From a song about dirty little religions to a song about Joanie the Jehovah Witness Stripper, we’ll be going all out from up and down with genre celebrations from the past century where music reflects the inspiration from church on Sunday mornings following the barroom sinners of Saturday night. This week’s Deeper Roots takes a bit of a free form shuffle featuring Bo Diddley, The Ramones, Johnny Mercer, and a whole host of rhythm makers. Performances this morning will span some covers from Chris Smither, David Lindley and an answer song from Barbara Lewis. KOWS radio wants to thank all of you who came out to the Comedy fundraiser at Barrel Proof Lounge last week. It was a great success for us and also a validation of community radio here in the North Bay. KOWS is free form, free speech, no bull community radio; just the kind of thing we need in a country gone mad with lies, deceit and hate. There is always hope. Tune into your radio voice, any time of the day or night. We’ll always welcome you.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Martha and the Vandellas | Quicksand | The Motown Sound Vol. 1 |  |
| 2 | Faye Adams | Witness To The Crime (Herald 470) | R&B Humdingers Volume 11 | |
| 3 | Warren Zevon | Dirty Little Religion | Life'll Kill Ya | |
| 4 | Paul Thorn | Joanie The Jehovah Witness Stripper | Hammer & Nail Live | |
| 5 | Marvin Gaye | Can I Get A Witness | I'll Take You There | |
| 6 | Alphabetical Four | Get On Board, Little Children | Complete Recorded Works 1938-1943 | |
| 7 | Tiny Mayberry | Oh That Nasty Man (Take A) | Vol. 2-Vocal Blues & Jazz | |
| 8 | Johnny Mercer | Small Fry With Victor Young's Small Fryers | Bing Crosby And Friends | |
| 9 | The Golden Gate Quartet | Dipsy Doodle | Travelin' Shoes | |
| 10 | Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five | Keep A Knockin' But You Can't Come In | Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five / 1938 – 1940 | |
| 11 | Little Richard | Keep A Knockin' | The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection | |
| 12 | Chris Smither | Maybellene | Call Me Lucky | |
| 13 | Chuck Berry | Maybellene | Roots Of Rock & Roll – Rough And Rowdy [Disc 10] | |
| 14 | David Lindley | Mercury Blues | El Rayo-X | |
| 15 | K.C. Douglas | Mercury Blues | Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways | |
| 16 | Violet Hall | Six Foot Papa (I'm A Whole Lot Of Woman) | The Mercury Blues Story (1945-1955) – Southwest Blues, Vol. 2 | |
| 17 | Big Maybelle | So Good To My Baby | The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55 | |
| 18 | George Thorogood | Bo Diddley | 2120 South Michigan Avenue | |
| 19 | Bo Diddley | Don't Let It Go (Hold On To What You Got) | The Chess Box [Disc 1] | |
| 20 | Sam & Dave | Hold On! I'm a Comin' | The Very Best of Sam & Dave | |
| 21 | Sam Cooke | Bring It On Home To Me | Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 | |
| 22 | Barbara Lewis | I'll Bring It Back Home To You | Don't Forget About Me: The Atlantic & Reprise Recordings | |
| 23 | Jack Nitzsche | The Lonely Surfer | Teen Beat 5 | |
| 24 | Mink Deville | Just Your Friends | The Mink De Ville Collection | |
| 25 | The Ramones | Needles & Pins [Single Version][Version] | Ramones Mania | |
| 26 | The Books Feat. Jose Gonzalez | Cello Song | Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation [Disc 1] | |
| 27 | T-Bone Burnett | House Of Mirrors | Twenty Twenty: The Esssential T-Bone Burnett Disc 2 | |
| 28 | Lorne Greene | Ringo | Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's. Vol. 2 | |
| 29 | Marty Robbins | The Hanging Tree | The Essential Marty Robbins: 1951-1982 | |
| 30 | Dickson Hall | Cowboy | My Rifle, My Pony And Me | |
| 31 | Johnny Cash | The Rebel – Johnny Yuma | The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 2 | |
| 32 | Louis Prima | Banana Split for My Baby | Banana Split for My Baby | |
| 33 | The Allman Brothers Band | Jessica [Single Edit] | Stand Back: The Anthology Disc 2 | |
Every year about this time there’s a quick burst of blossom, a promise of renewal and that first pitch of the national pastime. I don’t know about you but it’s my favorite time of year, a time when winter’s cold is shut down and we’ve got that Spring Fever. This week’s show will take time out for a couple sets celebrating and remembering baseball’s past through music with the likes of The Treniers, Danny Kaye, and Dr. John with some early rapping from Mel Allen of all people. And that’s just the half of it because the fever goes beyond the diamond: we’ll share songs of April love with Shirley Jones, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White with Perez Prado, Nina Simone, Martha Tilton, and a run of classic country with Johnny Horton, Sons of the Pioneers and the Sons of the San Joaquin. From stickball to kite-flying to the first frisbees of the year in the local park. Let’s get away from it all.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Radio Commercial | 'Spring Time Fever Time' | Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season | |
| 2 | The Velvets | Spring Fever | Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season | |
| 3 | Shirley Jones & Pat Boone | April Love (Film Version) | Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season | |
| 4 | The Pentagons | It's Spring Again | Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season | |
| 5 | Martha Tilton | I'll Remember April | The Liltin' Miss Tilton [Disc 1] | |
| 6 | Perez Prado And His Orchestra | Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White | Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 2) | |
| 7 | Count Basie | April in Paris | Pure Jazz | |
| 8 | Naturals & Mel Allen | Baseball Dreams | Baseball's Greatest Hits | |
| 9 | Johnny Darling | Baseball Baby | Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan | |
| 10 | Dr. John | Take Me Out To The Ballgame | Baseball A Film By Ken Burns – Original Soundtrack Recording | |
| 11 | The Treniers | Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) | Baseball Anthems | |
| 12 | Sister Wynona Carr | The Ball Game | Baseball Anthems | |
| 13 | Russ Hodges | Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round The World | Baseball Anthems | |
| 14 | Terry Cashman | Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey & "The Duke") | 61* [Box Set] Disc 1 | |
| 15 | Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer | I Love Mickey | Baseball's Greatest Hits | |
| 16 | Danny Kaye | D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley) | Baseball's Greatest Hits | |
| 17 | Stormy Weather | The Land Of Wrigley | Baseball's Greatest Hits | |
| 18 | Steve Goodman | A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request | Baseball's Greatest Hits | |
| 19 | Betty Bonney & Les Brown and His Orchestra | Joltin' Joe Dimaggio | Baseball Anthems | |
| 20 | Little Willie John | I've Got Spring Fever | Little Willie John | |
| 21 | Birdlegs & Pauline And Their Versatility Birds | Spring | Birth Of Soul: 2 | |
| 22 | Jerry Duane & The Monarchs | It Might As Well Be Spring | Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season | |
| 23 | Nina Simone | It Might As Well Be Spring | The Best Of Nina Simone: The Colpix Years | |
| 24 | Craig Douglas | Hello Spring | Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season | |
| 25 | The Cadillacs | It's Spring | For Collectors Only (Disc 3) | |
| 26 | Delbon Johnson | It's Always Springtime in Nassau | Putumayo Presents: Calypso | |
| 27 | The Browns | Springtime | Classics 1964-1966 (Warped 6529) | |
| 28 | Johnny Horton | When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below) | 36 All-Time Greatest Hits | |
| 29 | Sons of the Pioneers | Springtime On the Range | 1941 vol 1 (Warped 4108) | |
| 30 | Sons Of The San Joaquin | Ridin' For The Roundup In The Springtime | From Whence Came The Cowboy | |
| 31 | Charlie Monroe | Springtime in Glory | 1950-1956 (Warped 5079) | |
| 32 | Billie Holiday | Some Other Spring | Ken Burns Jazz | |
| 33 | Mose Allison | Spring Song | Mose Allison [2-fer] | |
| 34 | Mose Allison | Fires Of Spring | Gimcracks and Gewgaws | |
| 35 | Tony Perkins | April Fool | On a Rainy Afternoon | |
The downstream wave of sounds that flooded the charts seemed endless in the year 1960. As was exhibited in last week’s Deeper Roots exhibition of ‘also rans’ from that year, it was a very, very crowded field. That field was spread far and wide across genres and levels of production, songwriting and performance quality. We take on that same strata this week in the show. More teen crushes, tragedies, soulful exchanges and instrumentals that bore earworms galore. That’s what we’ve got in store with performances from Fats to Jackie, Smokey to Etta, the Burnette Brothers and Ricky, Dean Martin, Freddie King and Linda Laurie…all giving it their all and doing their very best to crawl to the top of their respective charts. We’re getting ready for a wild Sunday night here in Santa Rosa, celebrating KOWS Community Radio at the Barrel Proof Lounge in downtown Santa Rosa. Hope you can make today’s Deeper Roots show and Sunday’s benefit!
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
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| 1 | Little Junior Parker | Driving Wheel | Feelin' Good. The 1952-1962 Recordings | |
| 2 | Jackie Wilson | Doggin' Around | American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960 | |
| 3 | Rosie & The Originals | Angel Baby | Malt Shop Memories – Top Down Convertible Sound ( Disc 1) | |
| 4 | Jessie Hill | Ooh Poo Pah Doo Pt 1 | The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5] | |
| 5 | Fats Domino | Walking To New Orleans | A Lot Of Dominos | |
| 6 | The Shirelles | Will You Love Me Tomorrow | The Brill Building Sound Disc 1 | |
| 7 | Ray Peterson | Tell Laura I Love Her | Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 1 | |
| 8 | The Browns | The Old Lamplighter | Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's. Vol. 2 | |
| 9 | The Platters | Harbor Lights | All-Time Greatest Hits | |
| 10 | Johnny Burnette | Dreamin' | 25 Greatest Hits | |
| 11 | Dorsey Burnette | Hey Little One | American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960 | |
| 12 | Rick Nelson | Young Emotions | Greatest Love Songs | |
| 13 | Etta James | A Sunday Kind Of Love | Book Of Love: The Argo Records Story 1956-1962 | |
| 14 | Jimmy Jones | Good Timin' | We Love Pirate Radio – 60s Favourites | |
| 15 | Kathy Young & The Innocents | A Thousand Stars | Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 1) | |
| 16 | Roy Orbison | Blue Angel | The Monument Singles: A-Sides (1960 – 1964) [Disc 1] | |
| 17 | The Smoothies | Softly | I Got A Woman : Gems From The Decca Vaults [Disc 3] | |
| 18 | The Miracles | Shop Around | The 35th Anniversary Collection | |
| 19 | Hayley Mills | Let's Get Together | Classic Disney, Vol. I: 60 Years Of Musical Magic | |
| 20 | Dean Martin | Ain't That A Kick In The Head | The Best Of The Rat Pack | |
| 21 | Jayne Mansfield | Too Hot To Handle | Bombshells | |
| 22 | The Videls | Mister Lonely | The Forgotten 45's 1960-1962 | |
| 23 | Peggy Lee | I Love Being Here With You [Remastered] | The Best Of The Singles Collection | |
| 24 | Linda Lawson | Like Young | Bombshells | |
| 25 | Floyd Cramer | Last Date | Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's, Vol. 1 | |
| 26 | Dinah Washington | This Bitter Earth | American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960 | |
| 27 | Ronnie Love | Chills And Fever | 100 Northern Soul Classics | |
| 28 | Nick Perito | The Green Leaves Of Summer (Album Version) | Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
| 29 | Tennessee Ernie Ford | Sixteen Tons | Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3) | |
| 30 | Hank Locklin | Please Help Me, I'm Falling | Classic Country | |
| 31 | Jim Reeves | Billy Bayou | Country Roads – Ralph Emery Presents – For The Good Times | |
| 32 | Jack Scott | Cool Water | Destination Summer Sea Cruise: 33 Ocean Steamers For Your Vacation | |
| 33 | Marty Robbins | Song Of The Bandit | The Complete Recordings 1952-1960 | |
| 34 | Duane Eddy CD 1 | Because They're Young | Twang Thang: The Duane Eddy Anthology (Disc 1) | |
| 35 | The Drifters | This Magic Moment | All-Time Greatest Hits & More 1959-1965 [Bonus Tracks] [Disc 1] | |
| 36 | Henry Mancini | Lujon | Best Of | |
A Century of America's Music
