It had to start somewhere. And it did. The music that inspired rock and roll also inspired the countless British Invasion groups that littered the charts beginning in the early-to-mid 60s. Mayall, The Yardbirds, and, of course, The Rolling Stones. The early years of the Stones found them playing covers of some of the great stateside R&B, blues, and soul classics. Our Deeper Roots show today feasts on the originals (as did Jagger, Richard and company) and brings you the seminal sounds of Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Solomon Burke, Arthur Alexander, and a host of others in our tribute to the music that was a fusion of blues, R&B, and soul. Music that made rock and roll the world music phenomenon that it was to become. Tune into Community Radio on Fridays for roots music.
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Robert Wilkins
That's No Way To Get Along
Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1]
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Bobby Fuller
Not Fade Away
Shakedown! The Texas Tapes Revisited Disc 1
4
Nat King Cole Trio
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
The World Of Nat King Cole
5
Muddy Waters
I Just Want To Make Love To You
The Definitive Collection
6
Jimmy Reed
Honest I Do
Blues Masters: The Very Best Of Jimmy Reed
7
Slim Harpo
I'm A King Bee (Single Version)
The Best Of Slim Harpo
8
Chuck Berry
Carol
Johnny B. Goode-His Complete 50's Chess Recordings
9
Marvin Gaye
Can I Get A Witness
Anthology [Disc 1]
10
Gene Allison
You Can Make It If You Try
The Devil's Jukebox
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Rufus Thomas
Walking The Dog
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1]
12
Chuck Berry
Around and Around
The Chess Box Disc 1
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Jay McShann
Confessin' The Blues
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2]
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Irma Thomas
Time Is On My Side
Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Volume 4
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The Valentinos
It's All Over Now
Sam Cooke's Sar Records Story 59-65 CD2
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The Drifters
Under the Boardwalk
Drifters' Golden Hits
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Solomon Burke
If You Need Me
The Very Best Of Sixties Soul
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Dale Hawkins
Susie-Q
James Burton – The Early Years 1957-1969
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Solomon Burke
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
Very Best of Solomon Burke (Reis)
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The Coasters
Down Home Girl
50 Coastin' Classics [Disc 2]
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Chuck Berry
You Can't Catch Me
Johnny B. Goode-His Complete 50's Chess Recordings
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Bo Diddley
Mona
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – The Best Of Bo Diddley
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Will Bradley & Ray McKinley
Down The Road Apiece (Forget Chuck Berry & The Stones – Original Version!)
Best Of The Big Bands
24
Otis Redding
Pain In My Heart
Birth Of Soul: 1
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Howlin' Wolf
Little Red Rooster
Great Tomato Blues Package
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Don Covay
Mercy Mercy
Summertime Groove
27
Marvin Gaye
Hitch Hike
Anthology [Disc 1]
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Otis Redding
That's How Strong My Love Is
Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology [Disc 1]
Summer is here and so we’ll be celebrating those lazy, hazy, crazy days that come with it. We’re approaching the dog days, as they say, and that also means festivals, music, cool drinks, swimming gear, and lighter beers. This week’s show has us getting serious about summer songs: Elvis, Sam Cooke, The Chantels, Dolly Parton, Dave Brubeck, and just a touch of surf sounds from The Sandals. Summer winds, summer wages, summer rain, and summer love this week on Deeper Roots, recorded at the KOWS studios planted square in the Cherry Street District of Santa Rosa.
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Nat King Cole
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer
Your Hit Parade – The Early '60S
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The Sandals
Theme from "Endless Summer"
The Perfect Day: The Music from 40 Years of Surfing Magazine
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The Beach Boys
Your Summer Dream
Surfer Girl
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The Percy Faith Orchestra
Them From A Summer Place
Lifetime Of Romance: Secret Rendezvous [Disc 1]
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The Fleetwoods
They Tell Me It's Summer
Come Softly To Me: The Very Best Of The Fleetwoods
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The Chantels
Summers's Love (Richard Barrett with the Chantels)
The Best of the Chantels
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Robin Ward
Wonderful Summer
Early Girls: 1
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Johnny Rivers
Summer Rain
Best Of Johnny Rivers
10
Frank Sinatra
Something Wonderful Happens In Summer
The Complete Capitol Singles Collection [Disc 3]
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Sam Cooke
Summertime
Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
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Ian & Sylvia
Summer Wages
So Much For Dreaming
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It's a Beautiful Day
Hot Summer Day
It's a Beautiful Day
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Frank Sinatra
Summer Wind
Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Summertime
Sing America
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Big Brother & the Holding Company/Janis Joplin
Summertime
Cheap Thrills
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Dave Brubeck
Summer Song [Album Version]
Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective
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Seals & Crofts
Summer Breeze
AM Gold 1972
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Dolly Parton
Sweet Summer Lovin'
I Will Always Love You – The Essential Dolly Parton Vol. 1
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Elvis Presley
Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
Elvis for Everyone!
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Nelson Riddle
The Green Leaves of Summer
The Best of Nelson Riddle
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Willie Nelson
Summer Of Roses [Album Version]
One Hell Of A Ride
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Desert Rose Band
Summer Wind
Running
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Robbie Fulks
Rose of the Summer
Gone Away Backward
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Don Henley
The Boys of Summer
Building the Perfect Beast
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Eddie Cochran
Summertime Blues
Eddie Cochran: 2 Classic Albums Plus Singles And Session Tracks [Disc 1]
We’ll be serenading you with some island melodies, country tunes, and rock, all featuring the steel guitar, an instrument whose origins take us back to the late 19th and early 20th century invention by native Joseph Kekuku. The music this Friday features some early Hawaiian popular influences including Sol Ho’opi, Hoot Gibson, and King Nawah’s Hawaiians. The focus moves to mid-to late century greats featuring Pete Drake, Buddy Emmons, Buster Martin and Speedy West. The popularity of the ‘island sound’ in the early century brought us the sound of steel across many genres, including gospel, folk, blues, and country. Spend a couple of hours on an August morning in Sonoma County taking a journey from Hawaii to Forth Worth.
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King Nawahi's Hawaiians
Hawaiian Capers
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Trio De Hawaii
Melodias Populares Mexicana
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
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Sol Ho'opi'i
Singing The Blues
Master of the Hawaiian Guitar Vol 1
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Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette
An Orange Grove in California
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Hoot Gibson
Mai Givee (Don't Give It Away)
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
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Kalama's Quartet
Sassy
Vintage Hawaiian Music: The Great Singers 1928 – 1934
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Sol K. Bright's Hollywaiians
Heat Wave
Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
9
Sol Ho'opi'i
I Like You
With My Little Ukulele in My Hand
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King Nawahi's Hawaiians
Under a Texas Moon
Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
11
Madame Riviere's Hawaiians
Ellis March
With My Little Ukulele in My Hand
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Buster Martin
Herbie's Steel Guitar Polka
Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 10]
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Jim & Bob The Genial Hawaiians
Bob & Jim by The Waters of Minetonka
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Jim & Bob
The Song of the Range
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics
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Johnny Bond & His Red River Valley Boys
I Won't Stand in Your Way
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Shot Jackson & Buddy Emmons
Singing Strings Of Steel
The Steel Guitar & Dobro Sounds
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Lone Star Playboys
Steel Guitar Bounce
The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 18
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Albert Lee
Rainbows All Over Your Blues
The Big E: A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons
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Howard White
Steel Guitar Swallow
Western Swing And Steel Instrumental
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Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar
For Pete's Sake [Instrumental]
For Pete's Sake [Gusto]
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Pete Drake
Pedal Jumpin'
Stars Of The Steel Guitar
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Speedy West
Stainless Steel
Steel Guitar
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Tiny Murphy & His Bar 69 Boys
Hot Steel
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Jerry Byrd
Hilo Steel Guitar
Stars Of The Steel Guitar
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Bob Wills
Texas Playboy Rag
Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
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Doc Watson
Steel Guitar Rag
Memories
27
Bobby Lee
Steel Guitar Rag
Quasar Steel Guitar
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Lloyd Green and Jay Dee Maness
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Journey To The Beginning – A Steel Guitar Tribute To The Byrds
One way to lounge about in the summer heat is to go directly at it with songs that complement the temperature from different angles (and genres). Tune in Saturday afternoon for a fresh look as Dave sits in for Steady Eddie once more with some rockabilly with Jimmy Simmons and Billy Lee Riley, hot country biscuits from Asleep at the Wheel and Al Dexter, hot soul stew from James Brown and Major Lance, and some humid yet playful pieces from Fats Waller and Lee Press-on & The Nails. We’ll also be taking a drone flight above some Mason-Dixon Line tradition from the very distant past with the Old South Quartette (featuring Polk Miller), and Victoria Spivey and Don Flemons. It’s summer and the heat will be with us for some weeks; too hot to handle? Too darn hot? Too hot for (fill in the blank)? Join this hot little collection in a special fill-in on a Saturday afternoon in Sonoma County. At least it’s a dry heat.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Too Darn Hot
Music & Moonlight
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Iris DeMent
Hotter Than Mojave In My Heart
Infamous Angel
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Old South Quartette
When De Corn Pone's Hot
Music Of The Old South: Polk Miller & The Old South Quartette
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Al Dexter
Hot Foot Shuffle
Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag)
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Lonnie Johnson
Hot Fingers
Hot Fingers
7
Asleep at the Wheel
Hot Like That
Reinventing the Wheel
8
Jimmy Simmons
Too Hot To Handle
100 Rare '50s Rockabilly Tracks
9
Bob Skyles & His Skyrockets
Hot Tamale Pete
The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Playboy Stomp [Disc 2]
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Johnny Carroll
Hot Rock
Classic Rockabilly
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Billy Lee Riley
Red Hot
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
“…crazy ’bout that woman ’cause Caldonia is her name”. Tune in for a mix of sounds coming from the free form archives, celebrating a century of America’s music as is the habit each Friday morning at 9 on Sonoma County Community Radio. We’ll be exploring the Cherry Red Blues, Evil Gal Blues, and Louis Jordan’s jump piece Caldonia as part of our show today. Country sounds feature two Georges: Strait and Jones, soul sounds from The Miracles and Arthur Alexander, rhythm & blues from the ladies including Varetta Dillard, Etta James, and Albinia Jones, and an oddball opening set that takes us down into some strange and exotic places “Ahbe Casaba” and “Katanga!”
Celebrate this week with some rocking boogie woogie, country, and rhythm and blues with a special emphasis on the pounding of the ivories. We’ll put the speakers to the test as the rug gets thrown aside and the neighbors all celebrate and rocking good time with Fats, Ella Mae and Her Boogie Woogie Seven, Dr. John, Ray Charles, Merrill Moore, Moon Mullican and a host of others. Tune in for Beer Bottle Boogie, Cherokee Boogie, and Crazy Rhythm as the piano is given the top billing. A hundred years of American music with the focus on good…no, great…music. Friday morning antics coming your way on Sonoma Community radio.
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Ray Charles
Mess Around
Atlantic Rhythm And Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 2]
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Asleep at the Wheel
Cherokee Boogie
Back to the Future Now – Live at Arizona Charlie's
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Merrill Moore
Snatchin' And Grabbin
Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1]
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Ray Charles
Jumpin' in the Mornin'
Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) (1 of 8)
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Ray Charles
Hallelujah, I Love Her So
Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 1
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Madonna Martin
Madonna's Boogie
Boogie Woogie Gals – 1939-57
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Ella Mae Morse & Her Boogie Woogie Seven
Down The Road Apiece
Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
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Merrill Moore
Nola Boogie
Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1]
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Professor Longhair
Boogie Woogie
New Orleans Piano
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Fats Domino
I'm Walkin'
My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino
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Dr. John
Mess Around
Definitive Pop Collection
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Fats Waller
The Joint Is Jumpin'
The Joint Is Jumpin'
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Albert Ammons
Bass Goin' Crazy
Best of Boogie Woogie, Vol. 1
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Marylin Scott
Beer Bottle Boogie
Boogie Woogie [Disc 9]
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Jack Mc Vea
Bartender Boogie
Boogie Woogie [Disc 6]
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Lucky Millinder
Bongo Boogie
Boogie Woogie [Disc 9]
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Memphis Slim
Dedication to Pete Johnson
Classic Piano Blues
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Pete Johnson
Boogie Woogie
Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration
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Peter Johnson's Orchestra
Half Tight Boogie
The Small Groups – Boogie Woogie
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Moon Mullican
Cherokee Boogie
The Very Best Of
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Moon Mullican
Bottom Of The Glass
The Very Best Of
23
Jerry Lee Lewis
What'd I Say
A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
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Bobbie Nelson
Boogie Woogie
Audiobiography (iTunes Exclusive)
25
Cliff Jackson
Crazy Rhythm
World Of Jazz – The Jazz Piano
26
Piano Red
Do She Love Me
Live And Feelin' Good (The Blues Collection Vol.68)
27
Professor Longhair
Got My Mojo Working
Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology [Disc 2]
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Pinetop Perkins
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Let's Drink Some Juice…
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Big Joe Turner
Boogie Woogie Country Girl
Big Joe Rocks
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Hadda Brooks
Stompin' The Boogie (aka Bully Wully Stomp)
Boogie Woogie Gals – 1939-57
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The Boogie Woogie Boys, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons
Deeper Roots will be filling in for Steady Eddie’s show this week while Eddie takes a well-deserved vacation. And Dave Stroud is jumping into those two hours with a nostalgic mix of Stephen Foster, western campfire trail songs, and silver screen sendups of life on the trail. Join the fun with some classic Bob Wills, Marty Robbins, Jimmie Driftwood, and John Hartford as we listen to those crickets callin’ and those coyotes makin’ their wail. Listening to the music as the wind is strummin’ a sagebrush guitar. A hundred years of America’s music on Sonoma County Community Radio on Deeper Roots.
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Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers
Get Up John
At The Ryman [Live]
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Cowboy Jack Clement
Beautiful Dreamer
Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War
4
John Hartford
Lorena
Good'le Days: Essential Recordings
5
Clint Eastwood
Claudia's Theme/Main Title – Unforgiven
75 Years-Warner Brothers (Scores-1)
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Mavis Staples
Hard Times Come Again No More
Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster
7
Lee Marvin
Wand'rin Star
Rare Songs Played on Radio, Vol. 1
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Marilyn Monroe
River Of No Return
The Essential Marilyn Monroe
9
Dean Martin,John Wayne & Ricky Nelson
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
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Kirk Douglas
And The Moon Grew Brighter
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
11
Jimmie Driftwood
When I Swim the Golden River
Six Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles
12
Marty Robbins
Red River Valley
All-Time Greatest Hits
13
Asleep at the Wheel
Miles and Miles of Texas
The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970
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Willie Nelson
Sugar Moon
You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
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Bob Wills
Sugar Moon
1946 (Warped 4677)
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Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Along The Navajo Trail
Take Me Back to Tulsa 3 – Just A Plain Old Country Boy
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Asleep at the Wheel
Navajo Trail (with Willie Nelson and The Quebe Sisters)
Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
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Merle Kilgore
Nevada Smith
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
19
Sons of the Pioneers
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Tumbling Tumbleweeds – The RCA Victor Years Voume 1
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Tex Ritter
High Noon
Famous Country Music Makers
21
Johnny Horton
North To Alaska
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
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Elmer Bernstein: Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra
The Magnificent Seven
Elmer Bernstein by Elmer Bernstein
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Jason Isbell
Johnny Reb, That's Me
You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
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Jay Unger And Molly Mason With Fiddle Fever
Ashokan Farewell
Songs Of The Civil War
25
Johnny Bond
Red River Valley
History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 9
26
Roy Rogers
Don't Fence Me In
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
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Frankie Laine
Gunfight At O.K. Corral
My Rifle, My Pony And Me
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Asleep at the Wheel
South of the Border (with George Strait)
Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Dave Bartholomew passed away in June at the age of 100. You may not know his name, but he was one of the architects of a sound that would become rock n’ roll. A New Orleans fixture he was a band leader, trumpet player, arranger, producer, and songwriter whose keen ear and direction led him to become A&R man for Imperial Records where he met Fats Domino. His songwriting and arrangements can be heard on “Blueberry Hill”, “Ain’t That a Shame”, “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”, and hundreds more. Early rock has the signature of Dave Bartholomew just as the music of New Orleans would become identified with the expansiveness of jazz and rhythm & blues. We’ll hear early influences and early productions of Dave’s, prior to his collaborations with Fats Domino. And, as always, so much more.
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Jewel King
3×7=21
Gettin' Funky [Disc 4]
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Champion Jack Dupree
Junker's Blues
Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944
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Fats Domino
The Fat Man
This Is Gold Disc 3
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Smiley Lewis
One Night
I Hear You Knocking: 1947-1962 Disc 3
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Elvis Presley
One Night
Artist of the Century Disc 1
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Bobby Mitchell
I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday
The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 2]
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Los Lobos
I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
El Cancionero: Mas y Mas (1 of 4)
9
Dave Bartholomew
The Monkey Speaks His Mind
Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 4]
10
Chuck Willis
Going To The River
Let's Jump Tonight! The Best Of Chuck Willis from 1951 – '56
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Dave Bartholomew
Ain't Gonna Do It (Rest Of My Life)
Gettin' Funky [Disc 2]
12
Professor Longhair
Whole Lotta Loving
Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology [Disc 2]
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Dave Bartholomew
Shrimp And Gumbo
1952-1955
14
Snooks Eaglin
Yours Truly
Complete Imperial Recordings
15
Fats Domino
The Big Beat
My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino
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Fats Domino
Ain't That a Shame
My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino
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Dave Bartholomew
My Ding a Ling
Rhythm & Blues 1952-1959 – Music Sampler, Vol. 2
18
Chuck Berry
My Ding-A-Ling
Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969 to 1974
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Neil Young
Walking To New Orleans
Goin' Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino [Disc 2]
20
Doug Sahm
My Girl Josephine [Live]
The Last Real Texas Blues Band Feat. Doug Sahm
21
Smiley Lewis
Blue Monday
I Hear You Knocking 1947-1962 Disc 2
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Snooks Eaglin
By the Water
Complete Imperial Recordings
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Berna Dean
I Walk In My Sleep
Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 2]
24
Fats Domino
Tell Me That You Love Me
They Call Me the Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings Disc 3
A couple of months ago we featured about 20 minutes on a songwriter special featuring the music of the husband and wife songwriting team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. We’ll take a bit more time in this week’s show sharing their tunes with you. From the Brill Building onwards, their songs easily defined the soundtrack for a generation of young Americans of the 1960s. Light-hearted love songs, songs of reflection, and dreamlike hooks were the order: Carole the tunes and Gerry the lyrics. Join Dave Stroud in a look back featuring the music of The Cookies, Earl Jean, Lou Rawls Skeeter Davis, and many more on a Friday evening on Sonoma County Community Radio.
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The Cookies
Chains
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
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Gene Pitney
Every Breath I Take
Anthology: 1961-1968
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Aretha Franklin
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Smooth Grooves: The '60s, Vol. 2: Mid-'60s
5
Tammy Montgomery
Make The Night A Little Longer
Come On And See Me: The Complete Solo Collection
6
Freddie Scott
Hey, Girl
Malt Shop Memories: Save The Last Dance For Me (Disc 2)
7
Maxine Brown
Oh No Not My Baby
Time-Life Classic Rock: 1964 – The Beat Goes On
8
Skeeter Davis
I Can't Stay Mad At You
Early Girls: 1
9
Little Eva
The Loco-Motion
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
10
Dusty Springfield
That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) [*]
Dusty in Memphis [Deluxe Edition]
11
The Righteous Brothers
Just Once in My Life
Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 3
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The Drifters
Some Kind of Wonderful
Drifters' Golden Hits
13
The Drifters
Up on the Roof
Drifters' Golden Hits
14
Maurice & Mac
So Much Love
Chess Uptown Soul
15
Carole King
It Might As Well Rain Until September
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
16
The Cookies
Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
17
The Crystals
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 1
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The Chiffons
One Fine Day
The Brill Building Sound [Disc 3]
19
The Ronettes
Is This What I Get for Loving You?
The Best of the Ronettes
20
The Blossoms
So Much Love
So Much Love: A Darlene Love Anthology 1958 – 1998
We revisit the blues with some pairings of old and new. Join Dave Stroud for a selection of classic delta, Chicago, and folk blues from the likes of Robert Wilkins, Elmore James, Magic Slim, and Bukka White. The original classics pair up with updated versions from contemporaries like Sonny Landreth, Jeff Beck, The Allman Brothers, and Rory Block. Blues is the big muddy and the the tributaries flow through vast expanses of cleansing and clarifying. But, unlike those wide rivers like the Mississippi, the tributaries explode into new, deeper channels in the heart of the American landscape.
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Turtle Island String Quartet
Crossroads
A Little on the CD Side
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Muddy Waters
Trouble No More
Trouble No More: Singles (1955-1959)
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The Jimmy Rogers All-Stars
Trouble No More (featuring Mick Jagger & Keith Richards)
Blues Blues Blues
5
Black Cats And The Kitten
Step It Up And Go [Album Version]
Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
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Warner Williams With Jay Summerour
Step It Up And Go
Blues Highway
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Robert Wilkins
That's No Way to Get Along
Roots of Rock
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The Rolling Stones
Prodigal Son
Beggars Banquet
9
Elmore James
One Way Out
The Complete Fire And Enjoy Recordings [Disc 1]
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John Hiatt
One Way Out
All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman
11
Howlin' Wolf
I Ain't Superstitious
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
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Jeff Beck
I Ain't Superstitious
Truth
13
Big Joe Williams
Baby Please Don't Go
Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
14
Tom Rush
Baby Please Don't Go
Town and Country Blues
15
Elmore James
Dust My Broom
Blues Masters, Vol. 15: Slide Guitar Classics
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Sonny Landreth
Dust My Broom
Bound by the Blues
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Howlin' Wolf
Back Door Man
Blues Masters Vol. 6 – Blues Originals
18
John Hammond
Backdoor Man
The Best Of
19
Koko Taylor
Wang Dang Doodle
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
20
Dr. John
Wang Dang Doodle
The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974
21
Kansas Joe And Memphis Minnie
When the Levee Breaks
People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature
22
Magic Slim, Billy Branch & James Cotton
When The Levee Breaks, Pt. 1
Whole Lotta Blues: Songs Of Led Zeppelin
23
Bukka White
Parchman Farm Blues
Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 [Disc 1]
24
Rory Block
Parchman Farm Blues
Keepin' Outta Trouble: A Tribute to Bukka White
25
Blind Willie McTell
Statesboro Blues
RCA Record Label: The 1st Note In Black Music [Disc 1]
