Night at the Opry & Ryman

All live recordings this week, all from the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman Auditorium. From its early years in a modest Insurance Building as the WSM Barn Dance, the Grand Ole Opry, for all its staid tradition, has become the capitol of country music. Selectively provincial from early on, it brought together country, gospel, and bluegrass radio listeners well into the Golden Age of Country. Deeper Roots digs into the dusty digital archives for recordings from those times in this week’s show plus brings you some new sounds that have grown from the early seeds sown by Uncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff and George Hay. We’ve got Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, and the Oak Ridge Quartet filling time alongside the Old Crow Medicine Show and Rhonda Vincent. Join in the revelry!

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Roy Acuff Night Train To Memphis Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics Amazon
2Stonewall Jackson Old Showboat (Live at the Grand Ole Opry 1970) Singles Amazon
3Hank Snow I've Been Everywhere Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics Amazon
4Bobby Bare Detroit City Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics Amazon
5The Osborne Brothers Take This Hammer Bluegrass at the Opry Amazon
6George Hamilton IV Abilene Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics Amazon
7Patsy Cline Walkin' After Midnight Live at the Opry Amazon
8Hank Williams I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living Grand Ole Opry Time Amazon
9Dave Dudley Six Days On The Road Hit The Road -Grand Ole Opry Live Classics Amazon
10Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton The Last Thing On My Mind Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets Amazon
11Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash Jackson Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets Amazon
12Patsy Cline Just A Closer Walk With Thee [Live (Ryman Auditorium)] The Patsy Cline Collection Amazon
13Oak Ridge Quartet Ole Time Religion Grand Ole Opry Time Amazon
14Oak Ridge Quartet Lead Me to That Rock Grand Ole Opry Time Amazon
15Ronnie Dunn & Rebecca Lynn Howard If I could Only Win Your Love Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets Amazon
16Bill Monroe Can You Hear Me Callin' Bluegrass at the Opry Amazon
17Mac Wiseman Jimmie Brown The Newsboy Bluegrass Legands – Live At The Ryman Amazon
18Rhonda Vincent Hit Parade Of Love Bluegrass Legands – Live At The Ryman Amazon
19Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Back Up and Push 1953-X6-XX Grand Old Opry Amazon
20Ricky Skaggs & Emmylou Harris Could You Love Me One More Time Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets Amazon
21Glen Campbell & Steve Wariner The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Grand Ole Opry Classic Collection: Duets Amazon
22Jim & Jesse Wild Georgia Boy Bluegrass at the Opry Amazon
23The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Grand Ole Opry Song Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1 Amazon
24Old Crow Medicine Show Welcome To The Ryman Live at the Ryman Amazon
25Old Crow Medicine Show Tell It To Me Live at the Ryman Amazon
26Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers Smoke Along The Track At The Ryman [Live] Amazon
27Marty Stuart Orange Blossom Special Live at the Ryman Amazon
28Band Of Horses Everything's Gonna Be Undone (Live Acoustic) Acoustic At The Ryman (Live) Amazon
29Marty Stuart Hillbilly Rock Live at the Ryman Amazon
30Levon Helm No Depression In Heaven Ramble at the Ryman Amazon
31Minnie Pearl Comedy Grand Ole Opry Time Amazon
32Levon Helm Evangeline Ramble at the Ryman Amazon

Big Weekend

If we can’t party in person, why not make it a virtual one. Join Dave Stroud for some community radio shenanigans on Friday mornings on KOWS (or Friday evenings on KWTF) as he celebrates a century of America’s music. This week’s another free form romp with a vibrant (and sometimes raucous) collection of sounds. He’s got songs about weekends, the quest for love, the middle child, and moving on with NRBQ, k.d. lang, Daniel Romano, Bobby Moore, and The Jive Five…all for you. From mid-century classic country to sixties R&B and soul to honker and some classic Richard Berry.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Jarmels A Little Bit of Soap Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 1 Amazon
2Charlie Rich Lonely Weekends Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich Amazon
3Tom Petty Big Weekend Highway Companion Amazon
4NRBQ It's A Wild Weekend Peek-A-Boo: The Best Of NRBQ (1969-1989) [Disc 2] Amazon
5George Jackson Weekend Love Leavin' Your Homework Undone Amazon
6k.d. lang & the Reclines Full Moon Full of Love Absolute Torch and Twang Amazon
7Mink Deville Cadillac Walk The Mink De Ville Collection Amazon
8Mink Deville You Better Move On Coup De Grace Plus Where Angels Fear To Tread Amazon
9The Derailers If It's Really Got To Be This Way Here Come The Derailers Amazon
10Ruth Brown Lucky Lips Miss Rhythm Greatest Hits And More Disc 2 Amazon
11Etta James Hickory Dickory Dock Singles 1957 – 1962 Amazon
12Varetta Dillard Mama Don't Want (What Poppa Don't Want) Got You On My Mind Amazon
13Buddy & Ella Johnson (Gotta Go) Upside Your Head Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
14Creedence Clearwater Revival Hey Tonight Pendulum Amazon
15John Fogerty Almost Saturday Night (with Keith Urban) Wrote a Song for Everyone Amazon
16Daniel Romano Middle Child Come Cry With Me Amazon
17Wanda Jackson Dona'a Wan'a Rockin' With Wanda [US Bonus Tracks] Amazon
18Willie Nelson Overtime (with Lucinda Williams) It Always Will Be Amazon
19Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces Searching For My Love Chess Uptown Soul Amazon
20Ray Charles Ain't That Love Ray Charles – 93 Essential Tracks Amazon
21Viola Watkins It Must Be Love Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
22The 5 Royales Miracle of Love The Complete Singles 1952-1962 Amazon
23The Jive Five I'm A Happy Man Rock Is Dead, But It Won't Lie Down: 24 Greatest Hits Of All Time, Vol. 2 Amazon
24Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars Washer Woman Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars Amazon
25Big Sheba Soft Soapin' Mama Stompin' 22 – Crazed Rhythm 'N' Blues Pounders! Amazon
26Big Joe Turner Feeling Happy Big Joe Turner: The Definitive Blues Collection [[Disc 2]] Amazon
27Richard Berry & The Dreamers Daddy Daddy The Flair Story – Dust My Rhythm & Blues Amazon
28Richard Berry Oh! Oh! Get Out Of The Car The Flair Story – Dust My Rhythm & Blues Amazon
29Thurston Harris Hey Little Girl The Aladdin Story (Pt. 2) Amazon
30Dave Edmunds Shape I'm In Information Amazon
31The Andrews Sisters I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 3] Amazon
32Hank Penny Two Timin' Mama King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1] Amazon
33Little Jimmy Dickens I Just Had a Bar of Soap Warped 6668 – Little Jimmy Dickens – 1965 – 1966 Amazon
34Elmore James & His Broomdusters Goodbye The Flair Story – Dust My Rhythm & Blues Amazon
35Tom Waits Back In The Crowd Bad As Me Amazon

Sixties Folk Alley

The generation born from war and into war for the sake of war. There was bound to be an ideological plate shift and the epicenter could be found in and around New York City where a melting pot of sounds from Cafe Wa to Macdougall Street to Bleecker Street wafted across the country, westward on the mainstream. In our show today we’ll take a chronological run through the traditional folk that filled the decade of the Sixties. We’ll hear from The Kingston Trio, Trini Lopez, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Tom Paxton in our Friday morning show, coming to you from the heart of the Cherry Street Historic District in Santa Rosa, California. Join us for odes to little boxes, cotton fields, rain, sunshine, and windy city odes to the social and political scorn of the times.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Brothers Four Greenfields The Time Life Treasury Of Folk Music [Disc 2] Amazon
2The Kingston Trio Everglades The History Of American Folk Amazon
3The Highwaymen Cotton Fields Treasury of Folk Music Vol 2 [Disc 2] Amazon
4The Limeliters A Dollar Down American Music Library: The Hits Of 1961 Amazon
5The Highwaymen Michael The Time Life Treasury Of Folk Music, Vol. 1 [Disc 1] Amazon
6Kingston Trio Where Have All the Flowers Gone Your Hit Parade – The Early '60S Amazon
7Burl Ives A Little Bitty Tear Golden Age of Country Volume 2: Hard-to-Find Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
8Peter, Paul & Mary If I Had A Hammer Peter, Paul & Mary Amazon
9Trini Lopez If I Had A Hammer Yesterday's Gone [Disc 1] Amazon
10Bob Dylan Blowin' in the Wind Biograph Disc 1 Amazon
11The Kingston Trio Greenback Dollar The Folk Years: Simple Song Of Freedom [Disc 1] Amazon
12The New Christy Minstrels Green Green Green, Green Amazon
13The New Christy Minstrels Saturday Night Treasury Of Folk Music, Vol 3 [Disc 2] Amazon
14The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire) Dominique The Folk Years [Disc 5] Amazon
15Peter, Paul & Mary Tell It On The Mountain In the Wind Amazon
16Pete Seeger Little Boxes Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 3] Amazon
17The New Christy Minstrels Today Treasury of Folk Music Vol 2 [Disc 2] Amazon
18Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' Artist's Choice: Johnny Cash Amazon
19Tom Paxton I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Best Of Tom Paxton: I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Amazon
20Gale Garnett We'll Sing In The Sunshine Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's. Vol. 2 Amazon
21The Serendipity Singers Don't Let The Rain Come Down Best Of The Folk Era Amazon
22The Serendipity Singers Beans In My Ears Time Life – The Folk Years – Reason To Believe [Disc 2] Amazon
23Simon & Garfunkel The Sound Of Silence The Essential Simon & Garfunkel Amazon
24Trini Lopez Lemon Tree Best Of The Folk Era Amazon
25Barry McGuire Eve Of Destruction Singers & Songwriters: Troubadours [Disc 2] Amazon
26Phil Ochs I Ain't Marching Anymore Mojo-2010-11-Journey to Love Amazon
27Pozo-Seco Singers Time Time Life – The Folk Years – Reason To Believe [Disc 2] Amazon
28We Five You Were On My Mind Dick Bartley Presents One Hit Wonders Of The '60s Vol. 1 Amazon
29Rooftop Singers Walk Right In Dick Bartley Presents One Hit Wonders Of The '60s Vol. 1 Amazon
30Bob Lind Elusive Butterfly Yesterday's Gone [Disc 2] Amazon
31Bobby Darin If I Were A Carpenter Easy Listening Gold: 1966-1967 Amazon
32Judy Collins Both Sides Now Wildflowers / Who Knows Where The Time Goes (International Release) Amazon
33The Irish Rovers The Unicorn The Time Life Treasury Of Folk Music, Vol. 1 [Disc 1] Amazon

International Women’s Day ’20

Blues, folk, and plenty of tradition. Songs that celebrate sisters in a fight for equal rights. That’s right. This is still part of the conversation in the 21st century. The right to vote. The right to equal pay. And the right to choose. There is still exclusivity beyond measure and yet gender equality is still a topic, not a reality. This week’s show stands up for International Women’s Day, held this past Sunday, March 8th, around the world. Deeper Roots digs deep for soul from Aretha, Nina, and Betty Wright, blues from Lucille Bogan  and Bessie Smith, and fresh sounds from Amy Rigby, TLC, and the Secret Sisters on a Friday morning in Sonoma County. Join us.  #EachforEqual #IWD2020.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Betty Wright Clean Up Woman Funk Soul Sisters Amazon
2Aretha Franklin Respect Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings [Disc 1] Amazon
3Aretha Franklin Chain Of Fools 30 Greatest Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
4TLC No Scrubs Fanmail Amazon
5Destiny's Child Independent Woman, Part 1 Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
6Lauryn Hill 246-Doo Wop (That Thing) Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
7Lesley Gore You Don't Own Me Dancing Queens [Disc 1] Amazon
8The Secret Sisters You Don't Own Me Anymore You Don't Own Me Anymore Amazon
9Billie Holiday I Get Along Without You Very Well Lady In Satin Amazon
10Helen Reddy I Am Woman AM Gold 1970-1974 Amazon
11Dolly Parton Just Because I'm A Woman Just Because I'm A Woman Amazon
12Dolly Parton 9 To 5 I Will Always Love You – The Essential Dolly Parton Vol. 1 Amazon
13Loretta Lynn The Pill Loretta Lynn Legendery Country Singer Amazon
14Jeannie C. Riley Harper Valley P.T.A. Superstars of Country Easy Loving [Disc 2] Amazon
15Kitty Wells It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns – The Soundtrack [Disc 1] Amazon
16Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Don't Put Her Down You Helped Put Her There The Rounder Records Story Amazon
17Peasall Sisters I Never Will Marry Home to You Amazon
18Amy Rigby Girls Got It Bad Little Fugitive Amazon
19The Miller Sisters Ten Cats Down Rockin' Memphis [Disc 3] Amazon
20Viola Wells (Miss Rhapsody) Were Sisters Under the Skin Were Sisters Under the Skin – Female Blues & Boogie 1944 to 1949 Amazon
21Bessie Smith Sam Jones Blues ABC Of The Blues Vol 39 Amazon
22Georgia White The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Woman Cryin' For Her Man Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1] Amazon
23Lucille Bogan Women Won't Need No Men Vol. 1-1923-30 Amazon
24Billie Holiday You Let Me Down Quintessential: Volume 1, 1933 – 1935 Amazon
25Nina Simone Four Women Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
26Bonnie Raitt Women Be Wise Bonnie Raitt Amazon
27Aretha Franklin Think 30 Greatest Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
28Eric Bibb, Rory Block & Maria Muldaur My Sisters And Brothers Sisters & Brothers Amazon