Category Archives: Country Swing

The sound was simple, fun, and certainly influential. It evolved from ancestral celebrations…finding its groove by the mid 1930s and playing itself out as a popular voice well through the early days of what was termed the Golden Age of Country Music, the 1950s. The entertainment industry collectively shunned the hillbilly term by the mid-50s, choosing the more sedate “Country and Western” moniker and certainly the even more narcoleptic sound of Nashvile going into the coming decade and beyond. Hillbilly music lives today only as splinter and special edge-case Americana. Listen and find out.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	The Delmore Brothers	Hillbilly Boogie	26 All-Time Country Classics
2	Sons of The Ozarks	Plantation Blues	Hillbilly Blues
3	The Lone Star Cowboys	Deep Elm Blues	Hillbilly Blues
4	Ernest Tubb & Red Foley	Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 2]
5	Bill Carlisle	Bell Clappin' Mama	Hillbilly Blues
6	Al Dexter	Hi-De-Ho Boogie On A Saturday Night	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag)
7	Al Dexter	Pistol Packin' Mama	Pistol Packin' Mama
8	Curly Williams	Southern Belle	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 5]
9	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	Bring It On Home To Grandma	Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1]
10	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	I Was A Gambler In Texas	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag)
11	Faron Young	If You Aint Lovin' (You Aint Livin')	Hillbilly Fever – Vol. 3: Legends Of Nashville
12	W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys	There'll Be Some Changes Made	Okeh Western Swing
13	Clyde Moody	08 – Nobody's Business	The Hillbilly Waltz King
14	Little Jimmy Dickens	Hillbilly Fever	Roughneck Blues 1949 – 1956
15	Grandpa Jones	It's Raining Here This Morning (Remake)	Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56
16	Ocie Stockard & His Wanderers	Bass Man Jive	Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947
17	Joe Maphis & Rose Lee	Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
18	Hank Penny	Hadacillin Boogie	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
19	Hank Penny	Hillbilly Jump	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
20	Billy Jack Wills & His Western Swing Band	Troubles (Those Lonesome Kind)	Hillbilly Fever! Vol. 1: Legends Of Western Swing
21	Redd Stewart	Brother Drop Dead (Boogie)	Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56
22	Charlie Gore	I Put My Britches On Just Like Everybody Else	Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56
23	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Bryant's Bounce	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
24	Red Foley	Choc'late Ice Cream Cone	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 2]
25	The Light Crust Doughboys	Little Hillbilly Heart Throb	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp)
26	Skeets McDonald	Scoot Git And Begone	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
27	Jimmy Bryant	Jelly Beans Daddy	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
28	Luke Wills	Four Or Five Times	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
29	Rose Maddox & Her Brothers	Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
30	Robbie Fulks	We Live A Long Time To Get Old	13 Hillbilly Giants
31	The Ranch Girls & Their Ragtime Wranglers	Hillbilly Jive With a Boogie Beat	Can You Hear It?
32	Larry Nolen & The Bandits	Hillbilly Love Affair	Bear Family "Perfect for Parties" Highlight Album
33	The Osborne Brothers	Hillbilly Fever	World's Hottest Bluegrass
34	Bill Kirchen	Hillbilly Truck Drivin' Man	Tied to the Wheel
35	Junior Brown	Hillbilly Hula Gal	12 Shades of Brown
36	BR5-49	Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)	BR5-49
37	BR5-49	Cherokee Boogie	BR5-49

Country Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Mountain Music

Dark Moon

August 22, 2015 Dave

We’re going to go pretty deep this coming Saturday morning here in Western Sonoma County. It’s a mix of old time and tradition with a few themed sets including social sciences, the labor blues, calypso rhythm, minstrelsy, and some special sounds from Ira and Charlie Louvin. Performers this week include Darby & Tarlton, Riley Puckett, Fern Jones, Arizona Dranes, and a pair each from Ry Cooder and Harry Belafonte. It’s a “Great Dream From Heaven” for KOWS listeners on an August morning in Occidental. Broadcast on KOWS 107.3 FM on August 22, 2015.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Little Jimmy Dickens	May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose	Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
2	Ry Cooder	Great Dream From Heaven	Into The Purple Valley (Remaster 2013)
3	Del McCoury	Fireside Chat, Part 1 (feat. Franklin D. Roosevelt)	Moneyland
4	Bob Miller	The Rich Man And The Poor Man [Rematered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
5	Frank Crumit	A Tale of the Ticker [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
6	Uncle Dave Macon	All In Down And Out Blues [2003 Remastered]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
7	Ry Cooder	Denomination Blues	Into The Purple Valley
8	Washington Phillips	Denomination Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
9	Arizona Dranes	God's Got A Crown	He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes
10	Elvis Presley	Swing Down Sweet Chariot	His Hand In Mine
11	Fern Jones	By And By	The Glory Road
12	Dave Van Ronk	That'll Never Happen No More	Sunday Street
13	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Dark As A Dungeon	Best Of The Vanguard Years
14	Emmett Miller	That's The Good Old Sunny South	Minstrel Man From Georgia
15	Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers	Lovesick Blues	Minstrel Man From Georgia
16	Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard	Coal Miner Blues	Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
17	Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins	Hawkins Rag	Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3]
18	Darby & Tarlton	Lonesome Frisco Line	Lonesome Whistle – An Anthology Of American Railroad Song
19	Lead Belly	Black Betty	Lead Belly's Last Sessions
20	Odetta	Shame And Scandal	Sings Ballads And Blues
21	Harry Belafonte	Mama, Look at Boo Boo	Harry Belafonte: Greatest Hits
22	Harley Allen & Dierks Bentley	I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby	Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers
23	The Louvin Brothers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Close Harmony [Disc 5]
24	The Louvin Brothers	Keep Watching The Sky	Close Harmony [Disc 8]
25	Bonnie Guitar	Dark Moon	Hard to Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics
26	Skeeter Davis	The One You Slip Around With	The Essential Skeeter Davis
27	Wanda Jackson	Savin' My Love	Rockin' With Wanda [US Bonus Tracks]
28	Webb Pierce	I Ain't Never	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Webb Pierce
29	The Allen Brothers	Skipping and Flying	Lead Kindly Light
30	Bascom Lamar Lunsford	Kidder Cole	The Cornshucker's Frolic Vol. 1: Downhome Music And Entertainment From The American Countryside
31	The Weavers	Bring Me Li'l Water Sylvia	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
32	Little Jimmy Dickens	I'm In Love Up To My Ears	Country Boy [Disc 1]
33	Rosie Flores & The Jordanaires	I Ain't Never	Caught in the Webb
34	Dale Watson & The Jordanaires	In The Jailhouse Now	Caught In the Webb
35	Los Indios Tabajaras	Maria Elena	Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's, Vol. 1

Country, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Fifties Country

Back to Bakersfield

August 22, 2015 Dave

Deeper Roots heads down the long hot stretch of 99 to California’s Central Valley to visit the country sound that blew in from every direction…starting with the Dust Bowl. Bakersfield was a first step, a way station, for migrant workers coming into California to escape hard times in the Midwest; their treatment by the small minds of fearful communities being little different than those migrants we think of today. “In the years following World War II, Bakersfield had plentiful honky-tonks including the soon-to-be-famous Blackboard Cafe. People drank, danced, and even fought to Western swing music.” The sound of Nashville began to become watered down, losing its appeal to some who thought it had lost a reverence for the heart and soul of working class Country. We’ll hear from Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart, Tommy Collins, and Billy Mize and tip our cap to a great book on the subject of the Bakersfield sound and the history of Country Music: Workin’ Man Blues written by local author and Central Valley native, Gerald Haslam.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Merle Haggard	Workin' Man Blues	Capitol Collector's Series
2	Hank Thompson	Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart	Most Of All
3	Slim Whitman	Song Of The Old Water Wheel	Vintage Collections
4	Billy Barton	Blues in the Blue of Night	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
5	Fuzzy Owen	Arkie's Got Her Shoes On	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
6	Tommy Collins	Untied	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
7	Tommy Collins	You Better Not Do That	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
8	Tommy Collins	Ernest Tubb 78s	One More Record Please
9	Billy Mize	Solid Sender	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
10	Bonnie Blue Bell & Leon Reach & Chic Adams Band	Let's Go	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
11	Bill Woods	Go Crazy Man	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
12	Buck Owens	Hot Dog (with Danny Dedmon)	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
13	Buck Owens	Take Me Back Again	Buck Owens
14	Buck Owens	Act Naturally	The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) [Disc 1]
15	Buck Owens	Down, Down, Down	Buck 'Em: The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
16	Wynn Stewart	Big Big Love	California Country
17	Wynn Stewart	Another Day, Another Dollar	Come On – Gonna Shake This Shack
18	Wynn Stewart	You're That Someone Else	Come On – Gonna Shake This Shack
19	Merle Haggard	The Roots Of My Raising	Capitol Collector's Series
20	Merle Haggard And The Strangers	Today I Started Loving You Again (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
21	Merle Haggard; Ray Price; Vince Gill; Willie Nelson	Heartaches by the Number	Last of the Breed Disc 1
22	Jean Shepard	A Dear John Letter	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
23	James Burton And Ralph Mooney	I'm A Lonesome Fugitive	Corn Pickin' And Slick Slidin'
24	Ferlin Husky	Heart of Stone	1949-1950 (Warped 498F)
25	Ferlin Husky	Freckles and Polliwog Days	Ferlin Husky Singles
26	Connie Smith	Ain't Had No Lovin'	The Essential Connie Smith
27	Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens	Streets Of Bakersfield	The Best Of Classic Country 80's
28	Dwight Yoakam	The Sad Side of Town	Tomorrow's Sounds Today
29	Dwight Yoakam	Guitars, Cadillacs	Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Disc 1
30	The Blasters	Blue Shadows	Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2)
31	The Blasters	Hey, Girl	Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2)
32	The Blasters	American Music	Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2)
33	Dave Alvin	California's Burning	Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women
34	Dave Alvin	Out in California	Interstate City
35	Merle Haggard And The Strangers	The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
36	Wynn Stewart	Wishful Thinking	Golden Age of Country Volume 2: Hard-to-Find Hits [Disc 2]
37	Buck Owens	The Band Keep's Playin' On	Buck 'Em: The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967)

Bluegrass, Country Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Jazz

Fair and Warmer – KOWS May 23, 2015

May 23, 2015 Dave

The show kicks off with some mid-century country fiddlin’ courtesy of Curly Fox but makes a quick left turn with a set about liars, tattlers, and some straight-forward testifying from Sister Rosetta Tharpe. We’ll also be entertained with some classic roots from the Dallas String Band, Lead Belly, E. C. Ball, and a tribute set to Sam Cooke.

Bluegrass, Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition, Theme Time

Demon Alcohol

April 25, 2015 Dave

We’ve got ‘songs of the sauce’, so to speak. Our show will feature a century of America’s music with stories of moonshine, rye whiskey, bubbles in the beer, bartenders, and hangovers going as far back as 1928. But we’ve also got a Bob Wills tribute piece from a new Asleep at the Wheel release, indie rockabilly from new Austinians Tammy Lynn & Myles High, R&B truckers The Harlem Hamfats, and local favorite David Luning. Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of a century of America’s Music on KWTF, member-supported community radio for Bodega Bay and all of Sonoma County.

Country Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Folk and Tradition

Deeper Roots on KOWS – February 28, 2015

February 28, 2015 Dave

Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards — Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards

We have yet another free form fest of roots music emanating from the bright sun of a Saturday along the Bohemian Highway, live from the KOWS studios in downtown Occidental, California. We both start and wrap up the show with Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards, sharing country, blues, and new Americana in between. We’ll hear from Flaco Jimenez pair up with Dwight Yoakum, the essence of Randy Newman’s portrait of the South, western swing with Willie and Spade, and new music that fits our roots sensibilities from Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen, Jr., and Jorma Kaukonen. Tune in for two hours of classic roots music.

Bluegrass, Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Gospel

Deeper Roots on KOWS – January 29, 2015

January 29, 2015 Dave

Deeper Roots on KOWS - Jan 29 2015 — Deeper Roots on KOWS – Jan 29 2015

We’re sitting in for KOWS’ astrologer Matt Savinar in a show that swings with the jive to open things up and then heads down the path of tradition, New Orleans and zydeco spicing, country swing, and an assortment of gospel classics. In particular, we’ve got sets that are a precursor to our Friday and Sunday night specials about Blind Willie McTell, country swing that opens with the magical guitar work of Les Paul, and we remind everyone that Mardi Gras is just around the corner, with a set featuring Professor Longhair, Eddie Bo, and Snooks Eaglin. Join us in this special two hour ‘stand in’ show.

African American Gospel, Bluegrass, Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Theme Time

The Railroad Blues

January 25, 2015 Dave

The railroad is the muse for the morning here in Occidental as the show uses the theme of the railroad: the stories of those who built it, the promise of the golden sunrise that awaits at our destination, the sorrow of a love taken away by rail, and the lonesome whistle from some far away valley. As an aside, did you know that Occidental itself was once a bustling community where the train would haul off the timber and bring tourists from San Francisco and cities beyond?

Join us for the sacred and the secular, including Peter Rowan, ELVIS PRESLEY, Kevin Russell, Paul Warmack & His Gully Jumpers, Furry Lewis, and many others as we explore the genres of bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country, and so much more.
#rootsmusic #railroad #Americana

Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues

Deeper Roots on KOWS – December 15, 2014

December 16, 2014 Dave

We’ve got a special Monday episode of Deeper Roots. The show originally broadcast live from the KOWS studios in Occidental, California, opens with some Light Crust Doughboys, fires up some modern country gospel from the Watson Twins and Johnny Cash, then goes for the jugular with a collection of Baptist-flavored gospel from Moses Mason, Mother McCollum, and Madam Edna…and that just scratches the sacred surface. The show also features the secular: jump blues from Jesse Price, jazz from Lincoln Center and Willie “The Lion” Smith. Had enough? You won’t. Be sure to check it out.

Blues, Country Swing, Early Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Urban Blues

Honky Tonkin’

November 18, 2014 Dave

This episode will look at the roots of Honky Tonk: a place where, on one side of the track you, as Roosevelt Sykes points out in “The Honeydripper”, you had the blues performer as Doctor who prescribed Blues as a cure for the Blues and on the other, you had the country sound of Moon Mullican who demanded that the beer bottles danced on the table when the band got rockin’. We’ll spend our time exploring the early sounds of Big Maceo, Albert Ammons, and Jimmy Yancey and move down yonder to the country bars where boogie woogie was also understood. The country honky tonk sounds of Merrill Moore, Bobbie Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and a handful of others will get their chance to entertain. Boogie woogie came to the country and it was retooled and renamed as honky tonk.

A Century of America's Music