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
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1
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Take Me Back And Try Me One More Time
Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3]
2
Shannon Grayson
I Like The Old Time Way
Favorite Sacred Songs
3
Wade Mainer
Streamlined Religion
1961 King Session
4
Grandpa Jones
You And My Old Guitar
Makes The Rafters Ring
5
Larry Cordle & The Virginia Luthiers
Train On The Island
Orthophonic Joy
6
The Whitstein Brothers
Where Will You Build
Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins
7
John Fogerty
Workin' on a Building
The Blue Ridge Rangers
8
The Highway QC'S
Working On a Building
Great Gospel – Maybe the Last Time
9
The Clara Ward Singers
Come By Here
Meetin' Tonight!
10
The Dixie Hummingbirds
Two Little Fishes (And Five Loaves of Bread)
20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds
11
The Dixie Hummingbirds
Bedside Of A Neighbor
Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds
12
Marie Knight
Satisfied With Jesus
Hallelujah What A Song!
13
Sheiks
Walk That Walk
Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 1] – Jumpin' & Bluesy
14
Garnet Mimms
Cry Baby
The Best of Garnet Mimms: Cry
15
The Five Royales
I Like It Like That
R&B Greats – Think
16
The Five Royales
Someone Made Me For You
Dedicated To You
17
Steve Cropper
Someone Made You For Me (Steve Cropper with Dan Penn)
Dedicated – A Salute To The 5 Royales
18
Sam Cooke
You Were Made For Me
Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
19
Bessie Smith
I'm Wild About That Thing
The Saucy Songs (1928-1938)
20
Victoria Spivey With Clarence Williams' Blue Five
My Handy Man (f. Victoria Spivey)
Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: The New York Sessions 1926-35
21
Ida Cox & Her Allstar Band
Four Day Creep
Blues From The Vocalion Vaults
22
Dinah Washington
Blow Top Blues
Blues Was Her Business
23
Bonnie Raitt
Women Be Wise
Bonnie Raitt
24
Fats Waller
(Take Me Back To) The Wide Open Places
compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com
25
Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Devil Ain't Lazy
Reinventing the Wheel
26
Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
Somebody's Been Using That Thing
Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 1: Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
27
Ted Daffan's Texans
Born To Lose
26 All-Time Country Classics
28
Adolph Hofner
Let's Count The Stars
You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942
29
Jimmy Rushing
Take Me Back, Baby
ABC Of The Blues Vol 38
30
Buck Owens
Take Me Back Again
Act Naturally
31
Peter Rowan And Don Edwards
Take Me Back To The Range
High Lonesome Cowboy
32
Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
Missing Ol' Johnny Cash
Django and Jimmie
33
Johnny Cash
Tear Stained Letter
American IV: Man Comes Around
34
Earl Scruggs
Gospel Ship
The Earl Scruggs Revue: Anniversary Special, Volumes One & Two
Saturday morning in West County…our first week of summer with Deeper Roots and we’ve got an early set of New Orleans swamp classics followed by shreds of rockabilly and sounds from The Killer. There’s also gospel with The Staple Singers, high octane early century pop from The Boswell Sisters and Johnny Hamp and the Orchestra. We’ll sum the day up with folk, pop, and R&B…and everything in between.
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
Bobby Marchan
Chicken – Wah – Wah
The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 1]
2
Lazy Lester
I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter
Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
3
Irma Thomas
Ruler of My Heart
Soul Queen of New Orleans
4
Aaron Neville
Get Out Of My Life
Brother To Brother ([Disc 1]: Aaron)
5
Fats Domino
What a Price
Fats Domino Out of New Orleans
6
Shirley Gunter
Oop Shoop
Shirley Gunter
7
Jerry Lee Lewis
Let's Talk About Us
A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
8
Wanda Jackson
Man, We Had A Party
Queen Of Rockabilly
9
JD McPherson
Fire Bug
Signs & Signifiers
10
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Two Little Fishes Five Loaves Of Bread
Gospel Train
11
Sam Cooke
Touch The Hem Of His Garment
The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke
12
The Staple Singers
Pray On
The Best of the Vee-Jay Years
13
Dorothy Love Coates
You Better Run
The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes
14
Andy Mosely & Hogman Maxey
Brother Mosely Crossed The Water
Angola Prison Spirituals
15
Blind Willie Johnson
Jesus Is Coming Soon
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (Disc 1)
16
Lena Horne
Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather
17
Johnny Hamp And His Kentucky Serenaders
If I Had A Talking Picture Of You
Johnny Hamp at Archive
18
The Boswell Sisters
Shuffle Off To Buffalo
The Object Of My Affection
19
George Olsen & His Music (v: Fran Frey)
The Varsity Drag [1927]
The Charleston Era
20
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
Shreveport Stomp
Jelly Roll Morton – Vol. V
21
Louis Armstrong
On Treasure Island
Rhythm Saved The World
22
Django Reinhardt & Stiphane Grappelli
It Don't Mean A Thing
Quintesential
23
Dinah Washington
Teach Me Tonight
Gold [Disc 2]
24
Ray Charles
Drown in My Own Tears
The Birth of Soul Disc 2
25
Chuck Jackson
Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)
Chuck Jackson The Great Recordings [Disc 1]
26
Frank Sinatra
Just in Time
Come Dance with Me!
27
Sarah Vaughan
The Nearness Of You
Great American Songbook
28
Charlie Spand & Blind Blake
Hastings Street
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
29
Pine Ridge Boys
Farther Along
Classic Field Recordings
30
David Bromberg
I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning
The Player: A Retrospective
31
Doc Watson
Steel Guitar Rag
Memories
32
The Country Gentlemen
One Morning in May
The Complete Vanguard Recordings
33
The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys
This Weary Heart You Stole Away
Appalachian Stomp
34
The Stripling Brothers
The Lost Boy
Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937
Fat Tuesday or, translated to French, Mardi Gras, comes but once a year and signals the penitential season of Lent. It also provides us with an outlet for the many things that we do as part of our celebration. One of them involves the backdrop of music. We’ll visit the sounds introduced by the Second Line of “Sugar Boy” Crawford, Fats Domino, and Stop, Inc. We’ll follow with The Meters, Bo Dollis and The Wild Magnolias, Louis Armstrong, and many others in a show that separates our locales by almost 2000 miles. Join Dave Stroud for the big beat coming from the French Quarter, Bourbon Street, and the Mississippi waterfront in our newest episode, another produced exclusively for KWTF, 88.1 FM, member-supported community radio for Bodega Bay, Sonoma County, California.
It’s part two of our “Chicago Breakdown” series. In Part I, we explored the early days that promised what was to come but in Part II, we feel the warm wind of change from the south that would meet with the cold winds off of the Great Lakes. It created a vortex where jazz and barrelhouse would reign.
The urban cauldron in this city of big shoulders would fill with a sound that had its roots in the Mississippi Delta , from the cotton plantations and delta heat, and the juke joints that could be found down the side roads off of Highway 61. The Great Migration also provided those who relocated and found work with disposable income allowing them to establish a new life in a big city after the Great Depression and, most certainly, after the war. The resulting energy was inescapable in the clubs and barrooms throughout Chicago.
It’s the first of a two part series here on Deeper Roots, exploring the history of Chicago Blues, beginning with its jazz influences. The city of Chicago played a major role in the evolution of jazz as an American musical art form. And there are many reasons for it. Its locale, its ‘big shoulders’ of industry that attracted young workers from throughout the nation in the first half of the century, and its atmosphere of clubs and cabarets that stimulated the market for accomplished entertainment.
Our first episode covers the early jazz of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Johnny Dodds but also covers the blues of Memphis Minnie, Peetie Wheatstraw, Big Maceo, and Tampa Red…classic Chicago sounds of performers who ‘built the city’ as one that invite post-War inheritors of the Great Migration.
Some time ago, Deeper Roots explored the female blues pioneers of the early century in a show called “Black Pearls”. In this week’s episode, we’re going to move forward in time a bit, into the mid-century to explore the ‘inheritors’, those women who were influenced by the blues stylings of Sara Miles, Sippie Wallace, and Victoria Spivey. Performers this week will include Julia Lee, Lil Armstrong, Nellie Lutcher, and many others in an episode titled “Blues Divas”. Post-Depression and Post-War jazz, R&B, and blues sounds from some of the influential female artists who, in step with their early century counterparts, would go on to provide a foundation for the many who would follow. Be sure to tune in.
This episode will look at the roots of Honky Tonk: a place where, on one side of the track you, as Roosevelt Sykes points out in “The Honeydripper”, you had the blues performer as Doctor who prescribed Blues as a cure for the Blues and on the other, you had the country sound of Moon Mullican who demanded that the beer bottles danced on the table when the band got rockin’. We’ll spend our time exploring the early sounds of Big Maceo, Albert Ammons, and Jimmy Yancey and move down yonder to the country bars where boogie woogie was also understood. The country honky tonk sounds of Merrill Moore, Bobbie Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and a handful of others will get their chance to entertain. Boogie woogie came to the country and it was retooled and renamed as honky tonk.
Blues is the sound we share with you in this episode of Deeper Roots and we’ve got two solid hours of sounds from the Mississippi Delta, Chicago, and the clubs, juke joints, and barrooms found at points in between. Based on a fine blog post by the great American roots music author Peter Guralnick that you can find here, we follow what we found to the letter and note. You’ll hear the sounds of Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Otis Spann, and Robert Nighthawk in a playlist the Guralnick handed to his son as a reverent introduction to the music that’s inspired his writing and passion for American roots music.
On Deeper Roots …”The 99 Percent Blues”, featuring music reflecting on the Great Depression, The Dust Bowl, and the recent financial crisis…songs and stories of the working class. We take a trip back to the twenties and share with you the sounds of Vernon Delhart, Joe Stone, Harry McClintock, and others…and we’ll share the more contemporary songs of Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, and Uncle Tupelo.
No.
Artist
Title
Album
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1
Uncle Dave Macon
All In Down And Out Blues [2003 Remastered]
Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
2
Joe Stone
It's Hard Time
Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
3
Vernon Dalhart
The Farm Relief Song
Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
4
Charlie McFadden
Times Are So Tight
Bankers Blues – A Study in the Effects of Fiscal Mischeif
5
Snooks and the Memphis Ramblers,Julia Gerity and Her Boys
Sittin' on a Rubbish Can [Remastered 2003]
Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
6
Ry Cooder
No Banker Left Behind
Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
7
Little Village
Do You Want My Job
Little Village
8
The Reverend J.M. Gates
President Roosevelt Is Everybody's Friend [Remastered 2003]
Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
9
Randy Newman
Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)
Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1
10
The Weavers
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
The Weavers Almanac
11
Cisco Houston
Do Re Mi
Best Of The Vanguard Years
12
Woody Guthrie
Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh) [Remastered 2003]
Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
13
Mac "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
14
Fiddlin' John Carson
Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All [Remastered 2003]
Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
15
Ry Cooder
Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Us All
Into The Purple Valley
16
Hank Penny
Taxes Taxes
Bob Dylan: Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 5 [Disc 4]
17
Ralph Willis
Income Tax Blues
Bankers Blues – A Study in the Effects of Fiscal Mischeif
18
Fenton Robinson
Somebody Loan Me A Dime
Living The Blues: The 70's Blues Classics
19
Bob Miller
The Rich Man And The Poor Man [Rematered 2003]
Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
20
Roy Bargy;Ramona
Raising the Rent [Remastered 2003]
Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
21
Bing Crosby
Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
22
William (Bill) Moore
Ragtime Millionaire
1927-30-Ragtime Blues Guitar
23
Lead Belly
The Bourgeois Blues
Best Of Leadbelly
24
Ry Cooder
The Bourgeois Blues
Chicken Skin Music
25
Uncle Tupelo
No Depression
No Depression
26
Sheryl Crow
No Depression In Heaven
The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
27
The Carter Family
No Depression In Heaven
Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Volume Four
28
David McCarn
Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic No. 2)
Gastonia Gallop – Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931
29
Cedar Creek Sheik
Jimmy Shut His Store Doors [Remastered 2003]
Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
30
Woody Guthrie
The Jolly Banker (Woody Guthrie)
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection [Disc 2]
31
Bo Carter
Times Is Tight Like That
Bankers Blues – A Study in the Effects of Fiscal Mischeif
We take a tour of Chicago’s 2120 South Michigan Avenue, home of Chess Records. The label was formed by two Polish immigrants, Phil and Leonard Chess, and its musical history is rich with soul, R&B, gospel, and rock music. The sounds in this week’s show include performances from Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Chuck Berry and some of the contract recordings out of New Orleans…Bobby Charles, Eddie Bo, and Earl King. Simply divine R&B coming your way, from the very earliest to the later sounds of Sugar Pie DeSanto and Fontella Bass…
