Category Archives: Gospel

Bluegrass, Country Gospel, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Mountain Music

Higher Power Country Gospel

February 4, 2016 Dave

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.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
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
29	Anonymous (Knight Home-recording Disc)	Beautiful Mansions of Gold	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
30	Ex-Governor Alf. Taylor's Old Limber Quartet	Brother Noah Built an Ark	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
31	Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives	Long Walk to Heaven	Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
32	Elvis Presley	Working on the Building	Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
33	Willie and Bobbie Nelson	I'll Fly Away	Farther Along
34	Buddy Holly	True Love Ways	From the Original Master Tapes

African American Gospel, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Early Pop, Rhythm and Blues, Rock

Roots of Doo Wop

December 12, 2015 Dave

The early fifties brought the dawn of a musical form that became popular with a younger crowd although it was simply a version of a vocal harmony form born in the early century, if not long before. The street corner harmonies were a big hit as this new form of rhythm called ‘doo-wop’ saturated the top 40 R&B (and mainstream) airwaves. But the influences themselves had huge followings. We’ll hear from some of the early gospel inspirations like the Heavenly Gospel Singers as well as the vocal groups who were dominant in the form’s lineage: The Ink Spots, The Mills Brothers, and The Ravens. We’ll also hear from the groups who introduced ‘doo wop’ as we know it in the early fifties.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Turbans	When You Dance	Dancin' & Romancin' In The '50s And 60s [Disc 2]
3	Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet	Golden Gate Gospel Train	Vol. 1-(1937-38)
4	Heavenly Gospel Singers	The Prodigal Son	Halleluja Gospel & Prayers
5	The Heavenly Gospel Singers	When Was Jesus Born?	Goodbye, Babylon – Salvation [Disc 4]
6	The Deep River Boys	Melody of Love	The Dark Ages: Our Music From The Beginning
7	The Charioteers	All God's Chillun Got Shoes	The Gospel Tradition: The Roots And The Branches, Vol. 1
8	The Mills Brothers	Paper Doll	Best of the Decca Years
9	The Mills Brothers with Duke Ellington & Orchestra	Diga, Diga, Do	The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 2
10	Lewis Bronzville Five	Low Down Gal Blues	Black Secular Vocal Groups Vol. 3
11	The Ink Spots	We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)	40 Your Hit Parade
12	The Ink Spots	My Prayer	Greatest Hits
13	The Cats & The Fiddle	I Miss You So	The Very Best Of
14	The Cats & The Fiddle	We Cats Will Swing For You	The Very Best Of
15	The Cats & The Fiddle	Killin' Jive	The Very Best Of
16	The Delta Rhythm Boys	I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem	I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem
17	The Delta Rhythm Boys	Do You Care	I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem
18	Slim & Slam	The Flat Foot Floogie	Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 1)
19	Five Red Caps	Mama Put Your Britches On (alt. Take)	Secular Vocal Groups Vol. 4 (1926-1947)
20	The Cap-Tans	I'm So Crazy For Love	Vocal Group Harmony Vol 8
21	The Ravens	Count Every Star	Doo Wop Box Disc 1
22	The Ravens	My Baby's Gone	OKeh Rhythm & Blues
23	The Ravens	Write Me A Letter	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
24	The Moonglows	Sincerely	Doo Wop Box Disc 1
25	The Toppers	If Money Grew on Trees	Stompin' at the Savoy: Harlem Nocturne, 1944 – 1947
26	The Five Keys	The Glory of Love	The Aladdin Story (Pt. 1)
27	The Orioles	It's Too Soon to Know	Doo Wop Box Disc 1
28	The Orioles	You Belong to Me	Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
29	The Cardinals	Wheel Of Fortune	Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 1]
30	The Crows	Gee	Feelin Fine
31	The Flamingos	Would I Be Crying	Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 3
32	The Flamingos	Golden Teardrops	Doo Wop Box Disc 1
33	The Five Satins	In The Still Of The Night	Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
34	The Penguins	Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)	Street Corner Symphonies (Disc 2)
35	The Cadillacs	Speedo (Cadillac)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
36	The Jewels	Hearts of Stone	Doo Wop Box Disc 1

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Gospel

Soothe Me – KOWS 12/9/15

December 10, 2015 Dave

In this episode, Deeper Roots will feature a wide range of sounds from a host of performers. There will be the topical sounds of courtroom drama featuring R&B from Johnny Otis, classic country Ernest Tubb, and country blues from Carl Martin. We’ll also feature a set that looks at “My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It” from a cross-section of talents and genres…and we’ll be soothed with some deep gospel, folk, and soul. Dave will also share a new track from singer/songwriter Steve Forbert’s latest album “Compromised” as well as some contemporary tracks from Marty Stuart, Jorma Kaukonen, and Joe Ely.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bob Dylan	I Want You (Take 4, Alternate Take)	The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12 (Sampler)
3	Marie Knight	Satisfied With Jesus	Hallelujah What A Song!
4	Eugene Smith And The Roberta Martin Singers	Satisfied	How Sweet it Was
5	Spiritual Five	Satisfied With Him	I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983 [Disc 3]
6	Johnnie Taylor/The Soul Stirrers	Walk With Me	20 Gospel Greats
7	Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers	I Have A Friend Above All Others	The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 2]
8	Sam Cooke	Trouble In Mind	The Rhythm And The Blues
9	Steve Forbert	Devil (Here She Comes Now)	Compromised
10	Shorty Long	Devil With a Blue Dress On	Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 Disc 1
11	Julia Lee	Trouble In Mind	Kansas City Star [Disc 1]
12	Julia Lee	Lotus Blossom	Kansas City Star [Disc 1]
13	Wynonie Harris	Good Morning Judge	All She Wants To Do Is Rock
14	Chuck Berry	Have Mercy Judge	The Chess Box Disc 3
15	Carl Martin	Good Morning, Judge	Carl Martin, Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan, Willie "61" Blackwell — Complete Recorded Works
16	Sonny Boy Williamson	Your Funeral And My Trial	His Best: Sonny Boy Williamson – The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
17	Hugh Laurie	Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair	Didn't It Rain (Deluxe)
18	Dinah Washington	Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair	The Bessie Smith Songbook
19	Johnny Otis	Court Room Blues	Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1]
20	Jorma Kaukonen	Judge, I'm Not Sorry	The Land Of Heroes
21	The Country Gentlemen	The Sentence	The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2]
22	Ernest Tubb	Dear Judge	Last Sessions: All Time Greatest Hits Disc 2
23	Patsy Cline	A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye	Live at the Opry
24	Washboard Sam	Bucket's Got a Hole in It [Remastered 2002]	That's Chicago's South Side (When the Sun Goes Down series)
25	Hank Williams	My Bucket's Got A Hole In It	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 18
26	Louis Armstrong & All His Stars	My Bucket's Got A Hole In It	The Ultimate Collection [Disc 2]
27	Page & Plant	My Bucket's Got A Hole In It	Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy Of Sun Records
28	Joe Ely	Rock Me My Baby	Musta Notta Gotta Lotta [rem] (1981)
29	Marty Stuart	A Satisfied Mind	Country Music
30	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Cool, Cool Kisses	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3]
31	Charles Brown	Soothe Me	The Classic Earliest Recordings [Disc 3]
32	Stan Kenton & His Orchestra With June Christy	Soothe Me	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 4 – Love Letters – 1944-53
33	James & Bobby Purify	Soothe Me	The Best Of

Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Gospel

Main Street – KOWS December 2, 2015

December 3, 2015 Dave

A bit of a celebration is in order. We will be broadcasting live from the new KOWS studios located in downtown Sebastopol with a playlist that scours the last century of America’s music for relevant sounds and themes that relate: songs of settling into home, saying goodbye, moving on, going west (or east, that is), and ‘getting gone’. We’ll feature The Cats & The Fiddle, local favorites Markus James and Doug Blumer & The Bohemian Highway, “Little” Jimmy Dickens, and a host of others who welcome us into our new home on Gravenstein Highway…or, as it is formally known hereabouts, Main Street.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Muddy Waters	Gone To Main Street	Mad Love
3	Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers	Main Street Breakdown	Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years
4	David Bromberg	The Main Street Moan	The Player: A Retrospective
5	Los Lobos	On Main Street	Tin Can Trust
6	Loudon Wainwright III	Moving Day	High Wide & Handsome – The Charlie Poole Project
7	Leon Redbone	There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays	Christmas Island
8	Little Jimmy Dickens	No Place Like Home On Christmas	Country Boy [Disc 5]
9	Leon Selph	Now That You Have Gone	You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942
10	The Leake County Revelers	Been to the East, Been to the West	Lead Kindly Light
11	Doug Blumer And The Bohemian Highway	Moving Day	Doug Blumer And The Bohemian Highway
12	JL Stiles	Movin	Jl Stiles Presents House of Murmurs
13	Howlin' Wolf	Moving	The Back Door Wolf
14	Markus James	Goin' Down South	Head For The Hills
15	Les Paul	I'm Movin' On	Legend and Legacy [Disc 3]
16	Peter, Paul & Mary	Settle Down (Goin' Down That Highway)	Moving
17	Florence Lowery	Moving Day Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 11
18	Bertha Idaho	Move It On Out Of Here	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 10
19	Monroe Moe Jackson	Move It On Over	Rural Blues Vol. 1 1934-1956
20	Hank Williams & The Drifting Cowboys	Move It On Over	26 All-Time Country Classics
21	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree	Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 1: Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
22	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Moving On	Looking Back
23	Mahalia Jackson	I Will Move On Up A Little Higher	Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
24	The Staple Singers	Move Along Train	Freedom Highway
25	Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)	Raising Sand
26	Jerry Lee Lewis	Move on Down the Line	The London Sessions 1973
27	Charline Arthur	Welcome To The Club	Welcome To The Club
28	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone	Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 3
29	John Hiatt	Gone	Crossing Muddy Waters
30	Irma Thomas	Gone	Soul Queen of New Orleans
31	The Cats & The Fiddle	Gone	The Very Best Of
32	Mr. Scruff	Get a Move On	Electro Swing Vol. 1
33	Paul Simon	Gone at Last	1964-1993 Disc 2
34	Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater	Gotta Move On	West Side Strut

Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Jazz, Gospel, Urban Blues

Take Me Back – KOWS Nov 18, 2015

November 19, 2015 Dave

Our final show at the old KOWS studio will feature the lineup you might expect…with a couple of themes running through it. The ‘take me back’ theme works well as we bring in Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jimmy Rushing, and Peter Rowan to make the plea and we’ve got the gospel themed pleas of working on a building from The Highway QCs. In addition, we’ve got some doo-wop, some ladies whose theme was ‘blues is her business’, and a run of country swing and bluegrass…all packed into two hours of elementary roots. Tune in after dinner for dessert.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Take Me Back And Try Me One More Time	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3]
3	Shannon Grayson	I Like The Old Time Way	Favorite Sacred Songs
4	Wade Mainer	Streamlined Religion	1961 King Session
5	Grandpa Jones	You And My Old Guitar	Makes The Rafters Ring
6	Larry Cordle & The Virginia Luthiers	Train On The Island	Orthophonic Joy
7	The Whitstein Brothers	Where Will You Build	Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins
8	John Fogerty	Workin' on a Building	The Blue Ridge Rangers
9	The Highway QC'S	Working On a Building	Great Gospel – Maybe the Last Time
10	The Clara Ward Singers	Come By Here	Meetin' Tonight!
11	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Two Little Fishes (And Five Loaves of Bread)	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds
12	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Bedside Of A Neighbor	Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds
13	Marie Knight	Satisfied With Jesus	Hallelujah What A Song!
14	Sheiks	Walk That Walk	Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 1] – Jumpin' & Bluesy
15	Garnet Mimms	Cry Baby	The Best of Garnet Mimms: Cry
16	The Five Royales	I Like It Like That	R&B Greats – Think
17	The Five Royales	Someone Made Me For You	Dedicated To You
18	Steve Cropper	Someone Made You For Me (Steve Cropper with Dan Penn)	Dedicated – A Salute To The 5 Royales
19	Sam Cooke	You Were Made For Me	Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
20	Bessie Smith	I'm Wild About That Thing	The Saucy Songs (1928-1938)
21	Victoria Spivey With Clarence Williams' Blue Five	My Handy Man (f. Victoria Spivey)	Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: The New York Sessions 1926-35
22	Ida Cox & Her Allstar Band	Four Day Creep	Blues From The Vocalion Vaults
23	Dinah Washington	Blow Top Blues	Blues Was Her Business
24	Bonnie Raitt	Women Be Wise	Bonnie Raitt
25	Fats Waller	(Take Me Back To) The Wide Open Places	compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com
26	Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama	The Devil Ain't Lazy	Reinventing the Wheel
27	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	Somebody's Been Using That Thing	Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 1: Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
28	Ted Daffan's Texans	Born To Lose	26 All-Time Country Classics
29	Adolph Hofner	Let's Count The Stars	You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942
30	Jimmy Rushing	Take Me Back, Baby	ABC Of The Blues Vol 38
31	Buck Owens	Take Me Back Again	Act Naturally
32	Peter Rowan And Don Edwards	Take Me Back To The Range	High Lonesome Cowboy
33	Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson	Missing Ol' Johnny Cash	Django and Jimmie
34	Johnny Cash	Tear Stained Letter	American IV: Man Comes Around
35	Earl Scruggs	Gospel Ship	The Earl Scruggs Revue: Anniversary Special, Volumes One & Two

High Noon

September 26, 2015 Dave

It’s a new morning…as it always is…and was when we celebrated another Saturday morning in Occidental with Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music with host Dave Stroud. This twice-monthly show opens with a mule kicking in the stall, some barnyard rhythm and then moves swiftly into a blend of 1950s country and big band. Ray Charles, Frankie Laine, Chick Webb, Otis Spann, and Merle Travis are just a sampling of performers we’ll hear from. West County living deserves roots music wafting over the airwaves on a Saturday morning in early autumn. Let’s set the airwaves stage with some Otis Spann.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Nellie Lutcher	He's A Real Gone Guy	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
3	Nellie Lutcher	There's Another Mule In Your Stall	Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 1]
4	Otis Spann	Mule Kicking In My Stall	Cryin' Time
5	Louis Jordan	Barnyard Boogie	Jivin' With Jordan
6	Joe Liggins	Rhythm In The Barnyard	Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
7	The Andrews Sisters	A Man is a Brother To a Mule	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
8	Charlie Poole With Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon	Man that Rode the Mule Around the World	You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2]
9	Ralph Stanley	I've Got A Mule To Ride	Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection
10	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Mule Train (1996 Digital Remaster)	Vintage Collections
11	Frankie Laine	That Lucky Old Sun [Album Version]	Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits
12	Ray Charles	That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
13	Merle Travis & Joe Maphis	High Noon	Country Guitar Giants
14	Frankie Laine	Rawhide	Country Greats #2
15	Chick Webb and his Orchestra	Don't Be That Way	from CD; orig. Decca 483
16	Ella Fitzgerald	Melinda the Mousle	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
17	Annette Hanshaw	Who's That Knocking At My Door	The Twenties Sweetheart
18	Brother Grady Coffee	I'm Working on a Building	This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
19	Elvis Presley	Working on the Building	Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
20	Murry Hammond	In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
21	John & Jamie Hartford	When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland	Hartford & Hartford
22	June Carter Cash	Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?	Wildwood Flower
23	George Jones	Worried Man Blues	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
24	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
25	David Lindley and Wally Ingram	Coot From Tennessee	Twango Bango Deluxe
26	Ole Ramussen	Sleepy Eyed John	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
27	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Oozlin' Daddy Blues	Legends of Country Music Disc 2
28	Cliff Hobbs;Bill Cox	Oozlin' Daddy Blues [Album Version]	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
29	Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen	Big Mamou	We've Got a Live One Here!
30	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Big Mamou	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
31	Bonnie Guitar	Noon Train	Affair
32	Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips	If I Had My Way	Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips

Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Mountain Music

The Dust-to-Digital Label

September 26, 2015 Dave

Our weekly KWTF show is about a label whose chief purpose is the resurrection of that curious mix of ephemera, folklore, ancestry, and musicianship that reveals itself as folk music: whether it be pre-Monroe bluegrass, gospel, blues, or early pop. The label I speak of is Dust-To-Digital and we’ll scratch the surface of some of the great work that they’ve issued since 1999, the year Lance Ledbetter and his wife April open shop in Atlanta, Georgia.Their mission is the same as it was then: to produce high quality cultural artifacts.

Pitchfork magazine put it this way: “Although the folklorists lugging around tape recorders (and the performers carrying on ancient traditions) are worthy of much heralding, it’s equally astounding how essential Lance Ledbetter’s work at Dust-to-Digital has been to the preservation of traditional American folksong. It’s easy to buy and appreciate these sets without realizing that the bulk of the material might have been lost — or, at the very least, tethered to archives, readily accessible only to curious faculty, paper-writing students, and bespectacled researchers — without Ledbetter’s interference.”

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Jimmy Murphy	We Live A Long Time To Get Old	Desperate Man Blues
3	Tennesee Messarounds	Mandolin Blues	Desperate Man Blues
4	Lonnie Johnson	Death Valley is Just Half Way To My Home	Desperate Man Blues
5	Chubby Parker	Bib-a-lollie-boo	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
6	Ernest Thompson	In the Baggage Coach Ahead	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
7	Roy Smeck Trio	Reaching for the Moon	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
8	Lew Childre	It Don't Do Nothing but Rain	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
9	Sara Martin & Sylvester Weaver	I've Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
10	Sister O.M. Terrell	The Bible's Right	Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
11	Mahalia Jackson	God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares	Goodbye, Babylon – Introduction [Disc 1]
12	The North Carolina Cooper Boys	Daniel In The Den Of Lions	Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
13	Moses Williams	The Train	Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1]
14	Emmett Murray	She's a Fool, She Ain't Got No Sense	Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1]
15	Rev. Johnny L. Jones	Huff Construction Company (Radio Commercial)	The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
16	Rev. Johnny L. Jones	I Love the Lord	The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
17	Dorothy Lee	You Got to Give an Account (feat. Norma Jean, Shirley Marie Johnson & Robert nighthawk Johnson)	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
18	Babe Stovall	When the Circle Be Unbroken	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
19	Robert nighthawk Johnson	Cant No Grave Hold My Body Down	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
20	Henagar Union Sacred Harp Convention	Save, Lord, or We Perish 224	I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
21	Denson's Sacred Harp Singers of Arley, Alabama	Ninety-Fifth 36B	I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
22	Brother Claude Ely	Send Down The Rain	Satan Get Back
23	Uncle Eck Dunford and Ernest Stoneman	Barney McCoy	Lead Kindly Light
24	The Allen Brothers	Skipping and Flying	Lead Kindly Light
25	Georgia Yellow Hammers	Mary Don't You Weep	Lead Kindly Light
26	Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright	Man Who Wrote the Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man	Lead Kindly Light
27	Loveless Twins Quartet	Lead Kindly Light	Lead Kindly Light
28	The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band	Ozark Waltz	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
29	Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers	Just Give Me the Leavings	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
30	Wonder State Harmonists	Turnip Greens	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
31	Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers	Jaw Bone	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
32	Clarence Alexander	Disability Boogie Woogie	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
33	22 & Group	The Prettiest Train I Ever Saw	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
34	Henry Ratcliff	Look For Me In Louisiana	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
35	Willie Washington	My Jack Dont Drink No Water	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
36	The David Thom Band	Windy City	That Old Familiar

Country Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Mountain Music

Dark Moon

August 22, 2015 Dave

We’re going to go pretty deep this coming Saturday morning here in Western Sonoma County. It’s a mix of old time and tradition with a few themed sets including social sciences, the labor blues, calypso rhythm, minstrelsy, and some special sounds from Ira and Charlie Louvin. Performers this week include Darby & Tarlton, Riley Puckett, Fern Jones, Arizona Dranes, and a pair each from Ry Cooder and Harry Belafonte. It’s a “Great Dream From Heaven” for KOWS listeners on an August morning in Occidental. Broadcast on KOWS 107.3 FM on August 22, 2015.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Little Jimmy Dickens	May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose	Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
3	Ry Cooder	Great Dream From Heaven	Into The Purple Valley (Remaster 2013)
4	Del McCoury	Fireside Chat, Part 1 (feat. Franklin D. Roosevelt)	Moneyland
5	Bob Miller	The Rich Man And The Poor Man [Rematered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
6	Frank Crumit	A Tale of the Ticker [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
7	Uncle Dave Macon	All In Down And Out Blues [2003 Remastered]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
8	Ry Cooder	Denomination Blues	Into The Purple Valley
9	Washington Phillips	Denomination Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
10	Arizona Dranes	God's Got A Crown	He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes
11	Elvis Presley	Swing Down Sweet Chariot	His Hand In Mine
12	Fern Jones	By And By	The Glory Road
13	Dave Van Ronk	That'll Never Happen No More	Sunday Street
14	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Dark As A Dungeon	Best Of The Vanguard Years
15	Emmett Miller	That's The Good Old Sunny South	Minstrel Man From Georgia
16	Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers	Lovesick Blues	Minstrel Man From Georgia
17	Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard	Coal Miner Blues	Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
18	Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins	Hawkins Rag	Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3]
19	Darby & Tarlton	Lonesome Frisco Line	Lonesome Whistle – An Anthology Of American Railroad Song
20	Lead Belly	Black Betty	Lead Belly's Last Sessions
21	Odetta	Shame And Scandal	Sings Ballads And Blues
22	Harry Belafonte	Mama, Look at Boo Boo	Harry Belafonte: Greatest Hits
23	Harley Allen & Dierks Bentley	I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby	Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers
24	The Louvin Brothers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Close Harmony [Disc 5]
25	The Louvin Brothers	Keep Watching The Sky	Close Harmony [Disc 8]
26	Bonnie Guitar	Dark Moon	Hard to Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics
27	Skeeter Davis	The One You Slip Around With	The Essential Skeeter Davis
28	Wanda Jackson	Savin' My Love	Rockin' With Wanda [US Bonus Tracks]
29	Webb Pierce	I Ain't Never	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Webb Pierce
30	The Allen Brothers	Skipping and Flying	Lead Kindly Light
31	Bascom Lamar Lunsford	Kidder Cole	The Cornshucker's Frolic Vol. 1: Downhome Music And Entertainment From The American Countryside
32	The Weavers	Bring Me Li'l Water Sylvia	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
33	Little Jimmy Dickens	I'm In Love Up To My Ears	Country Boy [Disc 1]
34	Rosie Flores & The Jordanaires	I Ain't Never	Caught in the Webb
35	Dale Watson & The Jordanaires	In The Jailhouse Now	Caught In the Webb
36	Los Indios Tabajaras	Maria Elena	Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's, Vol. 1

African American Gospel, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition, Jazz

San Antone – KOWS August 10, 2015

August 11, 2015 Dave

We’re filling in once more for Mark Hogan and his Bluegrass and Old Time Hour. This week, we’ve put together another two hours of music that spans close to a full century…including Cliff Edwards from 1933, Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Lunceford, and Dave Van Ronk (just to name a few). There will be some themes and schemes built into our sets this evening including the story of Caldonia, the Texas town of San Antone, and heading down a dusty road of a century of America’s music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Charlie Gracie	Just A Closer Walk With Thee	Angel on My Shoulder
3	Doug Sahm	Chicken and the Bop	Best of Sir Douglas 68-75
4	Charley Pride	Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone	Superstars Of Country: Good Ol' Songs [Disc 1]
5	Buddy Emmons/Ray Pennington/Swing Shift Band	Mama Was the Rose of San Antone	Swingin' by Request
6	Tommy Duncan	Stars Over San Antone	Beneath a Neon Star in a Honky Tonk
7	Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen	San Antone	Running Wild
8	Les Paul	I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way (feat. Bing Crosby) [Remastered]	100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
9	Bobby Bare	Going Down the Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way) fcc warning	Darker Than Light
10	Woody Guthrie	Going Down the Road (Feeling Bad)	Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
11	Ralph Stanley & Jimmy Martin	I'm Going Down the Road	First Time Together
12	Doug Jayne	Running Lightly Down The Road	It Looks Like She's Going on a Trip
13	Leon Redbone	Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll	Any Time
14	The Mills Brothers	Old-Fashioned Love	The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 3
15	Cliff Edwards	It's Only A Paper Moon	Columbia Records 25th
16	Frank Auburn Orchestra w/Benny Goodman	I Found a Million Dollar Baby	Vintage Music: Original Classics from the 1920s and 1930s
17	Jimmie Lunceford	Cement Mixer	Strictly Lunceford Blues In The Night
18	Frank Sinatra	I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'	Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 2]
19	Ella Mae Morse	Forty Cups Of Coffee	The Morse Code [Disc 2]
20	Smiley Lewis	Cadonia's Party	Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Second Series
21	Louis Jordan	Caldonia	Number Ones
22	B.B. King	Caldonia	Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan
23	Dave Van Ronk	Your Feet's Too Big	Sweet & Lowdown
24	Nat King Cole Trio	Honeysuckle Rose	The Nat King Cole Trio: The Complete Capitol Transcription Sessions [Disc 1]
25	Fats Waller & His Rhythm	It's A Sin To Tell A Lie	Fats Waller – The Complete Recorded Works Volume 3 – Rhythm and Romance 1934-1936
26	Ivory Joe Hunter	It's A Sin	Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter (1950-1951)
27	The Blasters	Trouble Bound	Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2)
28	The Staple Singers	This Train	Freedom Highway
29	The Fairfield Four	Hallelujah	Revival
30	Sam Cooke	Trouble Blues	The Rhythm And The Blues
31	Maria Muldaur	I Belong To That Band	Richland Woman Blues
32	Mother McCollum	Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!	Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951)
33	Emmylou Harris	When Halley Came To Jackson	Mark Twain: Words & Music [Disc 1]
34	Arthur Alexander	Every Day I Have to Cry Some	Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter

African American Gospel, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop

Wake Up! – KOWS August 8, 2015

August 8, 2015 Dave

It’s a joy to queue up a century of America’s music every other Saturday morning in West County…live from the heart and voice of West Sonoma County’s KOWS studios in downtown Occidental. A common theme will run through this morning’s show and it’s all about waking up: gospel’s Mahalia Jackson and When I Wake Up in Glory, Roy Milton and the Wake Up Blues, James Brown’s Get Up Offa That Thing … and more!

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Junior Brown	Gotta Get Up Every Morning	Semi-Crazy
3	Buck Owens	I've Got A Tiger By The Tail	The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1
4	Dwight Yoakam	Little Sister	Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years (1 of 4)
5	The Mavericks	All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down	Music for All Occasions
6	Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers	Get Up John	At The Ryman [Live]
7	The Band	Get Up Jake	A Musical History [Disc 3]
8	James Brown	Get Up Offa That Thing	20 All Time Greatest Hits!
9	Lavern Baker	Get Up Get Up (You Sleepy Head)	London American Label Year By Year 1956
10	Jimmy Murphy	Wake Me up Sweet Jesus	Electricity
11	Mahalia Jackson	When I Wake Up In Glory	The World's Greatest Gospel Singer
12	Bill Landford And The Landfordaires	Trouble Of This World [Album Version]	The Gospel Tradition: The Roots And The Branches, Vol. 1
13	Reverend CL Franklin	Wings Of Faith	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
14	Clara Ward Singers	Packing Up	Somebody Bigger Than You & I
15	Charlie & His Orchestra	You're Driving Me Crazy	Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
16	Bob Brozman	You're Driving Me Crazy	Devil's Slide
17	Big Joe Turner	Lipstick, Powder and Paint	Big Joe Rocks
18	Smiley Lewis	Hook Line & Sinker	Smiley Lewis Vol 1
19	Merrill Moore	Yes Indeed (EP Version)	Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1]
20	The Carlisles	Nine Have Tried (and None Have Died) (Second Countdown)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
21	Roy Milton	Waking Up Blues	ABC Of The Blues Vol 30
22	Ike & Tina Turner	Wake Up	Don't Play Me Cheap
23	The Everly Brothers	Wake Up Little Susie	5 Classic Albums
24	Roy Orbison	Ride Away	The Soul of Rock and Roll
25	Hank Garland	Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)	Move! – The Guitar Artistry of Hank Garland
26	The Knockouts	Darling Lorrane	The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 3
27	Bobby "Blue" Bland	Poverty	The Definitive Collection
28	Townes Van Zandt	Snowin' On Raton (with James McMurtry)	Texas Rain
29	Jonathan Edwards	Mole	Tomorrow's Child
30	Elvis Presley	Somebody Bigger Than You and I	Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
31	Kim McLean	Somebody Bigger Than You and I	Boots Too Big to Fill: Tribute to Gene Autry
32	J.J. Cale	Money Talks	The Very Best of J.J. Cale
33	Roy Zimmerman	The Faucet's On Fire	The Faucet's On Fire

A Century of America's Music