Category Archives: Deeper Roots on KOWS

Guitar Theme

Once considered in its earliest forms a noble instrument, the history of the guitar can be traced back over forty centuries (yes, that’s 4000 years). While we won’t got back quite so far in our exploration, we will explore the popular form of this instrument in song this week. We’re not going after the genius as much as we go after the topic with songs whose theme is that of the guitar. It seems that there has always been a personal connection between the instrument and the player, sometimes as a confidant and others as a foil. Our show will feature yodeling guitars, lonely guitars, Bo’s guitar, long-legged pickers, amigos, and a number of performances about ‘one’s first guitar’. Join Dave Stroud for plenty in a guitar themed journey.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Steve Earle Guitar Town Just an American Boy Disc 1 Amazon
3Walter Hurdt Fiddle And Guitar Running Wild Classic Field Recordings Amazon
4Jimmie Rodgers You And My Old Guitar Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 1] Amazon
5Jorma Kaukonen More Than My Old Guitar River Of Time Amazon
6Jimmy Murphy That First Guitar of Mine 1951-1956 (Warped 5101) Amazon
7The Seldom Scene Grandpa Getcha Guitar Like We Used To Be Amazon
8The Louvin Brothers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Long Play Collection Amazon
9Byron Parker & His Mountaineers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Byron Parker & His Mountaineers Amazon
10Hardrock Gunter Guitar on the Mountain Gonna Rock 'n' Roll, Gonna Dance All Night Amazon
11Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Steel Guitar Rag Legends of Country Music Disc 1 Amazon
12Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers Telling' My Troubles to My Old Guitar Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years Amazon
13Frank Crumit Plink Plonki Pluck My Guitar Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit Amazon
14The Brown Bombers of Swing Guitar Swing If You Take Me Back Amazon
15George Morgan Mr Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man) Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection Amazon
16Jerry Byrd Hilo Steel Guitar Stars Of The Steel Guitar Amazon
17Les Paul Lonely Guitar (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
18Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Yodeling Guitar Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
19Duane Eddy Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar Dance With The Guitar Man Amazon
20Bo Diddley Bo's Guitar Go Bo Diddley Amazon
21Johnny Powers Me and My Rhythm Guitar The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2 Amazon
22Johnny Cash I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 3 Amazon
23Johnny Cash & June Carter Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter Amazon
24Kitty Wells Amigo's Guitar Greatest Songs Amazon
25Waylon Jennings Guitars That Won't Stay in Tune Clean Shirt Amazon
26Willie Nelson Guitar In the Corner Band of Brothers Amazon
27George Jones Best Guitar Picker The Complete United Artists Solo Singles Amazon
28Robert Earl Keen, Jr. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard Amazon
29Merle Haggard Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
30Freddie King Me And My Guitar Texas Cannonball Amazon
31Tony Rice Me and My Guitar Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection Amazon
32Lucinda Williams Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings World Without Tears Amazon
33Guy Clark The Guitar Somedays the Song Writes You Amazon
34Neil Young This Old Guitar Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank Amazon

2015 Tributes and Covers

Tributes and Covers
Tributes and Covers

We’re going to take a step away from vintage releases in our first episode of 2016 and look back at last year’s Americana releases, focusing on tributes and covers from some of the very best performers of the time. We’ll hear from Happy Traum, Jorma Kaukonen, Robert Earl Keen Jr., the Alvin Brothers, Bob Dylan, Jonathan Edwards and many others as the cover music from the past century. While most are those of tradition, we’ll also hear covers of Stephen Foster, Carter Family, and Woody Guthrie for good measure. Tribute albums include Bob Dylan’s Shadows in the Night and Asleep at the Wheel’s “Still The King” Bob Wills tribute. Lots of territory to cover so I hope you’ll join in!

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Mavis Staples See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Your Good Fortune (EP) Amazon
3Jorma Kaukonen Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Ain't In No Hurry Amazon
4Jorma Kaukonen Sweet Fern Ain't In No Hurry Amazon
5Darryl Holter California Stars Radio Songs Amazon
6Darryl Holter Do Re Mi Radio Songs Amazon
7Jonathan Edwards Mole Tomorrow's Child Amazon
8Hamilton County Ramblers Hard Times Hamilton County Ramblers Amazon
9Emmylou Harris Bury Me Beneath The Willow Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
10Larry Cordle & The Virginia Luthiers Train On The Island Orthophonic Joy Amazon
11The Cox Family Cash On The Barrelhead Gone Like The Cotton Amazon
12Robert Earl Keen, Jr. Footprints in the Snow Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions Amazon
13Lyle Lovett; Robert Earl Keen, Jr. T For Texas Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions Amazon
14Asleep at the Wheel Time Changes Everything (with Buddy Miller) Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Amazon
15Asleep at the Wheel Faded Love (with The Time Jumpers) Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Amazon
16Robbie O'Connell Pretty Saro Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie Amazon
17Happy Traum Careless Love Blues (feat. Jerry Marotta, Byron Isaacs & John Sebastian) Just For the Love Of It Amazon
18Happy Traum I Aint Got No Home (feat. John Sebastian, Byron Isaacs & Jerry Marotta) Just For the Love Of It Amazon
19Spuyten Duyvil Keep your Skillet Good and Greasy Social Hour Music Amazon
20Spuyten Duyvil Make Me A Pallet Social Hour Music Amazon
21Charlie Gracie Just A Closer Walk With Thee Angel on My Shoulder Amazon
22Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin Cherry Red Blues Lost Time Amazon
23Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin World's In A Bad Condition Lost Time Amazon
24The Mavericks Nitty Gritty Mono Amazon
25Bob Dylan That Lucky Old Sun Shadows in the Night Amazon
26Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson Don't Think Twice, It's Alright Django and Jimmie Amazon
27Billy Gibbons And The BFG's Treat Her Right Perfectamundo Amazon
28Larry Campbell Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams Amazon

There She Goes – KOWS 12/16/15

There She Goes
There She Goes

West County has seen it’s first consistent (and consecutive) days of rain and boy did we need it. El Nino looks to be making some waves. We’ll be making some waves this week on our Wednesday night foray into the past century of America’s music. We’ll hear new music from the Oxford American Georgia music issue, as well as a good share of early country, some Stephen Foster (by the Hamilton County Ramblers), and some Jelly Roll Morton. There will be a few local performers to sweeten the mix: Kevin Russell, Carl Hendel & Eddie Meisse, and an alumni of Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa…Dan Hicks. Tune in for music that keeps on giving.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Tommy Duncan Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)? Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B Amazon
3Oklahoma Wranglers (Willis Bros) Invitation to the Blues Hillbilly Rhythm Amazon
4T. Texas Tyler Red Light Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B Amazon
5Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies My Galveston Gal Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin' Amazon
6Carl Hendel & Eddie Meisse Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age Amazon
7Tut Taylor feat. Norman Blake Sweet Picking Time in Toomsboro, Ga. The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia) Amazon
8Precious Bryant Georgia Buck The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia) Amazon
9The Band & Emmylou Harris Evangeline A Musical History [Disc 5] Amazon
10John Prine There She Goes Bruised Orange Amazon
11Jerry Jeff Walker Viva Luckenbach Gypsy Songman: A Life In Song Amazon
12Carl Smith Are You Teasing Me The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956) Amazon
13The Louvin Brothers Are You Teasing Me Close Harmony [Disc 3] Amazon
14Carolina Chocolate Drops Hello Stranger The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music Amazon
15Maria Muldaur Me And My Chauffeur Blues Richland Woman Blues Amazon
16Black Bottom McPhail John Jack Newman & Others Amazon
17Jimmy Strange Yas Yas Yas Swingin' the Blues: 1931-1939 Amazon
18Lightnin' Hopkins Speedin' Boogie Po' Lightnin' Amazon
19Pete Johnson Boogie Woogie Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration Amazon
20Kate & Anna McGarrigle Hard Times Come Again No More Songs Of The Civil War Amazon
21Robert Shaw Chorale Nelly Bly Stephen Foster Songbook Amazon
22Grandpa Jones Nelly Bly An American Original Amazon
23Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks I Scare Myself The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973 Amazon
24Larry Jon Wilson Ohoopee River Bottomland [from the film Heartworn Highways] The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia) Amazon
25Carl Perkins Don't Stop The Music Go Cat Go Amazon
26Jake Xerxes Fussell Raggy Levy The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia) Amazon
27Dirty Dozen Brass Band Jelly Roll's Misgiving Jelly (The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Plays Jelly Roll Morton Amazon
28Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers The Pearls The Pearls Amazon
29Ry Cooder The Pearls/Tia Juana Jazz Amazon
30Dr. John Wild Honey City Lights Amazon
31John Fred Shirley Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound Amazon
32Red Saunders & His Orchestra Honky Tonk Train Blues Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration Amazon
33Freddie Slack With The Will Bradley Trio Down The Road A Piece Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration Amazon

Soothe Me – KOWS 12/9/15

Soothe Me
Soothe Me

In this episode, Deeper Roots will feature a wide range of sounds from a host of performers. There will be the topical sounds of courtroom drama featuring R&B from Johnny Otis, classic country Ernest Tubb, and country blues from Carl Martin. We’ll also feature a set that looks at “My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It” from a cross-section of talents and genres…and we’ll be soothed with some deep gospel, folk, and soul. Dave will also share a new track from singer/songwriter Steve Forbert’s latest album “Compromised” as well as some contemporary tracks from Marty Stuart, Jorma Kaukonen, and Joe Ely.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Bob Dylan I Want You (Take 4, Alternate Take) The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12 (Sampler) Amazon
3Marie Knight Satisfied With Jesus Hallelujah What A Song! Amazon
4Eugene Smith And The Roberta Martin Singers Satisfied How Sweet it Was Amazon
5Spiritual Five Satisfied With Him I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983 [Disc 3] Amazon
6Johnnie Taylor/The Soul Stirrers Walk With Me 20 Gospel Greats Amazon
7Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers I Have A Friend Above All Others The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
8Sam Cooke Trouble In Mind The Rhythm And The Blues Amazon
9Steve Forbert Devil (Here She Comes Now) Compromised Amazon
10Shorty Long Devil With a Blue Dress On Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 Disc 1 Amazon
11Julia Lee Trouble In Mind Kansas City Star [Disc 1] Amazon
12Julia Lee Lotus Blossom Kansas City Star [Disc 1] Amazon
13Wynonie Harris Good Morning Judge All She Wants To Do Is Rock Amazon
14Chuck Berry Have Mercy Judge The Chess Box Disc 3 Amazon
15Carl Martin Good Morning, Judge Carl Martin, Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan, Willie "61" Blackwell — Complete Recorded Works Amazon
16Sonny Boy Williamson Your Funeral And My Trial His Best: Sonny Boy Williamson – The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection Amazon
17Hugh Laurie Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair Didn't It Rain (Deluxe) Amazon
18Dinah Washington Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair The Bessie Smith Songbook Amazon
19Johnny Otis Court Room Blues Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1] Amazon
20Jorma Kaukonen Judge, I'm Not Sorry The Land Of Heroes Amazon
21The Country Gentlemen The Sentence The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
22Ernest Tubb Dear Judge Last Sessions: All Time Greatest Hits Disc 2 Amazon
23Patsy Cline A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye Live at the Opry Amazon
24Washboard Sam Bucket's Got a Hole in It [Remastered 2002] That's Chicago's South Side (When the Sun Goes Down series) Amazon
25Hank Williams My Bucket's Got A Hole In It The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 18 Amazon
26Louis Armstrong & All His Stars My Bucket's Got A Hole In It The Ultimate Collection [Disc 2] Amazon
27Page & Plant My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy Of Sun Records Amazon
28Joe Ely Rock Me My Baby Musta Notta Gotta Lotta [rem] (1981) Amazon
29Marty Stuart A Satisfied Mind Country Music Amazon
30Tennessee Ernie Ford Cool, Cool Kisses Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3] Amazon
31Charles Brown Soothe Me The Classic Earliest Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
32Stan Kenton & His Orchestra With June Christy Soothe Me Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 4 – Love Letters – 1944-53 Amazon
33James & Bobby Purify Soothe Me The Best Of Amazon

Main Street – KOWS December 2, 2015

Main Street
Main Street

A bit of a celebration is in order. We will be broadcasting live from the new KOWS studios located in downtown Sebastopol with a playlist that scours the last century of America’s music for relevant sounds and themes that relate:  songs of settling into home, saying goodbye,  moving on, going west (or east, that is), and ‘getting gone’. We’ll feature The Cats & The Fiddle, local favorites Markus James and Doug Blumer & The Bohemian Highway, “Little” Jimmy Dickens, and a host of others who welcome us into our new home on Gravenstein Highway…or, as it is formally known hereabouts, Main Street.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Muddy Waters Gone To Main Street Mad Love 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
7Leon Redbone There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays Christmas Island Amazon
8Little Jimmy Dickens No Place Like Home On Christmas Country Boy [Disc 5] 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
13Howlin' Wolf Moving The Back Door Wolf Amazon
14Markus James Goin' Down South Head For The Hills Amazon
15Les Paul I'm Movin' On Legend and Legacy [Disc 3] Amazon
16Peter, Paul & Mary Settle Down (Goin' Down That Highway) Moving Amazon
17Florence Lowery Moving Day Blues Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 11 Amazon
18Bertha Idaho Move It On Out Of Here Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 10 Amazon
19Monroe Moe Jackson Move It On Over Rural Blues Vol. 1 1934-1956 Amazon
20Hank Williams & The Drifting Cowboys Move It On Over 26 All-Time Country Classics Amazon
21Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 1: Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies Amazon
22The Dixie Hummingbirds Moving On Looking Back Amazon
23Mahalia Jackson I Will Move On Up A Little Higher Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Amazon
24The Staple Singers Move Along Train Freedom Highway Amazon
25Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) Raising Sand Amazon
26Jerry Lee Lewis Move on Down the Line The London Sessions 1973 Amazon
27Charline Arthur Welcome To The Club Welcome To The Club Amazon
28Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 3 Amazon
29John Hiatt Gone Crossing Muddy Waters Amazon
30Irma Thomas Gone Soul Queen of New Orleans Amazon
31The Cats & The Fiddle Gone The Very Best Of Amazon
32Mr. Scruff Get a Move On Electro Swing Vol. 1 Amazon
33Paul Simon Gone at Last 1964-1993 Disc 2 Amazon
34Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater Gotta Move On West Side Strut Amazon

Deeper Dr. John

Deeper Dr. John
Deeper Dr. John

Mac Rebennack’s been around and the music, the culture, the people…they’ve embellished his art with a character like no other in roots music. He’s known them all: James Booker, Professor Longhair, Huey Smith, and Doc Pomus. He’s performed with them, composed for them, and broken bread with them. And when he takes the stage, whether that is in the traditional Indian celebratory garb or the frocked coat and hat, you can be certain that his performance will get your attention. He is coarse yet gentle, as punctual on the keys as he is laid back and lazy with them. This week’s show will sample a small set of his contributions to the American songbook including performances by Roland Stone, B.B. King, Charlie Rich, Solomon Burke, and Irma Thomas. And we’ll also hear plenty from the good Doctor himself.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Dr. John Right Place Wrong Time Definitive Pop Collection Amazon
3Dr John/Mac Rebennack Sahara (LP Version) Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
4Roland Stone [Dr. John] Down The Road (LP Version) Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
5Mac Rebennack Good Times The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5] Amazon
6Clarence "Frogman" Henry Long Lost And Worried Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry Amazon
7Art Neville What's Going On His Specialty Recordings Amazon
8Johnny Jenkins Walk On Gilded Splinters Duane Allman Anthology 2 [Disc 2] Amazon
9Dr. John Black Widow Spider Definitive Pop Collection Amazon
10Dr. John (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away Destively Bonnaroo (US Release) Amazon
11Dr. John The Night Tripper Wash Mama Wash The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974 Amazon
12Dr. John Big Chief The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974 Amazon
13Irma Thomas I Never Fool Nobody But Me If You Want It, Come and Get It Amazon
14Delaney & Bonnie When the Battle Is Over The Best of Delaney & Bonnie Amazon
15Solomon Burke Make Do With What You Got Make Do With What You Got Amazon
16Dr. John Hen Layin' Rooster The Best Of The Parlophone Years Amazon
17Dr. John Let the Good Times Roll The Ultimate Dr. John Amazon
18Dr. John My Indian Red Goin' Back To New Orleans Amazon
19Dr. John Sweet Home New Orleans The Best Of The Parlophone Years Amazon
20Dr. John Memories Of Prof. Longhair Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 2] Amazon
21Marianne Faithfull Hello Stranger A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology [Disc 2] Amazon
22Crescent City Gold Kick It Raw The Ultimate Session Amazon
23Bluesiana Triangle Need To Be Loved Bluesiana Triangle Amazon
24Charlie Rich Pictures and Paintings Pictures and Paintings Amazon
25Dr. John Eh Las Bas N'awlinz: Dis, Dat Or D'Udda Amazon
26Dr. John Old Settlers Live at Magfest 2014 Amazon
27B.B. King & Dr. John There Must Be A Better World Somewhere Deuces Wild Amazon
28Dr. John Let's Make a Better World The Ultimate Dr. John Amazon
29Dr. John When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) Ske-Dat-De-Dat&The Spirit Of Satch Amazon

Take Me Back – KOWS Nov 18, 2015

Take Me Back
Take Me Back

Our final show at the old KOWS studio will feature the lineup you might expect…with a couple of themes running through it. The ‘take me back’ theme works well as we bring in Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jimmy Rushing, and Peter Rowan to make the plea and we’ve got the gospel themed pleas of working on a building from The Highway QCs. In addition, we’ve got some doo-wop, some ladies whose theme was ‘blues is her business’, and a run of country swing and bluegrass…all packed into two hours of elementary roots. Tune in after dinner for dessert.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Tennessee Ernie Ford Take Me Back And Try Me One More Time Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3] Amazon
3Shannon Grayson I Like The Old Time Way Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
4Wade Mainer Streamlined Religion 1961 King Session Amazon
5Grandpa Jones You And My Old Guitar Makes The Rafters Ring Amazon
6Larry Cordle & The Virginia Luthiers Train On The Island Orthophonic Joy Amazon
7The Whitstein Brothers Where Will You Build Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins Amazon
8John Fogerty Workin' on a Building The Blue Ridge Rangers Amazon
9The Highway QC'S Working On a Building Great Gospel – Maybe the Last Time Amazon
10The Clara Ward Singers Come By Here Meetin' Tonight! Amazon
11The Dixie Hummingbirds Two Little Fishes (And Five Loaves of Bread) 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds Amazon
12The Dixie Hummingbirds Bedside Of A Neighbor Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds Amazon
13Marie Knight Satisfied With Jesus Hallelujah What A Song! Amazon
14Sheiks Walk That Walk Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 1] – Jumpin' & Bluesy Amazon
15Garnet Mimms Cry Baby The Best of Garnet Mimms: Cry Amazon
16The Five Royales I Like It Like That R&B Greats – Think Amazon
17The Five Royales Someone Made Me For You Dedicated To You Amazon
18Steve Cropper Someone Made You For Me (Steve Cropper with Dan Penn) Dedicated – A Salute To The 5 Royales Amazon
19Sam Cooke You Were Made For Me Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 Amazon
20Bessie Smith I'm Wild About That Thing The Saucy Songs (1928-1938) Amazon
21Victoria Spivey With Clarence Williams' Blue Five My Handy Man (f. Victoria Spivey) Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: The New York Sessions 1926-35 Amazon
22Ida Cox & Her Allstar Band Four Day Creep Blues From The Vocalion Vaults Amazon
23Dinah Washington Blow Top Blues Blues Was Her Business Amazon
24Bonnie Raitt Women Be Wise Bonnie Raitt Amazon
25Fats Waller (Take Me Back To) The Wide Open Places compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
26Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama The Devil Ain't Lazy Reinventing the Wheel Amazon
27Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies Somebody's Been Using That Thing Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 1: Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies Amazon
28Ted Daffan's Texans Born To Lose 26 All-Time Country Classics Amazon
29Adolph Hofner Let's Count The Stars You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942 Amazon
30Jimmy Rushing Take Me Back, Baby ABC Of The Blues Vol 38 Amazon
31Buck Owens Take Me Back Again Act Naturally Amazon
32Peter Rowan And Don Edwards Take Me Back To The Range High Lonesome Cowboy Amazon
33Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson Missing Ol' Johnny Cash Django and Jimmie Amazon
34Johnny Cash Tear Stained Letter American IV: Man Comes Around Amazon
35Earl Scruggs Gospel Ship The Earl Scruggs Revue: Anniversary Special, Volumes One & Two Amazon

Let’s Live – KOWS Nov 5, 2015

Let's Live
Let’s Live

We’ll be bringing another eclectic blend of music from the past for an evening set kicks off with sounds of New Orleans beginning with a medley from the Bayou Maharajah, James Booker and closing with Irma Thomas. In addition to our usual run of bluegrass, jazz, and blues…we’ll prepare some piping hot biscuits from the country shack with Alan Lomax, Flatt & Scruggs, Pappy O’Daniel and the Hillbilly Boys, and Kacey Musgraves. There will also be a rare piece of early blues piano work from Ollie Shepard and the early century jazz band sounds of Enric Madriguera, Jimmie Lunceford, and Fletcher Henderson. Two full hours of Deeper Roots on weekday evening…carrying us over the midweek hump so that it’s all downhill from there…

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Aaron Neville Let's Live Treacherous [Disc 1] Amazon
3James Booker Medley: Tico Tico / Papa Was A Rascal / So Swell When You're Well Classified Amazon
4Dr. John Traveling Mood The Ultimate Dr. John Amazon
5Fats Domino The Girl I Love [Version 2] This Is Gold Disc 1 Amazon
6Aaron Neville My True Story My True Story Amazon
7Irma Thomas While the City Sleeps Time Is on My Side: The Best of Irma Thomas, Vol. 1 Amazon
8Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie I'm Wild About My Stuff Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944 Amazon
9Blind Boy Fuller Trucking My Blues Away No. 2 (take 2) Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order – Volume 2 (29 April to 12 July 1937) Amazon
10Ollie Shepard King Of All Evil Vol. 2-1939-41 Amazon
11Angelic Gospel Singers with the Dixie Humming Birds One Day When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51 Amazon
12Rory Block Lord, I Feel Just Like Goin' On I Belong To The Band: A Tribute To Rev. Gary Davis Amazon
13Ethel Waters and Her Jazz Band Ev'rybody Mess Aroun Tight Women and Loose Bands 1921-1931 Amazon
14Cleo Brown Boogie Woogie Picking the Blues – Compiled By John Mayall – Boogie Woogie Pioneers Amazon
15Benny Carter (With Lionel Hampton Orchestra) I'm in the Mood for Swing RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's Amazon
16Coleman Hawkins Body and Soul RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's Amazon
17Alan Lomax How Many Biscuits Can You Eat? Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co Amazon
18W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys Please Pass The Biscuits Pappy Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938 Amazon
19Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs 'How Many Biscuits' 1953-X6-XX Grand Old Opry Amazon
20NRBQ Hot Biscuits and Sweet Marie Kick Me Hard Amazon
21Kacey Musgraves Biscuits Pageant Material Amazon
22Kenny Baker Monroe's Hornpipe Plays Bill Monroe Amazon
23Jack Guthrie No Need to Knock on My Door Oklahoma Hills Amazon
24Merle Travis Missouri The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 11 Amazon
25Kentuckians Journey's End Keep on Going: The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings Amazon
26Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Better Times A' Comin' Mark Twain: Words & Music [Disc 1] Amazon
27Mac Wiseman It's Mighty Dark To Travel Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
28Johnny Cash Thanks a Lot The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 1 Amazon
29Jim Silver Each Season Changes You Country Boy's Dream Amazon
30Jimmy Wakely Moon Over Montana Vintage Collections Amazon
31Leon Redbone Sweet Lorraine Any Time Amazon
32Dr. John I Love It at the Top 20 Dates Amazon
33Jimmie Lunceford/Sy Oliver, Vocal Time's A-Wastin' Jimmie Lunceford Amazon
34Sam Cooke Bring It on Home to Me Greatest Hits Amazon

Night Time – KOWS Oct 28, 2015

Night Time
Night Time

No more alternating Saturday mornings for Deeper Roots. We’re a weekly publication now…every Wednesday evening at 7 Pacific!. We’re going to settle into our new KOWS time-slot tonight with music that celebrates our new day of the week and we’ll also roam east, south, west and north in our pursuit of the best from the last 100 years of American music. Join us right after Robert Feuer’s Blues Up the River for some ‘down river’ sounds including Johnny Horton, Tom Rush, Riley Puckett, and some John Lee Hooker. Because the night time is the right time. 

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Nappy Brown Just a Little Love Night Time Is the Right Time [Disc 1] Amazon
3John Lee Hooker Night Time Is The Right Time Boogie Chillun Amazon
4Ray Charles Night Time Is the Right Time Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 1 Amazon
5James Brown Night Train 20 All Time Greatest Hits! Amazon
6Billy Jones When It's Night Time in Italy, It's Wednesday over Here The Silly Songs (1922 to 1934) Amazon
7Riley Puckett Wednesday Night Waltz Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
8Josh White Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Vol. 3-(1935-40) Amazon
9Misisipi Mike Wolf Calling the Shots The Cold Hard Facts of Mike Amazon
10Kevin Russell Head South Trouble In Mind Amazon
11Asleep 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 Amazon
12Willie Nelson South (Featuring Paul Shaffer & Vince Gill) Willie and the Wheel Amazon
13Cleo Brown I'll Take The South (You Take The East, Take The West, Take The North) Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935) Amazon
14Kinky Friedman Girl From The North Country The Loneliest Man I Ever Met Amazon
15Doyle Lawson/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver The Northern Lights School of Bluegrass Disc 1 Amazon
16Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel Northern Lights Freight Train Boogie Amazon
17Johnny Horton North to Alaska Magic Moments Amazon
18David Luning Northern California Just Drop On By Amazon
19Bill Monroe And Doc Watson East Tennessee Blues Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2 Amazon
20June Carter Cash East Virginia Blues Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 2 Amazon
21Grandpa Jones East Bound Freight Train 16 Greatest Hits Amazon
22Tom Rush East of Eden What I Know Amazon
23Jerry Reed East Bound And Down The Essential Jerry Reed Amazon
24Geraint Watkins Go West Dial 'W' for Watkins Amazon
25Chris Isaak Western Stars Silvertone Amazon
26Les Paul East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
27The Benny Goodman Sextet East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) Benny Goodman Sextet Amazon
28Whitt Denson "One Voice Quartette" New Morning Sun 436 I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings Amazon
29Ruthie Foster Brand New Day Promise of a Brand New Day Amazon
30Nappy Brown Little By Little Night Time Is the Right Time Amazon
31Chris Hillman/Herb Pedersen Invitation to the Blues Way Out West Amazon
32Willie Nelson/Lukas Nelson My Window Faces The South Heroes Amazon

In The Gloaming – KOWS Oct 24, 2015

In The Gloaming
In The Gloaming

Our Saturday morning show opens with some caffeine-driven music…literally… songs about the magic bean, that morning beverage that starts the day for some of us. We’ve got swamp pop from Randy & The Rockets, some jumpin’ jive from Cab Calloway, twilight reflections from Jonatha Brooke and The Sons of The Pioneers, and some Chet Atkins, David Lindley, and Eilen Jewell. KOWS community radio studios will be moving before the end of the year to a very central West County location that will bring us in closer contact with our listeners…and our Deeper Roots. And some exciting news! Deeper Roots moves to weekly broadcasts on KOWS.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Randy & the Rockets Lets Do the Cajun Twist Swamp Gold, Volume 1 Amazon
3Curtis Gordon Caffeine And Nicotine Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1] Amazon
4Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Caffeine Patrol Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
5Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Forty Cups of Coffee Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
6Frank Sinatra The Coffee Song Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan Amazon
7Carmen McRae/Previn Trio Coffee Time Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers [Disc 2] Amazon
8Annette Hanshaw You're the Cream in My Coffee The Personality Girl, Vol. 4: 1928 Amazon
9The Manhattan Transfer Java Jive Swing Amazon
10Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Coffee Pot Blues Middle of Everywhere Amazon
11Cab Calloway The Jumpin' Jive Best Of The Big Bands Amazon
12Tiny Davis & Her Orchestra How About That Jive Jumpin' The Blues:MCA Label(ACE CD) Amazon
13Johnny Mercer G.I. Jive Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 1 – The Birth Of A Label – 1942-43 Amazon
14Ella Fitzgerald Five O'Clock Whistle Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 Amazon
15Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys The Prettiest Flowers Will Be Blooming Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Disc One Amazon
16Sons of the Pioneers In the Gloaming Songs of the Prairie – CD4 Amazon
17Jonatha Brooke In the Gloaming Live Amazon
18John Prine With Emmylou Harris I Know One In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
19Porter Wagoner Fool Like Me Wagonmaster Amazon
20Chet Atkins Levee Walking My Favorite Guitars – It's A Guitar World Amazon
21The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Blue Grass Favorites Amazon
22Eilen Jewell That's Why I'm Walkin Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades Amazon
23Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Walk Right In, Walk Right Out (The Walking Blues) One Hour Mama Amazon
24Eddie Jefferson Start Walkin' Stop Talkin' The BeBop Singers Amazon
25Dinah Washington Walkin' And Talkin' Gold Amazon
26Peggy Lee Talkin' To Myself About You The Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
27David Lindley Talk to the Lawyer Win This Record Amazon
28David Lindley & El Rayo-X Talkin' to the Wino Too Very Greasy Amazon
29David Lindley and Wally Ingram Oh Death Twango Bango II Amazon
30Pepe Ahlqist Moonshine Babe Raw Blues Amazon
31Perline Ellison Razor Totin' Mama Document Shortcuts Vol. 1 "God Don't Like It" Amazon
32Jackson Browne & David Lindley El Rayo X (Intro) Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
33Jackson Browne & David Lindley El Rayo X Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
34Mark Knopfler Who's Your Baby Now Sailing to Philadelphia Amazon