Category Archives: 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
1	The Whites	Used To Be	Songs of Bill Monroe
2	Rhonda Vincent	Lonesome Wind Blues	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
3	Hazel Dickens	I Can't Find Your Love Any More	O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
4	Hazel Dickens, Carol Elizabeth Jones & Ginny Hawker	Love Me or Leave Me Alone	Heart of a Singer
5	Brennen Leigh	North To Alaska	Too Thin To Plow
6	Charlie Haden	Road Of Broken Hearts	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
7	The Rice Brothers	Grapes On the Vine	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
8	Ricky Skaggs	I Hope You've Learned	Bluegrass Rules!
9	Tony Furtado	Man of Constant Sorrow	Long Journey Home: Songs of the Stanley Brothers
10	The David Thom Band	The Little White Church	That Old Familiar
11	Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas	Big Mon	True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
12	David Grisman, Peter Rowan	Travelin' This Lonesome Road	True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
13	Bill Monroe & Kenny Baker	Jerusalem's Ridge	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
14	The Monroe Brothers	Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy	What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul? Volume One
15	Ralph Stanley	Dad's Old Rocky Field	Old Songs & Ballads
16	The Gentlemen of Bluegrass	Old Old House	Carolina Memories
17	Jim & Jesse	Long Journey Home	Long Journey Home: Songs of the Stanley Brothers
18	The David Thom Band	Home Is Where The Heart Is	That Old Familiar
19	David Grisman, John Hartford & Mike Seeger	The Old Home Place	Retrograss
20	Morris Brothers	Salty Dog Blues	Legends Of Bluegrass [Disc 3]
21	Kenny Baker/Bobby Osborne	Sally Ann	World's Greatest Country Fiddlers
22	Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt	Randy Lynn Rag	The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2)
23	Doc Watson	Shady Grove	The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968
24	Ralph Stanley	The Fields Have Turned Brown	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
25	Laurie Lewis	Tall Pines	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
26	Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms	Montana Cowboy	Innocent Road
27	Lynn Morris Band	The Bramble and the Rose	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
28	Alison Krauss & Union Station	So Long So Wrong	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
29	Ricky Skaggs	Lost And I'll Never Find The Way	Bluegrass Mountain Style
30	Don Stover	Paddy On The Turnpike	Things In Life
31	Grandpa Jones	Mountain Dew	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2]
32	Jimmy Martin	You Don't Know My Mind	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]

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Ships Upon the Sea

April 28, 2018 Dave

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
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
29	Louis Prima & Keely Smith	Barnacle Bill The Sailor	Breaking It Up!

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Dead Roots

January 7, 2018 Dave

While the lyrics and music of Robert Hunter took the Grateful Dead into remarkable directions, codifying their place among the bands of the latter half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, by the time they reached their peak their roots were already firmly established. Their early music was clearly anchored in the sounds of tradition, reaching from the Appalachians to the Texas Gulf Coast. We’ll hear early (and contemporary) performances that inspired the band with songs of Blind Willie Johnson, Red Allen, The Mississippi Sheiks, Henry Thomas and Obray Ramsey. The landscape we’ll traverse includes blues, gospel, hillbilly, and folk…no Dead music, only music that served to inspire. This week on Sonoma County Community radio.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	David Grisman/Jerry Garcia	Been All Around This World	Been All Around This World
2	Dave Van Ronk	Hang Me, Oh Hang Me	Dave Van Ronk
3	Obray Ramsey	Rain And Snow	Best Of The Troubadours
4	Vince Martin & Fred Neil	I Know You Rider	Tear Down The Walls/Bleecker & MacDougal
5	Henry Thomas	Dont Ease Me In	Ragtime Texas Complete Recorded Works 1927-29
6	The Memphis Jug Band	On The Road Again	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
7	The Memphis Jug Band	Stealin' Stealin'	Memphis Jug Band Vol. 2 (1928-1929)
8	Cannon's Jug Stompers	Viola Lee Blues	First Time I Met the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down series)
9	Hammie Nixon	Viola Lee Blues	Living Country Blues: An Anthology Disc 3
10	The Monroe Brothers	Rosa Lee McFall	Early Blue Grass Music
11	Prairie Ramblers	Deep Elem Blues	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
12	Mississippi Sheiks	Sittin' On Top of the World	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
13	Roscoe Holcomb	Sittin' On Top of the World	Classic Piedmont Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
14	Dillard Chandler	Rain and Snow	Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
15	The Chieftains	Rain And Snow	Down The Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions
16	Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers	Minglewood Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
17	Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, et. al.	New Minglewood Blues	Jug Band Extravaganza
18	Blind Willie Johnson	Nobody's Fault But Mine	Various Artists: Bob Dylan – Cover To Cover – The Originals VOL. 2 [Disc 3]
19	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Nobody's Fault But Mine	The Great Gospel Women
20	Rev. Pearly Brown	Nobody's Fault But Mine	You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion
21	Lightnin' Hopkins	See That My Grave Is Kept Clean	The Real Blues Brothers Vol. 2
22	Lightnin' Hopkins	One Kind Favor	Jake Head Boogie
23	Memphis Slim	Next Time You See Me	The Greatest Hits Of
24	Bob Dylan	Jack-A-Roe	World Gone Wrong
25	Joan Baez	Jack-A-Roe	Rare, Live & Classic [Box] (3 of 3)
26	The Sunshine Boys	What's the Matter With Deep Elem	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys – Oakie Boogie [Disc 4]
27	Red Allen	Deep Elem Blues	The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983
28	The Light Crust Doughboys	Sittin' On Top Of The World	1936-1941
29	Dock Walsh	In The Pines	In The Pines – Tar Heel Folk Songs And Fiddle Tunes – Old-Time Music Of North Carolina 1926-1936
30	John Sebastian	Minglewood Blues	Chasin' Gus' Ghost

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Back on the Farm

December 2, 2017 Dave

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
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
15	Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur	Down on Penny's Farm	Penny's Farm
16	The Four Wanderers	Farmer's Life For Me	Black Vocal Groups Vol. 9 (1929-1942)
17	Ben & Ellen Harper	Farmer's Daughter	Childhood Home
18	Bobby Bare	The Farmer Feeds Us All	Hard Time Hungrys
19	Porter Wagoner	The Farmer and the Lord	20 All-Time Greatest Hits
20	Paula Brown	Farm Hollers	Hollerin'
21	Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers	McDonald's Farm (1928)	Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936
22	Bubby Bishop	I Want To Go Back To The Farm	The Great Vintage Country
23	Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)	On A Little Two Acre Farm	Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58
24	Goose Island Ramblers	I Worked For a Farmer	Polkabilly
25	Buster Carter & Preston Young	A Lazy Farmer Boy	Before The Blues Vol. 3
26	Rosetta Howard	Plow Hand Blues [Album Version]	Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950
27	Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys	I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven	King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail
28	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
29	Ray Wylie Hubbard	After the Harvest	Crusades of the Restless Nights
30	Dry Branch Fire Squad	Devil, Take The Farmer	481 Bluegrass Class of 1990
31	Glen Campbell	Arkansas Farmboy	Adios
32	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	When It's Harvest Time, Sweet Angeline	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin'
33	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs With Mother Maybelle Carter	The Homestead On The Farm [Album Version]	Songs Of The Famous Carter Family

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Below the Mason-Dixon Line

November 25, 2017 Dave

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
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
29	Doug Kershaw	Louisiana Man	Diggy Diggy Lo
30	Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three	Mississippi Girl	Middle of Everywhere
31	Nina Simone	Mississippi Goddam	Anthology Disc 1
32	Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	Mississippi Mud	Paper Moon
33	The Andrew Sisters	When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabama	Double Goldies [CD1]

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High Water Everywhere

August 19, 2017 Dave

And the topic of this episode will be natural disasters. Namely…floods. Timeless events and timeless music. Dave Stroud will share in-depth blues about rising waters, country music about the terror brought to us by Mother Nature, featuring Dave Alvin, James McMurtry, Whispering Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, and Lonnie Johnson…to mention but a few. Our show will focus on music that tells a story, because that’s what we find best in the tradition of Americana roots.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Johnny Cash	Five Feet High And Rising	Songs Of Our Soil
2	Charley Patton	High Water Everywhere Part 1	People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature
3	Bob Dylan	High Water (For Charley Patton)	Love and Theft
4	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Rising High Water Blues	A Stranger Here
5	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Rising High Water Blues (Pm 12487, 4491-5)	The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927)
6	Tom Rush	Galveston Flood	The Very Best Of Tom Rush: No Regrets
7	Whispering Smith	Storm in Texas aka Texas Flood	Swamp Blues
8	Lonnie Johnson	Broken Levee Blues	Hot Fingers
9	Lonnie Johnson	Flood Water Blues	Tomorrow Night
10	Sippie Wallace	The Flood Blues	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 48
11	Bessie Smith	Back Water Blues	Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 1]
12	Ruby Gowdy	Florida Flood Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 6
13	Carl Martin	High Water Flood Blues	Carl Martin, Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan, Willie "61" Blackwell — Complete Recorded Works
14	Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe	When The Levee Breaks	24 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's 2015
15	Robert Hicks	Mississippi Heavy Water Blues	People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature
16	Fiddlin' John Carson	Storm That Struck Miami	People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature
17	Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys	Flood Of '57	Classic Bluegrass
18	Happy Traum	Crash on the Levee Down in the Flood (feat. Justin Guip, Adam Traum & Byron Isaacs)	Just For the Love Of It
19	James McMurtry	Hurricane Party	Just Us Kids
20	Charlie Haden	Is This America? (Katrina 2005)	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
21	Dave Alvin	Southern Flood Blues	Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy
22	Roomful Of Blues	Texas Flood	The First Album
23	Larry Davis	Texas Flood	Bob Dylan: Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 5 [Disc 4]
24	Randy Newman & The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra With Members Of The New York Philharmonic	Louisiana 1927	Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album
25	Davell Crawford	Gather By The River	Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album
26	The Tex-I-An Boys	Wasn't That A Mighty Storm?	Classic American Ballads From Smithsonian Folkways
27	Johnny Cash	Big River	Get Rhythm [Sun]
28	Leon Russell	A Mighty Flood	A Mighty Flood

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That High Lonesome Sound

May 13, 2017 Dave

There can be no room for more rain here in Sonoma County. Spring is here and summer’s only a festival away….so we’ll celebrate the warmer side of Spring with an exploration of the bluegrass sounds of Bill Monroe and others, all tunes being selected for their ability to express what became to be known as that ‘high lonesome sound’. Included in the mix will be Del McCoury, Jimmy Martin, Peter Rowan, Ralph Stanley, and a many others on a night that celebrates that ‘voice from on high’ and discourages the direction down that ‘wicked path of sin’. All for you on Sonoma County Community Radio.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Ricky Skaggs & Joan Osborne	On The Old Kentucky Shore	Big Mon – The Songs of Bill Monroe
2	Bill Monroe	A Voice From On High	Cover to Cover: The Originals, Vol. 2 [Disc 1]
3	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Wicked Path Of Sin	All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4]
4	The Stanley Brothers	Hills of Roan County	16 Greatest Hits
5	Vern And Ray	Cabin On a Mountain	Cabin On A Mountain
6	Ralph Stanley	The Old Crossroad	Poor Rambler [Disc 2]
7	The David Thom Band	Memories Of Mother And Dad	The Thief
8	Peter Rowan, Greg Garing	Letter From My Darling	True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
9	Bill Monroe/Ralph Stanley	Letter from My Darling	Saturday Night & Sunday Morning Disc 1
10	The Stanley Brothers	Meet Me By the Moonlight	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
11	Del McCoury	Bluest Man in Town	Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 2)
12	Blue Highway	Wicked Path Of Sin	Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1
13	Martin, "King" Jimmy/Marty Stuart	The Mississippi Mudcat and Sister Sheryl Crow	Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best
14	Jimmy Martin	On and On	Don't Cry To Me
15	Jimmy Martin & Ralph Stanley	Old Cross Road	First Time Together
16	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	My Little Georgia Rose	Bill Monroe: Anthology
17	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Get Down On Your Knees and Pray	Bill Monroe: Anthology
18	Tim O'Brien	Highway Of Sorrow	Legend Lives on-a Tribute to Bill Monroe
19	Bill Monroe	Highway of Sorrow	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 3]
20	Del McCoury	High On the Mountain	Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 2)
21	Del McCoury	On the Lonesome Wind	The Family
22	Alan O'Bryant, Del McCoury	Get Down On Your Knees And Pray	True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
23	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	True Life Blues	Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys live recordings 1956-1969
24	Bill Monroe And Doc Watson	Memories of You	Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2
25	Ricky Skaggs	Remember the Cross	Soldier of the Cross
26	The Seldom Scene	Little Georgia Rose	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
27	Bill Monroe	With Body and Soul	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
28	Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys	I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling	Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1
29	Mac Wiseman	It's Mighty Dark To Travel	Grassroots To Bluegrass
30	Don Reno & Red Smiley	I Know You're Married But I Love You Still	God Old Country Ballds
31	Danny Paisley, Ryan Paisley, T.J. Lundy	My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains	Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
32	Old and in the Way	High Lonesome Sound	That High Lonesome Sound
33	Charlie Haden	A Voice From On High	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy

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Arlo Guthrie Special

April 22, 2017 Dave

Arlo’s music has been a mix of the traditional and sixties counterculture in it’s mood and dimension. His recent tour looks back at his albums that also struck an Americana chord including “Running Down The Road” and “Washington County” albums. We’ll be covering Arlo’s music, original versions, songs from Ramblin’ Jack and Woody, Holly Near, and those Americana inspirations. Join us!

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant Pt 1	The Best of Arlo Guthrie
2	Arlo Guthrie	Highway In the Wind	Alice's Restaurant
3	Arlo Guthrie	Coming Into Los Angeles	Running Down the Road (remastered 2004)
4	Arlo Guthrie	Miss The Mississippi and You	Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004)
5	Jimmie Rodgers	Miss The Mississippi And You	Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5]
6	Arlo Guthrie, Lunenberg Travelers, Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee	You Must Have That True Religion	A Tribute to Leadbelly
7	Georgia Yellow Hammers	Mary Don't You Weep	Lead Kindly Light
8	Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger	Oh Mary Don't You Weep	H.A.R.P. A Time To Sing Disc 1
9	Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger	This Old Car	If I Had A Song: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2
10	Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant Pt 2	The Best of Arlo Guthrie
11	Arlo Guthrie	1913 Massacre	Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics
12	Woody Guthrie	1913 Massacre	Classic Labor Songs From Smithsonian Folkways
13	Woody Guthrie	The Grand Coulee Dam	Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
14	Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant Pt 3	The Best of Arlo Guthrie
15	Arlo Guthrie	City Of New Orleans	All Over the World
16	Steve Goodman	City Of New Orleans	Steve Goodman
17	Arlo Guthrie	Oklahoma Hills	Running Down the Road (remastered 2004)
18	Jack Guthrie	Oklahoma Hills	Oklahoma Hills
19	Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant Pt 4	The Best of Arlo Guthrie
20	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Riding Down The Canyon (w/Arlo Guthrie)	Friends of Mine
21	Rex Allen	Ridin' Down the Canyon V-3	Riding All Day
22	Arlo Guthrie, Lunenberg Travelers, Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee	Redbird	A Tribute to Leadbelly
23	Arlo Guthrie	Lovesick Blues	Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Remastered 2004)
24	Hank Williams	Lovesick Blues	24 Greatest
25	Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger	Wimoweh (Mbube)	H.A.R.P. A Time To Sing Disc 1
26	Arlo Guthrie	Alice's Restaurant Pt 5	The Best of Arlo Guthrie

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Clouds & Silver Linings

February 18, 2017 Dave

The past few months have been brutal for democracy. There is no silver lining in sight but this week’s music will nonetheless feature some songs of hope: our theme is one of clouds and silver linings. It’s meant to give a two hour break (if that’s at all possible) to the malevolent stewing cauldron that is brewing in the most sacred halls of our democracy. We’ll discard with the political music this week and simply ride a topical wave featuring a blend of jazz, country, gospel, rock, and pop. Tune in for music from Van Morrison, The Sons of the Pioneers, George Gershwin, Dave Van Ronk, and Pops Staples…to name but a few…this week on Sonoma County community radio.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Jimmy Martin	Pray The Clouds Away	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 2]
2	Bill Cox	The Clouds Gwine Roll Away	78s
3	Doc & Merle Watson	The Clouds Are Gwine to Roll Away	On Stage
4	Hylo Brown	Clouds Gonna Roll Away	Legends & Tall Tales
5	Delmore Brothers	God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds	Hillbilly Boogie Best
6	Dave Van Ronk	Clouds (From Both Sides Now)	A Chrestomathy [Disc 1]
7	George Gershwin	Kickin' The Clouds Away	The Platinum Collection
8	Annette Hanshaw	There Must Be a Silver Lining	The Personality Girl, Vol. 3, 1926-1928
9	Jim Hall	Look for the Silver Lining	Complete Jazz Guitar
10	Dave Brubeck	Look For The Silver Lining	Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective
11	Marion Harris	Look For The Silver Lining	50 #1 Hits Of The '20s & '30s
12	Django Reinhardt	Clouds	The Classic Early Recordings In Chronological Order [Disc 1]
13	Django Reinhardt	Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)	1944-1946
14	Maurice Chevalier	Sweeping the Clouds Away	Maurice Chevalier: The Greatest Hits
15	Johnny Hamp And His Kentucky Serenaders	Up In The Clouds	Johnny Hamp at Archive
16	The Louvin Brothers	You'll Meet Him In The Clouds	Close Harmony [Disc 6]
17	Alison Krauss	Cloudy Days	Every Time You Say Goodbye
18	Sons of the Pioneers	Cottage in the Clouds	1941 vol 1 (Warped 4108)
19	Johnny Ray	The Little White Cloud That Cried	Magic Moments
20	Red Norvo Trio, George Shearing Quintet	Midnight on Cloud 69	Midnight on Cloud 69
21	The Blind Boys Of Alabama	God Put A Rainbow In The Cloud	I'll Find A Way
22	Pops Staples	Hope in a Hopeless World	Father Father
23	Moonalice	Silver Lining	Dave's Way Vol 4
24	First Aid Kit	My Silver Lining	Stay Gold
25	Simon & Garfunkel	Cloudy	Old Friends Disc 2
26	Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick	Flying Cloud	Sing The Songs Of Vern & Ray
27	Hank Snow	The Boogie Woogie Flying Cloud	Southern Cannonball
28	Bonnie Raitt	Silver Lining [Radio Edit Version]	The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003 [US]
29	Rilo Kiley	Silver Lining	The Craft of Music, Vol. 2
30	Bunch Of Kids/Eddie Hodges/Frank Sinatra	High Hopes	Sinatra 80th: All the Best Disc 2

Americana, Bluegrass, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Mountain Music

Celebrating the Circle

October 1, 2016 Dave

This week, Dave Stroud revisits the seminal release of 1972 that brought together multiple generations of musicians, introducing a new generation of listeners to their music and, in some cases, to each other. Will The Circle Be Unbroken was a concept made real by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, then a “bunch of long-haired West Coast boys” (as Roy Acuff would describe them) and the talent that they were able to muster would influence country, bluegrass, and rock for decades to come. In addition to the big names of decades before them like Roy Acuff, Maybelle Carter, and Jimmy Martin, the Dirt Band would bring together lesser known names like Vassar Clements, Norman Blake, and Oswald Kirby to make an album that is as fresh and listenable today as it was then. We’ll feature tracks from the album alongside some of the original performances by these legendary masters.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
2	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
3	Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter	Fair and Tender Ladies	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
4	Maybelle Carter	The Storms are on the Ocean	Friends Of Old Time Music [Disc 1]
5	Mother Maybelle & The Carter Sisters	WIldwood Flower	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
6	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Wreck on the Highway	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
7	Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys	Wreck On The Highway	The Essential Roy Acuff
8	Roy Acuff	Pins & Needles (In My Heart)	King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail
9	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Pins and Needles (In My Heart)	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
10	Jimmy Martin	Sunny Side Of The Mountain	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 3]
11	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Sunny Side of the Mountain	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
12	Jimmy Martin	You Don't Know My Mind	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 2]
13	Jimmy Martin	Ocean Of Diamonds	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 1]
14	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Nine Pound Hammer	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
15	Merle Travis	Nine Pound Hammer	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music [Disc 3]
16	Merle Travis	Dark As a Dungeon	Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
17	Merle Travis	I Am A Pilgrim	The Best of Merle Travis
18	Doc Watson/Merle Watson	Black Mountain Rag	Black Mountain Rag
19	Doc Watson/Merle Watson	Down Yonder	Black Mountain Rag
20	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Down Yonder	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
21	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Lonesome Fiddle Blues	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
22	Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt	Nashville Skyline Rag	The Essential Earl Scruggs (2 of 2)
23	Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys	Earl's Breakdown [78rpm Version]	16 Biggest Hits
24	Hank Williams	Wait For The Light To Shine	Lost Highway December 1948 – March 1949
25	Leon Payne	Lost Highway	Country & Western Hit Parade 1948
26	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Lost Highway	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
27	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I Saw the Light	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
28	Hank Williams	I Saw The Light	Hank Williams – A Country Legend (3)
29	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Honky Tonk Blues	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
30	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Orange Blossom Special	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2

Deeper Roots