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.
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Artist
Title
Album
Buy
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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
It’s a two part celebration of the very best in gospel sounds…songs and spirituals that are embedded in our culture. There just was not enough time to capture the great songs like “I’ll Fly Away”, “This Train”, “Please In The Valley”, “Down By The Riverside”, and so many others in just a single episode…so we broke it into two parts which is still barely enough. We’ll play the influential sacred versions alongside the celebratory secular ones with performers like Chet Atkins, Mahalia Jackson, Elvis Presley, and the CBS Trumpeteers. Tune in for two hours of rousing gospel in another two hour Americana roots journey on Sonoma County community radio.
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1
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
2
The Golden Gate Quartet
Rock My Soul
The Very Best of the Golden Gate Quartet [CD2]
3
Reverend Robert Ballinger
This Train
1950s Gospel Classics
4
Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
This Train
Vintage Collections
5
Ricky Nelson
Glory Train
Legacy [Disc 2]
6
The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir
I Want To Ride That Glory Train
Shakin' The Rafters
7
Mahalia Jackson
I'm on My Way To Canaan
101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1
8
Chet Atkins
On My Way to Canaan's Land
The Essential Chet Atkins [RCA]
9
The Dillards
I'll Fly Away
There Is A Time: 1963-70
10
Willie and Bobbie Nelson
I'll Fly Away
Farther Along
11
The Blind Boys Of Alabama
I'll Fly Away
Oh Lord, Stand By Me / Marching Up To Zion
12
The Blind Boys Of Alabama
Amazing Grace
Spirit Of The Century
13
Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues
Amazing Grace
Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation [Disc 2]
14
The Golden Gate Quartet
Swing Down, Chariot (1946)
Vol. 5 (1945-1949) (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 5, 1939-1949)
15
Elvis Presley
Swing Down Sweet Chariot
He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 1
16
Elvis Presley
Milky White Way
Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
17
CBS Trumpeteers
Milky White Way
I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From The Nashboro Label 1951-1983
18
Mahalia Jackson
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Something to Believe In
19
Fern Jones
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
The Glory Road
20
Mike Farris
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Salvation in Lights
21
Bonnie Guitar
Down By the Riverside
The Velvet Lounge – By the Fireside
22
Sammy Price Trio/Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Down by the Riverside
The Gospel of Blues
23
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Anita Kerr Singers
There'll Be Peace in the Valley for Me
101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1
24
Johnny Cash
Peace In The Valley
Gospel Glory
25
Elvis Presley
Peace in the Valley
Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
26
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
Uncloudy Day
Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
27
The Staple Singers
Uncloudy Day
Swing Low Sweet Chariot + Uncloudy Day (Bonus Track Version)
28
Smith Jubilee Singers
Just A Little Talk With Jesus / Smith Jubilee Singers
The History of Black Gospel Volume 6
29
Willie Nelson
Just a Little Walk With Jesus
Old Time Religion
30
Loretta Lynn
Old Time Religion
All Time Gospel Favorites [Disc 2]
31
Reverend James Cleveland And The Caravans
Old Time Religion
Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
32
Evelyn Freeman And The Exciting Voices Chorus
Didn't It Rain
Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
33
Fern Jones
Didn't It Rain
The Glory Road
34
Elvis Presley
Joshua Fit The Battle
Amazing Grace – His Greatest Sacred Performances (Disc 1)
Johnny Cash, like so many others, followed on the heels and inspiration of Elvis at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. But while others (save for possibly Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis) would fight for the scraps from this ‘new sound’, Johnny less-than-obligingly would ignore all the best advice. He began with the simplest of songs delivered in a farm boy’s tone and, with the Tennessee Three in tow, grew the sound into an identity. Our show this week will lean on his own recordings as well as music from performers he was inspired by…we’ll also include music from contemporaries and those who he inspired.
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Artist
Title
Album
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Johnny Cash
Ring Of Fire
Columbia Country Classics – Volume 4: The Nashville Sound
3
The Chuck Wagon Gang
After The Sunrise [Album Version]
Columbia Country Classics Volume 1: The Golden Age
4
Brother Claude Ely
There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
Favorite Sacred Songs
5
Gene Autry
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blues Eyes
The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
6
Gene Autry
High Steppin' Mama
American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2]
7
Bob Wills
Faded Love
For the Last Time
8
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
San Antonio Rose
The Country Music Hall Of Fame
9
The Carter Family
Anchored In Love
The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 1]
10
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash – Cowboy's Prayer
Johnny Cash Interviews
11
Goebel Reeves
Cowboy's Prayer
…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
12
The Chuck Wagon Gang
We Are Climbing
Flowers In The Wildwood
13
Johnny Cash
Big River
His Sun Years: Down South
14
Johnny Cash
Hey Porter
The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 1]
15
Johnny Cash
Five Feet High And Rising
Songs Of Our Soil
16
Johnny Cash
Pickin' Time
The Fabulous Johnny Cash
17
Johnny Cash/The Carter Family
Keep on the Sunny Side
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
18
Johnny Cash
I Walk The Line
Classic Country
19
June Carter Cash
Oh, Susannah
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
20
Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter
Fair and Tender Ladies
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
21
Johnny Cash & June Carter
Jackson
Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter
22
Rosanne Cash
I Still Miss Someone
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
23
Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan
Girl From The North Country
Nashville Skyline
24
Johnny Cash
Man in Black
16 Biggest Hits
25
Johnny Cash
Ain't No Grave
American VI: Ain't No Grave
26
Johnny Cash
Tear Stained Letter
American IV: Man Comes Around
27
Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison Blues
At Folsom Prison
28
George Jones/Johnny Cash
I Got Stripes
My Very Special Guests [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
29
Rosanne Cash
Tennessee Flat Top Box
King's Record Shop
30
Emmylou Harris; The Milk Carton Kids
Apache Tears
Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited
31
Bruce Springsteen
Give My Love To Rose
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
32
Johnny Cash
Wanted Man
The Mystery Of Life
33
Bob Dylan
Train Of Love
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
We visit the classic sounds of country and bluegrass with thematic overtones of gospel. The love of country music often had its roots in a performer’s childhood memories of community church and the sound that would evolve from country and bluegrass provided a tone that grew from those memories…with a tenor that could easily echo the word’. The greatest of them elevated their popularity with their flock by invoking the name of that higher power of God and church in the community of bluegrass: The Stanley Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Ricky Skaggs, Doyle Lawson, and even country groups like the The Louvin Brothers and The Whitstein Brothers made gospel a core of their repertoire.
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Artist
Title
Album
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2
The Louvin Brothers
There's A Higher Power
Satan Is Real
3
The Whitstein Brothers
Way Up On The Mountain
Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins
4
Fern Jones
I Do Believe
The Glory Road
5
Kitty Wells
I Heard My Saviour Call
Dust on the Bible (1959)
6
Kitty Wells
(I've Got My) One-Way Ticket to the Sky
Dust on the Bible (1959)
7
Milton Estes
Hish! Somebody's Calling My Name
Favorite Sacred Songs
8
Brother Claude Ely
Fare You Well
Satan Get Back
9
King's Sacred Quartette
Turn Your Radio On
Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
10
J.E. Mainer
Workin' On A Building
Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
11
The Carter Family
God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
12
The Carter Family
On My Way To Canaan's Land
Take Me To The Water
13
The Delmore Brothers
The Wrath Of God
Favorite Sacred Songs
14
The Stanley Brothers
Over the Glory Land
16 Greatest Gospel Hits
15
The Stanley Brothers
My Lord's Going To Set Me Free
Hymns & Sacred Songs
16
Mac Wiseman
I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map
Grassroots To Bluegrass
17
Mac Wiseman
Dust On The Bible
Grassroots To Bluegrass
18
Ricky Skaggs
Hallelujah I'm Ready
Family And Friends
19
The Johnson Mountain Boys
Springtime in Glory
Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music
20
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Jesus Gave Me Water
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
21
George Jones & Tammy Wynette
Let's All Go Down To The River
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
22
Moore & Napier
Gathering In The Sky
Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel
23
Elvis Presley
I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs
He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 1
24
Willie Nelson
Sweet Bye and Bye
Old Time Religion
25
Johnny Cash
Unclouded Day
Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South
26
Chuck Wagon Gang/The Jordanaires
Down the Road
70th Anniversary
27
The Corley Family
Way To Glory Land (1929)
Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936
28
The Corley Family
Give The World A Smile
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
We’ve got a show jam-packed with gospel sounds set against a backdrop of fiery fields, unclouded days, and great speckled birds. Join us on our regular two hour Friday night show on KWTF as we take a trip down the country gospel highway, celebrating a style of music that was mostly inspired by the memories of ‘back home’ and the church, where a lot of our performers were first introduced to music. We’ll share that old time religion in spiritual and song from deep in the heartland. We open with some of the classic old time gospel sounds of The Carter Family and J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineer then go flying down heaven’s railway on the Gospel Cannonball while Johnny Cash, The Louvin Brothers, T. Texas Tyler, Hank Williams, and Kitty Wells will be preaching on that old country gospel stage alongside bluegrass gospel favorites from mid-century.And we’ll also hear a couple of new tracks from Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives.
Another beautiful winter Saturday morning in West Sonoma County and it’s time for a collection of hot blues, country gospel, early rock, early century pop, and swinging country on Deeper Roots… everything from Eddie Cantor’s 1922 song about a trapeze and Blind Willie McTell covering Jimmie Rodgers around mid-century, to a track from 2014 from a new band out of New Orleans called Hurray For The Riff Raff…another reason our tag line reads “A Century of America’s Music”. Join Dave Stroud on a brisk Saturday morning from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, California.
Lots of early sounds mixed with the new this weekend. Stay tuned for music from the medicine shows, lost provinces, gospel tents, swamps, bandstands, and digital playgrounds. We’ve got Sam Samudio, Shorty Godwin, The Seldom Scene, Shel Silverstein, and Tom Russell in our bi-weekly show broadcast live from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, a hamlet tucked into the redwoods along the Bohemian Highway in west Sonoma County. The drought is being beat down and, while we would welcome more rain, we’re hoping that it’s dispersed so that our neighbors can manage without threat of flooding. So we’ll flood you all with a fine collection of performances from the last century of America’s music.
Join Dave Stroud once more as he digs into those dusty digital gospel bins for a selection of songs that celebrate the celestial sounds of a number of the greatest sacred hymns and gospel tunes from the past century of America’s music. “Wade In The Water”, “I’m On My Way To Canaan Land”, “I’ll Fly Away”, and many other classic gospel standards will be covered by some of the great gospel performers as well as those from the secular stable. We’ll hear from Bill Monroe, Blind Willie Johnson, Taj Mahal, Mahalia Jackson, and the Reverend Pearly Brown in a special Deeper Roots show called “Great Gospel Tracks”. Tune in for a show that explores the roots of sounds that explore those sounds of both Europeanized black church music as well as those that have their basis in the holiness-Pentecostal (or sanctified) movement.
Deeper Roots: A Century of America’s Music goes deeper…back 87 years to the summer of 1927 when Ralph Peer, a producer for the Victor Talking Machine Company visited the town of Bristol, Tennessee scouting for talent. He brought with him the equipment necessary to capture those first-take performances which would come to be known as The Bristol Sessions. From late July through early August artists such as The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers and the Stoneman Family made recordings in a makeshift studio inside downtown Bristol’s Taylor-Christian Hat Company. Johnny Cash once said that “These recordings…are the single most important event in the history of country music.”
Join Dave Stroud as Deeper Roots goes beyond the more notable names from these recordings and, with a certain leaning to the country sounds, he will also reveal the gospel and folk tradition that came out of these and the later Johnson City Sessions. We’ll hear from The Johnson Brothers, The Stamps Quartet, Alfred Karnes, Uncle Eck Dunford, and a host of others.
