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.
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Howlin' Wolf
Evil
Blues From Hell
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The Golden Gate Quartet
Atom And Evil (1946)
Vol. 5 (1945-1949) (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 5, 1939-1949)
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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)
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Chris Smither
The Devil's Real
A Little On The Cd Side Volume 11
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Noah Lewis
Devil In The Wood Pile
When The Sun Goes Down: Walk Right In – The Secret Story Of Rock & Roll
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Don Byas's Swig Seven, Albinia Jones
Evil Gal Blues
Savoy Blues 1944-1994 [Disc 1]
8
Dinah Washington
Evil Gal Blues
Gold
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T-Bone Walker
Evil Hearted Woman (Alt. Take)
The Complete Imperial Recordings: 1950-1954 [Disc 1]
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Champion Jack Dupree
Evil Woman
Blues from the Gutter
11
Doctor Gaddy
Evil Man Blues
Shoutin' Out The Blues (R&B CD 2005-2)
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Otis Spann
Evil Ways
Essential Blues Hits Disc 2
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Washboard Sam
Evil Blues
Vol. 6 1941 – 1942
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Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe
Evil Devil Woman Blues
Vol 4 (1933-34)
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Moreland & Arbuckle
Mean And Evil
Promised Land Or Bust
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B.B. King
Mean And Evil
There Is Always One More Time
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Elmore James
Mean And Evil
Let's Cut It: The Very Best Of Elmore James
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Lightnin' Hopkins
Mean and Evil Blues
Texas Guitar Killers Disc 1
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Blind Boy Fuller
Worried and Evil Man Blues
Blind Boy Fuller Vol. 3 1937
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Reverend Gary Davis
Cross And Evil Woman Blues
Southern Country Blues: Down In Boogie Alley [Disc 2]
To quote one blogger: “[Leon Russell] was one of the most adept and prolific session men of the 1960s rock scene, playing on more records and [alongside] more artists than many people could name, and his abilities and multi-instrumental proficiency would make him an unstoppable force when he debuted as an artist in his own right in the early seventies.” Summed up perfectly. And Deeper Roots will pay tribute to Leon with a look at his music, his songwriting prowess, the arc of his career, and the performances that made him that ‘unstoppable force’. We’ll hear from Joe Cocker, The Carpenters, George Benson, and (of course) Leon himself in a hastily gathered, but oh so sublime, show that honors an artist who we lost this past weekend. Tune into (and support) Sonoma County community radio.
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Leon Russell
She Smiles Like A River
Leon Russell And The Shelter People [Bonus Tracks]
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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Hugh Laurie
Didn't It Rain
Didn't It Rain (Deluxe)
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Amy Helm
Didn't It Rain
Didn't It Rain
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Evelyn Freeman And The Exciting Voices Chorus
Didn't It Rain
Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
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Abyssinian Baptist Radio Choir
Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody, Pts. 1&2
Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
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The Blackwood Brothers
Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody
Southern Gospel Heritage Series: The Blackwood Brothers
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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
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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]
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Sam Cooke
This Little Light Of Mine
Sam Cooke At the Copa
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Sam Cooke
That's Heaven To Me
The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke
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Sam Cooke
Touch The Hem Of His Garment
Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
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Al Kooper
Touch The Hem Of His Garment
Naked Songs
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The Swan Silvertones
Mary Don't You Weep
Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances, Vol. 1: Black Gospel
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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
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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
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Louis Armstrong
Bye and Bye
101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1
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The Golden Gate Quartet
Bye and Bye Little Children
Vol. 2 (1938-1939)
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Reverend Robert Ballinger
How I Got Over
1950s Gospel Classics
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Clara Ward & Ward Singers
How I Got Over
I Feel the Holy Spirit
28
The Chambers Brothers
People Get Ready
Roots Of Folk
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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
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The Selah Singers
I'll Be Satisfied
Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
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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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The Golden Gate Quartet
Rock My Soul
The Very Best of the Golden Gate Quartet [CD2]
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Reverend Robert Ballinger
This Train
1950s Gospel Classics
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Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
This Train
Vintage Collections
5
Ricky Nelson
Glory Train
Legacy [Disc 2]
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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The Golden Gate Quartet
Swing Down, Chariot (1946)
Vol. 5 (1945-1949) (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 5, 1939-1949)
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Elvis Presley
Swing Down Sweet Chariot
He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 1
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Elvis Presley
Milky White Way
Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
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CBS Trumpeteers
Milky White Way
I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From The Nashboro Label 1951-1983
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Mahalia Jackson
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Something to Believe In
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Fern Jones
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
The Glory Road
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Mike Farris
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Salvation in Lights
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Bonnie Guitar
Down By the Riverside
The Velvet Lounge – By the Fireside
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Sammy Price Trio/Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Down by the Riverside
The Gospel of Blues
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Anita Kerr Singers
There'll Be Peace in the Valley for Me
101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1
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Johnny Cash
Peace In The Valley
Gospel Glory
25
Elvis Presley
Peace in the Valley
Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
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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)
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Smith Jubilee Singers
Just A Little Talk With Jesus / Smith Jubilee Singers
The History of Black Gospel Volume 6
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Willie Nelson
Just a Little Walk With Jesus
Old Time Religion
30
Loretta Lynn
Old Time Religion
All Time Gospel Favorites [Disc 2]
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Reverend James Cleveland And The Caravans
Old Time Religion
Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
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Evelyn Freeman And The Exciting Voices Chorus
Didn't It Rain
Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
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Fern Jones
Didn't It Rain
The Glory Road
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Elvis Presley
Joshua Fit The Battle
Amazing Grace – His Greatest Sacred Performances (Disc 1)
Country, rock, gospel, tradition, blues, and ragtime…just a sampling of the styles that you’ll hear when you tune into Deeper Roots this week. We’ll feature some contemporary sounds from Luther Dickinson and Bruce Hornsby…classic country from Hank Snow and Webb Pierce…traditional standards from John Prine and Mac Wiseman…rock gems from Bo Diddley and Elvis Presley. And, believe or not…there’s more!
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Glenn Yarbrough
Baby The Rain Must Fall
Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's, Vol. 1
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Randy Newman
Louisiana 1927
Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1
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Randy Newman
Every Man a King
Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1
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Bonnie Raitt
Guilty
Bonnie Raitt Collection
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Bo Diddley
Say Man
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – The Best Of Bo Diddley
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Elvis Presley
Burning Love
Elvis 30 #1 Hits
8
Marty Stuart/The Staple Singers
Don't Be Cruel (To a Heart That's True)
The Marty Party Hit Pack
9
Luther Dickinson
Ain't No Grave (feat. Mavis Staples)
Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook) Volumes I & II
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Mavis Staples
Hard Times Come Again No More
Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster
11
The Staple Singers
Jacob's Ladder
Freedom Highway
12
Bruce Hornsby & The Noise Makers
Celestial Railroad
Rehab Reunion
13
The Staple Singers
Going Away
Swing Low Sweet Chariot + Uncloudy Day (Bonus Track Version)
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Webb Pierce/Willie Nelson
You're Not Mine Anymore
In the Jailhouse Now/Brand on My Heart
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Hank Snow
Rhumba Boogie
Hillbilly Boogie Box [Disc 4]
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Roy Hogsed
Cocaine Blues
Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
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Roy Rogers
I'm Gonna Gallop Gallop To Gallup New Mexico
Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
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Spade Cooley
Yodelling Polka
Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
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Jimmy Walker
Detour
Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
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Cyndi Lauper
Detour (Featuring Emmylou Harris)
Detour
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John Prine
Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out (Featuring Iris Dement)
For Better or Worse
22
John Prine & Mac Wiseman
Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
Standard Songs for Average People
23
John Prine & Mac Wiseman
Old Rugged Cross
Standard Songs for Average People
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Bob Dylan
Lone Pilgrim
World Gone Wrong
25
Ricky Skaggs
A Voice from on High
Soldier of the Cross
26
Jorma Kaukonen
Blues Stay Away From Me
Blue Country Heart
27
Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson
I Am The Light Of This World
Quah [Bonus Tracks]
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Reverend Gary Davis
I Am The Light Of This World
Slippin' 'til My Gal Comes In Partner: Columbia University 1958-59
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R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders
Georgia Camp Meeting (Radio Broadcast)
R. Crumb's Music Sampler
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R. Crumb And His Keep-on-Truckin' Orchestra
River Blues
R. Crumb's Music Sampler
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The Boswell Sisters
Down Among The Sheltering Palms
The Boswell Sisters Volume 2
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Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
Sunnyside Up
Paper Moon
33
Cab Calloway
Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
Are You Hep To The Jive?
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Jimmie Revard & The Oklahoma Playboys
Lose Your Blues and Laugh At Life
The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Playboy Stomp [Disc 2]
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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Johnny Cash
Ring Of Fire
Columbia Country Classics – Volume 4: The Nashville Sound
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The Chuck Wagon Gang
After The Sunrise [Album Version]
Columbia Country Classics Volume 1: The Golden Age
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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
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Gene Autry
High Steppin' Mama
American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2]
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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]
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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
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The Chuck Wagon Gang
We Are Climbing
Flowers In The Wildwood
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Johnny Cash
Big River
His Sun Years: Down South
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Johnny Cash
Hey Porter
The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 1]
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Johnny Cash
Five Feet High And Rising
Songs Of Our Soil
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Johnny Cash
Pickin' Time
The Fabulous Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash/The Carter Family
Keep on the Sunny Side
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
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Johnny Cash
I Walk The Line
Classic Country
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June Carter Cash
Oh, Susannah
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
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Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter
Fair and Tender Ladies
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
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Johnny Cash & June Carter
Jackson
Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter
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Rosanne Cash
I Still Miss Someone
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
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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
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Johnny Cash
Tear Stained Letter
American IV: Man Comes Around
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Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison Blues
At Folsom Prison
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George Jones/Johnny Cash
I Got Stripes
My Very Special Guests [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
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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
Our weekly show celebrates (albeit somewhat belatedly) Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday by tipping our caps not with his performances but with a collection of by others’ tribute pieces. We’ll hear songs written by Bob through the years and tell you the history of many of them at the same time. Tracks from Bobby Bare, Mavis Staples, Solomon Burke, Hazel Dickens, and Bill Frisell make this an eclectic journey on a Friday evening in Sonoma County. Be sure to tune in!
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Old Crow Medicine Show
Wagon Wheel
O.C.M.S.
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Sarah Jarosz
Simple Twist of Fate
Build Me Up From Bones
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Joan Baez
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
Baez Sings Dylan
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Bette Midler
I Shall Be Released
Bette Midler
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Bobby Bare
Farewell Angelina
Darker Than Light
7
Marshall Crenshaw
My Back Pages
Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village In The 60's
8
Flatt & Scruggs
Nashville Skyline Rag
Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends/Nashville Airplane
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Hazel Dickens
Only a Hobo
It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song
10
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Farewell Angelina
The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage
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Peter Case
Long Time Gone
HWY 62
12
Stephen Stills
The Ballad Of Hollis Brown
Stills Alone
13
Joan Osborne
Man in the Long Black Coat
Relish
14
R.L. Burnside
Everything Is Broken
Tangled Up In Blues
15
Susan Tedeschi
Lord Protect My Child
Hope and Desire
16
Julie London
Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)
Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks, Pt. 1
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Solomon Burke
What Good Am I?
Make Do With What You Got
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Sounds Of Blackness
Solid Rock [Album Version]
Gotta Serve Somebody – The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan
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Mavis Staples
Gotta Serve Somebody
Tangled Up In Blues
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The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver
Every Grain Of Sand
I'll Find A Way
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Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins
Handle With Care
Rabbit Fur Coat
22
The Byrds
All I Really Want to Do
The Byrds [Box Set] Disc 1
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The Turtles
It Ain't Me Babe
20 Greatest Hits
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Antony With Bryce Dessner
I Was Young When I Left Home
Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation [Disc 1]
Dave Stroud will explore the gospel form, both African American and Country, focusing on the theme of ‘going to the water’ to be saved. The songs reflect the celebration of ‘washing the soul’ as a tradition of a Christian faith. The performers will include Da Costa Woltz, Clefs of Harmony, Dock Walsh, and Ernest Stoneman’s Dixie Mountaineers. There will also be a helping of passionate sermons to make sure we keep our paths straight.
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Gee's Bend Residents
Good Evening Everybody (I've Been to the River and I've Been Baptized)
How We Got Over: Sacred Songs of Gee's Bend
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Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters
Baptist Shout
Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters & Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers (1927-1929)
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Mountain Ramblers
Baptizing Down By The Creek
Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals
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Bill Monroe
The Old Country Baptising
Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 2]
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The Louvin Brothers
The River Of Jordan
Satan Is Real
7
Zion Harmonizers
Brother Moses Smote The Water
Best of Louisiana Music SAMPLER
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Tommiettes Gospel Singers
Have You Been Through The Water
Powerhouse Gospel
9
The Golden Gate Quartet
Dip Your Fingers in the Water
Vol. 4 (1939-1943)
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The Golden Gate Quartet
Wade in the Water
CD 2 the Recent Years
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The Staple Singers
Wade In The Water
Freedom Highway
12
The Reverend J.M. Gates
Baptize Me
Take Me To The Water
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Elder JE Burch
Baptism By Water, And Baptism By The Holy Ghost
Take Me To The Water
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The Blind Boys Of Alabama
Take Me To The Water
I'll Find A Way
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The Harmonizing Four
Wade In The Water
The Essential Guide To Gospel
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Skylarks
Baptism Of Jesus
I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From The Nashboro Label 1951-1983
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Clefs of Harmony
Baptized
This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
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Selah Jubilee Singers
It's Cool Down Yonder By Chilly Jordan
Vol. 2-(1941-44/45)
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Sam Cook & Soul Stirrers
Jesus Gave Me Water
Great Gospel – No Tears in Heaven
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The Holmes Brothers
I Surrender All
Gospel Brunch Classics
21
The Chuck Wagon Gang & The Orthophonic Choir
Shall We Gather At The River
Orthophonic Joy
22
The Carter Family
On My Way To Canaan's Land
The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 3]
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Dock Walsh
Bathe In That Beautiful Pool
Take Me To The Water
24
Ricky Skaggs
River Of Jordan
Family And Friends
25
Ernest Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers
Down To Jordan And Be Saved
The Bristol Sessions 1927-1928 [[Disc 4]]
26
Washington Phillips
Denomination Blues Part 1
Take Me To The Water
27
Vaetta Stewart And Heavenly Tones Of Berkeley
I Love The Lord
Swingin' On The Golden Gate Volume 2: A Survey Of Bay Area Gospel
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Rev. Arthur Ransburg And The Voices Of Christ Of Berkeley
I've Already Been To The Water
Swingin' On The Golden Gate, Volume 2: A Survey Of Bay Area Gospel
The second installment in our exploration of the Alan Lomax book of the same name, this time focusing our energies on tradition in gospel and spiritual. Leader-chorus work songs to lighten the load of heavy labor; dancing songs to quicken the spirit on those rare holidays; and spirituals to replace their lost African religions and to console in times of physical torment and spiritual degradation are all captured here, including the stories and lineage behind the original pieces. We’ll hear from a diverse selection of performers including The Dixie Jubilee Singers, Odetta, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Eva Cassidy, and many others.
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Fisk Jubilee Singers
I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
The Gold and Blue Album
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Bessemer Sunset Four
Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Bessemer Sunset Four (1928-1930)
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Kenneth Benfield
Jacob's Ladder (Folk)
Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp
5
Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger
Blind Willie Johnson’s music seems to resurface through discovery with each generation and understandably so. Because tied to the meager catalog of thirty songs that he recorded over some four sessions between December, 1927 and April, 1930, is a dark and foreboding voice in the night. Its glow is that of a solitary candle in a room of shadows in a house whose bones have fallen to derelict and decay. Willie is telling us to take notice.
The story of Blind Willie Johnson was best transcribed in Sam Charters’ introduction and liner notes for Columbia’s Roots & Blues Series’ “The Complete Works of Blind Willie Johnson”. We’ll go a bit deeper, dedicating our two hours to Blind Willie Johnson featuring tracks from the new tribute album “God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson”, some classic recordings of Blind Willie, as well as covers of every stripe and style.
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Reverend Lewis Jackson & Charlotte Rucell
Dark Was The Night
Classic Sounds of New Orleans
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Blind Willie Johnson
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground
Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics
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Derek Trucks And Susan Tedeschi
Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
5
Hot Tuna
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning [Live]
Live In Japan
6
Bruce Cockburn
Soul of a Man
Nothing But a Burning Light
7
Ry Cooder
Dark Was The Night
Paris, Texas
8
Maria Muldaur
Oh, the Rain
Any Woman's Blues
9
Sinead O'Connor
Trouble Will Soon Be Over
God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
10
Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, and Richard Williams
Motherless Children
Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 2]
11
John Hammond, Jr.
Motherless Willie Johnson
Country Blues
12
Odetta
Motherless Children
7 Classic Albums Plus Bonus Radio Tracks
13
The Dixie Hummingbirds
Nobody's Fault
Diamond Jubilation: 75th Anniversary
14
Arizona Dranes
Bye & Bye We're Going To See The King
He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes
15
Blind Willie Johnson
Trouble Will Soon Be Over
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson
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Blind Willie Johnson
Let Your Light Shine On Me [Album Version]
The Ladykillers Music From The Motion Picture
17
Rev. Pearly Brown
God Don't Never Change
You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
18
The Staple Singers
Samson And Delilah
Freedom Highway
19
Lee Roy Parnell/The Fairfield Four
John the Revelator
Peace in the Valley [Arista]
20
The Venice Four with Rose Stone and The Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir
Let Your Light Shine On Me [Album Version]
The Ladykillers Music From The Motion Picture
21
Blind Willie Johnson
Church, I'm Fully Saved To-Day
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson
22
The Levon Helm Band
God Don't Never Change
The Midnight Ramble Sessions Vol 3
23
David Bromberg Band
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Only Slightly Mad
24
The Blasters
Samson and Delilah
Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2)
25
Blind Willie Johnson
If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down
ABC Of The Blues Vol 20
26
Johnny Shines
It Ain't Nobody's Fault But Mine
Traditional Delta Blues
27
Irma Thomas
Soul of a Man
After the Rain
28
Tom Waits
The Soul Of A Man
God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
