there. Document Records has amassed one of the world’s most revered collections of Americana out there and you can tune into Sonoma County community radio for a sampler of the music that has survived the century’s shift in technology , infiltrated our culture, and influenced performers to this day.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Frank Hutchison Stackalee [Vocal] Worried Blues [Disc 1] Amazon
3Frank Hutchison The Deal Old Time Music From West VI : Old-Time Music From West Virgi Amazon
4The Allen Brothers Skipping And Flying Allen Brothers Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 Amazon
5Sam McGee Buck Dancer's Choice Complete Recorded Works 1926-34 Amazon
6Georgia Yellow Hammers White Lightning The Georgia Yellow Hammers And Associates Vol. 4 "White Lightning – 1929-1931 Amazon
7Kirk & Sam McGhee Brown's Ferry Blues Complete Recorded Works 1926-34 Amazon
8Charley Jordan Just A Spoonful Charley Jordan Volume 1 1930-1931 Amazon
9Blind Willie McTell Searching The Desert For The Blues Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1] Amazon
10Peetie Wheatstraw Kind-Hearted Blues Too Late, Too Late, More Newly Discovered Titles And Alternate Takes. Vol. 4 Amazon
11Barbecue Bob Barbecue Blues Barbecue Any Old Time – Blues From The Pit 1927-1942 Amazon
12Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon Come On Mama, Do That Dance Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1] Amazon
13Blind Arvella Gray Have Mercy, Mr. Percy Blues From Maxwell Street Amazon
14Charlie Spand Ain't Gonna Stand For That (Pm 12856, 15454–) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932) Amazon
15Leroy Carr Don't Start No Stuff 1934-1941 Amazon
16Laura Rucker St. Louis Blues Female Blues Singers Vol. 13 R/S (1921-1931) Amazon
17Rosa Henderson Don't Advertise Your Man (Take A) Vol. 2-Vocal Blues & Jazz Amazon
18Memphis Mose Hear Me Beefin' at You Georgia Tom – Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 (September 1928 – 5 February 1930) Amazon
19Butterbeans and Susie Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama Please Warm My Weiner (Old Time Hokum Blues) Amazon
20Big Maceo Won't Be A Fool No More Big Maceo Vol. 2 "Big City Blues" (1945 – 1950) Amazon
21Tampa Red Let Me Play With Your Poodle Rude Dudes Amazon
22Nora and Delle Get Away From My Window Jazzin' The Blues Vol. 3 Amazon
23W.C. Handy St. Louis Blues Jazzin' the Blues Amazon
24Cleo Brown I'll Take The South (You Take The East, Take The West, Take The North) Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935) Amazon
25The Harlem Hamfats She's Trickin' Me Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936 Amazon
26Babe Wallace Git It ('Cause I Love To See You Wid It) Jazzin the Blues Vol. 5 (1930 – 1953) Amazon
27Rev. Lonnie Farris A Closer Walk To Thee Electric / Slide Guitar Gospel Amazon
28Rev. Utah Smith I Got Two Wings Electric / Slide Guitar Gospel Amazon
29Sister O. M. Terrell The Bible's Right Country Gospel 1946-1953 Amazon
30Sister Rosetta Tharpe My Journey to the Sky Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats Amazon
31Sister Goldia Haynes Traveling Great Gospel Performers: Complete Recording Sessions in Chronological Order, 1937-1950 Amazon
32Rev. Robert Ballinger This Train Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats Amazon

Jazz Fest 2017

We had a chance to catch the first weekend of JazzFest in New Orleans a couple of weeks back and thought it would be a good free form collection to share with everyone…so that’s what’s going to be on the bill this week on Deeper Roots. Music from Kermit Ruffins, The Sweet Olive String Band, Aaron Neville, Steve Riley, The Rebirth Brass Band, Dr. John, and an eclectic collection that you’ll just have to wait to be surprised by. Tune into Community Radio for Sonoma County and find your festive mood on a Spring evening.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Kermit Ruffins; The Barbeque Swingers What Is New Orleans Treme: Music From the HBO Original Series: Season Two Amazon
3Deacon John Going Back To New Orleans New Orleans Amazon
4Henry Butler Mama Roux Treme: Music From the HBO Original Series: Season Two Amazon
5Rebirth Brass Band Take It to the Street Treme: Music From the HBO Original Series: Season Two Amazon
6Dirty Dozen Brass Band Junko Partner Medicated Magic Amazon
7Trombone Shorty Ooh Poo Pah Doo Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans Amazon
8Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers Jock-A-Mo (Iko Iko) #imsoneworleans Amazon
9Kermit Ruffins Exactly Like You We Partyin' Traditional Style Amazon
10Kermit Ruffins When It's Sleepy Time Down South We Partyin' Traditional Style Amazon
11Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers At Last (feat. Nayo Jones) #imsoneworleans Amazon
12Anders Osborne Ho-Di-Ko-Di-Ya-La-Ma-La Americana Roots Songbook: Louisiana Amazon
13The Mavericks Nitty Gritty Mono Amazon
14Galactic Sugar Doosie Into the Deep (Deluxe Edition) Amazon
15Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys Creole Stomp (Happytown) Happytown Amazon
16BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet Two Step De Port Arthur From Bamako to Carenro Amazon
17Sweet Olive String Band Jackson Blues Sweet Olive String Band Amazon
18Aaron Neville Little Bitty Pretty One My True Story Amazon
19Buddy Guy (Baby) You Got What It Takes (feat. Joss Stone) Born To Play Guitar Amazon
20William Bell Poison In The Well This Is Where I Live Amazon
21James Winfield Hallelujah, I Love Her So Lonely Lonely Nights Amazon
22James Winfield Lonely, Lonely, Nights Lonely Lonely Nights Amazon
23Marc Broussard feat. Sam Bush Rising Sun Goin' Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino [Disc 2] Amazon
24Snoop Dogg California Roll (feat. Stevie Wonder) BUSH Amazon
25Stevie Wonder My Cherie Amour My Cherie Amour Amazon
26Harry Connick, Jr. Muskrat Ramble 25 Amazon
27Allen Toussaint with Rhiannon Giddens Rocks in My Bed Oxford American Music Issue – Visions of the Blues Amazon

That High Lonesome Sound

There can be no room for more rain here in Sonoma County. Spring is here and summer’s only a festival away….so we’ll celebrate the warmer side of Spring with an exploration of the bluegrass sounds of Bill Monroe and others, all tunes being selected for their ability to express what became to be known as that ‘high lonesome sound’.  Included in the mix will be Del McCoury, Jimmy Martin, Peter Rowan, Ralph Stanley, and a many others on a night that celebrates that ‘voice from on high’ and discourages the direction down that ‘wicked path of sin’. All for you on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Ricky Skaggs & Joan Osborne On The Old Kentucky Shore Big Mon – The Songs of Bill Monroe Amazon
3Bill Monroe A Voice From On High Cover to Cover: The Originals, Vol. 2 [Disc 1] Amazon
4Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Wicked Path Of Sin All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4] Amazon
5The Stanley Brothers Hills of Roan County 16 Greatest Hits Amazon
6Vern And Ray Cabin On a Mountain Cabin On A Mountain Amazon
7Ralph Stanley The Old Crossroad Poor Rambler [Disc 2] Amazon
8The David Thom Band Memories Of Mother And Dad The Thief Amazon
9Peter Rowan, Greg Garing Letter From My Darling True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe Amazon
10Bill Monroe/Ralph Stanley Letter from My Darling Saturday Night & Sunday Morning Disc 1 Amazon
11The Stanley Brothers Meet Me By the Moonlight High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
12Del McCoury Bluest Man in Town Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 2) Amazon
13Blue Highway Wicked Path Of Sin Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1 Amazon
14Martin, "King" Jimmy/Marty Stuart The Mississippi Mudcat and Sister Sheryl Crow Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best Amazon
15Jimmy Martin On and On Don't Cry To Me Amazon
16Jimmy Martin & Ralph Stanley Old Cross Road First Time Together Amazon
17Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys My Little Georgia Rose Bill Monroe: Anthology Amazon
18Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys Get Down On Your Knees and Pray Bill Monroe: Anthology Amazon
19Tim O'Brien Highway Of Sorrow Legend Lives on-a Tribute to Bill Monroe Amazon
20Bill Monroe Highway of Sorrow Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 3] Amazon
21Del McCoury High On the Mountain Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 2) Amazon
22Del McCoury On the Lonesome Wind The Family Amazon
23Alan O'Bryant, Del McCoury Get Down On Your Knees And Pray True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe Amazon
24Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys True Life Blues Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys live recordings 1956-1969 Amazon
25Bill Monroe And Doc Watson Memories of You Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2 Amazon
26Ricky Skaggs Remember the Cross Soldier of the Cross Amazon
27The Seldom Scene Little Georgia Rose High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
28Bill Monroe With Body and Soul High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
29Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1 Amazon
30Mac Wiseman It's Mighty Dark To Travel Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
31Don Reno & Red Smiley I Know You're Married But I Love You Still God Old Country Ballds Amazon
32Danny Paisley, Ryan Paisley, T.J. Lundy My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line Amazon
33Old and in the Way High Lonesome Sound That High Lonesome Sound Amazon
34Charlie Haden A Voice From On High Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon

Resist!

We’re going to share some political sounds from the past and present on Deeper Roots in a show that expresses the sentiments of resistance and free speech. Tune in for some new music from The Drive-By Truckers and Bruce Springsteen as well as some powerful voices from the past: Gil Scott-Heron, Phil Ochs, the SNCC Freedom Singers, Public Enemy, Merle Haggard, and…well…the list just doesn’t seem to lack for talent and passion.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Black Eyed Peas Power To The People Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur [Disc 2] Amazon
3Mimi & Richard Farina House Un-American Blues Activity Dream Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics Amazon
4Leonard Cohen The Old Revolution Songs From A Room Amazon
5Phil Ochs I'm Going To Say It Now Farewells & Fantasies [Disc 1] Amazon
6Phil Ochs I Ain't Marching Anymore Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics Amazon
7Woody Guthrie Vigilante Man The First Rays Of Protest In The Twentieth Century Amazon
8Norman & Nancy Blake Starving To Death On The Government Claim The Hobo's Last Ride Amazon
9Pete Seeger Round And Around Hitler's Grave The First Days Of Protest In The Twentieth Century Amazon
10Joan Baez I Pity The Poor Immigrant Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics Amazon
11Pete Seeger We Shall Not Be Moved Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics Amazon
12Merle Haggard Politically Uncorrect Singles Amazon
13Pete Seeger Which Side Are You On? The First Days Of Protest In The Twentieth Century Amazon
14Tom Morello Ease My Revolutionary Mind Note Of Hope Amazon
15Joe Grushecky That's What Makes Us Great MP3 Mastered New Band Project Amazon
16Steve Earle Rich Man's War The Revolution Starts Now Amazon
17Bob Dylan Political World Chronicles, Vol. 1 Amazon
18C.O.R.E. Freedom Singers Get Your Rights, Jack Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles) Amazon
19Gil Scott-Heron The Revolution Will Not Be Televised The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters Amazon
20Tracy Chapman Talkin' Bout a Revolution Tracy Chapman Amazon
21Country Joe & The Fish Good Guys/Bad Guys Cheer The Collected Country Joe & The Fish: 1965-1970 Amazon
22Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 Amazon
23Tom Paxton If The Poor Don't Matter Redemption Road Amazon
24Drive-By Truckers Guns Of Umpqua American Band Amazon
25SNCC Freedom Singers; Neblett, Charles Governor Wallace Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles) Amazon
26Roy Zimmerman Someday (We Shall Overcome) The Faucet's On Fire Amazon
27SNCC Freedom Singers; Reagon, Cordell Dog, Dog Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles) Amazon
28John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band Power To The People Gimme Some Truth [Disc 1] Amazon

Arlo Guthrie Special

Arlo Guthrie Special
Arlo Guthrie Special

Arlo’s music has been a mix of the traditional and sixties counterculture in it’s mood and dimension. His recent tour looks back at his albums that also struck an Americana chord including “Running Down The Road” and “Washington County” albums. We’ll be covering Arlo’s music, original versions, songs from Ramblin’ Jack and Woody, Holly Near, and those Americana inspirations. Join us!

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Pt 1 The Best of Arlo Guthrie Amazon
3Arlo Guthrie Highway In the Wind Alice's Restaurant Amazon
4Arlo Guthrie Coming Into Los Angeles Running Down the Road (remastered 2004) Amazon
5Arlo Guthrie Miss The Mississippi and You Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004) Amazon
6Jimmie Rodgers Miss The Mississippi And You Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5] Amazon
7Arlo Guthrie, Lunenberg Travelers, Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee You Must Have That True Religion A Tribute to Leadbelly Amazon
8Georgia Yellow Hammers Mary Don't You Weep Lead Kindly Light Amazon
9Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger Oh Mary Don't You Weep H.A.R.P. A Time To Sing Disc 1 Amazon
10Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger This Old Car If I Had A Song: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2 Amazon
11Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Pt 2 The Best of Arlo Guthrie Amazon
12Arlo Guthrie 1913 Massacre Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics Amazon
13Woody Guthrie 1913 Massacre Classic Labor Songs From Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
14Woody Guthrie The Grand Coulee Dam Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection Amazon
15Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Pt 3 The Best of Arlo Guthrie Amazon
16Arlo Guthrie City Of New Orleans All Over the World Amazon
17Steve Goodman City Of New Orleans Steve Goodman Amazon
18Arlo Guthrie Oklahoma Hills Running Down the Road (remastered 2004) Amazon
19Jack Guthrie Oklahoma Hills Oklahoma Hills Amazon
20Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Pt 4 The Best of Arlo Guthrie Amazon
21Ramblin' Jack Elliott Riding Down The Canyon (w/Arlo Guthrie) Friends of Mine Amazon
22Rex Allen Ridin' Down the Canyon V-3 Riding All Day Amazon
23Arlo Guthrie, Lunenberg Travelers, Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee Redbird A Tribute to Leadbelly Amazon
24Arlo Guthrie Lovesick Blues Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004) Amazon
25Hank Williams Lovesick Blues 24 Greatest Amazon
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