Category Archives: Folk and Tradition

Americana, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Oldies, Theme Time

The Old Chisholm Trail

February 17, 2018 Dave

Songs about moonlight on the trail this week. We revisit songs about Old Paint, cowpokes, outlaws, and the wide expanse of the range in this week’s show. Tradition, temperance, and memories of the Red River Valley with Michael Martin Murphey, Jimmie Driftwood, Rex Allen, Powder River Jack (featuring Kitty Lee), and many more cowboys from Hollywood and the old Navajo Trail. Storytelling and nostalgic novelties, most elevating the hardscrabble life of the West to a Disney featurette. Right here on Sonoma County community radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Norman Luboff Choir	Shenandoah	Songs of the South and Songs of the Sea
3	Gene Autry	Tumbling Tumbleweeds	Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1]
4	Gene Autry	Back In the Saddle Again	Don't Fence Me In:Western Music Early Golden Era
5	The Western Flyers	Along The Navajo Trail	Wild Blue Yonder
6	Marty Robbins	The Strawberry Roan	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
7	Duane Eddy	Streets of Laredo	Rebel Rouser
8	Ernest Tubb	The Yellow Rose Of Texas	Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours
9	Gene Autry & Jimmy Long	The Yellow Rose Of Texas	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2]
10	Marty Robbins	Red River Valley	All-Time Greatest Hits
11	Johnny Bond	Red River Valley	History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 9
12	Roy Rogers & Dale Evans	The Old Chisholm Trail	16 Great Songs Of The Old West
13	Ken Curtis & The Sons of the Pioneers	Home On The Range	The Cowboy Album
14	Ken Maynard	Home On The Range	When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2
15	Judy Canova	Along The Navajo Trail (Radio)	Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1
16	The Sons Of The Pioneers	Along The Santa Fe Trail	Sons Of The Pioneers
17	Rex Allen	Riding Down To Mexico	The Last of The Great Singing Cowboys
18	Johnny Bond	Goodbye Old Paint	Standard Transcriptions
19	Cisco Houston	I Ride An Old Paint	The Folkways Years: 1944-1961
20	Michael Martin Murphey	I Ride An Old Paint/Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo/Git Along Little Doggies	Cowboy Songs
21	Eddy Arnold	Cattle Call	Stampede! Western Music's Late Golden Era
22	Roy Rogers & The Sons Of The Pioneers	Blue Shadows On The Trail (From Walt Disney's "Melody Time")	Country Legends
23	Ken Maynard	Lone Star Trail	Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
24	Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)	Strawberry Roan	Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58
25	Wilmer Watts And The Lonely Eagles	Sleepy Desert	Gastonia Gallop – Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931
26	Carson Robison's Buckaroos	Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie	Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
27	Crowder Brothers	Wild West Rambler	When I Was A Cowboy: Early American Songs Of The West, Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's. Vol. 1
28	Powder River Jack, Kitty Lee	Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail	When I Was A Cowboy: Early American Songs Of The West, Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's. Vol. 1
29	Jimmie Driftwood	Billy The Kid	Americana, Vol. 2
30	Don Edwards	Sam Bass	Saddle Songs (1 of 2)
31	The Light Crust Doughboys	Oh Susannah	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp)
32	Tex Ritter	My Darling Clementine	Have I Stayed Away Too Long
33	Tex Ritter	Chisholm Trail	High Noon
34	Roy Rogers & Dale Evans	The Streets Of Laredo	16 Great Songs Of The Old West
35	Roy Rogers & Dale Evans With Frank Worth & His Orchestra	Happy Trails	Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3]

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Dead Roots

January 7, 2018 Dave

While the lyrics and music of Robert Hunter took the Grateful Dead into remarkable directions, codifying their place among the bands of the latter half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, by the time they reached their peak their roots were already firmly established. Their early music was clearly anchored in the sounds of tradition, reaching from the Appalachians to the Texas Gulf Coast. We’ll hear early (and contemporary) performances that inspired the band with songs of Blind Willie Johnson, Red Allen, The Mississippi Sheiks, Henry Thomas and Obray Ramsey. The landscape we’ll traverse includes blues, gospel, hillbilly, and folk…no Dead music, only music that served to inspire. This week on Sonoma County Community radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	David Grisman/Jerry Garcia	Been All Around This World	Been All Around This World
3	Dave Van Ronk	Hang Me, Oh Hang Me	Dave Van Ronk
4	Obray Ramsey	Rain And Snow	Best Of The Troubadours
5	Vince Martin & Fred Neil	I Know You Rider	Tear Down The Walls/Bleecker & MacDougal
6	Henry Thomas	Dont Ease Me In	Ragtime Texas Complete Recorded Works 1927-29
7	The Memphis Jug Band	On The Road Again	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
8	The Memphis Jug Band	Stealin' Stealin'	Memphis Jug Band Vol. 2 (1928-1929)
9	Cannon's Jug Stompers	Viola Lee Blues	First Time I Met the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down series)
10	Hammie Nixon	Viola Lee Blues	Living Country Blues: An Anthology Disc 3
11	The Monroe Brothers	Rosa Lee McFall	Early Blue Grass Music
12	Prairie Ramblers	Deep Elem Blues	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
13	Mississippi Sheiks	Sittin' On Top of the World	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
14	Roscoe Holcomb	Sittin' On Top of the World	Classic Piedmont Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
15	Dillard Chandler	Rain and Snow	Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
16	The Chieftains	Rain And Snow	Down The Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions
17	Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers	Minglewood Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
18	Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, et. al.	New Minglewood Blues	Jug Band Extravaganza
19	Blind Willie Johnson	Nobody's Fault But Mine	Various Artists: Bob Dylan – Cover To Cover – The Originals VOL. 2 [Disc 3]
20	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Nobody's Fault But Mine	The Great Gospel Women
21	Rev. Pearly Brown	Nobody's Fault But Mine	You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
22	Lightnin' Hopkins	See That My Grave Is Kept Clean	The Real Blues Brothers Vol. 2
23	Lightnin' Hopkins	One Kind Favor	Jake Head Boogie
24	Memphis Slim	Next Time You See Me	The Greatest Hits Of
25	Bob Dylan	Jack-A-Roe	World Gone Wrong
26	Joan Baez	Jack-A-Roe	Rare, Live & Classic [Box] (3 of 3)
27	The Sunshine Boys	What's the Matter With Deep Elem	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys – Oakie Boogie [Disc 4]
28	Red Allen	Deep Elem Blues	The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983
29	The Light Crust Doughboys	Sittin' On Top Of The World	1936-1941
30	Dock Walsh	In The Pines	In The Pines – Tar Heel Folk Songs And Fiddle Tunes – Old-Time Music Of North Carolina 1926-1936
31	John Sebastian	Minglewood Blues	Chasin' Gus' Ghost

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Contemporary Americana Gospel

December 17, 2017 Dave

Just a closer walk…Deeper Roots walks the gospel road once more, this time forgoing the ancestral roots for modern takes in black gospel, country gospel, and bluegrass from the Heartland. Our focus will be on some of the contemporary performers who cover with due recognition some of the great gospel standards. We’ll hear from Hugh Laurie, Willie Watson, Rodney Crowell, Bruce Cockburn, and Luther Dickinson…and that’s just a taste. We’ll hear the stories of Samson and Delilah alongside John the Revelator….right here on Deeper Roots…coming your way from the KWTF downtown studios.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Aubrey Ghent & Friends	Just A Closer Walk With Thee	15 Down Home Gospel Classics
3	Buddy Miller	There's A Higher Power	Universal United House Of Prayer
4	Wade Bowen	Precious Memories	Then Sings My Soul: Songs for My Mother
5	Mike Farris	Sit Down Servant	Salvation in Lights
6	Bonnie Raitt & Maria Muldaur	My Journey to the Sky	Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
7	Johnny Cash	The Man Comes Around	American IV: Man Comes Around
8	Jorma Kaukonen	What Are They Doing In Heaven Today	Blue Country Heart
9	Rodney Crowell	Denomination Blues	Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South
10	Willie Watson	Samson and Delilah	Folksinger Vol. 2
11	Jimmie Dale Gilmore	Peace in the Valley	Come on Back
12	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Amazing Grace	Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2
13	The Blind Boys of Alabama	I Keep On Walking	Almost Home
14	Mavis Staples & Bonnie Raitt	Turn Me Around	Mavis Staples I'll Take You There: An All-Star Concert Celebration
15	Rhiannon Giddens	Up Above My Head	Tomorrow Is My Turn
16	Hugh Laurie	Didn't It Rain	Didn't It Rain (Deluxe)
17	Linda Gail Lewis	This Train	Hard Rocking Woman
18	Leo Welch	You Can't Hurry God	Sabougla Voices
19	The Holmes Brothers	Farther Along	Speaking In Tongues
20	Ollabelle	John The Revelator	Ollabelle
21	Tom Waits	John The Revelator	God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
22	Luther Dickinson feat. the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band	Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King	God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
23	Bruce Cockburn	Twelve Gates To The City	Bone On Bone
24	Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson	Family Bible	Django and Jimmie
25	Willie and Bobbie Nelson	Old Time Religion	Farther Along
26	Gillian Welch	Old Time Religion [Outtake]	Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg [Disc 2]
27	Charlie Haden	A Voice From On High	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
28	Rhiannon Giddens	Freedom Highway	Freedom Highway

Songs of John Hiatt

December 10, 2017 Dave

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.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	John Hiatt	Crossing Muddy Waters	Crossing Muddy Waters
3	Buddy Guy	Feels Like Rain	Feels Like Rain
4	Emmylou Harris	Icy Blue Heart	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
5	Rosanne Cash	The Way We Make a Broken Heart	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
6	Jo-El Sonnier	I'll Never Get Over You	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
7	Flaco Jiminez	Across The Borderline featuring John Hiatt (Album Version)	Partners
8	Terrance Simien	It Hasn't Happened Yet	Rollin' into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt
9	Carrie Rodriguez	Big Love	Love and Circumstances
10	Rosanne Cash	It Hasn't Happened Yet	Retrospective
11	John Hiatt	Cry Love	Walk On
12	Kelly Willis	Drive South	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
13	Bonnie Raitt	Lover's Will [Radio Edit Version]	The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003 [US]
14	Commander Cody	Commander Cody-Tennessee Plates	Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers
15	Gregg Allman	Memphis in the Meantime	Searching for Simplicity
16	Marshall Crenshaw	Someplace Where Love Can't Find Me	Good Evening
17	Nick Lowe	She Don't Love Nobody	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
18	Dave Edmunds	I Got Your Number	Closer to the Flame
19	Iggy Pop	Something Wild	Brick by Brick
20	Mitch Ryder	Where Is the Next One Coming From?	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
21	Asleep at the Wheel	This Is the Way We Make a Broken Heart	Pasture Prime
22	Rodney Crowell	She Loves the Jerk	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
23	Rosanne Cash	Pink Bedroom	Retrospective
24	John Hiatt	Your Love Is My Rest	Walk On
25	Joe Cocker	Have a Little Faith in Me	Ultimate Collection
26	John Hiatt	Real Fine Love	Stolen Moments
27	The Band	Bound By Love	Jubilation
28	John Hiatt	Master of Disaster [2005]	Master of Disaster

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Back on the Farm

December 2, 2017 Dave

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.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard	Farmer's Blues	Country Music
3	Freeman Stowers	Sunrise On The Farm	Sinners and Saints: Complete Recorded Works 1926-1931
4	Bill Frisell	Farmer	Disfarmer
5	Levon Helm	Poor Old Dirt Farmer	Dirt Farmer
6	Bill Neely	Black Land Farmer	16 Down Home Country Classics
7	James King	Thirty Years of Farming	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
8	Junior Sisk with Becky Isaacs Bowman and Sonya Isaacs Yeary	The Wheat Crop	Mac Wiseman – I Sang The Song
9	Lemuel Jones	Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers)	Field Recordings, Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941)
10	Peter Rowan	Let the Harvest Go To Seed	Bluegrass Boy
11	Carolina Tar Heels	Got The Farm Land Blues	Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads
12	Cisco Houston	Farmer's Lament	The Folkways Years: 1944-1961
13	J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers (With Morris Herbert)	17 Living On The Farm	The Legendry J.E. Mainer, Volume 4
14	Walter Brennan	Old Rivers	Old Rivers
15	The Bently Boys	Down On Penny's Farm	Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads
16	Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur	Down on Penny's Farm	Penny's Farm
17	The Four Wanderers	Farmer's Life For Me	Black Vocal Groups Vol. 9 (1929-1942)
18	Ben & Ellen Harper	Farmer's Daughter	Childhood Home
19	Bobby Bare	The Farmer Feeds Us All	Hard Time Hungrys
20	Porter Wagoner	The Farmer and the Lord	20 All-Time Greatest Hits
21	Paula Brown	Farm Hollers	Hollerin'
22	Warren 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
23	Bubby Bishop	I Want To Go Back To The Farm	The Great Vintage Country
24	Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)	On A Little Two Acre Farm	Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58
25	Goose Island Ramblers	I Worked For a Farmer	Polkabilly
26	Buster Carter & Preston Young	A Lazy Farmer Boy	Before The Blues Vol. 3
27	Rosetta Howard	Plow Hand Blues [Album Version]	Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
28	Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys	I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven	King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail
29	Fiddlin' 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
30	Ray Wylie Hubbard	After the Harvest	Crusades of the Restless Nights
31	Dry Branch Fire Squad	Devil, Take The Farmer	481 Bluegrass Class of 1990
32	Glen Campbell	Arkansas Farmboy	Adios
33	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	When It's Harvest Time, Sweet Angeline	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin'
34	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs With Mother Maybelle Carter	The Homestead On The Farm [Album Version]	Songs Of The Famous Carter Family

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Below the Mason-Dixon Line

November 25, 2017 Dave

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.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Jimmie Rodgers	Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line	Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5]
3	Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton	Down In Florida On A Hog	Darby & Tarlton – Disc A (Atlanta 1927-29)
4	Muddy Waters	Deep Down In Florida #2	King Bee
5	Claire Lynch	My Florida Sunshine	Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1
6	The Swe-Danes	Georgia Camp Meeting	New Discgems From Warner Brothers
7	Dave Van Ronk	Georgia Camp Meeting	Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers
8	Alex Campbell, Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby	Bringing in the Georgia Mail	Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
9	Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers	Georgia Boogie	Travellin' Boogie
10	Guy Clark	Virginia's Real	Texas Cookin'
11	The Carter Family	Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 3]
12	Al Bowlly	My Sweet Virginia	Just A Bowl Of Cherries
13	Ethel Waters	I'm Coming Virginia	On Stage And Screen 1925 – 1940
14	Hazel Dickens	West Virginia, My Home	Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records [Disc 1]
15	Louis Jordan	Salt Pork, West Virginia	The Chronological Louis Jordan 1945-1946
16	Dr. Horse	South Poke West Virginia	Harlem Rock N' Blues
17	Mance Lipscomb	Alabama Bound	Ash Grove 12/6/1964
18	Evan Marshall	The Alabama Jubilee	Mandolin Magic
19	The Louvin Brothers	Alabama	Hand-Picked
20	Neil Young/Stray Gators	Alabama	Harvest
21	Jimmie Driftwood	Arkansas Traveler	Americana, Vol. 1
22	Carolina Cotton	Three Miles South Of Cash (In Arkansas)	Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music CD [Disc 2, "Arkansas Masters"]
23	Bill Kirchen	Arkansas Diamond (Album)	Word To The Wise
24	Taj Mahal	Texas Woman Blues	The Essential [Disc 1]
25	Asleep at the Wheel	Miles and Miles of Texas	The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970
26	Tommy Duncan	Texas Moon	Texas Moon
27	Tony Rice	He Rode All the Way to Texas	Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
28	Waylon Jennings	Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)	The Essential Waylon Jennings [2007] Disc 2
29	Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown	Going Back To Louisiana	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
30	Doug Kershaw	Louisiana Man	Diggy Diggy Lo
31	Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three	Mississippi Girl	Middle of Everywhere
32	Nina Simone	Mississippi Goddam	Anthology Disc 1
33	Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	Mississippi Mud	Paper Moon
34	The Andrew Sisters	When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabama	Double Goldies [CD1]

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Bad Luck Blues

September 16, 2017 Dave

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?

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

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High Water Everywhere

August 19, 2017 Dave

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.

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

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The Document Label

July 1, 2017 Dave

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.

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

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Jazz Fest 2017

May 20, 2017 Dave

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.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Kermit Ruffins; The Barbeque Swingers	What Is New Orleans	Treme: Music From the HBO Original Series: Season Two
3	Deacon John	Going Back To New Orleans	New Orleans
4	Henry Butler	Mama Roux	Treme: Music From the HBO Original Series: Season Two
5	Rebirth Brass Band	Take It to the Street	Treme: Music From the HBO Original Series: Season Two
6	Dirty Dozen Brass Band	Junko Partner	Medicated Magic
7	Trombone Shorty	Ooh Poo Pah Doo	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
8	Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers	Jock-A-Mo (Iko Iko)	#imsoneworleans
9	Kermit Ruffins	Exactly Like You	We Partyin' Traditional Style
10	Kermit Ruffins	When It's Sleepy Time Down South	We Partyin' Traditional Style
11	Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers	At Last (feat. Nayo Jones)	#imsoneworleans
12	Anders Osborne	Ho-Di-Ko-Di-Ya-La-Ma-La	Americana Roots Songbook: Louisiana
13	The Mavericks	Nitty Gritty	Mono
14	Galactic	Sugar Doosie	Into the Deep (Deluxe Edition)
15	Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys	Creole Stomp (Happytown)	Happytown
16	BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet	Two Step De Port Arthur	From Bamako to Carenro
17	Sweet Olive String Band	Jackson Blues	Sweet Olive String Band
18	Aaron Neville	Little Bitty Pretty One	My True Story
19	Buddy Guy	(Baby) You Got What It Takes (feat. Joss Stone)	Born To Play Guitar
20	William Bell	Poison In The Well	This Is Where I Live
21	James Winfield	Hallelujah, I Love Her So	Lonely Lonely Nights
22	James Winfield	Lonely, Lonely, Nights	Lonely Lonely Nights
23	Marc Broussard feat. Sam Bush	Rising Sun	Goin' Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino [Disc 2]
24	Snoop Dogg	California Roll (feat. Stevie Wonder)	BUSH
25	Stevie Wonder	My Cherie Amour	My Cherie Amour
26	Harry Connick, Jr.	Muskrat Ramble	25
27	Allen Toussaint with Rhiannon Giddens	Rocks in My Bed	Oxford American Music Issue – Visions of the Blues

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