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Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Jazz, Theme Time

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

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Free Form, Gospel

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.

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Free Form, Gospel

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.

Bluegrass, Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition, Theme Time

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.

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition, Theme Time

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.

Deeper Roots on KWTF, Early Jazz, New Orleans, Theme Time, Urban Blues, Urban Jazz

Deeper Roots Goes To Mardi Gras

February 14, 2015 Dave

Fat Tuesday or, translated to French, Mardi Gras, comes but once a year and signals the penitential season of Lent. It also provides us with an outlet for the many things that we do as part of our celebration. One of them involves the backdrop of music. We’ll visit the sounds introduced by the Second Line of “Sugar Boy” Crawford, Fats Domino, and Stop, Inc. We’ll follow with The Meters, Bo Dollis and The Wild Magnolias, Louis Armstrong, and many others in a show that separates our locales by almost 2000 miles. Join Dave Stroud for the big beat coming from the French Quarter, Bourbon Street, and the Mississippi waterfront in our newest episode, another produced exclusively for KWTF, 88.1 FM, member-supported community radio for Bodega Bay, Sonoma County, California.

African American Gospel, Bluegrass, Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Theme Time

The Railroad Blues

January 25, 2015 Dave

The railroad is the muse for the morning here in Occidental as the show uses the theme of the railroad: the stories of those who built it, the promise of the golden sunrise that awaits at our destination, the sorrow of a love taken away by rail, and the lonesome whistle from some far away valley. As an aside, did you know that Occidental itself was once a bustling community where the train would haul off the timber and bring tourists from San Francisco and cities beyond?

Join us for the sacred and the secular, including Peter Rowan, ELVIS PRESLEY, Kevin Russell, Paul Warmack & His Gully Jumpers, Furry Lewis, and many others as we explore the genres of bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country, and so much more.
#rootsmusic #railroad #Americana

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Theme Time

Songs About Texas

January 24, 2015 Dave

It’s theme time once more on Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. Join Dave Stroud as he digs up some classic songs about the Lone Star State.

We defer now to John Steinbeck: “I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study and the passionate possession of all Texans.”

It’s country, bluegrass, blues, R&B, jazz, and more from the past century of America’s music.

Deeper Roots on KOWS, Free Form

KOWS Show – November 19, 2014

November 19, 2014 Dave

We open our Deeper Roots show with some gospel from George and Tammy, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Frank Jenkins and then move onto some R&B, bluegrass and country. The first hour celebrates the sound of roots music from the West Sonoma County studio of KOWS, 107.3 FM while in the second hour, we talk to Josh Windmiller of the North Bay Hootenanny about a show coming up this Sunday at Petaluma’s Mystic Theater featuring David Luning, The Sam Chase, and John Craigie. Josh performs and provides some back stories to the upcoming show.

A Century of America's Music