It’s one of the novelty topics but that’s only whistling in the graveyard now, isn’t it? An episode of vipers and wild nights backstage, a reflection of the party atmosphere and the debauchery that would often take place after long nights of performing and jiving. We’ll also touch on the devil’s weed, as it was once known before the recognition of Victorian sensibilities was ejected in favor of common sense. The music will include primarily blues and jazz but we’ll also dip into some later novelty sounds to keep us all honest with the topics of coke, opium, marijuana, and pills on the agenda. Sweet bath house sounds from Bette Midler, wistful sounds from Phil Lawrence and Dan Hicks take center stage alongside the music of The Cats & The Fiddle, Fats Waller, Barney Bigard, and Cab Calloway. Quite a lineup and quite a topic surrounded by junkies, reefers, hadacol concoctions, and mellow stuff…so we hope you’ll drop by on a Friday morning in Sonoma County.
| No. | Artist |
Title |
Album |
Buy |
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| 1 | Willie Mabon |
Got To Have Some |
I'm The Fixer : The Best Of The USA Records Sessions |
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| 2 | The Ink Spots |
That Cat Is High |
Cocaine Blues |
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| 3 | The Cats & The Fiddle |
Killin' Jive |
The Very Best Of |
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| 4 | The Spirits of Rhythm |
Junk Man |
Cocaine Blues |
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| 5 | Cleo Brown |
The Stuff Is Here And It's Mellow |
The Legendary Cleo Brown |
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| 6 | Champion Jack Dupree |
Junker's Blues |
ABC Of The Blues Vol 6 |
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| 7 | Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five |
Junco Partner |
Louis Jordan: Let the Good Times Roll – The Anthology 1938-1953 |
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| 8 | Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks |
Long Comma Viper |
The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973 |
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| 9 | Phil Lawrence |
Viper's Dream |
Mandolin Heaven |
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| 10 | Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys |
You're a Viper |
Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes |
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| 11 | Louis Armstrong |
Song Of The Vipers [Album Version] |
Louis Armstrong: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934 |
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| 12 | Lalo Guerrero |
Marihuana Boogie |
Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 1] |
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| 13 | Bette Midler |
Marahuana |
Songs For The New Depression |
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| 14 | Julia Lee |
Marijuana |
Kansas City Star [Disc 4] |
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| 15 | Fats Waller |
The Reefer Song |
Last Testament His Final Recor |
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| 16 | Barney Bigard Sextet |
Sweet Marihuana Brown |
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs |
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| 17 | Larry Adler |
Smoking Reefers |
The Ultimate 30's & 40's Reefer Songs |
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| 18 | Johnny Price |
Marijuana, The Devil Flower |
Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) |
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| 19 | Johnny Cash |
Leave That Junk Alone |
The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 2] |
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| 20 | Hot Lips Page |
Feelin' High And Happy |
Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3] |
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| 21 | Ella Fitzgerald |
When I Get Low I Get High |
Cryin' Mood |
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| 22 | Cab Calloway |
Kickin' The Gong Around |
The Art Deco Music Collection: Cotton Club Stomp |
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| 23 | Julia Lee |
Pipe Dreams |
Kansas City Star [Disc 5] |
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| 24 | Tampa Red |
That Stuff Is Here |
Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard |
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| 25 | Cedar Creek Sheik |
Don't Use That Stuff |
Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice |
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| 26 | Dick Justice |
Cocaine |
Rough Guide To The Blues Songsters |
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| 27 | Reverend Gary Davis |
Cocaine Blues |
Blues And Ragtime |
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| 28 | Charley Jordan |
Just A Spoonful |
Cocaine Blues |
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| 29 | Slim & Slam |
Chinatown, My Chinatown |
Cocaine Blues |
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| 30 | Dr. John |
Junko Partner |
The Ultimate Dr. John |
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| 31 | The Treniers |
Hadacole (That's All) |
They Rock! They Roll! They Swing! |
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Quaint, sweet, nostalgic…just a few adjectives to describe today’s music. Digging into the digital bins we’ve surfaced some of the more familiar of tunes from the last century. Early century pop, country, jazz and vocal harmonies all being serenades with upbeat and good natured favorites of the Great American Songbook. We’ll hear from Fats Waller, Eddie Condon, Ted Lewis, the Sons of the Pioneers, and Blind Blake with songs that ring a true bell in the heart. Songs about lazy rivers, love letters, the lovesick blues, and Kentucky moon. Don’t let yourself get carried away as you lean in closer to the speakers. We certainly don’t want you to hurt yourself. KOWS Community radio is a connection worth making with an eclectic blend of sounds from up and down the genre expanses…streaming to planet Earth at http://www.FreeSpeechNoBull.com. Join us.
| No. | Artist |
Title |
Album |
Buy |
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| 1 | Fats Waller |
Ain't Misbehavin' |
Music By Fats Waller |
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| 2 | Gene Austin |
Love Letters In The Sand |
A Time To Relax |
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| 3 | Gene Austin |
My Blue Heaven |
A Time To Relax |
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| 4 | Ted Lewis |
I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby |
Is Everybody Happy Now? |
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| 5 | Bing Crosby |
Someday, Sweetheart [Single Version] |
Bing Crosby And Some Jazz Friends |
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| 6 | The Boswell Sisters Accompanied By The Dorsey Brothers |
When I Take My Sugar to Tea |
Those Were The Days. [Disc 1] |
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| 7 | The Spirits Of Rhythm |
Nobody's Sweetheart (Remastered) |
The Spirits of Rhythm feat. Teddy Bunn |
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| 8 | Eddie Condon |
Aint' Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll |
That's A Serious Thing |
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| 9 | Blind Blake |
Diddie Wah Diddie |
ABC Of The Blues Vol 5 |
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| 10 | Emmett Miller |
Right Or Wrong |
Minstrel Man From Georgia |
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| 11 | Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies |
Right Or Wrong |
King Of Western Swing Volume One |
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| 12 | Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies |
Somebody Stole My Gal |
Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 3 : Easy Ridin' Papa |
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| 13 | Jimmy Wakely |
Roll Along, Kentucky Moon |
Vintage Collections |
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| 14 | Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys |
Lazy River |
Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5 |
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| 15 | Johnny Davis And His Orchestra |
Sugar |
The Big Broadcast, Volume 8: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s |
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| 16 | Al Clauser & His Oklahoma Outlaws |
Some Sweet Day |
The Best Of Western Swing |
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| 17 | Sons of the Pioneers |
Prairie Lullaby |
Songs of the Prairie – CD2 |
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| 18 | W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys |
All I Do Is Dream of You |
Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938 |
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| 19 | Hank Williams |
Lovesick Blues |
Artist's Choice: Johnny Cash |
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| 20 | The Mills Brothers |
In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree (L. Armstrong) |
Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats |
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| 21 | The Mills Brothers |
My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua Hawaii |
The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 5 |
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| 22 | Nat King Cole |
Sweet Lorraine |
Ray Charles – Music that Matters to Him |
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| 23 | Louis Armstrong & All His Stars |
Lazy River |
The Complete Decca Studio Recordings Of Louis Armstrong And The All Stars [Disc 3] |
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| 24 | Fats Waller |
Your Feet's Too Big |
The Joint Is Jumpin' |
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| 25 | Dean Martin/Orchestra |
Pretty Baby |
That's Amore: The Best of Dean Martin |
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| 26 | Doris Day |
Moonlight Bay |
The Best Of Doris Day |
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| 27 | Tiny Bradshaw |
The Sheik of Araby (09-29-34) |
Breaking Up the House [Disc 1] |
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| 28 | The Boswell Sisters |
Shine On, Harvest Moon |
It's The Girls |
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| 29 | John Prine/Kacey Musgraves |
Mental Cruelty |
For Better, Or Worse |
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| 30 | The Browns |
You Nearly Lose Your Mind |
Classics 1963-1964 (Warped 6384) |
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| 31 | Cab Calloway |
05 I Ain't Got Nobody |
Chronological 1934-37 |
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| 32 | Laurel and Hardy |
Shine on Harvest Moon |
The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999 |
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This week’s show is a free form collection of songs from early, middle and late, all blending tradition, pop, rock ‘n roll, soul, and so much more. Little themes and big ones that bring out the best in us and some old favorites as well. Tune in on Friday at 9 for Deeper Roots and we’ll give you some Mills Brothers, John Prine, Ivory Joe Hunter and John Sebastian…oh yes, a little Bo Diddley and some Bette Davis thrown in. Community Radio in Sonoma County is all about eclectic, non-commercial entertainment with voices of your community there to bring you home. It’s a mean old world but it’s also a big, old goofy one and we’ve got the sounds this week on Deeper Roots to prove it.
| No. | Artist |
Title |
Album |
Buy |
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| 1 | Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers |
Mean Old World |
The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3] |
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| 2 | Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson |
I Am The Light Of This World |
Quah [Bonus Tracks] |
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| 3 | Lucinda Williams |
Sweet Old World |
Sweet Old World |
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| 4 | Johnny Burnette |
Big Big World |
25 Greatest Hits |
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| 5 | John Prine |
It's a Big Old Goofy World |
The Missing Years |
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| 6 | Los Lobos |
We Belong Together |
La Bamba |
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| 7 | The Mills Brothers |
Sixty Seconds Got Together |
Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats |
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| 8 | Campus Kids |
Managua, Nicaragua |
The Groups Sing [Disc 2] |
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| 9 | Carmen Miranda |
Chica Chica Boom Chic |
The Very Best of Carmen Miranda |
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| 10 | Sue Foley |
Cuban Getaway |
Antone's Women: Bringing You the Best in Blues |
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| 11 | Dean Martin |
Memories Are Made Of This |
Crush On You |
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| 12 | Nick Lowe |
Sensitive Man |
The Old Magic |
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| 13 | Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan |
Tennessee Bird Walk |
Hard To Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics |
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| 14 | John Sebastian |
Red-Eye Express |
The Best Of John Sebastian |
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| 15 | Dan Penn |
Don't Lose Your Good Thing |
The Fame Recordings |
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| 16 | Ivory Joe Hunter |
Since I Met You Baby |
Since I Met You Baby |
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| 17 | Ollie & The Nightingales |
I Got A Sure Thing |
Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1] |
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| 18 | The Spinners |
It's A Shame |
The Very Best Of |
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| 19 | Ann Cole |
Got My Mo-Jo Working (But It Just Won't Work On You) |
Jump, Jive & Swing |
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| 20 | Nat King Cole |
Mona Lisa |
30 Greatest Hits Disc 2 |
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| 21 | Dinning Sisters |
Oh Monah |
Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 1] |
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| 22 | Bo Diddley |
Mona |
Living The Blues – Chicago Blues Giants |
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| 23 | Bette Davis |
They're Either Too Young Or Too Old -from Thank Your Lucky Stars |
Warner Brothers 75 Years of Film Music (2) |
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| 24 | The Prisonaires |
All Alone And Lonely |
The Prisonaires – Just Walkin' In The Rain |
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| 25 | John Prine With Dolores Keane |
It's A Cheating Situation |
In Spite Of Ourselves |
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| 26 | Elvis Presley |
Viva Las Vegas |
2nd To None |
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| 27 | Jo Stafford |
I Love You |
You Belong To Me |
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| 28 | Boswell Sisters |
I Thank You Mr. Moon |
Boswell Sisters |
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| 29 | Boswell Sisters |
Stop the Sun Stop the Moon |
Boswell Sisters |
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| 30 | Bill Kirchen |
Valley of the Moon (Album) |
Word To The Wise |
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There are no more essential metaphors to be had in the American story than that of the river. The river is nature’s alliance with mankind and its muse in prose, poetry and song. It is the stuff of dreams, the movement of the clock in Her terms, the news of the day when the banks are breached, and the symbol of biblical ventures of time and home. So we’ll be taking to the river on a Friday in July to feel the warmth of the surface knowing full well that the undercurrent is treacherous and cold beneath the hull. Music this week includes the stories of the Great Flood of 1927 with Barbecue Bob, the baptismal elements from Alison Krauss and Irma Thomas, Central Valley memories from Dave Alvin by way of Merle Haggard, and the poetry of river sounding chants and Paul Robeson’s muscle. Tune in as we drift our way down the Mississippi and beyond on Friday morning on Deeper Roots.
| No. | Artist |
Title |
Album |
Buy |
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| 1 | Marilyn Monroe |
River Of No Return |
The Essential Marilyn Monroe |
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| 2 | Charles Colman & William Eaton |
River Sounding Chant |
5- The Long Road To Freedom : An Anthology Of Black Music |
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| 3 | Paul Robeson |
Ol' Man River |
American Songbook Series: Jerome Kern |
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| 4 | Marian Anderson |
Deep River |
Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 1] |
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| 5 | Mavis Staples |
In The Mississippi River (Cd) |
We'll Never Turn Back |
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| 6 | Johnny Cash |
Big River |
Original Greatest Hits |
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| 7 | The Carter Family |
River Of Jordan |
The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 1] |
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| 8 | Alison Krauss |
Down to the River to Pray |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
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| 9 | Delmore Brothers |
Happy on the Mississippi Shores |
Brown's Ferry Blues |
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| 10 | Tennessee Ernie Ford with Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Billy May |
River Of No Return |
Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 7 – Capitol Goes To The Movies – 1944-55 |
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| 11 | Louis Armstrong & All His Stars |
Lazy River |
The Complete Decca Studio Recordings Of Louis Armstrong And The All Stars [Disc 3] |
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| 12 | Snooks Eaglin |
Going to the River |
Complete Imperial Recordings |
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| 13 | Fats Domino |
Going to the River |
This Is Gold Disc 1 |
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| 14 | Dr. John |
Back By The River |
Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 2] |
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| 15 | Robert Hicks |
Mississippi Heavy Water Blues |
People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature |
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| 16 | Slocan Ramblers |
Mississippi Heavy Water Blues |
Queen City Jubilee |
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| 17 | Joe Shores |
Mississippi Sounding Calls [A-1] |
Field Recordings, Vol. 3: Mississippi (1936-1942) |
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| 18 | Jimmie Rodgers |
Miss The Mississippi And You |
Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5] |
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| 19 | Leon Redbone |
Mississippi River Blues |
Double Time |
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| 20 | Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra |
Swanee River |
Swingsation: Jimmie Lunceford |
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| 21 | Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers |
One More River |
The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 2] |
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| 22 | Irma Thomas With Henry Butler |
River Is Waiting |
Putumayo Presents Rhythm & Blues |
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| 23 | John Fogerty |
River Is Waiting |
Revival |
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| 24 | Dave Alvin |
Kern River |
West of the West |
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| 25 | Doc Watson |
Moody River |
Memories |
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| 26 | Doc & Merle Watson |
Deep River Blues |
Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues |
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| 27 | Jorma Kaukonen |
Red River Blues |
Blue Country Heart |
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| 28 | Johnny Rivers |
Big River |
The Memphis Sun Recordings |
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| 29 | The New Christy Minstrels |
Mighty Mississippi |
Ramblin' |
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| 30 | Roy Rogers & Dale Evans |
Red River Valley |
16 Great Songs Of The Old West |
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This week’s show celebrates the Godmother of rock ‘n roll who was finally paid tribute with her 2018 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s sanctified electric guitar work not only touched on the cusp of soul and blues, but it foretold what was to come less than a decade later. There were the R&B bands, which she would dabble in (much to the chagrin of her followers), that would also have an impact…but it was her sound that influenced and inspired Elvis, Wanda Jackson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and so many others, even to this day. We’ll take a deep dive into the music and story of this legend including some of those who she would draw her own inspirations from. Tune in.
| No. | Artist |
Title |
Album |
Buy |
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| 1 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
Down By the Riverside |
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4) |
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| 2 | Fisk Jubilee Singers |
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel |
Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken |
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| 3 | Thomas A. Dorsey |
If You See My Savior |
Halleluja Gospel & Prayers |
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| 4 | Golden Gate Quartet |
Blind Barnabas |
Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats |
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| 5 | Memphis Minnie |
I Called You This Morning |
Queen Of Country Blues |
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| 6 | Sister O. M. Terrell |
God's Little Birds |
Country Gospel 1946-1953 |
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| 7 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
Didn't It Rain? |
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel, Vol. 3 |
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| 8 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
Four or Five Times |
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel, Vol. 2 |
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| 9 | Sister Marie Knight And The Sam Price Trio |
Trouble In Mind |
Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 |
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| 10 | Marie Knight |
Gospel Train |
101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1 |
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| 11 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
Up Above My Head I Hear Music In the Air |
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4) |
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| 12 | Joan Osborne & The Holmes Brothers |
Nobody's Fault But Mine |
Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
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| 13 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
Beams of Heaven |
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel, Vol. 2 |
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| 14 | Phoebe Snow |
Beams of Heaven (feat. The Holmes Brothers) |
Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
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| 15 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
Intro – Didn't It Rain |
Newport Jazz Festival 7/3/64 |
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| 16 | Marie Knight |
Didn't It Rain |
Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
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| 17 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
99 1/2 Won't Do |
Gospel Train |
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| 18 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
Fly Away |
Sincerely, Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
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| 19 | Marion Williams – The Stars Of Faith |
When I Lay This Body Down |
Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958 |
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| 20 | Mahalia Jackson |
His Eye Is On The Sparrow |
Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns |
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| 21 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
Two Little Fishes |
Sincerely, Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
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| 22 | Fern Jones |
Strange Things Happening Every Day |
The Glory Road |
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| 23 | Brittany Howard |
That's All Live |
That's All – RRHOF |
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| 24 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
That's All |
Hittin' On All Six: The Charlie Christian Revolution |
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| 25 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Red Foley |
Have a Little Talk With Jesus |
101 Great Black Gospel, Vol. 1 |
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| 26 | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss |
Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us |
Raising Sand |
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| 27 | Gospel Hebrews |
Jesus Is All Over Me |
Boddie Recording Company: Cleveland, Ohio |
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| 28 | Louis Armstrong |
Down By The Riverside |
Louis And The Good Book |
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| 29 | The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir |
I Want To Ride That Glory Train |
Shakin' The Rafters |
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| 30 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
The Natural Facts |
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4) |
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A Century of America's Music