Something different this week. We’ll be reflecting on the Spring Issue of a magazine that cuts through the heart of what we love doing here on both Blue Moon Americana as well as Deeper Roots. There are a handful of publications that make the cut but No Depression magazine is truly special and the Spring 2021 issue is something to revel in. The writing, the artists, and the arc of ‘The Great American Songbook’, from Stephen Foster to Louis Armstrong is given thoughtful and insightful treatment. Our show this week puts a soundtrack with a century of America’s music explored: Dock Boggs’ Pretty Polly, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, The Blue Sky Boys’ cover of Knoxville Girl, and some incredible Latin vocals from one Omara Portuondo. The magazine is worth the read and the music is worth a listen. Tune in on a Saturday among the Sonoma County skies for the best of community radio.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Robeson | Joe Hill | Songs of Free Men |  |
| 2 | George Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue | Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's | |
| 3 | Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong | Summertime | Porgy & Bess | |
| 4 | Chick Webb & His Orchestra | A-Tisket, A-Tasket | Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 2] | |
| 5 | Loudon Wainwright III | You Rascal You (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) | I'd Rather Lead a Band | |
| 6 | Dinah Washington | They Didn't Believe Me (from "The Swingin' Miss D") | Dinah Washington: Eight Classic Albums | |
| 7 | Billie Holiday | Autumn in New York | Ken Burns Jazz | |
| 8 | Omara Portuondo | El Hombre Que Se Fue (The Man That Got Away) | Black Magic (Magia Negra) | |
| 9 | Desi Arnaz | Holiday In Havana | The Best of Desi Arnaz: The Mambo King | |
| 10 | Perez Prado | Cuban Mambo | Rumba Gone Mambo | |
| 11 | Xavier Cugat | Papa Loves Mambo | Lounge Music Goes Latin | |
| 12 | Stephen Foster | Beautiful Dreamer | The Songs of Stephen Foster | |
| 13 | John Prine | My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight | Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster | |
| 14 | Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick | Oh! Susanna | Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray | |
| 15 | Mavis Staples | Hard Times Come Again No More | Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster | |
| 16 | Dock Boggs | Pretty Polly | 78s | |
| 17 | Dirk Powell | I Ain't Playing Pretty Polly | When I Wait For You | |
| 18 | The Blue Sky Boys | Story Of The Knoxville Girl | Absolutely Bluegrass | |
| 19 | Nelstone's Hawaiians | Village School | The Harry Smith B-Sides | |
| 20 | Dock Boggs | Oh Death | Dock Boggs Is Legendary | |
| 21 | Ray Charles | Georgia on My Mind | Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 2 | |
| 22 | Ella Fitzgerald | Night And Day | Night And Day: The Cole Porter Songbook | |
| 23 | Bettye LaVette | Blues For The Weepers | Blackbirds | |
| 24 | Carl Sandburg | All Night Long | Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 1] | |
| 25 | The Carter Family | Hello Stranger | Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 3) | |
| 26 | The Stoneman Family | Too Late | The Harry Smith B-Sides | |
| 27 | Mississippi John Hurt | Nobody's Dirty Business | The Harry Smith B-Sides | |
| 28 | M. Ward | Along the Santa Fe Trail | Migration Stories | |
| 29 | Ella Fitzgerald | In The Still Of The Night | Music & Moonlight | |