Category Archives: Free Form

Songs About Cats

Nothing wrong with a little theme fun…and what better way to have it than with a topic that can be heard from in virtually any genre: cats. cool cats, tom cats, go cats, hep-cats, black cats, pussy cats, kitty cats and kittens…all of them are subject to our musical scrutiny in this week’s Deeper Roots show. We’ll hear from the early banjo novelty genius Harry Reser, key meddling Fats Waller, lounge swingers like Bobby Darin, Cy Coleman, and The Blue Hawaiians. And you know there’s also a hint of of black cat and pussy cat jazz and blues from Bo Carter, Bob Brozman, Benny Goodman, and Eddie Lang.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Mongo Santamaria El Pussy Cat Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
3Julia Lee Scat You Cats Ugly Papa Amazon
4Bo Carter Pussy Cat Blues Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1] Amazon
5Bob Brozman Dead Cat On The Line Blues Reflex Amazon
6Bob Brozman Dog and Cat Hello Central, Give Me Dr. Jazz! Amazon
7Little Willie John Leave My Kitten Alone Little Willie John: All 15 of His Chart Hits from 1953-1962 Amazon
8Roy Orbison Bad Cat [Demo Recording] The Soul of Rock And Roll [Disc 1] Amazon
9Roy Orbison Cat Called Domino The Soul of Rock And Roll [Disc 1] Amazon
10Harry Reser Cat And Dog The Collection Amazon
11Harry Reser Kitten On The Keys The Collection Amazon
12Fats Waller Kitten On The Keys Music By Fats Waller Amazon
13Eddie Lang Wild Cat 100 Jazz Guitar Favorites Amazon
14Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, The Benny Goodman Sextet Wholly Cats The Original Guitar Hero Amazon
15The Blue Hawaiians Searchin' for da Cat Sway Amazon
16The Blue Hawaiians Da Cat (Reprise) Sway Amazon
17Four Piece Suit Something for Cat Ready to Where? Amazon
18Cy Coleman Pussy Cat Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 8: Cocktail Capers Amazon
19Dean Martin Open Up The Doghouse (Two Cats Are Coming In) (1992 Digital Remaster) The Capitol Years [Disc 1] Amazon
20Norma Tanega Walkin' My Cat Named Dog Time Life – The Folk Years – Reason To Believe [Disc 2] Amazon
21Bobby Darin Gyp the Cat [#] Wild Cool & Swingin Amazon
22Cappy Bianco The Cat Foot Tappin' & Dance At Screamin' Festival Vol. 5 Amazon
23Lee Allen And His Band Cat Walk The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 4] Amazon
24Dave "Baby" Cortez Cat Nip Happy Organs, Wild Guitars Amazon
25Bob Dylan Cat's In The Well Under The Red Sky Amazon
26Lee Dorsey The Kitty Cat Song The Ep Collection…Plus Amazon
27The Coasters Three Cool Cats Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3] Amazon
28Maria Muldaur Shout You Cats Garden Of Joy Amazon
29Jimmy Swan Country Cattin' Bear Family "Perfect for Parties" Highlight Album Amazon
30Charlie Walker Wild as a Wildcat The Best of Country Amazon
31Charlie Adams Cattin' Around Bear Family "Perfect for Parties" Highlight Album Amazon
32Louis Jordan At The Swing Cats Ball Jivin' With Jordan Amazon
33Curley Weaver & Clarence Moore Wild Cat Kitten Georgia Blues 1928-33 Amazon
34Cisco Houston The Cat Came Back The Folkways Years: 1944-1961 Amazon
35Freddie Neil & Friend Listen Kitten 100 Rare '50s Rockabilly Tracks Amazon
36Tom Jones What's New Pussycat? The Best of Tom Jones [Polygram] Amazon

420 Music

It’s a topical theme…it’s a medicinal thing…it’s a blend of sounds celebrating vipers and jives from the past century. There is no shortage of material to pull from the well of Americana…whether that be from the 1920s or from the 2010s. We’ll hear mellow sounds from Trixie Smith, Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats, winsome themes from Fountains of Wayne, snark from The Harlem Hamfats, and recent relevance from The Devil Makes Three. While April 20th has passed, the topic is a lively one here in California these days and we’re mostly on friendly terms with the weed…even for those that don’t imbibe. The fact is, we have the freedom to do so if we so choose, right?

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Fountains Of Wayne Planet Of Weed Traffic And Weather Amazon
3Willie Nelson/Snoop Dogg/Kris Kristofferson/Jamey Johnson Roll Me Up (Album version) Heroes Amazon
4Hugh Laurie The Weed Smoker's Dream Didn't It Rain (Deluxe) Amazon
5Bea Foote Weed The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
6Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy All The Jive Is Gone The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
7Buck Washington Save The Roach For Me The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
8Don Redman & His Orchestra Chant of the Weed When Hemp Was Hip Amazon
9Buster Bennett Reefer Head Woman Chronological Buster Bennett (1945-1947) Amazon
10Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats Weed Smoking Mama Memphis Highway Stomp Amazon
11The Toyes Smoke Two Joints Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000: Disc 2 Amazon
12Harlan Pepper Reefer The Alternate Root 420 Sampler Amazon
13Neil Young Roll Another Number (For The Road) Tonight's The Night Amazon
14Trixie Smith Jack I'm Mellow The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
15Ray Charles Let's Go Get Stoned Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection Amazon
16Barney Bigard Sextet Sweet Marihuana Brown The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
17The Cats & The Fiddle Killin' Jive The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
18Fats Waller The Reefer Song Last Testament His Final Recor Amazon
19Cab Calloway Reefer Man The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
20Tampa Red & The Chicago Five I'm Gonna Get High The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
21The Harlem Hamfats Weed Smokers' Dream The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
22Julia Lee Marijuana Kansas City Star [Disc 4] Amazon
23Larry Adler Smoking Reefers The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
24Ella Fitzgerald With Chick Webb & His Orchestra Wacky Dust The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
25The Devil Makes Three Champagne And Reefer Redemption & Ruin Amazon
26Bob Dylan & The Band Rainy Day Women #12 & #35 [Live] The Complete, Historic "Isle Of Wight" Concert, 1969 (Remixed and Remastered 2013) Amazon
27Chris Ardoin and Double Clutchin' Stay In or Stay Out – Pass the Dutchie Putomayo Presents Zydeco Amazon
28KC & the Sunshine Band I Get Lifted 25th Anniversary Edition Disc 1 Amazon
29Rick James Mary Jane Old School Friday Amazon
30Ringo Starr The No No Song Blast From Your Past Amazon

Free Form – April 2017

Free Form - April 2017
Free Form – April 2017

Springtime sounds from our community radio studios with your host Dave Stroud. It’s another exhilarating free form journey into the depths of American roots music. This week, join Dave for a potpourri of soul, country, tradition, Americana, pop, and the deeper wells of the American songbook. We’ll also hear a celebratory set of Creole including the likes of Beau Jocque, Cyndi Lauper (?!!), and Feufollet. Tune in for good times and positive spins…

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Little Bob & The Lollipops Nobody But You Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music 2009 Amazon
3Johnnie Taylor I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water Lifetime A Retrospective Of Soul, Blues & Gospel 1956-1999 Amazon
4Johnnie Taylor Rome (Wasn't Built In A Day) Lifetime [Disc 1] Amazon
5Maxine Brown Take It Out In Trade Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music CD [Disc 2, "Arkansas Masters"] Amazon
6Ann Cole Got My Mojo Workin Roll Your Moneymaker Amazon
7Adam Hebert & Country Playboys Open The Door (Ouvre La Porte) Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan – Season 2 [[Disc 1]] Amazon
8Beau Jocque Don't Tell Your Moma, Don't Tell Your Papa The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999 Amazon
9Feufollet Femme L'a Dit Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music 2009 Amazon
10Cyndi Lauper Allons A Grand Coteau Creole Bred – A Tribute To Creole & Zydeco Amazon
11Crowder Brothers I Don't Let The Girls Worry My Mind Baby, How Can It Be? [Disc 3: Contempt] Amazon
12Tim O'Brien, Scott Nygaard Highway of Sorrow True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe Amazon
13Tony Rice Big Mon Tony Rice Amazon
14Modern Hicks Gone, Gone, Gone Out Among the Stars Amazon
15June Carter Cash The L & N Don't Stop Here Any More The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999 Amazon
16Ollabelle Before This Time Ollabelle Amazon
17Brennen Leigh North To Alaska Too Thin To Plow Amazon
18Pee Wee King I Wanna Say Hello Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown Amazon
19Willie Nelson Touch Me Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962 Amazon
20Jeannie C. Riley The Back Side Of Dallas Oxford American 10th Anniversary Southern Music CD [Disc 2] "Past Masters" [2008] Amazon
21Boddy Sheen How Many Nights (How Many Days) The Liberty Records Story (Pt. 1) Amazon
22Roy Hamilton Crazy Feelin' Oxford American 10th Anniversary Music Sampler, [Disc 1]: "Future Masters" [Oxford American, 2008] Amazon
23James Brown Three Hearts In A Tangle Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan – Season 2 [[Disc 1]] Amazon
24Brenda Lee Fool #1 The Brenda Lee Story: Her Greatest Hits Amazon
25Goldie Hill It's A Lovely Lovely World I Got A Woman : Gems From The Decca Vaults [Disc 2] Amazon
26Clint Miller Bertha Lou Hit The Road Jack- The ABC-Paramount Story Amazon
27Cliff Edwards Paper Doll Cliff Edwards Grimriper2u@Yahoo.Com Amazon
28John Lithgow Swinging on a Star Singin' in the Bathtub Amazon
29Ivory Joe Hunter Since I Met You Baby Gems from the Columbia Vaults, Pt. 1 Amazon
30Harry Belafonte Jamaica Farewell A Portrait of Dylan Amazon
31Dorothy Love Coates Ninety-Nine and a Half The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999 Amazon
32Rhiannon Giddens At the Purchaser's Option Freedom Highway Amazon
33Arlo Guthrie Valley to Pray Washington County (Remastered 2004) Amazon
34Doc Watson Down In The Valley To Pray Home Again Amazon
35Arlo Guthrie City Of New Orleans Storytellers: Singers & Songwriters Amazon

Country Memories

Country Memories
Country Memories

Nostalgia sometimes sounds like a bad cold or some obscure disease. Well…the latter is certainly not so far from the mark. We’re going to bring some country performers into our playlist this evening to share memories of the old home, faded memories and faded loves. We’ll hear from The Dillards, Hazel Dickens, Jack Guthrie, Rodney Crowell, Bobby Bare, and many others in our theme of ‘Country Memories’ this week. Join Dave Stroud for two hours of ‘sweet memories’ on community radio this week.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Stoney Edwards You'll Remember Me Down Home in the Country Amazon
3Flatt & Scruggs 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered [Album Version] 16 Biggest Hits Amazon
4Mac Wiseman Tis Sweet To Be Remembered Teenage Hangout Amazon
5Johnny Cash Memories Are Made of This Unchained Amazon
6Willie Nelson Your Memory Won't Die The Hungry Years Amazon
7Doc Watson My Rose of Old Kentucky Memories Amazon
8The Country Gentlemen Green Green Grass Of Home The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
9The Dillards The Old Home Place There Is A Time: 1963-70 Amazon
10Hazel Dickens A Few Old Memories It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song Amazon
11Red Allen & Frank Wakefield Faded Memory Keep On Going: The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings Amazon
12The Acoustic Medicine Show Faded Memory Steel String Line Amazon
13Ricky Skaggs River Of Memory Family And Friends Amazon
14Floyd Tillman & Leona Williams Let's Make Memories Tonight The Influence Amazon
15Henson Cargill Green, Green Grass of Home Skip a Rope Amazon
16Bobby Bare 500 Miles Away from Home Memories – RCA Singles 1962 – 1969 Amazon
17Rodney Crowell Please Remember Me The Essential Rodney Crowell Amazon
18Doc Watson I'm Going Back To The Old Home Riding the Midnight Train Amazon
19Jimmie Rodgers My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans The Essential Jimmie Rodgers Amazon
20Hank Williams Lost Highway Lost Highway December 1948 – March 1949 Amazon
21Jack Guthrie Chained To A Memory Oklahoma Hills Amazon
22Webb Pierce Memory Number One Singles Amazon
23The Carter Family Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 1] Amazon
24The Stanley Brothers; vocal by Carter Stanley & Pee Wee Lambert The Old Home The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers Amazon
25Elvis Presley I Forgot to Remember to Forget The Tupelo Mississippi Flash CD 2 Amazon
26John Prine & Mac Wiseman I Forgot to Remember to Forget Standard Songs for Average People Amazon
27Stuart Hamblen Remember Me The History Of Country & Western Music (Disc 19) Amazon
28Grandpa Jones I Guess You Don't Remember Now Makes The Rafters Ring Amazon
29Roland White Band On My Way Back to the Old Home I Wasn't Born to Rock'n Roll Amazon
30Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies When I'm Gone Don't You Grieve Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 3 : Easy Ridin' Papa Amazon
31Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 3 Amazon
32Slim Harbert & His Boys Honey, This Time I'm Gone You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942 Amazon
33Merle Travis & Joe Maphis Picture On The Wall Country Music's 2 Guitar Greats Merle Travis & Joe Maphis Amazon
34Jimmie Davis Pal Of Long Ago Nobody's Darlin' But Mine: 1928-1937 Amazon

Rhythm & Blues & Soul

….’Cause it’s gotta have soul, rhythm, and blues to make the cut this week. That’s the answer to the question. We’ll look to a couple of iconic comedians from the late 70s to inspire us with a collection of sounds lifted from their albums…and their movies. Why not? Jake and Elwood teamed up with Stax legends Steve Cropper, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, and Duck Dunn to deliver punch after punch and we’re going to sample the best of it. We’ve got Willie Mabon, King Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, Big Joe, The Robins, The Soul Survivors, and (of course) Aretha…all for you in a two hour rhythm & blues & soul extravaganza this week on Deeper Roots.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Aretha Franklin Think 30 Greatest Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
3Aretha Franklin Respect The Promised Land – Original Soundtrack [Disc 2] Amazon
4James Brown Mother Popcorn, Pt. 1 Gold Disc 1 Amazon
5Taj Mahal Mr. Pitiful Seqor Blues Amazon
6Jean Knight Mr. Big Stuff Stax 50th [[Disc 1]] Amazon
7King Floyd Groove Me In Yo' Face!: The History Of Funk, Vol. 1 Amazon
8Johnnie Taylor Who's Making Love Stax 50th [[Disc 1]] Amazon
9Sam & Dave Soul Man The Best Soul Album In The World… Ever! Amazon
10Otis Redding I Can't Turn You Loose Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
11Big Mama Thornton Let Your Tears Fall Baby Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings Amazon
12Floyd Dixon Hey Bartender Marshall Texas Is My Home Amazon
13Willie Mabon I Don't Know Atlantic Blues: Piano Amazon
14Linda Hayes Yes I Know Atomic Baby Amazon
15The Soul Survivors Expressway to Your Heart Striptease Amazon
16Solomon Burke Everybody Needs Somebody To Love Very Best of Solomon Burke (Reis) Amazon
17The Contours Do You Love Me The Very Best of The Contours Amazon
18James & Bobby Purify Shake A Tail Feather The Best Of Amazon
19Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels Devil with the Blue Dress On /Good Golly Miss Molly Detroit Breakout! 1 Amazon
20The Playboys Good Golly Miss Molly Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 1] – Jumpin' & Bluesy Amazon
21Big Joe Turner Flip Flop and Fly Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2 Amazon
22The Spencer Davis Group Gimme Some Lovin' Notting Hill Amazon
23The Robins Riot in Cell Block #9 50 Coastin' Classics [Disc 1] Amazon
24Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock Elvis' Golden Records (Volume 1) Amazon
25The Chips Rubber Biscuit The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 2 Amazon
26Wilson Pickett 634-5789 The Very Best of Wilson Pickett Amazon
27Johnnie Taylor Cheaper To Keep Her Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 2] Amazon
28Bobby "Blue" Bland Turn On Your Love Light Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3] Amazon
29Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band Messin' With The Kid Blues Masters, Vol. 4: Harmonica Classics Amazon
30The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Born in Chicago An Anthology: The Elektra Years Disc 1 Amazon
31The Blues Brothers (I Got Everything I Need) Almost The Definitive Collection Amazon
32Big Mama Thornton They Call Me Big Mama Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings Amazon
33Margie Anderson Yes I Know Stompin' 25 Amazon
34Jackie Wilson Baby Workout Something's Got A Hold On Me Amazon
35Etta James Tell Mama Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3] Amazon
36The Blues Brothers Soul Man The Definitive Collection Amazon

Beer Thirty

One of the more popular topics that follows the Americana and roots landscape (aside from love, death, and the gospel) is the topic of ice cold beer. Beer in the morning, beer in the evening, beer at suppertime. And our show this week is a sampler of 30 plus tracks of (mostly) country, rockabilly, rock, some blues, and we’ll be including some vintage television commercials that celebrate the suds. So kick back with a cold one and tune that dial to Deeper Roots on KWTF with your host Dave Stroud this Friday evening at 9 Pacific as he steps up to the bar and shares a wild assortment of songs about a cold brew or two…and we’re not talkin’ boojie coffee.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Amos Milburn One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Amos Milburn Rocks Amazon
3Smiley Maxedon Give Me A Red Hot Mama And An Ice Cold Beer [Album Version] Hillibilly Boogie! Amazon
4Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Bubbles In My Beer Take Me Back to Tulsa 4 – The End Of The Line Amazon
5Willie Nelson Bubbles In My Beer One Hell Of A Ride Amazon
6Andy Reynolds Beer Bottle Mama Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 9] Amazon
7Garth Brooks/George Jones Beer Run God's Country: George Jones and Friends Disc 1 Amazon
8George Jones Beer, Bait And Ammo All Gone Fishin' Amazon
9Derailers Cold Beer, Hot Women & Cool Country Music Soldiers of Love Amazon
10Dale Watson Honkiest Tonkiest Beer Joint The Best of the HighTone Years Amazon
11Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers Drink the Beer Barrel Dry Swing With Bill Boyd's Cowboy Rambers Amazon
12Various If You've Got The Time Miller Beer BigKevNastyCD Amazon
13Tom T. Hall I Like Beer The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall Amazon
14Bob Woodruff Hard Liquor, Cold Women, Warm Beer Dreams & Saturday Nights Amazon
15Asylum Street Spankers Beer Spanker Madness Amazon
16Johnny Russell Red Necks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer 20 Hits Amazon
17Whitney Rose There's A Tear In My Beer Heartbreaker of the Year Amazon
18Stray Cats Lookin' Better Every Beer Runaway Boys: A Retrospective '81-'92 Amazon
19John Lee Hooker One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer His Best Chess Sides (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) Amazon
20Warner Williams With Jay Summerour Hey Bartender, There's A Big Bug In My Beer Blues Highway Amazon
21Various Bob Uecker Lite Beer Commercial BigKevNastyCD Amazon
22Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim Beer Drinking Woman Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
23Floyd Dixon Hey Bartender Marshall Texas Is My Home Amazon
24Bessie Smith Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer [Album Version] The Essential Bessie Smith Amazon
25Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon Gimme A Pig's Foot And A Bottle Of Beer Barbecue Any Old Time – Blues From The Pit 1927-1942 Amazon
26Luke Wills' Rhythm Busters Shut Up And Drink Your Beer Western Swing  40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 2] Amazon
27Various Artists Falstaff Beer 1960s Psychedelic Radio Commercials Amazon
28Tommy Duncan Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)? Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B Amazon
29Johnny Bond Bartender's Blues Put Me To Bed Amazon
30Merrill Moore Bartender's Blues Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1] Amazon
31The Texas Tornados In Heaven There Is No Beer !Esta Bueno! Amazon
32Washboard Hank Beer Cans Down The Trans Can Human Beans Amazon
33Reverend Horton Heat Beer Holder Laughin & Cryin Amazon
34Eddie Noack Beer Drinkin' Blues Psycho Amazon
35James Mask Beer Drinking Blues Foot Tappin' And Dance At The Screamin' Festival Vol.4 Amazon

Free Form – February 2017

Free Form February 2017
Free Form February 2017

We return to a free form blend of American roots this February evening. Our topics are of the varietal kind including a collection of blues including the Cocaine Blues, the Guitar Blues, Aunt Hagar’s Blues, Frisco Blues, and Evil Hearted Man Blues. We’ll also bring up the topics of Civilization with Louis Prima, Old Fashioned Love with The Mills Brothers, and Emmett Miller will delight the crowds with his jelly roll song. It’s R&B, blues, country, jazz and rock on a Wednesday evening in West County.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Asleep at the Wheel Blues Stay Away from Me 10 Amazon
3Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang Black And Blue Bottom Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: The New York Sessions 1926-333 Remastered [Disc 1] Amazon
4Erskine Hawkins Tuxedo Junction The Art Deco Music Collection: Cotton Club Stomp Amazon
5Whispering Jack Smith Crazy Rhythm Me & My Shadow Amazon
6Ruth Etting with piano accompaniment by Rube Bloom It All Belongs To Me Flappers, Vamps And Sweet Young Things Amazon
7Ted Lewis Aunt Hagar's Blues Is Everybody Happy Now? Amazon
8Lew Stone The Continental The Art Deco Music Collection: Falling In Love Again Amazon
9The Mills Brothers Old Fashioned Love Sweeter Than Sugar Amazon
10Louis Prima Civilization Nipper's Greatest Hits – The 40's Vol 2 Amazon
11Tennessee Ernie Ford Anticipation Blues Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3] Amazon
12Bob Wills Mississippi Delta Blues Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 2] Tulsa Twist) Amazon
13Emmett Miller The Blues Singer (From Alabam') Minstrel Man From Georgia Amazon
14Fruit Jar Guzzlers Stack-O-Lee The Return Of The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of Amazon
15Mountain Mountaineers Dirty Dog Blues The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Playboy Stomp [Disc 2] Amazon
16Emmett Miller I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll Minstrel Man From Georgia Amazon
17Jimmie Rodgers Never No Mo' Blues The Essential Jimmie Rodgers Amazon
18Billy Hughes Cocaine Blues The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 12 Amazon
19Dick Curless Evil Hearted Man Blues A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD2 (1950-1969) Amazon
20The Allen Brothers Frisco Blues Allen Brothers Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 Amazon
21Bill Cox Georgia Brown Blues White Country Blues (1926-1938) Amazon
22Carlisle & Ball Guitar Blues [Album Version] White Country Blues (1926-1938) Amazon
23Al Bernard Accompanied By The Goofus Five Hesitation Blues Okeh Western Swing Amazon
24Levon & The Hawks Honky Tonk A Musical History [Disc 1] Amazon
25Charlie Musselwhite Pea Vine Blues Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton Amazon
26Billy Ward & the Dominoes Can't Do Sixty No More Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 2 Amazon
27The Peppers It Wouldn't Be The Same Foot Stompin' Amazon
28Little Willie John Sleep Little Willie John: All 15 of His Chart Hits from 1953-1962 Amazon
29Sam Cooke Having a Party The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (3 of 4) Amazon
30Leon Redbone Sweet Substitute Any Time Amazon
31Tiny Bradshaw Shout, Sister, Shout (09-29-34) Breaking Up the House [Disc 1] Amazon
32Sister Rosetta Tharpe Strange Things Happening Every Day Gospel Blues – the Very Best Of Amazon
33Sister Rosetta Tharpe Up Above My Head I Hear Music In the Air Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4) Amazon
34The Deep River Boys Shake, Rattle and Roll Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 2 Amazon
35Tennessee Ernie Ford Stack-O-Lee Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3] Amazon

Free Form – January 2017

Free Form - January 2017
Free Form – January 2017

Dreams that flow from a nine-volt heart. Drop on by for a stream of sounds from the past century, illuminated by a one-way flow of connections between songs representing the best in blues (Howlin’ Wolf), gospel (Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Sister O.M. Terrell), jazz (Nina Simone and Louis Armstrong), country (Guy Clark and The Louvins), contemporary Americana (The Devil Makes Three and Jefferson Ross), and so much more. Songs about trouble, bad roads and bad moons, little birds, coffee, and hidden charms…all for you on Sonoma County community radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Dave Alvin Nine-Volt Heart Ashgrove Amazon
3Guy Clark Boats To Build Boats To Build Amazon
4Townes Van Zandt Pancho and Lefty Legend: The Very Best Of Townes Van Zandt Amazon
5Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men Railroad Bill Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land Amazon
6The Devil Makes Three Forty Days I'm a Stranger Here Amazon
7Duane Eddy Forty Miles Of Bad Road Dance With The Guitar Man Amazon
8Danny Overbea Forty Cups Of Coffee Plug It In! Turn It Up! – Teil 1: Die Anfdnge 1939 – 1954 Amazon
9Howlin' Wolf Killing Floor Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3] Amazon
10Nappy Brown Hidden Charms Tore Up Amazon
11The Blasters Trouble Bound The Blasters Collection Amazon
12Ashley Monical Trouble Facing The Shadow Amazon
13Jefferson Ross Trouble Is Dogwood Cats Amazon
14Ry Cooder Trouble, You Can't Fool Me Bop Till You Drop (Remaster 2013) Amazon
15Ry Cooder The Pearls/Tia Juana Jazz (Remaster 2013) Amazon
16Dr. John Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen Ske-Dat-De-Dat&The Spirit Of Satch Amazon
17Nina Simone Strange Fruit Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
18Louis Armstrong Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Louis And The Good Book Amazon
19The Roadoilers Jonah and the Whale The Roadoilers Amazon
20Sister Rosetta Tharpe Jonah Gospel Blues – the Very Best Of Amazon
21Tommy Magness Jesus Will Save Your Soul Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
22Bob Dylan Gospel Plow Bob Dylan Amazon
23The Louvin Brothers The Gospel Way Close Harmony [Disc 1] Amazon
24Sister O. M. Terrell God's Little Birds Country Gospel 1946-1953 Amazon
25Red Foley With The Sunshine Boys Peace In the Valley Country's 20 Classic Gospel Songs of the Century Amazon
26Johnny Cash Peace In The Valley Gospel Glory Amazon
27John Fogerty Bad Moon Rising The Long Road Home: Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection Amazon
28Fats Domino (All of My Life) For You This Is Gold Disc 2 Amazon
29Clyde McPhatter Lover's Question The Atlantic Story [UK] Amazon
30Clyde McPhatter Lover Please Hard to Find 45's on CD, Vol. 2: 1961-64 Amazon
31Jackie Wilson (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher Red, White & Rock Disc 3 Amazon
32Shakey Jake & The Willie Dixon Band Roll Your Moneymaker Willie Dixon and Friends, Vol. 7 Amazon

Go West!

Go West!
Go West!

The westward movement is celebrated once more as Deeper Roots spends two hours digging through those dusty digital bins to find the more popular and, in some cases, more obscure pieces about the one of the great migrations. In addition to the 19th century land-grab where the call was “Westward Ho!”, we’ll hear songs about the not-so-celebratory movement following the 20th century Dust Bowl migration. Tune in for blues from Lowell Fulson, Barbecue Bob, and Albert King; country from Merle Haggard, Asleep at the Wheel, and John Hartford; tradition and folk from Woody Guthrie, Darryl Holter, and Jay Farrar; and jazz/pop from Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, and Sol Hoopii. All on community radio for Sonoma County.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Geraint Watkins Go West Dial 'W' for Watkins Amazon
3Bing Crosby Go West, Young Man! [Single Version] Their Complete Recordings Together [Disc 1] Amazon
4Nat King Cole (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 Chronological Classics: Nat King Cole 1946 Amazon
5Asleep at the Wheel Route 66 The Best of Asleep at the Wheel Amazon
6Sol Hoopii An Orange Grove in California Master of the Hawaiian Guitar, Vol. 2 Amazon
7Sons of the Pioneers When It's Autumn in the Hills of California Songs of the Prairie – CD5 Amazon
8Sons of the Pioneers Let4s Go West Again (1950) Wagons West (CD3) Amazon
9Darryl Holter California Stars Radio Songs Amazon
10Hazel Dickens California Cottonfields It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song Amazon
11Webb Pierce California Blues Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Second Series Amazon
12Jimmy Jackson's Rock 'n Skiffle California Zephyr Foot Tappin' And Dance At The Screamin' Festival Vol.4 Amazon
13Jimmy Lafave Dust Bowl Okies The Night Tribe Amazon
14Peter Rowan Dust Bowl Children Dust Bowl Children Amazon
15Woody Guthrie Talking Dust Bowl Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection Amazon
16Buck Owens Streets of Bakersfield The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) – Disc 3 Amazon
17Emmylou Harris Kern River All I Intended To Be Amazon
18Merle Haggard Kern River Blues Kern River Blues – Single Amazon
19John Hiatt Adios To California Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns Amazon
20Lowell Fulson Highway 99 Juke Box Blues 1946-1948 Amazon
21Jesse Thomas Gonna Move To California Complete Recorded Works 1948-1958 Amazon
22Barbecue Bob California Blues ABC Of The Blues Vol 2 Amazon
23Albert King Travelin' to California More Big Blues Amazon
24Doc & Merle Watson California Blues Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues Amazon
25Lefty Frizzell Blue Yodel #4 (California Blues) Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Sat. Night) Amazon
26John Hartford California Earthquake Troubadours: Folk And The Roots Of American Music 4: 11 The South Amazon
27Joni Mitchell California Blue Amazon
28John Stewart California Bloodlines Gold [Disc 1] Amazon
29Steve Forbert When I Get To California (Americana Version) Compromised Amazon
30Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard California Zephyr One Fast Move or I'm Gone Amazon
31Chuck Berry Route 66 Cars Amazon

Free Form – November 2016

Free Form November 2016
Free Form November 2016

While the show this week is free form (something we like to do every few weeks), we’ll be leaning on a number of ‘connections’ including a couple of sets that feature tracks from the 1950 classic country album “Beyond The Sunset” which was released by Luke The Drifter aka Hank Williams, Sr. We’ll hear interpretations and originals that keep the focus on the country gospel solemnities that made this album one of country’s most interesting albums of the time.  We’ll also be rocking with The Prisonaires, Aretha Franklin; riding down the canyon with Gene Autry and Jonathan Edwards; and connecting with boot kicking pieces from Robert Gordon and Elvis. An interesting and fun two hours is in store for you on West County community radio. Join Dave Stroud for selections from the last 100 years.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Randy Newman Big Hat, No Cattle Bad Love Amazon
3Hank Williams Beyond The Sunset (Single Version) Beyond The Sunset Amazon
4Kevin Russell Ramblin Man Trouble In Mind Amazon
5Bill Haley Too Many Parties, Too Many Pals Rock 'N' Roll Arrives CD1 Amazon
6Hank Williams Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals Beyond The Sunset Amazon
7John Prine Just Waitin' For Better, Or Worse Amazon
8Hank Williams Please Make Up Your Mind Beyond The Sunset Amazon
9Hank Williams Just Waitin' Beyond The Sunset Amazon
10Johnny Cash I Dreamed About Mama Last Night Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute Amazon
11Hank Williams Everything's Okay Beyond The Sunset Amazon
12Marty Stuart Pictures from Life's Other Side (w/ Hank III) Nashville Vol. 1: Tear The Woodpile Down Amazon
13The Staple Singers Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw Freedom Highway Amazon
14Cliff Edwards A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody The Collection Amazon
15Ween Pretty Girl 12 Golden Country Greats Amazon
16Robert Gordon These Boots Are Made for Walking Satisfied Mind Amazon
17Elvis Presley Big Boots G.I. Blues Amazon
18Rosie Flores Rock-A-Bye Boogie Speed of Sound Amazon
19Aretha Franklin Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody The Electrifying Aretha Franklin Amazon
20The Prisonaires Rockin' Horse The Prisonaires – Just Walkin' In The Rain Amazon
21Guy Clark She Loves To Ride Horses The Dark Amazon
22Old Crow Medicine Show Don't Ride That Horse Big Iron World Amazon
23John Hiatt Slow Turning Slow Turning Amazon
24Lew Childre Riding The Elevated Train Train 45: Railroad Songs Of The Early 1900s Amazon
25Gene Autry Ridin' Down The Canyon Columbia Historic Edition Amazon
26Ian Tyson Ridin' Down the Canyon Boots Too Big to Fill: Tribute to Gene Autry Amazon
27Ian Tyson Cottonwood Canyon Carnero Vaquero Amazon
28Jonathan Edwards Girl From the Canyon Tomorrow's Child Amazon
29Gene Autry The Call Of The Canyon The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946 Amazon
30Eddy Arnold Cattle Call Last Of The Love Song Singers: Then And Now [Disc 1] Amazon
31Buddy Miller Cattle Call The Majestic Silver Strings Disc 1 Amazon
32Gene Autry I Tipped My Hat And Slowly Rode Away Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 2] Amazon
33Bruce Springsteen Galveston Bay …Next Stop Is Vietnam – The War On Record, 1961-2008 Amazon