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Gospel Crosscurrents

June 1, 2019 Dave

Another gospel celebration, this time with a mix of country, bluegrass, classic black gospel, and a very special blending from the annals of rock n’ roll. We’re calling this roots celebration “Gospel Cross-Currents” and it makes its way through a mix of fifties country gospel of Fern Jones and Bonnie Owens and some recent country releases of Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives with folk, bluegrass and black gospel of the early century. Tune in for Mac Wiseman, Mahalia Jackson, Elvis, the Alphabetical Four, and Sister Lottie Peavy. Deeper Roots celebrates each Friday morning on KOWS and Friday evening on KWTF.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives	Good News	Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
3	Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives	Keep on the Firing Line	Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
4	Carl Story	Keep on the Firing Line	1942-1947 (Warped 4780)
5	Browns Ferry Four	Keep On The Firing Line	Goodbye, Babylon – Goodbye, Babylon [Disc 5]
6	Precious Bryant	Sit Down Servant	The Truth
7	Jackson Browne & David Lindley	Sit Down Servant	Love Is Strange [Disc 1]
8	Mike Farris	Sit Down Servant	Salvation in Lights
9	Bad Livers	I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap	Dust On The Bible
10	Mac Wiseman	I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap	Most Requested
11	Michelle Lanchester w/Sweet Honey In The Rock	I Was Standing By The Bedside Of A Neighbor (If You See My Savior)	African American Gospel: The Pioneering Composers
12	Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin	If You See My Savior	Lost Time
13	Porter Wagoner/Willie Nelson	Family Bible	Unplugged
14	Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen	Family Bible	Lost In The Ozone
15	Lyle Lovett	I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord	Smile: Songs From The Movies
16	Willie Nelson	Sweet Bye and Bye	Old Time Religion
17	Elizabeth Cotten	Medley: A) Sweet Bye And Bye B) What A Friend We Have In Jesus	Freight Train And Other North Carolina Folk Songs And Tunes
18	Alphabetical Four	What a Friend We Have in Jesus	Complete Recorded Works 1938-1943
19	Bonnie Owens	What a Friend We Have in Jesus	1968-1971 (Warped 6947)
20	Fern Jones	By And By	The Glory Road
21	Elvis Presley	By and By	Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
22	Paul Butterfield's Better Days	Nobody's Fault But Mine	'Better Days' + 'Better Days – It All Comes Back'
23	Sister Lottie Peavy	Nobody's Fault But Mine	Great Gospel Performers: Complete Recording Sessions in Chronological Order, 1937-1950
24	Brother Claude Ely	I'm Crying Holy Unto The Lord	Satan Get Back
25	Bad Livers	Crying Holy Unto The Lord	Dust On The Bible
26	The Jordaniares	Dig a Little Deeper	The Jordaniares Gospel
27	Mahalia Jackson	Dig A Little Deeper	Good News (Vol 3) Get Away Jordan
28	Johnny Cash	Where We'll Never Grow Old	Unearthed Volume Four. My Mother's Hymn Book
29	Patty Griffin	Never Grow Old	Downtown Church
30	Johnny Cash & The Carter Family	Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)	Country's 20 Classic Gospel Songs of the Century
31	Aaron Neville	Were You There	Gospel Roots
32	Jessi Colter	His Eye Is On The Sparrow [Album Version]	Out Of The Ashes
33	The Staple Singers	This May Be The Last Time	Swing Low

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Carl Sandburg’s Songbag Pt 2

December 1, 2018 Dave

We had so much fun with our first installment a few months back that we thought it was worth a second installment…well, that and the depth and breadth of the American Songbag certainly lends itself to doing so. It doesn’t hurt either that it fits our deeper roots sensibilities so well. This installment finds us meandering about those classic songs whose topics include mellow blues ballads, hobo songs, Mexican border songs (how appropriate), tarnished love tales, and the ‘road to heaven’. Helping us through our sets we’ll be featuring an interesting collection of performers: Dave Van Ronk, Dock Boggs, Rosanne Cash, and Peter Case. A host of others will join in the fun on Community Radio for Sonoma County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Dave Van Ronk	Willie The Weeper	Down In Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
3	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Willie the Weeper	Dirt, Silver & Gold Disc 1
4	Dan Zanes	Roll The Chariot	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
5	Josh White	Barbara Allen	Best Of Josh White
6	Delmore Brothers	Frozen Girl	Brown's Ferry Blues
7	Dock Boggs	Pretty Polly	Country Blues
8	The Carter Family	My Sweetheart Is a Poor Working Girl/Waves of the Sea (Instrumental)	On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1
9	Tony Rice	House Carpenter	Church Street Blues
10	Hylo Brown	Pretty Fair Maiden	Legends & Tall Tales
11	Ola Belle Reed, John Miller, Burl Kilby	The Orphan Girl	Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
12	David Rawlings	Midnight Train	Poor David's Almanack
13	Arlo Guthrie	Gypsy Davy	Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004)
14	Peter Case	Roving Gambler	Sings Like Hell
15	Rosanne Cash	Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow	The List
16	Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra & William Warfield	Old American Songs (Set One): Zion's Walls	Copland Conducts Copland (Expanded Edition)
17	Louis Armstrong	Ezekiel Saw De Wheel	Louis And The Good Book
18	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Things That I used to do (and I Don't Do No More)	The Gospel Truth
19	The Robinson Children	I Ain't Gwine Study About War No More	Swinging Gospel Sounds (1935-1942)
20	The Bronzemen	Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again	The Bronzemen – Radio Transcriptions (1939)
21	Septeto Habanero	Cielito Lindo	Cuba. Por La Musica
22	Los Panchos	La Cucaracha – La Adelita	Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
23	Dan Zanes	Lo Que Digo	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
24	Kathy Reid-Naiman	Pretty Betty Martin	Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie
25	Laurie Lewis	Weevily Wheat	Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals
26	Dan Zanes	Cuckoo Waltz	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
27	Tom Paxton	Times A-Getting Hard, Boys	Seeds – The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 (Disc 2 Of 2 – Friends Of Pete)
28	Bobby Bare	Times Are Gettin' Hard	Memories – RCA Singles 1962 – 1969
29	Ronnie Gilbert	Lincoln And Liberty	Songs Of The Civil War
30	Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur	The Boll Weevil	Penny's Farm
31	Dave Van Ronk	Gamblers Blues	Dust Bowl Blues Essential American Folk

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Great Gospel

September 8, 2018 Dave

Deeper Roots goes to the deeper wells of black American gospel which is one of the more powerful examples of bedrock sounds that we play here on our show. This show includes hand-picked classics such as “The Old Rugged Cross”, “Joshua Fit the Battle”, “Trouble in My Way”, and a medley of freedom classics from the SNCC Freedom Singers. It’s a mix of jubilee quartets, female gospel greats, sensational musical sermons, as well as Aretha, Sister Tharpe, Mahalia, and The Staples. Tune in for more….a whole lot more.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Blind Boys Of Alabama	Freedom Road	Higher Ground
3	Mahalia Jackson	Didn't It Rain	16 Most Requested Songs
4	Marie Knight	The Old Rugged Cross	Hallelujah What A Song!
5	Marie Knight	Walk With Me	The Great Gospel Women
6	SNCC Freedom Singers	Woke Up This Morning	Crossroads: Southern Roots
7	The Freedom Singers	Freedom Medley:Freedom Chant, Oh Freedom, This Little Light Of Mine	Voices Of the Civil Rights Movement
8	Joseph Crawford and unidentified vocalist	Free At Las'	2- The Long Road To Freedom : An Anthology Of Black Music
9	Southern Sons	I'm Free At Last (1942)	1940's Vocal Groups: Southern Sons (1941-44) & Richmond's Harmonizing Four (1943)
10	Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers	Mean Old World	The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3]
11	Aretha Franklin	Precious Lord (Part One)	Lovely Jazz Gospel & Blues
12	Marion Williams	Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares	The Great Gospel Women
13	Clara Ward Singers	Somebody Bigger Than You & I	Somebody Bigger Than You & I
14	Morris Brown Quartet	Climbing Up The Mountain	I Hear Music In The Air
15	Southern Sons	Lift Every Voice And Sing	I Hear Music In The Air
16	The Swan Silvertones	Trouble In My Way	Love Lifted Me
17	Bill Landford And The Landfordaires	Trouble Of This World [Album Version]	The Gospel Tradition: The Roots And The Branches, Vol. 1
18	Fisk Jubilee Singers	Joshua Fit The Battle	American Roots Music [Disc 3]
19	Leonard de Paur conducting choir	We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder	5- The Long Road To Freedom : An Anthology Of Black Music
20	Gospel Tones	Roll, Jordan, Roll	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
21	The Sensational Nightingales	Freedom After a While	Great Gospel – People Get Ready
22	Reverend Robert Ballinger	So Glad	1950s Gospel Classics
23	Mahalia Jackson	I'm on My Way To Canaan	101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1
24	The Trumpeteers	I'll Fly Away	Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
25	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Stand By Me	Complete Recorded Works, 1938 – 1944; Volume 1
26	The Belleville A Cappella Choir of the Church of God and Saints of Christ	Great Camp Meeting… – Swing Low… – Steal Away – What Kind… – Oh Them… – I'm a Soldier… (Medley of Spirituals)	Southern Journey Vol 11: Honor the Lamb
27	The Staple Singers	Swing Down, Chariot	Swing Low Sweet Chariot + Uncloudy Day (Bonus Track Version)
28	The Staple Singers	Uncloudy Day	Swing Low Sweet Chariot + Uncloudy Day (Bonus Track Version)
29	Golden Gate Quartet	God's Gonna Cut 'em Down	101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1
30	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Christian's Automobile	Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds
31	Southern Sons	Above My Head, I Hear The Music In The Air	I Hear Music In The Air
32	Arizona Dranes	Bye & Bye We're Going To See The King	He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes

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Dylan & The Gospel

June 16, 2018 Dave

The argument has been made that Bob Dylan’s earliest music contained more prophetic prose than his deep dive into the Christian faith in Slow Train Coming. His pen had always leaned on the big story lines of Old and New Testaments but he went all out, much as he did in his ‘rock’ conversion, when he made the direct connection to matters of the soul that he would find in the Bible. This week’s show features the gospel songs of Bob Dylan, performed by gospel greats The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Fairfield Four, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, and so many others. Tune into Sonoma County Community radio for a Dylan gospel fest including Maria Muldaur and Willie Nile.

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Highway to Heaven

June 10, 2018 Dave

The first of two gospel Friday mornings coming up on Deeper Roots in June. This week, we’ll follow a ‘heavenly’ theme. The Christian vision of afterlife’s reward is expressed in music on a Friday morning in West County (of all places). There will be country and black gospel sounds emanating from the UMC in downtown Sebastopol on KOWS radio as we share performances about heaven including the electric voices of Marion Williams and Marie Knight; the rocking celebration of the good book from Sister Rosetta and Brother Claude Ely; and country gospel enlightenment from Willie and Bobbie Nelson. This one is worth the wait and worth it’s weight in heavenly gold. Tune in!

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Thomas A. Dorsey with Alex Bradford	It's A Highway To Heaven	Precious Lord Recordings Of The Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey
3	Fisk Jubilee Singers	Shout All Over God's Heaven	Recordings In Chonological Order, Vol. 2: 1915-1920
4	The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir	Heaven Belongs To You	Shakin' The Rafters
5	The Staple Singers	What Are They Doing? (In Heaven Today)	Amen/Why
6	Washington Phillips	What Are They Doing In Heaven Today	Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
7	Mahalia Jackson	A City Called Heaven	Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns
8	Mahalia Jackson	Walk Over God's Heaven	16 Most Requested Songs
9	Clara Ward	When We All Get To Heaven	The Very Greatest
10	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Walk All Over To God's Heaven	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
11	Original Gospel Stars	I Want To Go To Heaven	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
12	Blind Gussie Nesbit	Canaan's Land	When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
13	Mother McCollum	When I Take My Vacation In Heaven	When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
14	Willie and Bobbie Nelson	When We All Get To Heaven	Farther Along
15	Patsy Cline	Life's Railway to Heaven	Country's 20 Classic Gospel Songs of the Century
16	Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys	I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven	King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail
17	Alison Krauss & The Cox Family	Walk Over God's Heaven	New Country December 1994
18	The Stanley Brothers	Angels Are Singing (In Heaven Tonight) [Album Version]	The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers
19	Jimmy Martin	Little Angels In Heaven	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 2]
20	Ethel Davenport & Ehel Davenport Singers	Heavenly Express	Powerhouse Gospel
21	The Staple Singers	On My Way To Heaven	Four Classic Albums
22	Blind Gussie Nesbit	Pure Religion	When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
23	Sister Cally Fancy	Goin' On To Heaven In The Sanctified Way	Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
24	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Heaven Is Not My Home	Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record
25	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Beams of Heaven	The Original Soul Sister: This Train [Disc 4]
26	Marie Knight	Seal Of Heaven	Hallelujah What A Song!
27	Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes	Heaven I Heard So Much About It	I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983
28	Dorothy Love Coates	When I Reach My Heavenly Home	The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes
29	Marion Williams	Sometimes I Ring Up Heaven	Packin' Up
30	The Davis Sisters	Too Close To Heaven	Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 4]
31	The Swan Silvertones	Heavenly Light Shine On Me	Heavenly Light
32	The Golden Gate Quartet	No Restricted Signs (Up in Heaven)	Vol. 5 (1945-1949)
33	Brother Claude Ely	I Want To Go To Heaven	Satan Get Back
34	Bill Neely	Satan's Burning Hell	The Essential Guide To Gospel

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Early Gospel Blues

March 31, 2018 Dave

Gospel music informed much of the music from the early century and the blues took it’s soul and inspiration from many passages. Numerous street corner buskers promoted the scripture and many, like Blind Willie Johnson, Gary Davis, Oda Mae Terrell, and Mother McCollum were known as musical evangelists in addition to their place in the church. And the spirituals also informed the music of Blind Boy Fuller, Charley Patton, Barbecue Bob, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and so many early blues men and women. We’ll sample a few and take our Friday evening show with some reverence and grit.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Washington Phillips	Denomination Blues – Part 1	Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues
3	Mississippi John Hurt	Praying On The Old Camp Ground	Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings
4	Mother McCollum	Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane	Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951)
5	Mother McCollum	Oh Lord I'm Your Child	Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951)
6	Blind Lemon Jefferson	He Arose From The Dead	The Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Atlanta & Chicago 1926 [Disc 2]
7	Blind Joe Taggart And Joshua White	Scandalous And A Shame (Pm 12780, 20942-4)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
8	Sam Collins	I Want To Be Like Jesus In My Heart	Complete Recorded Works 1927-31
9	Barbecue Bob	When The Saints Go Marching In	Complete Recorded Works Vol 1
10	Blind Willie Johnson	I'm Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge	Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues
11	Charley Patton	Lord I'm Discouraged	Blues Images Presents: 1920's Blues Classics Vol.14
12	Bukka White	I Am In the Heavenly Way	Masters Of The Delta Blues: The Friends Of Charlie Patton
13	Bo Weavil Jackson (Sam Butler)	Heaven Is My View	Backwoods Blues (1926-1935)
14	Lil McClintock	Sow Good Seeds	21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10
15	Blind Nesbit Gussie	Pure Religion	Vol. 2-(1929-34)
16	Blind Gussie Nesbit	Canaan's Land	When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
17	Skip James	Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader	Complete Early Recordings
18	Blind Boy Fuller	Precious Lord	Heart Ease Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.55)
19	Blind Boy Fuller	Must Have Been My Jesus	Heart Ease Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.55)
20	Josh White	Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed	Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues
21	Josh White	Lord, I Want To Die Easy	Complete Recorded Works 1929-1940 Vol. 2
22	Blind Willie McTell	I Got Religion I'm So Glad (w/ Kate McTell)	The Classic Years: 1933 – 1935 New York " Chicago
23	Bull City Red	I Feel Like Shoutin'	Blues And Gospel From The Eastern States (1935-1944)
24	Memphis Minnie	Let Me Ride	Memphis Minnie – Queen of Country Blues, 1929 – 1937 [Disc 4]
25	Brownie McGhee	Done What My Lord Said	The Complete Brownie McGhee [Disc 2]
26	Jimpson & Group	No More My Lord	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
27	Sister O. M. Terrell	God's Little Birds	Country Gospel 1946-1953
28	Rev. Gary Davis	Get Right Church	Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs
29	Reverend Gary Davis	I Am The Light Of This World	Harlem Street Singer
30	Blind Willie McTell	Lord Have Mercy If You Please	Pig 'n Whistle Red
31	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Everybody's Gonna Have A Wonderful Time Up There	Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record
32	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Saviour Don't Pass Me By	Complete Recorded Works, 1938 – 1944; Volume 1
33	Big Joe Williams	King Jesus	Shake Your Boogie

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Rockin’ Rhythm & Gospel

February 10, 2018 Dave

We gravitate towards gospel because it’s roots are so entwined with virtually every form of music we feature on Deeper Roots; so we’ll revisit the sound once more. However, in this episode we’ll focus on the rock and rhythm inspiration…gospel performances that were more worldliness than holiness. Jesus Rocked The Jukebox is the name of an album that we’ve leaned on in this episode and expanded from there with examples of over-the-top performances in the key of the sacred but with the pounding rhythmic syncopation of the secular. Join Dave Stroud as he pulls out the stop with the likes of The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Detroiters, The Highway QCs, Fannie Bell Chapman, and a host of others. Breathtaking gospel for a Friday evening in Sonoma County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Pilgrim Travelers	After While (Take 8)	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
3	The Detroiters	Let Jesus Lead You	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
4	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Jesus Children of America	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds
5	The Swan Silvertones	Trouble In My Way	Love Lifted Me
6	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Trouble In My Way	The History of Black Gospel Volume 6
7	Lou Rawls & The Chosen Gospel Singers	Walk With Me	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
8	The Original Blind Boys	People Don't Sing Like They Used To Sing	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
9	The Blind Boys Of Alabama	He's Alright	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
10	Fannie Bell Chapman	He's My Rock, My Sword, My Shield	Fire In My Bones : Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007
11	The Chosen Gospel Singers	Ananais	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
12	The Chosen Gospel Singers	Trouble Of This World's Condition	I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From The Nashboro Label 1951-1983
13	Rosa Shaw	On The Highway	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
14	Sister Emily Bram	Each Day	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
15	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Up Above My Head There's Music In The Air	Gospel Train
16	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Rock Me	Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel, Vol. 3
17	Lucky Millinder/Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Shout, Sister, Shout!	The Gospel of Blues
18	The Staple Singers	Wade In The Water	Freedom Highway
19	The Staple Singers	Jacob's Ladder	Freedom Highway
20	The Golden Gate Quartet	Wade In The Water (1946)	Vol. 5 (1945-1949) (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 5, 1939-1949)
21	Gospel Hummingbirds	Pray On	Taking Flight
22	The Highway QC'S	Walk with Me	Great Gospel – People Get Ready
23	The Highway Q.C.'s	The Way Up The Hill	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
24	Brother John Sellers	He's My Rock	Smithsonian Folkways: Classic African American Gospel
25	The Swan Silvertones	My Rock	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 2: More Black Gospel
26	Roberta Martin And The Roberta Martin Singers	Rock My Soul	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
27	Gospel Silhouettes	Rock In A Weary Land	Powerhouse Gospel Vol 1
28	The Swan Silvertones	Sinner Man	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
29	Gospel Supremes	Sinner Man	Local Customs: Downriver Revival
30	Silvertone Quintet	Stand By Me	Powerhouse Gospel
31	Mary Deloatch	The Lord's Gospel Train	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
32	Roscoe Robinson With Huey Brown & The Silver Quintette	Sinner's Crossroads	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
33	The Harmonizing Four	Hallelujah	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
34	The Staple Singers	Will The Circle Be Unbroken	Folk, Gospel & Blues Will The Circle Be Unbroken Disk 2
35	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Christian's Automobile	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds

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Pure Religion

January 28, 2017 Dave

Gospel is the order of the day … inspirational American roots music to moderate the gloomy days of mid-Winter here in Sonoma County. Blues, rock, country, and the sanctified sounds of spirituality coming to you on another Wednesday evening on Deeper Roots. Our playlist will take you to Maxwell Street with Daddy Stovepipe, the ‘heavenly shore’ with Blind Gussie Nesbit, into the deep country southern climes with Polk Miller and Mac Odell, and we’ll explore contemporary religious topics with Warren Zevon, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, and Lucinda Williams. Tune in!

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Fern Jones	I Ain't Got Time	The Glory Road
3	Reverend Gary Davis	Pure Religion	Harlem Street Singer
4	Blind Gussie Nesbit	Pure Religion	When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
5	Rory Block	Pure Religion	I Belong To The Band: A Tribute To Rev. Gary Davis
6	Rev. Pearly Brown	God Don't Never Change	You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
7	Lonnie Johnson	Devil's Got The Blues	Complete Recorded Works, Vol:1
8	The Louvin Brothers	Sinner, You'd Better Get Ready	Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music
9	Iris DeMent	I've Got That Old Time Religion (In My Heart)	Lifeline
10	Wade Mainer	Streamlined Religion	1961 King Session
11	Doug Macleod	Dubb's Talking Religion Blues	There's a Time
12	Willie and Bobbie Nelson	Old Time Religion	Farther Along
13	Pete Seeger	Old Time Religion	Singalong: Live At Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980 (1 of 2)
14	Daddy Stovepipe (Johnny Watson)	Old Time Religion	Blues From Maxwell Street
15	Polk Miller's Old South Quartette	That "Old Time" Religion	Music Of The Old South: Polk Miller & The Old South Quartette
16	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	I Claim Jesus First	The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3]
17	The Blind Boys Of Alabama	Good Religion	Spirit Of The Century
18	The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band	Devils Look Like Angels	Between the Ditches
19	Warren Zevon	Dirty Little Religion	Life'll Kill Ya
20	Mac Odell	One Day Religion	Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
21	T. Texas Tyler	You've Got to Live Your Religion Every Day	T. Texas Tyler Hymns
22	Lucinda Williams	You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion	Ramblin'
23	Rev. Pearly Brown	By And By (I'm Gonna See The King)	You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
24	The Staple Singers	I Know I Got Religion	Swing Low Sweet Chariot + Uncloudy Day (Bonus Track Version)
25	Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips	Give Me That Old Time Religion	Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips
26	Reverend Edward Clayborn	Then We'll Need That True Religion	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
27	The Weavers	True Religion	The Weavers Almanac
28	Clara Ward & Ward Singers	You Must Have Good Religion	I Feel the Holy Spirit
29	Maria Muldaur	He Calls That Religion	Garden Of Joy
30	Reverend Gary Davis	I Didn't Want to Join the Band	Pure Religion and Bad Company
31	Rev. Pearly Brown	Ninety-Nine And A Half Won't Do	You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
32	Mississippi Fred McDowell	I'm So Glad, Got Good Religion	Good Morning Little School Girl
33	Wilson Pickett	Ninety-Nine & A Half (Won't Do)	A Man & A Half: The Best Of Wilson Pickett [Disc 1]

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Evil Blues

December 17, 2016 Dave

It’s the story of evil told in the voice of the blues. All things evil are explored in the voices of gospel, country blues, urban blues, and the folk blues. Evil ways, bad blood, fear, and the depths to which the evil in man’s heart can go are the themes tonight in a show that features the likes of Otis Spann, Elmore James, Henry Truvillion, The Golden Gate Quartet, and many others. All of this coming to you on a cold December evening in Sonoma County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Howlin' Wolf	Evil	Blues From Hell
3	The Golden Gate Quartet	Atom And Evil (1946)	Vol. 5 (1945-1949) (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 5, 1939-1949)
4	The Golden Gate Quartet (Willie Johnson, baritone/William Langford, tenor/Henry Owens, tenor/Arlandus Wilson, Bass) (Aka "Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet")	The Devil With The Devil	Vol. 3, 1939 (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 3, 1939)
5	Chris Smither	The Devil's Real	A Little On The Cd Side Volume 11
6	Noah Lewis	Devil In The Wood Pile	When The Sun Goes Down: Walk Right In – The Secret Story Of Rock & Roll
7	Don Byas's Swig Seven, Albinia Jones	Evil Gal Blues	Savoy Blues 1944-1994 [Disc 1]
8	Dinah Washington	Evil Gal Blues	Gold
9	T-Bone Walker	Evil Hearted Woman (Alt. Take)	The Complete Imperial Recordings: 1950-1954 [Disc 1]
10	Champion Jack Dupree	Evil Woman	Blues from the Gutter
11	Doctor Gaddy	Evil Man Blues	Shoutin' Out The Blues (R&B CD 2005-2)
12	Otis Spann	Evil Ways	Essential Blues Hits Disc 2
13	Washboard Sam	Evil Blues	Vol. 6 1941 – 1942
14	Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe	Evil Devil Woman Blues	Vol 4 (1933-34)
15	Moreland & Arbuckle	Mean And Evil	Promised Land Or Bust
16	B.B. King	Mean And Evil	There Is Always One More Time
17	Elmore James	Mean And Evil	Let's Cut It: The Very Best Of Elmore James
18	Lightnin' Hopkins	Mean and Evil Blues	Texas Guitar Killers Disc 1
19	Blind Boy Fuller	Worried and Evil Man Blues	Blind Boy Fuller Vol. 3 1937
20	Reverend Gary Davis	Cross And Evil Woman Blues	Southern Country Blues: Down In Boogie Alley [Disc 2]
21	Lowell Fulson	Don't Be So Evil	Juke Box Blues 1946-1948
22	Gatemouth Moore	Evil Gal's Jockey	Hey Mr. Gatemouth – Complete King Recordings
23	Albert King	I Get Evil	More Big Blues
24	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	Bad Blood	Sportin' the Blues Disc 2
25	Ramona Hicks	Evil and Blue	Swingin' the Blues: 1931-1939
26	Ollie Shepard	King Of All Evil	Vol. 2-1939-41
27	Walter Brown	What Evil Have I Done?	Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 2
28	Alice Moore	Black And Evil Blues	Black Swan Sampler
29	Koko Taylor	Evil	The Best of Koko Taylor
30	Ella Fitzgerald	Necessary Evil	The Chronological Ella Fitzgerald – 1951
31	Eartha Kitt/Henri René & His Orchestra	I Want to Be Evil	Purr-Fect: Greatest Hits
32	Aretha Franklin	Evil Gal Blues	Aretha Sings The Blues

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Gospel Dynamite II

September 24, 2016 Dave

In the second of two parts, we celebrate the very best in gospel sounds…songs and spirituals that are embedded in our culture. This week…”This Little Light Of Mine”, “How I Got Over”, “This Train”, “This Train”, and many more. We’ll play the sacred versions alongside the celebratory secular ones with performers like Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, The Fisk Jubilee Singers, The Swan Silvertones, and Louis Armstrong. Tune in for two hours of rousing gospel in another two hour Americana roots journey on Sonoma County community radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Hugh Laurie	Didn't It Rain	Didn't It Rain (Deluxe)
3	Amy Helm	Didn't It Rain	Didn't It Rain
4	Evelyn Freeman And The Exciting Voices Chorus	Didn't It Rain	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
5	Abyssinian Baptist Radio Choir	Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody, Pts. 1&2	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
6	The Blackwood Brothers	Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody	Southern Gospel Heritage Series: The Blackwood Brothers
7	Sweet Honey In The Rock	Just a Closer Walk With Thee	African American Gospel: The Pioneering Composers
8	Sweet Honey In the Rock	Precious Memories	Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
9	Five Blind Boys of Mississippi	Precious Memories	20th Century Masters – The Best Of
10	Shirley Caesar And Ann Nesby	The Stone	Fighting Temptations
11	The Million Dollar Quartet	Old Time Religion	The Million Dollar Quartet: 50th Anniversary Special Edition
12	The Louvin Brothers	This Little Light Of Mine	Close Harmony [Disc 3]
13	Sam Cooke	This Little Light Of Mine	Sam Cooke At the Copa
14	Sam Cooke	That's Heaven To Me	The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke
15	Sam Cooke	Touch The Hem Of His Garment	Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
16	Al Kooper	Touch The Hem Of His Garment	Naked Songs
17	The Swan Silvertones	Mary Don't You Weep	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances, Vol. 1: Black Gospel
18	Long John Baldry	Oh Mary Don't You Weep	Remembering Leadbelly
19	Bruce Springsteen	O Mary Don't You Weep	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1
20	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	This Train	Gospel Blues – the Very Best Of
21	Linda Gail Lewis	This Train	Hard Rocking Woman
22	Fisk Jubilee Singers	Joshua Fit The Battle	American Roots Music [Disc 3]
23	Mahalia Jackson	Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho [Album Version]	Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns
24	Louis Armstrong	Bye and Bye	101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1
25	The Golden Gate Quartet	Bye and Bye Little Children	Vol. 2 (1938-1939)
26	Reverend Robert Ballinger	How I Got Over	1950s Gospel Classics
27	Clara Ward & Ward Singers	How I Got Over	I Feel the Holy Spirit
28	The Chambers Brothers	People Get Ready	Roots Of Folk
29	Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions	People Get Ready	Akeelah And The Bee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
30	The Selah Singers	He's My Rock, Sword And Shield	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
31	The Selah Singers	I'll Be Satisfied	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
32	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Let's Go Out to the Programs (Single)	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds
33	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread	Gospel Blues – the Very Best Of

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