Published in 1927, populist poet Carl Sandburg’s anthology of American folksongs was in print for over 70 years. It influenced generations of musicians and is a cornerstone in the foundation of American folk and tradition. Sandburg himself described it as a “ragbag of stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth…rich with the diversity of the United States.” Today’s show pulls samples from the book featuring performances by Dan Zanes, Bob Dylan, The Weavers, The Blue Sky Boys, and David Rawlings. True Americana from the deeper wells of America’s music.
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Zora Layman & The Hometowners
When The Curtains Of The Night Are Pinned Back By The Stars
Blues from a lonely place. From blues to doo wop to southern soul…from behind prison walls to that singular window in that singular room looking out from a high-rise hotel onto a busy street in urban anywhere, America. Today’s music is all about being alone. Our show explores songs written with the lonesome muse on the shoulder. Ray Charles, Joe Liggins, Earl King, and Champion Jack Dupree join in as we ponder lonesome times from the heart of the solitary blues.
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Booker T. & The MG's
Lonely Avenue
Green Onions
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Ray Charles
Lonely Avenue
Doc Pomus: Singer And Songwriter [Disc 2]
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Mel Walker
Feelin' Mighty Lonesome
Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2
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Johnny Ace
So Lonely
Memorial Album
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Smiley Turner
Lonely Boy Blues
Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 5]: West Coast Blues V1
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Julia Lee
Have You Ever Been Lonely
Kansas City Star [Disc 2]
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Irma Thomas
Woman Left Lonely
My Heart's in Memphis: The Songs of Dan Penn
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Maxine Sullivan
Kind'a Lonesome
Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 1]
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T-Bone Walker
Blue Mood
Best Of Black & White & Imperial Years
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Shakey Jake
Gimme A Smile
The Bluesville Years Volume 10: Country Roads, Country Days
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The Holmes Brothers
I'm So Lonely
Simple Truths
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Joe Liggins
Blues For Tanya
Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
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Sam Cooke
Lonely Island
The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (1 of 4)
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Eddie Burns
Lonely Man Plea
Delmark: 50 Years Of Jazz & Blues: Blues [Disc 1]
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James Winfield
Lonely, Lonely, Nights
Lonely Lonely Nights
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Champion Jack Dupree
Lonely Road Blues
Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
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Chris Kenner
I'm Lonely, Take Me
Land of 1000 Dances
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Earl King
Those Lonely Lonely Nights
Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
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Eddie Boyd
Got Lonesome Here
Third Degree (The Blues Collection Vol.58)
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Johnny Bragg
Hurt & Lonely
The Johnny Bragg Story
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Violet Hall
(All Alone) I Sit And Cry
The Mercury Blues Story (1945-1955) – Southwest Blues, Vol. 2
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Fats Domino
I'm Alone Because I Love You
Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 8
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Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Lonely Street
Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry
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Freddie King
Lonesome Whistle Blues
Ultimate Collection
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Lowell Fulson
Everyday I Have The Blues
Trying to Find My Baby
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Smiley Lewis
Lonesome Highway
ABC Of The Blues Vol 25
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Nappy Brown
I'm Getting Lonesome
Down In The Alley – The Complete Savoy Singles A's & B's
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Little Richard
Lonesome And Blue
The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection
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Ray Charles & Betty Carter
Alone Together
Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated To You
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Ella Fitzgerald
I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town
Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
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Lillie Mae Kirkman
Lonesome
Female Blues – The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 (1938-1949)
Their songs are iconic and their voices, unforgettable. From the deep south and southeast, from the church choirs to the small urban clubs, there were only a handful of female soul vocalists who hit it big with crossover chart sounds. But there were so many more whose voices did not find the venue or the right producer or label to take them to the next level. They were mostly unknown but in our show this week, we’ll try to share examples of what might have been. We’ll hear from Veda Brown, Carla Thomas, Ruby Johnson, and the great Judy Clay on a show full of upbeat and backbeat soul, brass, Stax, and Volt. Discover those female soul sounds that continue to inspire and influence…here on Deeper Roots on a Friday morning in West County.
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Veda Brown
Short Stopping
Stax 50th Anniversary Collection [Disc 3]
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Barbara & the Browns
In My Heart
The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 Disc 4
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Barbara & the Browns
My Lover
The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 Disc 4
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Carla Thomas
B-A-B-Y
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1]
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Carla Thomas
I Want to Be Your Baby
The Queen Alone
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Carla Thomas
Give Me Enough (To Keep Me Going)
The Queen Alone [Expanded Reissue]
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Jean Wells
Have A Little Mercy
Soul On Soul – Deluxe Edition
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Jean Wells
Ordinary Woman
Soul On Soul – Deluxe Edition
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Barbara Stephens
I Don't Worry
60's Southern Soul, Vol. 2
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Veda Brown
Take It Off Her (And Put It On Me)
Private Numbers
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Barbara Lynn
You'll Lose A Good Thing
Art Laboe's Dedicated To You, Vol. 2
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Barbara Lynn
You're Losing Me
After Hours 3 – More Northern Soul Masters
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Ruby Johnson
Come to Me My Darling
The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (6 of 9)
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Ruby Johnson
I'll Run Your Hurt Away
Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Vol. 2
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Irma Thomas
Gone
Soul Queen of New Orleans
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Irma Thomas
Look Up (AKA Whenever)
Soul Queen of New Orleans
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Irma Thomas
Ruler of My Heart
Soul Queen of New Orleans
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Mitty Collier
I Had A Talk With My Man
Chess Uptown Soul
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Sugar Pie DeSanto
Here You Come Running
Chess Uptown Soul
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Fontella Bass
The Soul Of A Man
Chess Uptown Soul
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Judy Clay
You Can't Run Away from Your Heart
The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (8 of 9)
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Judy Clay & William Bell
Private Number
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1]
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Judy Clay & William Bell
Love-Eye-Tis
Private Numbers
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Betty Harris
Cry to Me
Soul from the South
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Betty Harris
Mean Man
Soul from the South
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Betty Harris
I'm Evil Tonight
Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky 2-2 1957-
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Linda Lyndell
What A Man
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1]
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Etta James
Pushover
Chess Uptown Soul
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Wendy Rene
Give You What I Got
The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 Disc 4
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Wendy Rene
After Laughter (Comes Tears)
Oxford American 10th Anniversary Music Sampler, [Disc 1]: "Future Masters" [Oxford American, 2008]
The argument has been made that Bob Dylan’s earliest music contained more prophetic prose than his deep dive into the Christian faith in Slow Train Coming. His pen had always leaned on the big story lines of Old and New Testaments but he went all out, much as he did in his ‘rock’ conversion, when he made the direct connection to matters of the soul that he would find in the Bible. This week’s show features the gospel songs of Bob Dylan, performed by gospel greats The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Fairfield Four, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, and so many others. Tune into Sonoma County Community radio for a Dylan gospel fest including Maria Muldaur and Willie Nile.
The first of two gospel Friday mornings coming up on Deeper Roots in June. This week, we’ll follow a ‘heavenly’ theme. The Christian vision of afterlife’s reward is expressed in music on a Friday morning in West County (of all places). There will be country and black gospel sounds emanating from the UMC in downtown Sebastopol on KOWS radio as we share performances about heaven including the electric voices of Marion Williams and Marie Knight; the rocking celebration of the good book from Sister Rosetta and Brother Claude Ely; and country gospel enlightenment from Willie and Bobbie Nelson. This one is worth the wait and worth it’s weight in heavenly gold. Tune in!
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Thomas A. Dorsey with Alex Bradford
It's A Highway To Heaven
Precious Lord Recordings Of The Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey
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Fisk Jubilee Singers
Shout All Over God's Heaven
Recordings In Chonological Order, Vol. 2: 1915-1920
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The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir
Heaven Belongs To You
Shakin' The Rafters
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The Staple Singers
What Are They Doing? (In Heaven Today)
Amen/Why
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Washington Phillips
What Are They Doing In Heaven Today
Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
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Mahalia Jackson
A City Called Heaven
Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns
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Mahalia Jackson
Walk Over God's Heaven
16 Most Requested Songs
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Clara Ward
When We All Get To Heaven
The Very Greatest
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Walk All Over To God's Heaven
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Original Gospel Stars
I Want To Go To Heaven
Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
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Blind Gussie Nesbit
Canaan's Land
When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
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Mother McCollum
When I Take My Vacation In Heaven
When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
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Willie and Bobbie Nelson
When We All Get To Heaven
Farther Along
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Patsy Cline
Life's Railway to Heaven
Country's 20 Classic Gospel Songs of the Century
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Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys
I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven
King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail
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Alison Krauss & The Cox Family
Walk Over God's Heaven
New Country December 1994
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The Stanley Brothers
Angels Are Singing (In Heaven Tonight) [Album Version]
The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers
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Jimmy Martin
Little Angels In Heaven
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 2]
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Ethel Davenport & Ehel Davenport Singers
Heavenly Express
Powerhouse Gospel
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The Staple Singers
On My Way To Heaven
Four Classic Albums
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Blind Gussie Nesbit
Pure Religion
When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
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Sister Cally Fancy
Goin' On To Heaven In The Sanctified Way
Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Heaven Is Not My Home
Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Beams of Heaven
The Original Soul Sister: This Train [Disc 4]
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Marie Knight
Seal Of Heaven
Hallelujah What A Song!
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Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes
Heaven I Heard So Much About It
I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983
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Dorothy Love Coates
When I Reach My Heavenly Home
The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes
Winsome sounds from every corner, opening with Johnny Horton and closing somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line with the soul of Barbara Lynn. Today’s show reaches into the jazz bins for something new and old…a Duke Ellington cover by Wynton Marsalis; gospel covers by Nick Lowe, tradition from Bill Monroe, and Johnny Cash along with a number of so-called Cash-a-likes. It’s a free form collection in our Friday morning show from West County. So what’s it all got to do with Alaska, you ask. Not much, only a great song name to suggest cool music and a Friday full of colorful music.
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Johnny Horton
When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)
Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (2 of 2)
For goodness sake! We’re going to toss aside our puritan ethics (what ethics, you ask) and look towards the sideways glances and double entendres for our inspiration this week on Deeper Roots. Songs about Sam The Hot Dog Man, keyholes, sugar bowls, poodles, jockeys, and lemons…all subjects that find their way in and around the blues in an auspiciously direct route to the heart of the matter. We’ve got the naughty blues today…songs that will encourage a blush or two…or three. We’ve got The Swallows, Lil’ Johnson, Emma Barrett, Tampa Red, and a host of other blues greats on a Sonoma County spring morning. Be sure to tune in and find your own blush point…
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The Delta Rhythm Boys
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem
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Crown Prince Waterford
Move Your Hand Baby
Vintage Sex Songs
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Barrelhouse Annie
If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It
Vintage Sex Songs
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Memphis Minnie
Dirty Mother For You
Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1]
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Tampa Red
Let Me Play With Your Poodle
ABC Of The Blues Vol 38
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Lightnin' Hopkins
Let Me Play With Poodle
Vintage Sex Songs
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Hattie Hart
I Let My Daddy Do That
Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
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Emma Barrett
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll
Sweet Emma
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Butterbeans & Susie
I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll [Explicit]
Those Dirty Blues Volume 1 [Explicit]
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Lil Johnson
Sam The Hot Dog Man
Vintage Sex Songs
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Mabel Scott
Just Give Me A Man
Vintage Sex Songs
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Connie Allen
Rocket 69
Vintage Sex Songs
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The Swallows
It Ain't The Meat It's The Motion
Vintage Sex Songs
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Julia Lee
My Man Stands Out
The Essential Julia Lee Vol 1
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Julia Lee
King Size Papa
Kansas City Star [Disc 3]
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Al Miller
I Found Your Keyhole
Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
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Charlie Pickett
Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon
Vintage Sex Songs
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Bessie Smith
Kitchen Man
Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
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Bessie Smith
Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
The Essential Bessie Smith
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Hunter & Jenkins
Lollypop
Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
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Frankie Half Pint Jaxon and The Harlem Hamfats
Wet It [Explicit]
Those Dirty Blues Volume 1 [Explicit]
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Victoria Spivey
How Do You Do It That Way?
Black Snake Blues – The Best Of
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Madelyn James
Stinging Snake Blues
Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
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Lucille Bogan
Skin Game Blues [Album Version]
Shave 'Em Dry: The Best Of Lucille Bogan
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Lil Johnson
Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts) [Album Version]
Here’s to the pioneering pop mavens. Don’t think we won’t draw a little bit outside the lines as well in this show, bringing in flappers, jazz, and novelty sounds. The groups and solo acts are thoroughly represented with the likes of Marion Harris, Ruth Etting, Billie Holiday, Kate Smith, and The Andrews Sisters. We’ll go a little bit further and bring you songs to uplift in hard times, ring with a bit of jingoism in war time, and celebrate the good times in every way possible. West County radio will get a good dose of the best of the early and mid-century popular music…all from the ladies.
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The Boswell Sisters
Heebie Jeebies, #1
The Boswell Sisters Collection
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Marion Harris
There'll Be Some Changes Made
Echoes From The 1920's Disc 1
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Helen Kane, Leonard Joy
I Wanna Be Loved By You
Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's
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Lee Morse
If You Want the Rainbow
The First Torch Singers, the Twenties
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Lee Morse
If I Can't Have You
The First Torch Singers, the Twenties
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Annette Hanshaw
I Want To Be Bad
Annette Hanshaw, Volume 6, 1929 (1999)
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Annette Hanshaw
I Get The Blues When It Rains
The Girl Next Door
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Ethel Shutta With George Olsen & His Music
I'm On A Diet Of Love
The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
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Ruth Etting
My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now
Love Me or Leave Me CD1
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Ruth Etting
Ten Cents a Dance
The Boop Boop a Doop Girls
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Vaughn De Leath
Ukulele Lady
With My Little Ukulele In My Hand (Disc 4 Of 4)
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Vaughn De Leath
Banana Oil
The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
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Marion Harris
Spring Is Here Again
The Big Broadcast vol. 6
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Boswell Sisters
Put That Sun Back In the Sky
Boswell Sisters
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The Boswell Sisters
Shuffle Off To Buffalo
The Boswell Sisters Volume 2
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Kate Smith
Twenty Million People
Emergence Of A Legend
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Kate Smith
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
Emergence Of A Legend
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Josephine Baker
Confessing
1926-1932
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Billie Holiday
My Last Affair
Billie Holiday: The Legacy Box 1933-1958 Disc 2
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Billie Holiday
I Wished On The Moon
Billie Holiday: The Lady Sings CD 1- This Year's Kisses
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Billie Holiday
What A Little Moonlight Can Do
Billie Holiday: The Lady Sings CD 1- This Year's Kisses
Morning is one of those times between. Break of day elicits many emotions as it’s always a new start. Those occurrences that affect the heart have always been prime fodder for words and music so we’ve reached into the song bin from the past century for a theme for this morning: morning. Tune in for some classics and some not-so-knowns. We’ve got Baez and Dylan, Dearie and Day, Bromberg and Kottke, McDowell and Leadbelly, all with a tune to spin about morning. And we’ll also take you into a pop-themed set featuring Frankie’s classic “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning”. Tune in.
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Big Joe Turner
Morning, Noon And Night
Big Joe Turner: The Definitive Blues Collection [[Disc 2]]
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Billie Holiday
Good Morning Heartache
Ken Burns Jazz
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Blossom Dearie
A Fine Spring Morning
Four Classic Albums Plus (Blossom Dearie / Plays For Dancing / Give Him The Ooh-La-La / Once Upon A Summertime) (Digitally Remastered)
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Louis Jordan
Early In The Morning
Jivin' With Jordan
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Dean Martin & Helen O'Connell
How D'ya Like Your Eggs In the Morning?
Make Love With
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Doris Day
I Got The Sun In The Morning
Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2]
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Gillian Welch
One Morning
Hell Among the Yearlings
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Gram Parsons
We'll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning
G.P. / Grievous Angel
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Bob Dylan
Meet Me in the Morning
Blood on the Tracks
11
Jesse Colin Young
Morning Sun
Jesse Colin Young Classics Volume 1
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Ian & Sylvia
Early Morning Rain
Greatest Hits
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Irma Thomas
Early In The Morning
Simply Grand
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Joan Baez
One Too Many Mornings
Baez Sings Dylan
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Joni Mitchell
Chelsea Morning
Hits
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David Bromberg
I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning
The Player: A Retrospective
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The South Street Trio
Cold Morning Shout
Before The Blues: Early American Black Music Scene (Vol. 2)
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Lead Belly
Good Morning Blues
Roots of the Blues, Vol. 2
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K.C. Douglas
Woke Up This Morning
Mercury Blues
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Julius Daniels
Can't Put A Bridle On That Mule This Morning
When The Sun Goes Down: Walk Right In – The Secret Story Of Rock & Roll
Springtime sounds from classic corners this week. Now, we all know that real bluegrass is green but, like the music’s own origins which are steeped in gospel, blues, and tradition, we overlook the formalities and accept the generalities’. This week’s Deeper Roots will take a journey with the greats (Ralph Stanley, Ricky Skaggs, and The Monroe Brothers to name a few) while also tipping our hats to the new-grass sounds of David Thom, Sam Bush, Tony Furtado, and Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms. We offer different takes outside the lines including some Charlie Haden and Brennen Leigh. A Friday morning celebration of the old home place and the little white church where traditional rings … coming to you from Bodega Bay: KWTF Community Radio.
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The Whites
Used To Be
Songs of Bill Monroe
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Rhonda Vincent
Lonesome Wind Blues
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
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Hazel Dickens
I Can't Find Your Love Any More
O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
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Hazel Dickens, Carol Elizabeth Jones & Ginny Hawker
Love Me or Leave Me Alone
Heart of a Singer
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Brennen Leigh
North To Alaska
Too Thin To Plow
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Charlie Haden
Road Of Broken Hearts
Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
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The Rice Brothers
Grapes On the Vine
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
9
Ricky Skaggs
I Hope You've Learned
Bluegrass Rules!
10
Tony Furtado
Man of Constant Sorrow
Long Journey Home: Songs of the Stanley Brothers
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The David Thom Band
The Little White Church
That Old Familiar
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Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas
Big Mon
True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
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David Grisman, Peter Rowan
Travelin' This Lonesome Road
True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
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Bill Monroe & Kenny Baker
Jerusalem's Ridge
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Monroe Brothers
Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy
What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul? Volume One
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Ralph Stanley
Dad's Old Rocky Field
Old Songs & Ballads
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The Gentlemen of Bluegrass
Old Old House
Carolina Memories
18
Jim & Jesse
Long Journey Home
Long Journey Home: Songs of the Stanley Brothers
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The David Thom Band
Home Is Where The Heart Is
That Old Familiar
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David Grisman, John Hartford & Mike Seeger
The Old Home Place
Retrograss
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Morris Brothers
Salty Dog Blues
Legends Of Bluegrass [Disc 3]
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Kenny Baker/Bobby Osborne
Sally Ann
World's Greatest Country Fiddlers
23
Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt
Randy Lynn Rag
The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2)
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Doc Watson
Shady Grove
The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968
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Ralph Stanley
The Fields Have Turned Brown
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Laurie Lewis
Tall Pines
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
27
Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms
Montana Cowboy
Innocent Road
28
Lynn Morris Band
The Bramble and the Rose
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
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Alison Krauss & Union Station
So Long So Wrong
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
