Thursday, Oct 22 @Midnite on KOWS
Wild in the Streets
The ’ember’ months are just around the corner and that means we need to get ourselves warmed up for turkey dinners, the Hot Stove League, New Year’s Eve, football playoffs, reindeer on the roof and all the rest of it. But our show today will take on a common thread: songs about ‘the street’ or streets or boulevards, avenues … only the surface streets, not the highways. Dave’s picked out a collection of songs that are sure to stir emotion bringing home music that take on the ‘street’ topics from the genres of country, early pop, rock, folk, blues and all the rest. We’ll hear from Dylan, The Ink Spots, Tony Rice, Charlie Spand, the Orlons and a couple dozen others taking on an eclectic blend of songs where the streets as the muse. Tune into Sonoma County Community Radio’s KOWS 92.5 FM, streaming to all of planet earth on kowsfm.com/listen. Deeper Roots brings you a morning of sounds from the locales of Easy Street, Lonely Street and 4th Street…directly from Orchard and 7th.
Thursday, Oct 22 @9am on KOWS
Saturday, Oct 24 @3am on KOWS
Blue Moon Americana Episode 583
As the days of 2026 grow shorter and another year begins its slow march into memory, Blue Moon Americana takes a look at the things we leave behind, the moments that stay with us, and the music that never seems to grow old. Some things are a long time gone, but their echoes are still ringing. This week, we’re mixing yesterday’s treasures with tomorrow’s favorites, from the Everly Brothers, The Band, and Hank Thompson to fresh sounds from Rhiannon Giddens, Kimmi Bitter, Ian Noe, and Kacey Musgraves. There’s a little Texas swing, a touch of back-porch blues, some rockabilly mischief, and a few musical surprises along the way. It’s a celebration of where we’ve been, where we’re headed, and all those wonderful sounds in between. Join us Thursday morning at 9 Pacific on KOWS 92.5 FM or streaming at kowsfm.com/listen. Less talk, more music, and plenty of Americana.We hope you’ll spend the morning with us and we also invite you to Roy Zimmerman’s Inn At Occidental benefit for KOWS this coming Sunday.
Friday, Oct 23 @9am on KOWS
One Thing Leads to Another
Ever notice how one conversation can take you somewhere you never expected? Music works the same way. This week on Deeper Roots, we’re following a trail of musical connections where every song has something in common with the one before it. A shared lyric, a songwriter, a place, a name, or just an unexpected twist that takes us down another road. We’ll wander from the soulful sounds of The Undisputed Truth and Laura Nyro to the country storytelling of Merle Haggard, the sharp wit of Randy Newman, and the haunting Americana of The Handsome Family. Along the way, expect a few surprises, forgotten gems, and musical detours spanning generations. It’s a two-hour game of musical connect-the-dots, with no telling where the next tune might take us. Join us Friday at 9 AM Pacific for Deeper Roots on KOWS 92.5 FM or streaming at kowsfm.com/listen.
Saturday, Oct 24 @9am on KOWS
Under Western Stars
Saddle up, but don’t expect the usual Hollywood version of the American West. We’re heading beyond the familiar standards to explore songs, stories and voices that grew out of bunkhouses, chuck wagons and wide-open country, reaching back nearly a century for early cowboy recordings, among them Carl T. Sprague, Billie Maxwell, Harry “Haywire Mac” McClintock and Jess Morris. Tales where ornery horses, stampeding cattle, lousy wages, worse cooking and lonely nights on the trail were simply part of the job. Along the way we’ll discover a West far more diverse than the one portrayed on the silver screen, with music touching on Black cowboys, Mexican and California traditions, ranch hands, buffalo hunters, outlaws and gunfighters. We’ll then follow those old trails forward and into the hands of later storytellers including Ian Tyson, Dom Flemons, and Colter Wall. Somewhere between history and mythology lies the West that survives in these songs — sometimes romantic, sometimes brutal.
Thursday, Oct 29 @Midnite on KOWS
Motown 60s Soul
The decade of the sixties saw top 40 radio get it’s cue from the sounds of the Motor City. The house that Berry Gordy built was overflowing with musical talent. And he knew how to use them. The Funk Brothers and other studio musicians coupled with the songwriting of Barrett Strong, Smokey Robinson, and the team of Holland-Dozier-Holland…were at the core of what was produced in Detroit’s Motown. There were also the performers that blossomed, some becoming household names: Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas, and countless others. There is no question that this was the Motown Decade. This week on Deeper Roots we’ll be walking through the sixties Motown sound with just some of those performers…and more. Friday mornings at 9 Pacific on KOWS Community Radio.
Thursday, Oct 29 @9am on KOWS
Saturday, Oct 31@3am on KOWS
Blue Moon Americana Episode 584
We’re on the cusp of All Hallow’s Eve but Blue Moon’s not going to be answering the door this year because the more important date is right around the corner. That’s right! It’s time once again to head to the ballot box although we hope that the bulk of you have voted early. I have..and a week early I might add. While those who understand are clear-eyed about the fact that the destruction of democracy will take years, if not decades, to repair, the work at rebuilding must begin now if our children and grand-children have a chance. This week on Blue Moon, we’ve got plenty to share from Jesse Winchester and Hoyt Axton to Mary Gauthier and Israel Nash. Tune in for great music curated for a great community radio station on a glorious October Thursday morning.
Friday, Oct 30 @9am on KOWS
The Song Behind The Song
American music has traveled in every direction. Along the somewhat crooked path it’s followed on its journey, there have been new sounds, new words, and new identities collected along the way. And that’s what we’ll be exploring in this week’s episode: the song behind the song. The stories will not involve just covers or familiar standards performed by different artists. On the contrary, we’ll be digging into the musical ancestry of American music. Songs that were rewritten and retitled, melodies borrowed and transformed, gospel recordings that found new lives in rhythm and blues, and centuries-old ballads that crossed the Atlantic and emerged from the Appalachian Mountains with entirely different identities. Sometimes the original is nearly forgotten. Sometimes a later recording becomes so familiar that we forget there was another song behind it. And sometimes the connection is so unexpected that it changes the way we hear both recordings. Join Dave Stroud on this week’s journey.