Category Archives: Free Form

Something in the Air

Spring is knock-knock-knocking…and our Supreme Court is push-push-pushing back on the idea of Emperor Grandpa McFuddlepants. And why not? They created it. But here, we’re busy painting the town with hope and there’s a sense that there’s something in the air as this week’s show leans on the fabric of Americana sounds to get us through yet another week of hate speech from Pennsylvania Avenue. We’ll apply an salve of sweet sounds from Jerry Garcia, Jackie Wilson, Townes Van Zandt, Billie Holiday, and that late local luminary and bard about town Dan Hicks in this week’s show. It’s a free form dance we’re taking on so I hope you make time or, if you can’t catch us live on KOWS, you can catch up on our archives posted on Podomatic at https://deeperroots.podomatic.com

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Something in the Air Greatest Hits Amazon
3Marshall Crenshaw Who Stole That Train Miracle of Science Amazon
4Them Baby Please Don't Go Them Featuring Van Morrison Amazon
5Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings Anyway The Wind Blows Anyway The Wind Blows Amazon
6John Hiatt Radio Girl Slug Line Amazon
7Townes Van Zandt (Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria Townes Van Zandt Amazon
8Charley Crockett Jamestown Ferry Lonesome Drifter Amazon
9Ray Charles Take These Chains from My Heart Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3 Amazon
10Jackie Wilson I Just Can't Help It The Jackie Wilson Story [Sony] Amazon
11Little Jimmy Dickens I Can't Help It The Old Country Church/Raisin' The Dickens Amazon
12James Hunter Six Can't Help Myself Nick of Time Amazon
13Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Big Mamou Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
14David Lindley Your Old Lady El Rayo-X Amazon
15Aereo-Plain Band/John Hartford Keep on Truckin' Steam Powered Aereo-Takes Amazon
16Hot Tuna Keep On Truckin' Burgers Amazon
17Jorma Kaukonen Big River Blues Blue Country Heart Amazon
18Maria Muldaur It Ain't The Meat, It's The Motion Maria Muldaur Amazon
19Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande) The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973 Amazon
20Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks Canned Music The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973 Amazon
21Jerry Garcia Deal Garcia Amazon
22The Youngbloods Grizzly Bear Get Together: The Essential Youngbloods Amazon
23Sonny James Innocent Lies Singles Amazon
24Billie Holiday God Bless the Child Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
25Jackson Browne These Days The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne Amazon
26Wayne Hancock Life's Lonesome Road A-Town Blues Amazon
27Steve Forbert Lonesome Cowboy Bill Young Guitar Days Amazon
28Levon Helm Move Along Train Electric Dirt Amazon
29Tom Petty I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better Full Moon Fever Amazon
30Patsy Montana My Poncho Pony Cowgirl's Best Amazon

Echoes of Blues Greats

There’s an echo in the well of Americana and it reverberates from tradition and some of the early songsmiths and blues masters who delivered the blues proper through the depths of the past century of America’s music. We’ll be pulling some of the classic blues covers of songs composed by just a small collection of the great blues masters: Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Blake and beyond in this week’s episode. There is seldom enough time to make a dent in only two hours but we’ll do our best with covers from some of the inheritors like BB King, Carl Perkins, Bob Dylan, Jorma Kaukonen and a couple dozen others. We’re excavating some deeper roots this week and then tilling the airwaves with freshly turned songs of the earth; a landscape of blues cutting a deep swath across the musical landscape of the past 100 years. Celebrating blues and those who brought it home this week on KOWS Community Radio.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Graham Parker Poor Me Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton Amazon
3Rising Sons By And By (Poor Me) [Album Version] Rising Sons Amazon
4Charlie Musselwhite Pea Vine Blues Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton Amazon
5Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson Police Dog Blues Quah [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
6Jimmie Dale Gilmore Black Snake Moan Braver Newer World Amazon
7Bo Diddley Diddy Wah Diddy Bo Knows Bo Amazon
8Bob Dylan See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Bob Dylan Amazon
9Andy Fairweather Low Matchbox The Invisible Bluesman Amazon
10Carl Perkins Matchbox Dixie Fried Amazon
11Sam Price and his Texas Blusic Match Box Blues 1929-1941 Amazon
12B.B. King Tomorrow Night Reflections Amazon
13Lonnie Johnson, John Hughes, Roy Coulter Tomorrow Night Tomorrow Night Amazon
14John Sebastian I Found A Dream – (Live At Winterland) Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings – Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
15Lonnie Johnson I Found A Dream Blues & Ballads (With Elmer Snowden) (Reissued 1990) Amazon
16Ramblin' Jack Elliott Rambler's Blues A Stranger Here Amazon
17Elmore James Call It Stormy Monday Greatest Blues Legends Amazon
18Roomful of Blues I Know Your Wig Is Gone That's Right Amazon
19Boz Scaggs T-Bone Shuffle Come On Home Amazon
20Peter Wolf Rollin' & Tumblin' A Tribute To Muddy Waters – King Of The Blues Amazon
21Shannon McNally The Stuff You Gotta Watch Black Irish Amazon
22Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Cross My Heart Chess Blues Guitar / Two Decades Of Killer Fretwork, 1949-1969 Amazon
23Johnny Winter Help Me The Progressive Blues Experiment Amazon
24Dr. John/John Hammond, Jr./Michael Bloomfield Last Night Triumvirate Amazon
25Tommy Castro And The Painkillers Bad Luck Method To My Madness Amazon
26Dinah Washington Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Verve Unmixed Amazon
27Louis Jordan Caldonia Number Ones Amazon
28B.B. King Jack, You're Dead! Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan Amazon
29Muddy Waters Don't Go No Farther His Best, 1956 To 1964 Amazon
30Muddy Waters Got My Mojo Working Chess Blues Disc 3 Amazon
31Muddy Waters The Same Thing The Definitive Collection Amazon
32Big Daddy Wilson Couldn't Keep It to Myself Deep in My Soul Amazon

Music Goes ‘Round

Put another nickel in that nickelodeon ‘cause rhythm saved the world. This week on Deeper Roots we’re spinning up songs about the jukebox, hit records, little bitty records, disc jockey pleas, and swinging syncopated rhythms from across the past century. That’s right, we’re taking a trip across ninety years featuring jazz from Jimmie Lunceford, country from the Sons of the Pioneers, gospel from the Chuck Wagon Gang, and swinging send-ups from Louis Armstrong, NRBQ, Slim Gaillard, and The Sensations. Well, you can also count on more from the usual suspects in this week’s thematic celebration of the very best of Americana. Whether that’s reaching out to the jukebox, the DJ or that record hawker…we’ve got two hours of rhythm here on KOWS Community Radio. Spend your time with music, not your hard earned dough on this day of resistance.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Commercial Nuclear Survival Course Record Album (1954) Rock'N'Roll & Rock-A-Billy Inferno Amazon
3The Sensations Please Mr Disc Jockey Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 3] – The Rock 'n' Roll Era Amazon
4Fred Astaire Music Makes Me American Songbook Series Amazon
5Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake Seven The Music Goes Round And Round Me & Orson Welles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
6Louis Prima The Music Goes 'Round and Around Capitol Collectors Series Amazon
7Louis Armstrong Rhythm Saved The World Rhythm Saved The World Amazon
8Tex Beneke, The Modernaires Jukebox Saturday Night Stagedoor Canteen Music Of The War Years Vol 1 Amazon
9Jimmie Lunceford Rhythm Is Our Business An Introduction To Jimmie Lunceford Amazon
10The Boswell Sisters That's How Rhythm Was Born Music From The Motion Picture – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Amazon
11Three Sharps And A Flat That's The Rhythm Hot Harmony Groups 1932-1951: Vol 1: That's the Rhythm Amazon
12Ella Fitzgerald Vote For Mr Rhythm The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald [Disc 3] Amazon
13Ella Fitzgerald My Last Affair The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald Amazon
14Fats Waller Music Maestro Please Music Maestro Please Amazon
15The Cats & The Fiddle Mr. Rhythm Man The Very Best Of Amazon
16Slim Gaillard Jumpin' At The Record Shop Vout For Voutoreenes Amazon
17The Mills Brothers Rhythm Saved The World The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 4 Amazon
18George Kent Hello, I'm A Jukebox The Beginning Of The End – The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
19Boyd Bennett & His Rockets Cool Disc Jockey Bob Dylan – Radio Radio Vol.5 Amazon
20Sons of the Pioneers Syncopated Rhythm Songs of the Prairie – CD4 Amazon
21Jerry Lee Lewis Jukebox Junky Killer Country Amazon
22Brook Benton Hit Record Mercury 1962 Amazon
23Charles Senns Dig Me A Crazy Record One More Record Please Amazon
24Norma Jean I Heard the Jukebox Playing 1965-1966 Amazon
25Willie Nelson Mr. Record Man One More Record Please Amazon
26Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Jones On the Jukebox Set Two Amazon
27Chuck Wagon Gang/George Jones Turn Your Radio On 70th Anniversary Amazon
28Bill Kirchen Little Bitty Record King of Dieselbilly: Classic Kirchen Amazon
29NRBQ Music Goes Round And Around Tiddly Winks Amazon
30BR5-49 A1 On The Jukebox Dog Days Amazon
31The Blasters Border Radio Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2) Amazon
32Dillard & Clark The Radio Song The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark Amazon
33Teresa Brewer Music ! Music ! Music ! Music ! Music ! Music ! Amazon
34Gene Kelly I Got Rhythm The Big Picture: Great Music from Films You Love Amazon

Old Records

Country, gospel, and rhythm and blues are the major arteries that flow to the heart of Americana musical traditions, each influencing the other through shared themes of storytelling, emotion, and spirituality. Gospel’s uplifting harmonies and spiritual fervor inspired both the heartfelt narratives of country music and the soulful expressions of rhythm and blues. Similarly, rhythm and blues infused gospel energy into secular music, while country music borrowed melodic and vocal elements from both genres. The “golden age” of these genres is often considered to be the mid-20th century, roughly the 1940s through the 1960s, when their innovation and cross-pollination laid the groundwork for modern popular music, including rock and roll. This week on Deeper Roots we’re going to flip through some classic old records (as we love to do) and highlight the morning with performances from the likes of Otis Spann, Merle Travis, Sue Foley, Sturgill Simpson, and a few dozen others.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Margie Singleton Old Records One More Record Please Amazon
3Seasick Steve Dark Man from Another Time (Bonus Version) Amazon
4Sturgill Simpson Breakers Roar A Sailor's Guide To Earth Amazon
5The Everly Brothers Bowling Green Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers on Warner Bros. Disc 2 Amazon
6The Kossoy Sisters Bowling Green Bluegrass Jamboree Amazon
7Merle Travis Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) Ash Grove 12/9/1966 Amazon
8Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) We've Got a Live One Here! Amazon
9The Louvin Brothers There's A Grave In The Wave Of The Ocean Close Harmony [Disc 7] Amazon
10Hart Valley Drifters Nine Pound Hammer Folk Time Amazon
11Van Morrison Dark Night Of The Soul Three Chords And The Truth Amazon
12The Riders Of The Purple Sage Cool Water (Radio) Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1 Amazon
13The Harmonizing Four Wade In The Water Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965) Amazon
14The Soul Stirrers Jesus I'll Never Forget [Album Version] The Ladykillers Music From The Motion Picture Amazon
15Mahalia Jackson Dark Was The Night Moving On Up A Little Higher Amazon
16Bing Crosby Down to the Old Ox Road Bing Crosby in Hollywood (1930-1934), Vol. 1 Amazon
17Sue Foley Freight Train One Guitar Woman Amazon
18Porter Wagoner Banks of the Ohio 1968 (Warped 6846) Amazon
19Roy Rogers with Country Washburne My Chickashay Girl 26 All-Time Country Classics Amazon
20Merle Haggard Time Changes Everything The Peer Sessions Amazon
21Jimmie Dolan The Wheel That Does The Squeakin' Juke Box Boogie Amazon
22Raul Malo Weary Blues from Waitin' The Nashville Acoustic Sessions Amazon
23Ted Daffan's Texans Born To Lose 26 All-Time Country Classics Amazon
24Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips Amazon
25Mae West I'm An Occidental Woman In An Oriental Mood For Love The Mae West Collection Amazon
26Jewel Paige & Her Brown Brownies Give It Up If You Take Me Back Amazon
27Julia Lee Snatch It And Grab It (06-11-47) 1947 Amazon
28Slim Gaillard Thunderbird ABC Of The Blues Vol 12 Amazon
29John Hiatt Thunderbird Master of Disaster Amazon
30Chuck Berry Jaguar and Thunderbird The Chess Box Disc 2 Amazon
31Otis Spann Mule Kicking In My Stall Cryin' Time Amazon
32Lowell Fulson Blue Shadows Chess Blues Disc 4 Amazon

Good Night’s Sleep

A sleepy time themed collection this week as we take a deep dive into classic sounds from the past and present, all with a blend of sentiments we hold close as midnight approaches. We’ll have some old doo wop and early rock chestnuts from Jesse Belvin, The Fleetwoods, The Valentines and The Spaniels with just the right amount of rock, R&B and country. That means a little bit of Fats Domino, some rockabilly from Charline Arthur and Sonny Burgess, middling pop from Doris Day, Jimmy Durant and Dean Martin in store. Little Jimmy Dickens, Milton Brown and Swamp Dogg will also fill the air with country and blues. Friday mornings are the time to tune in for a fresh dose of America’s music from the past 100 years hear on KOWS-LP, Occidental, streaming to all of Planet Earth on kowsfm.com/listen. Be sure to install the Radio Rethink app on your Apple device and look us up. We’d be glad to have you.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Fats Domino Sleeping on the Job This Is Gold Disc 2 Amazon
3Doris Day A Little Kiss Goodnight The Vintage Years Part Two Amazon
4Jimmy Durante I'll See You in My Dreams As Time Goes By: Best of Amazon
5Dean Martin I Love the Way You Say Goodnight Cocktail Hour Disc 2 Amazon
6Les Paul and The Andrews Sisters feat Vic Schoen & His Orchestra It's A Pity To Say Goodnight Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2] Amazon
7Linda Scott Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed? The Complete Hits Of Linda Scott Amazon
8The Spaniels Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 2 Amazon
9The Valentines Don't Say Goodnight Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 2 Amazon
10Jesse Belvin Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams) Doo Wop Vocal Group Greats Amazon
11The Fleetwoods (Goodnight My Love) Pleasant Dreams Come Softly To Me: The Very Best Of The Fleetwoods Amazon
12Roy Orbison Goodnight The Monument Singles: A-Sides (1960 – 1964) [Disc 1] Amazon
13Aaron Neville I Bid You Goodnight Warm Your Heart Amazon
14Los Lobos Goodnight My Love La Bamba Amazon
15North Mississippi Allstars Bid You Goodnight Prayer for Peace Amazon
16Harry Nilsson Are You Sleeping? The Point! Amazon
17The Tokens Dream Angel Goodnight Wimoweh!!! – The Best Of The Tokens Amazon
18The Weavers Goodnight Irene Best Of Decca Years Amazon
19Charline Arthur Kiss The Baby Goodnight Welcome To The Club Amazon
20Little Jimmy Dickens A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed Roughneck Blues 1949 – 1956 Amazon
21Sonny Burgess A Kiss Goodnight Rock n' Roll Legend Amazon
22Swamp Dogg Sleeping Without You Is a Dragg (feat. Justin Vernon & Jenny Lewis) Sorry You Couldn't Make It Amazon
23Los Lobos Let's Say Goodnight El Cancionero: Mas y Mas (1 of 4) Amazon
24Loudon Wainwright III Where the Whippoorwill is Whispering Goodnight High Wide & Handsome – The Charlie Poole Project Amazon
25Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies A Thousand Goodnights Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin' Amazon
26Hank Snow Goodnight Little Buckaroo We'll Never Say Goodbye Amazon
27Johnnie Taylor Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed [Single Version] The Very Best Of Johnnie Taylor Amazon
28Shirelles Don't Say Goodnight and Mean Goodbye The Shirelles Amazon
29The McGuire Sisters Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight The Mid-'50s Amazon
30Barbara Mandrell Sleeping Single in a Double Bed Superstars Of Country Hello Darlin' [Disc 1] Amazon
31Vera Lynn Goodnight Children Everywhere A Tribute, Volume II: It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow Amazon
32The Gumm Sisters Where The Butterflies Kiss The Buttercups Goodnight The Sisters Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

This week we’ll take some time away for a celebration of Americana sounds from every corner. It’s a mixed bag of jazz, blues, country, rock, and everything in between in another of our free form eclectic romps here on Deeper Roots. Count on some wild swings and some quiet moments reserved for the corner booth in the show today. Aretha, Cat Power, Etta Jones and Gale Garnett are some of the female vocalists that we’ll feature this morning. We’ll also visit that ‘boulevard of broken dreams’ with Esquivel, some lighter instrumentals from Ethel Smith and Herb Alpert; classic softer side Americana from Chris Isaak and Pokey LaFarge and the polar opposite from Creedence and BB King. What a way to blast on into 2025. Join Dave Stroud as he begins yet another year with the promise of doing the right thing…always.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Little Milton We're Gonna Make It Chess Blues Disc 4 Amazon
3Marvin Gaye Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) Singers And Songwriters 1970-1971 [Disc 2] Amazon
4Jimmy Ruffin What Becomes of the Brokenhearted Motown: The Classic Years Disc 1 Amazon
5Cat Power Aretha, Sing One For Me Jukebox Amazon
6Aretha Franklin Don't Play That Song 30 Greatest Hits [Disc 2] Amazon
7Jimmy Reed Hush-Hush The Roots of the Rolling Stones: MOJO Presents 15 Stones-Approved Classics Amazon
8Willie Nelson I'll Love You Till The Day I Die A Beautiful Time Amazon
9Chris Isaak Only the Lonely Baja Sessions Amazon
10J.J. Cale I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) Okie Amazon
11Pokey LaFarge Home Home Home Rhumba Country Amazon
12The Mavericks That's Not My Name Suited Up and Ready… – EP Amazon
13Esquivel Boulevard of Broken Dreams Better Call Saul: Season 1 (Original Television Soundtrack) Amazon
14The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band The Joker (On A Trip Thru The Jungle) Ultimate Northern Soul – The Classics Amazon
15Bob Moore & His Orchestra Mexico Instrumental Favorites- Latin Rhythms Amazon
16Louis Jordan Run Joe – Calypso Boys, Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 Number Ones Amazon
17Ethel Smith Tico Tico Tico Tico – 28 Original Mono Recordings 1944-1952 Amazon
18Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Spanish Flea Definitive Hits Amazon
19Herbie Hancock Rockit Pop Music: The Modern Era 1976-1999 [Disc 1] Amazon
20Dick Haymes & Eileen Wilson It's A Lovely Day Today Destination Summer Sea Cruise: 33 Ocean Steamers For Your Vacation Amazon
21Julie London Watermelon Man Wild Cool and Swingin' Amazon
22Etta Jones With J.C. Heard And His Band I Sold My Heart To The Junkman Vol. 3-Blues Roots Amazon
23B.B. King Why I Sing the Blues Do the Boogie! B.B. King's Early '50s Classics Amazon
24Gale Garnett We'll Sing In The Sunshine Lifetime Of Romance: Some Enchanted Evening [Disc 2] Amazon
25Shamir Lived and Died Alone Northtown – EP Amazon
26Creedence Clearwater Revival Run Through the Jungle Tropic Thunder (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
27The Notting Hillbillies Run Me Down Missing….Presumed Having A Good Time Amazon
28First Aid Kit Emmylou The Lion's Roar (Bonus Track Version) Amazon
29Marshall Crenshaw On the Run Good Evening Amazon
30Eugene Pitt/The Jive Five What Time Is It? The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 4 Amazon
31Marshall Crenshaw What Time Is It? Field Day Amazon

Who We Lost 2024

It’s our annual look back paying respect to some of the greats who we lost this past year. We find ourselves saying goodbye to a number of artists who contributed in their own way to America’s popular culture…in music. I’ll be sharing the names of the many contributors from the halls of country, jazz, pop, rock, and beyond. Time demands a filter which is based on direct lines of roots descent; either by song selection, expression of a genre, or by Americana popular cultural influence. I’m going to try to keep the talk to a minimum so I can catch you up on many of the artists…and I’m also going to be limiting some of the music to 30 second clips because, frankly…this was another year of loss. ….and I’m sure there are more of the obscure that we just couldn’t fit into our roll call. Tune in for a journey through the past century of America’s music on community radio for West Sonoma Country, streaming to all of planet Earth at the same time on kowsfm.com/listen. We’d love to have you.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Bill Hayes The Ballad Of Davy Crockett Your Hit Parade – 1955 Amazon
3Les McCann Blues 5 Drivin' Blues Amazon
4Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 Mas Que Nada Cocktail Mix, Vol. 2: Martini Madness Amazon
5Quincy Jones Soul Bossa Nova Cocktail Mix, Vol. 2: Martini Madness Amazon
6Chita Rivera All That Jazz Ultimate Broadway Amazon
7Steve Lawrence Pretty Blue Eyes The Forgotten 45s 1957-1959 (CD3) Amazon
8Mitzi Gaynor Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair (South Pacific) Golden Memories of Stage & Screen – Disk 2 Amazon
9Jack Jones This Could Be the Start of Something Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby! Amazon
10James Darren Goodbye Cruel World The Best Of James Darren Amazon
11The Collins Kids Hot Rod The Oxford American Southern Music CD No. 6 Amazon
12The Shangri-Las Sophisticated Boom Boom Myrmidons of Melodrama Amazon
13Chan Romero The Hippy Hippy Shake Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2 Amazon
14Duane Eddy Peter Gunn Especially for You / Girls! Girls ! Girls! Amazon
15Clarence "Frogman" Henry A Little Too Much Book of Love – The Argo Records Story [Disc 1] Amazon
16Cissy Houston Deep River/Campground Testify! The Gospel Box Amazon
17Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs Stay Doo Wop Box Disc 4 Amazon
18Marlena Shaw Go Away Little Boy Chess Uptown Soul Amazon
19The Four Tops Reach Out I'll Be There The Ultimate Collection Amazon
20The Spinners It's a Shame One of a Kind Love Affair Disc 1 Amazon
21Melanie Brand New Key 70s Music Explosion – Miracles Amazon
22J.D. Souther You're Only Lonely You're Only Lonely Amazon
23Martin Mull Eggs Martin Mull Amazon
24Moby Grape 8:05 Moby Grape Amazon
25The Grateful Dead Box of Rain American Beauty Amazon
26John Mayall Room to Move The Turning Point Amazon
27The Allman Brothers Band Revival Stand Back: The Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
28Dave Loggins Please Come To Boston Classic Soft Rock [Disc 2] Amazon
29It's a Beautiful Day White Bird Walk on the Moon Amazon
30Brewer & Shipley One Toke Over The Line 70s Music Explosion Amazon
31Eric Carmen Hungry Eyes The Ultimate Rock Ballads Collection: The Flame [Disc 2] Amazon
32Greg Kihn The Breakup Song (Re-Recorded) True Kihnfessions (Re-Recorded Versions) Amazon
33Mojo Nixon Elvis Is Everywhere Bo-Day-Shus!!! Amazon
34Kinky Friedman Rapid City, South Dakota Kinky Friedman Amazon
35The Oak Ridge Boys Elvira The Best Of Classic Country 80's Amazon
36Kris Kristofferson Me And Bobby McGee Kristofferson Amazon
37Toby Keith/Willie Nelson Beer for My Horses Lost Highway Amazon
38Jo-El Sonnier Tear-Stained Letter Various Artists: THEME TIME RADIO HOUR – SEASON 2/[Disc 2] Amazon
39Happy Traum Church Street Blues (feat. Byron Isaacs, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams) Just For the Love Of It Amazon
40Rick Nelson Travelin' Man The Best of Rick Nelson, Vol. 2 Amazon
41Malcolm Holcombe Bits and Pieces Bits & Pieces Amazon
42Barbara Dane I Hate the Capitalist System I Hate the Capitalist System Amazon
43John "Spider John" Koerner Duncan and Brady Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 3] Amazon
44MC5 The American Ruse Jon Savage's 1969-1971: Rock Dreams On 45 [Disc 2] Amazon
45Lou Reed Walk On The Wild Side Best Of NRJ Amazon
46Monty Norman James Bond Theme Dr. No Amazon
47Rachel Sweet Everlasting Love Fool Around: The Best of Rachel Sweet Amazon
48Ella Jenkins & Nannie McNeil How Do You Do Ev'rybody? (Greeting Shout) The Long Road To Freedom: An Anthology Of Black Music [Disc 1] Amazon

Time

Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future…and it’s tickin’ tickin’ tickin’, too. Steve Miller certainly summed it up and our theme this week is all about the passing of time, events that take place in time, biding our time, and recalling a time. We’ll be making a swing through a number of genres and performers including Little Joe, Booker T., Bobby Bare, Evie Sands, Tom Waits and Harry James. But there’s plenty more including classic country, mid-to-late century rock n’ roll, folkie business, and the sweet torch songs that take us back. We’ve chosen to forego the Christmas celebrations because, for the most part, we can hear it elsewhere and the season is a short one with some desperation on the doorstep. Tune in for a journey through the past century of America’s music on community radio for West Sonoma Country, streaming to all of planet Earth at the same time on kowsfm.com/listen. We’d love to have you.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Steve Miller Band Fly Like An Eagle (2006 Digital Remaster) Fly Like An Eagle – 30th Anniversary Amazon
3Little Joe Cook It's Been a Long Time Peanuts and Other Delicacies: The Little Joe Cook Story (1951-1962) Amazon
4Steve Forbert It's Been a Long Time Young Guitar Days Amazon
5Harry James & His Orchestra Its Been A Long Long Time The Women of WW2 [V 4] Amazon
6Ella Mae Morse A Long Time Ago Barrelhouse, Boogie, And The Blues [Disc 5] Amazon
7Crosby, Stills & Nash Long Time Gone Crosby, Stills & Nash Amazon
8Tom Waits Time Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years Amazon
9Mick Lloyd A Long Long Time Ago …Next Stop Is Vietnam – The War On Record, 1961-2008 Amazon
10Los Lobos Feat. Dave Alvin Somewhere In Time The Ride Amazon
11Charley Crockett Time of the Cottonwood Trees The Man from Waco Amazon
12Connie Smith Plenty of Time 1970-1971 (Warped 7108F) Amazon
13Evie Sands Untill It's Time For You To Go Any Way That You Want Me Amazon
14Junior Brown Baby Let The Bad Times Be 12 Shades of Brown Amazon
15The Louvin Brothers Are You Wasting My Time Long Play Collection Amazon
16Don Williams Tulsa Time The Definitive Collection Amazon
17Bobby Bare One Day at a Time (1965) All American Boy – CD 4 Amazon
18Willie Nelson Healing Hands of Time Willie and the Boys: Willie's Stash vol. 2 Amazon
19Danny Dill He's Biding His Time Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2 Amazon
20Bob Dylan Time Passes Slowly Biograph Disc 3 Amazon
21Dwight Yoakam Just Passin' Time Blame The Vain Amazon
22The Sweetback Sisters King Of Killing Time King Of Killing Time Amazon
23Harry Nilsson As Time Goes By All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
24Dooley Wilson & Elliot Carpenter As Time Goes By Somewhere Over The Rainbow: The Golden Age Of Hollywood Musicals [Disc 1] Amazon
25The Platters Twilight Time Pure R&B: Vol. 2- Somethings Got a Hold on Me [Disc 2] Amazon
26Irma Thomas Time Is On My Side Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Volume 4 Amazon
27The Chambers Brothers Time Has Come Today Time Has Come: The Best Of The Chambers Brothers Amazon
28Booker T. & the MG's; The MG's Time Is Tight Classic Rock: 1969 – The Beat Goes On Amazon
29The Blind Boys Of Alabama The Last Time Spirit Of The Century Amazon
30Marvin Rainwater The Last Time Whole Lotta Woman Amazon

The Rise of Soul Music

Soul music’s roots come from the urbanization and commercialization of rhythm and blues in the late fifties and early sixties. Young black musicians, often nurtured in black churches, enjoyed and listened to R&B sounds and began a fusion of R&B, blues and gospel that would later take on the moniker “soul music”. The term “soul” had been used in African American culture, particularly among musicians, to emphasize the feelings of power, spirit and creativity found in its culture. Regional acts and labels took this genre into different directions that included, among other things, vocal interplay, gospel rhythms and themes that were translated from the sacred to the secular, all with mix heavy on standard rock or brass rhythm sections. The blend and variety brought out the contrasting tones of grit and pop-infused sounds. From Sam Cooke to James Brown and Etta James to Brenda Holloway…we’ll take a journey through the rise of soul music.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Southern Tones It Must Be Jesus Southern Gospel Amazon
3Ray Charles I Got a Woman Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 1 Amazon
4Etta James Tears Of Joy The Complete Modern & Kent Recordings 1 Amazon
5Clyde McPhatter Seven Days London American Label Year By Year 1956 Amazon
6Ray Charles Lonely Avenue Artist's Choice: Joni Mitchell Amazon
7James Brown Please, Please, Please Pure R&B: Vol. 2- Somethings Got a Hold on Me [Disc 1] Amazon
8Sam Cooke You Send Me Greatest Hits Amazon
9Sam Cooke I'll Come Running Back To You Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
10Etta James Come What May The Complete Modern & Kent Recordings 1 Amazon
11The Chantels Maybe Pure R&B: Vol. 4- What'd I Say Amazon
12Clyde McPhatter Lover's Question The Atlantic Story [UK] Amazon
13Ray Charles (Night Time Is) The Right Time Ultimate Hits Collection [1 of 2] Amazon
14Eugene Church Pretty Girls Everywhere Solid Gold Soul 1959 Amazon
15Jackie Wilson That's Why ( I Love You So ) Lonely Teardrops Amazon
16Jackie Wilson Lonely Teardrops Solid Gold Soul 1959 Amazon
17The Fiestas So Fine Solid Gold Soul 1959 Amazon
18James Brown Try Me 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of James Brown Amazon
19The Drifters There Goes My Baby All-Time Greatest Hits & More 1959-1965 [Bonus Tracks] [Disc 1] Amazon
20The Impressions Shorty's Got To Go Birth Of Soul: 3 Amazon
21Jerry Butler He Will Break Your Heart Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
22Marie Knight Come Tomorrow Birth Of Soul: 2 Amazon
23Gloria Lynne You Don't Have To Be A Tower Of Strength Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
24The Impressions Gypsy Woman Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
25The Mar-Keys Last Night Last Night!/Do the Pop-Eye Amazon
26Brenda Holloway I'll Give My Life Birth Of Soul: 2 Amazon
27Jan Bradley Mama Didn't Lie Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
28Claudine Clark The Telephone Game Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
29William Bell Any Other Way Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
30Jimmy Hughes I'm Qualified Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
31Barbara Lynn You'll Lose A Good Thing Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
32Joe Henderson Snap Your Fingers Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
33The Falcons I Found A Love Birth Of Soul: 2 Amazon
34Solomon Burke Down In The Valley Birth Of Soul: 2 Amazon
35Etta James Something's Got A Hold On Me Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
36Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters Cry Baby Birth Of Soul: 1 Amazon
37Barbara Lewis Snap Your Fingers Don't Forget About Me: The Atlantic & Reprise Recordings Amazon

Big Blue Diamonds

There’s hope in music. And if we need something to carry us forward over the coming years it’s hope. So we’ll take all we can get with all the music we can get. This week’s Deeper Roots show takes us through a blend of genres, making a free form journey across the landscape of America’s music from the past century. We’ll bring you Cannonball Adderley right alongside Hank Thompson and The Neville Brothers, The Doors, Patsy Cline and Mink Deville to start. Dave Stroud’s done some scouring through those dusty digital archives for well- (and little-) known gems with stories and ballads. He’ll be taking you to where country meets soul, jazz meets boogie woogie and where there’s an unlikely fusion of reggae, folk, and zydeco. Topics include wedding days, jiggers of gin, honeydrippers, and the topic of Texas and some big blue diamonds. Tune in this week. Take your mind off the grifters and haters that have polluted the pond.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Elvis Presley Burning Love Nippers 70's-Vol.1 Amazon
3Clarence "Frogman" Henry Long Lost And Worried Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry Amazon
4Mink Deville A Train Lady The Mink De Ville Collection Amazon
5Major Lance Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um The Very Best of Major Lance Amazon
6Linda Lyndell What A Man Soul Sides: Volume One Amazon
7Little Johnny Taylor Big Blue Diamonds Cold Cold Heart – Where Country Meets Soul Volume 3 Amazon
8Tex Ritter Big Blue Diamonds Famous Country Music Makers Amazon
9Waylon Jennings Drinkin' and Dreamin' The Essential Waylon Jennings [2007] Disc 2 Amazon
10The Doors The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) L.A. Woman: 40th Anniversary Mixes [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
11Tex Williams I Got Texas In My Soul The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 10 Amazon
12Willie Nelson Texas In My Soul One Hell Of A Ride Amazon
13Patsy Cline Got A Lot Of Rhythm In My Soul Volume 3 Amazon
14Pokey LaFarge End of My Rope Rock Bottom Rhapsody Amazon
15O. C. Smith The Son Of Hickory Holler Tramp More Dirty Laundry: The Soul Of Black Country Amazon
16The Eternals Babalu's Wedding Day The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 3 Amazon
17Snooks Eaglin My Head Is Spinning Complete Imperial Recordings Amazon
18Arthur Alexander I Hang My Head And Cry Cold Cold Heart – Where Country Meets Soul Volume 3 Amazon
19Jimmy Lee You Ain't No Good For Me Dirty Boogie:The Fortune Records Story Amazon
20Andre Williams Pardon Me (I've Got Someone To Kill) More Dirty Laundry: The Soul Of Black Country Amazon
21Big Daddy Wilson I Got Plenty Deep in My Soul Amazon
22Ray Charles Mess Around Atlantic Rock & Roll Amazon
23Dr. John Honey Dripper Definitive Pop Collection Amazon
24Varetta Dillard Mercy, Mr. Percy The Lovin' Bird Amazon
25Mink DeVille Mazurka Le Chat Bleu Amazon
26BeauSoleil & Michael Doucet Zydeco Gris Gris Absolutely The Best Cajun & Zydeco [Disc 1] Amazon
27Rockin' Dopsie Zydeco Around The World Absolutely The Best Cajun & Zydeco [Disc 1] Amazon
28The Neville Brothers Sitting in Limbo Fiyo on the Bayou Amazon
29Hank Thompson Scotch And Soda A Collection Of Drinking Songs Amazon
30Cannonball Adderley Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Rock Instrumental Classics Vol. 4: Soul Amazon
31Johnny Mercer And The Pied Pipers My Sugar Is So Refined Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 3 – Capitol Jumps – 1944-53 Amazon
32Nina Simone I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl Artist's Choice: Norah Jones Amazon
33The Righteous Brothers Something's Got A Hold On Me The Moonglow Years Amazon