Category Archives: Folk and Tradition

Old Devil Time

In an encore episode from 2015, we listen in as Dave explores the multi-generational sounds of not only bluegrass with Dillard and Clark and The Hackberry Ramblers, but we’ll also cross the genres (as we are wont to do) with Cowboy Copas, Clara Ward, Otis Spann, and Doris Day. There’s a couple of different threads that run through the show today, one being that of the ‘devil’ and the other being of ‘new mornings’. Tune in at a special time and see what’s in store on a late-fall morning in West County. And please, donate to community radio:  kwtf.net.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1BR5-49 The Devil In Me Dog Days Amazon
2Bob Dylan Talkin' Devil It Could Even Be A Myth Amazon
3Pete Seeger Old Devil Time (Live) Singalong Demonstration Concert (Live) Amazon
4Gillian Welch The Devil Had a Hold of Me Hell Among the Yearlings Amazon
5Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Devil Has Thrown Him Down The Original Soul Sister: Singing in My Soul [Disc 3] Amazon
6Doris Day The Deevil, Devil, Divil Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2] Amazon
7Pokey LaFarge The Devil Ain't Lazy Pokey LaFarge Amazon
8Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama The Devil Ain't Lazy Reinventing the Wheel Amazon
9Hackberry Ramblers Old Pipeliner (Rodney Crowell-vocal) {1992-06 (org.1946) Flying Fish FF-70629 CD} Cajun Boogie (1992-06) Amazon
10Cowboy Copas Don't Shake Hands with the Devil Settin' Flat On Ready Amazon
11Little Jimmy Dickens I'm Little But I'm Loud The Essential "Little" Jimmy Dickens Amazon
12Spade Cooley & His Orchestra; Vocal By Tex Williams Hide Your Face Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley Amazon
13Dillard & Clark I Bowed My Head And Cried Holy The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark Amazon
14Rory Block I Am In the Heavenly Way Confessions of A Blues Singer Amazon
15Bukka White I Am the Heavenly Way The Sonet Blues Story Amazon
16Clara Ward In That Great Judgement Morning Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 1] Amazon
17The Dixie Hummingbirds In The Morning Thank You For One More Day: The 70th Anniversary Of The Dixie Hummingbirds Amazon
18Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers He's So Wonderful The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
19Slim & Slam Early In The Morning Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 2) Amazon
20Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet Carolina In The Morning Vol. 1-(1937-38) Amazon
21Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson Where Dreams Come to Die Django and Jimmie Amazon
22John Lee Hooker I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive [Album Version] Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett Amazon
23Otis Spann Must Have Been The Devil The Blues Never Die Amazon
24Cleo Brown You're A Heavenly Thing Complete Recorded Works (March 1935 – June 1935) Amazon
25Benny Goodman You're a Heavenly Thing Music Hall Rag Amazon
26Big Joe Turner Morning Noon And Nite Big Joe Turner: Rhythm & Blues Years Amazon
27Tampa Red Worried Devil Blues The Bluebird Recordings (1934-1936) Amazon
28Ralph Stanley John The Revelator A Mother's Prayer Amazon
29Sherman Tedder Untitled [Album Version] Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950 Amazon
30Elvis Presley (You're The) Devil In Disguise Elvis 30 #1 Hits Amazon
31Ella Fitzgerald Ol' Devil Moon 75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2] Amazon
32Ella Fitzgerald Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2] Amazon

Rainy Nights

November arrives which means winter is fast approaching with (we hope) a need to break out the umbrellas, clean the gutters, and let the cycle of renewal begin. Our show this week is a free form collection of sounds from the past century highlighted by a couple of topical sets, some somber, some hopeful, but all with a blending of Americana. We’ll visit with Tom Waits’ on the low side of the road, hear from Nina Simone and her brilliant delivery of Langston Hughes’ Backlash Blues, some songs about bluebirds, rainy nights, bright lights and big cities. This week’s episode on KOWS Community Radio gives room to breathe and reflect on what is important with country, gospel, blues, jazz and everything that falls in between, fresh from the digital ether…all coming your way, for today, on KOWS 92.5 FM Occidental.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Irma Thomas It's Raining Soul Queen of New Orleans Amazon
2Tom Waits Jersey Girl Used Songs 1973-1980 Amazon
3Skeeter Davis The End of the World Red, White & Rock Disc 2 Amazon
4Dinah Washington This Bitter Earth The Essential Dinah Washington: The Great Songs Amazon
5Johnny Cash Family Bible Boom Chicka Boom Amazon
6Edwin Hawkins Singers Oh Happy Day Testify: The Gospel Box [Disc 2] Amazon
7Paul Simon Gone at Last 1964-1993 Disc 2 Amazon
8Nina Simone Backlash Blues Defiance Blues Amazon
9Jimmy Hughes A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues The Complete Fame Singles Volume 1 Amazon
10Art Freeman Everybody's Got To Cry Sometime The Complete Fame Singles Volume 1 Amazon
11Brook Benton Rainy Night In Georgia Today Amazon
12Roy Orbison Blue Rain (Coming Down) The Soul of Rock And Roll [Disc 3] Amazon
13Rosanne Cash I Count The Tears Retrospective Amazon
14Sir Douglas Quintet The Rains Came Best Of Sir Douglas Quintet Amazon
15Ritchie Valens Bluebirds Over The Mountain Ritchie Valens – Ritchie Amazon
16Joe Ely If You Were A Bluebird Joe Ely Amazon
17Billy Walker Gonna Find Me A Bluebird Whirlpool – Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight Amazon
18Mac Wiseman The Bluebirds Are Singing for Me Warped 6643 – Mac Wiseman – 1966 Amazon
19Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys Hello Bluebird Oh! Amazon
20Ry Cooder Johnny Cash I, Flathead Amazon
21Johnny Cash 28 I Walk the Line [Live at The Carousel Ballroom San Fancisco CA – April 1968] Live At The Carousel Ballroom Amazon
22Charley Crockett Skip A Rope Music City USA Amazon
23Wanda Jackson You Drive Me Wild Encore Amazon
24Neil Young & the Shocking Pinks Bright Lights, Big City Everybody's Rockin' Amazon
25Blind Willie Johnson Let Your Light Shine On Me [Album Version] The Ladykillers Music From The Motion Picture Amazon
26John Fogerty Down On The Corner The Long Road Home: Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection Amazon
27Tom Waits Lowside Of The Road Mule Variations Amazon
28John Oates My Creole Belle Arkansas Amazon
29Chris Hillman Wildflowers Bidin' My Time Amazon
30Charlie Musselwhite Siboney Continental Drifter Amazon
31Dave Alvin Downey Girl Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women Amazon

Remembering John Prine

This week, we pay a long overdue tribute to John Prine while celebrating the 75th year of his birth which came up on the calendar this week. One of the losses that reverberates among us all is the loss of John Prine to COVID in April, 2020, at the beginning of this long and painful pandemic. We’re paying our tributes at the same time that a his label Oh Boy Records releases Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows, Volume 2, a collection of Prine covers that hits the marks and follows the first volume, released over ten years ago. Our show will feature a chronological look back at the legacy of this national treasure, a songwriter whose bite followed along on the arc of his storytelling that looked into matters of the human heart. We’ll hear covers from Nanci Griffith, Yarn, and a few others but we’ll follow the path along John’s career in performances especially selected for a two hour journey of John’s music.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Joan Baez Hello In There Diamonds & Rust Amazon
2Justin Townes Earle Far From Me Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine Amazon
3Sturgill Simpson Paradise Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2 Amazon
4John Prine Donald And Lydia John Prine Live Amazon
5John Prine Sweet Revenge Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
6John Prine The Great Compromise Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
7John Prine He Was in Heaven Before He Died Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
8John Prine If You Don't Want My Love Bruised Orange Amazon
9Yarn Christmas in Prison Stray Dog Christmas Compilation Amazon
10John Prine The Sins of Memphisto The Missing Years Amazon
11Nanci Griffith Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness Winter Marquee [Live] Amazon
12John Prine Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian German Afternoons Amazon
13John Prine Lulu Walls German Afternoons Amazon
14John Prine Lake Marie Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings Amazon
15John Prine In Spite Of Ourselves In Person & On Stage Amazon
16John Prine Dear John (I Sent Your Saddle Home) In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
17John Prine Glory of True Love Fair & Square Amazon
18John Prine Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out (Featuring Iris Dement) For Better, Or Worse Amazon
19John Prine Summers End The Tree of Forgiveness Amazon
20John Prine The Lonesome Friends Of Science The Tree Of Forgiveness Amazon
21John Prine Caravan Of Fools The Tree Of Forgiveness Amazon
22John Prine When I Get To Heaven The Tree Of Forgiveness Amazon
23Fiona Prine/John Prine My Happiness For Better, Or Worse Amazon
24John Prine I Remember Everything I Remember Everything Amazon
25Bonnie Raitt Angel from Montgomery Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2 Amazon

Guitar Routes

It’s a deep dive we’re taking today into the digital dustbin of the past century with the focus being on fretwork, string bending, bottlenecks and tripping the lap steel fantastic.  That’s right…a collection of fascinating tonal embellishments that cross the genres of country, jazz, blues, folk and pop. Our show this morning will feature some Lonnie Johnson, Les Paul, Chet Atkins, John Fahey, Grady Martin and a few others. It’s a trip with a few well knowns but more not so much  and you’ll just have to make room in your day because the sounds can’t be ignored. We’ll hear standards like Guitar Rag, Riders in the Sky, Black Mountain Rag, Indiana March, and a special playlist highlighting the work of Grady Martin in both country and rock.  We’re once again hoping for the best as October and November approach. 

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Truett & George Ghost Dance Diabolical Hoodoo: Vintage Songs Of Devilry, Doom & Hellfire 1920-1952 Amazon
2Lonnie Johnson Swing Out Rhythm Complete Recorded Works, Vol:1 Amazon
3Blind Lemon Jefferson See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Black Swan Sampler Amazon
4Blind Blake Southern Rag Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey Amazon
5Robert Johnson Stop Breakin' Down Blues The Complete Recordings [Columbia] Disc 2 Amazon
6Robert Lockwood, Jr. Little Queen Of Spades Blues Routes: Heroes And Tricksters Amazon
7Les Paul Trio Guitar Boogie Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2] Amazon
8Roy Smeck and His Paradise Serenaders Indiana March Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics Amazon
9Slim Gaillard Minuet In Vout Hittin' On All Six: New Guitar Concepts Amazon
10Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band Blue Guitar Stomp Hillibilly Boogie! Amazon
11Merle Travis Guitar Rag The Guitar Picker CD2 (1947-51) Amazon
12Les Paul Hip Billy Boogie (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
13Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Railroadin' Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
14Chet Atkins Carolina Shout Guitar Legend – RCA Years (Disc 2) Amazon
15Richard Thompson New-Fangled Flogging Reel/Kerry Reel Strict Tempo! Amazon
16Richard Thompson Rockin' in Rhythm Strict Tempo! Amazon
17John Fahey I'm Gonna Do All I Can for My Lord The Legend of Blind Joe Death Amazon
18John Fahey Requiem for John Hurt Essential John Fahey Amazon
19Bert Jansch On The Edge Of A Dream [Rock Baby Rock Remix] Running From Home – An Introduction to Bert Jansch Amazon
20Leo Kottke Little Martha Instrumentals: Best of the Chrysalis Years Amazon
21Roy Clark Riders in the Sky The Roy Clark Anthology Amazon
22Doc Watson Dill Pickle Rag The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968 Amazon
23Doc Watson Black Mountain Rag American Roots Music (Disc One-Country) Amazon
24Jorma Kaukonen There's A Table Sitting In Heaven Stars In My Crown Amazon
25Red Foley Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3] Amazon
26Marty Robbins El Paso All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
27Loretta Lynn Coal Miner's Daughter Coal Miner's Daughter Amazon
28Marty Robbins Devil Woman All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
29Elvis Presley (You're The) Devil in Disguise Artist of the Century Disc 2 Amazon
30Johnny Burnette Rock n Roll Trio Honey Hush Tear It Up Amazon
31Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Texas Flood Texas Flood Amazon
32Gary Moore Parisienne Walkways While My Guitar Gently Weeps [Disc 2] Amazon

Mean Old World

This week’s show is a free form collection of songs from early, middle and late, all blending tradition, pop, rock ‘n roll, soul, and so much more. Little themes and big ones that bring out the best in us and some old favorites as well. Tune in on Friday at 9 for Deeper Roots and we’ll give you some Mills Brothers, John Prine, Ivory Joe Hunter and John Sebastian…oh yes, a little Bo Diddley and some Bette Davis thrown in. Community Radio in Sonoma County is all about eclectic, non-commercial entertainment with voices of your community there to bring you home. It’s a mean old world but it’s also a big, old goofy one and we’ve got the sounds this week on Deeper Roots to prove it.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers Mean Old World The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
2Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson I Am The Light Of This World Quah [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
3Lucinda Williams Sweet Old World Sweet Old World Amazon
4Johnny Burnette Big Big World 25 Greatest Hits Amazon
5John Prine It's a Big Old Goofy World The Missing Years Amazon
6Los Lobos We Belong Together La Bamba Amazon
7The Mills Brothers Sixty Seconds Got Together Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats Amazon
8Campus Kids Managua, Nicaragua The Groups Sing [Disc 2] Amazon
9Carmen Miranda Chica Chica Boom Chic The Very Best of Carmen Miranda Amazon
10Sue Foley Cuban Getaway Antone's Women: Bringing You the Best in Blues Amazon
11Dean Martin Memories Are Made Of This Crush On You Amazon
12Nick Lowe Sensitive Man The Old Magic Amazon
13Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan Tennessee Bird Walk Hard To Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics Amazon
14John Sebastian Red-Eye Express The Best Of John Sebastian Amazon
15Dan Penn Don't Lose Your Good Thing The Fame Recordings Amazon
16Ivory Joe Hunter Since I Met You Baby Since I Met You Baby Amazon
17Ollie & The Nightingales I Got A Sure Thing Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration [Disc 1] Amazon
18The Spinners It's A Shame The Very Best Of Amazon
19Ann Cole Got My Mo-Jo Working (But It Just Won't Work On You) Jump, Jive & Swing Amazon
20Nat King Cole Mona Lisa 30 Greatest Hits Disc 2 Amazon
21Dinning Sisters Oh Monah Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 1] Amazon
22Bo Diddley Mona Living The Blues – Chicago Blues Giants Amazon
23Bette Davis They're Either Too Young Or Too Old -from Thank Your Lucky Stars Warner Brothers 75 Years of Film Music (2) Amazon
24The Prisonaires All Alone And Lonely The Prisonaires – Just Walkin' In The Rain Amazon
25John Prine With Dolores Keane It's A Cheating Situation In Spite Of Ourselves Amazon
26Elvis Presley Viva Las Vegas 2nd To None Amazon
27Jo Stafford I Love You You Belong To Me Amazon
28Boswell Sisters I Thank You Mr. Moon Boswell Sisters Amazon
29Boswell Sisters Stop the Sun Stop the Moon Boswell Sisters Amazon
30Bill Kirchen Valley of the Moon (Album) Word To The Wise Amazon

The River In Music

There are no more essential metaphors to be had in the American story than that of the river. The river is nature’s alliance with mankind and its muse in prose, poetry and song. It is the stuff of dreams, the movement of the clock in Her terms, the news of the day when the banks are breached, and the symbol of biblical ventures of time and home. So we’ll be taking to the river on a Friday in July to feel the warmth of the surface knowing full well that the undercurrent is treacherous and cold beneath the hull. Music this week includes the stories of the Great Flood of 1927 with Barbecue Bob, the baptismal elements from Alison Krauss and Irma Thomas, Central Valley memories from Dave Alvin by way of Merle Haggard, and the poetry of river sounding chants and Paul Robeson’s muscle. Tune in as we drift our way down the Mississippi and beyond on Friday morning on Deeper Roots.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Marilyn Monroe River Of No Return The Essential Marilyn Monroe Amazon
2Charles Colman & William Eaton River Sounding Chant 5- The Long Road To Freedom : An Anthology Of Black Music Amazon
3Paul Robeson Ol' Man River American Songbook Series: Jerome Kern Amazon
4Marian Anderson Deep River Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 1] Amazon
5Mavis Staples In The Mississippi River (Cd) We'll Never Turn Back Amazon
6Johnny Cash Big River Original Greatest Hits Amazon
7The Carter Family River Of Jordan The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 1] Amazon
8Alison Krauss Down to the River to Pray O Brother, Where Art Thou? Amazon
9Delmore Brothers Happy on the Mississippi Shores Brown's Ferry Blues Amazon
10Tennessee Ernie Ford with Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Billy May River Of No Return Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 7 – Capitol Goes To The Movies – 1944-55 Amazon
11Louis Armstrong & All His Stars Lazy River The Complete Decca Studio Recordings Of Louis Armstrong And The All Stars [Disc 3] Amazon
12Snooks Eaglin Going to the River Complete Imperial Recordings Amazon
13Fats Domino Going to the River This Is Gold Disc 1 Amazon
14Dr. John Back By The River Mos' Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology [Disc 2] Amazon
15Robert Hicks Mississippi Heavy Water Blues People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature Amazon
16Slocan Ramblers Mississippi Heavy Water Blues Queen City Jubilee Amazon
17Joe Shores Mississippi Sounding Calls [A-1] Field Recordings, Vol. 3: Mississippi (1936-1942) Amazon
18Jimmie Rodgers Miss The Mississippi And You Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5] Amazon
19Leon Redbone Mississippi River Blues Double Time Amazon
20Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra Swanee River Swingsation: Jimmie Lunceford Amazon
21Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers One More River The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 2] Amazon
22Irma Thomas With Henry Butler River Is Waiting Putumayo Presents Rhythm & Blues Amazon
23John Fogerty River Is Waiting Revival Amazon
24Dave Alvin Kern River West of the West Amazon
25Doc Watson Moody River Memories Amazon
26Doc & Merle Watson Deep River Blues Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues Amazon
27Jorma Kaukonen Red River Blues Blue Country Heart Amazon
28Johnny Rivers Big River The Memphis Sun Recordings Amazon
29The New Christy Minstrels Mighty Mississippi Ramblin' Amazon
30Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Red River Valley 16 Great Songs Of The Old West Amazon

Blues Across Texas

A collection of blues performers almost unparalleled. They grow ’em big down there and the sound of the blues is no different. From Lead Belly to Blind Lemon Jefferson to the Vaughan Brothers, you can’t really capture the breadth and depth of the blues from the state of Texas in one sitting, so we’re only going to do our very best in the show this morning on KOWS. Early blues from Ramblin’ Thomas, Texas Alexander and Bessie Tucker will take us into the seminal country folk blues of Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb. While we’re name-dropping, how about Bobby “Blue” Bland, T-Bone Walker, Johnny Winter, Albert Collins, Big Mama Thornton, and it doesn’t stop there. There’s a heaping helping of Texas blues coming your way from the KOWS studios located in downtown Santa Rosa.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Blind Lemon Jefferson Matchbox Blues Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey Amazon
2Pee Wee Crayton Do Unto Others Pee Wee's Blues – The Complete Aladdin And Imperial Recordings Amazon
3Johnny Winter Mean Town Blues Legends of Guitar – Electric Blues (Vol. 1) Amazon
4Fenton Robinson Somebody Loan Me A Dime Living The Blues: The 70's Blues Classics Amazon
5Albert Collins Frosty Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3] Amazon
6Blind Lemon Jefferson See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Black Swan Sampler Amazon
7Ramblin' Thomas Poor Boy Blues Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 3B: Songs Amazon
8Texas Alexander Don't You Wish Your Baby was Built Up Like Mine Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1927 – 1928) Amazon
9J.T. Smith Fools Blues Oxford American Southern Music Texas Amazon
10Bessie Tucker Better Boot That Thing [Take 2] [#] Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order (1928-1929) Amazon
11Lightnin' Hopkins Katie Mae Blues The Very Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins Amazon
12Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson Blues Come To Texas Blues Come To Texas Amazon
13Mance Lipscomb Introduction Ash Grove 12/6/1964 Amazon
14Mance Lipscomb Darktown Strutters' Ball Ash Grove 12/6/1964 Amazon
15T-Bone Walker Cold, Cold Feeling The Complete Imperial Recordings: 1950-1954 [Disc 1] Amazon
16James "Thunderbird" Davis If I Had My Life To Live Over Blues Pajama Party Amazon
17Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown Okie Dokie Stomp ABC Of The Blues Vol 4 Amazon
18Frankie Lee Sims Lucy Mae Blues Blues Masters Vol. 3: Texas Blues Amazon
19Juke Boy Bonner Running Shoes Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll Volume 2 [Disc 8] Amazon
20Bobby "Blue" Bland Turn On Your Love Light Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3] Amazon
21Big Mama Thornton Let Your Tears Fall Baby ABC Of The Blues Vol 43 Amazon
22Freddie King Hide Away Ultimate Collection Amazon
23Jimmie Vaughan Don't Cha Know Strange Pleasure Amazon
24Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Pride And Joy Folk, Gospel & Blues Will The Circle Be Unbroken Disk 2 Amazon
25The Fabulous Thunderbirds She's Tuff Blues Masters, Vol. 9: Postmodern Blues Amazon
26Johnny "Guitar" Watson One Room Country Shack ABC Of The Blues Vol 49 Amazon
27Blind Willie Johnson John The Revelator The Complete Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
28Johnny Copeland Down On Bending Knees Blues Masters Vol. 3: Texas Blues Amazon
29Andrew "Smokey" Hogg I Gotta Ride Texas Guitar Killers Disc 2 Amazon
30Johnny Winter Highway 61 Revisited Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
31Lowell Fulson Blue Shadows A Propoer Introduction to Lowell Fulson Juke Box Shuffle Amazon

Windy and Warm

This morning’s show takes a free form journey across that long grey ribbon of America’s roots highways. We’ll be sharing a coast-to-coast collection of sounds including surf sounds, a tincture of Mose Allison, swamp gold from Cookie and the Cupcakes, folk sounds of Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds, forties pop sounds of Johnny Mercer, and highlights from a songwriter you may never have heard of but who made a profound impact across the board: John D. Loudermilk. dusty digital bins. Join Dave Stroud for an eclectic blend of classic soul, folk, rock, jazz, blues, and country on a Friday morning brought to you live from the KOWS studios in the heart of downtown Santa Rosa.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Doc Watson Windy and Warm The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968 Amazon
2Barbara Lynn Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye A Good Woman: The Complete Tribe & Jet Stream Singles 1966-1979 Amazon
3Etta James One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) The Essential Etta James [Disc 1] Amazon
4Dinah Washington This Bitter Earth The Essential Dinah Washington: The Great Songs Amazon
5Mose Allison You Call It Joggin' Allison Wonderland: Anthology [Disc 2] Amazon
6Robert Johnson Come on in My Kitchen The Complete Recordings [Columbia] Disc 1 Amazon
7Crosby, Stills & Nash 49 Bye-Byes Crosby, Stills & Nash Amazon
8Louis Armstrong Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1 Amazon
9John D. Loudermilk Everybody Knows Blue Train Amazon
10Pete Seeger Coyote, My Little Brother God Bless The Grass Amazon
11Malvina Reynolds Little Boxes Folk, Gospel & Blues Will The Circle Be Unbroken Disk 2 Amazon
12Aaron Neville Tell It Like It Is Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans Amazon
13Cookie & The Cupcakes I Cried Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1 Amazon
14The Fabulous Thunderbirds Mathilda Essential Fabulous Thunderbirds Amazon
15The Four Tops I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) The Ultimate Collection Amazon
16John Prine If I Could Live on Tour Amazon
17Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers Feat. Jo Stafford Personality Capitol Collectors Series Amazon
18Lloyd Price Stagger Lee Sound Of The City, The – New Orleans [UK] Disc 1 Amazon
19Sir Douglas Quintet She's About A Mover Best Of Sir Douglas Quintet Amazon
20Terry Stafford Suspicion Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1964 Amazon
21Bruce Springsteen Johnny Bye-Bye Tracks [Disc 2] Amazon
22Chuck Berry You Never Can Tell The Chess Box Disc 2 Amazon
23The Beach Boys Surfin' U.S.A. Red, White & Rock Disc 2 Amazon
24Jerry Lee Lewis/Ringo Starr Sweet Little Sixteen Last Man Standing Amazon
25Dave Edmunds Here Comes the Weekend The Anthology (1968-1990) Disc 1 Amazon
26Elvis Presley Paralyzed 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records – Volume 2 Amazon
27Oscar McLollie & His Honey Jumpers All That Oil in Texas Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1 Amazon
28The Four Clefs I Like Pie, I Like Cake Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1 Amazon
29Glenn Miller & His Orchestra A String of Pearls The Centennial Collection Disc 1 Amazon
30The Lovin' Spoonful Daydream Daydream [Original LP] Amazon
31The Youngbloods Get Together Get Together: The Essential Youngbloods Amazon
32Nina Simone Feeling Good Compact Jazz Amazon
33Johnny Cash Ring Of Fire Country: The American Tradition [Disc 2] Amazon

Bob at 80

Bob Dylan’s turning the big eight-ohhh my God! Born on May 24, 1941 “with a name that means nothing and an age that means less”, he’s being honored in Minnesota (given his boyhood home of Hibbing) with a year long celebration. But it won’t be just the state whose motto from the French translates to “The star of the North”, but a good part of world will also be taking part. While prickly and, at times, difficult to translate, his words have formed images from the metrics of gospel, protest, and a cynic’s wrath to sonnet-like love songs and dirges that would bend even the ears of T. S. Eliot or Auden. He is the bard of a generation whose metal art and endeavors in the art of whiskey underscore eight decades that spell a true renaissance man. We’ll touch on two hours of Dylan’s music this week on Deeper Roots.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Bob Dylan Song To Woody No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7) [Disc 1] Amazon
2Bob Dylan Mississippi The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs [Disc 1] Amazon
3Ian & Sylvia Tomorrow Is A Long Time Four Strong Winds Amazon
4Earl Scruggs & Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline Rag Dylan Country Amazon
5Bob Dylan New Morning [With Horn Section Overdubs] Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 [Disc 2] Amazon
6Bob Dylan Talkin' New York Bob Dylan Amazon
7Joan Baez It's All Over Now, Baby Blue From The Coffeehouse Amazon
8Peter, Paul & Mary Blowin' In The Wind The Very Best Of Peter, Paul And Mary Amazon
9The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man 20 Number Ones Amazon
10Johnny Cash It Ain't Me Babe Dylan Country Amazon
11Bob Dylan If Dogs Run Free New Morning Amazon
12Bob Dylan Po' Boy Love and Theft Amazon
13Bob Dylan Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 MTV Unplugged Amazon
14Bob Dylan You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go Blood on the Tracks Amazon
15Bob Dylan Shelter from the Storm [Take 2] More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 Amazon
16Bob Dylan Everything Is Broken Oh Mercy Amazon
17Bob Dylan Things Have Changed Lovesick Amazon
18The Band When I Paint My Masterpiece A Musical History [Disc 4] Amazon
19Bob Dylan Man in the Long Black Coat Chronicles, Vol. 1 Amazon
20Bob Dylan Duquesne Whistle Tempest Amazon
21Bob Dylan Goodbye Jimmy Reed Rough And Rowdy Ways [Disc 1] Amazon
22Bob Dylan My Blue Eyed Jane The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute Amazon
23Bob Dylan Feat. Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison My Back Pages Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration [Disc 2] Amazon
24Bob Dylan Man Gave Names To All The Animals Slow Train Coming Amazon

Rolling Along

We’re going to blend all the favorites into a delicious free form stew this morning, looking to the north, south, east and west for our inspiration. Not only do we have some Otis Redding soul, but we’ve also got some traditional blendings from David Johansen, The Devil Makes Three, and some southern fried sounds from James Lee Stanley and John Hammond. A lot of our playlist makes connections: moonlight drives, Memphis tributes, and a lot about our title track ‘rolling along’. I’ve also got a little splash of Frankie Laine for inspiration along those lines. Tune in on a Sonoma County Friday morning for more from the Cherry Street Historic District and the mighty KOWS, streaming to planet earth on kowsfm.com.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Mavericks Rolling Along Brand New Day Amazon
2John Hammond Riding In The Moonlight Southern Fried Amazon
3James Lee Stanley & Cliff Eberhardt Moonlight Drive All Wood And Doors Amazon
4The Doors Moonlight Drive Strange Days Amazon
5Raul Malo Moonlight Kiss Lucky One Amazon
6B.B. King & Eric Clapton Riding With The King Riding With The King Amazon
7John Hiatt Book Lovers Riding With the King Amazon
8David Johansen & the Harry Smiths Well, I've Been to Memphis BMW Audiophile Amazon
9J.J. Cale Midnight in Memphis The Very Best of J.J. Cale Amazon
10Charley Crockett That's How I Got to Memphis Lil G.L.'s Blue Bonanza Amazon
11Randy Newman Rollin' Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1 Amazon
12Raphael Saadiq Stone Rollin' Stone Rollin' – Single Amazon
13Tiny Bradshaw The Train Kept a-Rollin' (Digitally Remastered) The Train Kept a-Rollin' (Digitally Remastered) – Single Amazon
14Various Blazing Saddles Pledge To Hedley Lamarr Audio Sound Clips Amazon
15Frankie Laine Signature / Main Title Blazing Saddles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [40th Anniversary Edition] Amazon
16Frankie Laine Rawhide Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
17Otis Redding I'm Sick Y'All Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul Amazon
18Arthur Alexander In The Middle Of It All The Greatest Hits Amazon
19Elvis Presley It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin' From Elvis in Memphis Amazon
20The Devil Makes Three Come On Up to the House Redemption & Ruin Amazon
21The Box Tops The Letter The Classic Sixties: 1967 Amazon
22Eartha Kitt The Memphis Blues The RCA Recordings 1953-1958 Amazon
23Jerry Lee Lewis Night Train To Memphis A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
24Mink Deville You Just Keep Holding On The Mink De Ville Collection Amazon
25Ben E. King Spanish Harlem Poison Ivy – Gems from the Atco Vaults 1959-1962 Amazon
26Cassius Clay Stand by Me Golden Throats, Vol. 2: More Celebrity Rock Oddities Amazon
27Creedence Clearwater Revival It Ain't You Or Me 36 All – Time Greatest Hits 3 CD Set (Disk 3) Amazon
28Kevin Russell Nadine You Don't Know Me Amazon
29John Prine Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian German Afternoons Amazon
30The Staple Singers I'll Take You There The Soul Story, Vol. 2 [Disc 1] Amazon
31Irma Thomas Hurtin' for Certain My Heart's in Memphis: The Songs of Dan Penn Amazon