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Soothe Me – KOWS 12/9/15

Soothe Me
Soothe Me

In this episode, Deeper Roots will feature a wide range of sounds from a host of performers. There will be the topical sounds of courtroom drama featuring R&B from Johnny Otis, classic country Ernest Tubb, and country blues from Carl Martin. We’ll also feature a set that looks at “My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It” from a cross-section of talents and genres…and we’ll be soothed with some deep gospel, folk, and soul. Dave will also share a new track from singer/songwriter Steve Forbert’s latest album “Compromised” as well as some contemporary tracks from Marty Stuart, Jorma Kaukonen, and Joe Ely.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Bob Dylan I Want You (Take 4, Alternate Take) The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12 (Sampler) Amazon
2Marie Knight Satisfied With Jesus Hallelujah What A Song! Amazon
3Eugene Smith And The Roberta Martin Singers Satisfied How Sweet it Was Amazon
4Spiritual Five Satisfied With Him I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983 [Disc 3] Amazon
5Johnnie Taylor/The Soul Stirrers Walk With Me 20 Gospel Greats Amazon
6Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers I Have A Friend Above All Others The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
7Sam Cooke Trouble In Mind The Rhythm And The Blues Amazon
8Steve Forbert Devil (Here She Comes Now) Compromised Amazon
9Shorty Long Devil With a Blue Dress On Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 Disc 1 Amazon
10Julia Lee Trouble In Mind Kansas City Star [Disc 1] Amazon
11Julia Lee Lotus Blossom Kansas City Star [Disc 1] Amazon
12Wynonie Harris Good Morning Judge All She Wants To Do Is Rock Amazon
13Chuck Berry Have Mercy Judge The Chess Box Disc 3 Amazon
14Carl Martin Good Morning, Judge Carl Martin, Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan, Willie "61" Blackwell — Complete Recorded Works Amazon
15Sonny Boy Williamson Your Funeral And My Trial His Best: Sonny Boy Williamson – The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection Amazon
16Hugh Laurie Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair Didn't It Rain (Deluxe) Amazon
17Dinah Washington Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair The Bessie Smith Songbook Amazon
18Johnny Otis Court Room Blues Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1] Amazon
19Jorma Kaukonen Judge, I'm Not Sorry The Land Of Heroes Amazon
20The Country Gentlemen The Sentence The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
21Ernest Tubb Dear Judge Last Sessions: All Time Greatest Hits Disc 2 Amazon
22Patsy Cline A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye Live at the Opry Amazon
23Washboard Sam Bucket's Got a Hole in It [Remastered 2002] That's Chicago's South Side (When the Sun Goes Down series) Amazon
24Hank Williams My Bucket's Got A Hole In It The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 18 Amazon
25Louis Armstrong & All His Stars My Bucket's Got A Hole In It The Ultimate Collection [Disc 2] Amazon
26Page & Plant My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy Of Sun Records Amazon
27Joe Ely Rock Me My Baby Musta Notta Gotta Lotta [rem] (1981) Amazon
28Marty Stuart A Satisfied Mind Country Music Amazon
29Tennessee Ernie Ford Cool, Cool Kisses Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3] Amazon
30Charles Brown Soothe Me The Classic Earliest Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
31Stan Kenton & His Orchestra With June Christy Soothe Me Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 4 – Love Letters – 1944-53 Amazon
32James & Bobby Purify Soothe Me The Best Of Amazon

Blues Guitar Shuffle

Blues Guitar Shuffle
Blues Guitar Shuffle

Last week’s show paid tribute to the great country guitarists…so why not spend a couple of hours with the blues greats. We’ll cover a good number of the well knowns like Buddy Guy, Elmore James, and the three ‘kings’…B.B., Freddie, and Albert as well as the second tier innovators like Guitar Slim, J. B. Lenoir, Magic Sam, and Mighty Joe Young. It’s a big helping of blues, some soul-laden clips, and big, screaming rhythm…coming your way on KWTF every Friday night on Deeper Roots: A Century of America’s Music.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1T-Bone Walker T-Bone Shuffle The Very Best of T-Bone Walker [Koch] Amazon
2Albert Collins Jam It Up The Complete Imperial Recordings Disc 2 Amazon
3Johnny Winter Highway 61 Revisited Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
4Freddie King Hideaway One Hit Wonders Amazon
5Gary Moore Still Got The Blues Still Got The Blues Amazon
6Elmore James The Sky Is Crying The Fire/Fury R&B Story [Fuel, 2011] Amazon
7Elmore James Dust My Broom Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Road To Memphis Amazon
8Lonnie Johnson Another Night To Cry American Roots Music [Disc 2] Amazon
9Muddy Waters Honey Bee The Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
10Howlin' Wolf Killing Floor The Real Folk Blues Amazon
11J.B. Lenoir Don't Dog Your Woman Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: J.B. Lenoir Amazon
12Buddy Guy First Time I Met the Blues 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Buddy Guy Amazon
13Guitar Slim and His Band The Things That I Used To Do Plug It In! Turn It Up! – Teil 1: Die Anfdnge 1939 – 1954 Amazon
14B.B. King Three O'Clock Blues King of the Blues [Box] Disc 1 Amazon
15B.B. King The Thrill Is Gone Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3] Amazon
16Johnny "Guitar" Watson Too Tired Space Guitar Amazon
17Mighty Joe Young Empty Arms The Fire/Fury R&B Story [Fuel, 2011] Amazon
18Bo Diddley Before You Accuse Me His Best: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection Amazon
19Magic Sam Sweet Home Chicago West Side Soul Amazon
20Albert King Born Under a Bad Sign The Very Best of Albert King Amazon
21Sam & Dave Soul Man Stax Number Ones Amazon
22Bobby "Blue" Bland Stormy Monday Blues Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues Amazon
23Eric Clapton Blues Before Sunrise From the Cradle Amazon
24Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Texas Flood Texas Flood Amazon
25B.B. King How Blue Can You Get Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3] Amazon
26T-Bone Walker News For My Baby The Complete Imperial Recordings: 1950-1954 [Disc 1] Amazon
27Jimmy Reed Boogie In The Dark Jimmy Reed At Carnegie Hall/The Best Of Jimmy Reed Amazon
28Elmore James Shake Your Moneymaker The Sky Is Crying Amazon
29Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Okie Dokie Stomp Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2] Amazon
30Albert Collins The Freeze Blues Masters Sampler Amazon
31Muddy Waters Rollin' And Tumblin' The Definitive Collection Amazon
32The David Thom Band Windy City That Old Familiar Amazon

Main Street – KOWS December 2, 2015

Main Street
Main Street

A bit of a celebration is in order. We will be broadcasting live from the new KOWS studios located in downtown Sebastopol with a playlist that scours the last century of America’s music for relevant sounds and themes that relate:  songs of settling into home, saying goodbye,  moving on, going west (or east, that is), and ‘getting gone’. We’ll feature The Cats & The Fiddle, local favorites Markus James and Doug Blumer & The Bohemian Highway, “Little” Jimmy Dickens, and a host of others who welcome us into our new home on Gravenstein Highway…or, as it is formally known hereabouts, Main Street.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Muddy Waters Gone To Main Street Mad Love Amazon
2Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers Main Street Breakdown Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years Amazon
3David Bromberg The Main Street Moan The Player: A Retrospective Amazon
4Los Lobos On Main Street Tin Can Trust Amazon
5Loudon Wainwright III Moving Day High Wide & Handsome – The Charlie Poole Project Amazon
6Leon Redbone There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays Christmas Island Amazon
7Little Jimmy Dickens No Place Like Home On Christmas Country Boy [Disc 5] Amazon
8Leon Selph Now That You Have Gone You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942 Amazon
9The Leake County Revelers Been to the East, Been to the West Lead Kindly Light Amazon
10Doug Blumer And The Bohemian Highway Moving Day Doug Blumer And The Bohemian Highway Amazon
11JL Stiles Movin Jl Stiles Presents House of Murmurs Amazon
12Howlin' Wolf Moving The Back Door Wolf Amazon
13Markus James Goin' Down South Head For The Hills Amazon
14Les Paul I'm Movin' On Legend and Legacy [Disc 3] Amazon
15Peter, Paul & Mary Settle Down (Goin' Down That Highway) Moving Amazon
16Florence Lowery Moving Day Blues Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 11 Amazon
17Bertha Idaho Move It On Out Of Here Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 10 Amazon
18Monroe Moe Jackson Move It On Over Rural Blues Vol. 1 1934-1956 Amazon
19Hank Williams & The Drifting Cowboys Move It On Over 26 All-Time Country Classics Amazon
20Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 1: Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies Amazon
21The Dixie Hummingbirds Moving On Looking Back Amazon
22Mahalia Jackson I Will Move On Up A Little Higher Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Amazon
23The Staple Singers Move Along Train Freedom Highway Amazon
24Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) Raising Sand Amazon
25Jerry Lee Lewis Move on Down the Line The London Sessions 1973 Amazon
26Charline Arthur Welcome To The Club Welcome To The Club Amazon
27Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 3 Amazon
28John Hiatt Gone Crossing Muddy Waters Amazon
29Irma Thomas Gone Soul Queen of New Orleans Amazon
30The Cats & The Fiddle Gone The Very Best Of Amazon
31Mr. Scruff Get a Move On Electro Swing Vol. 1 Amazon
32Paul Simon Gone at Last 1964-1993 Disc 2 Amazon
33Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater Gotta Move On West Side Strut Amazon

Deeper Dr. John

Deeper Dr. John
Deeper Dr. John

Mac Rebennack’s been around and the music, the culture, the people…they’ve embellished his art with a character like no other in roots music. He’s known them all: James Booker, Professor Longhair, Huey Smith, and Doc Pomus. He’s performed with them, composed for them, and broken bread with them. And when he takes the stage, whether that is in the traditional Indian celebratory garb or the frocked coat and hat, you can be certain that his performance will get your attention. He is coarse yet gentle, as punctual on the keys as he is laid back and lazy with them. This week’s show will sample a small set of his contributions to the American songbook including performances by Roland Stone, B.B. King, Charlie Rich, Solomon Burke, and Irma Thomas. And we’ll also hear plenty from the good Doctor himself.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Dr. John Right Place Wrong Time Definitive Pop Collection Amazon
2Dr John/Mac Rebennack Sahara (LP Version) Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
3Roland Stone [Dr. John] Down The Road (LP Version) Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
4Mac Rebennack Good Times The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5] Amazon
5Clarence "Frogman" Henry Long Lost And Worried Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry Amazon
6Art Neville What's Going On His Specialty Recordings Amazon
7Johnny Jenkins Walk On Gilded Splinters Duane Allman Anthology 2 [Disc 2] Amazon
8Dr. John Black Widow Spider Definitive Pop Collection Amazon
9Dr. John (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away Destively Bonnaroo (US Release) Amazon
10Dr. John The Night Tripper Wash Mama Wash The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974 Amazon
11Dr. John Big Chief The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974 Amazon
12Irma Thomas I Never Fool Nobody But Me If You Want It, Come and Get It Amazon
13Delaney & Bonnie When the Battle Is Over The Best of Delaney & Bonnie Amazon
14Solomon Burke Make Do With What You Got Make Do With What You Got Amazon
15Dr. John Hen Layin' Rooster The Best Of The Parlophone Years Amazon
16Dr. John Let the Good Times Roll The Ultimate Dr. John Amazon
17Dr. John My Indian Red Goin' Back To New Orleans Amazon
18Dr. John Sweet Home New Orleans The Best Of The Parlophone Years Amazon
19Dr. John Memories Of Prof. Longhair Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 2] Amazon
20Marianne Faithfull Hello Stranger A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology [Disc 2] Amazon
21Crescent City Gold Kick It Raw The Ultimate Session Amazon
22Bluesiana Triangle Need To Be Loved Bluesiana Triangle Amazon
23Charlie Rich Pictures and Paintings Pictures and Paintings Amazon
24Dr. John Eh Las Bas N'awlinz: Dis, Dat Or D'Udda Amazon
25Dr. John Old Settlers Live at Magfest 2014 Amazon
26B.B. King & Dr. John There Must Be A Better World Somewhere Deuces Wild Amazon
27Dr. John Let's Make a Better World The Ultimate Dr. John Amazon
28Dr. John When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) Ske-Dat-De-Dat&The Spirit Of Satch Amazon

Take Me Back – KOWS Nov 18, 2015

Take Me Back
Take Me Back

Our final show at the old KOWS studio will feature the lineup you might expect…with a couple of themes running through it. The ‘take me back’ theme works well as we bring in Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jimmy Rushing, and Peter Rowan to make the plea and we’ve got the gospel themed pleas of working on a building from The Highway QCs. In addition, we’ve got some doo-wop, some ladies whose theme was ‘blues is her business’, and a run of country swing and bluegrass…all packed into two hours of elementary roots. Tune in after dinner for dessert.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Tennessee Ernie Ford Take Me Back And Try Me One More Time Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3] Amazon
2Shannon Grayson I Like The Old Time Way Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
3Wade Mainer Streamlined Religion 1961 King Session Amazon
4Grandpa Jones You And My Old Guitar Makes The Rafters Ring Amazon
5Larry Cordle & The Virginia Luthiers Train On The Island Orthophonic Joy Amazon
6The Whitstein Brothers Where Will You Build Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins Amazon
7John Fogerty Workin' on a Building The Blue Ridge Rangers Amazon
8The Highway QC'S Working On a Building Great Gospel – Maybe the Last Time Amazon
9The Clara Ward Singers Come By Here Meetin' Tonight! Amazon
10The Dixie Hummingbirds Two Little Fishes (And Five Loaves of Bread) 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds Amazon
11The Dixie Hummingbirds Bedside Of A Neighbor Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds Amazon
12Marie Knight Satisfied With Jesus Hallelujah What A Song! Amazon
13Sheiks Walk That Walk Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 1] – Jumpin' & Bluesy Amazon
14Garnet Mimms Cry Baby The Best of Garnet Mimms: Cry Amazon
15The Five Royales I Like It Like That R&B Greats – Think Amazon
16The Five Royales Someone Made Me For You Dedicated To You Amazon
17Steve Cropper Someone Made You For Me (Steve Cropper with Dan Penn) Dedicated – A Salute To The 5 Royales Amazon
18Sam Cooke You Were Made For Me Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 Amazon
19Bessie Smith I'm Wild About That Thing The Saucy Songs (1928-1938) Amazon
20Victoria Spivey With Clarence Williams' Blue Five My Handy Man (f. Victoria Spivey) Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: The New York Sessions 1926-35 Amazon
21Ida Cox & Her Allstar Band Four Day Creep Blues From The Vocalion Vaults Amazon
22Dinah Washington Blow Top Blues Blues Was Her Business Amazon
23Bonnie Raitt Women Be Wise Bonnie Raitt Amazon
24Fats Waller (Take Me Back To) The Wide Open Places compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
25Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama The Devil Ain't Lazy Reinventing the Wheel Amazon
26Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies Somebody's Been Using That Thing Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 1: Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies Amazon
27Ted Daffan's Texans Born To Lose 26 All-Time Country Classics Amazon
28Adolph Hofner Let's Count The Stars You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942 Amazon
29Jimmy Rushing Take Me Back, Baby ABC Of The Blues Vol 38 Amazon
30Buck Owens Take Me Back Again Act Naturally Amazon
31Peter Rowan And Don Edwards Take Me Back To The Range High Lonesome Cowboy Amazon
32Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson Missing Ol' Johnny Cash Django and Jimmie Amazon
33Johnny Cash Tear Stained Letter American IV: Man Comes Around Amazon
34Earl Scruggs Gospel Ship The Earl Scruggs Revue: Anniversary Special, Volumes One & Two Amazon

Let’s Live – KOWS Nov 5, 2015

Let's Live
Let’s Live

We’ll be bringing another eclectic blend of music from the past for an evening set kicks off with sounds of New Orleans beginning with a medley from the Bayou Maharajah, James Booker and closing with Irma Thomas. In addition to our usual run of bluegrass, jazz, and blues…we’ll prepare some piping hot biscuits from the country shack with Alan Lomax, Flatt & Scruggs, Pappy O’Daniel and the Hillbilly Boys, and Kacey Musgraves. There will also be a rare piece of early blues piano work from Ollie Shepard and the early century jazz band sounds of Enric Madriguera, Jimmie Lunceford, and Fletcher Henderson. Two full hours of Deeper Roots on weekday evening…carrying us over the midweek hump so that it’s all downhill from there…

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Aaron Neville Let's Live Treacherous [Disc 1] Amazon
2James Booker Medley: Tico Tico / Papa Was A Rascal / So Swell When You're Well Classified Amazon
3Dr. John Traveling Mood The Ultimate Dr. John Amazon
4Fats Domino The Girl I Love [Version 2] This Is Gold Disc 1 Amazon
5Aaron Neville My True Story My True Story Amazon
6Irma Thomas While the City Sleeps Time Is on My Side: The Best of Irma Thomas, Vol. 1 Amazon
7Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie I'm Wild About My Stuff Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944 Amazon
8Blind Boy Fuller Trucking My Blues Away No. 2 (take 2) Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order – Volume 2 (29 April to 12 July 1937) Amazon
9Ollie Shepard King Of All Evil Vol. 2-1939-41 Amazon
10Angelic Gospel Singers with the Dixie Humming Birds One Day When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51 Amazon
11Rory Block Lord, I Feel Just Like Goin' On I Belong To The Band: A Tribute To Rev. Gary Davis Amazon
12Ethel Waters and Her Jazz Band Ev'rybody Mess Aroun Tight Women and Loose Bands 1921-1931 Amazon
13Cleo Brown Boogie Woogie Picking the Blues – Compiled By John Mayall – Boogie Woogie Pioneers Amazon
14Benny Carter (With Lionel Hampton Orchestra) I'm in the Mood for Swing RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's Amazon
15Coleman Hawkins Body and Soul RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's Amazon
16Alan Lomax How Many Biscuits Can You Eat? Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co Amazon
17W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys Please Pass The Biscuits Pappy Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938 Amazon
18Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs 'How Many Biscuits' 1953-X6-XX Grand Old Opry Amazon
19NRBQ Hot Biscuits and Sweet Marie Kick Me Hard Amazon
20Kacey Musgraves Biscuits Pageant Material Amazon
21Kenny Baker Monroe's Hornpipe Plays Bill Monroe Amazon
22Jack Guthrie No Need to Knock on My Door Oklahoma Hills Amazon
23Merle Travis Missouri The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 11 Amazon
24Kentuckians Journey's End Keep on Going: The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings Amazon
25Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Better Times A' Comin' Mark Twain: Words & Music [Disc 1] Amazon
26Mac Wiseman It's Mighty Dark To Travel Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
27Johnny Cash Thanks a Lot The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 1 Amazon
28Jim Silver Each Season Changes You Country Boy's Dream Amazon
29Jimmy Wakely Moon Over Montana Vintage Collections Amazon
30Leon Redbone Sweet Lorraine Any Time Amazon
31Dr. John I Love It at the Top 20 Dates Amazon
32Jimmie Lunceford/Sy Oliver, Vocal Time's A-Wastin' Jimmie Lunceford Amazon
33Sam Cooke Bring It on Home to Me Greatest Hits Amazon

Night Time – KOWS Oct 28, 2015

Night Time
Night Time

No more alternating Saturday mornings for Deeper Roots. We’re a weekly publication now…every Wednesday evening at 7 Pacific!. We’re going to settle into our new KOWS time-slot tonight with music that celebrates our new day of the week and we’ll also roam east, south, west and north in our pursuit of the best from the last 100 years of American music. Join us right after Robert Feuer’s Blues Up the River for some ‘down river’ sounds including Johnny Horton, Tom Rush, Riley Puckett, and some John Lee Hooker. Because the night time is the right time. 

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Nappy Brown Just a Little Love Night Time Is the Right Time [Disc 1] Amazon
2John Lee Hooker Night Time Is The Right Time Boogie Chillun Amazon
3Ray Charles Night Time Is the Right Time Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 1 Amazon
4James Brown Night Train 20 All Time Greatest Hits! Amazon
5Billy Jones When It's Night Time in Italy, It's Wednesday over Here The Silly Songs (1922 to 1934) Amazon
6Riley Puckett Wednesday Night Waltz Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
7Josh White Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Vol. 3-(1935-40) Amazon
8Misisipi Mike Wolf Calling the Shots The Cold Hard Facts of Mike Amazon
9Kevin Russell Head South Trouble In Mind Amazon
10Asleep at the Wheel South of the Border (with George Strait) Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Amazon
11Willie Nelson South (Featuring Paul Shaffer & Vince Gill) Willie and the Wheel Amazon
12Cleo Brown I'll Take The South (You Take The East, Take The West, Take The North) Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935) Amazon
13Kinky Friedman Girl From The North Country The Loneliest Man I Ever Met Amazon
14Doyle Lawson/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver The Northern Lights School of Bluegrass Disc 1 Amazon
15Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel Northern Lights Freight Train Boogie Amazon
16Johnny Horton North to Alaska Magic Moments Amazon
17David Luning Northern California Just Drop On By Amazon
18Bill Monroe And Doc Watson East Tennessee Blues Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2 Amazon
19June Carter Cash East Virginia Blues Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 2 Amazon
20Grandpa Jones East Bound Freight Train 16 Greatest Hits Amazon
21Tom Rush East of Eden What I Know Amazon
22Jerry Reed East Bound And Down The Essential Jerry Reed Amazon
23Geraint Watkins Go West Dial 'W' for Watkins Amazon
24Chris Isaak Western Stars Silvertone Amazon
25Les Paul East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
26The Benny Goodman Sextet East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) Benny Goodman Sextet Amazon
27Whitt Denson "One Voice Quartette" New Morning Sun 436 I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings Amazon
28Ruthie Foster Brand New Day Promise of a Brand New Day Amazon
29Nappy Brown Little By Little Night Time Is the Right Time Amazon
30Chris Hillman/Herb Pedersen Invitation to the Blues Way Out West Amazon
31Willie Nelson/Lukas Nelson My Window Faces The South Heroes Amazon

Songs of the Dust Bowl

Songs of the Dust Bowl
Songs of the Dust Bowl

Our story is one that we’ve covered before, previously focusing on the Great Depression and the music of Woody Guthrie. This episode pulls in the theme of that tragic chapter of a drought that uprooted nearly 60 percent of the population from the affected region of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. With the soil lacking a firm root due to poor farm practices, the plains winds would pick up the loose topsoil and create the dust clouds that ravaged farm and city alike. The music we’ll hear tonight brings us the stories, including those of Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Bob Gibson, Lane Hardin, Vernon Dahlart, and The Morrison Two Brothers String Band.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Ramblin' Jack Elliott Talking Dust Bowl Hard Travelin' Amazon
2Ramblin' Jack Elliott Dust Storm Disaster Hard Travelin' Amazon
3Woody Guthrie Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder] Amazon
4Woody Guthrie Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road (Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad) Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder] Amazon
5Alison Krauss Dust Bowl Children Paper Airplane Amazon
6Peter Rowan Tumbleweed Dust Bowl Children Amazon
7Bob Gibson Pastures of Plenty Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson Amazon
8Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards Pasture of Plenty Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
9Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards So Long It's Been Good to Know You Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
10The Byrds Pretty Boy Floyd Sweetheart of the Rodeo Amazon
11Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards Do Re Mi Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
12Cisco Houston The Great American Bum Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2] Amazon
13Mac "Harry" McClintock Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Remastered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
14Billy Bragg I Ain't Got No Home Tooth & Nail Amazon
15Michelle Shocked Woody's Rag Arkansas Traveler Amazon
16Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries gimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
17Leo Reisman And His Orchestra;Milton Douglas Brother, Can You Spare a Dime (From The Musical Review "Americana") [Remastered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
18Woody Guthrie Talking Dust Bowl Blues Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder] Amazon
19Woody Guthrie Dust Pneumonia Blues Dust Bowl Ballads [Rounder] Amazon
20Lane Hardin California Desert Blues [Remastered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
21Red Allen Deep Elem Blues The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983 Amazon
22Prairie Ramblers Deep Elem Blues White Country Blues (1926-1938) Amazon
23Joe Stone It's Hard Time Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
24Vernon Dalhart The Farm Relief Song Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
25The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band Dry and Dusty Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
26Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Dealing With The Devil Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2] Amazon
27Jack Guthrie Oklahoma Hills Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
28Bruce Springsteen I Ain't Got No Home Folkways: A Vision Shared-A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly Amazon
29Ry Cooder Vigilante Man Into The Purple Valley Amazon
30Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards Tom Joad Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
31Jimmy Lafave Dust Bowl Okies The Night Tribe Amazon

In The Gloaming – KOWS Oct 24, 2015

In The Gloaming
In The Gloaming

Our Saturday morning show opens with some caffeine-driven music…literally… songs about the magic bean, that morning beverage that starts the day for some of us. We’ve got swamp pop from Randy & The Rockets, some jumpin’ jive from Cab Calloway, twilight reflections from Jonatha Brooke and The Sons of The Pioneers, and some Chet Atkins, David Lindley, and Eilen Jewell. KOWS community radio studios will be moving before the end of the year to a very central West County location that will bring us in closer contact with our listeners…and our Deeper Roots. And some exciting news! Deeper Roots moves to weekly broadcasts on KOWS.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Randy & the Rockets Lets Do the Cajun Twist Swamp Gold, Volume 1 Amazon
2Curtis Gordon Caffeine And Nicotine Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1] Amazon
3Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Caffeine Patrol Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
4Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Forty Cups of Coffee Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
5Frank Sinatra The Coffee Song Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan Amazon
6Carmen McRae/Previn Trio Coffee Time Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers [Disc 2] Amazon
7Annette Hanshaw You're the Cream in My Coffee The Personality Girl, Vol. 4: 1928 Amazon
8The Manhattan Transfer Java Jive Swing Amazon
9Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Coffee Pot Blues Middle of Everywhere Amazon
10Cab Calloway The Jumpin' Jive Best Of The Big Bands Amazon
11Tiny Davis & Her Orchestra How About That Jive Jumpin' The Blues:MCA Label(ACE CD) Amazon
12Johnny Mercer G.I. Jive Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 1 – The Birth Of A Label – 1942-43 Amazon
13Ella Fitzgerald Five O'Clock Whistle Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 Amazon
14Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys The Prettiest Flowers Will Be Blooming Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Disc One Amazon
15Sons of the Pioneers In the Gloaming Songs of the Prairie – CD4 Amazon
16Jonatha Brooke In the Gloaming Live Amazon
17John Prine With Emmylou Harris I Know One In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
18Porter Wagoner Fool Like Me Wagonmaster Amazon
19Chet Atkins Levee Walking My Favorite Guitars – It's A Guitar World Amazon
20The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Blue Grass Favorites Amazon
21Eilen Jewell That's Why I'm Walkin Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades Amazon
22Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Walk Right In, Walk Right Out (The Walking Blues) One Hour Mama Amazon
23Eddie Jefferson Start Walkin' Stop Talkin' The BeBop Singers Amazon
24Dinah Washington Walkin' And Talkin' Gold Amazon
25Peggy Lee Talkin' To Myself About You The Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
26David Lindley Talk to the Lawyer Win This Record Amazon
27David Lindley & El Rayo-X Talkin' to the Wino Too Very Greasy Amazon
28David Lindley and Wally Ingram Oh Death Twango Bango II Amazon
29Pepe Ahlqist Moonshine Babe Raw Blues Amazon
30Perline Ellison Razor Totin' Mama Document Shortcuts Vol. 1 "God Don't Like It" Amazon
31Jackson Browne & David Lindley El Rayo X (Intro) Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
32Jackson Browne & David Lindley El Rayo X Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
33Mark Knopfler Who's Your Baby Now Sailing to Philadelphia Amazon

Free Form – October 2015

Free Form - October 2015
Free Form – October 2015

Free form with just a dose of playlist themes…R&B and sugar from Chuck Willis, some sweeter country from Bob Wills, more of the same with a moonlight-based theme from Tommy Duncan, Dale Evans, and Elton Britt. We’ve also got a mix of early century jazz from Satchmo and blues from Tampa Red, Charley Patton, and Blind Blake. Tune into community radio locally on KWTF 88.1 on the FM dial or catch us streaming on TuneIn, RadioBox, or from our web site at kwtf.net/listen.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Seasick Steve Dark Man from Another Time (Bonus Version) Amazon
2Wild Tchoupitoulas Meet De Boys On The Battlefront Treacherous [Disc 1] Amazon
3The Neville Brothers Yellow Moon Yellow Moon Amazon
4Emmylou Harris; Rodney Crowell Old Yellow Moon Old Yellow Moon Amazon
5Bill Neely Big Yellow Moon Over Texas Texas Law & Justice Amazon
6Tommy Duncan Texas Moon Texas Moon Amazon
7Elton Britt Blue Texas Moonlight The RCA Years Amazon
8Dale Evans Under a Texas Moon The Rage of the Sage Amazon
9Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Sugar Moon Take Me Back to Tulsa 4 – The End Of The Line Amazon
10k.d. lang Sugar Moon Shadowland Amazon
11Merle Travis Too Much Sugar For A Dime Hot Pickin' [Disc 2] Amazon
12Chuck Willis Sugar Sugar I Remember Chuck Willis / The King Of The Stroll Amazon
13Muddy Waters Sugar Sweet The Anthology [Disc 2] Amazon
14The Mills Brothers Sweeter Than Sugar The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 3 Amazon
15Earl Bostic Sweet Lorraine Earl Bostic Flamingo Amazon
16Dave Van Ronk Sweet And Lowdown Sweet & Lowdown Amazon
17Chuck Berry Sweet Little Sixteen The Chess Box Disc 1 Amazon
18Blind Blake Sweet Papa Low Down Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker Amazon
19Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Sweet Potato Blues Riverboat Soul Amazon
20Warner Williams With Jay Summerour Digging Potatoes Blues Highway Amazon
21Nat King Cole Solid Potato Salad Chronological Classics: Nat King Cole 1945 Amazon
22Hunter & Jenkins Meat Cuttin' Blues Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops Amazon
23Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven Potato Head Blues The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
24Fats Waller & His Rhythm All That Meat And No Potatoes 100 Ans De Jazz Amazon
25The Swallows It Ain't The Meat Risque Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B Amazon
26Memphis Minnie Pig Meat On The Line [Album Version] Queen Of The Blues Amazon
27Tampa Red;Georgia Tom Dead Cats On The Line Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard Amazon
28Bob Brozman Dead Cat On The Line Blues Reflex Amazon
29Charley Patton Mean Black Cat Blues Primeval Blues, Rags and Gospel Songs Amazon
30Harry Reser Cat And Dog Banjo Crackerjax 1922-1930 Amazon
31Bob Brozman Dog and Cat Hello Central, Give Me Dr. Jazz! Amazon
32Joe Venuti's Blue Four Beatin' the Dog Wild Cats Amazon
33Dr. John How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come 'Round) Goin' Back To New Orleans Amazon
34Nat King Cole Open Up The Doghouse (Two Cats Are Coming In) (1992 Digital Remaster) Nat King Cole [Disc 3] Amazon