Category Archives: Deeper Roots on KOWS

Not Above The Law

Welcome to a common theme we share on Deeper Roots:  an eclectic blend of stories featuring grifters, the gallows, the law and prison time. Today we’ll be mixing current events with the rule of law and the focus takes on historic anthems of good versus evil. Playlists will feature topics of blind justice, the fate of liars and thieves, and stories of false prophets and demagogues. We’ll welcome them in their own words with pearls of justice that even the January 6th looters, traitors and thieves cannot escape. It’s a cult…and neither democracy nor faith abide much by the cult of personality that’s soiling our Constitution. We’ve got tracks from Dr. John, Three Dog Night, Hugh Laurie, Booker T and Ted Hawkins this week. Join us here on Deeper Roots for an expose about “Fear and Loathing at Mar-a-Lago”.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Booker T. & The MG's Hang 'Em High The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol.2: 1968-1971 [Disc 1] Amazon
3The Fabulous Thunderbirds Can't Tear It Up Enuff T-Bird Rhythm Amazon
4Ted Hawkins The Constitution Happy Hour Amazon
5Laurie Lewis And The Right Hands Let That Liar Alone (Featuring Tom Rozum, Patrick Sauber, Harley Eblen & Andrew Conklin) The Hazel and Alice Sessions Amazon
6The Louvin Brothers Cash On The Barrelhead Close Harmony [Disc 3] Amazon
7Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra Call The Police Jumpin' With the Big Swing Bands Amazon
8Ray Lum A Trader Is Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris Amazon
9Bill Phillips The Yankee Trader Bill Phillips 1958-1961 Amazon
10Dr. John Trader John The Blues Biography Amazon
11Three Dog Night Liar The Complete Hit Singles Amazon
12Julia Lee Lies Kansas City Star [Disc 2] Amazon
13JD McPherson Mother Of Lies Let The Good Times Roll Amazon
14Julie London Little White Lies 36 All-Time Greatest Hits Disc 1 Amazon
15Jackie Greene About Cell Block #9 Sweet Somewhere Bound Amazon
16Bill Carter with The Cooper Brothers Jailer Man The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
17Buck Owens In the Jailhouse Now Honky Tonk Man: Buck Sings Country Classics Amazon
18Hugh Laurie Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair Didn't It Rain (Deluxe) Amazon
19Elton Britt Uranium Fever Atomic Platters Amazon
20Sam Hinton Old Man Atom Atomic Platters Amazon
21Dan Reeder 2016 Election Song Every Which Way (Deluxe Edition) Amazon
22Fay Simmons You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb Atomic Platters Amazon
23Fred Kirby When That Hell Bomb Falls Atomic Platters Amazon
24George Kent I Always Did Like Leavenworth The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
25The Bobby Fuller Four I Fought The Law The Best Of The Bobby Fuller Four Amazon
26George Jones/Johnny Cash I Got Stripes [*] Silver Amazon
27Rico Bell Death Row The Executioners Last Songs, Volume 2 Amazon
28Doodle Duncan Death Row Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2 Amazon
29Marty Robbins Hanging Tree A Lifetime of Song (1951-1982) Amazon
30Ralph Stanley O Death O Brother, Where Art Thou? Amazon
31Roy Zimmerman The Don Rize Up Amazon
32Thomas E. Dewey Election Eve Campaign Speech Great Speeches of the 20th Century Amazon
33Paul Stookey Nukes R Nuts Just Causes Amazon
34Roy Zimmerman The Liar Tweets Tonight The Liar Tweets Tonight (Single) Amazon
35Earle Hagen I Spy Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 7: The Crime Scene Amazon

Celebrating 10 Years

Break out the libations! Deeper Roots celebrates it’s ten year anniversary on Sonoma County Community Radio and today’s show takes some time to celebrate the blend of sounds we’ve featured with the focus being on our first ten shows. I’ll be grabbing some of my very favorites from those early playlists and sharing them with everyone this morning. Great sounds featured include a trip to Chickashay with Roy Rogers, gospel tradition from Fern Jones, jitterbugging with The Roosevelts, some Duke, Fats, The Louvins, and, of course, Miss Morse (Ella Mae, that is). I’ll look back at some of the shows featured, the many sites visited and the folks that dropped by along the way. A little nostalgia on a Friday morning on KOWS radio and Saturday morning on KRJF and KWTF.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Geraint Watkins Go West Dial 'W' for Watkins Amazon
3Mae West I'm An Occidental Woman In An Oriental Mood For Love The Mae West Collection Amazon
4Roy Rogers with Country Washburne My Chickashay Girl 26 All-Time Country Classics Amazon
5Patsy Montana My Poncho Pony Cowgirl's Best Amazon
6Bob Wills The Devil Ain't Lazy Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 3] It Ain't Far To The Bar) Amazon
7Doug Sahm (Is Anybody Going To) San Antone Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1 Amazon
8The Louvin Brothers Cash On The Barrelhead Capitol Country Music Classics Amazon
9The Louvin Brothers The Great Atomic Power Hand-Picked Amazon
10Kitty Wells Amigo's Guitar Greatest Songs Amazon
11Lefty Frizzell Saginaw, Michigan Look What Thoughts Will Do Amazon
12The Americans Sweet and Low Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys Amazon
13The Ink Spots Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees) Greatest Hits Amazon
14Julia Lee And Her Boyfriends (Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch And Grab It Blues Classics 1945-1949 Amazon
15Duke Ellingtion Take The "A" Train Stompin' At The Savoy Amazon
16The Roosevelts Jitterbug Special The Real Blues Brothers Vol. 2 Amazon
17Fats Waller & His Rhythm Hey! Stop Kissin' My Sister 100 Ans De Jazz Amazon
18Nina Simone Children Go Where I Send You The Best Of Nina Simone: The Colpix Years Amazon
19Gospel Hebrews Jesus Is All Over Me Boddie Recording Company: Cleveland, Ohio Amazon
20Fern Jones Just A Little Talk With Jesus The Glory Road Amazon
21Sister Rosetta Tharpe Shout Sister Shout Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel, Vol. 2 Amazon
22Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Male Call Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
23Fats Domino Sleeping on the Job This Is Gold Disc 2 Amazon
24Ivory Joe Hunter Worried Mind Since I Met You Baby Amazon
25Arthur Alexander You Better Move On The Greatest Hits Amazon
26Nellie Lutcher Hurry On Down From The Vaults, Vol 2. 1943-1944 Amazon
27Jewel Paige & Her Brown Brownies Give It Up If You Take Me Back Amazon
28Freddie King Lonesome Whistle Blues Ultimate Collection Amazon
29Blue Lu Barker At The Animal Ball: (Sic – At The Animal Fair) Chronological Blue Lu Barker (1946-1949) Amazon
30The Kingston Trio Scotch and Soda Absolutely the Best Amazon
31Slim & Slam Huh! Uh-Huh! Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 2) Amazon
32Dave Van Ronk Would You Like to Swing on a Star? Sunday Street Amazon
33Charles Brown I Wanna Go Home The 15 Greatest Hits On Ace Records Amazon
34Shirley Gunter Ipsie Opsie Ooh Shirley Gunter Amazon
35Ivory Joe Hunter Shooty Booty Since I Met You Baby Amazon
36Rocky Porter The World Is A Monster The World Is A Monster Amazon

Main Street Breakdown

“Gather ‘round everybody, gonna tell you a story, about a little fella, he’s really very mella’, sells the daily papers on Main Street USA. ” That’s how we’ll open this week’s show, with a story told by Bill Haley and the Comets from 1955.  It’s a free form throwback road trip from Main Street to the deep South with some blues, country, and roots sounds from the past 100 years. Got some blues from Bertha Idaho, classic country from Hank Williams, some fresh southland sounds from Los Lobos, locally fresh sounds from Doug Blumer and JL Stiles…and so much more as we venture in and around all of the corners, north, south, east and west in today’s show. Friday morning breakfasts have never been so entertaining. Tune us in on 92.5 FM in West County or stream us on your listening device at kowsfm.com/listen.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Bill Haley The Paper Boy (On Main Street USA) From Western Swing to R-O-C-K (3): Rock Around the Clock Amazon
3Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers Main Street Breakdown Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years Amazon
4David Bromberg The Main Street Moan The Player: A Retrospective Amazon
5Los Lobos On Main Street Tin Can Trust Amazon
6Loudon Wainwright III Moving Day High Wide & Handsome – The Charlie Poole Project Amazon
7Willie Nelson Still Is Still Moving To Me Across The Borderline Amazon
8Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers Gone, Gonna Rise.Again Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions Amazon
9Leon Selph Now That You Have Gone You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942 Amazon
10The Leake County Revelers Been to the East, Been to the West Lead Kindly Light Amazon
11Doug Blumer And The Bohemian Highway Moving Day Doug Blumer And The Bohemian Highway Amazon
12JL Stiles Movin Jl Stiles Presents House of Murmurs Amazon
13Florence Lowery Moving Day Blues Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 11 Amazon
14Bertha Idaho Move It On Out Of Here Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 10 Amazon
15Howlin' Wolf Moving The Back Door Wolf Amazon
16Monroe Moe Jackson Move It On Over Rural Blues Vol. 1 1934-1956 Amazon
17Hank Williams & The Drifting Cowboys Move It On Over 26 All-Time Country Classics Amazon
18Mahalia Jackson I Will Move On Up A Little Higher Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Amazon
19The Staple Singers Move Along Train Freedom Highway Amazon
20Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) Raising Sand Amazon
21Tom Petty Time to Move On Wildflowers Amazon
22Jerry Lee Lewis Move on Down the Line The London Sessions 1973 Amazon
23Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 3 Amazon
24Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies When I'm Gone Don't You Grieve Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 3 : Easy Ridin' Papa Amazon
25John Hiatt Gone Crossing Muddy Waters Amazon
26Irma Thomas Gone Soul Queen of New Orleans Amazon
27The Cats & The Fiddle Gone The Very Best Of Amazon
28Paul Simon Gone at Last 1964-1993 Disc 2 Amazon
29Bobby "Blue" Bland This Time I'm Gone For Good Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill / MCA Recordings Amazon
30Bastard Sons Of Johnny Cash Gone Like a Raven Bend in the Road Amazon
31Violent Femmes Gone Daddy Gone Add It Up (1981-1993) Amazon
32Lefty Frizzell She's Gone, Gone, Gone Look What Thoughts Will Do Amazon

Carter Covers

We’ll revisit the Carter Family this week on Deeper Roots with a collection of covers by their family’s inheritors, classic country and bluegrass favorites, as well as contemporary Americana artists. Aside from being a key ingredient in the ‘big bang’ of country music that occurred at the Bristol, Tennessee recordings in 1927, they would establish a rich catalog of songs and a monument to what American country music would hold as a torch for generations to come. The gathering of the elements of prose, poetry, passages and melodies that A. P. Carter gathered over his years of wandering predates the Lomax era and crossed the threshold when the 1927 encounter with Ralph Peer made history. We’ll hear from The Carters, but also Johnny Cash, Ashley Monroe, Loretta Lynn, Red Allen, and Emmylou Harris (among others) in our show today. Tune in for some of the classics from the family Carter.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Keep on the Firing Line Saturday Night / Sunday Morning Amazon
3Jorma Kaukonen Sweet Fern Ain't in No Hurry Amazon
4Sheryl Crow No Depression In Heaven The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family Amazon
5Emmylou Harris Hello Stranger (Remastered LP Version) Luxury Liner [Remaster] Amazon
6June Carter Cash The Road to Kaintuck Wildwood Flower Amazon
7June Carter Worried Man Blues At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight (Disc 17) Amazon
8Johnny Cash 23 Worried Man Blues [Live at The Carousel Ballroom San Fancisco CA – April 1968] Live At The Carousel Ballroom Amazon
9Bobby Bare Worried Man Blues 1963 1962-1964 (Warped 6291) Amazon
10The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns – The Soundtrack [Disc 1] Amazon
11Johnny Cash The Winding Stream [#] Personal File Disc 1 Amazon
12Johnny Cash I Love You Sweetheart It's All in the Family Amazon
13June Carter Cash Ring of Fire Press On Amazon
14Ashley Monroe The Storms Are On The Ocean Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
15Ralph Stanley Storms Are On The Ocean [Album Version] A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family Amazon
16Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter Fair and Tender Ladies Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1 Amazon
17The Carter Family On the Sea of Galilee On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1 Amazon
18Emmylou Harris & The Peasall Sisters On The Sea Of Galilee The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family Amazon
19The Carter Family Wildwood Flower East Virginia Blues (When The Sun Goes Down Series) Amazon
20Loretta Lynn Wildwood Flower Anchored In Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash Amazon
21Johnny Cash/The Carter Family Keep on the Sunny Side Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1 Amazon
22Frank & Allie Lee You Are My Flower Treat A Stranger Right Amazon
23Charlie Haden Single Girl, Married Girl Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
24Hylo Brown Lulu Wall I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family Amazon
25Antique Persuasion Lonesome for You Don't Forget Me Little Darling – Remembering the Carter Family Amazon
26Mac Wiseman Hold Fast To The Right Beside The Still Waters Amazon
27Red Allen I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family Amazon
28June Carter Cash Anchored In Love ( featuring Janette Carter, Joe Carter, and Dale Jett) Church In The Wildwood Amazon
29The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle Be Unbroken Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
30The Whites Keep on the Sunny Side O Brother, Where Art Thou? Amazon

Let’s Dance

A mix of just about everything your ears might need on a Friday morning with the focus being on preparing you for the weekend here in Sonoma County. Wake up sounds with themes that sport the connective tissue of a variety of genres and performers. We’ll hear some Bo Diddley, Chris Montez, Steve Earle, Del Reeves, and more than two dozen others. We’ll be highlighting small themes of trains, boogie Woogie daddies, sad and happy songs, weed and invitations to the party here on KOWS Community radio where free speech is coupled with a promise of no bull. We stream all over the planet on kowsfm.com/listen and will be celebrating the return of our antenna and the FM signal sooner rather than later. Join us.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2NRBQ Wacky Tobacky Peek-A-Boo: The Best Of NRBQ, 1969-1989 [Disc 1] Amazon
3Mel Tillis Loco Weed (Single Version) The Best of Mel Tillis Amazon
4Wayne Hancock Viper of Melody Viper of Melody Amazon
5Harlem Hamfats/Rosetta Howard If You're a Viper When Hemp Was Hip Amazon
6Bea Foote Weed The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs Amazon
7Cab Calloway Minnie The Moocher Are You Hep To The Jive? Amazon
8Steve Earle & the Dukes Ain't Nobody's Daddy Now Terraplane Amazon
9The Enchanters Boogie Woogie Daddy Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
10Bo Diddley Diddley Daddy The Chess Box [Disc 1] Amazon
11Howlin' Wolf Rockin' Daddy Smokestack Lightning /The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960 Amazon
12Jimmy Ricks & The Ravens Daddy Rollin' Stone Poison Ivy – Gems from the Atco Vaults 1959-1962 Amazon
13Fontella Bass Sweet Lovin' Daddy Very Best Of Amazon
14Stonewall Jackson You're the Sad in My Songs Warped 6742 – Stonewall Jackson – 1966-1967 Amazon
15Del Reeves You're the Happy Songs I Sing The Wonderful World of del Reeves Amazon
16The Everly Brothers So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) It's Everly Time Amazon
17Merle Haggard Sing A Sad Song Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast Amazon
18Rachel Sweet Sad Song Fool Around: The Best of Rachel Sweet Amazon
19Jerry Lee Lewis Invitation to Your Party 25 All-Time Greatest Sun Recordings Amazon
20Cab Calloway Everybody Eats When They Come To My House Are You Hep To The Jive? Amazon
21The Royal Hounds Invitation To Be Lonely A Whole Lot of Nothin' Amazon
22Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar Invitation to the Blues For Pete's Sake [Gusto] Amazon
23The Soul Stirrers Slow Train Tribute to Sam Cooke Amazon
24Bob Dylan Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) North Country – Music From The Motion Picture Amazon
25Leon Russell Slow Train A Mighty Flood Amazon
26ack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest/Dialogue Pulp Fiction Amazon
27Chris Montez Let's Dance National Lampoon's Animal House Amazon
28Fats Domino The Twist Set Me Free Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 4 Amazon
29Chubby Checker Let's Dance It's Pony Time Amazon
30Gary U.S. Bonds Dear Lady Twist Gary "U.S" Bonds – 30 Original Greatest Hits Amazon
31Jimmy Soul Twistin' Matilda (And The Channel) The Best Of Jimmy Soul Amazon
32The Champs Tequila Twist 5 Classic Albums Plus Amazon
33The Isley Brothers Twist and Shout American Roots of the British Invasion Amazon
34Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Do You Know How to Twist The King Records Story – Part 1 Amazon
35The Dovells Bristol Stomp Cameo Parkway The Best of the Dovells, 1961-1965 Amazon

A Taste of Sixties Soul

What a decade. The Sixties. There was, of course, the mainlining of rock that took place, The Beatles, The Stones, Dylan, folk-rock, a rediscovery of tradition and the blues…and then there was something that had been bubbling underneath the pop, gospel, jazz, and rock elements. It would come to be called ‘soul’ and the sixties urban explosion out of a post-war northern cities like Chicago and (especially) Detroit, gave us something uniquely American. And the sixties charts were brimming with Motown, funk, cold sweat, and brassy ballads with a back beat and synchronicity of voice that established itself for good. The Isley Brothers, The Four Tops, The Supremes, Chuck Jackson, Mary Wells, The Temptations, The Impressions…the list goes on…all of these acts and hundreds of others staked their claim to the charts, easily competing (if not comfortably sharing) with the British wave and psychedlic sounds that had stormed the gates. Join Dave Stroud for a taste of 60s soul.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Miracles Shop Around [National Hit Version] The 35th Anniversary Collection Amazon
3Ike & Tina Turner It's Gonna Work Out Fine Birth Of Soul: 3 Amazon
4Sugar Pie DeSanto A Little Taste of Soul A Little Bit of Soul (1957-1962) Amazon
5Chuck Jackson Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) Pure R&B: Vol. 2- Somethings Got a Hold on Me [Disc 2] Amazon
6Sam Cooke Send Me Some Lovin' The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (3 of 4) Amazon
7Mary Wells Bye Bye Baby Looking Back 1961-1964 Amazon
8The Impressions I'm So Proud Glory of Love: Sweet & Soulful Love Songs-'60s Amazon
9The Supremes Come See About Me Gold Disc 1 Amazon
10Mary Wells My Guy Malt Shop Memories: All I Have To Do Is Dream (Disc 2) Amazon
11Brenda Holloway Every Little Bit Hurts Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 Disc 1 Amazon
12The Tams What Kind Of Fool (Do You Think I Am) Classic Rock: 1964 A Go Go Amazon
13Jimmy Hughes Steal Away The Complete Fame Singles Volume 1 Amazon
14King Curtis Soul Serenade Instant Soul: The Legendary King Curtis Amazon
15The Funk Brothers Too Many Fish in the Sea 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Funk Brothers Amazon
16The Supremes Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart Gold Disc 1 Amazon
17The Four Tops I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) The Ultimate Collection Amazon
18The Isley Brothers This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) The Essential Isley Brothers [Disc 1] Amazon
19The Temptations Get Ready The Best Of The Temptations, Vol. 1: The 60s Amazon
20Stevie Wonder Uptight (Everything's Alright) The Classic Sixties: 1965 Amazon
21Spooner's Crowd Two In The Morning Chess Uptown Soul Amazon
22The Mar-Keys Philly Dog The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (5 of 9) Amazon
23Carla Thomas A Woman's Love The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 Disc 4 Amazon
24Carla Thomas/Otis Redding Tramp The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (7 of 9) Amazon
25Arthur Conley Sweet Soul Music The Muscle Shoals Sound Amazon
26Sam & Dave When Something Is Wrong With My Baby The Very Best of Sam & Dave Amazon
27Marvin Gaye If I Could Build My Whole World Around You Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
28Jimmy Ruffin What Becomes of the Brokenhearted Motown: The Classic Years Disc 1 Amazon
29Jackie Wilson (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher Red, White & Rock Disc 3 Amazon
30James Brown Cold Sweat 20 All Time Greatest Hits! Amazon
31Martha Reeves & The Vandellas Jimmy Mack The Ultimate Collection Amazon
32Johnnie Taylor Who's Making Love Stax Number Ones Amazon
33Marvin Gaye Too Busy Thinking About My Baby Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
34Jean Knight Mr. Big Stuff Stax Number Ones Amazon

Hooligans & Holy Rollers

There’s no telling where this week’s show could lead because we’ve got the musical evangelists, pentacostals, and Baptists right alongside those charming bluesmen and rock and rollers to turn up the heat. We’ve got a burning revival of rockabilly, rhythm and blues, and God-fearing country and hillbilly sounds to take us into the weekend. Hooligans and bible-thumping holy rollers are pushing their way through the doors today and we’re here to tell you that we’re not gonna take anyone telling he or she what they can do with their bodies. Today’s performers will feature Sister Rosetta, Brother Claude, The Louvins, Hank Jr., Moon Mullican, and Jerry Lee Lewis…and that’s just a taste. Join us on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Muddy Waters I've Got My Mojo Working, Pt. 2 At Newport 1960 [Live] [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
3Jerry Lee Lewis Don't Let Go A Half Century Of Hits: Rockin' My Life Away [Disc 3] Amazon
4Moon Mullican Well Oh Well Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B Amazon
5Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps Race with the Devil So-Cal Speed Shop's Hot Rod Classics Disc 2 Amazon
6Johnny David Race With The Devil Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
7The Million Dollar Quartet Old Time Religion The Million Dollar Quartet: 50th Anniversary Special Edition Amazon
8Brother Claude Ely Send Down The Rain Satan Get Back Amazon
9Brother Claude Ely Stop That Train Satan Get Back Amazon
10Eddie Noack Ain't The Reaping Ever Done Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter Amazon
11Jack Leonard A Visit From The Devil Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
12Hank Williams Jr. Endless Sleep Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5 Amazon
13Ray Winfree Devil Hang Me High Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5 Amazon
14The Four Internes I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map The Best Of King Gospel Amazon
15Howlin' Wolf Killing Floor The Real Folk Blues Amazon
16John Lee Hooker Boogie Chillen' King Of The Boogie Amazon
17The Gospelaires Can I Get A Witness Lovely Jazz Gospel & Blues Amazon
18The Midnighters Sexy Ways Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 1 Amazon
19Louis Jordan Mop! Mop! (aka Mop-Mop) Number Ones Amazon
20Sister Rosetta Tharpe When I Move to the Sky Gospel Blues – the Very Best Of Amazon
21The Harmonizing Four Oh Sinner Jesus Rocked The Jukebox: Small Group Black Gospel (1951-1965) Amazon
22Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies Stay On the Right Side Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 3 : Easy Ridin' Papa Amazon
23The Louvin Brothers There's A Higher Power Satan Is Real Amazon
24Jimmy Walker High Geared Daddy Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies Amazon
25Dallas Wilson & His Western Troubadours Hi-Steppin' Daddy Hillbilly Bop Boogie And Honky Tonk Blues Volume 4 Amazon
26Bill Carlisle Bell Clappin' Mama Hillbilly Blues Amazon
27Ralph Hart And The Texas Musical Harts Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter Amazon
28Hartman's Heartbreakers Give It To Me, Daddy Hillbilly Blues Amazon
29Eddie Cochran Somethin' Else Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 4 Amazon
30Carl Perkins Matchbox Original Sun Greatest Hits Amazon
31Sonny Burgess A Kiss Goodnite We Wanna Boogie Amazon
32Redd Stewart Brother Drop Dead (Boogie) Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56 Amazon
33Johnny Tyler God's Gonna Turn Us To Dust Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
34John Lee Hooker Boom Boom The Definitive Collection Amazon
35Wynonie Harris Adam Come And Get Your Rib Lovin' Machine Amazon
36Reverend Robert Ballinger So Glad 1950s Gospel Classics Amazon

Country Crossovers

Country music started genre-life out as something different. Searching for a term more palatable than simply ‘folk’ or, more so, ‘hillbilly’, or ‘western’ music, music industry marketing found the term ‘country’ or ‘country and western’ a much smoother alternative. It softened the fiddle and accordion sounds and, at the same time, tempered the fears of human de-evolution through cultural disappropriation. Although what passes for country music today is more a caricature of itself, the Golden Age of country, running through the decades of the fifties, sixties and the early seventies built a solid foundation with some of the great songwriters and performers that weren’t from the big east and west coast hubs. And their music would often be heard ‘peeking through’ the pop charts in a big way, reinforcing the notion that it was, and always had been, a common cultural denominator. Our show this week features some of the very greatest of the latter. Join us!


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California Dreamin’

A little bit of surf…just a bit…and some folk favorites right alongside some local performers in this week’s episode brought your way directly from the KOWS Studios in downtown Santa Rosa, California. Our theme is the Golden State where the living may be costly but the core soul is one of progressive culture and hard work: whether that’s in the fields, behind the desk, in the service industry, or on the road. This week’s show focuses on California, from the LA Freeway to the Streets of Bakersfield, on up to Lodi and the Monterey Bay. The past century has found the state a popular subject of song and we’ve got some favorites and off-the-wall nuggets just for you this Friday morning including tracks from Dave Alvin, Albert Hammond, and Red River Dave. Tune in.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Sound Of The City KSFO 560 – San Francisco 78s Amazon
3Tony Bennett I Left My Heart in San Francisco Your Hit Parade – Into the '60S Amazon
4Danny Sorentino Sonoma County Stars Real Music (Disc 1) Amazon
5Kyle Martin Santa Rosa Kyle Martin Amazon
6Charley Crockett The Way I'm Livin' (Santa Rosa) The Valley Amazon
7Lowell Levinger Hippie From Olema Get Together- Youngblood Classics Amazon
8Kevin Russell California Cottonfields Trouble In Mind Amazon
9John Hartford California Earthquake Troubadours: Folk And The Roots Of American Music 4: 11 The South Amazon
10Norman Greenbaum Petaluma Spirit In The Sky – The Best of Norman Greenbaum Amazon
11Neil Young California Sunset Old Ways Amazon
12Joe Jones California Sun You Heard It Here First! Amazon
13Roy Orbison California Blue Mystery Girl Amazon
14The Beach Boys California Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys Disc 4 Amazon
15The Beach Boys California Girls 20 Good Vibrations: The Greatest Hits Amazon
16Jan & Dean The Little Old Lady From Pasadena Malt Shop Memories: Top Down Convertible Sound (Disc 2) Amazon
17Eric Clapton San Francisco Bay Blues Unplugged Amazon
18Dave Alvin Out in California Interstate City Amazon
19Various Artists Monterey Pop Promo – KRLA Los Angeles #2 1960s Psychedelic Radio Commercials Amazon
20The Mamas & The Papas California Dreamin' Southern California With Fond Memories Amazon
21Joni Mitchell California Hits Amazon
22America Ventura Highway Southern California With Fond Memories Amazon
23Lucinda Williams Here in California Treasures left behind: Remembering Kate Wolf Amazon
24Buck Owens Streets of Bakersfield The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) – Disc 3 Amazon
25Randy Newman I Love L.A. Lonely at the Top: The Best of Randy Newman Amazon
26Albert Hammond It Never Rains In California Southern California With Fond Memories Amazon
27The Ink Spots When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano Greatest Hits Amazon
28The Four Preps 26 Miles (Santa Catalina) Southern California With Fond Memories Amazon
29Red River Dave California Hippie Murders Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
30John Fogerty Lodi The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Fogerty – Creedence Collection Amazon

Say Goodnight

We’re taking a free form route this week featuring an eclectic blend of some favorites from the not-so-distant past…but we’ll be sprinkling in a generous dose of tunage from the very distant past as well. It’s all in keeping with the standards we keep. Tune in for the likes of Etta Jones, Little Joe and the Thrillers, Bruce Springsteen, The Drifters, and some piano favorites from the Crescent City this Friday on Deeper Roots. Oldies? Yes. Instrumentals? Yes. Soul and vocal gems? Yes. Boring? No. Tune us in on your radio at 92.5 FM or, better yet, listen to us anywhere on planet Earth on kowsfm.com/listen. It’s going to be a hot day here in the North Bay so why not cool off with some cool sounds here on Sonoma County Community Radio.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Dean & Britta Say Goodnight Back Numbers Amazon
3Mark Knopfler Daddy's Gone to Knoxville The Ragpicker's Dream Amazon
4Lonnie Donegan Rock Island Line Sentimental Journey, Folge 3 – Last Train To San Fernando Amazon
5Mark Knopfler Donegan's Gone Shangri-La Amazon
6The Cookies Chains The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3] Amazon
7The Lovin' Spoonful Coconut Grove Greatest Hits [Buddha] Amazon
8Chris Isaak Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing Forever Blue Amazon
9Jackson Browne Doctor My Eyes The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne Amazon
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