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Ruler Of My Heart – KOWS July 27, 2015

June 27, 2015 Dave

Saturday morning in West County…our first week of summer with Deeper Roots and we’ve got an early set of New Orleans swamp classics followed by shreds of rockabilly and sounds from The Killer. There’s also gospel with The Staple Singers, high octane early century pop from The Boswell Sisters and Johnny Hamp and the Orchestra. We’ll sum the day up with folk, pop, and R&B…and everything in between.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Bobby Marchan	Chicken – Wah – Wah	The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 1]
3	Lazy Lester	I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter	Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
4	Irma Thomas	Ruler of My Heart	Soul Queen of New Orleans
5	Aaron Neville	Get Out Of My Life	Brother To Brother ([Disc 1]: Aaron)
6	Fats Domino	What a Price	Fats Domino Out of New Orleans
7	Shirley Gunter	Oop Shoop	Shirley Gunter
8	Jerry Lee Lewis	Let's Talk About Us	A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
9	Wanda Jackson	Man, We Had A Party	Queen Of Rockabilly
10	JD McPherson	Fire Bug	Signs & Signifiers
11	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Two Little Fishes Five Loaves Of Bread	Gospel Train
12	Sam Cooke	Touch The Hem Of His Garment	The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke
13	The Staple Singers	Pray On	The Best of the Vee-Jay Years
14	Dorothy Love Coates	You Better Run	The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes
15	Andy Mosely & Hogman Maxey	Brother Mosely Crossed The Water	Angola Prison Spirituals
16	Blind Willie Johnson	Jesus Is Coming Soon	The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (Disc 1)
17	Lena Horne	Stormy Weather	Stormy Weather
18	Johnny Hamp And His Kentucky Serenaders	If I Had A Talking Picture Of You	Johnny Hamp at Archive
19	The Boswell Sisters	Shuffle Off To Buffalo	The Object Of My Affection
20	George Olsen & His Music (v: Fran Frey)	The Varsity Drag [1927]	The Charleston Era
21	Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers	Shreveport Stomp	Jelly Roll Morton – Vol. V
22	Louis Armstrong	On Treasure Island	Rhythm Saved The World
23	Django Reinhardt & Stiphane Grappelli	It Don't Mean A Thing	Quintesential
24	Dinah Washington	Teach Me Tonight	Gold [Disc 2]
25	Ray Charles	Drown in My Own Tears	The Birth of Soul Disc 2
26	Chuck Jackson	Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)	Chuck Jackson The Great Recordings [Disc 1]
27	Frank Sinatra	Just in Time	Come Dance with Me!
28	Sarah Vaughan	The Nearness Of You	Great American Songbook
29	Charlie Spand & Blind Blake	Hastings Street	Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
30	Pine Ridge Boys	Farther Along	Classic Field Recordings
31	David Bromberg	I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning	The Player: A Retrospective
32	Doc Watson	Steel Guitar Rag	Memories
33	The Country Gentlemen	One Morning in May	The Complete Vanguard Recordings
34	The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys	This Weary Heart You Stole Away	Appalachian Stomp
35	The Stripling Brothers	The Lost Boy	Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Gospel

Old Devil Time

June 16, 2015 Dave

We are sitting in for Mark Hogan’s Bluegrass and Old Time Hour this week while Mark is far afield, attending the 40th Anniversary Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley. Our show will explore the multi-generational sounds of not only bluegrass with Dillard and Clark and The Hackberry Ramblers, but we’ll also cross the genres (as we are wont to do) with Cowboy Copas, Clara Ward, Otis Spann, and Doris Day. There’s a couple of different threads that run through our show today, one being that of the ‘devil’ and the other being ‘new mornings’. Tune in at a special time and see what’s in store on a summer afternoon in West County.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	BR5-49	The Devil In Me	Dog Days
3	Bob Dylan	Talkin' Devil	It Could Even Be A Myth
4	Pete Seeger	Old Devil Time	Singalong: Live At Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980 (2 of 2)
5	Gillian Welch	The Devil Had a Hold of Me	Hell Among the Yearlings
6	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	The Devil Has Thrown Him Down	The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3]
7	Doris Day	The Deevil, Devil, Divil	Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2]
8	Pokey LaFarge	The Devil Ain't Lazy	Pokey LaFarge
9	Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama	The Devil Ain't Lazy	Reinventing the Wheel
10	Hackberry Ramblers	Old Pipeliner (Rodney Crowell-vocal) {1992-06 (org.1946) Flying Fish FF-70629 CD}	Cajun Boogie (1992-06)
11	Cowboy Copas	Don't Shake Hands with the Devil	Settin' Flat On Ready
12	Little Jimmy Dickens	I'm Little But I'm Loud	The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
13	Spade Cooley & His Orchestra; Vocal By Tex Williams	Hide Your Face	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
14	Dillard & Clark	I Bowed My Head And Cried Holy	The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
15	Rory Block	I Am In the Heavenly Way	Confessions of A Blues Singer
16	Bukka White	I Am the Heavenly Way	The Sonet Blues Story
17	Clara Ward	In That Great Judgement Morning	Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 1]
18	The Dixie Hummingbirds	In The Morning	Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds
19	Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers	He's So Wonderful	The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3]
20	Slim & Slam	Early In The Morning	Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 2)
21	Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet	Carolina In The Morning	Vol. 1-(1937-38)
22	Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson	Where Dreams Come to Die	Django and Jimmie
23	John Lee Hooker	I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive [Album Version]	Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett
24	Otis Spann	Must Have Been The Devil	The Blues Never Die
25	Cleo Brown	You're A Heavenly Thing	Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935)
26	Benny Goodman	You're a Heavenly Thing	Music Hall Rag
27	Big Joe Turner	Morning Noon And Nite	Big Joe Turner: Rhythm & Blues Years
28	Tampa Red	Worried Devil Blues	The Bluebird Recordings (1934-1936)
29	Ralph Stanley	John The Revelator	A Mother's Prayer
30	Sherman Tedder	Untitled [Album Version]	Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
31	Elvis Presley	(You're The) Devil In Disguise	Elvis 30 #1 Hits

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Jazz, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition, Gospel

Grapes on the Vine

June 14, 2015 Dave

Raising the roof once more on KOWS in West Sonoma County on a bright Saturday morning. And we make it count with an opening salvo of some country swing from Bob Wills, W. Lee O’Daniel, The Light Crust Doughboys, and Willie Nelson. Not to be outdone, we’ve got bluegrass from The Rice Brothers and our own David Thom, gospel from the Hummingbirds, and a special set celebrating the “Poet of the Blues” Percy Mayfield. We’ll also feature blues from Texas and, if we find the time, early century pop from Frank Crumit and Cliff Edwards. Tune in Saturday morning at 9 on KOWS for a dose of roots sounds from the past century of America’s music with Dave Stroud.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Asleep at the Wheel/Johnny Gimble	Big Balls in Cowtown	The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970
3	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	I Had Someone Else Before I Had You	Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5
4	The Light Crust Doughboys	Blue Guitars	Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947
5	Skeets McDonald	Fuss and Fight	Skeets McDonald – Heart Breakin' Mama (Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight)
6	W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys	Congratulate Me	Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938
7	Willie Nelson	Cherokee Maiden	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
8	Warren Smith	Got Love If You Want It	The Sun Country Box CD4 So Long, I'm Gone
9	Bobby Hicks & Del McCoury	We're Steppin' Out Tonight	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
10	Ralph Stanley	Are You Washed In The Blood	A Mother's Prayer
11	Ralph Stanley	Dad's Old Rocky Field	Old Songs & Ballads
12	The Rice Brothers	Grapes On the Vine	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
13	The David Thom Band	The Little White Church	That Old Familiar
14	Selah Jubilee Singers	I Saw the Light	Gospel Quartets 1921-1942 Vol. 2
15	The Selah Singers	I'll Be Satisfied	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
16	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Christian's Automobile	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds
17	Nina Simone	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free	Forever Young, Gifted & Black: Songs Of Freedom And Spirit
18	Aretha Franklin	River's Invitation	Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings [Disc 2]
19	Percy Mayfield	Strange Things Happening	ABC Of The Blues Vol 28
20	Ray Charles	Hit the Road Jack	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 2
21	Buddy Miller	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Midnight And Lonesome
22	Freddie King	Look On Yonder Wall	Woman Across the River
23	The Mississppi Mud Mashers	Bring It On Home To Grandma	Flashbacks #3 CopulationBlues 1926-1940
24	Texas Alexander	The Risin' Sun	As Good As It Gets: Country Blues [Disc 2]
25	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Easy Rider Blues	Classic Sides Disc 2
26	Ishman Bracey	Woman Woman Blues (Pm 12970, L-239-2)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
27	Charlie Spand	Ain't Gonna Stand For That (Pm 12856, 15454–)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
28	Jean Brady and Big Bill Broonzy	Knocking Myself Out	Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944
29	Lightnin' Hopkins	Buddy Brown's Blues (98 Degree Blues)	The Complete Prestige-Bluesville Recordings [Disc 2]
30	Frank Crumit	There's No One With Endurance	grimriper2u@yahoo.com FRANK CRUMIT
31	Cliff Edwards	K-K-K-Katy & When You Wore A Tulip	CLIFF EDWARDS grimriper2u@yahoo.com
32	Herbert Payne	Smoke Clouds	Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944
33	Al Jolson	Toot, Toot Tootsie (Goo'bye)	50 #1 Hits Of The '20s & '30s
34	Billy Joe Shaver	Hill Country Love Song	Oxford American Southern Music Texas
35	Marty Robbins	The Strawberry Roan	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Bluegrass, Country Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Jazz

Fair and Warmer – KOWS May 23, 2015

May 23, 2015 Dave

The show kicks off with some mid-century country fiddlin’ courtesy of Curly Fox but makes a quick left turn with a set about liars, tattlers, and some straight-forward testifying from Sister Rosetta Tharpe. We’ll also be entertained with some classic roots from the Dallas String Band, Lead Belly, E. C. Ball, and a tribute set to Sam Cooke.

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Free Form, Gospel

Deep Elem Blues

May 9, 2015 Dave

Get up sleepy heads! West Sonoma County rolls out of bed on a Saturday morning at 9 with LaVern Baker in another episode of Deeper Roots featuring the music of Don Edwards, Jorma Kaukonen, The Boswell Sisters, and Mahalia Jackson (to name but a few). KOWS radio is also propelling itself in an important campaign to extend its broadcast signal to a larger audience across Sonoma County and is in it’s last month of its Indiegogo campaign where we’re asking our listeners to jump into with both feet. Please visit http://tinyurl.com/pom5kkq to donate. You can tune into KOWS on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month to get your regular dose of roots music. And there’s more to discover by visiting our Deeper Rootsweb site.

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition

A Dime Looks Like a Wagon Wheel

April 25, 2015 Dave

“A Dime Looks Like a Wagon Wheel”….a phrase that was used to indicate how fortunate you felt when just a little seemed so big when you had so little to start with. Old timey music, some sweet R&B from Sam Cooke, country styles from Johnny Cash and Hank Thompson, folk and blues from Dave Van Ronk, Woody Guthrie, and Peter Rowan….and newer sounds from The Far West, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Howell Devine. Two hours of Deeper Roots looks like that same wagon wheel…it goes by fast and we’ll have the very best of American roots music from the past century Saturday morning at 9am on KOWS.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Hardrock Gunter	Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night	Boogie Man Boogie
3	Rosanne Cash	Big River	Right or Wrong
4	Johnny Cash	Big River	Get Rhythm [Sun]
5	Bill Monroe	Big River	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
6	The Nashville Bluegrass Band	The Johnson Boys	American Beauty
7	Don Reno/Red Smiley	A Dime Looks Loke a Wagon Wheel	Together Again
8	Steep Canyon Rangers	Good Old Country Baptizing	Mr. Taylor's New Home
9	Bobby Hicks & Del McCoury	We're Steppin' Out Tonight	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
10	Willie Nelson	Texas on a Saturday Night	Revolutions of Time: The Journey 1975-1993 Disc 2
11	Red Foley	Tennessee Saturday Night	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 2]
12	Ella Mae Morse	Tennessee Saturday Night	The Morse Code [Disc 2]
13	Frank Sinatra	Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night In The Week)	Swing And Dance With Frank Sinatra
14	Sam Cooke	Another Saturday Night	Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
15	Junior Brown	Long Walk Back to San Antone	Long Walk Back
16	The Green River Boys feat. Glen Campbell	Poor Boy Looking for a Home	James Burton – The Early Years 1957-1969
17	Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys	New Green Light, The	Vintage Collections
18	Roy Rogers	I Can't Go on This Way	1942-1947 (Warped 4561)
19	The Far West	Maricopa City Lights	The Far West
20	Bo Diddley	I'm Looking For A Woman	His Best: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
21	Markus James	Diddley Bow and Buckets	Head For The Hills
22	Howell Devine	Devil Got My Woman	Delta Grooves
23	Skip James	Devil Got My Woman	Ghost World
24	Rory Block	Devil Got My Man	Gone Woman Blues: The Country Blues Collection
25	Bonnie Raitt	Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead	Bonnie Raitt
26	Peter Rowan	Dust Bowl Children	Dust Bowl Children
27	Woody Guthrie	Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road (Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad)	Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder]
28	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Hard Travellin'	Dust Bowl Blues Essential American Folk
29	The Reverend Gary Davis	You Got to Move	At Newport
30	Markus James	Goin' Down South	Head For The Hills
31	Louis Jordan	No Sale	Jivin' With Jordan
32	Benny Goodman	He Ain't Got Rhythm	Sing, Sing, Sing
33	Johnny Hamp Orchestra	Ooh! Hoo! Yoo-Hoo!	Johnny Hamp at Archive

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Gospel

Deeper Roots on KOWS – April 11, 2015

April 12, 2015 Dave

Second Saturday on KOWS…that means a vintage blend of Deeper Roots. Our show opens with some contemporary bluegrass and gets right down to business with some country gospel and blues with an opening admonition from Sister Aimee Semple McPherson punctuated with songs of drinking and old time religion. From there we move on to the jazz sounds of Fats Waller and a run of mid-to-late century country featuring Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, and the sass of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. It’s another beautiful spring morning in the small West Sonoma County hamlet of Occidental…nestled in the woods along the Bohemian Highway and celebrated from the studios of KOWS Community Radio.

Bluegrass, Country Blues, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition, Gospel

Deeper Roots on KOWS – March 28, 2015

March 28, 2015 Dave

It’s our regular (well, even Saturday mornings) show featuring an early country and bluegrass set featuring new sounds from Steve Earle and Robert Earl Keen, Jr. alongside the classic sounds of Buck Owens, Leon Chappell and The Louvins. We’ve got gospel and blues as well as a rare set of sounds from the second omnibus of “The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records”, classic late twenties country and blues. Stay tuned for your morning dose of brew d’Roots and American Roots Breakfast Tea on a spring Saturday morning in West Sonoma County.

Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Mountain Music

The Appalachian-Celtic Connection

March 17, 2015 Dave

In this special edition of Deeper Roots, we’ll spend some time with selections of Celtic origin that traveled with the memories of home from over the seas and into the mountains of Appalachia. These mountains were not only home to immigrants beginning in the 17th century, but also a haven for slaves who escaped the South during the Civil war and 19th century Civil War deserters. Out of all of this, some kind of musical serendipity seems to have happened. We’re excited to have three guests who will be talking about two upcoming events in the Bay Area this month. Joining us by phone will be musician, Celtic music evangelist, folklorist, and professor of music and Irish studies Mick Moloney and traditional Irish musician Athena Tergis who will share some of their insights into the migration of the Irish into Appalachia as well as sorting out the jig, the reel, and the hornpipe. Also joining us to discuss the upcoming event A Celtic Appalachian Celebration: Traditional Irish & American Old Time Music will be Margaret McPeake, one of the producers of the Festival whose credentials are overwhelming. She’ll share details about Irish-American Crossroads, an organization that has been producing the event for the past twelve years.

Country Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition

Deeper Roots on KOWS – February 28, 2015

February 28, 2015 Dave

Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards — Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards

We have yet another free form fest of roots music emanating from the bright sun of a Saturday along the Bohemian Highway, live from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, California. We both start and wrap up the show with Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards, sharing country, blues, and new Americana in between. We’ll hear from Flaco Jimenez pair up with Dwight Yoakum, the essence of Randy Newman’s portrait of the South, western swing with Willie and Spade, and new music that fits our roots sensibilities from Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen, Jr., and Jorma Kaukonen. Tune in for two hours of classic roots music.

A Century of America's Music