Blues from a lonely place. From blues to doo wop to southern soul…from behind prison walls to that singular window in that singular room looking out from a high-rise hotel onto a busy street in urban anywhere, America. Today’s music is all about being alone. Our show explores songs written with the lonesome muse on the shoulder. Ray Charles, Joe Liggins, Earl King, and Champion Jack Dupree join in as we ponder lonesome times from the heart of the solitary blues.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Booker T. & The MG's | Lonely Avenue | Green Onions |  |
| 2 | Ray Charles | Lonely Avenue | Doc Pomus: Singer And Songwriter [Disc 2] | |
| 3 | Mel Walker | Feelin' Mighty Lonesome | Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2 | |
| 4 | Johnny Ace | So Lonely | Memorial Album | |
| 5 | Smiley Turner | Lonely Boy Blues | Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 5]: West Coast Blues V1 | |
| 6 | Julia Lee | Have You Ever Been Lonely | Kansas City Star [Disc 2] | |
| 7 | Irma Thomas | Woman Left Lonely | My Heart's in Memphis: The Songs of Dan Penn | |
| 8 | Maxine Sullivan | Kind'a Lonesome | Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 1] | |
| 9 | T-Bone Walker | Blue Mood | Best Of Black & White & Imperial Years | |
| 10 | Shakey Jake | Gimme A Smile | The Bluesville Years Volume 10: Country Roads, Country Days | |
| 11 | The Holmes Brothers | I'm So Lonely | Simple Truths | |
| 12 | Joe Liggins | Blues For Tanya | Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers | |
| 13 | Sam Cooke | Lonely Island | The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (1 of 4) | |
| 14 | Eddie Burns | Lonely Man Plea | Delmark: 50 Years Of Jazz & Blues: Blues [Disc 1] | |
| 15 | James Winfield | Lonely, Lonely, Nights | Lonely Lonely Nights | |
| 16 | Champion Jack Dupree | Lonely Road Blues | Two Classic Albums Plus Singles | |
| 17 | Chris Kenner | I'm Lonely, Take Me | Land of 1000 Dances | |
| 18 | Earl King | Those Lonely Lonely Nights | Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound | |
| 19 | Eddie Boyd | Got Lonesome Here | Third Degree (The Blues Collection Vol.58) | |
| 20 | Johnny Bragg | Hurt & Lonely | The Johnny Bragg Story | |
| 21 | Violet Hall | (All Alone) I Sit And Cry | The Mercury Blues Story (1945-1955) – Southwest Blues, Vol. 2 | |
| 22 | Fats Domino | I'm Alone Because I Love You | Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 8 | |
| 23 | Clarence "Frogman" Henry | Lonely Street | Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry | |
| 24 | Freddie King | Lonesome Whistle Blues | Ultimate Collection | |
| 25 | Lowell Fulson | Everyday I Have The Blues | Trying to Find My Baby | |
| 26 | Smiley Lewis | Lonesome Highway | ABC Of The Blues Vol 25 | |
| 27 | Nappy Brown | I'm Getting Lonesome | Down In The Alley – The Complete Savoy Singles A's & B's | |
| 28 | Little Richard | Lonesome And Blue | The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection | |
| 29 | Ray Charles & Betty Carter | Alone Together | Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated To You | |
| 30 | Ella Fitzgerald | I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town | Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 | |
| 31 | Lillie Mae Kirkman | Lonesome | Female Blues – The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 (1938-1949) | |
| 32 | Julia Lee | Back Street (06-13-47) | 1947 | |
Their songs are iconic and their voices, unforgettable. From the deep south and southeast, from the church choirs to the small urban clubs, there were only a handful of female soul vocalists who hit it big with crossover chart sounds.  But there were so many more whose voices did not find the venue or the right producer or label to take them to the next level. They were mostly unknown but in our show this week, we’ll try to share examples of what might have been. We’ll hear from Veda Brown, Carla Thomas, Ruby Johnson, and the great Judy Clay on a show full of upbeat and backbeat soul, brass, Stax, and Volt. Discover those female soul sounds that continue to inspire and influence…here on Deeper Roots on a Friday morning in West County.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Veda Brown | Short Stopping | Stax 50th Anniversary Collection [Disc 3] | |
| 2 | Barbara & the Browns | In My Heart | The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 Disc 4 | |
| 3 | Barbara & the Browns | My Lover | The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 Disc 4 | |
| 4 | Carla Thomas | B-A-B-Y | Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1] | |
| 5 | Carla Thomas | I Want to Be Your Baby | The Queen Alone | |
| 6 | Carla Thomas | Give Me Enough (To Keep Me Going) | The Queen Alone [Expanded Reissue] | |
| 7 | Jean Wells | Have A Little Mercy | Soul On Soul – Deluxe Edition | |
| 8 | Jean Wells | Ordinary Woman | Soul On Soul – Deluxe Edition | |
| 9 | Barbara Stephens | I Don't Worry | 60's Southern Soul, Vol. 2 | |
| 10 | Veda Brown | Take It Off Her (And Put It On Me) | Private Numbers | |
| 11 | Barbara Lynn | You'll Lose A Good Thing | Art Laboe's Dedicated To You, Vol. 2 | |
| 12 | Barbara Lynn | You're Losing Me | After Hours 3 – More Northern Soul Masters | |
| 13 | Ruby Johnson | Come to Me My Darling | The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (6 of 9) | |
| 14 | Ruby Johnson | I'll Run Your Hurt Away | Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Vol. 2 | |
| 15 | Irma Thomas | Gone | Soul Queen of New Orleans | |
| 16 | Irma Thomas | Look Up (AKA Whenever) | Soul Queen of New Orleans | |
| 17 | Irma Thomas | Ruler of My Heart | Soul Queen of New Orleans | |
| 18 | Mitty Collier | I Had A Talk With My Man | Chess Uptown Soul | |
| 19 | Sugar Pie DeSanto | Here You Come Running | Chess Uptown Soul | |
| 20 | Fontella Bass | The Soul Of A Man | Chess Uptown Soul | |
| 21 | Judy Clay | You Can't Run Away from Your Heart | The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (8 of 9) | |
| 22 | Judy Clay & William Bell | Private Number | Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1] | |
| 23 | Judy Clay & William Bell | Love-Eye-Tis | Private Numbers | |
| 24 | Betty Harris | Cry to Me | Soul from the South | |
| 25 | Betty Harris | Mean Man | Soul from the South | |
| 26 | Betty Harris | I'm Evil Tonight | Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky 2-2 1957- | |
| 27 | Linda Lyndell | What A Man | Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1] | |
| 28 | Etta James | Pushover | Chess Uptown Soul | |
| 29 | Wendy Rene | Give You What I Got | The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 Disc 4 | |
| 30 | Wendy Rene | After Laughter (Comes Tears) | Oxford American 10th Anniversary Music Sampler, [Disc 1]: "Future Masters" [Oxford American, 2008] | |
| 31 | Jan Bradley | Mama Didn't Lie | Chess Uptown Soul | |
| 32 | Shirley Brown | Woman To Woman | Stax Number Ones | |
The argument has been made that Bob Dylan’s earliest music contained more prophetic prose than his deep dive into the Christian faith in Slow Train Coming. His pen had always leaned on the big story lines of Old and New Testaments but he went all out, much as he did in his ‘rock’ conversion, when he made the direct connection to matters of the soul that he would find in the Bible. This week’s show features the gospel songs of Bob Dylan, performed by gospel greats The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Fairfield Four, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, and so many others. Tune into Sonoma County Community radio for a Dylan gospel fest including Maria Muldaur and Willie Nile.
Winsome sounds from every corner, opening with Johnny Horton and closing somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line with the soul of Barbara Lynn. Today’s show reaches into the jazz bins for something new and old…a Duke Ellington cover by Wynton Marsalis; gospel covers by Nick Lowe, tradition from Bill Monroe, and Johnny Cash along with a number of so-called Cash-a-likes. It’s a free form collection in our Friday morning show from West County. So what’s it all got to do with Alaska, you ask. Not much, only a great song name to suggest cool music and a Friday full of colorful music.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Johnny Horton | When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below) | Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (2 of 2) | |
| 2 | Bobby Bare | Delia's Gone (1965) | All American Boy – CD 4 | |
| 3 | Josh White, Jr. | Delia's Gone | Classic African-American Ballads (Smithsonian Folkways) | |
| 4 | David Johansen & The Harry Smiths | Delia | David Johansen and the Harry Smiths | |
| 5 | Waylon Jennings | Cedartown Georgia | Singles | |
| 6 | Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys | In The Pines | 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – Best Of Bluegrass | |
| 7 | Marty Robbins | Big Iron | All-Time Greatest Hits | |
| 8 | John Prine | The Lonesome Friends Of Science | The Tree Of Forgiveness | |
| 9 | Spuyten Duyvil | The Cruel War | Social Hour Music | |
| 10 | Madam Edna Gallmon Cooke & The Mount Vernon Men's Choir | Angels, Angels, Angels | Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 | |
| 11 | Nick Lowe | Children Go Where I Send Thee | Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection For All The Family | |
| 12 | Sons Of South | Didn't It Rain Children | The Best Of Nashboro Gospel | |
| 13 | Gospel Creators | I'm a Child of My God | This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982 | |
| 14 | The Blind Boys Of Alabama | Atom Bomb | Atom Bomb | |
| 15 | The Impressions with the Riley Hampton Orchestra | Shorty's Got To Go | Bandera Doo Wop | |
| 16 | Ella Mae Morse | Smack Dab In The Middle | Best Of The Rockabilly Rockin' Years | |
| 17 | Big Bill Broonzy | You've Changed | Four Classic Albums | |
| 18 | Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five | Junco Partner | Louis Jordan: Let the Good Times Roll – The Anthology 1938-1953 | |
| 19 | Dr. John | Somebody Changed The Lock | Definitive Pop Collection | |
| 20 | Wynton Marsalis Septet | Creole Love Call | United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas | |
| 21 | Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | Creole Love Call | Jazz in the Charts – Disc 7 – 1928 | |
| 22 | Carlos Zuleta Y Su Conjunto "El Abuelo" | Los Bomberos (Cha Cha Cha) | Vintage Cuba Selection from EPs Collectors | |
| 23 | Johnny Cash | Waiting For A Train | Unearthed, Vol.1: Who's Gonna Cry | |
| 24 | Johnny Doe | Devil Train | Cash-A-Likes | |
| 25 | Bobby Wayne | Big Train | Cash-A-Likes | |
| 26 | Dane Stinit | Muddy Ole River [Near Memphis Tennessee] | Original Sun Recordings | |
| 27 | Fred Carter | (You'll Have To) Come And Get It | Boppin' By The Bayou – Baby Dolls & Drive-Ins | |
| 28 | Elvis Presley | King Creole | 2nd To None | |
| 29 | Jean Wells | Your Lovin's Got The Best Of Me (John Morales Mix) | Soul On Soul – Deluxe Edition | |
| 30 | Little Esther Phillips | Better Beware | Heart to Heart | |
| 31 | The Chantels | Maybe | The Best of the Chantels | |
| 32 | Barbara Lynn | Nice And Easy | A Good Woman: The Complete Tribe & Jet Stream Singles 1966-1979 | |
| 33 | Joan Baez | The President Sang Amazing Grace | Whistle Down the Wind | |
A Century of America's Music
