Category Archives: Folk and Tradition

Mix of the Blues

Mix of the Blues
Mix of the Blues

Deeper Roots will spend time with a variety of blues styles this week with no focus but the roots of feeling blue, themes about being blue, junker’s blues, bar fly blues, cold rainy day blues, and the dark and somber blues. We’ll feature the urban sounds of Lowell Fulson and Bobby Blue Bland, the smooth sounds of T-Bone Walker, and we’ll also pick on some early jazz and blues vocals including Bertha “Chippie” Hill, Hattie McDaniels, and Memphis Minnie.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band In the Wee Wee Hours Hoodoo Man Blues Amazon
3R.L. Burnside Poor Black Mattie From Mississippi To Chicago Amazon
4Lowell Fulson Black Widow Spider Blues Juke Box Blues 1946-1948 Amazon
5Sweet Papa Tadpole Black Spider Blues Too Late, Too Late, More Newly Discovered Titles And Alternate Takes. Vol. 4 Amazon
6Jimmy Witherspoon Bar Fly Blues Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Stars Amazon
7John Hammond Evolution Blues Found True Love Amazon
8Eddie Lang You Got to Crawl Before You Walk Juke Joint Blues 1950's-1960's Amazon
9Muddy Waters Good Morning School Girl Folk Singer Amazon
10Rory Block Cypress Grove Blues Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James Amazon
11Kansas City Kitty (Thelma Holmes) Double Trouble Blues Four Women Blues – The Victor / Bluebird Recordings Of Memphis Minnie, Mississippi Matilda, Kansas City Kitty and Miss Rosie Mae Moore Amazon
12Berha 'Chippie' Hill Some Cold Rainy Day Heartbreakers Blue & Lonely Amazon
13Hattie McDaniels Boo Hoo Blues Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 12 Amazon
14Memphis Minnie;Kansas Joe Don't Want No Woman (Have T' Give My Money To) [2002 Remastered] First Time I Met the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down series) Amazon
15Victoria Spivey & Lonnie Johnson I Got The Blues So Bad Idle Hours Amazon
16Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends Tonight's the Night Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 1 Amazon
17Hadda Brooks Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl I've Got News For You [Disc 1] Amazon
18Bobby "Blue" Bland I Pity The Fool Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Road To Memphis Amazon
19Big Mama Thornton How Come Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings Amazon
20Little Sylvia Everything I Need But You Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
21T-Bone Walker Feeling The Blues I Want A Little Girl Amazon
22Little Walter My Babe His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) Amazon
23Jimmy Reed Boogie In The Dark I'm Jimmy Reed (Original Vee-Jay Album) Amazon
24Professor Longhair Mean Old World Fess: The Professor Longhair A Amazon
25Memphis Slim Panic Street Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration Amazon
26Champion Jack Dupree Junker Blues Gettin' Funky [Disc 1] – Piano Power Amazon
27Floyd Dixon Please Don't Go Marshall Texas Is My Home Amazon
28Otis Taylor My Soul's In Louisiana I Heard It On NPR: Shake These Blues Amazon
29Lightnin' Hopkins One Kind Favor Jake Head Boogie Amazon
30Frankie Jones Bring Your Mud and Let's Dob Jack Newman & Others Amazon
31Precious Bryant Blues All Around My Bed Fool Me Good Amazon
32Freddie King I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man King Of The Blues Amazon

Johnny Cash Tribute

Johnny Cash Tribute
Johnny Cash Tribute

Johnny Cash, like so many others, followed on the heels and inspiration of Elvis at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. But while others (save for possibly Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis) would fight for the scraps from this ‘new sound’, Johnny less-than-obligingly would ignore all the best advice. He began with the simplest of songs delivered in a farm boy’s tone and, with the Tennessee Three in tow, grew the sound into an identity.  Our show this week will lean on his own recordings as well as music from performers he was inspired by…we’ll also include music from contemporaries and those who he inspired.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Johnny Cash Ring Of Fire Columbia Country Classics – Volume 4: The Nashville Sound Amazon
3The Chuck Wagon Gang After The Sunrise [Album Version] Columbia Country Classics Volume 1: The Golden Age Amazon
4Brother Claude Ely There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
5Gene Autry I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blues Eyes The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946 Amazon
6Gene Autry High Steppin' Mama American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2] Amazon
7Bob Wills Faded Love For the Last Time Amazon
8Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys San Antonio Rose The Country Music Hall Of Fame Amazon
9The Carter Family Anchored In Love The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 1] Amazon
10Johnny Cash Johnny Cash – Cowboy's Prayer Johnny Cash Interviews Amazon
11Goebel Reeves Cowboy's Prayer …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
12The Chuck Wagon Gang We Are Climbing Flowers In The Wildwood Amazon
13Johnny Cash Big River His Sun Years: Down South Amazon
14Johnny Cash Hey Porter The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 1] Amazon
15Johnny Cash Five Feet High And Rising Songs Of Our Soil Amazon
16Johnny Cash Pickin' Time The Fabulous Johnny Cash Amazon
17Johnny Cash/The Carter Family Keep on the Sunny Side Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1 Amazon
18Johnny Cash I Walk The Line Classic Country Amazon
19June Carter Cash Oh, Susannah Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1 Amazon
20Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter Fair and Tender Ladies Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1 Amazon
21Johnny Cash & June Carter Jackson Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter Amazon
22Rosanne Cash I Still Miss Someone Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash Amazon
23Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan Girl From The North Country Nashville Skyline Amazon
24Johnny Cash Man in Black 16 Biggest Hits Amazon
25Johnny Cash Ain't No Grave American VI: Ain't No Grave Amazon
26Johnny Cash Tear Stained Letter American IV: Man Comes Around Amazon
27Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Blues At Folsom Prison Amazon
28George Jones/Johnny Cash I Got Stripes My Very Special Guests [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
29Rosanne Cash Tennessee Flat Top Box King's Record Shop Amazon
30Emmylou Harris; The Milk Carton Kids Apache Tears Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited Amazon
31Bruce Springsteen Give My Love To Rose Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash Amazon
32Johnny Cash Wanted Man The Mystery Of Life Amazon
33Bob Dylan Train Of Love Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash Amazon
34Dwight Yoakam Understand Your Man Dwight's Used Records Amazon

Free Form – June 2016

Free Form - June 2016
Free Form – June 2016

Deeper Roots goes free form and our two hours will be filled with an eclectic blend of blues, gospel, tradition, and early century jazz. We’ll feature songs about vapor vipers, snakes, preachers, and a whole lot more. Join us for another summer evening in West Sonoma County, California with performances from Charley Patton, Josh White, Jimmie Driftwood, Noble Sissle, and Jumpin’ Bill Carlisle.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Madam Ernestine Washington And The Milleraires Holding On — Part 2 Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
3Stuffy Smith & His Onyx Club Boys You're a Viper Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes Amazon
4Miss Marcy & Her Texas Sugardaddy's If You're A Viper Deep Ellum Amazon
5Noble Sissle/Sidney Bechet Viper Mad Sweet and Lowdown Amazon
6Fats Waller Viper's Drag [Piano Solo] The Joint Is Jumpin' Amazon
7Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks 'Long Come A Viper Last Train To Hicksville… The Home Of Happy Feet Amazon
8David Grisman Quintet Rattlesnake Dgq-20 Amazon
9Jumpin' Bill Carlisle Rattlesnake Daddy Bear Family "Perfect for Parties" Highlight Album Amazon
10Champion Jack Dupree Rattlesnake Boogie Classic Sounds of New Orleans Amazon
11Jaydee Short Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake (Pm 13043, L-468-1) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932) Amazon
12Luella Miller Rattle Snake Groan 24 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920_Vol 11 [ Blues Images ] Amazon
13Charley Patton Rattlesnake Blues The Definitive Charley Patton [Disc 2] Amazon
14Chris Smither Rattlesnake Preacher Honeysuckle Dog Amazon
15Mac Wiseman Old Rattler Songs From My Mother's Hand Amazon
16Jimmie Driftwood Rattlesnake Song Americana, Vol. 1 Amazon
17Jimmie Driftwood The Battle Of New Orleans Vanguard: Roots Of Folk [Disc 1] Amazon
18Jimmie Driftwood Bunker Hill Americana, Vol. 1 Amazon
19Jimmie Driftwood Country Boy Americana, Vol. 1 Amazon
20Jonatha Brooke In the Gloaming Live Amazon
21Ed Lewis & Group I Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down Sounds of the South [Disc 1] – Blue Ridge Mountain Music Amazon
22Josh White When I Lay Down And Die In Chronological Order, Volume 5 (1944) Amazon
23Straight Street Holiness Group Victory Shall Be Mine Fire In My Bones : Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007 Amazon
24Sister Rosetta Tharpe My Journey to the Sky Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats Amazon
25Johnnie Morisette Meet Me at the Twisting Place Sam Cooke's Sar Records Story 59-65 CD2 Amazon
26William Bell The Three Of Me This Is Where I Live Amazon
27The Sweet & Lowdown Violent Love Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades Amazon
28Art Neville That Old Time Rock And Roll His Specialty Recordings Amazon
29Marvin Johnson & His Orchestra Hey Lawdy Mama Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53 Amazon
30Johnny Otis Baby Baby Blues Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Stars Amazon
31Robins My Baby Done Told Me Money Honey – Rise of the Black Bocal Group 51-53) Amazon
32Rose Marie McCoy Dippin' In My Business Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
33Junior Brown Venom Wearin' Denim Semi Crazy Amazon

Dylan Covers

Dylan Covers
Dylan Covers

Our weekly show celebrates (albeit somewhat belatedly) Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday by tipping our caps not with his performances but with a collection of by others’ tribute pieces. We’ll hear songs written by Bob through the years and tell you the history of many of them at the same time. Tracks from Bobby Bare, Mavis Staples, Solomon Burke, Hazel Dickens, and Bill Frisell make this an eclectic journey on a Friday evening in Sonoma County. Be sure to tune in!

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Old Crow Medicine Show Wagon Wheel O.C.M.S. Amazon
3Sarah Jarosz Simple Twist of Fate Build Me Up From Bones Amazon
4Joan Baez I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine Baez Sings Dylan Amazon
5Bette Midler I Shall Be Released Bette Midler Amazon
6Bobby Bare Farewell Angelina Darker Than Light Amazon
7Marshall Crenshaw My Back Pages Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village In The 60's Amazon
8Flatt & Scruggs Nashville Skyline Rag Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends/Nashville Airplane Amazon
9Hazel Dickens Only a Hobo It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song Amazon
10New Riders of the Purple Sage Farewell Angelina The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage Amazon
11Peter Case Long Time Gone HWY 62 Amazon
12Stephen Stills The Ballad Of Hollis Brown Stills Alone Amazon
13Joan Osborne Man in the Long Black Coat Relish Amazon
14R.L. Burnside Everything Is Broken Tangled Up In Blues Amazon
15Susan Tedeschi Lord Protect My Child Hope and Desire Amazon
16Julie London Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks, Pt. 1 Amazon
17Solomon Burke What Good Am I? Make Do With What You Got Amazon
18Sounds Of Blackness Solid Rock [Album Version] Gotta Serve Somebody – The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan Amazon
19Mavis Staples Gotta Serve Somebody Tangled Up In Blues Amazon
20The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver Every Grain Of Sand I'll Find A Way Amazon
21Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins Handle With Care Rabbit Fur Coat Amazon
22The Byrds All I Really Want to Do The Byrds [Box Set] Disc 1 Amazon
23The Turtles It Ain't Me Babe 20 Greatest Hits Amazon
24Antony With Bryce Dessner I Was Young When I Left Home Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation [Disc 1] Amazon
25Rod Stewart Only A Hobo Gasoline Alley Amazon
26Sophie Zelmani Most Of The Time Masked & Anonymous Amazon

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