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Something in the Air

Spring is knock-knock-knocking…and our Supreme Court is push-push-pushing back on the idea of Emperor Grandpa McFuddlepants. And why not? They created it. But here, we’re busy painting the town with hope and there’s a sense that there’s something in the air as this week’s show leans on the fabric of Americana sounds to get us through yet another week of hate speech from Pennsylvania Avenue. We’ll apply an salve of sweet sounds from Jerry Garcia, Jackie Wilson, Townes Van Zandt, Billie Holiday, and that late local luminary and bard about town Dan Hicks in this week’s show. It’s a free form dance we’re taking on so I hope you make time or, if you can’t catch us live on KOWS, you can catch up on our archives posted on Podomatic at https://deeperroots.podomatic.com

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Something in the Air Greatest Hits Amazon
3Marshall Crenshaw Who Stole That Train Miracle of Science Amazon
4Them Baby Please Don't Go Them Featuring Van Morrison Amazon
5Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings Anyway The Wind Blows Anyway The Wind Blows Amazon
6John Hiatt Radio Girl Slug Line Amazon
7Townes Van Zandt (Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria Townes Van Zandt Amazon
8Charley Crockett Jamestown Ferry Lonesome Drifter Amazon
9Ray Charles Take These Chains from My Heart Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3 Amazon
10Jackie Wilson I Just Can't Help It The Jackie Wilson Story [Sony] Amazon
11Little Jimmy Dickens I Can't Help It The Old Country Church/Raisin' The Dickens Amazon
12James Hunter Six Can't Help Myself Nick of Time Amazon
13Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Big Mamou Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
14David Lindley Your Old Lady El Rayo-X Amazon
15Aereo-Plain Band/John Hartford Keep on Truckin' Steam Powered Aereo-Takes Amazon
16Hot Tuna Keep On Truckin' Burgers Amazon
17Jorma Kaukonen Big River Blues Blue Country Heart Amazon
18Maria Muldaur It Ain't The Meat, It's The Motion Maria Muldaur Amazon
19Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande) The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973 Amazon
20Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks Canned Music The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973 Amazon
21Jerry Garcia Deal Garcia Amazon
22The Youngbloods Grizzly Bear Get Together: The Essential Youngbloods Amazon
23Sonny James Innocent Lies Singles Amazon
24Billie Holiday God Bless the Child Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
25Jackson Browne These Days The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne Amazon
26Wayne Hancock Life's Lonesome Road A-Town Blues Amazon
27Steve Forbert Lonesome Cowboy Bill Young Guitar Days Amazon
28Levon Helm Move Along Train Electric Dirt Amazon
29Tom Petty I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better Full Moon Fever Amazon
30Patsy Montana My Poncho Pony Cowgirl's Best Amazon

Echoes of Blues Greats

There’s an echo in the well of Americana and it reverberates from tradition and some of the early songsmiths and blues masters who delivered the blues proper through the depths of the past century of America’s music. We’ll be pulling some of the classic blues covers of songs composed by just a small collection of the great blues masters: Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Blake and beyond in this week’s episode. There is seldom enough time to make a dent in only two hours but we’ll do our best with covers from some of the inheritors like BB King, Carl Perkins, Bob Dylan, Jorma Kaukonen and a couple dozen others. We’re excavating some deeper roots this week and then tilling the airwaves with freshly turned songs of the earth; a landscape of blues cutting a deep swath across the musical landscape of the past 100 years. Celebrating blues and those who brought it home this week on KOWS Community Radio.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Graham Parker Poor Me Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton Amazon
3Rising Sons By And By (Poor Me) [Album Version] Rising Sons Amazon
4Charlie Musselwhite Pea Vine Blues Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton Amazon
5Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson Police Dog Blues Quah [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
6Jimmie Dale Gilmore Black Snake Moan Braver Newer World Amazon
7Bo Diddley Diddy Wah Diddy Bo Knows Bo Amazon
8Bob Dylan See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Bob Dylan Amazon
9Andy Fairweather Low Matchbox The Invisible Bluesman Amazon
10Carl Perkins Matchbox Dixie Fried Amazon
11Sam Price and his Texas Blusic Match Box Blues 1929-1941 Amazon
12B.B. King Tomorrow Night Reflections Amazon
13Lonnie Johnson, John Hughes, Roy Coulter Tomorrow Night Tomorrow Night Amazon
14John Sebastian I Found A Dream – (Live At Winterland) Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings – Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
15Lonnie Johnson I Found A Dream Blues & Ballads (With Elmer Snowden) (Reissued 1990) Amazon
16Ramblin' Jack Elliott Rambler's Blues A Stranger Here Amazon
17Elmore James Call It Stormy Monday Greatest Blues Legends Amazon
18Roomful of Blues I Know Your Wig Is Gone That's Right Amazon
19Boz Scaggs T-Bone Shuffle Come On Home Amazon
20Peter Wolf Rollin' & Tumblin' A Tribute To Muddy Waters – King Of The Blues Amazon
21Shannon McNally The Stuff You Gotta Watch Black Irish Amazon
22Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Cross My Heart Chess Blues Guitar / Two Decades Of Killer Fretwork, 1949-1969 Amazon
23Johnny Winter Help Me The Progressive Blues Experiment Amazon
24Dr. John/John Hammond, Jr./Michael Bloomfield Last Night Triumvirate Amazon
25Tommy Castro And The Painkillers Bad Luck Method To My Madness Amazon
26Dinah Washington Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Verve Unmixed Amazon
27Louis Jordan Caldonia Number Ones Amazon
28B.B. King Jack, You're Dead! Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan Amazon
29Muddy Waters Don't Go No Farther His Best, 1956 To 1964 Amazon
30Muddy Waters Got My Mojo Working Chess Blues Disc 3 Amazon
31Muddy Waters The Same Thing The Definitive Collection Amazon
32Big Daddy Wilson Couldn't Keep It to Myself Deep in My Soul Amazon

Music Goes ‘Round

Put another nickel in that nickelodeon ‘cause rhythm saved the world. This week on Deeper Roots we’re spinning up songs about the jukebox, hit records, little bitty records, disc jockey pleas, and swinging syncopated rhythms from across the past century. That’s right, we’re taking a trip across ninety years featuring jazz from Jimmie Lunceford, country from the Sons of the Pioneers, gospel from the Chuck Wagon Gang, and swinging send-ups from Louis Armstrong, NRBQ, Slim Gaillard, and The Sensations. Well, you can also count on more from the usual suspects in this week’s thematic celebration of the very best of Americana. Whether that’s reaching out to the jukebox, the DJ or that record hawker…we’ve got two hours of rhythm here on KOWS Community Radio. Spend your time with music, not your hard earned dough on this day of resistance.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Commercial Nuclear Survival Course Record Album (1954) Rock'N'Roll & Rock-A-Billy Inferno Amazon
3The Sensations Please Mr Disc Jockey Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 3] – The Rock 'n' Roll Era Amazon
4Fred Astaire Music Makes Me American Songbook Series Amazon
5Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake Seven The Music Goes Round And Round Me & Orson Welles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
6Louis Prima The Music Goes 'Round and Around Capitol Collectors Series Amazon
7Louis Armstrong Rhythm Saved The World Rhythm Saved The World Amazon
8Tex Beneke, The Modernaires Jukebox Saturday Night Stagedoor Canteen Music Of The War Years Vol 1 Amazon
9Jimmie Lunceford Rhythm Is Our Business An Introduction To Jimmie Lunceford Amazon
10The Boswell Sisters That's How Rhythm Was Born Music From The Motion Picture – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Amazon
11Three Sharps And A Flat That's The Rhythm Hot Harmony Groups 1932-1951: Vol 1: That's the Rhythm Amazon
12Ella Fitzgerald Vote For Mr Rhythm The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald [Disc 3] Amazon
13Ella Fitzgerald My Last Affair The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald Amazon
14Fats Waller Music Maestro Please Music Maestro Please Amazon
15The Cats & The Fiddle Mr. Rhythm Man The Very Best Of Amazon
16Slim Gaillard Jumpin' At The Record Shop Vout For Voutoreenes Amazon
17The Mills Brothers Rhythm Saved The World The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 4 Amazon
18George Kent Hello, I'm A Jukebox The Beginning Of The End – The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
19Boyd Bennett & His Rockets Cool Disc Jockey Bob Dylan – Radio Radio Vol.5 Amazon
20Sons of the Pioneers Syncopated Rhythm Songs of the Prairie – CD4 Amazon
21Jerry Lee Lewis Jukebox Junky Killer Country Amazon
22Brook Benton Hit Record Mercury 1962 Amazon
23Charles Senns Dig Me A Crazy Record One More Record Please Amazon
24Norma Jean I Heard the Jukebox Playing 1965-1966 Amazon
25Willie Nelson Mr. Record Man One More Record Please Amazon
26Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Jones On the Jukebox Set Two Amazon
27Chuck Wagon Gang/George Jones Turn Your Radio On 70th Anniversary Amazon
28Bill Kirchen Little Bitty Record King of Dieselbilly: Classic Kirchen Amazon
29NRBQ Music Goes Round And Around Tiddly Winks Amazon
30BR5-49 A1 On The Jukebox Dog Days Amazon
31The Blasters Border Radio Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2) Amazon
32Dillard & Clark The Radio Song The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark Amazon
33Teresa Brewer Music ! Music ! Music ! Music ! Music ! Music ! Amazon
34Gene Kelly I Got Rhythm The Big Picture: Great Music from Films You Love Amazon