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Carter Covers

August 6, 2022 Dave

We’ll revisit the Carter Family this week on Deeper Roots with a collection of covers by their family’s inheritors, classic country and bluegrass favorites, as well as contemporary Americana artists. Aside from being a key ingredient in the ‘big bang’ of country music that occurred at the Bristol, Tennessee recordings in 1927, they would establish a rich catalog of songs and a monument to what American country music would hold as a torch for generations to come. The gathering of the elements of prose, poetry, passages and melodies that A. P. Carter gathered over his years of wandering predates the Lomax era and crossed the threshold when the 1927 encounter with Ralph Peer made history. We’ll hear from The Carters, but also Johnny Cash, Ashley Monroe, Loretta Lynn, Red Allen, and Emmylou Harris (among others) in our show today. Tune in for some of the classics from the family Carter.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives	Keep on the Firing Line	Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
3	Jorma Kaukonen	Sweet Fern	Ain't in No Hurry
4	Sheryl Crow	No Depression In Heaven	The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
5	Emmylou Harris	Hello Stranger (Remastered LP Version)	Luxury Liner [Remaster]
6	June Carter Cash	The Road to Kaintuck	Wildwood Flower
7	June Carter	Worried Man Blues	At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight (Disc 17)
8	Johnny Cash	23 Worried Man Blues [Live at The Carousel Ballroom San Fancisco CA – April 1968]	Live At The Carousel Ballroom
9	Bobby Bare	Worried Man Blues 1963	1962-1964 (Warped 6291)
10	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes	Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns – The Soundtrack [Disc 1]
11	Johnny Cash	The Winding Stream [#]	Personal File Disc 1
12	Johnny Cash	I Love You Sweetheart	It's All in the Family
13	June Carter Cash	Ring of Fire	Press On
14	Ashley Monroe	The Storms Are On The Ocean	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
15	Ralph Stanley	Storms Are On The Ocean [Album Version]	A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
16	Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter	Fair and Tender Ladies	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
17	The Carter Family	On the Sea of Galilee	On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1
18	Emmylou Harris & The Peasall Sisters	On The Sea Of Galilee	The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
19	The Carter Family	Wildwood Flower	East Virginia Blues (When The Sun Goes Down Series)
20	Loretta Lynn	Wildwood Flower	Anchored In Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash
21	Johnny Cash/The Carter Family	Keep on the Sunny Side	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
22	Frank & Allie Lee	You Are My Flower	Treat A Stranger Right
23	Charlie Haden	Single Girl, Married Girl	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
24	Hylo Brown	Lulu Wall	I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family
25	Antique Persuasion	Lonesome for You	Don't Forget Me Little Darling – Remembering the Carter Family
26	Mac Wiseman	Hold Fast To The Right	Beside The Still Waters
27	Red Allen	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family
28	June Carter Cash	Anchored In Love ( featuring Janette Carter, Joe Carter, and Dale Jett)	Church In The Wildwood
29	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
30	The Whites	Keep on the Sunny Side	O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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No Parking Here

July 2, 2022 Dave

The archivists went back to the well for the core of a show first broadcast seven years ago, polished it up some by adding some fresh musical paints to the themes, but left the vintage drapes and findings alone. And this week’s Deeper Roots show is all the better for it. Tune in on Friday morning for songs about the ‘love bug’, private property and trespassers, biblical tales from about fellows named John, and some musical musings about dog houses and ramblers. We’ve the likes of Ry Cooder, Moses Mason, Arthur Smith, The Drifters, and Sharon Jones to help you get your head straight for a weekend to kick off a long summer of our discontent. Your rights. Our rights. When they come for some today, who says they won’t come for you tomorrow.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Rosie Flores	I Push Right Over	Speed of Sound
3	Cliff Edwards	Hang on to Me	Ukulele Ike
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	The Drifters	Don't Dog Me	Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 1] – Jumpin' & Bluesy
11	Jim Jackson	Old Dog Blue	25 Classic Blues Songs From the 1920s-1940s Vol 19
12	Ry Cooder	Police Dog Blues	Broadcast from the Plant: 1974 Record Plant, Sausalito, Ca
13	Pee Wee King	Dog House Blues	Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown (1 of 2)
14	Neko Case	John Saw That Number	Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
15	Moses Mason	John The Baptist	Take Me To The Water
16	John Mellencamp	John The Revelator	Trouble No More
17	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Get Up John	Bill Monroe: Anthology
18	Elvis Presley	I, John	Amazing Grace – His Greatest Sacred Performances (Disc 2)
19	The Golden Gate Quartet	Frankie and Johnny	CD 2 the Recent Years
20	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Private Property (No Tresspassing)	One Guy Named Louis: The Complete Aladdin Sessions
21	Jimmy Littlejohn	No Parking Here	The World Is A Monster
22	Woody Guthrie	Riding in My Car (Car Song)	Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
23	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Trespasser	Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Is In)
24	Vince Gill	Love Bug	Bradley Barn Sessions
25	Little Jimmy Dickens	When That Love Bug Bites You	Country Boy [Disc 2]
26	Jimmy Edwards	Love Bug Crawl	At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight (Disc 7)
27	Jimmy Edwards	Love Bug Crawl	Foot Tappin' & Dance At Screamin' Festival Vol. 5
28	Red Foley & Minnie Pearl	Love Bug Itch	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
29	The Mills Brothers	The Love Bug Will Bite You	Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats
30	Vera Lynn	The Love Bug Will Bite You	A Tribute, Volume II: It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow
31	Doc & Merle Watson	Corrina, Corrina	Then And Now/Two Days In November
32	Gillian Welch	I Want To Sing That Rock And Roll	Time (The Revelator)
33	John Prine With Lucinda Williams	Wedding Bells / Let's Turn Back The Years	In Spite Of Ourselves
34	Junior Brown & Red Simpson	Nitro Express	Rig Rock Deluxe
35	Red Simpson	Truck Drivin' Man	The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer

California Dreamin’

June 18, 2022 Dave

A little bit of surf…just a bit…and some folk favorites right alongside some local performers in this week’s episode brought your way directly from the KOWS Studios in downtown Santa Rosa, California. Our theme is the Golden State where the living may be costly but the core soul is one of progressive culture and hard work: whether that’s in the fields, behind the desk, in the service industry, or on the road. This week’s show focuses on California, from the LA Freeway to the Streets of Bakersfield, on up to Lodi and the Monterey Bay. The past century has found the state a popular subject of song and we’ve got some favorites and off-the-wall nuggets just for you this Friday morning including tracks from Dave Alvin, Albert Hammond, and Red River Dave. Tune in.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Sound Of The City	KSFO 560 – San Francisco	78s
3	Tony Bennett	I Left My Heart in San Francisco	Your Hit Parade – Into the '60S
4	Danny Sorentino	Sonoma County Stars	Real Music (Disc 1)
5	Kyle Martin	Santa Rosa	Kyle Martin
6	Charley Crockett	The Way I'm Livin' (Santa Rosa)	The Valley
7	Lowell Levinger	Hippie From Olema	Get Together- Youngblood Classics
8	Kevin Russell	California Cottonfields	Trouble In Mind
9	John Hartford	California Earthquake	Troubadours: Folk And The Roots Of American Music 4: 11 The South
10	Norman Greenbaum	Petaluma	Spirit In The Sky – The Best of Norman Greenbaum
11	Neil Young	California Sunset	Old Ways
12	Joe Jones	California Sun	You Heard It Here First!
13	Roy Orbison	California Blue	Mystery Girl
14	The Beach Boys	California	Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys Disc 4
15	The Beach Boys	California Girls	20 Good Vibrations: The Greatest Hits
16	Jan & Dean	The Little Old Lady From Pasadena	Malt Shop Memories: Top Down Convertible Sound (Disc 2)
17	Eric Clapton	San Francisco Bay Blues	Unplugged
18	Dave Alvin	Out in California	Interstate City
19	Various Artists	Monterey Pop Promo – KRLA Los Angeles #2	1960s Psychedelic Radio Commercials
20	The Mamas & The Papas	California Dreamin'	Southern California With Fond Memories
21	Joni Mitchell	California	Hits
22	America	Ventura Highway	Southern California With Fond Memories
23	Lucinda Williams	Here in California	Treasures left behind: Remembering Kate Wolf
24	Buck Owens	Streets of Bakersfield	The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) – Disc 3
25	Randy Newman	I Love L.A.	Lonely at the Top: The Best of Randy Newman
26	Albert Hammond	It Never Rains In California	Southern California With Fond Memories
27	The Ink Spots	When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano	Greatest Hits
28	The Four Preps	26 Miles (Santa Catalina)	Southern California With Fond Memories
29	Red River Dave	California Hippie Murders	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
30	John Fogerty	Lodi	The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Fogerty – Creedence Collection

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Dawn To Midnight

June 4, 2022 Dave

From sunrise to sunset and then back. This Friday morning we take a journey on the roller coaster of life on the big blue marble using music as our rails. We’ll rise and shine in the cold grey light before dawn and follow summer rain with the summer wind as sundown approaches. This week’s theme is a fusion of sunrise, sundown and a misty moonlight rhapsody featuring the music of Ray Charles, Norah Jones, Chet and Les, Bobby Bare, Mahalia Jackson and a couple dozen others. We’ll take you from dawn to midnight as we bring on the best of America’s music from digital, vinyl and ethereal dustbins of the past 100 years. Join us once more for music from long ago, today, and far away here on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Browns	The Three Bells	30 Years Of No. 1 Country Hits 2/4
3	Nick Lowe	Cold Grey Light of Dawn	Dig My Mood
4	Emmylou Harris	Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn	Roses in the Snow
5	Chet Atkins & Les Paul	The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise	Chester & Lester
6	Luther Dickinson	Hurry up Sunrise	Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook) Volumes I & II	[amazon asin=Rodney Crowell – Don't Get Me Started [Album Version] – 00:00&title=Buy From Amazon &thumb=http://deeperrootsradio.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buy_small.gif]
7	Norah Jones	Sunrise	Feels Like Home
8	Bruce Cockburn	Sunrise on the Mississippi	Dart to the Heart
9	Doris Day	I Got The Sun In The Morning	Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2]
10	Geoff Muldaur	Livin' In The Sunlight (Lovin' in the Moonlight)	Is Having Wonderful Time
11	Petra Haden	Sunshine Life for Me (with Lenny Pickett)	Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
12	Ray Charles	You Are My Sunshine	Ultimate Hits Collection [2 of 2]
13	The Statler Brothers	You're My Sunshine	Country Roads – Ralph Emery Presents – For The Good Times
14	Willie Nelson	Bring Me Sunshine ("Naked" Version)	Naked Willie
15	Lyle Lovett	Summer Wind	Smile: Songs From The Movies
16	Johnny Rivers	Summer Rain	Best Of Johnny Rivers
17	Roger Miller	In The Summertime (You Don't Want My Love)	Super Hits
18	Robbie Fulks	Rose of the Summer	Gone Away Backward
19	The Mavericks	Summertime (When I'm With You)	Mono
20	Dale Hawkins	Summertime Down South	Wildcat Tamer
21	Slim Willett And His Hired Hands	Come Sundown	Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
22	Bobby Bare	Come Sundown	1970
23	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Lonesome Sundown	Echo
24	J.J. Cale	Long About Sundown	Stay Around
25	Cab Calloway	Moonlight Rhapsody	1932-1934
26	Billie Holiday Feat. Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra	Let's Dream In The Moonlight	Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944 [Disc 05]
27	Dean Martin	In The Misty Moonlight	The Great Dean Martin
28	Maria Muldaur	Moonlight	Love Wants to Dance
29	Smokey Wood	Moonlight in Oklahoma	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Playboy Stomp [Disc 2]
30	Frank Sinatra	Moonlight in Vermont	Come Fly with Me [Capitol]
31	Del McCoury, Doc Watson & Mac Wiseman	New Moon Over My Shoulder	Mac Doc Del
32	Mahalia Jackson	Dark Was The Night	Moving On Up A Little Higher
33	Blind Wille Johnson	Dark Was The Night-Cold Was The Ground	Desperate Man Blues

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Double Play

May 29, 2022 Dave

Hot weather this week and we’ll be sweatin’ out the oldies in the KOWS Studio this coming Friday. Summer may be just around the corner but we’re running hot already here in Sonoma County. Today’s show features a ‘double play’ collection of traditions and covers, focusing primarily on gospel tradition and contemporary covers. Brook Benton, Josh White, Wilson Pickett, Neko Case, and Hank Williams are among the performers we’ll be featuring this week. Covers of the Gambler’s Blues, Stormy Weather, Denomination Blues, and more coming your way from the studios located in the Cherry Street Historic District of Santa Rosa, California. Streaming at kowsfm.com/listen.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Freddie King	Trouble In Mind	King Of The Blues
3	Mavis Staples Levon Helm	Trouble In My Mind	Carry Me Home
4	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Trouble In My Mind	Gospel Blues – the Very Best Of
5	Washington Phillips	Denomination Blues – Part 1	Manzarene Dreams
6	Rodney Crowell	Denomination Blues	Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South
7	Josh White	St. James Infirmary	Mojo-2010-11-Journey to Love
8	Bobby "Blue" Bland	St. James Infirmary	Mississippi Blues
9	Blind Alfred Reed	You Must Unload	Complete Recorded Works 1927-29
10	Ry Cooder	You Must Unload	The Prodigal Son
11	Louis Armstrong	Shadrack	Louis And The Good Book
12	Brook Benton	Shadrack	Mercury 1962
13	CBS Trumpeteers	Milky White Way	I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From The Nashboro Label 1951-1983
14	Elvis Presley	Milky White Way	His Hand In Mine
15	Shades of Blue	Oh How Happy	Glory of Love: Sweet & Soulful Love Songs-'60s
16	Carlene Carter	Oh How Happy	Carlene Carter/Blue Nun
17	Jeff Lynne	Stormy Weather	Armchair Theatre
18	Ethel Waters	Stormy Weather	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
19	Aaron Neville	I Saw The Light	Gospel Roots
20	Hank Williams	I Saw The Light	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
21	Arizona Dranes	John Said He Saw A Number	He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes
22	Neko Case	John Saw That Number	Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
23	Jimmy Reed	Big Boss Man	The Very Best of Jimmy Reed
24	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Big Boss Man	Playback Disc 5
25	Wilson Pickett	Three-Time Loser	A Man & A Half: The Best Of Wilson Pickett [Disc 1]
26	Dave Edmunds	Three Time Loser	Twangin'
27	Solomon Burke	Got To Get You Off My Mind	Very Best of Solomon Burke (Reis)
28	Huey Lewis And The News	Got To Get You Off My Mind	Soulsville
29	Peggy Lee With Dave Barbour & His Orchestra	I Don't Know Enough About You	I Get Ideas – A Proper Introduction To Peggy Lee
30	The Mills Brothers	I Don't Know Enough About You	The Very Best Of The Mills Brothers
31	The Bobby Fuller Four	I Fought The Law	The Best Of The Bobby Fuller Four
32	The Clash	I Fought the Law	Story of the Clash, Vol. 1 Disc 1

Fogerty Revival

May 20, 2022 Dave

We make a big tip of the hat to an institutional…who turns 77 years old this coming week. John Cameron Fogerty grew up in these parts, growing up in El Cerrito to a second grade teacher and linotype operator for the Berkeley Gazette. He was a part-time Army reservist who, after completing his gig in 1968, formed a band with brother Tom called The Golliwogs and then, eventually, Creedence Clearwater. A talented songwriter clearly influenced by the core elements of gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, country, and (certainly) rock ‘n roll, John’s catalog of music, his distinctive vocals, and driving melodies are immediately recognizable, if not for Doug Clifford’s percussive direction, then for the rhythm and twang that took a Northern California ensemble sound into the mossy swamps and humid climes of the deeper South. Through a messy transition to his solo career to his late career recognition, John Fogerty is a legend and our show today takes some time to reflect…with music from contemporaries, solo efforts new and old, and most certainly a collection of Creedence classics. Tune in.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	John Fogerty	Don't You Wish It Was True	Revival
3	The Golliwogs	Action USA Promotional Spot	Fight Fire: The Complete Recordings 1964-1967
4	The Golliwogs	You Better Be Careful	Fight Fire: The Complete Recordings 1964-1967
5	The Golliwogs	Fight Fire	Fight Fire: The Complete Recordings 1964-1967
6	John Fogerty	Down On The Corner	The Long Road Home: Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection
7	Creedence Clearwater Revival	The Midnight Special	Hot Stuff
8	Big Silver	Wrote A Song For Everyone	Chooglin': a Tribute to the Songs of John Fogerty
9	Irma Thomas	River Is Waiting	Simply Grand
10	John Jorgenson	Lookin Out My Back Door	Chooglin': a Tribute to the Songs of John Fogerty
11	Earl Scruggs/John Fogerty	Blue Ridge Mountain Blues	Earl Scruggs and Friends
12	John Fogerty	Have You Ever Seen the Rain (with Alan Jackson)	Wrote a Song for Everyone
13	Juan Gabriel	Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (Gracias al Sol)	Quiero Creedence
14	John Fogerty	The Old Man Down The Road	Centerfield
15	Marc Cohn	Long As I Can See The Light	Listening Booth: 1970
16	Ted Hawkins	Long As I Can See The Light	The Next Hundred Years
17	John Fogerty	Almost Saturday Night (with Keith Urban)	Wrote a Song for Everyone
18	John Fogerty	Deja Vu (All Over Again)	Deja Vu All Over Again
19	Carl Perkins	All Mama's Children (with John Fogerty)	Go Cat Go
20	Jerry Lee Lewis	Bad Moon Rising	The London Sessions 1973
21	Elvis Presley	Proud Mary [#]	An Afternoon in the Garden
22	Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers	Lodi	At The Ryman [Live]
23	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Green River	Green River
24	Buddy Guy	Change In The Weather	Feels Like Rain
25	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Hey Tonight	Pendulum
26	John Fogerty	Blue Moon Nights	Blue Moon Swamp
27	Dr. John; John Fogerty	New Orleans	The Musical Mojo of Dr. John: Celebrating Mac & His Music Disc 2
28	John Fogerty	Centerfield	Centerfield
29	John Fogerty	River Is Waiting	Revival

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Dead Covers

April 24, 2022 Dave

Let’s have ourselves a natural ball. We’ve done shows whose themes include traditional covers done by The Grateful Dead as well as paying tribute to the songwriting talents of Robert Hunter. We’re truckin’ down one more alley of dead themes in today’s show: covers of Grateful Dead songs done by others. And what a lineup we have for you this bright Saturday morning, celebrating springtime in Sonoma County. We’ve got Jorma, Jimmy Buffet, Graham Parker, Joan Osborne, Levon Helm and Bruce Hornsby queued up for you as we celebrate the return of the FM signal for Community Radio in West Sonoma County. That’s right! The rest of the world gets to share Sonoma County with….uh, Sonoma County, as the streaming returns to sharing the stage on a Community Radio signal that runs 24×7. Deeper Roots will celebrate with a New Speedway Boogie, honoring the new FM signal and raising a glass or Ripple with Uncle John’s Band. Tune us in.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Los Lobos	Bertha	Deadicated
3	Joan Osborne	Brokedown Palace	Pretty Little Stranger
4	David Gans	Box Of Rain	Drop The Bone
5	Indigo Girls	Uncle John's Band	Deadicated
6	Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley	Friend Of The Devil	The Country Blues
7	Jorma Kaukonen	Operator	River Of Time
8	Jimmie Dale Gilmore	Ripple	One Endless Night
9	Warren Zevon	Casey Jones	Deadicated
10	Levon Helm	Tennessee Jed	Electric Dirt
11	Dr. John	Deal	Deadicated
12	Gregg Allman	Black Muddy River	Southern Blood
13	David Gans	New Speedway Boogie	It's A Hand-me-down
14	Jimmy Buffett	Uncle John's Band	Fruitcakes
15	Larry Campbell	Attics of My Life	Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
16	Willie Nelson	Stella Blue	Songbird
17	Suzanne Vega	China Doll	Deadicated
18	Graham Parker	Sugaree	Your Country
19	Bruce Hornsby & The Range	Jack Straw	Deadicated
20	The Persuasions	It Must Have Been the Roses	Might As Well… The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead
21	Rick Danko	Ripple	Times Like These

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Doug Sahm Retrospective

April 9, 2022 Dave

This week we’re taking a look back at a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, musician, and performer who helped to enlighten a younger set to Tex Mex music, even making inroads into the sixties San Francisco ‘summer of love’ with a top 20 hit in 1965. Considered a child prodigy, he would appear on the Louisiana Hayride by the age of eight and would find his influences in blues, country, r&b, and conjunto sounds from across the border. Our retrospective will feature contemporaries and music from his close-knit cadre of compadres that would go on to form a sort-of supergroup called The Texas Tornados. Tune in on a Spring morning in April for a collection of pure Americana treats from Texas as we overlook (for a brief two hours) its abhorrent decline into a state of hate and anti-democratic principles.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Doug Sahm	(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone	Best of Sir Douglas 68-75
3	Doug Sahm & The Knights	Crazy Daisy	Wild Streak, Vol. 1
4	Sir Douglas Quintet	She's About A Mover	Best Of Sir Douglas Quintet
5	Sir Douglas Quintet	The Rains Came	Best Of Sir Douglas Quintet
6	Sir Douglas Quintet	Mendocino	Best of Sir Douglas 68-75
7	Freddie Fender	Before the Next Teardrop Falls	Classic Country 1975 – 1979
8	Doug Sahm	It's Gonna Be Easy	Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1
9	Doug Sahm	Faded Love	Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1
10	Frank Black	Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day	Honeycomb
11	The Texas Tornados	Little Bit Is Better Than Nada	4 Aces
12	The Texas Tornados	Who Were You Thinkin' Of	The Best Of Texas Tornados
13	The Texas Tornados	Wasted Days And Wasted Nights	The Best Of Texas Tornados
14	Jerry Lee Lewis	The Revolutionary Man	Southern Roots
15	Townes Van Zandt	Pancho & Lefty (with Freddy Fender, Rubin Ramos & The Texas Revolution, Doug Sahm & Augie Meyer)	Texas Rain
16	Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor	Big Mamou	The Return of the Formerly Brothers
17	Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor	Smack Dab in the Middle	The Return of the Formerly Brothers
18	The Mavericks	Nitty Gritty (Bonus Track)	Mono
19	Uncle Tupelo	Give Back The Key To My Heart (feat. Doug Sahm)	Anodyne
20	Dwight Yoakam/Flaco Jimenez	Carmelita	Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Disc 2
21	Flaco Jiminez	The Girls From Texas featuring Ry Cooder (Album Version)	Partners
22	Flaco Jiminez	Las Golondrinas (Album Version)	Partners
23	Augie Meyers	Matilda	Trippin Out On Triplets
24	Dave Alvin	Dynamite Woman	Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm
25	Los Lobos	It Didn't Even Bring Me Down	Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm
26	Delbert McClinton	Texas Me	Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm
27	The Gourds	Nuevo Laredo	Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm
28	Freda and the Firedogs	Be Real	Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm
29	Doug Sahm	Crazy Crazy Baby	The San Antonio Hipster
30	Doug Sahm	Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day	Best of Sir Douglas 68-75
31	The Texas Tornados	Soy De San Luis	Texas Tornados

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Old Devil Time

December 11, 2021 Dave

In an encore episode from 2015, we listen in as Dave explores the multi-generational sounds of not only bluegrass with Dillard and Clark and The Hackberry Ramblers, but we’ll also cross the genres (as we are wont to do) with Cowboy Copas, Clara Ward, Otis Spann, and Doris Day. There’s a couple of different threads that run through the show today, one being that of the ‘devil’ and the other being of ‘new mornings’. Tune in at a special time and see what’s in store on a late-fall morning in West County. And please, donate to community radio: kwtf.net.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	BR5-49	The Devil In Me	Dog Days
3	Bob Dylan	Talkin' Devil	It Could Even Be A Myth
4	Pete Seeger	Old Devil Time (Live)	Singalong Demonstration Concert (Live)
5	Gillian Welch	The Devil Had a Hold of Me	Hell Among the Yearlings
6	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	The Devil Has Thrown Him Down	The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3]
7	Doris Day	The Deevil, Devil, Divil	Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2]
8	Pokey LaFarge	The Devil Ain't Lazy	Pokey LaFarge
9	Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama	The Devil Ain't Lazy	Reinventing the Wheel
10	Hackberry Ramblers	Old Pipeliner (Rodney Crowell-vocal) {1992-06 (org.1946) Flying Fish FF-70629 CD}	Cajun Boogie (1992-06)
11	Cowboy Copas	Don't Shake Hands with the Devil	Settin' Flat On Ready
12	Little Jimmy Dickens	I'm Little But I'm Loud	The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
13	Spade Cooley & His Orchestra; Vocal By Tex Williams	Hide Your Face	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
14	Dillard & Clark	I Bowed My Head And Cried Holy	The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
15	Rory Block	I Am In the Heavenly Way	Confessions of A Blues Singer
16	Bukka White	I Am the Heavenly Way	The Sonet Blues Story
17	Clara Ward	In That Great Judgement Morning	Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 1]
18	The Dixie Hummingbirds	In The Morning	Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds
19	Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers	He's So Wonderful	The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3]
20	Slim & Slam	Early In The Morning	Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 2)
21	Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet	Carolina In The Morning	Vol. 1-(1937-38)
22	Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson	Where Dreams Come to Die	Django and Jimmie
23	John Lee Hooker	I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive [Album Version]	Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett
24	Otis Spann	Must Have Been The Devil	The Blues Never Die
25	Cleo Brown	You're A Heavenly Thing	Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935)
26	Benny Goodman	You're a Heavenly Thing	Music Hall Rag
27	Big Joe Turner	Morning Noon And Nite	Big Joe Turner: Rhythm & Blues Years
28	Tampa Red	Worried Devil Blues	The Bluebird Recordings (1934-1936)
29	Ralph Stanley	John The Revelator	A Mother's Prayer
30	Sherman Tedder	Untitled [Album Version]	Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
31	Elvis Presley	(You're The) Devil In Disguise	Elvis 30 #1 Hits
32	Ella Fitzgerald	Ol' Devil Moon	75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2]
33	Ella Fitzgerald	Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea	75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2]

Rainy Nights

November 5, 2021 Dave

November arrives which means winter is fast approaching with (we hope) a need to break out the umbrellas, clean the gutters, and let the cycle of renewal begin. Our show this week is a free form collection of sounds from the past century highlighted by a couple of topical sets, some somber, some hopeful, but all with a blending of Americana. We’ll visit with Tom Waits’ on the low side of the road, hear from Nina Simone and her brilliant delivery of Langston Hughes’ Backlash Blues, some songs about bluebirds, rainy nights, bright lights and big cities. This week’s episode on KOWS Community Radio gives room to breathe and reflect on what is important with country, gospel, blues, jazz and everything that falls in between, fresh from the digital ether…all coming your way, for today, on KOWS 92.5 FM Occidental.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Irma Thomas	It's Raining	Soul Queen of New Orleans
3	Tom Waits	Jersey Girl	Used Songs 1973-1980
4	Skeeter Davis	The End of the World	Red, White & Rock Disc 2
5	Dinah Washington	This Bitter Earth	The Essential Dinah Washington: The Great Songs
6	Johnny Cash	Family Bible	Boom Chicka Boom
7	Edwin Hawkins Singers	Oh Happy Day	Testify: The Gospel Box [Disc 2]
8	Paul Simon	Gone at Last	1964-1993 Disc 2
9	Nina Simone	Backlash Blues	Defiance Blues
10	Jimmy Hughes	A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues	The Complete Fame Singles Volume 1
11	Art Freeman	Everybody's Got To Cry Sometime	The Complete Fame Singles Volume 1
12	Brook Benton	Rainy Night In Georgia	Today
13	Roy Orbison	Blue Rain (Coming Down)	The Soul of Rock And Roll [Disc 3]
14	Rosanne Cash	I Count The Tears	Retrospective
15	Sir Douglas Quintet	The Rains Came	Best Of Sir Douglas Quintet
16	Ritchie Valens	Bluebirds Over The Mountain	Ritchie Valens – Ritchie
17	Joe Ely	If You Were A Bluebird	Joe Ely
18	Billy Walker	Gonna Find Me A Bluebird	Whirlpool – Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
19	Mac Wiseman	The Bluebirds Are Singing for Me	Warped 6643 – Mac Wiseman – 1966
20	Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys	Hello Bluebird	Oh!
21	Ry Cooder	Johnny Cash	I, Flathead
22	Johnny Cash	28 I Walk the Line [Live at The Carousel Ballroom San Fancisco CA – April 1968]	Live At The Carousel Ballroom
23	Charley Crockett	Skip A Rope	Music City USA
24	Wanda Jackson	You Drive Me Wild	Encore
25	Neil Young & the Shocking Pinks	Bright Lights, Big City	Everybody's Rockin'
26	Blind Willie Johnson	Let Your Light Shine On Me [Album Version]	The Ladykillers Music From The Motion Picture
27	John Fogerty	Down On The Corner	The Long Road Home: Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection
28	Tom Waits	Lowside Of The Road	Mule Variations
29	John Oates	My Creole Belle	Arkansas
30	Chris Hillman	Wildflowers	Bidin' My Time
31	Charlie Musselwhite	Siboney	Continental Drifter
32	Dave Alvin	Downey Girl	Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women

A Century of America's Music