The first of two gospel Friday mornings coming up on Deeper Roots in June. This week, we’ll follow a ‘heavenly’ theme. The Christian vision of afterlife’s reward is expressed in music on a Friday morning in West County (of all places). There will be country and black gospel sounds emanating from the UMC in downtown Sebastopol on KOWS radio as we share performances about heaven including the electric voices of Marion Williams and Marie Knight; the rocking celebration of the good book from Sister Rosetta and Brother Claude Ely; and country gospel enlightenment from Willie and Bobbie Nelson. This one is worth the wait and worth it’s weight in heavenly gold. Tune in!
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas A. Dorsey with Alex Bradford | It's A Highway To Heaven | Precious Lord Recordings Of The Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey |  |
| 2 | Fisk Jubilee Singers | Shout All Over God's Heaven | Recordings In Chonological Order, Vol. 2: 1915-1920 | |
| 3 | The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir | Heaven Belongs To You | Shakin' The Rafters | |
| 4 | The Staple Singers | What Are They Doing? (In Heaven Today) | Amen/Why | |
| 5 | Washington Phillips | What Are They Doing In Heaven Today | Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken | |
| 6 | Mahalia Jackson | A City Called Heaven | Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns | |
| 7 | Mahalia Jackson | Walk Over God's Heaven | 16 Most Requested Songs | |
| 8 | Clara Ward | When We All Get To Heaven | The Very Greatest | |
| 9 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Walk All Over To God's Heaven | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | |
| 10 | Original Gospel Stars | I Want To Go To Heaven | Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 | |
| 11 | Blind Gussie Nesbit | Canaan's Land | When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936 | |
| 12 | Mother McCollum | When I Take My Vacation In Heaven | When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936 | |
| 13 | Willie and Bobbie Nelson | When We All Get To Heaven | Farther Along | |
| 14 | Patsy Cline | Life's Railway to Heaven | Country's 20 Classic Gospel Songs of the Century | |
| 15 | Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys | I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven | King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail | |
| 16 | Alison Krauss & The Cox Family | Walk Over God's Heaven | New Country December 1994 | |
| 17 | The Stanley Brothers | Angels Are Singing (In Heaven Tonight) [Album Version] | The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers | |
| 18 | Jimmy Martin | Little Angels In Heaven | Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 2] | |
| 19 | Ethel Davenport & Ehel Davenport Singers | Heavenly Express | Powerhouse Gospel | |
| 20 | The Staple Singers | On My Way To Heaven | Four Classic Albums | |
| 21 | Blind Gussie Nesbit | Pure Religion | When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936 | |
| 22 | Sister Cally Fancy | Goin' On To Heaven In The Sanctified Way | Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2] | |
| 23 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Heaven Is Not My Home | Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record | |
| 24 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Beams of Heaven | The Original Soul Sister: This Train [Disc 4] | |
| 25 | Marie Knight | Seal Of Heaven | Hallelujah What A Song! | |
| 26 | Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes | Heaven I Heard So Much About It | I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983 | |
| 27 | Dorothy Love Coates | When I Reach My Heavenly Home | The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes | |
| 28 | Marion Williams | Sometimes I Ring Up Heaven | Packin' Up | |
| 29 | The Davis Sisters | Too Close To Heaven | Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 4] | |
| 30 | The Swan Silvertones | Heavenly Light Shine On Me | Heavenly Light | |
| 31 | The Golden Gate Quartet | No Restricted Signs (Up in Heaven) | Vol. 5 (1945-1949) | |
| 32 | Brother Claude Ely | I Want To Go To Heaven | Satan Get Back | |
| 33 | Bill Neely | Satan's Burning Hell | The Essential Guide To Gospel | |