Category Archives: Urban Jazz

King Cole Covers

April 11, 2026 Dave

Nat King Cole’s transition from a respected jazz pianist to a mainstream icon was a perfect storm of technical brilliance, a groundbreaking vocal style, and a persona that radiated “suave sophistication.” While jazz purists sometimes lamented his move toward pop, it was his ability to blend jazz’s complexity with pop’s accessibility that made him a household name. He delivered hit after hit with a penchant for candidates (or entries from) the Great American Songbook. With this in mind, we’ll take this week’s show in an direction that honors the songs he became most famous for…from Bobby Troup’s Route 66 to Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life…covered by others including some rocking tributes, some ballads in the style of country and bluesy soul numbers from Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. We don’t stop there. Join Dave Stroud for another celebration from a hundred years of America’s music

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album
2	Tiny Bradshaw	Straighten Up and Fly Right	Breaking Up the House [Disc 1]
3	The Andrews Sisters	Straighten Up and Fly Right	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 1]
4	Oscar Brown Jr.	Straighten Up And Fly Right [Album Version]	Sin & Soul… And Then Some
5	Bobby Darin	Nature Boy	As Long As I'm Singing: The Bobby Darin Collection [Disc 2]
6	Aaron Neville	Nature Boy	Nature Boy: The Standards Album
7	Madeleine Peyroux	Smile	Half The Perfect World
8	Jimmy Durante	Smile	As Time Goes By: Best of
9	Chuck Berry	Route 66	Cars
10	Asleep at the Wheel	Route 66	The Best of Asleep at the Wheel
11	Wayne Newton	L-O-V-E	Wild Cool & Swingin'
12	Natalie Cole	L-O-V-E	Unforgettable: With Love
13	Charley Pride	Ramblin' Rose	20 Classics
14	Slim Whitman	Ramblin' Rose	All-Time Greatest Hits Vol 2
15	Raul Malo	Ramblin' Rose	Quarantunes
16	Brenda Lee	Pretend	This Is Brenda
17	Carl Mann	Pretend	The Forgotten 45s 1957-1959 (CD3)
18	Dinah Washington	Unforgettable	Jazz 'Round Midnight: Dinah Washington
19	Peggy Lee	Unforgettable	Peggy Lee – The Marvelous Miss Lee
20	Jimmy Wakely	Mona Lisa	The Collection 1940-53 CD2
21	Carl Mann	Mona Lisa	Where Rock Was Born
22	The Neville Brothers	Mona Lisa	Fiyo on the Bayou
23	Marvin Gaye	Too Young	Ballads
24	Frankie Laine	Too Young	I Hear Music
25	Linda Ronstadt	Lush Life	Round Midnight [Disc 2]
26	Sammy Davis Jr.	Lush Life	I've Gotta Be Me: The Best Of Sammy Davis Jr.
27	Little Joe Cook	I Love You for Sentimental Reasons	Peanuts and Other Delicacies: The Little Joe Cook Story (1951-1962)
28	Sam Cooke	(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons	Greatest Hits
29	Raul Malo	(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons	The Nashville Acoustic Sessions
30	Ray Noble	The Very Thought of You	Love Is the Sweetest Thing(Disc 2)
31	Nancy Wilson	The Very Thought Of You	Lady Sings The Blues [Disc 1]
32	Leon Redbone	Sweet Lorraine	Any Time
33	Frank Sinatra	Sweet Lorraine	Reprise Collection [Disc 4]
34	Nat King Cole	The Frim Fram Sauce	Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 1]
35	Nat King Cole	Paradise	The Very Thought Of You

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Mid-Century Modern Jazz

February 27, 2026 Dave

Blue and cool is the mood as we spin the dial back to the 1950s — a decade of chrome, tailfins, Cold War tension, Beat poetry, and late-night cigarette smoke curling toward the ceiling of a dimly lit club. Beneath the middle class culture of the day, there was a restless heartbeat of jazz. This was the era when bebop matured into cool, hard bop caught fire, and modal explorations began reshaping the language of improvisation. Artists like Miles Davis refined understatement into revolution, John Coltrane stretched harmony toward spiritual searching, Thelonious Monk bent notes and expectations alike, and Ella Fitzgerald turned the human voice into a virtuosic instrument. Jazz in the ’50s wasn’t background music — it was conversation, protest, poetry, and possibility. Dave’s selected some important landmarks and deep tracks that take you into those dusty digital bins of jazz and improvisation this morning on Deeper Roots.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	George Shearing Quintet Feat. Nancy Wilson	Lullaby Of Birdland	The Swingin's Mutual!
3	Charlie Parker	Blues For Alice	Confirmation: The Best Of The Verve Years
4	Charlie Parker	Au Privave	Confirmation: The Best Of The Verve Years
5	Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers	Doodlin'	Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 4]
6	Sal Salvador	Round Trip	Capitol Jazz 50th Anniversary Collection [Disc 3]
7	The Modern Jazz Quartet	Django	Django
8	Chet Baker	My Funny Valentine	Closer Than A Kiss: Crooner Classics
9	Erroll Garner Trio	Misty	Your Hit Parade – 1954
10	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	I Get A Kick Out Of You	Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 4]
11	Sonny Rollins	St. Thomas	Saxophone Colossus
12	Sonny Rollins	Oleo	Prestige Profiles Bonus
13	Eddie Heywood	Soft Summer Breeze	Great Instrumental Hits Of The 50s-80s (10 Songs)
14	Thelonious Monk	Nice Work If You Can Get It	The Original Jazz Masters Series – Vol. 4 [Disc 5]
15	Count Basie	Li'l Darlin'	Ken Burns Jazz: Count Basie
16	Lee Morgan	I Remember Clifford	Side Man
17	John Coltrane	Blue Train	Blue Train
18	Cannonball Adderley	Dancing In The Dark	Somethin' Else
19	Johnny Hodges	Satin Doll	Blues A Plenty
20	Miles Davis	Blue in Green	Kind of Blue
21	Charles Mingus	Goodbye Pork Pie Hat	Mingus Ah Um

Cool Daddy

April 12, 2023 Dave

Welcome to the club. We’ve got some cool sounds from the jazz lounges and clubs blended with some beat generation salutations for you this morning. Beatniks, boppers, lounge chanteuse performances, saxophones, and some cool fifties sounds. Tune in for Patsy Raye and The Beatniks, Earl Bostic, Mose Allison, Charlie Parker’s Quintet, and a BeBop blend of out-of-this-world swing and percussion. From the Gaslight Café to Slim Gallaird’s Yep Roc sounds…we’ll have your foot tappin’ and your fingers snappin’ on a magical blend of cool ultra-lounge and café sounds from mid-century. Tune in on the web or grab our free app out on the Apple Store or Google Play. You can find them by searching for KOWS.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra	Salt Peanuts	Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3]
3	Gerry Mulligan Quartet	Swinghouse	The Beat Generation, Vol 3
4	Charles Kuralt	The Greenwich Village Poets	The Beat Generation, Vol 3
5	King Pleasure	Don't Get Scared	The BeBop Singers
6	Mose Allison	Your Mind Is On Vacation	Allison Wonderland Anthology [Disc 1]
7	Earl Bostic	Up There In The Orbit	Sputnik! The Launch of the Space Race – 65 Years First Sputnik in Space
8	J. J. Johnson Beboppers	Coppin' The Bop	J. J. Johnson: Bone-O-Logy (Proper Introduction)
9	Peggy Lee	The Boy from Ipanema	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15: Wild Cool & Swingin' Too
10	Richard Marino & His Orchestra	Fever	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 6: Rhapsodesia
11	Martin Denny	Cool	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 16: Mondo Hollywood
12	Patsy Raye And The Beatniks	Beatnik's Wish	The Beat Generation, Vol 3
13	Carl Sandburg	On Beatniks	The Beat Generation, Vol 3
14	Three Bips, A Bop	Professor Bop	The Beat Generation, Vol 3
15	Charlie Parker Quartet	Cosmic Rays	The Beat Generation [Disc 2]
16	Charlie Parker Quintet	Scrapple From The Apple	Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3]
17	Charlie Ventura & His Orchestra	Ha	The Beat Generation [Disc 2]
18	Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys	Oop-Bop Sh-Bam	The Beat Generation, Vol 3
19	Elmer Bernstein	Like Having Fun	The Beat Generation, Vol 3
20	Del Close & John Brent	Cool	The Beat Generation, Vol 3
21	Slim Gaillard, The Middle Europeans	Yip Roc Heresy	The Beat Generation [Disc 2]
22	Oscar Brown Jr.	But I Was Cool	The Beat Generation, Vol 3
23	The Playboys	Charge It	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
24	Joe Carroll	Got A Penny Benny	The BeBop Singers
25	Lambert, Hendricks & Ross	Twisted	The Beat Generation [Disc 2]
26	Ken Nordine	Hunger Is From	The Beat Generation [Disc 2]
27	Eddie Jefferson	Old Shoes	The BeBop Singers
28	Serge Chaloff	Gabardine And Serge	Birth of Bebop
29	Julie London	Daddy	Wild Cool and Swingin'
30	Edd Kookie Byrnes	Kookie's Mad Pad	The Beat Generation [Disc 2]
31	Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes And Connie Stevens	Kookie Kookie [Lend Me Your Comb]	The Greatest Novelty Songs, Disc 2
32	Mabel Scott	Yes	Destination Lust – Chicksville U.S.A.
33	Julie London	Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast	Wild Cool and Swingin'
34	Cooltrane Quartet	Some Like It Hot	Vintage Cafi Vol.3

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Dope Head Blues

July 31, 2021 Dave

It’s one of the novelty topics but that’s only whistling in the graveyard now, isn’t it? An episode of vipers and wild nights backstage, a reflection of the party atmosphere and the debauchery that would often take place after long nights of performing and jiving. We’ll also touch on the devil’s weed, as it was once known before the recognition of Victorian sensibilities was ejected in favor of common sense. The music will include primarily blues and jazz but we’ll also dip into some later novelty sounds to keep us all honest with the topics of coke, opium, marijuana, and pills on the agenda. Sweet bath house sounds from Bette Midler, wistful sounds from Phil Lawrence and Dan Hicks take center stage alongside the music of The Cats & The Fiddle, Fats Waller, Barney Bigard, and Cab Calloway. Quite a lineup and quite a topic surrounded by junkies, reefers, hadacol concoctions, and mellow stuff…so we hope you’ll drop by on a Friday morning in Sonoma County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Willie Mabon	Got To Have Some	I'm The Fixer : The Best Of The USA Records Sessions
3	The Ink Spots	That Cat Is High	Cocaine Blues
4	The Cats & The Fiddle	Killin' Jive	The Very Best Of
5	The Spirits of Rhythm	Junk Man	Cocaine Blues
6	Cleo Brown	The Stuff Is Here And It's Mellow	The Legendary Cleo Brown
7	Champion Jack Dupree	Junker's Blues	ABC Of The Blues Vol 6
8	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Junco Partner	Louis Jordan: Let the Good Times Roll – The Anthology 1938-1953
9	Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks	Long Comma Viper	The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973
10	Phil Lawrence	Viper's Dream	Mandolin Heaven
11	Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys	You're a Viper	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
12	Louis Armstrong	Song Of The Vipers [Album Version]	Louis Armstrong: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934
13	Lalo Guerrero	Marihuana Boogie	Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 1]
14	Bette Midler	Marahuana	Songs For The New Depression
15	Julia Lee	Marijuana	Kansas City Star [Disc 4]
16	Fats Waller	The Reefer Song	Last Testament His Final Recor
17	Barney Bigard Sextet	Sweet Marihuana Brown	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
18	Larry Adler	Smoking Reefers	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
19	Johnny Price	Marijuana, The Devil Flower	Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
20	Johnny Cash	Leave That Junk Alone	The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 2]
21	Hot Lips Page	Feelin' High And Happy	Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3]
22	Ella Fitzgerald	When I Get Low I Get High	Cryin' Mood
23	Cab Calloway	Kickin' The Gong Around	The Art Deco Music Collection: Cotton Club Stomp
24	Julia Lee	Pipe Dreams	Kansas City Star [Disc 5]
25	Tampa Red	That Stuff Is Here	Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard
26	Cedar Creek Sheik	Don't Use That Stuff	Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
27	Dick Justice	Cocaine	Rough Guide To The Blues Songsters
28	Reverend Gary Davis	Cocaine Blues	Blues And Ragtime
29	Charley Jordan	Just A Spoonful	Cocaine Blues
30	Slim & Slam	Chinatown, My Chinatown	Cocaine Blues
31	Dr. John	Junko Partner	The Ultimate Dr. John
32	The Treniers	Hadacole (That's All)	They Rock! They Roll! They Swing!

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At the Jazz Club

November 25, 2019 Dave

Cool November sounds from the catalog of cool itself. This week’s Deeper Roots looks for some relaxed sounds; reminders of what it’s like to sit in a smokey lounge below street level in the Village and listen to solos, breakouts, and instrumental wizardry. Join us as we dig the swinging backbeat and improvisations that exemplify an urban sound from some of the greats. We’ve got Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Illinois Jacquet, and a host of others taking us into the Friday morning club here on Sonoma County Community radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Charlie Haden	Blue Pearl	Now Is The Hour
3	Roland Kirk	Three for The Festival	Mercury 1962
4	Buddy Rich	Love For Sale	The Best Of Buddy Rich: The Pacific Jazz Years
5	Ben Webster	The Jeep's Jumping	The Original Jazz Masters Series, Vol. 2 [Disc 3]
6	Illinois Jacquet	Harlem Nocturne	Swing's the Thing + Illinois Jacquet and His Orchestra (Bonus Track Version)
7	Illinois Jacquet	Las Vegas Blues	Swing's the Thing + Illinois Jacquet and His Orchestra (Bonus Track Version)
8	Ornette Coleman	Ramblin	Oxford American Southern Music Texas
9	Sonny Rollins	I'm An Old Cowhand	Way Out West [Bonus Tracks]
10	Dave Brubeck	It's Deja Vu All Over Again	So What's New?
11	Herbie Hancock	The Eye Of The Hurricane	Maiden Voyage
12	Lee Morgan	Hocus-Pocus	The Sidewinder (RVG Edition)
13	Joe Henderson	Homestretch	Page One
14	Freddie Hubbard	Arietis (Alternate Take)	Ready For Freddie
15	Kenny Burrell	K Twist	Midnight Blue
16	Grant Green	Falling In Love With Love	The Original Jazz Masters Series, Vol. 2 [Disc 2]
17	Count Basie	Blues in Hoss' Flat	Chairman of the Board
18	Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd	O Pato	Jazz Samba
19	Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery	Night Train	Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo
20	The Oscar Peterson Trio/Milt Jackson	Work Song	Oscar Peterson's Finest Hour
21	Miles Davis	Jeru	Birth of The Cool

Mambo Baby!

February 19, 2019 Dave

Well, it might be a bit of a stretch, and it might have been a bit of a fad, but it also flavored the beverage. Mambo. A lively mix born of a Latin dance of Cuban descent in the 30s and introduced by Perez Prado to an American audience in the 40s. It found it’s way into the popular music culture from big band to jazz and R&B. This week’s show samples some of the performances that were totally infected by its rhythm. We’ll hear from Mickey Baker, Wynonie Harris, and Tiny Grimes on the R&B side as well as the bandleaders who brassed it up including Perez Prado, Desi Arnaz, and Xavier Cugat.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Wynonie Harris	All She Wants to do is Mambo	Lovin' Machine
3	Perez Prado	Mambo #5	Cocktail Hour : Mambo Jambo
4	The Andrews Sisters	The Mambo Man	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
5	Tito Puente	Cuban Pete	Mambo Kings
6	Tiny Grimes	Showboat Mambo	Rumba Gone Mambo
7	Xavier Cugat	Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)	The Original Mambo King [Disc 2]
8	Desi Arnaz	Holiday In Havana	The Best of Desi Arnaz: The Mambo King
9	Desi Arnaz;Amanda Lane	Cuban Pete	The Best of Desi Arnaz: The Mambo King
10	J.J. Jones	After Hours Mambo	Rumba Gone Mambo
11	Mickey Baker	Guitar Mambo	Rumba Gone Mambo
12	Ruth Brown	Mambo Baby	Miss Rhythm Greatest Hits And More Disc 2
13	Joe Liggins & His Orchestra	They Were Doing the Mambo	Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2
14	Cherokee & Band	Mambo Blues	Rumba Gone Mambo
15	The Treniers	Who Put The 'Ungh' In The Mambo	You're Killin' Me
16	Don Swan	El Cumbanchero [Guaracha-Fast Rhumba]	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 2: Mambo Fever
17	Fay Simmons	Big Joe Mambo	Rumba Gone Mambo
18	Big Maybelle	New Kind Of Mambo	The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55
19	Earl Bostic	Mambostic	Earl Bostic Flamingo
20	Cozy Cole	Cozy's Mambo 1	Rumba Gone Mambo
21	Jack Costanzo	Peter Gunn Mambo	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 2: Mambo Fever
22	Bill Doggett	Real Gone Mambo (Si Si Nova)	Rumba Gone Mambo
23	Esther Sutherland	Clock Mambo	Rumba Gone Mambo
24	Xavier Cugat	Cuban Mambo	Cocktail Hour : Mambo Jambo
25	Link Wray & The Wraymen	Rumble Mambo	Walkin' With Link
26	Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban	Patricia	Mambo Sinuendo
27	Yma Sumac	Taki Rari	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 2: Mambo Fever
28	Billy May	Hernando's Hideaway	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 2: Mambo Fever
29	The Manhattan Transfer	The Speak Up Mambo (Cuentame)	Anthology – Down in Birdland [Disc 1]
30	Young-Holt Trio	Wack Wack	Big Noise: A Mambo Inn Compilation
31	Tito Puente	Hong Kong Mambo	Cocktail Hour : Mambo Jambo
32	Wynonie Harris	Good Mambo Tonight	Lovin' Machine
33	Sonny Rollins	Mambo Bounce	Best of Sonny Rollins, the (Riverside)
34	J.J. Jones	Night Train Mambo	Rumba Gone Mambo
35	Norton Buffalo & The Knockouts	Harmonica Mambo	King of the Highway

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420 Music

May 27, 2017 Dave

It’s a topical theme…it’s a medicinal thing…it’s a blend of sounds celebrating vipers and jives from the past century. There is no shortage of material to pull from the well of Americana…whether that be from the 1920s or from the 2010s. We’ll hear mellow sounds from Trixie Smith, Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats, winsome themes from Fountains of Wayne, snark from The Harlem Hamfats, and recent relevance from The Devil Makes Three. While April 20th has passed, the topic is a lively one here in California these days and we’re mostly on friendly terms with the weed…even for those that don’t imbibe. The fact is, we have the freedom to do so if we so choose, right?

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Fountains Of Wayne	Planet Of Weed	Traffic And Weather
3	Willie Nelson/Snoop Dogg/Kris Kristofferson/Jamey Johnson	Roll Me Up (Album version)	Heroes
4	Hugh Laurie	The Weed Smoker's Dream	Didn't It Rain (Deluxe)
5	Bea Foote	Weed	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
6	Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy	All The Jive Is Gone	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
7	Buck Washington	Save The Roach For Me	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
8	Don Redman & His Orchestra	Chant of the Weed	When Hemp Was Hip
9	Buster Bennett	Reefer Head Woman	Chronological Buster Bennett (1945-1947)
10	Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats	Weed Smoking Mama	Memphis Highway Stomp
11	The Toyes	Smoke Two Joints	Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000: Disc 2
12	Harlan Pepper	Reefer	The Alternate Root 420 Sampler
13	Neil Young	Roll Another Number (For The Road)	Tonight's The Night
14	Trixie Smith	Jack I'm Mellow	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
15	Ray Charles	Let's Go Get Stoned	Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
16	Barney Bigard Sextet	Sweet Marihuana Brown	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
17	The Cats & The Fiddle	Killin' Jive	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
18	Fats Waller	The Reefer Song	Last Testament His Final Recor
19	Cab Calloway	Reefer Man	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
20	Tampa Red & The Chicago Five	I'm Gonna Get High	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
21	The Harlem Hamfats	Weed Smokers' Dream	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
22	Julia Lee	Marijuana	Kansas City Star [Disc 4]
23	Larry Adler	Smoking Reefers	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
24	Ella Fitzgerald With Chick Webb & His Orchestra	Wacky Dust	The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs
25	The Devil Makes Three	Champagne And Reefer	Redemption & Ruin
26	Bob Dylan & The Band	Rainy Day Women #12 & #35 [Live]	The Complete, Historic "Isle Of Wight" Concert, 1969 (Remixed and Remastered 2013)
27	Chris Ardoin and Double Clutchin'	Stay In or Stay Out – Pass the Dutchie	Putomayo Presents Zydeco
28	KC & the Sunshine Band	I Get Lifted	25th Anniversary Edition Disc 1
29	Rick James	Mary Jane	Old School Friday
30	Ringo Starr	The No No Song	Blast From Your Past

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Cool Down R&B

March 5, 2017 Dave

Mellow R&B from a broad spectrum of performers who made a mark in the decade or so that preceded rock ‘n roll’s infancy. Indeed, they participated in the birth of the form with a sound that included the vocal quartet, jump and swing, and an incessant beat that could not be ignored. We’ll hear from the ‘feisty females’ of the day: Varetta Dillard, Blue Lu Barker, Big Maybelle, and Bernice Gooden right alongside Buddy Johnson’s Orchestra, the Three Bits of Rhythm, The Cats & the Fiddle, and Luke Jones and the Orchestra. Deeper Roots digs into a collection of tracks, some familiar, some from so deep in the archives that the dust is part of the sound, on another Friday evening of American roots sounds for Sonoma County community radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Wild Bill Moore (vocal: Scatman)	Rock 'N' Roll	Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
3	Luke Jones and His Orchestra	Rompin' the Boogie	More Mellow Cats & Kittens
4	Butch Stone & His Orchestra	Ooh, Look A There Ain't She Pretty	Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
5	Three Bits of Rhythm	Root Beer Sizzle Sazzle Sizzle	Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
6	Bebopper Lulu and Her Orchestra	Mellow Scat	More Mellow Cats & Kittens
7	Slim Gaillard	Rhythm Mad	Laughing in Rhythm: Groove Juice Special [Disc 2]
8	Three Bits Of Rhythm	The Man That Comes To My House	Further Mellow Cats'n'Kittens – Hot R&B And Cool Blues 1946-1951
9	Coleman Brothers	Raise A Rukus Tonight	Hot Harmony Groups 1941-1949: Vol 3: When the Old Gang
10	Austin McCoy	Happy Pay Day Part 1	More Mellow Cats & Kittens
11	Nappy Brown	Pitter Patter	The R&B Years 1955 – Vol 2
12	Teddy Bunn With The Hootie McShann Trio	In The Oven	Further Mellow Cats'n'Kittens – Hot R&B And Cool Blues 1946-1951
13	The Herb Fisher Trio	Don't Want Nobody Else	More Mellow Cats & Kittens
14	Luke Jones & His Orchestra	Jump Me Some Boogie	Further Mellow Cats'n'Kittens – Hot R&B And Cool Blues 1946-1951
15	Gene Phillips	Women, Women, Women	Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
16	Big Maybelle	Rock House	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
17	Varetta Dillard	Mercy, Mr Percy	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
18	Varetta Dillard	Promise Mr Thomas	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
19	Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra	Fine Brown Fame	The Best of Buddy's
20	Bernice Gooden	Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter (On A Teen-Age Date)	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
21	Little Willie Littlefield	Hello Kats	Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
22	Bob Gaddy	Come On Little Children	The Classic Old Town Records
23	Bob Gaddy	Could I?	The Classic Old Town Records
24	The Cats & The Fiddle	Mr. Rhythm Man	The Very Best Of
25	Effie Smith	Be On Your Merry Way	More Mellow Cats & Kittens
26	Linda Hayes	What's It To You, Jack	Atomic Baby
27	Johnny Alston and His Orchestra	Everything Will Be Alright	More Mellow Cats & Kittens
28	Blue Lu Baker	Here Is a Little Girl	Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll Vol 2 [Disc 13]
29	Hadda Brooks	I Feel So Good	I've Got News For You [Disc 1]
30	Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends	It Comes in Like a Lion	Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 1
31	Big Maybelle	Whole Lot-Ta Shakin' Goin' On	OKeh Rhythm & Blues
32	Dolly Cooper	Ay La Bah	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
33	The Robins	That's What The Good Book Says	Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
34	The Cats & The Fiddle	Gang Busters	The Very Best Of
35	Black Cats and the Kitten	You Better Ask Somebody	Jazzin' The Blues Vol. 3

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Forties Rhythm

March 28, 2015 Dave

Just ahead of World War II, a sound began to bubble up through the floorboards. There was the new, brash, swinging sound of big bands, country swing had surfaced, and jazz was alive and well as an evident inspiration to both. But there was a raw, bluesy, expressive, jump sound coming from the barrooms and halls of the urban expanses of Chicago, Kansas City, New York City, and beyond; something that would become known as R&B and would later be the bedrock of rock and roll. Deeper Roots explores the sounds of Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Buddy Johnson and a host of others, including the ladies: Effie Smith, Nellie Lutcher, Julia Lee, and Viola Wells. This episode has them all and more…

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Deeper Roots Goes To Mardi Gras

February 14, 2015 Dave

Fat Tuesday or, translated to French, Mardi Gras, comes but once a year and signals the penitential season of Lent. It also provides us with an outlet for the many things that we do as part of our celebration. One of them involves the backdrop of music. We’ll visit the sounds introduced by the Second Line of “Sugar Boy” Crawford, Fats Domino, and Stop, Inc. We’ll follow with The Meters, Bo Dollis and The Wild Magnolias, Louis Armstrong, and many others in a show that separates our locales by almost 2000 miles. Join Dave Stroud for the big beat coming from the French Quarter, Bourbon Street, and the Mississippi waterfront in our newest episode, another produced exclusively for KWTF, 88.1 FM, member-supported community radio for Bodega Bay, Sonoma County, California.

A Century of America's Music