Johnny Cash, like so many others, followed on the heels and inspiration of Elvis at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. But while others (save for possibly Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis) would fight for the scraps from this ‘new sound’, Johnny less-than-obligingly would ignore all the best advice. He began with the simplest of songs delivered in a farm boy’s tone and, with the Tennessee Three in tow, grew the sound into an identity.  Our show this week will lean on his own recordings as well as music from performers he was inspired by…we’ll also include music from contemporaries and those who he inspired.
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
Johnny Cash
Ring Of Fire
Columbia Country Classics – Volume 4: The Nashville Sound
2
The Chuck Wagon Gang
After The Sunrise [Album Version]
Columbia Country Classics Volume 1: The Golden Age
3
Brother Claude Ely
There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
Favorite Sacred Songs
4
Gene Autry
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blues Eyes
The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
5
Gene Autry
High Steppin' Mama
American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2]
6
Bob Wills
Faded Love
For the Last Time
7
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
San Antonio Rose
The Country Music Hall Of Fame
8
The Carter Family
Anchored In Love
The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 1]
9
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash – Cowboy's Prayer
Johnny Cash Interviews
10
Goebel Reeves
Cowboy's Prayer
…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
11
The Chuck Wagon Gang
We Are Climbing
Flowers In The Wildwood
12
Johnny Cash
Big River
His Sun Years: Down South
13
Johnny Cash
Hey Porter
The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 1]
14
Johnny Cash
Five Feet High And Rising
Songs Of Our Soil
15
Johnny Cash
Pickin' Time
The Fabulous Johnny Cash
16
Johnny Cash/The Carter Family
Keep on the Sunny Side
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
17
Johnny Cash
I Walk The Line
Classic Country
18
June Carter Cash
Oh, Susannah
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
19
Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter
Fair and Tender Ladies
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
20
Johnny Cash & June Carter
Jackson
Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter
21
Rosanne Cash
I Still Miss Someone
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
22
Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan
Girl From The North Country
Nashville Skyline
23
Johnny Cash
Man in Black
16 Biggest Hits
24
Johnny Cash
Ain't No Grave
American VI: Ain't No Grave
25
Johnny Cash
Tear Stained Letter
American IV: Man Comes Around
26
Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison Blues
At Folsom Prison
27
George Jones/Johnny Cash
I Got Stripes
My Very Special Guests [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
28
Rosanne Cash
Tennessee Flat Top Box
King's Record Shop
29
Emmylou Harris; The Milk Carton Kids
Apache Tears
Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited
30
Bruce Springsteen
Give My Love To Rose
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
31
Johnny Cash
Wanted Man
The Mystery Of Life
32
Bob Dylan
Train Of Love
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
Our weekly show celebrates (albeit somewhat belatedly) Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday by tipping our caps not with his performances but with a collection of by others’ tribute pieces. We’ll hear songs written by Bob through the years and tell you the history of many of them at the same time. Tracks from Bobby Bare, Mavis Staples, Solomon Burke, Hazel Dickens, and Bill Frisell make this an eclectic journey on a Friday evening in Sonoma County. Be sure to tune in!
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
Old Crow Medicine Show
Wagon Wheel
O.C.M.S.
2
Sarah Jarosz
Simple Twist of Fate
Build Me Up From Bones
3
Joan Baez
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
Baez Sings Dylan
4
Bette Midler
I Shall Be Released
Bette Midler
5
Bobby Bare
Farewell Angelina
Darker Than Light
6
Marshall Crenshaw
My Back Pages
Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village In The 60's
7
Flatt & Scruggs
Nashville Skyline Rag
Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends/Nashville Airplane
8
Hazel Dickens
Only a Hobo
It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song
9
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Farewell Angelina
The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage
10
Peter Case
Long Time Gone
HWY 62
11
Stephen Stills
The Ballad Of Hollis Brown
Stills Alone
12
Joan Osborne
Man in the Long Black Coat
Relish
13
R.L. Burnside
Everything Is Broken
Tangled Up In Blues
14
Susan Tedeschi
Lord Protect My Child
Hope and Desire
15
Julie London
Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)
Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks, Pt. 1
16
Solomon Burke
What Good Am I?
Make Do With What You Got
17
Sounds Of Blackness
Solid Rock [Album Version]
Gotta Serve Somebody – The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan
18
Mavis Staples
Gotta Serve Somebody
Tangled Up In Blues
19
The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver
Every Grain Of Sand
I'll Find A Way
20
Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins
Handle With Care
Rabbit Fur Coat
21
The Byrds
All I Really Want to Do
The Byrds [Box Set] Disc 1
22
The Turtles
It Ain't Me Babe
20 Greatest Hits
23
Antony With Bryce Dessner
I Was Young When I Left Home
Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation [Disc 1]
Mark Hogan’s in Grass Valley this week gearing up for the 41st Annual Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival which opens this coming Thursday, June 16th. Dave Stroud will be sitting in for Mark and will feature new releases, old standards, and vintage country sounds from the likes of Doug Sahm, Chris Smither, The Hackensaw Boys, and Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers….not to mention a good helping of Bill Monroe recordings from 1960.
Not only was Merle Haggard an accomplished country performer but he was also one of the more prolific songwriters of the past century whose songs were aimed at the heart of ‘everyman’. In losing Merle Haggard, America lost a neighbor, the guy next door who was there when you needed him. We’ll share a number of sets of Merle’s music: some performed by Merle, others performed by contemporaries including George Jones, Emmylou Harris, and Charlie Louvin. We’ll also feature a number of duets including performances by Merle with Jimmie Davis, Marty Stuart, and Willie Nelson.
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
Merle Haggard And Johnny Cash
I'm Leavin' Now
Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
2
Del McCoury
Fireside Chat, Part 1 (feat. Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Moneyland
3
Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
4
Marty Stuart/Merle Haggard
Farmer's Blues
Compadres: An Anthology of Duets
5
Dwight Yoakam
Holding Things Together
Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Disc 2
6
Charlie Louvin
I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
The Battles Rage On
7
Merle Haggard
Okie From Muskogee
Capitol Collector's Series
8
Dale Watson
Mama Tried
More Great Moments of Vinyl History
9
Willie Nelson
Ramblin' Fever
Remember Me, Vol. 1
10
Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
It's All Going to Pot
Django and Jimmie
11
George Jones
I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
Jones Sings Haggard, Haggard Sings Jones: Kickin' Out the Footlights…Again
12
Jerry Lee Lewis
Workin' Man Blues
A Half Century Of Hits ([Disc 2] of Box Set)
13
Ray Charles & Merle Haggard
Little Hotel Room (w/Merle Haggard)
The Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 [Disc 4]
14
Merle Haggard
Kern River Blues
Kern River Blues – Single
15
Dave Alvin
Kern River
West of the West
16
Iris DeMent
Big City
Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
17
Emmylou Harris
Bottle Let Me Down
Pieces Of The Sky
18
Lorrie Morgan
I Threw Away The Rose
Mama's Hungry Eyes: A TributeTo Merle Haggard
19
Merle Haggard & Carl Jackson
Must You Throw Dirt In My Face?
Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers
20
Clint Black
I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
Mama's Hungry Eyes: A TributeTo Merle Haggard
21
Carrie Rodriguez
I Started Loving You Again
Love and Circumstances
22
Merle Haggard
The Fightin' Side Of Me
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
23
The Seldom Scene
Mama Tried
Scenechronized
24
Kevin Russell
Mama's Hungry Eyes
Plain Dirt Fashion
25
Merle Haggard
Sing Me Back Home
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
In this, our second KOWS Americana Special, we put together a show so that we could fill in for Mark Hogan’s Bluegrass and Old Time Hour…and we’re featuring new music from C. W. Stoneking, Margo Price, Eric Clapton, and Bob Dylan. We’ll also pull out some dusty vintage nuggets from The Traveling Wilburys, Willie Nelson, and Frankie Laine. And there’s more…
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
Lee Marvin
Wand'rin Star
Rare Songs Played on Radio, Vol. 1
2
The Blasters
American Music
American Music
3
C.W. Stoneking
Goin' Back South
Gon' Boogaloo
4
Seasick Steve
Hope
Hubcap Music
5
Janiva Magness
When You Hold Me
Love Wins Again
6
Left Arm Tan
Blacktop Blues
Lorene
7
Hayes Carll
The Love That We Need
Lovers and Leavers
8
Cyndi Lauper
Misty Blue
Detour
9
Jason Wilber
The Game (Radio Edit)
Echoes
10
Bob Dylan
Melancholy Mood
Fallen Angels
11
Mo Kenney
Pretty Things
In My Dreams
12
The Traveling Wilburys
End of the Line (Extended)
Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1
13
The Traveling Wilburys
Where Were You Last Night?
Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3
14
Bob Dylan
All the Way
Fallen Angels
15
Bob Dylan
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Fallen Angels
16
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
Shine
Call It What It Is
17
The Lumineers
Ophelia
Cleopatra
18
Frankie Laine
Moonlight Gambler
Country Greats #2
19
C.W. Stoneking
Good Luck Charm
Gon' Boogaloo
20
Bonnie Bishop
Looking For You
Ain't Who I Was
21
Bonnie Raitt
Unintended Consequence of Love
Dig in Deep
22
John Doe
Get On Board
The Westerner
23
Margo Price
This Town Gets Around [FCC Warning]
Midwest Farmer's Daughter
24
Eric Clapton
Can't Let You Do It
I Still Do
25
Willie Nelson
Hello Walls
One Hell Of A Ride
26
The Louvin Brothers
Cash On The Barrelhead
Capitol Country Music Classics
27
Mark Knopfler
Daddy's Gone to Knoxville
The Ragpicker's Dream
28
Harley Allen
In the Jailhouse Now [*]
O Brother, Where Art Thou? [10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] Disc 2
I’ll say…finger pickin’ good music featuring finger pickin’ great performers from the past century. We’ve got a two hour sampling of sounds from the likes of Doc Watson, Jorma Kaukonen, Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel, Blind Blake, Riley Puckett, and (of course) Merle Travis. Our Wednesday evening will keep it pretty folksy and traditional for the most part, leaning on tradition and the very best in string picking and chord strumming. All this and more on our roots music show which is produced exclusively for Sonoma County community radio, both KWTF and KOWS.
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
Leo Kottke
Buckaroo
Essential
2
Chet Atkins
Wheels
Mr Atkins-Guitar Picker
3
Doc Watson
Windy and Warm
The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968
4
Doc Watson
Moody River
Memories
5
Doc Watson
Doc's Guitar [#]
The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968
6
Jefferson Airplane
Embryonic Journey
Walk on the Moon
7
Jorma Kaukonen
Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown (Instrumental)
Stars In My Crown
8
John Fahey
Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home
The Legend of Blind Joe Death
9
Davy Graham
Angi
3/4 Ad – Single
10
Davy Graham
Davy's Train Blues
3/4 Ad – Single
11
Stefan Grossman
Police Dog Blues
How To Play Blues Guitar
12
Blind Blake
Diddie Wa Diddie
Roots of Rock
13
Lonnie Johnson
Untitled
Steppin' On The Blues
14
Riley Puckett
Fuzzy Rag
Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 6 : Origins of American Primitive Guitar
15
Etta Baker
One Dime Blues
Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways
16
Merle Travis
Freight Train (Instrumental)
The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
17
Tommy Emmanuel
The Bug
It's Never Too Late
18
Bob Brozman
Hano Hano Hanalei [Album Version]
Blue Hula Stomp [Remastered]
19
Merle Travis
Li'l Liza Jane (Instrumental)
The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
20
Jorma Kaukonen
Fur Peace Rag
Stars In My Crown
21
Leo Kottke
Wonderland By Night
Peculiaroso
22
Leo Kottke
Little Martha
Leo Live
23
Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon
Rings
Sixty Six Steps
24
John Fahey
Layla
Rain Forests, Oceans And Other
25
Dave Van Ronk
Green, Green Rocky Road
Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk
26
Doc & Merle Watson
Bonaparte's Retreat
Then And Now/Two Days In November
27
Sam McGee
Knoxville Blues
Friends Of Old Time Music [Disc 1]
28
Mississippi John Hurt
Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
Complete Studio Recordings 3-CD Set
29
Stefan Grossman
Pallet On Your Floor
How To Play Blues Guitar
30
David Bromberg
Come All You Fair and Tender Maidens
Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records
31
Mance Lipscomb
Sugar Babe
Texas Songster
32
Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson
Barrier
Quah [Bonus Tracks]
33
Bob Hadley
Celtic Reverie
Imaginational Anthem
34
Bert Jansch
Angie
Running From Home – An Introduction to Bert Jansch
Deeper Roots takes on new Americana. There is a lot of good roots-influenced music out there, you just need to know where to go. Country, alt-country, swing, gospel, blues, soul, and bluegrass continue to be heard and loved finding a voice across a (very) wide canvas called ‘Americana’. On Deeper Roots this week on KWTF radio, we’ll curate the sounds of new Americana that play weekday mornings on KWTF from 9am to 11am (including Thursday’s Blue Moon Americana show). Tune in for new music from Parker Millsap, The Cactus Blossoms, Sturgill Simpson, Ben Harper, Bonnie Raitt, and Loretta Lynn.
It’s popular in just about every form…well, not so with gospel…but it’s tradition goes back to minstrelsy: the song that has a humorous hook or a running joke to share or maybe a bandleader who takes us into new a ridiculous territories. We’ve got a lot of novelty tunes of this nature to bring you this week on Deeper Roots… a bit of a departure from our normal fare but it’s all for the fun. We’ll hear country sounds from Johnny Cash and Roger Miller, tearjerkers and rock therapy from Mabel Scott, The Chips, and Tiny Hill, and some classic novelty sounds from Danny Kaye, Spike Jones (of course), and Fats Waller.
Once considered in its earliest forms a noble instrument, the history of the guitar can be traced back over forty centuries (yes, that’s 4000 years). While we won’t got back quite so far in our exploration, we will explore the popular form of this instrument in song this week. We’re not going after the genius as much as we go after the topic with songs whose theme is that of the guitar. It seems that there has always been a personal connection between the instrument and the player, sometimes as a confidant and others as a foil. Our show will feature yodeling guitars, lonely guitars, Bo’s guitar, long-legged pickers, amigos, and a number of performances about ‘one’s first guitar’. Join Dave Stroud for plenty in a guitar themed journey.
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
Steve Earle
Guitar Town
Just an American Boy Disc 1
2
Walter Hurdt
Fiddle And Guitar Running Wild
Classic Field Recordings
3
Jimmie Rodgers
You And My Old Guitar
Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 1]
4
Jorma Kaukonen
More Than My Old Guitar
River Of Time
5
Jimmy Murphy
That First Guitar of Mine
1951-1956 (Warped 5101)
6
The Seldom Scene
Grandpa Getcha Guitar
Like We Used To Be
7
The Louvin Brothers
Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
Long Play Collection
8
Byron Parker & His Mountaineers
Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
Byron Parker & His Mountaineers
9
Hardrock Gunter
Guitar on the Mountain
Gonna Rock 'n' Roll, Gonna Dance All Night
10
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Steel Guitar Rag
Legends of Country Music Disc 1
11
Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers
Telling' My Troubles to My Old Guitar
Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years
12
Frank Crumit
Plink Plonki Pluck My Guitar
Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit
13
The Brown Bombers of Swing
Guitar Swing
If You Take Me Back
14
George Morgan
Mr Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man)
Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection
15
Jerry Byrd
Hilo Steel Guitar
Stars Of The Steel Guitar
16
Les Paul
Lonely Guitar (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered]
100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
17
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
Yodeling Guitar
Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
18
Duane Eddy
Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar
Dance With The Guitar Man
19
Bo Diddley
Bo's Guitar
Go Bo Diddley
20
Johnny Powers
Me and My Rhythm Guitar
The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2
21
Johnny Cash
I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar
The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 3
22
Johnny Cash & June Carter
Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man
Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter
23
Kitty Wells
Amigo's Guitar
Greatest Songs
24
Waylon Jennings
Guitars That Won't Stay in Tune
Clean Shirt
25
Willie Nelson
Guitar In the Corner
Band of Brothers
26
George Jones
Best Guitar Picker
The Complete United Artists Solo Singles
27
Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard
28
Merle Haggard
Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
Capitol Collector's Series
29
Freddie King
Me And My Guitar
Texas Cannonball
30
Tony Rice
Me and My Guitar
Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
31
Lucinda Williams
Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings
We’re going to take a step away from vintage releases in our first episode of 2016 and look back at last year’s Americana releases, focusing on tributes and covers from some of the very best performers of the time. We’ll hear from Happy Traum, Jorma Kaukonen, Robert Earl Keen Jr., the Alvin Brothers, Bob Dylan, Jonathan Edwards and many others as the cover music from the past century. While most are those of tradition, we’ll also hear covers of Stephen Foster, Carter Family, and Woody Guthrie for good measure. Tribute albums include Bob Dylan’s Shadows in the Night and Asleep at the Wheel’s “Still The King” Bob Wills tribute. Lots of territory to cover so I hope you’ll join in!
No.
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
1
Mavis Staples
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Your Good Fortune (EP)
2
Jorma Kaukonen
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
Ain't In No Hurry
3
Jorma Kaukonen
Sweet Fern
Ain't In No Hurry
4
Darryl Holter
California Stars
Radio Songs
5
Darryl Holter
Do Re Mi
Radio Songs
6
Jonathan Edwards
Mole
Tomorrow's Child
7
Hamilton County Ramblers
Hard Times
Hamilton County Ramblers
8
Emmylou Harris
Bury Me Beneath The Willow
Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
9
Larry Cordle & The Virginia Luthiers
Train On The Island
Orthophonic Joy
10
The Cox Family
Cash On The Barrelhead
Gone Like The Cotton
11
Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
Footprints in the Snow
Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
12
Lyle Lovett; Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
T For Texas
Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
13
Asleep at the Wheel
Time Changes Everything (with Buddy Miller)
Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
14
Asleep at the Wheel
Faded Love (with The Time Jumpers)
Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
15
Robbie O'Connell
Pretty Saro
Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie
16
Happy Traum
Careless Love Blues (feat. Jerry Marotta, Byron Isaacs & John Sebastian)
Just For the Love Of It
17
Happy Traum
I Aint Got No Home (feat. John Sebastian, Byron Isaacs & Jerry Marotta)
