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
1
Bob Gibson
Titanic
Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson
2
Rory Block
Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down)
Confessions of A Blues Singer
3
Pink Anderson
The Ship Titanic
Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs
4
Charley Jordan
Titanic Blues
Charley Jordan Volume 2 1931-1934
5
Hi Henry Brown
Titanic Blues
21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10
6
Bessie Jones And Group
The Titanic
Alan Lomax Collection Sampler
7
Papa Harvey Hull & "Long Cleve" Reed
Sinking Of The Titanic
Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
8
Richard (Rabbit) Brown
Sinking Of The Titanic
Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
9
Lead Belly
Titanic
The Definitive Leadbelly [Disc 3] – Leaving Blues
10
Frank Hutchison
The Last Scene Of The Titanic
If You Take Me Back
11
Clyde Spencer And Harry Fannin
The Sinking Of The Titanic
Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 [Disc 1]
12
Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton
After The Sinking Of The Titanic
On The Banks Of A Lonely River
13
Roy Acuff
The Great Titanic
compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com
14
Woody Guthrie
When That Great Ship Went Down
This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1
15
Ralph Stanley
Storms Are On The Ocean [Album Version]
A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
16
Gordon Lightfoot
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Songbook [Box Set] Disc 3
17
Jimmie Driftwood
The Ship That Never Returned
Americana, Vol. 3
18
Little Jimmy Dickens
When The Ship Hit The Sand
The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
19
Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards
The Sinking of the Ruben James
Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
20
June Carter Cash
Sinking in the Lonesome Sea
Wildwood Flower
21
Ashley Monroe
The Storms Are On The Ocean
Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
22
Cowboy Copas
A Thousand Miles of Ocean
Settin' Flat On Ready
23
Red Allen
Out on the Ocean
Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings
24
The Country Gentlemen
Take Me In A Lifeboat
The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2]
25
Dan Zanes
Across The Western Ocean
Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
26
The Dicey Doh Singers
The Sloop John B.
Classic Maritime Music
27
Sam Eskin
Clear Away the Track and Let the Bullgine Run
Classic Maritime Music
28
Henry 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
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:Â 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
1
The 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)
2
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Lucifer And The Fallen Angels
Tell The Devil I'm Getting There As Fast As I Can
3
Bobby McMillon
The Devil Song (Child 275)
Art of Field Recording: Volume II – Disc 1: Survey
4
Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley
Friend Of The Devil
The Country Blues
5
Julie Miller
The Devil Is an Angel
Blue Pony
6
Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Devil Ain't Lazy
Reinventing the Wheel
7
Cowboy Copas
Don't Shake Hands With The Devil
Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
8
Powder River Jack, Kitty Lee
Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail
Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
9
James King
The Devil's Train
Three Chords & The Truth
10
Carrie Rodriguez
Devil In Mind
Give Me All You Got
11
Shemekia Copeland
Devil's Hand
Alligator Records 45th Anniversary Collection
12
Rory Block
Devil Got My Woman
Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James
13
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Devils Look Like Angels
Between the Ditches
14
Merle Haggard
Dealing With The Devil
Rainbow Stew – Live
15
Benny Joy
Dark Angel
Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
16
Ryan Cain And The Ables
Cupid And The Devil
Cupid And The Devil
17
Lee Ann Womack
Take The Devil Out Of Me
The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
18
Lefty Frizzell
From an Angel to a Devil
Life's Like Poetry (Disc 4)
19
The Devil Makes Three
What Would You Give (In Exchange for Your Soul)
Redemption & Ruin
20
Willie Nelson
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Country Music
21
Robert Plant
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Band Of Joy
22
Margie Singleton
Jesus Is My Pusher
Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
23
Eddie Noack
Psycho
Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
24
The Treniers
Devil's Mambo
They Rock! They Roll! They Swing!
25
Billy Barton
The Devil, My Conscience And I
Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974)
26
Peter Rowan
Pulling The Devil By the Tail
Reggaebilly
27
Coleman Brothers
Get Away, Mr. Satan, Get Away
Hot Harmony Groups 1941-1949: Vol 3: When the Old Gang
28
Rev W. M. Clark and Sisters
Satan At Church (Pm 12559, 4792-1)
The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927)
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
1
Joan Osborne
Roll Like A Big Wheel
Bring It On Home
2
The Mills Brothers
Cherry (L. Armstrong)
The Mills Brothers Golden G'ts(3)
3
Les Paul & The Andrews Sisters
Rumors Are Flying (Single Version)
Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2]
4
Louis Jordan
Hungry Man
Jivin' With Jordan
5
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
Shout, Brother, Shout – (featuring The Five Tones)
Not So Quiet Please
6
The Prisonaires
Just Walking in the Rain
Sun Ballads 1953-62
7
Mose Allison
Lost Mind
Allison Wonderland Anthology [Disc 1]
8
Dinah Washington
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
Verve Unmixed
9
Julia Lee
When Jennie Does That Lowdown Dance
Kansas City Star [Disc 5]
10
Nellie Lutcher
Let Me Tell You 'Bout The Guy
Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 4]
11
Boswell Sisters
Put That Sun Back In the Sky
Boswell Sisters
12
Red Foley & The Andrews Sisters
I Want To Be With You Always
Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
13
The Andrews Sisters
Pistol Packin' Mama
Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 1]
14
Junior Brown
Where Has All the Money Gone?
Down Home Chrome
15
Merle Haggard
Mama Tried
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
16
Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra
Down In Mexico
Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
17
Santiago Jimenez
Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio
Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 2]
18
Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars
Havana Moon
Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars
19
Levon Helm
Tennessee Jed
Electric Dirt
20
Grateful Dead
Dire Wolf
Workingman's Dead
21
Graham Parker
Sugaree
Your Country
22
Jim Lauderdale
The Night The Moon Fell Down
Carolina Moonshine
23
Jimmy Martin
20/20 Vision
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 1]
24
Hank Williams
Cold, Cold Heart
24 Greatest
25
John Prine
Summers End
The Tree of Forgiveness
26
Billie Holiday
Gloomy Sunday
Ken Burns Jazz
27
Lula Reed
I'll Drown In My Own Tears
The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
28
Effie Smith
Water, Water
The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
29
Mildred Jones
Mr. Thrill
Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett
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
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
1
Dick Curless
A Tombstone Every Mile (1)
A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD4 (1950-1969)
2
Red Simpson
Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
3
Lyle Lovett
The Truck Song
Anthology, Vol. 1: Cowboy Man
4
Joe Ely
White Line Fever
Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
5
Marty Stuart
Truck Drivers' Blues
Nashville Vol. 1: Tear The Woodpile Down
6
Bill Kirchen
Hillbilly Truck Drivin' Man
Tied to the Wheel
7
The Sons Of The Pioneers
Diesel Smoke
Country Legends
8
Burl Ives With Grady Martin & His Slew Foot Five
Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
Roughneck Blues 1949 – 1956
9
Bill Neely
I'm A Truck Drivin' Daddy
Texas Law & Justice
10
Bob Ensign
Midnight Trucker
Front Porch Pickin': Bluegrass Instrumentals ('60s)
11
Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun
Semi-Truck
Rig Rock Deluxe
12
Red Simpson
Happy Go Lucky Truck Driver
The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
13
Jimmy Martin
Truck Driving Man
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3]
14
Buck Owens
Truck Drivin' Man
Buck 'Em: The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
15
Norton Buffalo
Eighteen Wheels
Lovin' In The Valley Of The Moon
16
Dale Watson
Been A Long Truckin Day
The Trucking Sessions Vol 3
17
Merle Haggard
Truck Driver's Blues
Working In Tennessee
18
Buck Owens
Will There Be Big Rigs In Heaven
Rig Rock Deluxe
19
Dave Dudley
Six Days On The Road
Classic Country
20
Bill Kirchen
Mama Hated Diesels
Seeds and Stems
21
Cliff Bruner & His Boys
Truck Driver's Blues (1939)
The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Tobacco State Swing [Disc 3]
22
Jess Willard
Truck Driver's Boogie
Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
23
Jimmy Martin
Truck Driver's Queen
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3]
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
1
The Norman Luboff Choir
Shenandoah
Songs of the South and Songs of the Sea
2
Gene Autry
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1]
3
Gene Autry
Back In the Saddle Again
Don't Fence Me In:Western Music Early Golden Era
4
The Western Flyers
Along The Navajo Trail
Wild Blue Yonder
5
Marty Robbins
The Strawberry Roan
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
6
Duane Eddy
Streets of Laredo
Rebel Rouser
7
Ernest Tubb
The Yellow Rose Of Texas
Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours
8
Gene Autry & Jimmy Long
The Yellow Rose Of Texas
American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2]
9
Marty Robbins
Red River Valley
All-Time Greatest Hits
10
Johnny Bond
Red River Valley
History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 9
11
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
The Old Chisholm Trail
16 Great Songs Of The Old West
12
Ken Curtis & The Sons of the Pioneers
Home On The Range
The Cowboy Album
13
Ken Maynard
Home On The Range
When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2
14
Judy Canova
Along The Navajo Trail (Radio)
Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1
15
The Sons Of The Pioneers
Along The Santa Fe Trail
Sons Of The Pioneers
16
Rex Allen
Riding Down To Mexico
The Last of The Great Singing Cowboys
17
Johnny Bond
Goodbye Old Paint
Standard Transcriptions
18
Cisco Houston
I Ride An Old Paint
The Folkways Years: 1944-1961
19
Michael Martin Murphey
I Ride An Old Paint/Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo/Git Along Little Doggies
Cowboy Songs
20
Eddy Arnold
Cattle Call
Stampede! Western Music's Late Golden Era
21
Roy Rogers & The Sons Of The Pioneers
Blue Shadows On The Trail (From Walt Disney's "Melody Time")
Country Legends
22
Ken Maynard
Lone Star Trail
Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
23
Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)
Strawberry Roan
Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58
24
Wilmer Watts And The Lonely Eagles
Sleepy Desert
Gastonia Gallop – Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931
25
Carson Robison's Buckaroos
Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie
Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
26
Crowder 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
27
Powder 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
28
Jimmie Driftwood
Billy The Kid
Americana, Vol. 2
29
Don Edwards
Sam Bass
Saddle Songs (1 of 2)
30
The Light Crust Doughboys
Oh Susannah
Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp)
31
Tex Ritter
My Darling Clementine
Have I Stayed Away Too Long
32
Tex Ritter
Chisholm Trail
High Noon
33
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
The Streets Of Laredo
16 Great Songs Of The Old West
34
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans With Frank Worth & His Orchestra
Happy Trails
Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3]
From the ‘pink bedroom’ and edgy alternative to blues and country, R&B and everything in between…John Hiatt’s catalog of recordings is only surpassed by the library of his songs penned over the past fifty years. We’ll take a look back, primarily focusing on covers from his contemporaries; names like Rosanne Cash, Iggy Pop, Bonnie Raitt, Carrie Rodriguez, and Buddy Guy are but just a small sampling of the performers we’ll hear from on another Friday evening on Sonoma County community radio.
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
John Hiatt
Crossing Muddy Waters
Crossing Muddy Waters
2
Buddy Guy
Feels Like Rain
Feels Like Rain
3
Emmylou Harris
Icy Blue Heart
Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
4
Rosanne Cash
The Way We Make a Broken Heart
Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
5
Jo-El Sonnier
I'll Never Get Over You
Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
6
Flaco Jiminez
Across The Borderline featuring John Hiatt (Album Version)
Partners
7
Terrance Simien
It Hasn't Happened Yet
Rollin' into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt
8
Carrie Rodriguez
Big Love
Love and Circumstances
9
Rosanne Cash
It Hasn't Happened Yet
Retrospective
10
John Hiatt
Cry Love
Walk On
11
Kelly Willis
Drive South
Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
12
Bonnie Raitt
Lover's Will [Radio Edit Version]
The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003 [US]
The farmer, the farm, and songs of farming are at the core of this week’s theme show. Whether the songs’ focus is that of the hard-working folk of the farm, the raw materials, or the nostalgic reminders of life on the farm, we’ll push forward the playlist plough and take you to the barn for an early morning celebration with performers including bluegrass from James King, gritty Americana from Levon Helm and Bill Neely, core country from Bobby Bare and Porter Wagoner, or maybe some field recordings from the 20s featuring the likes of the Carolina Tar Heels…all of this music going Back On The Farm.
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard
Farmer's Blues
Country Music
2
Freeman Stowers
Sunrise On The Farm
Sinners and Saints: Complete Recorded Works 1926-1931
3
Bill Frisell
Farmer
Disfarmer
4
Levon Helm
Poor Old Dirt Farmer
Dirt Farmer
5
Bill Neely
Black Land Farmer
16 Down Home Country Classics
6
James King
Thirty Years of Farming
Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
7
Junior Sisk with Becky Isaacs Bowman and Sonya Isaacs Yeary
The Wheat Crop
Mac Wiseman – I Sang The Song
8
Lemuel Jones
Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers)
Field Recordings, Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941)
9
Peter Rowan
Let the Harvest Go To Seed
Bluegrass Boy
10
Carolina Tar Heels
Got The Farm Land Blues
Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads
11
Cisco Houston
Farmer's Lament
The Folkways Years: 1944-1961
12
J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers (With Morris Herbert)
17 Living On The Farm
The Legendry J.E. Mainer, Volume 4
13
Walter Brennan
Old Rivers
Old Rivers
14
The Bently Boys
Down On Penny's Farm
Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads
Songs that highlight the states below the ‘line’ of intransigence. Portions are better known as Dixie, others (like Florida and Texas) appear as appendages or after-market expanses. The music this evening will explore songs of Louisiana from Doug Kershaw, Texas from Asleep at the Wheel, Alabama from Mance Lipscomb, and West Virginia featuring Louis Jordan. There’s a whole lot more including Taj Mahal, Bill Kirchen, The Louvin Brothers and Pokey LaFarge; all on a journey through a collection of states that two surveyors by the name of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, in an attempt to resolve a dispute, attached their names to in the late 18th century.
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
Jimmie Rodgers
Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line
Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5]
2
Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton
Down In Florida On A Hog
Darby & Tarlton – Disc A (Atlanta 1927-29)
3
Muddy Waters
Deep Down In Florida #2
King Bee
4
Claire Lynch
My Florida Sunshine
Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1
5
The Swe-Danes
Georgia Camp Meeting
New Discgems From Warner Brothers
6
Dave Van Ronk
Georgia Camp Meeting
Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers
7
Alex Campbell, Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby
Bringing in the Georgia Mail
Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
8
Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers
Georgia Boogie
Travellin' Boogie
9
Guy Clark
Virginia's Real
Texas Cookin'
10
The Carter Family
Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia
The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 3]
11
Al Bowlly
My Sweet Virginia
Just A Bowl Of Cherries
12
Ethel Waters
I'm Coming Virginia
On Stage And Screen 1925 – 1940
13
Hazel Dickens
West Virginia, My Home
Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records [Disc 1]
14
Louis Jordan
Salt Pork, West Virginia
The Chronological Louis Jordan 1945-1946
15
Dr. Horse
South Poke West Virginia
Harlem Rock N' Blues
16
Mance Lipscomb
Alabama Bound
Ash Grove 12/6/1964
17
Evan Marshall
The Alabama Jubilee
Mandolin Magic
18
The Louvin Brothers
Alabama
Hand-Picked
19
Neil Young/Stray Gators
Alabama
Harvest
20
Jimmie Driftwood
Arkansas Traveler
Americana, Vol. 1
21
Carolina Cotton
Three Miles South Of Cash (In Arkansas)
Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music CD [Disc 2, "Arkansas Masters"]
22
Bill Kirchen
Arkansas Diamond (Album)
Word To The Wise
23
Taj Mahal
Texas Woman Blues
The Essential [Disc 1]
24
Asleep at the Wheel
Miles and Miles of Texas
The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970
25
Tommy Duncan
Texas Moon
Texas Moon
26
Tony Rice
He Rode All the Way to Texas
Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
27
Waylon Jennings
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)
The Essential Waylon Jennings [2007] Disc 2
28
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Going Back To Louisiana
Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
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
Buy
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]
