Category Archives: Folk and Tradition

Bluegrass & Old Time Hour Special

Bluegrass Old Time Hour
Bluegrass Old Time Hour

Mark Hogan’s in Grass Valley this week gearing up for the 41st Annual Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival which opens this coming Thursday, June 16th. Dave Stroud will be sitting in for Mark and will feature new releases, old standards, and vintage country sounds from the likes of Doug Sahm, Chris Smither, The Hackensaw Boys, and Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers….not to mention a good helping of Bill Monroe recordings from 1960.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Nashville Bluegrass Band Up Above My Head My Native Home Amazon
3The Nashville Bluegrass Band Monroebilia My Native Home Amazon
4Emmylou Harris Get Up John Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems Disc 2 Amazon
5Adkins & Loudermilk Georgia Mountain Man Adkins & Loudermilk Amazon
6Tony Rice Thunderclouds Of Love Bluegrass Today [Disc 2] Amazon
7John Hartford Gumtree Canoe Good'le Days: Essential Recordings Amazon
8Bill Monroe Flowers Of Love Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1] Amazon
9Bill Monroe Time Changes Everything Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1] Amazon
10David Grisman Watson Blues (feat. Tony Rice) Dawg Plays Big Mon Amazon
11Tony Rice He Rode All the Way to Texas Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection Amazon
12Charlie Haden Ocean Of Diamonds Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
13Cyndi Lauper Walkin' After Midnight Detour Amazon
14Old Crow Medicine Show 8 Dogs 8 Banjos Remedy Amazon
15Dale Watson Fly Away Blessed Or Damned Amazon
16Jefferson Ross Dogwood Cats Dogwood Cats Amazon
17Hackensaw Boys Cmon Baby Dont Bet Against Me Charismo Amazon
18Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice Longneck Blues Poor Boy's Pleasure Amazon
19Josh Williams Girl From The Canyon Modern Day Man Amazon
20Hamilton County Ramblers Standing On the Mountain Hamilton County Ramblers Amazon
21Traveling Show Token Of Love Songs From The Road Band Amazon
22Asleep at the Wheel Don't Ask Me Why (I'm Going to Texas) Swing Time Amazon
23Texas Tornados Wasted Days and Wasted Nights Live from the Limo, Vol. 1 Amazon
24Doug Sahm Faded Love Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1 Amazon
25Doug Sahm (Is Anybody Going To) San Antone Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1 Amazon
26Guy Clark To Live Is To Fly Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt Amazon
27Guy Clark My Favorite Picture of You Oxford American Southern Music Texas Amazon
28Kelly Joe Phelps Beggars Oil (Album Version) Beggars Oil EP Amazon
29Chris Smither Frankie & Albert Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
30Bill Monroe Darling Corey Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 2] Amazon
31IIIrd Time Out John & Mary Bluegrass Today [Disc 2] Amazon
32Dreadful Snakes Blue Yodel #4 Snakes Alive! Amazon

Field Recording Covers

Field Recording Covers
Field Recording Covers

Coming up on our last live show of May, what better way but to dig just a little bit deeper into some of the field recordings of the first half of the 20th century that found popularity in the country, blues, and popular charts. Some of these songs had the ‘right’ rhythm or struck a chord with the message they sent. While most were traditional pieces by the time the musicologists had arrived with their primitive recording machines, others were original and told just the right story. We’ll hear Eric Clapton, Aaron Copland, B.B. King, and Tom Waits right alongside the originals done by Smith Casey, Gwen Foster, Belton Reese, and Ora Dell Graham.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Warner Williams With Jay Summerour Worried Life Blues Blues Highway Amazon
3Thomas "Jaybird" Jones Worried Life Blues Field Recordings, Vol. 3: Mississippi (1936-1942) Amazon
4David Edwards Worried Life Blues Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection Amazon
5Eric Clapton & B.B. King Worried Life Blues Riding With The King Amazon
6Agustus "Track Horse" Haggerty Hattie Green Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939 Amazon
7George Hamilton IV Abilene Classic Country Amazon
8Rouse Brothers My Family Circle Classic Field Recordings Amazon
9The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will The Circle Be Unbroken Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics Amazon
10Ace Johnson w/L. W. Gooden Mama Don't Low No Swingin' Out In Here Field Recordings Vol. 6: Texas (1933-1958) Amazon
11Doc Watson Mama Don't Allow No Music Memories Amazon
12W. M. Stepp Bonapartes Retreat Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 1] Amazon
13Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra & William Warfield Rodeo – Four Dance Episodes (Instrumental): IV. Hoedown Copland Conducts Copland (Expanded Edition) Amazon
14Dock Reed Down on Me Field Recordings, Vol. 4: Mississippi & Alabama (1934-1942) Amazon
15Big Brother & the Holding Company Down on Me Rock: Train Kept a Rollin' Disc 1 Amazon
16Ozella Jones Prisoner Blues Field Recordings, Volume 7 : Florida Amazon
17Fiona Apple Criminal Tidal Amazon
18Smith Casey East Texas Rag Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939 Amazon
19Tom Waits The Soul Of A Man God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
20Johnnie Barfield Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby Classic Field Recordings Amazon
21Carl Perkins Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby Dixie Fried Amazon
22Gwen Foster How Many Biscuits Can I Eat? Classic Field Recordings Amazon
23Mac Wiseman How Many Biscuits Can You Eat Sings Old Time Country Favorites Amazon
24Belton Reese Bile Dem Cabbages Down Field Recordings – Vol 9 – Georgia, SC, NC,Virginia, Kentucky (1924-39) Amazon
25Doc Watson Boil Them Cabbage Down Milestones Amazon
26Smith Casey West Texas Blues Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939 Amazon
27John Jackson West Texas Blues Front Porch Blues Amazon
28Ora Dell Graham Shortenin' Bread Field Recordings, Vol. 3: Mississippi (1936-1942) Amazon
29Lee Dorsey Shortnin' Bread The Ep Collection…Plus Amazon
30John Dudley Cool Drink Of Water Blues Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
31Vassar Clements Cool Drink of Water Livin' with the Blues Amazon
32Capitol City Laundry Quartet Ezekiel Saw The Wheel Field Recordings Vol. 12: Virginia & South Carolina (1936-1940) Amazon
33Louis Armstrong Ezekiel Saw De Wheel Louis And The Good Book Amazon
34Doyle Lawson/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Ezekiel Saw the Wheel School of Bluegrass Disc 1 Amazon
35James Shorty, Viola James, And Congregation Jesus On The Main Line Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals Amazon
36Ry Cooder Jesus On The Mainline Paradise And Lunch (Remaster 2013) Amazon

A Gospel Baptismal

A Gospel Baptismal
A Gospel Baptismal

Dave Stroud will explore the gospel form, both African American and Country, focusing on the theme of ‘going to the water’ to be saved. The songs reflect the celebration of ‘washing the soul’ as a tradition of a Christian faith. The performers will include Da Costa Woltz, Clefs of Harmony, Dock Walsh, and Ernest Stoneman’s Dixie Mountaineers. There will also be a helping of passionate sermons to make sure we keep our paths straight.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Gee's Bend Residents Good Evening Everybody (I've Been to the River and I've Been Baptized) How We Got Over: Sacred Songs of Gee's Bend Amazon
3Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters Baptist Shout Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters & Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers (1927-1929) Amazon
4Mountain Ramblers Baptizing Down By The Creek Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals Amazon
5Bill Monroe The Old Country Baptising Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 2] Amazon
6The Louvin Brothers The River Of Jordan Satan Is Real Amazon
7Zion Harmonizers Brother Moses Smote The Water Best of Louisiana Music SAMPLER Amazon
8Tommiettes Gospel Singers Have You Been Through The Water Powerhouse Gospel Amazon
9The Golden Gate Quartet Dip Your Fingers in the Water Vol. 4 (1939-1943) Amazon
10The Golden Gate Quartet Wade in the Water CD 2 the Recent Years Amazon
11The Staple Singers Wade In The Water Freedom Highway Amazon
12The Reverend J.M. Gates Baptize Me Take Me To The Water Amazon
13Elder JE Burch Baptism By Water, And Baptism By The Holy Ghost Take Me To The Water Amazon
14The Blind Boys Of Alabama Take Me To The Water I'll Find A Way Amazon
15The Harmonizing Four Wade In The Water The Essential Guide To Gospel Amazon
16Skylarks Baptism Of Jesus I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From The Nashboro Label 1951-1983 Amazon
17Clefs of Harmony Baptized This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982 Amazon
18Selah Jubilee Singers It's Cool Down Yonder By Chilly Jordan Vol. 2-(1941-44/45) Amazon
19Sam Cook & Soul Stirrers Jesus Gave Me Water Great Gospel – No Tears in Heaven Amazon
20The Holmes Brothers I Surrender All Gospel Brunch Classics Amazon
21The Chuck Wagon Gang & The Orthophonic Choir Shall We Gather At The River Orthophonic Joy Amazon
22The Carter Family On My Way To Canaan's Land The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 3] Amazon
23Dock Walsh Bathe In That Beautiful Pool Take Me To The Water Amazon
24Ricky Skaggs River Of Jordan Family And Friends Amazon
25Ernest Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers Down To Jordan And Be Saved The Bristol Sessions 1927-1928 [[Disc 4]] Amazon
26Washington Phillips Denomination Blues Part 1 Take Me To The Water Amazon
27Vaetta Stewart And Heavenly Tones Of Berkeley I Love The Lord Swingin' On The Golden Gate Volume 2: A Survey Of Bay Area Gospel Amazon
28Rev. Arthur Ransburg And The Voices Of Christ Of Berkeley I've Already Been To The Water Swingin' On The Golden Gate, Volume 2: A Survey Of Bay Area Gospel Amazon
29Delaney & Bonnie Wade In The River Of Jordan D & B Together Amazon
30Nina Simone Take Me To The Water Wild Is The Wind/High Priestess Of Soul Amazon
31Charlie Haden & Hank Jones Wade in the Water Steal Away / Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs Amazon
32Jean Ritchie Now Is The Cool Of The Day Coal Country Music Amazon
33Apostles Of Music Wade In the Water Local Customs: Downriver Revival Amazon
34Ramsey Lewis Wade In The Water Heatin' Up Amazon

Finger Pickin’ Good

Finger Pickin' Good
Finger Pickin’ Good

I’ll say…finger pickin’ good music featuring finger pickin’ great performers from the past century. We’ve got a two hour sampling of sounds from the likes of Doc Watson, Jorma Kaukonen, Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel, Blind Blake, Riley Puckett, and (of course) Merle Travis. Our Wednesday evening will keep it pretty folksy and traditional for the most part, leaning on tradition and the very best in string picking and chord strumming. All this and more on our roots music show which is produced exclusively for Sonoma County community radio, both KWTF and KOWS.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Leo Kottke Buckaroo Essential Amazon
3Chet Atkins Wheels Mr Atkins-Guitar Picker Amazon
4Doc Watson Windy and Warm The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968 Amazon
5Doc Watson Moody River Memories Amazon
6Doc Watson Doc's Guitar [#] The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968 Amazon
7Jefferson Airplane Embryonic Journey Walk on the Moon Amazon
8Jorma Kaukonen Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown (Instrumental) Stars In My Crown Amazon
9John Fahey Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home The Legend of Blind Joe Death Amazon
10Davy Graham Angi 3/4 Ad – Single Amazon
11Davy Graham Davy's Train Blues 3/4 Ad – Single Amazon
12Stefan Grossman Police Dog Blues How To Play Blues Guitar Amazon
13Blind Blake Diddie Wa Diddie Roots of Rock Amazon
14Lonnie Johnson Untitled Steppin' On The Blues Amazon
15Riley Puckett Fuzzy Rag Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 6 : Origins of American Primitive Guitar Amazon
16Etta Baker One Dime Blues Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
17Merle Travis Freight Train (Instrumental) The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands Amazon
18Tommy Emmanuel The Bug It's Never Too Late Amazon
19Bob Brozman Hano Hano Hanalei [Album Version] Blue Hula Stomp [Remastered] Amazon
20Merle Travis Li'l Liza Jane (Instrumental) The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands Amazon
21Jorma Kaukonen Fur Peace Rag Stars In My Crown Amazon
22Leo Kottke Wonderland By Night Peculiaroso Amazon
23Leo Kottke Little Martha Leo Live Amazon
24Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon Rings Sixty Six Steps Amazon
25John Fahey Layla Rain Forests, Oceans And Other Amazon
26Dave Van Ronk Green, Green Rocky Road Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk Amazon
27Doc & Merle Watson Bonaparte's Retreat Then And Now/Two Days In November Amazon
28Sam McGee Knoxville Blues Friends Of Old Time Music [Disc 1] Amazon
29Mississippi John Hurt Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight Complete Studio Recordings 3-CD Set Amazon
30Stefan Grossman Pallet On Your Floor How To Play Blues Guitar Amazon
31David Bromberg Come All You Fair and Tender Maidens Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records Amazon
32Mance Lipscomb Sugar Babe Texas Songster Amazon
33Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson Barrier Quah [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
34Bob Hadley Celtic Reverie Imaginational Anthem Amazon
35Bert Jansch Angie Running From Home – An Introduction to Bert Jansch Amazon
36Dave Van Ronk Gaslight Rag Going Back to Brooklyn Amazon
37Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon Strange Clone Amazon
38Bob Brozman Devil's Slide Devil's Slide Amazon

Folk Songs Pt 2 – Spirituals

Folks Songs of North America II - Spirituals
Folks Songs of North America II – Spirituals

The second installment in our exploration of the Alan Lomax book of the same name, this time focusing our energies on tradition in gospel and spiritual. Leader-chorus work songs to lighten the load of heavy labor; dancing songs to quicken the spirit on those rare holidays; and spirituals to replace their lost African religions and to console in times of physical torment and spiritual degradation are all captured here, including the stories and lineage behind the original pieces. We’ll hear from a diverse selection of performers including The Dixie Jubilee Singers, Odetta, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Eva Cassidy, and many others.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Fisk Jubilee Singers I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray The Gold and Blue Album Amazon
3Bessemer Sunset Four Climbing Jacob's Ladder Bessemer Sunset Four (1928-1930) Amazon
4Kenneth Benfield Jacob's Ladder (Folk) Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp Amazon
5Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger Jacob's Ladder H.A.R.P. A Time To Sing Disc 1 Amazon
6The Staple Singers Jacob's Ladder Freedom Highway Amazon
7The Fairfield Four Roll Jordan Revival Amazon
8Dixie Jubilee Singers & Bryant's Jubilee Quartet Roll, Jordan, Roll Dixie Jubilee Singers (1924-1928) & Bryant's Jubilee Quartet (1931) Amazon
9The Nashville Bluegrass Band Roll Jordan Roll Home of the Blues Amazon
10The Golden Gate Quartet Roll Jordan, Roll The Very Best of the Golden Gate Quartet [CD1] Amazon
11The Golden Gate Quartet Go Where I Send Thee Vol. 1 (1937-1938) Amazon
12Magnolia Five The Holy Baby Blues Blues Christmas Volume 3, 1927-1962 Amazon
13Nina Simone Children Go Where I Send You The Amazing Nina Simone/Nina Simone At Town Hall Amazon
14Odetta Rise Up, Shepherd, And Follow 7 Classic Albums Plus Bonus Radio Tracks Amazon
15Nick Lowe Rise Up Shepherd Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection For All The Family Amazon
16Eva Cassidy Wade In the Water Hear Music volume 6 Amazon
17The Harmonizing Four Wade In The Water The Essential Guide To Gospel Amazon
18Mavis Staples Wade In The Water Lovely Jazz Gospel & Blues Amazon
19Tom Waits John The Revelator God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
20Son House John the Revelator Death Letter Amazon
21The Weavers When the Stars Begin to Fall The Weavers Almanac Amazon
22Carl Sandburg All Night Long Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 1] Amazon
23Mississippi John Hurt All Night Long The Complete Studio Recordings: Last Sessions Amazon
24Reverend Gary Davis All Night Long Twelve Gates To The City: In Concert, 1962-1966, Volume Three Amazon
25Mahalia Jackson Didn't It Rain 16 Most Requested Songs Amazon
26Fern Jones Didn't It Rain The Glory Road Amazon
27Cora Martin Didn't It Rain The Great Gospel Women Amazon
28Sister Rosetta Tharpe This Train Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4) Amazon
29Louis Armstrong This Train Louis And The Good Book Amazon
30Samuel Patterson This Train Americana Roots Songbook: Gospel Amazon
31Pops Staples The Downward Road Father Father Amazon
32The Golden Gate Quartet Dese Bones Gonna Rise Again Radio Transcriptions 1941 – 1944 Amazon
33John D. Foster & Leonard Rutherford These Bones Gwine Rise Again Gennett Old Time Music 1927-34 Amazon
34Sons of the Pioneers Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again Songs of the Prairie – CD2 Amazon
35Willie Eason With The Campbell Brothers When The Saints Go Marching In Sacred Steel – Live! Amazon
36Mississippi Fred McDowell When The Saints Go Marching In My Home Is In The Delta Amazon
37Fats Domino When The Saints Go Marchin' In Very Best of Fats Domino [Phantom] (Disc 2) Amazon

Deeper Blind Willie Johnson

Deeper Blind Willie Johnson
Deeper Blind Willie Johnson

Blind Willie Johnson’s music seems to resurface through discovery with each generation and understandably so. Because tied to the meager catalog of thirty songs that he recorded over some four sessions between December, 1927 and April, 1930, is a dark and foreboding voice in the night. Its glow is that of a solitary candle in a room of shadows in a house whose bones have fallen to derelict and decay. Willie is telling us to take notice.

The story of Blind Willie Johnson was best transcribed in Sam Charters’ introduction and liner notes for Columbia’s Roots & Blues Series’ “The Complete Works of Blind Willie Johnson”. We’ll go a bit deeper, dedicating our two hours to Blind Willie Johnson featuring tracks from the new tribute album “God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson”, some classic recordings of Blind Willie, as well as covers of every stripe and style.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Reverend Lewis Jackson & Charlotte Rucell Dark Was The Night Classic Sounds of New Orleans Amazon
3Blind Willie Johnson Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics Amazon
4Derek Trucks And Susan Tedeschi Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
5Hot Tuna Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning [Live] Live In Japan Amazon
6Bruce Cockburn Soul of a Man Nothing But a Burning Light Amazon
7Ry Cooder Dark Was The Night Paris, Texas Amazon
8Maria Muldaur Oh, the Rain Any Woman's Blues Amazon
9Sinead O'Connor Trouble Will Soon Be Over God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
10Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, and Richard Williams Motherless Children Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 2] Amazon
11John Hammond, Jr. Motherless Willie Johnson Country Blues Amazon
12Odetta Motherless Children 7 Classic Albums Plus Bonus Radio Tracks Amazon
13The Dixie Hummingbirds Nobody's Fault Diamond Jubilation: 75th Anniversary Amazon
14Arizona Dranes Bye & Bye We're Going To See The King He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes Amazon
15Blind Willie Johnson Trouble Will Soon Be Over The Complete Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
16Blind Willie Johnson Let Your Light Shine On Me [Album Version] The Ladykillers Music From The Motion Picture Amazon
17Rev. Pearly Brown God Don't Never Change You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion Amazon
18The Staple Singers Samson And Delilah Freedom Highway Amazon
19Lee Roy Parnell/The Fairfield Four John the Revelator Peace in the Valley [Arista] Amazon
20The Venice Four with Rose Stone and The Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir Let Your Light Shine On Me [Album Version] The Ladykillers Music From The Motion Picture Amazon
21Blind Willie Johnson Church, I'm Fully Saved To-Day The Complete Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
22The Levon Helm Band God Don't Never Change The Midnight Ramble Sessions Vol 3 Amazon
23David Bromberg Band Nobody's Fault But Mine Only Slightly Mad Amazon
24The Blasters Samson and Delilah Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2) Amazon
25Blind Willie Johnson If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down ABC Of The Blues Vol 20 Amazon
26Johnny Shines It Ain't Nobody's Fault But Mine Traditional Delta Blues Amazon
27Irma Thomas Soul of a Man After the Rain Amazon
28Tom Waits The Soul Of A Man God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
29Taj Mahal You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond The Real Thing Amazon
30Rev. Gary Davis Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs Amazon

Deeper Roots Ragtime

Deeper Roots Ragtime
Deeper Roots Ragtime

Our theme this evening is ragtime and it’s impact on the past century of America’s music. Join Dave Stroud for a themed collection of early and mid-century ragtime beginning with Cliff Edwards and running all the way through to some modern sounds out of Hamilton County, Tennessee. We’ll explore the Tiger Rag, the Maple Leaf Rag, the Black Mountain Rag, and then settle in for some of the sounds of Deep Elem. Music embellished with the stories of the performers, the theme, the songs, and the time…something you can’t get but on community radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Cliff Edwards Ragtime Cowboy Joe grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
3The Hillbillies Ragtime Cowboy Joe Howdy! 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats Amazon
4Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks Ragtime Cowboy Joe Tangled Tales Amazon
5Blind Blake Diddie Wa Diddie Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker Amazon
6Sol Ho'opi'i Twelfth Street Rag Master of the Hawaiian Guitar Vol 1 Amazon
7Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins Hawkins Rag Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3] Amazon
8Sons of the Pioneers 'A' Rag Songs of the Prairie – CD5 Amazon
9Leon McAuliffe Twin Fiddle Rag Tulsa Straight Ahead Amazon
10Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang Feat. Tex Williams Down Home Rag Shame On You Amazon
11Les Paul & Mary Ford Tiger Rag The Best of the Capitol Masters: Selections From "The Legend and the Legacy" Box Set Amazon
12Pearl Bailey Johnson Rag Chronological Pearl Bailey (1947-1950) Amazon
13Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys Beaumont Rag Songs For Rounders Amazon
14David Miller Jailhouse Rag Old-Time Mountain Guitar Amazon
15The McCormick Brothers Bugle Call Rag Constant Sorrow: Bluegrass From Root To Flower [Disc 3] Amazon
16Merle Travis Guitar Rag Hot Pickin' [Disc 2] Amazon
17David Grisman Black Mountain Rag Early Dawg Amazon
18Doc Watson Black Mountain Rag Foundation: Doc Watson Guitar Instrumental Collection, 1964-1998 Amazon
19Chet Atkins Dill Pickle Rag Reflections with Doc Watson Amazon
20Duck Baker Maple Leaf Rag Advanced Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques Amazon
21Scott Joplin The Entertainer compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
22Gram Parsons Brass Buttons The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia) Amazon
23Hamilton County Ramblers Hard Times Hamilton County Ramblers Amazon
24Red Allen Deep Elem Blues The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983 Amazon
25Bill Neely Deep Elm Blues Texas Law & Justice Amazon
26Buddy Jones Rockin' Rollin' Mama (1940) The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Tobacco State Swing [Disc 3] Amazon
27Cliffie Stone Jump Rope Boogie Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
28Big Bill Broonzy Down by the Riverside Absolutely the Best Amazon
29Sammy Price Trio/Sister Rosetta Tharpe Down by the Riverside The Gospel of Blues Amazon
30Mance Lipscomb Darktown Strutters' Ball Ash Grove 12/6/1964 Amazon
31Fats Domino Darktown Strutters' Ball They Call Me the Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings Disc 3 Amazon
32The Davis Sisters Jesus Steps Right In Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 4] Amazon
33The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir You've Got To Bear The Consequence Shakin' The Rafters Amazon
34Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet Pure Religion Gospel Quartets 1921-1942 Vol. 2 Amazon
35Duke Robillard I'm Gonna Buy Me A Dog (To Take The Place Of You) The Acoustic Blues & Roots of Duke Robillard Amazon

Waltzes, Polkas, and Two-Steps

Waltzes, Polkas and Two-Steps
Waltzes, Polkas & Two-Steps

It’s all about the traditional and popular dance music celebrated in the song of the past century. The show opens with the recognition of folk dance’s lineage, those ancestral elements that inhabit a very large part of our need to communicate and celebrate as a society. Most of the early rhythms we’ll hear to start the show are a blend of ancestral folk but we’ll also share the sound of popular dance. Tune in for country, pop, and folk sounds including cajun sounds from Michael Doucet, old-timey guitar and fiddle sounds of Darby and Tarlton, Tejano polka from Flaco Jimenez, and plenty more waltzes, polkas, and two steps.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band Ozark Waltz Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
3Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton Alto Waltz Darby & Tarlton – Disc A (Atlanta 1927-29) Amazon
4Pee Wee King Tennessee Waltz Country & Western Hit Parade 1948 Amazon
5BeauSoleil Cajun Midnight Waltz The Mad Reel Amazon
6Texas Troubadours Gardenia Waltz Almost To Tulsa: The Instrumentals Amazon
7Ernest Tubb Waltz Across Texas Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection Amazon
8Junior Brown My Baby Don't Dance To Nothing But Ernest Tubb 12 Shades of Brown Amazon
9Louise Massey & The Westerners Squeeze Box Polka Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 5] Amazon
10Flaco Jiminez Tico Taco Polka Buena Suerte, Seqorita Amazon
11Merle Travis & Joe Maphis Beer Barrel Polka Country Guitar Giants Amazon
12Doyle Lawson/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Polka on the Banjo School of Bluegrass Disc 1 Amazon
13Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang Feat. Tex Williams Cowbell Polka Shame On You Amazon
14Arthur Smith Rock And Rye Polka Here Comes the Boogie Man Amazon
15The Collins Kids Rock And Roll Polka Hop, Skip & Jump [Disc 1] Amazon
16Buck Owens Buck's Polka Buck 'Em: The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967) Amazon
17The Hot Frittatas Il Pensiero Polka What's Next ? Amazon
18R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders La Gima Polka Singing In The Bathtub Amazon
19Chet Atkins New Spanish Two Step Guitar Legend – RCA Years (Disc 2) Amazon
20Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers Beau's Cajun Two Step Beau Jocque Boogie Amazon
21Doug Kershaw Mamou Two-Step The Best Of Doug Kershaw Amazon
22Byrd Moore Favourite Two Step Gennett Old Time Music 1927-34 Amazon
23Zydeco Force Shaggy Dog Two-Step Alligator Stomp 5: The Next Generation Amazon
24Clifton Chenier Louisiana Two Step Louisiana Blues and Zydeco Amazon
25Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra Charleston [1925] The Charleston Era Amazon
26Aiken County String Band Charleston Rag (1927) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 Amazon
27Sons of the Pioneers Square Dance Songs of the Prairie – CD4 Amazon
28Red Foley Sugarfoot Rag Square Dance Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3] Amazon
29Chet Atkins Cosmic Square Dance Chet Picks On The Grammys Amazon
30Johnnie Lee Wills Square Dance Boogie The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys – Oakie Boogie [Disc 4] Amazon
31Freeny's Barn Dance Band Mississippi Square Dance – Part 2 The Cornshucker's Frolic Vol. 1: Downhome Music And Entertainment From The American Countryside Amazon
32Wanda, Ruth Neal Round Town Girls Flowers In The Wildwood Amazon
33Blue Ridge Highballers Round Town Girls Lead Kindly Light Amazon
34Doc Watson/Merle Watson Guitar Polka Black Mountain Rag Amazon

Higher Power Country Gospel

Higher Power
Higher Power

We visit the classic sounds of country and bluegrass with thematic overtones of gospel. The love of country music often had its roots in a performer’s childhood memories of community church and the sound that would evolve from country and bluegrass provided a tone that grew from those memories…with a tenor that could easily echo the word’. The greatest of them elevated their popularity with their flock by invoking the name of that higher power of God and church in the community of bluegrass: The Stanley Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Ricky Skaggs, Doyle Lawson, and even country groups like the The Louvin Brothers and The Whitstein Brothers made gospel a core of their repertoire.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Louvin Brothers There's A Higher Power Satan Is Real Amazon
3The Whitstein Brothers Way Up On The Mountain Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins Amazon
4Fern Jones I Do Believe The Glory Road Amazon
5Kitty Wells I Heard My Saviour Call Dust on the Bible (1959) Amazon
6Kitty Wells (I've Got My) One-Way Ticket to the Sky Dust on the Bible (1959) Amazon
7Milton Estes Hish! Somebody's Calling My Name Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
8Brother Claude Ely Fare You Well Satan Get Back Amazon
9King's Sacred Quartette Turn Your Radio On Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
10J.E. Mainer Workin' On A Building Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
11The Carter Family God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
12The Carter Family On My Way To Canaan's Land Take Me To The Water Amazon
13The Delmore Brothers The Wrath Of God Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
14The Stanley Brothers Over the Glory Land 16 Greatest Gospel Hits Amazon
15The Stanley Brothers My Lord's Going To Set Me Free Hymns & Sacred Songs Amazon
16Mac Wiseman I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
17Mac Wiseman Dust On The Bible Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
18Ricky Skaggs Hallelujah I'm Ready Family And Friends Amazon
19The Johnson Mountain Boys Springtime in Glory Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music Amazon
20Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Jesus Gave Me Water Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
21George Jones & Tammy Wynette Let's All Go Down To The River Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
22Moore & Napier Gathering In The Sky Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
23Elvis Presley I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 1 Amazon
24Willie Nelson Sweet Bye and Bye Old Time Religion Amazon
25Johnny Cash Unclouded Day Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South Amazon
26Chuck Wagon Gang/The Jordanaires Down the Road 70th Anniversary Amazon
27The Corley Family Way To Glory Land (1929) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 Amazon
28The Corley Family Give The World A Smile Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937 Amazon
29Anonymous (Knight Home-recording Disc) Beautiful Mansions of Gold …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
30Ex-Governor Alf. Taylor's Old Limber Quartet Brother Noah Built an Ark …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
31Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Long Walk to Heaven Saturday Night / Sunday Morning Amazon
32Elvis Presley Working on the Building Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1 Amazon
33Willie and Bobbie Nelson I'll Fly Away Farther Along Amazon
34Buddy Holly True Love Ways From the Original Master Tapes Amazon

Back Country Blues

Back Country Blues
Back Country Blues

Our show features the sounds of the acoustic country blues. We’ll hear from early century greats like Jim Jackson, Luke Jordan, Geeshie Wiley, and Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers. There will also be a little help from some contemporaries who were their influence by this music. Get ready for some deeper sounds from Daddy Stovepipe, Papa Charlie Jackson, and Frank Stokes to round things out on a chilly evening in the North Bay on Sonoma County community radio.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Taj Mahal Fishin' Blues The Best Of Taj Mahal Amazon
3John Sebastian Jug Band Music Chasin' Gus' Ghost Amazon
4Cannon's Jug Stompers Bring it with You When You Come Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 Amazon
5Cannon's Jug Stompers Going To Germany The Rose Grew Round The Briar Amazon
6Dick Justice Little Lulie Old Time Music From West VI : Old-Time Music From West Virgi Amazon
7Dick Justice Brown Skin Blues Hillbilly Blues Amazon
8Geeshie Wiley Last Kind Words Mississippi Masters Amazon
9Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas Pick Poor Robin Clean Mississippi Masters Amazon
10Luke Jordan Pick Poor Robin Clean (Eng 16 Aout 1927 Charlotte) Rough Guide To The Blues Songsters Amazon
11Tommie Bradley Nobody's Business if I Do Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 Amazon
12Mississippi John Hurt Praying On The Old Camp Ground Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings Amazon
13Mississippi John Hurt Frankie Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings Amazon
14Mississippi John Hurt Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 1 (Disc 1) Amazon
15Frank Stokes How Long Before The Blues: Early American Black Music Scene (Vol. 2) Amazon
16Frank Stokes I Got Mine Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 Amazon
17Henry Thomas Bull Doze Blues Roots of Rock Amazon
18Luke Jordan Church Bell Blues Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1] Amazon
19Long "Cleve" Reed and Little Harvey Hull ' Down Home Boys Original Stack O' Lee Blues (BP 8030, BP8030B) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) Amazon
20Long "Cleve" Reed and Little Harvey Hull ' Down Home Boys Mama You Don't Know How (BP 8030, BP8030A) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) Amazon
21Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah Burleskin' Blues Blues From The Vocalion Vaults Amazon
22Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah The Spasm Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 19261937 Amazon
23Sweet Papa Stovepipe All Birds Look Like Chicken To Me Cluck Old Hen Amazon
24Pink Anderson He's In the Jailhouse Now Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs Amazon
25Will Bennett Railroad Bill Rough Guide To The Blues Songsters Amazon
26Henry Thomas " Ragtime Texas" Railroadin' Some Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 19261937 Amazon
27Rory Block Railroadin' Some Gone Woman Blues: The Country Blues Collection Amazon
28Papa Charlie Jackson Drop That Sack Papa Charlie Done Sung That Song – [Disc 2] Amazon
29Papa Charlie Jackson Skoodle-Um-Skoo Papa Charlie Jackson Vol. 3 (1928 – 1934) Amazon
30Jim Jackson I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 Amazon
31Jim Jackson Jim Jackson / Jim Jackson" Kansas City Blues, Pt. 1 Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1] Amazon
32Jim Jackson Love Sick Blues Jim Jackson Vol.2 Amazon
33Geeshie Wiley Skinny Leg Blues The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of [Disc 2] Amazon