A while back we explored road songs in the genres of blues and tradition. This week’s show complements the theme with a country flavor. Songs of the lonesome road, the lost highway, the wrong highway taken, as well as hitting the road with those classic country kings of the road and highway queens. We’ll hear some early Waylon Jennings, bluegrass from Bill Monroe, trucker laments from Red Simpson, and a tribute to the Carters on the Road to Kaintuck. We’ve battened down the hatches, closed shop, and are practicing social distancing as if our lives (and those of our neighbors) depended on it. Join Dave Stroud on a KWTF Friday evening remote production of Deeper Roots.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonus Track | CB Radio Chatter | Eighteen Wheelers! Twisted Tales from the Truckstops |  |
| 2 | Johnny Darrell | It's A Rough Old Road To Travel | The Beginning Of The End – The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972) | |
| 3 | Don Gibson | Lonesome Road | 1961-1962 | |
| 4 | Jimmie Skinner | Lonesome Road Blues | 1960-1962 (Warped 6188) | |
| 5 | Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys | Travelin' This Lonesome Road | All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4] | |
| 6 | Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys | Rocky Road Blues | All The Classic Releases, 1937-1949 [Disc 3] | |
| 7 | The Carter Family | It's a Long Road to Travel Alone | Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 5) | |
| 8 | Johnny Cash | Wide Open Road | Get Rhythm [Sun] | |
| 9 | Johnny Cash | Hit The Road And Go (The Rambler) | Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 4] | |
| 10 | Johnny Cash | Further on Up the Road | American V: A Hundred Highways | |
| 11 | Billy Bob Thornton & The Peasall Sisters | Road To Kaintuck | Anchored In Love: A Tribute To June Carter Cash | |
| 12 | Lefty Frizzell | Make That One for the Road a Cup of Coffee | 1962-1965 (Warped 6382) | |
| 13 | Wayne Hancock | Man Of The Road | A-Town Blues | |
| 14 | Rig Rock Deluxe | Six Days On The Road | Rig Rock Deluxe | |
| 15 | Red Simpson | Six Days on the Road | The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer | |
| 16 | Tiny Harris | Endless Black Ribbon | Lonesome Highway Songs | |
| 17 | Billy Grammer | Gotta Travel On | Hard To Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics | |
| 18 | Henson Cargill | A Very Well Traveled Man | Skip a Rope | |
| 19 | Faron Young | Traveling On | This Is Faron Young / My Garden Of Prayer | |
| 20 | Roger Miller | King Of The Road | Country Legends | |
| 21 | Tom T. Hall | Once Upon a Road | Sings Dixie & Tom T. | |
| 22 | Billy Walker | Headin' Down the Wrong Highway | Billy Walker – 1954-1957 | |
| 23 | Waylon Jennings | The Road | Love of The Common People | |
| 24 | Dolly Parton | Traveling Man | 1971 | |
| 25 | Nikki Lane | Highway Queen | Highway Queen | |
| 26 | Johnny Horton | Lost Highway | Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (2 of 2) | |
| 27 | Gibson Brothers | Highway | In The Ground | |
| 28 | John Hartford | Wrong Road Again | Good'le Days: Essential Recordings | |
| 29 | Rice, Rice, Hillmann & Pedersen | Somewhere on the Road Tonight | Out of the Woodwork | |
| 30 | Ralph Stanley | I'm Going Down The Road [3/3/80] | Poor Rambler [Disc 1] | |
| 31 | Grandpa Jones | Down The Old Plank Road | An American Original | |
| 32 | Del McCoury/Marty Stuart | Let Us Travel, Travel On | Compadres: An Anthology of Duets | |
| 33 | Steve Earle | Hillbilly Highway | Essential Steve Earle | |