Category Archives: Americana

Tell Old Bill

We’ve got another free form collection of sounds for a Friday in Sonoma County. The July heat has us moving a little slower as everything around us appears to move at breakneck speed. So the idea is to help us find our center and we do that with sounds from the islands with Joe Keawe and Arthur Lyman, soul from the heart by Solomon Burke and Betty Everett, and some tradition with a mix of Johnny Cash, Ry Cooder, and Bob Wills. We find our muse throughout with David Lindley and El Rayo-X. Join us.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Dave Van Ronk Tell Old Bill Down In Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection Amazon
2K.C. Douglas Mercury Blues Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
3Jackson Browne & David Lindley Mercury Blues Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
4Warren Zevon Gorilla, You're A Desperado I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (An Anthology) [Disc 1] Amazon
5Billy Butler & The Enchanters I Can't Work No Longer Kent's Cellar Of Soul: Volume 2 Amazon
6The Temptations Papa Was A Rollin' Stone Anthology, Vol. 2 [Disc 2] Amazon
7Chris Barber's Jazz Band Petite Fleur (Little FLower) Your Hit Parade -1959 Amazon
8Joanie Sommers Johnny Get Angry Gems from the Warner Brothers Vault (Pt. 1) Amazon
9Arthur Lyman Group Maui Chimes The Best of the Arthur Lyman Group Amazon
10Sol K. Bright's Hollywaiians Tomi Tomi Vintage Hawaiian Music: The Great Singers 1928 – 1934 Amazon
11Joe Keawe My Little Grass Shack Hapa-Haole Hawaiian Hula Classics – Vintage Hawaiian Treasures: Vol. I Amazon
12Dave Van Ronk My Little Grass Shack (In Kealakekua, Hawaii) A Chrestomathy [Disc 2] Amazon
13Ry Cooder Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) Jazz (Remaster 2013) Amazon
14Rhiannon Giddens Up Above My Head Tomorrow Is My Turn Amazon
15Sister Rosetta Tharpe Singing in My Soul The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3] Amazon
16Etta James Something's Got a Hold on Me Chess Blues Disc 4 Amazon
17Betty Everett You're No Good Something's Got A Hold On Me Amazon
18Solomon Burke If You Need Me Very Best of Solomon Burke (Reis) Amazon
19The Impressions Gypsy Woman Hit The Road Jack: The ABC-Paramount Story Amazon
20Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns Tu-Ber-Cu-Lucas And The Sinus Blues Having A Good Time with Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns – The Very Best Of, Volume 1 Amazon
21Wild Tchoupitoulas Brother John Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan – Season 3 [[Disc 2]] Amazon
22Nappy Brown Goody Goody Gum Drop Night Time Is the Right Time [Disc 1] Amazon
23Johnny Cash Understand Your Man 16 Biggest Hits Amazon
24Johnny Cash Cindy[w. Nick Cave] Unearthed Vol 3 – Redemption Songs Amazon
25Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Get Along Home, Cindy Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 8 Amazon
26The Louvin Brothers I Wonder Where You Are Tonight Close Harmony [Disc 3] Amazon
27Jimmy Dean Big Bad John (Uncensored Version) Best of Answer Songs vol 3 Amazon
28Big Brother & the Holding Company/Janis Joplin Bye Bye Baby Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits Amazon
29Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers Get Along Home, Miss Cindy Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
30David Lindley & El Rayo-X Texas Tango Very Greasy Amazon
31David Lindley Mercury Blues El Rayo-X Amazon

Carl Sandburg’s Songbag

Published in 1927, populist poet Carl Sandburg’s anthology of American folksongs was in print for over 70 years. It influenced generations of musicians and is a cornerstone in the foundation of American folk and tradition. Sandburg himself described it as a “ragbag of stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth…rich with the diversity of the United States.” Today’s show pulls samples from the book featuring performances by Dan Zanes, Bob Dylan, The Weavers, The Blue Sky Boys, and David Rawlings. True Americana from the deeper wells of America’s music.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Zora Layman & The Hometowners When The Curtains Of The Night Are Pinned Back By The Stars Howdy! 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats Amazon
2Johnny Cash The Streets of Laredo Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 2] Amazon
3Sons of the Pioneers Lone Star Trail Songs of the Prairie – CD2 Amazon
4Tex Ritter Whoopee Ti Yi Yo (Git Along Little Dogies) Have I Stayed Away Too Long Amazon
5The Weavers Get Along Little Dogies The Weavers Almanac Amazon
6Woody Guthrie Buffalo Skinners (traditional, arr. Woody Guthrie) Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection [Disc 2] Amazon
7Oscar Brand The Tenderfoot Pie In The Sky Amazon
8The Blue Sky Boys Trail To Mexico American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 1] Amazon
9Marc Williams The Little Old Sod Shanty On My Claim Howdy! 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats Amazon
10Mac Wiseman Turkey In The Straw Sings Old Time Country Favorites Amazon
11The Blue Sky Boys Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet Presenting The Blue Sky Boys Amazon
12Dan Zanes I Was Born Almost Ten Thousand Years Ago Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag Amazon
13Dan Zanes California Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag Amazon
14Hylo Brown Sweet Betsy From Pike Legends & Tall Tales Amazon
15BR5-49 Sweet Betsy from Pike Song of America Amazon
16Tennessee Ernie Ford Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot This Lusty Land Amazon
17Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers The Old Gray Mare And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 2 Amazon
18David Rawlings Money Is the Meat in the Coconut Poor David's Almanack Amazon
19Kilby Snow Chicken Reel (Folk) Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp Amazon
20The Everly Brothers Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet Songs Our Daddy Taught Us Amazon
21Carolina Chocolate Drops Sourwood Mountain Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind Amazon
22Molly Mason & Jay Ungar The Lover's Lament The Lovers' Waltz Amazon
23Marty Robbins Red River Valley All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
24Dick Curless Red River Valley A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD2 (1950-1969) Amazon
25The Doc Watson Family One Morning In May Tradition Amazon
26Dave Van Ronk Kentucky Moonshiner Inside Dave Van Ronk Amazon
27Otis Redding Down In The Valley Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
28Slim Whitman Down In The Valley Country Greats #2 Amazon
29Bob Dylan Froggie Went A-Courtin' Good As I Been To You Amazon
30Tex Ritter Froggie Went A-Courtin' Singing In The Saddle Amazon
31Dan Zanes The Monkey's Wedding Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag Amazon
32Doc Watson The Ship That Never Returned My Dear Old Southern Home Amazon
33Hank Penny It Ain't Gonna Rain No More King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1] Amazon

Springtime in Alaska

Winsome sounds from every corner, opening with Johnny Horton and closing somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line with the soul of Barbara Lynn. Today’s show reaches into the jazz bins for something new and old…a Duke Ellington cover by Wynton Marsalis; gospel covers by Nick Lowe, tradition from Bill Monroe, and Johnny Cash along with a number of so-called Cash-a-likes. It’s a free form collection in our Friday morning show from West County. So what’s it all got to do with Alaska, you ask. Not much, only a great song name to suggest cool music and a Friday full of colorful music.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Johnny Horton When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below) Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (2 of 2) Amazon
2Bobby Bare Delia's Gone (1965) All American Boy – CD 4 Amazon
3Josh White, Jr. Delia's Gone Classic African-American Ballads (Smithsonian Folkways) Amazon
4David Johansen & The Harry Smiths Delia David Johansen and the Harry Smiths Amazon
5Waylon Jennings Cedartown Georgia Singles Amazon
6Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys In The Pines 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – Best Of Bluegrass Amazon
7Marty Robbins Big Iron All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
8John Prine The Lonesome Friends Of Science The Tree Of Forgiveness Amazon
9Spuyten Duyvil The Cruel War Social Hour Music Amazon
10Madam Edna Gallmon Cooke & The Mount Vernon Men's Choir Angels, Angels, Angels Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
11Nick Lowe Children Go Where I Send Thee Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection For All The Family Amazon
12Sons Of South Didn't It Rain Children The Best Of Nashboro Gospel Amazon
13Gospel Creators I'm a Child of My God This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982 Amazon
14The Blind Boys Of Alabama Atom Bomb Atom Bomb Amazon
15The Impressions with the Riley Hampton Orchestra Shorty's Got To Go Bandera Doo Wop Amazon
16Ella Mae Morse Smack Dab In The Middle Best Of The Rockabilly Rockin' Years Amazon
17Big Bill Broonzy You've Changed Four Classic Albums Amazon
18Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Junco Partner Louis Jordan: Let the Good Times Roll – The Anthology 1938-1953 Amazon
19Dr. John Somebody Changed The Lock Definitive Pop Collection Amazon
20Wynton Marsalis Septet Creole Love Call United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas Amazon
21Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Creole Love Call Jazz in the Charts – Disc 7 – 1928 Amazon
22Carlos Zuleta Y Su Conjunto "El Abuelo" Los Bomberos (Cha Cha Cha) Vintage Cuba Selection from EPs Collectors Amazon
23Johnny Cash Waiting For A Train Unearthed, Vol.1: Who's Gonna Cry Amazon
24Johnny Doe Devil Train Cash-A-Likes Amazon
25Bobby Wayne Big Train Cash-A-Likes Amazon
26Dane Stinit Muddy Ole River [Near Memphis Tennessee] Original Sun Recordings Amazon
27Fred Carter (You'll Have To) Come And Get It Boppin' By The Bayou – Baby Dolls & Drive-Ins Amazon
28Elvis Presley King Creole 2nd To None Amazon
29Jean Wells Your Lovin's Got The Best Of Me (John Morales Mix) Soul On Soul – Deluxe Edition Amazon
30Little Esther Phillips Better Beware Heart to Heart Amazon
31The Chantels Maybe The Best of the Chantels Amazon
32Barbara Lynn Nice And Easy A Good Woman: The Complete Tribe & Jet Stream Singles 1966-1979 Amazon
33Joan Baez The President Sang Amazing Grace Whistle Down the Wind Amazon

Through the Bluegrass

Springtime sounds from classic corners this week. Now, we all know that real bluegrass is green but, like the music’s own origins which are steeped in gospel, blues, and tradition, we overlook the formalities and accept the generalities’.  This week’s Deeper Roots will take a journey with the greats (Ralph Stanley, Ricky Skaggs, and The Monroe Brothers to name a few) while also tipping our hats to the new-grass sounds of David Thom, Sam Bush, Tony Furtado, and Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms. We offer different takes outside the lines including some Charlie Haden and Brennen Leigh. A Friday morning celebration of the old home place and the little white church where traditional rings … coming to you from Bodega Bay: KWTF Community Radio.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Whites Used To Be Songs of Bill Monroe Amazon
2Rhonda Vincent Lonesome Wind Blues Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
3Hazel Dickens I Can't Find Your Love Any More O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection Amazon
4Hazel Dickens, Carol Elizabeth Jones & Ginny Hawker Love Me or Leave Me Alone Heart of a Singer Amazon
5Brennen Leigh North To Alaska Too Thin To Plow Amazon
6Charlie Haden Road Of Broken Hearts Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
7The Rice Brothers Grapes On the Vine Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
8Ricky Skaggs I Hope You've Learned Bluegrass Rules! Amazon
9Tony Furtado Man of Constant Sorrow Long Journey Home: Songs of the Stanley Brothers Amazon
10The David Thom Band The Little White Church That Old Familiar Amazon
11Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas Big Mon True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe Amazon
12David Grisman, Peter Rowan Travelin' This Lonesome Road True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe Amazon
13Bill Monroe & Kenny Baker Jerusalem's Ridge High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
14The Monroe Brothers Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul? Volume One Amazon
15Ralph Stanley Dad's Old Rocky Field Old Songs & Ballads Amazon
16The Gentlemen of Bluegrass Old Old House Carolina Memories Amazon
17Jim & Jesse Long Journey Home Long Journey Home: Songs of the Stanley Brothers Amazon
18The David Thom Band Home Is Where The Heart Is That Old Familiar Amazon
19David Grisman, John Hartford & Mike Seeger The Old Home Place Retrograss Amazon
20Morris Brothers Salty Dog Blues Legends Of Bluegrass [Disc 3] Amazon
21Kenny Baker/Bobby Osborne Sally Ann World's Greatest Country Fiddlers Amazon
22Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt Randy Lynn Rag The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2) Amazon
23Doc Watson Shady Grove The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968 Amazon
24Ralph Stanley The Fields Have Turned Brown High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
25Laurie Lewis Tall Pines Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
26Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms Montana Cowboy Innocent Road Amazon
27Lynn Morris Band The Bramble and the Rose Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
28Alison Krauss & Union Station So Long So Wrong Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
29Ricky Skaggs Lost And I'll Never Find The Way Bluegrass Mountain Style Amazon
30Don Stover Paddy On The Turnpike Things In Life Amazon
31Grandpa Jones Mountain Dew Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2] Amazon
32Jimmy Martin You Don't Know My Mind Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1] Amazon

 

Ships Upon the Sea

A wayfaring lot…music that touches on seafaring tragedies, punctuated by the loss of that most famous of them all: the HMS Titanic. This week’s show will focus on music that commemorated the ships that were lost at sea; tragedies that were headlines around the world; songs of the seafaring life and the sailors and crew that were a part of it.  The stories are told in songs from the wells of tradition. We’ll hear from Frank Hutchison, Papa Harvey Hull, Pink Anderson, The Dillards and Dan Zanes. We’ll also hear some classic maritime music from the Smithsonian catalogs. Blues, country, folk, and so much more…all celebrating those ships upon the sea and the ones we lost along the way.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Bob Gibson Titanic Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson Amazon
2Rory Block Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down) Confessions of A Blues Singer Amazon
3Pink Anderson The Ship Titanic Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs Amazon
4Charley Jordan Titanic Blues Charley Jordan Volume 2 1931-1934 Amazon
5Hi Henry Brown Titanic Blues 21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10 Amazon
6Bessie Jones And Group The Titanic Alan Lomax Collection Sampler Amazon
7Papa Harvey Hull & "Long Cleve" Reed Sinking Of The Titanic Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice Amazon
8Richard (Rabbit) Brown Sinking Of The Titanic Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
9Lead Belly Titanic The Definitive Leadbelly [Disc 3] – Leaving Blues Amazon
10Frank Hutchison The Last Scene Of The Titanic If You Take Me Back Amazon
11Clyde Spencer And Harry Fannin The Sinking Of The Titanic Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 [Disc 1] Amazon
12Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton After The Sinking Of The Titanic On The Banks Of A Lonely River Amazon
13Roy Acuff The Great Titanic compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
14Woody Guthrie When That Great Ship Went Down This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 Amazon
15Ralph Stanley Storms Are On The Ocean [Album Version] A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family Amazon
16Gordon Lightfoot The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Songbook [Box Set] Disc 3 Amazon
17Jimmie Driftwood The Ship That Never Returned Americana, Vol. 3 Amazon
18Little Jimmy Dickens When The Ship Hit The Sand The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens Amazon
19Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards The Sinking of the Ruben James Thirty Two Cents Postage Due Amazon
20June Carter Cash Sinking in the Lonesome Sea Wildwood Flower Amazon
21Ashley Monroe The Storms Are On The Ocean Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
22Cowboy Copas A Thousand Miles of Ocean Settin' Flat On Ready Amazon
23Red Allen Out on the Ocean Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings Amazon
24The Country Gentlemen Take Me In A Lifeboat The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
25Dan Zanes Across The Western Ocean Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag Amazon
26The Dicey Doh Singers The Sloop John B. Classic Maritime Music Amazon
27Sam Eskin Clear Away the Track and Let the Bullgine Run Classic Maritime Music Amazon
28Henry Morrison & St. Simon's Island Singers I'm Gonna Sail Like A Ship On The Ocean Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals Amazon
29Louis Prima & Keely Smith Barnacle Bill The Sailor Breaking It Up! Amazon

Devils and Angels

The devil is, indeed, an angel…albeit a fallen one. And the music we’ll be sharing this morning with our West County audience will take note of that fact with sounds that feature modern Americana as well as early to mid-century country sounds. Tune in to KOWS radio every Friday morning at 9 Pacific for the very best in roots sounds…and this week is no different:  modern Americana from Rob Ickes and The Devil Makes Three, mid-century country from Cowboy Copas and Lefty Frizzell, as well as some wild-eyed worship pieces from The Sunshine Boys, Benny Joy, and Margie Singleton (who performs the infamous “Jesus is My Pusher”). Just for you. Just in time for a springtime April morning.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Sunshine Boys We Need A Whole Lot More Of Jesus (And A Lot Less Rock And Roll) Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
2Ray Wylie Hubbard Lucifer And The Fallen Angels Tell The Devil I'm Getting There As Fast As I Can Amazon
3Bobby McMillon The Devil Song (Child 275) Art of Field Recording: Volume II – Disc 1: Survey Amazon
4Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley Friend Of The Devil The Country Blues Amazon
5Julie Miller The Devil Is an Angel Blue Pony Amazon
6Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama The Devil Ain't Lazy Reinventing the Wheel Amazon
7Cowboy Copas Don't Shake Hands With The Devil Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
8Powder River Jack, Kitty Lee Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots Amazon
9James King The Devil's Train Three Chords & The Truth Amazon
10Carrie Rodriguez Devil In Mind Give Me All You Got Amazon
11Shemekia Copeland Devil's Hand Alligator Records 45th Anniversary Collection Amazon
12Rory Block Devil Got My Woman Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James Amazon
13The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Devils Look Like Angels Between the Ditches Amazon
14Merle Haggard Dealing With The Devil Rainbow Stew – Live Amazon
15Benny Joy Dark Angel Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
16Ryan Cain And The Ables Cupid And The Devil Cupid And The Devil Amazon
17Lee Ann Womack Take The Devil Out Of Me The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone Amazon
18Lefty Frizzell From an Angel to a Devil Life's Like Poetry (Disc 4) Amazon
19The Devil Makes Three What Would You Give (In Exchange for Your Soul) Redemption & Ruin Amazon
20Willie Nelson Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down Country Music Amazon
21Robert Plant Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down Band Of Joy Amazon
22Margie Singleton Jesus Is My Pusher Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
23Eddie Noack Psycho Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
24The Treniers Devil's Mambo They Rock! They Roll! They Swing! Amazon
25Billy Barton The Devil, My Conscience And I Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
26Peter Rowan Pulling The Devil By the Tail Reggaebilly Amazon
27Coleman Brothers Get Away, Mr. Satan, Get Away Hot Harmony Groups 1941-1949: Vol 3: When the Old Gang Amazon
28Rev W. M. Clark and Sisters Satan At Church (Pm 12559, 4792-1) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) Amazon

Free Form – Roll Like a Big Wheel

We mix it up once again. Nothing like ending the week on a high note, a low note, and just the right mix of jazz, pop, rock, country, bluegrass, and R&B. You know it won’t stop there because if it’s one thing we do well is find all that is good in between the boards. Join Dave Stroud for music featuring tracks from The Boswell Sisters, Red Foley, Julia Lee, The Prisonaires, Mose Allison, and John Prine. Friday mornings in West County … where we kick off the weekend on the stream our hearts out!

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Joan Osborne Roll Like A Big Wheel Bring It On Home Amazon
2The Mills Brothers Cherry (L. Armstrong) The Mills Brothers Golden G'ts(3) Amazon
3Les Paul & The Andrews Sisters Rumors Are Flying (Single Version) Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2] Amazon
4Louis Jordan Hungry Man Jivin' With Jordan Amazon
5Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra Shout, Brother, Shout – (featuring The Five Tones) Not So Quiet Please Amazon
6The Prisonaires Just Walking in the Rain Sun Ballads 1953-62 Amazon
7Mose Allison Lost Mind Allison Wonderland Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
8Dinah Washington Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Verve Unmixed Amazon
9Julia Lee When Jennie Does That Lowdown Dance Kansas City Star [Disc 5] Amazon
10Nellie Lutcher Let Me Tell You 'Bout The Guy Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 4] Amazon
11Boswell Sisters Put That Sun Back In the Sky Boswell Sisters Amazon
12Red Foley & The Andrews Sisters I Want To Be With You Always Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3] Amazon
13The Andrews Sisters Pistol Packin' Mama Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 1] Amazon
14Junior Brown Where Has All the Money Gone? Down Home Chrome Amazon
15Merle Haggard Mama Tried The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1] Amazon
16Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Down In Mexico Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
17Santiago Jimenez Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 2] Amazon
18Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars Havana Moon Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars Amazon
19Levon Helm Tennessee Jed Electric Dirt Amazon
20Grateful Dead Dire Wolf Workingman's Dead Amazon
21Graham Parker Sugaree Your Country Amazon
22Jim Lauderdale The Night The Moon Fell Down Carolina Moonshine Amazon
23Jimmy Martin 20/20 Vision Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 1] Amazon
24Hank Williams Cold, Cold Heart 24 Greatest Amazon
25John Prine Summers End The Tree of Forgiveness Amazon
26Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday Ken Burns Jazz Amazon
27Lula Reed I'll Drown In My Own Tears The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
28Effie Smith Water, Water The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
29Mildred Jones Mr. Thrill Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett Amazon
30T-Bone Walker Cold Cold Feeling Electric Blues – Part 1: Beginnings 1939-1954 Amazon
31Jo Stafford Shrimp Boats Your Hit Parade – 1951 Amazon
32Louis Armstrong The Music Goes Round And Around [Single Version] Rhythm Saved The World Amazon

Deeper Mississippi John Hurt

Join us as we peer into the music of Mississippi John Hurt, performed by contemporary artists with some bits and pieces of his own music. We’ll also feature some fragments from the original interview conducted by Tom Hoskins in 1963 after some simple sleuthing, in the town of Avalon not far from Hurt’s boyhood home of Teoc, Mississippi. The story of his rediscovery after the sixties folk revival (and Harry Smith’s original Anthology of American Folk Music) is legend. Sit back on a Friday morning and listen in for some of the great music of the minstrel from Teoc

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Bruce Cockburn Avalon, My Home Town Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
2Jesse Colin Young Creole Belle Together Amazon
3John Oates Spike Driver Blues Arkansas Amazon
4Doc & Merle Watson Got the Blues (Can't Be Satisfied) Live & Pickin' Amazon
5Bill Morrissey Avalon Blues The Essential Collection Amazon
6Taj Mahal Frankie And Albert The Best Of Taj Mahal Amazon
7John Hiatt I'm Satisfied Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
8David Johansen Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me Shaker Amazon
9Dave Van Ronk Spike Driver Blues Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk Amazon
10Rhiannon Giddens The Angels Laid Him Away Freedom Highway Amazon
11JL Stiles Trouble I Had All My Days Solo Sessions Amazon
12Taj Mahal Satisfied 'N' Tickled Too The Essential Taj Mahal Amazon
13Chris Smither Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt Honeysuckle Dog Amazon
14John Fahey Requiem for John Hurt Essential John Fahey Amazon
15Big Bill Broonzy Frankie And Johnny Classic African-American Ballads (Smithsonian Folkways) Amazon
16Ben Harper Sliding Delta Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
17Bettye LaVette Nobody's Dirty Business American Epic: The Sessions [Disc 2] Amazon
18Mike Dowling Blue Harvest Blues The Blues Ain't News Amazon
19Rory Block Candy Man Avalon: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
20Lucinda Williams Angels Laid Him Away Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
21Dave Alvin With Dean Schlabowske Louis Collins The Executioners Last Songs, Volume 2 Amazon
22Mississippi John Hurt Chicken Best Of Mississippi John Hurt [Live] Amazon
23John Oates My Creole Belle Arkansas Amazon
24Doc & Merle Watson Stack O'lee Ballads From Deep Gap Amazon
25Mississippi John Hurt Avalon Blues Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings Amazon
26Spuyten Duyvil Make Me A Pallet Social Hour Music Amazon

Truck Drivin’ Songs

White line fever…that endless gray ribbon…asphalt mixed with bennies…and a whole lot of attitude around semis, mile markers, county mounties, and bobtail returns. Terminology you won’t hear too much on our show…except for this show which shares the songs of the long-haulers. Bill Kirchen, Red Simpson, Buck Owens, and Merle Haggard are just a sample of the performers joining in the fun where Cliff Bruner & His Boys introduce us to the first truck driving song “Truck Driver Blues” right up to that bad boy honky tonkin’ guitar trucker Dale Watson. You can’t escape the 18 wheel energy on Sonoma County Community Radio…straight from the Bakersfield asphalt to yours.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Dick Curless A Tombstone Every Mile (1) A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD4 (1950-1969) Amazon
2Red Simpson Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer Amazon
3Lyle Lovett The Truck Song Anthology, Vol. 1: Cowboy Man Amazon
4Joe Ely White Line Fever Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard Amazon
5Marty Stuart Truck Drivers' Blues Nashville Vol. 1: Tear The Woodpile Down Amazon
6Bill Kirchen Hillbilly Truck Drivin' Man Tied to the Wheel Amazon
7The Sons Of The Pioneers Diesel Smoke Country Legends Amazon
8Burl Ives With Grady Martin & His Slew Foot Five Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves Roughneck Blues 1949 – 1956 Amazon
9Bill Neely I'm A Truck Drivin' Daddy Texas Law & Justice Amazon
10Bob Ensign Midnight Trucker Front Porch Pickin': Bluegrass Instrumentals ('60s) Amazon
11Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun Semi-Truck Rig Rock Deluxe Amazon
12Red Simpson Happy Go Lucky Truck Driver The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer Amazon
13Jimmy Martin Truck Driving Man Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3] Amazon
14Buck Owens Truck Drivin' Man Buck 'Em: The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967) Amazon
15Norton Buffalo Eighteen Wheels Lovin' In The Valley Of The Moon Amazon
16Dale Watson Been A Long Truckin Day The Trucking Sessions Vol 3 Amazon
17Merle Haggard Truck Driver's Blues Working In Tennessee Amazon
18Buck Owens Will There Be Big Rigs In Heaven Rig Rock Deluxe Amazon
19Dave Dudley Six Days On The Road Classic Country Amazon
20Bill Kirchen Mama Hated Diesels Seeds and Stems Amazon
21Cliff Bruner & His Boys Truck Driver's Blues (1939) The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Tobacco State Swing [Disc 3] Amazon
22Jess Willard Truck Driver's Boogie Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
23Jimmy Martin Truck Driver's Queen Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3] Amazon
24Parker Millsap Truck Stop Gospel Parker Millsap Amazon
25Asleep at the Wheel/Leon Rausch Truck Driver's Blues It's A Good Day Amazon
26Jim Lauderdale Diesel, Diesel, Diesel The Other Sessions Amazon
27Leon Russell Truck Drivin' Man Hank Wilson's Back [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
28BR5-49 18 Wheels And A Crowbar Big Backyard Beat Show Amazon
29Bill Kirchen Roll Truck Roll Tied to the Wheel Amazon
30Dale Watson Jack's Truck Stop & Cafe I Hate These Songs Amazon
31Little Willies Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves For the Good Times Amazon

The Old Chisholm Trail

Songs about moonlight on the trail this week. We revisit songs about Old Paint, cowpokes, outlaws, and the wide expanse of the range in this week’s show. Tradition, temperance, and memories of the Red River Valley with Michael Martin Murphey, Jimmie Driftwood, Rex Allen, Powder River Jack (featuring Kitty Lee), and many more cowboys from Hollywood and the old Navajo Trail. Storytelling and nostalgic novelties, most elevating the hardscrabble life of the West to a Disney featurette. Right here on Sonoma County community radio.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Norman Luboff Choir Shenandoah Songs of the South and Songs of the Sea Amazon
2Gene Autry Tumbling Tumbleweeds Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1] Amazon
3Gene Autry Back In the Saddle Again Don't Fence Me In:Western Music Early Golden Era Amazon
4The Western Flyers Along The Navajo Trail Wild Blue Yonder Amazon
5Marty Robbins The Strawberry Roan Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Amazon
6Duane Eddy Streets of Laredo Rebel Rouser Amazon
7Ernest Tubb The Yellow Rose Of Texas Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours Amazon
8Gene Autry & Jimmy Long The Yellow Rose Of Texas American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2] Amazon
9Marty Robbins Red River Valley All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
10Johnny Bond Red River Valley History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 9 Amazon
11Roy Rogers & Dale Evans The Old Chisholm Trail 16 Great Songs Of The Old West Amazon
12Ken Curtis & The Sons of the Pioneers Home On The Range The Cowboy Album Amazon
13Ken Maynard Home On The Range When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
14Judy Canova Along The Navajo Trail (Radio) Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1 Amazon
15The Sons Of The Pioneers Along The Santa Fe Trail Sons Of The Pioneers Amazon
16Rex Allen Riding Down To Mexico The Last of The Great Singing Cowboys Amazon
17Johnny Bond Goodbye Old Paint Standard Transcriptions Amazon
18Cisco Houston I Ride An Old Paint The Folkways Years: 1944-1961 Amazon
19Michael Martin Murphey I Ride An Old Paint/Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo/Git Along Little Doggies Cowboy Songs Amazon
20Eddy Arnold Cattle Call Stampede! Western Music's Late Golden Era Amazon
21Roy Rogers & The Sons Of The Pioneers Blue Shadows On The Trail (From Walt Disney's "Melody Time") Country Legends Amazon
22Ken Maynard Lone Star Trail Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots Amazon
23Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) Strawberry Roan Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58 Amazon
24Wilmer Watts And The Lonely Eagles Sleepy Desert Gastonia Gallop – Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931 Amazon
25Carson Robison's Buckaroos Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots Amazon
26Crowder Brothers Wild West Rambler When I Was A Cowboy: Early American Songs Of The West, Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's. Vol. 1 Amazon
27Powder River Jack, Kitty Lee Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail When I Was A Cowboy: Early American Songs Of The West, Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's. Vol. 1 Amazon
28Jimmie Driftwood Billy The Kid Americana, Vol. 2 Amazon
29Don Edwards Sam Bass Saddle Songs (1 of 2) Amazon
30The Light Crust Doughboys Oh Susannah Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp) Amazon
31Tex Ritter My Darling Clementine Have I Stayed Away Too Long Amazon
32Tex Ritter Chisholm Trail High Noon Amazon
33Roy Rogers & Dale Evans The Streets Of Laredo 16 Great Songs Of The Old West Amazon
34Roy Rogers & Dale Evans With Frank Worth & His Orchestra Happy Trails Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3] Amazon