Category Archives: Bluegrass

Country Roots

Country Roots
Country Roots

Deeper Roots revisits the deeper roots…focusing on old-timey sounds of some of the great performers playing the classic standards. Country music roots go back into the European melodies and folk tunes and their instruments called to a celebration of the Diasporas. This week: Gid Tanner, Vernon Dalhart, Al Hopkins, Jimmie Rodgers, Bradley Kincaid, Charlie Poole, and many others provide us a glimpse at where it all began. Join us for another roots-infused evening here in Sonoma County.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Vernon Dalhart The Wreck Of The Old '97 American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 1] Amazon
2Vernon Dalhart The Prisoner's Song Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's Amazon
3Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers Pass Around The Bottle And We'll All Take A Drink And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 1 Amazon
4Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers I Don't Love Nobody And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 1 Amazon
5Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers You Ain't Talkin' to Me You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2] Amazon
6The Carter Family Single Girl, Married Girl The Bristol Sessions 1927-1928 [Disc 3] Amazon
7Riley Puckett Little Brown Jug Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
8Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters Roll On the Ground Lead Kindly Light Amazon
9Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters Georgie Buck Hill Billies / Al Hopkins & Buckle Busters Vol. 3 Amazon
10Frank Blevins Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
11Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues You Ain't Talkin' To Me, The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 1] Amazon
12Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues You Ain't Talkin' To Me, The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 1] Amazon
13The Allen Brothers Chattanooga Blues Allen Brothers Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 Amazon
14The Allen Brothers Ain't That Skippin' And Flyin' Allen Brothers Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1 Amazon
15Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters Old Dan Tucker Hill Billies / Al Hopkins & Buckle Busters Vol. 3 Amazon
16Harry McClintock Jesse James When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
17Bradley Kincaid Froggie Went A-Courting …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
18Bradley Kincaid Sourwood Mountain The Story That the Crow Told Me Vol 2 Amazon
19Bascom Lamar Lundsford Lost John Dean Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
20The Lonely Eagles Been On The Job Too Long Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
21Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers The Burial Of Wild Bill When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
22The Happy Hayseeds The Tail Of Haley's Comet Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1 Amazon
23Buell Kazee The Cowboy Trail When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
24Paul Hamblin The Strawberry Roan When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
25Jimmie Rodgers Mississippi Delta Blues Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5] Amazon
26Jimmie Davis Cowboy's Home Sweet Home When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2 Amazon
27Red Foley Single Life Is Good Enough For Me Smoke on the Water / Hillbilly Fever Amazon
28Gene Autry The Yellow Rose Of Texas The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946 Amazon
29Gene Autry Tumblin' Tumbleweeds The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946 Amazon
30Powder 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

Bluegrass & Old Time Hour Special

Bluegrass Old Time Hour
Bluegrass Old Time Hour

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.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Nashville Bluegrass Band Up Above My Head My Native Home Amazon
2The Nashville Bluegrass Band Monroebilia My Native Home Amazon
3Emmylou Harris Get Up John Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems Disc 2 Amazon
4Adkins & Loudermilk Georgia Mountain Man Adkins & Loudermilk Amazon
5Tony Rice Thunderclouds Of Love Bluegrass Today [Disc 2] Amazon
6John Hartford Gumtree Canoe Good'le Days: Essential Recordings Amazon
7Bill Monroe Flowers Of Love Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1] Amazon
8Bill Monroe Time Changes Everything Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1] Amazon
9David Grisman Watson Blues (feat. Tony Rice) Dawg Plays Big Mon Amazon
10Tony Rice He Rode All the Way to Texas Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection Amazon
11Charlie Haden Ocean Of Diamonds Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
12Cyndi Lauper Walkin' After Midnight Detour Amazon
13Old Crow Medicine Show 8 Dogs 8 Banjos Remedy Amazon
14Dale Watson Fly Away Blessed Or Damned Amazon
15Jefferson Ross Dogwood Cats Dogwood Cats Amazon
16Hackensaw Boys Cmon Baby Dont Bet Against Me Charismo Amazon
17Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice Longneck Blues Poor Boy's Pleasure Amazon
18Josh Williams Girl From The Canyon Modern Day Man Amazon
19Hamilton County Ramblers Standing On the Mountain Hamilton County Ramblers Amazon
20Traveling Show Token Of Love Songs From The Road Band Amazon
21Asleep at the Wheel Don't Ask Me Why (I'm Going to Texas) Swing Time Amazon
22Texas Tornados Wasted Days and Wasted Nights Live from the Limo, Vol. 1 Amazon
23Doug Sahm Faded Love Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1 Amazon
24Doug Sahm (Is Anybody Going To) San Antone Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1 Amazon
25Guy Clark To Live Is To Fly Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt Amazon
26Guy Clark My Favorite Picture of You Oxford American Southern Music Texas Amazon
27Kelly Joe Phelps Beggars Oil (Album Version) Beggars Oil EP Amazon
28Chris Smither Frankie & Albert Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
29Bill Monroe Darling Corey Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 2] Amazon
30IIIrd Time Out John & Mary Bluegrass Today [Disc 2] Amazon
31Dreadful Snakes Blue Yodel #4 Snakes Alive! Amazon

Songs of Cindy Walker

Songs of Cindy Walker
Songs of Cindy Walker

Enduring and prolific…country and pop songwriter Cindy Walker’s name is not as familiar to many but her music certainly is. She wrote early western-flavored pop and country swing pieces for performers like Bing Crosby and Bob Wills, composing hits for Hank Snow, Gene Autry, Al Dexter, Eddy Arnold, and others…almost owning the country charts in the 1940s. Her music endured well into the sixties and seventies, covered by Roy Orbison, Ray Charles, and dozens more. Her custom was to rise early and write songs, typing her lyrics on a pink-trimmed manual Royal typewriter while her mother, Oree Walker, would work out the melodies to her daughter’s words. They would station themselves in Nashville five months out of the year to help market the music, returning home to Mexia, Texas where Cindy would live out her life. Join us on a special run of Americana: the songs of Cindy Walker.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Asleep at the Wheel/Leon Rausch Sugar Moon It's A Good Day Amazon
2Willie Nelson Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Amazon
3Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Dusty Skies Take Me Back to Tulsa [Disc 2] (Cherokee Maiden) Amazon
4Bob Wills Cherokee Maiden Columbia Historic Edition Amazon
5Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Blue Bonnet Lane Legends of Country Music Disc 4 Amazon
6Eddy Arnold Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me The Essential Eddy Arnold Amazon
7George Morgan In the Misty Moonlight Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection Amazon
8Dean Martin In The Misty Moonlight The Great Dean Martin Amazon
9Tennessee Ernie Ford Blue Canadian Rockies Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2] Amazon
10Jim Reeves Distant Drums Essential Jim Reeves Amazon
11Ray Charles You Don't Know Me Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3 Amazon
12Gene Autry Silver Spurs (On the Golden Stairs) Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1] Amazon
13Gene Autry I Was Just Walking Out the Door Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 3] Amazon
14Ernest Tubb Two Glasses Joe Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection Amazon
15The Del McCoury Band The Bluegrass Country Del And The Boys Amazon
16The Byrds Blue Canadian Rockies Sweetheart of the Rodeo Amazon
17Merle Haggard Goin' Away Party Unforgettable Amazon
18Ricky Skaggs I Don't Care The Essential Ricky Skaggs Amazon
19Roy Orbison Shahdaroba The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument] Amazon
20Roy Orbison Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument] Amazon
21Willie Nelson Not That I Care You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Amazon
22k.d. lang Sugar Moon Shadowland Amazon
23Les Paul Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me (Remastered) 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
24Bob Wills Miss Molly For the Last Time Amazon
25Asleep at the Wheel It's All Your Fault (with Katie Shore) Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Amazon
26Solitaire Miles I Hear You Talkin' Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas Amazon
27Solitaire Miles Me & the Man In the Moon Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas Amazon
28Hank Thompson Triflin' Gal Seven Decades Amazon
29Willie Nelson Dusty Skies You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Amazon
30Merle Haggard Cherokee Maiden Capitol Collector's Series Amazon

Higher Power Country Gospel

Higher Power
Higher Power

We visit the classic sounds of country and bluegrass with thematic overtones of gospel. The love of country music often had its roots in a performer’s childhood memories of community church and the sound that would evolve from country and bluegrass provided a tone that grew from those memories…with a tenor that could easily echo the word’. The greatest of them elevated their popularity with their flock by invoking the name of that higher power of God and church in the community of bluegrass: The Stanley Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Ricky Skaggs, Doyle Lawson, and even country groups like the The Louvin Brothers and The Whitstein Brothers made gospel a core of their repertoire.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Louvin Brothers There's A Higher Power Satan Is Real Amazon
2The Whitstein Brothers Way Up On The Mountain Sing Gospel Songs of the Louvins Amazon
3Fern Jones I Do Believe The Glory Road Amazon
4Kitty Wells I Heard My Saviour Call Dust on the Bible (1959) Amazon
5Kitty Wells (I've Got My) One-Way Ticket to the Sky Dust on the Bible (1959) Amazon
6Milton Estes Hish! Somebody's Calling My Name Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
7Brother Claude Ely Fare You Well Satan Get Back Amazon
8King's Sacred Quartette Turn Your Radio On Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
9J.E. Mainer Workin' On A Building Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
10The Carter Family God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
11The Carter Family On My Way To Canaan's Land Take Me To The Water Amazon
12The Delmore Brothers The Wrath Of God Favorite Sacred Songs Amazon
13The Stanley Brothers Over the Glory Land 16 Greatest Gospel Hits Amazon
14The Stanley Brothers My Lord's Going To Set Me Free Hymns & Sacred Songs Amazon
15Mac Wiseman I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
16Mac Wiseman Dust On The Bible Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
17Ricky Skaggs Hallelujah I'm Ready Family And Friends Amazon
18The Johnson Mountain Boys Springtime in Glory Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music Amazon
19Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Jesus Gave Me Water Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
20George Jones & Tammy Wynette Let's All Go Down To The River Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
21Moore & Napier Gathering In The Sky Heartwarming Gospel – 18 Best of King Gospel Amazon
22Elvis Presley I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Disc 1 Amazon
23Willie Nelson Sweet Bye and Bye Old Time Religion Amazon
24Johnny Cash Unclouded Day Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South Amazon
25Chuck Wagon Gang/The Jordanaires Down the Road 70th Anniversary Amazon
26The Corley Family Way To Glory Land (1929) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923-1936 Amazon
27The Corley Family Give The World A Smile Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s: 1926-1937 Amazon
28Anonymous (Knight Home-recording Disc) Beautiful Mansions of Gold …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
29Ex-Governor Alf. Taylor's Old Limber Quartet Brother Noah Built an Ark …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
30Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Long Walk to Heaven Saturday Night / Sunday Morning Amazon
31Elvis Presley Working on the Building Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1 Amazon
32Willie and Bobbie Nelson I'll Fly Away Farther Along Amazon
33Buddy Holly True Love Ways From the Original Master Tapes Amazon

Guitar Theme

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
1Steve Earle Guitar Town Just an American Boy Disc 1 Amazon
2Walter Hurdt Fiddle And Guitar Running Wild Classic Field Recordings Amazon
3Jimmie Rodgers You And My Old Guitar Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 1] Amazon
4Jorma Kaukonen More Than My Old Guitar River Of Time Amazon
5Jimmy Murphy That First Guitar of Mine 1951-1956 (Warped 5101) Amazon
6The Seldom Scene Grandpa Getcha Guitar Like We Used To Be Amazon
7The Louvin Brothers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Long Play Collection Amazon
8Byron Parker & His Mountaineers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Byron Parker & His Mountaineers Amazon
9Hardrock Gunter Guitar on the Mountain Gonna Rock 'n' Roll, Gonna Dance All Night Amazon
10Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Steel Guitar Rag Legends of Country Music Disc 1 Amazon
11Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers Telling' My Troubles to My Old Guitar Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years Amazon
12Frank Crumit Plink Plonki Pluck My Guitar Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit Amazon
13The Brown Bombers of Swing Guitar Swing If You Take Me Back Amazon
14George Morgan Mr Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man) Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection Amazon
15Jerry Byrd Hilo Steel Guitar Stars Of The Steel Guitar Amazon
16Les Paul Lonely Guitar (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
17Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Yodeling Guitar Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
18Duane Eddy Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar Dance With The Guitar Man Amazon
19Bo Diddley Bo's Guitar Go Bo Diddley Amazon
20Johnny Powers Me and My Rhythm Guitar The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2 Amazon
21Johnny Cash I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 3 Amazon
22Johnny Cash & June Carter Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter Amazon
23Kitty Wells Amigo's Guitar Greatest Songs Amazon
24Waylon Jennings Guitars That Won't Stay in Tune Clean Shirt Amazon
25Willie Nelson Guitar In the Corner Band of Brothers Amazon
26George Jones Best Guitar Picker The Complete United Artists Solo Singles Amazon
27Robert Earl Keen, Jr. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard Amazon
28Merle Haggard Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
29Freddie King Me And My Guitar Texas Cannonball Amazon
30Tony Rice Me and My Guitar Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection Amazon
31Lucinda Williams Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings World Without Tears Amazon
32Guy Clark The Guitar Somedays the Song Writes You Amazon
33Neil Young This Old Guitar Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank Amazon

Folk Songs of North America

Folk Songs of North America
Folk Songs of North America

Folk Songs of North America was first published in 1960. Compiled by Alan Lomax (with melodies transcribed by Peggy Seeger), it featured traditional music organized by locale and topic. The anecdotes provided by Lomax and others were culled from both the oral and transcribed traditions of those who listened and performed. Deeper Roots goes deeper and features sets organized by topical pieces outlined in the book. Performers of the early century are featured including Dock Boggs, David McCarn, Gid Tanner, the Carolina Tar Heels, and The Bently Boys. We’ll also feature a handful of mid-to-late century performers to cap things off. Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of the last century of America’s music on Sonoma County’s newest member-supported radio voice, KWTF 88.1 FM, streaming to the world on kwtf.net.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Alan Lomax Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co Amazon
2Dock Boggs Cumberland Gap Bound For Glory Amazon
3Kelly Harrell I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again Archive.org Amazon
4Pat Carrolls Single Girl Songcatcher Amazon
5The Haden Triplets Single Girl The Haden Triplets Amazon
6Jimmie Driftwood Rattlesnake Song Americana, Vol. 1 Amazon
7Joan Baez John Riley [*] Joan Baez [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
8The Stonemans Shady Grove 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – Best Of Bluegrass Amazon
9Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys Sally Goodin Bill Monroe: Anthology Amazon
10Andy Griffith Cindy Shouts The Blues And Old Timey Songs Amazon
11Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt Cripple Creek The Essential Earl Scruggs (2 of 2) Amazon
12Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers Cripple Creek And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 1 Amazon
13Coot Grant and Socks Wilson Uncle Joe (Pm 12833, 349-A) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932) Amazon
14The Bently Boys Down On Penny's Farm Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
15David McCarn Cotton Mill Colic Gastonia Gallop – Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931 Amazon
16Jimmy Martin Roll on Buddy, Roll On First Time Together Amazon
17Lonzo and Oscar Last Ole Dollar 1947-1950 (Warped 4741) Amazon
18Darby & Tarlton Birmingham Jail compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
19Slim Whitman Down In The Valley Country Greats #2 Amazon
20Darby & Tarlton Rising Sun Blues Darby & Tarlton [Disc 3] Amazon
21Don Reno/Red Smiley Mule Skinner Blues Together Again Amazon
22Merle Travis Dark As A Dungeon Hot Pickin' [Disc 1] Amazon
23Bill Morrissey Pay Day Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
24Carolina Tar Heels Peg And Awl The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 2 Amazon
25Etta Baker & Taj Mahal Johnson Boys Etta Baker With Taj Mahal Amazon
26Kossoy Sisters Featuring Erik Darling The Wagoner's Lad Bluegrass Roots Amazon
27Richard Hawley Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? Coles Corner Amazon
28The Whitstein Brothers I'm Troubled Old Time Duets Amazon
29Rosanne Cash Fair And Tender Ladies Songcatcher Amazon
30Flatt & Scruggs On Top of Old Smokey Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends/Nashville Airplane Amazon
31Kelly Harrell & The Virginia String Band Charles Giteau Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1B: Ballads Amazon
32Bobby Bare Tom Dooley Darker Than Light Amazon
33Carolina Chocolate Drops Tom Dula Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind Amazon
34Doc Watson Omie Wise The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968 Amazon
35Ernest V. Stoneman & Sweet Brothers John Hardy My Rough And Rowdy Ways: Early American Rural Music. Badman Ballads and Hellraising Songs, Vol. 1 Amazon

Songs of A.P. Carter

He grew up with music, learning to plan violin at a young age in Poor Valley, Virginia (now known as Maces Springs), sang in a church choir and helped his uncle, Flanders Bays, who ran a mobile music school in Scott County. He would go on to form one of the seminal country music groups of the day with his wife Sara and her cousin Maybelle. Their musicianship was remarkable but the song-writing was what set them apart, the compositions by A. P. Carter representing a treasury of classic folk, sentimental pop, cowboy songs, gospel favorites, and original love songs. While there may be little doubt as to whether all songs that carried his name were original, his treatment (and that of the Carter Family group) were without peer. Tune in this Friday night for music featuring performers covering A.P. Carter songs, including The Delmore Brothers, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, Charlie Louvin, Ashley Monroe, and a host of others.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Ralph Stanley Worried Man Blues [Album Version] A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family Amazon
2Rosanne Cash The Winding Stream The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music Amazon
3John Prine Lulu Walls German Afternoons Amazon
4The Carter Family Lulu Walls Can The Circle Be Unbroken Amazon
5The Carter Family My Texas Girl Can The Circle Be Unbroken Amazon
6Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter Foggy Mountain Top Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1 Amazon
7Osborne Brothers You Are My Flower Hillbilly Fever Amazon
8Flatt & Scruggs You Are My Flower [Album Version] 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered: The Essential Flatt & Scruggs Amazon
9Charlie Haden Oh Take Me Back Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
10Ricky Skaggs & The Whites Will My Mother Know Me There Strings And Things: The Best in Bluegrass Vol. 1 Amazon
11Ashley Monroe The Storms Are On The Ocean Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
12The Delmore Brothers The Storms are on the Ocean Classic Cuts CD D – Atlanta 1940, New York 1940-41 Amazon
13Gene Autry I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blues Eyes The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946 Amazon
14Red Allen I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow: Songs of the Carter Family Amazon
15Mac Wiseman Jimmy Brown The Newsboy Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1] Amazon
16Roy Clark Jimmy Brown, the Newsboy The Roy Clark Anthology Amazon
17Charlie Louvin My Texas Girl Charlie Louvin Sings Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs Amazon
18Ralph Stanley Distant Land To Roam [Album Version] A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family Amazon
19The Carter Family A Distant Land To Roam The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 2] Amazon
20Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men Engine 143 Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land Amazon
21The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Wabash Cannonball Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
22The Carter Family Hello Central! Give Me Heaven The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5] Amazon
23Sister Bessie Griffin w/Brownie McGee Heaven's Radio Powerhouse Gospel Amazon
24The Swan Silvertones, The Staple Singers, The Pilgrim Travelers Will The Circle Be Unbroken The Swan Silvertones 1946-1951 Amazon
25George Jones/Staples, Pop And Mavis Will the Circle Be Unbroken My Very Special Guests [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1 Amazon
26The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will The Circle Be Unbroken Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances: Vol. 3: Country Gospel Amazon
27The Carter Family Beautiful Brown Eyes & Sweet Fern On Border Radio – 1939 – vol. 1 Amazon
28Jorma Kaukonen Sweet Fern Ain't In No Hurry Amazon
29Loretta Lynn Wildwood Flower Anchored In Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash Amazon
30Norman & Nancy Blake The Sunny Side of Life Strings And Things: The Best in Bluegrass Vol. 1 Amazon
31Norman Blake Fifty Miles of Elbow Room Old Ties Amazon
32Emmylou Harris Hello Stranger (Remastered LP Version) Luxury Liner [Remaster] Amazon

Let’s Live – KOWS Nov 5, 2015

Let's Live
Let’s Live

We’ll be bringing another eclectic blend of music from the past for an evening set kicks off with sounds of New Orleans beginning with a medley from the Bayou Maharajah, James Booker and closing with Irma Thomas. In addition to our usual run of bluegrass, jazz, and blues…we’ll prepare some piping hot biscuits from the country shack with Alan Lomax, Flatt & Scruggs, Pappy O’Daniel and the Hillbilly Boys, and Kacey Musgraves. There will also be a rare piece of early blues piano work from Ollie Shepard and the early century jazz band sounds of Enric Madriguera, Jimmie Lunceford, and Fletcher Henderson. Two full hours of Deeper Roots on weekday evening…carrying us over the midweek hump so that it’s all downhill from there…

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Aaron Neville Let's Live Treacherous [Disc 1] Amazon
2James Booker Medley: Tico Tico / Papa Was A Rascal / So Swell When You're Well Classified Amazon
3Dr. John Traveling Mood The Ultimate Dr. John Amazon
4Fats Domino The Girl I Love [Version 2] This Is Gold Disc 1 Amazon
5Aaron Neville My True Story My True Story Amazon
6Irma Thomas While the City Sleeps Time Is on My Side: The Best of Irma Thomas, Vol. 1 Amazon
7Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie I'm Wild About My Stuff Flashbacks #1 Drug Songs 1917-1944 Amazon
8Blind Boy Fuller Trucking My Blues Away No. 2 (take 2) Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order – Volume 2 (29 April to 12 July 1937) Amazon
9Ollie Shepard King Of All Evil Vol. 2-1939-41 Amazon
10Angelic Gospel Singers with the Dixie Humming Birds One Day When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51 Amazon
11Rory Block Lord, I Feel Just Like Goin' On I Belong To The Band: A Tribute To Rev. Gary Davis Amazon
12Ethel Waters and Her Jazz Band Ev'rybody Mess Aroun Tight Women and Loose Bands 1921-1931 Amazon
13Cleo Brown Boogie Woogie Picking the Blues – Compiled By John Mayall – Boogie Woogie Pioneers Amazon
14Benny Carter (With Lionel Hampton Orchestra) I'm in the Mood for Swing RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's Amazon
15Coleman Hawkins Body and Soul RCA Victor Jazz-The First Half-Century-The 30's Amazon
16Alan Lomax How Many Biscuits Can You Eat? Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co Amazon
17W. Lee & His Hillbilly Boys Please Pass The Biscuits Pappy Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938 Amazon
18Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs 'How Many Biscuits' 1953-X6-XX Grand Old Opry Amazon
19NRBQ Hot Biscuits and Sweet Marie Kick Me Hard Amazon
20Kacey Musgraves Biscuits Pageant Material Amazon
21Kenny Baker Monroe's Hornpipe Plays Bill Monroe Amazon
22Jack Guthrie No Need to Knock on My Door Oklahoma Hills Amazon
23Merle Travis Missouri The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 11 Amazon
24Kentuckians Journey's End Keep on Going: The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings Amazon
25Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Better Times A' Comin' Mark Twain: Words & Music [Disc 1] Amazon
26Mac Wiseman It's Mighty Dark To Travel Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
27Johnny Cash Thanks a Lot The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 1 Amazon
28Jim Silver Each Season Changes You Country Boy's Dream Amazon
29Jimmy Wakely Moon Over Montana Vintage Collections Amazon
30Leon Redbone Sweet Lorraine Any Time Amazon
31Dr. John I Love It at the Top 20 Dates Amazon
32Jimmie Lunceford/Sy Oliver, Vocal Time's A-Wastin' Jimmie Lunceford Amazon
33Sam Cooke Bring It on Home to Me Greatest Hits Amazon

In The Gloaming – KOWS Oct 24, 2015

In The Gloaming
In The Gloaming

Our Saturday morning show opens with some caffeine-driven music…literally… songs about the magic bean, that morning beverage that starts the day for some of us. We’ve got swamp pop from Randy & The Rockets, some jumpin’ jive from Cab Calloway, twilight reflections from Jonatha Brooke and The Sons of The Pioneers, and some Chet Atkins, David Lindley, and Eilen Jewell. KOWS community radio studios will be moving before the end of the year to a very central West County location that will bring us in closer contact with our listeners…and our Deeper Roots. And some exciting news! Deeper Roots moves to weekly broadcasts on KOWS.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Randy & the Rockets Lets Do the Cajun Twist Swamp Gold, Volume 1 Amazon
2Curtis Gordon Caffeine And Nicotine Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1] Amazon
3Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Caffeine Patrol Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
4Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Forty Cups of Coffee Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
5Frank Sinatra The Coffee Song Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan Amazon
6Carmen McRae/Previn Trio Coffee Time Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers [Disc 2] Amazon
7Annette Hanshaw You're the Cream in My Coffee The Personality Girl, Vol. 4: 1928 Amazon
8The Manhattan Transfer Java Jive Swing Amazon
9Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three Coffee Pot Blues Middle of Everywhere Amazon
10Cab Calloway The Jumpin' Jive Best Of The Big Bands Amazon
11Tiny Davis & Her Orchestra How About That Jive Jumpin' The Blues:MCA Label(ACE CD) Amazon
12Johnny Mercer G.I. Jive Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 1 – The Birth Of A Label – 1942-43 Amazon
13Ella Fitzgerald Five O'Clock Whistle Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 Amazon
14Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys The Prettiest Flowers Will Be Blooming Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Disc One Amazon
15Sons of the Pioneers In the Gloaming Songs of the Prairie – CD4 Amazon
16Jonatha Brooke In the Gloaming Live Amazon
17John Prine With Emmylou Harris I Know One In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
18Porter Wagoner Fool Like Me Wagonmaster Amazon
19Chet Atkins Levee Walking My Favorite Guitars – It's A Guitar World Amazon
20The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Blue Grass Favorites Amazon
21Eilen Jewell That's Why I'm Walkin Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades Amazon
22Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Walk Right In, Walk Right Out (The Walking Blues) One Hour Mama Amazon
23Eddie Jefferson Start Walkin' Stop Talkin' The BeBop Singers Amazon
24Dinah Washington Walkin' And Talkin' Gold Amazon
25Peggy Lee Talkin' To Myself About You The Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
26David Lindley Talk to the Lawyer Win This Record Amazon
27David Lindley & El Rayo-X Talkin' to the Wino Too Very Greasy Amazon
28David Lindley and Wally Ingram Oh Death Twango Bango II Amazon
29Pepe Ahlqist Moonshine Babe Raw Blues Amazon
30Perline Ellison Razor Totin' Mama Document Shortcuts Vol. 1 "God Don't Like It" Amazon
31Jackson Browne & David Lindley El Rayo X (Intro) Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
32Jackson Browne & David Lindley El Rayo X Love Is Strange [Disc 1] Amazon
33Mark Knopfler Who's Your Baby Now Sailing to Philadelphia Amazon

Pickin’ Time – KOWS Oct 5, 2015

Deeper Roots Old Time Hour
Deeper Roots Old Time Hour

Dave Stroud will be sitting in tonight for Mark Hogan once again at 6pm Pacific. He’s got another episode of Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. In this episode, he’ll be following along Mark’s theme of old time and bluegrass, old and new. The playlist this evening will include bluegrass from James King, Mac Wiseman, David Grisman and Bill Monroe. He’ll also be sharing new tracks from Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas, Kinky Friedman, The Dustbowl Revival (fresh from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this past weekend), and a couple of tracks fromLowell Levinger From The Youngbloods’s new album “Get Together – Youngblood Classics”. Tune in for some Eddy Arnold tribute pieces, music about the married life, and a couple of fine recordings of the great guitar pioneer Riley Puckett.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers Smokey Mountain Rag With The Travelin Blues Amazon
2Merle Travis Freight Train (Instrumental) The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands Amazon
3Dallas Smith My Home Across the Blue Ridge Mountains Still Pickin' Amazon
4James King Things Have Gone to Pieces Three Chords & The Truth Amazon
5Red Allen I Heard My Mother Call My Name Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings Amazon
6Neko Case Wayfaring Stranger Live From Austin, TX Amazon
7Kinky Friedman Pickin Time The Loneliest Man I Ever Met Amazon
8Ricky Skaggs Walls Of Time Bluegrass Today [Disc 2] Amazon
9David Grisman Wicked Path of Sin (feat. Old & In The Way) Dawg Plays Big Mon Amazon
10Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Wicked Path Of Sin All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4] Amazon
11Solitaire Miles You Can't Break My Heart Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas Amazon
12Kacey Musgraves You're From Texas Wanted: One Good Cowboy Amazon
13Pokey LaFarge Lovebug Itch You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold Amazon
14Well Worn Soles Worried Country/Folk Amazon
15Frank Black Don't Rob Another Man's Castle You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold Amazon
16Don Henley Feat. Mick Jagger & Miranda Lambert Bramble Rose Cass County (Deluxe) Amazon
17Traveling Show Hillbilly Wedding Day Songs From The Road Band Amazon
18Charlie Haden Single Girl, Married Girl Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
19Robbie Fulks Act Like A Married Man 13 Hillbilly Giants Amazon
20John Prine With Lucinda Williams Wedding Bells / Let's Turn Back The Years In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
21Nikki Lane Wild One All or Nothin' (Deluxe) Amazon
22Lowell Levinger Sugar Babe Get Together- Youngblood Classics Amazon
23Lowell Levinger Euphoria Get Together- Youngblood Classics Amazon
24Riley Puckett It's A Sin To Tell A Lie Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
25Riley Puckett Cindy Country Music Pioneer vol 1 Amazon
26Mac Wiseman Dust On The Bible Grassroots To Bluegrass Amazon
27Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers To Hear Doc Watson Play Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions Amazon
28Doc Watson Make Me a Pallet Memories Amazon
29Amy Helm Roll Awy Didn't It Rain Amazon
30The Dustbowl Revival Lampshade On With a Lampshade On Amazon
31Charlie Gracie Just A Closer Walk With Thee Angel on My Shoulder Amazon