The pickins are thin until payday rolls around. Money is short and there’s none to spare. Although we’ve been wanting to save for a rainy day, the cupboards still need fillin’ and we also need enough to have some fun. If that eagle flies on Friday then Saturday night is when the time is right. This week we’ll be banking on that combined theme of payday, money and taxes. Belly up to the barroom country sounds of Faron Young, Lefty Frizzell and The Sons of the Pioneers and then find some rhythm and blues with The Fiestas, The Harlem Hamfats, Bobby Charles and Dom Flemons. It’s all about cashing out every couple of weeks and spreading thin with savings being thinner. We’ve got greenbacks, dollar down payments, songs about payday, the taxman and that almighty dollar to remind us that, as Peter Case points out, that “there’s two kinds of justice everybody knows, one for folks up on the hill and one for the others down below”.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Zeke Clements | Payday Saturday Night | Foot Tappin' & Dance At Screamin' Festival Vol. 5 |  |
| 2 | The Sons Of The Pioneers | When Payday Rolls Around | Symphonies Of The Sage | |
| 3 | Lefty Frizzell | When Payday Comes Around | 1950-1951 (Warped 5061) | |
| 4 | Faron Young | I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night | The Complete Capitol Hits of Faron Young (1 of 2) | |
| 5 | Wynn Stewart | Another Day, Another Dollar | Very Best of: 1958 – 1962 | |
| 6 | Dan Hicks | Payday Blues [Album Version] | The Most Of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks [Bonus Tracks] | |
| 7 | Austin McCoy | Happy Pay Day Part 1 | Further Mellow Cats'n'Kittens – Hot R&B And Cool Blues 1946-1951 | |
| 8 | The Fiestas | Dollar Bill (stereo) | Oh So Fine (Ace) | |
| 9 | Hank Penny | Taxes, Taxes | Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions | |
| 10 | Johnny Cash | After Taxes | I Would Like to See You Again | |
| 11 | Gene Autry, Jimmy Wakely's Trio | I Paid My Income Tax Today | Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1 | |
| 12 | The Harlem Hamfats | Sales Tax On It | Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936 | |
| 13 | Stan Farlow | 1040 Blues | Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974) | |
| 14 | Mississippi John Hurt | Payday | The Complete Studio Recordings Disc 1 | |
| 15 | Lucious Curtis | Payday | Deep River of Song: Mississippi – Blues Lineage | |
| 16 | Bobby Charles | Nickles, Dimes and Dollars | Timeless | |
| 17 | The Limeliters | A Dollar Down | American Music Library: The Hits Of 1961 | |
| 18 | Oscar Brand | A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore | A Taste of Tradition – Volume 3 | |
| 19 | Freddie Hart And The Heartbeats | That Almighty Dollar | Age of WorryFrom Country-Pop to Freak-Folk: The Space Age Relics of Monument Records 19601970 | |
| 20 | Tennessee Ernie Ford | Sixteen Tons | Vintage Collections | |
| 21 | Aloe Blacc | I Need A Dollar | I Need A Dollar | |
| 22 | J.J. Cale | Money Talks | The Very Best of J.J. Cale | |
| 23 | Roomful Of Blues | Money Talks | Dressed Up To Get Messed Up | |
| 24 | Dom Flemons | Big Money Blues | Traveling Wildfire | |
| 25 | Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | For The Love Of Money | If You Don't Know Me By Now | |
| 26 | The Lovin' Spoonful | Money | Greatest Hits [Buddha] | |
| 27 | Sierra Ferrell | Silver Dollar | Long Time Coming | |
| 28 | Van Morrison | Greenback Dollar | Moving On Skiffle | |
| 29 | The Kingston Trio | Greenback Dollar | Capitol Collector's Series | |
| 30 | Randy Newman | It's Money That Matters | Land of Dreams | |
| 31 | Mel Blanc | Money | Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan – Season 3 [[Disc 2]] | |
| 32 | Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis | The Money Song | Cocktail Hour Disc 1 | |
Free form! That’s right. No theme, no genre exploration, no tribute or topical show today. Only topical playlists embellishing the show today including New Orleans memories from Bobby Mitchell, Fats Domino and Dr. John, country nuggets from Merle, Buck and Elvis as well as some fancy shmancy crooning from a Perry, Blue Eyes and Dino. We’ll also be digging into some classic rockabilly tunes and some canciones de Flaco and Los Lobos. Here in Sonoma County we’re going from three years of drought, wildfires and the Santa Ana winds to preparing for levee breaches and floods with the snow melts. We also get to behave like adults in the face of biased and inhumane Supreme Court decisions and moronic Texas politicians. Because we know who they are and what they represent: book burners and religious zealots with white hoods. While nobody is without sin, we’ll go with Newsom’s ability to employ the right critical thinking at the right time. I told you it would be a free form morning.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Geraint Watkins | Deep in the Heart of Texas | Aide Memoire | |
| 2 | Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra | Big Mamou | Barrell House Boogie and the Blues | |
| 3 | Wanda Jackson | Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On | Queen Of Rockabilly | |
| 4 | Matchbox | Rockabilly Rebel | Rockabilly Rebel | |
| 5 | Johnny Burnette | Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track) | The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD1 | |
| 6 | Sonny Burgess | Tomorrow Never Comes | We Wanna Boogie | |
| 7 | Warren Smith | Got Love If You Want It | The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2 | |
| 8 | Bobby Mitchell | I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday | The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 2] | |
| 9 | Fats Domino | I Want To Walk You Home | Heatin' Up | |
| 10 | Dr. John | Back By The River | Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 2] | |
| 11 | Tommy McLain | Before I Grow Too Old | The Essential Collection | |
| 12 | Buck Owens | Made In Japan | Country USA 1972 | |
| 13 | Merle Haggard & the Strangers | Please Mr. D.J. | Swing West 1: Bakersfield | |
| 14 | Merle Haggard | I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me | Country USA 1972 | |
| 15 | Elvis Presley | After Loving You | Artist of the Century Disc 3 | |
| 16 | The Devil and Bunny Show | Crossing Muddy Waters | The I-10 Chronicles 2 – One More For The Road | |
| 17 | Los Lobos | Set Me Free (Rosa Lee) | El Cancionero: Mas y Mas (1 of 4) | |
| 18 | Flaco Jiminez | Margarita | Los Super Seven | |
| 19 | The Band | Ophelia | To Kingdom Come [Disc 2] | |
| 20 | Linda Ronstadt | Hurt So Bad | Very Best Of Linda Ronstadt | |
| 21 | April Stevens | I Want A Lip | Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence | |
| 22 | Nino Tempo & April Stevens | Deep Purple | Teach Me Tiger | |
| 23 | April Stevens | Teach Me Tiger | Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence | |
| 24 | April Stevens | Do It Again | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 6: Rhapsodesia | |
| 25 | Wayne Newton | Danke Schoen | Jackpot! The Las Vegas Story | |
| 26 | Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra/Perry Como/Ray Charles Singers | Round and Round | The Very Best of Perry Como | |
| 27 | Tony Bennett | In the Middle of an Island | Your Hit Parade – 1957 | |
| 28 | Thomas A. Dorsey with Alex Bradford | It's A Highway To Heaven | Precious Lord Recordings Of The Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey | |
| 29 | Sammy Price Trio/Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Singing in My Soul | The Gospel of Blues | |
| 30 | Michelle Lanchester/Sweet Honey in the Rock | I Was Standing by the Bedside of a Neighbor ( If You See My Saviour) | Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection | |
| 31 | Aretha Franklin | Don't Play That Song | Spirit in the Dark | |
| 32 | Aretha Franklin | Try Matty's | Spirit in the Dark | |
| 33 | The Band | The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | The Best of the Band | |
Welcome to the club. We’ve got some cool sounds from the jazz lounges and clubs blended with some beat generation salutations for you this morning. Beatniks, boppers, lounge chanteuse performances, saxophones, and some cool fifties sounds. Tune in for Patsy Raye and The Beatniks, Earl Bostic, Mose Allison, Charlie Parker’s Quintet, and a BeBop blend of out-of-this-world swing and percussion. From the Gaslight Café to Slim Gallaird’s Yep Roc sounds…we’ll have your foot tappin’ and your fingers snappin’ on a magical blend of cool ultra-lounge and café sounds from mid-century. Tune in on the web or grab our free app out on the Apple Store or Google Play. You can find them by searching for KOWS.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra | Salt Peanuts | Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3] | |
| 2 | Gerry Mulligan Quartet | Swinghouse | The Beat Generation, Vol 3 | |
| 3 | Charles Kuralt | The Greenwich Village Poets | The Beat Generation, Vol 3 | |
| 4 | King Pleasure | Don't Get Scared | The BeBop Singers | |
| 5 | Mose Allison | Your Mind Is On Vacation | Allison Wonderland Anthology [Disc 1] | |
| 6 | Earl Bostic | Up There In The Orbit | Sputnik! The Launch of the Space Race – 65 Years First Sputnik in Space | |
| 7 | J. J. Johnson Beboppers | Coppin' The Bop | J. J. Johnson: Bone-O-Logy (Proper Introduction) | |
| 8 | Peggy Lee | The Boy from Ipanema | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15: Wild Cool & Swingin' Too | |
| 9 | Richard Marino & His Orchestra | Fever | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 6: Rhapsodesia | |
| 10 | Martin Denny | Cool | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 16: Mondo Hollywood | |
| 11 | Patsy Raye And The Beatniks | Beatnik's Wish | The Beat Generation, Vol 3 | |
| 12 | Carl Sandburg | On Beatniks | The Beat Generation, Vol 3 | |
| 13 | Three Bips, A Bop | Professor Bop | The Beat Generation, Vol 3 | |
| 14 | Charlie Parker Quartet | Cosmic Rays | The Beat Generation [Disc 2] | |
| 15 | Charlie Parker Quintet | Scrapple From The Apple | Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3] | |
| 16 | Charlie Ventura & His Orchestra | Ha | The Beat Generation [Disc 2] | |
| 17 | Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys | Oop-Bop Sh-Bam | The Beat Generation, Vol 3 | |
| 18 | Elmer Bernstein | Like Having Fun | The Beat Generation, Vol 3 | |
| 19 | Del Close & John Brent | Cool | The Beat Generation, Vol 3 | |
| 20 | Slim Gaillard, The Middle Europeans | Yip Roc Heresy | The Beat Generation [Disc 2] | |
| 21 | Oscar Brown Jr. | But I Was Cool | The Beat Generation, Vol 3 | |
| 22 | The Playboys | Charge It | Destination Lust – The World Of Love, Sex And Violence | |
| 23 | Joe Carroll | Got A Penny Benny | The BeBop Singers | |
| 24 | Lambert, Hendricks & Ross | Twisted | The Beat Generation [Disc 2] | |
| 25 | Ken Nordine | Hunger Is From | The Beat Generation [Disc 2] | |
| 26 | Eddie Jefferson | Old Shoes | The BeBop Singers | |
| 27 | Serge Chaloff | Gabardine And Serge | Birth of Bebop | |
| 28 | Julie London | Daddy | Wild Cool and Swingin' | |
| 29 | Edd Kookie Byrnes | Kookie's Mad Pad | The Beat Generation [Disc 2] | |
| 30 | Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes And Connie Stevens | Kookie Kookie [Lend Me Your Comb] | The Greatest Novelty Songs, Disc 2 | |
| 31 | Mabel Scott | Yes | Destination Lust – Chicksville U.S.A. | |
| 32 | Julie London | Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Wild Cool and Swingin' | |
| 33 | Cooltrane Quartet | Some Like It Hot | Vintage Cafi Vol.3 | |
A Century of America's Music
