Category Archives: Gospel

Dark Moon

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

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

San Antone – KOWS August 10, 2015

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

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.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Charlie Gracie Just A Closer Walk With Thee Angel on My Shoulder Amazon
3Doug Sahm Chicken and the Bop Best of Sir Douglas 68-75 Amazon
4Charley Pride Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone Superstars Of Country: Good Ol' Songs [Disc 1] Amazon
5Buddy Emmons/Ray Pennington/Swing Shift Band Mama Was the Rose of San Antone Swingin' by Request Amazon
6Tommy Duncan Stars Over San Antone Beneath a Neon Star in a Honky Tonk Amazon
7Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen San Antone Running Wild Amazon
8Les Paul I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way (feat. Bing Crosby) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
9Bobby Bare Going Down the Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way) fcc warning Darker Than Light Amazon
10Woody Guthrie Going Down the Road (Feeling Bad) Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection Amazon
11Ralph Stanley & Jimmy Martin I'm Going Down the Road First Time Together Amazon
12Doug Jayne Running Lightly Down The Road It Looks Like She's Going on a Trip Amazon
13Leon Redbone Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll Any Time Amazon
14The Mills Brothers Old-Fashioned Love The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 3 Amazon
15Cliff Edwards It's Only A Paper Moon Columbia Records 25th Amazon
16Frank Auburn Orchestra w/Benny Goodman I Found a Million Dollar Baby Vintage Music: Original Classics from the 1920s and 1930s Amazon
17Jimmie Lunceford Cement Mixer Strictly Lunceford Blues In The Night Amazon
18Frank Sinatra I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 2] Amazon
19Ella Mae Morse Forty Cups Of Coffee The Morse Code [Disc 2] Amazon
20Smiley Lewis Cadonia's Party Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Second Series Amazon
21Louis Jordan Caldonia Number Ones Amazon
22B.B. King Caldonia Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan Amazon
23Dave Van Ronk Your Feet's Too Big Sweet & Lowdown Amazon
24Nat King Cole Trio Honeysuckle Rose The Nat King Cole Trio: The Complete Capitol Transcription Sessions [Disc 1] Amazon
25Fats Waller & His Rhythm It's A Sin To Tell A Lie Fats Waller – The Complete Recorded Works Volume 3 – Rhythm and Romance 1934-1936 Amazon
26Ivory Joe Hunter It's A Sin Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter (1950-1951) Amazon
27The Blasters Trouble Bound Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2) Amazon
28The Staple Singers This Train Freedom Highway Amazon
29The Fairfield Four Hallelujah Revival Amazon
30Sam Cooke Trouble Blues The Rhythm And The Blues Amazon
31Maria Muldaur I Belong To That Band Richland Woman Blues Amazon
32Mother McCollum Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951) Amazon
33Emmylou Harris When Halley Came To Jackson Mark Twain: Words & Music [Disc 1] Amazon
34Arthur Alexander Every Day I Have to Cry Some Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter Amazon

Wake Up! – KOWS August 8, 2015

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

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.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Junior Brown Gotta Get Up Every Morning Semi-Crazy Amazon
3Buck Owens I've Got A Tiger By The Tail The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1 Amazon
4Dwight Yoakam Little Sister Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years (1 of 4) Amazon
5The Mavericks All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down Music for All Occasions Amazon
6Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers Get Up John At The Ryman [Live] Amazon
7The Band Get Up Jake A Musical History [Disc 3] Amazon
8James Brown Get Up Offa That Thing 20 All Time Greatest Hits! Amazon
9Lavern Baker Get Up Get Up (You Sleepy Head) London American Label Year By Year 1956 Amazon
10Jimmy Murphy Wake Me up Sweet Jesus Electricity Amazon
11Mahalia Jackson When I Wake Up In Glory The World's Greatest Gospel Singer Amazon
12Bill Landford And The Landfordaires Trouble Of This World [Album Version] The Gospel Tradition: The Roots And The Branches, Vol. 1 Amazon
13Reverend CL Franklin Wings Of Faith Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
14Clara Ward Singers Packing Up Somebody Bigger Than You & I Amazon
15Charlie & His Orchestra You're Driving Me Crazy Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell Amazon
16Bob Brozman You're Driving Me Crazy Devil's Slide Amazon
17Big Joe Turner Lipstick, Powder and Paint Big Joe Rocks Amazon
18Smiley Lewis Hook Line & Sinker Smiley Lewis Vol 1 Amazon
19Merrill Moore Yes Indeed (EP Version) Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1] Amazon
20The Carlisles Nine Have Tried (and None Have Died) (Second Countdown) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
21Roy Milton Waking Up Blues ABC Of The Blues Vol 30 Amazon
22Ike & Tina Turner Wake Up Don't Play Me Cheap Amazon
23The Everly Brothers Wake Up Little Susie 5 Classic Albums Amazon
24Roy Orbison Ride Away The Soul of Rock and Roll Amazon
25Hank Garland Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) Move! – The Guitar Artistry of Hank Garland Amazon
26The Knockouts Darling Lorrane The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 3 Amazon
27Bobby "Blue" Bland Poverty The Definitive Collection Amazon
28Townes Van Zandt Snowin' On Raton (with James McMurtry) Texas Rain Amazon
29Jonathan Edwards Mole Tomorrow's Child Amazon
30Elvis Presley Somebody Bigger Than You and I Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1 Amazon
31Kim McLean Somebody Bigger Than You and I Boots Too Big to Fill: Tribute to Gene Autry Amazon
32J.J. Cale Money Talks The Very Best of J.J. Cale Amazon
33Roy Zimmerman The Faucet's On Fire The Faucet's On Fire Amazon

Ladies of Gospel

Ladies of Gospel
Ladies of Gospel

The influence of gospel music on the forms of rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, and soul are fairly well documented. The elements of early black gospel music arose from a tradition of work songs, anthems, spirituals, hollers, and the stylized performance of hymns. The evolution of the form, particularly in the Church of God In Christ (COGIC), reveals a freedom of expression that made its listeners ‘move with the spirit’. We’ll hear from the ladies from the COGIC as well as the traditionalists that could bring in the masses to the church with their uplifting, sometimes roaring voices including Sister Ernestine Washington, Edna Gallmon Cooke, Sister Goldia Haynes, Mahalia Jackson, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Clara Ward Singers When The Saints Go Marching In Somebody Bigger Than You & I Amazon
3Sister Ernestine Washington Jesus Is All The World To Me Sister Ernestine Washington (1943-1948) Amazon
4Sister Ernestine Washington I Know The Lord Will Make A Way Sister Ernestine Washington Vol. 2 (1954-c.1958) Amazon
5Sister Rosetta Tharpe Teach Me To Be Right Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record Amazon
6Sister Rosetta Tharpe Cain't No Grave Hold My Body Down Gospel Train Amazon
7Marie Knight Marie Knight – Tharpe and Singing Interview Amazon
8Marie Knight Gospel Train Hallelujah What A Song! Amazon
9Mahalia Jackson Move On Up A Little Higher Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances, Vol. 1: Black Gospel Amazon
10Mahalia Jackson I Have A Friend Legend: The Best Of Mahalia Jackson [Disc 2] Amazon
11Mahalia Jackson & Della Reese Della Reese Interview Amazon
12Della Reece And The Meditations Hard To Get Along Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958 Amazon
13Cora Martin Didn't It Rain The Great Gospel Women Amazon
14Madam Edna Gallmon Cooke & The Mount Vernon Men's Choir Angels, Angels, Angels Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
15Edna Gallmon Cooke And The Radio Four Somebody Touched Me How Sweet it Was Amazon
16Sister Goldia Haynes This Old World The Great Gospel Women Amazon
17Lucy Smith O What A Time The Great Gospel Women Amazon
18Shirley Caesar I'd Rather Serve Jesus Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
19Mary Deloatch The Lord's Gospel Train Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
20Jessie Mae Renfro I Must Tell Jesus The Great Gospel Women Amazon
21Sister Lucille Barbee Where Could I Go Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
22Sister Emily Bram Each Day Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
23Bessie Griffin And The Caravans Let Us Run Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
24Candi Staton & The Jewel Gospel Trio Jesus Is Listening Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
25Marion Williams – The Stars Of Faith When I Lay This Body Down Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958 Amazon
26Clara Ward Singers Packing Up Somebody Bigger Than You & I Amazon
27Roberta Martin And The Roberta Martin Singers Rock My Soul Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958 Amazon
28Clara Ward (With Unidentified Group) Peace In The Valley Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 2] Amazon
29Evelyn Freeman And The Exciting Voices Chorus Didn't It Rain Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958 Amazon
30Dorothy Love Coates No Hiding Place The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes Amazon
31Albertina Walker Albertina Walker Interview Interview Amazon
32Albertina Walker Put a Little Love In Your Heart Platinum Gospel-Albertina Walker Amazon
33Albertina Walker & The Caravans How Do You Feel Precious Lord Gospel Gold Amazon
34Marion Williams He's A High Class Physician How Sweet it Was Amazon
35Thomas A. Dorsey with Marion Williams If We Never Needed The Lord Before [Album Version] Precious Lord Recordings Of The Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey Amazon
36Bunk Johnson/Ernestine Washington Where Could I Go Smithsonian Folkways: Classic African American Gospel Amazon

Dirty Dog – KOWS July 11, 2015

KOWS - July 11, 2015
KOWS – July 11, 2015

West County is the place to be in summer. The inland heat is pulling in the right amount of tempered cool from the coast…and Deeper Roots sounds will ride the wave on a Saturday morning. Join us for music from Arlo Guthrie, Chubby Newsome, Jimmie Revard, Mahalia Jackson, and more. The sounds we’ll hear come from country, country swing, classic gospel, mountain tradition, and just a little bit of the blues so please join us as we fill the airwaves with classic roots music on a Saturday morning, live from the KOWS studios in Occidental.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Johnny Burnette Let's Think About Living The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD 3 Amazon
3Roy Rogers My Chickashay Gal Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
4Hank Snow Music Makin' Mama From Memphis The Essential Hank Snow Amazon
5Asleep at the Wheel What's the Matter With the Mill (with Pokey LaFarge) Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Amazon
6Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Back Home In Indiana (LP Version) Tiffany Transcriptions& Vol. 9 Amazon
7Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor Coming Back Home The Return of the Formerly Brothers Amazon
8Jimmie Revard Dirty Dog Western Swing: 40 Bootstompers Amazon
9Jimmie Revard Holdin' The Sack Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 9] Amazon
10The Louvin Brothers I'm Ready To Go Home Satan Is Real Amazon
11Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys Little Birdie Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Amazon
12Doc & Merle Watson Corrina, Corrina Then And Now/Two Days In November Amazon
13Jimmie Driftwood Soldier's Joy Americana, Vol. 1 Amazon
14The Rice Brothers Soldier's Joy The Rice Brothers Amazon
15Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson Don't Think Twice, It's Alright Django and Jimmie Amazon
16Willie Nelson & the Offenders A Moment Isn't Very Long Me and the Drummer Amazon
17Red Simpson Don't Fall Asleep At The Wheel Lonesome Highway Songs Amazon
18Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards So Long It's Been Good to Know You Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
19Johnny Cash Hey Porter The Mystery Of Life Amazon
20Elvis Presley Memphis Tennessee Artist of the Century Disc 2 Amazon
21Floyd Dixon Oooh Little Girl Marshall Texas Is My Home Amazon
22Bob Dylan It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry (take 9) No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Ser [UK] Disc 2 Amazon
23Chubby Newsome Toodle Luddle Baby Rock 'n' Roll Mamas Vol 3 Amazon
24Anthony Butler Judgement's Coming Soon Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats Amazon
25Mahalia Jackson Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns, Vol.2 [Disc 1] Amazon
26Mahalia Jackson I'm On My Way The Promised Land – Original Soundtrack [Disc 1] Amazon
27Howlin' Wolf Moanin' For My Baby Blues From Hell Amazon
28Tampa Red Crying Won't Help You ABC Of The Blues Vol 38 Amazon
29Hadda Brooks He's Coming Home Jump Back Honey:Complete OKeh Sessions Amazon
30The Four Lads Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Around the World 1) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
31Ivie Anderson I Got It Bad The Collection Amazon
32Memphis Minnie What's The Matter With The Mill Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1] Amazon
33Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band Chevrolet Greatest Hits Amazon
34John Hiatt Memphis in the Meantime Bring the Family Amazon

Songs About Telephones

Songs About The Telephone
Songs About The Telephone

It’s ‘theme time’ in this episode as we find a muse that songwriters have been looking to since it’s appearance in the 19th century: the telephone. Join us for operators, dial tones, party lines, busy signals, and hang-ups…just a few of the topics in a show featuring gospel from the Selah Jubilee Singers and Sister Wynona Carr, sixties soul from The Marvelettes and The Orlons, tradition from Bill Monroe and Wade Mainer, and more.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Manhattan Transfer Operator The Manhattan Transfer Amazon
3The Golden Gate Quartet I Just Telephone Upstairs Vol. 6 (1949-1952) Amazon
4The Spirit Of Memphis Quartet Atomic Telephone The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
5Selah Jubilee Singers Royal Telephone Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 (1939-1941) Amazon
6Burl Ives Royal Telephone Greatest Hits Amazon
7Sister Wynona Carr Operator, Operator Dragnet For Jesus Amazon
8Bill Monroe When The Phone Rang Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1] Amazon
9Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver The Phone Call More Behind the Picture Than the Wall Amazon
10Wade Mainer God's Radio Phone I'm Not Looking Backward Amazon
11Doc Watson No Telephone In Heaven My Dear Old Southern Home Amazon
12The Carter Family No Telephone In Heaven The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 2] Amazon
13The Carter Family Hello Central! Give Me Heaven The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5] Amazon
14Orville Reed The Telephone Girl Lead Kindly Light Amazon
15Bonnie Guitar Hello, Hello, Please Answer The Phone Only The Moon Man Knows: Rare Recordings 1951-1957 Amazon
16George Jones Wrong Number Star Creek Promotions 4 Amazon
17Aaron Neville Wrong Number (I Am Sorry, Goodbye) Treacherous [Disc 1] Amazon
18Irma Thomas Sorry Wrong Number If You Want It, Come and Get It Amazon
19Mickey & Sylvia Can't Get You On The Phone Rock With A Sock Amazon
20The Orlons Don't Hang Up Malt Shop Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 2) Amazon
21Marvelettes Beechwood 4-5789 The Soul of Detroit – Disc 1 Amazon
22Tony & Tyrone Please Operator After Hours 3 – More Northern Soul Masters Amazon
23Mary Wells Operator The Soul of Detroit – Disc 2 Amazon
24Jorma Kaukonen Operator River Of Time Amazon
25The Grateful Dead Operator American Beauty Amazon
26Glenn Miller & His Orchestra Pennsylvania 6-5000 The Centennial Collection Disc 1 Amazon
27Hank Penny Hold the Phone King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2] Amazon
28Stonewall Jackson Can't Hang Up the Phone Original Greatest Hits Amazon
29Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn Answer The Phone With Loretta Lynn A Tribute To A Legend Amazon
30Tom T. Hall Jesus On the Radio (Daddy On the Phone) The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall Amazon
31Pee Wee Crayton Phone Call From My Baby ABC Of The Blues Vol 7 Amazon
32Pee Wee Crayton The Telephone Is Ringing ABC Of The Blues Vol 7 Amazon
33Floyd Dixon Call Operator 210 The Aladdin Story (Pt. 2) Amazon
34Floyd Dixon Telephone Blues The Cocktail Combos [Disc 3] Amazon
35Eddie Gorman And His Group Telephone Blues Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1 Amazon
36Elana James Telephone Man Black Beauty Amazon

Ruler Of My Heart – KOWS July 27, 2015

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

Saturday morning in West County…our first week of summer with Deeper Roots and we’ve got an early set of New Orleans swamp classics followed by shreds of rockabilly and sounds from The Killer. There’s also gospel with The Staple Singers, high octane early century pop from The Boswell Sisters and Johnny Hamp and the Orchestra. We’ll sum the day up with folk, pop, and R&B…and everything in between.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Bobby Marchan Chicken – Wah – Wah The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 1] Amazon
3Lazy Lester I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound Amazon
4Irma Thomas Ruler of My Heart Soul Queen of New Orleans Amazon
5Aaron Neville Get Out Of My Life Brother To Brother ([Disc 1]: Aaron) Amazon
6Fats Domino What a Price Fats Domino Out of New Orleans Amazon
7Shirley Gunter Oop Shoop Shirley Gunter Amazon
8Jerry Lee Lewis Let's Talk About Us A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
9Wanda Jackson Man, We Had A Party Queen Of Rockabilly Amazon
10JD McPherson Fire Bug Signs & Signifiers Amazon
11Sister Rosetta Tharpe Two Little Fishes Five Loaves Of Bread Gospel Train Amazon
12Sam Cooke Touch The Hem Of His Garment The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke Amazon
13The Staple Singers Pray On The Best of the Vee-Jay Years Amazon
14Dorothy Love Coates You Better Run The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes Amazon
15Andy Mosely & Hogman Maxey Brother Mosely Crossed The Water Angola Prison Spirituals Amazon
16Blind Willie Johnson Jesus Is Coming Soon The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (Disc 1) Amazon
17Lena Horne Stormy Weather Stormy Weather Amazon
18Johnny Hamp And His Kentucky Serenaders If I Had A Talking Picture Of You Johnny Hamp at Archive Amazon
19The Boswell Sisters Shuffle Off To Buffalo The Object Of My Affection Amazon
20George Olsen & His Music (v: Fran Frey) The Varsity Drag [1927] The Charleston Era Amazon
21Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers Shreveport Stomp Jelly Roll Morton – Vol. V Amazon
22Louis Armstrong On Treasure Island Rhythm Saved The World Amazon
23Django Reinhardt & Stiphane Grappelli It Don't Mean A Thing Quintesential Amazon
24Dinah Washington Teach Me Tonight Gold [Disc 2] Amazon
25Ray Charles Drown in My Own Tears The Birth of Soul Disc 2 Amazon
26Chuck Jackson Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) Chuck Jackson The Great Recordings [Disc 1] Amazon
27Frank Sinatra Just in Time Come Dance with Me! Amazon
28Sarah Vaughan The Nearness Of You Great American Songbook Amazon
29Charlie Spand & Blind Blake Hastings Street Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937 Amazon
30Pine Ridge Boys Farther Along Classic Field Recordings Amazon
31David Bromberg I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning The Player: A Retrospective Amazon
32Doc Watson Steel Guitar Rag Memories Amazon
33The Country Gentlemen One Morning in May The Complete Vanguard Recordings Amazon
34The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys This Weary Heart You Stole Away Appalachian Stomp Amazon
35The Stripling Brothers The Lost Boy Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937 Amazon

Old Devil Time

Cowboy Copas
Cowboy Copas

We are sitting in for Mark Hogan’s Bluegrass and Old Time Hour this week while Mark is far afield, attending the 40th Anniversary Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley.  Our show will explore the multi-generational sounds of not only bluegrass with Dillard and Clark and The Hackberry Ramblers, but we’ll also cross the genres (as we are wont to do) with Cowboy Copas, Clara Ward, Otis Spann, and Doris Day. There’s a couple of different threads that run through our show today, one being that of the ‘devil’ and the other being ‘new mornings’. Tune in at a special time and see what’s in store on a summer afternoon in West County.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2BR5-49 The Devil In Me Dog Days Amazon
3Bob Dylan Talkin' Devil It Could Even Be A Myth Amazon
4Pete Seeger Old Devil Time Singalong: Live At Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980 (2 of 2) Amazon
5Gillian Welch The Devil Had a Hold of Me Hell Among the Yearlings Amazon
6Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Devil Has Thrown Him Down The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3] Amazon
7Doris Day The Deevil, Devil, Divil Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2] Amazon
8Pokey LaFarge The Devil Ain't Lazy Pokey LaFarge Amazon
9Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama The Devil Ain't Lazy Reinventing the Wheel Amazon
10Hackberry Ramblers Old Pipeliner (Rodney Crowell-vocal) {1992-06 (org.1946) Flying Fish FF-70629 CD} Cajun Boogie (1992-06) Amazon
11Cowboy Copas Don't Shake Hands with the Devil Settin' Flat On Ready Amazon
12Little Jimmy Dickens I'm Little But I'm Loud The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens Amazon
13Spade Cooley & His Orchestra; Vocal By Tex Williams Hide Your Face Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley Amazon
14Dillard & Clark I Bowed My Head And Cried Holy The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark Amazon
15Rory Block I Am In the Heavenly Way Confessions of A Blues Singer Amazon
16Bukka White I Am the Heavenly Way The Sonet Blues Story Amazon
17Clara Ward In That Great Judgement Morning Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 1] Amazon
18The Dixie Hummingbirds In The Morning Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds Amazon
19Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers He's So Wonderful The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
20Slim & Slam Early In The Morning Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 2) Amazon
21Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet Carolina In The Morning Vol. 1-(1937-38) Amazon
22Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson Where Dreams Come to Die Django and Jimmie Amazon
23John Lee Hooker I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive [Album Version] Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett Amazon
24Otis Spann Must Have Been The Devil The Blues Never Die Amazon
25Cleo Brown You're A Heavenly Thing Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935) Amazon
26Benny Goodman You're a Heavenly Thing Music Hall Rag Amazon
27Big Joe Turner Morning Noon And Nite Big Joe Turner: Rhythm & Blues Years Amazon
28Tampa Red Worried Devil Blues The Bluebird Recordings (1934-1936) Amazon
29Ralph Stanley John The Revelator A Mother's Prayer Amazon
30Sherman Tedder Untitled [Album Version] Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950 Amazon
31Elvis Presley (You're The) Devil In Disguise Elvis 30 #1 Hits Amazon

Grapes on the Vine

Percy Mayfield
Percy Mayfield

Raising the roof once more on KOWS in West Sonoma County on a bright Saturday morning. And we make it count with an opening salvo of some country swing from Bob Wills, W. Lee O’Daniel, The Light Crust Doughboys, and Willie Nelson. Not to be outdone, we’ve got bluegrass from The Rice Brothers and our own David Thom, gospel from the Hummingbirds, and a special set celebrating the “Poet of the Blues” Percy Mayfield. We’ll also feature blues from Texas and, if we find the time, early century pop from Frank Crumit and Cliff Edwards. Tune in Saturday morning at 9 on KOWS for a dose of roots sounds from the past century of America’s music with Dave Stroud.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Asleep at the Wheel/Johnny Gimble Big Balls in Cowtown The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970 Amazon
3Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys I Had Someone Else Before I Had You Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5 Amazon
4The Light Crust Doughboys Blue Guitars Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947 Amazon
5Skeets McDonald Fuss and Fight Skeets McDonald – Heart Breakin' Mama (Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight) Amazon
6W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys Congratulate Me Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938 Amazon
7Willie Nelson Cherokee Maiden You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Amazon
8Warren Smith Got Love If You Want It The Sun Country Box CD4 So Long, I'm Gone Amazon
9Bobby Hicks & Del McCoury We're Steppin' Out Tonight Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
10Ralph Stanley Are You Washed In The Blood A Mother's Prayer Amazon
11Ralph Stanley Dad's Old Rocky Field Old Songs & Ballads Amazon
12The Rice Brothers Grapes On the Vine Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
13The David Thom Band The Little White Church That Old Familiar Amazon
14Selah Jubilee Singers I Saw the Light Gospel Quartets 1921-1942 Vol. 2 Amazon
15The Selah Singers I'll Be Satisfied Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53 Amazon
16The Dixie Hummingbirds Christian's Automobile 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds Amazon
17Nina Simone I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Forever Young, Gifted & Black: Songs Of Freedom And Spirit Amazon
18Aretha Franklin River's Invitation Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
19Percy Mayfield Strange Things Happening ABC Of The Blues Vol 28 Amazon
20Ray Charles Hit the Road Jack Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 2 Amazon
21Buddy Miller Please Send Me Someone To Love Midnight And Lonesome Amazon
22Freddie King Look On Yonder Wall Woman Across the River Amazon
23The Mississppi Mud Mashers Bring It On Home To Grandma Flashbacks #3 CopulationBlues 1926-1940 Amazon
24Texas Alexander The Risin' Sun As Good As It Gets: Country Blues [Disc 2] Amazon
25Blind Lemon Jefferson Easy Rider Blues Classic Sides Disc 2 Amazon
26Ishman Bracey Woman Woman Blues (Pm 12970, L-239-2) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932) Amazon
27Charlie Spand Ain't Gonna Stand For That (Pm 12856, 15454–) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932) Amazon
28Jean Brady and Big Bill Broonzy Knocking Myself Out Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944 Amazon
29Lightnin' Hopkins Buddy Brown's Blues (98 Degree Blues) The Complete Prestige-Bluesville Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
30Frank Crumit There's No One With Endurance grimriper2u@yahoo.com FRANK CRUMIT Amazon
31Cliff Edwards K-K-K-Katy & When You Wore A Tulip CLIFF EDWARDS grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
32Herbert Payne Smoke Clouds Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944 Amazon
33Al Jolson Toot, Toot Tootsie (Goo'bye) 50 #1 Hits Of The '20s & '30s Amazon
34Billy Joe Shaver Hill Country Love Song Oxford American Southern Music Texas Amazon
35Marty Robbins The Strawberry Roan Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Amazon

Fair and Warmer – KOWS May 23, 2015

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

The show kicks off with some mid-century country fiddlin’ courtesy of Curly Fox but makes a quick left turn with a set about liars, tattlers, and some straight-forward testifying from Sister Rosetta Tharpe. We’ll also be entertained with some classic roots from the Dallas String Band, Lead Belly, E. C. Ball, and a tribute set to Sam Cooke.