Category Archives: Oldies

Liberty Rocks

May 26, 2023 Dave

Liberty Records was founded in 1955 by Simon Waronker after his cousin, Herb Newman, suggested they go into the record business. The early years found the label in the deep end of easy listening pop with the likes of Julie London, novelty music featuring The Chipmunks, Patience and Prudence, Martin Denny, and Henry Mancini. But rock n’ roll was hitting its stride, and in the late fifties they released a blend of pure rock and rockabilly with Eddie Cochran. But the 60s found a more tame version with hitmakers like Bobby Vee, Johnny Burnette, Timi Yuro, Buddy Knox, and the post-Buddy Holly Crickets. At the peak of it’s hit-making machine the whole lot was sold to an umbrella company that also featured the catalogs of Imperial, Aladdin, Minit, and Dolton…we’ll share a host of Liberty releases with you in the show today. With the exception of Eddie Cochran, we’ll just call it rock ‘n roll ‘lite’.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Eddie Cochran	C'mon Everybody	Eddie Cochran: 2 Classic Albums Plus Singles And Session Tracks [Disc 1]
3	Eddie Cochran	Hallelujah I Love Her So	Eddie Cochran: 2 Classic Albums Plus Singles And Session Tracks [Disc 1]
4	Eddie Cochran	Nervous Breakdown	Eddie Cochran Singles Album
5	Shirley & Lee	Hey Little Boy	Shirley & Lee Rock
6	Rick Nelson	Teenage Idol	Greatest Love Songs
7	Sandy Nelson	&And Then There Were Drums	Their Greatest Misses
8	Buddy Knox	Open (Your Lovin' Arms)	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
9	Bobby Vee	Sharing You	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
10	Roosevelt Grier	The Mail Must Go Through	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
11	Jackie DeShannon	Just Like In The Movies	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
12	Warren Smith	Book Of Broken Hearts	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
13	The Rivingtons	Mama-Oom-Mow-Mow	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
14	Gene McDaniels	Chip Chip	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
15	Johnny Burnette	The Fool Of The Year	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
16	Matt Monroe	Softly As I Leave You	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
17	Betty O' Brian	Money Honey	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
18	The Crickets	Little Hollywood Girl	Point Of No Return: The Liberty Records Story 1962
19	Bobby Vee	The Night Has A Thousand Eyes	Easy Listening Gold 1962-1963
20	Jackie DeShannon	Needles And Pins	The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
21	The Ventures	Walk, Don't Run	61* [Box Set] Disc 1
22	Jan & Dean	Linda	Jan & Dean Anthology Album
23	Jan & Dean	Honolulu Lulu	Surf City + Folk 'n Roll
24	The Fleetwoods	(Goodnight My Love) Pleasant Dreams	Come Softly To Me: The Very Best Of The Fleetwoods
25	Wilson Pickett	It's Too Late	A Man & A Half: The Best Of Wilson Pickett [Disc 1]
26	Irma Thomas	Break-A-Way	Time Is on My Side: The Best of Irma Thomas, Vol. 1
27	Johnny Rivers	Memphis	Greatest Hits [Capitol]
28	Johnny Rivers	Seventh Son	Best Of Johnny Rivers
29	Johnny Rivers	Mountain Of Love	Best Of Johnny Rivers
30	Gary Lewis & the Playboys	This Diamond Ring	Red, White & Rock Disc 2
31	Cher	All I Really Want To Do	Yesterday's Gone [Disc 1]
32	Del Shannon	The Big Hurt	The Complete Recordings 1960-1970: Home and Away
33	Mel Carter	Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me	Music to Shag By
34	Mel Carter	Band of Gold	The Best of Jukebox Rock – 1966 – Volume 2
35	Johnny Rivers	The Poor Side of Town	Greatest Hits [Capitol]
36	Gene McDaniels	Point of No Return	The Liberty Records Story (Pt. 1)

Americana, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Rock, Oldies, Rhythm and Blues, Rockabilly

Imperial Rhythm & Rockabilly

May 19, 2023 Dave

The Imperial label will be the subject of this week’s Deeper Roots show. Founded in 1947 by Lew Chudd, it’s early years featured some of the very best rhythm and blues and early rock you could find. Their lineup included some of the big names of early rock, not least of which was Roy Brown, Fats Domino, Frankie Ford and Ricky Nelson. They would dabble in country and jazz but also looked to strike while the iron was hot when Elvis hit with a blend of country and rhythm and blues in the mid-50s. They did so by looking for new names with ducktails and driving combos in the rockabilly era. This episode focuses primarily on the 1950s with a future episode taking us further into the label’s sale to Liberty Records in 1963 but not before Lew Chudd purchased Aladdin and Minit Records, bringing over even more of the R&B talent that they would be known for. It’s another Deeper Roots Friday morning on KOWS.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Fats Domino	The Fat Man	Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Piano Blues – A Film By Clint Eastwood
3	Smiley Lewis	Tee-Nah-Nah	I Hear You Knocking 1947-1962 Disc 1
4	Guitar Slim and His Band	Bad Luck Is On Me [Woman Troubles]	Louisiana Swamp Blues
5	Big Jay McNeely	All That Wine Is Gone	Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 1]
6	T-Bone Walker	Cold Cold Feeling	Best Of Black & White & Imperial Years
7	Fat Man Matthews & the Four Kittens	Later Baby	Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 3
8	Fats Domino	Goin' Home	Rock And Rollin
9	Lil' Son Jackson	Get High Everybody	Vol. 2 1950-1952
10	Smiley Lewis	Big Mamou	I Hear You Knocking 1947-1962 Disc 2
11	Hawks	I-Yi	Money Honey – Rise of the Black Vocal Group 51-53
12	Pee Wee Crayton	Win-O	Pee Wee's Blues – The Complete Aladdin And Imperial Recordings
13	Joe Houston Orchestra	All Night Long	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 4
14	The Pelicans	Ain't Gonna Do It	Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 2
15	The Spiders	I Didn't Want To Do It	Sound Of The City, The – New Orleans [UK] Disc 1
16	Dave Bartholomew	Another Mule	1952-1955
17	James "Sugar Boy" Crawford	She Gotta Wobble (When She Walks) (Imperial 5424)	R&B Humdingers Volume 12
18	Bobby Mitchell with Dave Bartholomew's Orch.'	Try Rock And Roll	Blowing The Fuse: 1956
19	Lew Williams	Cat Talk	Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks
20	Lew Williams	Gone Ape Man	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
21	Merle Kilgore	Ernie	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
22	The Strikes	Baby I'm Sorry	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
23	Bob Luman	Red Hot	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
24	Ricky Nelson	Stood Up	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
25	Ricky Nelson	Boppin' The Blues	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
26	Ricky Nelson	Waitin' In School	Legacy [Disc 1]
27	Dennis Herrold	Hip Hip Baby	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
28	Weldon Rogers	So Long, Good Luck & Goodbye	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
29	Dorsey & Johnny Burnette	My Honey	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
30	Dorsey & Johnny Burnette	Warm Love	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
31	Slick Slavin	Speed Crazy	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
32	Bill Allen	Please Give Me Something	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
33	Jackie Walker	Only Teenagers Allowed	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
34	Billy Eldridge	Let's Go	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
35	Faye Adams	Keeper Of My Heart	Crescent City Soul
36	Roy Brown	Let the Four Winds Blow	The Complete Imperial Recordings
37	Ricky Nelson	My Bucket's Got A Hole In It	Legacy [Disc 1]

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Rhythm & Blues Jezebels

May 12, 2023 Dave

Wild and sassy sounds from the archives of 40s and 50s rhythm & blues featuring some of the female dynamos of the genre coming your way on a Friday morning here on Deeper Roots. We’ll be featuring some great performances from the catalog of Jubilee Records (those Jubilee Jezebels) and a host of peers including some early scorchers from Little Sylvia (Robinson), Big Maybelle, Viola Watkins, Fay Simmons, and Ruth Brown. For the first three or four decades of the recorded blues and jazz, women played a major part in black music’s popularity and there was a resurgent ‘boom’ post-war that played a bigger part than we imagined in that tidal wave of wild rhythm beat that would become rock and soul. These are some classic tracks that don’t always get the attention they deserve…but they will here on Deeper Roots on a Friday morning on KOWS.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Strange Things Happen Every Day	Good News (Vol 3) Get Away Jordan
3	Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells)	Sweet Man	Blues Women
4	Mabel Scott	Catch Em Young Treat Em Rough Tell Em Nothing	Blues Women
5	The Enchanters	Boogie Woogie Daddy	Jubilee Jezebels
6	Enchanters	Housewife Blues	Money Honey – Rise of the Black Vocal Group 51-53
7	Jeanne Gayle	Bim Bam Baby	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
8	Little Sylvia	Drive Daddy Drive	Jubilee Jezebels
9	Little Sylvia	Everything I Need But You	Jubilee Jezebels
10	Little Sylvia	Ain't Gonna Do It	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
11	Viola Watkins	It Must Be Love	Jubilee Jezebels
12	Viola Watkins	Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night	Boogie Woogie Gals – 1939-57
13	Viola Watkins	Really Real	Jubilee Jezebels
14	Varetta Dillard	Mercy, Mr Percy	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
15	Mabel Scott	Mr Fine	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
16	LaVern Baker	Voodoo Voodoo	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
17	Edna McGriff	Oh Little Daddy	Stompin' 34
18	Edna McGriff	I'll Surrender Anytime	Jubilee Jezebels
19	Edna McGriff & The Tomcats	Mambo Baby	Rumba Gone Mambo
20	Big Maybelle	One Monkey Don't Stop No Show	The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55
21	Big Maybelle	Ring Dang Dilly	The Very Best Of Big Maybelle
22	Big Maybelle	Hair Dressin' Women	ABC Of The Blues Vol 29
23	Ruth Brown	Smooth Operator	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
24	Fay Simmons	You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb	Atomic Platters
25	Fay Simmons	Ella Weaver	Dapper Dan
26	Fay Simmons	Hangin' Around	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
27	Patti Jerome	No Mama, No Papa	Stompin' 22 – Crazed Rhythm 'N' Blues Pounders!
28	Linda Hopkins	Rock And Roll Blues	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
29	Carol Fran	Knock Knock	Rhythm 'n' Bluesin' By The Bayou – Mad Dogs, Sweet Daddies & Pretty Babies
30	Carol Fran	I'm Gonna Try	Cat Scratchin'
31	Carole Fran	You Can't Stop Me	Jubilee Jezebels
32	Marie Knight	Grasshopper Baby	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
33	Dolly Cooper	Ay La Bah	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
34	Dolly Cooper	Tell Me, Tell Me	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
35	Ella Mae Morse	How Can You Leave A Man Like This?	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
36	Annisteen Allen	Fujiyama Mama	From The Ghetto

Covers Time

May 7, 2023 Dave

Another morning of covers, from country to soul and a little bit of rhythm and roll in store. This week’s show celebrates the songwriters and performers who found themselves honored with tributes and covers that honor the sense of a piece. We’ll hear covers of Tom T. Hall, Arthur Alexander, Robert Hunter, Derek Martin, Hank Snow and JJ Cale in the show today. The idea is to find a cover worth noting and put it up alongside the original. Just over a dozen songs to pick from in our two hours this morning featuring covers by Shannon McNally, Charley Crockett, Amy Black and Teddy Thompson. Join Dave Stroud for another episode from those dusty digital bins and turn up the volume for straight interpretations and a few wild takes in another covers show on a Friday morning from the KOWS studio in downtown Santa Rosa, California.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Everly Brothers	Bowling Green	Heartaches & Harmonies [Disc 3]
3	Neko Case	Bowling Green	The Virginian
4	Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels	Devil With a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly	Red, White & Rock Disc 3
5	Bill Kirchen	Devil With The Blue Dress (Album Version)	Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods
6	Willie Nelson	Busted	I Don't Know A Thing About Love
7	Ray Charles	Busted	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
8	Red Foley	Midnight	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
9	Kevin Russell	Midnight	Plain Dirt Fashion
10	Elvis Presley	It's Now Or Never	Elvis 30 #1 Hits
11	Chris Isaak	It's Now or Never	Beyond the Sun (Deluxe Version)
12	Elvis Presley	Don't Be Cruel	Elvis' Golden Records (Volume 1)
13	The Mavericks	Don't Be Cruel	Play the Hits
14	Derek Martin	Daddy Rollin' Stone	Birth Of Soul: 1
15	The Blasters	Daddy Rollin' Stone	4-11-44
16	Wilson Pickett	In the Midnight Hour	Red, White & Rock Disc 2
17	James Taylor	In The Midnight Hour	Other Covers
18	Bob Luman	Let's Think About Living	Gems from the Warner Brothers Vault (Pt. 1)
19	Teddy Thompson	Let's Think About Living	Up Front And Down Low
20	Tom T. Hall	I Hope It Rains At My Funeral	Tom T. Hall – Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher
21	Charley Crockett	I Hope It Rains At My Funeral	Lil G.L. Presents: Jukebox Charley
22	The Impressions	Gypsy Woman	Birth Of Soul: 1
23	Aaron Neville	Gypsy Woman	My True Story
24	Arthur Alexander	You Better Move On	The Greatest Hits
25	Amy Black	You Better Move On	The Muscle Shoals Sessions
26	Hank Snow	I'm Moving On	The Essential Hank Snow
27	Willie Nelson	I'm Movin' On	Remember Me, Vol. 1
28	John Martyn	Don't Want to Know	Solid Air
29	Dr. John	I Don't Wanna Know	Anutha Zone
30	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Sugar Moon	Legends of Country Music Disc 4
31	k.d. lang	Sugar Moon	Shadowland

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Payday Saturday Night

April 29, 2023 Dave

The pickins are thin until payday rolls around. Money is short and there’s none to spare. Although we’ve been wanting to save for a rainy day, the cupboards still need fillin’ and we also need enough to have some fun. If that eagle flies on Friday then Saturday night is when the time is right. This week we’ll be banking on that combined theme of payday, money and taxes. Belly up to the barroom country sounds of Faron Young, Lefty Frizzell and The Sons of the Pioneers and then find some rhythm and blues with The Fiestas, The Harlem Hamfats, Bobby Charles and Dom Flemons. It’s all about cashing out every couple of weeks and spreading thin with savings being thinner. We’ve got greenbacks, dollar down payments, songs about payday, the taxman and that almighty dollar to remind us that, as Peter Case points out, that “there’s two kinds of justice everybody knows, one for folks up on the hill and one for the others down below”.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Zeke Clements	Payday Saturday Night	Foot Tappin' & Dance At Screamin' Festival Vol. 5
3	The Sons Of The Pioneers	When Payday Rolls Around	Symphonies Of The Sage
4	Lefty Frizzell	When Payday Comes Around	1950-1951 (Warped 5061)
5	Faron Young	I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night	The Complete Capitol Hits of Faron Young (1 of 2)
6	Wynn Stewart	Another Day, Another Dollar	Very Best of: 1958 – 1962
7	Dan Hicks	Payday Blues [Album Version]	The Most Of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks [Bonus Tracks]
8	Austin McCoy	Happy Pay Day Part 1	Further Mellow Cats'n'Kittens – Hot R&B And Cool Blues 1946-1951
9	The Fiestas	Dollar Bill (stereo)	Oh So Fine (Ace)
10	Hank Penny	Taxes, Taxes	Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions
11	Johnny Cash	After Taxes	I Would Like to See You Again
12	Gene Autry, Jimmy Wakely's Trio	I Paid My Income Tax Today	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
13	The Harlem Hamfats	Sales Tax On It	Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936
14	Stan Farlow	1040 Blues	Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974)
15	Mississippi John Hurt	Payday	The Complete Studio Recordings Disc 1
16	Lucious Curtis	Payday	Deep River of Song: Mississippi – Blues Lineage
17	Bobby Charles	Nickles, Dimes and Dollars	Timeless
18	The Limeliters	A Dollar Down	American Music Library: The Hits Of 1961
19	Oscar Brand	A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore	A Taste of Tradition – Volume 3
20	Freddie Hart And The Heartbeats	That Almighty Dollar	Age of WorryFrom Country-Pop to Freak-Folk: The Space Age Relics of Monument Records 19601970
21	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Sixteen Tons	Vintage Collections
22	Aloe Blacc	I Need A Dollar	I Need A Dollar
23	J.J. Cale	Money Talks	The Very Best of J.J. Cale
24	Roomful Of Blues	Money Talks	Dressed Up To Get Messed Up
25	Dom Flemons	Big Money Blues	Traveling Wildfire
26	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	For The Love Of Money	If You Don't Know Me By Now
27	The Lovin' Spoonful	Money	Greatest Hits [Buddha]
28	Sierra Ferrell	Silver Dollar	Long Time Coming
29	Van Morrison	Greenback Dollar	Moving On Skiffle
30	The Kingston Trio	Greenback Dollar	Capitol Collector's Series
31	Randy Newman	It's Money That Matters	Land of Dreams
32	Mel Blanc	Money	Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan – Season 3 [[Disc 2]]
33	Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis	The Money Song	Cocktail Hour Disc 1

Lonesome Train

April 21, 2023 Dave

Free form! That’s right. No theme, no genre exploration, no tribute or topical show today. Only topical playlists embellishing the show today including New Orleans memories from Bobby Mitchell, Fats Domino and Dr. John, country nuggets from Merle, Buck and Elvis as well as some fancy shmancy crooning from a Perry, Blue Eyes and Dino. We’ll also be digging into some classic rockabilly tunes and some canciones de Flaco and Los Lobos. Here in Sonoma County we’re going from three years of drought, wildfires and the Santa Ana winds to preparing for levee breaches and floods with the snow melts. We also get to behave like adults in the face of biased and inhumane Supreme Court decisions and moronic Texas politicians. Because we know who they are and what they represent: book burners and religious zealots with white hoods. While nobody is without sin, we’ll go with Newsom’s ability to employ the right critical thinking at the right time. I told you it would be a free form morning.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Geraint Watkins	Deep in the Heart of Texas	Aide Memoire
3	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Big Mamou	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
4	Wanda Jackson	Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On	Queen Of Rockabilly
5	Matchbox	Rockabilly Rebel	Rockabilly Rebel
6	Johnny Burnette	Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track)	The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD1
7	Sonny Burgess	Tomorrow Never Comes	We Wanna Boogie
8	Warren Smith	Got Love If You Want It	The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2
9	Bobby Mitchell	I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 2]
10	Fats Domino	I Want To Walk You Home	Heatin' Up
11	Dr. John	Back By The River	Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 2]
12	Tommy McLain	Before I Grow Too Old	The Essential Collection
13	Buck Owens	Made In Japan	Country USA 1972
14	Merle Haggard & the Strangers	Please Mr. D.J.	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
15	Merle Haggard	I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me	Country USA 1972
16	Elvis Presley	After Loving You	Artist of the Century Disc 3
17	The Devil and Bunny Show	Crossing Muddy Waters	The I-10 Chronicles 2 – One More For The Road
18	Los Lobos	Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)	El Cancionero: Mas y Mas (1 of 4)
19	Flaco Jiminez	Margarita	Los Super Seven
20	The Band	Ophelia	To Kingdom Come [Disc 2]
21	Linda Ronstadt	Hurt So Bad	Very Best Of Linda Ronstadt
22	April Stevens	I Want A Lip	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
23	Nino Tempo & April Stevens	Deep Purple	Teach Me Tiger
24	April Stevens	Teach Me Tiger	Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence
25	April Stevens	Do It Again	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 6: Rhapsodesia
26	Wayne Newton	Danke Schoen	Jackpot! The Las Vegas Story
27	Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra/Perry Como/Ray Charles Singers	Round and Round	The Very Best of Perry Como
28	Tony Bennett	In the Middle of an Island	Your Hit Parade – 1957
29	Thomas A. Dorsey with Alex Bradford	It's A Highway To Heaven	Precious Lord Recordings Of The Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey
30	Sammy Price Trio/Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Singing in My Soul	The Gospel of Blues
31	Michelle Lanchester/Sweet Honey in the Rock	I Was Standing by the Bedside of a Neighbor ( If You See My Saviour)	Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection
32	Aretha Franklin	Don't Play That Song	Spirit in the Dark
33	Aretha Franklin	Try Matty's	Spirit in the Dark
34	The Band	The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down	The Best of the Band

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

Georgia Peaches

April 2, 2023 Dave

This week’s show takes us across the landscape of the state of Georgia and then reminisces about ladies that share her name. No genre is off limits and no era too far in the past is excluded in this latest Deeper Roots show that takes on a theme. We’re also hoping that the will of the people is not interfered with in a state that’s struggling to awaken; a lumbering giant of democracy still haunted (and celebrated at the highest levels) by plantation politics. Our music this week will feature some tradition from Georgia’s own Jake Xerxes Fussell, country tunes from Lefty Frizzell and Charley Crockett, jazz from Nina Simone and Joe Venuti, and we’ll visit a Georgia Camp Meeting and One More Sunday in Savannah. Tune in for a collection of tunes about a state of mind and some fine women who share the name of a southern state where peaches and a darker past prosper. Tune in on Friday morning here on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Swe-Danes	Georgia Camp Meeting	New Discgems From Warner Brothers
3	The Mills Brothers	That's Georgia	The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 2
4	The Boswell Sisters	The Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia	The Boswell Sisters Volume 2
5	The Andrews Sisters	Atlanta G.A.	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 3]
6	Kacey Musgraves	When It's Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia	Wanted: One Good Cowboy
7	Waylon Jennings	Cedartown, Georgia	The Essential Waylon Jennings [2007] Disc 1
8	Charley Crockett	All the Way from Atlanta	The Man from Waco
9	Ryan Bingham	Long Way from Georgia	Mescalito
10	Tony Joe White	Rainy Night in Georgia	Collected [CD1]
11	Joan Osborne	Midnight Train to Georgia	Breakfast In Bed
12	Art Kahn's Orchestra v. Chick Bullock	Two Tickets To Georgia	Victor Young & Brunswick Studio Orchestra (1932-1934)
13	Nina Simone	One More Sunday In Savannah	The Tomato Collection [Disc 1]
14	Little Feat	Oh, Atlanta	Feats Don't Fail Me Now
15	Alison Krauss	Oh, Atlanta	Now That I've Found You
16	Dirty Cello	The Devil Went Down To Georgia	By Request
17	Tennessee Ernie Ford	I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 1]
18	Jake Xerxes Fussell	Georgia Buck	Jake Xerxes Fussell
19	Johnny Gimble	Sweet Georgia Brown (Featuring Merle Haggard)	Celebrating With Friends
20	Mac Wiseman	The Georgia Mail	Sings Old Time Country Favorites
21	Boz Scaggs	Georgia	Silk Degrees
22	Charley Crockett	Help Me Georgia	Lonesome As A Shadow
23	Duke Robillard	Sweet Georgia Brown	After Hours Swing Sessions
24	Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang	Georgia On My Mind	The Best Of Joe Venuti And Eddie Lang
25	Justin Townes Earle	South Georgia Sugar Babe	The Good Life
26	Robbie Fulks	Georgia Hard	Georgia Hard
27	Iris DeMent	Waycross Georgia	Workin' On A World
28	Hank Penny	Tell Me All About Georgia	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
29	Eartha Kitt	Atlanta Blues	The RCA Recordings 1953-1958
30	Five Red Caps	Atlanta G.A.	Secular Vocal Groups Vol. 4 (1926-1947)

Drive In Music

March 18, 2023 Dave

Memories of summer nights where the aroma of popcorn, car exhaust and nature fused as the car windows steamed up and the tin can speaker sounds synchronized with the silver screen…at the drive in movie. For the decades of the fifties, sixties, and seventies you could bring a car load of friends and find your spot across the little hills that pointed you skyward towards the glow of a billboard of dreams. This week on Deeper Roots we’ll visit some performances that include on-screen legends as well as legends that tried to make music outside of their lane. Some that we’ll hear from succeeded and some…well…went back to their day job. Tune in for music from Robert Mitchum, Bette Davis, Jack Webb, Marilyn Monroe, and a couple dozen others on a fun little romp on another Friday episode of Deeper Roots on KOWS 92.5 FM.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Don Francks & Petula Clark	Old Devil Moon – Finian's Rainbow	Warner Bros.: 75 Years Of Film Music – Songs (3)
3	Ray Davies	Oklahoma U.S.A.	Our Country: Americana Act II
4	Shirley Jones, James Whitmore, Gordon MacRae	Oklahoma	Oklahoma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
5	Robert Preston & Company	Ya Got Trouble – The Music Man	Warner Bros.: 75 Years Of Film Music – Songs (3)
6	Lucille Ball/Bea Arthur	Bosom Buddies – Mame	Warner Bros.: 75 Years Of Film Music – Songs (3)
7	Kirk Douglas	And The Moon Grew Brighter	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
8	James Stewart	The Legend Of Shenandoah	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
9	Robert Mitchum	Ballad of Thunder Road	That Man, Robert Mitchum, Sings
10	Lee Marvin	Wand'rin' Star	Wand'rin' Star And Other Movie And TV Songs: Western Movie & TV Soundtracks (3)
11	Bill Hayes	Message from James Dean	So-Cal Speed Shop's Hot Rod Classics Disc 3
12	Varetta Dillard	I Miss You Jimmy (Tribute to James Dean)	Got You On My Mind
13	Eagles	James Dean	The Very Best of the Eagles [2003] Disc 1
14	Dooley Wilson	As Time Goes By – from Casablanca	Warner Brothers 75 Years of Film Music (2)
15	Bette Davis	They're Either Too Young Or Too Old -from Thank Your Lucky Stars	Warner Brothers 75 Years of Film Music (2)
16	Mae West	I'm An Occidental Woman In An Oriental Mood For Love	The Mae West Collection
17	Jack Webb	Try a Little Tenderness	Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing-Off!
18	Clint Eastwood	Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive	Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil
19	Gene Pitney	(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance	Anthology: 1961-1968
20	Tony Perkins	Moonlight Swim (Bonus Track)	On a Rainy Afternoon
21	Marilyn Monroe	River Of No Return	The Essential Marilyn Monroe
22	Roy Rogers	My Chickashay Gal	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
23	Elvis Presley	Wooden Heart	G.I. Blues
24	Dean Martin,John Wayne & Ricky Nelson	My Rifle, My Pony And Me	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
25	Ricky Nelson & Walter Brennan	Get Along Home, Cindy	Wand'rin' Star And Other Movie And TV Songs: Western Movie & TV Soundtracks (3)
26	Fess Parker	Ballad Of Davy Crockett	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
27	James Stewart	You Can`t Get Far Without A Railroad	Wand'rin' Star And Other Movie And TV Songs: Western Movie & TV Soundtracks (3)
28	Dean Martin	Rio Bravo	My Rifle, My Pony And Me
29	Dean Martin	King Of The Five Card Stud	Wand'rin' Star And Other Movie And TV Songs: Western Movie & TV Soundtracks (3)
30	Steve Martin & The Toot Uncommons	King Tut	Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time [Disc 2]
31	Gene Kelly	Singin' In The Rain	Somewhere Over The Rainbow: The Golden Age Of Hollywood Musicals [Disc 1]
32	Garland Jeffreys	35 Millimeter Dreams	Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]

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Streets of Bakersfield

March 6, 2023 Dave

It was Nashville West but with a decidedly more amount of midwestern flavoring. Bakersfield was the terminus of most of the migrant traffic from the dust bowl where the hope for a better life was not always fulfilled. So many landed square on the Central Valley and for those who grew up it became a whirlwind post-war prosperity that was familiar: oil drilling, agriculture, almond orchards, cattle raising, and a transportation industry to support it. Those who were raised on country swing and the classic country sounds coming out of Nashville were lucky given Bakersfield’s proximity to the studios of Hollywood and Los Angeles. We’ll hear from many of them, digging into the early years of Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Tommy Collins, Wynn Stewart and a host of other performers who made that blend of rough country, trucking songs, and honky-tonk swing what it would become.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Buck Owens	Streets of Bakersfield	All-Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
3	Bill Woods & His Orange Blossom Playboys	Have I Got A Chance With You	Swingbillies
4	Joe Maphis & Rose Lee	Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
5	Jean Shepard with Ferlin Husky	A Dear John Letter	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
6	Bud Hobbs	Louisiana Swing	Defining Country Music – The Sounds of Bakersfield
7	Billy Mize	Who Will Buy the Wine	Billy Mize and the Bakersfield Sound (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
8	Rose & The Maddox Brothers	Why Don't You Haul Off & Love Me	Maddox Brothers & Rose
9	Alvadean Coker	We're Gonna Bop	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
10	Tommy Collins	What'cha Gonna Do Now?	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
11	Ferlin Husky	I Feel Better All Over	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 2; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
12	Bonnie Blue Bell & Leon Reach & Chic Adams Band	Let's Go	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
13	Billy Mize	Solid Sender	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
14	Bill Carter	I Wanna Feel Good	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 2; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
15	Johnny Bond	Three Or Four Nights	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 2; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
16	Herb Henson	Goodbye, Baby, Goodbye	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 2; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
17	Wynn Stewart	Playboy	Come On – Gonna Shake This Shack
18	Buck Owens	Hot Dog (with Danny Dedmon)	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
19	Buck Owens	The Key's In The Mailbox	Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard
20	Buck Owens	Love's Gonna Live Here	Buck 'Em: The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
21	Buck Owens	Together Again	The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1
22	Ferlin Husky	Six Days on the Road	Defining Country Music – The Sounds of Bakersfield
23	Red Simpson	Truck Drivin' Man	The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
24	Red Simpson	The Highway Patrol	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
25	Bonnie Owens	Just for the Children's Sake	Warped 6534 – Bonnie Owens – 1964 – 1966
26	Bobby Austin	Apartment #9	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
27	Merle Haggard	Okie From Muskogee	Capitol Collector's Series
28	Merle Haggard And The Strangers	Mama Tried (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
29	Dallas Frazier	California Cotton Fields	Singing My Songs
30	Abe Mulkey	Packed Up And Shoved Off	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 2; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
31	Wynn Stewart	It's Such A Pretty World Today	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
32	Wynn Stewart	Donna On My Mind	California Country
33	Buck Owens	Act Naturally	The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) [Disc 1]
34	Merle Haggard & the Strangers	Please Mr. D.J.	Swing West 1: Bakersfield
35	Buck Owens	Streets of Bakersfield [With Dwight Yoakam]	The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) – Disc 3
36	Maddox Brothers & Rose	The Death of Rock 'n' Roll	Classic Rockabilly

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