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Bluegrass, Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues

In The Gloaming – KOWS Oct 24, 2015

October 24, 2015 Dave

Our Saturday morning show opens with some caffeine-driven music…literally… songs about the magic bean, that morning beverage that starts the day for some of us. We’ve got swamp pop from Randy & The Rockets, some jumpin’ jive from Cab Calloway, twilight reflections from Jonatha Brooke and The Sons of The Pioneers, and some Chet Atkins, David Lindley, and Eilen Jewell. KOWS community radio studios will be moving before the end of the year to a very central West County location that will bring us in closer contact with our listeners…and our Deeper Roots. And some exciting news! Deeper Roots moves to weekly broadcasts on KOWS.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Randy & the Rockets	Lets Do the Cajun Twist	Swamp Gold, Volume 1
2	Curtis Gordon	Caffeine And Nicotine	Bob Dylan: Radio Radio [Disc 1]
3	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Caffeine Patrol	Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2
4	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Forty Cups of Coffee	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
5	Frank Sinatra	The Coffee Song	Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan
6	Carmen McRae/Previn Trio	Coffee Time	Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers [Disc 2]
7	Annette Hanshaw	You're the Cream in My Coffee	The Personality Girl, Vol. 4: 1928
8	The Manhattan Transfer	Java Jive	Swing
9	Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three	Coffee Pot Blues	Middle of Everywhere
10	Cab Calloway	The Jumpin' Jive	Best Of The Big Bands
11	Tiny Davis & Her Orchestra	How About That Jive	Jumpin' The Blues:MCA Label(ACE CD)
12	Johnny Mercer	G.I. Jive	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 1 – The Birth Of A Label – 1942-43
13	Ella Fitzgerald	Five O'Clock Whistle	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
14	Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys	The Prettiest Flowers Will Be Blooming	Ralph Stanley 1971-1973 Disc One
15	Sons of the Pioneers	In the Gloaming	Songs of the Prairie – CD4
16	Jonatha Brooke	In the Gloaming	Live
17	John Prine With Emmylou Harris	I Know One	In Spite Of Ourselves
18	Porter Wagoner	Fool Like Me	Wagonmaster
19	Chet Atkins	Levee Walking	My Favorite Guitars – It's A Guitar World
20	The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers	Hand Me Down My Walking Cane	Blue Grass Favorites
21	Eilen Jewell	That's Why I'm Walkin	Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Rarities From the Second Decades
22	Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers	Walk Right In, Walk Right Out (The Walking Blues)	One Hour Mama
23	Eddie Jefferson	Start Walkin' Stop Talkin'	The BeBop Singers
24	Dinah Washington	Walkin' And Talkin'	Gold
25	Peggy Lee	Talkin' To Myself About You	The Capitol Collector's Series
26	David Lindley	Talk to the Lawyer	Win This Record
27	David Lindley & El Rayo-X	Talkin' to the Wino Too	Very Greasy
28	David Lindley and Wally Ingram	Oh Death	Twango Bango II
29	Pepe Ahlqist	Moonshine Babe	Raw Blues
30	Perline Ellison	Razor Totin' Mama	Document Shortcuts Vol. 1 "God Don't Like It"
31	Jackson Browne & David Lindley	El Rayo X (Intro)	Love Is Strange [Disc 1]
32	Jackson Browne & David Lindley	El Rayo X	Love Is Strange [Disc 1]
33	Mark Knopfler	Who's Your Baby Now	Sailing to Philadelphia

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Free Form

Free Form – October 2015

October 17, 2015 Dave

Free form with just a dose of playlist themes…R&B and sugar from Chuck Willis, some sweeter country from Bob Wills, more of the same with a moonlight-based theme from Tommy Duncan, Dale Evans, and Elton Britt. We’ve also got a mix of early century jazz from Satchmo and blues from Tampa Red, Charley Patton, and Blind Blake. Tune into community radio locally on KWTF 88.1 on the FM dial or catch us streaming on TuneIn, RadioBox, or from our web site at kwtf.net/listen.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Seasick Steve	Dark	Man from Another Time (Bonus Version)
2	Wild Tchoupitoulas	Meet De Boys On The Battlefront	Treacherous [Disc 1]
3	The Neville Brothers	Yellow Moon	Yellow Moon
4	Emmylou Harris; Rodney Crowell	Old Yellow Moon	Old Yellow Moon
5	Bill Neely	Big Yellow Moon Over Texas	Texas Law & Justice
6	Tommy Duncan	Texas Moon	Texas Moon
7	Elton Britt	Blue Texas Moonlight	The RCA Years
8	Dale Evans	Under a Texas Moon	The Rage of the Sage
9	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Sugar Moon	Take Me Back to Tulsa 4 – The End Of The Line
10	k.d. lang	Sugar Moon	Shadowland
11	Merle Travis	Too Much Sugar For A Dime	Hot Pickin' [Disc 2]
12	Chuck Willis	Sugar Sugar	I Remember Chuck Willis / The King Of The Stroll
13	Muddy Waters	Sugar Sweet	The Anthology [Disc 2]
14	The Mills Brothers	Sweeter Than Sugar	The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 3
15	Earl Bostic	Sweet Lorraine	Earl Bostic Flamingo
16	Dave Van Ronk	Sweet And Lowdown	Sweet & Lowdown
17	Chuck Berry	Sweet Little Sixteen	The Chess Box Disc 1
18	Blind Blake	Sweet Papa Low Down	Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker
19	Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three	Sweet Potato Blues	Riverboat Soul
20	Warner Williams With Jay Summerour	Digging Potatoes	Blues Highway
21	Nat King Cole	Solid Potato Salad	Chronological Classics: Nat King Cole 1945
22	Hunter & Jenkins	Meat Cuttin' Blues	Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops
23	Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven	Potato Head Blues	The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3]
24	Fats Waller & His Rhythm	All That Meat And No Potatoes	100 Ans De Jazz
25	The Swallows	It Ain't The Meat	Risque Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B
26	Memphis Minnie	Pig Meat On The Line [Album Version]	Queen Of The Blues
27	Tampa Red;Georgia Tom	Dead Cats On The Line	Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard
28	Bob Brozman	Dead Cat On The Line	Blues Reflex
29	Charley Patton	Mean Black Cat Blues	Primeval Blues, Rags and Gospel Songs
30	Harry Reser	Cat And Dog	Banjo Crackerjax 1922-1930
31	Bob Brozman	Dog and Cat	Hello Central, Give Me Dr. Jazz!
32	Joe Venuti's Blue Four	Beatin' the Dog	Wild Cats
33	Dr. John	How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come 'Round)	Goin' Back To New Orleans
34	Nat King Cole	Open Up The Doghouse (Two Cats Are Coming In) (1992 Digital Remaster)	Nat King Cole [Disc 3]

Country, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Early Pop, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition, Mountain Music

No Parking Here – KOWS October 10, 2015

October 11, 2015 Dave

Saturday mornings are root-bound…in the very best sense of the phrase. Tune into KOWS for an eclectic blend of gospel from Jimmy Murphy and The Loyal Five, early century pop from Cliff Edwards and Emmett Miler, R&B from Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and Dr. John, country from Red Foley and Jimmy Littlejohn, and more of the sounds that matters from the past century of American music.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Gene Autry	Rhythm Of The Range	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 3]
2	Cliff Edwards	Hang on to Me	The Collection
3	Emmett Miller	(I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way	Minstrel Man From Georgia
4	Sons of the Pioneers	Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown	Songs of the Prairie – CD3
5	Arthur Smith	Follow Me Boogie (Instrumental)	The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
6	Johnny Cash	Calilou (The Rambler)	Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 4]
7	Dr. John	How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come 'Round)	Goin' Back To New Orleans
8	Bobby "Blue" Bland	I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me)	Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill / MCA Recordings
9	Piano Red	Ain't Goin To Be Your Low Down Dog No	Blues, Blues, Blues
10	Pee Wee King	Dog House Blues	Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown (1 of 2)
11	Neko Case	John Saw That Number	Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
12	The Loyal Five	John The Revelator	Heaven Bound Train
13	Jimmy Murphy	John the Baptist [Live]	Electricity
14	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Get Up John	Bill Monroe: Anthology
15	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Private Property (No Tresspassing)	One Guy Named Louis: The Complete Aladdin Sessions
16	Jimmy Littlejohn	No Parking Here	The World Is A Monster
17	Woody Guthrie	Riding in My Car (Car Song)	Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
18	Billy Murray	The Little Old Ford	Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure
19	Vince Gill	Love Bug	Bradley Barn Sessions
20	Little Jimmy Dickens	When That Love Bug Bites You	Country Boy [Disc 2]
21	Jimmy Edwards	Love Bug Crawl	Foot Tappin' & Dance At Screamin' Festival Vol. 5
22	Red Foley & Minnie Pearl	Love Bug Itch	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
23	The Mills Brothers	The Love Bug Will Bite You	Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats
24	Vera Lynn	The Love Bug Will Bite You	A Tribute, Volume II: It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow
25	Doc & Merle Watson	Corrina, Corrina	Then And Now/Two Days In November
26	Spade Cooley	Crazy' Cause I Love You	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
27	The Weavers	Meet the Johnson Boys	The Weavers at Home
28	Clifton Chenier	Ride 'Em Cowboy	Bogalusa Boogie
29	Huey "Piano" Smith	We I'll Be John Brown	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 40
30	Junior Brown & Red Simpson	Nitro Express	Rig Rock Deluxe
31	Red Simpson	Truck Drivin' Man	The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
32	Tex Ritter	Dear John	Have I Stayed Away Too Long
33	Ray Charles	You Don't Know Me	Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
34	Dr. John The Night Tripper	Mama Roux	The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974

Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Early Jazz, Early Rock, Fifties Country, Rhythm and Blues

Wild Men and Wild Women

October 10, 2015 Dave

It’s theme time once again and we’re going to find ourselves among the wild and crazy men as well as the wild, woolly women. Round town girls celebrate, burning that candle, and Keely Smith will jump, jive, and wail with Louis Prima. Red Ingle and His Natural Seven will join the Sons of the Pioneers in spreading the word about ‘cigareets, whuskey, and wild, wild women”. Mae West, Julia Lee, Ernie Ford, and Jerry Lee Lewis will keep the party going and Deeper Roots will keep the lights on ’till 11pm sharp (that’s Pacific Time, of course). Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of a century of America’s music on KWTF, 88.1 FM, community radio for Bodega Bay.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Mary Ford	Running Wild	100 Jazz Guitar Favorites
2	Garland Jeffreys	Wild in the Streets	Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]
3	The Jive Bombers	Bad Boy	Cry-Baby
4	Donnie Elbert	Wild Child (Deluxe 6156)	R&B Humdingers Volume 11
5	Johnny Carroll	Wild Wild Women	Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks
6	Jerry Lee Lewis	Real Wild Child (Wild One)	A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
7	Carl Mann	Born To Be Bad	Midnight Cryin' Time: Teen Angst Classics From The Rock 'n' Roll Era
8	Charline Arthur	Burn That Candle	Welcome To The Club
9	Wanda Jackson	Hard Headed Woman	There's A Party Goin' On
10	Wanda Jackson	Let's Have A Party	Queen Of Rockabilly
11	Tennessee Ernie Ford	I'm A Bad Man	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
12	The Dave & Deke Combo	Wild Woman	Hollywood Barndance
13	Freda & the Firedogs	Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad	Freda & The Firedogs
14	The Sons Of The Pioneers	Cigareetes, Whusky And Wild, Wild Women	Country Legends
15	Red Ingle & His Natural Seven	Cigareets, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women (Smoking)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
16	Wanda, Ruth Neal	Round Town Girls	Flowers In The Wildwood
17	King James	Wild Wooly Woman	Stompin' 25
18	Julia Lee	Do You Want It?	Burlesque – 100 Classics
19	Eunice Davis	Let's Have A Party	Stompin' 25
20	Little Richard	The Girl Can't Help It	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
21	Keely Smith/Louis Prima/Sam Butera & the Witnesses	Jump, Jive, An' Wail	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1
22	Carmen MacRae	Whatever Lola Wants	Burlesque – 100 Classics
23	Mae West	I'm No Angel	The Mae West Collection
24	Billy Jones With The Little Ramblers	Don't Bring Lulu	The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
25	Cecil Gant	Little Baby You're Running Wild	The Cecil Gant Collection
26	Wynonie Harris	Young And Wild	Playful Baby
27	Rudy Greene	Wild Life	Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1]
28	Memphis Nighthawks	Wild Man Stomp	Document Shortcuts Vol. 3 – My Babe
29	Memphis Minnie	I'm A Bad Luck Woman	Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937)
30	Champion Jack Dupree	Bad Whiskey And Wild Women	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
31	JB Hutto & The Hawks	Wild Wild Woman	Masters Of Modern Blues
32	Albert King	Wild Women	Door To Door
33	Little Jimmy King	Wild Woman	Little Jimmy King and the Memphis Soul Survivors
34	Amy Helm	Wild Girl	Didn't It Rain
35	John Hammond	Wild Man On The Loose	Trouble No More
36	Louis Armstrong & The Hot 7	Wild Man Blues	The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3]

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

Pickin’ Time – KOWS Oct 5, 2015

October 6, 2015 Dave

Dave Stroud will be sitting in tonight for Mark Hogan once again at 6pm Pacific. He’s got another episode of Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. In this episode, he’ll be following along Mark’s theme of old time and bluegrass, old and new. The playlist this evening will include bluegrass from James King, Mac Wiseman, David Grisman and Bill Monroe. He’ll also be sharing new tracks from Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas, Kinky Friedman, The Dustbowl Revival (fresh from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this past weekend), and a couple of tracks fromLowell Levinger From The Youngbloods’s new album “Get Together – Youngblood Classics”. Tune in for some Eddy Arnold tribute pieces, music about the married life, and a couple of fine recordings of the great guitar pioneer Riley Puckett.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers	Smokey Mountain Rag	With The Travelin Blues
2	Merle Travis	Freight Train (Instrumental)	The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
3	Dallas Smith	My Home Across the Blue Ridge Mountains	Still Pickin'
4	James King	Things Have Gone to Pieces	Three Chords & The Truth
5	Red Allen	I Heard My Mother Call My Name	Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings
6	Neko Case	Wayfaring Stranger	Live From Austin, TX
7	Kinky Friedman	Pickin Time	The Loneliest Man I Ever Met
8	Ricky Skaggs	Walls Of Time	Bluegrass Today [Disc 2]
9	David Grisman	Wicked Path of Sin (feat. Old & In The Way)	Dawg Plays Big Mon
10	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Wicked Path Of Sin	All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4]
11	Solitaire Miles	You Can't Break My Heart	Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
12	Kacey Musgraves	You're From Texas	Wanted: One Good Cowboy
13	Pokey LaFarge	Lovebug Itch	You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
14	Well Worn Soles	Worried	Country/Folk
15	Frank Black	Don't Rob Another Man's Castle	You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
16	Don Henley Feat. Mick Jagger & Miranda Lambert	Bramble Rose	Cass County (Deluxe)
17	Traveling Show	Hillbilly Wedding Day	Songs From The Road Band
18	Charlie Haden	Single Girl, Married Girl	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
19	Robbie Fulks	Act Like A Married Man	13 Hillbilly Giants
20	John Prine With Lucinda Williams	Wedding Bells / Let's Turn Back The Years	In Spite Of Ourselves
21	Nikki Lane	Wild One	All or Nothin' (Deluxe)
22	Lowell Levinger	Sugar Babe	Get Together- Youngblood Classics
23	Lowell Levinger	Euphoria	Get Together- Youngblood Classics
24	Riley Puckett	It's A Sin To Tell A Lie	Country Music Pioneer vol 1
25	Riley Puckett	Cindy	Country Music Pioneer vol 1
26	Mac Wiseman	Dust On The Bible	Grassroots To Bluegrass
27	Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers	To Hear Doc Watson Play	Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions
28	Doc Watson	Make Me a Pallet	Memories
29	Amy Helm	Roll Awy	Didn't It Rain
30	The Dustbowl Revival	Lampshade On	With a Lampshade On
31	Charlie Gracie	Just A Closer Walk With Thee	Angel on My Shoulder

Early Pop

Deeper Hoagy Carmichael

October 3, 2015 Dave

Our show explores the music of the great Hoagy Carmichael, the American songwriter who would pair up with some of the great lyricists of the early century to produce a body of work that, while it generally is written about another time in the south, endures for it’s soft-spoken charm, inventiveness, and sophistication. He worked his way through law school by performing in his own three-piece band but a couple of his early songs, “Riverboat Shuffle” and “Stardust” made it clear that songwriting was the inevitable vocation for this would-be lawyer. Although the Great Depression almost put him back with the bar, it was the song “Stardust” that would convince him that he could make a go of it. And he did. He was a font of music, teaming with Johnny Mercer and numerous other great lyricists to pen songs that maintain a fresh face to this day…and Deeper Roots will have the vintage sounds of Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and The Mills Brothers alongside the contemporary interpretations of Carmichael’s standards including Linda Ronstadt, Norah Jones, and Junior Brown. Join Dave Stroud as he queues up the timeless work of Hoagy Carmichael.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Willie Nelson	Ole Buttermilk Sky	Revolutions of Time: The Journey 1975-1993 Disc 3
2	Nat King Cole	Stardust	30 Greatest Hits Disc 1
3	Benny Goodman & His Orchestra	Sing Me A Swing Song (And Let Me Dance)	Hoagy Carmichael & Friends: Stardust Melody
4	Glenn Miller, Ray Eberle	Blue Orchids	Hoagy Carmichael. Stardust – 51 Original Mono Recordings 1924-1957
5	Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman	In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening	Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 2]
6	Kate Smith	Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind	Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 2]
7	Mildred Bailey	Rockin' Chair	Rockin' Chair
8	Louis Armstrong	Rockin' Chair	Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3]
9	Ethel Waters	Old Man Harlem	Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 1]
10	Ethel Waters	Georgia On My Mind	Smithsonian Songbook Series: Hoagy Carmichael
11	Django Reinhardt	Georgia On My Mind	The Classic Early Recordings In Chronological Order [Disc 4]
12	The Mills Brothers	Lazybones	Sweeter Than Sugar
13	Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra	Moon Country (Is Home To Me)	Hoagy Carmichael & Friends: Stardust Melody
14	Dinning Sisters	The Old Music Master	Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 2]
15	Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	The Old Music Master	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 1 – The Birth Of A Label – 1942-43
16	Linda Ronstadt	Skylark	Round Midnight With Nelson Riddle And His Orchestra [Disc 1]
17	Norah Jones	The Nearness of You	Come Away With Me
18	Jo Stafford	Ivy	Candy
19	Willie Nelson	Stardust	Stardust [Bonus Tracks]
20	Ray Charles	Georgia On My Mind	Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
21	Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra	Ev'ntide	Heart Full Of Rhythm / Volume 2 (1936-38)
22	Bing Crosby	Moonburn [Single Version]	Bing Crosby And Some Jazz Friends
23	Dinning Sisters	I Get Along Without You Very Well	Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 2]
24	Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra	Sing It Way Down Low	Hoagy Carmichael & Friends: Stardust Melody
25	Hoagy Carmichael	A Tune For Humming	Hoagy Carmichael. Stardust – 51 Original Mono Recordings 1924-1957
26	Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra	Come Easy, Go Easy Love	Stardust & Much More
27	Hoagy Carmichael	Huggin & Chalkin	47 Your Hit Parade
28	Johnny Mercer	Memphis In June	Smithsonian Songbook Series: Hoagy Carmichael
29	The Mills Brothers	Lazy River	Best of the Decca Years
30	Louis Prima	Lazy River	Capitol Collectors Series
31	Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra	Small Fry	Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 1]
32	Junior Brown	Hong Kong Blues	Semi-Crazy
33	Hoagy Carmichael	Hong Kong Blues	Classic Hoagy Carmichael [Disc 2]
34	The Boswell Sisters	Charlie Two Step	The Boswell Sisters Volume 2

High Noon

September 26, 2015 Dave

It’s a new morning…as it always is…and was when we celebrated another Saturday morning in Occidental with Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music with host Dave Stroud. This twice-monthly show opens with a mule kicking in the stall, some barnyard rhythm and then moves swiftly into a blend of 1950s country and big band. Ray Charles, Frankie Laine, Chick Webb, Otis Spann, and Merle Travis are just a sampling of performers we’ll hear from. West County living deserves roots music wafting over the airwaves on a Saturday morning in early autumn. Let’s set the airwaves stage with some Otis Spann.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Nellie Lutcher	He's A Real Gone Guy	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
2	Nellie Lutcher	There's Another Mule In Your Stall	Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 1]
3	Otis Spann	Mule Kicking In My Stall	Cryin' Time
4	Louis Jordan	Barnyard Boogie	Jivin' With Jordan
5	Joe Liggins	Rhythm In The Barnyard	Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
6	The Andrews Sisters	A Man is a Brother To a Mule	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
7	Charlie Poole With Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon	Man that Rode the Mule Around the World	You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2]
8	Ralph Stanley	I've Got A Mule To Ride	Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection
9	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Mule Train (1996 Digital Remaster)	Vintage Collections
10	Frankie Laine	That Lucky Old Sun [Album Version]	Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits
11	Ray Charles	That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
12	Merle Travis & Joe Maphis	High Noon	Country Guitar Giants
13	Frankie Laine	Rawhide	Country Greats #2
14	Chick Webb and his Orchestra	Don't Be That Way	from CD; orig. Decca 483
15	Ella Fitzgerald	Melinda the Mousle	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
16	Annette Hanshaw	Who's That Knocking At My Door	The Twenties Sweetheart
17	Brother Grady Coffee	I'm Working on a Building	This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
18	Elvis Presley	Working on the Building	Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
19	Murry Hammond	In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
20	John & Jamie Hartford	When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland	Hartford & Hartford
21	June Carter Cash	Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?	Wildwood Flower
22	George Jones	Worried Man Blues	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
23	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
24	David Lindley and Wally Ingram	Coot From Tennessee	Twango Bango Deluxe
25	Ole Ramussen	Sleepy Eyed John	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
26	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Oozlin' Daddy Blues	Legends of Country Music Disc 2
27	Cliff Hobbs;Bill Cox	Oozlin' Daddy Blues [Album Version]	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
28	Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen	Big Mamou	We've Got a Live One Here!
29	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Big Mamou	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
30	Bonnie Guitar	Noon Train	Affair
31	Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips	If I Had My Way	Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips

Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Mountain Music

The Dust-to-Digital Label

September 26, 2015 Dave

Our weekly KWTF show is about a label whose chief purpose is the resurrection of that curious mix of ephemera, folklore, ancestry, and musicianship that reveals itself as folk music: whether it be pre-Monroe bluegrass, gospel, blues, or early pop. The label I speak of is Dust-To-Digital and we’ll scratch the surface of some of the great work that they’ve issued since 1999, the year Lance Ledbetter and his wife April open shop in Atlanta, Georgia.Their mission is the same as it was then: to produce high quality cultural artifacts.

Pitchfork magazine put it this way: “Although the folklorists lugging around tape recorders (and the performers carrying on ancient traditions) are worthy of much heralding, it’s equally astounding how essential Lance Ledbetter’s work at Dust-to-Digital has been to the preservation of traditional American folksong. It’s easy to buy and appreciate these sets without realizing that the bulk of the material might have been lost — or, at the very least, tethered to archives, readily accessible only to curious faculty, paper-writing students, and bespectacled researchers — without Ledbetter’s interference.”

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Jimmy Murphy	We Live A Long Time To Get Old	Desperate Man Blues
2	Tennesee Messarounds	Mandolin Blues	Desperate Man Blues
3	Lonnie Johnson	Death Valley is Just Half Way To My Home	Desperate Man Blues
4	Chubby Parker	Bib-a-lollie-boo	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
5	Ernest Thompson	In the Baggage Coach Ahead	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
6	Roy Smeck Trio	Reaching for the Moon	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
7	Lew Childre	It Don't Do Nothing but Rain	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
8	Sara Martin & Sylvester Weaver	I've Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
9	Sister O.M. Terrell	The Bible's Right	Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
10	Mahalia Jackson	God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares	Goodbye, Babylon – Introduction [Disc 1]
11	The North Carolina Cooper Boys	Daniel In The Den Of Lions	Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
12	Moses Williams	The Train	Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1]
13	Emmett Murray	She's a Fool, She Ain't Got No Sense	Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1]
14	Rev. Johnny L. Jones	Huff Construction Company (Radio Commercial)	The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
15	Rev. Johnny L. Jones	I Love the Lord	The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
16	Dorothy Lee	You Got to Give an Account (feat. Norma Jean, Shirley Marie Johnson & Robert nighthawk Johnson)	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
17	Babe Stovall	When the Circle Be Unbroken	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
18	Robert nighthawk Johnson	Cant No Grave Hold My Body Down	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
19	Henagar Union Sacred Harp Convention	Save, Lord, or We Perish 224	I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
20	Denson's Sacred Harp Singers of Arley, Alabama	Ninety-Fifth 36B	I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
21	Brother Claude Ely	Send Down The Rain	Satan Get Back
22	Uncle Eck Dunford and Ernest Stoneman	Barney McCoy	Lead Kindly Light
23	The Allen Brothers	Skipping and Flying	Lead Kindly Light
24	Georgia Yellow Hammers	Mary Don't You Weep	Lead Kindly Light
25	Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright	Man Who Wrote the Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man	Lead Kindly Light
26	Loveless Twins Quartet	Lead Kindly Light	Lead Kindly Light
27	The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band	Ozark Waltz	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
28	Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers	Just Give Me the Leavings	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
29	Wonder State Harmonists	Turnip Greens	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
30	Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers	Jaw Bone	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
31	Clarence Alexander	Disability Boogie Woogie	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
32	22 & Group	The Prettiest Train I Ever Saw	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
33	Henry Ratcliff	Look For Me In Louisiana	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
34	Willie Washington	My Jack Dont Drink No Water	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
35	The David Thom Band	Windy City	That Old Familiar

Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition

Modern Americana in Tradition

September 19, 2015 Dave

We revisit tradition and roots with a number of contemporary performers who honor the American musical heritage with new arrangements, new interpretations, and songs whose lyrics might take on a different meaning in a new time. What was ripe for picking in the first part of the century might not mean all of the same in our world today. We’ll hear songs of love, death, destitution, prostitution, farmer’s work, the sky above and the sea below… You’ll hear Americana releases from as far back as 1971 and we’ll include a number of tracks from this year…the year 2015…with the one thing in common being that the songs performed have stories that go further back and, in most cases, go so far back that they are considered traditional.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Van Dyke Parks/Mondrian	Sail Away Lady	The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 2
2	The Wailin' Jennys	Long Time Traveller	Firecracker
3	Rosanne Cash	Motherless Children	The List
4	Cyd Cassone/Ruthie Foster	Death Came a Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes)	Stages
5	Steve Martin	Sweet Heaven When I Die	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
6	Pharis and Jason Romero	Goodbye Old Paint	A Wanderer I'll Stay
7	Spuyten Duyvil	Stewball	The Social Music Hour Vol. 1
8	Alison Krauss	Cluck Old Hen	Every Time You Say Goodbye
9	Robert Earl Keen, Jr.	East Virginia Blues	Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
10	Adkins & Loudermilk	Swing Low Sweet Chariot	Adkins & Loudermilk
11	She & Him	Swing Low Sweet Chariot	Volume One
12	Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama	If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again	There Will Be a Light
13	Allen Toussaint	St. James Infirmary	The Bright Mississippi
14	Ashley Monroe	The Storms Are On The Ocean	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
15	Uncle Tupelo	No Depression	No Depression
16	Band Of Ruhks	Lost Highway	Band Of Ruhks
17	Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men	What Does the Deep Sea Say?	Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land
18	Mudcrutch	Shady Grove	Mudcrutch
19	Dwight Yoakam/The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Some Dark Holler	Dwight's Used Records
20	Rhiannon Giddens	Round About the Mountain	Tomorrow Is My Turn
21	Leo Kottke	Cripple Creek	Mudlark
22	David Johansen	Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me	Shaker
23	David Johansen & The Harry Smiths	Richland Woman	David Johansen and the Harry Smiths
24	The Boxmasters	Knoxville Girl	The Boxmasters Disc 2
25	Bruce Springsteen	Shenandoah	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1
26	Bruce Springsteen	O Mary Don't You Weep	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1
27	Charlie Haden	Old Joe Clark	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
28	The Duhks	Banjo Roustabout	Beyond the Blue
29	Kate & Anna McGarrigle	Green Green Rocky Road	High On A Mountain
30	Emmylou Harris	Bury Me Beneath The Willow	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited

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

Hillbilly Fever

September 19, 2015 Dave

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

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

A Century of America's Music