Category Archives: Oldies

Burnin’ Love

A hunka hunka free form sounds this morning on Deeper Roots: some thoughtful pairings and some that just need to be pushed to the surface. We’re coming up on Daylight Savings Time already as we prepare for the days to get longer shedding more light in the attic from the window up above. Songs today explore mojo, some gospel musings, concerns about a fellow named Lou whose got the flu, and some reflections on the 420 favorite. Performers include Julia Lee, Little Jimmy Dickens, Ivie Anderson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and we’ve even got an ‘unknown’ from the mid-century wondering “Who’s Boogeying My Woogie Now”. Imagine that. Well, imagine this: Friday mornings on KOWS Community Radio are made just for the beginning of Spring. Tune in.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2John Prine Clay Pigeons Fair & Square Amazon
3Elvis Presley Burning Love Elvis 30 #1 Hits Amazon
4Sister Rosetta Tharpe 99 1/2 Won't Do Gospel Train Amazon
5Mary Deloatch The Lord's Gospel Train Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
6Nina Simone Lilac Wine Verve/Unmixed 3 Amazon
7Ivie Anderson Chocolate Shake An Introduction To Ivie Anderson Amazon
8Bette Midler Marahuana Songs For The New Depression Amazon
9Julia Lee Marijuana Kansas City Star [Disc 4] Amazon
10Buddy Holly Fool's Paradise Buddy Holly And The R&R Giants [Disc 2] Amazon
11Eddie Cochran C'mon Everybody Eddie Cochran: 2 Classic Albums Plus Singles And Session Tracks [Disc 1] Amazon
12Fats Domino Be My Guest Fats Domino Out of New Orleans Amazon
13Dorsey Burnette Don't Let Go The Precious Years Amazon
14Charley Crockett The Man That Time Forgot Welcome To Hard Times Amazon
15Kevin Russell Country Boy Country Swing Amazon
16Little Jimmy Dickens May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana Amazon
17Buddy Emmons New Road Under My Wheels Buddy Emmons Sings Bob Wills Amazon
18John Prine Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out (Featuring Iris Dement) For Better, Or Worse Amazon
19Roger Miller Lou's Got The Flu King Of The Road – The Genius Of Roger Miller (CD1) Amazon
20Roger Miller The Moon Is High (And So Am I) King Of The Road – The Genius Of Roger Miller (CD1) Amazon
21Muddy Waters Got My Mojo Working His Best, 1956 To 1964 Amazon
22Ann Cole I Got My Mojo Working Roots Of Rock & Roll – Rough And Rowdy [Disc 4] Amazon
23Unknown Artist I Wonder Who's Boogeying My Woogie Now ? Boogie Woogie Gals – 1939-57 Amazon
24Lightnin' Hopkins Mojo Hand The Very Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins Amazon
25Mose Allison Mojo Woman Down Home Piano Amazon
26Willie Nelson & Lucinda Williams Overtime It Always Will Be Amazon
27John Fogerty Who'll Stop the Rain (with Bob Seger) Wrote a Song for Everyone Amazon
28Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Still the Same Greatest Hits Amazon
29Raul Malo It Only Hurts Me When I Cry After Hours Amazon
30Red Simpson Jeannie With the Light Brown Cadillac The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer Amazon
31Bruce Springsteen Pink Cadillac 18 Tracks Amazon
32Baker Knight Bring My Cadillac Back Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks Amazon
33Miley Cyrus Lilac Wine The Backyard Sessions Amazon
34Ray Charles I Believe to My Soul The Birth of Soul Disc 3 Amazon

Americana Hours Classics

We’re gathering under the Americana tent this morning; well, I guess, technically, we do each Friday morning. But this week we’ll spend some time with the classics. I’ll be sharing mid-century highlights from east, west, north and south in a show that pays tribute to some of the classic performers and performances that codified what’s become known as Americana: not a genre, but more of something in the air that makes you comfortable as a well worn blanket but also is the cold breeze that comes in through the cracks. I’ve got the celebratory sounds of The Blasters, Arlo Guthrie, and the NGDB; the painful reminders of days past from The Band, Chris Hillman, and Guy Clark; the harsh reminders of what got us here from Steve Earle, James McMurtry, and Bruce Springsteen. So much more to share in only two hours on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Dark as a Dungeon Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1 Amazon
3The Byrds You Ain't Going Nowhere Sweetheart of the Rodeo Amazon
4Michael Nesmith Joanne Troubadours: Folk And The Roots Of American Music 4: 10 The West Coast Amazon
5Bobby Bare The Streets of Baltimore Memories – RCA Singles 1962 – 1969 Amazon
6Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash Girl From The North Country Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns – The Soundtrack [Disc 2] Amazon
7Arlo Guthrie The City Of New Orleans Hobo's Lullaby Amazon
8Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen The Lost Highway Bakersfield Bound Amazon
9Neil Young Harvest Decade Disc 2 Amazon
10The Band The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down The Best of the Band Amazon
11John Fogerty Lodi The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Fogerty – Creedence Collection Amazon
12Emmylou Harris Red Dirt Girl Artist's Choice: Sheryl Crow Amazon
13John Prine Speed of the Sound of Loneliness German Afternoons Amazon
14Joe Ely Boxcars Honky Tonk Masquerade Amazon
15The Blasters Border Radio Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2) Amazon
16Steve Earle Devil's Right Hand Copperhead Road Amazon
17John Hiatt Crossing Muddy Waters Here To Stay – Best Of 2000-2012 Amazon
18Lucinda Williams Right in Time Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Amazon
19Guy Clark Boats To Build Boats To Build Amazon
20James McMurtry Childish Things Childish Things Amazon
21Bruce Springsteen Highway Patrolman Artist's Choice: Johnny Cash Amazon
22Old Crow Medicine Show Wagon Wheel O.C.M.S. Amazon
23Uncle Tupelo John Hardy No Depression Amazon
24Dave Alvin Marie Marie Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women Amazon
25Mudcrutch Shady Grove Mudcrutch Amazon
26Sturgill Simpson Life Of Sin Metamodern Sounds In Country Music Amazon
27Willie Nelson Freight Train Boogie Country Music Amazon
28The Avett Brothers This Land Is Your Land This Land Is Your Land (Single) Amazon
29Los Lobos La Bamba El Cancionero: Mas y Mas (2 of 4) Amazon

The Great American Songbook

Something different this week. We’ll be reflecting on the Spring Issue of a magazine that cuts through the heart of what we love doing here on both Blue Moon Americana as well as Deeper Roots. There are a handful of publications that make the cut but No Depression magazine is truly special and the Spring 2021 issue is something to revel in. The writing, the artists, and the arc of ‘The Great American Songbook’, from Stephen Foster to Louis Armstrong is given thoughtful and insightful treatment. Our show this week puts a soundtrack with a century of America’s music explored: Dock Boggs’ Pretty Polly, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, The Blue Sky Boys’ cover of Knoxville Girl, and some incredible Latin vocals from one Omara Portuondo. The magazine is worth the read and the music is worth a listen. Tune in on a Saturday among the Sonoma County skies for the best of community radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Paul Robeson Joe Hill Songs of Free Men Amazon
3George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's Amazon
4Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Summertime Porgy & Bess Amazon
5Chick Webb & His Orchestra A-Tisket, A-Tasket Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 2] Amazon
6Loudon Wainwright III You Rascal You (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) I'd Rather Lead a Band Amazon
7Dinah Washington They Didn't Believe Me (from "The Swingin' Miss D") Dinah Washington: Eight Classic Albums Amazon
8Billie Holiday Autumn in New York Ken Burns Jazz Amazon
9Omara Portuondo El Hombre Que Se Fue (The Man That Got Away) Black Magic (Magia Negra) Amazon
10Desi Arnaz Holiday In Havana The Best of Desi Arnaz: The Mambo King Amazon
11Perez Prado Cuban Mambo Rumba Gone Mambo Amazon
12Xavier Cugat Papa Loves Mambo Lounge Music Goes Latin Amazon
13Stephen Foster Beautiful Dreamer The Songs of Stephen Foster Amazon
14John Prine My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster Amazon
15Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick Oh! Susanna Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray Amazon
16Mavis Staples Hard Times Come Again No More Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster Amazon
17Dock Boggs Pretty Polly 78s Amazon
18Dirk Powell I Ain't Playing Pretty Polly When I Wait For You Amazon
19The Blue Sky Boys Story Of The Knoxville Girl Absolutely Bluegrass Amazon
20Nelstone's Hawaiians Village School The Harry Smith B-Sides Amazon
21Dock Boggs Oh Death Dock Boggs Is Legendary Amazon
22Ray Charles Georgia on My Mind Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 2 Amazon
23Ella Fitzgerald Night And Day Night And Day: The Cole Porter Songbook Amazon
24Bettye LaVette Blues For The Weepers Blackbirds Amazon
25Carl Sandburg All Night Long Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 1] Amazon
26The Carter Family Hello Stranger Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 3) Amazon
27The Stoneman Family Too Late The Harry Smith B-Sides Amazon
28Mississippi John Hurt Nobody's Dirty Business The Harry Smith B-Sides Amazon
29M. Ward Along the Santa Fe Trail Migration Stories Amazon
30Ella Fitzgerald In The Still Of The Night Music & Moonlight Amazon

The Year 1939

While the clouds of war and fascism were spreading in earnest across Europe, here at home the movies Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz,  and Gone With The Wind premiered and Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath was first published. Lou Gehrig bid farewell,  A pound of hamburger cost 14 cents and the average price of a new car was $700. And the music was both dance crazy and uplifting, with the music of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and film dominating. This week’s show will feature the music of 1939 with performances from Crosby, Garland, The Ink Spots, Cab Calloway and Billie Holiday. We’ll also be featuring the jazz and big band sounds of Jimmie Lunceford, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, and a handful of others. Deeper Roots sounds from over eight decades past on community radio for Sonoma County coming to you each Friday morning and evening.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Louis Armstrong Jeepers Creepers Johnny Mercer (1909 – 1976) Amazon
3Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra Tain't What You Do Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
4Fats Waller Your Feet's Too Big The Joint Is Jumpin' Amazon
5Count Basie's Kansas City 7 Lester Leaps In Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
6Woody Herman Woodchopper's Ball Swingingest Sounds Ever Heard – The Best of the Big Bands Amazon
7Billie Holiday Strange Fruit The Ultimate Collection [Disc 1] Amazon
8Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues Harold Arlen Writes the Songs Amazon
9Billie Holiday Them There Eyes Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944 [Disc 06] Amazon
10Ethel Waters with Edward Mallory & His Orchestra Old Man Harlem Hoagy Carmichael & Friends: Stardust Melody Amazon
11Marlene Dietrich Falling In Love Again The Blue Angel Amazon
12Bob Hope & Shirley Ross Thanks for the Memory Hits of 30's & 40's 1 & 2 Amazon
13Judy Garland Over The Rainbow That's Entertainment! The Best Of The MGM Musicals Amazon
14Bing Crosby You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby The Harry Warren Songbook Amazon
15Xavier Cugat Perfidia Say "Si Si" Amazon
16Vaughn Monroe In The Still Of The Night First Crooners : Vol. 3-1935-40 Amazon
17Frankie Masters and His Orchestra Scatter-Brain (Theme Song) 50 #1 Hits Of The '20s & '30s Amazon
18Cab Calloway The Jumpin' Jive Best Of The Big Bands Amazon
19Kay Kyser Three Little Fishes Sentimental Favorites Amazon
20Coleman Hawkins Body And Soul Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3] Amazon
21The Ink Spots Address Unknown Greatest Hits Amazon
22The Ink Spots If I Didn't Care Greatest Hits Amazon
23Glenn Miller Orchestra In The Mood Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3] Amazon
24Slim Gaillard And His Flat Foot Floogie Boys Matzah Balls Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 3] Bob Dylan Amazon
25Charlie Barnet Cherokee Swing Time For Dancing Vol. 3 Amazon
26Artie Shaw & His Orchestra Diga, Diga Doo Wicked Swing Amazon
27Benny Goodman & His Orchestra W. Martha Tilton And the Angels Sing Too Marvelous For Words Amazon
28Guy Lombardo Penny Serenade Enjoy Yourself: The Hits Of Guy Lombardo Amazon
29Bea Wain With Larry Clinton And His Orchestra Deep Purple White Cliffs Of Dover [Disc 1] Amazon
30Lionel Hampton I've Found a New Baby Wicked Swing Amazon
31Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson Roll 'Em Pete Blues From The Vocalion Vaults Amazon
32Chick Webb and his Orchestra v/Ella Fitzgerald Undecided from CD; orig. Decca 2323 Amazon

Lead Belly’s Legacy

Deeper Roots goes deeper this Friday morning. We’ll be sharing the songs of tradition and folk blues from an artist who opened up a world to a generation of followers in the 1940s and 1950s. With the witting arm of Alan Lomax as his promoter and benefactor, Huddie Ledbetter’s music would get wings and find its place in America’s traditional music lexicon. This week’s show, like last week’s Bill Monroe special, revisits the music that he was identified with, much of which he is credited with bringing into this world, or at least opening our eyes to. We’ll hear from Doug Sahm, Red Smiley, Odetta, The Weavers, Bob Dylan, and many others on a show that celebrates a giant of America’s songbook. Tune into KOWS radio every Friday morning at 9 Pacific for a new episode of a show that’s heading into it’s ninth year here on KOWS Community Radio.

Begin the Beguine

This past January was as much a month to remember as it was to forget. We’ll keep the serenity we need by softening the blow with music while also celebrating the good with swing, country, rhythm and gospel in another eclectic free form show on Sonoma County community radio. Cold weather and rain arrives so we’ll share the soul sounds of William Bell and Johnnie Taylor, some folk rock from Linda Ronstadt, swing vocals from The Mills Brothers and The Four Vagabonds, and gospel with Lou Rawls and the Pilgrim Travelers. We’ll visit Shenandoah, The Red River Valley, and Forty Miles of Bad Road in our Friday morning show, recorded this week in the Deeper Roots Den. I hope you’ll join us.



No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Michael Nesmith Begin The Beguine Tropical Campfires Amazon
3Mikki Wilcox Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues Sun Ballads 1953-62 Amazon
4Maria Muldaur I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues Love Wants to Dance Amazon
5The Four Vagabonds Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer The Dawn Of Doo-Wop Vol. 1 Amazon
6Jimmie Rodgers Shenandoah 40 All-Time Favorites [Disc 2] Amazon
7Duane Eddy Forty Miles Of Bad Road Dance With The Guitar Man Amazon
8Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers The Image of Me Playback Disc 5 Amazon
9Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban Patricia Hear Music, Vol. 9: Souvenirs Amazon
10The Texas Tornados Wasted Days And Wasted Nights The Best Of Texas Tornados Amazon
11Glories Dark End Of The Street Memphis Boys: The Story Of American Studios Amazon
12Bessie Banks Go Now Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Vol. 2 Amazon
13William Bell Everybody Loves a Winner The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (7 of 9) Amazon
14Wilson Pickett I'm In Love Memphis Boys: The Story Of American Studios Amazon
15Johnnie Taylor Who's Making Love Stax Number Ones Amazon
16Booker T. & The MG's Time Is Tight I'll Take You There Amazon
17Elvis Presley I Gotta Know Elvis' Golden Records (Volume 3) Amazon
18Marshall Crenshaw I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee) Downtown Amazon
19Brenda Lee That's All You Gotta Do American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960 Amazon
20The Jack Fords That's All You Gotta Do Foot Tappin' & Dance At Screamin' Festival Vol. 1 Amazon
21Big Boy Groves I Gotta New Car Fool Mule Amazon
22Corey Glover Three Time Loser Back To The Streets – Celebrating The Music Of Don Covay Amazon
23The Mills Brothers Glow Worm The Mills Brothers Golden G'ts(3) Amazon
24Charlie Barnet Flying Home Swing Time For Dancing Vol. 6 Amazon
25Sister Marie Knight And The Sam Price Trio Trouble In Mind Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
26Lou Rawls (2nd Vocal) & The Pilgrim Travelers Come Home Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
27Aretha Franklin Never Grow Old None But the Righteous: Chess Gospel Greats Amazon
28Merle Haggard I'm A Lonesome Fugitive Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
29The Stone Poneys/Linda Ronstadt Different Drum Very Best Of Linda Ronstadt Amazon
30Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Red River Valley 16 Great Songs Of The Old West Amazon
31Roy Rogers Moonlight On The Prairie Country Music Hall Of Fame Amazon
32Chris Hillman When I Get A Little Money Bidin' My Time Amazon
33Rick Nelson Hello Mary Lou Greatest Love Songs Amazon
34Carla Thomas/Rufus Thomas Birds and the Bees The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (5 of 9) Amazon
35The Bar-Kays Soul Finger The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (7 of 9) Amazon

New Orleans R&B

We just can’t get enough of this sound, a blend of sounds that cannot be pushed away with the urban renewal of auto-tune and electronic pasteurization. It’s long history of inspiration whose roots are driven by centuries of influence, from Congo Square to Rampart Street, and beyond. Our show today returns to the humid southern climes at the mouth of the Mississippi for some of the very best of rhythm, from Cosimo Matassa’s studios to the clubs that pepper the Crescent City on Bourbon Street. Popular rhythm and blues today from Nawlins inclues some Fats, Professor Longhair, Huey “Piano” Smith, Paul Gayen, Frankie Ford, and a couple dozen others giving us that signature percussive backbeat embellished by pounding piano. It’s a Friday evening celebration here on Sonoma County Community radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Big Boy Myles New Orleans The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5] Amazon
3Dirty Dozen Brass Band The Monkey [Album Version] The New Orleans Album Amazon
4Fats Domino When The Saints Go Marchin' In Very Best of Fats Domino [Phantom] (Disc 2) Amazon
5Dr. John Somebody Changed The Lock Dr. John's Gumbo Amazon
6Huey "Piano" Smith Mean Mean Mean ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 40 Amazon
7Professor Longhair Got My Mojo Working Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology [Disc 2] Amazon
8Ernie K-Doe A Certain Girl Absolutely the Best Amazon
9Frankie Ford It Must Be Jelly Very Best Of Frankie Ford Amazon
10Lee Diamond&The Upsetters Hattie Malatti The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 3] Amazon
11Huey "Piano" Smith Would You Believe it, I Have a Cold (Doctors) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
12Dirty Dozen Brass Band My Feet Can't Fail Me Now Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album Amazon
13Smiley Lewis Big Mamou R&B Outbreak CD 2 Amazon
14Clarence "Frogman" Henry It Won't Be Long Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry Amazon
15Edgar Blanchard Honeycomb The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 3] Amazon
16Charles "Hungry" Williams So Glad You're Mine The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 1] Amazon
17Champion Jack Dupree Mail Order Woman New Orleans R&B Outbreak Amazon
18Paul Marvin Hurry Up The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 4] Amazon
19Paul Gayten For You My Love Chess New Orleans [Disc 1] Amazon
20Larry Williams Bad Boy The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 3] Amazon
21Fats Domino Please Don't Leave Me Very Best of Fats Domino [Phantom] (Disc 1) Amazon
22Smiley Lewis Mama Don't Like ABC Of The Blues Vol 25 Amazon
23Charles Brown & Amos Milburn Educated Fool The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 4] Amazon
24Kermit Ruffins Holy Cow Livin' A Tremi Life Amazon
25Barbara George I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) Highlights From Crescent City Soul: Sound Of New Orleans 1947-1974 Amazon
26Jewel King 3×7=21 Gettin' Funky [Disc 4] Amazon
27Irma Thomas Look Up (AKA Whenever) Soul Queen of New Orleans Amazon
28Eddie Bo Roamin-Itis The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 6] Amazon
29Zorro & The Zips Frankie & Johnny Boppin' By The Bayou – Baby Dolls & Drive-Ins Amazon
30Danny White Let's Play The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 1] Amazon
31The Showmen True Fine Mama The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 6] Amazon
32Lee Diamond &The Upsetters It Won't Be Me The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5] Amazon
33Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns Alimony Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan Amazon
34Jessie Hill Scoop Scoobie Doobie The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5] Amazon
35Earl King No City Like New Orleans Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans Amazon
36Galactic Go Go Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans Amazon

Songs About Singing

Sing it loud! It’s a whole new year and our country can take heart without letting our guard down. We’ll celebrate a fresh new start knowing that hard work lies ahead with a two hour show featuring the theme of ‘singing’. Join Dave Stroud once more for a mixed bag; an eclectic blend of sounds from the past century featuring the likes of Ukulele Ike, Wingy Manone, The Cats & The Fiddle, John Sebastian, Cat Power, and a couple of dozen more, all belting out songs about the very act of singing. We’ll take you down Memory Lane with old fashioned songs, simple songs of gospel and freedom, swinging low, singing high, and those joyful sing-alongs we’ve shared over the past century. That’s right. It’s theme time on this week’s Deeper Roots show and we’d love to have you. Join in the festivities.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Tony Bennett Sing You Sinners [#] The Essential Tony Bennett [Columbia/Legacy] Disc 1 Amazon
3Katie Crippen with Henderson's Novelty Ork. Play 'Em For Mamma, Sing 'Em For Me (BS 2003, P-104-1) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) Amazon
4Cab Calloway I Love to Sing-A (From 'The Singing Kid') Chronological 1934-37 Amazon
5The Boswell Sisters Sing A Little Jingle The Boswell Sisters Collection Amazon
6Wingy Manone & His Orchestra Sing Me A Swing Song Swing Is Here / Small-Band Swing 1935-1939 Amazon
7Gene Kelly Singin' In The Rain Golden Memories of Stage and Screen-Disc1 Amazon
8Pat Boone It's a Grand Night For Singing The Best of Broadway: The Early '60s Amazon
9Ella Fitzgerald Sing Song Swing The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald – [Disc 2] Amazon
10June Christy Sing Something Simple The Misty Miss Christy Amazon
11Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra SInging-ing-ing Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
12Ukulele Ike & The Hot Combination Sing (A Happy Little Thing) Fascinating Rhythm 1922-1935 Amazon
13Fats Waller & His Rhythm Sing An Old Fashioned Song Fats Waller – The Complete Recorded Works Volume 3 – Rhythm and Romance 1934-1936 Amazon
14Nellie Lutcher If You Wanna Get T'Goin' (And Come Out Singing) Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 3] Amazon
15The Cats & The Fiddle I'm Singing, So Help Me The Very Best Of Amazon
16Dr. John Sing Along Song (LP Version) Destively Bonnaroo (US Release) Amazon
17Aretha Franklin Don't Play That Song 30 Greatest Hits [Disc 2] Amazon
18Cat Power Aretha, Sing One For Me Jukebox Amazon
19B.B. King Why I Sing the Blues Do the Boogie! B.B. King's Early '50s Classics Amazon
20Randy Waller & The Country Gentlemen One More Voice Singing In Heaven Tonight Keeper Of The Flame Amazon
21Edward W. Clayborn I Heard The Angels Singing When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel Amazon
22Sammy Price Trio/Sister Rosetta Tharpe Singing in My Soul The Gospel of Blues Amazon
23Curley Williams Just A-Picking And A-Singing Bear Family "Perfect for Parties" Highlight Album Amazon
24John Sebastian Singing The Blues Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings – Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
25Stonewall Jackson You're the Sad in My Songs Stonewall Jackson – 1966-1967 Amazon
26Gale Garnett We'll Sing In The Sunshine Lifetime Of Romance: Some Enchanted Evening [Disc 2] Amazon
27Louie Innis Sing Your Song Baby Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56 Amazon
28Ferlin Husky 23 – I Could Sing All Night Ferlin Husky Singles Amazon
29Carl Perkins Sing My Song (2000) Back On Top (CD 3) Amazon
30Charlie Monroe I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing (TK A) The Chronological Classics 1950-1956 Amazon
31Barbara Dane Don't Sing Love Songs (Silver Dagger) Anthology of American Folk Songs Amazon
32Tim Hardin Simple Song Of Freedom The Folk Years: Simple Song Of Freedom [Disc 1] Amazon
33Tex Ritter & His Texans Singing in the Saddle Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 1] Amazon
34The New Seekers I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) 70s Music Explosion – Sunshine Amazon

Wide Open Places

A bright future is in store….that’s our story and we’re stickin’ to it! Today’s show contains an inordinate amount of upbeat tickers including a trip to Tulsa with Asleep at the Wheel, a Fats Waller song about those wide open places, a journey following the North Star with Rhiannon Giddens, The Boswells, Hank Williams, Les Paul, and a whole lot more. We’re in a free form mood on a Friday morning here in Sonoma County, celebrating the Twelve Days of Inauguration the best way we know how.  Join us on Sonoma County Community radio from the Deeper Roots Den with your host Dave Stroud, celebrating our democracy in a big, big way.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Fats Waller (Take Me Back To) The Wide Open Places compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
3Asleep at the Wheel Take Me Back to Tulsa The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970 Amazon
4Robert Gordon Take Me Back Are You Gonna Be The One Amazon
5Elizabeth Cotten And Brenda Evans Shake Sugaree Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1] Amazon
6Jerry Garcia Sugaree Garcia Amazon
7Elizabeth Cotten Freight Train Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection Amazon
8Les Paul The Lonesome Road (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
9Sam Cooke Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair Swing Low Amazon
10John Lee Hooker I Cover The Waterfront Mr. Lucky Amazon
11The Ravens Deep Purple The Greatest Group of Them All Amazon
12Rhiannon Giddens Following the North Star Freedom Highway Amazon
13Rhiannon Giddens I'm On My Way There Is No Other Amazon
14Geraint Watkins Heart of Stone Rush of Blood Amazon
15Paul Thorn Soon I Will Be Done Don't Let The Devil Ride Amazon
16James Carr Pouring Water On A Drowning Man Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 1] Amazon
17The Pilgrim Travelers I Never Knew Joy Before 101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1 Amazon
18Reliable True Tones I Came a Long Way This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982 Amazon
19Paramount Singers There's A Leak In This Old Building 15 Down Home Gospel Classics Amazon
20Rick Danko When I Get My Just Rewards Cryin' Heart Blues Amazon
21John Fahey Texas & Pacific Blues (My Bucket's Got A Hole In It) Your Past Comes Back – Disc 5 Amazon
22Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men Dark Eyes Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land Amazon
23Hank Williams My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Hank Williams – A Country Legend (1) Amazon
24Boswell Sisters Everybody Loves My Baby Boswell Sisters Amazon
25Fats Waller Dry Bones Music By Fats Waller Amazon
26Ivie Anderson Five O'clock Whistle Cocktail Hour Amazon
27Cleo Brown Breakin' In A Pair Of Shoes The Legendary Cleo Brown Amazon
28Danny Kaye Oh By Jingo! Danny Kaye The Best of Amazon
29Mae West He's A Bad, Bad Man The Mae West Collection Amazon
30Rosanne Cash I Still Miss Someone Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash Amazon
31Mark Knopfler Rear View Mirror Down The Road Wherever Amazon
32Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars Sing, Sing, Sing Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars Amazon
33Geraint Watkins It's a Beautiful Day Watkins Bold as Love Amazon

Who We Lost 2020

It’s hard to put into words the grief we have experienced over so many great performers lost this past year, including those who lost their battle to COVID-19. When assembling our annual list of tributes it became clear that no two hours would suffice so we’ll be doing some abbreviated observations to make sure they’re not forgotten. And we’ll also be thanking those behind the scenes, the songwriters, the session folks, and we’ll even have a short collection of British influencers who touched our lives with their talent. Tune in for a comprehensive and reflective show, our first Deeper Roots show of 2021, this new year that is filled with so much promise. And it’s likely that we can all agree that the bar couldn’t have fallen much lower than it did last year.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Fountains of Wayne Valley Winter Song Welcome Interstate Managers Amazon
3Bucky Pizzarelli Chicken a La Swing Green Guitar Blues / Cafi Pierre Trio Amazon
4McCoy Tyner Flapstick Blues Gold Encore Series – I Love A Piano Amazon
5Annie Ross Twisted Got Nothing But Song Amazon
6Bent Fabric Alley Cat (Classic Version) Jukebox Amazon
7Hal Singer Sextet Corn Bread The Rough And Rowdy Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. 8 Amazon
8Bobby Lewis Tossin' and Turnin' Best of Answer Songs vol 4 Amazon
9Little Richard Rip It Up London American Label Year By Year 1956 Amazon
10Phil Phillips Sea Of Love Heatin' Up Amazon
11Rod Bernard This Should Go On Forever The Forgotten 45s 1957-1959 (CD3) Amazon
12Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes and Connie Stevens Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) Gems from the Warner Brothers Vault (Pt. 1) Amazon
13Len Barry 1-2-3 Classic Rock 1965: The Beat Goes On Amazon
14Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons Rag Doll The Definitive Pop Collection Disc 1 Amazon
15The Chordettes Mr. Sandman Magic Moments – The Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 1) Amazon
16Johnny Nash I Can See Clearly Now 70s Music Explosion – Miracles Amazon
17Millie Small My Boy Lollipop The Island Story: 1962-1987 – 25th Anniversary [Disc 1] Amazon
18Toots & The Maytals Pressure Drop The Harder They Come Amazon
19Tony Rice Cold On The Shoulder Cold On The Shoulder Amazon
20Jerry Jeff Walker Mr. Bojangles The Folk Years: Simple Song Of Freedom [Disc 2] Amazon
21Norma Tanega Walkin' My Cat Named Dog Time Life – The Folk Years – Reason To Believe [Disc 2] Amazon
22Trini Lopez If I Had A Hammer Yesterday's Gone [Disc 1] Amazon
23David Olney God Shaped Hole The Wheel Amazon
24John Prine Paradise German Afternoons Amazon
25Charley Pride Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone Superstars Of Country: Good Ol' Songs [Disc 1] Amazon
26Willie Nelson Me And Paul The Essential Willie Nelson Amazon
27Billy Joe Shaver I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal…But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday Amazon
28Kenny Rogers Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town Superstars Of Country Hello Darlin' [Disc 1] Amazon
29Jan Howard I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again Swing West 1: Bakersfield Amazon
30The Charlie Daniels Band The Devil Went Down To Georgia Country: The American Tradition [Disc 2] Amazon
31Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues Harlem River Blues [Explicit] Amazon
32Helen Reddy Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) Singers And Songwriters: 1973-1975 Amazon
33Betty Wright Clean Up Woman The Best of Betty Wright Amazon
34Bill Withers Use Me American Beauty Amazon
35The Emotions Best Of My Love Boogie Nights: Music From The Original Motion Picture Amazon
36Mountain Mississippi Queen Super Hits Of The '70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 1 Amazon
37Van Halen (Oh) Pretty Woman Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 7 Amazon
38The Merry-Go-Round (Emitt Rhodes) Live Nuggets Sampler 1965-1968 Amazon
39Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell Dueling Banjos Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics Amazon
40Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra For A Few Dollars More Music From The Good, The Bad And The Ugly & A Fistful of Dollars & For A Few Dollars More Amazon
41Vera Lynn We'll Meet Again 1950's Hits & Highlights, Vol. 7 Amazon
42Chad & Jeremy Yesterday's Gone Yesterday's Gone [Disc 1] Amazon
43Ian Whitcomb You Turn Me On You Turn Me On: The Very Best of Ian Whitcomb Amazon
44The Spencer Davis Group Keep on Running The Finer Things Disc 1 Amazon
45Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders Game Of Love Wayne Fontana / It's Wayne Fontana Amazon
46Joan Jett With The Sex Pistols I Love Rock N' Roll [Early Version] (Alan Merrill COVID) Flashback Amazon
47Bill Pursell Our Winter Love Music to Shag By Amazon
48The Pointer Sisters Fire (Bonnie) From The Pointer Sisters With Love Amazon
49John Prine I Remember Everything I Remember Everything Amazon