It’s a new morning…as it always is…and was when we celebrated another Saturday morning in Occidental with Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music with host Dave Stroud. This twice-monthly show opens with a mule kicking in the stall, some barnyard rhythm and then moves swiftly into a blend of 1950s country and big band. Ray Charles, Frankie Laine, Chick Webb, Otis Spann, and Merle Travis are just a sampling of performers we’ll hear from. West County living deserves roots music wafting over the airwaves on a Saturday morning in early autumn. Let’s set the airwaves stage with some Otis Spann.
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Artist
Title
Album
Buy
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Nellie Lutcher
He's A Real Gone Guy
Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
3
Nellie Lutcher
There's Another Mule In Your Stall
Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 1]
4
Otis Spann
Mule Kicking In My Stall
Cryin' Time
5
Louis Jordan
Barnyard Boogie
Jivin' With Jordan
6
Joe Liggins
Rhythm In The Barnyard
Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
7
The Andrews Sisters
A Man is a Brother To a Mule
Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
8
Charlie Poole With Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon
Man that Rode the Mule Around the World
You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2]
9
Ralph Stanley
I've Got A Mule To Ride
Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection
10
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Mule Train (1996 Digital Remaster)
Vintage Collections
11
Frankie Laine
That Lucky Old Sun [Album Version]
Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits
12
Ray Charles
That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
13
Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
High Noon
Country Guitar Giants
14
Frankie Laine
Rawhide
Country Greats #2
15
Chick Webb and his Orchestra
Don't Be That Way
from CD; orig. Decca 483
16
Ella Fitzgerald
Melinda the Mousle
Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
17
Annette Hanshaw
Who's That Knocking At My Door
The Twenties Sweetheart
18
Brother Grady Coffee
I'm Working on a Building
This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
19
Elvis Presley
Working on the Building
Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
20
Murry Hammond
In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain
The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
21
John & Jamie Hartford
When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland
Hartford & Hartford
22
June Carter Cash
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
Wildwood Flower
23
George Jones
Worried Man Blues
The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music