Category Archives: American Popular

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition

Ragged But Right – KOWS July 25, 2015

July 25, 2015 Dave

Hot summer days…cool West County nights. Deeper Roots finds the right balance on Saturday mornings in Occidental this week with music about ramblers and gamblers featuring Ralph Stanley, Tom Russell, and Sturgill Simpson. We’ll also find ourselves in the crosshairs of country, blues, and southern gospel with songs of light and life featuring Hank Williams, Gary Davis, and Marty Stuart. Riley Puckett, The Sons of the Pioneers, and the Selah Jubilee Singers also join in on another Saturday morning filled with roots music on KOWS 107.3-LP FM. Tune in on TuneIn!

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Fats Domino	The Fat Man	Imperial Singles Collection
2	Nathan Glantz & His Orchestra (v: Chick Straun)	Don't Bring Lulu [1925]	The Charleston Era
3	Roy Acuff	Bang Away My Lulu	DON'T BRING LULU was a 20's hit song
4	Spade Cooley & His Orchestra; Vocal By Tex Williams	You'll Rue The Day	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
5	Tommy Duncan	Please Come Back Home	Texas Moon
6	Lucinda Williams	Memphis Pearl	Sweet Old World
7	Hank Williams	I Saw The Light	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel
8	Selah Jubilee Singers	I Saw the Light	Gospel Quartets 1921-1942 Vol. 2
9	Reverend Gary Davis	I Am The Light Of This World	Harlem Street Singer
10	Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives	This Little Light of Mine	Gospel Bluegrass Home Coming, Vol. 1
11	Sam Cooke	Having a Party	The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (3 of 4)
12	Clyde McPhatter	A Lovers Question	Atlantic and Mercury Sessions – Disc 2
13	Kay Starr	Night Train	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
14	Ike Turner	Do Right Baby	Classic Early Sides
15	Slim Harpo	I Love the Life I'm Living	The Excello Singles Anthology Disc 1
16	John Sebastian	Ain't Nowhere to Hobo Anymore	I Want My Roots
17	The Blue Sky Boys	Wild And Reckless Hobo	Presenting The Blue Sky Boys
18	Grandpa Jones	Hobo Bill	Makes The Rafters Ring
19	Bob Dylan	Only A Hobo	It Could Even Be A Myth
20	Elana James	Hobo's Lullaby	Black Beauty
21	Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys	Poor Rambler	Classic Bluegrass
22	Sturgill Simpson	Poor Rambler	High Top Mountain
23	Tom Russell	Rambler, Gambler	Song Of The West – The Cowboy Collection
24	Jimmie Skinner	Don't Give My Heart to a Rambler	One Dead Man Ago
25	Grayson & Whitter	I've Always Been a Rambler	Music from the Lost Provinces
26	Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins	Ragged But Right	Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3]
27	Sons of the Pioneers	Blue Ridge Mountain Home	Songs of the Prairie – CD1
28	Hurray for the Riff Raff	Blue Ridge Mountain	Small Town Heroes
29	The Carter Family	My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains	Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 4)
30	The Country Gentlemen	Blue Ridge Mountains Turning Green	Sugar Hill Collection
31	Nick Lowe	I'll Be There	The Impossible Bird
32	Willie Nelson & Ray Price	I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)	San Antonio Rose [Expanded Edition]
33	Willie Nelson	Sweet Jennie Lee	Willie and the Wheel

African American Gospel, Country, Country Blues, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop

Dirty Dog – KOWS July 11, 2015

July 11, 2015 Dave

West County is the place to be in summer. The inland heat is pulling in the right amount of tempered cool from the coast…and Deeper Roots sounds will ride the wave on a Saturday morning. Join us for music from Arlo Guthrie, Chubby Newsome, Jimmie Revard, Mahalia Jackson, and more. The sounds we’ll hear come from country, country swing, classic gospel, mountain tradition, and just a little bit of the blues so please join us as we fill the airwaves with classic roots music on a Saturday morning, live from the KOWS studios in Occidental.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Johnny Burnette	Let's Think About Living	The Train Kept a-Rollin' Memphis to Hollywood – CD 3
2	Roy Rogers	My Chickashay Gal	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
3	Hank Snow	Music Makin' Mama From Memphis	The Essential Hank Snow
4	Asleep at the Wheel	What's the Matter With the Mill (with Pokey LaFarge)	Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
5	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Back Home In Indiana (LP Version)	Tiffany Transcriptions& Vol. 9
6	Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor	Coming Back Home	The Return of the Formerly Brothers
7	Jimmie Revard	Dirty Dog	Western Swing: 40 Bootstompers
8	Jimmie Revard	Holdin' The Sack	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 9]
9	The Louvin Brothers	I'm Ready To Go Home	Satan Is Real
10	Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys	Little Birdie	Ralph Stanley 1971-1973
11	Doc & Merle Watson	Corrina, Corrina	Then And Now/Two Days In November
12	Jimmie Driftwood	Soldier's Joy	Americana, Vol. 1
13	The Rice Brothers	Soldier's Joy	The Rice Brothers
14	Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson	Don't Think Twice, It's Alright	Django and Jimmie
15	Willie Nelson & the Offenders	A Moment Isn't Very Long	Me and the Drummer
16	Red Simpson	Don't Fall Asleep At The Wheel	Lonesome Highway Songs
17	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	So Long It's Been Good to Know You	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
18	Johnny Cash	Hey Porter	The Mystery Of Life
19	Elvis Presley	Memphis Tennessee	Artist of the Century Disc 2
20	Floyd Dixon	Oooh Little Girl	Marshall Texas Is My Home
21	Bob Dylan	It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry (take 9)	No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Ser [UK] Disc 2
22	Chubby Newsome	Toodle Luddle Baby	Rock 'n' Roll Mamas Vol 3
23	Anthony Butler	Judgement's Coming Soon	Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats
24	Mahalia Jackson	Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho	Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns, Vol.2 [Disc 1]
25	Mahalia Jackson	I'm On My Way	The Promised Land – Original Soundtrack [Disc 1]
26	Howlin' Wolf	Moanin' For My Baby	Blues From Hell
27	Tampa Red	Crying Won't Help You	ABC Of The Blues Vol 38
28	Hadda Brooks	He's Coming Home	Jump Back Honey:Complete OKeh Sessions
29	The Four Lads	Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Around the World 1)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
30	Ivie Anderson	I Got It Bad	The Collection
31	Memphis Minnie	What's The Matter With The Mill	Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1]
32	Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band	Chevrolet	Greatest Hits
33	John Hiatt	Memphis in the Meantime	Bring the Family

Songs About Telephones

July 11, 2015 Dave

It’s ‘theme time’ in this episode as we find a muse that songwriters have been looking to since it’s appearance in the 19th century: the telephone. Join us for operators, dial tones, party lines, busy signals, and hang-ups…just a few of the topics in a show featuring gospel from the Selah Jubilee Singers and Sister Wynona Carr, sixties soul from The Marvelettes and The Orlons, tradition from Bill Monroe and Wade Mainer, and more.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	The Manhattan Transfer	Operator	The Manhattan Transfer
2	The Golden Gate Quartet	I Just Telephone Upstairs	Vol. 6 (1949-1952)
3	The Spirit Of Memphis Quartet	Atomic Telephone	The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
4	Selah Jubilee Singers	Royal Telephone	Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 (1939-1941)
5	Burl Ives	Royal Telephone	Greatest Hits
6	Sister Wynona Carr	Operator, Operator	Dragnet For Jesus
7	Bill Monroe	When The Phone Rang	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
8	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	The Phone Call	More Behind the Picture Than the Wall
9	Wade Mainer	God's Radio Phone	I'm Not Looking Backward
10	Doc Watson	No Telephone In Heaven	My Dear Old Southern Home
11	The Carter Family	No Telephone In Heaven	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 2]
12	The Carter Family	Hello Central! Give Me Heaven	The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5]
13	Orville Reed	The Telephone Girl	Lead Kindly Light
14	Bonnie Guitar	Hello, Hello, Please Answer The Phone	Only The Moon Man Knows: Rare Recordings 1951-1957
15	George Jones	Wrong Number	Star Creek Promotions 4
16	Aaron Neville	Wrong Number (I Am Sorry, Goodbye)	Treacherous [Disc 1]
17	Irma Thomas	Sorry Wrong Number	If You Want It, Come and Get It
18	Mickey & Sylvia	Can't Get You On The Phone	Rock With A Sock
19	The Orlons	Don't Hang Up	Malt Shop Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 2)
20	Marvelettes	Beechwood 4-5789	The Soul of Detroit – Disc 1
21	Tony & Tyrone	Please Operator	After Hours 3 – More Northern Soul Masters
22	Mary Wells	Operator	The Soul of Detroit – Disc 2
23	Jorma Kaukonen	Operator	River Of Time
24	The Grateful Dead	Operator	American Beauty
25	Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	Pennsylvania 6-5000	The Centennial Collection Disc 1
26	Hank Penny	Hold the Phone	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
27	Stonewall Jackson	Can't Hang Up the Phone	Original Greatest Hits
28	Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn	Answer The Phone With Loretta Lynn	A Tribute To A Legend
29	Tom T. Hall	Jesus On the Radio (Daddy On the Phone)	The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall
30	Pee Wee Crayton	Phone Call From My Baby	ABC Of The Blues Vol 7
31	Pee Wee Crayton	The Telephone Is Ringing	ABC Of The Blues Vol 7
32	Floyd Dixon	Call Operator 210	The Aladdin Story (Pt. 2)
33	Floyd Dixon	Telephone Blues	The Cocktail Combos [Disc 3]
34	Eddie Gorman And His Group	Telephone Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
35	Elana James	Telephone Man	Black Beauty

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Jazz, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition, Gospel

Grapes on the Vine

June 14, 2015 Dave

Raising the roof once more on KOWS in West Sonoma County on a bright Saturday morning. And we make it count with an opening salvo of some country swing from Bob Wills, W. Lee O’Daniel, The Light Crust Doughboys, and Willie Nelson. Not to be outdone, we’ve got bluegrass from The Rice Brothers and our own David Thom, gospel from the Hummingbirds, and a special set celebrating the “Poet of the Blues” Percy Mayfield. We’ll also feature blues from Texas and, if we find the time, early century pop from Frank Crumit and Cliff Edwards. Tune in Saturday morning at 9 on KOWS for a dose of roots sounds from the past century of America’s music with Dave Stroud.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Asleep at the Wheel/Johnny Gimble	Big Balls in Cowtown	The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970
2	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	I Had Someone Else Before I Had You	Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5
3	The Light Crust Doughboys	Blue Guitars	Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947
4	Skeets McDonald	Fuss and Fight	Skeets McDonald – Heart Breakin' Mama (Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight)
5	W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys	Congratulate Me	Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938
6	Willie Nelson	Cherokee Maiden	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
7	Warren Smith	Got Love If You Want It	The Sun Country Box CD4 So Long, I'm Gone
8	Bobby Hicks & Del McCoury	We're Steppin' Out Tonight	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
9	Ralph Stanley	Are You Washed In The Blood	A Mother's Prayer
10	Ralph Stanley	Dad's Old Rocky Field	Old Songs & Ballads
11	The Rice Brothers	Grapes On the Vine	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
12	The David Thom Band	The Little White Church	That Old Familiar
13	Selah Jubilee Singers	I Saw the Light	Gospel Quartets 1921-1942 Vol. 2
14	The Selah Singers	I'll Be Satisfied	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
15	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Christian's Automobile	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds
16	Nina Simone	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free	Forever Young, Gifted & Black: Songs Of Freedom And Spirit
17	Aretha Franklin	River's Invitation	Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings [Disc 2]
18	Percy Mayfield	Strange Things Happening	ABC Of The Blues Vol 28
19	Ray Charles	Hit the Road Jack	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 2
20	Buddy Miller	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Midnight And Lonesome
21	Freddie King	Look On Yonder Wall	Woman Across the River
22	The Mississppi Mud Mashers	Bring It On Home To Grandma	Flashbacks #3 CopulationBlues 1926-1940
23	Texas Alexander	The Risin' Sun	As Good As It Gets: Country Blues [Disc 2]
24	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Easy Rider Blues	Classic Sides Disc 2
25	Ishman Bracey	Woman Woman Blues (Pm 12970, L-239-2)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
26	Charlie Spand	Ain't Gonna Stand For That (Pm 12856, 15454–)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932)
27	Jean Brady and Big Bill Broonzy	Knocking Myself Out	Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944
28	Lightnin' Hopkins	Buddy Brown's Blues (98 Degree Blues)	The Complete Prestige-Bluesville Recordings [Disc 2]
29	Frank Crumit	There's No One With Endurance	grimriper2u@yahoo.com FRANK CRUMIT
30	Cliff Edwards	K-K-K-Katy & When You Wore A Tulip	CLIFF EDWARDS grimriper2u@yahoo.com
31	Herbert Payne	Smoke Clouds	Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944
32	Al Jolson	Toot, Toot Tootsie (Goo'bye)	50 #1 Hits Of The '20s & '30s
33	Billy Joe Shaver	Hill Country Love Song	Oxford American Southern Music Texas
34	Marty Robbins	The Strawberry Roan	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Free Form, Gospel

Deep Elem Blues

May 9, 2015 Dave

Get up sleepy heads! West Sonoma County rolls out of bed on a Saturday morning at 9 with LaVern Baker in another episode of Deeper Roots featuring the music of Don Edwards, Jorma Kaukonen, The Boswell Sisters, and Mahalia Jackson (to name but a few). KOWS radio is also propelling itself in an important campaign to extend its broadcast signal to a larger audience across Sonoma County and is in it’s last month of its Indiegogo campaign where we’re asking our listeners to jump into with both feet. Please visit http://tinyurl.com/pom5kkq to donate. You can tune into KOWS on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month to get your regular dose of roots music. And there’s more to discover by visiting our Deeper Rootsweb site.

Songs About Work

March 8, 2015 Dave

We return once more to a theme. In this episode of Deeper Roots, we visit the ‘salt mines’ where we toil for our daily bread or made to work off our sins. The old addage, attributed to Thomas Edison: “There is no substitute for hard work.” left out the other side of the coin…that of paydays on Friday and working for the weekend…which, of course, we’ll cover in great detail in a show whose theme is ‘work’. Tune in for roots music from Doc Watson and Flatt & Scruggs, both wicked and lovely R&B from Marva Whitney and Fats Domino, and rebellious rocking from Eddie Cochran and Bo Diddley.

Country Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition

Deeper Roots on KOWS – February 28, 2015

February 28, 2015 Dave

Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards — Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards

We have yet another free form fest of roots music emanating from the bright sun of a Saturday along the Bohemian Highway, live from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, California. We both start and wrap up the show with Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards, sharing country, blues, and new Americana in between. We’ll hear from Flaco Jimenez pair up with Dwight Yoakum, the essence of Randy Newman’s portrait of the South, western swing with Willie and Spade, and new music that fits our roots sensibilities from Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen, Jr., and Jorma Kaukonen. Tune in for two hours of classic roots music.

Muscle Shoals Studios

February 7, 2015 Dave

This week’s edition of Deeper Roots visits the towns of Florence and Sheffield, Alabama, specifically the Fame Records and Muscle Shoals studios, to revel in the production talent that was important to the growth of rock, soul, pop, and gospel in the latter half of the 20th century. You may not be familiar with the history, and that can be easily remedied by watching the fine documentary of the same name “Muscle Shoals” which premiered at Sundance in January, 2013. Or you can tune in to our two hour episode to get a taste of the music (which you, no doubt, know) that was the soundtrack of a lifetime for at least two generations. When you consider that “Love Me Like A Rock”, “Wild Horses”, “Katmandu”, and “Gotta Serve Somebody” are just the tip of the iceberg, then you’ll want to know more about the four (yes, four) session musicians that crafted the very distinct sound that made the music as compelling as any other in the last century of America’s music.

African American Gospel, Bluegrass, Country Gospel, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Early Rock, Mountain Music, Rhythm and Blues

Deeper Roots on KOWS – January 10, 2015

January 10, 2015 Dave

Deeper Roots on KOWS - January 2015 — Deeper Roots on KOWS – January 2015

Another beautiful winter Saturday morning in West Sonoma County and it’s time for a collection of hot blues, country gospel, early rock, early century pop, and swinging country on Deeper Roots… everything from Eddie Cantor’s 1922 song about a trapeze and Blind Willie McTell covering Jimmie Rodgers around mid-century, to a track from 2014 from a new band out of New Orleans called Hurray For The Riff Raff…another reason our tag line reads “A Century of America’s Music”. Join Dave Stroud on a brisk Saturday morning from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, California.

Americana’s Best – 2014

January 10, 2015 Dave

Celebrating a recent push into promoting Americana music by KWTF, Sonoma County, Dave Stroud will look back at 2014’s collection of outstanding Americana. The playlist for the evening covers those ‘long in the tooth’ including Willie Nelson and Billy Joe Shaver, a posthumous piece by Johnny Cash, and one of the more energetic throwbacks to 70s outlaw sounds you’ll hear from a songwriter by the name of Sturgill Simpson. There are also the newcomers: Lydia Loveless, Shovels and Rope, and Parker Millsap. Join us in a show that celebrates new music that digs into the roots of the past century of America’s music.

A Century of America's Music