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Guitar Theme

January 23, 2016 Dave

Once considered in its earliest forms a noble instrument, the history of the guitar can be traced back over forty centuries (yes, that’s 4000 years). While we won’t got back quite so far in our exploration, we will explore the popular form of this instrument in song this week. We’re not going after the genius as much as we go after the topic with songs whose theme is that of the guitar. It seems that there has always been a personal connection between the instrument and the player, sometimes as a confidant and others as a foil. Our show will feature yodeling guitars, lonely guitars, Bo’s guitar, long-legged pickers, amigos, and a number of performances about ‘one’s first guitar’. Join Dave Stroud for plenty in a guitar themed journey.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Steve Earle	Guitar Town	Just an American Boy Disc 1
3	Walter Hurdt	Fiddle And Guitar Running Wild	Classic Field Recordings
4	Jimmie Rodgers	You And My Old Guitar	Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 1]
5	Jorma Kaukonen	More Than My Old Guitar	River Of Time
6	Jimmy Murphy	That First Guitar of Mine	1951-1956 (Warped 5101)
7	The Seldom Scene	Grandpa Getcha Guitar	Like We Used To Be
8	The Louvin Brothers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Long Play Collection
9	Byron Parker & His Mountaineers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Byron Parker & His Mountaineers
10	Hardrock Gunter	Guitar on the Mountain	Gonna Rock 'n' Roll, Gonna Dance All Night
11	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Steel Guitar Rag	Legends of Country Music Disc 1
12	Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers	Telling' My Troubles to My Old Guitar	Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years
13	Frank Crumit	Plink Plonki Pluck My Guitar	Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit
14	The Brown Bombers of Swing	Guitar Swing	If You Take Me Back
15	George Morgan	Mr Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man)	Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection
16	Jerry Byrd	Hilo Steel Guitar	Stars Of The Steel Guitar
17	Les Paul	Lonely Guitar (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered]	100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
18	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Yodeling Guitar	Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
19	Duane Eddy	Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar	Dance With The Guitar Man
20	Bo Diddley	Bo's Guitar	Go Bo Diddley
21	Johnny Powers	Me and My Rhythm Guitar	The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2
22	Johnny Cash	I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar	The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 3
23	Johnny Cash & June Carter	Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man	Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter
24	Kitty Wells	Amigo's Guitar	Greatest Songs
25	Waylon Jennings	Guitars That Won't Stay in Tune	Clean Shirt
26	Willie Nelson	Guitar In the Corner	Band of Brothers
27	George Jones	Best Guitar Picker	The Complete United Artists Solo Singles
28	Robert Earl Keen, Jr.	Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)	Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
29	Merle Haggard	Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)	Capitol Collector's Series
30	Freddie King	Me And My Guitar	Texas Cannonball
31	Tony Rice	Me and My Guitar	Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
32	Lucinda Williams	Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings	World Without Tears
33	Guy Clark	The Guitar	Somedays the Song Writes You
34	Neil Young	This Old Guitar	Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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Halloween Theme

November 19, 2014 Dave

Okay…what the heck and why not? Deeper Roots goes holiday flavor with songs of spiders, witches, graveyards, and that voodoo that we do. Tune in for musical selections from the vaults of the last century of America’s music, including pieces that celebrate the genres of jazz, country, blues, and rock. We’ll also cover some excerpts from some of the more famous ‘Halloween’ screen themes. Performers include Spike Jones, Fats Waller, Luis Russell, and (of course) Leon Russell’s backup piano with the Crypt-Kickers on Monster Mash.

A Century of America's Music