We look back at the great ones we lost in 2017…and there were a number of great ones: Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, and Tom Petty. While two hours provides only a limited amount of time, our parameters are such that we look at contributions and influences, focusing our honor to those who fit the roots and the body of work that these greats brought to the fore. We’ll feature music of Rosalie Sorrels, Greg Allman, Steely Dan, Don Williams, Glen Campbell, and numerous others whose lives will live on in their music. Join Dave Stroud for two hours of music from the last century on Sonoma County community radio.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Fats Domino | My Girl Josephine | A Lot Of Dominos |  |
| 2 | Paul Kanter & Jefferson Starship | The Baby Tree | Blows Against The Empire | |
| 3 | Rosalie Sorrels | Rock, Salt And Nails | Cover to Cover: The Originals, Vol. 2 [Disc 1] | |
| 4 | Harry Dean Stanton | Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain | Partly Fiction | |
| 5 | Mark Selby | Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor | Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt | |
| 6 | Wayne Cochran | Last Kiss | 30 Country Hits – A History of Country Music | |
| 7 | Chuck Berry | Back In The U.S.A. | Johnny B. Goode-His Complete 50's Chess Recordings | |
| 8 | Sonny Burgess | Red Headed Woman | Rockin' Memphis [Disc 3] | |
| 9 | The Allman Brothers Band | Melissa | Stand Back: The Anthology Disc 1 | |
| 10 | Tower Of Power | You're Still A Young Man | Art Laboe's Memories Of El Monte/The Roots Of L.A.'s Rock And Roll | |
| 11 | The Main Ingredient | Everybody Plays the Fool | 70s Music Explosion – Miracles | |
| 12 | Sister Sledge | We Are Family | Ultimate Disco | |
| 13 | J. Geils Band | Give It To Me | Must Have Got Lost | |
| 14 | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Don't Do Me Like That | Damn the Torpedoes | |
| 15 | The Smithereens | Blood & Roses | Blown to Smithereens: The Best of the Smithereens | |
| 16 | Lonnie Brooks | Mr. Hot Shot | Stompin' 3 | |
| 17 | Steam | Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye | 45's on CD, Vol. 4: 1967-1969 | |
| 18 | Magic Slim, Billy Branch & James Cotton | When The Levee Breaks, Pt. 1 | Whole Lotta Blues: Songs Of Led Zeppelin | |
| 19 | Della Reese | Don't You Know | Magic Moments – The Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 1) | |
| 20 | Keely Smith/Louis Prima | That Old Black Magic | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 5: Wild Cool & Swingin | |
| 21 | Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis | Ev'ry Street's A Boulevard In Old New York | The Capitol Years [Disc 1] | |
| 22 | The Partridge Family | I Think I Love You | Have A Nice Day: Super Hits Of The '70s, Vol. 3 | |
| 23 | Al Jarreau | We're In This Love Together | BMG Vol. 03 Disc 01 1981-1983 | |
| 24 | D.L. Menard | The Back Door | The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999 | |
| 25 | Mel Tillis | Who's Julie | Only Country – 1965-1969 | |
| 26 | Don Williams | Amanda | The Definitive Collection | |
| 27 | Glen Campbell | Rhinestone Cowboy | 70s Music Explosion – Magic Disc 2 | |
| 28 | Johnny Cash | Rusty Cage | Unchained | |
| 29 | Steely Dan | Reeling in the Years | A Decade of Steely Dan | |
| 30 | The Roches | Wedding Bell Blues | Time & Love, The Music of Laura Nyro | |
| 31 | James Brown | Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise) | In the Jungle Groove | |
| 32 | James Brown | Cold Sweat | CD of JB II: Cold Sweat and Other Soul Classics | |
Just a closer walk…Deeper Roots walks the gospel road once more, this time forgoing the ancestral roots for modern takes in black gospel, country gospel, and bluegrass from the Heartland. Our focus will be on some of the contemporary performers who cover with due recognition some of the great gospel standards. We’ll hear from Hugh Laurie, Willie Watson, Rodney Crowell, Bruce Cockburn, and Luther Dickinson…and that’s just a taste. We’ll hear the stories of Samson and Delilah alongside John the Revelator….right here on Deeper Roots…coming your way from the KWTF downtown studios.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Aubrey Ghent & Friends | Just A Closer Walk With Thee | 15 Down Home Gospel Classics | |
| 2 | Buddy Miller | There's A Higher Power | Universal United House Of Prayer | |
| 3 | Wade Bowen | Precious Memories | Then Sings My Soul: Songs for My Mother | |
| 4 | Mike Farris | Sit Down Servant | Salvation in Lights | |
| 5 | Bonnie Raitt & Maria Muldaur | My Journey to the Sky | Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe | |
| 6 | Johnny Cash | The Man Comes Around | American IV: Man Comes Around | |
| 7 | Jorma Kaukonen | What Are They Doing In Heaven Today | Blue Country Heart | |
| 8 | Rodney Crowell | Denomination Blues | Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South | |
| 9 | Willie Watson | Samson and Delilah | Folksinger Vol. 2 | |
| 10 | Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Peace in the Valley | Come on Back | |
| 11 | The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Amazing Grace | Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2 | |
| 12 | The Blind Boys of Alabama | I Keep On Walking | Almost Home | |
| 13 | Mavis Staples & Bonnie Raitt | Turn Me Around | Mavis Staples I'll Take You There: An All-Star Concert Celebration | |
| 14 | Rhiannon Giddens | Up Above My Head | Tomorrow Is My Turn | |
| 15 | Hugh Laurie | Didn't It Rain | Didn't It Rain (Deluxe) | |
| 16 | Linda Gail Lewis | This Train | Hard Rocking Woman | |
| 17 | Leo Welch | You Can't Hurry God | Sabougla Voices | |
| 18 | The Holmes Brothers | Farther Along | Speaking In Tongues | |
| 19 | Ollabelle | John The Revelator | Ollabelle | |
| 20 | Tom Waits | John The Revelator | God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson | |
| 21 | Luther Dickinson feat. the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band | Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King | God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson | |
| 22 | Bruce Cockburn | Twelve Gates To The City | Bone On Bone | |
| 23 | Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson | Family Bible | Django and Jimmie | |
| 24 | Willie and Bobbie Nelson | Old Time Religion | Farther Along | |
| 25 | Gillian Welch | Old Time Religion [Outtake] | Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg [Disc 2] | |
| 26 | Charlie Haden | A Voice From On High | Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy | |
| 27 | Rhiannon Giddens | Freedom Highway | Freedom Highway | |
The farmer, the farm, and songs of farming are at the core of this week’s theme show. Whether the songs’ focus is that of the hard-working folk of the farm, the raw materials, or the nostalgic reminders of life on the farm, we’ll push forward the playlist plough and take you to the barn for an early morning celebration with performers including bluegrass from James King, gritty Americana from Levon Helm and Bill Neely, core country from Bobby Bare and Porter Wagoner, or maybe some field recordings from the 20s featuring the likes of the Carolina Tar Heels…all of this music going Back On The Farm.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard | Farmer's Blues | Country Music | |
| 2 | Freeman Stowers | Sunrise On The Farm | Sinners and Saints: Complete Recorded Works 1926-1931 | |
| 3 | Bill Frisell | Farmer | Disfarmer | |
| 4 | Levon Helm | Poor Old Dirt Farmer | Dirt Farmer | |
| 5 | Bill Neely | Black Land Farmer | 16 Down Home Country Classics | |
| 6 | James King | Thirty Years of Farming | Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs | |
| 7 | Junior Sisk with Becky Isaacs Bowman and Sonya Isaacs Yeary | The Wheat Crop | Mac Wiseman – I Sang The Song | |
| 8 | Lemuel Jones | Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers) | Field Recordings, Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941) | |
| 9 | Peter Rowan | Let the Harvest Go To Seed | Bluegrass Boy | |
| 10 | Carolina Tar Heels | Got The Farm Land Blues | Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads | |
| 11 | Cisco Houston | Farmer's Lament | The Folkways Years: 1944-1961 | |
| 12 | J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers (With Morris Herbert) | 17 Living On The Farm | The Legendry J.E. Mainer, Volume 4 | |
| 13 | Walter Brennan | Old Rivers | Old Rivers | |
| 14 | The Bently Boys | Down On Penny's Farm | Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads | |
| 15 | Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur | Down on Penny's Farm | Penny's Farm | |
| 16 | The Four Wanderers | Farmer's Life For Me | Black Vocal Groups Vol. 9 (1929-1942) | |
| 17 | Ben & Ellen Harper | Farmer's Daughter | Childhood Home | |
| 18 | Bobby Bare | The Farmer Feeds Us All | Hard Time Hungrys | |
| 19 | Porter Wagoner | The Farmer and the Lord | 20 All-Time Greatest Hits | |
| 20 | Paula Brown | Farm Hollers | Hollerin' | |
| 21 | Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers | McDonald's Farm (1928) | Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 | |
| 22 | Bubby Bishop | I Want To Go Back To The Farm | The Great Vintage Country | |
| 23 | Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) | On A Little Two Acre Farm | Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58 | |
| 24 | Goose Island Ramblers | I Worked For a Farmer | Polkabilly | |
| 25 | Buster Carter & Preston Young | A Lazy Farmer Boy | Before The Blues Vol. 3 | |
| 26 | Rosetta Howard | Plow Hand Blues [Album Version] | Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950 | |
| 27 | Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys | I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven | King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail | |
| 28 | Fiddlin' John Carson | Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All [Remastered 2003] | Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series | |
| 29 | Ray Wylie Hubbard | After the Harvest | Crusades of the Restless Nights | |
| 30 | Dry Branch Fire Squad | Devil, Take The Farmer | 481 Bluegrass Class of 1990 | |
| 31 | Glen Campbell | Arkansas Farmboy | Adios | |
| 32 | Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies | When It's Harvest Time, Sweet Angeline | Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin' | |
| 33 | Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs With Mother Maybelle Carter | The Homestead On The Farm [Album Version] | Songs Of The Famous Carter Family | |
A Century of America's Music
