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Deeper Dr. John

November 27, 2015 Dave

Mac Rebennack’s been around and the music, the culture, the people…they’ve embellished his art with a character like no other in roots music. He’s known them all: James Booker, Professor Longhair, Huey Smith, and Doc Pomus. He’s performed with them, composed for them, and broken bread with them. And when he takes the stage, whether that is in the traditional Indian celebratory garb or the frocked coat and hat, you can be certain that his performance will get your attention. He is coarse yet gentle, as punctual on the keys as he is laid back and lazy with them. This week’s show will sample a small set of his contributions to the American songbook including performances by Roland Stone, B.B. King, Charlie Rich, Solomon Burke, and Irma Thomas. And we’ll also hear plenty from the good Doctor himself.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Dr. John	Right Place Wrong Time	Definitive Pop Collection
3	Dr John/Mac Rebennack	Sahara (LP Version)	Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 1]
4	Roland Stone [Dr. John]	Down The Road (LP Version)	Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 1]
5	Mac Rebennack	Good Times	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5]
6	Clarence "Frogman" Henry	Long Lost And Worried	Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry
7	Art Neville	What's Going On	His Specialty Recordings
8	Johnny Jenkins	Walk On Gilded Splinters	Duane Allman Anthology 2 [Disc 2]
9	Dr. John	Black Widow Spider	Definitive Pop Collection
10	Dr. John	(Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away	Destively Bonnaroo (US Release)
11	Dr. John The Night Tripper	Wash Mama Wash	The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974
12	Dr. John	Big Chief	The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974
13	Irma Thomas	I Never Fool Nobody But Me	If You Want It, Come and Get It
14	Delaney & Bonnie	When the Battle Is Over	The Best of Delaney & Bonnie
15	Solomon Burke	Make Do With What You Got	Make Do With What You Got
16	Dr. John	Hen Layin' Rooster	The Best Of The Parlophone Years
17	Dr. John	Let the Good Times Roll	The Ultimate Dr. John
18	Dr. John	My Indian Red	Goin' Back To New Orleans
19	Dr. John	Sweet Home New Orleans	The Best Of The Parlophone Years
20	Dr. John	Memories Of Prof. Longhair	Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 2]
21	Marianne Faithfull	Hello Stranger	A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology [Disc 2]
22	Crescent City Gold	Kick It Raw	The Ultimate Session
23	Bluesiana Triangle	Need To Be Loved	Bluesiana Triangle
24	Charlie Rich	Pictures and Paintings	Pictures and Paintings
25	Dr. John	Eh Las Bas	N'awlinz: Dis, Dat Or D'Udda
26	Dr. John	Old Settlers	Live at Magfest 2014
27	B.B. King & Dr. John	There Must Be A Better World Somewhere	Deuces Wild
28	Dr. John	Let's Make a Better World	The Ultimate Dr. John
29	Dr. John	When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)	Ske-Dat-De-Dat&The Spirit Of Satch

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Songs of A.P. Carter

November 14, 2015 Dave

He grew up with music, learning to plan violin at a young age in Poor Valley, Virginia (now known as Maces Springs), sang in a church choir and helped his uncle, Flanders Bays, who ran a mobile music school in Scott County. He would go on to form one of the seminal country music groups of the day with his wife Sara and her cousin Maybelle. Their musicianship was remarkable but the song-writing was what set them apart, the compositions by A. P. Carter representing a treasury of classic folk, sentimental pop, cowboy songs, gospel favorites, and original love songs. While there may be little doubt as to whether all songs that carried his name were original, his treatment (and that of the Carter Family group) were without peer. Tune in this Friday night for music featuring performers covering A.P. Carter songs, including The Delmore Brothers, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, Charlie Louvin, Ashley Monroe, and a host of others.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Ralph Stanley	Worried Man Blues [Album Version]	A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
3	Rosanne Cash	The Winding Stream	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
4	John Prine	Lulu Walls	German Afternoons
5	The Carter Family	Lulu Walls	Can The Circle Be Unbroken
6	The Carter Family	My Texas Girl	Can The Circle Be Unbroken
7	Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter	Foggy Mountain Top	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
8	Osborne Brothers	You Are My Flower	Hillbilly Fever
9	Flatt & Scruggs	You Are My Flower [Album Version]	'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered: The Essential Flatt & Scruggs
10	Charlie Haden	Oh Take Me Back	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
11	Ricky Skaggs & The Whites	Will My Mother Know Me There	Strings And Things: The Best in Bluegrass Vol. 1
12	Ashley Monroe	The Storms Are On The Ocean	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
13	The Delmore Brothers	The Storms are on the Ocean	Classic Cuts CD D – Atlanta 1940, New York 1940-41
14	Gene Autry	I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blues Eyes	The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
15	Red Allen	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family
16	Mac Wiseman	Jimmy Brown The Newsboy	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]
17	Roy Clark	Jimmy Brown, the Newsboy	The Roy Clark Anthology
18	Charlie Louvin	My Texas Girl	Charlie Louvin Sings Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs
19	Ralph Stanley	Distant Land To Roam [Album Version]	A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
20	The Carter Family	A Distant Land To Roam	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 2]
21	Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men	Engine 143	Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land
22	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Wabash Cannonball	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
23	The Carter Family	Hello Central! Give Me Heaven	The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5]
24	Sister Bessie Griffin w/Brownie McGee	Heaven's Radio	Powerhouse Gospel
25	The Swan Silvertones, The Staple Singers, The Pilgrim Travelers	Will The Circle Be Unbroken	The Swan Silvertones 1946-1951
26	George Jones/Staples, Pop And Mavis	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	My Very Special Guests [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
27	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Will The Circle Be Unbroken	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
28	The Carter Family	Beautiful Brown Eyes & Sweet Fern	On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1
29	Jorma Kaukonen	Sweet Fern	Ain't In No Hurry
30	Loretta Lynn	Wildwood Flower	Anchored In Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash
31	Norman & Nancy Blake	The Sunny Side of Life	Strings And Things: The Best in Bluegrass Vol. 1
32	Norman Blake	Fifty Miles of Elbow Room	Old Ties
33	Emmylou Harris	Hello Stranger (Remastered LP Version)	Luxury Liner [Remaster]

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Let’s Live – KOWS Nov 5, 2015

November 5, 2015 Dave

We’ll be bringing another eclectic blend of music from the past for an evening set kicks off with sounds of New Orleans beginning with a medley from the Bayou Maharajah, James Booker and closing with Irma Thomas. In addition to our usual run of bluegrass, jazz, and blues…we’ll prepare some piping hot biscuits from the country shack with Alan Lomax, Flatt & Scruggs, Pappy O’Daniel and the Hillbilly Boys, and Kacey Musgraves. There will also be a rare piece of early blues piano work from Ollie Shepard and the early century jazz band sounds of Enric Madriguera, Jimmie Lunceford, and Fletcher Henderson. Two full hours of Deeper Roots on weekday evening…carrying us over the midweek hump so that it’s all downhill from there…

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Aaron Neville	Let's Live	Treacherous [Disc 1]
3	James Booker	Medley: Tico Tico / Papa Was A Rascal / So Swell When You're Well	Classified
4	Dr. John	Traveling Mood	The Ultimate Dr. John
5	Fats Domino	The Girl I Love [Version 2]	This Is Gold Disc 1
6	Aaron Neville	My True Story	My True Story
7	Irma Thomas	While the City Sleeps	Time Is on My Side: The Best of Irma Thomas, Vol. 1
8	Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie	I'm Wild About My Stuff	Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944
9	Blind Boy Fuller	Trucking My Blues Away No. 2 (take 2)	Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order – Volume 2 (29 April to 12 July 1937)
10	Ollie Shepard	King Of All Evil	Vol. 2-1939-41
11	Angelic Gospel Singers with the Dixie Humming Birds	One Day	When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51
12	Rory Block	Lord, I Feel Just Like Goin' On	I Belong To The Band: A Tribute To Rev. Gary Davis
13	Ethel Waters and Her Jazz Band	Ev'rybody Mess Aroun	Tight Women and Loose Bands 1921-1931
14	Cleo Brown	Boogie Woogie	Picking the Blues – Compiled By John Mayall – Boogie Woogie Pioneers
15	Benny Carter (With Lionel Hampton Orchestra)	I'm in the Mood for Swing	RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's
16	Coleman Hawkins	Body and Soul	RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's
17	Alan Lomax	How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?	Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co
18	W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys	Please Pass The Biscuits Pappy	Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938
19	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	'How Many Biscuits'	1953-X6-XX Grand Old Opry
20	NRBQ	Hot Biscuits and Sweet Marie	Kick Me Hard
21	Kacey Musgraves	Biscuits	Pageant Material
22	Kenny Baker	Monroe's Hornpipe	Plays Bill Monroe
23	Jack Guthrie	No Need to Knock on My Door	Oklahoma Hills
24	Merle Travis	Missouri	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 11
25	Kentuckians	Journey's End	Keep on Going: The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings
26	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	Better Times A' Comin'	Mark Twain: Words & Music [Disc 1]
27	Mac Wiseman	It's Mighty Dark To Travel	Grassroots To Bluegrass
28	Johnny Cash	Thanks a Lot	The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 1
29	Jim Silver	Each Season Changes You	Country Boy's Dream
30	Jimmy Wakely	Moon Over Montana	Vintage Collections
31	Leon Redbone	Sweet Lorraine	Any Time
32	Dr. John	I Love It at the Top	20 Dates
33	Jimmie Lunceford/Sy Oliver, Vocal	Time's A-Wastin'	Jimmie Lunceford
34	Sam Cooke	Bring It on Home to Me	Greatest Hits

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Songs of the Dust Bowl

October 25, 2015 Dave

Our story is one that we’ve covered before, previously focusing on the Great Depression and the music of Woody Guthrie. This episode pulls in the theme of that tragic chapter of a drought that uprooted nearly 60 percent of the population from the affected region of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. With the soil lacking a firm root due to poor farm practices, the plains winds would pick up the loose topsoil and create the dust clouds that ravaged farm and city alike. The music we’ll hear tonight brings us the stories, including those of Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Bob Gibson, Lane Hardin, Vernon Dahlart, and The Morrison Two Brothers String Band.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Talking Dust Bowl	Hard Travelin'
3	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Dust Storm Disaster	Hard Travelin'
4	Woody Guthrie	Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)	Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder]
5	Woody Guthrie	Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road (Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad)	Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder]
6	Alison Krauss	Dust Bowl Children	Paper Airplane
7	Peter Rowan	Tumbleweed	Dust Bowl Children
8	Bob Gibson	Pastures of Plenty	Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson
9	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	Pasture of Plenty	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
10	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	So Long It's Been Good to Know You	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
11	The Byrds	Pretty Boy Floyd	Sweetheart of the Rodeo
12	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	Do Re Mi	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
13	Cisco Houston	The Great American Bum	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
14	Mac "Harry" McClintock	Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
15	Billy Bragg	I Ain't Got No Home	Tooth & Nail
16	Michelle Shocked	Woody's Rag	Arkansas Traveler
17	Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees	Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries	gimriper2u@yahoo.com
18	Leo Reisman And His Orchestra;Milton Douglas	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime (From The Musical Review "Americana") [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
19	Woody Guthrie	Talking Dust Bowl Blues	Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder]
20	Woody Guthrie	Dust Pneumonia Blues	Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder]
21	Lane Hardin	California Desert Blues [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
22	Red Allen	Deep Elem Blues	The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983
23	Prairie Ramblers	Deep Elem Blues	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
24	Joe Stone	It's Hard Time	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
25	Vernon Dalhart	The Farm Relief Song	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
26	The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band	Dry and Dusty	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
27	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	Dealing With The Devil	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
28	Jack Guthrie	Oklahoma Hills	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
29	Bruce Springsteen	I Ain't Got No Home	Folkways: A Vision Shared-A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly
30	Ry Cooder	Vigilante Man	Into The Purple Valley
31	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	Tom Joad	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
32	Jimmy Lafave	Dust Bowl Okies	The Night Tribe

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No Parking Here – KOWS October 10, 2015

October 11, 2015 Dave

Saturday mornings are root-bound…in the very best sense of the phrase. Tune into KOWS for an eclectic blend of gospel from Jimmy Murphy and The Loyal Five, early century pop from Cliff Edwards and Emmett Miler, R&B from Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and Dr. John, country from Red Foley and Jimmy Littlejohn, and more of the sounds that matters from the past century of American music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Gene Autry	Rhythm Of The Range	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 3]
3	Cliff Edwards	Hang on to Me	The Collection
4	Emmett Miller	(I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way	Minstrel Man From Georgia
5	Sons of the Pioneers	Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown	Songs of the Prairie – CD3
6	Arthur Smith	Follow Me Boogie (Instrumental)	The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
7	Johnny Cash	Calilou (The Rambler)	Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 4]
8	Dr. John	How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come 'Round)	Goin' Back To New Orleans
9	Bobby "Blue" Bland	I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me)	Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill / MCA Recordings
10	Piano Red	Ain't Goin To Be Your Low Down Dog No	Blues, Blues, Blues
11	Pee Wee King	Dog House Blues	Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown (1 of 2)
12	Neko Case	John Saw That Number	Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
13	The Loyal Five	John The Revelator	Heaven Bound Train
14	Jimmy Murphy	John the Baptist [Live]	Electricity
15	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Get Up John	Bill Monroe: Anthology
16	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Private Property (No Tresspassing)	One Guy Named Louis: The Complete Aladdin Sessions
17	Jimmy Littlejohn	No Parking Here	The World Is A Monster
18	Woody Guthrie	Riding in My Car (Car Song)	Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
19	Billy Murray	The Little Old Ford	Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure
20	Vince Gill	Love Bug	Bradley Barn Sessions
21	Little Jimmy Dickens	When That Love Bug Bites You	Country Boy [Disc 2]
22	Jimmy Edwards	Love Bug Crawl	Foot Tappin' & Dance At Screamin' Festival Vol. 5
23	Red Foley & Minnie Pearl	Love Bug Itch	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
24	The Mills Brothers	The Love Bug Will Bite You	Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats
25	Vera Lynn	The Love Bug Will Bite You	A Tribute, Volume II: It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow
26	Doc & Merle Watson	Corrina, Corrina	Then And Now/Two Days In November
27	Spade Cooley	Crazy' Cause I Love You	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
28	The Weavers	Meet the Johnson Boys	The Weavers at Home
29	Clifton Chenier	Ride 'Em Cowboy	Bogalusa Boogie
30	Huey "Piano" Smith	We I'll Be John Brown	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 40
31	Junior Brown & Red Simpson	Nitro Express	Rig Rock Deluxe
32	Red Simpson	Truck Drivin' Man	The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
33	Tex Ritter	Dear John	Have I Stayed Away Too Long
34	Ray Charles	You Don't Know Me	Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
35	Dr. John The Night Tripper	Mama Roux	The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974

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Pickin’ Time – KOWS Oct 5, 2015

October 6, 2015 Dave

Dave Stroud will be sitting in tonight for Mark Hogan once again at 6pm Pacific. He’s got another episode of Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. In this episode, he’ll be following along Mark’s theme of old time and bluegrass, old and new. The playlist this evening will include bluegrass from James King, Mac Wiseman, David Grisman and Bill Monroe. He’ll also be sharing new tracks from Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas, Kinky Friedman, The Dustbowl Revival (fresh from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this past weekend), and a couple of tracks fromLowell Levinger From The Youngbloods’s new album “Get Together – Youngblood Classics”. Tune in for some Eddy Arnold tribute pieces, music about the married life, and a couple of fine recordings of the great guitar pioneer Riley Puckett.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers	Smokey Mountain Rag	With The Travelin Blues
3	Merle Travis	Freight Train (Instrumental)	The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
4	Dallas Smith	My Home Across the Blue Ridge Mountains	Still Pickin'
5	James King	Things Have Gone to Pieces	Three Chords & The Truth
6	Red Allen	I Heard My Mother Call My Name	Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings
7	Neko Case	Wayfaring Stranger	Live From Austin, TX
8	Kinky Friedman	Pickin Time	The Loneliest Man I Ever Met
9	Ricky Skaggs	Walls Of Time	Bluegrass Today [Disc 2]
10	David Grisman	Wicked Path of Sin (feat. Old & In The Way)	Dawg Plays Big Mon
11	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Wicked Path Of Sin	All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4]
12	Solitaire Miles	You Can't Break My Heart	Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
13	Kacey Musgraves	You're From Texas	Wanted: One Good Cowboy
14	Pokey LaFarge	Lovebug Itch	You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
15	Well Worn Soles	Worried	Country/Folk
16	Frank Black	Don't Rob Another Man's Castle	You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
17	Don Henley Feat. Mick Jagger & Miranda Lambert	Bramble Rose	Cass County (Deluxe)
18	Traveling Show	Hillbilly Wedding Day	Songs From The Road Band
19	Charlie Haden	Single Girl, Married Girl	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
20	Robbie Fulks	Act Like A Married Man	13 Hillbilly Giants
21	John Prine With Lucinda Williams	Wedding Bells / Let's Turn Back The Years	In Spite Of Ourselves
22	Nikki Lane	Wild One	All or Nothin' (Deluxe)
23	Lowell Levinger	Sugar Babe	Get Together- Youngblood Classics
24	Lowell Levinger	Euphoria	Get Together- Youngblood Classics
25	Riley Puckett	It's A Sin To Tell A Lie	Country Music Pioneer vol 1
26	Riley Puckett	Cindy	Country Music Pioneer vol 1
27	Mac Wiseman	Dust On The Bible	Grassroots To Bluegrass
28	Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers	To Hear Doc Watson Play	Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions
29	Doc Watson	Make Me a Pallet	Memories
30	Amy Helm	Roll Awy	Didn't It Rain
31	The Dustbowl Revival	Lampshade On	With a Lampshade On
32	Charlie Gracie	Just A Closer Walk With Thee	Angel on My Shoulder

High Noon

September 26, 2015 Dave

It’s a new morning…as it always is…and was when we celebrated another Saturday morning in Occidental with Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music with host Dave Stroud. This twice-monthly show opens with a mule kicking in the stall, some barnyard rhythm and then moves swiftly into a blend of 1950s country and big band. Ray Charles, Frankie Laine, Chick Webb, Otis Spann, and Merle Travis are just a sampling of performers we’ll hear from. West County living deserves roots music wafting over the airwaves on a Saturday morning in early autumn. Let’s set the airwaves stage with some Otis Spann.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Nellie Lutcher	He's A Real Gone Guy	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
3	Nellie Lutcher	There's Another Mule In Your Stall	Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 1]
4	Otis Spann	Mule Kicking In My Stall	Cryin' Time
5	Louis Jordan	Barnyard Boogie	Jivin' With Jordan
6	Joe Liggins	Rhythm In The Barnyard	Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
7	The Andrews Sisters	A Man is a Brother To a Mule	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
8	Charlie Poole With Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon	Man that Rode the Mule Around the World	You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2]
9	Ralph Stanley	I've Got A Mule To Ride	Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection
10	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Mule Train (1996 Digital Remaster)	Vintage Collections
11	Frankie Laine	That Lucky Old Sun [Album Version]	Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits
12	Ray Charles	That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
13	Merle Travis & Joe Maphis	High Noon	Country Guitar Giants
14	Frankie Laine	Rawhide	Country Greats #2
15	Chick Webb and his Orchestra	Don't Be That Way	from CD; orig. Decca 483
16	Ella Fitzgerald	Melinda the Mousle	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
17	Annette Hanshaw	Who's That Knocking At My Door	The Twenties Sweetheart
18	Brother Grady Coffee	I'm Working on a Building	This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
19	Elvis Presley	Working on the Building	Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
20	Murry Hammond	In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
21	John & Jamie Hartford	When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland	Hartford & Hartford
22	June Carter Cash	Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?	Wildwood Flower
23	George Jones	Worried Man Blues	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
24	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
25	David Lindley and Wally Ingram	Coot From Tennessee	Twango Bango Deluxe
26	Ole Ramussen	Sleepy Eyed John	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
27	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Oozlin' Daddy Blues	Legends of Country Music Disc 2
28	Cliff Hobbs;Bill Cox	Oozlin' Daddy Blues [Album Version]	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
29	Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen	Big Mamou	We've Got a Live One Here!
30	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Big Mamou	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
31	Bonnie Guitar	Noon Train	Affair
32	Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips	If I Had My Way	Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips

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The Dust-to-Digital Label

September 26, 2015 Dave

Our weekly KWTF show is about a label whose chief purpose is the resurrection of that curious mix of ephemera, folklore, ancestry, and musicianship that reveals itself as folk music: whether it be pre-Monroe bluegrass, gospel, blues, or early pop. The label I speak of is Dust-To-Digital and we’ll scratch the surface of some of the great work that they’ve issued since 1999, the year Lance Ledbetter and his wife April open shop in Atlanta, Georgia.Their mission is the same as it was then: to produce high quality cultural artifacts.

Pitchfork magazine put it this way: “Although the folklorists lugging around tape recorders (and the performers carrying on ancient traditions) are worthy of much heralding, it’s equally astounding how essential Lance Ledbetter’s work at Dust-to-Digital has been to the preservation of traditional American folksong. It’s easy to buy and appreciate these sets without realizing that the bulk of the material might have been lost — or, at the very least, tethered to archives, readily accessible only to curious faculty, paper-writing students, and bespectacled researchers — without Ledbetter’s interference.”

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Jimmy Murphy	We Live A Long Time To Get Old	Desperate Man Blues
3	Tennesee Messarounds	Mandolin Blues	Desperate Man Blues
4	Lonnie Johnson	Death Valley is Just Half Way To My Home	Desperate Man Blues
5	Chubby Parker	Bib-a-lollie-boo	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
6	Ernest Thompson	In the Baggage Coach Ahead	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
7	Roy Smeck Trio	Reaching for the Moon	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
8	Lew Childre	It Don't Do Nothing but Rain	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
9	Sara Martin & Sylvester Weaver	I've Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
10	Sister O.M. Terrell	The Bible's Right	Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
11	Mahalia Jackson	God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares	Goodbye, Babylon – Introduction [Disc 1]
12	The North Carolina Cooper Boys	Daniel In The Den Of Lions	Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
13	Moses Williams	The Train	Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1]
14	Emmett Murray	She's a Fool, She Ain't Got No Sense	Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1]
15	Rev. Johnny L. Jones	Huff Construction Company (Radio Commercial)	The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
16	Rev. Johnny L. Jones	I Love the Lord	The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
17	Dorothy Lee	You Got to Give an Account (feat. Norma Jean, Shirley Marie Johnson & Robert nighthawk Johnson)	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
18	Babe Stovall	When the Circle Be Unbroken	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
19	Robert nighthawk Johnson	Cant No Grave Hold My Body Down	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
20	Henagar Union Sacred Harp Convention	Save, Lord, or We Perish 224	I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
21	Denson's Sacred Harp Singers of Arley, Alabama	Ninety-Fifth 36B	I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
22	Brother Claude Ely	Send Down The Rain	Satan Get Back
23	Uncle Eck Dunford and Ernest Stoneman	Barney McCoy	Lead Kindly Light
24	The Allen Brothers	Skipping and Flying	Lead Kindly Light
25	Georgia Yellow Hammers	Mary Don't You Weep	Lead Kindly Light
26	Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright	Man Who Wrote the Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man	Lead Kindly Light
27	Loveless Twins Quartet	Lead Kindly Light	Lead Kindly Light
28	The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band	Ozark Waltz	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
29	Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers	Just Give Me the Leavings	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
30	Wonder State Harmonists	Turnip Greens	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
31	Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers	Jaw Bone	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
32	Clarence Alexander	Disability Boogie Woogie	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
33	22 & Group	The Prettiest Train I Ever Saw	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
34	Henry Ratcliff	Look For Me In Louisiana	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
35	Willie Washington	My Jack Dont Drink No Water	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
36	The David Thom Band	Windy City	That Old Familiar

Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition

Modern Americana in Tradition

September 19, 2015 Dave

We revisit tradition and roots with a number of contemporary performers who honor the American musical heritage with new arrangements, new interpretations, and songs whose lyrics might take on a different meaning in a new time. What was ripe for picking in the first part of the century might not mean all of the same in our world today. We’ll hear songs of love, death, destitution, prostitution, farmer’s work, the sky above and the sea below… You’ll hear Americana releases from as far back as 1971 and we’ll include a number of tracks from this year…the year 2015…with the one thing in common being that the songs performed have stories that go further back and, in most cases, go so far back that they are considered traditional.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Van Dyke Parks/Mondrian	Sail Away Lady	The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 2
3	The Wailin' Jennys	Long Time Traveller	Firecracker
4	Rosanne Cash	Motherless Children	The List
5	Cyd Cassone/Ruthie Foster	Death Came a Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes)	Stages
6	Steve Martin	Sweet Heaven When I Die	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
7	Pharis and Jason Romero	Goodbye Old Paint	A Wanderer I'll Stay
8	Spuyten Duyvil	Stewball	The Social Music Hour Vol. 1
9	Alison Krauss	Cluck Old Hen	Every Time You Say Goodbye
10	Robert Earl Keen, Jr.	East Virginia Blues	Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
11	Adkins & Loudermilk	Swing Low Sweet Chariot	Adkins & Loudermilk
12	She & Him	Swing Low Sweet Chariot	Volume One
13	Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama	If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again	There Will Be a Light
14	Allen Toussaint	St. James Infirmary	The Bright Mississippi
15	Ashley Monroe	The Storms Are On The Ocean	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
16	Uncle Tupelo	No Depression	No Depression
17	Band Of Ruhks	Lost Highway	Band Of Ruhks
18	Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men	What Does the Deep Sea Say?	Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land
19	Mudcrutch	Shady Grove	Mudcrutch
20	Dwight Yoakam/The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Some Dark Holler	Dwight's Used Records
21	Rhiannon Giddens	Round About the Mountain	Tomorrow Is My Turn
22	Leo Kottke	Cripple Creek	Mudlark
23	David Johansen	Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me	Shaker
24	David Johansen & The Harry Smiths	Richland Woman	David Johansen and the Harry Smiths
25	The Boxmasters	Knoxville Girl	The Boxmasters Disc 2
26	Bruce Springsteen	Shenandoah	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1
27	Bruce Springsteen	O Mary Don't You Weep	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1
28	Charlie Haden	Old Joe Clark	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
29	The Duhks	Banjo Roustabout	Beyond the Blue
30	Kate & Anna McGarrigle	Green Green Rocky Road	High On A Mountain
31	Emmylou Harris	Bury Me Beneath The Willow	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited

Country Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Mountain Music

Dark Moon

August 22, 2015 Dave

We’re going to go pretty deep this coming Saturday morning here in Western Sonoma County. It’s a mix of old time and tradition with a few themed sets including social sciences, the labor blues, calypso rhythm, minstrelsy, and some special sounds from Ira and Charlie Louvin. Performers this week include Darby & Tarlton, Riley Puckett, Fern Jones, Arizona Dranes, and a pair each from Ry Cooder and Harry Belafonte. It’s a “Great Dream From Heaven” for KOWS listeners on an August morning in Occidental. Broadcast on KOWS 107.3 FM on August 22, 2015.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Little Jimmy Dickens	May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose	Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
3	Ry Cooder	Great Dream From Heaven	Into The Purple Valley (Remaster 2013)
4	Del McCoury	Fireside Chat, Part 1 (feat. Franklin D. Roosevelt)	Moneyland
5	Bob Miller	The Rich Man And The Poor Man [Rematered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
6	Frank Crumit	A Tale of the Ticker [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
7	Uncle Dave Macon	All In Down And Out Blues [2003 Remastered]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
8	Ry Cooder	Denomination Blues	Into The Purple Valley
9	Washington Phillips	Denomination Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
10	Arizona Dranes	God's Got A Crown	He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes
11	Elvis Presley	Swing Down Sweet Chariot	His Hand In Mine
12	Fern Jones	By And By	The Glory Road
13	Dave Van Ronk	That'll Never Happen No More	Sunday Street
14	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Dark As A Dungeon	Best Of The Vanguard Years
15	Emmett Miller	That's The Good Old Sunny South	Minstrel Man From Georgia
16	Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers	Lovesick Blues	Minstrel Man From Georgia
17	Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard	Coal Miner Blues	Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
18	Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins	Hawkins Rag	Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3]
19	Darby & Tarlton	Lonesome Frisco Line	Lonesome Whistle – An Anthology Of American Railroad Song
20	Lead Belly	Black Betty	Lead Belly's Last Sessions
21	Odetta	Shame And Scandal	Sings Ballads And Blues
22	Harry Belafonte	Mama, Look at Boo Boo	Harry Belafonte: Greatest Hits
23	Harley Allen & Dierks Bentley	I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby	Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers
24	The Louvin Brothers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Close Harmony [Disc 5]
25	The Louvin Brothers	Keep Watching The Sky	Close Harmony [Disc 8]
26	Bonnie Guitar	Dark Moon	Hard to Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics
27	Skeeter Davis	The One You Slip Around With	The Essential Skeeter Davis
28	Wanda Jackson	Savin' My Love	Rockin' With Wanda [US Bonus Tracks]
29	Webb Pierce	I Ain't Never	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Webb Pierce
30	The Allen Brothers	Skipping and Flying	Lead Kindly Light
31	Bascom Lamar Lunsford	Kidder Cole	The Cornshucker's Frolic Vol. 1: Downhome Music And Entertainment From The American Countryside
32	The Weavers	Bring Me Li'l Water Sylvia	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
33	Little Jimmy Dickens	I'm In Love Up To My Ears	Country Boy [Disc 1]
34	Rosie Flores & The Jordanaires	I Ain't Never	Caught in the Webb
35	Dale Watson & The Jordanaires	In The Jailhouse Now	Caught In the Webb
36	Los Indios Tabajaras	Maria Elena	Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's, Vol. 1

A Century of America's Music