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Golden Age of Country

November 10, 2018 Dave

It’s a time that followed the second World War and baked into its foundation were the sounds of Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Spade Cooley, Bob Wills among others. The music was inspired by bluegrass, folk, blues, and jazz with Country Swing and barn dances sparking a popularity that blanketed the American musical landscape from the Pacific to the southern Atlantic. It was a sound that solidified the title of “Country and Western” and he’ll be sharing some of the great performances in this week’s episode: Patsy Cline, Little Jimmy Dickens, George Jones, Ferlin Husky, and Webb Pierce…just to name a few. While the sound would fade away sometime around the turn of the seventies, when rock n’ roll would elbow it (more like steamroll it) out in popularity on the airwaves, it is revered and restated to this day as a cornerstone of what we recognize as Americana music.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Marty Robbins	Singing The Blues	Hillbilly Fever – Vol. 3: Legends Of Nashville
2	Webb Pierce	Why Baby Why Featuring Red Sovine	All Hits! [Disc 2]
3	Ray Price	Crazy Arms	Columbia Country Classics Volume 2: Honky Tonk Heroes
4	Elvis Presley	Heartbreak Hotel	Collections
5	The Everly Brothers	Wake Up Little Susie	The Complete Cadence Recordings 1957-1960 Disc 1
6	Little Jimmy Dickens	Hey Worm (You Wanna Wiggle)	Four Classic Albums Plus Singles 1954-1962
7	Ferlin Husky	Gone	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
8	Marty Robbins	The White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)	Magic Moments
9	Bobby Helms	Fraulein	Classic Country
10	Patsy Cline	Walkin' After Midnight	12 Greatest Hits
11	Ray Price	My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You	The Essential Ray Price 1951-1962
12	Little Jimmy Dickens	A-Sleepin' At The Foot Of The Bed	The Old Country Church/Raisin' The Dickens
13	Marvin Rainwater	Gonna Find Me A Bluebird	Three Classic Albums Plus Singles 1955-1962
14	Johnny Cash	Ballad Of A Teenage Queen	His Sun Years
15	Johnny Cash	I Still Miss Someone	16 Biggest Hits
16	Lefty Frizzell	If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time	Selected Sides – 1957-59
17	Little Jimmy Dickens	Me And My Big Loud Mouth	The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
18	Don Gibson	Oh, Lonesome Me	RCA Country Legends
19	Charlie Walker	Pick Me Up On Your Way Down	Columbia Country Classics Volume 2: Honky Tonk Heroes
20	Jim Reeves	Billy Bayou	Country Roads – Ralph Emery Presents – For The Good Times
21	Patsy Cline	I Can See An Angel	The Patsy Cline Collection [Disc 2]
22	Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys	Drivin' Nails In My Coffin	Songs For Rounders
23	George Jones	White Lightning	The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country Disc 1
24	Johnny Horton	The Battle Of New Orleans	Classic Country
25	Stonewall Jackson	Waterloo	Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
26	The Browns	The Three Bells	Classic Country
27	Marty Robbins	El Paso	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
28	Buck Owens	Under Your Spell Again	The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1
29	Kitty Wells	Amigos Guitar	Queen of Country
30	Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys	A Six Pack To Go	Vintage Collections
31	Wynn Stewart	Wishful Thinking	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
32	Loretta Lynn	I'm A Honkey Tonk Girl	Loretta Lynn Legendery Country Singer
33	Willie Nelson	Nite Life	One Hell Of A Ride
34	Porter Wagoner	The Cold Hard Facts of Life	The Essential Porter Wagoner
35	Jimmie Skinner	Don4t Let Love Get You Down	Country & Western Nuggets

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Truck Drivin’ Songs

March 3, 2018 Dave

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
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]
24	Parker Millsap	Truck Stop Gospel	Parker Millsap
25	Asleep at the Wheel/Leon Rausch	Truck Driver's Blues	It's A Good Day
26	Jim Lauderdale	Diesel, Diesel, Diesel	The Other Sessions
27	Leon Russell	Truck Drivin' Man	Hank Wilson's Back [Bonus Tracks]
28	BR5-49	18 Wheels And A Crowbar	Big Backyard Beat Show
29	Bill Kirchen	Roll Truck Roll	Tied to the Wheel
30	Dale Watson	Jack's Truck Stop & Cafe	I Hate These Songs
31	Little Willies	Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves	For the Good Times

Songs of Cindy Walker

March 3, 2016 Dave

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
1	Asleep at the Wheel/Leon Rausch	Sugar Moon	It's A Good Day
2	Willie Nelson	Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
3	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Dusty Skies	Take Me Back to Tulsa [Disc 2] (Cherokee Maiden)
4	Bob Wills	Cherokee Maiden	Columbia Historic Edition
5	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Blue Bonnet Lane	Legends of Country Music Disc 4
6	Eddy Arnold	Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me	The Essential Eddy Arnold
7	George Morgan	In the Misty Moonlight	Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection
8	Dean Martin	In The Misty Moonlight	The Great Dean Martin
9	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Blue Canadian Rockies	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
10	Jim Reeves	Distant Drums	Essential Jim Reeves
11	Ray Charles	You Don't Know Me	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
12	Gene Autry	Silver Spurs (On the Golden Stairs)	Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1]
13	Gene Autry	I Was Just Walking Out the Door	Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 3]
14	Ernest Tubb	Two Glasses Joe	Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection
15	The Del McCoury Band	The Bluegrass Country	Del And The Boys
16	The Byrds	Blue Canadian Rockies	Sweetheart of the Rodeo
17	Merle Haggard	Goin' Away Party	Unforgettable
18	Ricky Skaggs	I Don't Care	The Essential Ricky Skaggs
19	Roy Orbison	Shahdaroba	The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument]
20	Roy Orbison	Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)	The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument]
21	Willie Nelson	Not That I Care	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
22	k.d. lang	Sugar Moon	Shadowland
23	Les Paul	Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me (Remastered)	100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
24	Bob Wills	Miss Molly	For the Last Time
25	Asleep 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
26	Solitaire Miles	I Hear You Talkin'	Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
27	Solitaire Miles	Me & the Man In the Moon	Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
28	Hank Thompson	Triflin' Gal	Seven Decades
29	Willie Nelson	Dusty Skies	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
30	Merle Haggard	Cherokee Maiden	Capitol Collector's Series

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Country Swing Pioneers

February 18, 2016 Dave

Join Dave Stroud for two hours of the very best of country swing music on Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. The west had been long-settled when a new sound exploded out of the dance halls and barn-dance venues of the Midwest that was to become popular for it’s upbeat blend of jazz, hillbilly, and down-home blues. The arrangements blended strings, guitar, fiddle and bass, with the rhythmic sounds of urban jazz to reveal something catchy and danceable…and marketable. Before the beat was modernized into the mass market country blandness that paralleled mainstream pop, there were the pioneers including Milton Brown, Bob Wills, Adolph Hofner, Spade Cooley, Light Crust Doughboys, and a host of others.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Tex Williams & His Western Caravan	Artistry In Western Swing	Country Hits Vol. 8
2	W. Lee & His Light Crust Doughboys	When They Baptized Sister Lucy Lee	Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938
3	The Light Crust Doughboys	Mean Mean Mama	Western Swing 40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 1]
4	Prairie Ramblers	Deep Elem Blues	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
5	Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers	I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
6	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	In El Rio Grande	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol.1 : Brownies Stomp
7	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	Easy Ridin' Papa	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 3 : Easy Ridin' Papa
8	Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers	Barn Dance Rag	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – The Eyes of Texas [Disc 1]
9	Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers	I Want to Go Back	The Golden Age Of Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers
10	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	Bring It On Home To Grandma	Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1]
11	Hank Penny	Oh Yes? Take Another Guess	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1]
12	Hank Penny	Sweet Talkin' Mama	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1]
13	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Twin Guitar Special	Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947
14	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Stay A Little Longer	Take Me Back to Tulsa 3 – Just A Plain Old Country Boy
15	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Take Me Back To Tulsa	Tiffany Transcriptions Vol. 2
16	Leon McAuliffe	Mr. Steel Guitar	Tulsa Straight Ahead
17	Leon McAuliffe	Rag Mop	Tulsa Straight Ahead
18	Johnny Lee Wills	Rag Mop	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 16
19	Tommy Duncan	Stars Over San Antone	Beneath a Neon Star in a Honky Tonk
20	Tommy Duncan	Take Me Back to Tulsa	Texas Moon
21	Adolph Hofner	Cotton Eyed Joe	Western Swing 40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 2]
22	Adolph Hofner	Alamo Rag	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 8
23	Ted Daffan's Texans	Because	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 2] Tulsa Twist)
24	Ted Daffan's Texans	Down Hi Lo Way	Kings Of Western Swing, Vol. 2
25	Moon Mullican	Cherokee Boogie	Moon Mullican Sings His All-Time Hits
26	Moon Mullican	I'll Sail My Ship Alone	The Very Best Of
27	Spade Cooley & His Orchestra	Shame On You (Tex Williams & Smokey Rogers)	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
28	Spade Cooley	Troubled Over You	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
29	Spade Cooley	You Can't Break My Heart	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
30	Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang Feat. Tex Williams	Sign Off	Shame On You
31	Smokey Rogers	I Can't Help The Way You Feel	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
32	Cliffie Stone & His Orchestra with Judy Hayden	He's A Real Gone Oakie	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
33	Tex Williams	Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon?	Vintage Collections
34	Hank Thompson	Humpty Dumpty Heart	1946-1949 (Warped 4660)

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Guitar Theme

January 23, 2016 Dave

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
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	World Without Tears
32	Guy Clark	The Guitar	Somedays the Song Writes You
33	Neil Young	This Old Guitar	Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank

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There She Goes – KOWS 12/16/15

December 17, 2015 Dave

West County has seen it’s first consistent (and consecutive) days of rain and boy did we need it. El Nino looks to be making some waves. We’ll be making some waves this week on our Wednesday night foray into the past century of America’s music. We’ll hear new music from the Oxford American Georgia music issue, as well as a good share of early country, some Stephen Foster (by the Hamilton County Ramblers), and some Jelly Roll Morton. There will be a few local performers to sweeten the mix: Kevin Russell, Carl Hendel & Eddie Meisse, and an alumni of Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa…Dan Hicks. Tune in for music that keeps on giving.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Tommy Duncan	Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)?	Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B
2	Oklahoma Wranglers (Willis Bros)	Invitation to the Blues	Hillbilly Rhythm
3	T. Texas Tyler	Red Light	Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B
4	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	My Galveston Gal	Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin'
5	Carl Hendel & Eddie Meisse	Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age	Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
6	Tut Taylor feat. Norman Blake	Sweet Picking Time in Toomsboro, Ga.	The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia)
7	Precious Bryant	Georgia Buck	The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia)
8	The Band & Emmylou Harris	Evangeline	A Musical History [Disc 5]
9	John Prine	There She Goes	Bruised Orange
10	Jerry Jeff Walker	Viva Luckenbach	Gypsy Songman: A Life In Song
11	Carl Smith	Are You Teasing Me	The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956)
12	The Louvin Brothers	Are You Teasing Me	Close Harmony [Disc 3]
13	Carolina Chocolate Drops	Hello Stranger	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
14	Maria Muldaur	Me And My Chauffeur Blues	Richland Woman Blues
15	Black Bottom McPhail	John	Jack Newman & Others
16	Jimmy Strange	Yas Yas Yas	Swingin' the Blues: 1931-1939
17	Lightnin' Hopkins	Speedin' Boogie	Po' Lightnin'
18	Pete Johnson	Boogie Woogie	Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration
19	Kate & Anna McGarrigle	Hard Times Come Again No More	Songs Of The Civil War
20	Robert Shaw Chorale	Nelly Bly	Stephen Foster Songbook
21	Grandpa Jones	Nelly Bly	An American Original
22	Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks	I Scare Myself	The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973
23	Larry Jon Wilson	Ohoopee River Bottomland [from the film Heartworn Highways]	The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia)
24	Carl Perkins	Don't Stop The Music	Go Cat Go
25	Jake Xerxes Fussell	Raggy Levy	The Oxford American Southern Music 2016 (17th Edition: Georgia)
26	Dirty Dozen Brass Band	Jelly Roll's Misgiving	Jelly (The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Plays Jelly Roll Morton
27	Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers	The Pearls	The Pearls
28	Ry Cooder	The Pearls/Tia Juana	Jazz
29	Dr. John	Wild Honey	City Lights
30	John Fred	Shirley	Louisiana & The Old New Orleans Sound
31	Red Saunders & His Orchestra	Honky Tonk Train Blues	Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration
32	Freddie Slack With The Will Bradley Trio	Down The Road A Piece	Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration

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Main Street – KOWS December 2, 2015

December 3, 2015 Dave

A bit of a celebration is in order. We will be broadcasting live from the new KOWS studios located in downtown Sebastopol with a playlist that scours the last century of America’s music for relevant sounds and themes that relate: songs of settling into home, saying goodbye, moving on, going west (or east, that is), and ‘getting gone’. We’ll feature The Cats & The Fiddle, local favorites Markus James and Doug Blumer & The Bohemian Highway, “Little” Jimmy Dickens, and a host of others who welcome us into our new home on Gravenstein Highway…or, as it is formally known hereabouts, Main Street.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Muddy Waters	Gone To Main Street	Mad Love
2	Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers	Main Street Breakdown	Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years
3	David Bromberg	The Main Street Moan	The Player: A Retrospective
4	Los Lobos	On Main Street	Tin Can Trust
5	Loudon Wainwright III	Moving Day	High Wide & Handsome – The Charlie Poole Project
6	Leon Redbone	There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays	Christmas Island
7	Little Jimmy Dickens	No Place Like Home On Christmas	Country Boy [Disc 5]
8	Leon Selph	Now That You Have Gone	You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942
9	The Leake County Revelers	Been to the East, Been to the West	Lead Kindly Light
10	Doug Blumer And The Bohemian Highway	Moving Day	Doug Blumer And The Bohemian Highway
11	JL Stiles	Movin	Jl Stiles Presents House of Murmurs
12	Howlin' Wolf	Moving	The Back Door Wolf
13	Markus James	Goin' Down South	Head For The Hills
14	Les Paul	I'm Movin' On	Legend and Legacy [Disc 3]
15	Peter, Paul & Mary	Settle Down (Goin' Down That Highway)	Moving
16	Florence Lowery	Moving Day Blues	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 11
17	Bertha Idaho	Move It On Out Of Here	Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 10
18	Monroe Moe Jackson	Move It On Over	Rural Blues Vol. 1 1934-1956
19	Hank Williams & The Drifting Cowboys	Move It On Over	26 All-Time Country Classics
20	Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree	Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 1: Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
21	The Dixie Hummingbirds	Moving On	Looking Back
22	Mahalia Jackson	I Will Move On Up A Little Higher	Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
23	The Staple Singers	Move Along Train	Freedom Highway
24	Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)	Raising Sand
25	Jerry Lee Lewis	Move on Down the Line	The London Sessions 1973
26	Charline Arthur	Welcome To The Club	Welcome To The Club
27	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone	Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 3
28	John Hiatt	Gone	Crossing Muddy Waters
29	Irma Thomas	Gone	Soul Queen of New Orleans
30	The Cats & The Fiddle	Gone	The Very Best Of
31	Mr. Scruff	Get a Move On	Electro Swing Vol. 1
32	Paul Simon	Gone at Last	1964-1993 Disc 2
33	Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater	Gotta Move On	West Side Strut

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Country Strings

November 28, 2015 Dave

Our show this week revisits the great country guitar innovators and talents who contributed both session time to classic hits as well as original performances of their own. Whether they were pedal steel, Fender or Gibson electric magicians, or country pickers, we won’t discriminate. Tune in for Leon McAuliffe, Joe Maphis, James Burton, Albert Lee, Doc Watson and others on another Friday night on KWTF 88.1, Bodega Bay, listener-supported community radio for Sonoma County.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	The Lovin' Spoonful	Nashville Cats	Greatest Hits [Buddha]
2	Leon McAuliffe	Take It Away, Leon	Country Boy's Dream
3	Bob Wills	Twin Guitar Boogie	For the Last Time
4	Joe Maphis	Randy Lynn Rag [Album Version]	Fire On The Strings
5	Joe Maphis – duet with Larry Collins	Flying Fingers [Album Version]	Fire On The Strings
6	James Burton And Ralph Mooney	Sneaky Strings	Corn Pickin' And Slick Slidin'
7	James Burton & Ralph Mooney	Moonshine	James Burton – The Early Years 1957-1969
8	Little Jimmy Dickens	Buddy's Boogie (Instrumental)	Country Boy [Disc 5]
9	Buddy Emmons w. Nashville session men	Four Wheel Drive	Almost To Tulsa: The Instrumentals
10	Hank Garland & His Sugar Footers	Sugarfoot Rag (feat. Red Foley)	Guitar Magic 1949-1957
11	Hank Garland & His Sugar Footers	Hillbilly Express	Guitar Magic 1949-1957
12	Red Foley, Grady Martin	Pinball Boogie	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 4]
13	Red Foley	Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
14	Lefty Frizzell	Saginaw, Michigan (Grady Martin)	Classic Country
15	Marty Robbins	El Paso	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
16	Johnny Horton	I'm Coming Home	Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (1 of 2)
17	Chet Atkins	Tennesse Ray/Beaumont Rag	The Essential Chet Atkins [RCA]
18	Chet Atkins	I Know That You Know	Mister Guitar – Workshop
19	Chet Atkins & Les Paul	Lover Come Back To Me	Chester & Lester
20	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Bryant's Bounce	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
21	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Frettin' Fingers	Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
22	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Old Joe Clark	Stratosphere Boogie
23	Jerry Reed	Guitar Man	The Essential Jerry Reed
24	Roy Clark	Riders in the Sky	The Roy Clark Anthology
25	Albert Lee	Rainbows All Over Your Blues	The Big E: A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons
26	Marty Stuart	Hollywood Boogie	Nashville Vol. 1: Tear The Woodpile Down
27	The Hellecasters	Orange Blossom Special	The Return Of The Hellecasters
28	Junior Brown	Where Has All the Money Gone?	Down Home Chrome
29	Doc Watson/Merle Watson	Smoke, Smoke, Smoke	Black Mountain Rag
30	Doc Watson/Merle Watson	Down Yonder	Black Mountain Rag
31	Peter Rowan, Don Edwards, Tony Rice & Norman Blake	Trail to Mexico	Strings And Things: The Best in Bluegrass Vol. 1
32	Norman Blake	Eastbound Freight Train	America Roots Songbook – Americana
33	Tony Rice	Stoney Point	The Bluegrass Guitar Collection
34	Tony Rice	He Rode All the Way to Texas	Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
35	Merle Travis	Nine Pound Hammer	Hot Pickin' [Disc 1]
36	Merle Travis	Done Rovin'	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]

Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Early Jazz, Early Rock, Fifties Country, Rhythm and Blues

Wild Men and Wild Women

October 10, 2015 Dave

It’s theme time once again and we’re going to find ourselves among the wild and crazy men as well as the wild, woolly women. Round town girls celebrate, burning that candle, and Keely Smith will jump, jive, and wail with Louis Prima. Red Ingle and His Natural Seven will join the Sons of the Pioneers in spreading the word about ‘cigareets, whuskey, and wild, wild women”. Mae West, Julia Lee, Ernie Ford, and Jerry Lee Lewis will keep the party going and Deeper Roots will keep the lights on ’till 11pm sharp (that’s Pacific Time, of course). Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of a century of America’s music on KWTF, 88.1 FM, community radio for Bodega Bay.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Mary Ford	Running Wild	100 Jazz Guitar Favorites
2	Garland Jeffreys	Wild in the Streets	Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]
3	The Jive Bombers	Bad Boy	Cry-Baby
4	Donnie Elbert	Wild Child (Deluxe 6156)	R&B Humdingers Volume 11
5	Johnny Carroll	Wild Wild Women	Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks
6	Jerry Lee Lewis	Real Wild Child (Wild One)	A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
7	Carl Mann	Born To Be Bad	Midnight Cryin' Time: Teen Angst Classics From The Rock 'n' Roll Era
8	Charline Arthur	Burn That Candle	Welcome To The Club
9	Wanda Jackson	Hard Headed Woman	There's A Party Goin' On
10	Wanda Jackson	Let's Have A Party	Queen Of Rockabilly
11	Tennessee Ernie Ford	I'm A Bad Man	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
12	The Dave & Deke Combo	Wild Woman	Hollywood Barndance
13	Freda & the Firedogs	Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad	Freda & The Firedogs
14	The Sons Of The Pioneers	Cigareetes, Whusky And Wild, Wild Women	Country Legends
15	Red Ingle & His Natural Seven	Cigareets, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women (Smoking)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
16	Wanda, Ruth Neal	Round Town Girls	Flowers In The Wildwood
17	King James	Wild Wooly Woman	Stompin' 25
18	Julia Lee	Do You Want It?	Burlesque – 100 Classics
19	Eunice Davis	Let's Have A Party	Stompin' 25
20	Little Richard	The Girl Can't Help It	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
21	Keely Smith/Louis Prima/Sam Butera & the Witnesses	Jump, Jive, An' Wail	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1
22	Carmen MacRae	Whatever Lola Wants	Burlesque – 100 Classics
23	Mae West	I'm No Angel	The Mae West Collection
24	Billy Jones With The Little Ramblers	Don't Bring Lulu	The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
25	Cecil Gant	Little Baby You're Running Wild	The Cecil Gant Collection
26	Wynonie Harris	Young And Wild	Playful Baby
27	Rudy Greene	Wild Life	Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1]
28	Memphis Nighthawks	Wild Man Stomp	Document Shortcuts Vol. 3 – My Babe
29	Memphis Minnie	I'm A Bad Luck Woman	Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937)
30	Champion Jack Dupree	Bad Whiskey And Wild Women	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
31	JB Hutto & The Hawks	Wild Wild Woman	Masters Of Modern Blues
32	Albert King	Wild Women	Door To Door
33	Little Jimmy King	Wild Woman	Little Jimmy King and the Memphis Soul Survivors
34	Amy Helm	Wild Girl	Didn't It Rain
35	John Hammond	Wild Man On The Loose	Trouble No More
36	Louis Armstrong & The Hot 7	Wild Man Blues	The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3]

High Noon

September 26, 2015 Dave

It’s a new morning…as it always is…and was when we celebrated another Saturday morning in Occidental with Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music with host Dave Stroud. This twice-monthly show opens with a mule kicking in the stall, some barnyard rhythm and then moves swiftly into a blend of 1950s country and big band. Ray Charles, Frankie Laine, Chick Webb, Otis Spann, and Merle Travis are just a sampling of performers we’ll hear from. West County living deserves roots music wafting over the airwaves on a Saturday morning in early autumn. Let’s set the airwaves stage with some Otis Spann.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Nellie Lutcher	He's A Real Gone Guy	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
2	Nellie Lutcher	There's Another Mule In Your Stall	Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 1]
3	Otis Spann	Mule Kicking In My Stall	Cryin' Time
4	Louis Jordan	Barnyard Boogie	Jivin' With Jordan
5	Joe Liggins	Rhythm In The Barnyard	Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
6	The Andrews Sisters	A Man is a Brother To a Mule	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
7	Charlie Poole With Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon	Man that Rode the Mule Around the World	You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2]
8	Ralph Stanley	I've Got A Mule To Ride	Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection
9	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Mule Train (1996 Digital Remaster)	Vintage Collections
10	Frankie Laine	That Lucky Old Sun [Album Version]	Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits
11	Ray Charles	That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
12	Merle Travis & Joe Maphis	High Noon	Country Guitar Giants
13	Frankie Laine	Rawhide	Country Greats #2
14	Chick Webb and his Orchestra	Don't Be That Way	from CD; orig. Decca 483
15	Ella Fitzgerald	Melinda the Mousle	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
16	Annette Hanshaw	Who's That Knocking At My Door	The Twenties Sweetheart
17	Brother Grady Coffee	I'm Working on a Building	This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
18	Elvis Presley	Working on the Building	Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
19	Murry Hammond	In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
20	John & Jamie Hartford	When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland	Hartford & Hartford
21	June Carter Cash	Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?	Wildwood Flower
22	George Jones	Worried Man Blues	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
23	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
24	David Lindley and Wally Ingram	Coot From Tennessee	Twango Bango Deluxe
25	Ole Ramussen	Sleepy Eyed John	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
26	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Oozlin' Daddy Blues	Legends of Country Music Disc 2
27	Cliff Hobbs;Bill Cox	Oozlin' Daddy Blues [Album Version]	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
28	Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen	Big Mamou	We've Got a Live One Here!
29	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Big Mamou	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
30	Bonnie Guitar	Noon Train	Affair
31	Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips	If I Had My Way	Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips

A Century of America's Music