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Bourbon Street Rhythms

December 3, 2021 Dave

We enter December with hope. Join us for some sounds from the French Quarter and its environs. This Friday on Deeper Roots, tune in for a sweeping celebration taking the St. Charles trolley in time from Kid Ory and Louis Armstrong to the sounds of Tuba Fats, Mac Rebennack, Allen Toussaint and beyond. We’ll also find some Big Easy rocking treats by the water: Ernie K-Doe, Sugar Boy Crawford, Fats Domino, and Larry Darnell are also on the board from the Big Easy as well as sounds of piano pounders like Archibald, Champion Jack Dupree and Professor Longhair. KOWS radio’s antenna is moving so we highly recommend that you stream us on the KOWS web site (or via the KOWS app) because the FM signal will be out of commission as the transmitter has found a new home out in the hills above Bodega Highway.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Archibald	She's Scattered Everywhere	Various Artists: THEME TIME RADIO HOUR – SEASON 2/[Disc 2]
3	Tuba Fats' Chosen Few Brass Band	Mardi Gras In New Orleans	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
4	Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band	Royal Garden Blues	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
5	Louis Armstrong And His Dixieland Seven	Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
6	Professor Longhair	Bald Head	Mercury B&R Story '45-'55 – [Disc 3]: Soutwest Blues V1
7	Champion Jack Dupree	Ici Mo-Mo	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 4]
8	Dave Bartholomew	Messy Bessie	Gettin' Funky [Disc 2]
9	Smiley Lewis	Big Mamou	Smiley Lewis Vol 1
10	Larry Darnell	What More Do You Want	OKeh Rhythm & Blues
11	Annie Laurie	It Hurts To Be In Love	The Girls Gone Rockin' Rhythm & Blues Queens [Disc 2]
12	Annie Laurie	Rockin' and Rollin' Again (Savoy 1197)	R&B Humdingers Volume 12
13	Paul Gayten	For You My Love	Chess New Orleans [Disc 1]
14	James "Sugar Boy" Crawford	Jock-A-Mo	Chess New Orleans [Disc 1]
15	Fats Domino	Don't You Lie To Me	Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 1
16	Fats Domino	Hey! La Bas Boogie	Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 1
17	Ernie K-Doe	Heebie Jeebies	Absolutely the Best
18	Benny Spellman	Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette)	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
19	Mac Rebennack	Good Times	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5]
20	Earl King	Is Everything All Right	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 1]
21	Eddie Bo	Baby I'm Wise	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 6]
22	Joe & Ann Trio	Gee Baby (You're So Fine)	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 4]
23	Jewel King	3X7=21	New Orleans R&B Outbreak
24	Lloyd Price	Lawdy Miss Clawdy	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
25	Little Richard	Heeby Jeebies	The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection
26	Al Johnson	Carnival Time	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
27	Art Neville	That Rock & Roll Beat	Brother to Brother (Disc One:Art)
28	Paul Marvin	Hurry Up	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 4]
29	Leonard Carbo	I Don't Want To Lose Her	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 3]
30	Dr. John	How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come 'Round)	Goin' Back To New Orleans
31	Allen Toussaint	Southern Nights	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
32	The Velvetiers	Feeling Alright On Saturday Night	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 3]
33	Earl King	Everybody's Carried Away	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 3]
34	Ernie K-Doe	'Tain't It the Truth	Absolutely the Best
35	Art Neville	Too Much	Brother to Brother (Disc One:Art)
36	Art Neville	That Old Time Rock And Roll	His Specialty Recordings

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When You Dance

November 29, 2021 Dave

It’s Black Friday here in Sonoma County and we don’t really know what to expect. Worn out from the ongoing pandemic, we’re still moderating here but we very much need music to help us light the way. We like to make that possible on Friday mornings on KOWS when we find another free form collection full of small themes and nuggets. With a sprinkling of classic Carole King, Sonny Bono and Brill Building sounds, we’ll move forward into the holidays with hand clapping gospel, soul stew from Booker T., some Leon Russell, Paul Simon, Gene Pitney, and The Cookies. The playlist this morning will circle back to celebrating all the things that matter in musical themes including true love, change, and (most of all) dance. Join us this week once again for some great sounds .

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Cuff Links	Guided Missiles	The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 2
3	The Highway Q.C.'s	Pray	Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965)
4	The Staple Singers	Hammer and Nails	Hammer and Nails
5	Patsy Cline	Life's Railway To Heaven	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
6	Paul Simon	Slip Slidin' Away	Sounds of the Seventies: 1977
7	Jakob Dylan & Jade Castrinos	Go Where You Wanna Go	Echo In The Canyon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
8	The Mamas & the Papas	Do You Wanna Dance	Greatest Hits
9	Bobby Freeman	Do You Wanna Dance	MaltShop Memories Save the Last Dance for M
10	The Drifters	Dance With Me	The 50's – A Decade to Remember: Do You Wanna Dance
11	Billy Bland	Let the Little Girl Dance	One Hit Wonders
12	Dash And Dot	Dance With Me Henry	Forgotten Duos of Rock Volume 1
13	The Diatones	Oh Baby, Come Dance With Me	Bandera Doo Wop
14	Billy Storm	When You Dance	Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 4] – Group Revival
15	Marvin Gaye	Stubborn Kind of Fellow	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Marvin Gaye, Vol. 1
16	The O'Jays	Back Stabbers	The O'Jays Greatest Hits
17	Ann Cole	Have Fun	Birth Of Soul: 1
18	James Brown	Lost Someone	Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures – Vol. 3
19	Booker T. & the MG's; The MG's	Time Is Tight	Classic Rock: 1969 – The Beat Goes On
20	Redbone	Come And Get Your Love	Sounds of the Seventies Pop Nuggets: Early '70s
21	Phoebe Snow	Shakey Ground	The Best Of Phoebe Snow
22	Percy Sledge	True Love Travels On A Gravel Road	Cold Cold Heart – Where Country Meets Soul Volume 3
23	The Cookies	Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)	The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
24	Leon Russell	I Believe To My Soul	Best Of Hank Wilson
25	Ray Charles	Greenbacks	Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) (1 of 8)
26	Gene Pitney	Every Breath I Take	Anthology: 1961-1968
27	The Raindrops	The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget	The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
28	Jackie DeShannon	Needles And Pins	The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
29	Nancy Sinatra	Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)	Kill Bill, Vol. 1
30	Amy Winehouse	Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?	Lioness: Hidden Treasures
31	Laura Nyro	165-Stoned Soul Picnic	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
32	The Mavericks	Dance the Night Away	Collection [2003]

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Wild Ones

November 13, 2021 Dave

Wild in the streets…well, we’re also wild in the bars, the dance halls, the backyards, and everywhere else for that matter. We’ll be revisiting the crazy ones…the excitable ones…the hot clubs where the bad boys and bad girls are burning the candle. Tune in for some fairly wild doin’s with Mabel Scott, The Louvins, Clarence Palmer and the Jive Bombers, Johnny Horton, and a couple dozen others as we take on that theme of wild men and wild women once more on Community Radio. Dave Stroud puts the metal to the pedal with jazz vocals, rockabilly romps, early century innuendos, and rhythm and blues on a Friday morning in Sonoma County. Oh…and don’t forget to visit kowsfm.com and click on that Donate Now button to support all volunteer Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Garland Jeffreys	Wild in the Streets	Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]
3	Billy Jones With The Little Ramblers	Don't Bring Lulu	The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
4	Mae West	I'm No Angel	The Mae West Collection
5	Mae West	My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)	Bombshells
6	Mabel Scott	Yes	Destination Lust – Chicksville U.S.A.
7	Lizabeth Scott	A Deep Dark Secret	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
8	Monica Lewis	Do It Again	Bombshells
9	Kenni Huskey	Wild Man Tamer	Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music CD [Disc 2, "Arkansas Masters"]
10	Donnie Elbert	Wild Child (Deluxe 6156)	R&B Humdingers Volume 11
11	Red Ingle & His Natural Seven	Cigareets, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women (Smoking)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
12	Johnny Horton	The Wild One	Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (1 of 2)
13	Carl Mann	Born To Be Bad	Midnight Cryin' Time: Teen Angst Classics From The Rock 'n' Roll Era
14	Jerry Lee Lewis	Real Wild Child (Wild One)	A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
15	Tennessee Ernie Ford	I'm A Bad Man	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
16	The Dave & Deke Combo	Wild Woman	Hollywood Barndance
17	Charline Arthur	Burn That Candle	Welcome To The Club
18	The Louvin Brothers	You're Running Wild	Capitol Country Music Classics
19	The Hot Club of Cowtown	I Can't Tame Wild Women	Tall Tales
20	Wanda Jackson	Let's Have A Party	Queen Of Rockabilly
21	Carmen MacRae	Whatever Lola Wants	Burlesque – 100 Classics
22	The Jive Bombers	Bad Boy	Cry-Baby
23	The Trenier Twins	Hey! Sister Lucy (What Makes Your Lips So Juicy?)	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
24	Rudy Greene	Wild Life	Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1]
25	Wynonie Harris	Young And Wild	Playful Baby
26	Champion Jack Dupree	Bad Whiskey And Wild Women	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
27	King James	Wild Wooly Woman	Stompin' 25
28	Eunice Davis	Let's Have A Party	Stompin' 25
29	Julia Lee	Do You Want It?	Burlesque – 100 Classics
30	Little Richard	The Girl Can't Help It	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
31	John Hammond	Wild Man On The Loose	Trouble No More
32	Louis Prima & Keely Smith	Barnacle Bill The Sailor	Breaking It Up!
33	Little Willie John	Fever	Burlesque – 100 Classics
34	Albert King	Wild Women	Door To Door
35	Wanda Jackson	Hard Headed Woman	Queen Of Rockabilly
36	Iggy Pop	Real Wild Child	Blah Blah Blah
37	Vince Taylor	Brand New Cadillac	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 4

Rainy Nights

November 5, 2021 Dave

November arrives which means winter is fast approaching with (we hope) a need to break out the umbrellas, clean the gutters, and let the cycle of renewal begin. Our show this week is a free form collection of sounds from the past century highlighted by a couple of topical sets, some somber, some hopeful, but all with a blending of Americana. We’ll visit with Tom Waits’ on the low side of the road, hear from Nina Simone and her brilliant delivery of Langston Hughes’ Backlash Blues, some songs about bluebirds, rainy nights, bright lights and big cities. This week’s episode on KOWS Community Radio gives room to breathe and reflect on what is important with country, gospel, blues, jazz and everything that falls in between, fresh from the digital ether…all coming your way, for today, on KOWS 92.5 FM Occidental.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Irma Thomas	It's Raining	Soul Queen of New Orleans
3	Tom Waits	Jersey Girl	Used Songs 1973-1980
4	Skeeter Davis	The End of the World	Red, White & Rock Disc 2
5	Dinah Washington	This Bitter Earth	The Essential Dinah Washington: The Great Songs
6	Johnny Cash	Family Bible	Boom Chicka Boom
7	Edwin Hawkins Singers	Oh Happy Day	Testify: The Gospel Box [Disc 2]
8	Paul Simon	Gone at Last	1964-1993 Disc 2
9	Nina Simone	Backlash Blues	Defiance Blues
10	Jimmy Hughes	A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues	The Complete Fame Singles Volume 1
11	Art Freeman	Everybody's Got To Cry Sometime	The Complete Fame Singles Volume 1
12	Brook Benton	Rainy Night In Georgia	Today
13	Roy Orbison	Blue Rain (Coming Down)	The Soul of Rock And Roll [Disc 3]
14	Rosanne Cash	I Count The Tears	Retrospective
15	Sir Douglas Quintet	The Rains Came	Best Of Sir Douglas Quintet
16	Ritchie Valens	Bluebirds Over The Mountain	Ritchie Valens – Ritchie
17	Joe Ely	If You Were A Bluebird	Joe Ely
18	Billy Walker	Gonna Find Me A Bluebird	Whirlpool – Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
19	Mac Wiseman	The Bluebirds Are Singing for Me	Warped 6643 – Mac Wiseman – 1966
20	Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys	Hello Bluebird	Oh!
21	Ry Cooder	Johnny Cash	I, Flathead
22	Johnny Cash	28 I Walk the Line [Live at The Carousel Ballroom San Fancisco CA – April 1968]	Live At The Carousel Ballroom
23	Charley Crockett	Skip A Rope	Music City USA
24	Wanda Jackson	You Drive Me Wild	Encore
25	Neil Young & the Shocking Pinks	Bright Lights, Big City	Everybody's Rockin'
26	Blind Willie Johnson	Let Your Light Shine On Me [Album Version]	The Ladykillers Music From The Motion Picture
27	John Fogerty	Down On The Corner	The Long Road Home: Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection
28	Tom Waits	Lowside Of The Road	Mule Variations
29	John Oates	My Creole Belle	Arkansas
30	Chris Hillman	Wildflowers	Bidin' My Time
31	Charlie Musselwhite	Siboney	Continental Drifter
32	Dave Alvin	Downey Girl	Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women

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Dustbin Dynamite

October 8, 2021 Dave

A bit of a departure this week as we celebrate a mix of mayhem from the fuzzed out garage bands, greasy ducktails, oddball instrumentalists and mostly mondo misses tempered with a good dose of surf confection this week. We’re celebrating the three chord sensibilities of mid-century rock and roll rockabilly, surf, and proto-punk spit-ballers. They’re pulling out some wailing sax solos, fuzzed out bass beach thumpers, and some tongue-in-cheek easy listening to spin you around in your chair on an October Friday morning. You’ll be entertained by the likes of Tony Casanova, Sparkle Moore, Little Carolyn Sue, and Wild Bill and the Blue Denims…a forgotten list of lost culture that will take you down a rabbit hole that you hope might never end…or maybe just the opposite. This week’s show is dynamite from the dustbin of minor labels and first time producers that can only make the grade on Community Radio. Tune in for some mondo fuzz mayhem.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Ronnie Dee	Action Packed	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
3	Bobby Troup	Seventh Son	Make Mine Mondo
4	Rock-A-Tones	One More Chance	Wild Streak, Vol. 1
5	Annette Funicello	Bikini Beach Party	Good Old Summertime
6	Red Prysock	Hand Clappin'	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
7	Jim Backus & Friend	Delicious	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
8	The Interiors	Voodoo Doll	Songs From The Crazy Cramps Collection Disc 01
9	The Bikinis	Crazy Vibrations	Songs From The Crazy Cramps Collection Disc 01
10	Gary Warren	Midnight Rain	Songs From The Crazy Cramps Collection Disc 01
11	The Three Suns	Tequila	Songs From The Crazy Cramps Collection Disc 01
12	The Invaders	Shock Treatment	Songs From The Crazy Cramps Collection Disc 01
13	Freddie & The Hitch Hikers	Sinners	Songs From The Crazy Cramps Collection Disc 01
14	The Duals	Lover's Satellite	Songs From The Crazy Cramps Collection Disc 01
15	Sparkle Moore	Skull & Crossbones	Songs From The Crazy Cramps Collection Disc 01
16	Mamie Van Doren	Seperate The Men From The Boys	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
17	Davie Allan & Arrows (Issued As By The Zanies)	Camel Walk	Make Mine Mondo
18	Rusty Draper & Lola Dee	Scratch My Back	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
19	Tarheel Slim	Number Nine Train	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 4
20	Robin Hood Brians	Dis A Itty Bit	Wild Streak, Vol. 1
21	Tony Casanova	Boogie Woogie Feeling	Make Mine Mondo
22	Don & The Galaxiex	Avalanche	Killer Rhythms & Red Hot Beats – The Definitive Rare Rock & Roll Instrumentals Collection
23	Jan & Dean	Surf Route 101	Popsicle
24	Bobby Fry	Grandchus	Make Mine Mondo
25	Si Zentner	Walk on the Wild Side	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 7: The Crime Scene
26	Johnny Durain & The Cytones	Shang-Dang-Doo	Make Mine Mondo
27	The Surfaris	Surfer Joe [Long Version]	Cowabunga! The Surf Box Disc 1
28	Voice Farm	Come On-A My House	Bigger Cooler Weirder
29	Mouse	A Public Execution	Texas Music Vol. 3 Garage Bands And Psychedelia
30	The Bobbettes	I Don't Like It Like That (pt. 1)	War Paint – The Gone Records Story
31	13th Floor Elevators	You're Gonna Miss Me	Texas Music Vol. 3 Garage Bands And Psychedelia
32	Bob Callaway	Tick Tock	Wild Streak, Vol. 1
33	The Tornadoes	Maleguena	Bustin' Surfboards
34	Little Carolyn Sue	I Hate Men	Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 1
35	Martin Denny	Cool	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 16: Mondo Hollywood
36	Ann-Margret	Let Me Entertain You	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence

Watching The River Flow

September 24, 2021 Dave

September is waning as we share our last show of the month. Join Dave Stroud live at 9 Pacific from the KOWS studios in downtown Santa Rosa for a free form stream of sounds as we make our way across to visit an eclectic collection of sounds. This week we’ll share a little bit of soul with Sugar Pie DeSanto and The Four Tops, some throwback sixties sounds from The Marvelettes and Sam The Sham, seventies deep cuts from Steve Miller, Jesse Colin Young and John Prine, and a host of your favorites from under that great Americana sideshow tent including Ry Cooder, Willie Nelson, and Los Lobos. Yes, it’s a free form show once again as we celebrate recent improvements to our streaming presence as we have signed on for Live365 hosting. Big things come in little, community bound packages. Tune in, unwrap and unwind on a Friday morning.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Marty Robbins	Running Gun	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
3	Sugar Pie DeSanto	Here You Come Running	Go Go Power: The Complete Chess Singles (1961-1966)
4	The Four Tops	You Keep Running Away	The Ultimate Collection
5	Sam Cooke	I'll Come Running Back To You	Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
6	Roy Orbison	Running Scared	Your Hit Parade – Into the '60S
7	Juke Boy Bonner	Running Shoes	Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll Volume 2 [Disc 8]
8	Aretha Franklin	Spanish Harlem	30 Greatest Hits [Disc 2]
9	Jesse Colin Young	Morning Sun	Jesse Colin Young Classics Volume 1
10	Marshall Crenshaw	Starless Summer Sky	Miracle of Science
11	Marie Knight	His Eye Is On The Sparrow	Hallelujah What A Song!
12	Taj Mahal	Let the Four Winds Blow	Phantom Blues
13	Los Lobos	I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday	El Cancionero: Mas y Mas (1 of 4)
14	Fats Domino	My Girl Josephine	Very Best of Fats Domino [Phantom] (Disc 1)
15	Chris Kenner	I Like It Like That Part 1	Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky 2-2 1957-
16	Solomon Burke	Everybody Needs Somebody To Love	Very Best of Solomon Burke (Reis)
17	Leon Russell	Watching The River Flow	Tangled Up In Blues
18	Bob Dylan	Knockin' On Heaven's Door	Greatest Hits Volume 3
19	Warren Zevon	Keep Me in Your Heart	The Wind
20	Steve Miller Band	Living In The U.S.A.	Sailor
21	Steve Miller Band	Quicksilver Girl	Sailor
22	John Prine	There She Goes	Bruised Orange
23	John Prine	Please Don't Bury Me	Souvenirs
24	Willie Nelson	Bring Me Sunshine ("Naked" Version)	Naked Willie
25	Ry Cooder w/Sam Samudio	No Quiero	The Border/Alamo Bay
26	Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs	Wooly Bully	Red, White & Rock Disc 2
27	The Marvelettes	Don't Mess With Bill	Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 Disc 2
28	Alive 'N Kickin'	Tighter, Tighter	Alive 'N Kickin'
29	Bo Diddley	Say Man	Go Bo Diddley
30	Joe Ely	Fingernails	Live Shots
31	Duane Eddy	Rebel Rouser	Rebel Rouser
32	Jackson Browne & David Lindley	Mercury Blues (Intro)	Love Is Strange [Disc 1]
33	Jackson Browne & David Lindley	Mercury Blues	Love Is Strange [Disc 1]

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Country Boogie Woogie

September 12, 2021 Dave

While the origin of the term is in debate, there are numerous stories that almost make sense but cannot be verified. However, 20^th century blues, country and rock and roll were rife with the reference and it turned into a guitar lick, a piano run, and a salty reference on the standup. Deeper Roots will be spending time with the country versions, inherited (nee appropriated) from the rhythm and blues form … and a little bit of history as well. We’ve got the classic country sounds of Sheb Wooley, Johnny Tyler, and The Delmore Brothers paired up with higher octane country Americana from Dale Watson, Robert Gordon, and Asleep at the Wheel. Chuck Berry once said “It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm & blues…it’s called rock now”. You can quote me in enlightening that observation by calling it “one nascent stream that emptied into a swift river.” Tune in Friday evenings here on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Merrill Moore	Nola Boogie	Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1]
3	Al Dexter & His Troopers	Saturday Night Boogie	Hillibilly Boogie!
4	Hardrock Gunter	Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night	Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B
5	Vance Morris & His Alabama Playboys	Crazy About The Boogie	Hillbilly Boogie Box [Disc 4]
6	Hank Snow	Rhumba Boogie	Hillbilly Boogie Box [Disc 4]
7	Johnny Tyler	Oakie Boogie	Southern Belle [Disc 1]
8	Sheb Wooley	Mule Boogie	Country & Western Nuggets
9	Johnny Bond	Alabama Boogie Boy	Put Me To Bed
10	Bob Newman	Hangover Boogie	Crossroads In Cowtown
11	Skeets McDonald	The Southland Boogie	Skeets McDonald – One Classic Album & Singles Collection
12	Dale Watson	Texas Boogie	Cheatin' Heart Attack
13	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Stratosphere Boogie	Stratosphere Boogie
14	Merle Travis	Merle's Boogie Woogie	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
15	Les Paul	Guitar Boogie	Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2]
16	Kate Mackenzie	Pan American Boogie	Steel Rails: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 1
17	Doc Watson	Freight Train Boogie	Songs From Home
18	Red Foley	Hobo Boogie	The Essential Recordings
19	The Delmore Brothers	Peach Street Boogie	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 15
20	Sonny Burgess	We Wanna Boogie	Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music 2009
21	Grady Martin & His Slewfoot Five	Wooly Boogie	The Very Best Of
22	Sleepy Labeef	Shot-Gun Boogie (Overdub)	Sleepy Rocks
23	Webb Pierce	Teenage Boogie	All Hits! [Disc 2]
24	Robert Gordon and Link Wray	Rock Billy Boogie	Too Fast to live… Too Young to Die
25	Asleep at the Wheel	08 Boogie Back to Texas	10
26	Tiny Hill	Milk Bucket Boogie	Country Music On the Mercury Label
27	Little Jimmy Dickens	You Better Not Do That	Four Classic Albums Plus Singles 1954-1962
28	Little Jimmy Dickens	Buddy's Boogie	Four Classic Albums Plus Singles 1954-1962
29	Porky Freeman	Boogie Woogie Boy	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
30	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Blackberry Boogie	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 1]
31	Tennessee Ernie Ford	False Hearted Girl	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3]
32	Asleep at the Wheel	Choo Choo Ch'Boogie	The Best of Asleep at the Wheel
33	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Shot-Gun Boogie	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3]

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Sister Rosetta

July 3, 2021 Dave

This week’s show celebrates the Godmother of rock ‘n roll who was finally paid tribute with her 2018 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s sanctified electric guitar work not only touched on the cusp of soul and blues, but it foretold what was to come less than a decade later. There were the R&B bands, which she would dabble in (much to the chagrin of her followers), that would also have an impact…but it was her sound that influenced and inspired Elvis, Wanda Jackson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and so many others, even to this day. We’ll take a deep dive into the music and story of this legend including some of those who she would draw her own inspirations from. Tune in.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Down By the Riverside	Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4)
3	Fisk Jubilee Singers	Ezekiel Saw De Wheel	Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
4	Thomas A. Dorsey	If You See My Savior	Halleluja Gospel & Prayers
5	Golden Gate Quartet	Blind Barnabas	Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats
6	Memphis Minnie	I Called You This Morning	Queen Of Country Blues
7	Sister O. M. Terrell	God's Little Birds	Country Gospel 1946-1953
8	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Didn't It Rain?	Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel, Vol. 3
9	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Four or Five Times	Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel, Vol. 2
10	Sister Marie Knight And The Sam Price Trio	Trouble In Mind	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
11	Marie Knight	Gospel Train	101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1
12	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Up Above My Head I Hear Music In the Air	Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4)
13	Joan Osborne & The Holmes Brothers	Nobody's Fault But Mine	Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
14	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Beams of Heaven	Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel, Vol. 2
15	Phoebe Snow	Beams of Heaven (feat. The Holmes Brothers)	Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
16	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Intro – Didn't It Rain	Newport Jazz Festival 7/3/64
17	Marie Knight	Didn't It Rain	Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
18	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	99 1/2 Won't Do	Gospel Train
19	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Fly Away	Sincerely, Sister Rosetta Tharpe
20	Marion Williams – The Stars Of Faith	When I Lay This Body Down	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
21	Mahalia Jackson	His Eye Is On The Sparrow	Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns
22	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Two Little Fishes	Sincerely, Sister Rosetta Tharpe
23	Fern Jones	Strange Things Happening Every Day	The Glory Road
24	Brittany Howard	That's All Live	That's All – RRHOF
25	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	That's All	Hittin' On All Six: The Charlie Christian Revolution
26	Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Red Foley	Have a Little Talk With Jesus	101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1
27	Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us	Raising Sand
28	Gospel Hebrews	Jesus Is All Over Me	Boddie Recording Company: Cleveland, Ohio
29	Louis Armstrong	Down By The Riverside	Louis And The Good Book
30	The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir	I Want To Ride That Glory Train	Shakin' The Rafters
31	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	The Natural Facts	Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4)

Americana, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Modern Americana, Oldies, Rock, Theme Time

Music From The Band

June 25, 2021 Dave

Americana fusion from the Canadian border to the rolling hills of Arkansas: roots music from a musical collective built on a foundation made up of many different legs: blues, rock, folk, Civil War stories, burnished antiques found alongside the two-lane highways of mid-century and tradition from the kitchen. Their songs were anchored by deeper roots. There are few that could speak musically to all of these and all of their connecting tissue, but The Band (Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson) made it seem easy. From their early years as The Hawks backing Ronnie Hawkins to being the electric behind Bob Dylan’s Judas performance in the UK, and then The Last Waltz. There were tragedies both light and heavy that foretold a demise as predictable as the appearance of Halley’s Comet. Join us in a reflection of their music on a Friday morning in Sonoma County on KOWS Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Robbie Robertson	When The Night Was Young	How To Become Clairvoyant
3	The Band	Will The Circle Be Unbroken (non-lp track)	A Musical History [Disc 1]
4	The Levon Helm Band	Anna Lee	Newport Folk Festival 8/3/2008
5	Rick Danko	When I Get My Just Rewards	Cryin' Heart Blues
6	Bob Dylan & The Band	The Weight	Before The Flood [Live] [Disc 2]
7	Joan Baez	The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down	Hits: Greatest & Others
8	The Band	Acadian Driftwood	Northern Lights-Southern Cross
9	Bob Dylan & The Band	Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)	The Basement Tapes [Disc 2]
10	Bob Dylan & The Band	Million Dollar Bash	The Basement Tapes [Disc 1]
11	Rick Danko	It Makes No Difference	Live Anthology
12	Emmylou Harris & The Band	Evangeline	Duets
13	The Band	Stage Fright	The Last Waltz [Rhino Box Set] Disc 1
14	Ronnie Hawkins/The Band	Who Do You Love?	The Last Waltz [Rhino Box Set] Disc 1
15	Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars	Havana Moon	Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars
16	Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks	Hey Boba Lou	The Best of Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks
17	The Band	Stand Up	High On The Hog
18	Levon Helm	False Hearted Lover Blues	Dirt Farmer
19	Warren Haynes With The All Star Band And Rami Jaffee	The Shape I'm In (with The All Star Band & Rami Jaffee)	(2013) Love For Levon
20	The Band,Bob Clearmountain	Time to Kill – Remix / 2020	Stage Fright (Deluxe Remix 2020)
21	The Band	Life Is a Carnival	Cahoots
22	Levon Helm	Tennessee Jed	Electric Dirt
23	The Band	Twilight (Single Version)	Islands [Remastered]
24	Bob Dylan	I Shall Be Released	Before The Flood [Disc 1]
25	Levon Helm	Money	Levon Helm

Blues, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Jazz, Oldies, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Theme Time

Post-War Rhythm & Jive

May 15, 2021 Dave

Somewhere sandwiched between pre-war big band and swing and the rock n’ roll era that erupted in the early fifties, there was foretelling in the sounds of post-war rhythm and blues, honkers and shouters, and jump bands. This week’s show will explore the sounds of post-war with Louis Jordan’s Tympany Five, Bull Moose Jackson, Babs Gonzales, Wynonie Harris, Amos Milburn and a couple dozen others. To say the burner was hot is misunderstanding the situation: it was red hot. Our morning show will have your toes tappin’, your fingers snappin’, and your hips shakin’ as the sounds of post-war rhythm in blues takes you into another Spring day here in Sonoma County. Join in the fun!

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Wild Bill Moore (vocal: Scatman)	Rock 'N' Roll	Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
3	Louis Jordan	Ain't That Just Like a Woman	Number Ones
4	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Hungary Man	The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
5	Buster Bennett	Rockin' My Blues Away	Chronological Buster Bennett (1945-1947)
6	Bull Moose Jackson	Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me	Badman Jackson Thats Me
7	The Charioteers	Viddle de Vop	Hot Harmony Groups 1932-1951: Vol 2: Viddle de Vop
8	T-Bone Walker	T-Bone Shuffle	Living The Blues: Blues Greats
9	Louis Jordan	Caldonia	The Rough and Rowdy Roots of Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. 1
10	Jake Porter	Safronia	Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
11	Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends	Mama Don't Allow	Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll Vol 2 [Disc 13]
12	Babs' Three Bips & A Bop (Babs Gonzales)	Oo-Pa-Pa-Da	Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 1]
13	Pearl Bailey	The Hucklebuck	Chronological Pearl Bailey (1947-1950)
14	Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson	Gonna Send You Where I Got You From	Mercury B&R Story '45-'55 – [Disc 1]: Midwest Blues V1
15	Bull Moose Jackson	Keep You're Big Mouth Shut	Bad Man Jackson
16	The King Porter Orchestra	Chittlin' Ball	Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 2]
17	Nellie Lutcher	He's a Real Gone Guy	Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 2]
18	Cleo Brown	Cleo's Boogie	Boogie Woogie Gals – 1939-57
19	Ella Mae Morse	A Little Further Down The Road A Piece	Singles 2
20	Julia Lee	Oh Chuck It	Kansas City Star [Disc 4]
21	Cab Calloway	The Calloway Boogie	Jukebox Hits 1930-1950
22	Wynonie Harris	All She Wants To Do Is Rock	All She Wants To Do Is Rock
23	Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five	Chicky-Mo, Craney Crow	Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five / 1947 – 1949
24	Butch Stone & His Orchestra	I Got News For You	Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52
25	Amos Milburn	Amos' Boogie	Amos Milburn Rocks
26	Blue Lu Barker	A Little Bird Told Me	From The Vaults, Vol 2. 1943-1944
27	Nellie Lutcher	He Sends Me	Oxford American 10th Anniversary Southern Music CD [Disc 2] "Past Masters" [2008]
28	Betty Hall Jones	Learn To Boogie	Boogie Woogie Gals – 1939-57
29	Mabel Scott	Googie Woogie	Sleazy Rhythm & Blues Vol. 3
30	Tiny Davis & Her Orchestra	How About That Jive	Jumpin' The Blues:MCA Label(ACE CD)
31	Bull Moose Jackson	Watch My Signals	The Rough and Rowdy Roots of Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. 1
32	Doc Pomus	My Good Pott	Singer & Songwriter
33	Wynonie Harris	Good Rockin' Tonight	Complete Jazz Series 1947 – 1949
34	Little Willie Littlefield	Hello Kats	Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-52

A Century of America's Music