Who We Lost in 2017

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
1Fats Domino My Girl Josephine A Lot Of Dominos Amazon
2Paul Kanter & Jefferson Starship The Baby Tree Blows Against The Empire Amazon
3Rosalie Sorrels Rock, Salt And Nails Cover to Cover: The Originals, Vol. 2 [Disc 1] Amazon
4Harry Dean Stanton Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain Partly Fiction Amazon
5Mark Selby Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
6Wayne Cochran Last Kiss 30 Country Hits – A History of Country Music Amazon
7Chuck Berry Back In The U.S.A. Johnny B. Goode-His Complete 50's Chess Recordings Amazon
8Sonny Burgess Red Headed Woman Rockin' Memphis [Disc 3] Amazon
9The Allman Brothers Band Melissa Stand Back: The Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
10Tower Of Power You're Still A Young Man Art Laboe's Memories Of El Monte/The Roots Of L.A.'s Rock And Roll Amazon
11The Main Ingredient Everybody Plays the Fool 70s Music Explosion – Miracles Amazon
12Sister Sledge We Are Family Ultimate Disco Amazon
13J. Geils Band Give It To Me Must Have Got Lost Amazon
14Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Don't Do Me Like That Damn the Torpedoes Amazon
15The Smithereens Blood & Roses Blown to Smithereens: The Best of the Smithereens Amazon
16Lonnie Brooks Mr. Hot Shot Stompin' 3 Amazon
17Steam Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye 45's on CD, Vol. 4: 1967-1969 Amazon
18Magic Slim, Billy Branch & James Cotton When The Levee Breaks, Pt. 1 Whole Lotta Blues: Songs Of Led Zeppelin Amazon
19Della Reese Don't You Know Magic Moments – The Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 1) Amazon
20Keely Smith/Louis Prima That Old Black Magic Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 5: Wild Cool & Swingin Amazon
21Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Ev'ry Street's A Boulevard In Old New York The Capitol Years [Disc 1] Amazon
22The Partridge Family I Think I Love You Have A Nice Day: Super Hits Of The '70s, Vol. 3 Amazon
23Al Jarreau We're In This Love Together BMG Vol. 03 Disc 01 1981-1983 Amazon
24D.L. Menard The Back Door The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999 Amazon
25Mel Tillis Who's Julie Only Country – 1965-1969 Amazon
26Don Williams Amanda The Definitive Collection Amazon
27Glen Campbell Rhinestone Cowboy 70s Music Explosion – Magic Disc 2 Amazon
28Johnny Cash Rusty Cage Unchained Amazon
29Steely Dan Reeling in the Years A Decade of Steely Dan Amazon
30The Roches Wedding Bell Blues Time & Love, The Music of Laura Nyro Amazon
31James Brown Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise) In the Jungle Groove Amazon
32James Brown Cold Sweat CD of JB II: Cold Sweat and Other Soul Classics Amazon

Contemporary Americana Gospel

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
1Aubrey Ghent & Friends Just A Closer Walk With Thee 15 Down Home Gospel Classics Amazon
2Buddy Miller There's A Higher Power Universal United House Of Prayer Amazon
3Wade Bowen Precious Memories Then Sings My Soul: Songs for My Mother Amazon
4Mike Farris Sit Down Servant Salvation in Lights Amazon
5Bonnie Raitt & Maria Muldaur My Journey to the Sky Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe Amazon
6Johnny Cash The Man Comes Around American IV: Man Comes Around Amazon
7Jorma Kaukonen What Are They Doing In Heaven Today Blue Country Heart Amazon
8Rodney Crowell Denomination Blues Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South Amazon
9Willie Watson Samson and Delilah Folksinger Vol. 2 Amazon
10Jimmie Dale Gilmore Peace in the Valley Come on Back Amazon
11The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Amazing Grace Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2 Amazon
12The Blind Boys of Alabama I Keep On Walking Almost Home Amazon
13Mavis Staples & Bonnie Raitt Turn Me Around Mavis Staples I'll Take You There: An All-Star Concert Celebration Amazon
14Rhiannon Giddens Up Above My Head Tomorrow Is My Turn Amazon
15Hugh Laurie Didn't It Rain Didn't It Rain (Deluxe) Amazon
16Linda Gail Lewis This Train Hard Rocking Woman Amazon
17Leo Welch You Can't Hurry God Sabougla Voices Amazon
18The Holmes Brothers Farther Along Speaking In Tongues Amazon
19Ollabelle John The Revelator Ollabelle Amazon
20Tom Waits John The Revelator God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
21Luther 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 Amazon
22Bruce Cockburn Twelve Gates To The City Bone On Bone Amazon
23Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson Family Bible Django and Jimmie Amazon
24Willie and Bobbie Nelson Old Time Religion Farther Along Amazon
25Gillian Welch Old Time Religion [Outtake] Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg [Disc 2] Amazon
26Charlie Haden A Voice From On High Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
27Rhiannon Giddens Freedom Highway Freedom Highway Amazon

Songs of John Hiatt

From the ‘pink bedroom’ and edgy alternative to blues and country, R&B and everything in between…John Hiatt’s catalog of recordings is only surpassed by the library of his songs penned over the past fifty years. We’ll take a look back, primarily focusing on covers from his contemporaries; names like Rosanne Cash, Iggy Pop, Bonnie Raitt, Carrie Rodriguez, and Buddy Guy are but just a small sampling of the performers we’ll hear from on another Friday evening on Sonoma County community radio.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1John Hiatt Crossing Muddy Waters Crossing Muddy Waters Amazon
2Buddy Guy Feels Like Rain Feels Like Rain Amazon
3Emmylou Harris Icy Blue Heart Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
4Rosanne Cash The Way We Make a Broken Heart Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
5Jo-El Sonnier I'll Never Get Over You Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
6Flaco Jiminez Across The Borderline featuring John Hiatt (Album Version) Partners Amazon
7Terrance Simien It Hasn't Happened Yet Rollin' into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
8Carrie Rodriguez Big Love Love and Circumstances Amazon
9Rosanne Cash It Hasn't Happened Yet Retrospective Amazon
10John Hiatt Cry Love Walk On Amazon
11Kelly Willis Drive South Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
12Bonnie Raitt Lover's Will [Radio Edit Version] The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003 [US] Amazon
13Commander Cody Commander Cody-Tennessee Plates Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers Amazon
14Gregg Allman Memphis in the Meantime Searching for Simplicity Amazon
15Marshall Crenshaw Someplace Where Love Can't Find Me Good Evening Amazon
16Nick Lowe She Don't Love Nobody Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
17Dave Edmunds I Got Your Number Closer to the Flame Amazon
18Iggy Pop Something Wild Brick by Brick Amazon
19Mitch Ryder Where Is the Next One Coming From? Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
20Asleep at the Wheel This Is the Way We Make a Broken Heart Pasture Prime Amazon
21Rodney Crowell She Loves the Jerk Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt Amazon
22Rosanne Cash Pink Bedroom Retrospective Amazon
23John Hiatt Your Love Is My Rest Walk On Amazon
24Joe Cocker Have a Little Faith in Me Ultimate Collection Amazon
25John Hiatt Real Fine Love Stolen Moments Amazon
26The Band Bound By Love Jubilation Amazon
27John Hiatt Master of Disaster [2005] Master of Disaster Amazon

Back on the Farm

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
1Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard Farmer's Blues Country Music Amazon
2Freeman Stowers Sunrise On The Farm Sinners and Saints: Complete Recorded Works 1926-1931 Amazon
3Bill Frisell Farmer Disfarmer Amazon
4Levon Helm Poor Old Dirt Farmer Dirt Farmer Amazon
5Bill Neely Black Land Farmer 16 Down Home Country Classics Amazon
6James King Thirty Years of Farming Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
7Junior Sisk with Becky Isaacs Bowman and Sonya Isaacs Yeary The Wheat Crop Mac Wiseman – I Sang The Song Amazon
8Lemuel Jones Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers) Field Recordings, Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941) Amazon
9Peter Rowan Let the Harvest Go To Seed Bluegrass Boy Amazon
10Carolina Tar Heels Got The Farm Land Blues Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
11Cisco Houston Farmer's Lament The Folkways Years: 1944-1961 Amazon
12J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers (With Morris Herbert) 17 Living On The Farm The Legendry J.E. Mainer, Volume 4 Amazon
13Walter Brennan Old Rivers Old Rivers Amazon
14The Bently Boys Down On Penny's Farm Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
15Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur Down on Penny's Farm Penny's Farm Amazon
16The Four Wanderers Farmer's Life For Me Black Vocal Groups Vol. 9 (1929-1942) Amazon
17Ben & Ellen Harper Farmer's Daughter Childhood Home Amazon
18Bobby Bare The Farmer Feeds Us All Hard Time Hungrys Amazon
19Porter Wagoner The Farmer and the Lord 20 All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
20Paula Brown Farm Hollers Hollerin' Amazon
21Warren 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 Amazon
22Bubby Bishop I Want To Go Back To The Farm The Great Vintage Country Amazon
23Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) On A Little Two Acre Farm Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58 Amazon
24Goose Island Ramblers I Worked For a Farmer Polkabilly Amazon
25Buster Carter & Preston Young A Lazy Farmer Boy Before The Blues Vol. 3 Amazon
26Rosetta Howard Plow Hand Blues [Album Version] Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950 Amazon
27Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail Amazon
28Fiddlin' 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 Amazon
29Ray Wylie Hubbard After the Harvest Crusades of the Restless Nights Amazon
30Dry Branch Fire Squad Devil, Take The Farmer 481 Bluegrass Class of 1990 Amazon
31Glen Campbell Arkansas Farmboy Adios Amazon
32Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies When It's Harvest Time, Sweet Angeline Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin' Amazon
33Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs With Mother Maybelle Carter The Homestead On The Farm [Album Version] Songs Of The Famous Carter Family Amazon