Songs that were personal. Vignettes about the real world. A study in memories but on a deeper level where one wrestles the blood out of the words; and his were usually the simplest of words. Economy of words means a broader vision. That’s what I think of when I think of Guy Clark’s songs. From his sprawling narratives to the trapdoors he leaves you when he’s finished, his music was a little slice of melodic nuance laced with words that mattered. Every one. This week’s show won’t beat around the bush; we’ll just put them out there to reflect on and give a little bit of thanks that we have them. We’ll hear from Emmylou Harris, Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle, Vince Gill, and a few nuggets from Guy himself.
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Rosanne Cash
Better Days
This One's For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark
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Jerry Jeff Walker
Boats to Build
Cowboy Boots & Bathin Suits
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Steve Earle & The Dukes
L.A. Freeway
Guy
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Ricky Skaggs
Heartbroke
Highways & Heartaches
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Guy Clark
Desperadoes Waiting For A Train
Heartworn Highways
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Joe Ely
Magdalene
Panhandle Rambler
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Jerry Jeff Walker
My Favorite Picture Of You
This One's For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark Disc 2
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Willie Nelson
My Favorite Picture of You
Ride Me Back Home
10
Nanci Griffith
She Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Blue Roses From The Moons
11
Guy Clark
Intro: The Randall Knife
Songs and Stories
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Guy Clark
The Randall Knife
Songs and Stories
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Vince Gill
Randall Knife
This One's For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark Disc 2
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Asleep at the Wheel
The Cape
Reinventing the Wheel
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Asleep At The Wheel
Blowin' Like A Bandit [Album Version]
The Swingin' Best Of Asleep At The Wheel
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Verlon Thompson
All Through Throwin' Good Love After Bad
This One's For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark Disc 2
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Johnny Cash
Let Him Roll
Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town & Water From The Wells Of Home
There have been some great Americana sounds released this year and there is no sense in ignoring them, certainly. In fact, you can tune into Sonoma County Community Radio each week for Blue Moon Americana, broadcasting Thursday mornings at 5am on KOWS and 9am on KWTF. We’ll be spending some time covering the covers of tradition and some from the contemporary well this week on Deeper Roots. Tune in for some great sounds…truly. Fun covers of blues, gospel, folk, country, and jazz from the likes of Whitehorse, Jesse Dayton, Steve Earle, Willie Nelson and Kristi Jean & Her Ne’er-Do-Wells. We’ll hear everything from Amazing Grace to Redneck Friend this week on Deeper Roots. Check it out this Saturday evening, a rebroadcast of a live show from the KOWS Cherry Street Historic District in Santa Rosa.
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Ben Winship
What's The Matter With the Well
Toolshed
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Whitehorse
Baby, What You Want Me To Do
The Northern South, Vol. 2 [EP]
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Whitehorse
Baby, Scratch My Back
The Northern South, Vol. 2 [EP]
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Mercury Rev
Big Boss Man (feat. Hope Sandoval)
Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited
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Beth Wood
Slip Slidin Away
The Long Road
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Bobtown
American Girl
Chasing the Sun
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Jesse Dayton
Redneck Friend
Mixtape Volume
9
Chatham County Line
The Last Time
Sharing The Covers
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Colin Linden & Luther Dickinson With The Tennessee Valentines Feat. Billy Swan And Rachael Davis
Lover Please (feat. Rachael Davis)
Amour
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Steve Earle & The Dukes
Dublin Blues
Guy
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Steve Earle & The Dukes
The Randall Knife
Guy
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Willie Nelson
My Favorite Picture of You
Ride Me Back Home
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Just Whiskey
O Death
Second Hand Songs
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Guy Forsyth & Jeska Bailey
Amazing Grace/House of the Rising Sun
Conspirators
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Jason Ringenberg
Farewell Angelina
Stand Tall
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Davina & The Vagabonds
I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
Gamblers, ramblers, casinos. Barstools, loaded dice, tumbling dice, poker hands, and the demon rum, and chance. Honky-tonks, Vegas, and craps…all for you on the country side. Join Dave Stroud for a high-falootin’ time on Deeper Roots as the demon chance teams up with casino country in music. We’ll walk the fine carpets of the Vegas casino as well as the sawdust floors of the country bar with performances by Buck Owens, Tex Williams, The Country Gentleman, and Jimmie Dolan. We’re heading out west to pay a little bit of an homage to the gaming side of the stories this week on Community Radio for Sonoma County. Hope you can join in.
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Jimmie Dolan
Playin' Dominoes And Shootin' Dice
Juke Box Boogie
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Roving Gambler
Best Of The Vanguard Years
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Norma Jean
The Gambler And The Lady
The Best of Country
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Joe Ely
Gambler's Bible
Time For Travelin' – The Best Of Joe Ely
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The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Roll Of The Dice
Roll Of The Dice
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Jim Lauderdale
Rollin' the Dice
The Hummingbirds
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Jimmy & The Mustangs
Roll The Dice
Another Round
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Dick Curless
The Game of Love and Poker
A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD5 (1950-1969)
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Buck Owens
Big In Vegas (Live in Las Vegas)
Buck 'Em! Volume Two: The Music Of Buck Owens (1967-1975)
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Buck Owens
Las Vegas Lament (Live in Las Vegas)
Buck 'Em! Volume Two: The Music Of Buck Owens (1967-1975)
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Si Cranstoun
Vegas Baby
Old School
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Southern Culture On The Skids
40 Miles To Vegas
Bootleggers Choice
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Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires
Viva Las Vegas
Elvis Viva Las Vegas – official soundtrack
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Hank Snow
The Queen Of Draw Poker Town
I'm Still Movin' On [Disc 1]
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Patsy Cline
Turn The Cards Slowly
The Patsy Cline Collection: Honky Tonk Merry Go Round
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Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
Superstars Of Country – Party Time [Disc 2]
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Merle Haggard
Kentucky Gambler
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 2]
Summer is here and so we’ll be celebrating those lazy, hazy, crazy days that come with it. We’re approaching the dog days, as they say, and that also means festivals, music, cool drinks, swimming gear, and lighter beers. This week’s show has us getting serious about summer songs: Elvis, Sam Cooke, The Chantels, Dolly Parton, Dave Brubeck, and just a touch of surf sounds from The Sandals. Summer winds, summer wages, summer rain, and summer love this week on Deeper Roots, recorded at the KOWS studios planted square in the Cherry Street District of Santa Rosa.
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Nat King Cole
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer
Your Hit Parade – The Early '60S
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The Sandals
Theme from "Endless Summer"
The Perfect Day: The Music from 40 Years of Surfing Magazine
4
The Beach Boys
Your Summer Dream
Surfer Girl
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The Percy Faith Orchestra
Them From A Summer Place
Lifetime Of Romance: Secret Rendezvous [Disc 1]
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The Fleetwoods
They Tell Me It's Summer
Come Softly To Me: The Very Best Of The Fleetwoods
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The Chantels
Summers's Love (Richard Barrett with the Chantels)
The Best of the Chantels
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Robin Ward
Wonderful Summer
Early Girls: 1
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Johnny Rivers
Summer Rain
Best Of Johnny Rivers
10
Frank Sinatra
Something Wonderful Happens In Summer
The Complete Capitol Singles Collection [Disc 3]
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Sam Cooke
Summertime
Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
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Ian & Sylvia
Summer Wages
So Much For Dreaming
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It's a Beautiful Day
Hot Summer Day
It's a Beautiful Day
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Frank Sinatra
Summer Wind
Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Summertime
Sing America
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Big Brother & the Holding Company/Janis Joplin
Summertime
Cheap Thrills
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Dave Brubeck
Summer Song [Album Version]
Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective
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Seals & Crofts
Summer Breeze
AM Gold 1972
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Dolly Parton
Sweet Summer Lovin'
I Will Always Love You – The Essential Dolly Parton Vol. 1
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Elvis Presley
Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
Elvis for Everyone!
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Nelson Riddle
The Green Leaves of Summer
The Best of Nelson Riddle
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Willie Nelson
Summer Of Roses [Album Version]
One Hell Of A Ride
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Desert Rose Band
Summer Wind
Running
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Robbie Fulks
Rose of the Summer
Gone Away Backward
25
Don Henley
The Boys of Summer
Building the Perfect Beast
26
Eddie Cochran
Summertime Blues
Eddie Cochran: 2 Classic Albums Plus Singles And Session Tracks [Disc 1]
We’ll be serenading you with some island melodies, country tunes, and rock, all featuring the steel guitar, an instrument whose origins take us back to the late 19th and early 20th century invention by native Joseph Kekuku. The music this Friday features some early Hawaiian popular influences including Sol Ho’opi, Hoot Gibson, and King Nawah’s Hawaiians. The focus moves to mid-to late century greats featuring Pete Drake, Buddy Emmons, Buster Martin and Speedy West. The popularity of the ‘island sound’ in the early century brought us the sound of steel across many genres, including gospel, folk, blues, and country. Spend a couple of hours on an August morning in Sonoma County taking a journey from Hawaii to Forth Worth.
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King Nawahi's Hawaiians
Hawaiian Capers
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Trio De Hawaii
Melodias Populares Mexicana
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
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Sol Ho'opi'i
Singing The Blues
Master of the Hawaiian Guitar Vol 1
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Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette
An Orange Grove in California
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Hoot Gibson
Mai Givee (Don't Give It Away)
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
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Kalama's Quartet
Sassy
Vintage Hawaiian Music: The Great Singers 1928 – 1934
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Sol K. Bright's Hollywaiians
Heat Wave
Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
9
Sol Ho'opi'i
I Like You
With My Little Ukulele in My Hand
10
King Nawahi's Hawaiians
Under a Texas Moon
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
11
Madame Riviere's Hawaiians
Ellis March
With My Little Ukulele in My Hand
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Buster Martin
Herbie's Steel Guitar Polka
Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 10]
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Jim & Bob The Genial Hawaiians
Bob & Jim by The Waters of Minetonka
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Jim & Bob
The Song of the Range
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
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Johnny Bond & His Red River Valley Boys
I Won't Stand in Your Way
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Shot Jackson & Buddy Emmons
Singing Strings Of Steel
The Steel Guitar & Dobro Sounds
17
Lone Star Playboys
Steel Guitar Bounce
The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 18
18
Albert Lee
Rainbows All Over Your Blues
The Big E: A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons
19
Howard White
Steel Guitar Swallow
Western Swing And Steel Instrumental
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Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar
For Pete's Sake [Instrumental]
For Pete's Sake [Gusto]
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Pete Drake
Pedal Jumpin'
Stars Of The Steel Guitar
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Speedy West
Stainless Steel
Steel Guitar
23
Tiny Murphy & His Bar 69 Boys
Hot Steel
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Jerry Byrd
Hilo Steel Guitar
Stars Of The Steel Guitar
25
Bob Wills
Texas Playboy Rag
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
26
Doc Watson
Steel Guitar Rag
Memories
27
Bobby Lee
Steel Guitar Rag
Quasar Steel Guitar
28
Lloyd Green and Jay Dee Maness
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Journey To The Beginning – A Steel Guitar Tribute To The Byrds
One way to lounge about in the summer heat is to go directly at it with songs that complement the temperature from different angles (and genres). Tune in Saturday afternoon for a fresh look as Dave sits in for Steady Eddie once more with some rockabilly with Jimmy Simmons and Billy Lee Riley, hot country biscuits from Asleep at the Wheel and Al Dexter, hot soul stew from James Brown and Major Lance, and some humid yet playful pieces from Fats Waller and Lee Press-on & The Nails. We’ll also be taking a drone flight above some Mason-Dixon Line tradition from the very distant past with the Old South Quartette (featuring Polk Miller), and Victoria Spivey and Don Flemons. It’s summer and the heat will be with us for some weeks; too hot to handle? Too darn hot? Too hot for (fill in the blank)? Join this hot little collection in a special fill-in on a Saturday afternoon in Sonoma County. At least it’s a dry heat.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Too Darn Hot
Music & Moonlight
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Iris DeMent
Hotter Than Mojave In My Heart
Infamous Angel
4
Old South Quartette
When De Corn Pone's Hot
Music Of The Old South: Polk Miller & The Old South Quartette
5
Al Dexter
Hot Foot Shuffle
Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag)
6
Lonnie Johnson
Hot Fingers
Hot Fingers
7
Asleep at the Wheel
Hot Like That
Reinventing the Wheel
8
Jimmy Simmons
Too Hot To Handle
100 Rare '50s Rockabilly Tracks
9
Bob Skyles & His Skyrockets
Hot Tamale Pete
The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Playboy Stomp [Disc 2]
10
Johnny Carroll
Hot Rock
Classic Rockabilly
11
Billy Lee Riley
Red Hot
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
“…crazy ’bout that woman ’cause Caldonia is her name”. Tune in for a mix of sounds coming from the free form archives, celebrating a century of America’s music as is the habit each Friday morning at 9 on Sonoma County Community Radio. We’ll be exploring the Cherry Red Blues, Evil Gal Blues, and Louis Jordan’s jump piece Caldonia as part of our show today. Country sounds feature two Georges: Strait and Jones, soul sounds from The Miracles and Arthur Alexander, rhythm & blues from the ladies including Varetta Dillard, Etta James, and Albinia Jones, and an oddball opening set that takes us down into some strange and exotic places “Ahbe Casaba” and “Katanga!”
A couple of months ago we featured about 20 minutes on a songwriter special featuring the music of the husband and wife songwriting team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. We’ll take a bit more time in this week’s show sharing their tunes with you. From the Brill Building onwards, their songs easily defined the soundtrack for a generation of young Americans of the 1960s. Light-hearted love songs, songs of reflection, and dreamlike hooks were the order: Carole the tunes and Gerry the lyrics. Join Dave Stroud in a look back featuring the music of The Cookies, Earl Jean, Lou Rawls Skeeter Davis, and many more on a Friday evening on Sonoma County Community Radio.
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The Cookies
Chains
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
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Gene Pitney
Every Breath I Take
Anthology: 1961-1968
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Aretha Franklin
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Smooth Grooves: The '60s, Vol. 2: Mid-'60s
5
Tammy Montgomery
Make The Night A Little Longer
Come On And See Me: The Complete Solo Collection
6
Freddie Scott
Hey, Girl
Malt Shop Memories: Save The Last Dance For Me (Disc 2)
7
Maxine Brown
Oh No Not My Baby
Time-Life Classic Rock: 1964 – The Beat Goes On
8
Skeeter Davis
I Can't Stay Mad At You
Early Girls: 1
9
Little Eva
The Loco-Motion
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
10
Dusty Springfield
That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) [*]
Dusty in Memphis [Deluxe Edition]
11
The Righteous Brothers
Just Once in My Life
Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 3
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The Drifters
Some Kind of Wonderful
Drifters' Golden Hits
13
The Drifters
Up on the Roof
Drifters' Golden Hits
14
Maurice & Mac
So Much Love
Chess Uptown Soul
15
Carole King
It Might As Well Rain Until September
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
16
The Cookies
Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
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The Crystals
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 1
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The Chiffons
One Fine Day
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
19
The Ronettes
Is This What I Get for Loving You?
The Best of the Ronettes
20
The Blossoms
So Much Love
So Much Love: A Darlene Love Anthology 1958 – 1998
We revisit the blues with some pairings of old and new. Join Dave Stroud for a selection of classic delta, Chicago, and folk blues from the likes of Robert Wilkins, Elmore James, Magic Slim, and Bukka White. The original classics pair up with updated versions from contemporaries like Sonny Landreth, Jeff Beck, The Allman Brothers, and Rory Block. Blues is the big muddy and the the tributaries flow through vast expanses of cleansing and clarifying. But, unlike those wide rivers like the Mississippi, the tributaries explode into new, deeper channels in the heart of the American landscape.
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Turtle Island String Quartet
Crossroads
A Little on the CD Side
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Muddy Waters
Trouble No More
Trouble No More: Singles (1955-1959)
4
The Jimmy Rogers All-Stars
Trouble No More (featuring Mick Jagger & Keith Richards)
Blues Blues Blues
5
Black Cats And The Kitten
Step It Up And Go [Album Version]
Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
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Warner Williams With Jay Summerour
Step It Up And Go
Blues Highway
7
Robert Wilkins
That's No Way to Get Along
Roots of Rock
8
The Rolling Stones
Prodigal Son
Beggars Banquet
9
Elmore James
One Way Out
The Complete Fire And Enjoy Recordings [Disc 1]
10
John Hiatt
One Way Out
All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman
11
Howlin' Wolf
I Ain't Superstitious
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
12
Jeff Beck
I Ain't Superstitious
Truth
13
Big Joe Williams
Baby Please Don't Go
Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
14
Tom Rush
Baby Please Don't Go
Town and Country Blues
15
Elmore James
Dust My Broom
Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics
16
Sonny Landreth
Dust My Broom
Bound by the Blues
17
Howlin' Wolf
Back Door Man
Blues Masters Vol. 6 – Blues Originals
18
John Hammond
Backdoor Man
The Best Of
19
Koko Taylor
Wang Dang Doodle
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
20
Dr. John
Wang Dang Doodle
The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974
21
Kansas Joe And Memphis Minnie
When the Levee Breaks
People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature
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Magic Slim, Billy Branch & James Cotton
When The Levee Breaks, Pt. 1
Whole Lotta Blues: Songs Of Led Zeppelin
23
Bukka White
Parchman Farm Blues
Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 [Disc 1]
24
Rory Block
Parchman Farm Blues
Keepin' Outta Trouble: A Tribute to Bukka White
25
Blind Willie McTell
Statesboro Blues
RCA Record Label: The 1st Note In Black Music [Disc 1]
Free form provides our weekly exploration a wider berth in which to stretch our wings. And that’s precisely why I take a free form journey every week or so on Deeper Roots. This week we’ll be featuring at least two tracks from the great Ella Mae Morse, some R&B and Doo Wop from The Cardinals and Ruth Brown, a rare track you may never hear elsewhere featuring the late, great Dr. John, and selected tracks from John Prine, Nat King Cole, The Orlons, and a golden classic country favorite from George Jones. We’re just scratching the surface as we sail through two hours of gospel, tradition, pop, rock, country, bluegrass (inhale), blues, and jazz. Don’t miss this week’s Friday stroll on Sonoma County Community Radio.
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Ella Mae Morse
Jumpin' Jack
Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 2]
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Ruth Brown
Daddy Daddy
Atlantic Rhythm And Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 2]
4
The Cardinals
Wheel Of Fortune
Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 1]
5
Kay Starr
Wheel Of Fortune
Magic Moments – The Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 1)
6
Dr. John
Let's Make A Better World (LP Version)
Destively Bonnaroo (US Release)
7
Big Joe Turner
Hide and Seek
Big Joe Rocks
8
Sammy Price Trio/Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Strange Things Happening Everyday
The Gospel of Blues
9
The Clara Ward Singers
Traveling Shoes
Meetin' Tonight!
10
Maria Muldaur
Travelin' Shoes
Waitress In a Donut Shop
11
Blind Alfred Reed
You Must Unload
Complete Recorded Works 1927-29
12
Ry Cooder
You Must Unload
The Prodigal Son
13
Ray Barretto Y Su Charanga Moderna
El Watusi
Rock Instrumental Classics Vol. 4: Soul
14
Orlons
The Wah-Watusi
Cameo Parkway 1957-1967 Disc 1
15
Ricky Nelson
Travelin' Man
Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 10
16
J.J. Cale
Travelin' Light
Troubadour
17
Billie Holiday w/Paul Whiteman
Travelin' Light
Capitol Jazz 50th Anniversary Collection [Disc 1]
18
Nat King Cole
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
The Nat King Cole Trio: The Complete Capitol Transcription Sessions [Disc 3]
19
Bert Kaempfert
Wimoweh
That Happy Feeling
20
S.A. Solomon Linda'S Original Evening Birds
Mbube
The Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. 4: Ethnic Music Classics (1925 – 48)
21
Merle Haggard And The Strangers
Travelin' Blues
Same Train, A Different Time
22
Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin
Papa's on the House Top
Lost Time
23
Dave Alvin
Don't Look Now
West of the West
24
John Prine/Susan Tedeschi
Color of the Blues
For Better, Or Worse
25
George Jones
Color Of The Blues
The Best Of George Jones: 1955-1967
26
Steve Earle
Hillbilly Highway
Guitar Town
27
Steve Earle; The Milk Carton Kids
Custer
Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited
