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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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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
This week, we pay a long overdue tribute to John Prine while celebrating the 75th year of his birth which came up on the calendar this week. One of the losses that reverberates among us all is the loss of John Prine to COVID in April, 2020, at the beginning of this long and painful pandemic. We’re paying our tributes at the same time that a his label Oh Boy Records releases Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows, Volume 2, a collection of Prine covers that hits the marks and follows the first volume, released over ten years ago. Our show will feature a chronological look back at the legacy of this national treasure, a songwriter whose bite followed along on the arc of his storytelling that looked into matters of the human heart. We’ll hear covers from Nanci Griffith, Yarn, and a few others but we’ll follow the path along John’s career in performances especially selected for a two hour journey of John’s music.
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Joan Baez
Hello In There
Diamonds & Rust
3
Justin Townes Earle
Far From Me
Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine
4
Sturgill Simpson
Paradise
Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2
5
John Prine
Donald And Lydia
John Prine Live
6
John Prine
Sweet Revenge
Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1
7
John Prine
The Great Compromise
Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1
8
John Prine
He Was in Heaven Before He Died
Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1
9
John Prine
If You Don't Want My Love
Bruised Orange
10
Yarn
Christmas in Prison
Stray Dog Christmas Compilation
11
John Prine
The Sins of Memphisto
The Missing Years
12
Nanci Griffith
Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
Winter Marquee [Live]
13
John Prine
Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian
German Afternoons
14
John Prine
Lulu Walls
German Afternoons
15
John Prine
Lake Marie
Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings
16
John Prine
In Spite Of Ourselves
In Person & On Stage
17
John Prine
Dear John (I Sent Your Saddle Home)
In Spite Of Ourselves
18
John Prine
Glory of True Love
Fair & Square
19
John Prine
Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out (Featuring Iris Dement)
For Better, Or Worse
20
John Prine
Summers End
The Tree of Forgiveness
21
John Prine
The Lonesome Friends Of Science
The Tree Of Forgiveness
22
John Prine
Caravan Of Fools
The Tree Of Forgiveness
23
John Prine
When I Get To Heaven
The Tree Of Forgiveness
24
Fiona Prine/John Prine
My Happiness
For Better, Or Worse
25
John Prine
I Remember Everything
I Remember Everything
26
Bonnie Raitt
Angel from Montgomery
Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2
It’s a deep dive we’re taking today into the digital dustbin of the past century with the focus being on fretwork, string bending, bottlenecks and tripping the lap steel fantastic. That’s right…a collection of fascinating tonal embellishments that cross the genres of country, jazz, blues, folk and pop. Our show this morning will feature some Lonnie Johnson, Les Paul, Chet Atkins, John Fahey, Grady Martin and a few others. It’s a trip with a few well knowns but more not so much and you’ll just have to make room in your day because the sounds can’t be ignored. We’ll hear standards like Guitar Rag, Riders in the Sky, Black Mountain Rag, Indiana March, and a special playlist highlighting the work of Grady Martin in both country and rock. We’re once again hoping for the best as October and November approach.
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Truett & George
Ghost Dance
Diabolical Hoodoo: Vintage Songs Of Devilry, Doom & Hellfire 1920-1952
3
Lonnie Johnson
Swing Out Rhythm
Complete Recorded Works, Vol:1
4
Blind Lemon Jefferson
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Black Swan Sampler
5
Blind Blake
Southern Rag
Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey
6
Robert Johnson
Stop Breakin' Down Blues
The Complete Recordings [Columbia] Disc 2
7
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Little Queen Of Spades
Blues Routes: Heroes And Tricksters
8
Les Paul Trio
Guitar Boogie
Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2]
9
Roy Smeck and His Paradise Serenaders
Indiana March
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
10
Slim Gaillard
Minuet In Vout
Hittin' On All Six: New Guitar Concepts
11
Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band
Blue Guitar Stomp
Hillibilly Boogie!
12
Merle Travis
Guitar Rag
The Guitar Picker CD2 (1947-51)
13
Les Paul
Hip Billy Boogie (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered]
100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
14
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
Railroadin'
Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
15
Chet Atkins
Carolina Shout
Guitar Legend – RCA Years (Disc 2)
16
Richard Thompson
New-Fangled Flogging Reel/Kerry Reel
Strict Tempo!
17
Richard Thompson
Rockin' in Rhythm
Strict Tempo!
18
John Fahey
I'm Gonna Do All I Can for My Lord
The Legend of Blind Joe Death
19
John Fahey
Requiem for John Hurt
Essential John Fahey
20
Bert Jansch
On The Edge Of A Dream [Rock Baby Rock Remix]
Running From Home – An Introduction to Bert Jansch
This week’s show is a free form collection of songs from early, middle and late, all blending tradition, pop, rock ‘n roll, soul, and so much more. Little themes and big ones that bring out the best in us and some old favorites as well. Tune in on Friday at 9 for Deeper Roots and we’ll give you some Mills Brothers, John Prine, Ivory Joe Hunter and John Sebastian…oh yes, a little Bo Diddley and some Bette Davis thrown in. Community Radio in Sonoma County is all about eclectic, non-commercial entertainment with voices of your community there to bring you home. It’s a mean old world but it’s also a big, old goofy one and we’ve got the sounds this week on Deeper Roots to prove it.
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Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers
Mean Old World
The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3]
3
Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson
I Am The Light Of This World
Quah [Bonus Tracks]
4
Lucinda Williams
Sweet Old World
Sweet Old World
5
Johnny Burnette
Big Big World
25 Greatest Hits
6
John Prine
It's a Big Old Goofy World
The Missing Years
7
Los Lobos
We Belong Together
La Bamba
8
The Mills Brothers
Sixty Seconds Got Together
Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats
9
Campus Kids
Managua, Nicaragua
The Groups Sing [Disc 2]
10
Carmen Miranda
Chica Chica Boom Chic
The Very Best of Carmen Miranda
11
Sue Foley
Cuban Getaway
Antone's Women: Bringing You the Best in Blues
12
Dean Martin
Memories Are Made Of This
Crush On You
13
Nick Lowe
Sensitive Man
The Old Magic
14
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
Tennessee Bird Walk
Hard To Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics
15
John Sebastian
Red-Eye Express
The Best Of John Sebastian
16
Dan Penn
Don't Lose Your Good Thing
The Fame Recordings
17
Ivory Joe Hunter
Since I Met You Baby
Since I Met You Baby
18
Ollie & The Nightingales
I Got A Sure Thing
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1]
19
The Spinners
It's A Shame
The Very Best Of
20
Ann Cole
Got My Mo-Jo Working (But It Just Won't Work On You)
Jump, Jive & Swing
21
Nat King Cole
Mona Lisa
30 Greatest Hits Disc 2
22
Dinning Sisters
Oh Monah
Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 1]
23
Bo Diddley
Mona
Living The Blues – Chicago Blues Giants
24
Bette Davis
They're Either Too Young Or Too Old -from Thank Your Lucky Stars
There are no more essential metaphors to be had in the American story than that of the river. The river is nature’s alliance with mankind and its muse in prose, poetry and song. It is the stuff of dreams, the movement of the clock in Her terms, the news of the day when the banks are breached, and the symbol of biblical ventures of time and home. So we’ll be taking to the river on a Friday in July to feel the warmth of the surface knowing full well that the undercurrent is treacherous and cold beneath the hull. Music this week includes the stories of the Great Flood of 1927 with Barbecue Bob, the baptismal elements from Alison Krauss and Irma Thomas, Central Valley memories from Dave Alvin by way of Merle Haggard, and the poetry of river sounding chants and Paul Robeson’s muscle. Tune in as we drift our way down the Mississippi and beyond on Friday morning on Deeper Roots.
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Marilyn Monroe
River Of No Return
The Essential Marilyn Monroe
3
Charles Colman & William Eaton
River Sounding Chant
5- The Long Road To Freedom : An Anthology Of Black Music
4
Paul Robeson
Ol' Man River
American Songbook Series: Jerome Kern
5
Marian Anderson
Deep River
Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 1]
6
Mavis Staples
In The Mississippi River (Cd)
We'll Never Turn Back
7
Johnny Cash
Big River
Original Greatest Hits
8
The Carter Family
River Of Jordan
The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 1]
9
Alison Krauss
Down to the River to Pray
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10
Delmore Brothers
Happy on the Mississippi Shores
Brown's Ferry Blues
11
Tennessee Ernie Ford with Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Billy May
River Of No Return
Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 7 – Capitol Goes To The Movies – 1944-55
12
Louis Armstrong & All His Stars
Lazy River
The Complete Decca Studio Recordings Of Louis Armstrong And The All Stars [Disc 3]
A collection of blues performers almost unparalleled. They grow ’em big down there and the sound of the blues is no different. From Lead Belly to Blind Lemon Jefferson to the Vaughan Brothers, you can’t really capture the breadth and depth of the blues from the state of Texas in one sitting, so we’re only going to do our very best in the show this morning on KOWS. Early blues from Ramblin’ Thomas, Texas Alexander and Bessie Tucker will take us into the seminal country folk blues of Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb. While we’re name-dropping, how about Bobby “Blue” Bland, T-Bone Walker, Johnny Winter, Albert Collins, Big Mama Thornton, and it doesn’t stop there. There’s a heaping helping of Texas blues coming your way from the KOWS studios located in downtown Santa Rosa.
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Blind Lemon Jefferson
Matchbox Blues
Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey
3
Pee Wee Crayton
Do Unto Others
Pee Wee's Blues – The Complete Aladdin And Imperial Recordings
4
Johnny Winter
Mean Town Blues
Legends of Guitar – Electric Blues (Vol. 1)
5
Fenton Robinson
Somebody Loan Me A Dime
Living The Blues: The 70's Blues Classics
6
Albert Collins
Frosty
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
7
Blind Lemon Jefferson
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Black Swan Sampler
8
Ramblin' Thomas
Poor Boy Blues
Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 3B: Songs
9
Texas Alexander
Don't You Wish Your Baby was Built Up Like Mine
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1927 – 1928)
10
J.T. Smith
Fools Blues
Oxford American Southern Music Texas
11
Bessie Tucker
Better Boot That Thing [Take 2] [#]
Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order (1928-1929)
12
Lightnin' Hopkins
Katie Mae Blues
The Very Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins
13
Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson
Blues Come To Texas
Blues Come To Texas
14
Mance Lipscomb
Introduction
Ash Grove 12/6/1964
15
Mance Lipscomb
Darktown Strutters' Ball
Ash Grove 12/6/1964
16
T-Bone Walker
Cold, Cold Feeling
The Complete Imperial Recordings: 1950-1954 [Disc 1]
17
James "Thunderbird" Davis
If I Had My Life To Live Over
Blues Pajama Party
18
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
Okie Dokie Stomp
ABC Of The Blues Vol 4
19
Frankie Lee Sims
Lucy Mae Blues
Blues Masters Vol. 3: Texas Blues
20
Juke Boy Bonner
Running Shoes
Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll Volume 2 [Disc 8]
21
Bobby "Blue" Bland
Turn On Your Love Light
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
22
Big Mama Thornton
Let Your Tears Fall Baby
ABC Of The Blues Vol 43
23
Freddie King
Hide Away
Ultimate Collection
24
Jimmie Vaughan
Don't Cha Know
Strange Pleasure
25
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Pride And Joy
Folk, Gospel & Blues Will The Circle Be Unbroken Disk 2
26
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
She's Tuff
Blues Masters, Vol. 9: Postmodern Blues
27
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
One Room Country Shack
ABC Of The Blues Vol 49
28
Blind Willie Johnson
John The Revelator
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson
29
Johnny Copeland
Down On Bending Knees
Blues Masters Vol. 3: Texas Blues
30
Andrew "Smokey" Hogg
I Gotta Ride
Texas Guitar Killers Disc 2
31
Johnny Winter
Highway 61 Revisited
Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
32
Lowell Fulson
Blue Shadows
A Propoer Introduction to Lowell Fulson Juke Box Shuffle
