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Lonely Avenue

June 30, 2018 Dave

Blues from a lonely place. From blues to doo wop to southern soul…from behind prison walls to that singular window in that singular room looking out from a high-rise hotel onto a busy street in urban anywhere, America. Today’s music is all about being alone. Our show explores songs written with the lonesome muse on the shoulder. Ray Charles, Joe Liggins, Earl King, and Champion Jack Dupree join in as we ponder lonesome times from the heart of the solitary blues.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Booker T. & The MG's	Lonely Avenue	Green Onions
2	Ray Charles	Lonely Avenue	Doc Pomus: Singer And Songwriter [Disc 2]
3	Mel Walker	Feelin' Mighty Lonesome	Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2
4	Johnny Ace	So Lonely	Memorial Album
5	Smiley Turner	Lonely Boy Blues	Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 5]: West Coast Blues V1
6	Julia Lee	Have You Ever Been Lonely	Kansas City Star [Disc 2]
7	Irma Thomas	Woman Left Lonely	My Heart's in Memphis: The Songs of Dan Penn
8	Maxine Sullivan	Kind'a Lonesome	Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 1]
9	T-Bone Walker	Blue Mood	Best Of Black & White & Imperial Years
10	Shakey Jake	Gimme A Smile	The Bluesville Years Volume 10: Country Roads, Country Days
11	The Holmes Brothers	I'm So Lonely	Simple Truths
12	Joe Liggins	Blues For Tanya	Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
13	Sam Cooke	Lonely Island	The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (1 of 4)
14	Eddie Burns	Lonely Man Plea	Delmark: 50 Years Of Jazz & Blues: Blues [Disc 1]
15	James Winfield	Lonely, Lonely, Nights	Lonely Lonely Nights
16	Champion Jack Dupree	Lonely Road Blues	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
17	Chris Kenner	I'm Lonely, Take Me	Land of 1000 Dances
18	Earl King	Those Lonely Lonely Nights	Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
19	Eddie Boyd	Got Lonesome Here	Third Degree (The Blues Collection Vol.58)
20	Johnny Bragg	Hurt & Lonely	The Johnny Bragg Story
21	Violet Hall	(All Alone) I Sit And Cry	The Mercury Blues Story (1945-1955) – Southwest Blues, Vol. 2
22	Fats Domino	I'm Alone Because I Love You	Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 8
23	Clarence "Frogman" Henry	Lonely Street	Ain't Got No Home: The Best Of Clarence "Frogman" Henry
24	Freddie King	Lonesome Whistle Blues	Ultimate Collection
25	Lowell Fulson	Everyday I Have The Blues	Trying to Find My Baby
26	Smiley Lewis	Lonesome Highway	ABC Of The Blues Vol 25
27	Nappy Brown	I'm Getting Lonesome	Down In The Alley – The Complete Savoy Singles A's & B's
28	Little Richard	Lonesome And Blue	The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection
29	Ray Charles & Betty Carter	Alone Together	Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated To You
30	Ella Fitzgerald	I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
31	Lillie Mae Kirkman	Lonesome	Female Blues – The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 (1938-1949)
32	Julia Lee	Back Street (06-13-47)	1947

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Naughty Blues

May 26, 2018 Dave

For goodness sake! We’re going to toss aside our puritan ethics (what ethics, you ask) and look towards the sideways glances and double entendres for our inspiration this week on Deeper Roots. Songs about Sam The Hot Dog Man, keyholes, sugar bowls, poodles, jockeys, and lemons…all subjects that find their way in and around the blues in an auspiciously direct route to the heart of the matter. We’ve got the naughty blues today…songs that will encourage a blush or two…or three. We’ve got The Swallows, Lil’ Johnson, Emma Barrett, Tampa Red, and a host of other blues greats on a Sonoma County spring morning. Be sure to tune in and find your own blush point…

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	The Delta Rhythm Boys	Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me	I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem
2	Crown Prince Waterford	Move Your Hand Baby	Vintage Sex Songs
3	Barrelhouse Annie	If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It	Vintage Sex Songs
4	Memphis Minnie	Dirty Mother For You	Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1]
5	Tampa Red	Let Me Play With Your Poodle	ABC Of The Blues Vol 38
6	Lightnin' Hopkins	Let Me Play With Poodle	Vintage Sex Songs
7	Hattie Hart	I Let My Daddy Do That	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
8	Emma Barrett	I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll	Sweet Emma
9	Butterbeans & Susie	I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll [Explicit]	Those Dirty Blues Volume 1 [Explicit]
10	Lil Johnson	Sam The Hot Dog Man	Vintage Sex Songs
11	Mabel Scott	Just Give Me A Man	Vintage Sex Songs
12	Connie Allen	Rocket 69	Vintage Sex Songs
13	The Swallows	It Ain't The Meat It's The Motion	Vintage Sex Songs
14	Julia Lee	My Man Stands Out	The Essential Julia Lee Vol 1
15	Julia Lee	King Size Papa	Kansas City Star [Disc 3]
16	Al Miller	I Found Your Keyhole	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
17	Charlie Pickett	Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon	Vintage Sex Songs
18	Bessie Smith	Kitchen Man	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
19	Bessie Smith	Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl	The Essential Bessie Smith
20	Hunter & Jenkins	Lollypop	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
21	Frankie Half Pint Jaxon and The Harlem Hamfats	Wet It [Explicit]	Those Dirty Blues Volume 1 [Explicit]
22	Victoria Spivey	How Do You Do It That Way?	Black Snake Blues – The Best Of
23	Madelyn James	Stinging Snake Blues	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
24	Lucille Bogan	Skin Game Blues [Album Version]	Shave 'Em Dry: The Best Of Lucille Bogan
25	Lil Johnson	Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts) [Album Version]	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
26	Lonnie Johnson	I Got The Best Jelly Rollin In Town	Dirty Blues [Disc 2]
27	Wynonie Harris	Hard Ridin Mama	Playful Baby
28	Bull Moose Jackson	Big Ten Inch Record	Badman Jackson Thats Me
29	Blu Lu Barker	Don't You Feel My Leg	Chronological Blue Lu Barker (1946-1949)
30	Blu Lu Barker	Buy Me Some Juice	Don't You Feel My Leg
31	Lillie Mae Kirkman	He's Just My Size	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
32	Lil Johnson & Black Bob	Press My Button, Ring My Bell	Flashbacks #3 CopulationBlues 1926-1940

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The Hangman’s Rope

November 18, 2017 Dave

Songs about one of the most controversial of mankind’s attempt to balance the scales: the death penalty. Studies point to the fact that at least one in 25 people sentenced to the death penalty in the U.S. are innocent and yet the death penalty is legal in 32 states. In China, corporate fraud can be punishable by death…if it were the case here, our government would probably be on the straight and narrow. But I digress. The music this week will explore the long walk to eternity through the eyes of the condemned; the knowledge of the eventuality of the executioner’s song is clarity. And we’ve got country from a whole host of obscure characters, some blues and boogie, along with just a little bit of folk and bluegrass. A hundred years of the hangman’s rope in reflection.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Johnny Cash	I Hung My Head	American IV: Man Comes Around
2	Gurf Morlix	Theyre Hangin Me Tonight	The Executioner's Last Songs, Volume 3
3	Johnny Bond	At Dawn I Die	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
4	Marty Robbins	The Hanging Tree	All-Time Greatest Hits
5	Peter, Paul & Mary	Hangman	See What Tomorrow Brings
6	Marty Stuart	Hangman	Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions
7	Ralston Bowles and May Erlewine-Bernard	Hangman	Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie
8	Cowboy Copas	Hangman Boogie	Hillbilly Boogie Box [Disc 4]
9	The Pine Valley Cosmonauts & Puerto Muerto	The Hangman's Song	The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. 1
10	Al Dean	Hangman	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
11	Leadbelly	Gallows Pole	Too Late, Too Late – Vol. 12 – 1917-48
12	Furry Lewis	Judge Harsh Blues	Furry Lewis 1927 – 1929
13	Brownie McGhee	Hangman's Blues	The Folkways Years (1945-1959)
14	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Hangman's Blues	Complete Recordings Vol. 3
15	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Electric Chair	Blues Images Presents 1920's Blues Classics, Vol. 13
16	Lonesome Johnny	Death Row	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
17	Jimmy Minor	Death Row	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
18	Porter Wagoner	(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
19	Dave Alvin	Sonora's Death Row	West of the West
20	Lee Hazelwood	The Girl On Death Row	Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2
21	Johnny Cash	The Mercy Seat	American III: Solitary Man
22	Bessie Smith	Send Me To The Lectric Chair	Empress Of The Blues Volume 2: 1926-1933 (CD A, 1926-1928)
23	Booker T. & the MG's	Hang 'Em High	The Very Best of Booker T. & the MG's
24	Hoyle Miller	Twelve Years On Death Row	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
25	Steve Earle	Walking Down Death Row	If I Had A Song: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2
26	The Blue Sky Boys	Story Of The Knoxville Girl	Absolutely Bluegrass
27	Bob Dylan	Seven Curses	The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 [Disc 2]
28	Joan Baez	Geordie	The First 10 Years
29	The Pine Valley Cosmonauts & Dean Schlabowske	Gary Gilmore's Eyes	The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. 1

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Bad Luck Blues

September 16, 2017 Dave

We’re exploring the blues this week on Deeper Roots. And it’s all about bad luck blues…when the dice roll snake eyes, when the crops won’t make the rent, when your woman asks for money and all you got is the dust in your pockets…when you ain’t got no money. Join Dave Stroud for a collection of the very best including Big Joe Williams’ Jinx Blues, bad luck stories from Dinah Washington and Memphis Minnie, piano moaning from Leroy Carr and Ivory Joe, as well as further tales of gambling, dice, and no luck from Clifford Gibson and Black Boy Shine. Friday evening blues….what more?

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Little Milton	Bad Luck	Delmark: 50 Years Of Jazz & Blues: Blues [Disc 1]
2	Rory Block	Jinx Blues	Blues Walkin' Like a Man: A Tribute To Son House
3	Son House	The Jinx Blues	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 41
4	Big Joe Williams	Jinx Blues	Classic Delta Blues
5	Black Boy Shine	Gamblin' Jinx Blues	Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 2]
6	Memphis Minnie	I'm A Bad Luck Woman	Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937)
7	Mel Walker	Unlucky Man	Mercury R&B Story '45-'55 – [Disc 6] West Coast Blues V2
8	Nat King Cole Trio	Chant Of The Blues (Dog-Gone Unlucky Blues)	The Nat King Cole Trio: The Complete Capitol Transcription Sessions [Disc 1]
9	Dinah Washington	Bad Luck	Dinah Washington Sings The Blues
10	Jimmy Lewis/Ray Charles	If It Wasn't for Bad Luck	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 4
11	Robert Belfour	Bad Luck	What's Wrong with You
12	Muddy Waters	Mother's Bad Luck Child	Can't Get No Grindin'
13	Lightnin' Slim	Bad Luck Blues	The Best Of Excello Records
14	Lightnin' Hopkins	Bad Luck And Trouble	Blues Kingpins
15	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Bad Luck Blues	Classic Sides Disc 1
16	Cliifford Gibson	Bad Luck Dice	Complete Recorded Works
17	Guitar Welch	Bad Luck Blues	Southern Prison Blues (Digitally Remastered)
18	Kokomo Arnold	Bad Luck Blues	Complete Recorded Works Volume 4 (1937-1938)
19	Ivory Joe Hunter	No Money, No Luck Blues	The Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter 1947
20	Bill Gaither	Bad Luck Child's Request	When The Sun Goes Down 1934-1941
21	Leroy Carr	Bad Luck All The Time	Sloppy Drunk [Disc 2]
22	Champion Jack Dupree	Bad Luck Bound To Change	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
23	Fats Domino	Bad Luck and Trouble	Fats Domino Out of New Orleans
24	John Mayall	Bad Luck Time	Room To Move 1969-1974 [Disc 2]
25	Tommy Castro And The Painkillers	Bad Luck	Method To My Madness
26	Larry Campbell	Bad Luck Charm	Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
27	The Harlem Hamfats	Bad Luck Man	Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936
28	Charlie Musselwhite	If I Should Have Bad Luck	Deluxe Edition – Charlie Musselwhite

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Beer Thirty

March 11, 2017 Dave

One of the more popular topics that follows the Americana and roots landscape (aside from love, death, and the gospel) is the topic of ice cold beer. Beer in the morning, beer in the evening, beer at suppertime. And our show this week is a sampler of 30 plus tracks of (mostly) country, rockabilly, rock, some blues, and we’ll be including some vintage television commercials that celebrate the suds. So kick back with a cold one and tune that dial to Deeper Roots on KWTF with your host Dave Stroud this Friday evening at 9 Pacific as he steps up to the bar and shares a wild assortment of songs about a cold brew or two…and we’re not talkin’ boojie coffee.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Amos Milburn	One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer	Amos Milburn Rocks
2	Smiley Maxedon	Give Me A Red Hot Mama And An Ice Cold Beer [Album Version]	Hillibilly Boogie!
3	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Bubbles In My Beer	Take Me Back to Tulsa 4 – The End Of The Line
4	Willie Nelson	Bubbles In My Beer	One Hell Of A Ride
5	Andy Reynolds	Beer Bottle Mama	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 9]
6	Garth Brooks/George Jones	Beer Run	God's Country: George Jones and Friends Disc 1
7	George Jones	Beer, Bait And Ammo	All Gone Fishin'
8	Derailers	Cold Beer, Hot Women & Cool Country Music	Soldiers of Love
9	Dale Watson	Honkiest Tonkiest Beer Joint	The Best of the HighTone Years
10	Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers	Drink the Beer Barrel Dry	Swing With Bill Boyd's Cowboy Rambers
11	Various	If You've Got The Time Miller Beer	BigKevNastyCD
12	Tom T. Hall	I Like Beer	The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall
13	Bob Woodruff	Hard Liquor, Cold Women, Warm Beer	Dreams & Saturday Nights
14	Asylum Street Spankers	Beer	Spanker Madness
15	Johnny Russell	Red Necks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer	20 Hits
16	Whitney Rose	There's A Tear In My Beer	Heartbreaker of the Year
17	Stray Cats	Lookin' Better Every Beer	Runaway Boys: A Retrospective '81-'92
18	John Lee Hooker	One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer	His Best Chess Sides (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection)
19	Warner Williams With Jay Summerour	Hey Bartender, There's A Big Bug In My Beer	Blues Highway
20	Various	Bob Uecker Lite Beer Commercial	BigKevNastyCD
21	Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim	Beer Drinking Woman	Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways
22	Floyd Dixon	Hey Bartender	Marshall Texas Is My Home
23	Bessie Smith	Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer [Album Version]	The Essential Bessie Smith
24	Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon	Gimme A Pig's Foot And A Bottle Of Beer	Barbecue Any Old Time – Blues From The Pit 1927-1942
25	Luke Wills' Rhythm Busters	Shut Up And Drink Your Beer	Western Swing 40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 2]
26	Various Artists	Falstaff Beer	1960s Psychedelic Radio Commercials
27	Tommy Duncan	Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)?	Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B
28	Johnny Bond	Bartender's Blues	Put Me To Bed
29	Merrill Moore	Bartender's Blues	Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1]
30	The Texas Tornados	In Heaven There Is No Beer	!Esta Bueno!
31	Washboard Hank	Beer Cans Down The Trans Can	Human Beans
32	Reverend Horton Heat	Beer Holder	Laughin & Cryin
33	Eddie Noack	Beer Drinkin' Blues	Psycho
34	James Mask	Beer Drinking Blues	Foot Tappin' And Dance At The Screamin' Festival Vol.4

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Evil Blues

December 17, 2016 Dave

It’s the story of evil told in the voice of the blues. All things evil are explored in the voices of gospel, country blues, urban blues, and the folk blues. Evil ways, bad blood, fear, and the depths to which the evil in man’s heart can go are the themes tonight in a show that features the likes of Otis Spann, Elmore James, Henry Truvillion, The Golden Gate Quartet, and many others. All of this coming to you on a cold December evening in Sonoma County.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Howlin' Wolf	Evil	Blues From Hell
2	The Golden Gate Quartet	Atom And Evil (1946)	Vol. 5 (1945-1949) (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 5, 1939-1949)
3	The Golden Gate Quartet (Willie Johnson, baritone/William Langford, tenor/Henry Owens, tenor/Arlandus Wilson, Bass) (Aka "Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet")	The Devil With The Devil	Vol. 3, 1939 (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 3, 1939)
4	Chris Smither	The Devil's Real	A Little On The Cd Side Volume 11
5	Noah Lewis	Devil In The Wood Pile	When The Sun Goes Down: Walk Right In – The Secret Story Of Rock & Roll
6	Don Byas's Swig Seven, Albinia Jones	Evil Gal Blues	Savoy Blues 1944-1994 [Disc 1]
7	Dinah Washington	Evil Gal Blues	Gold
8	T-Bone Walker	Evil Hearted Woman (Alt. Take)	The Complete Imperial Recordings: 1950-1954 [Disc 1]
9	Champion Jack Dupree	Evil Woman	Blues from the Gutter
10	Doctor Gaddy	Evil Man Blues	Shoutin' Out The Blues (R&B CD 2005-2)
11	Otis Spann	Evil Ways	Essential Blues Hits Disc 2
12	Washboard Sam	Evil Blues	Vol. 6 1941 – 1942
13	Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe	Evil Devil Woman Blues	Vol 4 (1933-34)
14	Moreland & Arbuckle	Mean And Evil	Promised Land Or Bust
15	B.B. King	Mean And Evil	There Is Always One More Time
16	Elmore James	Mean And Evil	Let's Cut It: The Very Best Of Elmore James
17	Lightnin' Hopkins	Mean and Evil Blues	Texas Guitar Killers Disc 1
18	Blind Boy Fuller	Worried and Evil Man Blues	Blind Boy Fuller Vol. 3 1937
19	Reverend Gary Davis	Cross And Evil Woman Blues	Southern Country Blues: Down In Boogie Alley [Disc 2]
20	Lowell Fulson	Don't Be So Evil	Juke Box Blues 1946-1948
21	Gatemouth Moore	Evil Gal's Jockey	Hey Mr. Gatemouth – Complete King Recordings
22	Albert King	I Get Evil	More Big Blues
23	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	Bad Blood	Sportin' the Blues Disc 2
24	Ramona Hicks	Evil and Blue	Swingin' the Blues: 1931-1939
25	Ollie Shepard	King Of All Evil	Vol. 2-1939-41
26	Walter Brown	What Evil Have I Done?	Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 2
27	Alice Moore	Black And Evil Blues	Black Swan Sampler
28	Koko Taylor	Evil	The Best of Koko Taylor
29	Ella Fitzgerald	Necessary Evil	The Chronological Ella Fitzgerald – 1951
30	Eartha Kitt/Henri René & His Orchestra	I Want to Be Evil	Purr-Fect: Greatest Hits
31	Aretha Franklin	Evil Gal Blues	Aretha Sings The Blues

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Early Blues Women

November 5, 2016 Dave

We’ll take you to the early century when jazz was bubbling up in every urban quarter…Chicago, New York, New Orleans, Kansas City, and beyond. Our focus will be on the fringes where blues women would establish themselves with stories of cheating, stealing, and mean mistreating. The economy of the early twenties generated the disposable income for Victrolas, radios, and shellac recordings and the Great Migration from the south brought with it a culture that would affect the American music landscape forever. The ladies of the blues are featured on our show this week, including Lucille Bogan, Bessie Smith, Victoria Spivey, Gertrude Saunders, and an opening piece about a razor-totin’ mama from Perline Ellison.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Perline Ellison	Razor Totin' Mama	Female Blues – The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 (1938-1949)
2	Mamie Smith	Mean Daddy Blues	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2
3	Ida Cox	How Long Daddy, How Long (Pm 12325, 2287-1)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927)
4	Unknown Artist	Mama Likes To Do It	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 14
5	Ma Rainey	Black Eye Blues	Black Swan Sampler
6	Ethel Waters	My Handy Man	Copulation Blues 1926 – 1940 H
7	Dorothy Everetts	Fat Mouth Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 6
8	Josephine Byrd	Mosquito Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 3
9	Christina Gray	The Reverend Is My Man	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 7
10	Gertrude Saunders	You Can't Have It Unless I Give It To You	Female Blues Singers Vol. 13 R/S (1921-1931)
11	Lucille Bogan	Coffee Grindin' Blues	Vol. 1-1923-30
12	Sippie Wallace	A Man For Every Day In The Week	Complete Recorded Works
13	Mamie Smith	Goin' Crazy With The Blues	Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey [Disc 1]
14	Victoria Spivey	Murder In The First Degree	Black Snake Blues – The Best Of
15	Betty Gray	Mean Old Bed Bug Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 6
16	Bessie Smith	Mean Old Bed Bug Blues	Empress Of The Blues Volume 2: 1926-1933 (CD A, 1926-1928)
17	Bessie Smith	Jail House Blues	ABC Of The Blues Vol 39
18	Sara Martin	Death Sting Me Blues	The Blues: Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Blues Singers [Disc 1]
19	Lucille Bogan	Sloppy Drunk Blues	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
20	Billie Young	When They Get Lovin' They's Gone	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 14
21	Lucille Bogan	Tired As I Can Be [Album Version]	Shave 'Em Dry: The Best Of Lucille Bogan
22	Billie Holiday	My Last Affair	Billie Holiday: The Legacy Box 1933-1958 Disc 2
23	Memphis Minnie	Dirty Mother For You	Memphis Minnie – Queen Of Country Blues, 1932 – 1935 [Disc 3]
24	Memphis Minnie	He's In The Ring (Doing The Same Old Thing)	Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Volume Four
25	Alberta Hunter	You Can't Tell The Difference After Dark	Flashbacks #3 CopulationBlues 1926-1940
26	Wea Bea Booze	These Young Men Blues	Female Blues – The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 (1938-1949)
27	Albert Ammons & His Rhythm Kings w/ Sippie Wallace	Bedroom Blues	The Boogie Woogie Man
28	Blu Lu Barker	Buy Me Some Juice (Alternate Take)	Don't You Feel My Leg
29	Dinah Washington	Jailhouse Blues	The Bessie Smith Songbook
30	LaVern Baker	Pig Latin Blues	Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females
31	Bonnie Raitt w/ Sippie Wallace	Women Be Wise	Bonnie Raitt Collection
32	Ida Cox & Her Allstar Band	Four Day Creep	Blues From The Vocalion Vaults

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Mix of the Blues

July 30, 2016 Dave

Deeper Roots will spend time with a variety of blues styles this week with no focus but the roots of feeling blue, themes about being blue, junker’s blues, bar fly blues, cold rainy day blues, and the dark and somber blues. We’ll feature the urban sounds of Lowell Fulson and Bobby Blue Bland, the smooth sounds of T-Bone Walker, and we’ll also pick on some early jazz and blues vocals including Bertha “Chippie” Hill, Hattie McDaniels, and Memphis Minnie.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band	In the Wee Wee Hours	Hoodoo Man Blues
2	R.L. Burnside	Poor Black Mattie	From Mississippi To Chicago
3	Lowell Fulson	Black Widow Spider Blues	Juke Box Blues 1946-1948
4	Sweet Papa Tadpole	Black Spider Blues	Too Late, Too Late, More Newly Discovered Titles And Alternate Takes. Vol. 4
5	Jimmy Witherspoon	Bar Fly Blues	Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Stars
6	John Hammond	Evolution Blues	Found True Love
7	Eddie Lang	You Got to Crawl Before You Walk	Juke Joint Blues 1950's-1960's
8	Muddy Waters	Good Morning School Girl	Folk Singer
9	Rory Block	Cypress Grove Blues	Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James
10	Kansas City Kitty (Thelma Holmes)	Double Trouble Blues	Four Women Blues – The Victor / Bluebird Recordings Of Memphis Minnie, Mississippi Matilda, Kansas City Kitty and Miss Rosie Mae Moore
11	Berha 'Chippie' Hill	Some Cold Rainy Day	Heartbreakers Blue & Lonely
12	Hattie McDaniels	Boo Hoo Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 12
13	Memphis Minnie;Kansas Joe	Don't Want No Woman (Have T' Give My Money To) [2002 Remastered]	First Time I Met the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down series)
14	Victoria Spivey & Lonnie Johnson	I Got The Blues So Bad	Idle Hours
15	Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends	Tonight's the Night	Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 1
16	Hadda Brooks	Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl	I've Got News For You [Disc 1]
17	Bobby "Blue" Bland	I Pity The Fool	Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Road To Memphis
18	Big Mama Thornton	How Come	Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings
19	Little Sylvia	Everything I Need But You	Jubilee Jezebels
20	T-Bone Walker	Feeling The Blues	I Want A Little Girl
21	Little Walter	My Babe	His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection)
22	Jimmy Reed	Boogie In The Dark	I'm Jimmy Reed (Original Vee-Jay Album)
23	Professor Longhair	Mean Old World	Fess: The Professor Longhair A
24	Memphis Slim	Panic Street	Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration
25	Champion Jack Dupree	Junker Blues	Gettin' Funky [Disc 1] – Piano Power
26	Floyd Dixon	Please Don't Go	Marshall Texas Is My Home
27	Otis Taylor	My Soul's In Louisiana	I Heard It On NPR: Shake These Blues
28	Lightnin' Hopkins	One Kind Favor	Jake Head Boogie
29	Frankie Jones	Bring Your Mud and Let's Dob	Jack Newman & Others
30	Precious Bryant	Blues All Around My Bed	Fool Me Good
31	Freddie King	I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man	King Of The Blues

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Robert Johnson Tribute

July 9, 2016 Dave

It’s a two hour Robert Johnson tribute on Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. Legend has it…yes, we have all heard the story. But it is the music that makes us want to believe. In a short recording career where he recorded less than thirty tracks over two sessions, the songs are all his by identification. When you hear the Stones’ cover of “You Got to Move”, or virtually any that Johnson recorded…you overlook their lineage somewhat because their heritage began in the hotel room where he recorded them. We’ll hear from Rory Block, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Nigel Watson & Peter Green, and Bob Brozman as Deeper Roots celebrates the music of Robert Johnson.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Eric Clapton	From Four Until Late	Sessions For Robert J
2	Eric Clapton	Stones In My Passway	I Still Do
3	Roy Rogers	Stones in My Passway	Slide of Hand
4	Nigel Watson/Peter Green	I'm a Steady Rollin' Man	Hot Foot Powder
5	Robert Lockwood, Jr.	I Believe I'll Dust My Broom	Delta Crossroads
6	Taj Mahal	Dust My Broom	Taj Mahal
7	Peter Green Splinter Group	32-20 Blues	Me & the Devil Disc 2
8	Eric Clapton	32-20 Blues	Me & Mr. Johnson
9	Leon Russell	Come On In My Kitchen	Life Journey
10	Rory Block	Come On In My Kitchen	Gone Woman Blues: The Country Blues Collection
11	Robert Lockwood, Jr.	Little Queen Of Spades	Blues Routes: Heroes And Tricksters
12	Vassar Clements	Phonograph Blues	Livin' with the Blues
13	The Rolling Stones	Love in Vain	Let It Bleed [Japan]
14	Nigel Watson/Peter Green	They're Red Hot	Hot Foot Powder
15	Robert Johnson	They're Red Hot	ABC Of The Blues Vol 18
16	Dion	If I Had Possession (Over Judgement Day)	Son of Skip James
17	Eric Clapton	Hell Hound On My Trail	Me & Mr. Johnson
18	Lucinda Williams	Ramblin' On My Mind	Ramblin'
19	Robert Lockwood, Jr.	Stop Breakin' Down Blues	Delta Crossroads
20	Bonnie Raitt	Walking Blues	Bonnie Raitt
21	Pinetop Perkins	Sweet Home Chicago	Pinetop Perkins
22	Keb' Mo'	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	Just Like You
23	Eric Clapton	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	Me & Mr. Johnson
24	Nigel Watson/Peter Green	Cross Road Blues	Hot Foot Powder
25	Bob Brozman	Stones in My Passway	Devil's Slide
26	Lucinda Williams	Stop Breakin' Down	Ramblin'
27	Johnny Shines	Milk Cow Blues	Traditional Delta Blues
28	The Paul Butterfield Blues Band	Walking Blues	An Anthology: The Elektra Years Disc 1
29	Robert Johnson	Come on in My Kitchen	The Complete Recordings [Columbia] Disc 1

Deeper Roots on KOWS, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition, New Orleans, Rhythm and Blues, Urban Blues

Deeper Dr. John

November 27, 2015 Dave

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

A Century of America's Music