This week we’ll take some time away for a celebration of Americana sounds from every corner. It’s a mixed bag of jazz, blues, country, rock, and everything in between in another of our free form eclectic romps here on Deeper Roots. Count on some wild swings and some quiet moments reserved for the corner booth in the show today. Aretha, Cat Power, Etta Jones and Gale Garnett are some of the female vocalists that we’ll feature this morning. We’ll also visit that ‘boulevard of broken dreams’ with Esquivel, some lighter instrumentals from Ethel Smith and Herb Alpert; classic softer side Americana from Chris Isaak and Pokey LaFarge and the polar opposite from Creedence and BB King. What a way to blast on into 2025. Join Dave Stroud as he begins yet another year with the promise of doing the right thing…always.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Little Milton	We're Gonna Make It	Chess Blues Disc 4
2	Marvin Gaye	Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)	Singers And Songwriters 1970-1971 [Disc 2]
3	Jimmy Ruffin	What Becomes of the Brokenhearted	Motown: The Classic Years Disc 1
4	Cat Power	Aretha, Sing One For Me	Jukebox
5	Aretha Franklin	Don't Play That Song	30 Greatest Hits [Disc 2]
6	Jimmy Reed	Hush-Hush	The Roots of the Rolling Stones: MOJO Presents 15 Stones-Approved Classics
7	Willie Nelson	I'll Love You Till The Day I Die	A Beautiful Time
8	Chris Isaak	Only the Lonely	Baja Sessions
9	J.J. Cale	I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)	Okie
10	Pokey LaFarge	Home Home Home	Rhumba Country
11	The Mavericks	That's Not My Name	Suited Up and Ready… – EP
12	Esquivel	Boulevard of Broken Dreams	Better Call Saul: Season 1 (Original Television Soundtrack)
13	The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band	The Joker (On A Trip Thru The Jungle)	Ultimate Northern Soul – The Classics
14	Bob Moore & His Orchestra	Mexico	Instrumental Favorites- Latin Rhythms
15	Louis Jordan	Run Joe – Calypso Boys, Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5	Number Ones
16	Ethel Smith	Tico Tico	Tico Tico – 28 Original Mono Recordings 1944-1952
17	Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass	Spanish Flea	Definitive Hits
18	Herbie Hancock	Rockit	Pop Music: The Modern Era 1976-1999 [Disc 1]
19	Dick Haymes & Eileen Wilson	It's A Lovely Day Today	Destination Summer Sea Cruise: 33 Ocean Steamers For Your Vacation
20	Julie London	Watermelon Man	Wild Cool and Swingin'
21	Etta Jones With J.C. Heard And His Band	I Sold My Heart To The Junkman	Vol. 3-Blues Roots
22	B.B. King	Why I Sing the Blues	Do the Boogie! B.B. King's Early '50s Classics
23	Gale Garnett	We'll Sing In The Sunshine	Lifetime Of Romance: Some Enchanted Evening [Disc 2]
24	Shamir	Lived and Died Alone	Northtown – EP
25	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Run Through the Jungle	Tropic Thunder (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
26	The Notting Hillbillies	Run Me Down	Missing….Presumed Having A Good Time
27	First Aid Kit	Emmylou	The Lion's Roar (Bonus Track Version)
28	Marshall Crenshaw	On the Run	Good Evening
29	Eugene Pitt/The Jive Five	What Time Is It?	The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 4
30	Marshall Crenshaw	What Time Is It?	Field Day