Category Archives: Country

Americana, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Oldies, Theme Time

The Old Chisholm Trail

February 17, 2018 Dave

Songs about moonlight on the trail this week. We revisit songs about Old Paint, cowpokes, outlaws, and the wide expanse of the range in this week’s show. Tradition, temperance, and memories of the Red River Valley with Michael Martin Murphey, Jimmie Driftwood, Rex Allen, Powder River Jack (featuring Kitty Lee), and many more cowboys from Hollywood and the old Navajo Trail. Storytelling and nostalgic novelties, most elevating the hardscrabble life of the West to a Disney featurette. Right here on Sonoma County community radio.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	The Norman Luboff Choir	Shenandoah	Songs of the South and Songs of the Sea
2	Gene Autry	Tumbling Tumbleweeds	Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1]
3	Gene Autry	Back In the Saddle Again	Don't Fence Me In:Western Music Early Golden Era
4	The Western Flyers	Along The Navajo Trail	Wild Blue Yonder
5	Marty Robbins	The Strawberry Roan	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
6	Duane Eddy	Streets of Laredo	Rebel Rouser
7	Ernest Tubb	The Yellow Rose Of Texas	Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours
8	Gene Autry & Jimmy Long	The Yellow Rose Of Texas	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2]
9	Marty Robbins	Red River Valley	All-Time Greatest Hits
10	Johnny Bond	Red River Valley	History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 9
11	Roy Rogers & Dale Evans	The Old Chisholm Trail	16 Great Songs Of The Old West
12	Ken Curtis & The Sons of the Pioneers	Home On The Range	The Cowboy Album
13	Ken Maynard	Home On The Range	When I Was A Cowboy, Volume 2
14	Judy Canova	Along The Navajo Trail (Radio)	Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 1
15	The Sons Of The Pioneers	Along The Santa Fe Trail	Sons Of The Pioneers
16	Rex Allen	Riding Down To Mexico	The Last of The Great Singing Cowboys
17	Johnny Bond	Goodbye Old Paint	Standard Transcriptions
18	Cisco Houston	I Ride An Old Paint	The Folkways Years: 1944-1961
19	Michael Martin Murphey	I Ride An Old Paint/Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo/Git Along Little Doggies	Cowboy Songs
20	Eddy Arnold	Cattle Call	Stampede! Western Music's Late Golden Era
21	Roy Rogers & The Sons Of The Pioneers	Blue Shadows On The Trail (From Walt Disney's "Melody Time")	Country Legends
22	Ken Maynard	Lone Star Trail	Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
23	Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)	Strawberry Roan	Dynamite Trail-The Decca Years, 1954-58
24	Wilmer Watts And The Lonely Eagles	Sleepy Desert	Gastonia Gallop – Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931
25	Carson Robison's Buckaroos	Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie	Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots
26	Crowder Brothers	Wild West Rambler	When I Was A Cowboy: Early American Songs Of The West, Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's. Vol. 1
27	Powder 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
28	Jimmie Driftwood	Billy The Kid	Americana, Vol. 2
29	Don Edwards	Sam Bass	Saddle Songs (1 of 2)
30	The Light Crust Doughboys	Oh Susannah	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp)
31	Tex Ritter	My Darling Clementine	Have I Stayed Away Too Long
32	Tex Ritter	Chisholm Trail	High Noon
33	Roy Rogers & Dale Evans	The Streets Of Laredo	16 Great Songs Of The Old West
34	Roy Rogers & Dale Evans With Frank Worth & His Orchestra	Happy Trails	Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3]

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Rock, Gospel, Oldies

Elvis’ Roots

February 3, 2018 Dave

The influence of gospel, blues, country, and tradition has always informed the music of Elvis…and while we’re not digging too far into the later works, we’ll go sit with Elvis on the sofa with our ears to the Victrola and the crackling of WDIA Memphis and the smattering of black blues and gospel over the air. We’ll hear The Carters, Jimmy Reed, Smiley Lewis, Little Junior Parker, Mahalia Jackson, and a couple dozen more in this episode. Keep an ear out for some rare recordings including those whose meager popularity evaporated once Elvis went on to cover them. Names like Joe Dowell, The Eagles (not the LA band), Deacon Tom Foger, and Charlie Blackwell bely their contributions to the Elvis catalog.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Big Mama Thornton	Hound Dog	Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2]
2	Bill Monroe And His Bluegrass Boys	Blue Moon Of Kentucky	Columbia Country Classics Volume 1: The Golden Age
3	Ernest Tubb	I Love You Because	The Texas Troubadour ([Disc 2] – Slippin' Around (The Hits Vol.2)
4	Gene Austin	Love Letters In The Sand	A Time To Relax
5	Eddy Arnold	It's a Sin	Country & Western Hit Parade 1947
6	Red Foley	Old Shep	Tennessee Saturday Night
7	The Lone Star Cowboys	Just Because	East Virginia Blues (When The Sun Goes Down Series)
8	The Carter Family	I'm Working On A Building	The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5]
9	Deacon Tom Foger & The Camp Meeting Choir	Working On The Building	Powerhouse Gospel
10	Kokomo Arnold	Milk Cow Blues	Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1]
11	Arthur Gunter	Baby Let's Play House	The Best Of Excello Records
12	Jimmy Reed	Big Boss Man	The Very Best of Jimmy Reed
13	Jimmy Reed	Baby What You Want Me To Do	The Very Best of Jimmy Reed
14	Arthur Big Boy Crudup	So Glad You're Mine	Rock Me Mama (The Blues Collection Vol.47)
15	Arthur Big Boy Crudup	So Glad You're Mine	Rock Me Mama (The Blues Collection Vol.47)
16	Little Junior Parker	Mystery Train	Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
17	Little Richard	Long Tall Sally	Specialty Profiles: Larry Williams
18	Chuck Berry	Promised Land	The Chess Box Disc 2
19	Lloyd Price	Lawdy Miss Clawdy	Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans
20	The Eagles	Trying To Get To You	Mercury R+B '46-'62 [Disc 1]
21	Smiley Lewis	One Night	I Hear You Knocking: 1947-1962 Disc 3
22	Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters	Money Honey	Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four
23	Roy Brown	Good Rockin' Tonight	Gettin' Funky [Disc 3] – The Hitmakers
24	Ivory Joe Hunter	I Need You So	The Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter : 1947 – 1950
25	Billy Bunn & His Buddies	That's When Your Heartaches Begin	Money Honey – Rise of the Black Vocal Group 51-53
26	Charlie Blackwell	The Girl of My Best Friend	Gems from the Warner Brothers Vault (Pt. 1)
27	Big Joe Turner	Shake, Rattle & Roll	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1
28	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	I Believe	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
29	The Golden Gate Quartet	Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho (1946)	Vol. 5 (1945-1949) (Complete Recorded Works In Chronologial Order, Vol. 5, 1939-1949)
30	Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers	Peace In The Valley	The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 1]
31	Mahalia Jackson	How Great Thou Art	Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns, Vol.2 [Disc 1]
32	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Precious Memories	Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Spirit of Gospel (Vol. 4)
33	Joe Dowell	Wooden Heart	Easy Listening Gold 1960-1961
34	Glen Gray & The Casa Lorne Orchestra	Blue Moon	Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals

Free Form – January 2018

January 13, 2018 Dave

We open 2018 with a mix of jazz, R&B, New Orleans piano, gospel, and country… nothing that you would not expect from the show. Here’s hoping to something much better from all of us…as a democracy and a society. While the 1 percent have fooled the desperate we’ll be spending time with the passions of Ivie Anderson, Ray Charles, Madeline Bell, Doug Sahm, and Sam Cooke to keep our hearts, minds, and eyes on the prize. Join Dave Stroud for a free form exploration of American roots music every other Friday morning at 9am on KOWS and weekly (Friday evenings at 9) on KWTF.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Blossom Dearie	Everything I've Got	Got Nothing But Song
2	Professor Longhair	Mean Old World	Fess: The Professor Longhair A
3	Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers	Mean Old World	The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3]
4	Joseph Crawford and unidentified vocalist	Free At Las'	2- The Long Road To Freedom : An Anthology Of Black Music
5	Anthony Butler	Judgement's Coming Soon	Mighty Day – 25 Gospel Greats
6	Cowboy Junkies	Jesus Is Coming Soon	God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
7	Madeline Bell	Can't Get Used To Losing You	Bell's A Poppin'
8	Laura Lee	Up Tight, Good Man	The Muscle Shoals Sound
9	Jean Wells	Have a Little Mercy	Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures: Taken From Our Vaults, Vol. 1
10	Varetta Dillard	I Can't Help Myself	Got You On My Mind
11	The Orioles	You Belong to Me	Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals
12	The Commands	No Time For You	Eccentric Soul: The Dynamic Label
13	Slim Gaillard	Blue Heaven	ABC Of The Blues Vol 12
14	The Cats & The Fiddle	Darling, Can't We Make A Date	The Very Best Of
15	Ivie Anderson	I'm Checkin' Out, Goo'm Bye	An Introduction To Ivie Anderson
16	Ivie Anderson	Oh Babe! Maybe Someday	An Introduction To Ivie Anderson
17	Louis Jordan	I Seen What'cha Done	Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 1]
18	Ray Charles & Willie Nelson	Seven Spanish Angels	The Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 [Disc 4]
19	Willie Nelson	Let's Face The Music And Dance	Let's Face The Music And Dance
20	Asleep at the Wheel	Dance With Who Brung You	The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970
21	Leon McAuliffe	Tulsa, Straight Ahead	Tulsa Straight Ahead
22	Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang Feat. Tex Williams	Better Do It Now	Shame On You
23	Doug Sahm	I Wanna Be Your Mama Again	Best of Sir Douglas 68-75
24	Bruce Daigrepont	Acadie A la Louisiane	Alligator Stomp 3: Cajun Zydeco Classics
25	Elijah & The Ebonites	Hot Grits!!!	Eccentric Soul – The Capsoul Label
26	Lee Dorsey	Work, Work, Work	The Ep Collection…Plus
27	Bo Diddley	You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover	The Chess Box
28	Magic Sam	Feels So Good (I Wanna Boogie)	Living The Blues – 1965 – 1969 Blues Classics
29	Howlin' Wolf	Smokestack Lightnin'	Blues From Hell
30	Ella Mae Morse	Jumpin' Jack	Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 2]
31	The Boswell Sisters	Gee, But I'd Like To Make You Happy	The Object Of My Affection
32	Ethel Waters	Stormy Weather	The Art Deco Music Collection: Cotton Club Stomp
33	Juan Gabriel	Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (Gracias al Sol)	Quiero Creedence

Bluegrass, Country Blues, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Mountain Music

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

Who We Lost in 2017

December 31, 2017 Dave

We look back at the great ones we lost in 2017…and there were a number of great ones: Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, and Tom Petty. While two hours provides only a limited amount of time, our parameters are such that we look at contributions and influences, focusing our honor to those who fit the roots and the body of work that these greats brought to the fore. We’ll feature music of Rosalie Sorrels, Greg Allman, Steely Dan, Don Williams, Glen Campbell, and numerous others whose lives will live on in their music. Join Dave Stroud for two hours of music from the last century on Sonoma County community radio.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Fats Domino	My Girl Josephine	A Lot Of Dominos
2	Paul Kanter & Jefferson Starship	The Baby Tree	Blows Against The Empire
3	Rosalie Sorrels	Rock, Salt And Nails	Cover to Cover: The Originals, Vol. 2 [Disc 1]
4	Harry Dean Stanton	Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain	Partly Fiction
5	Mark Selby	Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor	Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt
6	Wayne Cochran	Last Kiss	30 Country Hits – A History of Country Music
7	Chuck Berry	Back In The U.S.A.	Johnny B. Goode-His Complete 50's Chess Recordings
8	Sonny Burgess	Red Headed Woman	Rockin' Memphis [Disc 3]
9	The Allman Brothers Band	Melissa	Stand Back: The Anthology Disc 1
10	Tower Of Power	You're Still A Young Man	Art Laboe's Memories Of El Monte/The Roots Of L.A.'s Rock And Roll
11	The Main Ingredient	Everybody Plays the Fool	70s Music Explosion – Miracles
12	Sister Sledge	We Are Family	Ultimate Disco
13	J. Geils Band	Give It To Me	Must Have Got Lost
14	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Don't Do Me Like That	Damn the Torpedoes
15	The Smithereens	Blood & Roses	Blown to Smithereens: The Best of the Smithereens
16	Lonnie Brooks	Mr. Hot Shot	Stompin' 3
17	Steam	Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye	45's on CD, Vol. 4: 1967-1969
18	Magic Slim, Billy Branch & James Cotton	When The Levee Breaks, Pt. 1	Whole Lotta Blues: Songs Of Led Zeppelin
19	Della Reese	Don't You Know	Magic Moments – The Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 1)
20	Keely Smith/Louis Prima	That Old Black Magic	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 5: Wild Cool & Swingin
21	Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis	Ev'ry Street's A Boulevard In Old New York	The Capitol Years [Disc 1]
22	The Partridge Family	I Think I Love You	Have A Nice Day: Super Hits Of The '70s, Vol. 3
23	Al Jarreau	We're In This Love Together	BMG Vol. 03 Disc 01 1981-1983
24	D.L. Menard	The Back Door	The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999
25	Mel Tillis	Who's Julie	Only Country – 1965-1969
26	Don Williams	Amanda	The Definitive Collection
27	Glen Campbell	Rhinestone Cowboy	70s Music Explosion – Magic Disc 2
28	Johnny Cash	Rusty Cage	Unchained
29	Steely Dan	Reeling in the Years	A Decade of Steely Dan
30	The Roches	Wedding Bell Blues	Time & Love, The Music of Laura Nyro
31	James Brown	Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise)	In the Jungle Groove
32	James Brown	Cold Sweat	CD of JB II: Cold Sweat and Other Soul Classics

Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Modern Americana

Contemporary Americana Gospel

December 17, 2017 Dave

Just a closer walk…Deeper Roots walks the gospel road once more, this time forgoing the ancestral roots for modern takes in black gospel, country gospel, and bluegrass from the Heartland. Our focus will be on some of the contemporary performers who cover with due recognition some of the great gospel standards. We’ll hear from Hugh Laurie, Willie Watson, Rodney Crowell, Bruce Cockburn, and Luther Dickinson…and that’s just a taste. We’ll hear the stories of Samson and Delilah alongside John the Revelator….right here on Deeper Roots…coming your way from the KWTF downtown studios.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Aubrey Ghent & Friends	Just A Closer Walk With Thee	15 Down Home Gospel Classics
2	Buddy Miller	There's A Higher Power	Universal United House Of Prayer
3	Wade Bowen	Precious Memories	Then Sings My Soul: Songs for My Mother
4	Mike Farris	Sit Down Servant	Salvation in Lights
5	Bonnie Raitt & Maria Muldaur	My Journey to the Sky	Shout, Sister, Shout! – A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
6	Johnny Cash	The Man Comes Around	American IV: Man Comes Around
7	Jorma Kaukonen	What Are They Doing In Heaven Today	Blue Country Heart
8	Rodney Crowell	Denomination Blues	Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South
9	Willie Watson	Samson and Delilah	Folksinger Vol. 2
10	Jimmie Dale Gilmore	Peace in the Valley	Come on Back
11	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Amazing Grace	Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2
12	The Blind Boys of Alabama	I Keep On Walking	Almost Home
13	Mavis Staples & Bonnie Raitt	Turn Me Around	Mavis Staples I'll Take You There: An All-Star Concert Celebration
14	Rhiannon Giddens	Up Above My Head	Tomorrow Is My Turn
15	Hugh Laurie	Didn't It Rain	Didn't It Rain (Deluxe)
16	Linda Gail Lewis	This Train	Hard Rocking Woman
17	Leo Welch	You Can't Hurry God	Sabougla Voices
18	The Holmes Brothers	Farther Along	Speaking In Tongues
19	Ollabelle	John The Revelator	Ollabelle
20	Tom Waits	John The Revelator	God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
21	Luther Dickinson feat. the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band	Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King	God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson
22	Bruce Cockburn	Twelve Gates To The City	Bone On Bone
23	Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson	Family Bible	Django and Jimmie
24	Willie and Bobbie Nelson	Old Time Religion	Farther Along
25	Gillian Welch	Old Time Religion [Outtake]	Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg [Disc 2]
26	Charlie Haden	A Voice From On High	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
27	Rhiannon Giddens	Freedom Highway	Freedom Highway

Songs of John Hiatt

December 10, 2017 Dave

From the ‘pink bedroom’ and edgy alternative to blues and country, R&B and everything in between…John Hiatt’s catalog of recordings is only surpassed by the library of his songs penned over the past fifty years. We’ll take a look back, primarily focusing on covers from his contemporaries; names like Rosanne Cash, Iggy Pop, Bonnie Raitt, Carrie Rodriguez, and Buddy Guy are but just a small sampling of the performers we’ll hear from on another Friday evening on Sonoma County community radio.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	John Hiatt	Crossing Muddy Waters	Crossing Muddy Waters
2	Buddy Guy	Feels Like Rain	Feels Like Rain
3	Emmylou Harris	Icy Blue Heart	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
4	Rosanne Cash	The Way We Make a Broken Heart	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
5	Jo-El Sonnier	I'll Never Get Over You	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
6	Flaco Jiminez	Across The Borderline featuring John Hiatt (Album Version)	Partners
7	Terrance Simien	It Hasn't Happened Yet	Rollin' into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt
8	Carrie Rodriguez	Big Love	Love and Circumstances
9	Rosanne Cash	It Hasn't Happened Yet	Retrospective
10	John Hiatt	Cry Love	Walk On
11	Kelly Willis	Drive South	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
12	Bonnie Raitt	Lover's Will [Radio Edit Version]	The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003 [US]
13	Commander Cody	Commander Cody-Tennessee Plates	Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers
14	Gregg Allman	Memphis in the Meantime	Searching for Simplicity
15	Marshall Crenshaw	Someplace Where Love Can't Find Me	Good Evening
16	Nick Lowe	She Don't Love Nobody	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
17	Dave Edmunds	I Got Your Number	Closer to the Flame
18	Iggy Pop	Something Wild	Brick by Brick
19	Mitch Ryder	Where Is the Next One Coming From?	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
20	Asleep at the Wheel	This Is the Way We Make a Broken Heart	Pasture Prime
21	Rodney Crowell	She Loves the Jerk	Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt
22	Rosanne Cash	Pink Bedroom	Retrospective
23	John Hiatt	Your Love Is My Rest	Walk On
24	Joe Cocker	Have a Little Faith in Me	Ultimate Collection
25	John Hiatt	Real Fine Love	Stolen Moments
26	The Band	Bound By Love	Jubilation
27	John Hiatt	Master of Disaster [2005]	Master of Disaster

Americana, Bluegrass, Country, Country Blues, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition

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

Americana, Bluegrass, Country, Country Blues, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition

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]

Americana, Country Blues, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Fifties Country, Oldies, Urban Blues

The Hangman’s Rope

November 18, 2017 Dave

Songs about one of the most controversial of mankind’s attempt to balance the scales: the death penalty. Studies point to the fact that at least one in 25 people sentenced to the death penalty in the U.S. are innocent and yet the death penalty is legal in 32 states. In China, corporate fraud can be punishable by death…if it were the case here, our government would probably be on the straight and narrow. But I digress. The music this week will explore the long walk to eternity through the eyes of the condemned; the knowledge of the eventuality of the executioner’s song is clarity. And we’ve got country from a whole host of obscure characters, some blues and boogie, along with just a little bit of folk and bluegrass. A hundred years of the hangman’s rope in reflection.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Johnny Cash	I Hung My Head	American IV: Man Comes Around
2	Gurf Morlix	Theyre Hangin Me Tonight	The Executioner's Last Songs, Volume 3
3	Johnny Bond	At Dawn I Die	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
4	Marty Robbins	The Hanging Tree	All-Time Greatest Hits
5	Peter, Paul & Mary	Hangman	See What Tomorrow Brings
6	Marty Stuart	Hangman	Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions
7	Ralston Bowles and May Erlewine-Bernard	Hangman	Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie
8	Cowboy Copas	Hangman Boogie	Hillbilly Boogie Box [Disc 4]
9	The Pine Valley Cosmonauts & Puerto Muerto	The Hangman's Song	The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. 1
10	Al Dean	Hangman	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
11	Leadbelly	Gallows Pole	Too Late, Too Late – Vol. 12 – 1917-48
12	Furry Lewis	Judge Harsh Blues	Furry Lewis 1927 – 1929
13	Brownie McGhee	Hangman's Blues	The Folkways Years (1945-1959)
14	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Hangman's Blues	Complete Recordings Vol. 3
15	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Electric Chair	Blues Images Presents 1920's Blues Classics, Vol. 13
16	Lonesome Johnny	Death Row	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
17	Jimmy Minor	Death Row	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
18	Porter Wagoner	(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
19	Dave Alvin	Sonora's Death Row	West of the West
20	Lee Hazelwood	The Girl On Death Row	Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2
21	Johnny Cash	The Mercy Seat	American III: Solitary Man
22	Bessie Smith	Send Me To The Lectric Chair	Empress Of The Blues Volume 2: 1926-1933 (CD A, 1926-1928)
23	Booker T. & the MG's	Hang 'Em High	The Very Best of Booker T. & the MG's
24	Hoyle Miller	Twelve Years On Death Row	The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
25	Steve Earle	Walking Down Death Row	If I Had A Song: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2
26	The Blue Sky Boys	Story Of The Knoxville Girl	Absolutely Bluegrass
27	Bob Dylan	Seven Curses	The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 [Disc 2]
28	Joan Baez	Geordie	The First 10 Years
29	The Pine Valley Cosmonauts & Dean Schlabowske	Gary Gilmore's Eyes	The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. 1

A Century of America's Music