Category Archives: Jazz

Fortunate Son

The days are getting darker both by season and on the sidewalks of your town. Jackboot thugs with masks, clubs, and weapons are descending for you. Make no mistake. If you believe in your right to free speech and all that our Constitution affords you, think again. Know that you and your neighbor are in the crosshairs of this regime. This week’s show won’t break the spell but it will share with its language of comfort, joy and hope that music delivers as it stimulates the release of dopamine triggering pleasure and relaxation. Our prescription this morning is a compound of a free form eclectic blend that delivers a response from all corners. America’s music has always been built on a foundation of free expression so why not make the best…and that’s what we’ll be doing this morning with tracks from Glenn Miller, Charlie Christian, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Randy Newman and Dean Martin, just to name a few. Dream when you’re feeling blue. Rise up when you’re being pushed down. This week’s show takes us where we want to go.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1John Fogerty Fortunate Son The Long Road Home: Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection Amazon
2Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Midnight Ramble Stratosphere Boogie Amazon
3Charlie Christian Till Tom Special Hittin' On All Six: The Charlie Christian Revolution Amazon
4Django Reinhardt & Stiphane Grappelli You're Driving Me Crazy Quintesential Amazon
5The Miracles Mickey's Monkey Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 Disc 1 Amazon
6Mink Deville You Just Keep Holding On The Mink De Ville Collection Amazon
7The Staple Singers Let's Do It Again The Buddah Box Disc 3 Amazon
8Sam Cooke I'll Come Running Back To You Specialty Profiles: Larry Williams Amazon
9Etta James I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) Love Songs [MCA] Amazon
10Bob Dylan The Levee's Gonna Break Modern Times Amazon
11Randy Newman Burn On Sail Away Amazon
12The Secret Sisters Tennessee Me The Secret Sisters Amazon
13Fats Domino My Girl Josephine Very Best of Fats Domino [Phantom] (Disc 1) Amazon
14Dean Martin Dream Late at Night with Dean Martin Amazon
15Les Baxter And His Orchestra The High And The Mighty Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 7 – Capitol Goes To The Movies – 1944-55 Amazon
16Hugo Winterhalter And His Orchestra With Eddie Heywood Canadian Sunset Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 2) Amazon
17Billie Holiday Too Marvelous For Words Lady In Autumn: The Best Of The Verve Years [Disc 1] Amazon
18Doris Day The Deevil, Devil, Divil Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2] Amazon
19Jean Shepard I Didn't Know The Gun Was Loaded Rounding Up The Girls/Great Female Country Vocals Vol 1 Amazon
20The Andrews Sisters Rum And Coca-Cola 20th Century Masters: Millenni Amazon
21Glenn Miller & His Orchestra A String of Pearls The Centennial Collection Disc 1 Amazon
22Linda Lyndell What A Man Stax 50th [[Disc 1]] Amazon
23The Meters Running Fast (single version) Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology [Disc 2] Amazon
24The Notting Hillbillies Run Me Down Missing….Presumed Having A Good Time Amazon
25Vocaltones Sugar Lump Spotlight Series : Vol. 2-Gee Records Amazon
26Dominoes Sixty Minute Man Risque Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B Amazon
27The Coasters Run Red Run 50 Coastin' Classics [Disc 2] Amazon
28Del Shannon Runaway Oldies But Goodies: 21 #1 Hits Amazon
29Buddy Holly Think It Over From the Original Master Tapes Amazon
30Lovett Sisters Bacon And Eggs Big "D" Jamboree, Gals Of The Amazon
31Norman Fox & The Rob Roys/Sid Bass/The Rob Roys Pizza Pie Doo Wop Box Disc 3 Amazon
32Creedence Clearwater Revival Run Through the Jungle Tropic Thunder (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
33Party Ben Single Ladies (In Mayberry) The Party Ben Experience Amazon

Down By The Woodshed

Jazz, rhythm and all the very best of blues and swing from the past century, reaching as far back as the thirties and taking in some of rock royalty from the early fifties. This week we’re snapping fingers and cutting the rug with some of the very greats including Wynonie Harris, Buddy Johnson, The Five Royales, The Cadillacs, and a touch of gospel vocal majesty from Marie Knight and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The themes are wide-ranging, taking us from the woodshed to the urban streets and some Cadillac competitions and we’ll also get with the stuff that’s arrived and is oh so mellow. Night trains, sugar lumps, boogie woogie daddies and tall skinny papas rule the roost. Don’t miss out, even if you’re a night owl you’ll want to take these sounds with you into the early hours of tomorrow. Let me off uptown, would ya?

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Baby Doll & Her Royal Swingsters Down By The Woodshed Stompin' 25 Amazon
2The Enchanters Boogie Woogie Daddy Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
3Big Maybelle One Monkey Don't Stop No Show The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55 Amazon
4Effie Smith Root-Lie-Voot (08-16-50) 1945-1953 Amazon
5The Five Royales Thirty Second Lover Dedicated To You Amazon
6Wynonie Harris Adam Come And Get Your Rib Lovin' Machine Amazon
7Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra A Pretty Girl (A Cadillac and Some Money) (Cadillac) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
8The Cadillacs Speedo (Cadillac) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
9Tony Allen & The Champs Night Owl (Birds) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
10Savannah Churchill Fat Meat Is Good Meat Jazzin' The Blues – Volume4 :1929-1943 Amazon
11Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Sugar Lump Darktown Strutters Ball Amazon
12The Four Blazes Night Train Mary Jo Amazon
13Professor Longhair Looka, No Hair Ebb Records Story (Vol. 2): 1957-1959 Amazon
14Willie Mabon The Seventh Son Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 4] Amazon
15The Mills Brothers The Love Bug Will Bite You The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 4 Amazon
16The Ravens I'm Going to Paper All My Walls With Your Love Letters The Greatest Group of Them All Amazon
17Ray Charles Hallelujah, I Love Her So Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 1 Amazon
18Cleo Brown The Stuff Is Here And It's Mellow The Legendary Cleo Brown Amazon
19Ella Johnson & Buddy Johnson Get On Down The Road Go Ahead And Rock And Roll Amazon
20Sister Marie Knight And The Sam Price Trio Trouble In Mind Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
21Margie Day Dumplin' Dumplin' Rock 'n' Roll Mamas Vol 3 Amazon
22Sister Rosetta Tharpe I Want A Tall Skinny Papa Vintage Sex Songs Amazon
23Smiley Lewis Big Mamou Smiley Lewis Vol 1 Amazon
24Blue Lu Barker A Little Bird Told Me From The Vaults, Vol 2. 1943-1944 Amazon
25Little Willie John Home At Last Fever: The Best Of Little Willie John Amazon
26Chuck Willis Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes I Remember Chuck Willis / The King Of The Stroll Amazon
27The Clovers Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four Amazon
28Lula Reed Rock Love Get Hot Sleazy Rhythm & Blues Vol. 3 Amazon
29Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Hungary Man The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
30Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five A Man's Best Friend Is A Bed The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
31The Delta Rhythm Boys Let Me Off Uptown The Best Of 1940-50 Amazon
32Bo Diddley Moon Baby Bo Diddley Is A Lover Amazon
33Nappy Brown The Right Time Savoy Blues 1957-1994 [Disc 3] Amazon
34Slim Harpo Bobby Sox Baby The Best Of Slim Harpo Amazon

Good Questions

A curious theme, indeed! We’re talking ‘questions’, naturally. And don’t you think it’s time we got around to this theme? There was no shortage of ammunition…songs that end with that curly-que that has been the topic of many theories. One such theory suggests that it originate from the Latin word “quaestio” which, shortened to “qo”, would evolve into the symbol we recognize today. Each and every track in the show today delivers that terminating mark in search of an answer. We’ve heard of answer songs, but what about these question songs and most demand good answers because, well, they’re good questions. Jazz, country, rock ‘n roll, and everything in between with selections from The Lovin’ Spoonful, Dan Hicks, The Robins, Joe Liggins and Bo Diddley are just a sampling of the nearly three dozen songs with “good questions” theme. Where would we be without music? Don’ have that answer but I’m guessing I don’t want to know.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Harlem Hamfats What's On Your Mind? Harlem Hamfats Vol. 3 1937-1938 Amazon
2B.B. King Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan Amazon
3Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five / 1941 – 1944 Amazon
4Ella Fitzgerald How Long Has This Been Going On? Pure Ella Amazon
5The King Cole Trio Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You? Jazz Noire (Darktown Sleaze of 1940s L.A.) Amazon
6The Robins Whadaya Want? 50 Coastin' Classics [Disc 1] Amazon
7Joe Liggins Do You Love Me Pretty Baby? Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers Amazon
8Varetta Dillard What'll I Do? Got You On My Mind Amazon
9Ruth Brown Why Don't You Write Me? Along Comes Ruth Amazon
10Bo Diddley Who Do You Love? Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 3 Amazon
11Bette Midler Do You Want to Dance? Experience the Divine [1993] Amazon
12The Isley Brothers Who's That Lady? Something's Got A Hold On Me Amazon
13Barry White What Am I Gonna Do With You? All Time Greatest Hits Amazon
14The Amazing Rhythm Aces Who Will The Next Fool Be? Two Classic Albums From The Amazing Rhythm Aces: Stacked Deck/Too Stuffed To Jump Amazon
15Peggy Lee Is That All There Is? Peggy Lee – The Marvelous Miss Lee Amazon
16Los Lobos Is This All There Is? By the Light of the Moon Amazon
17Buck Owens Would You Be Ready? Dust On Mother's Bible Amazon
18The Texas Tornados Who Were You Thinkin' Of The Best Of Texas Tornados Amazon
19Wanda Jackson Who Shot Sam? Queen Of Rockabilly Amazon
20Eddy Arnold & Jaye P. Morgan Do You Love Me? Crossroads In Cowtown Amazon
21Frankie Miller Hey! Where Ya Goin? The World Is A Monster Amazon
22Jim Lauderdale What Kinda Guy? An American Troubadour: The Songs of Steve Forbert Amazon
23The Lovin' Spoonful Do You Believe In Magic? Do You Believe In Magic? Amazon
24The Lovin' Spoonful Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind? Do You Believe In Magic? Amazon
25Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 Disc 4 Amazon
26The Grass Roots Where Were You When I Needed You All Time Greatest Hits Amazon
27Creedence Clearwater Revival Have You Ever Seen Rain? All Time Greatest Hits Disc 1 Amazon
28Chicago Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997 Amazon
29Ramones Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? Modern Rock: Lost Hits Of The 70s Amazon
30The Five Royales $64,000 Question (Do You Love Me) Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3] Amazon
31Lemon Nash Anybody Seen My Kitty? Papa Lemon: New Orleans Ukulele Maestro & Tent Show Troubadour Amazon
32Tom Paxton What Did You Learn In School Today? Best Of Tom Paxton: I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Amazon
33Ella Mae Morse How Can You Leave A Man Like This? Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
34Elvis Presley Are You Lonesome Tonight? The Essential 60's Masters I [Disc 1] Amazon
35Clyde McPhatter A Lovers Question The Forgotten 45s 1957-1959 (CD2) Amazon

Spring Fever

Every year about this time there’s a quick burst of blossom, a promise of renewal and that first pitch of the national pastime. I don’t know about you but it’s my favorite time of year, a time when winter’s cold is shut down and we’ve got that Spring Fever. This week’s show will take time out for a couple sets celebrating and remembering baseball’s past through music with the likes of The Treniers, Danny Kaye, and Dr. John with some early rapping from Mel Allen of all people. And that’s just the half of it because the fever goes beyond the diamond: we’ll share songs of April love with Shirley Jones, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White with Perez Prado, Nina Simone, Martha Tilton, and a run of classic country with Johnny Horton, Sons of the Pioneers and the Sons of the San Joaquin. From stickball to kite-flying to the first frisbees of the year in the local park. Let’s get away from it all.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Radio Commercial 'Spring Time Fever Time' Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season Amazon
2The Velvets Spring Fever Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season Amazon
3Shirley Jones & Pat Boone April Love (Film Version) Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season Amazon
4The Pentagons It's Spring Again Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season Amazon
5Martha Tilton I'll Remember April The Liltin' Miss Tilton [Disc 1] Amazon
6Perez Prado And His Orchestra Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 2) Amazon
7Count Basie April in Paris Pure Jazz Amazon
8Naturals & Mel Allen Baseball Dreams Baseball's Greatest Hits Amazon
9Johnny Darling Baseball Baby Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan Amazon
10Dr. John Take Me Out To The Ballgame Baseball A Film By Ken Burns – Original Soundtrack Recording Amazon
11The Treniers Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) Baseball Anthems Amazon
12Sister Wynona Carr The Ball Game Baseball Anthems Amazon
13Russ Hodges Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round The World Baseball Anthems Amazon
14Terry Cashman Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey & "The Duke") 61* [Box Set] Disc 1 Amazon
15Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer I Love Mickey Baseball's Greatest Hits Amazon
16Danny Kaye D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley) Baseball's Greatest Hits Amazon
17Stormy Weather The Land Of Wrigley Baseball's Greatest Hits Amazon
18Steve Goodman A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request Baseball's Greatest Hits Amazon
19Betty Bonney & Les Brown and His Orchestra Joltin' Joe Dimaggio Baseball Anthems Amazon
20Little Willie John I've Got Spring Fever Little Willie John Amazon
21Birdlegs & Pauline And Their Versatility Birds Spring Birth Of Soul: 2 Amazon
22Jerry Duane & The Monarchs It Might As Well Be Spring Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season Amazon
23Nina Simone It Might As Well Be Spring The Best Of Nina Simone: The Colpix Years Amazon
24Craig Douglas Hello Spring Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season Amazon
25The Cadillacs It's Spring For Collectors Only (Disc 3) Amazon
26Delbon Johnson It's Always Springtime in Nassau Putumayo Presents: Calypso Amazon
27The Browns Springtime Classics 1964-1966 (Warped 6529) Amazon
28Johnny Horton When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below) 36 All-Time Greatest Hits Amazon
29Sons of the Pioneers Springtime On the Range 1941 vol 1 (Warped 4108) Amazon
30Sons Of The San Joaquin Ridin' For The Roundup In The Springtime From Whence Came The Cowboy Amazon
31Charlie Monroe Springtime in Glory 1950-1956 (Warped 5079) Amazon
32Billie Holiday Some Other Spring Ken Burns Jazz Amazon
33Mose Allison Spring Song Mose Allison [2-fer] Amazon
34Mose Allison Fires Of Spring Gimcracks and Gewgaws Amazon
35Tony Perkins April Fool On a Rainy Afternoon Amazon

Music Goes ‘Round

Put another nickel in that nickelodeon ‘cause rhythm saved the world. This week on Deeper Roots we’re spinning up songs about the jukebox, hit records, little bitty records, disc jockey pleas, and swinging syncopated rhythms from across the past century. That’s right, we’re taking a trip across ninety years featuring jazz from Jimmie Lunceford, country from the Sons of the Pioneers, gospel from the Chuck Wagon Gang, and swinging send-ups from Louis Armstrong, NRBQ, Slim Gaillard, and The Sensations. Well, you can also count on more from the usual suspects in this week’s thematic celebration of the very best of Americana. Whether that’s reaching out to the jukebox, the DJ or that record hawker…we’ve got two hours of rhythm here on KOWS Community Radio. Spend your time with music, not your hard earned dough on this day of resistance.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Commercial Nuclear Survival Course Record Album (1954) Rock'N'Roll & Rock-A-Billy Inferno Amazon
2The Sensations Please Mr Disc Jockey Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 3] – The Rock 'n' Roll Era Amazon
3Fred Astaire Music Makes Me American Songbook Series Amazon
4Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake Seven The Music Goes Round And Round Me & Orson Welles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
5Louis Prima The Music Goes 'Round and Around Capitol Collectors Series Amazon
6Louis Armstrong Rhythm Saved The World Rhythm Saved The World Amazon
7Tex Beneke, The Modernaires Jukebox Saturday Night Stagedoor Canteen Music Of The War Years Vol 1 Amazon
8Jimmie Lunceford Rhythm Is Our Business An Introduction To Jimmie Lunceford Amazon
9The Boswell Sisters That's How Rhythm Was Born Music From The Motion Picture – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Amazon
10Three Sharps And A Flat That's The Rhythm Hot Harmony Groups 1932-1951: Vol 1: That's the Rhythm Amazon
11Ella Fitzgerald Vote For Mr Rhythm The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald [Disc 3] Amazon
12Ella Fitzgerald My Last Affair The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald Amazon
13Fats Waller Music Maestro Please Music Maestro Please Amazon
14The Cats & The Fiddle Mr. Rhythm Man The Very Best Of Amazon
15Slim Gaillard Jumpin' At The Record Shop Vout For Voutoreenes Amazon
16The Mills Brothers Rhythm Saved The World The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 4 Amazon
17George Kent Hello, I'm A Jukebox The Beginning Of The End – The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972) Amazon
18Boyd Bennett & His Rockets Cool Disc Jockey Bob Dylan – Radio Radio Vol.5 Amazon
19Sons of the Pioneers Syncopated Rhythm Songs of the Prairie – CD4 Amazon
20Jerry Lee Lewis Jukebox Junky Killer Country Amazon
21Brook Benton Hit Record Mercury 1962 Amazon
22Charles Senns Dig Me A Crazy Record One More Record Please Amazon
23Norma Jean I Heard the Jukebox Playing 1965-1966 Amazon
24Willie Nelson Mr. Record Man One More Record Please Amazon
25Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Jones On the Jukebox Set Two Amazon
26Chuck Wagon Gang/George Jones Turn Your Radio On 70th Anniversary Amazon
27Bill Kirchen Little Bitty Record King of Dieselbilly: Classic Kirchen Amazon
28NRBQ Music Goes Round And Around Tiddly Winks Amazon
29BR5-49 A1 On The Jukebox Dog Days Amazon
30The Blasters Border Radio Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2) Amazon
31Dillard & Clark The Radio Song The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark Amazon
32Teresa Brewer Music ! Music ! Music ! Music ! Music ! Music ! Amazon
33Gene Kelly I Got Rhythm The Big Picture: Great Music from Films You Love Amazon

American Banned Stand

The past century’s puritanical interlopers, better known as the ‘thought police’, have had their way with music. And we’re not talking about just the lyrics (which will no doubt be the source of most of the songs in the show today)…whether that be the sound of the saxophone or Link Wray’s sinister fuzz and feedback…telling us how to think or suggesting that your children would be swayed to the dark side due a mention of Susie getting home past curfew. It’s an age old problem. It’s really stinkin’ thinkin’ if you’d have asked Frank Zappa. And someone did and summarized his opinions thusly: “Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are, in my opinion, more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate their sexuality.” All the songs this week suffered from some form of censorship, whether corporate or governmental. And we’re going to play them…damned be the fools.

White Powder Muse

Cocaine is one of a few substances that have served as a muse, both in word and effect, in various forms of art throughout history, particularly in the 20th century. Its influence can be found repeatedly in the music industry, peaking in use during the 1980s when it was used by performer and listener as the disco and party-going atmosphere exploded, Contributing to this bacchanal were films depicting its use (and abuse) with plot themes embracing the white powder in storytelling. Cocaine’s impact is predominant in the genres of rock, jazz, and hip-hop and many performers have openly discussed their cocaine use, and its influence can be heard in lyrics, musical styles, and even album artwork. This week’s show looks at this muse with sounds from Margo Price, The Reverend Horton Heat, Lucille Bogan, Fred Neil and a host of others from 1929 to the present.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Roy Hogsed Cocaine Blues Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
2Hank Williams III Cocaine Blues Risin' Outlaw Amazon
3Dick Justice Cocaine Old Time Music From West VI : Old-Time Music From West Virgi Amazon
4Carl Martin That New Kind Of Stuff Carl Martin, Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan, Willie "61" Blackwell — Complete Recorded Works Amazon
5Lucille Bogan Baking Powder Blues Cocaine Blues Amazon
6Johnny Cash Cocaine Blues Silver Amazon
7Billy Hughes Cocaine Blues Country & Western Hit Parade 1947 Amazon
8Son Volt Cocaine and Ashes American Central Dust Amazon
9The Reverend Horton Heat Bales of Cocaine Holy Roller Amazon
10Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys Cocaine Blues Dance Ranch Amazon
11Miss Marcy & Her Texas Sugardaddy's Whiskey And Cocaine Deep Ellum Amazon
12Grateful Dead Casey Jones Workingman's Dead Amazon
13The Byrds Take A Whiff On Me Untitled / Unissued [Disc 1] Amazon
14Fred Neil Sweet Cocaine The Many Sides Of Fred Neil [Disc 1] Amazon
15Woody Guthrie Take A Whiff On Me Muleskinner Blues (The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2) Amazon
16Woody Guthrie Bad Lee Brown (Cocaine Blues) (traditional, arr. Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston) Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection [Disc 2] Amazon
17Jackson Browne Cocaine Running On Empty Amazon
18Dave Van Ronk Cocaine Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk Amazon
19Eric Clapton Cocaine Slowhand Amazon
20Margo Price Cocaine Cowboys All American Made Amazon
21Doc & Merle Watson Let the Cocaine Be Live & Pickin' Amazon
22The Manhattan Transfer That Cat Is High Anthology – Down In Birdland (Disc 2) Amazon
23Chick Webb & His Orchestra Wacky Dust Cocaine Blues Amazon
24Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra Kickin' The Gong Around Cocaine Blues Amazon
25Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra Kickin' The Gong Around Chronological Cab Calloway (1932-1934) Amazon
26Mills Blue Rhythm Band Kokey Joe Cocaine Blues Amazon
27The Spirits of Rhythm Junk Man Cocaine Blues Amazon
28Curtis Mayfield Pusherman The Very Best Of Curtis Mayfield Amazon
29The Ink Spots That Cat Is High Cocaine Blues Amazon
30Memphis Jug Band Cocaine Habit Blues Cocaine Blues Amazon

420 Fun

It’s a topical theme…it’s a medicinal thing…it’s a blend of sounds celebrating vipers and jives from the past century.  We will join in the celebration (in spirit anyway) of the date and time that three Marin County teenagers are said to have inaugurated over a half century ago. There is no shortage of material to pull from the well of Americana…whether that be from the 1920s or from the 2010s. We’ll brighten up the playlist with music that will help us kick back. We’ll pour over a selected list of great sounds from the last 100 years that either directly or indirectly find us thinking about (or maybe imbibing in) the herb so many care about. There will be music from John Prine, Willie Nelson, Kacey Musgraves, Ray Charles and some early century jazz nuggets you will find hard to resist. Friday morning sounds from the Cherry Street Historic District of Santa Rosa, California, streaming to West County and the world on KOWS-LP, Occidental 92.5 FM and kowsfm.com/listen. 

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Johnny Price Marijuana, The Devil Flower Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
2Cordovas Stone Cold Stoned The Rose of Aces Amazon
3Yonder Mountain String Band Two Hits and the Joint Turned Brown Mountain Tracks, Vol. 2 Amazon
4Sam Bush Granny Wontcha Smoke Some Marijuana Radio John: Songs of John Hartford Amazon
5Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen Seeds And Stems (Again) Lost In The Ozone Amazon
6Jesse Dayton Dope Smokin' Song The Alternate Root 420 Sampler Amazon
7Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson It's All Going to Pot Django and Jimmie Amazon
8Willie Nelson/Snoop Dogg/Kris Kristofferson/Jamey Johnson Roll Me Up (Album version) Heroes Amazon
9k.d. lang Smoke Rings Drag Amazon
10Kacey Musgraves High Time Pageant Material Amazon
11Moonalice It's 420 Somewhere Dave's Way Vol 1 Amazon
12Chris Stapleton Might As Well Get Stoned Traveller Amazon
13Asleep At The Wheel Jack I'm Mellow New Routes Amazon
14Ashley Monroe Weed Instead Of Roses Like A Rose Amazon
15Brothers Osborne Weed Whiskey And Willie Port Saint Joe Amazon
16John Prine Illegal Smile Great Days: The John Prine Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
17Kacey Musgraves Burn One With John Prine Demos Amazon
18Tom Petty You Don't Know How It Feels Wildflowers Amazon
19Ben Harper Burn One Down Fight for Your Mind Amazon
20Julia Lee Marijuana Kansas City Star [Disc 4] Amazon
21The Ink Spots That Cat Is High Cocaine Blues Amazon
22Trixie Smith Jack I'm Mellow Trixie Smith Vol. 2 1925-1929 Amazon
23Buck Washington Save the Roach for Me [FCC Warning n word] When Hemp Was Hip Amazon
24Dave Van Ronk You's A Viper Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers Amazon
25Wayne Hancock Viper A-Town Blues Amazon
26Harlan Pepper Reefer The Alternate Root 420 Sampler Amazon
27Ray Charles Let's Go Get Stoned Ultimate Hits Collection [2 of 2] Amazon
28The Devil Makes Three Champagne And Reefer Redemption & Ruin Amazon
29Chris Ardoin and Double Clutchin' Stay In or Stay Out – Pass the Dutchie Putomayo Presents Zydeco Amazon

Cuppa Joe

The history of coffee consumption in 20th century America takes hold in the small cafes, truck stops and coffeehouses which became venues and social spaces for the community. Like music, they helped with the congregation of like minds and served as hubs for intellectual exchange, artistic expression and social activism. And it was all because of the caffeine. Instant and decaf coffees were just an aberration; much like disco. This week’s Deeper Roots drives the theme of coffee home with tracks that span the century including Emmett Miller, the King Cole Trio, The Bobs, Ella Mae Morse and Merle Travis (among others) to tell us a cuppa tale or two. It’s one more Friday show ahead of next week’s 420 observation…one more libation to celebrate.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Warren Barker Caper At The Coffee House (From '77 Sunset Strip') Jazz Noir Amazon
2The Manhattan Transfer Java Jive Anthology – Down in Birdland [Disc 1] Amazon
3King Cole Trio You're The Cream In My Coffee The Cocktail Combos [Disc 1] Amazon
4Ella Mae Morse Coffee Date Singles 3 Amazon
5Patricia Kaas Black Coffee Jazz a Saint Germain Amazon
6Jack Barlow Hot Cup Of Coffee I Live The Country Songs I Sing Amazon
7Merle Travis I Can't Afford The Coffee The Guitar Picker CD4 (1954-56) Amazon
8Tex Ritter 01 – Coffee Pot (2000) High Noon (CD 4) Amazon
9Claude Gray I4ll Have an Other Cup of Coffee Country & Western Nuggets Amazon
10Lefty Frizzell Make That One for the Road a Cup of Coffee 1962-1965 (Warped 6382) Amazon
11Curtis Gordon Caffeine And Nicotine Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1] Amazon
12Jon Rauhouse Corn & Coffee Steel Guitar Rodeo Amazon
13Frank Sinatra The Coffee Song Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan Amazon
14Enric Madriguera And His Hotel Biltmore Orchestra Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee American Dance Bands – Playing the Music of Irving Berlin Amazon
15Pancho Cantaneo y los Cubaztecas Moliendo Cafe Cuba. Por La Musica Amazon
16Terry Snyder / Earl Palmer Binga Banga Bongo-Percolator Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 8: Cocktail Capers Amazon
17Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Forty Cups of Coffee Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
18The Modernaires Coffee Five, Doughnuts Five The Very Best of the Modernaires With Paula Kelly Amazon
19The Ink Spots Java Jive The Great Entertainers Amazon
20Atilla Coffee, Coffee Mo 33004 Amazon
21Greg Brown Good Morning Coffee If I Had Known Amazon
22Kim Lenz Percolate Slowly Speeding Amazon
23Julie London Black Coffee 36 All-Time Greatest Hits Disc 1 Amazon
24Ruth Etting You're The Cream In My Coffee Love Me or Leave Me CD1 Amazon
25Brook Benton Another Cup Of Coffee Best Of Brook Benton Amazon
26The Boswell Sisters Coffee In The Morning And Kisses In The Night [Album Version] That's How Rhythm Was Born Amazon
27Emmett Miller You're The Cream In My Coffee Minstrel Man From Georgia Amazon
28The Larks Coffee, Cigarettes And Tears Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1] Amazon
29Bellevue Cadillac Cuppa Joe Hipsters, Zoots & Wingtips, Vol. 3 Amazon
30Lefty Frizzell Cigarettes and Coffee Blues Life's Like Poetry (Disc 5) Amazon
31Otis Redding Cigarettes And Coffee Oxford American Southern Music Issue Vol. 25 Amazon
32Neil Young + Promise of the Real A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop The Monsanto Years Amazon

Don’t Wanna

Theme time and I’m going to break it to you slow…it’s all about the negative and those that refuse. If there’s something that’s more prevalent in our lives than saying that we ‘want to’…it’s when we don’t want to. The ‘desire not to’ seems to be winning over the ‘desire to’ in our show today. We’ve got a collection of songs that all begin with the phrase “I Don’t Want” in some form or another. We’ll bring you the early sounds of The Blue Sky Boys and some country sounds of Jimmy Wakely from the hayloft, blues and soul from Magic Sam and that firecracker Sugar Pie DeSanto, and plenty of Americana from The Blasters, Wanda Jackson and Doug Sahm in our show today. It’s going to be a romp because there’s a lot of fodder to choose from when stubbornness is the theme. Tune into community radio for Sonoma County to find out. I don’t want to spoil the theme…but not ‘wanting to’ isn’t always a bad thing…

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Chuck Willis Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes I Remember Chuck Willis / The King Of The Stroll Amazon
2The Ravens Honey, I Don't Want You Rhythm 'N' Blues Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 4 Amazon
3The Blasters I Don't Want To American Music Amazon
4Wanda Jackson I Don't Wanta Go Wonderful Wanda Amazon
5Doc Williams Don't Want To Work Birth / Work / Death – Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1974) Amazon
6Tom Waits I Don't Wanna Grow Up Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years Amazon
7Hayes Carll I Don't Wanna Grow Up Trouble In Mind Amazon
8Tex Williams I Don't Want To Be Free Cowboy Crooners Sing Songs Of The West Cd 2 Amazon
9Jimmy Wakely w/Margaret Whiting I Don't Want to Be Free The Collection 1940-53 CD3 Amazon
10Sir Douglas Quintet I Don't Want To Go Home Mono Singles '68-'72 Amazon
11The Blue Sky Boys I Don't Want Your Greenback Dollar Presenting The Blue Sky Boys Amazon
12Iris DeMent I Don't Want To Get Adjusted Lifeline Amazon
13Carrie Rodriguez I Don't Want To Play House Anymore Seven Angels on a Bicycle Amazon
14Tammy Wynette I Don't Wanna Play House Super Hits Amazon
15Dr. John I Don't Wanna Know The Best Of The Parlophone Years Amazon
16Fernest Arceneaux & His Louisiana French Band I Don't Want Nobody Putumayo Presents: Blues Party Amazon
17Leonard Carbo I Don't Want To Lose Her The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 3] Amazon
18Slim Harpo I Don't Want No One The Scratch Amazon
19Barbara Lynn I Don't Want A Playboy A Good Woman: The Complete Tribe & Jet Stream Singles 1966-1979 Amazon
20Magic Sam I Don't Want No Woman West Side Soul Amazon
21Susan Tedeschi I Don't Want Nobody Better Days Amazon
22Buddy & Ella Johnson I Don't Want Nobody ( To Have My Love But You) Mercury R+B '46-'62 [Disc 2] Amazon
23Sugar Pie DeSanto I Don't Wanna Fuss Go Go Power: The Complete Chess Singles (1961-1966) Amazon
24Johnnie Taylor I Don't Wanna Lose You The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol.2: 1968-1971 [Disc 7] Amazon
25Barbara & The Browns I Don't Want To Have To Wait Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures – Vol. 3 Amazon
26The Drifters I Don't Want To Go On Without You All-Time Greatest Hits & More: 1959-1965 [Disc 2] Amazon
27Sam Cooke And The Soul Stirrers I Don't Want To Cry The Complete Specialty Recordings [Disc 3] Amazon
28Pearlean Gray And The Passengers I Don't Want To Cry Rare Soul: Groove & Grind 1963-1973 [Disc 2] Amazon
29The Ink Spots I Don't Want The Set The World On Fire Your Hit Parade – 1941 Amazon
30Fats Domino I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire This Is Gold Disc 2 Amazon
31Billie Holiday I Don't Want To Cry Anymore Lady In Autumn: The Best Of The Verve Years [Disc 1] Amazon
32Big Maybelle I Don't Want To Cry Blues, Candy & Big Maybelle Amazon
33Ted Fio Rito & His Orchestra I Don't Want to Love You Spotlighting the Ted Fio Rito Orchestra Amazon