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Free Form – December 2015

December 19, 2015 Dave

Every couple of months, Deeper Roots shares a free form playlist with host Dave Stroud. This week we’ll share ‘contemporary roots’ infused music including the sounds of Howell Devine, Jason Isbell, and Ian Tyson as well as a broad selection of R&B (from The Blenders), early blues (from Blind Lemon Jefferson), and ‘ding dong daddy’ country swing (featuring Bob Wills). We’ll also wrap it up with a festive foodie theme.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Ink Spots	Street Of Dreams	Greatest Hits
3	The Delta Rhythm Boys	Scandalize My Name	I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem
4	The Cats & The Fiddle	I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water	Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 2]
5	The Penguins	Ookey Ook	Great Googa Mooga [Ace]
6	The Roosevelts	Jitterbug Special	The Real Blues Brothers Vol. 2
7	The Ravens	Gotta Find My Baby	OKeh Rhythm & Blues
8	The Blenders	Don't Play Around with Love	Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 1
9	Robins	My Baby Done Told Me	Money Honey – Rise of the Black Bocal Group 51-53)
10	Esther Phillips	Your Love Is So Doggone Good [Album Version]	Jazz Moods – Hot
11	Hawkins, Coleman: The Bebop Years [Disc 2]: Cattin' at Keynote	Blue Moon	The Bebop Years [Disc 2] ~ Cattin' at Keynote
12	Justin Townes Earle	Workin' for the MTA	Harlem River Blues [Explicit]
13	Robert Plant	Central Two-O-Nine	Band Of Joy
14	Jason Isbell	Johnny Reb, That's Me	You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
15	Howell Devine	Boat's Up the River	Delta Grooves
16	Billy Walker	Cross The Brazos At Waco	Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
17	Chris Smither	No More Cane On The Brazos	Still On The Levee CD 1
18	Odetta	No More Cane On The Brazos	7 Classic Albums Plus Bonus Radio Tracks
19	Red Foley & The Sunshine Boys	(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)	Johnny Cash: Artist's Choice – Music That Matters To Him
20	Ian Tyson	Ridin' Down the Canyon	Boots Too Big to Fill: Tribute to Gene Autry
21	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)	Legends of Country Music Disc 2
22	Asleep at the Wheel	Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas (with Robert Earl Keen and Ray Benson)	Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
23	Jerry Lee Lewis	Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee	A Half Century Of Hits ([Disc 2] of Box Set)
24	Jo-El Sonnier	Tear-Stained Letter	Various Artists: THEME TIME RADIO HOUR – SEASON 2/[Disc 2]
25	Clifton Chenier	Accordion Boogie	Louisiana Blues and Zydeco
26	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Hot Dogs	The Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Atlanta & Chicago 1926 [Disc 2]
27	Lil Johnson	Sam The Hot Dog Man	Vintage Sex Songs
28	Rosie Flores	Hot Dog	Speed of Sound
29	Dale Hawkins	Hot Dog	Rock'n'roll Tornado
30	Bill Haley	Hot Dog Buddy Buddy	From Western Swing to R-O-C-K (4): Don't Knock the Rock
31	Wanda Jackson	Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad	Queen Of Rockabilly
32	Buck Owens	Hot Dog	Buck Owens Four Classic Albums [Disc 1]
33	The Four Shells	Hot Dog	The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (5 of 9)
34	Shakin' Stevens	Hot Dog	Chronology – The Epic Hit Singles #1
35	John Hiatt	Adios To California	Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns

Night Time – KOWS Oct 28, 2015

October 29, 2015 Dave

No more alternating Saturday mornings for Deeper Roots. We’re a weekly publication now…every Wednesday evening at 7 Pacific!. We’re going to settle into our new KOWS time-slot tonight with music that celebrates our new day of the week and we’ll also roam east, south, west and north in our pursuit of the best from the last 100 years of American music. Join us right after Robert Feuer’s Blues Up the River for some ‘down river’ sounds including Johnny Horton, Tom Rush, Riley Puckett, and some John Lee Hooker. Because the night time is the right time.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Nappy Brown	Just a Little Love	Night Time Is the Right Time [Disc 1]
3	John Lee Hooker	Night Time Is The Right Time	Boogie Chillun
4	Ray Charles	Night Time Is the Right Time	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 1
5	James Brown	Night Train	20 All Time Greatest Hits!
6	Billy Jones	When It's Night Time in Italy, It's Wednesday over Here	The Silly Songs (1922 to 1934)
7	Riley Puckett	Wednesday Night Waltz	Country Music Pioneer vol 1
8	Josh White	Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday	Vol. 3-(1935-40)
9	Misisipi Mike Wolf	Calling the Shots	The Cold Hard Facts of Mike
10	Kevin Russell	Head South	Trouble In Mind
11	Asleep at the Wheel	South of the Border (with George Strait)	Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
12	Willie Nelson	South (Featuring Paul Shaffer & Vince Gill)	Willie and the Wheel
13	Cleo Brown	I'll Take The South (You Take The East, Take The West, Take The North)	Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935)
14	Kinky Friedman	Girl From The North Country	The Loneliest Man I Ever Met
15	Doyle Lawson/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	The Northern Lights	School of Bluegrass Disc 1
16	Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel	Northern Lights	Freight Train Boogie
17	Johnny Horton	North to Alaska	Magic Moments
18	David Luning	Northern California	Just Drop On By
19	Bill Monroe And Doc Watson	East Tennessee Blues	Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2
20	June Carter Cash	East Virginia Blues	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 2
21	Grandpa Jones	East Bound Freight Train	16 Greatest Hits
22	Tom Rush	East of Eden	What I Know
23	Jerry Reed	East Bound And Down	The Essential Jerry Reed
24	Geraint Watkins	Go West	Dial 'W' for Watkins
25	Chris Isaak	Western Stars	Silvertone
26	Les Paul	East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered]	100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
27	The Benny Goodman Sextet	East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)	Benny Goodman Sextet
28	Whitt Denson "One Voice Quartette"	New Morning Sun 436	I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
29	Ruthie Foster	Brand New Day	Promise of a Brand New Day
30	Nappy Brown	Little By Little	Night Time Is the Right Time
31	Chris Hillman/Herb Pedersen	Invitation to the Blues	Way Out West
32	Willie Nelson/Lukas Nelson	My Window Faces The South	Heroes

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Songs of the Dust Bowl

October 25, 2015 Dave

Our story is one that we’ve covered before, previously focusing on the Great Depression and the music of Woody Guthrie. This episode pulls in the theme of that tragic chapter of a drought that uprooted nearly 60 percent of the population from the affected region of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. With the soil lacking a firm root due to poor farm practices, the plains winds would pick up the loose topsoil and create the dust clouds that ravaged farm and city alike. The music we’ll hear tonight brings us the stories, including those of Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Bob Gibson, Lane Hardin, Vernon Dahlart, and The Morrison Two Brothers String Band.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Talking Dust Bowl	Hard Travelin'
3	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Dust Storm Disaster	Hard Travelin'
4	Woody Guthrie	Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)	Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder]
5	Woody Guthrie	Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road (Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad)	Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder]
6	Alison Krauss	Dust Bowl Children	Paper Airplane
7	Peter Rowan	Tumbleweed	Dust Bowl Children
8	Bob Gibson	Pastures of Plenty	Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson
9	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	Pasture of Plenty	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
10	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	So Long It's Been Good to Know You	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
11	The Byrds	Pretty Boy Floyd	Sweetheart of the Rodeo
12	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	Do Re Mi	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
13	Cisco Houston	The Great American Bum	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
14	Mac "Harry" McClintock	Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
15	Billy Bragg	I Ain't Got No Home	Tooth & Nail
16	Michelle Shocked	Woody's Rag	Arkansas Traveler
17	Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees	Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries	gimriper2u@yahoo.com
18	Leo Reisman And His Orchestra;Milton Douglas	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime (From The Musical Review "Americana") [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
19	Woody Guthrie	Talking Dust Bowl Blues	Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder]
20	Woody Guthrie	Dust Pneumonia Blues	Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder]
21	Lane Hardin	California Desert Blues [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
22	Red Allen	Deep Elem Blues	The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983
23	Prairie Ramblers	Deep Elem Blues	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
24	Joe Stone	It's Hard Time	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
25	Vernon Dalhart	The Farm Relief Song	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
26	The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band	Dry and Dusty	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
27	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	Dealing With The Devil	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
28	Jack Guthrie	Oklahoma Hills	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
29	Bruce Springsteen	I Ain't Got No Home	Folkways: A Vision Shared-A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly
30	Ry Cooder	Vigilante Man	Into The Purple Valley
31	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	Tom Joad	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
32	Jimmy Lafave	Dust Bowl Okies	The Night Tribe

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Free Form – October 2015

October 17, 2015 Dave

Free form with just a dose of playlist themes…R&B and sugar from Chuck Willis, some sweeter country from Bob Wills, more of the same with a moonlight-based theme from Tommy Duncan, Dale Evans, and Elton Britt. We’ve also got a mix of early century jazz from Satchmo and blues from Tampa Red, Charley Patton, and Blind Blake. Tune into community radio locally on KWTF 88.1 on the FM dial or catch us streaming on TuneIn, RadioBox, or from our web site at kwtf.net/listen.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Seasick Steve	Dark	Man from Another Time (Bonus Version)
3	Wild Tchoupitoulas	Meet De Boys On The Battlefront	Treacherous [Disc 1]
4	The Neville Brothers	Yellow Moon	Yellow Moon
5	Emmylou Harris; Rodney Crowell	Old Yellow Moon	Old Yellow Moon
6	Bill Neely	Big Yellow Moon Over Texas	Texas Law & Justice
7	Tommy Duncan	Texas Moon	Texas Moon
8	Elton Britt	Blue Texas Moonlight	The RCA Years
9	Dale Evans	Under a Texas Moon	The Rage of the Sage
10	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Sugar Moon	Take Me Back to Tulsa 4 – The End Of The Line
11	k.d. lang	Sugar Moon	Shadowland
12	Merle Travis	Too Much Sugar For A Dime	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
13	Chuck Willis	Sugar Sugar	I Remember Chuck Willis / The King Of The Stroll
14	Muddy Waters	Sugar Sweet	The Anthology [Disc 2]
15	The Mills Brothers	Sweeter Than Sugar	The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 3
16	Earl Bostic	Sweet Lorraine	Earl Bostic Flamingo
17	Dave Van Ronk	Sweet And Lowdown	Sweet & Lowdown
18	Chuck Berry	Sweet Little Sixteen	The Chess Box Disc 1
19	Blind Blake	Sweet Papa Low Down	Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker
20	Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three	Sweet Potato Blues	Riverboat Soul
21	Warner Williams With Jay Summerour	Digging Potatoes	Blues Highway
22	Nat King Cole	Solid Potato Salad	Chronological Classics: Nat King Cole 1945
23	Hunter & Jenkins	Meat Cuttin' Blues	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
24	Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven	Potato Head Blues	The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3]
25	Fats Waller & His Rhythm	All That Meat And No Potatoes	100 Ans De Jazz
26	The Swallows	It Ain't The Meat	Risque Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B
27	Memphis Minnie	Pig Meat On The Line [Album Version]	Queen Of The Blues
28	Tampa Red;Georgia Tom	Dead Cats On The Line	Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard
29	Bob Brozman	Dead Cat On The Line	Blues Reflex
30	Charley Patton	Mean Black Cat Blues	Primeval Blues, Rags and Gospel Songs
31	Harry Reser	Cat And Dog	Banjo Crackerjax 1922-1930
32	Bob Brozman	Dog and Cat	Hello Central, Give Me Dr. Jazz!
33	Joe Venuti's Blue Four	Beatin' the Dog	Wild Cats
34	Dr. John	How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come 'Round)	Goin' Back To New Orleans
35	Nat King Cole	Open Up The Doghouse (Two Cats Are Coming In) (1992 Digital Remaster)	Nat King Cole [Disc 3]

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Songs About Doctors

August 29, 2015 Dave

We go to the theme well once more on Deeper Roots, this time with music that explores the tincture of hadacol, the sick bed blues, the boogie woogie flu, measles, whooping cough, and snake oil…all in a show full of the very best of music about being sick in bed and sending for the doctor from the last century of big band, jazz, country, blues, and rock.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Betty Hutton	Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief	Hoagy Carmichael. Stardust – 51 Original Mono Recordings 1924-1957
3	Doc Pomus	Send for the Doctor (Doctors)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
4	Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns	Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (Part 1)	Having A Good Time with Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns – The Very Best Of, Volume 1
5	Huey "Piano" Smith	Would You Believe it, I Have a Cold (Doctors)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
6	Doctor Ross	Call The Doctor (Hi-Q 5033, 1963)	Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2 [Disc 7]
7	Doctor Ross	The Boogie Disease	Plug It In! Turn It Up! – Teil 1: Die Anfdnge 1939 – 1954
8	Roy Byrd & His Blues Jumpers	Hadacol Bounce	'Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology [Disc 1]
9	Jerry Lee Lewis	Hadacol Boogie	A Half Century Of Hits: Rockin' My Life Away [Disc 3]
10	Ray Charles	I Don't Need No Doctor	BMG Vol. 01 Disc 03 1966-1971
11	Joan Osborne	I Dont Need No Doctor	Bring It On Home
12	Artie Shaw	Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?	The Artie Shaw Story – Disc 3 – Frenesi
13	Benny Goodman	Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jibe	Texas Tea Party
14	Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah	The Spasm	Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 19261937
15	Walter Smith	The Cat's Got the Measles, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough	Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937
16	Bert Mays	Snake Doctor Blues	Blues From The Vocalion Vaults
17	Memphis Minnie	Doctor, Doctor Blues	Memphis Minnie – Queen of Country Blues, 1929 – 1937 [Disc 4]
18	South Memphis Jug Band	Doctor Medicine	Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow!
19	Bill Nettles & His Dixie Blues Boys	Hadacol Boogie (Doctors)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
20	Shorty Godwin	Jimbo Jambo Land	Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 19261937
21	Rev. Johnny L. Jones	I Don't Need A Doctor (Sermon Excerpt)	The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
22	Boyd Rivers	You Gonna Take Sick and Die	Living Country Blues: An Anthology Disc 1
23	Skip James	Sick Bed Blues [Album Version]	Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
24	Casey Bill Weldon	Lady Doctor Blues	Bottleneck Guitar Trendsetters Of The 1930s
25	Mance Lipscomb	Mother Had A Sick Child	Ash Grove 12/6/1964
26	Mississippi Sheiks	When You're Sick With The Blues	Complete Recorded Works Vol. 3
27	Warren Zevon	Don't Let Us Get Sick	Life'll Kill Ya
28	Willie Nelson	Too Sick To Pray	One Hell Of A Ride
29	Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks	I Asked My Doctor	Last Train To Hicksville… The Home Of Happy Feet
30	The Rolling Stones	Dear Doctor	Beggars Banquet
31	J.J. Cale	Call The Doctor	Naturally
32	Guada La Habrians/Phil Alvin	Oh, Doctor	County Fair 2000
33	Boz Scaggs	Sick And Tired	Come On Home
34	Otis Redding	I'm Sick Y'All	Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
35	Irma Thomas	Doctor Feelgood	The Story of My Life

Songs About Telephones

July 11, 2015 Dave

It’s ‘theme time’ in this episode as we find a muse that songwriters have been looking to since it’s appearance in the 19th century: the telephone. Join us for operators, dial tones, party lines, busy signals, and hang-ups…just a few of the topics in a show featuring gospel from the Selah Jubilee Singers and Sister Wynona Carr, sixties soul from The Marvelettes and The Orlons, tradition from Bill Monroe and Wade Mainer, and more.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Manhattan Transfer	Operator	The Manhattan Transfer
3	The Golden Gate Quartet	I Just Telephone Upstairs	Vol. 6 (1949-1952)
4	The Spirit Of Memphis Quartet	Atomic Telephone	The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
5	Selah Jubilee Singers	Royal Telephone	Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 (1939-1941)
6	Burl Ives	Royal Telephone	Greatest Hits
7	Sister Wynona Carr	Operator, Operator	Dragnet For Jesus
8	Bill Monroe	When The Phone Rang	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
9	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	The Phone Call	More Behind the Picture Than the Wall
10	Wade Mainer	God's Radio Phone	I'm Not Looking Backward
11	Doc Watson	No Telephone In Heaven	My Dear Old Southern Home
12	The Carter Family	No Telephone In Heaven	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 2]
13	The Carter Family	Hello Central! Give Me Heaven	The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5]
14	Orville Reed	The Telephone Girl	Lead Kindly Light
15	Bonnie Guitar	Hello, Hello, Please Answer The Phone	Only The Moon Man Knows: Rare Recordings 1951-1957
16	George Jones	Wrong Number	Star Creek Promotions 4
17	Aaron Neville	Wrong Number (I Am Sorry, Goodbye)	Treacherous [Disc 1]
18	Irma Thomas	Sorry Wrong Number	If You Want It, Come and Get It
19	Mickey & Sylvia	Can't Get You On The Phone	Rock With A Sock
20	The Orlons	Don't Hang Up	Malt Shop Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 2)
21	Marvelettes	Beechwood 4-5789	The Soul of Detroit – Disc 1
22	Tony & Tyrone	Please Operator	After Hours 3 – More Northern Soul Masters
23	Mary Wells	Operator	The Soul of Detroit – Disc 2
24	Jorma Kaukonen	Operator	River Of Time
25	The Grateful Dead	Operator	American Beauty
26	Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	Pennsylvania 6-5000	The Centennial Collection Disc 1
27	Hank Penny	Hold the Phone	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
28	Stonewall Jackson	Can't Hang Up the Phone	Original Greatest Hits
29	Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn	Answer The Phone With Loretta Lynn	A Tribute To A Legend
30	Tom T. Hall	Jesus On the Radio (Daddy On the Phone)	The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall
31	Pee Wee Crayton	Phone Call From My Baby	ABC Of The Blues Vol 7
32	Pee Wee Crayton	The Telephone Is Ringing	ABC Of The Blues Vol 7
33	Floyd Dixon	Call Operator 210	The Aladdin Story (Pt. 2)
34	Floyd Dixon	Telephone Blues	The Cocktail Combos [Disc 3]
35	Eddie Gorman And His Group	Telephone Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
36	Elana James	Telephone Man	Black Beauty

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Free Form – May 2015

May 16, 2015 Dave

Every so often we like to spend time wandering about the last century of jazz, blues, gospel and country, sharing music that’s not lost, only tucked away. In this week’s episode we’ll do just that and share our first ‘free form’ show of the year with you all. We’ll have blues about clothes being ripped off by Lightnin’ Hopkins and the Chicago Black Swans, a gumbo of Louisiana sounds from the likes of Doug Kershaw, beer toasting Tex Mex from Doug Sahm, and pining bluegrass from Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, and Ralph Stanley. Tune in for another two hours of the very best of the last century of America’s music with Dave Stroud in a show produced exclusively for KWTF community radio.

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Deep Elem Blues

May 9, 2015 Dave

Get up sleepy heads! West Sonoma County rolls out of bed on a Saturday morning at 9 with LaVern Baker in another episode of Deeper Roots featuring the music of Don Edwards, Jorma Kaukonen, The Boswell Sisters, and Mahalia Jackson (to name but a few). KOWS radio is also propelling itself in an important campaign to extend its broadcast signal to a larger audience across Sonoma County and is in it’s last month of its Indiegogo campaign where we’re asking our listeners to jump into with both feet. Please visit http://tinyurl.com/pom5kkq to donate. You can tune into KOWS on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month to get your regular dose of roots music. And there’s more to discover by visiting our Deeper Rootsweb site.

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Demon Alcohol

April 25, 2015 Dave

We’ve got ‘songs of the sauce’, so to speak. Our show will feature a century of America’s music with stories of moonshine, rye whiskey, bubbles in the beer, bartenders, and hangovers going as far back as 1928. But we’ve also got a Bob Wills tribute piece from a new Asleep at the Wheel release, indie rockabilly from new Austinians Tammy Lynn & Myles High, R&B truckers The Harlem Hamfats, and local favorite David Luning. Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of a century of America’s Music on KWTF, member-supported community radio for Bodega Bay and all of Sonoma County.

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Songs About Jail

April 4, 2015 Dave

It’s theme time once again on Deeper Roots. We’ve got songs that explore the topic of jails, prisons, work farms, and the incarcerated. There we find the overnighters, the vagabonds, the jealous lovers, the desperate thieves, and the stories of ladies and gentlemen on both sides of the bars. There will be old-timey cowboy classics from Vernon Dalhart and Carl T. Sprague, modern covers by David Johansen and The Byrds, blues from Lightnin’ Hopkins and Blind Boy Fuller, and a whole lot more. Join us for the stories of the songs and performers this week on Deeper Roots.

A Century of America's Music