It’s a three day Labor Day weekend and Deeper Roots celebrates with music that explores the burdens and rewards of work. It’s our “Labor Day Special”. Join Dave Stroud  for more from a century of America’s music. In a slightly retooled show from earlier in the year we’ll hear from Nina Simone, Zeke Clements, Hazel Dickens, and many others including a set celebrating the music of Pete Seeger and the longstanding fight for labor rights in America.

We’ve got our home state as our guide in an episode whose theme is that of California. We’ll hear performances by Ry Cooder, Howlin’ Wolf, Dwight Yoakum, and Dave Alvin to name just a few. In addition to the more popular ‘go west’ themes, we’ll hear about the pastures of plenty and the nostalgic tunes of the Golden State: our sunsets, the orange groves, the high desert, and the deep valleys.  Join Dave Stroud as he shares an eclectic blend of sounds on listener-supported community radio for Bodega Bay.

Every Friday night at 9 on KWTF, we visit another slice of roots music, curated with backstories about the performances, the performers, and the arch of story-telling. Dave Stroud brings us  a selection of roots inspired themes of home as muse and metaphor in artists’ performances from the past century of America’s music.  The theme of home is covered by almost 90 years of recordings, starting with the Carter Family and Da Costa Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters from the Gennett archives of the late twenties into music of the late 2000’s featuring John Prine, Bruce Springsteen, and Steve Earle. We’ll also hear from Robert Johnson, George Edgin’s Corn Dodgers and gospel from the likes of Dorothy Love Coates and Frank Sinatra…Frank Sinatra???! Join us.

Roots music so often plays on the theme of ‘going home’ and uses metaphor to illustrate the journey.  In past episodes of Deeper Roots, A Century of America’s Music, we’ve explored the music of the railroad and waterways as themes in American roots music. This episode has us focusing on the muse of routes, roads, and highways. We’ll hear from Mose Allison, Chuck Berry, Lowell Fulson, and Hank Williams in a set that follows road trips, functions at the junctions, highway signs, rocky roads, dusty roads, big roads, gospel highways, and bi-ways of the heart.  Don’t miss it! And don’t forget that you can hear past episodes by subscribing to our podcasts here:  http://deeperroots.podomatic.com/

This episode will be posted to Mixcloud in the near future.