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Deeper Merle Travis

August 26, 2018 Dave

Merle Travis’ influence on country music cannot be ignored. Along with a select few entertainers of the mid-century, he bridged the hillbilly and Appalachian folk institutions to the Golden Age of Country. His influences were not only the ‘picking style’, but also his keen sense of populist stories told from the front lines. We’ll hear from and early influence, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, as well as those he influenced. All songs written by Merle and some performed by Merle himself. Our show will also feature Merle Travis interview excerpts from the sixties. It’s a Friday morning collection of the very best of Merle Travis.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Merle Travis	I'll See You In My Dreams	The Guitar Picker CD3 (1951-53)
2	Joe Maphis & Merle Travis	Alabama Jubilee	Country Guitar Thunder (Joe Maphis & Merle Travis 1977-1981)
3	John McEuen	Merle Travis Story	Live in L.A.
4	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Cannonball Rag	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
5	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Dark as a Dungeon	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 1
6	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Doc Watson and Merle Travis: First Meeting	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
7	Willie Nelson	Dark As A Dungeon	Country Music
8	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Dark As A Dungeon	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
9	Willie Nelson	Sixteen Tons	Remember Me, Vol. 1
10	The Platters	Sixteen Tons	The Magic Touch: An Anthology
11	James & Bobby Purify	16 Tons	The Best Of
12	Hank Penny	Merle's Buck Dance	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
13	Merle Travis	Introduction / Nine Pound Hammer	Ash Grove 12/9/1966
14	The Kentucky Colonels	Nine Pound Hammer	Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics
15	The Country Gentlemen	I Am a Pilgrim	On the Road (And More)
16	Johnny Cash	Loading Coal [Album Version]	Ride This Train
17	Merle Travis	Start Even	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
18	Merle Travis	No Vacancy	The Guitar Picker CD1 – Divorce Me C. O. D.
19	Ernest Tubb	So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed	Steelin' It: The Steel Guitar Story
20	Gid Tanner, Clayton McMichen, Riley Puckett, Lowe Stokes, Fate Norris	Possum Hunt on Stump House Mountain, Part 1	Lead Kindly Light
21	Bill Frisell	Cannonball Rag (Merle Travis)	Guitar In The Space Age
22	Johnny Bond	Divorce Me C.O.D.	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
23	Tex Ritter	Everybody Likes A Little Lovin'	High Noon
24	Tex Williams & His Western Caravan	Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
25	Spade Cooley & His Orchestra	Steel Guitar Rag	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
26	Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys With Merle Travis	Wildwood Flower	Swing West – vol 2 – Guitar Slingers
27	Merle Travis	Philosophy	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
28	Merle Travis	Too Much Sugar For A Dime	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
29	The Everly Brothers	Muskrat	Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers on Warner Bros. Disc 1
30	Doc Watson/Merle Watson	Smoke, Smoke, Smoke	Black Mountain Rag
31	Tennessee Ernie Ford	That's All	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 3]
32	Ricky Skaggs	Sweet Temptation	Favorite Country Songs
33	Merle Travis	When My Baby Double Talks To Me	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
34	Merle Travis	When Rosie Riccoola Do The Hoola Ma Boola	The Guitar Picker CD1 – Divorce Me C. O. D.

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Tragic Country Tales

August 26, 2018 Dave

Tales of lonesome saddles, lost loves, broken hearts, and lonely rooms…a mood, a tone, and short vignettes so common among those themes of country music. We’ve got that and much more in this week’s episode of Deeper Roots. Performances from Grandpa Jones, The Stanley Brothers, Lefty Frizzell, Mel Tillis, and many others, will take us on a ride on a country road, drinking new wine from an old jug. That will also include stories of highway mishaps, the bottom of the bottle, and a mystery of the Tallahatchie Bridge. Friday solemn sounds from the past century on Sonoma County community radio.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Bobbie Gentry	Ode To Billie Joe	Billboard Top Pop Hits: 1967
2	Elvis Presley	Don't Cry Daddy	Always on My Mind
3	Tammy Wynette	D-I-V-O-R-C-E	Country Legends
4	Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	24 Greatest
5	Bobby Bare	Jeannie4s Last Kiss (1963)	All American Boy – CD 2
6	Doc & Merle Watson	The Tragic Romance	Ballads From Deep Gap
7	David Grisman w/Alan O'Bryant	Tragic Romance	Life Of Sorrow
8	Grandpa Jones	Tragic Romance	Makes The Rafters Ring
9	The Stanley Brothers	Tragic Love	An Evening Long Ago: Live 1956
10	Lefty Frizzell	The Tragic Letter (& Wayne Raney) 1965	Life's Like Poetry (Disc 3)
11	Red Fox Chasers	Wreck On The Mountain Road	People Take Warning [Disc 1] – Man Vs. Machine
12	Esco Hankins	Wreck on the Highway	1947-1951 (Warped 4732)
13	Vernon Dalhart	The Wreck Of The Old '97	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 1]
14	Lefty Frizzell	Long Black Veil	Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
15	Mel Tillis	Life Turned Her That Way	36 All Time Greatest Hits
16	Mary Gauthier	Mercy Now	Mercy Now
17	Townes Van Zandt	Waiting Around to Die	Legend: The Very Best Of Townes Van Zandt
18	Vern Gosdin	Chiseled in Stone	Chiseled in Stone
19	Ray Charles & Willie Nelson	Seven Spanish Angels	The Many Sides Of Willie Nelson [Cd 3 "Duets"] (1992)
20	James King	He Stopped Loving Her Today	Three Chords & The Truth
21	Lucinda Williams	Sweet Old World	Sweet Old World
22	Dwight Yoakam	I Sang Dixie	Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room
23	Willie Nelson	Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain	Artist's Choice: Sheryl Crow
24	Merle Haggard	Sing Me Back Home	The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1]
25	Red Foley	Old Shep	Smoke on the Water / Hillbilly Fever
26	Walter Brennan	Old Rivers	Classic Country Great Story Songs [Disc 2]
27	Charlie Louvin	Wreck on the Highway	Charlie Louvin Sings Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs
28	Doc & Merle Watson	The Wreck of The Old #9	Ballads From Deep Gap
29	Faron Young	Hello Walls	Hello Walls / The Young Approach
30	Merle Haggard	If We Make It Through December (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
31	Johnny Cash	Hurt	Unearthed, Vol. 5, Best Of Cash On American

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Lies and Liars

August 26, 2018 Dave

A notorious theme in our world today. But it’s not like there is a thin line between truth and lies in the end. The line is clearly defined and yet people would rather imagine anything but what is clearly painted before them. Our show today looks at what the worst often looks like. Dirty lies, white lies, poison lies, and all of those falsehoods made in earnest or in self promotion. There are those who proudly wear the color of lies and hate to remind us that vigilance is more important now than ever. Call out the lies. This week, we look at it through the gospel lens with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, swim into the rock oldies pool with The Knickerbockers, swing soft and winsome country with Carl Smith and The Carters, and we’ll also bring in some contemporary sounds including tracks from Mavis Staples, David Olney, and Robert Ellis. I don’t know about you but I’m sick about what’s happening.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Mavis Staples	We Go High	If All I Was Was Black
2	Fats Domino	Telling Lies	Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 4
3	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	No Room In the Church for Liars	Precious Memories
4	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Let That Liar Alone	ABC Of The Blues Vol 43
5	Reverend A. Johnson	Let That Liar Pass On By	1950s Gospel Classics
6	Radio Yesterday	Lights Out	Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
7	Martha Fields	Southern White Lies	Southern White Lies
8	Laurie Lewis And The Right Hands	Let That Liar Alone (Featuring Tom Rozum, Patrick Sauber, Harley Eblen & Andrew Conklin)	The Hazel and Alice Sessions
9	The Carter Family	You Better Let That Liar Alone	Carter Family, vol. 2: 1935-1941 (Disc 3)
10	David Olney	No Lies	One Tough Town
11	Rosalie Allen	Hitler Lives	Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
12	Carl Smith	Wicked Lies	Kisses Don't Lie
13	The Nashville Bluegrass Band	The Biggest Liars in Town	Home of the Blues
14	Flatt & Scruggs	Poison Lies	The Stanley Brothers: Selected Sides 1947-1953 [Disc 2]
15	Les Paul & Mary Ford	Lies	Bye Bye Blues/Les and Mary
16	Cyndi Lauper	Lies	A Hat Full Of Stars
17	The Roosevelts	Tell Only Lies	The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn
18	Ian Gomm	Dirty Lies	Summer Holiday
19	The Castaways	Liar, Liar	Good Morning Vietnam [Soundtrack]
20	The Knickerbockers	Lies	Nuggets Sampler 1965-1968
21	Tex Grande & His Range Riders	Hitler's Reply to Mussolini	Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell
22	Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers	Tellin' Lies	The Eyes of Texas
23	John Hartford	Politic	Hamilton Ironworks
24	Mimi & Richard Farina	House Un-American Blues Activity Dream	Generations of Folk, Vol. 2 Protest & Politics
25	Dar Williams/Doug Wainoris/G.E. Smith/Steve Holley/T-Bone Walk	All Men Are Liars	Labour of Love: The Music of Nick Lowe
26	J.J. Cale	Lies	The Very Best of J.J. Cale
27	Frankie Boots And The County Line	Pack Of Lies	Frankie Boots And The County Line
28	Neko Case	Lonely Old Lies	The Virginian
29	Johnnie Taylor	Running Out Of Lies	Lifetime: A Retrospective Of Soul, Blues & Gospel 1956- 1999 [Disc 3]

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Political Science

July 28, 2018 Dave

The winds of social change become the storm from every direction when authoritarianism, tyranny, and facism begin to take shape. And music has always played a part when speaking truth to power. The most important role of an American citizen is to vote. There is no greater enemy than apathy. The songs we share on Deeper Roots today focus on Civil Rights, war for the cause of oil, voting as voice, and the fight for power in the New World Order. Tune in for performances from Phil Ochs, Ben Harper, Drive-By Truckers, Roy Zimmerman, and Iris DeMent on a show that explores some political science in harmony, vocals, and melodies to make a stand.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Roy Zimmerman	Real America	Real American
2	Jackson Browne	The Dreamer	The Dreamer
3	Steve Earle with Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark	16 Immigrant Eyes	Together at The Bluebird Cafe
4	Steve Earle	City Of Immigrants (With Forro In The Dark)	Washington Square Serenade
5	Roy Zimmerman	My Vote My Voice My Right	The Faucet's On Fire
6	Phil Ochs	I Ain't Marching Anymore	There But for Fortune
7	The Byrds	Draft Morning	The Notorious Byrd Brothers
8	Barry McGuire	Eve of Destruction	Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1965
9	Bruce Cockburn	If I Had A Rocket Launcher	Waiting For A Miracle: Singles 1970-1987
10	Randy Newman	Political Science	The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1
11	Joan Baez	The President Sang Amazing Grace	Whistle Down the Wind
12	Drive-By Truckers	What It Means	American Band
13	Drive-By Truckers	Guns Of Umpqua	American Band
14	Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals	Call It What It Is	Call It What It Is
15	Mavis Staples	We Go High	If All I Was Was Black
16	Sam Cooke	A Change Is Gonna Come	Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
17	C.O.R.E. Freedom Singers	Get Your Rights, Jack	Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles)
18	Nina Simone	To Be Young, Gifted And Black	Forever Young, Gifted & Black: Songs Of Freedom And Spirit
19	The Staple Singers	Freedom Highway	Freedom Highway
20	The Almanac Singers	Dear Mr. President	Woody Guthrie And American Folk Giants
21	Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land	American Roots Music [Disc 3]
22	Joan Baez	I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill	Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 4]
23	Marvin Gaye	Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)	20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Marvin Gaye, Vol. 2
24	Randy Newman	Every Man a King	Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1
25	Randy Newman	Rednecks	Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1
26	The Blind Boys of Alabama	Pray for Peace	Almost Home
27	Public Enemy	Fight The Power	Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music

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Carl Sandburg’s Songbag

July 7, 2018 Dave

Published in 1927, populist poet Carl Sandburg’s anthology of American folksongs was in print for over 70 years. It influenced generations of musicians and is a cornerstone in the foundation of American folk and tradition. Sandburg himself described it as a “ragbag of stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth…rich with the diversity of the United States.” Today’s show pulls samples from the book featuring performances by Dan Zanes, Bob Dylan, The Weavers, The Blue Sky Boys, and David Rawlings. True Americana from the deeper wells of America’s music.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Zora Layman & The Hometowners	When The Curtains Of The Night Are Pinned Back By The Stars	Howdy! 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats
2	Johnny Cash	The Streets of Laredo	Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 2]
3	Sons of the Pioneers	Lone Star Trail	Songs of the Prairie – CD2
4	Tex Ritter	Whoopee Ti Yi Yo (Git Along Little Dogies)	Have I Stayed Away Too Long
5	The Weavers	Get Along Little Dogies	The Weavers Almanac
6	Woody Guthrie	Buffalo Skinners (traditional, arr. Woody Guthrie)	Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection [Disc 2]
7	Oscar Brand	The Tenderfoot	Pie In The Sky
8	The Blue Sky Boys	Trail To Mexico	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 1]
9	Marc Williams	The Little Old Sod Shanty On My Claim	Howdy! 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats
10	Mac Wiseman	Turkey In The Straw	Sings Old Time Country Favorites
11	The Blue Sky Boys	Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet	Presenting The Blue Sky Boys
12	Dan Zanes	I Was Born Almost Ten Thousand Years Ago	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
13	Dan Zanes	California	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
14	Hylo Brown	Sweet Betsy From Pike	Legends & Tall Tales
15	BR5-49	Sweet Betsy from Pike	Song of America
16	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot	This Lusty Land
17	Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers	The Old Gray Mare	And The Skillet Lickers Vol. 2
18	David Rawlings	Money Is the Meat in the Coconut	Poor David's Almanack
19	Kilby Snow	Chicken Reel (Folk)	Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp
20	The Everly Brothers	Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet	Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
21	Carolina Chocolate Drops	Sourwood Mountain	Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind
22	Molly Mason & Jay Ungar	The Lover's Lament	The Lovers' Waltz
23	Marty Robbins	Red River Valley	All-Time Greatest Hits
24	Dick Curless	Red River Valley	A Tombstone Every Mile (7CD Set) CD2 (1950-1969)
25	The Doc Watson Family	One Morning In May	Tradition
26	Dave Van Ronk	Kentucky Moonshiner	Inside Dave Van Ronk
27	Otis Redding	Down In The Valley	Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology [Disc 1]
28	Slim Whitman	Down In The Valley	Country Greats #2
29	Bob Dylan	Froggie Went A-Courtin'	Good As I Been To You
30	Tex Ritter	Froggie Went A-Courtin'	Singing In The Saddle
31	Dan Zanes	The Monkey's Wedding	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
32	Doc Watson	The Ship That Never Returned	My Dear Old Southern Home
33	Hank Penny	It Ain't Gonna Rain No More	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1]

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Highway to Heaven

June 10, 2018 Dave

The first of two gospel Friday mornings coming up on Deeper Roots in June. This week, we’ll follow a ‘heavenly’ theme. The Christian vision of afterlife’s reward is expressed in music on a Friday morning in West County (of all places). There will be country and black gospel sounds emanating from the UMC in downtown Sebastopol on KOWS radio as we share performances about heaven including the electric voices of Marion Williams and Marie Knight; the rocking celebration of the good book from Sister Rosetta and Brother Claude Ely; and country gospel enlightenment from Willie and Bobbie Nelson. This one is worth the wait and worth it’s weight in heavenly gold. Tune in!

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Thomas A. Dorsey with Alex Bradford	It's A Highway To Heaven	Precious Lord Recordings Of The Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey
2	Fisk Jubilee Singers	Shout All Over God's Heaven	Recordings In Chonological Order, Vol. 2: 1915-1920
3	The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir	Heaven Belongs To You	Shakin' The Rafters
4	The Staple Singers	What Are They Doing? (In Heaven Today)	Amen/Why
5	Washington Phillips	What Are They Doing In Heaven Today	Folk Blues & Gospel: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
6	Mahalia Jackson	A City Called Heaven	Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns
7	Mahalia Jackson	Walk Over God's Heaven	16 Most Requested Songs
8	Clara Ward	When We All Get To Heaven	The Very Greatest
9	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Walk All Over To God's Heaven	Sister Rosetta Tharpe
10	Original Gospel Stars	I Want To Go To Heaven	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
11	Blind Gussie Nesbit	Canaan's Land	When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
12	Mother McCollum	When I Take My Vacation In Heaven	When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
13	Willie and Bobbie Nelson	When We All Get To Heaven	Farther Along
14	Patsy Cline	Life's Railway to Heaven	Country's 20 Classic Gospel Songs of the Century
15	Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys	I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven	King of Country Music [Disc 3] : Fireball Mail
16	Alison Krauss & The Cox Family	Walk Over God's Heaven	New Country December 1994
17	The Stanley Brothers	Angels Are Singing (In Heaven Tonight) [Album Version]	The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers
18	Jimmy Martin	Little Angels In Heaven	Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 2]
19	Ethel Davenport & Ehel Davenport Singers	Heavenly Express	Powerhouse Gospel
20	The Staple Singers	On My Way To Heaven	Four Classic Albums
21	Blind Gussie Nesbit	Pure Religion	When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936
22	Sister Cally Fancy	Goin' On To Heaven In The Sanctified Way	Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
23	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Heaven Is Not My Home	Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record
24	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Beams of Heaven	The Original Soul Sister: This Train [Disc 4]
25	Marie Knight	Seal Of Heaven	Hallelujah What A Song!
26	Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes	Heaven I Heard So Much About It	I Heard The Angels Singing : Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951-1983
27	Dorothy Love Coates	When I Reach My Heavenly Home	The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes
28	Marion Williams	Sometimes I Ring Up Heaven	Packin' Up
29	The Davis Sisters	Too Close To Heaven	Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 4]
30	The Swan Silvertones	Heavenly Light Shine On Me	Heavenly Light
31	The Golden Gate Quartet	No Restricted Signs (Up in Heaven)	Vol. 5 (1945-1949)
32	Brother Claude Ely	I Want To Go To Heaven	Satan Get Back
33	Bill Neely	Satan's Burning Hell	The Essential Guide To Gospel

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Springtime in Alaska

June 2, 2018 Dave

Winsome sounds from every corner, opening with Johnny Horton and closing somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line with the soul of Barbara Lynn. Today’s show reaches into the jazz bins for something new and old…a Duke Ellington cover by Wynton Marsalis; gospel covers by Nick Lowe, tradition from Bill Monroe, and Johnny Cash along with a number of so-called Cash-a-likes. It’s a free form collection in our Friday morning show from West County. So what’s it all got to do with Alaska, you ask. Not much, only a great song name to suggest cool music and a Friday full of colorful music.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Johnny Horton	When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)	Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (2 of 2)
2	Bobby Bare	Delia's Gone (1965)	All American Boy – CD 4
3	Josh White, Jr.	Delia's Gone	Classic African-American Ballads (Smithsonian Folkways)
4	David Johansen & The Harry Smiths	Delia	David Johansen and the Harry Smiths
5	Waylon Jennings	Cedartown Georgia	Singles
6	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	In The Pines	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection – Best Of Bluegrass
7	Marty Robbins	Big Iron	All-Time Greatest Hits
8	John Prine	The Lonesome Friends Of Science	The Tree Of Forgiveness
9	Spuyten Duyvil	The Cruel War	Social Hour Music
10	Madam Edna Gallmon Cooke & The Mount Vernon Men's Choir	Angels, Angels, Angels	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
11	Nick Lowe	Children Go Where I Send Thee	Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection For All The Family
12	Sons Of South	Didn't It Rain Children	The Best Of Nashboro Gospel
13	Gospel Creators	I'm a Child of My God	This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
14	The Blind Boys Of Alabama	Atom Bomb	Atom Bomb
15	The Impressions with the Riley Hampton Orchestra	Shorty's Got To Go	Bandera Doo Wop
16	Ella Mae Morse	Smack Dab In The Middle	Best Of The Rockabilly Rockin' Years
17	Big Bill Broonzy	You've Changed	Four Classic Albums
18	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Junco Partner	Louis Jordan: Let the Good Times Roll – The Anthology 1938-1953
19	Dr. John	Somebody Changed The Lock	Definitive Pop Collection
20	Wynton Marsalis Septet	Creole Love Call	United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas
21	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Creole Love Call	Jazz in the Charts – Disc 7 – 1928
22	Carlos Zuleta Y Su Conjunto "El Abuelo"	Los Bomberos (Cha Cha Cha)	Vintage Cuba Selection from EPs Collectors
23	Johnny Cash	Waiting For A Train	Unearthed, Vol.1: Who's Gonna Cry
24	Johnny Doe	Devil Train	Cash-A-Likes
25	Bobby Wayne	Big Train	Cash-A-Likes
26	Dane Stinit	Muddy Ole River [Near Memphis Tennessee]	Original Sun Recordings
27	Fred Carter	(You'll Have To) Come And Get It	Boppin' By The Bayou – Baby Dolls & Drive-Ins
28	Elvis Presley	King Creole	2nd To None
29	Jean Wells	Your Lovin's Got The Best Of Me (John Morales Mix)	Soul On Soul – Deluxe Edition
30	Little Esther Phillips	Better Beware	Heart to Heart
31	The Chantels	Maybe	The Best of the Chantels
32	Barbara Lynn	Nice And Easy	A Good Woman: The Complete Tribe & Jet Stream Singles 1966-1979
33	Joan Baez	The President Sang Amazing Grace	Whistle Down the Wind

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Naughty Blues

May 26, 2018 Dave

For goodness sake! We’re going to toss aside our puritan ethics (what ethics, you ask) and look towards the sideways glances and double entendres for our inspiration this week on Deeper Roots. Songs about Sam The Hot Dog Man, keyholes, sugar bowls, poodles, jockeys, and lemons…all subjects that find their way in and around the blues in an auspiciously direct route to the heart of the matter. We’ve got the naughty blues today…songs that will encourage a blush or two…or three. We’ve got The Swallows, Lil’ Johnson, Emma Barrett, Tampa Red, and a host of other blues greats on a Sonoma County spring morning. Be sure to tune in and find your own blush point…

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	The Delta Rhythm Boys	Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me	I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem
2	Crown Prince Waterford	Move Your Hand Baby	Vintage Sex Songs
3	Barrelhouse Annie	If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It	Vintage Sex Songs
4	Memphis Minnie	Dirty Mother For You	Blues Classics: '27_'69 [Disc 1]
5	Tampa Red	Let Me Play With Your Poodle	ABC Of The Blues Vol 38
6	Lightnin' Hopkins	Let Me Play With Poodle	Vintage Sex Songs
7	Hattie Hart	I Let My Daddy Do That	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
8	Emma Barrett	I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll	Sweet Emma
9	Butterbeans & Susie	I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll [Explicit]	Those Dirty Blues Volume 1 [Explicit]
10	Lil Johnson	Sam The Hot Dog Man	Vintage Sex Songs
11	Mabel Scott	Just Give Me A Man	Vintage Sex Songs
12	Connie Allen	Rocket 69	Vintage Sex Songs
13	The Swallows	It Ain't The Meat It's The Motion	Vintage Sex Songs
14	Julia Lee	My Man Stands Out	The Essential Julia Lee Vol 1
15	Julia Lee	King Size Papa	Kansas City Star [Disc 3]
16	Al Miller	I Found Your Keyhole	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
17	Charlie Pickett	Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon	Vintage Sex Songs
18	Bessie Smith	Kitchen Man	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
19	Bessie Smith	Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl	The Essential Bessie Smith
20	Hunter & Jenkins	Lollypop	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
21	Frankie Half Pint Jaxon and The Harlem Hamfats	Wet It [Explicit]	Those Dirty Blues Volume 1 [Explicit]
22	Victoria Spivey	How Do You Do It That Way?	Black Snake Blues – The Best Of
23	Madelyn James	Stinging Snake Blues	Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
24	Lucille Bogan	Skin Game Blues [Album Version]	Shave 'Em Dry: The Best Of Lucille Bogan
25	Lil Johnson	Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts) [Album Version]	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
26	Lonnie Johnson	I Got The Best Jelly Rollin In Town	Dirty Blues [Disc 2]
27	Wynonie Harris	Hard Ridin Mama	Playful Baby
28	Bull Moose Jackson	Big Ten Inch Record	Badman Jackson Thats Me
29	Blu Lu Barker	Don't You Feel My Leg	Chronological Blue Lu Barker (1946-1949)
30	Blu Lu Barker	Buy Me Some Juice	Don't You Feel My Leg
31	Lillie Mae Kirkman	He's Just My Size	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
32	Lil Johnson & Black Bob	Press My Button, Ring My Bell	Flashbacks #3 CopulationBlues 1926-1940

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Through the Bluegrass

May 5, 2018 Dave

Springtime sounds from classic corners this week. Now, we all know that real bluegrass is green but, like the music’s own origins which are steeped in gospel, blues, and tradition, we overlook the formalities and accept the generalities’. This week’s Deeper Roots will take a journey with the greats (Ralph Stanley, Ricky Skaggs, and The Monroe Brothers to name a few) while also tipping our hats to the new-grass sounds of David Thom, Sam Bush, Tony Furtado, and Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms. We offer different takes outside the lines including some Charlie Haden and Brennen Leigh. A Friday morning celebration of the old home place and the little white church where traditional rings … coming to you from Bodega Bay: KWTF Community Radio.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	The Whites	Used To Be	Songs of Bill Monroe
2	Rhonda Vincent	Lonesome Wind Blues	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
3	Hazel Dickens	I Can't Find Your Love Any More	O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
4	Hazel Dickens, Carol Elizabeth Jones & Ginny Hawker	Love Me or Leave Me Alone	Heart of a Singer
5	Brennen Leigh	North To Alaska	Too Thin To Plow
6	Charlie Haden	Road Of Broken Hearts	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
7	The Rice Brothers	Grapes On the Vine	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
8	Ricky Skaggs	I Hope You've Learned	Bluegrass Rules!
9	Tony Furtado	Man of Constant Sorrow	Long Journey Home: Songs of the Stanley Brothers
10	The David Thom Band	The Little White Church	That Old Familiar
11	Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas	Big Mon	True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
12	David Grisman, Peter Rowan	Travelin' This Lonesome Road	True Life Blues – The Songs of Bill Monroe
13	Bill Monroe & Kenny Baker	Jerusalem's Ridge	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
14	The Monroe Brothers	Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy	What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul? Volume One
15	Ralph Stanley	Dad's Old Rocky Field	Old Songs & Ballads
16	The Gentlemen of Bluegrass	Old Old House	Carolina Memories
17	Jim & Jesse	Long Journey Home	Long Journey Home: Songs of the Stanley Brothers
18	The David Thom Band	Home Is Where The Heart Is	That Old Familiar
19	David Grisman, John Hartford & Mike Seeger	The Old Home Place	Retrograss
20	Morris Brothers	Salty Dog Blues	Legends Of Bluegrass [Disc 3]
21	Kenny Baker/Bobby Osborne	Sally Ann	World's Greatest Country Fiddlers
22	Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt	Randy Lynn Rag	The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2)
23	Doc Watson	Shady Grove	The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968
24	Ralph Stanley	The Fields Have Turned Brown	High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
25	Laurie Lewis	Tall Pines	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
26	Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms	Montana Cowboy	Innocent Road
27	Lynn Morris Band	The Bramble and the Rose	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
28	Alison Krauss & Union Station	So Long So Wrong	Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs
29	Ricky Skaggs	Lost And I'll Never Find The Way	Bluegrass Mountain Style
30	Don Stover	Paddy On The Turnpike	Things In Life
31	Grandpa Jones	Mountain Dew	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2]
32	Jimmy Martin	You Don't Know My Mind	Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1]

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

Ships Upon the Sea

April 28, 2018 Dave

A wayfaring lot…music that touches on seafaring tragedies, punctuated by the loss of that most famous of them all: the HMS Titanic. This week’s show will focus on music that commemorated the ships that were lost at sea; tragedies that were headlines around the world; songs of the seafaring life and the sailors and crew that were a part of it. The stories are told in songs from the wells of tradition. We’ll hear from Frank Hutchison, Papa Harvey Hull, Pink Anderson, The Dillards and Dan Zanes. We’ll also hear some classic maritime music from the Smithsonian catalogs. Blues, country, folk, and so much more…all celebrating those ships upon the sea and the ones we lost along the way.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Bob Gibson	Titanic	Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson
2	Rory Block	Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down)	Confessions of A Blues Singer
3	Pink Anderson	The Ship Titanic	Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs
4	Charley Jordan	Titanic Blues	Charley Jordan Volume 2 1931-1934
5	Hi Henry Brown	Titanic Blues	21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10
6	Bessie Jones And Group	The Titanic	Alan Lomax Collection Sampler
7	Papa Harvey Hull & "Long Cleve" Reed	Sinking Of The Titanic	Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
8	Richard (Rabbit) Brown	Sinking Of The Titanic	Times Ain't Like They Used To Be – Volume 1
9	Lead Belly	Titanic	The Definitive Leadbelly [Disc 3] – Leaving Blues
10	Frank Hutchison	The Last Scene Of The Titanic	If You Take Me Back
11	Clyde Spencer And Harry Fannin	The Sinking Of The Titanic	Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 [Disc 1]
12	Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton	After The Sinking Of The Titanic	On The Banks Of A Lonely River
13	Roy Acuff	The Great Titanic	compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com
14	Woody Guthrie	When That Great Ship Went Down	This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1
15	Ralph Stanley	Storms Are On The Ocean [Album Version]	A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
16	Gordon Lightfoot	The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald	Songbook [Box Set] Disc 3
17	Jimmie Driftwood	The Ship That Never Returned	Americana, Vol. 3
18	Little Jimmy Dickens	When The Ship Hit The Sand	The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens
19	Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards	The Sinking of the Ruben James	Thirty Two Cents Postage Due
20	June Carter Cash	Sinking in the Lonesome Sea	Wildwood Flower
21	Ashley Monroe	The Storms Are On The Ocean	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
22	Cowboy Copas	A Thousand Miles of Ocean	Settin' Flat On Ready
23	Red Allen	Out on the Ocean	Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings
24	The Country Gentlemen	Take Me In A Lifeboat	The Early Rebel Recordings [Disc 2]
25	Dan Zanes	Across The Western Ocean	Parades And Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
26	The Dicey Doh Singers	The Sloop John B.	Classic Maritime Music
27	Sam Eskin	Clear Away the Track and Let the Bullgine Run	Classic Maritime Music
28	Henry Morrison & St. Simon's Island Singers	I'm Gonna Sail Like A Ship On The Ocean	Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals
29	Louis Prima & Keely Smith	Barnacle Bill The Sailor	Breaking It Up!

A Century of America's Music